A savant's benefit concert stops when his hand seizes up
His father helps Patrick dress and introduces him as a pianist since a childhood accident; mid-piece Patrick's left hand cramps in pain.
S3E15 · Half-Wit
20 moments · 29 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House wants to solve a 25-year-old savant mystery before breakfast
The team dismisses the dystonia case and heads back to bed, but House is hooked on how a bus accident made a boy a pianist.
Clinic: a blister, bad breath and a secret, then House draws his own blood
House reads a patient's breath and knuckles for purging, sends her off, and has Foreman puzzled over the blood sample he wants checked.
House sits down for a piano duet with Patrick
House announces his own gift, trades phrases with Patrick at the keys, then tests his perfect pitch and decides the patient stays.
House tries to see the music in Patrick's brain
A functional MRI of Patrick listening shows nothing, so House has him play his leg like a piano; his racing heart points to surgery.
Plane tickets to Boston, and a break-in at House's apartment
House's opened mail suggests a Harvard job; Chase and Cameron search his place, flirt over his bed, and find a phone lead to Boston.
Cuddy calls Mass General and uncovers a brain cancer specialist
Cuddy accuses Boston of poaching House, learns he's seeing an oncologist, and she and Wilson wonder why he showed no symptoms.
House plays the tune Patrick finished; Wilson confronts him about cancer
House plays a song he never could end until Patrick did, then Wilson demands why he hid brain cancer and House plays it down.
House bans talk of his cancer and orders more seizures
House shuts down the team's request for his blood, then says to pull Patrick's anticonvulsants so worse seizures show where the damage is.
Cameron's job hunt, a kiss, and a needle
Cameron asks for a recommendation, says there's no point staying without him, then kisses House to draw his blood; he tells her where his file is.
House's scan shows an inoperable tumor, and an odd Boston trial
The team reads House's file: a large midbrain mass and a year to live, while the trial he signed up for only treats depression.
House tells Patrick he's dying and asks who he used to be
Hiding from his team, House confides in the savant, who echoes him, objects to bad words and says he only likes the piano.
A personal speech for House, then half of Patrick's brain is dead
A team member tells House he's an arrogant ass but likable; House dissects it, and the in-brain EEG shows Patrick's right hemisphere is dead.
A piano test proves Patrick's right brain never mattered
House puts a keyboard in front of Patrick and reasons that nobody plays with half a brain, so the dead side is old damage and the cause is autoimmune.
House narrates the calculations behind a pity hug
Someone hugs the supposedly dying House, who explains the math behind it, then says Patrick's next step is something better than fine.
House wakes Cuddy to pitch removing half a brain
At Cuddy's door after midnight, House argues for a hemispherectomy with a bar analogy about the two halves; she offers sympathy and a hug.
House offers Patrick's father a life instead of a gift
House proposes the surgery that ends the seizures and the piano; the father refuses, and House calls his son a performing monkey.
Not cancer: House faked it to get into a Boston drug trial
Foreman and Cameron rush in with neurosyphilis news; House reveals the file wasn't his and he faked cancer for a pleasure-center drug.
Wilson tells House to start small: pizza with a friend
Wilson reads House's fake cancer as loneliness, says dying alone is what depresses patients, and urges him to stop pushing people away.
After the surgery, Patrick buttons his own shirt
His speech is gone for now and he stares into space, but Patrick does up the button he couldn't manage before, and his father sees him happy.
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