House and his team are confronted with the case of a ballerina whose lungs failed during a performance. After the woman initially thought never to dance again, their future looks much darker than decreases as a result of their skin treatment.Meanwhile, House takes extraordinary measures to combat its own insomnia.
Ballet dancer Penelope complains after a fall during a performance of sudden breathing problems.
House continues to try to ignore his hallucinations of Amber simple. He has retreated into his apartment and has just unplugged the phone. A short time later, Foreman is in the door and bring him Penelope's acts. Only with great difficulty that he can persuade House to come back to the hospital.
There continues to try to influence Amber House and talks during the differential diagnosis for so long on him until he is presenting its proposals to the team. House sends his team to finally finding a diagnosis, even while he seeks help from Wilson.He confesses that he hallucinates and asks him to keep an eye on him, because he no longer trusts itself. When Wilson asks who he really actually hallucinating, House sets out to see Kutner, not to hurt his best friend.
Chase Cameron admits that she still has the sperm of her deceased husband, which they can be frozen in its diagnosis. Chase is a little irritated that Cameron him until just before the wedding and told it must find that it is not particularly convincing them that their marriage lasts forever.
Wilson brings House to a sleep laboratory, but also where you find out not what House is missing. Finally, Foreman informs House that Penelope is still not better.House then orders to a very unusual trial, but the Wilson enshrine. Finally, Wilson House passes a list of possible diagnoses that could explain his condition, including MS, or schizophrenia, and is easy to remove blood.
As Foreman performs the test to Penelope, Taub notices that the top layer of skin separates from her to touch. Just hours later, almost 80% has replaced the skin and the team you're trying to help with multiple transplants. House believes that he has with the proposal to administer antibiotics, triggered a rare side effect, so that the peeling of the skin is perhaps not a real symptom.
The team has discovered during a biopsy of Penelope's liver cells and type changed to a tumor, while House tells Wilson over that he has a guilty conscience and fears, his limbic system would be adopted gradually.
Chase tells Foreman that Cameron has kept the seeds of her husband and he is not comfortable. But before the two can really talk about Penelope suffers a cardiac arrest. It can be stabilized and Chase finished the re-biopsy of her lungs. As it turns out, Penelope does not have cancer.
Foreman, meanwhile, noted that Wilson is at all meetings and thereby concludes that Cuddy seems to be watching the team. As this House is not denying, however, Foreman acknowledges that it is actually House himself, who does not dare. House then sends Wilson out of the room. Amber replies that they have now ruled everything. Only two things can be behind houses hallucinations: a serious mental illness or Vicodin abuse. She shows clearly that both should ultimately lead to it can no longer practice medicine.
House wants to perform a risky test to find out what's wrong with Penelope. The team will stop her heart and then perform an MRI of it. They only have a very tight time window, takes up Penelope's brain damage.
House tells Wilson and blabbed his plan in the process. Now he has to confess that he really has hallucinations of Amber. Finally, Wilson contends that he has measured in the course of the investigation and the Vicodin blood levels and frightened, was how high it is. He proposes House to go through withdrawal, before something worse happened to his brain.
A few hours later and the team's run chase risky investigation at Penelope House during Wilson advised that he intends to inject an overdose of insulin, an idea he had to exclude. Wilson sprints to him immediately, while Chase cancels after three minutes of the trial and tried to resuscitate Penelope.
Wilson comes just in time to house to administer glucose as the lies already on the ground with cramps. When House comes to, is gone and Amber House justifies his radical step so that it worked and he apparently is healthy again.
House finally has an idea what might not agree with Penelope. She has a rare form of gonorrhea, which he tapped, because her friend and dance partner never leaves her side. Foreman finally confirmed the disease, but at Penelope's partner Jeremy.The cliché of having cheated on his girlfriend before, so he must have brought the disease to her and Penelope she must carry with them some time. This frightens House, because it shows that he has only advised him well and promptly Amber appears that in the bar, he just eats at the dinner, sing a song. He calls Wilson immediately and can be picked up.
House prepares for the Vicodin withdrawal and packed a few things, while Wilson tells Foreman that House can no longer work at Penelope's case. House finally admits that he fears that the Entzung will bring nothing, but he felt no angst at all.
While the team frantically searches a way to save Penelope, House goes to Cuddy and confesses that he is hallucinating. She immediately asks whether it could have to do with the Vicodin, which House says yes. Then he asks her to join him in the detoxification process.
Chase wants to operate on the abscess, which has now found the team at Penelope. During the procedure, a nurse noted, however, that the outer extremities of the fabrics will not bleed through properly and slowly dies.
House has been terrible withdrawal symptoms, but Cuddy tells his secret hiding place for the Vicodin tablets. Meanwhile, Penelope Chase informed that to amputate both her feet and hands required before the gangrene spreads and they will die. Penelope, however, denied the operation.
Cuddy catches House in how he entlangkriecht on the floor in order to get a tablet that has fallen in the vicinity of the sink to the bottom. Just in time, they can relieve him of the pill and flush down the toilet.
Meanwhile, Penelope Chase and Taub administer vasodilators, which is to open the blocked blood vessels in the extremities again. Actually proposes to treatment.
House finally has the worst withdrawal symptoms over and Cuddy admits that he fears not being able to work again, because now his pain is unbearable. The two begin to discuss House and Cuddy finally admits that she was always sympathetic, even though it often was not easy to like him. Finally, House notes that Amber has disappeared.
Taub visited Penelope, who is already feeling better, while Chase Cameron says he can not marry her because she has doubts about the existence of the marriage.Cameron responded that it is naive not to have doubts. No one can finally know how he will feel in a few years. Chase replied that he certainly knows it and wants to marry Cameron not so long until they too are their feelings is 100% safe.
Cuddy wants to say goodbye. At the door to begin the two kiss, is, at first tentatively, then passionately.
