House begs Cuddy for a slice of the dead cop's brain
House wants to autopsy Joe to save Foreman; Cuddy has called the CDC and won't budge, so House gives her 36 hours of guilt.
S2E21 · Euphoria (2)
22 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Foreman tries an ice-pick biopsy on Joe and goes blind
House talks Foreman through a crude lobotomy-style sample from Joe's body, until Foreman stabs the mattress: he has lost his sight.
Treat for everything: House's shotgun differential
With the brain biopsy negative and the body off limits, House orders treatment for every possible cause at once despite the toxic risk.
Blind Foreman reads his meds by touch
Cameron hands Foreman his pills; he identifies each drug by shape and works out that House is treating him for everything.
House's lab rat Steve McQueen, on webcam
Wilson finds House watching his pet rat in his own kitchen, deliberately exposed to Foreman's illness so House can autopsy it.
Clinic: the toddler's 'seizures' are not epilepsy
Parents fear their little girl has epilepsy; House diagnoses something far more embarrassing with a string of euphemisms.
Cuddy orders House out of the clinic and back to Foreman
House is suddenly racing through clinic patients; Cuddy sees him avoiding Foreman's case and sends him upstairs.
House offers Foreman a choice: sight or time
The drug cocktail restores Foreman's vision but is wrecking his pancreas; House makes him choose between seeing and surviving longer.
House parades Foreman's dad in front of Cuddy
House brings Rodney Foreman to pressure Cuddy into allowing the autopsy; she answers with a firm defence of her public-health call.
Foreman and his father argue about faith and dying
Foreman wonders whether to tell his mother; his father's certainty about a better place collides with Foreman's lost belief.
Why is it faster in Foreman? House's race theory
The disease is outrunning the cop's course; House seizes on the anomaly and the team hunts for illnesses with racial disparities.
Foreman refuses Cuddy's sympathy, then House tosses in Legionella
Foreman tells Cuddy he won't forgive her; House arrives with a vial of Legionella and infects Foreman without waiting for consent.
What sickens humans but not rats? The listeria theory
Steve the rat stays healthy, so House and Cameron reason out an infection the body never recognises, and House lands on listeria.
Foreman begs for a brain biopsy; House says no
Foreman wants a deep brain biopsy over antibiotics that will bring back the pain; House refuses to cut until he must.
House visits Foreman's father in the chapel
House warns Rodney he'll have to make Foreman's medical decisions; Rodney defers and tells House how Eric rates him.
Foreman asks Cameron to be his medical proxy
Facing a coma, Foreman names Cameron his proxy and apologises for stealing her article; she agrees but says they're not okay.
A father's goodbye before the coma
Rodney asks Cameron what to say to a son who may not wake; he and Foreman share an 'I love you' before Cameron accepts the apology.
Cameron pulls rank as proxy and orders the biopsy
Cameron calls out House for being too careful with a friend; she's Foreman's proxy, and Cuddy tells House to shut up and stand aside.
House bargains with Cameron for one more hour
House asks for an hour to find a dead animal at the cop's apartment instead; Cameron ties the deadline to Foreman's oxygen numbers.
A blind bird and the wrong water: House's rooftop race
As Foreman's sats fall, House calls in from the apartment, realises timing matters, and pins the source on stolen roof water.
Foreman's father hears the diagnosis: a brain-eating amoeba
Rodney learns it was a parasite that fed on brain cells and is treatable, but no one can yet say what the surgery cost his son.
Foreman wakes up, but something is wrong
Foreman comes out of the coma joking and pain-free, learns who found the answer, then fails a simple movement test.
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