S1E6 · The Socratic Method

Moments, in order

Luke holds a disability interview together as his mother's voices take over
A teenage son juggles paperwork and dates for his mother's benefits while she rants at voices, then she collapses at the table.
2m 21sLucy PalmeroLuke Palmero#cold open #schizophrenia #caregiver
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House mocks an ER doctor's quick alcohol verdict
As an ER doctor blames Luke's mother's clot on vodka, House chimes in from the waiting chairs with mock praise for a doctor who never assumes.
1m 38sGregory HouseLuke Palmero#sarcasm #eavesdropping #case hook
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House defends a boring blood clot with Galen, Socrates and Pink Floyd
The team mocks his interest in a schizophrenic's leg clot; House answers with ancient cures and a roll call of brilliant madmen.
2m 27sGregory HouseAllison CameronEric Foreman#team #differential diagnosis #socratic method
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House sends Luke for a sandwich and actually talks to a patient
House dispatches Luke on a very specific lunch order and sits with Lucy, while the team wonders why he is drawn to patients like her.
2m 18sGregory HouseLucy PalmeroLuke Palmero#bedside manner #human connection #puzzles
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Unshaved legs give House his clue, and Cameron finds his birthday
House turns his bedside chat into a lab order, Cameron meets a prickly Luke, and she quietly wishes House a happy birthday he never announced.
1m 10sGregory HouseAllison CameronLuke Palmero#birthday #clue #team
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House sides with the birthday girl against her sugar-phobic mom
A mother wants House to scare her daughter off sugar before a party; he skewers her instead and prescribes a proper cake.
1m 02sGregory HouseWendy#birthday #parenting #clinic duty
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House grills Foreman for sedating the patient with Haldol
House mocks Foreman's claim that the drug was just a restraint, listing side effects that could wreck the diagnosis, then praises the fast lab work.
58sGregory HouseEric Foreman#confrontation #sarcasm #medical ethics
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Three theories race to explain a patient who clots and bleeds
Vitamin K deficiency, an antibiotic interaction or alcohol: House pits his team's ideas against each other and sends them to find out.
1m 33sGregory HouseAllison CameronRobert Chase#team #differential diagnosis
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Searching the Palmero apartment reveals Lucy's one-food diet
With a key taken from Luke's backpack the team searches the flat, finds untouched antibiotics and the only food Lucy eats, and concedes House was right.
1m 32sEric ForemanAllison Cameron#clue #diet #home search
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Luke blames himself for his mother's illness
Told the diet caused it, Luke insists he should have handled it; he gets brisk reassurance and admits he misses his mother bossing him around.
1m 22sLuke PalmeroGregory House#family #guilt #caregiver
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House reads Luke's real age off his wrist X-ray
A growth plate gives the game away: Luke is not 18 but just turned 15, and House warns what that means once his mother goes home.
1m 18sGregory HouseLuke Palmero#secret #age reveal #x-ray
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The liver ultrasound shows a tumor, and Wilson breaks the news
Cirrhosis in a woman who supposedly doesn't drink, then a solid mass; Wilson introduces himself to Lucy and tells her she has cancer.
50sJames WilsonLucy Palmero#diagnosis #bad news #cancer
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House plans to shrink a tumor just enough to fool the surgeon
No transplant for Lucy and a tumor past surgical limits, so House proposes injecting ethanol to make it look operable.
1m 11sGregory HouseJames Wilson#scheme #surgery #rule breaking
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House deduces who tattled to Cuddy, and it's about his birthday
Cuddy hints she knows his secret; House reasons his way to the informant and the secret, only to learn she just wants her clinic hours.
1m 12sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#banter #deduction #birthday
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From a hiccups patient to Cuddy cornering House in the men's room
House mocks a hiccups sufferer's home remedies, then Cuddy follows him into the bathroom about the tumor that shrank overnight.
1m 55sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#confrontation #clinic duty #rule breaking
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Child Services takes Luke away from his mother's bedside
A state caseworker arrives for 15-year-old Luke; he pleads to stay, and mother and son share a memory before he is led out.
57sLuke PalmeroLucy PalmeroTrina Wyatt#goodbye #separation #child services
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A phone record proves Lucy is not schizophrenic
House shows the only call from Lucy's room went to Social Services, and argues that sacrificing for her son is too sane for the diagnosis.
2m 19sGregory HouseLucy Palmero#sacrifice #diagnostic reveal #sanity
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A forgotten eye appointment and copper rings crack Lucy's case
The team lands on a rare copper disorder, House questions their hope, and a forgotten eye appointment leads to copper rings in Lucy's eyes.
1m 50sGregory HouseLucy PalmeroRobert Chase#differential diagnosis #diagnostic reveal #copper
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Lucy, clear-headed, is reunited with Luke
Ready to go home, Lucy sees her son walk in and greets him like the mother he remembers.
1m 06sLucy PalmeroLuke Palmero#reunion #family #recovery
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House takes the blame for the Social Services call
Lucy thanks House; Luke refuses to, and House lets him think the call was his own doing, then admits the case lost its interest.
1m 12sGregory HouseLucy PalmeroLuke Palmero#ending #sacrifice #secret
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