House comes to in a strip club, bleeding and missing four hours
Concussed and with no memory of the night, House tests himself with five words, finds blood, and decides someone is going to die.
S4E15 · House's Head (1)
20 moments · 35 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Stitched up, House insists he saw a symptom before the crash
Getting his head sewn after the bus crash, House insists he saw someone dying and sends the team off, calling Thirteen a lesbian.
House quarantines the ER over a stiff neck
Hunting for the bus driver among crash victims, House rules out leukemia and seizure, then declares meningitis and locks down the ER.
House goes under hypnosis to find his lost memory
A doctor trained in Melbourne hypnotizes House while Wilson objects; House tries to picture the bus and finds it empty.
Under hypnosis, House can't keep Wilson and Amber out of his head
Recalling the bar, House can't lie under hypnosis; Wilson and Amber show up in his memory and he lets slip something he won't repeat.
The nose picker on the bus, and a man who suddenly can't walk
House remembers a passenger picking his nose and diagnoses him on the spot; minutes later a man in the ER loses the use of his legs.
House plans to smell a bus
The team can't rule anything out because House can't remember what he saw; he leaves to sniff the wreck for clues.
Stoned on Vicodin, House argues with a hallucination aboard the bus
Sitting in the crashed bus, House downs Vicodin to jog his memory and ends up debating figures his brain conjures.
Wilson works out that House has feelings for Amber
In the MRI, Wilson presses House on what he hid under hypnosis and concludes House has feelings for Amber; then the scan shows a skull fracture.
Altered States and a forgotten year
House wants a sensory-deprivation bath, makes a movie reference nobody gets, and loses track of what year it is.
House's bus fantasy turns into a symptom hunt
A woman joins House on the imagined bus for a striptease, but even his fantasy drifts back to the driver's earlobes and diagnoses.
A mystery woman shows House the answer, and he collapses
The imagined bus driver demands attention, a stranger tells House to look, he calls Parkinson's, and he passes out bleeding from the ear.
House wakes to Cuddy's muscle-bound nurse and diagnoses by phone
A nurse sent by Cuddy holds House's pills; he deduces his patient doesn't have Parkinson's and runs the differential over the phone.
The bagel test, run from a bathroom stall
House follows the treadmill-and-bagels test by phone from the toilet, then reasons from the wheezing that it isn't the diagnosis they hoped.
House shuts the door and orders a needle into the heart
With the bus driver suffocating, House blocks the room, explains an air bubble from dental work and demands someone stab his heart.
The dream: 'Stay with me' and the wrong person saved
Under guard at home, House dreams of a stranger and tying something around someone who is cold, and wakes sure he saved the wrong person.
House realizes he flipped cause and effect, then restages the bus
House sees the crash freed the bubble, not the other way round, and seats colleagues in passengers' places to trigger his memory.
On physostigmine, the stranger asks: what's my necklace made of?
House takes an Alzheimer's drug to force his memory; the woman from his visions keeps asking what her necklace is made of. The answer stuns him.
House relives the bus crash
The memory finally plays out: the crash, House tying something around an injured passenger who begs him to stay, and rescuers arriving.
House wakes and tells Wilson: Amber was on the bus
Revived after his heart stops, House says it was Amber; Wilson realizes she hasn't called back and an unidentified patient matches her.
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