Fran books a $1,000 deluxe package, then collapses
A nervous first-time client invites Robin into her home, goes looking for her cat Harrington, and is found collapsed.
S3E18 · Airborne
22 moments · 31 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House's vintner's cane, the blankie kid, and Cuddy's economy seat
Airport security takes House's corkscrew cane, Cuddy scolds his expenses, and House solves the problem by downgrading her ticket.
Fran confesses her wild trip to Caracas
Fran admits she never visited her sister: turning 58 sent her to Caracas for mescal, cocaine and a large man named El Gordo.
A passenger collapses and House offers Cuddy his first-class seat
A Korean passenger falls ill and the crew asks for a doctor; Cuddy is fetched from coach, and House offers her his seat.
Cuddy fears meningococcus; House tells the cabin it's a hangover
Cuddy wants to turn the plane around; House covers for her, reads Mr. Peng at a glance, and pulls rank on infectious disease.
Cameron and Chase search Fran's home, with the cat watching
Searching for toxins, Chase admits he agreed with Cameron for sex, and the cat becomes an unwanted audience.
House recruits a team of passengers and lands on ciguatera
House casts an Australian who agrees, a Korean who disagrees and an outraged woman, then traces the illness to the sea bass.
House orders the cabin to go vomit
House announces that anyone who ate the fish should head to a restroom and throw up, then admits meningococcus fits just as well.
Wilson's team lands on breast cancer
With every toxin test clean and the patch slowing her seizures, the team settles on a paraneoplastic effect of breast cancer.
Wilson asks Robin to stay with Fran for her mammogram
Robin stays with a near stranger; Fran blames her own risks, and mid-scan loses sight in her right eye.
Radiation from North Korea, a surprise pregnancy, and statistics
House blames bad x-rays for Mr. Peng, tells a sick passenger she is pregnant, and explains coincidences with plane-load statistics.
House sniffs Cuddy for a diagnosis
Cuddy shows photophobia; House, with no lab, smells her and asks whether to picture lifeguard or mother superior Cuddy.
Cameron and Foreman argue whether sex is ever just sex
Robin is sent home; at the EEG Cameron and Foreman argue whether sex can stay physical, and Fran slips into a coma.
House raids the passengers' bags for drugs
Searching carry-ons for medication, House outs one passenger's herpes and shames the cabin into handing over pills.
Spinal tap on a shaking plane
With three pills for six patients, House and Cuddy fight over who gets them, leading to a lumbar puncture in flight.
Cuddy's meningitis warning sets off mass hysteria
Cuddy's cabin announcement makes passengers shake on cue; House declares conversion disorder, but Mr. Peng really is dying.
House's passenger team guesses Mr. Peng is a drug mule
The volunteer team round two: syphilis, a condom, and House's theory that cocaine burst inside Mr. Peng's gut.
House and Cuddy pin Mr. Peng down, and the mule theory fails
House needles Cuddy over being pretty much sure, then pressure on Peng's joints eases his pain: wrong again.
The scuba receipt: Mr. Peng has the bends
A dive receipt from yesterday tells House that cabin pressure is killing Mr. Peng, and he orders the pilot to dive.
Fran learns she was poisoned for coming home
Fumigation next door leaked through a shared old pipe; Fran mourns her cat and decides she was punished for coming home.
House demands thanks from the hysterical passenger
House insists the woman owes him for saving her life; she calls him mean and he turns his weak-and-soft line back on himself.
Chase says he wants more and Cameron ends it
After a good catch, Chase admits he wants more than sex; Cameron tells him it was fun and now it's over.
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