Six transplant patients, one donor, and House insists it's cancer
House runs a differential on a dead donor's organ recipients while riffing on what Wilson ever did for him, and sends everyone to prove cancer.
S5E2 · Not Cancer
18 moments · 32 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House sizes up the man who keeps picking up his lunch tab
A stranger pays for House's chips and knows his habits; House decides he is falling in love while also arguing about Apple's failing eye.
Apple's eye chart test ends with a hallucination
Apple reads the chart beside a dying fellow recipient and hears she must lose her eye, until a doctor's grim joke turns out to be a hallucination.
The genius coffee repairman in argyle socks
A man fixing the coffee machine turns out to be a private investigator who has solved the donor's secret life and wants $2,300.
Apple lies to a widow to save herself, and Frank dies
Frank's wife refuses a risky brain biopsy; Apple invents a daughter to sway her, gets caught, and Frank codes before anyone gets consent.
Cancer plays the field: Kutner's leaky-bowel theory and the donor's secret child
House is accused of wanting cancer as an excuse to call Wilson; Kutner proposes a bowel anomaly and House targets the donor's four-year-old.
The investigator reveals what House really hired him for
In a closed ice cream shop the investigator explains his three types of clients and that House wants him watching Wilson.
A colonoscopy on a dead man, powered by a water jet
To test the leak theory, the team pressurizes a corpse's bowel and scopes it, hunting for a lesion at the far end.
Apple crashes and House bans repeated ideas
With Apple's heart and breathing failing, House forbids any idea already said and starts treating her for cancer anyway.
House asks Apple to consent to chemo without telling her why
House explains the placebo effect as his reason not to share test results, leaving Apple to guess whether proof exists.
Apple tells House why she gave up architecture
Apple explains that regaining her sight showed her an ugly world and left her just as alone, and asks if his leg really changed him.
Tailing a stranger while the investigator reports on Wilson
The investigator follows a woman he likes and reveals he joined Wilson's grief group; House learns Wilson never mentions him.
Chemo works, and House still says it's not cancer
Apple improves on chemo; House argues it only acts like cancer, and the investigator explains why the tuba player died anyway.
House pays Wilson for an epiphany and confesses to spying
House leaves money on Wilson's doorstep to buy his thinking, admits hiring an investigator, and Wilson says he won't answer again.
House and the investigator on friends, and anything can be anything
After overhearing Wilson, House and the investigator argue about friendship until a throwaway line sparks House's idea.
Brain, but not brain: House pitches cancer stem cells to Cuddy
House explains how partially formed cells explain every recipient's death and asks to open Apple's skull; Cuddy says no.
The swapped I.V. and the brain surgery House's investigator watches
Apple's chemo turns out to be saline, the surgery goes ahead, and the investigator admits the swap while mocking House's need for company.
House shows Apple the world is not as ugly as she thinks
House explains her brain was blocking her sight, then takes the gauze off so she can see the world again.
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