Alice Tanner finishes her last book and says goodbye to Jack
A writer argues with her own character, telling him there will be no next book, before her maid finds her collapsed.
S7E3 · Unwritten
20 moments · 28 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House predicts how Cuddy will dump him
Shopping for a romantic gesture, House tells Wilson he's worried precisely because he's happy and maps out a fight-sex-breakup cycle.
Fanboy House trades a plot question for a suicide question
House gushes over Jack Cannon, wins a one-question deal, then asks the author why she tried to kill herself and puts her on a psych hold.
House's date with Cuddy is a break-in
House brings Cuddy to a Gothic house for what she thinks is date night; it turns out to be the patient's home.
House hands Cuddy a peace penguin and a request
After last night, House offers a stolen penguin and asks Cuddy to stand in as the female doctor Alice demands.
Alice smells House's perfume on her maid, and fires her
Cuddy treats Alice, who sniffs out that Christina helped House and fires her on the spot.
Wilson reads House's stolen typewriter ribbon as a love problem
Wilson notes House keeps committing crimes with Cuddy and diagnoses two people searching for common ground.
Alice reads a doctor's night like a detective
Caught talking to herself, Alice deduces a recently divorced doctor's one-night stand, then needles the other about her cheating ex.
Hidden screws heat up in the MRI
Alice hides the metal in her leg, gets burned in the MRI, and House declares nothing she says can be trusted.
House offers Alice a choice: treatment or the syringe
House hands Alice what he calls an easy way out, then speaks about pain that you handle until you can't.
The fake overdose extends Alice's psych hold, and she spoils Jack
Alice wakes up alive; House reveals her attempt bought another day on hold, and she retaliates with a spoiler.
Sam reads the manuscript off a typewriter ribbon with the MRI
Sam is pulled in to decode the ribbon, and the Jack Cannon fans in the room bicker over teams.
Cuddy as girlfriend versus Cuddy as boss
Cuddy is impressed and furious about the MRI book; House answers in kind, then dodges planning their double date.
House rages at the cliffhanger and finds lupus in the book
House is outraged the final book resolves nothing, then decodes Alice's illness and plan through her character Helen.
The go-kart double date
The double date with Wilson and Sam lands at a go-kart track and escalates into a grudge race and a lifetime ban.
House exposes the car crash, then Alice can't move
At night House tells Alice the screws came from a car crash and she isn't hopeless, until she suddenly goes paralyzed.
Thirteen was the only man on House's team
House solves the paralysis and then mocks his exhausted team about hiring Thirteen's replacement.
House tells Helen her son died before the crash
House realizes Jack was modeled on her son, who died in the crash, and tells her an aneurysm killed him first.
House admits the lie, and Cuddy calls them uncommon
House confesses the aneurysm was invented; Cuddy says they don't need things in common to be happy.
Alice won't finish Jack Cannon, and House softens
Alice thanks House but leaves Jack's ending to readers; House fumes, then says something kind about her son.
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