Brandon fakes a sick call, then really collapses
Brandon phones in sick to skip inventory with Mindy in his bed; she spots a rash, and moments later he stops responding.
S1E3 · Occam's Razor
21 moments · 35 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Why this patient? House takes the ER case after a stairwell check
House grills his team on why they care about this patient, then mocks a differential where nothing fits every symptom.
House introduces himself to the clinic waiting room
Forced into clinic duty by Cuddy, House greets the patients with a speech about his credentials, his reluctance and his Vicodin. No one picks him.
House reads a clinic patient's career from the color of her mucus
A patient whose cold is already gone gets told from her new glasses and white teeth that she's about to be fired.
House argues two diseases beat one in an Occam's razor showdown
The treatment is wrecking Brandon's kidneys. Chase offers a one-in-ten-million fit; House recolors the board and does the odds for two diseases.
The team doubts House, then Chase and Foreman argue about Cameron
One doctor calls them House's puppets and heads to the lab; there Foreman and Chase spar over whether Cameron is weird or hot.
House pages Cuddy from a board meeting to look at a sore throat
Payback for clinic duty: House calls in the hospital's head for a formal consult on the most routine complaint in the room.
House tells Cameron she owns Chase, then gloats over the kidneys
House lectures Cameron on her effect on men, catches the team trying to disprove him, and explains why taunting keeps doctors working.
House stalls for Cuddy and bets Foreman fifty on the virus
Waiting out Cuddy's golf game with a runner's sore leg, House and Foreman argue the two-illness theory and wager on the patient.
Chase's awkward apology becomes a speech on what sex does to a body
Chase admits sex talk makes him uneasy and gets a vivid physiology lesson in return, and Foreman arrives with bad blood counts.
Brandon is sealed in a clean room and endures a marrow biopsy
With his immune system gone, a cold could kill Brandon. He's moved into isolation and warned the bone marrow needle will hurt.
House turns clinic duty into a war game with Cuddy
Cuddy refuses to free him from clinic hours; House vows to win their game, insists to Wilson there's no thin line, and fills a Vicodin script.
The cough was first: House works out a gout-drug mix-up
After a long silent think, House explains how a gout medicine handed out by mistake explains every symptom, then hits a timeline snag.
House meets the family and hunts for who gave the cough pills
House explains why not caring makes him a better doctor, then presses the family until a relative admits giving Brandon his cough pills.
The pharmacy pills match, and House's perfect theory falls apart
The pharmacist holds firm, the family confirms the pills looked right, and House insists he wasn't wrong, reality was.
A lymphoma hunch leads to surgery prep, and Brandon's heart stops
House orders exploratory surgery over objections; threading a catheter through Brandon's heart triggers an arrhythmia and he has to be shocked.
House's bedside pep talk: hand-holder or the doctor who ignores you
House drops in on Brandon to boast about leaving early and offer a choice between two kinds of doctor.
A clinic patient with something stuck where it shouldn't be
House deduces the location and embarrassment from a patient who won't sit, then learns what it is and hands the case to Cuddy.
House storms the clean room to name the poison and its source
Finger pain completes the pattern; House walks into isolation, explains the order of the damage, and gets Brandon to admit to party drugs.
House still can't let the solved case go
Shopping with a friend, House admits he's still trying to work out where the drug came from; the friend claims to be well-adjusted.
Wedding plans and a tell-tale letter on Brandon's new pills
Recovering Brandon and Mindy plan the guest list, until he notices his new pills look different from the old ones.
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