Episode: 4×16 (Season 4 Episode 16)
Name: Wilson’s Heart (2 of 2)
Originally Aired: May. 19, 2008
Plot: House is still suffering from injuries resulting from the bus crash, and struggles through his amnesia to recall a key symptom that he saw an associate suffering from, before it’s too late.
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Episode: 4×13 (Season 4 Episode 13)
Name: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Originally Aired: Apr. 28, 2008
Plot: House suspects an emergency room patient has a bigger problem then the E.R. initially diagnosed based on the fact that the patient is too nice. A skeptical House questions the patient’s sunny disposition as the team tries to get to the bottom of his illness, but disagrees with House that niceness is a symptom. Meanwhile, House and Amber are at odds about how much time they each get to spend with Wilson, and Cuddy demands House give his team performance reviews. (more…)
Episode: 4×12 (Season 4 Episode 12)
Name: Don’t Ever Change
Originally Aired: Feb. 05, 2008
Plot: A bride collapses during her Hasidic Jewish wedding, but her husband isn’t convinced by House’s bedside manner. House is occupied dealing with the shock brought on when he discovers who Wilson’s new girlfriend is. (more…)
Episode: 4×11 (Season 4 Episode 11)
Name: Frozen
Originally Aired: Feb. 03, 2008
Plot: House and his team must diagnose an ailing researcher by webcam, as she’s iced in at an Antarctic research base with a limited amount of resources. Meanwhile, House is determined to find out who it is that Wilson is now dating. (more…)
Episode: 4×10 (Season 4 Episode 10)
Name: It’s A Wonderful Lie
Originally Aired: Jan. 29, 2008
Plot: A mother’s hands are paralyzed during an indoor rock-wall climbing incident, causing her daughter to injure herself. At the hospital, her condition worsens and House and his newly-assembled team race to find a cure. Meanwhile, House decides to add a few twists to the season’s Secret Santa gift exchange. (more…)
Episode: 4×09 (Season 4 Episode 09)
Name: Games
Originally Aired: Nov. 27, 2007
Plot: When Cuddy puts the pressure on House to choose the final members of his team, House deliberately assigns the candidates to a particularly challenging case an uncooperative, over-the-hill former punk rock star with a history of drug abuse and civil disobedience. House informs the candidates their potential future depends on correctly diagnosing the patient. As the candidates race to find out if the patient is ailing due to drug abuse, an underlying disease or an unknown condition, House keeps a running tally of their efforts, making a few arbitrary point deductions along the way. Meanwhile, Wilson informs a former patient whom he had previously diagnosed with terminal cancer that he is going to live, and the news throws a wrench in the man’s carpe-diem lifestyle (more…)
Episode: 4×08 (Season 4 Episode 08)
Name: You Don’t Want to Know
Originally Aired: Nov. 20, 2007
Plot: House treats a magician who had a heart attack during an illusion. House doesn’t like magicians and figures the guy screwed up, but the tests prove otherwise. Meanwhile, the fellows participate in House’s newest game: the winner gets immunity and the chance to pick two other fellows, and House will fire one of them. (more…)
Episode: 4×07 (Season 4 Episode 07)
Name: Ugly
Originally Aired: Nov. 13, 2007
Plot: A documentary film crew is chronicling a teenager with a major facial deformity who opts to undergo a dramatic reconstructive procedure. When the patient suffers a heart attack just prior to the surgery, House and the team are called in to determine the cause, since the surgery cannot proceed until the patient’s cardiac condition is diagnosed. With the film crew covering their every move, Cameron and Chase are especially self-conscious, and House looks for ways to escape from the cameras. Meanwhile, House finds himself distracted by several of the candidates vying for a spot on his team, and he questions his motives for having chosen them (more…)
Episode: 4×06 (Season 4 Episode 06)
Name: Whatever It Takes
Originally Aired: Nov. 06, 2007
Plot: House is recruited by the CIA to help diagnose a deathly ill agent with an unknown illness. The agent’s medical case is being spearheaded by Dr. Samira Terzi, who offers up very little information about the agent’s history or previous assignments. With limited information to go on, House uses some unorthodox methods to try to crack the code and determine a diagnosis in time to save his mystery patient’s life. Meanwhile, Foreman faces resistance from the remaining six fellowship candidates when they question his judgment and argue over the diagnosis of a female drag car racer who passed out after a race (more…)
Episode: 4×05 (Season 4 Episode 05)
Name: Mirror Mirror
Originally Aired: Oct. 30, 2007
Plot: The team takes on the case of a man who collapsed while being mugged. When the man complains of new symptoms that do not fit his initial admission profile, the team suspects he is a hypochondriac. As Mr. X continues to fall ill with symptoms unrelated to his neurological disorder, Foreman and the remaining six fellows are assigned to keep watch, and are bemused as they see their own behavioral idiosyncrasies reflected through him. As they attempt to diagnose this human chameleon, they seem to learn more about themselves than their patient, whose true identity is a mystery. Meanwhile, Cameron and Chase keep a running pool on whom House might cut next from the team of candidates, and Foreman engages in a power struggle with House and Cuddy (more…)
