A Marine sing-along turns into an ambush, and House wakes up
Marines joke and sing until gunfire hits; House wakes in his office to Cuddy's new case and recognizes the patient's face from the photo.
S3E16 · Top Secret
19 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House insists to Wilson he can't dream of a stranger
In the men's room House lists his talents, rejects déjà vu, and Wilson's dream reading veers into House's dad and the Village People.
Is Gulf War syndrome real? The team splits, House wants a TV check
Foreman and Cameron call it non-existent, Chase pushes back, and House orders tests and asks whether the ex-Marine was ever on TV.
The ex-Marine spells out his symptoms to doubting doctors
Pressed on whether his rashes are bruises, John details his fatigue, sandy joints and boiling blood and asks only for someone to cure it.
Uranium versus nothing, and House orders a credit report and summer camp
Chase pushes depleted uranium, Foreman scoffs, and House adds a Lexis-Nexis search and sleep study while hiding a trip to the bathroom.
Cameron proposes a tryst in the sleep lab
Chase and Cameron argue over who stays for the sleep study, then Cameron suggests the empty rooms; he refuses until she walks away.
The patient wakes to a foul smell coming from his own mouth
John smells something rotten; Foreman finds it's his mouth and calls House, who riffs on the infection and pushes for parotid cancer.
Foreman catches Chase and Cameron, who confess to sleep-lab sex
Foreman wonders why House wants a credit report and spots the missing coffee; they confess, and the three trade insults about who'd sleep with whom.
House hasn't peed in three days, and Wilson keeps asking about the dream
House demands a prescription for his blocked bladder while Wilson needles him about the Marine he can't place.
Chase and Cameron fight about getting caught, and about House
Chase worries their affair is out of control; Cameron says she's over House and calls it uncomplicated sex, but no more at work.
Clinic: House says a student's water OCD is a banged-up pituitary
A college student wants the pill; House notices she drinks all night, rules out OCD, and guesses a balance-beam head injury from her body.
John goes deaf mid-scan, and Wilson finds tumors in his brain
During a sialogram John keeps asking for louder music until he can't hear at all; Wilson tells House the cancer is in his brain.
House snaps at Foreman over the uranium test
House demands why the uranium test wasn't sent and orders Foreman to call the uncle; Foreman asks for a rational reason and House explodes.
The brain tumors vanish on the table, and John can't feel his legs
Wilson's surgery finds nothing where six tumors were; House calls them healed abscesses, then John is paralyzed and House asks if he did porn.
Chase's uranium is a red herring, and House goes home to sleep
House dismisses the cancer theories, says radiation is everywhere, takes keys and goes home, telling the team sleep solves problems.
House returns to a bleeding patient, and finds the blood is his
The patient's blood is vanishing and House is told to leave, then a torn bag on the floor turns out to be House bleeding, and he's not always there.
House wakes up, and the patient's nose holds the answer
The same scene replays, but House already knows the patient is crashing; scarring in John's nose leads him to a hereditary capillary disease.
House cathed himself and thanks his pills for the answer
Humming again, House tells Wilson he self-catheterized; Wilson's doubts about the Vicodin are brushed off, and House says he solved it in his sleep.
House figures out why he knew the Marine: he made out with Cuddy
House accuses Cuddy of hiding her one date with the patient; she shoots back that he's not over her and she moved on long ago.
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