Wilson finds out Cameron's price: one date with House
Mid-exam, Wilson needles House until he admits Cameron came back on the condition of one date, then mocks the mentor romance.
S1E20 · Love Hurts
21 moments · 33 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House's apology to a soaked-in-juice patient ends in a stroke
House overreacts to a spilled 'urine' sample, is ordered to apologise, offers the sobbing patient cash, and the kid's pupil blows.
Cameron returns, the jaw plate blocks the MRI, and the date leaks
Cameron is back on the team; House spots why the MRI is off-limits, and Cameron tells Chase and Foreman what her new contract got her.
Clinic: an elderly woman wants her husband's blue pills weakened
Ramona's pain traces to Myron's new pills; she misses Jeopardy and asks House to lie to Myron for her.
House lets a pool-hall oracle settle Foreman versus Chase
House mocks Harvey's string of alternative healers, then consults a toy oracle to choose between endocarditis and a trauma aneurysm.
Foreman catches Annette choking Harvey: she is his dominatrix
Foreman pulls Annette off the patient; Chase identifies her, and she calmly explains Harvey likes being strangled and what he pays her.
Chase admits his past with a banker who liked to be burned
Chase explains how he knows Annette; Cameron and House pounce, and House scolds him for withholding the pain angle.
Myron wants less sex, so House hands him a blue placebo
Ramona's husband admits he can't keep up; House walks him to the pharmacy to find a blue pill that does nothing.
Cuddy tells House to stop walling himself off; he eyes her blouse
Cuddy backs the Cameron date and says five years of self-pity is enough; House deflects, and she suggests a shirt.
House's date plan for Cameron: the county paintball tourney
Harvey's mini-strokes kill the blood-thinner plan; Cameron asks how to dress, and House teases her before naming a restaurant.
Harvey refuses surgery and turns on Annette, then strokes again
Harvey spirals and refuses consent; the team sneaks Annette in to command him, he lashes out at her, and his mood swing is a new stroke.
Wilson tells House to be a jerk to Cameron, House turns it on him
Wilson suggests House end the Cameron thing by being himself; House diagnoses Wilson's own break-up habit and ego.
House tells Harvey's living parents their son is dead
The team finds Harvey's parents are alive and hang up; House calls back with the one lie guaranteed to bring them in.
House shames Harvey's parents into signing the surgery consent
Furious at the fake death call, the Parks refuse; House reframes humiliation and threatens a sign campaign until they sign.
Wilson warns Cameron not to break House's heart
Wilson corners Cameron before the date; it is not her he is worried about.
Wilson fixes House's tie and coaches him for the date
House frets about small talk; Wilson lays out doors, chairs, shoes and earrings, plus a condom offer.
The date: Cameron asks how House feels, and he dissects her
Small talk fails; Cameron asks for honesty and House says she needs damaged people, naming her late husband and himself.
Chase and Foreman grill Cameron about the morning after
Cameron deflects with food and garlic bread; her puffy eyes give her away, and she can't say if there will be a second dinner.
House spots mismatched rings: Ramona and Myron are having an affair
The couple's stories clash and House notices one silver ring, one gold; the blue-pill problem turns out to be an affair.
Chase's breath mints crack the case: an infected jaw
House makes Chase smell the comatose patient's breath and lays out jaw infection as the stroke source, then proves it.
Annette explains trust to House; Harvey asks about his parents
House tells Harvey and Annette the strangling must stop; Annette says it is about vulnerability, and Harvey asks if his parents came.
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