- House worries he's lost his mojo when he can't determine the reason for Cameron and Wilson's changed behaviors or his new patient's diagnosis.
- An environmental group protests. Some are chained to a bulldozer. They shout back and forth with the miners whose work they're stopping. A woman chained to the bulldozer slumps over. A police officer says she has no pulse and the protest is over. But she wakes up, just dehydrated. The man chained next to her frees himself but then finds his vision is blurry and he can't stand. He falls.
Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) tells Chase (Jesse Spencer) she wants to push back their planned weeklong getaway. She wants to get House (Hugh Laurie) to take a case and keep it, a favor for another doctor.
She presents the case of environmentalist Doug to the team. They think it's something from exposure to toxic chemicals. House tells her to do the test.
She explains to the patient she'll be injecting ice water into his ear canal (just try to read that and not get the shivers) to see if the balance problem is his inner ear. As she does it, he gripes about the free flowers in his room and their pesticides. He pukes on her.
House stalks Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) in the cafeteria. Wilson's eating an egg white omelette, which House finds odd. Wilson thinks House is just avoiding talking about Kutner. House is wearing the watch Kutner gave him for secret Santa.
The team thinks it's odd House is making Cameron do the test. She reports on the puking. They still think he's faking, but House buys it because the patient puked on her, not away from her.
He orders her to do another test. He's been hiccuping a few hours a day for a week. The other doctors didn't think it was anything.
Chase asks Cameron if she's avoiding him by putting off their trip. She says there's a reason she needs to stay with the case, but she can't tell him what it is. He says OK.
House thinks it's weird she's doing the tests he's ordering her to do, because usually she'd point out he's not her boss. He tries to suss out her motives.
She presents the hiccups and no balance to the team. Taub (Peter Jacobson) tosses out MS and House tells Cameron to do a lumbar puncture - which is tough given the hiccups.
Foreman (Omar Epps) helps by holding the patient down. He takes the opportunity to ask Cameron about her motives.
Chase asks Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) if Cameron has asked for her spot back on the team. She says no. Then he asks if she thinks Cameron is in love with House. When Cuddy says that's a ridiculous question, he asks if she is. That's an even more ridiculous question. He decides to extrapolate from her lack of answers.
House roots through the lounge fridge. A woman comes in saying she's Doug's wife. He told her he was in jail so she wouldn't worry, but she went through his email and found the referral to House. She had to get someone to take care of their four year old son. House is disgusted by the bite of Wilson's kale he just ate.
House drops in on Cameron and Foreman mid-lumbar, saying he's figured it out. He thinks Wilson put her up to it, but she points out that makes no sense since he's a better liar than she is and wouldn't have to cancel a vacation. They notice lumps on Doug's neck. House pokes one. It's crunchy.
That rules out MS.
The team spitballs, mostly involving exposure to chemicals at the various plants he protested. House sends the team to run the next test. He wants to see where Cameron will go if she can't be there.
Cuddy tells Cameron that Chase is concerned. Then Cuddy asks if Cameron is in love with House. She thinks Cuddy is marking her territory. Cuddy says neither of them should love House.
Doug's wife begs him to quit protesting. He says he's doing it for their son.
There's a knock at Wilson's door at 10:30 pm. Of course it's House. He thinks Wilson is eating healthy because of Kutner, a wake-up call to eat healthier. Wilson pulls out some ice cream and bacon from his fridge.
House answers his phone to screams of extreme pain from the patient. House thinks it's an infection made worse by the steroids they just gave him. They run a test to check his bones. They're normal.
Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) asks Taub if he and his wife talk about stuff. Taub guesses Foreman's not chatty. On the x-ray he notices Doug's femur - the strongest bone in the body - is broken. He broke it lying in bed.
House thinks the carcinogens Doug was exposed to mean he has cancer. He wants to start him on chemo. Foreman interrupts Chase fixing the guy's leg in surgery. He wants bone for a biopsy to make sure the cancer diagnosis is right. Chase asks what Cameron thinks and Foreman tells him she isn't on the case anymore. News to him.
House visits Cameron in the ER, asking why she's still around on her week off. Then he decides she and Chase are over. She says he's wrong. She pauses, then tells House that she is going to ask her to marry him. She found the ring looking for socks. She doesn't want him to ask. She thinks it's a reaction to Kutner. She doesn't want him to propose just because he's scared.
House sees a couple in the clinic. Cuddy interrupts, asking what's going on with Cameron. He says she doesn't want back on his team and she doesn't want to jump him. When Cuddy is ready to take that as an answer, he realizes she only cared about the answer to one of those questions.
Foreman visits Doug, telling him he doesn't have cancer. But - his leg wound starts oozing blood and Foreman realizes he's bleeding out.
House is back to thinking it's cancer, but they can't find it. House wants to do total body irradiation. Taub thinks that's insane. He suggests giving him something to make his tumor bigger so they can find it. House goes for it.
House walks in on Wilson eating carrots. He thinks he's lost his mojo. He was clueless about Kutner, he was wrong about Cameron and he thinks he should have come up with Taub's suggestion. And he can't figure out why Wilson is eating healthy. He thinks he's losing his mind. Wilson, unconcerned, thinks this makes perfect sense because he can't find reason in the irrational thing Kutner did.
Doug's wife isn't thrilled with the tumor-enhancement plan. And then his heart stops beating.
Chase finds Cameron. He wants to know what's going on. She says she needs a little more time. He says no. She says it has nothing to do with House. "Well it has nothing to do with me anymore, either," he says. "Let me know when I can come pick up my things."
House is frustrated because they haven't grown a tumor and he can't figure out what's wrong. He asks the team to start diagnosing all over again. They've got nothing. House says they should put in a defibrilator so he won't die while they're still diagnosing.
House runs things by Wilson at the vending machine. There's nothing healthy in it. Wilson gets gummy bears, which he hates. More importantly, so does House. He realizes Wilson has been eating healthy because he doesn't. Not because Wilson has finally grown tired after a decade of House mooching food, but because he's screwing with him. Wilson cops to it. A little game to try to let things feel back to normal after Amber died. And half the fun was letting House figure out he was doing it. Misson accomplished. Then House has another epiphany.
House visits the patient as Taub runs down the defibrilator plan. He has a few questions. But no, they don't have a garden, or window box. Then he decides their marriage is in trouble and Doug tried to fix it by compromising his flower principles.
Yep, he missed their anniversary dinner for a rally and he bought her roses, but she was gone and he threw them out. House says it's an infection from the rose's thorns. He got lesions on his nerves which caused the various early symptoms and the steriods made it worse. He'll be fine, but it's bad news for his wife: he'll never doubt himself again.
House drops in on Cameron in the clinic, telling her her favor is repaid. He thinks Kutner's death made her freak out about things with Chase, given she lost her first husband. He tells her not to dump Chase by dumping cases on him. When she says she wasn't trying to dump him, House says she was trying to get him to dump her. Much less guilt.
Cameron tells Chase she shouldn't have postponed their vacation. He says he should never have planned it. She tells him she found the ring. He says she doesn't have to worry about that anymore. She says she doesn't care how it happens, she just wants it to happen. He asks if she's proposing. She's proposing he propose - after he dumped her. She stands there, crying, as he takes a moment to look at her. Then he gets down on one knee and takes her hand. He doesn't say anything. She says yes. They kiss.
(Scenes set to a swell bluesy piano/harmonica Hugh Laurie rendition of "Georgia on my Mind.") Doug's wife kisses him good-bye. Wilson and House share burgers, fries and a shake - mojo restored. Cameron and Chase break the news to Cuddy, who hugs them both.
Then House, at the piano, looks up and sees Amber standing there. She says she guesses he's not crazy after all, visit from a dead girl to the contrary.
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