House

At a restaurant cooking class, Chef Anthony presents a class as his assistant Dana Miller assists. Dana starts to waver and her lips turn blue from cyanosis. She explains that she's a doctor and says she needs a doctor, then collapses.



Thirteen wakes up in bed to find Foreman watching her.



Wilson is at Amber's apartment where he lives, cleaning up before the day begins. He sees her empty coffee cup still sitting on the counter and leaves it there.



House arrives at work to discover the elevators have signs saying they're shut down for maintenance. He limps his way up the stairs where the team has assembled to go over Dana's case of spontaneous pneumothorax. House thinks it's a boring case but Thirteen says that Dana is close to coming up with a cure for cancer and insists they should take the case. They go over the file as Kutner arrives, and House realizes he took the elevator. Thirteen and Taub prepare Dana for a CT for hyperinflation and as they work, she explains she quit as a doctor eight months ago when she was treated for a uterine myoma. She decided to find happiness by doing what she wanted to do and becoming a cook.



House goes to see Cuddy and complain, but she's busy watching Rachel on her computer via webcam. She finally admits that she's getting revenge on him for forcing her to work instead of stay at home with her baby. House simply walks out without a sarcastic remark. However, when he goes to the elevator he removes the sign and gets in with everyone else.



As the team go over Dana's CT, they conclude it's not asthma and wonder if she had a hole in her lung due to the myoma surgery. They wonder why Dana quit and discuss if doctors should forego their own self-interest. Kutner notices increased interstitial markers indicative of pulmonary fibrosis. House orders a biopsy and sends them to take care of it. As they leave, House comments privately to Foreman about his tampering with Thirteen's clinical trial to give her the real drug rather than the placebo, but Foreman denies it.



Foreman card-tests Thirteen in the clinical trial, and she complains of a headache. He tries to pursue the matter but she dismisses his concern, saying nothing would crop up after her several weeks in the program.



Taub informs Dana they need to do an open-lung biopsy to confirm pulmonary fibrosis, but she refuses since it will take her out of service for several weeks. He admits he's happy with his job and Dana points out that it makes him happy. However, what she did as a doctor didn't make her happy. She feels a pain in her side and Taub draws a sample, determining her liver is bleeding into her stomach.



As the team walks and performs differential, House stumbles across a tripwire while going into his office. He ignores it and the team wonders why, while Foreman notes a spot on the caudate lobe that might cause a granuloma and bleeding. House has them take a sample of her lung and examine it under UV. After the others leave, House tells Foreman that Thirteen is losing her peripheral vision and he needs to deal with it.



Wilson comes to see House as he tends to his bruised knee and asks about the new series of pranks. House tells him that he's safe and Wilson wonders if House has a long-term plan. House assures him there's no game: Cuddy wants revenge. He has no reason to strike back because he won't gain anything, so he's going to let her exhaust herself. Wilson wonders if House is feeling guilty about taking her away from her baby and thus giving in, but House denies it. Wilson notices his file on Dana and goes to see her. She remembers him from a conference, and he explains he has patients who will die without her finding a cure. Dana explains that a lot of people in ruts were angry at her when she quit, and she asks what his rut is.



Taub is in bed staring at his wife Rachel. He finally asks if they should have kids and she says that they already discussed it and she doesn't want kids. Taub agreed at the time but has changed his mind. He admits he's been reconsidering his life recently but Rachel insists it's not a whim and she likes their life without children. Taub says he's okay with her decision.



Foreman arrives to test Thirteen's peripheral vision and realizes that she's getting worse. Thirteen concludes she's on the drug and wonders if Foreman will have to have her taken off the drug. He confesses that he switched her from the placebo to the drug. Thirteen says she'll stop taking the drug and goes back to business on Dana's case. As she leaves, she wonders why he risked his career to give her a drug that might help her. Thirteen admits she isn't ready for that.



Foreman goes to see Dana with the test results and notices that she's bleeding at the scalp. She says she scratched it in her sleep but he realizes that Dana is leaking brain matter and calls for help.



The next day, the team goes back into differential. Thirteen snaps at the others and then apologizes, saying she has a headache. House concludes that Dana's problem is in her brain. Kutner suggests a mental imbalance but House notes the itching started recently. He tells the team to run a MRI for brain tumors or MS. As they leave, House realizes that Cuddy has stolen his cane. He sees a mop bucket nearby and gets an idea.



Foreman tries to talk to Thirteen about her headaches and the fact she still has them despite the fact she's off the drug. He notices she's taking high dosages of codeine but Thirteen thinks he's making it about himself. Foreman insists that the symptoms mean more than his hurt feelings.



House limps into Cuddy's office using the mop and bucket, but tries to read her a magazine column about how working moms are more fulfilled. She insists that's self-rationalization and points out he doesn't even have the right magazine. Cuddy figures he's going to get revenge by dumping the dirty mop water on her carpet. House simply limps out with the bucket.



Foreman runs a MRI on Thirteen and apologizes for taking a risk. He notices something ominous on the MRI.



Kutner and Taub are going over Dana's MRI when House limps in using a hospital cane. House wonders where Thirteen and Foreman are. Foreman comes in, takes his coat, and walks away. House suggests polyneuropathy and suggests shocking the nerves to cure Dana. He goes to see Foreman, who admits that Thirteen has a tumor in her optic chiasm. He plans to go to the drug company to get records on other patients with similar symptoms. House says that would be a stupid idea and they need to give it time for the tumor to melt away. Foreman goes back to his apartment and Thirteen says her leg is bleeding from when she fell over a table, and she fell over the table because she's now blind.



The next morning, Wilson comes into his office to find House asleep. Cuddy called the utilities company pretending to be Mrs. House and had them shut everything down. Wilson points out that House's non-involvement strategy isn't working.



House meets with Taub and Kutner who explain Dana experienced spinal shocks indicative of Lhermite's. House tells them to investigate further and find a hemangioma, then goes to Foreman's apartment to see Thirteen. He realizes that she's blind and she reveals Foreman is on his way to the drug company. House tells her to call Foreman and stop him so they can administer radiation treatment for her tumor. He admits he told Foreman to switch her onto the drug if he loved her, and wonders if she feels anything for Foreman or not. She takes the phone and calls him.



Wilson confronts Cuddy and points out she's physically hurting House. He wonders what she's trying to accomplish and she insists she's miserable. Wilson points out she likes being at work and tells her to fire House if she doesn't want to give up Rachel to deal with him. When Cuddy admits she likes what House does for the hospital, Wilson says what House does for the hospital is part of what he is, and the same goes for her.



Foreman and House prepare to administer radiation to Thirteen's tumor and House notes that Foreman has to be ready to lose. He points out that Foreman loves her, but never took her feelings into consideration. They place the catheter in the optic chiasm and administer the radiation.



Taub and Kutner run another MRI on Dana to find a hemangioma, but find dozens of them scattered throughout her body. They take the results to House and he tells them to confirm mesothelioma with Wilson via a biopsy. Kutner refuses until he gets an answer about what's going on with Thirteen and Foreman. He figures that House isn't saying anything because he doesn't want them to react, and asks what will happen if he checks with Admitting to see if Thirteen is in treatment.



As Wilson checks Dana for mesothelioma, he apologizes and explains that Amber died and he's still living in her apartment. He admits he's stuck in a rut and wonders how he can get unstuck. She tells him the only wrong thing is to do nothing. He tries to sample a hemangioma and discovers that it's bleeding. They both realize that's not supposed to happen.



Kutner finds Foreman and Thirteen and tells Foreman to go to the drug company. Thirteen points out that Foreman feels guilty and Kutner says he's a hypocrite for letting Thirteen call the shots now.



Wilson meets with House and Taub to point out that mesothelioma doesn't bleed. Her heart stops as she bleeds into her pericardium. They drain the blood but Dana's condition worsens as she bleeds from the nose and eyes. They try to keep her stable but can't keep up with her bleeding. She's in too bad a condition for surgery so House tells them to use embolization to cut off the arteries to the tumors, starting with her lungs. Taub warns that the treatment will destroy healthy tissue as well but there's no choice.



House finds Cuddy waiting for him with his cane. She gives it back to him and says she's accepting who he is. House reverts to his usual sarcastic self and wonders if they'll have to go through the same thing in 28 days. Even as he says it, he gets an idea. As he leaves, Cuddy figures that he's accepting his apology in his own unique manner. She figures he's just playing a role, but he tells her to stop rationalizing.



House goes to Dana's room and confirms that she's on her menstrual cycle. Dana is bleeding from her uterus and is bleeding everywhere else as well. She has ectopic endometriosis. When the surgeons cut through her uterine wall to remove the myoma, endometrial cells spilled out into her bloodstream and throughout her body. They multiplied, reached a critical mass, and started swelling and bleeding when her uterus did during her cycle. They can't do surgery until she stops bleeding, so Dana will have to hold out until then.



Foreman is standing vigil at Thirteen's bed as she sleeps. He takes her hand and apologizes, and she wakes up to reveal that she can see again.



Taub visits Dana after the surgery. He asks her how she feels about her life choices and she admits she wasn't thinking "what if." Taub worries about what he'll think on his death bed, and she tells him to worry about that day when it comes, and to go to bed happy tonight.



Foreman contemplates the clinic patients, then calls Dr. Schmidt with the drug company and tells him the trial isn't going well.



House visits Foreman in the locker room and realizes he confessed to the drug company. Thirteen's results are inadmissible and all they have to do is all they have to do is put a warning label on if anyone else gets a tumor. They will come after Foreman if he tries to participates in any future trials. House is satisfied that Foreman will be there, then leaves after stealing from a co-worker's wallet.



Rachel Taub wakes up and finds Taub sitting nearby. She wonders if he can be happy without a child. He says he can't be happy without her. She gets up and they cuddle.



Thirteen wakes up next to Foreman and tells him he snores.



Wilson is cleaning dishes in Amber's apartment. He sees her coffee cup and finally washes it and puts it away.