House rules on Kutner's trust in a teenage patient
Kutner defends the 16-year-old as honest; House orders a pregnancy test and a toxin search anyway, telling everyone to shut up.
S5E8 · Emancipation
20 moments · 27 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House turns down Foreman's clinical trial
Foreman asks to help run a clinical trial; House refuses, saying Foreman's time is his time.
Kutner bonds with Sophia over losing his parents
Sophia brushes off pity, but Kutner says he lost his parents at six and still fears a knock at the door.
Foreman secretly starts Sophia on steroids
Told to give beta-blockers, Foreman warns Sophia steroids could kill her if she used drugs, then takes her word and gets them.
Foreman spites House in the clinic and meets a sick four-year-old
Cuddy won't overrule House on the trial, and Foreman takes on a boy vomiting blood while his big brother Evan offers advice.
Sophia snaps and House pins it on Foreman
Sophia lashes out in delirium; House exposes that she was never on beta-blockers and demands photo proof Foreman runs the next test himself.
Foreman sells a camera pill as a power pill
To get Jonah to swallow a camera, Foreman calls it a muscle-growing power pill; then the boy starts giggling uncontrollably.
A brain scan catches Sophia lying about her parents
During the fMRI the doctors see her imagination light up and get her to admit her parents are alive, and why she left.
House reacts to Sophia's confession with a diagnosis
The team is shaken by her story while House wants the medical angle, then settles on severe emotional stress.
House admits he didn't ring Cuddy's bell, and Wilson won't react
House says he went to Cuddy's but didn't go in; Wilson withholds any opinion, infuriating him.
House traces the poison to Sophia's homemade furniture
From holes in her desk House deduces pressure-treated wood released arsenic when she cut it.
Jonah's heart stops in front of his family
Cameron urges Foreman to bring in House; Foreman refuses, until the boy goes into cardiac arrest and they shock him back.
House calls arsenic the hero of Sophia's case
After new brain lesions appear, House argues the arsenic was fighting her illness, leading to leukemia and a need for her parents' marrow.
Foreman begs House for help on the boy
Foreman tells House a child is dying and calls him a hypocrite; House answers that Foreman wanted something of his own.
House calls out Wilson's silent treatment
House dissects Wilson's disengagement as a reverse-psychology tactic and admits it is making him desperate.
Kutner borrows Thirteen's Huntington's to reach Sophia
To persuade Sophia to accept her parents' marrow, Kutner claims a fatal disease; Thirteen later tears into him for using her life.
Thirteen finds the real Sophia Valez
Thirteen visits the parents' home and meets the real Sophia; the patient admits she stole the identity and plans to wait for an emergency.
Evan's vitamins poisoned his little brother
Foreman diagnoses iron overload from children's vitamins; big brother Evan admits he gave extra to make Jonah strong.
House breaks the patient: what's worse than rape
House reasons her story was rational, not emotional, then confronts her until she confesses what really happened to her brother.
Foreman tells House he's doing the trials, and Wilson sees through it
House okays the trial once Foreman stops asking; Wilson credits House with nudging Foreman, and House refuses to talk about Cuddy.
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