Role-play gone wrong: Bob stops breathing
A couple's bedroom game ends with a crash; Bob can't breathe and turns blue while his wife begs a 911 operator to hurry.
S2E15 · Clueless
21 moments · 31 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Wilson's hour with a hair dryer ends his stay at House's
Woken by Wilson's grooming, House declares the arrangement isn't working after one night and Wilson promises to be gone tomorrow.
A happily married sex fiend: the threesome differential
House bets the patient's perfect marriage is a sham, Cameron defends a threesome every seven years, and House says patients don't know choking from suffocating.
Clinic: herpes after 20 faithful years, and a note for the sensei
House diagnoses a husband who swears his wife is his only partner, then hands him a note for his daughter's karate teacher.
Why marriages fail, during a lung test
Mid-test, Cameron asks Bob whether the threesome and role play mean boredom; he says no, and the talk turns to whether people ever change.
Differential in the men's room: lungs, skin, sklungs
House runs the differential from a urinal, summons Cameron in as the allergy expert, and lands on heavy metals from a resort in Cabo.
Wilson's stuffed peppers and House's lead question
Wilson cooks, has found an apartment and mocks House's diet; House admits the food is better than it looks and asks how much lead it takes.
Macadamia pancakes and the Beyonce-brown ant
House raves about Wilson's pancakes while quizzing the team on ant colors, then orders lead treatment plus allergy tests.
Burning feet, a failed intubation, and Foreman calls lupus
Bob's feet start burning, then his airway closes and he has to be trached; Foreman overrides House's heavy-metal theory and treats for lupus.
The lettuce-free salad, and Cuddy's herpes cleanup order
House eats the salad Wilson made himself; Cuddy orders House to face the herpes couple, and House muses on how a guilty husband would play it.
House decides the loving wife is poisoning Bob
With every test negative, House argues the wife is all that's left and orders her searched over Foreman's objection.
House asks to search the wife, and House and Foreman square off
House openly accuses Maria of poisoning her husband; when she draws the line at a body search, he and Foreman trade insults until Cuddy stops it.
Bob codes and wakes up to his wife's devotion
Bob's heart stops and he is shocked back; his wife pleads with him, he whispers hi, and House watches, calling her quite the actress.
House blames the lupus drugs and orders interferon
House argues Foreman's immunosuppressants woke a dormant virus, and shouts down objections to giving interferon.
Bob and his wife remember ninth-grade earth science
Hoarse and failing, Bob confesses he sat behind her to cheat; she admits she let him, and he begs her to say she loves him.
House brokers the herpes couple's fight with a toilet seat test
House tells the wife she has herpes, offers a toilet-seat theory as an exit, and decides who is guilty from who rejects it. Then arthritis clicks.
House meets Lady, the maid who moved his wooden box
Wilson's hired cleaner has tidied House's closet, and House furiously demands the wood box that was always at the back.
Purple fingers: House proves the wife poisoned Bob with gold
House keeps Maria from washing her hands, tells a story about ancient Egypt, and turns her fingers purple with stannous chloride.
The team argues why she would kill the man she nursed
The doctors trade theories: an affair, a sociopath, or a wife who could not admit her perfect marriage had failed.
Cameron accuses House of being pleased
Bob will need new lungs; Cameron says House thinks he has proved every marriage is a mistake, and he asks if he looks pleased.
Al Green plays as a voicemail about Wilson's apartment is deleted
Love and Happiness plays over the ending; a message warning Wilson he will lose the apartment unless he matches an offer gets deleted.
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