A family barbecue ends with Richard's wheelchair rolling into the pool
Arlene sends her son Mark to ask his silent, wheelchair-bound father about a burger; minutes later the chair whirs toward the water.
S3E1 · Meaning
23 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House runs eight miles to work and sees through the team's pitches
Pain-free after ketamine, House jogs in, mocks his own thank-you to Cuddy, swats the weak case and grabs both the yoga girl and the pool guy.
House swears he has changed; Wilson keeps refusing to believe it
House insists the brain cancer patient is worth taking to ease his pain, then trips over his own claim that he has changed.
House tells Mark he hopes his father really tried to kill himself
A suicide attempt would mean the man still knows how miserable he is, House argues: proof that Mark's dad is still in there.
House tests a paralysed yoga patient with a lighter
After a standoff over who got thanked, House meets Caren, borrows a flame and burns her foot; when she screams and moves he calls her a faker.
Wilson reads House's sudden kindness as a search for meaning
Wilson ties House's bedside visits to the hallucination after he was shot; House admits a family thanked him and he felt nothing.
House threatens Caren with a needle, and her heart proves she isn't faking
House promises to stab her without a local to call her bluff on breathlessness; the tap shows fluid around the heart she cannot fake.
House asks Cameron out for a drink, and she turns him down
After the patient's wife praises him, House invites Cameron for a drink; she says no, he says she only liked him broken, she says he isn't healthy.
Cuddy refuses to trade spine surgery for less morphine
House offers a compromise; Cuddy explains the employer-employee relationship: she gets what she wants and he doesn't.
Wilson's levels of happiness; House adds heroin as level six
Wilson lectures that saving lives should matter to House beyond the game; House ranks Wilson leaving as the seventh level.
House storms the OR over a toe: Caren has scurvy
House halts the spine surgery, points at an unsexy big toe and diagnoses scurvy from a high-protein, no-vitamin-C diet.
House asks Arlene why she doesn't put her husband in a facility
Arlene says she cares for him out of responsibility; House pushes until she admits it doesn't make her happy but leaving would destroy her.
Richard makes a sound, and House puts a grunt in the differential
While being lifted, Richard grunts at House; back at the office House scolds the team as lousy doctors and orders eight years reviewed.
214 symptoms: House reads a grunt as abdominal pain
The team argues over reopening solved cases and Cameron's want for thank-yous; House turns the grunt into a pancreatic cyst theory.
House mocks the failed scope, then says the throat locked instead of spasmed
The team wants Richard home; House argues the sedated throat should have relaxed and wants to look for microtumors on the meninges.
House tells Mrs. McNeil the risky test could give her husband back
He won't promise recovery, but says she might learn to understand him; told he could die, she answers he already has.
The contrast test bleeds from his ear, and House still won't let go
Chase and Foreman watch contrast reach the brain until blood appears; House drags Foreman through every scan speck, and the team refuses, then caves.
Cuddy shuts down House's hunch: he always argues medicine, not good intentions
House says only that he can help; Cuddy says he never argues that way, calls it a hunch and schedules the patient's discharge.
House's leg hurts again, and Wilson won't write the prescription
House admits the first pain since surgery; Wilson calls it middle age, refuses Vicodin and accuses him of playing for sympathy.
Soaked from a fountain, House cracks the pool case and Cuddy says no
The pool plunge was a failure to regulate temperature, House says; he wants a cortisol shot for Addison's, and Cuddy calls it a high.
House admits he just needed the puzzle as Cuddy slips Richard a shot
House concedes Cuddy was right to refuse; at the exit she stops the family and injects Richard, calling it cortisol to fight infection.
Richard stands up for the first time in eight years
On the way home Richard starts gasping, then rises from his chair before his wife and son and thanks them.
Cuddy wants to tell House he was right; Wilson says he only got lucky
After Richard gets up, Cuddy wants to give House the credit; Wilson warns that luck will run out and next time he could kill someone.
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