House shows up an hour late to see who'd put up with it
The candidates debate leaving; House arrives with an SMA patient and turns the case into a contest: the team that finds what's threatening him keeps their jobs.
S4E3 · 97 Seconds
19 moments · 28 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Men versus women, and House christens Cutthroat Bitch
House splits the candidates by sex with a run of nicknames; one woman asks to join the men's side and earns her official title.
The women blame beach threadworms, then carry the patient to the toilet
A fainting SMA patient jokes about death by power chair; the women blame a worm caught lying in Thai sand and must help him produce a stool sample.
Cuddy yells at House for turning patient care into a competition
House hides in an exam room so Cuddy can vent, argues competition beats single cells, and insists it would be irresponsible not to know the answer.
A defector joins the men and sets bugs biting the patient
A woman candidate trades a former fellow's trick for a spot on the men's team; their xenodiagnosis bugs are on the patient when he starts choking.
House reads the candidates' lives aloud, then puts the men in the penalty box
House calls out an engaged ex-Doctors Without Borders candidate, misreads Thirteen, reveals one man isn't a real doctor, and benches the men.
A man who knifed a wall socket describes 97 seconds of death
Kept from leaving as a possible suicide risk, a car-crash survivor tells House being dead was the best moment of his life, and refuses a chemical explanation.
House interrogates Thirteen, who admits she's hiding everything
The tilt table proves the women right and the patient enjoys the ride; House turns the report into a grilling about Thirteen's secrets.
House's tribal council fires the men's team
Survivor-style, House fires the men for losing and for talking, waves off their scleroderma theory, and bids farewell to Ridiculously Old Fraud.
The patient bleeds green and House calls off the game
Losing his last pleasure to a feeding tube, the patient sees green blood; the men are back, contrast dye shows kidney failure, and House drops the game.
Foreman bets on lymphoma against protocol at his new hospital
At another hospital, Foreman reads black flecks as cancer; his boss warns he is chasing old ghosts and orders antibiotics instead.
House books an eye removal instead of a biopsy and invites Wilson
Caught booking an orbital exenteration, House explains the lymph node garbage-dump logic and shouts to Wilson to come and watch.
Told it's melanoma, the patient wants out, and House says there's no after
The patient chooses to stop fighting and looks forward to leaving his body; House tells him there's nothing after, then argues the point outside.
House stopped his own heart on purpose to see for himself
The team learns House's near-electrocution was no accident; awake, he says he wanted to nearly die, and dodges the question of what he saw.
The patient dies asking for his dog's head under his hand
The new drugs fail, his lungs flood, and the SMA patient asks for Hoover; he says he isn't scared before time of death is called.
House gets out of bed for a dead patient and explains who he called
Told Stark is dead, House insists that isn't a diagnosis; leaning on a candidate, he explains he chose the one who'd lose most if he died.
The dead dog solves the case: it ate the patient's pills
During a postmortem differential the service dog dies; House links its breed to ivermectin and finds the pills were never swallowed.
Foreman saves his patient and is fired for it
Foreman's gut call cures his patient, but his boss says he confuses saving a life with doing the right thing, and fires him.
House lectures the candidate who left the pills out, then keeps them
Threadworms confirm the original diagnosis; the candidate replays the mistake and asks to be fired, but House says a lecture means they stay.
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