House

A boy and girl are making out in a car when there's a knock on the car as a policeman shows up and tells them to move on in a bit. After he leaves, they go at it again but the boy, Stevie, has respiratory distress and the girl Leah first calls for help then drives him to the clinic.

House arrives at the clinic and finds that his handicap spot has been assigned to someone else and he's been reassigned further. Foreman gives him Stevie's case and House runs an initial diagnostic, but is more interested in confronting Dr. Whitner, who has his handicapped spot. She isn't willing to give up her spot. Meanwhile Foreman checks out Stevie who refuses to give them a way to contact his parents and has an attack. Foreman treats him and it becomes clear Stevie has some scientific and medical knowledge. They notice that despite the fact he has a blood effusion, there are no signs of blood in the lungs.

Chase and Cameron go to Stevie's house and find it exceedingly dirty. Chase finds a couple having sex in the bedroom, but it turns out the couple are having an affair and Stevie gave them the wrong address. Stevie admits that he's Romany--gypsy--and they don't share information with outsiders. He admits he smoked pot but he refuses to give them his address as they would "contaminate" it if they go in. Cameron suggests the pot might have a pesticide that caused the bleeding, but Leah gave it to him.

When House gets no luck with Cuddy getting his handicap slot back, they make a bet that if he can stay in a wheelchair for a week she'll give him his slot back. The staff meet for a new differential diagnosis. House insists there's some kind of leak and they need to speed it up by thinning his blood. As Cameron starts to inject the dye, Stevie goes into convulsions as the dye is stuck in his liver as if fails.

It's back to differential diagnosis and a new round of tests, and House visits with a child patient whose mother thinks he's faking to get out of school. House prepares to give the boy Jack a painful injection and the mother backs down.

They give Stevie a MRI while Foreman suggests he go back to school rather than follow the family trade. They find a granuloma as Stevie's parents show up and demand an explanation. Meanwhile House is working to get back into his car when Foreman says it's Wagners and wants a biopsy, but House warns the liver will be gone before they can complete it, and recommends medical treatment.

The next day Stevie's parents provide him with food, clothing, and special treatment much to Foreman's distaste. The parents arrive and insists on providing "balance," while not happy with Leah the outsider who has left. Wilson argues with House about his stubbornness in staying in the wheelchair. Leah returns and Stevie's parents insist on her leaving, but Stevie starts bleeding from the bladder.

Tests reveal Stevie's liver is improving but now his bladder is bleeding out and the treatment for Wagner's is making him worse. House believes the treatment is wrong and they need a more precise treatment, immune modulation. It's not FAA approved and House says to claim it's something that it's treatable for. Stevie's parents refuse to allow him to receive an experimental drug. House suggests Foreman work on his salesmanship technique while House faces off with Whitner who thinks he'll back down.

Foreman returns to Stevie's room to find his relatives present and reluctant to leave. Foreman manages to get them out and then tries to get Stevie to agree to the experimental treatment as they're out of options. Foreman gets him to believe him by saying if his parents find out he'll lose his license, but before Steve can take the pills his spleen ruptures. Foreman checks for Wagner's but can't find the granulomas confirming Wagner's. House wants them to check his bowel but when the surgeon ignores him, he's forced to wheel his way into the operating theater. When the surgeon still ignores him, House gets up out of the chair and checks out the bowel looking for granulomas. As Stevie's blood pressure drops, House is forced to have Foreman take over and he finally realizes he doesn't have Wagner's, and the parents were right.

The parents won't let the staff near Stevie so House draws the paths of the symptoms and suggests they check the colon. Since he's in the ICU and the parents have limited visiting privileges, Foreman suggests they sneak in there when they're not looking. While waiting to go in, House admits to Wilson he hasn't got a legal leg to stand on… but is going to get the spot anyway. House then insults the parents to get their attention while the staff check Stevie's colon and spot a toothpick. Stevie accidentally swallowed a toothpick and it penetrated his intestinal wall while he and Leah were making out and since it was the same density as the tissue they didn't spot it on the previous tests.

Foreman shows the toothpick to Stevie and suggest he can get him onto the staff as a lab technician, but Stevie admits he doesn't want to give up on his family, and that the staff doesn't have any family. Later House confronts Cuddy who notes he got out of his wheelchair and he lost. House points out Whitner knew she was going to win and Cuddy was never going to give him the space. House guilts her with the fact she was never going to honor her agreement, and then plans to take advantage of it to get his spot.

Later Stevie leaves with his family as Foreman looks on, then spends the night alone. And House limps out and sees that Cuddy has given him back his parking spot.