House mocks a swollen-tongue patient, then a stranger opens fire
House jokes about grilling a man who can barely speak; on his way out, a former patient's husband walks in and shoots him.
S2E24 · No Reason
22 moments · 32 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Freshly shot House deduces the case from his bed
House wakes after surgery, ignores his own wounds, and works out from what Wilson won't say exactly which tests failed.
House walks out on Cuddy with his stitches in
Cuddy can't stop House leaving bed; he dares her to touch him and orders a lymph node biopsy with a trash analogy.
House is roomed with his shooter, and his leg feels better
House protests sharing the ICU with the man who shot him, then notices his chronic leg pain has eased and suspects a surgical error.
The shooter explains why he pulled the trigger
His wife was House's patient; House cured her but revealed an affair that had nothing to do with her illness, with tragic results.
House's numbers theory of marriage
A woman behind the glass says she's the patient's wife; House grades the couple out of ten and probes for an affair.
House and his shooter trade blame
House mocks the man's logic, he calls House an ass and a hypocrite, and both are left asking who owns the wife's death.
House does impressions of his team in the cafeteria
Over lunch House voices each fellow's objection himself, orders a brain-barrier biopsy, and learns the patient is a widower.
House tells Wilson he may be hallucinating
In rehab, House reasons that the wife he spoke to never existed and worries about what that means for his judgment.
Cuddy admits the ketamine coma was deliberate
House confronts Cuddy about drugs in his surgery; she reveals an experimental treatment aimed at his chronic pain.
The neighbour's trash cans: House's lymph logic
Blood in the brain lining suggests cancer but tests are clean; House's alley trash metaphor sends the team to the chest lymph nodes.
The shooter dissects House's brutal honesty
From the next bed, the gunman tells House that tact comes from humility and asks why he refuses to be human.
The patient's first post-op pee goes very wrong
Chase gets the patient up to urinate, and a different part of him starts swelling painfully.
House on the exercise bike misses the obvious
Pedalling for a bet, House lets the team reach testicular cancer, then fears Cuddy's treatment has dulled his mind.
Wilson says House doesn't want a healthy leg
Wilson argues House has defined himself by his disability; House turns the tables on Wilson's calm about Cuddy's choice.
House rages at Cuddy and Wilson, then wakes to his shooter
House erupts over his lost mind; the scene breaks and the man in the next bed tells him he was shouting at nobody.
House benches himself and debates reality with a figment
House tells Cuddy he is off the case, realises his conversations aren't real, and reasons with an imagined voice about trusting his team.
Question every assumption: House's fish-in-a-cup lesson
With everything negative, House makes the team list its assumptions down to how a biopsy samples, and decides they must dive in.
House sells the patient on a robot surgeon
The patient wants a human; House argues people made him worse and pitches the machine, while insisting he's only throwing out ideas.
The shooter tells House his life is measured in tears
As House works, the gunman argues that what can't be measured still counts, and that House's misery serves no purpose.
House decides none of this is real
House notes his team never challenges him and guesses the faulty assumption is reality itself, then pushes past the point of sense.
Back to the moment of the shooting
The monitors flatline and the scene snaps back to House on the floor just after being shot, with one request for Cuddy.
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