Helicopter rescue at sea: the suitcase he won't let go
A rescue crew low on fuel hoists a Cuban couple off the ocean while the husband clings to a suitcase; he says they came to see Dr. House.
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A rescue crew low on fuel hoists a Cuban couple off the ocean while the husband clings to a suitcase; he says they came to see Dr. House.
Wilson pushes House to act before Foreman leaves, citing his eighth-grade guitar, his apartment and his old car as proof.
With Marina's medical records lost at sea, House reasons about what Cuban doctors would already have tried and splits the team between wife and husband.
Esteban insists his wife must see Dr. House himself; Chase explains House doesn't care, and that was still the right choice.
Before her MRI Marina tells Cameron the motor broke the first night, her husband paddled on, and he never stopped promising they'd make it.
Chase says House will cave just as with Cameron; when Foreman proposes MS, House says well done and Chase sneers at the pat on the head.
Marina's bone snaps during an exam; House backs bone cancer, mocks Cameron for crossing off infection, and Chase calls out the flattery.
Chase starts to complain about the Foreman situation; House fires him for having learned all he can, or nothing at all.
Foreman, Cameron, Cuddy and Wilson each demand to know why Chase was fired while House keeps asking for the scan results, until Chase walks in.
House has gone home, so Foreman quietly hands Esteban the number; Esteban leaves message after message.
House arrives after Esteban's calls; mid-procedure Marina's heart stops, yet she keeps talking, and House calls it amazingly cool.
House appears on an OR monitor to run his differential; the busy surgeon says he is protecting Foreman and should not have fired Chase.
House barges into Cuddy's class, offers an A for the answer, grades the first-years' guesses, and Cuddy orders bypass after three hours of CPR.
House mistakes Esteban for the janitor and corrects his grammar; Esteban tells him he crossed the sea for this and House won't even look.
On bypass the surgeons find nothing wrong with her heart; repeated shocks fail and she's declared dead.
Cameron gives Foreman a gift and says she'll miss him; House mocks it, then refuses to let anyone tell Esteban without knowing why.
Chase tells Cameron House was right, calls his Tuesdays silly, says the job was the best thing that ever happened to him and leaves.
In the dark Cuddy asks why Marina is still on bypass; House insists he doesn't care, and Cuddy tells him he's done all he can.
The non-believer prays because he promised to do everything; at the bedside he feels a beat, and Marina wakes.
The team calls it a cleared infection or a miracle; House asks why God gets credit and proposes a hidden congenital defect.
Marina and Esteban credit God for her recovery; House answers that the rescuers had a helicopter and makes them choose God's hands or his.
House forbids praying during the repeat angiogram and finds a third coronary opening causing the clots, then threatens to slap Marina for thanking God.
House finally tells Foreman he needs him; Foreman calls him miserable and selfish, and House defends saving lives for his own reasons.
Cameron says she's gotten all she can from the job, expects House to joke and move on, and tells him she'll miss him.
Esteban brings American cigars; House says two quit and he fired the third, says he thinks he's okay, and doesn't know what comes next.

Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.

Every House moment featuring Allison Cameron, in story order. Played by Jennifer Morrison.

Every House moment featuring Eric Foreman, in story order. Played by Omar Epps.

Every House moment featuring Robert Chase, in story order. Played by Jesse Spencer.

Every House moment featuring James Wilson, in story order. Played by Robert Sean Leonard.

Every House moment featuring Lisa Cuddy, in story order. Played by Lisa Edelstein.
Every House moment featuring Marina, in story order.
Every House moment featuring Esteban Hernandez, in story order.