S4E9 · Games

Moments, in order

Cuddy wants two names by Friday
Cuddy finds House alone with a soap opera and gives him a deadline to pick his team, or the pay overruns come out of his salary.
1m 07sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#deadline #house and cuddy #soap opera
Jump to this moment
House shops the ER for the final case
House goes looking for the sickest patient he can find, lands on punk rocker Jimmy Quidd, and announces the winner of this case gets hired.
1m 19sGregory House#final case #hiring contest #punk rocker
Jump to this moment
Points, speed and the staff of treatment
The candidates race to shout diagnoses; House argues twenty-out-of-twenty symptoms means a hidden disease, docks points and hands one person the right to test.
1m 19sGregory HouseAmber VolakisThirteen#differential #hiring contest #points system
Jump to this moment
Wilson's false positive is merely interesting
Wilson tells House a man he gave six months to live never had cancer, and House picks apart why he calls it interesting instead of good.
48sGregory HouseJames Wilson#house and wilson #misdiagnosis
Jump to this moment
Wilson tells Mr. McKenna he will live
Wilson delivers the news that McKenna is cancer-free, and the man reacts to his sold house, goodbye parties and broker fees instead of celebrating.
1m 27sJames WilsonGregory House#good news #irony #cancer
Jump to this moment
Malaria, and the anatomical model from Grandma House
A candidate floats relapsing malaria against the drug theory, and House turns on the team for wrecking an anatomical model with a dubious origin story.
1m 05sGregory HouseThirteenAmber Volakis#differential #drugs or disease #grandma house
Jump to this moment
House asks Amber why she is afraid to lose
House probes Amber's contempt for the addict patient; she turns it into a defense of winning and asks how that hurts patients, or him.
1m 29sGregory HouseAmber Volakis#character study #winning #house and amber
Jump to this moment
The six-grand checkbook on Wilson's desk
House plays the patient's self-released record, then catches Wilson planning to pay his former cancer patient and explains what Wilson really took from him.
1m 08sGregory HouseJames Wilson#money #guilt #house and wilson
Jump to this moment
Cuddy tells House who to hire
House tries to bargain Cuddy up to four hires, then actually asks her advice, and she makes her case for Taub and Kutner.
1m 12sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#negotiation #hiring #house and cuddy
Jump to this moment
A heavy penalty for a test nobody authorized
The patient goes into respiratory failure, Foreman is caught tailing the team, and House docks a candidate for a sneaky lumbar puncture.
1m 29sGregory HouseEric ForemanThirteen#differential #foreman #points system
Jump to this moment
House's three life choices for a punk who quit
House needles Jimmy Quidd about his music and why he gave up; the singer explains the people who insist on telling him what he is wasting.
1m 34sGregory House#philosophy #music #house and patient
Jump to this moment
McKenna sues Wilson for the right diagnosis
Wilson tries to apologize, but McKenna rips up the check and says the death sentence gave him happiness that Wilson then took away.
50sJames Wilson#irony #lawsuit #misdiagnosis
Jump to this moment
Minus ten for asking House to kill the patient
A fuzzy echo leads to House handing out deductions for ingratitude and bad ideas while the team argues over imaging the heart.
1m 15sGregory House#differential #points system
Jump to this moment
Thirteen and Kutner fired, then not fired
Foreman calls the game over, House fires Thirteen and Kutner, and the drug-impurity theory that follows wins them their jobs back.
1m 25sGregory HouseEric ForemanThirteen#twist #firing #hiring contest
Jump to this moment
Quidd has no regrets except the rest of his life
The dying patient refuses to name his dealer and explains he never wanted to be an adult, regretting everything except the drugs and fights.
1m 33s#regret #patient confession
Jump to this moment
House tells Wilson why living scares him
Wilson turns the tables, accusing House of liking only what he can control, and House answers that Wilson cannot face life just happening.
1m 23sGregory HouseJames Wilson#argument #philosophy #house and wilson
Jump to this moment
House fires everyone
Told that Quidd volunteers with abandoned kids, House snaps, fires all four candidates, and is left with Foreman calling it a drug case.
1m 05sGregory HouseEric ForemanChris Taub#firing #hiring contest
Jump to this moment
Four wrongs make a measles diagnosis
House credits each candidate's wrong idea for the answer and lays out plain old measles caught from the kids he works with.
1m 23sGregory HouseLisa CuddyChris Taub#diagnosis #measles #differential
Jump to this moment
Seizure by punk rock
To earn his brain biopsy, House plays Quidd his own record as the noxious stimulus and asks whether he is seizing or dancing.
1m 30sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#music #test #seizure
Jump to this moment
Lecture hall verdict: game over
House plays Quidd's early recording to the candidates, fires Amber for winning for the wrong reasons, then fires Thirteen: four applicants, two spots.
1m 48sGregory HouseAmber VolakisThirteen#finale #firing #hiring contest
Jump to this moment
Cuddy makes House hire Thirteen
Cuddy objects that House hired two men, insists he take a woman too, and House suspects she has been played.
46sGregory HouseLisa Cuddy#twist #hiring #house and cuddy
Jump to this moment