Dead & Buried - Recap

The team comes in and finds House reading about a naval base. Foreman brings them the case about a 14-year-old girl, Iris, who had an anaphylactic reaction. House points out his patient, a 4-year-old boy, has had kidney problems and been at death’s door for months. Foreman prepares to drop his case until Adams reads the file and discovers that House’s “patient” died four years ago. House insists that his case is more interesting but Foreman gives him the file and leaves.



Taub, Adams, and Park go over Iris’ file and to find a reason for the reaction, and Park notes that her father died 12 years ago. Chase arrives and Park asks about his dentist, but realizes that he had a manicure and is lying about it. She wonders why but Chase ignores her and leaves. Adams talks to Iris and asks what she was doing when she collapsed at her birthday party, and Iris says that she was opening a Magic 8-Ball. Meanwhile, Taub talks to Iris’ mother, Faye, and says that Iris’ reaction might have been caused by drugs. Faye reluctantly admits that she’s giving her daughter anti-anxiety medication, and Taub points out that could have caused the reaction. However, Iris starts vomiting and Taub admits it’s not an allergic reaction.

House goes to see Wilson about his dead patient, and Wilson wonders if he wants to go back to jail so he can’t indulge his self-destructive habits. His friend insists that he finds the case interesting and suggests lupus, but Wilson warns that it’s a bad idea. House then yells and takes off for his anger management class.

At his anger management class, House insists that anger is a normal and talks to one of the members, Emory, whose son died. He focuses on the symptoms that Emory’s 4-year-old son Drew had before he died. After the session, he talks to Emory and asks for permission to exhume his son, but Emory says that his ex-wife won’t agree to it because she’s moved on. House says that Emory is angry because he doesn’t know why his son died, and suggests that he wants answers. After a moment, Emory tells House where he can find his son’s body.



Adams and Taub check on Iris, who describes breast tenderness but says she hasn’t been having regular periods. Taub suggests that they run a pregnancy test, but Iris insists that she’s never had sex. As they prepare to take a blood test, she says that she can’t feel her arms.

At the cemetery, House has the caretaker take him to the grave after making a donation. The custodian, Milton, asks what House intends and insists that he observe all due decorum. House finally explains that he’s looking for a hole in the cartilage of Drew’s nose to confirm his diagnosis. Milton lets him into the mausoleum and House starts to open the sarcophagus. His cell phone goes off and Adams tells him that the pregnancy test was positive. House continues opening the sarcophagus and asks if Chase is there. Chase comes in late and House realizes it. Park notices that he’s had his eyebrows waxed and figures that Chase has had a Brazilian. He asks if it’s about a woman or something more profound, and Chase focuses on the case. House tells them to check Iris for HIV and then carefully examines Drew’s fingers.



The team test Iris and comes up negative for HIV. As they check for tumors without success, Chase says that there’s nothing profound about his getting his eyebrows waxed and it only hurt a bit. They remove Iris from the MRI and discover that her paralysis is gone, but now her arms are covered in bruising. When House returns, the team suggests diagnosis and House orders the women to do lab tests and the men to check the home. Foreman catches up to House and asks where he’s been. It turns out that the naval base House was researching earlier was doing GPS testing, disrupting the signal from the ankle monitor right when House left the hospital. Foreman warns that when House’s luck runs out, he’s going to go back to jail.

In the cafeteria, House tells Wilson that Drew had Mees’ lines on his fingernails, indicating heavy-metal poisoning. Wilson figures that he’s addicted to puzzles and can’t stop, but House insists that working on a medical case is part of his job.

House gets the anger management group to meet at a coffee house and then gets Emory into the bathroom. They go in back and House points out that Emory’s wife lives in the back. He takes Emory back there and checks the picnic table, suggesting it might contain arsenic. Emory doesn’t want to be there but House says it’s the only way they can get answers. The father asks how Drew looked and House simply says, “peaceful.”

As Taub and Chase check the home, Taub asks him about the Brazilian and points out that it hurts quite a bit, as he knows from personal experience. He knows that Chase is lying and asks for the truth, and Chase explains that he had his fingernails and eyebrows done because a TV producer wanted him to appear in a screen segment. It was shot the day before and aired two hours ago. Taub finds the Magic 8-Ball while Chase locates a hidden panel in Iris’ dresser. Inside it is porn, letters from her boyfriend, alcohol, and playing cards.



House enters Mickey’s home and Emory reluctantly goes in with him. He goes to Drew’s bedroom, braces himself, and goes inside. House finds him there going through a box of Drew’s belongings, a single box in the bottom of the closet. House finds a pair of fake teeth and points out that they are heavily tainted with lead. They hear Mickey pull up outside and quickly get out

Faye, Chase, and Taub confront Iris with the evidence they found in her room. She admits that she has a boyfriend, but insists that they didn’t have sex. Iris says that she was keeping her boyfriend’s porn and hesitates, and then finally tells Faye that he came to the hospital the previous night and told her to leave. Faye realizes that he hit his daughter and plans to go to the police, but Iris insists she won’t testify. As Taub and Chase realize that the boyfriend caused the physical trauma and it accounts for the symptoms, Iris tells them that she has extreme tunnel vision.



House brings Emory to his apartment and improvises some testing for heavy-metal poisoning since he can’t use the hospital resources for a dead patient. As they wait, Emory talks about his son’s stuffed animal and the words his son made up. House asks him why his wife didn’t get angry and miserable, and Emory says that she didn’t get upset, even at the funeral.

Wilson goes to see Foreman and asks why he’s so worried about House and the dead kid. Foreman figures that he has to stop him before House takes on even more ridiculous cases, and figures that House will back down.

The team meets to discuss the case, confirming that Iris’ tunnel vision has disappeared. Taub and House are more interested in playing back the broadcast of Chase’s doctor session, where he plays an Australian doctor. House tells them to run a MRA test and then goes to the clinic, where he’s called in Mickey for a flu shot. He asks her why she didn’t cry at the funeral and provokes her into slapping him, and then explains that he hoped she had stunted emotions since it would account for Drew’s death. Mickey explains that Emory was overwhelmed when Drew died and vowed she wouldn’t let it happen to her, and that she left Emory because he had Drew’s eyes. House asks her who babysit Drew, and Mickey says that it was her father. When House wonders where her father babysit Drew, Mickey tells him to leave her father alone because he hasn’t gotten over Drew’s death.

House goes to see Iris and tells her that her boyfriend died in a car accident. She says that House is lying and he demands to know why, and Iris says that he’s right there... in her. The team realize that Iris has a disassociate personality disorder in response to trauma that she couldn’t accept. Faye insists that Iris hasn’t had any severe traumas and Iris says that she doesn’t remember the car accident. Taub explains that they only come out when she’s stressed, and Faye wonders where the bruises and the pregnancy came from. Chase figures that Iris hit herself, and Taub figures that Iris doesn’t remember that she went out and found someone to have sex with. Taub says that when they took Iris off the diazepam, her symptoms got worse. Iris says that she wasn’t taking diazepam and Faye finally tells her that she was giving her diazepam disguised as vitamins. Chase says that they have to access her alternate identities via hypnosis and find out which psychological symptoms each one has.



Wilson warns House that Foreman won’t back down and House will end up in prison. He insists that it isn’t worth it, and House seemingly agrees. Once Wilson leaves, House sits at his desk and nervously tries to distract himself. Finally he makes an excuse to his doctor to cover for breaking his parole, and then talks to Mickey’s father. The grandfather insists that they didn’t do anything but watch TV. Mickey and her new boyfriend come in, angry that House talked to her father, but Mickey’s father doesn’t hear them arrive. Mickey’s new husband, Ray, angrily punches House in the face.

Chase uses hypnosis and talks to one of Iris’ alternates, a very young girl who has paralysis of the arms. The alter says that she hurts when she ate strawberries right before the car accident, and witnessing her father dying in front of her... with an 8-Ball on the rear-view mirror. Coming out of hypnosis, Iris blames herself for her father’s death, explaining that she was crying and that it distracted her father. As Faye comforts her, the team realizes that Iris is bleeding from the vagina.

Back in differential, the team confirms that she’s still pregnant and didn’t have a miscarriage. They organize all the symptoms by alter and realize they need to do an ultrasound. However, they discover that there is no embryo. They tell House, who infers the existence of hCG levels, a symptom of choriocarcinoma, which causes all of the symptoms. House tells them to inform Iris and Faye that she has cancer.



House then goes to see Wilson and admits that he couldn’t drop it, but he accepts that and continues trying to figure out what killed Drew now that he doesn’t feel conflicted. Wilson realizes that he’s just as bad, talking and talking,

House goes to Mickey’s house again and talks to Mickey’s son. When she sees him, she storms out and discovers that Emory is there as well. House explains that Drew had Alport Syndrome, a genetic condition that accounts for all of Drew’s symptoms, including deafness. When Mickey points out that Drew wasn’t deaf, House tells her that Mickey and her father both had the gene. Mickey passed it on to both her children, Drew and the child she’s had with her boyfriend Ray. House demonstrates that he’s already tested it and confirmed that her current son is deaf... and that they can treat it so he’ll live. A police car pulls up to get House and he goes to get in, leaving Drew and Mickey alone. Mickey finally breaks into tears and admits that she misses Drew as well.



Iris responds to the chemo and begins to improve.

House waits outside of Foreman’s office, while Foreman discusses the situation with Wilson. Foreman doesn’t know what to do and insists that he’s going to send House back to prison. He figures he has no choice or he’ll seem weak to House. Wilson tells him that his job is to keep the hospital running, and it’s up to him to manage House, not control him... just like Cuddy did. Once Wilson leaves, Foreman asks House what Cuddy would have done. House claims she would have given him ten clinic hours, and Foreman tells him that he’s got 30.



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