- House and the team rush to treat an ailing college football star in time for the patient to compete in NFL tryouts. But when the patient experiences an onslaught of varied and unusual symptoms, the team has trouble reaching a consensus on how to effectively treat him in time. Meanwhile, Foreman's brother Marcus makes a surprise visit to the hospital.—FOX Publicity
- Open at a pre-NFL scouting combine workout. We're focusing on an enormous and dominant offensive lineman named Daryl, while listening to his mother Glenda talk up her son to one of the pro scouts. After making yet another big play however, the young man seems to lose his cool. He rips off another players face mask, then begins slamming it into his own forehead over and over again.
Wilson wakes up to strange humming. He shuffles to the bathroom where he finds House in the bathtub. Wilson tells House he's not allowed to use his bathtub or bathroom anymore saying "He who signs the loan chooses the bedroom." House tells Wilson that he owes him $35 for the grab rail mounted on the wall.
Daryl, all 6' 7", 310 pounds of him has no memory of the incident. His psychiatric evaluation and steroid tests came back clean. House still thinks Daryl is on steroids. (Of course, after all, he has a problem with drugs so he assumes everybody abuses drugs.) They run more tests looking for pituitary damage. House tells Foreman his older brother needs picked up upon his release from prison. Foreman ignores this.
Daryl and Glenda make it clear to Taub that Daryl needs to be out of the hospital in a week to play in a game for scouts.
A soldier comes to see House complaining of seeing spots. House calls the kid on faking the symptoms to avoid returning to war. The kids' wife is pregnant and this will be his fourth deployment, one more than the number for which he had contracted, but House doesn't seem to care.
When no pituitary issues are found they flush Daryl's system to get rid of the steroids. As Daryl is claiming he's never done steroids, his heart begins to race.
Foreman's brother Marcus (Orlando Jones) arrives and House immediately gives him a job as his assistant. Foreman doesn't seem happy about this development and tells House they are going to test Daryl's heart.
Foreman tells Marcus that House is only hiring him to annoy him. Marcus thinks Foreman should get over it.
Wilson finds an unhappy opossum in the bathtub.
Daryl's heart tests fine. House is getting Marcus to tell him secrets about Foreman. Foreman suggests one possible condition, but after Marcus references Hank Gathers they decide to consider hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Wilson comes in accusing House of putting the opossum in the bathtub as payback.
Foreman asks Cuddy to step in with regard to Marcus. He mentions that his brother has been a repeat offender for years. She will not help.
House claims to Wilson that he did not put the animal in the bathtub. Wilson suggests that maybe House hired Marcus because he has regrets about his own family relationships and is trying to be nice. Daryl's stress tests come back normal.
Daryl wants to leave the hospital and house prepares to give him an injection to test the heart chemically. House notices Daryl's hands are turning white.
Foreman wants to remove Daryl's spleen, but House suggests an Ephinal drip. If Daryl feels itchy they will know it's the spleen.
Marcus is furious Foreman won't give him another chance.
Wilson is still convinced House is purely being nice with his hire of Marcus. The soldier returns, having shot himself in the foot on purpose.
Daryl ends up feeling itchy.
While in the tub House goes to grab a handrail and it breaks off, causing him to slam his head against the tub. He accuses Wilson of payback, but Wilson pleads ignorance.
During surgery they find that Daryl's liver is inflamed. The spleen isn't the problem.
Taub suggests perhaps a re-used needle might have caused hepatitis.
Marcus tells House that their mother recently died and Foreman did not speak at her funeral. Marcus is adamant that House not use that information against Foreman.
The team next works under the assumption that Daryl has cryo-globular anemia where his blood gets thick when it's cold. They need to put him on blood thinners and he'll be fine in a few weeks. Daryl wants to play this weekend, but Foreman warns him that there is a good chance he could die on the field.
House realizes that Wilson is not responsible for the handrail. He thinks someone else is out there messing with them. Late that night while lying in wait to catch their mysterious antagonist, their sprinkler system goes off seemingly spontaneously, ruining the flat-screen TV. This convinces Wilson that House isn't to blame.
No one in the department appears to have been responsible for the tricks being played on House and Wilson. House then breaks his promise and brings up Foreman's and Marcus' mother, causing Marcus to quit on the spot.
Daryl has gotten a team doctor to clear him to play. Against Foreman's advice Daryl says he's going to play, that he needs to get a big contract to help his mother. Glenda convinces Foreman to go with Daryl to the game.
The solider returns because he shot his foot and is happy to learn he's going to lose his toe. He is unhappy when House tells him missing a toe doesn't mean he won't be able to serve. He suggests keeping him on the same antibiotic which would cause him to lose more than just a toe.
As he about to leave the tunnel and take the field Daryl tells Foreman he can't see anything and asks to be taken back to the hospital.
Foreman tells House he spiked Daryl's water bottle in order to scare him into returning to the hospital. House mentions that since Daryl checked in he lost only a single pound when he would have been expected to lose ten or more. They perform another round of testing.
Foreman goes to Marcus' halfway house and invites Marcus to stay with him and get him another job.
We discover that Lucas is responsible for the pranks being played on House and Wilson. He tells them that if they decide to retaliate he will tell Cuddy that they stole her dream condo out from under her.
Daryl's kidneys are failing which should mean cancer, though they can't find it anywhere. House thinks it must be melanoma and finds evidence (a mole) on the inside of one of Daryl's toes.
We see that Cuddy actually knows they stole her condo, but that she wouldn't allow him to retaliate.
Wilson points out that House was the common enemy to help bring Foreman back Marcus together.
The young soldier is being wheeled out of the hospital in the company of his pregnant wife and we see that his foot has been amputated.
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