House faces the parole board and refuses to fake remorse
Asked if he is sorry, House questions whether the system just rewards the best actors, then is told to stay out of trouble for five days.
S8E1 · Twenty Vicodin
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House needles Mendelson over his swastika tattoo
In the meds line House catches a dosing error, then trades barbs with Mendelson about his fresh swastika and their surnames.
Rollo steals House's tuna and dares him to react
After brushing off an inmate's medical question, House catches Rollo taking his things, but Rollo knows House cannot fight or snitch so close to parole.
House overrules the prison clinic's diagnosis: lupus
While mopping the clinic, House tells the doctors their joint-pain patient does not have gonorrhea and calls lupus from subtle eyebrow loss.
House turns Stomper against Rollo
Warned off by his cellmate, House tells Stomper that Rollo stole his stereo and mocked him, and the planted stereo starts a beating.
House hunts for the patient's rash and mocks his girlfriend
Checking the patient for a lupus rash, House brushes off his story about Nicole cutting him off with brutal indifference.
House reads Dr. Adams from her shoes, locket and scarf
After she looks up why he is in prison, House deduces the doctor's wealth, politics, training and boredom to prove she will follow his lupus call.
Mendelson demands a 20-Vicodin exit tax
Mendelson raises House's short-timer tax to 20 pills by Friday, so House turns to Porter, who wants every last possession as payment.
House works up the beaten patient and heads to the proof store
The patient's 'jostle' turns out to be a broken arm; House, sick from withdrawal, argues lung cancer with Dr. Adams and goes to find proof himself.
Porter's deal dies and House finds a tumor with no stethoscope
Porter says the gang has claimed the Vicodin; then House hears an acoustical shadow in the patient's chest by ear, and Adams proposes a clotting test.
House tells Adams about dark matter and quitting medicine
Waiting on the clotting test, House says he wants to research dark matter; Adams insists his gift for reading people belongs in medicine.
House saves his cellmate's cricket
House treats the ailing cricket for pesticide poisoning with baking soda and waits for his menacing cellmate to say thank you.
Adams lets House read the file and gets caught
With the tumor ruled out, Adams shares the patient file and House narrows the toxin to the laundry room, until another doctor walks in.
House tells the patient his life outside is over
When the patient puts calling his girl ahead of the case, House tells him she and everyone else has moved on, and gets thrown out.
Adams confronts House about lying over his crime
Adams learns House drove a car into a wall rather than forged scripts; she asks why he is doing time at all and ends their work together.
House abandons the patient, then cuts an emergency airway
House says he is done with medicine, but the patient's lips swell; with no guard coming he starts a tracheotomy as a guard orders him down.
House argues mastocytosis and gets banned from the clinic
House says hot coffee set off mastocytosis and wants an aspirin challenge; the senior doctor refuses, Adams sides with House, and House is thrown out.
Adams sees through House's Vicodin exit tax
Adams has pieced together the exit tax from the fire and the bruise; House admits he needs 20 and asks to get back into the clinic.
A prison brawl gets House to the clinic
House seems to fall in line for Mendelson, then a fight erupts, guards call for backup, and House reaches the clinic with the patient.
House barricades the clinic for the aspirin test
Locked in with the patient, House ignores orders while Adams reveals he took the first deal to punish himself; he says he has a gift and gives the aspirin.
