- A cop believes he's genetically doomed to die of heart failure at 40 (next week), so he takes big risks at work, landing him with Cameron. She gets House to look at him.
- The team takes on the case of a reckless police detective who has a family history of sudden heart failure that killed his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all at age 40. Though House is not keen on diagnosing the patient without any detectable symptoms, the team, urged by Cameron, attempts to identify his condition so the detective can live without fear of dying young. Meanwhile, Chase is haunted by his actions in the Dibala case, and House confronts some ghosts of his own.—Fox Publicity
- Open with a preposteriously athletic dude leading police on a lengthy foot chase straight out of the pre-title sequence of Casino Royale (2006). The suspect gets away, but not before one of the pursuing cops tries to jump from one rooftop to another and comes up short, falling several stories to the alley below.
At the hospital Cameron learns that the police officer, Donny, was being so reckless because he is convinced he doesn't have long to live. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather all died of heart attacks just after turning 40 and he a week away from the magic number. Donny's seen dozens of cardiologistst, all of whom said his heart was fine.
House is tired of sleeping on Wilson's couch. House thinks he's there because Wilson wasn't ready to have anybody else in the room he and Amber shared.
House thinks they shouldn't waste too much time on a man with no symptoms. Cameron feels for Donny, who has never been married or had any children for fear of abandoning them when his genetic curse kicks in. Foreman orders a battery of tests.
On the way to Donny's room, Chase seems to have a flashback to Dibala (who was in Donny's room) and can't continue down the hallway.
Cuddy tells House he must do 120 hours of rounds in order to get his license back.
Donny's tests come back clean. Foreman has them dig up Donny's relatives and examine their skeletons. Chase admits that he nearly had a panic attack relieving Dibala's death. Foreman thinks he should tell Cameron.
A woman comes to see House with a relevation: Donny has a son he doesn't know about.
Sleeping in Wilson's spare bedroom, House thinks he hears voices.
Donny's ancestors yield no information. House has departed, telling them via post-it notes that he has "gone to back to school" since the patient isn't sick.
Cameron tells Donny's ex she should tell Donny he has a 10-year-old son. She is hesitant because she's been lying to the boy for so long.
House is a distraction during rounds, forcing the doctor to sign off on his observation hours just to be rid of him.
Donny's ex tells him he has a son named Michael. He tells her he has no desire to meet the boy. She brings him in and Michael expresses a desire for a relationship. Donny says no, that he'll be better off never getting to know him.
Still without any positive test results, House wants to send Donny home. House wants Chase to get therapy.
House and Chase tell Donny he has a made-up disease and House gives him several placebo pills. In a week, House tells him, he'll be good as new.
That night House hears the voices again. Foreman bangs on the door and tells House that Donny died four hours after being released. The combination of missing that there was something wrong with Donny and the voices has convinced House something is wrong with him.
Cameron asks Chase if everything is okay. He tells her nothing.
While performing the autopsy, Donny starts screaming and gasping for breath. He's actually alive!
The doctors come up with the possibility the issue isn't with his heart. House thinks he hears the voices again. They go with auto-immune and start Donny on steroids.
Donny tells Cameron his jaw aches.
House has a full battery of hearing tests. His ears are fine. He then tells Cuddy he's not ready to get his license back.
That night House is back on the couch.
One of Donny's teeth is really bothering him. When Cameron leaves the room, he yanks the tooth out himself.
There was nothing wrong with Donny's tooth. With House not around, the doctors decide to check for bone cancer.
After not hearing the voices from the couch, House goes back to the bedroom and hears them again. It turns out Wilson is having nighttime conversations with Amber.
Cameron asks Foreman if he knows anything about Chase's weirdness. He suggests she talk to her husband.
House gets Wilson to admit to his conversations. Wilson says simply talking to Amber makes him feel better.
House returns to rounds. Cuddy wants to know what's going on and the two argue.
House is back with Donny and sees Chase isn't around. His suggests hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy and goes to find Chase. House thinks Chase hasn't gotten help because he thinks he needs to feel bad.
Finally making his way to Donny's room, Chase asks Donny about cops who killed people in the line of duty. Donny loses control of his bowels.
Donny's bowel issue has the doctors go to Wilson's disease.
Chase goes to confession. The priest tells Chase the only way for him to obtain absolution is to turn himself in to the police.
Cuddy signed off on House's hours because "it's easier this way." He assures her he is fine and then has one of his revelations.
House tells Danny he has an intracranial berry aneurysm. If it works on Donny, they will go into Michael's brain and fix him as well.
We see Donny come into Michael's room and take a first father-son step.
Chase returns home drunk to a frantic Cameron. He says he needed to drink away his problem but still doesn't tell her what's wrong.
That night House starts to have a Wilson-like conversation with his dead father. He bangs on the wall and yells at Wilson that it is not working. Wilson hears this, smiles, and tells Amber: "He really is getting better."
Recap by MikeSaros
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