A strict proctor misreads a boy collapsing mid-calculus exam
During a timed AP exam a proctor hunts for cheaters and dismisses a pale student's bathroom plea until he is plainly, seriously ill.
S1E8 · Poison
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House doubts Foreman's motives and sends him to find the kid's stash
House assumes a teenager's collapse is drugs, mocks Foreman for caring, floats a legal toner high, and sends him to search the house.
Chase presses Matt's mother about drugs until Matt seizes
Chase shares his own wild youth to get answers; Margo Davis reveals she secretly drug-tested her son, then Matt starts to seize.
Searching Matt's spotless room, Foreman denies being like House
Foreman theorizes about why House sees addicts everywhere, gets teased for sounding just like him, and they find a suspicious jar of homemade sauce.
House tastes the suspect tomato sauce to make a point
Disappointed by sauce instead of designer drugs, House eats a spoonful of the possibly tainted jar, then steers the team to pesticides.
An 82-year-old clinic patient falls for House
An elderly woman complains of feeling good, describes a newfound obsession with a young actor and flirts with House, who admits her for tests.
An army antidote, a British jab and a garden theory
As Matt needs his heart paced, Margo demands options; Chase offers an experimental army treatment, House needles him, and a garden becomes the suspect.
House receives a love poem from his elderly admirer
A colleague reads aloud the gushing verse House's 82-year-old patient wrote him, and House defends her honour while her results arrive.
Matt's mother refuses the antidote, and House wants a court order
Margo says the garden spray was swapped for something organic and blocks treatment; House argues she should be overruled as irrational.
House reads Matt's mother the refusal form he rewrote
Posing as a hospital staffer, House reads Margo a release form he has 'clarified' with brutal language, then reveals who he is.
A second poisoned boy changes everything
Just as treatment is about to start, a student named Chi Ling arrives with identical symptoms, and he lives nowhere near Matt.
House tells an 82-year-old she has syphilis from prom night
Over her son's protests, House delivers a shocking diagnosis, and Mrs. Adams calmly recalls exactly when she must have caught it.
Cameron is sent to win over Matt's mother, and gets called out
With a new pesticide suspect, House sends Cameron to persuade Margo, who sees through the approach and puts the decision back on her.
The antidote backfires and House reworks the poisoning timeline
Matt seizes as his mother screams at the doctors; then House works out the boys were poisoned at home and quizzes the team on teen morning habits.
Mrs. Adams turns down the cure, and House finds a loophole
His admirer returns her prescription rather than lose her new zest for life; House explains why taking it will not cost her that feeling.
A laundry detergent match links the two boys
The team compares the two families' toiletries product by product until a jug of the same detergent turns up in both homes.
New clothes and fake-old jeans crack the poisoning
Chi never washed his brand-new clothes, and a crisp label shows Matt's ratty jeans were never old at all, pointing to the clothes themselves.
Phosdrin identified, but Mighty Mom still says no
House jokes about never washing new clothes, the chemical is named, and the team learns only Chi's parents have agreed to treatment.
House waits out Matt's mother, then fakes a call from the CDC
House settles in beside Margo watching soaps until her phone rings with the CDC's verdict, and the caller is not who she thinks.
Matt confesses about the pants, and House gets the last word
Matt admits the poison pants were a stolen five-dollar bargain, Margo softens, and House introduces his team to the boy in his own way.
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