A jog full of marriage talk, then Ed finds Elyse won't get out of bed
Ed dodges a friend's questions about his marriage on a run, then comes home to find his wife has barely left bed in days.
S1E7 · Fidelity
20 moments · 33 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House asks why this case, then skewers his team's differential
Handed a woman who sleeps 18 hours a day, House questions the referrer's motives and mocks each theory, ending with a fairy-tale diagnosis.
House finds his breathless clinic patient's problem staring at him
A preschool teacher with a tight chest reveals a birthday gift to her husband during an EKG, and House urgently pages Wilson for a second opinion.
House turns an implant consult into an exposé of Wilson's ties
Talking about why people change their looks, House notes Wilson's new tie, decides he wants to look good at work, and teases him about a girlfriend.
The breast clue: House points the team to paraneoplastic syndrome
After a seizure and a clean MRI, House steers to a family history of breast cancer, and the team explains how a tumor can confuse the immune system.
Treat the symptoms, and House explains why he rides Foreman
With no tumor found, House opts to treat symptoms, sends Foreman to Elyse's workplace, and answers his complaint with a pointed joke.
Elyse's love story is cut short by imaginary biting bugs
Elyse tells how Ed threw her towels out a window the night they met, then panics that something is crawling on her arm and has to be sedated.
Sleeping sickness or rabbit fever: two lousy ideas win the day
Infections are ruled out one by one until the team is left with an African parasite or an inhaled bacterium, and House praises Foreman.
Foreman stews over House's praise while his colleagues tease him
Running the tests, Foreman wonders why House singles him out, and his colleagues offer a theory before weighing two risky treatments.
House reads Wilson's shoes and sniffs out a lunch with a nurse
House profiles Wilson's mystery woman from his footwear until Wilson admits to an innocent lunch with an oncology nurse.
House tells his clinic patient her husband is spiking her oatmeal
An EKG detail leads House to the husband's blood-pressure pills, a very unromantic motive, and some wildly inappropriate advice.
House pins the parasite on an affair and admits pulling a colleague's records
House cites an obscure Portuguese case of sleeping sickness passed by sex, assigns the cheating questions, then is caught having read a doctor's file.
Husband and wife are separately asked: have you cheated?
Foreman and Chase question Ed and Elyse apart, warning that a lie could be fatal, and both insist on their love and fidelity.
Elyse slips into a coma mid-sentence at 4 a.m.
On the rabbit-fever treatment, Elyse repeats a question she just asked, drifts off while talking, and stops responding to pain.
House asks Ed to bet his wife's life on her fidelity
With only sleeping sickness left, House meets Ed at the bedside and walks him through why he must consent to a treatment that can kill.
Ed confesses part of him wants his wife not to recover
At Elyse's bedside, Ed admits that if the treatment works it proves she betrayed him, and asks a doctor whether that makes him terrible.
House and Wilson split the world between trying and not trying
In the elevator House doubts Wilson's single innocent lunch and the two reach a cynical deal about being good.
Crying over a centrifuge, a doctor tells House about her late husband
House finds a colleague in tears in the lab; she shares how she married and lost her college love, and House deduces what she knew going in.
The arsenic treatment strains Elyse's heart, then she wakes
Fever and failing blood pressure make the team consider stopping; Ed pleads at her side until Elyse opens her eyes.
Ed can't stay, and Elyse must name the other man
Told how lucky he is, Ed still can't forgive; Elyse is pressed for the name of the man who also needs treatment.
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