House wakes beside a dead man in a burning building
House comes to on the floor of a fire next to a body, and is greeted by a former employee who died by his own hand. The ghost wants answers.
S8E22 · Everybody Dies
20 moments · 33 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House reads a junkie at a glance and goes back to work happy
In flashback, House spots the burns and fake codeine allergy, then finds a real case. His team can't see why a man headed to jail is cheerful.
House asks Foreman to lie to his parole board
House wants Foreman to claim eight dying patients need him for five months. Foreman agrees, if House takes every case.
Kutner's ghost: death is the opposite of a cool puzzle
House lists jail, job and best friend as reasons to die. The hallucination says he lives for puzzles, but no longer finds life interesting.
A new apparition and a heroin overdose in the ward
Annoyed by a new, harsher hallucination, House asks for Kutner back, then recalls reviving his patient with naloxone. The patient yells that reality sucks.
The patient describes the first time heroin felt like God
A former stockbroker tells House he isn't miserable anymore: heroin took away all pain. The hallucination asks why House wanted to hear it.
The skipped part of House's ALS diagnosis
House diagnoses the patient with ALS from a twitching thumb. The hallucination catches him skipping part of the conversation, until a bulge appears.
A branch in the lung, and the case for puzzles
House finds the inhaled branch and tells his patient he'll live. He's told to go back to what he loves, because everybody dies.
Foreman and Wilson press House's therapist
House has been missing two days without his phone. His therapist hints at other ways of reaching oblivion, and they realize his last patient used heroin.
Pascal's wager in a burning building
A figure who once lived with House asks why he stopped leaving: God, maybe? Then reminds him that he believes in love.
Wilson says yes to taking the fall, then says no
House asks dying Wilson to take the blame for the tickets. Wilson agrees, then refuses: House has to learn to stand without him.
You've never had to develop a conscience of your own
The hallucination tells House Wilson has always been his good side, shows him a child he could have had, and begs him to get up.
A loving apparition offers House the gift of giving up
The next visitor says they love him and that he deserves to stop, as Wilson did. Meanwhile Foreman and Wilson find a fake address.
House admits the skipped moment: he told the man he was dying
Told he blew every chance, House says this time was different. The dying patient offered to take the fall for the prank.
Called a coward, House says he can change
House tells the patient a dying man is a better person. The hallucination says he's stalling until fate decides. House answers he can change.
The building collapses as Wilson watches
Outside, Wilson insists House could have gotten out. Then they see a body pulled from the rubble, and the coroner confirms it's him.
House's funeral: the people he changed
Former employees, family, an ex and his wife take turns remembering House as a boss, a son, a husband and a healer.
Wilson's eulogy, a text, and House on a doorstep
Wilson calls House an ass mid-eulogy until a phone goes off. He finds House alive, the dental records swapped. House says he's dead.
Keep Me in Your Heart plays over the goodbye
Warren Zevon's Keep Me in Your Heart plays at length after House's question about Wilson's last five months.
Cancer's boring: Enjoy Yourself closes it out
When Wilson brings up how bad the cancer will get, House waves it off, and Louis Prima's Enjoy Yourself takes over.
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