A kiss in the clean room sends Melinda into shock
Dan scrubs in to visit his girlfriend in her sealed room, steals a kiss, and she starts choking while he fumbles with a device he has never used.
S2E16 · Safe
20 moments · 35 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House coaches Wilson on how to bargain over dishes
Wilson complains that House left the dishes and his pot roast eaten; House scolds him for not using his curiosity about the case as leverage.
Cuddy's bubble-girl case and House's best idea: somebody's lying
Cuddy brings an immunocompromised girl with an allergy inside a clean room; House jabs at her panties and orders everyone rechecked.
Melinda's mother explains why she is so overprotective
A doctor calls the mother overprotective; she recounts the peanut cookie and car crash that cost Melinda her heart.
An unalarmed window, a tree, and the boyfriend's confession
Searching the room, the team finds a route up the tree; Dan admits he spent Friday night and they had unprotected sex. He's sent off for a sample.
House drags the boyfriend to a coma patient's room for the truth
House questions Dan beside a comatose man and learns he dosed himself on antibiotics so he would not infect Melinda.
Discharge day turns into heart failure
As Melinda is being released she can't breathe; her father begs for the epi pen, but a doctor spots it is her heart, not an allergy.
Two puzzles or one? House guards his anaphylaxis theory
House insists the heart failure ties to his explanation, takes credit, and refuses to let the team erase the board; then someone grabs the black marker.
Melinda knows her heart has an expiry date; Pain in My Heart plays
After a clean scan, Melinda says she looked up how long a transplanted heart lasts and that is why she needs a life. Otis Redding follows.
Wilson finds House alone with a cardiology centerfold
Wilson expects a hooker behind the stethoscope signal; House was working, waves a journal, and eats the last pancake while Wilson does dishes.
Melinda vanishes from her room and is found in the hospital
The hospital hunts for the missing patient; a doctor finds her, and she says the transplant gave her mother what she always wanted.
Steppage gait: ascending paralysis joins the list
Melinda's walk is wrong and her leg twitches; the team argues tick paralysis, botulism and viruses, and Foreman calls Guillain-Barre.
House admits deleting Wilson's apartment messages
Wilson learns House erased the calls about his apartment; House says Wilson can't admit his marriage is over, and that staying keeps it just a fight.
Melinda gives up and her mother breaks
The paralysis worsens; Melinda refuses to see Dan and asks her mother to stay, and her mother admits she only ever wanted her safe.
House's botulism theory and the lab rat named Steve
Cuddy has taken over; House argues the boyfriend smuggled in food along with sex and needs a rat, but the team won't sacrifice Steve.
House crashes the MRI with diagnosis number nine: tick paralysis
House interrogates Melinda in front of her parents; the antibiotic was not penicillin, and he concludes Dan carried in a tick.
House offers to tell the parents when he finds the tick at autopsy
Melinda's heart slows; House needles the parents that she will die without his search, and Cuddy has him thrown out.
House stops the elevator to hunt for the tick
House hijacks the ride to the ICU with Foreman and Melinda, argues for treating the cause, and searches her body as her heart rate falls.
Found: the tick, and House's dramatic exit from the elevator
House realizes where nobody looked and the doors open on the tick; later he and Wilson discuss the elevator, and his cane turns up filed halfway through.
Over an old James Stewart movie, Wilson calls a divorce lawyer
Watching TV with House, Wilson says he called a divorce lawyer today and will leave at some point; House warns him off a spot on the couch.
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