S2E13 · Skin Deep

Moments, in order

Backstage nerves, a Valium, and Alex's runway brawl
A 15-year-old model panics before her walk; her father hands her a pill, and on the runway she attacks another model and collapses.
1m 56sAlexAlex's father#cold open #fashion #runway
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House's leg is worse and his answer is more pills
House limps in without a helmet, brushes off rehab and an MRI, then perks up at the words teenage supermodel.
47sGregory HouseJames Wilson#banter #vicodin #chronic pain
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House ogles his 15-year-old supermodel patient
House openly admires Alex, needles her father, and names her frozen collapse cataplexy before promising lackeys and fluids.
1m 20sGregory HouseAlexAlex's father#house #patient intake #inappropriate
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Heroin in her urine and a clinic-hours bet on her breasts
The labs find heroin; House bets Chase two clinic hours the breasts are natural, Cameron pushes a neurological cause, House orders rapid detox.
2m 10sGregory HouseRobert ChaseAllison Cameron#bet #differential diagnosis #rapid detox
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Heart attack in the coma and House's paper-cut speech
Alex's heart stops mid-detox; her furious father withdraws consent, and House describes the agony of waking her now.
57sGregory HouseAlex's father#confrontation #withdrawal #complication
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Clinic: a husband with sympathetic pregnancy
A man complains of aching teeth, headaches and nausea; House guesses his wife is expecting and diagnoses Couvade syndrome.
53sGregory HouseGeorge#diagnosis #pregnancy #clinic
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Alex wakes up stuck in a memory loop
Alex comes round, flirts with the cute doctor and apologizes to her dad, then repeats the exact same words minutes later: short-term amnesia.
1m 41sAlexAlex's fatherRobert Chase#twist #memory loss #amnesia
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House's PTSD theory: the dad is either very good or very bad
Blamed for the brain injury, House insists her brain is fine and argues she was abused by the father who never leaves her side.
1m 22sGregory HouseAllison CameronRobert Chase#ptsd #differential diagnosis #abuse theory
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House calls in sick and his clinic patient gets his pager number
With House out sick, the covering doctor gets a patient who will only say it is personal and gives them House's personal pager number.
47sLisa Cuddy#revenge #clinic #pager
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House corners the father into a confession
Under the guise of a checkup, House quotes the dad's own press pitch back at him and asks if he loves her enough to admit it. He does.
2m 25sGregory HouseAlex's father#confrontation #confession #interrogation
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Elevated proteins kill both theories; House orders a brain biopsy
The spinal tap rules out PTSD and brain injury; Cameron demands they report abuse, and House snaps that saving the girl comes first.
1m 35sGregory HouseAllison CameronEric Foreman#confrontation #ethics #differential diagnosis
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House chats with God until Cuddy smites him
House plays at taking a call from God during a meeting; Cuddy reveals child services has been called and threatens to fire him.
45sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#god #threat #house and cuddy
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Wilson ties House's pain to Stacy's departure
The MRI shows no nerve regeneration; Wilson suggests the extra pain is psychological and that House went off the rails when Stacy left.
27sGregory HouseJames Wilson#house and wilson #stacy #psychosomatic
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Gray matter, a hidden tumor, and the squeeze-the-tube test
House theorizes paraneoplastic syndrome and proves it by giving IVIG; Alex's twitching stops on cue and he toys with the drip.
2m 06sGregory HouseAllison CameronEric Foreman#differential diagnosis #paraneoplastic syndrome #diagnostic test
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House begs for a morphine shot and bares his wasted thigh
House asks for spinal morphine because he will not let his team see his pain; refused, he shows the missing thigh muscle and wins.
59sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#morphine #chronic pain #vulnerable house
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No cancer anywhere, so House suspects a subconscious fake
Pain-free House insists on cancer; the team has checked every organ, and he reasons the twitching stopped because she watched the IV.
1m 53sGregory HouseEric ForemanAllison Cameron#banter #differential diagnosis #placebo
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Alex reveals she seduced her father to get her way
Told she is a victim, Alex says she slept with her dad and others to get what she wants, and that she is not that smart, just that beautiful.
1m 29sAlexAllison Cameron#twist #confession #manipulation
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The pregnant wife pages House mid-labor
The clinic husband's wife, in labor, uses House's pager number; House jokes through an epidural refusal and calls her husband the perfect man.
27sGregory HouseGeorge#payoff #childbirth #clinic
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House's ultimate woman hunch finds a mass
House asks about her body hair and missing periods, calls her the ultimate woman, and an MRI shows a tumor where no one looked.
1m 05sGregory HouseAllison Cameron#diagnostic reveal #hormones #imaging
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The ultimate woman is a man: House's diagnosis
House tells Alex the cancer is on an undescended testicle: male pseudohermaphroditism makes her immune to testosterone. She refuses to believe it.
2m 01sGregory HouseAlexAlex's father#twist #diagnostic reveal #final diagnosis
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Cuddy's shot was a placebo
House asks for another shot after his pain returns right after the case ends, and learns the shot that worked so well was saline.
53sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#house and cuddy #placebo #chronic pain
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