Hockey box score breaks an alibi, then the prosecutor collapses
A prosecutor demolishes an alibi with a newspaper correction about the Devils' goalie, then halts the trial: he thinks it's a heart attack.
S8E8 · Perils of Paranoia
20 moments · 30 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House suspects the wife and makes the team pick partners
Foreman admits he lied to the patient to rule out anxiety; House floats poison, blames the wife, and turns choosing partners into a test.
A break-in search uncovers a hidden gun bunker
Searching the patient's house, two doctors spot a wall that doesn't line up and open a secret room full of weapons; Tommy's wife learns of it at his bedside.
Paranoia or preparedness: the team splits in the clinic
The team argues whether the patient's arsenal is a symptom; House stages it as a cat fight and assigns rival tests.
Park worries the team doesn't respect her
Over a scan, Park asks whether she's the paranoid one; her colleague reassures her and shares his own plan for when anarchy breaks out.
House insists Wilson secretly owns a gun
Wilson calls the patient stupid; House turns it around and insists Wilson is exactly the type to own a gun, and doesn't buy the denial.
Chase calls Park weird and jokes about hunting kangaroos
In the lab Chase says Park is weird, Adams asks if she is too, and Chase reads her gun ownership before claiming he hunts 'roos.
Tommy compares his guns to a spare tire
Alone with his wife, Tommy explains the arsenal as insurance against collapse, then she notices a mark on him he can't feel.
House calls Park an idiot, then explains respect versus liking
House goads the team into ganging up on Park, then tells her privately that people respect her; they just don't like her.
House catches a petty-cash thief by his silver skin
A clinic patient thinks his discolored hands are frostbite; House diagnoses a trap his boss set and prescribes a month's vacation.
House ditches paperwork and ends up strung upside down
House escapes per diem paperwork on an 'emergency page' and is left hanging until he concedes Wilson is the clever one.
Foreman meets Anita at the gym
Foreman assumes a woman flirting at the gym is another of Taub's setups; Anita, new from Atlanta, offers to start over.
Park and Chase clash; House sides with Park
Bear hallucinations reopen the infection-versus-autoimmune fight; House picks GAD, and Park accuses him of stoking conflict.
Anita's husband comes home early
A cozy evening at Anita's place ends in a scramble when she reveals the man arriving is her husband.
Foreman blames Taub for the married woman
Foreman confronts Taub at midnight over his near-miss; Taub points out who is really behind it, and House is pleased with himself.
Emergency tracheotomy fails to open the airway
The patient can't breathe; a trach doesn't help because the blockage sits below the incision, and they fight to get air in.
House turns Wilson's prop gun on himself
House produces the 'gun' from Wilson's closet; Wilson says it's a bullet-catch magic prop, so House dares him to shoot until Wilson concedes.
House finds a membrane in the airway: diphtheria
House scopes the patient's throat, finds the pseudomembrane, and lectures him that boosters beat bunkers.
Tommy's wife moves out over the guns
As Tommy recovers, his wife says she and the kids have left; she loves him but won't live in fear.
Closing montage: an invite to drinks and a changed mind
Over a closing song, a happy-hour invite is turned down, one colleague asks another out for a drink, and a change of heart lands at the bar.
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