Cedarville's model citizen collapses at his own award
The town honors gas-station owner and little league coach Bob Harris with its community service award; soon after, he collapses on his wife.
S8E5 · The Confession
20 moments · 24 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Dean Foreman welcomes Chase and Taub back
Foreman greets his returning former colleagues as their boss, asks them to keep tabs on House, and Taub hits him with a babysitting request.
House greets the old team and needles Taub's twins
House sizes up the reunited team, decodes the patient's knee scrapes, and ribs Taub about fathering two babies with two women at once.
House kidnaps Taub's babies for a DNA swab
As the team debates inducing V-fib, House wheels in the babies Taub hid, says he already tested them, and demands a swab from Taub too.
House rearranges the differential to make it less boring
House offers Chase and Taub a hug, shuffles the room for feng shui, and calls the team's theories boring even when they might be right.
Park mistaken for a hooker; she probes Taub's baggage
Checking the motel with Taub and his babies, Park fears a local thinks she's a prostitute, then asks why Taub quit medicine and how he knew he'd be back.
The motel lab report and the Lemierre's diagnosis
The motel tests come back filthy, House suggests boiling the babies, and he connects a bathroom bacterium to the lump in the patient's neck.
Bob insists on confessing his affair before surgery
Refusing the operation until he can tell his wife, Bob has his kids taken out; the doctors argue whether the truth helps, and his wife chooses to stand by him.
Taub discovers a hospital-wide pool on his kids
Taub learns House started a betting pool on which baby is his; House insists he's not the villain since his money says both are.
Bob confesses every sin to the whole town
Asking friends to be liver donors, Bob admits the affair, then that he cheated customers at his garage for years and lost scholarship money gambling.
House on why the world runs on lies
After the donors walk out, House argues full honesty would burn the world down, then proves it with mortifying truths about his team.
Taub apologizes to his daughters before testing them
Alone with his babies, Taub tells them nothing will change how he feels, then admits he is weak and needs to know.
Foreman and Chase clash over a risky surgery
At 3:30 a.m. Foreman warns about liability and Chase says he'll do what Foreman would have done a year ago, until scans show the liver healing.
Bob's clean soul and a burning scratch test
Abandoned by his wife, Bob says he wanted to die with a clean soul; he's told he has salted the earth, then a wheat swab sets his skin on fire.
Foreman reveals House planted monkey DNA
Foreman, stung at being called a sellout, glances at Taub's paternity analysis and points out House swapped in monkey DNA.
Bob's final confession: murder
In agony, Bob says he has one last thing to confess: he killed his business partner and staged a suicide, and it wasn't the only one.
House proves the confessions are a symptom
House shows an aneurysm drives the compulsive confessing by baiting Bob with a missing shoe, then stumbles toward Kawasaki disease.
House and Taub face the real DNA results
House offers to shred the paternity results if Taub swears he doesn't care; Taub breaks and asks to see them.
Bob tells Denise the truth about the affair
With his false confessions disproved, Bob's wife asks if the affair was real, and he tells her he never cheated.
House screws with Foreman by doing nothing
Foreman learns House has kept him at the hospital for days just by staying put, and House unveils phase one of his outer office plans.
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