House works the betting floor, then a woman seizes beside him
House hustles bets at an off-track betting parlour, explains his jockey system, and is pulled into treating a woman who collapses mid-race.
S2E9 · Deception
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
The team debates the 'OTB babe': alcohol, trauma or Cushing's
The team questions why House was at the OTB; the differential swings from alcohol abuse to Cushing's while House stereotypes the patient.
Foreman's new authority meets House's mockery and Cuddy's pecking order
Foreman reminds House he is now in charge; Cuddy confirms it, lays out the chain of command and warns House there is no fallback.
House takes Anica's history and she names Cushing's herself
House mocks the intake form, probes Anica's life, and floats Cushing's, only for her to explain it herself; the MRI then finds no tumor.
House botches the lumbar puncture into a hypertensive crisis
House takes eight tries at Anica's LP with Cameron observing; her blood pressure spikes and the team argues detox versus a hidden tumor.
House buries his new boss in paperwork
House tries to break Foreman with needless orders and a year of unsigned discharge summaries, then gloats over a grim scan result.
Clinic: House diagnoses an infection and summons Foreman to sniff
A clinic patient's contraception causes an infection; House drags Foreman in for a smell test and advises abstinence on evolutionary grounds.
Cameron proposes Munchausen's: Anica is faking it
With the pancreatic biopsy negative, Cameron argues Anica injected herself to fake illness; House insists a brain tumor cannot be faked.
Apartment search ends with House calling Foreman a wuss
House and Cameron spar over the evidence in Anica's flat; House dares Foreman to choose, then mocks his safe decision.
Cameron's brutal bedside consent form
Cameron hands Anica a consent form and openly accuses her of injecting herself for attention.
Cameron's orange-urine trap catches Anica
Cameron reveals she planted mislabelled antibiotics to prove Munchausen's; Foreman confronts Anica, who denies doing anything to herself.
House's Boy Who Cried Wolf argument for aplastic anemia
House rewrites Foreman's notes and argues Anica's constant anemia is real; Foreman refuses more tests but allows leftover blood.
Foreman asks Wilson how to be House's boss
Foreman seeks Wilson's confidential advice on managing House; Wilson jokes about togas and swords.
House sings, and Chase refuses to go behind Foreman
House sings through Chase's lab results, then tries to recruit him for a secret bone marrow biopsy; Chase refuses and pushes back.
House stops Anica's discharge with a dangerous bargain
House sits Anica down, profiles her past, declares aplastic anemia and offers to inject drugs to fake the symptoms, if she has taken nothing else.
Anica confesses why she craves care
Anica tells House about her mother's illness and death; House responds coldly and leaves her to collapse.
House gloats as Anica's counts confirm aplastic anemia
The team sees her bone marrow shutting down; House feigns deafness and lectures Foreman on reading between the labs.
House sniffs out the real answer: infection
House halts the marrow ablation, admits he dosed Anica with colchicine, and smells the bacterial infection on her breath.
Foreman accepts the job; Cuddy calls House lucky
Foreman asks to run the department for real; Cuddy credits House's reckless move with saving the patient.
House enjoys life under Foreman
House tells Wilson he likes Foreman being in charge; Wilson doubts House could live with it.
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