S1E5 · Damned If You Do

Moments, in order

House likens his overdue charting to Dante's circles of hell
Two weeks behind on charts and eager to clock out at noon, House stalls with poetry and juvenile tricks before being sent to a waiting patient.
39sGregory House#clinic duty #dante #paperwork
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House debunks a nun's 'stigmata' as dish-soap dermatitis
Sister Augustine's red hands look holy to her companion; House traces them to a fresh batch of donated pots and hands out free antihistamines.
1m 21sGregory HouseSister AugustineSister Pius#clinic duty #quick diagnosis #nuns
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Theology banter turns into Sister Augustine's cardiac arrest
A nun explains God's will with a broken leg; moments later Sister Augustine can't breathe, House injects epinephrine and her heart stops.
1m 54sGregory HouseSister Augustine#faith #medical emergency #cardiac arrest
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Cuddy suspects House grabbed the wrong epinephrine syringe
Cuddy says the standard dose can't stop a heart and threatens to report him; House insists he gave the right dose and gets 24 hours to prove it.
54sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#confrontation #deadline #malpractice
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Churg-Strauss, candy canes and House's verdict on nuns
The team settles on Churg-Strauss vasculitis, a gift of Christmas candy canes gets mocked, and House shuts down any suggestion he made a mistake.
1m 31sGregory HouseAllison CameronRobert Chase#christmas #team #differential diagnosis
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The team splits over whether House can ever admit a mistake
After meeting the nuns, one doctor blames House's syringe, another defends him, and Chase sums up what either outcome means for the team.
1m 20sAllison CameronRobert ChaseEric Foreman#loyalty #doubt #team
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House prescribes cigarettes for inflammatory bowel disease
A patient whose store job is on the line gets the most unusual prescription of his life, plus a promise that it will make him look cooler.
1m 19sGregory House#christmas #clinic duty #unorthodox treatment
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A God debate in the CT room ends with Augustine seeing Jesus
Foreman and Chase argue faith over the scan, then Sister Augustine smells something that isn't there, cries out about Jesus and starts to seize.
1m 39sEric ForemanRobert ChaseAllison Cameron#faith #seizure #religious vision
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House's mock confession countdown and the hyperbaric gamble
Accused again of the wrong dose, House counts down to a sarcastic 'admission', then pivots to mixed connective tissue disease and a hyperbaric chamber.
1m 26sGregory HouseEric ForemanAllison Cameron#team #sarcasm #differential diagnosis
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House dismisses the Hippocratic oath to Cuddy's face
Cuddy warns that oxygen therapy can do harm; House mocks the oath's fine print and dares her to stop him.
33sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#confrontation #ethics
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House tallies a nun's deadly sins in the hospital chapel
An infirmarian warns House that Augustine is a hypochondriac; he catches her sinning on cue while she reads him right back.
2m 20sGregory HouseSister Eucharist#character study #nuns #seven deadly sins
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Cuddy takes House off the case
With Augustine's oxygen falling after the chamber, Cuddy rejects every explanation House offers and removes him from his own patient.
47sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#confrontation #removed from case
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Caught at the syringe drawer, House defends smokers and doubts himself
Found poking through the epinephrine drawer, House argues lung cancer patients die of blame, then concedes he needs every clinic record checked.
1m 14sGregory HouseJames Wilson#friendship #guilt #doubt
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House needles Chase about Catholic guilt and his father
Pumping Chase for what he knows about nuns, House offers his theory that good boys are trained by fear to obey their fathers.
1m 03sGregory HouseRobert Chase#catholicism #father issues #needling
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A skunk tattoo forces the monastery to reveal Augustine's past
At the monastery House catches the nuns in a shared lie, cites a tattoo he saw during CPR, and learns of Augustine's years on the streets.
2m 09sGregory HouseMother Superior#backstory #interrogation #nuns
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House crashes Cuddy's meeting with the figwort tea answer
As Augustine declines, House arrives with the monastery's herbal tea and shows how it plus a normal epinephrine dose stopped her heart.
1m 29sGregory HouseLisa CuddyAllison Cameron#diagnostic reveal #vindication
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A doctor who left seminary prays with Sister Augustine
Alone in a sterile room and afraid to die, Augustine is comforted by a doctor who recites his favorite scripture and admits why he quit seminary.
2m 08sSister AugustineRobert Chase#confession #faith #prayer
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House and Sister Augustine duel over faith before she leaves
House accuses Augustine of running away again and attacks belief itself; she answers with her own story and turns his anger at God against him.
2m 26sGregory HouseSister Augustine#confrontation #monologue #faith vs reason
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The full-body scan finds a forgotten copper IUD
House looks inside the patient for the allergen; the scan reveals a decades-old copper device, which explains everything from the cookware onward.
2m 16sGregory HouseSister AugustineRobert Chase#miracle #diagnostic reveal #allergy
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House and Wilson spar over who screwed up, then share Christmas
Sweating it out together, Wilson won't let House claim victory, they dance around Christmas plans, and a nun's farewell catches them off guard.
1m 14sGregory HouseJames Wilson#friendship #banter #christmas
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