Casey's dragster win ends in a collapse
Rookie Casey Alfonso beats nine-time champion Tony Cooper by half a car length, then can't follow the interviewer's question and goes down.
S4E6 · Whatever It Takes
26 moments · 31 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House picks a case by the car
House dismisses a 68-year-old and a crying student, then perks up at a dragster driver with seizures, hoping for a test drive.
A woman from the CIA comes for House
House mocks a visitor who claims to be CIA, leaves Foreman in charge of the racer, then gets a reason to believe her.
House meets the Mayo Clinic rival
Dr. Samira Terzi introduces House to immunologist Sidney Curtis, and House tells him what his book is useful for.
What would House do?
The fellows argue whether Foreman is testing them; he refuses to play House, apologizes to Casey, and she turns feverish and delirious.
Everything about John is classified
Terzi can't say where the agent was or why they suspect an attempt on his life, so House asks about Oswald and Marilyn instead.
Foreman's fellows fight for points
Lupus, MS and meningitis collide amid flirting jabs; Foreman accuses the fellows of chasing House's approval, then grants three hours of tests.
Chestnuts, Bolivia and House's poisoning theory
House mocks the horse-chestnut idea and grills Terzi about Bolivia, then declares he knows what is poisoning John and who did it.
House accuses John of hiding his drinking
John says he doesn't drink; House insists guilt over killing a man would drive anyone to it, then asks about Gilligan's poison lipstick.
Amber and Taub ask Cameron about Foreman
Two fellows seek Cameron's backing for lupus and her help handling Foreman, who they say must prove he's the smartest in the room.
House eats John's lunch
House reveals he has been starving John as pancreatitis treatment and quietly unhooked his iodine, until John stops responding.
Foreman: House built a cutthroat world
After two fellows treated behind his back, Foreman says none of them care about the medicine and blames the game House set up.
Polio, and Foreman throws Brennan off
Brennan insists the paralysis is polio, no American case in 20 years or not; Foreman tells him to take a personal day and leave his case.
House calls it blood cancer, Terzi sides with him
Curtis wants House charged, but House argues the pain without hair loss rules out radiation and calls Waldenstrom's; Terzi trusts him anyway.
Foreman pranks Cameron over a stolen patient
Foreman sends Cameron's headache patient home, then reveals he's paying her back; Chase tells her she's too involved in House's team.
House phones Wilson from the CIA
House flirts with Terzi, offers her a job, and calls his 'valet' Wilson, who doesn't believe him until he realizes House really is at the CIA.
Cuddy punishes Wilson double
Wilson covers for House's missing clinic hours with the CIA story; Cuddy doubles House's hours and gives Wilson twice that.
Curtis blows up at House's arrogance
Curtis screams that House's stubbornness may have cost John his life and blames Terzi's judgment, before a caterpillar-fungus remedy comes up.
Foreman apologizes and Brennan pitches vitamin C
Foreman admits he was stubborn and arrogant; Brennan proposes a 1950s high-dose vitamin C protocol for polio and Foreman reluctantly allows it.
John's confession: the devil dance
Believing he's dying, John tells House about 40 days with a buttoned-down defense attaché during carnival, and the detail House catches.
House cracks it: Brazil nuts
House calls the CIA idiots: John was in Brazil, where chestnuts mean Brazil nuts, and that many of them poison you with selenium.
House and Terzi flirt in euphemisms
House offers Terzi a spot in his fellowship; she knows how to kill a man with her thumb, and Curtis can't believe she's flirting with him.
Cameron and Foreman make peace
Cameron explains she misses people doing whatever it takes; Foreman admits he got everything wrong, and she says he never will.
House exposes Brennan's polio cure
House proves Casey never had polio and Brennan poisoned her and faked a test to force research; House makes him quit and backs Foreman.
Cuddy catches House in every lie
Cuddy demands proof of the CIA story; House offers the Hamptons instead, and she doesn't believe that either.
Terzi takes House up on his offer
Terzi tells House she'll take his offer, corrects which offer she means, and says she's given notice.
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