House presents a legendary researcher clawed by his own lab rat
The team frets over House's cane; he redirects them to Ezra Powell, author of the textbook, who can't breathe outside the hospital.
S3E3 · Informed Consent
23 moments · 27 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Powell can't finish the stress test, so House says run it again
Powell reminisces about the treadmill protocol, then begs off; House mocks the team's caution and orders them to push the 71-year-old.
Clinic: a father's cold, his daughter's handbag, and Fresno in France
A dad lectures his teen about a $400 bag while House examines him, flirts with the giggling daughter, and prescribes cold medicine.
House pumps Powell with epinephrine to finish the test, and Powell begs to die
House bypasses protocol to get Powell's heart rate to 130 and rules out the heart; afterwards Powell pleads with them to kill him.
The team splits over giving Powell a lethal syringe of morphine
One says every doctor has done it, another refuses; House needles their contradictions and turns the talk back to the lungs.
Powell is found trying to strangle himself with his oxygen tube
Powell says he won't live hooked to machines and threatens assault charges for any more tests; House jokes about having someone wipe for you.
House strikes a bargain: one more day, then he'll help Powell die
House describes a slow suffocation and offers a deal: if he hasn't found the answer in 24 hours, he'll help Powell end it.
Powell predicts their failure as the clock runs down
Powell taunts the tests drifting away from his lungs; the team rules out leukemia and fungus while House jokes about Powell's honesty.
House turns back the clock and fakes a myeloma diagnosis
With hours left, House sneaks the clock back and claims multiple myeloma; Powell sees through it and recites House's own suffocation speech.
House prepares the morphine, then intubates Powell instead
House clears the room and seems to grant Powell's wish; Powell asks about the other side, then House grabs a laryngoscope and admits he lied.
House defends the forced coma and spots scarring on Cameron's MRI
Accused of stripping Powell's dignity, House scoffs; Cameron's low cuts caught the top of the lungs, pointing to an autoimmune disease.
Cameron walks out, and the men argue about who has principles
During a colonoscopy on the comatose Powell, Chase and Foreman bicker over Cameron's exit and whether she'll go to Cuddy.
House turns Cuddy's humility lie against her
Cuddy confronts House about his ruse with Powell; he reminds her of her own lie, and she ends up calling him a pig.
Wilson calls House's fight for Powell pure ego
House admits the leg still hurts; Wilson says Powell only wanted help and that House just can't stand a patient dying unsolved.
House shows Cameron Powell's ugly old research to sway her
Over an open lung biopsy Cameron recounts Powell's experiments on babies; House insists you either help a patient live or help him die.
Only one way to tell: House keeps circling back to waking Powell
House rejects each test the team says won't work in a coma until only one option remains: bring him out of it.
Powell wakes, refuses the test, and House tests him with ice water
Powell is told it's attacking his nerves and demands discharge; House splashes him under the guise of a wash and maps numb patches.
House dares Cameron to take a pound of Powell's flesh
Lungs and nerves point to Kawasaki's, lymphoma or sarcoid; House mocks Cameron's indecision and sends her for a skin biopsy.
Cameron confronts Powell about his experiments, then takes the skin
Powell defends radiating babies as progress; Cameron throws his view of consent back at him and cuts the sample, earning his approval.
The clinic patient's daughter flirts with House again
Back for her dad's prescription, she thanks House and asks him to return her calls in six months, when she turns 18.
Congo red: House suddenly lands on amyloidosis
House explains why amyloid fits everything and why the stress test missed it; the stain confirms it and he credits a muse.
House tells Powell he has amyloidosis, and that it's terminal
Powell asks why he should believe him now; House offers the subtype as proof and congratulates him on getting his answer.
House is asked if he knows how Powell died in the night
Powell was stable at 2 a.m. and stopped at 2:30; asked whether he knows anything, House answers with a question.
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