- A businessman, about to move 1000s of jobs to China, needs to see a doctor. House needs a donation. Park bets with House on not getting fired. House tries to raise funds for insider trading in his patient's company.
- A CEO falls mysteriously ill just days before he signs a contract that would relocate his company's entire labor force to China. House attempts to make an underhanded business transaction with his wealthy patient, but when the patient's condition worsens, the team must work around the clock to save his life. Meanwhile, Park prepares for her hearing with the Princeton Plainsboro Disciplinary Committee chaired by Foreman, and Adams' outlook on her patient's business venture reveals her deeper feelings about loyalty.—Fox Publicity
- Open with a man cleaning up toilet paper and nasty signs on his lawn. The man, Barton, is the CEO of a large company that is moving overseas. His daughter drops by and its clear she's not happy the company will be leaving the country. He begins to see everything as really small and asks her to get him to a hospital.
House reads Park an email from her former boss who says he's sought therapy. With her disciplinary hearing for punching him coming up, House thinks she's going to get fired. She bets him $100 that she won't. Dr. Adams stops by and suggests poisoning and Park thinks it could be thyrotoxicosis.
House drops by and writes Barton a prescription. After saying he's looking for money to fund his department, House mentions that if he commits Barton it could sabotage his deal to move the company China. Barton asks "how much?"
Barton's daughter Ainsley tells Adams she thinks her dad is moving in part because her mother died a few months earlier. Barton begins coughing up blood.
House thinks Adams was at a job interview the day before. She denies it. Foreman comes in and rips up the check from Barton since it was obtained under duress.
While arguing with Park and Adams, Barton begins to itch. House uses a special light to make one of the guys in the cast care department vomit. Adams wonders if maybe Barton's wife was misdiagnosed and maybe she died of cancer contracted through a virus she passed on to her husband. House orders him started on radiation. To help win his bet House captures Park on tape making a comment about punching people.
During radiation Barton tells Adams his wife is the only thing keeping him in America. He visits her grave weekly. Barton sounds like he's concerned with keeping his company afloat. He starts having chest pains and Adams thinks it's a heart attack.
Park tells Wilson about her bet. He thinks she needs to find something he wants more than the honor of winning the bet.
Adams isn't sure what happened to Barton's heart. House tells Adams that since Barton's company has lowed value since he's gone into the hospital, he wants to buy shares in the company. Adams says she'll give him $5,000 if he doubles his clinic hours.
House returns to his office to find everything in his office has been put in a cast. The guy he made puke points out that if they engage in a prank war he'll just get suspended while House will get sent back to prison.
House is still convinced Park will lose her job. When Park mentions that her boss had been drinking that night House observes that must mean Foreman knew about the whole thing.
Armed with this information Park goes to Foreman (the chair of the disciplinary board) and threatens to tell the board about him letting her boss observe a patient after a few glasses of wine. Foreman tells her he's already told the board and been docked two weeks pay. House set her up.
Adams can't find anything wrong with Barton's heart. Park asks her for a character reference. Barton starts crashing.
House tells Adams he's lost her $5,000, along with $5,000 from Wilson and another $10,000. House brings them to Park's boss for a neuro consultation, seemingly to create an awkward situation. Park's boss, Andrews, thinks Barton could have normal pressure hydrocephalus, while Park thinks it's autonomic dysregulation syndrome. Andrews points out the test for ADS could put Barton into a coma if he's right. House sides with Andrews.
In the hall Park tells Adams that she's not going to listen to House and wants to test for ADS.
Adams runs the test. Foreman walks in and tells Adams that a $200,000 machine is missing. She covers for him. Barton suddenly doesn't respond. He appears to be in a coma.
House bursts into Park's hearing and yells that he wants her fired because she disobeyed him and the patient is now in a coma. House is told to leave and Foreman asks her to continue.
House tells Adams he didn't think Andrews was right. He knew she'd defy him, meaning he'd get the test he'd wanted and the $100. House doesn't want her to test for noramal pressure hydrocephalus, instead ordering a biopsy of his liver on a long shot.
Park is rattled and stumbles though her statement. She basically begs to be able to keep her job.
Ainsley tells Adams that unless her father wakes up by tomorrow she's going to be the one to sign the paper formally moving the company. Adams reminds her that she doesn't "have to sign it."
Barton's liver was fine and Andrews was also wrong. Park walks into House's office and brags that she wasn't fired and he owes her $100. House is trying to think and is annoyed by a cast being removed next door. He walks over and almost punches the guy before noticing a y-shaped screw on an X-ray. He turns to the women and orders them to put him on a plasmapheresis, confidently telling them Barton will be awake within the hour.
Barton is awake. House tells him y-shapped blood vessels were causing his blood to get syrupy and shut down his organs. It was caused by his rheumatoid arthritis. House hands him a press release saying he's healthy and going back to work, along with a lease to move the company. This will help guarantee the stock returns to normal before the market opens the following day. Ainsley tells him if he moves the company she won't be involved but he signs anyway.
Wilson pays House, obviously because he lost a bet he couldn't get Park to keep her job. Clearly House knew the disciplinary panel members hated him so much that his threatening to fire Park got her sympathy. House gives him $5,000.
House gives Foreman back the machine. He gives him a check to start back up his department and tells him to get Chase and Taub on the phone: "The boys are back." Foreman notices the check is for more than it will take to fund the department.
House pages Adams to the cast room and gives her a lab coat. He says she must have been cheated on by a boyfriend. She was actually finalizing her divorce. He gives her a bat and lets her destroy the room, assuring her that "it's been paid for."
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