The Problem: A tennis player, construction worker, boxer, and tuba player all collapse and most of them die. They all received organs from the same donor. A math teacher named Apple is the only recipient still doing fine but an old man is alive but dying. Making the case even stranger is the fact that the organs received aren’t the ones failing, other organs are causing the deaths.
The Process: House quickly thinks it is cancer despite overwhelming evidence that it isn’t. Apple hallucinates and thinks House is going to take off her entire head). However, none of the other patients had issues with their brain. House wants to run tests on the old guy but he dies before they get consent. He then orders an autopsy but his brain comes up clean. After the guy’s colon also comes up clean, House starts treatment for cancer. It seems to work and proves that it is cancer but now House doesn’t think it is cancer. He thinks it is something that acts and looks like cancer, but isn’t cancer.
The Solution: House eventually realizes that defective brain cells from the donor attached themselves to the eye that was transplanted. Apple’s brain wasn’t working right because the defective brain cells got in the way. The eye was fine.
The Other Stuff: Throughout the episode, House scouts a possible new friend at the hospital and has a P.I. spy on Wilson. Wilson has a new job and attends grief counseling twice a week. However, House has never come up in any of his conversations. House goes to Wilson for an oncology assessment but Wilson won’t help him. He wants to move on.
Quotes
“Does having that P.I. guy mean that we don’t have to break into homes anymore?”-Kutner
“Send Foreman. Old people are scarred of black people.”-House
“Your type is much stupider than her.”-House
“Do you wanna be my friend?”-House
“No because you scare me a little.”-House’s P.I.
