A father hands his son the ATV, and it ends in flames
Doug lets Adam take the ATV over his own warnings; Adam speeds off, will not slow down, and is rushed in badly burned.
S2E12 · Distractions
19 moments · 33 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House reads a Hindi journal and prescribes a 1905 gadget
The team finds House avoiding the burn case; he lists what could kill the boy and sends them after an antique galvanometer.
Cuddy discovers a forged memo and a migraine in a coma patient
Cuddy learns she is hosting a lecture she never arranged, then catches House testing a migraine drug on a coma patient.
The galvanometer test sends Adam into a seizure
Cameron explains the antique heart test to Adam's guilt-ridden parents, who admit giving him pot once; the test triggers a seizure.
No skin, no scans: House reveals his illegal sonogram
Every test is ruled out by Adam's burns; House suggests transcranial Doppler and lets slip how he used it that morning.
Weber's lecture, and the med school grudge behind it
Cuddy introduces Dr. Weber; in the audience House reveals Weber is the classmate who reported him for cheating.
House runs a brain bleed by phone mid-lecture
House waits to pounce on Weber while being lectured on his grudge, then yells down the phone at his team over a bleed.
House heckles Weber's migraine study to pieces
House picks apart Weber's statistics, journal and sponsor, uses a mango-juice joke, and the old feud breaks into the open.
Adam wakes in the hyperbaric chamber, and it isn't pain
Foreman and the team look for a cause; Adam stirs under sedation and the team learns his reaction was not pain.
House gets the migraine he was hoping for
House is struck by a migraine after taking Weber's drug, declares himself right, and refuses to be knocked out.
Differential for an orgasm, then a dose of maggots
House demands theories for the boy's orgasm, steals Foreman's voice through the pain, and prescribes Napoleon-era maggot therapy.
Wilson diagnoses House's need for pain
Wilson mocks House's lose-lose experiment and tells him he is using pain to avoid thinking about the woman he pushed away.
The parents' fight over consent, then a risky neck tap
Warned of paralysis or death, Adam's parents turn on each other over blame; the team pushes a cervical tap as his pressure spikes.
House wakes a burn victim to question him
Over objections, House has Adam woken from sedation and grills him through screaming pain about what happened before the crash.
A tripping House cracks the case: serotonin storm
House sees sounds after taking something, then deduces Adam had an earlier seizure and floats depression and a serotonin storm.
House versus the parents who know everything
House insists teenagers hide things from parents; Adam's parents list everything he confides and bet his life he is not depressed.
A cigarette burn reveals the boy's real secret
House storms the sterile room, spots a perfect circular burn on Adam's wrist, and explains the dangerous quit-smoking pills.
Cuddy asks about the acid, and Weber pays House back
Cuddy suspects House took LSD for the migraine; Weber arrives furious that House's email got his trials shut down.
A visitor named Paula offers House a distraction
House opens the door to a woman who introduces herself as Paula; the small talk turns to a need for distraction.
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