1. House 2.0 - the patient this week is a kid who, like House, is an insufferable jackass. Unlike House, the kid is suffering from cluster headaches and is prone to violence, as witnessed by his savage beating of a chess opponent. He undergoes the usual battery of tests and early misdiagnoses - and a treatment using magic mushrooms - before going into liver failure.
2. That's a new location to bleed from - later treatments lead to almost psychotic violence, during which the patient intentionally pees himself. The joke winds up being on him when his urine becomes mostly blood. Turns out his kidneys are shot, too.
3. Checkmate - after playing a game of chess with the patient in order to use stress as a diagnostic tool, House realizes that the way the patient holds his chess pieces is indicative of a missed symptom - joint and body pain that was original ascribed to the patient's history of fighting. House then comes up with the winning diagnosis, hemochromatosis. The kid will be on dialysis for the rest of his life to get the excess iron out of his blood, but will always be a jackass.
4. Don't leave on my account - Foreman has a job interview scuttled, and assumes it was House. There's a daisy chain of accusations from House to Cuddy to Wilson to Cameron to Chase back to House. Looking back, I don't think we ever sorted out who cancelled it. In any case, Cuddy offers Foreman twice his salary and a chance to head up his own, independent diagnostic unit. He turns the offer down, as he'd still be working with House.
5. Meanwhile, in the clinic - a sunburned patient comes in concerned about the pale white spots in his sunburn. House squirts him with a syringe of saline, which he then sells to the patient's son in return for the $1.41 in change the kid has. He agrees, and House then starts placing the change in the locations the kid put it on his father's body after dad fell asleep in the sun.
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