Cuddy comforts a shattered House and says she loves him
Cuddy calms House, warns that his wound will get infected if left alone, and tells him she loves him.
S7E1 · Now What?
19 moments · 27 min of essential viewing in a 42-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House fields Cuddy's work call posing as her nanny
The morning after, House answers Cuddy's phone as her nanny and orders her assistant to send a vomiting surgeon home and use his own brain.
Cuddy's hospital worries meet House's magical bath
Cuddy lists the crises piling up without her, including a neurosurgeon who can't leave, and House promises a bath with transformative powers.
House appoints a stand-in neurosurgeon by phone
House explains why the hospital needs a neurosurgeon on site, then tells the team member on the line that he is it for the next 16 hours.
Thirteen is confronted about a Huntington's trial in Rome
A colleague who searched her locker questions why Thirteen is flying to Rome for a risky fetal transplant trial, and she bristles at the lecture.
House over-analyzes the night, then the secret bath burns
House calls Cuddy's move impulsive, she begs him to let it be nice, and the spiced bath leaves them both in pain.
Breakfast, a lie detector and the Halloween photo
Over House's two-course breakfast, he claims he can always spot Cuddy's lies, and she teases him about a photo he took of her on Halloween.
House ignores Wilson at the door with a voicemail alibi
After a champagne-opening mishap, House refuses to let Wilson in, whose call hits a greeting insisting House is fine and coping well.
Cuddy asks why House hid her from Wilson
Cuddy suspects House kept Wilson out to hide her; he says he was protecting her privacy, and she wonders if he is the one not ready.
Wilson breaks in and won't believe House is with Cuddy
Wilson gets stuck climbing in a window, assumes House relapsed when he names Cuddy as his girlfriend, and gets checked pulse and pupils for proof.
A stoned surgeon meets the health inspector
The inspector insists on seeing the on-call neurosurgeon, who turns up spaced out, and orders the E.R. and ICU shut down.
House won't say I love you over a word game
During a board game, Cuddy asks why House never said he loved her back, and he answers with a word one letter short.
A seafood festival and toad eggs crack Richardson's case
The team realizes the stuck neurosurgeon snuck out to a seafood festival, and roe becomes the suspect behind his nausea and high.
House books a surprise trip to Mont Saint-Michel
House describes a Normandy island fortress he remembers from Cuddy's old screensaver, has the tickets ready, and she offers a later weekend.
A colleague offers to fly to Rome to be Thirteen's friend
An apology for snooping turns into an offer to join Thirteen for a few days; she declines, and they agree they took the long way to friendship.
House predicts how he and Cuddy will fall apart
As Cuddy prepares to leave, House lays out why it won't work: she'll hope he changed, he won't, and she'll decide it was a mistake.
House follows up on his proposition to Thirteen
At a farewell cake for Thirteen, House revisits his earlier request for sex and reads the same look twice.
Cuddy: the most incredible man she has ever known
Cuddy tells House he's afraid only when he's happy, that she doesn't want him to change, and that he is the most incredible man she knows.
Thirteen vanishes: she was never in the trial
Waiting for Thirteen at her send-off, the team learns the Rome hospital has never heard of her and her phones are disconnected.
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