Nicole finds her birth parents in China and is turned away
An adopted woman tracks down the couple she believes are her parents; they deny her, and at a temple she makes a wish lifting a Buddha.
S5E4 · Birthmarks
20 moments · 31 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House's father is dead and House would rather talk about Taub
The team learns House's father died; House deflects onto Taub's late night confession and insists he didn't even like the man.
Cuddy gives House a shot and orders him to the funeral
Cuddy administers House's shot herself, then tells him his mother wants a eulogy; House offers something else entirely.
House wakes up in Wilson's car on the way to the funeral
Cuddy drugged him, Wilson is driving him to Lexington for his mother, and his Vicodin is rationed to keep him on the leash.
Wilson takes House's cane at the rest stop
House forces a pee stop; Wilson holds the cane hostage and tells him to give his mother the gift of a lie.
Nicole's smoke break and a talk about belonging
A doctor treats Nicole outdoors and shares that he was adopted at nine; their talk turns when she notes his success.
House hides Wilson's keys and Wilson won't join the dark side
Wilson's car keys go missing; House catches him lying about Amber and a keychain, then Wilson says he has moved on.
House claims his father wasn't his biological father
House lays out his evidence from age 12, a birthmark and a deployment, and Wilson asks why he never did a genetic test.
Pulled over: House runs a differential while Wilson is arrested
A traffic stop turns into an old warrant from Louisiana as House keeps diagnosing over the phone in steamroller metaphors.
Wilson's old warrant: vandalism, destruction of property, assault
In custody, House demands his phone, and the officer reads Wilson's charges as Wilson accuses House of stalling the funeral.
How House and Wilson met: a bar fight in New Orleans
Wilson explains the warrant: a jukebox, a smashed antique mirror, and the stranger who bailed him out of jail.
Lost on the road, House diagnoses by phone: bubbles
It isn't gallstones; House explains the steamroller over the phone while insisting Wilson is lost, and approves a bubble test.
House's mother asks him to speak at the funeral
They arrive in time; House's mother thanks Wilson and gently insists her son speak for his father.
House points out the man he thinks is his real father
At the service House denies his father shaped him, then spots the family friend; Wilson learns what twelve-year-old House told his dad.
House's eulogy for his father
House tells the mourners how his father treated those beneath him, then admits he is what he is because of him.
Admit it: House and Wilson have it out at the funeral
Wilson accuses House of turning grief into farce; House says Wilson fears losing people, and reveals what he knew in New Orleans.
House reads a grainy echo from 500 miles away
By phone House diagnoses iron overload from the image, then calls the contact who helped Nicole in China, who doubts the couple were her parents.
Wilson plays a middle-aged Chinese woman for House's differential
House makes Wilson role-play the birth mother, and together they reason that Nicole was never meant to survive infancy.
Pins in her brain and a magnet in the Buddha
House stops an MRI just in time and explains how a rigged temple Buddha moved pins left in Nicole's brain as a baby.
The DNA test, and Wilson comes back
House's DNA test confirms his theory and changes nothing; Wilson says the trip was the most fun he's had since Amber and returns.
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