A Star Wars night out ends in a fight, then the floor starts shaking
A sneezing woman confesses to Ben she only pretended to love Star Wars; moments later she feels a tremor, thinks she is hallucinating, and 911 is called.
S4E1 · Alone
20 moments · 31 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House refuses to hire a team and bets Cuddy he can solve a case alone
Two weeks of guitar practice later, House says he can't hire after a 10-minute interview and wagers a week off on diagnosing a collapse survivor solo.
House runs his differential with a janitor he dubs Dr. Buffer
With no fellows, House bounces ideas off a janitor for a fiver, then brings him along to question the patient's family and boyfriend Ben.
House lures Wilson to 'lunch' at the patient's home and reads her diary
Wilson finds himself breaking and entering instead of eating; House reads the patient's diary and decides she was secretly on anti-depressants.
The family learns Dr. Buffer is a janitor as House pushes for dialysis
The boyfriend and mother reject House's secret-depression theory, Cuddy apologizes for him, and House reads the diary aloud to win the mother over.
House's guitar is kidnapped and the ransom is a team interview
A recorded ransom note warns House off the FBI and Cuddy; Wilson plays innocent while the demand is five to seven fellowship interviews.
Cuddy asks the intubated patient to blink yes or no, and her heart races
Cuddy questions the patient about a psychiatrist and MAO inhibitors by blinks; the answers upset her and the team has to shock her.
Cuddy calls the bet lost and House finds his guitar under the couch
Cuddy says the heart problem means House lost; he demands the résumés, hears strumming under a couch, and the kidnapper moves the hostage.
House erases Wilson's telenovela finale: no negotiating with terrorists
After a Raid on Entebbe exchange about moving hostages, House deletes Wilson's recorded telenovela episodes and declares war.
Cuddy refuses to argue with House so she won't enable him
Cuddy says the IV alcohol may have caused pancreatitis, then won't debate it: House needs a team to bounce ideas off. She still wants an MRI.
Wilson works out why House won't hire: he lost a team and got hurt
After a guitar-string threat, Wilson drops the joke and names the real reason House resists hiring: he connected with a team and lost it.
In the OR gallery House spots an enlarged uterus and claims a win
Cuddy says House is wrong and will kill the woman; he reads an enlarged uterus, deduces a hidden abortion and the pill, and says he needs no team.
House tells the boyfriend outside the morgue about the abortion
Needing consent, House tells the boyfriend his girlfriend had an abortion and is on the pill; he insists they want kids.
House kidnaps one of Wilson's cancer patients in retaliation
House wheels a chemo patient off the oncology ward to a better room and tells him to call House directly, not Dr. Wilson.
An ER doctor out-diagnoses House and he invites her résumé
Cuddy's memo makes the ER staff ignore House; one doctor spars with him, insists the patient has both ARDS and crush syndrome, and reminds him of someone.
House tells the boyfriend the woman he loves doesn't exist
The boyfriend says he still loves her despite the lies; House says she is dying, then notices a lump in her arm.
Wilson finds his missing patient and trades for the guitar
Wilson finds House napping in the stolen patient's room; they bargain patient for guitar until House gives up the room number.
House proves the patient isn't Megan at all
The chart of another victim matches every secret House found; the Star Wars exchange recurs, and she gives her real name.
House is told Cameron, Foreman and Chase would have solved it days ago
House sulks that he did it all by himself; he is told she almost died and that his old team's instincts would have cracked it. Hire a team.
House greets a crowd of fellowship candidates: wear a cup
House warns a room of applicants that this will be the longest job interview of their lives and that most of them will be gone in six weeks.
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