Fletch's farewell toast collapses into garbled words
Journalist Fletcher Stone tells a rowdy story at Greta's retirement party, then falls and starts speaking in nonsense phrases.
S2E10 · Failure to Communicate
20 moments · 28 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Cuddy wants a famous patient sent elsewhere; Foreman sulks
With House away in Baltimore, Cuddy asks Foreman to recommend another neurologist for a famous journalist, and Foreman takes it personally.
Fletch's word salad and the fall that wasn't a trip
Fletch answers questions with random words and cannot write his name; his editor Greta insists he fell before he tripped.
Chase refuses to take orders from Foreman
The differential turns into a fight over who is in charge; Chase orders a tox screen and tells Foreman he is not his boss.
House defends a Viagra prescription at a Medicaid hearing
House explains why a heart patient got Viagra and offers to pay cash; Stacy calls him an idiot and works on the retiring official.
Stacy dodges dinner, and House notices her missing cross
Stacy has checked flight times to avoid dinner with House; he asks where her crucifix is and she claims it is at the jeweller's.
Wilson's date is interrupted by House's call
On a dinner date, Wilson takes House's call, pretends it is family, and briefs him on the patient's fever.
House runs the differential by speakerphone
House calls in, scolds the team for not calling, orders antibiotics and antivirals, and mocks them for queuing for an MRI.
House reads strangers' illnesses, then turns on Stacy
At the airport House spots Bell's palsy and ALS in strangers, then asks Stacy why she is not wearing her cross.
Chase needles Foreman about losing his nerve
Searching Fletch's office and home, the team finds pills; Chase says Foreman's confidence vanished when House was not there to back him.
House deduces why Stacy left her cross behind
House works through every reason Stacy could have left home without her mother's cross until she tells him to stop.
Stacy admits the fight with her husband
Stacy confesses she fought with Mark over a mailbox sign, fears he is pushing her away, and House offers a cutting joke.
House's dead phone, and his order to crush all hope
Wilson reaches House through Stacy; House tells the team the patient knows something and must be told he is dying.
Fletch is told he may die, and opens up to Cameron
Fletch hears he may die; when Cameron sits with him afterwards, he says two strange phrases about a bear and a stain.
Stacy's Vindaloo curry theory of House
In the airport hotel room Stacy compares their relationship to hot curry: too much burns, but one day you miss it.
House realises Cameron got the patient talking
House hears that Fletch spoke to Cameron, explains how fluent aphasics swap words, and borrows Stacy's makeup.
The team realises Fletch only talks when his wife is away
House pushes for a new clue; the team notices Fletch spoke only when his wife was out of the room, and they ask Cuddy to get her away.
The polar bear riddle: is Fletch bipolar?
House decodes the bear clue with a riddle from the gate while security closes in, and the team ties bipolar to Fletch's pills.
House exposes the secret surgery, then cerebral malaria
House lays out Fletch's hidden surgery abroad in front of his wife; the blood slide finally shows cerebral malaria.
House and Stacy part with 'the curry'
At the gate House and Stacy talk about the patient's marriage and close on their curry line.
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