S3E13 · Needle in a Haystack

Moments, in order

A parked-car make-out ends with Stevie collapsing
Leah pushes Stevie to stay, a passing cop gives them ten minutes, and then Stevie suddenly can't breathe and she screams for help.
1m 42sStevie LipaLeah#cold open #teen romance #collapse
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House fumes about J. Whitner while the team calls it a plumbing leak
House is more interested in who stole his parking space than a 16-year-old's bloody effusion, then sends the team to search the kid's mattress.
1m 06sGregory HouseEric ForemanAllison Cameron#differential #parking feud
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House and Dr. Whitner duel over who has it worse: cane or wheelchair
In the parking lot House and the new researcher trade barbs over black ice, crampons and burning lever muscles to claim the spot.
1m 00sGregory HouseJ. Whitner#banter #parking space #disability
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Leah fights for Stevie's care; Stevie impresses with physics during the venogram
With his parents unreachable Leah demands treatment, then Stevie quizzes his doctor on nerves, Graham's law and diffusion while the dye goes in.
2m 00sStevie LipaLeahEric Foreman#consent #venogram #curious patient
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The home search walks in on a married man and his lover
The doctors break into what they think is Stevie's home, face a fake gun threat, and deduce an affair from a ring and a half-vacuumed bedroom.
1m 15sAllison CameronRobert Chase#deduction #break-in #wrong house
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Stevie's lies unravel: the boy is Romany
The address was fake; Leah reveals Stevie is Romany, he pleads that outsiders will pollute his home, and admits to pot, dropping out and a truck trip.
1m 54sStevie LipaLeah#secrets #lies #romany
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House bets Cuddy he can last a week in a wheelchair
Cuddy defends giving Whitner the closer spot by measured yards; House scoffs at the wheelchair marathon winner and takes the bet.
46sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#the bet #house and cuddy #parking space
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A wrist-bone mnemonic, then the arteriogram finds a dead liver
Foreman bonds with Stevie over anatomy before sudden stomach pain and dye that won't leave the liver reveal a blocked hepatic vein.
1m 10sEric ForemanStevie Lipa#mnemonic #liver failure #arteriogram
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House gets stuck in a door and tells the team to think like plumbers
After a humiliating struggle with a doorway in his wheelchair, House shoots down DIC and leukemia and pictures something punching holes in pipes.
1m 06sGregory HouseEric ForemanAllison Cameron#differential #wheelchair #plumbing
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Clinic: House turns a truant's sore throat against his mother
A mom drags her school-dodging son in; House waves a saline syringe and gets the boy to insult his own mother.
1m 18sGregory HouseJack#kids #clinic #syringe
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A granuloma on the MRI, and Stevie's parents storm the scanner
Talk of Stevie's wasted brains gives way to a lesion pointing to Wegener's, just as his parents push into the MRI room demanding answers.
53sStevie LipaRobert ChaseAllison Cameron#parents #mri #wegener's
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House and a colleague swap insult nicknames over his wheelchair
House is ambushed on wheels by a colleague who calls his parking crusade demeaning; House answers with pigheaded principles and Rosa Parks.
45sGregory HouseJames Wilson#banter #insults #wheelchair
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It's Wegener's, so House wants a smart bomb: experimental FT28
Treatment caused a bladder hemorrhage; House insists the diagnosis is right, rejects methotrexate as carpet bombing and pushes immune modulation.
1m 21sGregory HouseEric ForemanAllison Cameron#differential #experimental drug
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Stevie's father refuses to let his son be experimented on
Mr. Lipa cites his people's history; Foreman answers with Tuskegee but loses, and House mocks the furniture-moving approach and the salesman pitch.
1m 34sMr. LipaEric ForemanGregory House#confrontation #trust #romany
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Foreman sends the parents out and asks Stevie to take FT28 in secret
A fake bandage excuse clears the room so Foreman can ask Stevie to take the experimental drug behind his parents' backs, staking his license.
1m 29sEric ForemanStevie Lipa#trust #ethics #secret treatment
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House leaves the wheelchair to dig through Stevie's open abdomen
His spleen burst and shows no granulomas, so the surgeon closes; House barges in, hand inside the kid, still hunting, and finds nothing.
2m 35sGregory HouseEric Foreman#surgery #granuloma #house breaks rules
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Tic-tac-toe of bleeds and clots leads House to the colon
House maps every bleed and clot as X's and O's and says when you lose your keys, eventually you look in the mailbox.
1m 28sGregory HouseEric ForemanRobert Chase#differential #whiteboard #lost keys
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The culprit is a swallowed toothpick
A bleeding colonoscopy turns up a toothpick that travelled from gut to lung, liver, bladder and spleen; the parents and Leah blame each other.
1m 06sRobert ChaseLeahStevie Lipa#diagnosis #toothpick #final reveal
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Foreman offers Stevie a future; Stevie chooses family and calls him alone
Foreman pitches a lab internship, but Stevie won't lose his family and points out that Foreman, Chase and Cameron are all single.
1m 59sEric ForemanStevie Lipa#goodbye #family #choice
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House loses the bet, then takes Cuddy's own parking space
Cuddy rules his two minutes out of the chair a loss; House works out she never meant to pay, and parks in her spot instead.
1m 45sGregory HouseLisa CuddyJames Wilson#the bet #house and cuddy #parking space
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