Emily's solo merry-go-round ride ends in a frantic search
A dad lets his six-year-old ride the carousel alone, pinky-swearing not to tell mommy. When it stops, Emily is gone, and he finds her hurt.
S8E19 · The C-Word
20 moments · 28 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House follows Wilson to his cancer scan
House turns up uninvited as a towering pillar of strength, says he owes Wilson, and announces he's taking spring break.
Foreman puts the patient's mother on the team
With House on vacation, Foreman brings in a geneticist expert in the girl's condition, who turns out to be her mother. He orders the team to use her.
Wilson storms out of his oncologist's office
Wilson rejects radiation first and demands chemo at the same time, then leaves for a doctor with balls. House takes it a little too literally.
House gets Wilson drunk on Battleship, then lectures him
Once Wilson is buzzed, House tells him Kondo is right and to stop screwing around. Wilson decides to spend spring break on his own.
Emily in the MRI: was only pretending to be asleep
Emily admits she heard her parents fight; a doctor says his daughters fake sleep too, then she screams that her hands and feet hurt.
House catches Wilson planning a near-lethal chemo dose
House lists every doctor Wilson consulted and works out who will give him a one-in-three death dose: House himself.
Wilson names the patients the odds failed
Wilson recites patients who died despite good survival rates, ending with a boy he promised would be fine. House calls him an idiot, then agrees.
The mother admits testing an unapproved drug on her daughter
Elizabeth defends giving Emily the experimental Lex-2 after testing it on herself, until she hears it has been linked to renal failure.
House's toast to stupidity walks Wilson through chemo hell
Before the infusion, House describes in brutal detail what the massive dose will do, day by day, and asks what they're doing there.
Chemo in House's living room: body dumps and painkillers
House picks spots to dump Wilson's body, then answers his regret about having no wife or kids: they have everything they need right here.
Emily's parents fight over who really knows her
Simon tries to move Emily to another hospital. He knows her friends and nightmares; Elizabeth knows the gene variant that is killing her.
A delirious Wilson is visited by a boy he lost
Wilson sees a child in House's apartment who asks why he died if he did nothing wrong. House finds Wilson asking if he's dead.
Wilson finds out he's been on House's painkiller stash
Throwing up and out of morphine, Wilson learns he's been using House's personal supply. House has plenty stashed, and they're gifts.
Wilson: I should have been more like you
Humiliated, Wilson rages about an oncologist getting cancer and wishes he'd been as self-centered as House. At least he'd deserve it.
Emily wonders if her death would reunite her parents
Emily asks whether her parents will get back together and suggests they might after she dies. Then she can't move her arm.
Crashing, Wilson begs House not to take him to hospital
Wilson's counts collapse and House wants to call it. Wilson holds him to their deal and makes him promise to let him die there.
Without House, the team cracks Emily's case
House isn't answering, so the team works it alone and lands on a heart tumor that explains every symptom.
Wilson pulls through and learns what being House feels like
Recovering, Wilson asks to tone down the bromance, then realizes House gave up his own Vicodin and lives with that pain most of the time.
Any Way You Want It closes the episode
An upbeat Any Way You Want It plays over the final moments after Wilson's ordeal and Emily's surgery.
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