Climbing-wall fall: Maggie's hands stop working
A mother coaches her daughter Jane up a climbing wall, then her own hands fail on the belay rope and Jane drops.
S4E10 · It's a Wonderful Lie
20 moments · 25 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House's holiday decorations rant
The team wonders if House is done firing people; he tears into the Christmas decorations, hands out nicknames, and gets asked for a Secret Santa.
The patient who never lies
House scoffs at a patient who vowed never to hide anything, then seizes on her undisclosed preventive double mastectomy and orders a scan for irony.
House interrogates an 11-year-old
House grills Jane about her mother's drug use and sex life, running her through white lies, rationalizations and omissions until she gives something up.
House and Wilson defend lying
House calls a mother's total honesty child abuse, and he and Wilson trade theories of why lying is what you do for people you care about.
Faking a hand tremor to get the truth
Two of the team visit Maggie's one-night stand, convince him the same drug is now attacking his hand, and get him to admit he slipped her Ecstasy.
Saint Nicholas and the clinic patient
House reads a clinic patient's St. Nicholas necklace and her quarterly AIDS tests and works out her profession by elimination.
House approves Secret Santa
House explains why one decent season is obscene, then makes the team draw names anyway and reads their faces as they pick.
Angiogram: Jane reads the doctors' faces
During Maggie's eye test Jane watches the doctors' faces and asks why anyone lies to a doctor; the clean result rules out a fixable cause.
Thirteen calls House out over the honest patient
House pitches a conversion disorder and a trick to fix it; Thirteen calls it pathetic, and House says she is jealous of the patient's choice.
Jane refuses to lie to her mother
Asked to back a placebo treatment, Jane pushes back, is told she can't spot lies if she can't tell them, and proves she can lie but won't to Mom.
House rigs Secret Santa with his own name
The team discovers each of them drew House, who put his name in five times to sow dissension and collect gifts.
Reading 4,300 emails to find sarcoidosis
Snooping the patient's email and a mystery gift on his desk, House reconstructs two years of joint pain from a sold Stairmaster and a canceled hike.
The donkey show diagnosis
The clinic patient returns with a new rash, and House traces it to a very specific animal contact before declining an invite to her show.
Kutner's bone scan and a skeleton turning to stone
The team bickers over Kutner's bone scan until House sees what consistent density really means.
Maggie won't let Jane be tested
Told a bone marrow transplant needs Jane as donor, Maggie refuses to let her daughter take any risk despite Jane pleading.
House offers a dying mother one last gift
House tells the dying Maggie why she really refused the donor test, and she confesses the secret she promised to keep from Jane.
Jane tells her mother she is dying
When Maggie promises it will be okay, Jane refuses the comforting lie and tells her the truth to her face.
House's Christmas gift: pure truth
House describes watching the daughter strip her mother of hope as a rare event, and is pushed on why her truth meant more than his.
A Christmas miracle with risperidone
Interrupting the team's carol, House orders an antipsychotic, explains stray breast tissue, finds the tumor with a needle and a squirt of milk.
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