- When a woman falls on the subway tracks, Jack jumps down, saves her and faints. Martha finds him in ER. When the hospital uses Taub's photo for promotion, his wife is aroused. House meets Cuddy's mom.
- When a man puts his life on the line to save a stranger who fell onto the subway tracks, he emerges from the dramatic scene miraculously unscathed but then suddenly collapses. Both the hospital and the town become captivated by the man's selfless deed, but as the team works to diagnose his symptoms, they discover that the hero's seemingly life-changing deed failed to break old habits. Meanwhile, House tries to avoid Cuddy's birthday dinner with her opinionated mother Arlene, and Taub draws unexpected attention when his face graces billboards advertising the hospital. As Taub and his wife reignite a physical relationship, Masters' outside perspective helps him realize that it's time to take action on his crumbling marriage.—Fox Publicity
- Open at the subway with Jack (Matthew Lillard) and his young daughter Daisy talking. With a train approaching the crowd spots a woman twitching on the tracks and the father jumps down to help. He is unable to do anything but cover her as the train passes over them both. After the train is moved they seem both to be fine, though Jack immediately falls to the ground after standing up.
Masters (Amber Tamblyn) presents Jack (the subway hero) to the group. House thinks the unnatural act of jumping onto the tracks means they should look for something neurological.
Jack tells Masters he doesn't have any real memory of the day until he was put in the ambulance. His wife Eva (Sprague Grayden) shows up. Their daughter is still traumatized and Eva seems upset Jack risked his life at all.
On an upcoming night House (Hugh Laurie) has both promised to attend a film festival with Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) and attend a birthday with Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) and her mother. Separately he asks both to help him let the other one down, essentially getting both to tell him he doesn't have to come to their event.
While driving home, Taub (Peter Jacobson) spots himself on a large billboard. At home, Rachel (Jennifer Crystal Foley) tells him that despite the online friend she wants things to work between them and they start to fool around.
Jack has a heart attack while Masters attempts to perform a test on him while under general anesthesia.
House has the next team meeting at a bus stop featuring an enormous picture of Taub. Apparently, the hospital found his face to be trustworthy. The cuttent thinking on Jack is an issue with his autonomic nervous system. Despite this second cardiac reaction to stress, House still thinks the problem is neurological. He wants to biopsy Jack's pituitary gland but they talk him to a less-invasive sampling test.
Because of the billboards, Eva asks Chase (Jesse Spencer) if she can consult with Taub.
Cuddy and Wilson figure out House's game and bust him. He wants to drink scotch by himself, but they make him choose one of them. He picks Wilson, which backfires because he's now coming to Cuddy's birthday dinner.
Eva tells Taub that for 16 years Jack has been traveling around the country with his band, making things hard on her and their daughter Daisy. She getting fed-up, but Taub tells her if his neurological tests are normal, he may be a remarkable man.
Chase is upset Taub was chosen to represent the hospital over him. Foreman (Omar Epps) thinks he wasn't picked because he's black and is matter-of-fact about it.
Jack's initial test is normal, leading to the pituitary biopsy House wanted initially. His stats drop once again, this time leading to fluid in the lungs.
The team is down to heart and lungs. House suggests perhaps the epileptic woman might not be a stranger at all.
Chase and Taub break into the woman's apartment. Taub is having a lot of sex with his wife and he's worried it's because she's so happy about her internet friend. The find one of Jack's band's CDs in the apartment.
House tells a patient Arlene (Candice Bergen) that she is healthy. Arlene isn't sure and doesn't seem to like doctors. This leads to the revelation Arlene is Cuddy's mother.
When Chase and Taub tell Jack about the roach bombs they found in the epileptic woman's (Chloe) apartment, he has no idea who she is. Masters brings Chloe into the room and it turns out the CD was a gift from a nurse -- they actually don't know each other. When Masters tries to help Jack bring up some sputum by hitting his back, he grabs his ears in agony.
Masters thinks Jack has an infection that has spread to his mastoid. House doesn't buy it and suggests acoustic neuroma.
House thinks since Arlene is crazy and hates him, he shouldn't go to the dinner. Cuddy demands he give her the two hours.
After even more sex (this time at the office), Rachel references the online guy once again. He asks if she's in love with him and she says "I've never met him."
The initial test seems to prove House wrong.
Jack tells Eva he's going to quit the band. She is ecstatic. Masters walks in to take fluid from his ear and lung. When she gives him Lidocaine his ear pain immediately disappears.
Arlene is pretty brutal, managing to offend her daughter and Wilson with every sentence. House gets a call about the ear pain disappearing. House thinks the stick cut off signals to the pain center. The thyroid and liver are mentioned and Masters continues to push her infection theory. Arlene talks about marriage, finally pushing House over the edge. In mid-sentence she passes out, having been sedated by House. Wilson is next to drop onto the table, House's "gift to myself."
Masters asks why Taub is still with his wife. She asks if he's going to cheat again and he says "I don't know." Foreman's liver test on Jack seems to indicate auto-immune hepatitis.
Jack teaches guitar to Daisy. He falls to the hospital bed and begins seizing violently.
We find out Jack seized three times before it was gotten under control and he developed a fever. It seems Masters was right the entire time, Jack has an infection. Still unsure what kind of infection Jack has, House picks a course of treatment.
House sits in Jack's room (avoiding Arlene) and talks to him. Jack guilts him into returning to his office.
Arlene actually apologizes to House. She thinks she got too drunk and thanks him for holding his tongue. She thinks this means he loves her daughter and is happy she has him. She references Cuddy's daughter making her sick and House has an idea.
He goes to Jack's room and starts asking Eva questions about Daisy. He finds out she was a chicken pox carrier and changes Jack's treatment accordingly.
A recovered Jack tells Eva the new press has helped the band and he wants to go back to them for a few more weeks. Taub watches this and afterwards Eva says this is what he's always done. She says there's "nothing worse than loving someone who is never going to stop disappointing you."
Taub comes home and tells his wife he thinks they should get a divorce. She admits even though she loves him she isn't happy. "Then what are doing?" he asks.
Cuddy seems very happy with House.
Taub throws paint at his billboard.
House gets his night alone on the couch with booze and bad reality TV.
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