House

Hugh Laurie stars as brilliant but caustic New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama. In the season finale, House and his team struggle to save Amber’s life following the bus crash. As problems in her heart begin to affect her other major organs, House agrees to Wilson’s request to cool Amber’s body in order to buy time for a diagnosis.

Hugh Laurie stars as brilliant but caustic New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama. This week, in the first part of the season finale, House suffers short-term memory loss after being involved in a serious bus crash. While his colleagues urge him to rest, House is plagued by the belief that someone on the bus needs his help.

“I don’t know how I got here,” says House. Sitting in the corner of a lap-dancing club, the dazed doctor realises he cannot recall the last four hours of his life. He diagnoses himself with concussion and discovers that he is bleeding from a gash on his head. But even more troubling is his conviction that somebody needs his help. “Someone is going to die unless I find them,” he says.

Hugh Laurie stars as brilliant but caustic New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama. This week, House kidnaps the lead actor from his favourite soap opera in the belief that he has a brain tumour. Tests appear to disprove House’s theory, until the patient develops new symptoms that defy explanation.

Evan Greer (Jason Lewis, ‘Sex and the City’), the handsome star of a daytime soap opera, is stunned when he climbs into a waiting limo and is kidnapped by the chauffeur. The driver claims the actor has a brain tumour and needs urgent treatment. A bewildered Evan realises that his abductor has tried to contact him before. “You’re the nutjob doctor that keeps calling my publicists!” he says. “Actually,” replies House, “I’m the nutjob head of diagnostic medicine.”

Hugh Laurie stars as brilliant New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmyand Golden Globe-winning medical drama. This week, the team tackles the unusual case of a patient who is just too nice. Is there a medical reason for his sickly sweet personality, or is it possible that he is just naturally kind-spirited?

Hugh Laurie stars as brilliant New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmyand Golden Globe-winning medical drama. This week, House’s team is presented with the case of a Jewish bride who collapsed at her wedding. House suspects the woman’s recent religious conversion is evidence of mental illness, bringing him into conflict with her new husband. At the same time, he is keen to analyse Wilson’s relationship with Amber.

In the midst of a boisterous Jewish wedding, the bride collapses and breaks her leg, putting an end to the festivities. At the hospital, 38-year-old Roz is found to have blood in her urine and is presented to House’s team to diagnose. House wastes no time in sending Taub and Foreman to Roz’s apartment to search for clues. Although they find no immediate explanation for her illness, they report back with the surprising news that Roz used to live a rather different sort of life.

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama. This week, House must diagnose symptoms affecting a psychiatrist on a research base at the South Pole. Communicating via webcam, House’s patient has only limited medicine and equipment with which to treat herself.

House must diagnose a case at a distance this week when a scientist at a research base in Antarctica is taken ill. Dr Cate Milton (Academy Award-winner Mira Sorvino) complains of vomiting and a sharp pain in her side. High winds mean that evacuation is impossible and the base is equipped with only limited medical supplies and instruments – making accurate testing all but impossible.

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama. This week’s seasonal episode sees House battling to diagnose a mother with paralysis in her hands. Scornful of the woman’s claim that she never lies, the medic searches for a way to prove she is dishonest.

Christmas at the Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital finds House and his team tackling the case of Maggie (Janel Moloney, ‘The West Wing’), a 34- year-old mother with paralysis in her hands. A series of experts have failed to diagnose her condition, but House wastes no time in jumping to his usual conclusion that the patient is hiding something. He is especially irked by Maggie’s insistence that she always tells the truth – even to her 11-year-old daughter, Jane.

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning medical drama. In this episode, the doctors treat a drugabusing punk rocker who displays an alarming range of symptoms. Cuddy pressures House to decide who will make the line-up of his new team and Wilson is confronted with an unusual lawsuit.

Tired of House prevaricating over his new team, Cuddy orders him to choose two of the four remaining applicants by the end of the week. To help him decide, House picks one final case for their attention, that of a hard-living, 38-year-old punk rocker named Jimmy Quidd. According to House, the patient displays a “dizzy array of symptoms – any of which could be caused by drugs, trauma, being a loser”.

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, the team treats a
magician who suffered a heart attack during a
dangerous stunt. Meanwhile, House suspects
one of his team is hiding a compromising secret;
and the applicants are set a daunting challenge.
Kutner and Cole are attending a magic show
when the magician, Flynn, suffers a cardiac arrest
while trying to escape from a water tank. At the
hospital, Kutner tries to convince House that there
is something unusual about the case, but the
grumpy physician thinks it is simply a magic trick
gone wrong. House allows him to run tests on one
condition: if Flynn is not sick, Kutner will be fired.
Kutner’s tests draw a blank until he performs an

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, House must
contend with a documentary film crew following
his every move as he treats a facially deformed
teenager who has suffered a heart attack. At the
same time, he faces dissent from within his team.
A teenager with a severe facial deformity arrives at
the hospital ready to undergo surgery that will
finally rid him of his disfigurement. Sixteen-yearold
Kenny is being trailed by a film crew who is
making a documentary about his case and paying
for his treatment. However, just before the
procedure is about to begin, Kenny suffers a heart
attack and is shocked back to life.
The case lands on House’s desk, but the
disgruntled doctor is not pleased to learn he must
tolerate the presence of a film crew. His applicants

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, House is recruited
by the CIA to treat one of their agents in a secret
facility. Meanwhile, Foreman has trouble
managing the applicants in their efforts to treat a
racing driver who collapsed following a race.
House is just about to begin running his latest
case when a mysterious man appears and takes
him to one side. To House’s bemusement, the
man claims to be from the CIA and says that he
needs his help with a highly sensitive case. “One
of our employees just returned from assignment
sick. We believe he may be the victim of an
assassination attempt,” he says.
The temperamental medic only believes the
man’s story when he is ushered aboard a waiting
helicopter. House is flown to a top-secret location

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, House is
bemused to encounter a patient with no memory
who mimics the personalities of everybody he
meets. Foreman returns to the hospital to
supervise the applicants, leading to a battle of
wills between House and Cuddy.
House’s team is presented with the case of Martin
Harris, a mugging victim who has been rushed to
hospital with breathing problems. But before they
can examine their patient, both House and his
entourage are surprised to learn their activities will
now be monitored by Foreman, newly
reappointed by Cuddy to be her “eyes and ears”
on the team. “You do nothing without his
knowledge,” she tells them.
House is deeply resentful at having his former
employee watching his every move, and vows to
drive him out. “I can make you miserable... until

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
series of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, House’s team
rallies to treat a young woman who believes she
can see the dead. Meanwhile, Foreman struggles
to get his career back on track.
House borrows a trick from ‘Charlie’s Angels’ this
week as he addresses the seven remaining
applicants for his team over the phone. “Good
morning angels,” he says. “We have quite the
interesting case. It’s not often you get a patient
who sees dead people.” The patient in question is
a Ukrainian funeral parlour assistant named Irene,
who went into a seizure after hallucinating that
two cadavers were attacking her.
House dispatches some of his team to Irene’s
funeral parlour to search for clues about her
condition. When they discover that one of the
deceased in the morgue died from symptoms
resembling BSE – or mad-cow disease – they

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
season of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, House splits his
applicants into two teams and orders them to
diagnose a disabled man suffering from fainting
spells. Meanwhile, a suicidal patient in the clinic
challenges House’s beliefs about the afterlife.
House calls his ten remaining applicants together
and presents them with the case of Stark, a 37-
year-old man with a muscle-wasting disease that
has confined him to a wheelchair for the last 20
years. House splits his prospective employees
into two teams of five men and five women and
challenges them to explain Stark’s bouts of
fainting. The first group to solve the problem will
remain in the running to join House’s staff.
The women believe Stark may be infected with
threadworm and treat him accordingly; the men
have no theory and decide to perform a battery of

Hugh Laurie stars as acerbic but brilliant New
Jersey medic Dr Gregory House in the fourth
season of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning
medical drama. In this episode, House treats a
fighter pilot whose confused vision and hearing
cause her to hallucinate. Meanwhile, he begins
the process of whittling down 40 applicants to
become his new team.
House’s curiosity is piqued when Greta, a captain
in the air force, appears in his office demanding
his help. “I need you to find out what’s wrong with
me,” she says. “I crashed a flight simulator
because I started to hear with my eyes.” Greta
reports a severe case of synaesthesia, whereby
her hearing and vision have become confused,
leading to extreme hallucinations. She is willing to
pay $50,000 in cash if House treats her in secret
and keeps no record of her stay. She is desperate
to join the NASA astronaut training programme
and fears that her condition will disqualify her.