

With a room full of already sick patients, House must use them as guinea pigs to assure the hostage-taker that the medications he is administering to him are legitimate. The man claims to be sick with a long undiagnosed illness and demands medical attention from the best doctor in the hospital, threatening to kill any hostages necessary along the way.

Guest Cast: Salvator Xuureb as Jerry Harmon Joanna Koulis as Samantha Harmon Vanessa Zima as Becca Janice Allen as Sadie Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse.Ī gun-wielding man from the waiting room at the Princeton-Plainsboro clinic takes House, Thirteen and several patients from the waiting room hostage in Cuddy's office. Cuddy must take on the case as both a doctor and a potential mother, and she and the team are faced with a heart-wrenching decision that could risk either the birth mother's or the baby's life in the "Joy" episode of HOUSE. But when Cuddy meets the birth mother in person and notices a strange rash on her arm, Cuddy brings the mother to Princeton-Plainsboro where her condition worsens. Meanwhile, House finds out Cuddy is going to adopt a baby that is due in two weeks. As the team tries to find out what he could be doing during his sleep to make himself sick, his condition continues to deteriorate and his daughter also falls gravely ill.

With possible diagnoses ranging from a stroke to a concussion to toxins from the consumer products he has been testing for work, they soon find that the man, who is raising his 12-year-old daughter on his own, has been experiencing intense sleepwalking spells. The team takes on the case of a dreary middle-aged man who has been experiencing unexplained recurring blackouts and time lapses. Meanwhile, House keeps his private investigator, Lucas (guest star Michael Weston), hot on Wilson's trail in the "Lucky Thirteen" episode of HOUSE. Foreman sees evidence of Thirteen's hard-partying lifestyle and confronts her about her self-destruction, warning her that her attitude is sending her life and her job into a downward spiral. House, and that she had been trying to get House to take her as a patient for over a year. She soon finds out the patient slept with her only to get to Dr. Thirteen suspects the woman's drug use has caused her condition, but she soon finds the patient has a long medical history and has seen several doctors over the past few years. House jumps on the opportunity to delve into Thirteen's personal life, and he and Foreman search Thirteen's apartment to find any possible causes of the woman's illness. When a woman with whom Thirteen had a one-night stand falls ill and has a seizure at Thirteen's apartment after a night of partying, Thirteen accompanies the woman to Princeton-Plainsboro where House and the team take on her case. Meanwhile, Cutty attempts to salvage the irrepairable rift between House and WIlson, and Thirteen struggles to treat the patient objectively without bringing the reality of her own medical condition to the case. However, her shocking medical condition forces the team to rethink their initial diagnosis and see the case through House's eyes. The team suspects that the patient's symptoms stem from her obsession to constantly please her demanding boss. The team must push forward as they encounter a case involving an assistant to a high-profile executive, who is a textbook "Type A" personalitiy. He is forced to decide if House is a destructive force in his life, while House has to determine if he's responsible for the death of his best friend's girlfriend. Needing to make a change in his life and give himself time to recover emotionally, Wilson resigns from Princeton-Plainsboro.

Eight weeks after the death of his girlfriend, Amber, Wilson is still mourning her death, and his relationship with his best friend House is shattered.
