S2E1 · Acceptance

Moments, in order

Death row inmate Clarence plans his last meal, then attacks a fellow prisoner
Clarence orders lobster and donuts for his final meal and jokes about a spiritual advisor before a brutal fight in the cell block.
2m 20sClarence#cold open #fight #prison
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House taunts Cuddy's new assistant and steals the death row case
House mocks Cuddy's male assistant, bumps into Stacy, and uses Cuddy's stolen password to claim the death row patient.
1m 57sGregory HouseLisa CuddyStacy Warner#house and cuddy #stacy #clinic hours
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House assigns the team a list of treatments criminals should lose
Off to the prison, House poses an ethics puzzle about who deserves care and makes the team rank medical treatment by crime.
44sGregory HouseAllison CameronEric Foreman#ethics #death penalty
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House examines Clarence in prison and finds him starved of oxygen
Despite the warden's warnings, House finds Clarence hypoxic with fluid in his lungs and calls an ambulance the prison refuses to let through.
2m 36sGregory HouseClarenceAllison Cameron#prison #diagnosis #house visits
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Stacy's court order lands Clarence in the hospital, and Cuddy is furious
Stacy gets a judge to move the inmate; Cuddy realizes House never had her approval and House shrugs it off as a joke.
38sGregory HouseStacy WarnerLisa Cuddy#court order #cuddy confrontation
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House tells Cameron her clinic patient Cindy is dying
House reads Cindy Kramer's x-ray as terminal lung cancer and mocks Cameron's hopeful alternatives with a pointed book.
1m 09sGregory HouseAllison Cameron#bad news #terminal patient #five stages
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Death penalty fight breaks out over the first differential
The team argues about treating a killer; Foreman and Chase trade barbs over race and prisons before testing for heroin.
59sGregory HouseEric ForemanRobert Chase#team argument #death penalty #differential
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Stacy confronts House over the lie that got her chewed out
Cuddy blamed Stacy for trusting House; she asks whether she can trust him, and his answer settles it.
44sGregory HouseStacy Warner#confrontation #trust #house and stacy
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Foreman draws Clarence's blood and the conversation turns ugly
Clarence mocks Foreman's tattoo and past; Foreman asks how he could kill the woman he loved, then skimps on the lidocaine.
1m 02sEric ForemanClarence#confrontation #foreman #inmate
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MUDPILES: the team cracks the TB drug theory
Anion gap acidosis leads Foreman through a mnemonic to TB drugs passed off as heroin, and House sends Chase to search the prison.
1m 30sGregory HouseEric ForemanRobert Chase#mnemonic #differential #medical puzzle
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House lectures Wilson on why people are nice, over a coma patient
Eating a coma patient's chips, House argues kindness is cowardice; Wilson says House needs people, especially Stacy.
1m 15sGregory HouseJames Wilson#philosophy #comedy #house and wilson
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House gets drunk with Clarence to beat his methanol poisoning
Shot by shot, House drinks with the dying inmate, gets him to admit drinking copier fluid, then reveals the alcohol is the cure.
3m 33sGregory HouseClarenceAllison Cameron#drinking #poisoning #house at his best
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Clarence tells Foreman about the brother he raised
During tests Clarence opens up about raising his little brother and asks whether a life should be defined by its worst act.
1m 20sEric ForemanClarence#redemption #brother #inmate
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Cameron demands a test for Cindy and House spots her five stages
Cameron needs approval for a lavage and accuses House of caring only about puzzles; he notes her jump from anger to bargaining.
1m 27sGregory HouseAllison Cameron#confrontation #house and cameron #five stages
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Cuddy tries to ship Clarence back as his gut explodes in pain
Stacy has told Cuddy everything; House argues the court order until Clarence's screaming stomach pain ends the debate.
1m 18sGregory HouseLisa CuddyClarence#confrontation #emergency #cuddy confrontation
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House accuses Stacy of betrayal with Hitler and Gandhi
House says Stacy did it to do the right thing; she admits it and they trade the line that explains everyone.
35sGregory HouseStacy Warner#confrontation #betrayal #house and stacy
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House asks Clarence why he killed the second inmate
House walks through each killing's motive until one doesn't fit, and Clarence describes the panic attack before he raged out.
2m 22sGregory HouseClarenceEric Foreman#interrogation #motive #diagnostic clue
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House names the tumor behind Clarence's rages
From a list of rage triggers, House jumps to an adrenaline-secreting tumor that would explain every symptom.
37sGregory HouseEric ForemanRobert Chase#diagnosis #rare disease
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Wilson warns Cameron off Cindy, and Cameron reveals her husband's story
Wilson knows Cindy is terminal and tells Cameron friendship isn't her job; Cameron explains why a good person shouldn't die alone.
1m 11sJames WilsonAllison Cameron#terminal patient #cameron backstory
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The MRI tears at Clarence's prison tattoos
House explains magnetic inks will burn as Clarence screams in the scanner, and House keeps him in until the team sees the tumor.
1m 27sGregory HouseClarenceEric Foreman#dark humor #diagnosis #mri
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House calls out Foreman's hypocrisy over the tumor defense
Foreman wants to testify that the tumor made Clarence a killer; House says a cure doesn't absolve him.
1m 33sGregory HouseEric ForemanAllison Cameron#confrontation #ethics #foreman
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Hallelujah plays over the closing montage
A sung Hallelujah carries the episode's final minutes, intercut with a last protest that it's just a cough.
1m 24sAllison CameronCindy Kramer#ending #montage #hallelujah
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