A gunman walks into Cuddy's office and demands the best doctor
House brushes off a man looking for Cuddy; minutes later the same man is armed in the clinic, threatening to kill people unless he gets a diagnosis.
S5E9 · Last Resort
20 moments · 39 min of essential viewing in a 43-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House mocks his captor while the clinic is barricaded
As hostages barricade the room, House needles the gunman about his sixteen doctors and dismisses his file with a sarcastic profile.
The lighter test and a quick diagnosis at gunpoint
House deduces breathing trouble, tests lung volume with a hostage's lighter and announces pulmonary scleroderma, blaming the doctors who missed it.
Cuddy brings the drugs in and a hostage gets shot
Cuddy is forced to deliver the propofol alone; the gunman demands a test dose on someone else and a hostage who tries to rush him is shot.
Cuddy meets the SWAT lieutenant outside
Cuddy introduces herself to Lieutenant Bowman, who talks about securing the perimeter and makes clear SWAT decides when to shoot.
House runs a differential by phone with a hostage-taker listening
House calls Foreman and every fellow from the past five years for a speakerphone differential, then hands out assignments.
Superhero hearing gives House a new theory
Jason forces a hostage to open the blind and threatens SWAT; House notices only he heard them and lands on a nerve diagnosis with a painful test.
Cuddy overrules the SWAT lieutenant to do every transfer
House's demands come by phone; Bowman wants a hostage in return and objects when Cuddy agrees to carry everything in herself.
Thirteen volunteers as the test subject
A young hostage offers to take the painful dose first; Thirteen steps in instead, House pins it on her illness, then presses Jason on why he really did this.
Racing heart and a hostage who says shoot me
Jason's pulse spikes and he threatens to shoot; House tells Thirteen to go, she volunteers to die instead, and then must take every drug first.
One-sided sweat points to lung cancer
With the heart ruled out, House spots sweat on half of Jason's face, calls it a tumor and checks it by having him spit on Cuddy's floor.
Jason explains he cannot live without knowing
On the way to radiology House probes what made him snap; Jason says he would rather rot in jail than not know the truth about his body.
The CT scan forces Jason to hand over his gun
Metal ruins the image, so House offers a choice: give up the gun or shoot him. The hostages run, but the scan shows no tumor.
House is called a coward and turns it around
House claims he was overpowered; he is accused of fearing being ordinary and replies that the real coward is the one terrified of death.
SWAT readies a breach while the team argues the diagnosis
Bowman prepares a frame charge; one fellow quits the differential, House spots new deafness and trades a hostage for one more test.
Thirteen takes the drugs first and House is wrong
Jason breaks the terms and makes Thirteen take the test drug, explains why not knowing made him miserable, and the result leaves her kidneys failing.
A diagnostic slap and the Florida clue
House slaps Jason to show Chvostek's sign, the team argues tropical infections, and Jason having been as far south as Florida turns out to matter.
House refuses to leave as Thirteen faces the last dose
Jason trades House away and orders Thirteen to take the final drugs; House stays, Thirteen breaks down, and Jason backs off the dose.
Thirteen reconsiders the Huntington's drug trial
After the siege her kidneys will recover; an apology for walking out is followed by a change of heart about the drug trial.
House and Cuddy argue about enabling and a non-relationship
The diagnosis is confirmed; Cuddy accuses House of enabling a gunman, and House twists her logic into the question of a relationship.
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