House has heard of Cofield and realizes he trained Foreman when Foreman was at Hopkins. However, when House discusses it, Cofield realizes he’s deflecting and turns back to the subject matter at hand. House says he’s already written down a statement and gets up to go back to work. Cofield warns him that if he wants to rely on what’s written down, that information is not in his favor. He would have to suspend House, which would mean House would go back to jail. House sits back down again.

House starts describing the patient, a chemistry teacher who collapsed while jogging. Forman brought the case to him. He claims Foreman was stumped and begged for help. He then admits he may be exaggerating. House takes a Vicodin and Cofield asks if he has had recent surgery. House admits it was ten years ago. He also admits to taking Vicodin during the case, and for most of the last nine years before that. He defends himself with his record. Cofield counters that when bad things happen, people should learn from their mistakes. House thinks its all about assigning blame, even though bad things happen for no reason all the time.

We see House presenting the case to his team. Adams describes House’s flippant attitude and claims she isn’t trying to make him look bad. She says she doesn’t think it was Houses’ fault.

Taub thought it was a liver problem. Park tells Cofield that House thought Taub’s idea was stupid. Park thought it was normal pressure hydrocephalus. House says he thought Park’s idea was stupid and thinks Cofield should know why. Cofield goes over the results of the lumbar puncture which did rule out Park’s hypothesis. He admits to putting down Park with an ethnic insult. When Cofield asks if that’s what he wants on the record, House repeats the insult slowly and clearly. Instead, House realized Chase was right about the patient’s potassium being off and House went with thyrotoxic paralysis. House ordered steroids, PTU and beta blockers. Cofield asks how orange smudges got on the chart and House admits he was eating Cheetos and wonders why it’s relevant. Cofield presses the point and House admits that he pranked Chase by putting orange hair dye in his shampoo.

However, Adams says the prank was House’s standard method – creating chaos within the team. However, she admits that it gets the team to come up with better ideas because they compete with each other. In addition, the steroids helped – the patient regained consciousness and was responsive. He passed the initial cognitive tests and they started a physical examination. A couple of students came in to visit and mentioned an explosion, catching Taub and Adams off guard. Taub explained it was a chemistry experiment gone wrong and it wasn’t in the chart until after the patient regained consciousness. He also explained that although he had spoken to the wife, she didn’t know about the explosion either. Taub explains that although House thinks a medical history is crucial, he doesn’t think being in the same room as patients and family is necessary. House thinks it allows him to be more objective. Taub agrees with House on the point.

House admits to being lazy. He also says if you want an accurate history, talking to the patient is the wrong way to go because everybody lies. He corrects himself by saying he wouldn’t lie to Cofield. Cofield asks House if he had been more involved might not the case have ended differently.

However, the patient is denying it was an explosion. However, the students have another story, including a video that was posted to YouTube. The patient then starts coughing up blood. House admits he got more intrigued at that point.

They watch the explosion on YouTube. The patient explained the student who helped set it up put in too much of one of the chemicals. Adams tells Cofield the student was just trying to make a good video and didn’t intend to hurt anyone. They figure the extra hydrofluoric acid in the experiment burned the patient’s lungs. Park puts the unconsciousness down to a brain stem injury at the same moment that was delayed until the swelling got worse. Cofield starts to realize she’s hiding something.

Park admits that House wore a gas mask and had a stink bomb that Chase had planted in his office, except House found it before it went off and went to teach his fellows a lesson. He won’t let them out of the room until they come up with a way of treating the acid burns inside the lung. Taub finally suggests aerosolized heparin, an experimental treatment only used in sheep. House likes the idea and goes with it. House defends both the treatment for a rapidly deteriorating patient and the stink bomb. Cofield accuses House of using manipulation to get his team to come up with unsafe ideas. House says if they had used safe ideas, the patient would have died.

Park says she did tell House it was an insane idea. Cofield chides her for not standing up. Park says she did what she could, then went to Foreman. However, Foreman realized that House wouldn’t be trying it unless there was no other way to help the patient.

Cofield meets with Foreman and asks why he didn’t tell him he was involved in the case. Foreman reminds him that the use of heparin had no effect on the outcome of the case. Cofield says that by enabling House, Foreman is giving the message to House’s team that he can’t be stopped. Foreman says that House is brilliant and he gives him the benefit of the doubt, because he’s seen House get results. Cofield realizes if House goes back to prison, Foreman loses his job as Dean of Medicine. Foreman agrees that’s probably the case. Cofield realizes that he was chosen because he might give Foreman the benefit of the doubt. However, Cofield tells Foreman it’s not his job to get Foreman out of a bad spot.

The patient improved rapidly and was ready to be discharged. However, House ordered a bath to ensure that there was no chemical residue on the patient’s skin. However, during the bath, they found a large rash. The patient got upset and said he wanted out of the hospital. Park thought the rash was nothing more than irritation from his bed sheets. She thought the real problem was that the patient started freaking out about it. However, Adams thought the rash might be streptococcus and wanted to make sure. She dismissed the brain issues. However, Park was afraid it was psychosis induced by the steroids he received. On the other hand, Taub was sure it was Wegener’s disease. Faced with three different diagnoses, House decided to give the patient high-dose steroids. The patient’s reaction would show which one was right. Cofield points out that in two out of three possibilities, the patient gets worse. House pointed out that not having a diagnosis was making the patient worse and this was the fastest path. Cofield asks House to review his decision in hindsight. House still thinks it was the right decision – the problem was that his own team disobeyed his orders.

Chase thought Adams was right and went to do a biopsy of the rash. Adams says she thought it was a good idea. However, when Adams went to give the patient lidocaine, he lashed out at her. Chase went to restrain him. He and the patient struggled and Adams called a code red. Cofield asks since Adams and Chase both disobeyed him, who he blamed. House doesn’t answer.

Taub rushes to help, as do two orderlies. Taub manages to sedate the patient, but Chase has been badly injured – stabbed with the biopsy scalpel. He collapses. Taub and Adams start first aid, but the scalpel has hit the heart. Adams reports that, luckily, Chase’s heart was not pierced, only lacerated. However, at the time, the only think keeping him alive was Adams keeping her finger in the hole created by the scalpel. She blames herself.

They rush Chase to the operating room.

House points out that the diagnostic test proved him (and Park) right. The patient had steroid induced psychosis. Cofield wonders why he didn’t care about Chase.

However, House joins the team in the operating room. Adams is afraid to remove her finger, but House points out Chase’s O2 stats are optimal – there’s no better time. Taub prepares to suture the wound. It goes well. House goes back to the other patient. He calls Park out to do a differential. She wants to stay with Chase. House reminds Park he listened to her – it was Chase who didn’t listen to him and that her being there doesn’t help Chase or the patient. When she refuses, House leaves.

Cofield thinks House was callous, but Taub agrees there was nothing House could have done for Chase. Cofield asks Taub to think what would have happened if he was in the room and Taub says he wouldn’t have been. Cofield asks Taub it he’s blaming Chase. Taub points out that they knew a psychotic episode was a possibility and Chase was the one who brought a scalpel into the room.

House goes to the patient’s room to get the patient’s EKG. He goes to his team to tell them the patient has excessive R-R variability. Chase is lying unconsciousness. House tells them to focus on their real patient because there’s nothing they can do for Chase. When House continues, Adams tells him to shut up. Chase finally regains consciousness and complains he can’t feel his legs.

Cofield goes to see Chase in his hospital bed. Cofield wonders why Chase doesn’t have orange hair anymore, and Chase says he dyed it back. Cofield asks if he was angry at House about the prank. Chase wonders why it’s relevant unless Cofield figures his judgment was compromised. Chase says the accident wasn’t anyone’s fault, and that he wasn’t angry or distracted.

When House learns Chase is paralyzed, he starts a differential – there’s no reason why Chase’s legs should be affected. Even Chase gets in on the differential, but if he’s right, the damage is permanent. House rejects the idea. He hits on the idea of a clot blocking blood flow to the legs. He wants to do more surgery to remove an embolism .

They start the procedure on Chase and find the clot. Taub starts to remove it, but House comes in to do a differential on the other patient again. Foreman is trying to transfer that patient to Princeton General because House’s team is too distracted. Cofield asks Chase if that wasn’t callous. However, Chase says that House just wanted to check on how Chase was doing without letting his team know that he cared. He knew going in they would ignore him. Cofield doesn’t believe it. However, it appears Chase has regained feeling in his legs. Cofield asks why Chase ignored the risk of the psychosis. Chase says he thought he was right about the rash and says he would do it again. When Cofield says that’s what he thought, Chase asks him what he means. Cofield says either House allows his team to defy him, that Chase was distracted, or that House’s method of diagnosis is a game and Chase wanted to win. He says Chase may never walk again because House creates a reckless atmosphere.

Cofield starts his last interview with House. House didn’t know Chase had regained feeling in his legs. Cofield turns off the recorder and asks if House is really that indifferent. House wants to know if Cofield wants to hit him. They argue about whether House should at least apologize to House and to defy Cofield about he lack of manners, House puts his feet on the table. Cofield says he wants to know how House’s mind works. House just wants to get through the interview. Cofield tells House to put the Vicodin away. House says his leg hurts, but when he opens the Vicodin bottle, it explodes. Cofield isn’t the culprit and isn’t amused, but the explosion gets House thinking. He runs out of the room in spite of Cofield’s protests.

House goes to see the patient in the ambulance before he is transferred. The ambulance driver tells House that the patient isn’t his anymore and drives away. House finds his wife and tells her that her husband has a tumor in his lymph nodes. When the explosion happened, it ruptured the tumor and flooded his body, causing all his symptoms. The psychosis was all the fault of the doctors giving him steroids. He tells her her husband needs radiation therapy and plasmapheresis. However, he realizes she doesn’t believe him.

House goes back to see Cofield, but he’s left. Foreman tells him Cofield’s decision will be ready the next day.

Chase is in his bed, but can’t sleep. Foreman is similarly awake in his office. Cofield is pulling an all-nighter. When Chase falls asleep, House goes to visit him.

The next morning, House shows up in the interview room early. Foreman and his team arrive as well. Cofield finally arrives. Cofield admits he didn’t sleep. He calls House brilliant, but a fiasco. He says if he exonerates him, he sends a message to the rest of the staff that it’s fine if they act the same way. However, as Cofield tries to continue, the patient’s wife arrives looking for him. She knows what’s going on. She says House isn’t nice, but House was right about the tumor. They expect the husband to make a full recovery. She thanks Dr. House and leaves. Cofield finally continues. He calls House dangerous and inappropriate, but admits he’s effective. He realizes that he will only hurt the hospital if he changes House’s process. He says that the stabbing was nobody’s fault. As he goes to leave, House calls him a coward. He notes Cofield has twenty pages of note he was obviously planning to read. House takes the folder and finds a parole form in it. He realizes Cofield was going to send him back to prison. House reminds him that a good outcome in the case doesn’t affect whether House did the right thing or not. House leaves.

House goes to the physical therapy room to see Chase. He asks how Chase managed to rig his Vicodin bottle. Chase asks why he dyed his hair orange. House admits that he knew Chase had used Adams’ shampoo, but wasn’t having sex with Adams. He realized Chase was coming to the hospital late because he had been boozing and wanted to teach him to come in on time. He tells Chase that Cofield has ruled the stabbing was nobody’s fault. House admits that Cofield was wrong and apologizes. Chase says he’s busy and asks if House has anything else to say. House says he’s done. Chase gets back to his rehab.

“Nobody’s Fault” is the eleventh episode of the season eight of House and the 166th overall. It will be aired on February 6, 2012.

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HOUSE’S PROCESS COMES UNDER SCRUTINY ON AN ALL-NEW “HOUSE”

Jeffrey Wright (“Casino Royale”) Guest-Stars

“Nobody’s Fault” – When a violent incident involving a patient has serious consequences, House and the team are placed under review by Dr. Walter Cofield (guest star Jeffrey Wright), Foreman’s former mentor. As House and each member of his team recount the details of the dramatic and life-threatening incident, Cofield must weigh the team’s unconventional brand of collaboration against their ability to save lives. Watch a sneak peek from tonight’s episode:

Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams; Charlyne Yi as Dr. Chi Park

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Walter Cofield; Audrey Marie Anderson as Emily; David Anders as Bill; Cheyenne Haynes as Jordan; Mariah Wilson as Madison; Angel Oquendo as EMT Coumont; Drew Gardner as Drew; Deborah Lacey as Lorraine; Liz Benoit as Nurse Anne; Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse

Episode Directed by Executive Producer Greg Yaitanes Marking His 30th Episode as Director of Series

PA: Viewer discretion is advised

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House is in a diner 30 miles from the hospital when his team comes in to see him. Taub asks why they’re meeting so far away and House points to his lack of a tracking anklet and says it’s because he can. He starts a differential, but Adams has figured out the patient isn’t really 18 and says they have to call social services before they treat her. House says that the patient has said she will run out of the hospital if social services is called. Chase notes the usual suspects have been ruled out, then looks at the entrance to the diner and sees Foreman come in with a beautiful woman. House waves to them and takes a picture.

Foreman comes over and House lets it out of the bag that he knows the woman is married. Foreman tries to alibi it by saying the woman is a pharmaceutical rep, but House wants to know why they’re meeting far from his home and the hospital. Foreman gives the same reason for being in the diner that House did – the pancakes are highly recommended. They get back to the differential and House decides to treat for pneumococcus, but the team argues that she may have been vaccinated and that they should still call social services. House insists on treatment. Taub is left to pick up the check.

Adams tells the patient how she ran away from home, but the patient is not sympathetic because their situations are different. Taub points out there are alternatives to homelessness, but she says they’re all bad. Adams decides to search the patient’s belongings. The patient protests, but Adams finds schoolwork.

Chase tells Foreman that he deleted the pictures on House’s phone, and Foreman thanks him. Foreman says he loves being with Anita, but he admits he’s bothered that she must be lying to her husband. Even Taub is supportive, noting that if he didn’t cheat, he wouldn’t have his daughters. However, Taub admits that his daughters are boring. Adams calls from the patient’s school – she has been vaccinated for pneumococcus. The patient registered under a fake name, but Adams and Park decide to do an environmental scan of the foreclosed house she listed at her address.

The house is in good shape with decent food, although they do find more beer. Park notes that despite the patient’s homelessness, she’s keeping up good grades and is captain of her school’s volleyball team. However, Adams is still appalled. Park notes that she loves and needs her own parents, but the patient is flourishing without them. However, Adams finds mold.

The patient is angry that the doctors went to her school, realizing that social services will be on her trail. She goes to leave but Adams tells her she probably has a fungal infection and needs treatment. She says she knows what she needs to treat it and will get it at another clinic. However, as the patient tries to stand, she collapses and complains she can’t feel her legs.

House drags the team to a skeet shooting range for the next differential. The paralysis rules out a fungus. Adams notes that since the patient can’t run away now, there is no reason not to call social services. House is opposed to it and returns to the medicine. As House continues to miss clay pigeons, Park realizes he’s never done this before and House admits as much. Chase finally comes up with vasculitis and House agrees to steroids. Adams gets back to calling social services and House makes a bet – if she can hit a clay pigeon, she can call, but if she misses, she can’t raise the issue again. He says if she calls without taking the bet or if she loses, he will fire her. Adams takes the gun, calls “pull” and obliterates the clay pigeon. She ejects the spent shotgun cartridge straight into a nearby bucket.

They start treatment. The social services worker arrives but Adams is suspicious – the patient isn’t making a fuss and the social worker is wearing five inch heels. Adams wonders if House could have known she was an expert marksman.

Adams, House and Foreman are in Foreman’s office. House hired a prostitute to impersonate a social worker. House says it’s Adams’ fault for taking a bet she knew she would win. Adams wonders what happened to the social worker. Foreman explains that House called back under the alias “Dr. Puhols” and cancelled it. Foreman says he called back, explained the situation, and the police are looking for the patient’s parents. Foreman says House should have told him about an underage patient. House says he did it to give Foreman deniability, but Foreman gives House more clinic duty. House tells him to back down, but Foreman says House has nothing on him. House pulls out photographs of Foreman and Anita. Foreman says he won’t be blackmailed, but House says his demands for fewer clinic hours and more internet porn are reasonable and not to ruin both of their lives.

House runs into Wilson, who realizes that House is trying to protect the patient. House says he’s doing it to avoid social workers and parents. Wilson tells House that he will realize that he’s protecting the patient when the parents show up and House protects the patient from them too.

Taub is with his daughters trying to entertain them with puppets. However, he’s having no luck and gets distracted by a phone manual he left lying around. He grabs the manual and starts reading it.

The next day, Taub says he feels terrible, even though he can now program his DVR from his phone. Adams assures him that all kids are boring. They arrive at the patient’s room – she knows they called social services and she’s ready to leave rather than have her mother abuse her. However, a social worker arrives with a woman who introduces herself as the patient’s mother. They have been separated for two years. As the patient insists she want her mother out of her life, she starts to have trouble talking, then coughs up blood.

House meets the team at a place that does tortoise races. He has $100 on the outcome. They start a differential as it appears steroids made it worse. Park bets with House. House’s tortoise wins. Adams thinks the patient’s allegations of abuse have merit. House decides on Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and tells them to get consent from the mother to test for it. However, Adams is opposed – if the mother did beat the daughter, she shouldn’t get any say over the patient’s treatment. House says that’s not relevant unless social services agrees.

Adams goes to get consent, but the mother realizes Adams has a problem with her. The mother denies ever hitting the patient, but admits she was addicted to Oxycontin until her daughter left her.

Anita comes to see Foreman at his apartment. He says he’s not there for fun – he tells her House is blackmailing him by threatening to tell her husband. Anita says that she’s already told her husband and, although they are still working things out, she’s not ready to give Foreman up just yet. She tells him not to feel guilty.

Adams asks the patient why she lied. She says that people understand physical abuse, but not what she went through – working two jobs to keep the power on and cleaning up after her mother. She said if she had to act like an adult, she would do it on her own terms. Adams asks her to give her mother another chance, but the patient feels her mother will return to drugs when things get bad.

Adams and Chase discuss if people can change. They find an ulcer in the esophagus, ruling out Zollinger-Ellison. The ulcer starts bleeding and they realize they have to stop the endoscopy.

They manage to cauterize the bleeding. Adams thinks it might be alcoholism, but House thinks it is an intermittent aneurysm and wants to do a scan to locate it followed by surgery.

They discuss the brain surgery with the patient. The patient realizes Adams thinks House is wrong. Adams accuses the patient of being an alcoholic based on the beer they found in her home, but the patient denies having more than an occasional beer. She says she wants the surgery, but Taub says it’s the mother’s decision. The patient assures her mother she’s not an addict, but her mother reminds her that’s what she always said. The patient snaps back she’s not like her mother and says she wants surgery. The mother says she wants time to think.

House chastises Adams for discussing her diagnosis with the patient and her mother. He accuses her of turning a medical decision into a reason to deal with the baggage of her own problems as a teenager. He says that Adams can’t accept that the patient might be doing alright without parents and has played into the mother’s guilt of thinking the illness is her fault for being a bad parent. Adams tells House not to bully the mother, but House says that the mother will feel worse once her daughter dies of the aneurysm.

House goes to see the mother. He tells her he only shows up when a parent is doing something stupid. He tells her that her daughter hates her and should hate her. He tells the mother to leave. He says he’s going ahead with the surgery and will deal with the fallout from social services. However, he’s left a bottle of pills behind – his Vicodin. The mother calls him and gives him back his pills. She tells him to treat her for alcoholism.

Chase is having fun with Taub’s daughters while Foreman ponders why Anita told her husband about the affair. Taub wants to know why Chase deals with his kids with such ease, and Foreman goes on about how he doesn’t feel better now that Anita’s husband knows.

Adams tells the patient about the mother’s social services report, but the patient counters that the mother always does well on those reports. Adams thinks it might be different this time because her mother didn’t take the bottle of Vicodin. The patient won’t let the mother into her room because she took Adams’ word about the alcoholism. Adams tells her that her mother is finally acting like a mother.

House tries to avoid Wilson on the elevator, but Wilson is gloating about House trying to protect the patient from her mother by testing the mother with drugs. He also notes the patient is improving on treatment. Wilson accuses House of wanting the treatment goes wrong, but House still thinks it is an aneurysm and they will only find it at autopsy.

Wilson arrives at his office to find Taub. Taub wants to know how to fake interest in people to make them feel better and eventually form a bond with them. Wilson says it doesn’t work that way – you have to find some common ground and that makes people interesting. Wilson is confused about what Taub wants, but Taub leaves.

Anita says she told her husband because it was the right thing to do. Foreman says that it changes how he feels, but he doesn’t want to break up. He proposes lying to the husband about them breaking up. He says it will make him feel better about it. Anita leaves.

The mother has brought banana muffins as a peace offering – they ate them when they went on a trip. The patient asks her mother if she was high during the trip. She says she wasn’t when they were together – she waited until her daughter was asleep. The patient takes the muffins and tells the mother she can stay. However, after she eats the muffin, she collapses and Adams realizes it must be a burst aneurysm.

They perform emergency surgery, but can’t find anything. They use dye to try to locate a leak, but the blood vessels are all intact. The patient’s blood pressure drops. House calls Adams, Taub and Park back to his conference room to let Chase maintain the patient. They start talking about the patient being in Florida and that it might be a tropical infection. House notes those don’t wait for years to appear and goes to dismiss the idea when he thinks of something.

House asks the mother if the patient ever went swimming in Florida, but not in a pool or the ocean. The mother says she went swimming in a nearby canal. He asks the mother to follow him into surgery. Chase reports on the patient and House reveals she has ascariasis, a parasite. They are generally asymptomatic, but when set off by a small trauma, they attack the body’s organs. The steroids they treated her with made it worse. She just needs mebendazole.

The patient improves rapidly. However, when her mother comes to see her, they realize she has run away again. She has left a note – that she prefers to remember her mother the way she was. Adams tells House he got the ending he wanted. House tells Adams he doesn’t mind if she’s screwed up, but she should find absolution on her own time – not while working for him.

Taub is still bored with his daughters. He’s been through the entire toy box. He spots a magazine and grabs it. However, he shows pictures from the magazine to his daughters and makes fun of the football players. The girls start laughing.

Foreman tells House that Anita broke it off. Foreman says he must not be good at affairs. House tells him he is – he just stopped being interested once it wasn’t an affair anymore. He warns Foreman that if he doesn’t get an adrenaline fix, he will find excitement elsewhere. House takes a Vicodin and Foreman denies being like him. House agrees – Foreman doesn’t limp.

“Runaways” is the tenth episode from season eight of House and the one-hundred sixty-five overall. It originally aired on January 30, 2012.

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A HOMELESS TEENAGER RESISTS HER MOTHER’S RETURN ON AN ALL-NEW “HOUSE”

Bridgit Mendler (“Good Luck Charlie) and Yaya DaCosta (“Ugly Betty”) Guest-Stars

“Runaways” – The team treats an underage and homeless female patient (guest star Bridgit Mendler), but when her symptoms worsen and call for an invasive surgery requiring adult consent, House and Adams argue over whether they should contact social services. The patient confesses that she ran away from home after struggling to take care of her mother, a recovering drug addict. But when her mother appears at her bedside, a more complicated relationship is revealed and the patient’s mother must put the past aside and make the best decision for her daughter. Meanwhile, Taub has a difficult time connecting with his infant daughters and House threatens to exploit Foreman’s relationship with a married woman (guest star Yaya DaCosta). Watch sneak peeks from tonight’s episode:

Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams; Charlyne Yi as Dr. Chi Park

Guest Cast: Bridgit Mendler as Callie/Jane Doe; Yaya DaCosta as Anita; Darlene Vogel as Ellen; Kai Lennox as George; Brad Carter as Sheldon; Zylan Brooks as Adele; Mark Hengst as Fake Dad; Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse

PA: Viewer discretion is advised

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Foreman is presenting the case to House’s team when House arrives. Taub is away taking care of one of his daughters. House says he denied Taub the personal day, but Foreman reminds him that he approved it. House asks Adams to get an envelope from beneath her chair that predicts Foreman would pull rank on House sooner or later. They start a differential diagnosis and House orders them to discontinue the anti-emetics and do an upper endoscopy.

Meanwhile, Wilson is treating Kayla, who reveals during her examination that she and her husband have never had sex because they are asexual.

Chase speaks to Foreman, who assures Chase that, although he and House have had issues in the past, his judgment and objectivity won’t be affected by that. Foreman also has to decide whether to have House’s ankle monitor removed. Chase advises him to stay out of the diagnostic office.

Natalie reassures Andres while they perform the endoscopy. All of a sudden, a man called Joseph comes in. Park tells him only family is allowed in the room during procedures. Natalie says he’s a good friend who helps with Andres, but Park is insistent and Chase suggests that Natalie show him where the lounge is. Chase chides Park for being undiplomatic, and states that he thinks Joseph is probably Natalie’s lover. However, Chase finds a tear that’s the cause of the bleeding.

Wilson tells House about the asexual patient. Wilson says she’s perfectly healthy except for a routine bladder infection. House bets $100 he can find a medical reason she doesn’t want to have sex. Wilson doesn’t want to let House anywhere near her, and House agrees to diagnose her from her file and any remaining blood and fluid samples that might be left. Wilson agrees.

House comes to see Foreman’s office with the results of the endoscopy. Foreman reluctantly agrees to drop what he’s doing. They figure the tear was the result of the vomiting. Foreman suggests steatohepatitis and House agrees to treat for it. However, House wants to do a biopsy under anesthetic to confirm. Foreman thinks that an ultrasound would be less invasive, but realizes he’s trying to overrule House again and says it was just an observation. House mocks him an goes to leave, but Foreman stops him, realizing that House is just trying to break Foreman’s confidence in himself and reverses House by ordering the ultrasound.

On their way to the patient, Foreman intercepts Chase and Adams, accusing them of using the ultrasound machine they’re so obviously taking to the patient to guide the biopsy. He goes to look for a biopsy kit, but just finds a card from House predicting that Foreman will waste his afternoon following his fellows. Chase warns Foreman not to play mind games with House over this. Natalie comes and tells them Andres has started vomiting again. When she offers him a pan to vomit in, he violently attacks her. Foreman rushes in to sedate him. They notice that he has urinated and that it’s tinged with blood.

The team discusses why Andres attacked his wife. They discuss whether a person in Natalie’s position should remain faithful. They run into Foreman, who reminds them that he was right not to take him off the anti-emetics. He blames House for the attack on the wife. House reminds him that taking Andres off the anti-emetics gave them a new symptom. He also reminds Foreman that he wanted to put the patient under anesthetic, which would have prevented the attack. Foreman says he’s just rationalizing after the fact. House gets Park to get a card from under another chair, which says the patient was going to punch his wife, plus another saying Foreman would accuse him of faking the first card by making it up after the fact. It’s obvious Foreman was right. Adams thinks it’s thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. House orders plasmapheresis and asks Foreman if that’s okay. Foreman just glares at him.

Chase goes to explain the procedure to Natalie and Joseph. He asks about her eye injury from Andres’ attack. She asks Joseph to leave and when he does (after kissing her goodbye), she denies having an affair although she admits she has talked to him about it. Chase advises her to go home and get a good night’s sleep.

House enlists Adams and Park to help him diagnose the asexual woman. However, her hormone levels are normal. Adams wonders what the big deal is, and House tells them it’s a primary biological function. Park suggests the woman has a spinal cord injury which blocks the sensation from her genitals. Adams thinks it might be psychological, and when House rejects that because of her close relationship, Adams suggests that she might be lacking a brain chemical that helps women build relationships. Park shoots down this theory because of her own experience – she’s had sex with men without wanting to bond with them. Adams suggests she must be lying, but House rejects that – after 10 years she would have left her husband.

Natalie comes back refreshed. However, when they go to see Andres, he’s not in his room. It soon turns out he’s left the hospital. Foreman apologizes, but the nurses were all busy with codes the previous night and weren’t there to monitor him. He’s called the police and has his security staff searching for him. Chase apologizes for suggesting it was okay for Natalie to leave. She says she has to go look for him, but when she turns to leave, House stops her. He realizes that she finally did have sex with Joseph and she’s feeling guilty, not angry. He tells her that she has to sit, focus, and answer their questions. House and Foreman realize that Andres is probably confused and has reverted to old patterns. His reminder board says it’s Saturday, so they ask what he usually did on Saturdays before he got sick. She lists a few things and Chase realizes that soccer practice was one of them, and that the patient’s room also has soccer memorabilia. The old practice field is nearby. The team goes to the field and wonder where he would have waited for children to arrive. They finds him, cold and unconscious, nearby. They start CPR.

They get Andres back to the hospital. He has hypothermia and cardiac arrest. They discuss how best to revive him. Foreman goes with House’s riskier suggestion to re-warm him quickly.

Natalie wonders how Andres can’t be dead given his lack of breathing and heartbeat, but Foreman explains the hypothermia would have preserved his tissues.

Adams starts wondering if the patient was trying to run away, but Chase thought she was talking about the patient wanting to commit suicide. They argue about what a person should do if they become a burden to their loved ones. All of a sudden, Andres starts showing activity on the EEG. Chase tells him that when his dad left, he had to split his time between his baby sister and his alcoholic mother. His mother soon died with Chase hating her, and his sister became an alcoholic and hated Chase because he was then to busy to help her. He admits he wishes her mom had killed herself with a gun instead. Andres heart starts beating. They get the defibrillator ready and Chase manages to shock him back into sinus rhythm. Foreman tells Natalie they still have a long way to go.

To keep to the terms of the bet, House calls in the asexual husband on the pretext of a free flu shot. Wilson confronts House, but House reminds him that only his patient was off limits. Wilson also reminds him that the bet was about why the woman doesn’t want sex, but House’s theory is that only the husband is asexual and the wife is lying about it because she loves him and wants to be with him. Wilson reminds House about the medical ethics of testing a patient on a pretext. When House counters that he’s doing both of them a favor, Wilson calls him out and says he knows it’s all about the bet. He accuses House of trying to destroy the relationship of two happy people. House tells Wilson he’s only assumed they’re happy and goes back to the husband.

Andres regains consciousness and appears out of the woods. However, the patient now only speaks his native Portuguese. He starts to get upset, and his body temperature starts to rise above normal.

Foreman tries to start a new differential with fever, but House tells him that the fever could be nothing more than an adverse reaction to nearly freezing to death. Chase supports House – the fever could be from necrosis set off by the freezing. House wants to re-start plasmapheresis, but Foreman wants to add other neurological symptoms – loss of language and aggression. However, House puts those down to Alzheimer’s. Foreman starts to question the Alzheimer’s diagnosis and reminds House that the symptoms only started after he was admitted. Foreman makes a good case for encephalitis and House concedes, ordering interferon.

Chase explains the new diagnosis to Natalie, but also admits that they’re not sure. She says she can’t take care of him anymore.

House comes to Wilson in triumph – the asexual husband has high prolactin levels and has partial color blindness. This points to a tumor in the pituitary gland. This would have lowered his libido and caused erectile dysfunction. He only needs dopamine antagonists and his sex drive will be restored. Wilson realizes that this will probably change the husband’s whole life and accuses House of being unable to leave things alone. House counters by telling Wilson that Wilson must have known that House would not drop the matter once Wilson told him about it.

Foreman starts reviewing something else – a petition to remove House’s ankle monitor. Foreman goes to sign it and thinks of something. He goes to House and says that the whole fight over the patient wasn’t about the patient at all – it was about the ankle monitor. He accuses House of letting him win in order to build up his confidence so he would feel in control of House and wouldn’t worry about the monitor any more. House admits it and asks him to take off the monitor anyway. House notes he wins either way – either Foreman would have fallen for it and signed the forms, or would have realized House was playing him, thus proving he had House under enough control to give up on the monitor. Foreman tears up the form.

House and Foreman get paged. Andres is having a heart attack. House uses the defibrillator and nearly shocks Foreman in the process. However, Andres is back into sinus rhythm.

The heart attack rules out encephalitis, but Foreman still thinks the aggression and language loss are important symptoms. House starts thinking about toxins and orders an environmental scan. However, Foreman overrules him – he thinks it’s meningitis and the patient’s mental state has hidden the neurological symptoms He orders a test of the cerebro-spinal fluid. Foreman then admits that he couldn’t resist overruling one of House’s diagnoses, just like House predicted.

Forbidden from doing an environmental scan, House starts talking to Natalie about possible toxins. He starts to ask her to ask Joseph to collect samples, but then overhears the patient talking Portuguese and starts a conversation with him. The patient keeps saying “blue shack” and House asks Natalie about it. She says its where they had their first date. The patient keeps talking and, although House says it’s not medically relevant, she asks that she tell her anyway. He’s talking about their first date and how much he wanted to marry her. However, Andres doesn’t recognize her. House asks that she get Joseph to get samples.

Wilson is breaking the news to the asexual couple. He tells them as the tumor shrinks, the husband is likely to regain his sex drive. He asks what would happen if he wasn’t treated. She says he needs treatment and says they will work through it. She then breaks the news she has had sex before and enjoyed it.

Foreman is meeting with some donors when he looks over at some flowers he received a week ago that are still fresh. He excuses himself. He goes to House in triumph – it’s Reye’s syndrome. House says it’s rare in adults and the wife kept all the medicine under lock and key. However, Foreman has realized that Natalie was an ex-florist who most likely used aspirin to extend the life of flowers for the few orders she still worked on. The patient probably had flu, which presented with a sore throat. He saw aspirin and started taking them and, because he forgot he took them, he probably took several. Foreman has already started the patient on steroids.

Andres regains consciousness and starts speaking English again. He asks what happened to her eye and kisses her hand.

Wilson tells House that he was right about the tumor. He concedes the bet. House tells him to be glad – they saved the husband’s life and got the couple back on track to a healthy sex life. Wilson still thinks they were happy the way they were, even though the wife was lying about her lack of sexual desire. House sets the $100 bill on fire to light his cigar. Wilson reminds him that smoking isn’t permitted, and House says neither is calling in patients on a pretext. Wilson joins House with a cigar of his own. All of a sudden, a man comes in. House hides his cigar and asks what he wants. He says he has an order to remove his ankle monitor.

Chase calls his sister for the first time in several years.

House goes to Foreman. Foreman knows why he’s there and tells him that things work faster without training wheels. He then throws him out because he has a lot of work to do. House “accidentally” knocks over his pencil holder as he leaves.

“Better Half” is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 164th overall episode of the series. It aired on Fox Network in the United States on January 23, 2012.

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A MARRIAGE IS TESTED IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH ON AN ALL-NEW “HOUSE”

“Better Half” – An Alzheimer’s patient visits Princeton Plainsboro as part of a hospital sanctioned drug trial, but when he inexplicably suffers from violent vomiting and an increasingly explosive temper, the team begins to unravel a deeper marriage conflict between the patient and his dutiful wife. Meanwhile, House and Foreman butt heads, and Wilson treats a patient who claims to be in a chaste marriage. Watch sneak peeks from tonight’s episode:

Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams; Charlyne Yi as Dr. Chi Park

Guest Cast: Roma Chugani as Dr. Banerjee; Melanie Lynskey as Natalie; Ivo Nandi as Anders; Ryan Alosio as Joseph; Corri English as Kayla; Brian Skala as Randy; Tracy Vilar as Nurse Regina; Ian Gregory as Mr. Laffont; Mario Cortez as Uniformed Man; Angel Oquendo as EMT Coumount; Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse

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House calls his team together to do a differential. After they go through the possibilities, House figures it’s a toxin and orders tests and an environmental scan. He also tells them to check out the patient’s wife because he thinks she may have done it. When Chase complains he doesn’t want to do the work alone, House allows him the choice of Taub or Park. Chase and Adams both call dibs on Taub, but Adams “settles” for Park.

Chase and Taub run into Foreman on the elevator and compliment him for lying to the patient to rule out anxiety. However, they are concerned Foreman is misbehaving and tell him to get a girlfriend. Foreman assures them he’s just trying to make sure House does his job. Chase tells him that a girlfriend is a better idea than trying to keep track of House. Taub agrees despite his alimony and child support obligations.

Adams and Park are driving to the patient’s house. Adams is telling her how wonderful her new car is, but Park thinks she’s avoiding talking about why she doesn’t want to work with her. Adams assures Park that House’s belief that no-one wants to work with her is simply his way of getting under everyone’s skin.

The wife is talking to Taub and dismissing the possibility that someone would want to poison her husband. Everyone at work likes him, even the criminals he prosecutes. She says he only eats stuff he brings from home. Taub thinks the patient is afraid of something, but when Chase talks to the patient, he tells Chase that his first job was at the health department and he knows how dirty restaurants can be. Chase asks him if he got any strange packages or letters, but the patient denies it and notes his three kids are healthy and it’s unlikely they would not have been exposed to something that made him sick. Chase brings up the possibility of his wife deliberately poisoning him, and the patient dismisses it. The wife tells the same thing to Taub.

Park and Adams are having no luck, and Park wants to run in case someone called the police – they would give a prosecutor’s home higher priority. However, as they go to leave, Park notices that the walls of two adjoining rooms are a lot further apart than they should be. Adams thinks she’s kidding about there being a secret room, but Park remembers seeing a magnet of the type used to open child-proof cabinets on their refrigerator and tells Adams to get it. Adams sees a spot behind the books, applies the magnet, and swings back the bookcase. They call House and tell him that the patient has an arsenal of weapons.

When Park and Adams go to confront the patient about the discovery, he explains that he built it in secret to keep the city from finding out. The wife is surprised to find out, and questions why he felt he needed such an arsenal.

Park and Adams go to report to House, who has already figured out what the patient told them – that he was afraid the government was going to collapse. Adams is astounded, but House says that’s what everyone with a bunker full of guns is afraid of. Chase thinks it might be a symptom, but Adams and Park get into an argument. House orders tests for everything they’ve suggested. He returns to clinic duty and picks the most attractive clinic patient to examine.

Park asks Taub who’s more paranoid – the patient or her. He replies he doesn’t think the patient has a mental illness and tells Park not to let House get to her. However, Park says she doesn’t think the team respects her and Chase doesn’t even try to hide it. Taub says Chase just likes working with him and does respect her. Foreman interrupts them and asks to speak to Taub.

Foreman asks Taub to stop telling the nurses he‘s looking for a girlfriend. Taub denies it, but Foreman asks why he keeps getting lunch offers and boxes of cupcakes. However, Taub says he’s been to busy to even think about talking to nurses. However, Park realizes he’s lying and Taub says it’s for Foreman’s own good.

House tells Wilson the patient is just stupid, but Wilson reminds House he owns a gun. House says that’s different – the patient has an arsenal, and House denies owning a gun. Wilson tells him he does and, as a felon, if he’s caught with it he could go back to jail. House says he doesn’t need a gun – the only thing worth stealing would require a crane to remove it. Wilson is still not convinced – House is very attached to his possessions and likes dangerous things – even making fireworks. Wilson pretends to give in, but House realizes he’s lying and Wilson admits he is.

All of Adams’ and Chase’s tests are coming out negative. They start talking about the “feud” and Adams wants to know why Chase didn’t pick Park that morning. Chase says Park is weird. Adams counters that Park is a good doctor, but Chase says good doctors can be weird, like House. He admits Adams is weird too, but it’s easier to put up with her because she’s hot. He backs up and says she’s normal and a pleasure to be with. She calls him weird. They start talking about guns. He thinks she likes shooting sport weapons for fun. Chase makes up a story about shooting kangaroos, but Adams realizes he’s screwing with her.

The wife is staying with her husband, but he wants her to give her mother a break. She’s worried that he thinks the world is coming to an end. He assures her he hopes never have to use them. However, Park discovers he’s bleeding from a sore on his leg.

The patient has also developed a fever. They decide to do a biopsy of the sore and start treatment for sclerosis. Park goes to ask House why she’s calling her an idiot when it’s obvious he doesn’t really believe that. She says she doesn’t mind him making fun of her, but she doesn’t like being manipulated. He assures her he’s only making fun of her, but she says she deserves some respect. He assures her that people respect her – they just don’t like her.

The patient’s wife has left the hospital and the patient believes it’s because he lied to her. He assures the doctors he’s not crazy. Chase reassures him.

Foreman and Nurse Regina are arguing about why the paperwork hasn’t been entered in the computer when House leaves the clinic early because he got an emergency page. Foreman tells Nurse Regina to find someone who can do the paperwork because he has to leave.

House arrives home to find Wilson in a net trap. Wilson sent the emergency page and calls House an ass. House won’t let Wilson out of the trap until he admits that House is too clever to let Wilson ever find a gun even if he had one and will always be one step ahead of him.

Foreman is at the gym with a punching bag when he gets a page. When he goes to answer it, a beautiful young woman, Anita, introduces herself and asks him how bad his day was to take it out on the punching bag, but Foreman thinks Taub sent her and threatens to treat him like the punching bag. However, Anita says she doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Foreman is still suspicious, but Anita says she will be in the gym for a while if he changes his mind. Foreman picks up his phone again. Taub is on the other end telling Foreman the patient is wrecking things and tells him he’s got to go.

The patient is put in restraints. He was hallucinating he was being attacked by bears and Adams says that points to clinical paranoia. Adams and Park argue about whether it’s new or old paranoia when Chase interrupts to suggest it may just be a mental illness because all the tests are negative. Park still thinks it’s a brain infection, but Adams thinks it’s autoimmune. House agrees with both Adams, orders treatment for GAD – steroids and immunoglobulin.

Park follows House and tells him that she’s not paranoid and it’s not that her teammates don’t like her, they just don’t know her that well.

House arrives home again and finds a trip wire that he spots before he actually trips over it. He sees an open closet door. He pulls the wire with his cane. The trap springs harmlessly and Wilson delightedly jumps out of the closet only to have his spirits fall when he sees House standing untrapped. House tosses him and his trap out the door. House returns triumphantly to his apartment, only to lock himself in the bathroom when the doorknob comes off in his hand. He finds the second door locked too. He goes to examine the first door, but the doorknob to that one falls off too. House looks through the hole in his door and sees Wilson on the other side. He concedes defeat.

Foreman goes to Anita’s house and they start making out. However, they hear a man call her name and she tells Foreman he has to go right away. As he leaves, he tells him it’s her husband.

The patient’s fever climbs. Park calls House, who is still stuck in his bathroom. Park says that it must be an infection, but Adams says they probably just started treatment for GAD too late. House orders more steroids. Park objects because if it’s an infection, the steroids will be fatal. House counters that if it’s an infection, they’re probably already too late but they can still treat GAD or at least slow it’s progress. However, Park keeps arguing they can treat an infection. House finally gives in, but tells them ordinary antibiotics would be useless – they need to identify the infection. He orders tests. Adams reminds him that he just ordered more steroids, but House tells her he changed his mind and to follow Park’s instructions.

Wilson finishes searching House’s apartment and admits there’s no gun, although he found his own sunglasses, tennis racket and money clip.

Park and Adams are still arguing about the diagnosis. Chase breaks in to say maybe House was right to let them have a fight to settle things. Foreman interrupts again to speak to Taub. Foreman is trying to blame Taub for almost having him get beat up by Anita’s husband by screwing with his head. Taub tells Foreman he needs a life so he won’t come back to the hospital at midnight just to yell at him. He asks Taub to stay out of his business. Taub still proclaims his innocence. However, when he leaves, he tells Chase that although he got off to a bad start, he’s glad Foreman is trying. Chase calls him an idiot and their pagers go off.

They arrive at the patient’s room to find him in anaphylactic shock. Chase performs a tracheotomy, but it doesn‘t restore breathing. Taub calls for epinephrine. Nurse Anne tells him they already tried it, but Taub realizes that the blockage must be below the incision and that they have no other option.

They manage to get the patient breathing again, but they realize the anaphylaxis and edema rules out both infection and GAD. Allergy also seems to be ruled out because it wouldn’t get worse after admission. House turns back to toxins, but there was no-one with the opportunity to poison the patient on all occasions. However, Park suggests squamous-cell carcinoma. Although it wouldn’t cause hallucinations, related paraneoplastic syndrome would. House orders a biopsy.

House finds Wilson in his office. Wilson confronts him with a gun he found in House’s apartment. Wilson was sure House would have moved the gun, so he went back after he searched House’s apartment the first time. House denies it’s a gun, or that something looking like a bullet is a bullet. He says it’s a magic prop. Wilson doesn’t believe him, but House gives him the gun to shoot him. Wilson refuses, but House goes to shoot Wilson instead. He then shows Wilson the barrel is plugged by sticking a pencil in the barrel half-way. Wilson is confused, and House asks him to admit he found nothing. Wilson admits House has won. When Wilson turns around, House lets the pencil drop all the way into the barrel, showing us the gun is real. House looks at the “gun” and starts thinking.

He goes to see his team and tells Park, and everyone else, they were wrong. It wasn’t tracheal edema that blocked his airway, it was a pseudo-membrane growing across the trachea. The patient isn’t even paranoid – he was poisoned by a bacteria. House asks for a bronchial scope and warns the patient he won’t be able to breathe, but he has to look down his windpipe through the tracheotomy hole. When House tells Park to call the CDC for anti-toxin, she realizes it’s diptheria. They didn’t consider it because no-one gets it anymore. House realizes the patient hasn’t been getting the vaccine for it.

Foreman goes to congratulate Taub. He tells Taub he’s just been at a meeting about parking.

The patient slowly starts to improve. He cheers up when his wife shows up. However, she tells him she’s moved the kids out of the house. She says she doesn’t like being lied to and she can’t live with all the guns. She says that when he gets out, she can move in with them, but they can’t return to their old house. He embraces her.

Foreman is working hard on his paperwork when Nurse Regina comes in. She invites him to a staff get-together, but he says he has too much work to do. She tells him to drop by if he changes his mind.

Park arrives at work and sees Adams and Chase in the elevator. She invites Chase for a drink. Chase asks her if Taub put her up to it, but she says she’s been thinking about it for a while and decided to ask. Chase says it’s a bad idea to socialize with colleagues, but Park knows about Cameron. He finally agrees to go out that evening.

Foreman is still working. He grabs his phone and tells someone he’s changed his mind. House puts his gun back in its box. He then takes his father’s sword out to look at it. Foreman meets Anita at the bar.

“Perils of Paranoia” is the eighth episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 163rd overall episode of the series. It aired on Fox Network in the United States on November 28, 2011.

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A PATIENT’S PARANOIA HAS AN ADVERSE MEDICAL EFFECT ON AN ALL-NEW “HOUSE”

“Perils of Paranoia” – In the fall finale, a prosecutor suffers from what he believes to be cardiac arrest during an interrogation at the witness stand. The team’s preliminary diagnosis is hyper-anxiety, but when Adams and Park investigate the patient’s home and find a hidden arsenal of firearms, they uncover a more alarming and deep-seated psychological disorder. Also, Wilson becomes obsessed with proving that House is hiding something in his home, Park slowly comes out of her social shell and Foreman’s lack of romantic relationships piques the interest of Taub and Chase. Watch sneak peeks from tonight’s episode:

Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams; Charlyne Yi as Dr. Chi Park

Guest Cast: Tracy Vilar as Nurse Regina; Vincent Spano as Tommy; Amanda Foreman as Olivia; Yaya DaCosta as Anita; Liz Benoit as Nurse Anne; Yan Feldman as Mike; Michael McLafferty as William Anderson; Inger Tudor as Judge Foley; Blake Anderson as Ethan; Rachel Sterling as Mariel; Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse

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House hands Taub the file for the live patient and walks off with the file for the dead one. The team starts discussing the case when Chase come back from the dentist. Park is looking for a new dentist and asks Chase who he saw, but Chase just comes up with a generic last name and Park wonders why he can’t remember the name of the dentist he just saw. Chase tries to alibi himself, but Park notices he has a fresh manicure and wonders why he lied about going to the dentist. He says he lied to avoid talking to his colleagues about where he was. Taub and Adams try to do a differential, but Park wants to know why Chase is embarrassed about having had a manicure when he’s the type of guy who gets his hair cut frequently and obviously doesn’t mind people knowing his grooming habits. Chase cuts Park short by suggesting they do more comprehensive drug tests and getting the patient’s mother out of the room before they ask her about drugs again.

Adams asks the patient, Iris, but she denies any drug use. Adams starts doing a medical history. However, Taub talks to the patient’s mother, who admits because Iris is so moody, she gives her diazepam and tells her it’s Vitamin C. Taub realizes diazepam explains all the patient’s symptoms. He reassures the mother all they have to do is keep her off the drugs and she will be fine. However, Iris starts vomitting. Taub realizes they’re probably wrong about the diazepam.

House goes to see Wilson for help with the dead boy’s case, but Wilson tells him that if Foreman finds out, he will send House back to jail. Wilson starts to think House wants to go back to jail to get away from his own self-destructive habits, but House dismisses the suggestion. House starts throwing out suggestions, but Wilson deflects by talking about old movies. All of a sudden, House shouts out “damn” and tells Wilson he’s late for his anger management class.

House is at group therapy, but he’s really there to make a connection with the dead boy’s father, who is in the same group. He starts suggesting possible symptoms they missed, but the father denies the boy ever had such symptoms.

After the session, House approaches the father to say he needs to have the boy exhumed. The father dismisses the idea because the mother, his ex-wife, would never agree to it. However, House talks to him about how hard it is not to have an answer. The father does tell House where the child was interred.

Iris shows some sensitivity in her abdomen and breasts. She admits her periods haven’t been regular. Taub suggests a pregnancy test, but the patient says she has never had sex. Adams goes to touch her arm to reassure her they only need a drop of blood to test, but the patient complains she can’t feel her arms anymore.

House goes to the cemetery and bribes the caretaker. Luckily, the child was interred in a sarcophagus. However, House panics when his cell phone goes off when he’s in the crypt. It’s Adams telling him Iris is pregnant. As he does a differential with his team, he opens the sarcophagus. He’s also realized Chase has recently arrived and has no idea what they’re talking about. Park notices Chase has just had his eyebrows waxed and House realizes Chase has also had a Brazilian wax. Chase says he has a new girlfriend. House examines the dead boy and finds no obvious abnormalities. Chase suggests the patient may have a complication of HIV. House orders tests to confirm as well as an MRI to rule out tumors. House returns to the dead boy and examines his fingers.

Iris tests negative for HIV, so the team goes to look for a tumor. Adams asks Chase about his waxing and he says there’s nothing more profound than him being vain and shallow. The MRI is negative for tumors. When they return to the patient, the numbness in her arms is gone, but they are covered in bruises.

House returns to the hospital and his team updates him. House orders Taub and Chase to do an environmental scan and Adams and Park to run tests. Foreman asks House where he’s been. House tells him that he should check with the monitoring company. Foreman says he already did, but the signal was interrupted during a test run during the same time House was out of the hospital. House says if he had known, he would have gone hang gliding. Foreman warns him that if he catches him, it won’t just be extra clinic duty; he will have his parole revoked.

House tells Wilson he thinks the dead boy had heavy metal poisoning. Wilson tells him he’s addicted to puzzles.

House goes back to the anger management group, which he’s moved to a new location, and gets the father to come with him to the “washroom”. However, the new location is right next to the dead boy’s old home. House starts an environmental scan.

The environmental scan starts ruling things out and Taub tells Chase he knows he’s lying about the Brazilian wax because Taub has had one and it hurts more than “a bit”. Chase admits he wanted to look good because he’s appearing on a television segment. Taub wants to know when it’s on, but Chase said it aired two hours ago, and he just wanted to distract everyone long enough to keep them from finding out. Chase finally finds a hidden panel in the patient’s room with love letters and very hard-core pornography.

House and the dead boy’s father go into his old house. House starts collecting samples. The dead boy’s father starts drinking. The father finds one box containing his son’s remaining possessions. House notes they have lead paint. They hear someone coming and leave.

Iris starts talking about her boyfriend. She still denies having had sex and says the pornography is the boyfriend’s. The mother is angry. Finally, Iris tells them her boyfriend was there last night and told her she should leave, but she didn’t want to. The boyfriend hit her, which explained the bruises they found. When the mother goes to call the police, Iris says she will deny everything. All of a sudden, her vision becomes fuzzy.

House takes the dead boy’s father back to 221B Baker Street to run tests for heavy metals. However, they’re all negative. The father starts telling House about how his son used to mispronounce words. House asks the father how the mother managed to get through it without getting angry and miserable too. The father says the mother acts like it never happened – she never even cried.

Wilson catches up to Foreman and ask why he cares if House works two cases. Foreman tells him it won’t stop there. Wilson warns Foreman that House won’t drop it, but Foreman says that given the choice of returning to prison, House will eventually back down.

Iris’s vision improved to normal during her eye exam. The team comes to discuss the case, but Taub and House are watching Chase’s television appearance playing a stereotypically Australian doctor. House orders an MRA for TIA and heads down to the clinic even though he doesn’t have clinic duty.

Drew’s mother is down in the clinic, ostensibly for a free flu shot, when House asks why she didn’t feel any emotion over her dead son. He starts insulting her over her lack of emotion and she slaps him. House said he deserved the slap, but was hoping she wasn’t capable of such an emotional response because it would indicated hereditary hyperthyroidism. The mother realizes House knows the father and says that the father is obsessed with re-living the event. She says that when the boy died, the father was overwhelmed and she vowed that wouldn’t happen to her. However, she left him because his eyes reminded her too much of their son. All of a sudden, House asks who used to babysit the boy. She says it was her father, but her father is too emotional about it too and she tells House to leave him alone.

However, House has thought about how people can have multiple sides to their personality. He goes to tell Iris that he found her boyfriend and he ran away and was hit by a car. Iris tells him he’s lying. House asks how she knows. She starts swearing at House says it’s because “I‘m right here”. House realizes the patient has dissociative identity disorder.

They explain the disorder to Iris and her mother. The doctors believe it was triggered by the auto accident she was in when she was two. It appears the bruises were self-inflicted, and she probably just had sex without remembering it. The diazepam the mother gave her masked the illness, but removing it made it more apparent. The mother admits giving her diazepam for what she thought were “moods”. Chase tells Iris they have to separate her physiological symptoms from her psychological ones, which means getting in touch with all her personalities. She will need hypnosis.

Wilson warns House that if he keeps going like this, once he screws up Foreman may get fired, but House will be going back to prison. House agrees to back down.

House starts thinking. Finally, he comes up with an idea. He lies to the monitoring company about getting a flat tire on the way to a chiropractor appointment and goes to the grandfather’s house. He pretends to be from the coroner’s office. House asks questions about what they did together but the grandfather tells him they just spent most of their time watching television. However, at that point, the mother and her new husband come in and the husband punches House.

Chase does the hypnosis and finds a little girl personality who can’t move her arms and feels pain when she eats strawberries or thinks about the accident she was in when she was two years old. She blamed herself for the accident because she was crying and distracted her father before the crash. Her mother embraces her and they notice the patient is bleeding severely from her groin.

They plot the symptoms of each personality on the whiteboard. The bleeding wasn’t from a miscarriage and she still tests positive for pregnancy. They start thinking preeclampsia or ectopic pregnancy and realize they have to do an ultrasound. However, when they do the ultrasound, they can’t find an embryo. House thinks they screwed up the pregnancy test, but three different team members did three different positive tests. House realizes that the test only measures elevated HCG levels, which usually only occur when there is a pregnancy, but can also be caused by an choriocarcinoma, which explains the obvious physical symptoms. It’s probably hidden which is why it didn’t appear on ultrasound. House tells them to tell the patient about her cancer.

House goes to the lounge and finds Wilson, who realizes how he got the black eye. House says he’s ruled out several possibilities, and Wilson warns him that he and Foreman are about to collide and it will be massive. Wilson says he’s not listening and House says he’s being juvenile. Wilson realizes that he’s kept talking even though he should have known House would never listen. However, a statement about “deaf ears” makes House think of something.

House goes to the dead boy’s mother’s house. She sees him outside with her new son. She goes to confront him and finds her ex-husband is there as well. House tells her that Drew died of Alport syndrome. She says she doesn’t care. Her husband comes to confront him too, but House keeps yelling at her that it’s genetic. Both she and her father have the gene – he’s noticed the father is slightly deaf, a symptom that characterizes the condition. It’s likely her son has it too. She accuses him of lying. He points out that both of her sons have trouble hearing high pitched sounds, which is why it seemed that her dead son was having trouble pronouncing words. Her current son has the same problem, but the disease is treatable. The police arrive to take House away. The mother starts crying and tells her ex-husband that she misses their son too.

They start Iris on chemotherapy, and she starts to improve.

House is waiting in Foreman’s outer office. Foreman is in his office with Wilson. Foreman was sure that since Cuddy’s threats of extra clinic duty always got House in line that the threat of jail would too. Wilson says that’s a perfectly rational belief. Foreman tells Wilson he has to send House back to jail. Wilson reminds him that House saved two lives. Foreman says it’s too late to back down from his threat – if he backs down, House will realize he can get away with anything. Wilson tells Foreman his job is to keep the hospital running. Cuddy did that by managing House and tells Foreman that House can be managed, but he can’t be controlled.

Foreman comes out to see House. He asks what Cuddy would have done. House says she would have assigned ten more clinic hours. Foreman tells House Cuddy isn’t there anymore and he can do thirty extra hours.

“Dead & Buried” is the seventh episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 162nd overall episode of the series. It aired on Fox Network in the United States on November 21, 2011.

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PARENTING DECISIONS LEAVE A LASTING IMPACT ON AN ALL-NEW “HOUSE”

“Dead & Buried” – The team learns that their 14-year-old patient (guest star Madison Davenport) is suffering from more than teen angst when her physical symptoms worsen. Despite Foreman’s (Omar Epps) firm opposition, House (Hugh Laurie) becomes obsessed with solving a peculiar case of a deceased four-year-old patient, which gets him into serious trouble. Meanwhile, Park (Charlyne Yi) tries to get Chase (Jesse Spencer) to admit the reason behind his recent obsession with grooming. Watch sneak peeks from tonight’s episode:

Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams; Charlyne Yi as Dr. Chi Park

Guest Cast: Madison Davenport as Iris

PA: Viewer discretion is advised

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