Field trip panic: Ian bleeds at the museum as the chaperone's baby comes
A class trip to a heart exhibit falls apart when the pregnant adult in charge goes into labour and six-year-old Ian turns out to be bleeding.
S2E17 · All In
20 moments · 26 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House's gorilla-testicle theory of poker
At the hospital charity poker game, House needles his tablemate with primate biology and a speech about how bad cards make small things annoying.
House tells Ian's parents Cuddy got it wrong
Testing the boy's coordination with his cane, House bluntly informs the parents their son's brain is losing control of his muscles.
House wrecks Chase's party flirting
Chase is spinning a great-white story to a woman when House arrives asking about his anal fissure, then explains why he had to kill all hope.
The nearly dead and the newly bred: House pulls a 12-year-old file
House links a six-year-old's case to a 73-year-old woman, Esther, who died years ago, and orders a colonoscopy to hunt for Erdheim Chester.
Foreman explains House's Esther obsession
During the colonoscopy Foreman tells Chase this file has come back before: House sees the woman who died 12 years ago everywhere.
Chase snaps: this kid is not Esther
The biopsy comes back negative and when House wants a kidney biopsy, Chase tells him to his face that he screwed up and she died.
Brown urine puts Ian on Esther's path, and House keeps Cuddy out
Ian's kidneys start failing just as the parents relax; House runs a fast differential and refuses to page Cuddy, explaining who he does and does not need.
Wilson spies on Cuddy's poker hand for House by phone
With Wilson at the table and House upstairs, the two talk in war-movie code while House reads Cuddy's seltzer habit and pushes Wilson to call.
Ian's parents hear the last patient died, and his mother calms him in the MRI
Ian's parents hear what happened to Esther, then his mother coaxes the frightened boy to lie still while hiding her tears.
Not lymphoma: House's runaway-train speech
A mass at the base of Ian's brain fails to prove lymphoma, and House frames the disease as a train whose destination they already know.
House reads Wilson's cards from his voice
On the phone House guesses Wilson's pair of nines from his tone, coaches him all in, and Cuddy folds while guessing House is still pulling strings.
House blackmails Wilson into going all in against Cuddy
Threatening to reveal Wilson's toenail polish, House forces an all-in hand, then demands an oncologist for a dying six-year-old.
Kawasaki's for a kid and an old lady
Wilson finds no leukemia; the team lands on Kawasaki's disease and House asks why it couldn't strike the elderly too.
A mass in the heart, as Ian's mother asks if Esther suffered
The echo shows clean coronaries but a small mass in the right atrium while Ian's mother asks how the other woman died.
House's heart biopsy stops Ian's heart, and he takes the sample anyway
Doing the biopsy with the blinds open, House triggers cardiac arrest; once Ian is revived he goes right back for the tissue.
Cuddy takes the case: You're not God
Cuddy confronts House for risking a child to solve Esther's death, takes the case away and bans him from Ian's room.
Cuddy's pocket aces story gives House his answer
Cuddy describes how she slow-played a colleague to win the tournament, and the hidden aces make House rethink everything.
The disease slow played them: Erdheim Chester after all
House insists on retesting the one disease already ruled out; the team fights him, and the stain comes back positive.
Esther rests, House gets told he was lucky, and the barnacle line
Over one last poker hand House is told his diagnosis was a guess, and he answers with another animal anatomy fact.
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