Hannah's sleepless night ends with an empty pill bottle
Unable to sleep, Hannah slips out of bed for a glass of wine; her partner finds her collapsed after swallowing a bottle of pills.
S2E18 · Sleeping Dogs Lie
20 moments · 28 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Ten days without sleep: the case House can't brush off
Caught dodging clinic patients, House mocks the idea of a sleepless 25-year-old until he hears she hasn't slept in ten days and has hours left.
Cameron accuses Foreman of stealing her article mid-differential
Cameron's fury over Foreman's paper spills into the case meeting while House trolls them both and restarts the differential at Genesis.
House orders the team to keep the sleepless patient awake
With no tests showing anything, House wants to make Hannah sicker by stealing her few seconds of sleep, and Cameron calls it torture.
Awake colonoscopy, with Cameron and Foreman feuding over it
Hannah endures an unsedated scope as Max talks her through a ski trip and the two doctors keep sniping about the article.
The butt bleed is a nose bleed, and the rash wasn't poison ivy
House reads a magazine and drops jokes through the differential, then links the rash, nosebleed and insomnia to Wegener's granulomatosis.
Clinic: a daughter translates her way to birth control
A girl claims her mother needs the pill for period pain; House spots the mother's cold, sees through the scheme and hands the daughter the prescription.
Cameron confronts House: that's the definition of being an ass
Cameron asks if the article mess was an experiment; House says it was laziness and lectures her on how everyone acts in their own interest.
REM sleep while sitting up, and House reads the dog story
After Chase sees Hannah's eyes flicker, House rules out REM, and from a returned birthday dog deduces that she plans to leave her girlfriend.
Hannah admits she's tired of Max, then the bleeding starts
During the scratch test Hannah confesses she means to leave her loving partner, until back pain reveals massive internal bleeding.
House tells Hannah she'll slip into a coma, and Max offers her liver
With Hannah's liver dead, House explains there's no time left; Max asks whether she can be the donor.
The ethics fight: does Max get to know?
The team argues over hiding Hannah's plan to leave while Max risks her life, and House orders everything tested at once, threatening anyone who tells.
House dares Cuddy to stay ignorant
Asking for help with the donation, House hints at a secret and leaves Cuddy to choose between her curiosity and a clean conscience.
A doctor tells Hannah she doesn't really love Max
Swabbing her for spores, a doctor presses Hannah: if she cared about Max at all she would not let her go into surgery blind.
Hannah tries to confess, and House sedates her
Just as Hannah starts to tell Max the truth, House knocks her out and argues with Cameron about whether he did it to keep his puzzle.
Revenge as motive for success, then Max's heart stops
Watching the transplant, Cameron gets advice on beating Foreman, until Max arrests on the table and House sends her back upstairs.
Clinic return: wrong pills, bigger boobs, and House's Mandarin
The mother took the birth control instead of the decongestant; House reveals a little Mandarin and leaves mother and daughter to talk.
Blue Barrel kennels and a magic trick: Hannah has the plague
An abnormally normal white count leads House to the dog's breeder and a new swelling on Hannah; he explains the plague with a dam metaphor.
Max knew all along
Recovering in the hallway, Max reveals she knew Hannah was leaving and gave up half her liver anyway.
Cameron offers peace; Foreman says they're colleagues, not friends
Cameron proposes they both apologise and move on, and Foreman flatly declines.
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