- Physics student and his father, Artie, bring in the kid's lover Abby Nash, who nearly suffocated in foam during a planetarium lecture. The team eliminates everything except an allergy to something in her body. House presses Wilson to buy furniture as a way to express his personality.—KGF Vissers
- A high school couple is sharing some vodka during a class trip to a planetarium. The girl (Cali Fredrichs)) stops breathing and begins frothing at the mouth.
House (Hugh Laurie) makes fun of Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) for not having furnished for his condo. House thinks he's scared of making furniture choices because women have always made the decisions for him. House wants him to "buy some furniture or admit you're empty inside."
The fluid which almost killed Abby was the result of a pulmonary edema, meaning either her heart or lungs is the problem. Taub is not in the office and House thinks it's because he's fighting with his wife. The team guesses a history of alcohol abuse could the problem and they decide on an MRI.
Taub (Peter Jacobson) and his wife are, in fact, arguing. The debate seems to be they don't do anything together and don't have much of a relationship.
Taub arrives at the same time Abby's boyfriend (Nick Eversman) and his father Artie (Dennis Boutsikaris) get to the hospital. Nick says Abby doesn't drink much.
During Abby's MRI Taub admits to Chase (Jesse Spencer) that he and his wife are fighting. They spot an abnormality of some sort on her heart.
There are no signs of parasites or fungus and whatever it is didn't come through her intestines. House has figured out Taub was lying about a flat tire causing him to be late. There are no ideas how an infection could have gotten into her heart.
While Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) and Taub look at her heart via a trans-esophageal echo, Abby begins to seize. They crack her open in the OR and Thirteen has to re-start the heart with her bare hands.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her valves and alcohol was not the problem. They wonder if perhaps an internal allergy is the issue.
The team decides to test Nick's semen to see if Abby is allergic. During the test she starts having stomach pain and Chase notices there is blood in her urine.
Abby's kidneys are now failing. With no other options the team goes with a full body scan.
During Abby's scan Taub asks Foreman (Omar Epps) how he can prove to his wife he's not cheating on her. Foreman thinks Taub is being selfish in the marriage.
House returns home to Wilson's and finds the entire place furnished.
Abby starts to hallucinate during her scan. She senses an earthquake, then feels she's being pulled into a giant black hole.
The team isn't sure how her brain has become impacted. During the meeting Taub texts his wife to tell her where he is and to ask what she is doing. House steals his phone and asks Taub's wife to take off her shirt and touch herself. House brings up the brain can sometimes give the body hints as to what is wrong with the body. He thinks Abby's subconscious is trying to tell her what is wrong and they "need to eavesdrop." He thinks the Cognitive Pattern Recognition program could help them but Foreman wants to go with more testing first.
Wilson comes home to find the house empty again. House has given all the furniture back, thinking Wilson cheated by renting it from a service. He thinks Wilson is avoiding making the decision and wants him to buy at least one piece of furniture on his own.
When Abby wakes up, Nick is there. He talks to her and begins working towards a proposal of marriage. Meanwhile Abby begins to hallucinate again, this time seeing a younger version of herself. Young Abby says Abby should "tell him the secret" and "your secret is killing you." Abby starts seizing again.
House now pushes forward with the cognitive recognition, which he thinks is their only shot.
Taub's wife arrives at the hospital.
Foreman tells Abby and her family a computer will map her brain function for a few hours, then while she is under anesthetic, display images of her subconscious.
Taub and his wife start fooling around is his car. She is worried the car-thing is something he's done before.
Wilson doesn't have any luck at the furniture store.
During Abby's cognitive recognition test, the team sees images of the black hole from earlier as well as of a man, presumably her deceased father. This seems to be a dead-end and the team wonders if their might be a tumor hiding in her pineal gland.
Cuddy tells Wilson he should find a decorator.
Tests reveal nothing in Abby's pineal gland, but there still seems to be indications of an allergy or parasite. Foreman suggest a Middle Eastern parasite, which House angrily discounts because Abby's never been to that part of the world and their scans haven't revealed any bugs. All her systems are failing and House doesn't know why.
While talking to Taub about the fact his wife hasn't actually asked him if he's having an affair, House has an idea. He wonders whether Nick's father might be the one in her visions.
House confirms with Nick's father he travels for work. He then gets the man to admit (with Nick standing there) he slept with Abby while she was broken up with his son. Abby got a parasite from Nick's father's semen and is going to be okay.
Wilson had the condo decorated. House notices there is an organ in the room, the one item Wilson picked out himself. House is impressed and immediately sits and begins to play "A Whiter Shade of Pale."
Taub proposes to his wife and tells her he wants to be a better husband. In the hospital, Taub tells House his wife said yes: "Good for you," House says. But House watches as Taub and a blonde nurse meet in the hall, link arms and walk off together ... perhaps he IS having an affair?
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