Joe pitches Hal a smear ad, then breaks out in a rash
Campaign consultant Joe pushes the senator to air an anti-immigration attack ad a week out, until a spreading rash sends him to hospital.
S7E6 · Office Politics
20 moments · 27 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Cuddy forces Masters on House, who quizzes her like a trivia machine
Cuddy assigns a teenage-prodigy med student to the team; House introduces his staff with insults and fires trivia questions at Martha.
House pushes Masters to drop her rules: would she lie to save a life?
In the differential House mocks Masters' ethics, calls rules guidelines for stupid people, and catches her out with a grandma's tea cozy question.
House asks Cuddy how mad she'd be if he fired Masters
House sounds Cuddy out on firing the new recruit; she calls Masters principled and insists she deserves a real chance.
Masters confides she was vain to think she could be a doctor
Convinced House will fire her, Masters admits a lonely prodigy childhood; Cuddy tells her House only cares about cracking the case.
Dugan schools Chase on why the immigration ad works
Dugan insists his judgment is sound, needles Chase about his accent and green card, and reveals the photo trick behind the attack ad.
Masters raises steroids, and Dugan picks the treatment House didn't want
House's bleeding-heart joke falls flat on Masters; her insistence on mentioning the gentler option leads Dugan to choose steroids, to House's sarcasm.
Taub beats Foreman one-on-one on the basketball court
Taub takes up Foreman's challenge after work and wins with an unlikely shot, while a song plays over the game.
House fires Masters and threatens to lie to get her expelled
When Masters tries to stop the switched medication, House fires her and promises to have her thrown out of med school, because he will lie.
Cuddy confronts House over firing Masters
Cuddy accuses House of breaking his word; he calls Masters an immovable obstacle and suggests Cuddy find her another department.
House rehires Masters to brainstorm, then fires her again
With the team in jail, House drags Masters back to bounce ideas, shushes her to watch Senator Anderson fire Dugan on TV, then fires her again.
House tells Dugan he caught hep C from the senator
House reads the senator's symptoms, deduces Dugan shared more than a campaign with him, and explains why the tests keep missing it.
In a jail cell, Taub admits why he resents Masters
Locked up after the snail search, Chase badgers Taub until he confesses he interviewed Masters for Hopkins and she didn't remember him.
House and Masters land on hep A as a cure, and Cuddy demands proof
Masters can't resist the puzzle and suggests infecting Dugan with hep A; Cuddy will allow it only with proof he has hep C.
House asks Wilson whether Cuddy would mind lie number 10,001
House weighs lying to Cuddy as an employee rather than a boyfriend; Wilson spells out the medical versus personal consequences.
House secretly tests the senator, and Cuddy thanks him for the proof
House runs the senator's blood under an assumed name; Cuddy, moved that he respected her request, accepts the positive hep C test.
House offers Masters the job if she gets Dugan to consent
House hires Masters back on one condition and argues the math of lying to a patient facing an 85 percent mortality treatment.
Masters tells Dugan the whole truth, and still gets the job
Masters reveals the true odds and House's faked test, persuading Dugan anyway; House hires her and says he wants her to want to lie.
Masters remembers Taub interviewed her for Hopkins
Masters finally places Taub as her Hopkins interviewer and says she felt awkward about it from day one.
Cuddy discovers House ran the positive hep C test himself
Checking records after the election, Cuddy learns the only positive test was run by House at 3:17 on Friday.
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