House, Cuddy, and Wilson go to a medical conference and meet an old friend, while the team deal with a girl whose appendages have swollen but she refuses to tell them the truth about the events leading up to her illness.
I did a two-episode House night last night with Episode 6 (Known UnKnown) and Episode 7 (Teamworks) Here’s some snip and spoiler from Episode 6.
A girl, Jordan, is going into a club with her friends. She grabs a cup of coffee and barges to the front of the line with her friend Phoebe and claims they’re the deejay’s assistants and have her coffee. Jordan screws up by claiming the female deejay is a he, but the band comes by and invites Jordan and Phoebe to come with him. The next morning, Jordan meets with her friends at a diner and talks about going up to the hotel room with the band members, playing Drummer God, climbing a fence, and going skinny-dipping with the guitarist, Colt. They notice that Jordan’s hands and feet have swollen, and then she collapses.
Wilson is packing for a pharmacology and public policy conference, and reminds him that he told House to come with him. House isn’t interested, and says that Jordan’s case is more important. He uses it as an excuse to get out of the conference and meets with the team, and insists that it’s rhabdo. Cameron notes that Jordan’s parents are architects working on a project in Shanghai. House notes that Chase and Cameron are sitting as far apart as possible, and then stands by his diagnosis despite the fact that Cameron disagrees. Chase goes to test for everything.
As Chase and Foreman run the tests on Jordan, Chase wonders if he should tell Cameron about the fact he killed Dibala. He claims he doesn’t want to dump a burden on her. The tests prove clean.
House goes to see Cuddy and compliment her breasts, and then asks her to sign a medical discharge. He notices that Cuddy’s out-box is three times normal size and figures that she’s going to the medical conference with Wilson. House tells her that he’s going after all and notes that she’s signing the discharge on his case. House then goes to see Wilson, who is with a patient, and tells him that he’s going to the conference. Wilson realizes that House is only going because Cuddy is going, tells him they’re leaving in two hours, and returns to his dying patient, Joseph.
Chase comes to see House as he packs and says he should say to see how the situation between Chase and Cameron plays out, since House set it off. House refuses and Chase tells him the tests for rhabdo are negative. House goes to see Jordan and has her use his cane and a pen to play drumsticks along with music like she did the previous night on Drummer God. When she does so, her arms go out due to temporary mental paralysis. House points out that Jordan had low potassium levels that causes the paralysis, and she couldn’t have played Drummer God the previous night or climbed the fence, so she was lying. He tells Chase to get an accurate history and leaves.
Chase and Cameron demand the truth so they can determine the cause of her low potassium, and Jordan and Phoebe finally explain that they are comic book fans and their friends don’t get it. She learned at the party that the comic book’s creator, Jeffrey Keener, was at the band’s party. They discretely followed him up to the party and then down to the restaurant. They never got within 10′ of him, and followed him around, living his life and eating the same meal. Their story checks out and Chase and Cameron get the same food. Foreman wonders if Jordan is bulimic and eating all the food set off her condition.
As House prepares to leave with Wilson, House reads the program book and notices Wilson is giving a paper. He observes that the last time Wilson gave a paper, he asked House for feedback. House notes that there’s an 80s party and Wilson says that Cuddy is going. He suggests that House ask her out. House insists he’s going to approach Cuddy slowly and carefully. Cuddy arrives with her daughter Rachel and Wilson wonders what could possibly go wrong.
As Foreman and Cameron run tests, Cameron notes that Chase went to the gym five times and she secretly followed him. Foreman tells her to talk to Chase, but she wants to know if Chase is having an affair. When Foreman says he isn’t, she wonders why she should believe him. Foreman says she shouldn’t, she should believe Chase. Jordan’s parents arrive and she flatline as blood constructs her heart.
Once they revive her by draining off the blood, they call House at the conference. They rule out chronic conditions and House tells them to track everything Jordan was doing for the last 24 hours. He hangs up and steals another doctor’s badge to get in. At the hospital, Phoebe says they didn’t do anything unusual. However, Jordan says that she visited Bruce Springsteen and wonders why Phoebe doesn’t believe her.
Cameron meets with the author, Keener, who remembers the two girls, knew they were following him, and then flirts with Cameron.
Foreman realizes that a bleed in Jordan’s brain is leaking into her thalamus, causing her to lie. Phoebe only remembers that Jordan left the room briefly to get ice, but admits she isn’t sure.
House arrives at the party, dressed for the 1780s. When another doctor tries to flirt with Cuddy, House cuts him out and invites Cuddy to dance. The music switches to a slow dance and Cuddy talks about how they first met in a bookstore when he casually dismissed her. She admits she tracked House down to a party later, and she notes that one thing didn’t lead to another. House tells her that he was going to call her and figure out where things would go from there, but he got expelled. Cuddy hastily backs off and leaves.
The next morning, Wilson gets a call that his patient died. He admits that he should have been there and observes he didn’t hear House come in. House describes what happened and Wilson suggests that Cuddy didn’t know how to react. House is more interested in the fact that Wilson is preparing a paper in favor of euthanasia, and expected Joseph to die. Wilson says he doesn’t want House’s advice and walks away.
Cameron, Foreman, and Chase review the security recordings at the hotel and realize that Jordan found Keener’s journal and used it as an excuse to go back to talk to the author.
House goes to talk to Wilson on the pier and Wilson insists that he should say what all doctors feel, and he should support euthanasia. House warns that he won’t be hirable if he does but Wilson says that he learned to do what was right and ignore the consequences from House. As he leaves, House notes that honesty hasn’t worked out well for him.
Cameron and Chase go to see Keener and confront him with the knowledge of what they know. When he refuses to let them in to search the room, Cameron says that he’s risking a girl’s life. As they leave, Chase wonders if Cameron is suggesting Kenner is having an affair and takes it personally. Cameron thinks Keener gave Jordan rufies, and an overdose would account for her symptoms.
Wilson goes to see Cuddy, who is feeding Rachel and admits her babysitter had an emergency. He asks how the dance went. Cuddy says that now that she’s a mother, she needs someone she can count on in her life, and House has never been that.
Foreman discovers that Jordan is bleeding behind the kidneys, which means rufies aren’t responsible. Cameron believes it’s a toxic reaction brought on by something Kenner did, and suggests that they drug Jordan with amobarbital to stop the bleeding into the thalamus and let her tell the truth. The process is risky. Chase points out that she thinks that Keener is lying about his involvement with Jordan because she thinks Chase is lying about not having an affair. He suggests they call House but Foreman figures that House will tell them to go with the amobarbital.
Wilson goes to see House, who is drinking grape soda from the room bar. He suggests that Cuddy wants someone responsible and House doesn’t believe he can convince her. Wilson suggests he babysit Cuddy’s daughter and notes that House has already started scheming. He tells him not to… and then passes out as he realizes that House drugged him.
They give Jordan the amobarbital and monitor her condition. Jordan says that Keener invited her in and gave her something he claimed was ecstasy. She then says that he raped her when she started to pass out. Jordan apologizes to her parents for letting them down, but Foreman notes that according to the monitors, everything she’s been saying is a lie.
House goes to see Cuddy and offers his services as a babysitter, but she claims Rachel is in daycare. However, as House leaves, he hears Rachel giggling and comes back in to discover that private investigator Lucas Douglas is playing with Rachel. House notes that it’s awkward and leaves.
The next morning, Wilson finally wakes up when Foreman calls to update House on Jordan’s case. House isn’t there and Foreman warns that Jordan is bleeding out faster than they can transfuse. They’re treating her for rickettsia because Keener travels with a dog. Wilson realizes he was supposed to give his paper five minutes ago.
At the conference, House gives Wilson’s speech as everyone stares in surprise. He describes what Wilson wrote about telling the truth concerning euthanasia, and how he covertly instructed his patient to use the morphine pump. Wilson comes running in as House reads of how Wilson promised he’d be there with the man, but left the patient alone to go to the conference so he could cover his ass. House then speaks of how he doesn’t turn away from his responsibility and that his friends take advantage of it. Speaking for Wilson, House insists that he’s never turned away from a patient, and the dying patient knew it. As House goes, many of the attendees object but one doctor thanks him… under House’s assumed name.
Outside, Wilson gives House Foreman’s message and then wants to know what he’s up to. House insists that the paper is out there like Wilson wanted and Wilson is safe, and notes that Wilson should be thanking him if he wanted to get his story out there. He admits that if Wilson was trying to get fired out of guilt, then he screwed up. Wilson insists it wasn’t House’s decision but House figures he’s feeling guilty… and gets an idea.
House calls and tells the team it’s the blood that’s killing her. She has vibrio vulnificus from eating oysters and Chase notes he had the same oysters. Jordan has hemochromatosis, which reacted with the vibrio from the oysters. The vibrio caused the joints to swell, they thought she had bulimia as a result, gave her iron supplements, and iron caused bleeding of the liver. They gave her more blood which aggravated the iron levels, causing more bleeding. They stop the blood transfusions and give her the proper drug and she recovers.
House, Wilson, Lucas, and Cuddy meet for lunch and Cuddy explains she hired Lucas to investigate embezzlement in the accounting department. House asks why she kept the relationship secret and Lucas admits that Cuddy was worried about House. He starts talking about everything Cuddy has told him about House, and then realizes he needs to shut up.
Jordan’s infection clears up and her parents plan to stay with her and take a few weeks off. However, they’re called away to the phone almost immediately to deal with business. Jordan admits to Cameron that she’s used to it, and finally tells Cameron she never got the courage to knock on Keener’s door. She just left the journal there and walked away, and Cameron sighs in relief.
House watches as Cuddy and Lucas play with Rachel. He admits to Wilson that Lucas looks like a responsible guy. Wilson admits he needed to hear from someone else that what he did was okay: he needed to hear it from a friend. He tells House that he’s a good friend and that Cuddy should know it too. As they go, House notes that he hasn’t been to a conference in 15 years and the doctor whose name badge he took, and everyone thinks House is, is in Toronto with an airtight alibi.
That night, Cameron apologizes to Chase and says that she believes he’s not having an affair. When he hesitates to respond, she briefly thinks he is, and then says she’ll love him no matter what and wants to help him get past whatever is bothering him. Chase finally tells her that he killed Dibala.
