House picks the patient who died five years ago
Offered a living teen and other cases, House chooses a four-year-old's file and reveals the boy is already dead.
S8E7 · Dead & Buried
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
The team catches Chase in a manicure lie
While running the differential on a 14-year-old's attacks, colleagues grill Chase about a dentist visit he can't explain and his fresh manicure.
Iris's mother confesses to secret sedatives
Iris denies drugs; her mother then admits she has been slipping her daughter diazepam disguised as vitamin C.
House runs a dead kid's case past Wilson
Barred from DDxing a dead patient with his team, House turns to Wilson, who warns Foreman will bust him and suspects House wants back in jail.
House hijacks an anger management class
House mocks the group's platitudes, then needles a grieving father, Emory, about his son's missed rash until he gets permission to exhume.
House opens the crypt
At the cemetery, House bribes his way in, trades jabs with the custodian Milton about decorum, and checks the boy's remains.
House on speaker deduces Chase's Brazilian
Calling in from parts unknown, House reads the team's silences and works out that Chase has had his eyebrows waxed and more.
Foreman spots the GPS gap; House called a puzzle addict
Foreman knows the ankle monitor went dark for 45 minutes and threatens jail; then House is told his addiction is puzzles.
House and Emory sneak off to the ex-wife's house
House slips Emory out of the support group to the ex-wife's place, timed to her schedule, hunting for what killed his son.
Chase admits he's a TV doctor; the home search turns dark
During the home search, Chase confesses he groomed for a TV medical segment, then the pair find hidden letters and violent porn in Iris's room.
Emory finds his son's box of things
In the ex-wife's closet, a single box is all that remains of Drew; Emory remembers the toy glasses his son wore.
House tests a dead boy's remains; Emory shares the Drewisms
House runs makeshift poison tests that end in scotch, and Emory recalls his son's invented words and his ex-wife's stony funeral.
The team watches Chase's TV segment
House screens Chase's TV medical segment, full of colorful Aussie slang, for the whole team.
House provokes the ex-wife and earns a slap
Luring her in with a free flu shot, House accuses Drew's mother of not caring, takes the slap, and hears why she left: Emory had Drew's eyes.
House flushes out Iris's other personality
House claims her boyfriend was hurt; Iris turns on him in a different voice, and he diagnoses dissociative identity disorder.
House impersonates Wilson to question the grandfather
After lying about a flat tire on the phone, House questions Drew's grandfather about his babysitting until someone storms in, furious.
Under hypnosis, Iris's youngest alter remembers
A child alter surfaces who remembers everything about the crash that killed her father, and Iris tearfully tells her mother she blames herself.
Exoplanets lead House to choriocarcinoma
With no embryo on the ultrasound, a passing word about exoplanets gives House the idea that a hidden cancer is faking the pregnancy.
House stages a family reunion and diagnoses Alport syndrome
House brings the grieving family together, names the gene that killed Drew, and explains why the boy invented his own words.
Foreman asks what Cuddy would have done
Foreman is told Cuddy managed House rather than controlled him; he hands House clinic hours instead of prison, with his own twist.
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