Cuddy thanks House for not taking advantage after their kiss
Using take-out menus as cover, Cuddy explains away last night's kiss; House offers to be there any time she wants to stop kissing.
S5E7 · The Itch
20 moments · 26 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Cameron talks her way into the shut-in's home
At his double-locked door Cameron trades honesty for access, then sits alone with the patient, who bristles when she mentions the shooting.
House tells Wilson he kissed Cuddy
Scratching a mosquito bite, House claims he'll ignore Cuddy forever; Wilson points out that hiding it means it mattered.
House interrogates Cameron about Chase over speakerphone
While the team reports a clean house, House pries out whether Cameron and Chase are engaged and whose place they sleep at.
House brings home buyers to frighten the patient into a seizure
To provoke a seizure, House leads a crowd of bargain hunters through the agoraphobe's home over Cameron's objections.
House offers the patient surgery in his own home
House lays out a painful bowel blockage; the patient would rather die than leave, so House offers a surgeon who will come to him.
Cuddy explains why she will never date House
Cuddy plays down her kiss with House and lays out exactly how a relationship would collapse; Wilson notes she has clearly thought about it.
The patient wakes in the hospital and Cuddy pulls the case
Cameron tells the patient he was moved and he panics; Cuddy reveals his lawyer now holds his proxy and takes the team off the case.
Wilson begs House to ask Cuddy out
Wilson argues House is scared of getting involved with Cuddy; House turns it back on Wilson's own loneliness after Amber.
House assists an operation in the patient's home
With the room draped for surgery, House bickers through the procedure, finds what looks like Whipple's disease, and a gas flare startles them.
Wilson confesses feelings to Cuddy, and she calls his bluff
Wilson admits he has always had feelings for Cuddy; she offers sex outside House's office, seeing through his plan to make House jealous.
The patient reveals he was afraid long before the shooting
Stewart tells Cameron his panic attacks began in childhood and that his girlfriend Angela was his only reason to go out.
House reads Taub's marriage and recruits him to swap morphine
House plans to make staying home painful for the patient and pins Taub's eagerness on his crumbling marriage.
Wilson says House's mosquito bite is about Cuddy
At 3 a.m. Wilson diagnoses House's gangrenous scratching as fear of Cuddy and sends him to ring her doorbell.
The patient codes while House orders pizza
The patient loses his pulse; House calls the lawyer for permission while the team works the paddles, and the heart restarts.
The clean bathtub hides the poison
House works out the patient cleans his tub with bleach and ammonia, gassing himself with chlorine several times a week.
Cameron and Chase finally fight about where they sleep
Chase refuses to place a pacemaker without imaging; when Cameron pushes, he says she always made him feel like a visitor.
A saline switch leads House to lead poisoning
House is ready to give up until a colleague admits having quietly put the patient back on morphine; pain that ignores morphine points to lead.
House calls the patient a coward and explains the rose petals
House pulls bullet fragments, then reveals the patient collapsed trying to bring flowers to his girlfriend's grave on her birthday.
Cameron clears out a drawer for Chase
Cameron admits her husband's death still affects her and makes the gesture Chase asked for.
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