House's plan: make the donor brother sicker to grow the infection
With the leukemia brother out of time, House wants to break down the donor's immune system so the hidden infection shows itself, and Foreman pushes back.
S3E21 · Family
24 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House and Wilson sell the parents, then fight over patient trust
House bulldozes the consent form; afterward Wilson says patients must trust him and House says trust is only useful for manipulation.
Foreman admits he can't let go of his patient's death
Searching the family's yard, Foreman confesses he forgot what his dead patient was wearing and draws a line between acting human and acting like House.
Matty's embarrassing symptom, and House can't resist the joke
A shy confession about a new symptom gives House a narrow list of infections and a gag he refuses to pass up; Foreman asks to step away.
Chase's Tuesday reminder, then a growth on the heart valve
Between negative tests Chase repeats his weekly declaration to Cameron; a hunch about the heart leads to a growth on Matty's mitral valve.
House calls the heart infection perfect and plans to marinate the marrow
House proposes cutting out the valve, identifying the bug and soaking the harvested marrow in antibiotics; the room splits on it.
Cuddy's office: conflict of interest, and House says Foreman has the yips
Wilson and Foreman argue the surgery before Cuddy; afterwards House says Foreman has lost his nerve like slumping athletes and gives him four days.
Wilson tells the parents to do the surgery, and House is delighted
Defying Cuddy, Wilson steers the parents into open-heart surgery; House teases that his patient-choice ethic only soothes his conscience.
Middle-of-the-night call: no infection in the valve, and Wilson's dog is stoned
A 1 a.m. call says the growth was fibrous tissue, and House discovers Wilson's dog Hector has eaten half his pill stash.
Autoimmune or infection? The four-out-of-six donor fight
House argues for autoimmune because it keeps the donor viable; the team doubts it, and House tears apart a partial-match donor.
House blames Wilson's vindictive dog for a chewed Elvis 78
Wilson wonders how an arthritic dog opened a pill bottle; House lists Hector's crimes, from a lost file to an original Elvis record.
Not autoimmune; Foreman takes the partial match to the parents
With Nick bruising and Matty negative, Foreman presents the four-of-six donor; House's warnings fail and the parents choose the new donor.
House calls Wilson a coward
Wilson blames Foreman for undercutting them; House says Foreman did what he believed and Wilson lacked the guts to tell the parents what to do.
House stages Hector's escape, and the dog won't leave
House leaves his door open and narrates the dog's tragic runaway out loud, only to find Hector still there and his stereo gone.
Matty learns he can't be with his dying brother
The donor brother realizes his own infection keeps him out of Nick's room, maybe even when Nick dies.
Cane shopping with Wilson: an apology and a bull-penis cane
House makes Wilson pay for a new cane; between Wilson's apology and Cameron's call about Matty's crashing marrow, the clerk shows off the exotic stock.
Flame cane and the dandelion plan: infect the dying brother
House debuts a flame-painted cane, writes off Nick, then proposes giving Nick Matty's infected marrow so his symptoms reveal the bug.
House offers the parents one dead son or two
House lays out that Nick is dying regardless and asks to use him to diagnose Matty; Wilson stays silent and the parents refuse.
House tells a dying Nick he can still save his brother
With Nick's mother gone for more painkillers, House tells the 14-year-old what he'll miss and that his life can still mean something.
Testing blind, Foreman is told to fight or quit; a water pump clicks
As tests come back negative Foreman is pushed about his job; then a detail about the family's water pump in the suburbs stops him.
Nick begs his father to let him go
Nick insists it's his choice to help his brother and asks his dad to let him go so his parents won't be alone.
Histoplasmosis from the pitcher's mound, and Matty's unsedated harvest
Foreman names the fungus from chicken-coop dirt, but Matty's marrow is too depleted; the boy agrees to a painful harvest without sedation.
Both boys live; Wilson pushes House on Foreman and gives Hector back
Wilson urges House to talk to Foreman; House brushes it off, finds Hector with his stethoscope, and Wilson takes the dog home.
Foreman resigns: he doesn't want to turn into House
Foreman says he hates that he could torture a child without doubt, refuses to become House as a person, and hands in his notice.
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