- There's money now to hire Chase, Taub and Adams. A "model citizen" gets a seizure while cheating on his wife in a motel. He's House's new team's first patient. Is Taub dad to any of "his" two babies?
- A man who is well-respected in his community suddenly collapses, and in the process of diagnosing his symptoms, the team discovers that the patient has been hiding dark and dishonest secrets about his personal and professional life. But when the patient openly confesses his wrongdoings to his family and community, he compromises his chances of receiving the proper medical treatment. Meanwhile, House will stop at nothing to manipulate Taub into taking a DNA test to prove he is the father of his two six-month-old daughters.—Fox Publicity
- At a small town festival, popular local businessman Bob Harrison receives an award for being a pillar of the community. That night we cut to Bob having a heart attack while having sex with a young woman who .
Foreman welcomes back Chase and Taub. He wants them to spy for him, saying its to help House keep out of prison.
Taub and Chase join Park and Adams for their first meeting. Bob is telling people he had the heart attack while working. House isn't buying it. House lets the new girls know about Taub having children with two different women, and his guess one or both of them aren't his.
Bob admits to Chase and Adams he started feeling lightheaded while cheating on his wife. Chase tells his wife they're giving him a stress test.
Wilson tries (unsuccessfully) to keep from House the fact he's sitting for Taub's babies.
House brings Taub's kids into the stress test and want to DNA test them to make sure they're his. Chase brings Bob's wife in to try and make him feel nervous during the test. Eventually, he falls off the treadmill and they see it's not his heart after all -- he's having a seizure.
House suggests a type of epilepsy as Bob's condition and orders tests.
Foreman expresses concern to Wilson that House has been behaving badly recently.
During his test, Bob talks about how miserable he has been.
House next goes with phaeochromocytoma as a guess for Bob's condition. He has Chase and Adams perform the test. Taub and Park go to the motel where Bob was cheating.
Chase and Adams begin to talk about their personal lives. Adams notices something on Bob's neck, perhaps a tumor, when she goes to adjust the monitoring device.
Based on bacteria found at the hotel, House thinks Bob has a different kind of syndrome and orders surgery. He's still trying to snap a sample of Taub's DNA.
Bob says he wants to tell his wife the truth prior to the operation. Taub tells Park in the hallway he doesn't think it's a good idea. Bob's wife seems ready to forgive.
Wilson tells Taub that House has started a hospital-wide betting pool regarding which kids are his.
During Bob's surgery, they find the bulge is actually tissue. They take a biopsy sample and his liver starts to fail.
Bob's biopsy was clear. House wants to them to treat him with a broad spectrum antibiotic after he gets a donor liver.
Chase wants Bob's wife and her friends and family to get tested to be a partial liver donor. Bob tells his wife the only way he'll let anyone get tested is if he tells them about his infidelity. Bob's wife doesn't like the idea.
Virtually Bob's entire hometown arrives at the hospital. He tells them he had an affair. She says she forgives him, then Bob begins to admitting to having cheated most of the town by charging them for auto repair work they didn't need. He also gambled away $10,000 of a college scholarship fund.
Only two citizens stick around and neither are matches. The team debates truth. With time short, House recommends taking out the damaged part of Bob's liver.
Taub performs the DNA test himself.
Adams and Chase are stunned to see Bob's liver appears to be healing itself.
Bob's liver function has improved by 30 percent since he's begun confessing. House wants them to find the girl he had the affair with and see what triggered his initial attack.
The girl Bob slept with tells Adams and Chase if the town found it was her, she'll lose her job.
Bob's wife is done with him, he says. While testing him for allergies, Bob's skin breaks out when Park touches him with the wheat sample.
Bob is not allergic to wheat, or anything else. Foreman catches Taub looking at monkey DNA -- House manipulated him into checking the DNA, then switched out the samples to mess with him.
Bob's skin appears literally to be peeling right off.
Park thinks Bob probably has Stevens-Johnson syndrome, an untreatable condition that fits all of the symptoms and only gets worse with treatment. House agrees and sends everybody home.
Bob tells Chase he killed his business partner and made it look like suicide. He also killed "three or four" other people. This gives Chase an idea.
Chase shows the team Bob has a neurological disorder causing him to take responsibility for everything. But since no neurological disorder causes your skin to fall off, House thinks he has Kawasaki's disease. He thinks Bob could have gotten it from the carpet cleaner at the motel.
Taub prevents House from shredding the DNA results, then does it himself to make sure all copies are destroyed. House seems surprised.
Bob's wife returns to the hospital. There was no money missing from the scholarship fund. She knows he has a disease that makes him admit to crimes he didn't commit. He tells her he would never and has never cheated on her. She cries with happiness.
The team all has martinis when House unveils the new office rebuild. It appears nothing has changed, until House hits a button and the entire wall separating them from Wilson's office raises.
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