House — Top Episodes Collection (Chapters)

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House Explained. Season 1, Episode 11.
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Detox.
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Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but abrasive diagnostician addicted to Vicodin,
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leads a three-person team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital:
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neurologist Eric Foreman, immunologist Allison Cameron,
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and intensivist Robert Chase.
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His boss is Dean of Medicine Lisa Cuddy,
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and his only real friend is oncologist James Wilson.
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When a sixteen-year-old boy won't stop bleeding and no one can figure out why,
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House takes the case,
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while simultaneously accepting a bet to go a week without painkillers.
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This episode runs two crises at once.
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Keith Foster, a sixteen-year-old,
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has been bleeding internally for three weeks after a car accident,
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his girlfriend was driving his dad's Porsche when he started coughing blood,
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and every test comes back negative.
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Meanwhile, Cuddy bets House he can't go a week without Vicodin,
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and he takes the deal for a month off clinic duty.
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So from the very first scene,
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every medical decision House makes has this question hanging over it,
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is this his genius talking,
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or is withdrawal messing with his judgment?
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His team can't tell either.
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Keith loses vision in one eye.
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A blood clot.
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In a patient who's bleeding everywhere?
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Opposing processes.
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Chase drains fluid from the eye to give the clot room to dissolve,
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creative fix, it works, Keith can see again.
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But they still don't know what's causing any of this,
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and then Keith's liver starts shutting down.
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Cameron argues it's lupus,
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three diagnostic criteria lined up,
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but House pushes back,
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says it's moving too fast for lupus.
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He suspects hepatitis E instead,
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incredibly rare domestically, but Keith's been traveling internationally.
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Here's where it gets uncomfortable,
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there's no treatment for hep E,
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so House's plan is to give Keith a drug that will make him slightly worse if it IS hep E,
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just enough to confirm the diagnosis.
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He tells Cameron to lie to Mr. Foster,
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Keith's father, about what they're doing.
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Chase backs him, the only one.
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But House is deteriorating.
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He deliberately breaks his own fingers to trigger an endorphin response that overrides the leg pain.
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Then Cameron breaks too.
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She tells Mr. Foster she thinks it's lupus,
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not hepatitis.
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And you understand why Foster resists House's plan,
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this is a widower whose wife died of pancreatic cancer after doctors promised aggressive treatment would extend her life,
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and she was gone in three weeks.
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He does not trust medical gambles.
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But Keith is too sick to transfer,
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the father has no alternative, so he caves.
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And then before treatment can even start,
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Keith hallucinates, screaming about someone named Jules,
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then starts bleeding from the rectum.
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Hypovolemic shock.
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Cameron says psychosis is the fourth criterion.
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It's lupus. Transplant list.
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House is vomiting from withdrawal.
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Foreman walks in and hands him his Vicodin,
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says he's covering his own ass, not helping.
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Does House take them?
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No. But House fixates on one detail.
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Who is Jules?
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The family cat, dead about a month.
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House argues that Keith was reliving a real memory of a real animal,
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not hallucinating something imaginary,
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so that's not psychosis,
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and the fourth criterion for lupus falls apart.
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If the cat died recently with no obvious cause,
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maybe it died of the same thing killing Keith.
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House has Foreman and Chase dig up the cat in frozen ground,
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autopsies it himself, and finds massive naphthalene poisoning,
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a chemical termites produce to protect their nests.
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Meanwhile a donor liver arrives.
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Keith is on the table.
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House bursts into the OR and spits to break the sterile field.
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The naphthalene is fat-soluble,
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stored in Keith's fat cells from a termite nest inside his bedroom walls.
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When he stopped eating hospital food and lost fourteen pounds,
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his body burned fat and the poison flooded his system.
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So getting away from the source of the poison is what poisoned him.
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The father punches House, but the logic holds,
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a new liver would just get poisoned too.
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They feed Keith to stop the fat-burning,
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find a massive termite nest in his bedroom walls,
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and he recovers. Then House sits down with Wilson and admits he's an addict.
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But says it's not a problem,
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the pills let him do his job and take away his pain.
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Wilson has no counter-argument.
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House solved the case in withdrawal,
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broke his own body to cope,
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and still came out right.
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And then we learn the whole bet was Wilson's idea,
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he put Cuddy up to it.
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Last episode Wilson revealed he has a homeless brother he hasn't seen in nine years.
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He can't save his brother,
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so he's trying to save House.
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And it didn't work.
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House admitted addiction and went straight back on the pills.
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Wilson's bet failed. The dosage keeps climbing.
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House Explained. Season 1, Episode 21.
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Three Stories.
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House's ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner,
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a constitutional lawyer mentioned once earlier this season,
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walks into Princeton-Plainsboro for the first time in five years.
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She needs House to examine her husband Mark.
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House refuses and heads to a diagnostics lecture Cuddy forced him into.
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What starts as a classroom exercise about three patients with leg pain becomes something the students never expected,
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House telling his own origin story,
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the one that explains the limp, the cane,
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and the Vicodin.
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So House is on his way to a lecture Cuddy guilted him into,
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and he runs into someone in the hallway,
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Stacy Warner, his ex-girlfriend.
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We've heard her name exactly once this season,
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back when Wilson mentioned having dinner with her.
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Now she's here in person for the first time in five years,
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asking House to examine her husband Mark.
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And House looks at the file and says no.
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Abdominal pain, fainting, but nothing jumps out.
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Then he tells Stacy he's not sure he wants her husband to live.
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Brutal. So that's where his head is when he walks into the lecture hall,
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maybe a dozen bored students,
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three cases where the only symptom is leg pain.
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First up: a farmer with a puncture wound.
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Everyone assumes snake bite.
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They find a rattlesnake on the property,
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give antivenom, and the farmer nearly dies from an allergic reaction.
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But the snake's venom sac is full,
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it didn't bite anyone.
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So now they're stuck,
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other antivenoms don't work either.
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When House tells the man he's dying,
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the farmer only asks about his dog.
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That's the clue, the dog bit him,
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and the farmer hid it to protect his pet.
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The dog's bacteria caused necrotizing fasciitis,
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flesh-eating infection. Dog gets euthanized,
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farmer loses his leg but survives.
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He protected what hurt him.
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Loses the leg, keeps his life.
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Second case, a teenage volleyball player where Cameron runs an absurdly thorough workup.
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House tells the students this is what happens when you care too much,
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but her overkill finds a thyroid condition,
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then a cancerous tumor in the leg.
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So caring too much actually saved this girl's life,
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tumor removed, no amputation, full recovery.
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By now the lecture hall is filling up,
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students telling other students,
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and House's own team starts drifting in to watch.
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Then the third case.
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House presents it as Carmen Electra with leg pain after miniature golf,
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big laugh. But the patient quickly becomes a middle-aged man in extreme pain,
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and the students write him off as a drug seeker.
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Why does House keep pushing when everyone's dismissed the patient?
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He orders a catheter without anesthetic,
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if the man can handle that, the pain is real.
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The urine comes back tea-colored:
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blood and waste products.
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Cameron, watching from the audience, guesses it,
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muscle death, myoglobin poisoning the kidneys.
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And that's when House's team realizes who the third patient actually is.
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It took doctors three days to diagnose a clotted aneurysm cutting off blood flow to his thigh,
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the patient was House himself, five years ago.
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Cuddy was his attending.
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Stacy was his girlfriend.
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So what were his options?
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Amputate the leg, safe but permanent.
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Or a risky bypass to restore blood flow,
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knowing dead tissue could poison his organs and stop his heart when circulation returns.
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House chose the bypass.
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Stubborn in exactly the way we've watched him be stubborn all season long.
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He'd rather risk dying than lose the leg.
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The bypass works, but the pain is unbearable,
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maxed out on morphine, then cardiac arrest.
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Clinically dead for almost a minute.
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They revive him, Stacy begs him to amputate,
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he refuses again and asks to be put in a medically induced coma instead,
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with Stacy as his medical proxy.
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And she uses it.
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Cuddy had suggested a middle course,
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remove the dead muscle instead of the whole leg.
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House wakes up with a permanent limp, chronic pain,
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and the knowledge that the person he trusted most overrode his explicit wishes.
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That's the origin of everything we've watched all season.
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The cane, the Vicodin,
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the way he keeps everyone at arm's length.
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She saved his life and it destroyed them.
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Does she regret it?
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We don't know yet.
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The lecture runs twenty minutes over,
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standing room only by the end.
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House diagnoses the absent professor too,
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just for fun, lead poisoning from a mug his kids made with lead-based paint.
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And that night, after spending the whole day reliving the worst thing that ever happened to him,
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House picks up the phone and calls Stacy.
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He agrees to examine her husband.
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- House agreed to examine Stacy's husband Mark.
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- The team now knows how House got the limp.
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- Stacy is back.
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Cameron just had her date.
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House Explained.
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Season 2, Episode 4.
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TB or Not TB.
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House, the brilliant and abrasive head of diagnostic medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro,
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thrives on proving everyone wrong.
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This week his patient is Dr. Sebastian Charles,
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a celebrated TB specialist and humanitarian who collapses while pressuring a pharmaceutical company to fund tuberculosis treatment in Africa.
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Charles is certain he has TB.
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House is certain that's not the whole story.
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Cameron is drawn to Charles's idealism,
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while Wilson challenges House to consider that Charles's altruism might be genuine.
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The battle isn't just medical, it's philosophical.
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This week House gets a celebrity patient,
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Dr. Sebastian Charles, a famous TB specialist and humanitarian who collapses while pressuring a pharmaceutical company to donate more antibiotics for Africa.
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He's rushed to Princeton-Plainsboro,
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where he immediately self-diagnoses tuberculosis.
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House, naturally, is not buying it.
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Why not? He's LITERALLY a TB expert.
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Too many symptoms, progressing too fast for TB alone.
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House kicks Charles out of the differential,
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goes after a cardiac explanation,
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and runs a tilt-table test,
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but he cranks the machine WAY past standard limits until he gets an abnormal result.
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Schedules Charles for a pacemaker.
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Classic House, pushing the test until it tells him what he wants to hear.
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But meanwhile, Charles is charming Cameron,
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offering her a job in Africa, asking her out.
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Then he tries to walk downstairs with her,
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collapses, vomiting, the works,
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and the cardiac diagnosis is dead.
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And Cameron's TB test, run behind House's back,
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comes back positive.
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So TB is real,
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but House STILL insists there's something else underneath.
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Right, and then Charles makes the whole case harder,
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he refuses ALL treatment.
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His logic is that taking TB medication while thousands of his African patients can't afford the same drugs would make him a hypocrite,
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he'd rather die making the political point.
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And honestly, the logic holds up.
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He's spent years campaigning for affordable drug access,
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taking the medicine himself while his patients go without would gut his credibility and undermine everything he's built.
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It's principled, even if it's self-destructive.
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So House can't test, can't treat,
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and the patient is becoming a full-blown media spectacle.
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House goes to the press using Cuddy's name to trash Charles publicly,
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then strips the hospital room of every comfort,
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kills the air conditioning,
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flushes the cell phone down the toilet.
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His position is that if you want to die of a third-world disease,
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you should live like the third world.
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And Cuddy doesn't help,
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she joins the press conference instead of backing House up.
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He's fighting his own patient AND his own hospital at the same time.
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Then the breakthrough, House is watching the press conference on TV from a coma patient's room,
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and he notices Charles is sweating.
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TB impairs thermoregulation, so in a hot room a TB patient should flush red,
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NOT sweat. The fact that Charles CAN sweat means something else is keeping that system working.
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Great catch.
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Charles goes into cardiac arrest right then.
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House rushes in and announces to the cameras that whatever is happening,
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it is NOT tuberculosis.
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He weaponizes the on-camera crisis to shatter Charles's martyrdom narrative.
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Then he lays out the threat,
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if Charles dies and the autopsy reveals a second disease,
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his death stops being a political statement,
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just a misdiagnosis nobody learned from.
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That's what finally breaks Charles's resolve.
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Exactly.
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But Charles gets in a real shot before he agrees.
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He tells House the difference between them is that Charles can accept failure and House can't. That one sticks.
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Once they start treating the TB,
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some symptoms clear but others persist.
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The team isolates low blood sugar in the spinal fluid,
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and House diagnoses a nesidioblastoma,
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a tiny insulin-producing tumor that also explains the tilt-table results.
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The abnormal reading wasn't a heart problem,
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it was insulin surges destabilizing blood pressure the whole time.
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So the test result was real, just misread.
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The tumor was there all along,
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hiding behind the TB.
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They provoke the tumor into overproducing insulin,
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it reveals its location during a seizure,
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and surgery removes it.
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Both conditions treated, full recovery.
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Clean medical resolution, but then Cameron turns Charles down for a date.
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He's heading back to Africa healthy,
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and suddenly she's not interested.
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House reads it as her pattern,
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she's drawn to men who are suffering,
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and once the damage is gone, so is the attraction.
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She married a man with terminal cancer.
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Same pattern.
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The question the episode leaves open is whether House is reading people accurately or just projecting,
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he sees selfishness in Charles's altruism,
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a compulsion in Cameron's compassion.
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Is he right, or is that just what the world looks like when you can't believe anyone acts from genuine goodness?
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Cameron's attraction to damaged men keeps surfacing unchallenged..
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House proved Charles wrong medically but not philosophically..
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Stacy's absence this episode goes unexplained.
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House Explained. Season 2, Episode 17.
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All In.
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Twelve years ago, a 73-year-old woman named Esther Doyle died under House's care,
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never diagnosed. He's kept her file ever since.
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Tonight, at a hospital charity poker tournament,
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a six-year-old boy named Ian arrives with the exact same opening symptoms.
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House folds a winning hand,
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steals the case from Cuddy, and bets everything,
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including the boy's life, that this time,
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he can solve it.
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Meanwhile, Wilson slow-plays his way through the tournament.
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The hospital is throwing a charity poker tournament,
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and House, Wilson, and Cuddy are all at the table when a nurse interrupts,
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six-year-old Ian Alston is in the ER with bloody diarrhea and coordination problems.
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Cuddy waves it off as gastroenteritis,
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orders fluids, and goes back to her cards.
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But House can't let it go,
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folds a pair of aces to Cuddy's bluff, walks out,
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and tests this kid's coordination himself.
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Ian can barely grab his cane.
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He pulls his entire team out of the party and lies that Cuddy assigned him the case.
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He puts Esther Doyle's file on the table,
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a 73-year-old woman who died under his care twelve years ago,
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never diagnosed. He's got her entire symptom progression memorized,
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and he believes Ian has the same disease.
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First suspect: Erdheim-Chester, an incredibly rare disorder with maybe two hundred documented cases ever.
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And Chase points out this isn't the first time House has chased Esther's ghost,
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a trucker came in with similar symptoms before Cameron was even hired,
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got a spinal tap, bone marrow extraction,
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three colonoscopies, and went home with painkillers and a diagnosis of bad food.
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Colonoscopy is clean. Biopsy is negative for Erdheim-Chester.
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Team says it's a stomachache.
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Then they check his catheter bag.
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Brown urine. Kidneys failing, exactly on Esther's timeline.
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So now it's real.
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They test for lymphoma,
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MRI shows a small mass near his pituitary,
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but blood work says no.
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House can't diagnose it, so he gets ahead of it,
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throws every liver-protective drug he can think of at Ian,
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because the liver is the next organ Esther lost.
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And it works, the liver holds.
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But then Ian's platelets drop and he goes into respiratory distress,
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skipping two of Esther's symptoms entirely.
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Why is it moving so much faster in a six-year-old?
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Meanwhile, House has been using Wilson as a pawn to keep Cuddy at the poker table,
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calling him with transparent code talk,
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reading Cuddy's tells over the phone,
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feeding him strategy. But now he needs Wilson for real.
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He pulls him for an oncology consult.
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Wilson suggests Kawasaki disease,
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it fits the kid even if it wouldn't have affected Esther.
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But then he gives House the Moby Dick warning.
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House brushes it off,
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but Wilson's watching a man who has Esther's file memorized down to her hematocrit number,
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and it's been twelve years.
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They check Ian's coronary arteries, no Kawasaki,
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but Chase spots a mass in the right atrium.
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House decides to biopsy it himself,
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and during the procedure,
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the catheter triggers cardiac arrest.
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How long?
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Eight minutes. Possible brain damage.
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And House's first move after they stabilize Ian is to finish the biopsy.
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Cuddy arrives furious, tells House he may have killed a six-year-old because he's obsessed with a woman who's been dead for twelve years.
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Bans him and the entire team from going near Ian.
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But House still has the tissue sample from the biopsy,
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and he convinces his team to keep working,
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seven possible diseases, enough tissue for maybe three tests.
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Histiocytosis negative, tuberous sclerosis negative, one test left,
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five possibilities.
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House is stuck, wandering the hospital,
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until Wilson finds him and mentions the poker tournament.
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Wilson won by slow-playing pocket aces the whole game,
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never raising, his opponent went all-in with kings,
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and Wilson flipped the aces.
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They were hiding the whole time.
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And House gets it,
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Erdheim-Chester was hiding the whole time too!
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The first biopsy was negative because they tested the colon before the disease had spread to the GI tract.
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The disease was slow-playing them,
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just like Wilson's aces.
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The team objects, they already tested negative.
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This is their last shot.
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Chase wants neurofibromatosis because it's the most treatable.
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But House insists.
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CD 68 positive. Erdheim-Chester disease.
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Ian starts treatment, starts breathing on his own.
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And House finally knows what killed Esther Doyle twelve years ago.
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Last scene, House and Wilson playing poker at home.
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Wilson tells House he got lucky;
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House says it wasn't luck, it fit.
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Wilson says it could just as easily have gone the other way,
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and neither of them is entirely wrong.
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House solved Esther's case.
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The obsession may just shift..
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Cuddy banned House. The diagnosis proved him right..
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Ian survived. No word on brain damage.
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House Explained. Season 2, Episode 21.
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Euphoria Part 2.
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Part 1 ended with a dead cop and no diagnosis.
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Now Eric Foreman, House's neurologist,
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quarantined in isolation, is following the same trajectory: euphoria,
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blindness, pain, and the clock says thirty-six hours.
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The one thing that could give them the answer is a brain autopsy on the cop's body,
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but the CDC has it locked down and Cuddy won't budge.
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Foreman's estranged father arrives.
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The team throws everything they have at a disease they can't even name.
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So Part 1 ended with the cop dead,
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the Cryptococcus theory wrong,
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and Foreman blind in an isolation room with no diagnosis.
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Part 2 opens with House desperate enough to tell Foreman to perform a crude brain biopsy on the cop's body himself,
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an ice-pick lobotomy through the eye socket.
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And Foreman CAN'T do it because he's cortically blind and doesn't know it.
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He stabs the mattress thinking it's the body,
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the second time this disease has made someone certain they can see when they can't.
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Right, same as the cop in Part 1.
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Cuddy locks the body under CDC guard,
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the agency won't arrive for three days,
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so House's only move is to throw every drug at Foreman simultaneously:
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antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, antiparasitics.
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And Foreman, blind, identifies each drug by touch.
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He knows how desperate this is.
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The cocktail actually restores Foreman's vision,
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but his pancreas starts failing from the toxic load.
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House gives him the choice:
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keep your sight and die in four hours,
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or go blind again and buy fourteen hours to find the answer.
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He chooses blindness over death.
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Then House has a REAL breakthrough,
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why did this disease move faster in Foreman than in the cop?
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The cop had Legionnaires' disease,
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and curing it in Part 1 removed the brake,
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the immune response to Legionella had been attacking the unknown infection as collateral.
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Foreman, perfectly healthy, had nothing slowing it down.
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He just tosses a vial of Legionella into the isolation room?
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Without consent?
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Without warning. It works, Foreman's fever drops,
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the pain stabilizes, and they buy enough time to keep looking.
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But it's a brake, not a cure.
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Meanwhile, Foreman's father Rodney flies in,
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and those scenes are painful,
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Rodney's deeply religious, tells Foreman he's going to a better place,
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and Foreman admits he doesn't believe anymore.
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The muscle contractures have spread to his hands.
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They can't even agree on whether to tell his mother,
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who has dementia, and Rodney ends up in the chapel praying while his son is put under.
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Then Foreman does something that hits harder than the needle stick from Part 1.
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He apologizes to Cameron, for stealing her article,
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for exposing her, and asks her to be his medical proxy instead of his own father.
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The traits he criticized in the office,
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being too emotional and too cautious,
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are exactly what he wants now.
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And Cameron accepts the proxy but refuses the forgiveness,
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they'll sort it out after he survives.
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She's not letting him buy peace with a deathbed apology.
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That proxy becomes a weapon almost immediately.
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Cameron orders the brain biopsy House has been delaying,
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and Wilson calls House out,
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if this were any other patient,
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he'd have cut the skull open hours ago.
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He's paralyzed because he actually cares about Foreman.
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That's a devastating read.
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The doctor who treats patients as puzzles can't function when the puzzle is someone he knows.
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House stalls for one more hour and goes back to the cop's apartment himself,
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no suit, nothing to lose.
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He finds a blind pigeon on the roof,
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then realizes the timing was the key,
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he and the rat visited hours after Foreman,
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Cameron came hours before.
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They all missed the exposure window.
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The water. The cop was stealing it from an irrigation system that only pumps at certain hours,
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and it's riddled with Naegleria,
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a brain-eating amoeba that enters through the nose.
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House calls back with the answer,
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but Cameron had no choice,
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she started the biopsy while he was gone.
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The amoeba shows up in the tissue,
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the CDC autopsy eventually confirms it too,
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and they start antiparasitic treatment.
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Foreman wakes from the coma pain-free and mentally sharp,
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he recognizes everyone, cracks jokes about House.
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And then House tests his motor function.
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Wiggle your left toes, Foreman says he just did,
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but he didn't. Raise your right arm, same thing.
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His brain is telling him he's moving but his body isn't responding,
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and the biopsy that saved his life may have caused permanent brain damage.
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It's the same lie the disease told the cop,
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your brain insisting something is real when it isn't. Except now it's not the disease causing it.
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It's the surgery that was supposed to cure him.
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Foreman survived. The brain damage may not heal..
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He can't feel what he's already lost..
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Cameron authorized the cut that broke him.
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House Explained. Season 3, Episode 4.
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Lines in the Sand.
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Why would two parents, both former professionals,
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both deeply familiar with their autistic son's behavior,
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rush him to the hospital after hearing a scream they've heard a thousand times before?
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House and his team, Chase, Cameron, and Foreman,
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take on Adam, a ten-year-old who can't speak and can't make eye contact,
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while House wages a parallel war against Cuddy over a blood-stained carpet he refuses to let go.
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A teenager from last week's clinic is also back,
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and she's not taking no for an answer.
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The patient is Adam,
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a ten-year-old severely autistic boy, can't speak,
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can't make eye contact,
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communicates only through pictograms and a rigid daily schedule.
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He starts screaming during lunch,
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clutching his chest, and his parents bring him in,
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three other doctors already said it's behavioral.
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House disagrees.
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Because of the parents.
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Dad was on Wall Street,
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Mom was a partner at an accounting firm,
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they both quit to care for Adam full-time.
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They've heard this kid scream for ten years,
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and this is the first time they've brought him to a hospital,
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that's the data point House trusts.
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Meanwhile, Cuddy replaced the blood-stained carpet in House's office,
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stained from the shooting,
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and he refuses to set foot in there until it's restored.
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So he wanders the hospital holding differentials in the clinic,
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Wilson's office, conference rooms,
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eventually the chapel. Anywhere but his own office.
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Cameron catches it. Not a power play,
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he genuinely wants the old carpet.
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Tests all come back clean.
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Then Adam's lungs fill with fluid.
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Right, a pleural effusion escalates everything,
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an echo reveals a cardiac conduction abnormality.
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Then Wilson, tricked by Foreman into doing a lymph node biopsy,
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finds liver cells under the kid's arm.
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Not cancer, liver cells where they shouldn't exist.
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Which is impossible unless the liver is damaged,
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but Adam's tests are clean.
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So House floats the darkest theory:
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the parents are giving their autistic son alcohol,
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poisoning him because they can't cope anymore.
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The team's horrified, but House argues these parents have every reason to be exhausted,
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a child who won't smile at them, won't hug them,
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gives them nothing back.
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He's wrong, though, liver biopsy clears them.
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Then Adam crashes, V-fib, cardiac ICU,
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barely stabilized, liver failing.
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House circles back to something everyone dismissed in the stool:
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calcium carbonate, which is chalk,
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meaning Adam has pica, he eats non-food items.
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So what else has this boy been eating?
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Foreman finds jimsonweed in the backyard.
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Explains the effusion, but not the screaming.
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House tries the family's pictograms,
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show me what you ate.
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Adam grabs the picture of the sandbox.
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And at that exact moment,
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his eyeball rotates backward in its socket.
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Foreman argues micro-tumor, started in the lung,
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spread to the liver, now behind the eye.
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Surgery gets scheduled to remove it.
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But what if it's not a tumor and they take this kid's eye for nothing?
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Right before they operate, House stops everything,
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he's been sitting with Adam's things,
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and it clicks. Those wavy lines Adam has been drawing on his chalkboard since the very first scene aren't scribbles,
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they're worms, exactly what he sees floating in his vision.
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Nobody knew how to read it.
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He was telling them what was wrong the entire time.
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House checks the eye and finds raccoon roundworms,
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Baylisascaris, swimming in the vitreous humor.
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A raccoon contaminated the sandbox,
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Adam ate the sand,
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and the worms migrated from his gut to lungs,
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liver, heart, and eye, every symptom, one cause.
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Anti-parasitic medication and laser therapy,
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and he'll recover.
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So a child who can't speak was communicating the answer all along,
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in a language nobody recognized until House cracked it.
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That's the real solve here, not the medicine.
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Afterward, Wilson pitches Cuddy on the idea that House has Asperger syndrome.
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He argues House took this case because he sees himself in Adam,
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sells it convincingly, then goes straight to House and admits it was a performance.
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House doesn't have Asperger's,
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he just wishes he did,
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because a diagnosis would excuse everything.
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Without it, he's choosing to be this way.
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As the family's leaving,
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House watches from a bench with Wilson and invents a happiness scale,
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rates them at six-point-five out of ten.
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Says they know what they're going back to.
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The rigid schedule, the isolation,
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a child who won't look at them.
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But Adam stops, turns to House,
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and makes direct eye contact,
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something he has never done with anyone,
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then hands him his PSP,
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the game he's been clutching since admission.
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His parents are overwhelmed,
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that's not just gratitude, that's connection.
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Wilson calls it a ten.
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House gets his carpet back, blood stain and all.
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Cameron tells him the idea that all change is bad isn't true.
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But he's already in his restored office,
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holding on to exactly what he had before.
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Powell's death is still unquestioned.
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Cameron carries it alone..
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House got his carpet back.
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The rest stays broken..
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The cane is permanent.
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House Explained. Season 3, Episode 7.
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Son of Coma Guy.
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A father has been lying in a vegetative state for ten years,
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ever since a house fire killed his wife and left him brain-damaged.
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His son Kyle visits regularly,
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but Kyle has problems of his own:
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unexplained seizures, motion blindness,
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and a backpack full of wine.
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When Kyle lands in the hospital and starts dying,
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House needs a family medical history that only the comatose father can provide.
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So he wakes him up.
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Meanwhile, Tritter goes after House's team one by one.
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House spots something no one else catches,
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Kyle Wozniak can't see things when they move.
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He flashes the lights,
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throws a bag of chips at the kid,
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and triggers a seizure right there in the room.
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Kyle's had seizures his whole life,
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no doctor's ever found the cause.
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And the only family who could provide a medical history is Kyle's father Gabriel,
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who's been in a vegetative state for ten years.
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Kyle's backpack is full of wine,
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no emergency contact, he tells the doctors he has friends,
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just nobody who'd care that he's in the hospital.
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Completely alone, and every test comes back empty,
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DNA, environmental scan, all of it.
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So House decides to wake the father with L-Dopa and amphetamines,
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a cocktail that could kill a healthy person.
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Cuddy tries to physically stop him and he injects Gabriel anyway.
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Which is INSANE. But it works.
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Gabriel wakes up sharp, passes every acuity test,
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asks for a steak.
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But when they tell him his son is seriously ill,
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possibly dying, he barely reacts.
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That's unsettling, Wilson thinks brain damage from the fire,
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House thinks maybe Gabriel just doesn't like his kid.
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But Gabriel knows the drugs wear off in about 24 hours,
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and he wants to spend that time getting a hoagie from a specific shop in Atlantic City,
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not visiting his dying son, getting a sandwich.
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Why?
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House agrees to drive him in exchange for medical answers.
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Wilson insists on coming.
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Gabriel sets up a question-trading game,
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for every medical question,
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he gets to ask House something personal.
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And Gabriel ran a luxury boat factory.
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Mildew-resistant paint on the hulls,
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which means possible mercury exposure for a kid who used to run around the factory floor.
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House calls the team to test.
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But while House is on this road trip,
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Tritter is at the hospital picking off the team one by one.
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Cameron says House takes six pills a day.
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Chase says six to ten,
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and admits he's written prescriptions for House.
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That's the dangerous one,
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Tritter pushes Chase on whether House asked or demanded.
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And with Foreman, Tritter drops House's own catchphrase:
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everybody lies.
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Mercury comes back negative.
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Kyle's heart is failing now.
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So they're running out of time.
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House goes back through every family death with Gabriel,
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grandmother, sister-in-law, father-in-law, and notices they all happened at night:
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car crash driving home from a night game,
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hit-and-run walking the dog after dark,
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and Kyle dropping a heavy popcorn tray that started the fire on Christmas Eve.
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So it's not clumsiness, it's MERRF syndrome,
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a mitochondrial condition passed through the mother that causes muscle weakness and poor night vision.
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Gabriel's wife's family weren't drunks;
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they were sick the whole time.
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But Kyle needs a new heart,
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and alcoholics can't get on the transplant list.
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Gabriel immediately says: give him mine.
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Wilson argues he might wake up again someday,
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but Gabriel doesn't care.
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Cuddy refuses, he isn't dying,
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so this would be assisted suicide.
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Gabriel asks House why he became a doctor if he hates people.
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What does House say?
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He tells him about a janitor at a hospital in Japan when House was fourteen,
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a trained doctor from an outcast group.
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Nobody accepted him, but when they needed an answer, they had to listen.
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Because he was right.
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That's House's entire worldview in one story.
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So House sends Wilson to create an alibi in the casino,
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sits with Gabriel, and walks him through his options.
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There's aspirin by the bed,
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which would protect the heart in transit.
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The suicide happens off-screen,
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House and Wilson are in the hallway and hear a thump through the door.
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Cuddy questions the aspirin afterward:
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why would a suicidal man take something that preserved his heart?
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House just calls it lucky.
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Kyle wakes up with a new heart and asks if his father left a message.
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House tells him his father said he was right,
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that he did the right thing.
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But Gabriel never said that,
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those are the words House told Gabriel he'd want to hear from his own father.
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So Kyle gets absolution for the fire he's blamed himself for his whole life,
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but from words that were never his father's. And then Wilson tries an ATM and discovers Tritter has frozen all his bank accounts;
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he tells House he's buying dinner.
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Tritter will go after anyone standing next to House.
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Tritter froze Wilson's accounts.
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Chase admitted writing prescriptions..
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Cuddy noticed the aspirin.
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House called it luck..
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Kyle's message from his father was never his father's.
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House Explained. Season 3, Episode 10.
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Merry Little Christmas.
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It's Christmas at Princeton-Plainsboro,
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and Wilson has brought House a gift he doesn't want,
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a plea deal. Two months in rehab, no jail time,
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and this whole Tritter nightmare goes away.
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House refuses. So Cuddy and Wilson try a different approach:
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they cut off his Vicodin entirely.
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Meanwhile, a fifteen-year-old named Abigail arrives with a collapsed lung and a mother who has dwarfism,
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everyone assumes the daughter does too.
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What follows is House at his most desperate,
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diagnosing a dying patient while his own body falls apart.
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So the episode opens with Wilson walking into House's office alongside Tritter,
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they've worked out a plea deal.
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Two months in rehab, guilty plea, no jail time,
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House keeps his medical license.
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And House throws them both out.
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Which is exactly what everyone predicted.
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Wilson went to Tritter last episode,
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and this is the result of that betrayal,
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a deal that could actually save House.
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But House won't even consider it,
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because admitting he has a problem would mean Wilson was RIGHT to turn him in.
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So Cuddy and Wilson decide to force the issue,
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they cut off his Vicodin entirely until he takes the deal.
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Cuddy suspends his treatment privileges and takes over his case:
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Abigail, a fifteen-year-old with a collapsed lung and anemia whose mother has cartilage hair hypoplasia,
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a form of dwarfism.
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Everyone assumes Abigail has it too.
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And House is already ahead of the team,
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he spots something off on the gallium scan,
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the liver dimmer than everything else.
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Nobody else sees a problem, but he's right.
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Abigail's liver is failing.
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Meanwhile House is deteriorating,
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he fakes an injury at an outside clinic trying to score Vicodin,
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gets caught and thrown out.
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Back at the hospital,
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Foreman catches him breaking into Cuddy's desk.
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They make a deal: Foreman helps with the break-in,
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House helps with the case.
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And House predicts the disease will spread to the pancreas next,
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he's right again, Abigail collapses into diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Cuddy comes to him and offers pills if he takes the deal.
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He still refuses.
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Cameron visits and finds something worse,
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House has been cutting himself,
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straight rows on his arm,
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because cutting releases endorphins that relieve pain.
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But he's still diagnosing,
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working through the symptoms:
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ear infections triggering an autoimmune cascade in a compromised immune system.
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He lands on Still's disease.
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Cameron brings it back to Cuddy,
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tells her House is in agony but his diagnostic ability is intact.
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They treat for Still's, and Abigail improves.
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And that's what changes Wilson's mind.
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Right, he sees House diagnose correctly through withdrawal,
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goes back to Tritter, and refuses to testify,
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saying House saves lives no one else can save.
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Tritter threatens them both with jail.
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Wilson accepts it.
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But it doesn't last.
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Abigail starts bleeding from her ears and mouth,
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approaching multi-system failure.
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And the team keeps bouncing between cancer and autoimmune,
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how do you break that loop?
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Then House has this strange moment in the cafeteria.
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A little girl in a wheelchair asks for his french fries,
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and they get into an argument about her stuffed animal,
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she insists it's a dog,
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he says it's clearly a bear.
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And when Cuddy arrives to tell him the Still's treatment failed,
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the insight hits: just because they called Abigail a dwarf doesn't make her one.
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Wait, there's no test for her mother's type of dwarfism?
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Everyone just assumed?
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Exactly, they X-ray her leg,
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and the growth plates are completely normal,
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impossible for a skeletal dwarf.
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A granuloma has been crushing her pituitary gland for years,
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suppressing growth hormone, that's Langerhans cell histiocytosis,
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a disease that behaves like both cancer and autoimmune.
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They'd dismissed it earlier because there were no neurological symptoms,
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except there was one the whole time, her height.
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And then Abigail refuses the growth hormone,
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she identifies with being small,
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afraid she'll fade into the background if she grows.
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House tells her mother that being different makes you stronger,
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but asks how strong she REALLY wants her daughter to have to be.
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He says to convince her, even if she has to lie.
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The mother does. Abigail agrees to the treatment.
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But on Christmas Eve,
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House turns down Wilson's offer of company,
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calls his mother and gets voicemail,
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and spends the night alone with pills and alcohol.
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Wilson finds him passed out on the floor.
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With stolen oxycodone, he'd tricked the pharmacist into dispensing a dead patient's prescription.
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And he signed the pharmacy log.
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And Tritter has been watching that log.
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When House finally goes to accept the deal,
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Tritter pulls it off the table.
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He has independent evidence now,
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doesn't need Wilson's testimony at all.
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The last thing he says is Merry Christmas.
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The same words Tritter used at the beginning of the episode,
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when he walked in with the deal.
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Except now it means something completely different.
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The deal is gone.
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Tritter has the pharmacy log..
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House goes to trial, no plea, hard evidence..
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Wilson's earlier statement is still on record.
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House Explained. Season 4, Episode 3.
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97 Seconds.
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Ten candidates remain in House's fellowship competition,
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names replacing numbers, but his selection criteria still unstated.
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The patient this week is Stark: wheelchair-bound,
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spinal muscular atrophy slowly suffocating him,
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and a companion English Shepherd who may know more about the case than anyone realizes.
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Meanwhile Foreman is at New York Mercy Hospital,
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running his own diagnostic team in a way that looks increasingly familiar,
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and heading toward a reckoning that mirrors what's happening at PPTH.
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Stark is 37, wheelchair-bound,
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spinal muscular atrophy slowly suffocating him.
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He collapses in the street;
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his English Shepherd Hoover warns a passing car.
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House turns it into a competition,
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ten candidates split by gender,
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first team to crack the case keeps their jobs.
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Women go clinical immediately.
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Thirteen notices Stark came back from Thailand and was laid in the sand,
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skin contact multiplies parasite exposure risk,
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and proposes strongyloides, a threadworm.
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She gives him ivermectin but doesn't stay to WATCH him swallow it.
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The men run every test simultaneously and House benches them for wasting time.
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Amber, House calls her Cutthroat Bitch and she accepts it,
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had tried to join the men and been voted out.
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She doesn't leave the building.
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Right, she comes back with xenodiagnosis:
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kissing bugs to test the parasite theory,
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cleaner than direct testing.
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Sharp technique. It triggers respiratory distress before it can finish.
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The tilt table shows the syncope resolved,
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the women believe their treatment worked,
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and House fires the men,
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whose tumor theory it disproves.
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Amber arrives calling it scleroderma.
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He rejects it, esophagus weakening, not hardening,
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and fires her too.
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But if he's already certain about strongyloides,
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why does the case keep moving?
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Because Amber recruits Chase to run tests she can't access alone.
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He knows exactly how he's being used.
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He runs them anyway,
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Chase has never been good at saying no to this kind of pressure.
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And the result stops everyone:
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the patient's blood is VISIBLY green,
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CT contrast unfiltered by failing kidneys.
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Nobody had kidney failure on the board.
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House admits he was wrong.
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Every theory resets. Antibiotics fail, lymph node necrosis,
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House calls it ocular melanoma.
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Stark isn't scared, and the episode doesn't romanticize it,
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he's just exhausted by the process.
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He'd rather know what comes after than endure more months in a hospital bed chasing a diagnosis that might not save him anyway.
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There's a clinic patient running alongside all this who electrocuted himself deliberately.
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He'd been dead 97 seconds in a car crash,
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felt something he couldn't write off as chemistry,
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and wanted to go back.
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Then Wilson actually pushes back on House,
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not managing him, genuinely challenging.
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The argument: House calls near-death experiences brain chemistry,
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but he's NEVER been there.
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Wilson's point is that certainty requires evidence,
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and House doesn't have any.
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So House goes to the SAME socket.
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Heart stops for nearly a minute.
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He paged Amber beforehand, specifically her,
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not Wilson, not Cuddy.
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Why Amber? He tells her she needed him alive to keep her shot at the job,
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so she wouldn't let that happen.
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I'm not sure that's the whole explanation.
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Wilson asks what House saw when he wakes up.
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House deflects. Then Wilson offers more pain medication,
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House responds in a register completely unlike his usual one.
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Quiet. Sincere. The episode doesn't explain it.
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Stark dies during palliative care.
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His last request is to have Hoover on the bed,
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a vet had told him companion animals sometimes hold on past their natural span,
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then let go once their person is gone.
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Hoover dies minutes after.
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Hard to watch. But the episode isn't done.
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House goes straight to Thirteen,
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did she watch Stark swallow the ivermectin?
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She isn't sure. He finds the pill cup on the floor with dog bite marks in the plastic.
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English Shepherds carry the MDR1 gene,
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ivermectin is routine for most dogs but fatal to that breed.
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Hoover ate the pills.
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Stark NEVER received treatment.
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When the pathologist opens the lungs,
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threadworms are immediately visible.
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Thirteen's read was right from day one.
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Every theory after, scleroderma, cancer,
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kidney failure, was built on ONE unconfirmed step.
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House doesn't fire Thirteen,
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he tells her making this mistake here means she won't make it again.
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He fires the rest of the women despite their correct read.
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Foreman spots what his team misses, defies orders,
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gives radiation. Correct. Fired.
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His superior's point: being right doesn't justify breaking the chain of command.
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If the diagnosis had been wrong,
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radiation kills faster. Foreman is becoming House,
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down to what it costs when an institution runs out of patience.
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Foreman is fired. His only post-PPTH position, gone..
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Amber saved House. Not formally back in the competition..
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Watch what House is selecting for.
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It is NOT accuracy.
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House Explained. Season 4, Episode 5.
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Mirror, Mirror.
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A man with no name gets mugged and collapses,
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no wallet, no ID, no idea who he is.
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He gives the paramedic's name as his own when they ask.
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That brings him to Princeton-Plainsboro,
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where a second complication has just arrived:
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Foreman, whose post-PPTH job collapsed,
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has been reinstalled by Cuddy as House's official overseer.
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House's fellowship competition is still running.
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The medical question is what the patient has.
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The institutional question is who's actually in charge.
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A man gets mugged on a street corner,
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collapses from respiratory failure,
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and arrives at Princeton-Plainsboro with no wallet,
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no ID, and no idea who he is.
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He gives the paramedic's name as his own when they ask.
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That's the first symptom.
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And the second is Foreman,
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back after his New York Mercy job collapsed,
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now installed by Cuddy as House's official overseer.
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House objects loudly. Foreman walks in anyway.
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The team runs tests on the breathing symptoms and the patient starts picking up complaints from the patients around him,
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abdominal pain from one neighbor,
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numbness from another, the paramedic's name as his own.
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Foreman suspects Munchausen's, deliberate fabrication.
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Chase is already running a betting pool on who gets fired.
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Right, but he's doing MORE than copying symptoms.
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He adopts names, speech patterns,
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entire personalities from whoever's in the room.
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House's diagnosis: Giovannini Mirror Syndrome,
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a condition where the patient can't form a stable identity and becomes whoever dominates the space around him.
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To test it, House brings him to an OR where Wilson is mid-surgery.
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A mirror patient reflects the dominant person.
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House assumes that's him.
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And the patient mirrors Wilson.
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NOT House.
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Wilson notes, with some satisfaction,
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that mirror patients always reflect whoever is ACTUALLY in charge,
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and in that room, Wilson is.
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House expected otherwise. He does not receive that as small.
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It tells you something real about that dynamic.
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House treats Wilson as a sidekick,
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someone to manage and consult.
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But whatever social dominance actually is,
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the patient can read it,
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and what he reads puts Wilson on top.
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They also find cold agglutinin disease,
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blood that thickens dangerously in the cold,
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which can't be faked.
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Mirror syndrome or not, he is GENUINELY ill.
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Hot tub to keep him warm,
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and an antibody panel returns three distinct geographic exposures:
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Ohio, the Southwest, Central America.
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The geography doesn't name him.
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But it's starting to sketch a person.
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Meanwhile the mirroring is producing something the team wasn't expecting.
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When candidates spend time alone with the patient,
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what gets reflected back is uncomfortable.
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Amber's version: she has to be right because if she isn't right,
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she isn't worth anything and nobody likes her.
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That's a BRUTAL self-portrait for someone who plays as aggressively as Amber does.
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And Taub, mirrored separately,
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reveals he's attracted to exactly that about her,
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the dominance, the aggression.
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Neither of them says a word about it afterward.
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Brennan's reflection: he doesn't want to be here,
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and tells House he'll quit when the case ends,
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he doesn't. Kutner's is stranger:
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obsessed with novelty, likes pain.
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Then Thirteen. House suspects she took the field assignment to avoid being mirrored,
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so he goes in with her,
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his read on the patient's first comment gets him out of the room.
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Then alone with her,
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the patient says he's frightened and it won't be alright.
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Is that the patient mirroring something inside Thirteen,
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some fear she hasn't named,
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or is it the patient speaking for himself for the first time?
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House doesn't go back to it.
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Which is interesting. House pulls at every thread.
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He lets this one sit.
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The break comes from Kutner,
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the patient said he loved hot tubs in front of someone who HATES them,
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which means he was thinking for himself.
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House uses this: he pretends to be the patient and gets mirrored back.
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A life on the road,
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VapoRub to block the smell of dung,
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years around pig farms.
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Eperythrozoon, a bacterial infection from pig exposure.
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The geographic profile fits, the VapoRub fits,
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the work history fits.
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Treatment works.
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Chase collects. House confirms he was secretly cut in with Chase on the pool.
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Foreman had proposed the alpha test,
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House and Cuddy in front of the patient,
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see who gets mirrored,
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and Foreman agreed to LEAVE if the patient picks House.
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Wilson suspected House invented that job offer entirely.
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So who does the patient mirror?
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The patient comments on Cuddy's appearance in a way House claims as proof he's being mirrored,
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Cuddy says it's something she might have thought herself.
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Foreman watches through the glass and manages exactly one word.
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House dances in the hallway.
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What closes the episode is Foreman,
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mirrored during the case,
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he heard he actually likes being back,
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and won't say so.
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The White Stripes track at the end is called We're Going to Be Friends.
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House confirming the Chase scheme to Foreman rather than deflecting is as close as either gets to an admission.
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Foreman is back. He doesn't know how he got here..
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Something scared Thirteen. House decided not to find out..
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No one was fired.
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The selection criteria remain unknown.
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House Explained. Season 4, Episode 15.
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House's Head.
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Four hours are missing.
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House, Princeton-Plainsboro's chief diagnostician,
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wakes in a strip club covered in blood,
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no memory of anything since leaving the hospital.
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Outside, the bus he was on has crashed.
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Back at the hospital, his skull is fractured,
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his short-term memory compromised,
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and his team has no patient,
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just his insistence that he witnessed a symptom in a fellow passenger before the crash,
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in someone he can no longer identify.
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Someone who may already be dying.
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House opens the episode in a strip club covered in blood,
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no idea how he got there.
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He immediately runs a self-diagnostic,
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tests his recall, notes his drink hasn't arrived yet,
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which means he was drunk on arrival,
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and figures out he's concussed.
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His brain is triaging before he understands what happened.
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Right, and when he steps outside,
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the bus he was on has crashed into traffic.
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Those four missing hours ended in a disaster.
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He gets to Princeton-Plainsboro and tells his team something they can barely act on:
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he saw a symptom before the crash,
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in a passenger he can no longer identify,
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and he can't describe what it was.
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He's certain someone is dying.
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That's the ENTIRE case file.
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And the cruelty of the setup is that the one person who could identify the patient is the one who can't access the information.
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Skull fracture to the ear canal,
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edema in the temporal lobe that controls short-term memory,
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the brain he needs is deteriorating while he uses it.
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The crime scene is inside the detective's head.
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How do you pull a memory from a damaged brain?
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The team searches for a patient they can't describe while House tries every method available.
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They start with hypnosis.
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Chase puts him under, a rotation in Melbourne,
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apparently, and it partially works:
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House gets back to the bar, to the bus,
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recovering passenger details. But mid-session Amber appears in his subconscious uninvited,
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and House tries to shut it down.
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He can't lie under hypnosis,
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and Wilson is in the room.
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Wilson stays and watches,
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and afterward confronts House directly:
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he thinks House has feelings for Amber.
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House deflects with something aggressively crude,
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but Wilson isn't reading it as a denial,
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he says it plainly, this is BAD.
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And the episode moves on without addressing it.
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PLANTED. UNRESOLVED. LEFT THERE.
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Meanwhile the bus driver is the working patient,
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sudden paralysis, liver failure,
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respiratory failure, and House is hallucinating through all of it:
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Vicodin overdose, Cuddy as a reasoning partner,
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and a mystery woman on the bus who keeps calling herself the answer.
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What does she need him to see?
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She points him to the driver's feet,
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shuffling motion that House reads as early Parkinson's,
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but when the driver goes into respiratory failure without responding to treatment,
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House notices something else:
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brand-new dental caps, from recent surgery.
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And everything snaps into place.
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Dental drill. Air bubble.
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That's the whole mechanism.
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A dental air drill can push an air bubble into the bloodstream through the gums;
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the crash dislodged it,
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and it traveled through the spine, then the liver,
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then the lungs, each stop a symptom cluster.
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House forces a cardiac aspiration over everyone's objections.
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Bubble clears, driver recovers,
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case apparently closed.
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Except that night House dreams, he's on the bus,
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tying something around a woman's leg, she's cold,
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he's telling her to stay.
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When he wakes, the whole investigation inverts:
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the crash didn't cause the symptom he saw,
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it dislodged the driver's pre-existing bubble incidentally.
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The real symptom was in someone else entirely.
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Causation backwards the whole time.
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The bus driver was a coincidence.
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So he rebuilds the bus,
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gets the team into seats based on the crash manifest,
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each wearing a printed photo of their passenger,
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trying to force the hippocampus to fire by recreating the context.
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Memory flashes surface, then slip.
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He injects physostigmine, an Alzheimer's drug that forces memory retrieval,
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after his team warned him it can stop his heart.
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He UNDERSTOOD that. He did it on the re-enactment bus anyway.
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And his heart stops.
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While in cardiac arrest he's back on the bus,
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and the mystery woman is asking the same question she's asked all episode,
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what is her necklace made of?
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He tries different answers as the crash replays around him,
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glass and screaming, until he finally looks at the necklace and says the word:
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AMBER. She becomes Amber Volakis.
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Wilson's girlfriend. Wilson, oncologist, House's closest friend,
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is the person this destroys.
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Amber was the season's most aggressive fellowship candidate,
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eliminated in episode nine,
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who stayed on as Wilson's partner;
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House's subconscious has been pointing at her since before he woke up in the strip club.
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Wilson and Cuddy revive him,
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and his first word is her name,
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Wilson assumes drug hallucination until House asks:
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does Amber have a birthmark on her right shoulder blade?
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Wilson checks his phone,
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and his expression gives the answer.
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Jane Doe number two.
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Princeton General. Late twenties.
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Kidney damage.
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She was on the bus with House,
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she's the one who's dying,
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and the episode ends there with no diagnosis and no explanation for why she was on that bus at all.
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Why was Amber there,
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and what did House see before the crash?
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Both go directly into the finale's second half.
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- Amber is at Princeton General.
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Unidentified and dying. - House doesn't know what he saw in her.
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- Nobody knows why she was on that bus.
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House Explained. Season 4, Episode 16.
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Wilson's Heart.
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Last episode ended with a name.
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House, Princeton-Plainsboro's chief diagnostician,
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came out of cardiac arrest, said one word,
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and Wilson's expression did the rest:
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Amber Volakis, his girlfriend and House's most ruthless former candidate,
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had been on the bus.
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This finale opens inside the ambulance, mid-crisis:
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Amber's heart is racing with no explanation,
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and the only person who might hold the answers just survived his own cardiac arrest this morning.
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The episode opens with Amber being transferred by ambulance to PPTH,
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and mid-transfer her heart tips into v-fib.
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Wilson stops the resuscitation and demands protective hypothermia:
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deliberately stop the heart,
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put her on cardiac bypass, freeze her.
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Buy time to diagnose.
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And that buys time by making diagnosis nearly impossible.
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A stopped heart can't be echoed, EKG'd,
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or stress-tested. Wilson's essentially gambling that House,
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who had his own cardiac arrest this morning on top of a skull fracture,
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can solve it before the clock runs out.
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House can barely function but starts pulling every thread.
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The team searches Amber's apartment while the angiogram and tox screen come back negative.
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Then Kutner finds prescription pills, diet pills,
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SSRIs, hidden in her vitamin bottles.
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Hidden from Wilson. Then jaundice,
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liver failure on top of cardiac failure.
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And Thirteen goes nearly silent in the differentials.
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A young doctor dying is triggering something she can't contain.
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House corners her, she's at risk for Huntington's,
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never been tested, and gives her a deadline:
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deal with it or clear out.
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The episode ends with a positive result.
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Just the fact. Delivered in the margins.
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House originally wants to restart her heart,
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the standard medical move.
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Wilson pushes back: too uncertain, too risky,
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wait for blood cultures.
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House backs down.
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Then someone on the team warms Amber up anyway,
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going behind both their backs.
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The disease reaches her brain.
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And the argument is sharp.
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Wilson is furious, the defense was that House originally wanted exactly this;
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Wilson guilted him out of it.
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Wilson can't hold still,
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even when holding still is the safer call.
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Amber diagnosed that pattern in him last episode,
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the accommodation, the self-erasure.
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Here it causes direct harm out of love.
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House knows exactly where to look for the next clue.
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His subconscious gives him sherry in a dream,
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which gets read as Sharrie's Bar on Third.
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He and Wilson go there.
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What did the bartender say?
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Amber was there, she sneezed, new symptom.
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And then, without being asked,
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the bartender tells House he seemed into her.
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That she was buying him drinks.
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Wilson is hearing this in real time,
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still not knowing what happened between them that night.
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Is that part of why he's the one pushing for deep brain stimulation?
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Drill into the hypothalamus,
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force the full memory out,
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on a skull that is already cracked.
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Wilson needs the answer for two reasons:
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to save Amber medically,
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and to understand what his best friend was doing with his girlfriend.
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The show doesn't separate those motivations.
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And the memory comes back.
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House called Wilson for a ride;
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Wilson was on call and sent Amber instead.
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Amber followed House onto the bus to return his cane,
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and on the way, took amantadine for the flu.
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Then the crash destroyed her kidneys.
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Without kidney function, amantadine accumulates and poisons everything,
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heart, liver, brain. Dialysis can't clear it because it binds to proteins,
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and her organs are too damaged for transplant.
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Nothing can be done.
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House seizes while still connected to the equipment.
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The seizure widens the fracture,
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causes a brain bleed, puts him in a coma.
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Wilson gets the news in two steps: House was right,
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and it's too late.
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The goodbye scene is quiet in a way this show almost never manages.
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Wilson wakes Amber; she works it out herself almost immediately.
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The team comes in one by one,
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and then Wilson shuts off the bypass himself.
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In the coma, House has a vision of Amber,
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she argues him out of dying.
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He's in self-pity mode,
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says the wrong person survived;
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she doesn't let him have it.
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She sends him back.
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She's calmer in the vision than she ever was alive.
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She delivers one last act of love for Wilson by returning his best friend.
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The Rolling Stones track that plays when House wakes names the thesis for anyone still wondering.
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House wakes to Cuddy, and Wilson visits,
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but they just stare at each other.
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Then Wilson goes home and finds the note Amber left saying she'd gone to pick up House.
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That's the last image.
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We don't know yet whether Wilson blames House.
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Four years of friendship,
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and right now it's just silence.
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Wilson knows now why Amber got on that bus..
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House is in a coma and can't answer for it..
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The silence between them is the whole question.
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House Explained. Season 5, Episode 9.
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Last Resort.
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A man with a gun and a two-year medical mystery walks into the hospital and barricades a group of clinic patients in the dean's office.
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House, PPTH's chief diagnostician,
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is trapped inside. So is Thirteen,
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a fellow on his team who carries a terminal genetic disease and becomes the episode's unwilling guinea pig.
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The demand: a real diagnosis, now.
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House works the case by phone with SWAT outside,
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each drug going into Thirteen first.
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The premise has a dark internal logic.
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Jason has been sick for two years,
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seen sixteen doctors, gotten nothing but normal results and mounting debt.
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So he walks into the hospital's administrative offices with a gun,
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takes whoever is in the clinic waiting area,
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and barricades them in Cuddy's office,
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demanding the best doctor in the building come solve what no one else could.
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Kutner finds six or seven thousand dollars in unpaid medical bills at the apartment and just says it plainly:
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if enough people are sick and in debt with nowhere to go,
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statistically at least one is going to do something inexcusable.
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The show doesn't excuse it,
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but it doesn't look away from the structural fact underneath it either.
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House reads Jason immediately and tries the obvious move,
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slipping him a sedative disguised as a diagnostic drug.
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Jason figures it out and shoots a clinic patient in the leg.
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Any easy exit closes right there.
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And after that House works the case.
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He calls his full team by phone, Foreman, Cameron,
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Taub, Kutner, writes a differential on Cuddy's walls.
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Jason's condition: every drug goes into someone else first.
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And Thirteen volunteers every time,
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framing it as rational: shortened lifespan,
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she's the obvious choice.
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Right, House tells her to her face she's waving a white flag,
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using her diagnosis as permission to stop caring whether she lives.
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Which is a brutal read.
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But she keeps walking to the needle.
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There's a moment that tests it:
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Thirteen steps out for a drug,
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Jason threatens to shoot the boy who gave him the lighter,
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and the nurse offers to take the bullet instead.
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House bets she'll back down when it gets real,
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and she does. But is Thirteen's behavior self-preservation,
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or something else entirely?
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Right, is she genuinely indifferent to dying,
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or is volunteering herself a way to feel in control of something she can't control?
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That's what the episode is actually building toward.
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The team suspects a Pancoast tumor,
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one side of his face sweating,
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salivary glands stopped, and the group moves to radiology,
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where Jason enters the scanner still armed.
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The gun creates a starburst artifact that wipes out the image.
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After the scan, House offers a deal:
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surrender the gun and see what it found.
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Right, and the scan shows nothing.
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No tumor. House admits he doesn't know.
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But why give it back, that's the hinge.
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Thirteen turns on him:
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he's so afraid of being wrong he'd rather keep a gunman armed than admit defeat.
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House fires back that she's the coward,
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using her diagnosis to manufacture the illusion of control over her own death,
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neither lets the other off the hook.
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Exactly, the show doesn't settle it.
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What breaks the deadlock is Thirteen's kidneys.
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They start failing after the Cushing's syndrome drug,
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Jason's don't, same regimen.
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House works backward: his stomach antacid has been incidentally protecting his kidneys for years by blocking calcium,
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and that protection points to a disease that should have wrecked them long ago.
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Cameron lands on melioidosis, bacterial,
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slow-building, tropical in origin,
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and Jason says he's never been to the tropics,
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then admits he's never been south of Florida.
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House calls him an idiot; Florida qualifies.
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Two years of missed diagnosis,
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partly explained by a geography gap in the patient's own history.
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The treatment drug is sent in,
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SWAT runs out of patience,
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and Jason trades House for the drug,
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keeping Thirteen. Then demands she inject herself.
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But her kidneys are failing,
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and the drug would kill her.
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She picks up the needle.
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And can't.
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She breaks down and tells him she doesn't want to die,
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the only uncontrolled moment she's had all episode.
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Jason grabs the syringe and injects himself as the wall comes down;
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outside, House signals him to exhale cleanly,
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and the diagnosis is confirmed.
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Right, and the first thing Thirteen does when she recovers is ask Foreman about the Huntington's trial she turned down at the episode's opening.
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Something cracked in that room.
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Whether it holds outside extreme circumstances is a different question.
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The closing scene is Cuddy in her destroyed office,
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writing on the walls, blood on the floor.
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House walks in, announces the diagnosis,
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and they argue about who bears responsibility.
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It drifts into their non-relationship,
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deflects before it goes anywhere real,
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and House walks out.
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Then Cuddy opens a desk drawer House was alone with at the episode's start,
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it's installed upside down and everything falls out on the floor.
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Whether he did that deliberately,
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we don't know yet.
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Thirteen asked to join the trial she refused this morning..
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Foreman knows her actual timeline.
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The trial doesn't.. Cuddy's drawer was upside down.
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House had been alone with it.
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House Explained. Season 5, Episode 19.
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Locked In.
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For once, House arrives as a patient.
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He's injured in a motorcycle accident in Middletown,
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New York, lying in an ER when he notices the man in the next bed being evaluated for organ donation.
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A cyclist, bicycle accident, flat EEG.
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But his eyes are moving.
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That observation is the only thing standing between Lee and a harvested heart.
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And while the case unfolds back at PPTH,
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Wilson spends the episode quietly trying to answer one question House won't address:
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why was he in New York at all?
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House is a patient this episode,
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motorcycle accident, a New York ER,
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lying in bed when he notices the man next to him being prepped for organ donation.
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Cyclist, bicycle accident, flat EEG.
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But the patient's eyes are following the attending doctor across the room.
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House blink-tests him. He's still in there.
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That's the episode's premise and its horror in the same moment.
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Lee is completely conscious,
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he can feel every procedure,
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hear every word about harvesting his heart,
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and no one has thought to ask if he's present.
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The episode runs partly from inside his perspective,
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which makes the near-miss genuinely unsettling in a way the show doesn't usually go for.
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The biopsy inadvertently destroys Lee's ability to blink.
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His only communication is gone.
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Right. And now they're treating a patient they cannot ask anything.
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Taub proposes a brain-computer interface,
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a device that reads intention signals from concentrated thought.
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They tell Lee to think the cursor upward.
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After a long, silent wait at his bedside, it moves.
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Medical history, one yes-or-no answer at a time,
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can now begin.
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That's where Lee's hidden life surfaces.
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His wife says he was in St. Louis on business,
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Lee signals no, but can't explain why through a cursor that only answers yes or no.
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His wife concludes affair;
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he knows she's wrong but cannot correct her,
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and that gap is the episode's cruelest detail.
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The real story comes out through environmental investigation rather than through Lee:
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his roofing business had been failing for months,
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he'd been hiding it from his wife,
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and was secretly moonlighting as a janitor at a factory to cover the gap.
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The factory scan comes back with cadmium dust.
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Heavy metal poisoning appears to be the answer.
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He was protecting her by lying,
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and it reads exactly as betrayal.
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There's no way to carry the distinction through yes-or-no blinks.
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The BCI is blunt by design.
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Cadmium therapy starts, but Thirteen finds corneal damage, keratitis,
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that doesn't fit. Cameron, treating House's own injuries nearby,
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suggests a lumbar puncture.
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The procedure triggers cardiac arrest.
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They revive Lee; working through the BCI,
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he communicates a new symptom:
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an itch in his right foot.
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Liver failure.
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Exactly, and notice the pattern running through this episode:
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every diagnostic move creates a new crisis.
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The biopsy cost Lee his only signal.
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The cadmium theory was wrong.
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The lumbar puncture nearly killed him.
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The team's competence is genuine and it keeps making things worse before anything gets better.
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Foreman calls it: sclerosing cholangitis.
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Liver biopsy ordered.
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And while they're prepping for it,
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Kutner notices a rash on Thirteen's wrist.
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Patient urine had splashed on Thirteen's wrist during a procedure.
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Kutner traces it back:
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rats in the friend's basement,
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leptospirosis entering through a paper cut,
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destroying Lee's liver, and the liver's toxins triggered locked-in syndrome.
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The rats at that house test positive.
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The cause was there all along.
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They needed an accident to find it.
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Treatment starts; Lee begins to recover.
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When House arrives to collect a recorder he'd planted under Lee's pillow to eavesdrop on his team remotely,
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Taub immediately tries to claim the leptospirosis diagnosis.
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House catches it, the observation was Kutner's,
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and doesn't press.
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House reads desperate versus dishonest.
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He lets it go.
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Running parallel the entire episode:
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Wilson is trying to figure out why House was in New York.
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The cover stories keep escalating,
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visiting Wilson's ex-wife who lives near Middletown,
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checking on Foreman's brother in prison,
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scoping out Wilson's new girlfriend.
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Each one more obviously wrong than the last.
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The stories are too badly constructed.
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What is he actually trying to protect here?
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Wilson steals House's phone.
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Calls the number House kept refusing to answer.
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A psychiatrist picks up.
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He went voluntarily. In secret.
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Drove to another state, told no one.
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Whatever he was carrying this season, Amber,
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the methadone experiment, the leg,
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was heavy enough that he made that drive alone and said it to a stranger.
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We don't know what he said.
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We don't know how many sessions there were.
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House says he is not going back.
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Wilson says he will end up alone.
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No argument from either of them.
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Lee, now able to move a finger,
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tells House that God sent him.
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House dismisses it, retrieves his recorder,
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and leaves.
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The episode closes on House's vision blurring as he looks at Wilson,
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the same visual the show used throughout for Lee's locked-in perspective.
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It's unclear whether that's a literal symptom or a metaphor.
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One man has been locked in and is getting out.
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Is House heading the other direction?
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The episode won't say.
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House was seeing a psychiatrist.
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Wilson knows. House says he's done.
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Wilson says he'll end up alone.
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The final image: House's vision blurs like Lee's.
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House Explained. Season 5, Episode 23.
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Under My Skin.
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Something survived House's first real night of sleep.
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Amber Volakis, Wilson's dead girlfriend,
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whose death House set in motion in Season 4,
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is still there when he wakes.
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The insomnia alibi is gone.
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The patient this week is Penelope,
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a twenty-one-year-old professional ballerina who collapses on stage when she can't breathe.
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House runs the case while concealing from Wilson,
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from Cuddy, and from himself that the reason he can no longer trust his own judgment is the Vicodin.
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House is hallucinating Amber Volakis,
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Wilson's dead girlfriend, whose death he set in motion,
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and has been since Kutner's suicide.
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Sleep didn't fix it.
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Foreman arrives with a case: Penelope, twenty-one,
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a professional ballerina with the New York Ballet,
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collapsed on stage when her lungs gave out mid-rehearsal.
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Right, and she's not a passive hallucination,
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she's actively in the differential,
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surfacing things House has suppressed.
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He's not fighting her, he's using her.
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Does that make him a better diagnostician or a more dangerous one?
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Worse, because he can't check his own reasoning against itself.
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He goes to Wilson, interrupts him mid-consultation,
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and admits he's hallucinating, but lies about who.
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He tells Wilson it's Kutner.
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He doesn't want Wilson to know his dead girlfriend is in House's head.
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It's protective. But Wilson can't help if he doesn't know who he's treating.
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The antibiotics House prescribed,
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before confirming there was an infection,
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trigger a one-in-a-million reaction called toxic epidermal necrolysis.
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Penelope's skin starts separating in sheets during a procedure.
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His first call on this case made her significantly worse,
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and he knows it.
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So he uses his guilt as a diagnostic test.
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He apologizes to Penelope, formally, to her face,
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reports back that he felt nothing,
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and reads that as limbic brain damage consistent with MS.
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Wilson suggests a lumbar puncture.
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House resists the obvious answer.
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He's been on pills for years;
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the hallucinations only started days ago,
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something changed. He needs that something to be structural,
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not chemical.
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Because structural means fixable without giving up the pills.
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Vicodin addiction means detox, pain, career over,
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and in House's logic,
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no career means he's no longer the thing he actually is.
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After the liver biopsy clears,
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House throws Wilson out,
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and the hallucination delivers the verdict:
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only Vicodin or severe mental illness remain,
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career over either way.
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He proposes stopping Penelope's heart for a still MRI,
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admits to Wilson the hallucination is Amber,
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and injects himself with insulin while the team executes the arrest.
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Wilson confirms: no MS,
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but Vicodin levels dangerously elevated.
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Wilson gets there in time.
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Glucose. House wakes up, Amber is gone.
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The MRI caught a shadow near the aorta.
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House watches Jeremy, Penelope's boyfriend,
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a fellow dancer, at her bedside and reads devotion as guilt.
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He suspects gonorrhea disseminated to her heart,
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walled off in an abscess a standard blood test would never catch.
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He's at a bar celebrating when Foreman calls to confirm Jeremy tested positive.
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And that's elegant, the abscess sealed from the bloodstream explains why the infection was invisible.
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But Jeremy denies cheating and leaves.
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House realizes he projected his own need to see guilt onto someone who didn't have it.
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The deduction was right;
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the reasoning behind it was compromised.
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He was lucky, not right.
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And the moment he admits that, Amber comes back.
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Right, so Wilson proposes a facility outside Philadelphia,
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someone he knows from undergrad.
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They pack. Foreman calls: Penelope has gone septic,
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surgery is now dangerous.
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Wilson tells House she's fine.
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She isn't.
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House doesn't go back to the hospital,
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he goes to Cuddy's office and says he wants to quit.
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She asks what he really wants;
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he deflects with a dig at her daughter,
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she turns to leave.
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Then he says it directly:
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he's hallucinating from the Vicodin,
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and he won't go to a facility because he'll cheat.
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And he asks Cuddy to run the detox personally,
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not a program, her.
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She knows him and won't give him what he wants when what he wants is the wrong thing.
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She calls a babysitter for Rachel and agrees.
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Meanwhile Chase removes the abscess,
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but the dopamine used to stabilize Penelope's blood pressure clamps her peripheral circulation.
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She wakes up facing amputation of both hands and feet,
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refuses consent. She's a dancer.
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Taub tries vasodilators. Nobody expects it to work.
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It works.
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The withdrawal is brutal,
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Amber keeps telling House to send Cuddy home and take the pill.
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He spots a Vicodin on the floor;
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Cuddy flushes it before he reaches it.
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At his worst he starts telling Cuddy where the hidden stashes are,
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even as Amber tells him not to.
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Cuddy says opioid dependency amplifies pain beyond what's real,
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he might be okay without the pills.
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He pushes back. She says she hasn't lied to him in twenty years.
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And he immediately reads that as an invitation:
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what was the lie?
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She was never enrolled in his endocrinology class.
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She was auditing it, there to be near him,
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since medical school. She's been carrying that for two decades.
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House looks around and tells her Amber is gone.
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The hallucination doesn't leave when the insulin works or when he confesses the addiction,
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it leaves when Cuddy matches his honesty with her own.
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He tells her he always wants to kiss her.
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They do, and the season finale is next.
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Amber is gone. House just kissed Cuddy.
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Whether he can work without the pills:
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genuinely open. The season finale is one episode away.
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House Explained. Season 6, Episode 1.
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Broken.
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The premiere opens somewhere the show has never gone before:
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a psychiatric hospital. No whiteboard, no differential, no team.
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Dr. Darryl Nolan is House's psychiatrist,
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and the sole gatekeeper between House and his medical license.
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Juan "Alvie" Alvarez is House's bipolar roommate,
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all mania and unfiltered honesty.
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Lydia visits her unresponsive sister-in-law Annie five times a week and becomes House's unexpected emotional anchor.
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And Steve Alcartine, who insists on being called Freedom Master,
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is completely convinced he can fly.
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This is unlike any House episode before it.
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We're in a psychiatric hospital, Mayfield,
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and the show strips everything away: no team,
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no whiteboard, no case.
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Just House in a ward he cannot diagnose his way out of.
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And the reason he's there is the starting gun.
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He hallucinated an entire night with Cuddy,
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arrived at work carrying what he thought was evidence of it,
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and it was a Vicodin bottle.
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His own diagnostic confidence in himself had broken down completely.
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Which is what makes Nolan's trap so clean,
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House is a voluntary patient who can legally walk any time.
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But Nolan controls the medical board recommendation that reinstates his license.
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He can leave; he just can't practice medicine if he does.
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The one thing that holds him.
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Not guilt, not love.
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His CAREER.
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So he runs the playbook.
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Humiliates patients in group therapy,
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engineers a rebellion over table tennis paddles,
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has Alvie break into Nolan's office,
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rigs a urine test through a bribed patient,
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calls Wilson for blackmail material.
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Wilson refuses, Nolan had pre-warned him.
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Wilson's refusal carries real weight,
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Nolan called him first and told him exactly what House would try,
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and Wilson said no.
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Whether that's a permanent shift in their dynamic or Wilson following someone else's lead this once is genuinely unclear,
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and I'm not sure the show knows yet either.
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And then Nolan ends it completely.
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House had been pocketing his meds and cheating urine tests.
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But Nolan had already switched some pills to placebos because he suspected it,
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and the test didn't expose House,
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it confirmed what Nolan already knew.
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House walked into a trap set before the scheme started.
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Meanwhile two attachments form.
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Lydia visits her unresponsive sister-in-law Annie,
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a former concert cellist, silent for a decade,
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every week, and becomes House's only genuine conversation partner.
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Then there's Steve, a patient absolutely certain he is a superhero called Freedom Master.
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Why Steve specifically?
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Helplessness, probably, the ward drugs Steve into catatonia to manage the delusion,
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which House finds worse than the condition.
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So he borrows Lydia's car and takes Steve to a carnival wind-tunnel ride,
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letting him feel actual flight.
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Joyful for a moment,
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Steve then stands on the edge of the parking structure and jumps.
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That's the episode's real hinge,
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Steve survives badly injured,
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and for the first time in the episode,
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House's instinct to fix something made it actively worse.
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Nolan threatens transfer. House calls him back and admits he needs help,
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not as a move but just as a fact.
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Just that. NOTHING behind it.
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And the show doesn't rush to resolve whether it's real.
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House takes his medication, starts cooperating.
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But House performing recovery looks identical to House actually recovering,
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the episode holds that ambiguity rather than closing it.
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What breaks it open is Nolan taking House to his dying father's bedside on a day pass,
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framed as a consultation,
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House reads within seconds the prognosis is terminal and that Nolan already knew.
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What Nolan needs isn't a diagnosis;
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he needs company. House takes off his jacket and stays.
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That scene does something the rest of the episode can't prove alone.
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House chooses presence over analysis,
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sits with someone else's grief without diagnosing it,
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no agenda. He stays because Nolan needs him to.
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He JUST stays. That's the whole thing.
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And Annie?
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The talent show is where everything converges,
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House apologizes to Steve and wheels him to Annie.
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Steve gives her the music box he'd been fixated on,
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and she opens it and speaks for the first time in a decade.
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Lydia arrives to find her sister-in-law playing Bach on the cello.
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And then Lydia has to leave, and it comes fast.
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Her family is moving to Arizona,
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Annie's recovery finally made the move possible.
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House gets an overnight pass and goes to her house,
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her young son answers the door.
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She says she can't break up her family.
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That son answering the door.
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The show is very deliberate about that image.
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House finds Nolan in the parking lot and says he feels lost,
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Nolan signs the letter not for compliance,
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but because House came to him with pain instead of reaching for drugs.
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There's a send-off party.
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House shoves his face in the cake and gets on a bus.
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As the bus pulls away, Alvie,
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who spent the whole episode insisting House was faking,
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walks back inside and asks for his own medication.
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House's reluctant, visible change became something the ward absorbed.
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The smiley shirt on the bus is Alvie's.
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License reinstated. Cuddy fired him.
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She wasn't here. Whether Princeton undoes what Mayfield started is the only real question.
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Alvie asked for his medication for the first time.
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House Explained. Season 6, Episode 9.
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Wilson.
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James Sidas was once the youngest person to graduate MIT,
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IQ of 178, three books published before eighteen.
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He's now a courier who says thinking too hard made him miserable,
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and he arrives at Princeton-Plainsboro with ataxia,
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anemia, and a cough.
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The reasons behind his choices don't add up yet.
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It's Thanksgiving week. Cameron left for Chicago last episode.
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House has a scheme to crash Cuddy's dinner.
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Cuddy already knows about it.
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James Sidas was once the youngest MIT graduate ever,
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IQ 178, three books before eighteen.
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He says thinking too hard made him miserable;
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he walked away from physics.
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Now he's a courier, arrives with ataxia, anemia,
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a cough, and the team suspects TTP;
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House orders a splenectomy.
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Why does someone walk away from that?
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The splenectomy fails immediately,
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Sidas strokes mid-procedure, kidneys start failing.
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The team works through vasculitis, liver failure,
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alcoholism, and none of it holds.
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House is barely in the room,
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scheming to crash Cuddy's Thanksgiving,
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and she actually invites him herself,
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hands him her sister's address.
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Wilson thinks it's a trap;
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House drives three hours to an empty house with a house sitter waiting.
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She got there first.
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So House ends up at Lucas's apartment instead.
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He breaks in, drinks Lucas's tequila,
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and when Lucas comes home tells him he loves Cuddy and is too pathetic to deserve her.
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He barely remembers any of it the next morning.
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Right, and that's what makes it uncomfortable,
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Lucas doesn't dismiss it.
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He ends the relationship not because he was outmaneuvered but because he believed what House told him.
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The scheme worked through honesty,
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which House never intended.
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Cuddy comes to House the next morning,
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Lucas ended things because of what you said.
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House admits he was drunk;
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she tells him there was never anything between them and walks out.
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It sounds like a closing statement.
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But is that line accurate or is it protective?
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She gave him the wrong address on purpose,
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she anticipated the scheme before he executed it.
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Then Wilson makes a throwaway remark about Lucas being too stupid to know he'd been played,
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and House stops cold.
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Goes back to the case, why is Sidas stupid?
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Because he made himself that way: dextromethorphan,
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the compound in cough syrup,
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taken chronically to suppress his IQ,
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mixed with just enough alcohol to prevent permanent brain damage.
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House orders a bowel lavage.
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Sidas confirms it, not being as smart made him less miserable.
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He clears the drug, recovers,
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starts doing physics drawings,
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then tells Foreman privately the gap with his wife is now unbearable,
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but he owes her everything and wouldn't be happier without her.
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Then his legs stop working.
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B12 deficiency, bone marrow, lupus, nothing fits.
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House threatens to call Cameron,
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and Chase walks across the room and punches him in front of the entire team.
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House covers. Tells Cuddy he tripped over an ottoman.
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Chase apologizes privately, says it had nothing to do with what House said.
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It was about everyone continuously checking in since Cameron left;
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the punch was the only way to make it stop.
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House covers and asks nothing.
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Which is the same silence protecting Chase since Dibala.
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Cameron has the confession in Chicago,
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Foreman doesn't know she knows,
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and Chase is telling himself it's under control.
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He used those exact words about Dibala.
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House goes to Sidas privately.
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Sidas admits a suicide attempt twelve years ago,
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jumped, broke three ribs, went on narcotics,
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felt normal for the first time,
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met Dara at the hospital.
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House asks about those ribs.
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Right, that fall shattered the primary spleen,
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which then scattered into over a dozen accessory fragments throughout his torso.
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Chase removed only the primary one.
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Right disease, wrong anatomy all along.
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All still there, still driving TTP.
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A ferrous oxide MRI lights them up;
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surgery removes them all.
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Sidas recovers and chooses to go back, DXM,
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the courier job, Dara.
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House signs off. The line he gives Sidas on the way out is about how surprising it is,
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what you can live without.
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That line is meant for Sidas,
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it's also clearly for House.
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He figured out Cuddy staged the whole thing to neutralize him,
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tells Wilson he's okay with it.
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It's unclear whether he means it.
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And Cameron is in Chicago.
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She has everything, Chase's confession,
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and the question of whether Dibala even ordered the genocide he was killed for.
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Whether she reports it, confronts Chase,
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or stays quiet, we don't know yet.
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That's the live wire going into next week.
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Cameron is in Chicago with Chase's confession.
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Chase says it's under control.
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No one's watching. House figured out the staged breakup.
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Says he's okay.
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House Explained. Season 6, Episode 13.
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5 to 9.
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The person running Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital day to day is Cuddy,
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Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Dean of Medicine,
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single mother to infant Rachel.
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This episode follows her exclusively for one working day as she wages a high-stakes standoff with AtlanticNet,
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the insurance company covering 80 percent of PPTH's patients.
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House keeps reappearing throughout the day,
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causing a problem each time.
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Wilson shows up at lunch with nothing useful to offer.
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This is entirely Cuddy's episode.
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This episode follows Cuddy for one working day,
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5 a.m. to past 9 p.m.,
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with NO diagnostic mystery anywhere in it.
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No whiteboard, no differential, no team.
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The entire engine is institutional:
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whether Cuddy can hold a losing hand against a much bigger insurance company on principle.
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Right, and it starts in chaos before she's even out the door.
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Rachel wakes up sick, Lucas arrives and delays her,
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and House has already sent a fake emergency page,
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turns out he was on a stakeout with Lucas the night before and they made a bet about whether she'd stop to answer it.
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She arrives at 8:10.
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She meets AtlanticNet rep Eli Morgan and issues a same-day ultimatum,
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accept a 12 percent reimbursement increase by 3 p.m. or PPTH ends the contract,
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affecting 80 percent of their patient base.
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Board member Simpson calls her crazy.
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Chairman Wells makes it explicit:
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if the deal collapses, so does her position.
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Eli just walks out.
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He thinks she's bluffing.
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Which isn't an unreasonable read,
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Princeton-Plainsboro is the smallest hospital in AtlanticNet's entire network.
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The rep says it plainly:
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you can be expensive or small, not both.
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Cuddy's leverage is PPTH's reputation and patient loyalty,
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real, but harder to put a number on than size.
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Alongside the insurance countdown:
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a doubled ephedrine order turns into years of systematic theft.
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Head pharmacist Gail has been diverting the drug to a meth supply operation,
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she controlled both ordering and invoice verification,
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so it stayed invisible.
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When the DEA is called and she's fired,
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she doesn't crack, she threatens to fabricate a Cuddy-House affair and claim they ran it together.
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A false story. But impossible to disprove quickly.
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House finds Cuddy sitting in her car,
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she's gone out there after Gail's affair threat landed and the Board pressure got to be too much;
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she'd already told a nurse she was resigning.
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And he confesses: he identified Gail as a sociopath months ago from watching her open mail,
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NEVER told Cuddy, and was saving it as potential leverage.
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Why does he tell her now?
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The episode doesn't settle it,
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but he also tells her the Board won't actually fire her,
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the hospital needs her and everyone in that building knows it.
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Which is strangely direct coming from House,
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almost reassuring. She doesn't fully trust it,
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but she doesn't dismiss it either,
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and that's something.
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It might be loyalty.
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It might be another calculation.
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What she acts on is something Lucas gave her earlier,
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a recording device disguised as a decorative flower,
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because he's a PI.
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She goes back to Gail, draws her out,
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and gets the full confession on tape:
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how long the theft ran, what the threat was,
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everything. That recording goes to the DEA.
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And Gail tells her in that conversation that she hasn't found the full extent of the theft,
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it's been running since six months after Gail was hired.
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The DEA investigation is just beginning and we don't know how far down it goes.
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Then she walks toward the Board intending to hand in her notice.
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She'd already decided the principle was worth the cost,
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if the deal cost her the job,
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that was the price of not backing down.
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She misses an elevator,
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and when the doors open Eli Morgan is standing there:
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AtlanticNet has accepted her terms, ENTIRELY,
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no renegotiation.
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She was prepared to ACTUALLY lose.
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That's what earns it.
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Exactly, the Board gives her a standing ovation.
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Staff applaud in the halls, and then one more beat:
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Acevedo's installment check from the malpractice suit arrives.
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She tears it up without a word and goes home to Rachel.
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That's the moment the episode sits with.
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She fought all day for the hospital's finances and at the end just rips up money she was legitimately owed.
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The show doesn't explain it, it just happens,
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and you're left deciding what it means.
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She finally reaches the nanny.
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Rachel is fine, small rash, nothing serious.
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One thing that isn't resolved:
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AtlanticNet caved ENTIRELY, no delay,
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after eight months of resistance.
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The PR campaign is plausible leverage,
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but the capitulation is faster and cleaner than the negotiation history would suggest.
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Why did they fold so completely,
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the episode doesn't tell you.
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The Gail investigation is just starting.
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She told Cuddy the full extent of the theft hasn't been found,
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the operation ran for years before anyone noticed.
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The DEA is involved now,
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and something will surface from that,
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it won't be small.
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And Lucas is still sitting on things Cuddy doesn't fully know he knows,
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about House, about her,
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about how the pieces fit together.
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It's quiet right now.
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The question is how long that lasts.
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---
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Gail warned the theft runs deeper than anyone's found.
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Lucas is still holding what he knows about House.
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Cameron hasn't moved from Chicago since episode nine.
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House Explained.
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Season 7, Episode 13.
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Two Stories.
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House, PPTH's genius diagnostician,
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chronic avoider, ends up on an elementary school detention bench,
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sitting beside two kids caught kissing behind the building.
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All three wait for the principal.
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The episode runs three timelines: the bench,
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Career Day two hours earlier,
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and the House/Cuddy relationship,
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she's the hospital's dean of medicine,
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and his partner, cracking three days before that.
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House narrates the past to the kids as deflection.
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Two twelve-year-olds end up more useful to him than anyone.
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---
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The episode opens on a detention bench,
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House beside two kids,
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none of them saying why they're there.
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Three timelines run simultaneously: the bench,
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Career Day two hours earlier,
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the Cuddy relationship breaking three days before that.
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House narrates pieces of each as deflection.
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Why is House on a school detention bench?
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Sanford Wells, a PPTH board member who also sits on this school's board,
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agreed to get Rachel admitted on one condition:
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Career Day. Cuddy doesn't know and couldn't have asked,
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she'd consider it unethical.
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House goes in as "Dr. Hourani," borrowed from a real colleague,
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plans to be out in twenty minutes,
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and gets trapped immediately.
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A student keeps catching his stories as film rip-offs.
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He admits the embellishments and ends up describing the Cuddy situation out loud to a classroom of children.
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Already lying before he opens his mouth.
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That's the episode.
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The teacher gives up.
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Career Day falls apart,
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then he rear-ends another speaker's car in the parking lot,
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gives the Hourani name to the other driver,
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and ends up on the principal's bench beside those two kids.
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The classroom kids are already running the same play the detention kids will run,
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pressing on Cuddy, refusing every redirect.
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The Career Day stories are all deflection.
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The subject keeps bleeding through.
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Meanwhile there's an actual patient,
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and House is barely there.
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Willis Chung, a college student,
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coughed up actual lung tissue.
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Roommates brought him in after the campus clinic called it bronchitis.
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Foreman runs the case, infection, sarcoidosis,
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chemical solvents, nothing resolves.
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A patient coughed up a lung and House is cracking a password.
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Cuddy slams the receiver down on his hand and tells him she's done.
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But the real accusation comes later,
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when he tries to return and she won't let him in:
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he's always right, always has to be right,
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and has never once actually listened.
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The toothbrush, the toilet seat, the mess,
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evidence of the pattern.
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He diagnosed the relationship instead of living it.
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The laptop theft is proof of that.
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He manufactures a gas leak, evacuates the clinic,
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slips into her office.
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Still can't crack the password.
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University dorm next, under the Hourani name,
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Wilson supplying guesses remotely.
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He eventually gets in, reads the journal,
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and puts the laptop in the trash expecting the janitor to return it.
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The kids' story: caught behind the building,
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but the girl insists they never kissed.
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Days before, the boy won a jump rope match,
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prize was a kiss,
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and she publicly told him she would never kiss him.
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He assumed she'd thrown the match deliberately.
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She says she genuinely expected to win.
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His read: she's manufacturing cover,
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seeming reluctant while getting what she wants.
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Her read: she meant it and expected to win.
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Is she playing games or did he misread the evidence?
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House argues both sides.
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The girl's black eye was a floor hockey accident,
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the puck, unrelated.
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What she keeps pressing on is Cuddy.
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Every time House lists a symptom, the toothbrush,
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the toilet seat, the mess,
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she asks why that made Cuddy so angry.
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He runs through the list.
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He cannot actually answer.
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Exactly, he's running differential diagnoses on an emotional problem.
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The girl cuts straight through it:
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he only listens to tell Cuddy she's wrong.
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He doesn't hear her.
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Two kids in detention figure this out from his own narration,
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faster than he ever could.
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Then Principal Fields will not be charmed.
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Insane or stupid, those are his options.
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He tries for a third.
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She won't give him one.
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She knows about Cuddy through Wells,
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won't commit on Rachel's admission,
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tells him to grow up.
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There is no argument available in this room.
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Harder room than any medical board he has faced.
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He spots The Princess and the Pea on her shelf and makes the jump:
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Willis inhaled a pea,
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too large to wash out in a bronchial lavage,
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invisible on scans, unresponsive to every treatment the team tried.
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He calls Foreman and schedules surgery.
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The apology is short.
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He admits he was being himself.
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He explains the laptop:
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put it in the trash trusting the janitor,
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she got it back.
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Career Day was for her and Rachel.
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Whether Cuddy reads that as genuine or as a smarter strategy,
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the scene leaves open.
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He arrives at Cuddy's for dinner with his own toothbrush.
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Small but real. Rachel's admission is unresolved,
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no commitment from the principal.
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Hourani found his office searched.
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And underneath it all:
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the apology House gave Cuddy this season,
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accepted as genuine, told to Wilson the same night as a lie,
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hasn't moved. She thinks the honesty problem is closed.
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It isn't. ---
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Rachel's admission: still no guarantee..
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House left a false name at the accident scene..
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The false apology is still holding.
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Cuddy doesn't know.
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House Explained. Season 8, Episode 11.
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Nobody's Fault.
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A disciplinary hearing convenes the morning after blood was spattered across a hospital room.
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Whether someone nearly died isn't the question,
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Chase did. The question is whether House's methods caused it.
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Dr. Walter Cofield, Chief of Neurology at Mercy Hospital and Foreman's former mentor at Hopkins,
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runs the proceedings. One ruling determines whether House goes back to prison.
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He arrives, takes out his Vicodin,
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and asks who Cofield is.
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House's parole is what's actually on the line,
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if he gets suspended, he goes back to prison.
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Dr. Walter Cofield has that power.
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The whole case is reconstructed through testimony,
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this is a Rashomon,
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each witness telling it a little differently,
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each one with a stake in how it reads.
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Cofield isn't neutral and House figures that out fast.
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He trained Foreman at Johns Hopkins;
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Foreman chose him to run this hearing.
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The conflict is real, if House is suspended,
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Foreman almost certainly loses his job as Dean,
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and Cofield accepted the assignment knowing that.
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The case: Bill Koppelman, a chemistry teacher,
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collapses jogging, paralyzed in all four limbs,
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no stroke, no structural lesion.
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Three diagnoses from the team;
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House sides with Chase's read on the potassium,
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starts steroids, and Koppelman wakes up.
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Then students show up and mention an explosion.
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Right, nobody thought to ask,
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because the patient was unconscious and his wife wasn't there for the classroom incident.
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A student aide had added extra acid to the demo;
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the whole thing is on YouTube.
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Acid burns the lungs,
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the head impact causes delayed brainstem swelling,
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the picture completely changes.
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House had just found Chase's stink bomb,
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put on a gas mask, and turned it on the team,
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locked them in until they solved how to treat acid burns inside a lung.
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Taub suggests aerosolized heparin,
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tested only in sheep.
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Park objects and escalates to Foreman,
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who backs House.
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Cofield's counter to Foreman is sharper:
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by always enabling House,
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you signal to the whole team that he cannot be stopped.
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Foreman agrees that's probably what's happening,
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and agrees that if House goes back to prison,
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he likely loses his job.
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He doesn't pretend those are unrelated.
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The heparin works; the patient's nearly discharged,
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but a bath reveals a rash and the team splits three ways again,
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steroid-induced psychosis, invasive strep,
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or Wegener's. House orders a diagnostic trial:
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high-dose steroids, see which reaction appears.
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Chase sides with Adams and decides he's not waiting.
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Two of those three outcomes make the patient worse.
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That's the design.
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He takes a scalpel into the patient's room against explicit orders,
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the patient grabs it mid-psychotic episode.
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Adams spends several minutes with her finger plugging Chase's lacerated heart in the corridor while they get a gurney.
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Chase survives surgery but wakes unable to feel his legs.
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Adams testifies she blames herself, her theory,
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her needle that triggered his paranoia.
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But Taub's read is colder:
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they all knew a psychotic break was one of three possible outcomes,
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and Chase was the one who brought a scalpel within reach.
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Are those two framings both right at once?
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House rejects nerve damage, runs differentials,
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and lands on a blood clot blocking the radicular artery,
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cutting off blood flow to the spine.
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He orders an embolectomy; while Taub operates,
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House comes into the OR asking about the other patient's EKG.
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Is that indifference, or something else?
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Chase reads it as something else.
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He tells Cofield that House already had the answer,
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the other patient was cover,
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because being seen as caring is something House refuses to pay.
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Cofield doesn't believe it,
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but the clot is removed and feeling comes back.
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Feeling returns.
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Chase tells Cofield the accident wasn't anyone's fault,
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he was angry, not distracted.
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If he walks again, it's because House is a genius.
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Cofield pushes back: House's culture normalizes defiance,
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the prank war compromised his judgment,
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or medicine is a game and Chase wanted to win.
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Near the end of the final interview,
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House opens his Vicodin bottle and it explodes,
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Chase's prank. Two explosions.
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He runs out, catches the patient's wife,
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and delivers the real diagnosis:
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a pre-existing lymph node tumor,
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ruptured by the classroom blast,
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flooding Koppelman's body with cellular debris.
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Tumor lysis syndrome.
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And the psychosis? The team's own steroids caused that.
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The wife walks into the hearing room the next morning,
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tumor confirmed, full recovery, and Cofield rules:
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nobody's fault. House finds a parole form in the folder,
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the verdict drafted before she arrived;
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her timing changed it, not the evidence.
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He calls Cofield a coward.
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He's right that the argument matters.
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A good outcome doesn't retroactively justify a reckless process,
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which is strange to hear from House,
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who usually runs the opposite direction.
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He's holding Cofield to a standard he doesn't consistently apply to himself.
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House goes to Chase in physical therapy.
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The ruling was wrong.
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He's sorry.
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No witnesses, no benefit, nothing asked for.
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Chase says he's busy and turns back to his exercises.
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We don't know if it changes anything,
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House won't alter his methods,
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and Chase gives him nothing back.
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But it's the most unguarded moment he's had all season.
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Chase walks again. The apology lasted seconds and landed nowhere..
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Cofield ruled. House's methods are on record and unchanged..
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The next case begins.