Captain Cooper loses contact in a flight simulator run
A test pilot waits for confirmation on approach, goes silent, then storms out blaming a disconnected comm cord and a spinning gyro.
S4E2 · The Right Stuff
20 moments · 31 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House quizzes 40 applicants on what really happened to Buddy Ebsen
With no patient, House fires a wrong guess on the spot and sets a room of candidates on the original Tin Man's 1938 illness.
Cuddy objects to 40 candidates, so House fires a different row
House cut salaries to fund the crowd; his boss calls the weeding-out arbitrary, so he un-fires Row D and fires Row C instead.
An Air Force captain pays House $50,000 cash to keep her off the books
Headed for NASA astronaut training, she wants her eye and ear problems solved without the Air Force knowing, and hooks House with a strange symptom.
House's new rules: the patient is Osama, and no records survive
Shred lab reports, melt X-rays: House treats his synesthesia patient like a fugitive and lets numbered candidates take turns interviewing her.
Candidates told to wash House's car stage a walkout
A candidate rallies the others to quit over car-washing duty, then returns alone, having only meant to thin the competition.
A candidate defibrillates the patient inside a hyperbaric chamber
During carbon monoxide treatment the patient goes into V-fib; one candidate uses paddles in the oxygen chamber and sets her on fire.
House calls a bystander a cutthroat little pixie and dubs a 21-year-old Scooter
House dissects the chamber fire, halts a Takayasu versus Whipple's spat, and gives the cardiomyopathy idea to the youngest candidate.
House thinks he saw Chase, and Wilson diagnoses repressed guilt
House swears he saw Chase outside his office, though Chase took a job in Arizona; Wilson finds it telling it was the one House fired.
'Call me 13': a candidate refuses to get invested
Two candidates jostle over Scooter's echo and one asks to be called 13; House scolds them, teaches diagnosis in transit and rides alone.
House extorts the barricaded patient and Cuddy learns her name
A panicked patient locks herself in; House threatens her secret to get the door open, then Cuddy demands answers and orders every step charted.
House fires the snitch, then fires the one who tattled on the snitch
House works out who told Cuddy, fires a second candidate for tattling twice, and dares them to run tests without running tests.
Wilson says House will pick people he can't stand; House gets an idea
House now 'sees' Cameron; Wilson debunks it and warns about how he'll choose fellows, sparking a plan to stress the liver with tequila shots.
House recruits a Mormon candidate as the no-drinker control
House spots a Brigham Young ring and needs a non-drinker for the tequila test; he argues the candidate around with an ass in a pit on the Sabbath.
House hears masses in Greta's chest while firing personal questions
On a treadmill cover story, House fires personal questions while tapping Greta's chest, finds masses, and tells her surgery beats her dream.
The fix to hide surgical scars from NASA: a breast augmentation
Candidates brainstorm cons and ether; the winner is cosmetic surgery with incisions near the lungs. House tells Greta dreamers get laughed at.
Von Hippel-Lindau found in surgery while Chase watches from the gallery
Cysts in the lungs lead a candidate to Von Hippel-Lindau; a young blond surgeon in the gallery makes the candidates nervous about their jobs.
Greta wants to hide her diagnosis, and House says he called NASA
Told her genetic disease has no cure, Greta plans secret screenings; House says NASA already knows, because shuttles fly over New Jersey.
House cuts nine candidates and learns Scooter never went to med school
House reads out the losing numbers, then keeps 26 back: a 30-year admissions officer with no diploma who gets offered a job as assistant.
House finds Cameron in the ER and admits he lied to Greta
House mocks Cameron's new hair and ER job; she learns he never called NASA and suggests he simply couldn't kill Greta's dream.
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