House, a patient in the next bed, finds the man trapped inside
Doctors call a crash victim brain dead and eye his heart while he screams silently; House, in after his own motorcycle crash, asks him to blink.
S5E19 · Locked In
20 moments · 29 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House argues the brain damage caused the crash
Lee answers by blinking and asks for Molly; while his doctor talks rehab, House points to his unscraped palms and says the crash came second.
Molly's faith, and Lee won't let the kids see him
Lee's wife Molly promises God will get them through as House rifles through scans; Lee silently begs her not to bring the children in.
Lee wonders if God sent House
Kutner geeks out over the MRI video goggles; inside, Lee finds House in his relaxing scenario and decides House was sent to save him.
House lets the antivirals almost kill Lee, as planned
At night House tells Lee he's fascinating precisely because he can't answer; when Lee seizes, House wins the case from his doctor.
Wilson grills House about his Middletown trip
Wilson suspects a pain clinic; House deflects by claiming he visited Wilson's ex-ex-ex-wife about alimony, while Lee listens in disbelief.
Lee's children come to say goodbye
Molly brings the kids in before the risky biopsy; Lee realizes why, and when they leave, a doctor notices he has been crying.
House on God's well-documented mistakes
As Lee goes under for the biopsy, he and House debate why God works by trial and error; House admits he doesn't know if Lee will be all right.
Lee loses his blink mid-biopsy
Mid-surgery Lee answers test questions by blinking, until the blinks stop; Foreman is told to back out, and Lee's one line to the world is gone.
Lee moves the cursor with his mind
A doctor confesses fear of the job to the silent patient; the brain-computer cursor moves, and Lee reaches Molly again.
House's fake malaria exposes Lee's St. Louis lie
Lee answers history questions by cursor, says he was in St. Louis, and House reveals the trap he just set.
Twenty questions with a man who can only say yes or no
House suspects an affair, then narrows down where Lee really spent two days by yes/no questions until Molly names a friend called Dave.
The secret in Dave's basement
Résumés in Dave's basement reveal Lee hid his failing business and took janitor shifts at a battery factory, pointing to cadmium.
Foreman's jewelry woes, then Molly's hurt
Foreman tells his captive patient about Dr. Hadley not wearing his gift; then Molly confronts Lee for lying, and he can't say sorry.
Taub asks to keep his job, and House is unmoved
Taub claims credit for the mind-reading idea and admits the work terrifies him; House notes Kutner found the answers instead.
House exposes Wilson's new girlfriend
Caught in his own lie, House flips it: he went to Middletown to check out the caregiver Wilson is secretly seeing at his brother's facility.
Lee's heart stops, and he begs to be let go
During the spinal tap Lee's chest seizes and he faces death with House at his side; once revived, he wants to stop fighting.
Down, not no: an itchy foot and House's sinking-ship liver
The team realizes Lee is signalling down, not no; the itch leads House to explain liver failure as a sunken ship that stops sending SOS.
A bracelet rash cracks the case, and Lee moves a finger
Foreman and Thirteen's bracelet spat reveals a rash that points to rat-borne infection; Lee moves a finger, and Taub claims the idea.
Wilson finds out House is seeing a psychiatrist
Wilson tracks the calls House was dodging to a psychiatrist; House says he isn't going back, and Wilson warns where that leads.
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