House meets the man deciding his fate
At a disciplinary hearing House sizes up Walter Cofield, Foreman's old residency director, and learns a suspension would revoke his parole.
S8E11 · Nobody's Fault
20 moments · 31 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House pops Vicodin on the record
Presenting the paralyzed chemistry teacher's case, House takes his pills mid-hearing and admits to Vicodin on this and nine years of cases.
Testimony: House called everyone's idea stupid
Cofield presses the team on House's insults during the differential, down to whether he really said 'unsquint your eyes.'
Chase's orange hair: the shampoo prank
Cofield asks about orange smudges on the file; flashback to Chase's dyed hair and House's prank, framed as tension relief.
Bill's students reveal a classroom explosion
The patient wakes on thyroid treatment, and his visiting students mention an explosion nobody had put in the history.
House defends never talking to patients
Cofield suggests House is lazy for avoiding patients; House says everybody lies, except him, to Cofield.
Stink bomb in the office forces a heparin idea
Chase's revenge stink bomb backfires; House, in a gas mask, keeps the team in the fumes until someone suggests aerosolized heparin.
Cofield calls the stink bomb manipulation
House calls it inspiration; Cofield says he pressured the team toward unsafe ideas, and a dissenting doctor is told silence is complicity.
Cofield tells Foreman he won't have his back
Cofield realizes Foreman chose him expecting loyalty and warns that if the House experiment blows up, it's not his job to save him.
House's diagnostic trial: multiple birds, single stone
Three doctors, three theories; House gives high-dose steroids so any outcome tells them which is right, and still calls it perfect.
The patient attacks during a biopsy and Chase is stabbed
Chase and Adams biopsy the rash against orders; the patient turns paranoid, a Code Grey is called, and Chase goes down.
Adams plugs Chase's heart with her finger
Adams finds the knife reached his left ventricle and holds the hole closed, then tells Cofield it should have been her.
House runs a differential over Chase's open chest
As Chase is patched on bypass, House asks for the patient's heart rate and pulls Park out, to her fury.
Chase, unable to feel his legs, defends House
Cofield questions a recovering Chase; he jokes about not running away, blames no one, and calls House a genius.
House finds the clot and Chase wiggles his toes
House rejects permanent damage and finds a clot in the radicular artery; mid-procedure he barges in, and Chase moves his toes.
Cofield's verdict on Chase: recklessness
Chase says he'd defy House again; Cofield replies that House created an atmosphere that promotes recklessness.
Off the record, Cofield asks why House acts like an ass
Cofield goes off the record to ask about Chase; House deflects until his Vicodin bottle goes off.
House chases down the transfer with the real diagnosis
As the patient is moved to another hospital on Foreman's orders, House tells Emily her husband has tumor lysis syndrome and what to treat.
Cofield clears House, and House calls him a coward
Emily interrupts to say House saved her husband; Cofield rules it nobody's fault, and House spots the parole form in his notes.
House explains the orange hair and apologizes to Chase
Visiting Chase in recovery, House explains the shampoo prank, then says the ruling is wrong and he's sorry.
Playlists touching this episode
Gregory House's Best Moments
House
Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.
2599 moments · 61h 51mby Favseen
Eric Foreman's Best Moments
House
Every House moment featuring Eric Foreman, in story order. Played by Omar Epps.
820 moments · 19h 46mby Favseen
Robert Chase's Best Moments
House
Every House moment featuring Robert Chase, in story order. Played by Jesse Spencer.
657 moments · 16h 08mby Favseen
Chris Taub's Best Moments
House
Every House moment featuring Chris Taub, in story order. Played by Peter Jacobson.
275 moments · 6h 14mby Favseen
Chi Park's Best Moments
House
Every House moment featuring Chi Park, in story order. Played by Lo Mutuc.
60 moments · 1h 29mby Favseen
Jessica Adams's Best Moments
House
Every House moment featuring Jessica Adams, in story order. Played by Odette Annable.
59 moments · 1h 30mby Favseen