Kayla's pep talk and sing-along end in collapse
Backstage at a school magic show a mother patches her daughters' homemade dresses, cheers them with talk of Aretha, sings along, then doubles over screaming.
S2E8 · The Mistake
19 moments · 27 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Stacy is forced to defend House and Chase
Cuddy orders Stacy to prep Chase and House for a hearing moved to tomorrow; House shrugs off the file break-in to Wilson, and Stacy gets his signatures.
Kayla's first visit: uveitis and a differential
Chase recounts a neurology consult with Kayla's surly brother, an inflamed iris that hooks House, and an argument over a childproof Vicodin bottle.
Chase and Kayla bond over mothers who drank
During the exam Kayla says she hates hospitals; she and Chase find they both lost mothers to drink, and Stacy notes patients don't sue doctors they like.
Stacy preps Chase to lie better, and gets the truth
Stacy sees through Chase's version of the follow-up; he admits he was on the phone, handed over results and brushed off her stomach pain.
The doorknob question
Stacy grills Chase on why he called Kayla back; he explains the patient who saves the most important question for the doorway.
House's version of the endoscopy: he made Chase cry
House tells Stacy about bursting in during the bleed, berating Chase for skipping routine questions, and Chase blaming the spilled Vicodin.
House's parable of Buck the uninsured patient
House tells a clinic patient a story about an uninsured man with a fatal lung disease to get him insured before diagnosis, with Stacy as unwilling witness.
Stacy demands what House is hiding
Stacy calls out House's manipulation and asks why he never fired Chase; House offers a fake confession.
House argues Cuddy into listing Kayla for a liver
Cuddy refuses a liver to someone this sick; House lays out the chain of failure and the lawsuit and says the liability is the medical reason.
The surgeon thanks House; Stacy asks what he did
A transplant surgeon agrees to operate and thanks House; Stacy asks what he did, House jokes about foursomes, and she promises attorney-client privilege.
House bribes, then blackmails Dr. Ayersman
The transplant surgeon laughs off House's cash, so House reveals he knows about his affair with a nurse and threatens an anonymous letter to his wife.
House apologizes to Stacy for what he found
After she learns he sent the letter anyway, House tells Stacy she's angry because of what he found in her file, and apologizes.
House exposes Sam's tattoo and the cancer he passed on
Kayla's fever splits the team; House confronts her brother, spots a bad tattoo, finds he hid hepatitis C and realises the donated liver carried cancer.
Chase talks Kayla out of a black-market liver
Learning Sam found an organ in Mexico, Chase pleads with Kayla, revealing his own father's death; she tells Sam he gave her three months.
Chase tells Sam he killed his sister
At a follow-up Sam talks about the girls and losing their home; Chase confesses to the misdiagnosis and says he was hung over, and Sam lashes out.
House knows why Chase really slipped: his father
House calls Chase's hangover story a lie, reveals he knew Chase's father was dying, and lays out the choice between truth and his career.
House and Stacy admit what's between them
Waiting for the verdict, House asks why Stacy didn't sell him out; she asks how to work with someone she has feelings for.
The committee's verdict: Chase suspended, House supervised
The panel suspends Chase for a week and puts House under supervision for a month, then House meets the doctor picked to oversee him.
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