Kids can be so mean! Poor Natalie, an overweight teenager, is being forced by the cool kids at school to make fun of a teacher during a choir concert.  Before she can even get the words out, she collapses on stage and starts vomiting.  Cuddy takes a particular interest in this case, even going as far as to make House take the case.  Being one doctor down due to Foreman's clinical trials, Thirteen, Kutner and Taub have to step up their game and diagnose a young girl before it's too late.

I swear, it's almost impossible for House to be wrong when it comes to matters of human behavior.  This is proved when he meets Emmy, a fitness trainer hell bent on hard work instead of the easy way out.  The first scene has Emmy running up stadium bleachers while motivating a rather large man who is out of breath.  Emmy gets him up the bleachers, but passes out herself, rolling down the stairs she just easily climbed.

House is once again proving just how selfish, and at times caring he is.  With a serious hostage situation on his hands, House is more concerned with diagnosing his captor than saving himself, or unlucky Thirteen.  While Thirteen is busy refusing a new clinical drug trial for Huntington's, a shady looking ER patient is getting ready to make his move.

House is being his curious self by snooping through Cuddy's office when the ER guy, named Jason, busts through the door with about 10 patients and Thirteen.  He has taken them hostage so House will figure out what is wrong with him (besides being crazy).  His symptoms are stomach aches, trouble breathing and a nasty rash.  Jason has been to a ton of doctors who can't figure out what is wrong with him, therefore, to get House's attention, he holds a gun to his head.  Leave it to House to be intrigued.

We meet this week's case, Sophia, at a factory where she works.  Seemingly in a manager-type position, she begins having trouble breathing after fighting with a co-worker.  Not only does she begin hyperventilating, she basically passes out on a converter belt bound for a metal chopping mechanism.  She clutches her heart and pink foam begins spewing from her mouth.  If it wasn't for the co-worker she fought with pressing the emergency stop button, she would have been sliced in two.  Which now begs the question, why did such a young girl have a near heart attack.

House and Cuddy sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. After last week's moment of weakness, Cuddy and House are busy ignoring each other in a desperate attempt to hide their true feelings for each other.  Wilson isn't buying it.  Meanwhile, the case of the week is man named Stuart, who is agoraphobic (scared to leave his house) and is having stomach pains and seizures.

Cameron brings the case to House and the team after learning an ambulance tried to take him to the hospital when he freaked out and ran back into his home and locked the door.  Cuddy interrupts the meeting to talk to House and they discuss how the kiss was a mistake.  Upon returning to the meeting, Thirteen asks what she wanted.  House says, "I hit that last night and now she's all on my jock."

Can we just discuss how great this show is?! Seriously though, House has got to be one of the best characters on television right now.  Just when you think you have got him figured out, he pulls a stunt like in tonight's episode.  Poor Cuddy, she has no idea what she is in for.

We meet Jerry, a consumer product tester with a slight confusion problem.  By slight I mean he sees things that aren't there, he loses hours of his life at a time, and is completely unhappy.  The latter may not have anything to do with his diagnosis, or it may have everything to do with it.  Meanwhile, Cuddy meets the women who is giving her a child.  Turns out she is a former meth addict who thinks due to her mother, she will be terrible to her child.  So she has chosen Cuddy to raise her flesh and blood.  Good thing too.  Upon meeting, Cuddy notices she has a rash and brings her to the hospital for testing.  Leave it to House to let Cuddy know what a major mistake she is making.

Luck thirteen...Interesting considering she is dying from Huntington's disease.  However, if you consider getting some from a women she picked up at a bar lucky, then indeed she is. Then again, the women she slept with (whose name she didn't even know) ends up in convulsions on the floor.  Not a good thing.

Thirteen brings her one night stand, Spencer as her name would turn out to be,  to the ER of Princeton-Plainsboro, where House is extremely interested in the case.  Well, not so much the case as the hot and steamy story behind it. House is convinced her seizure was caused by the ecstasy in her system (which Thirteen said she took five hours ago) and blows off Cameron who is convinced something is seriously wrong with her.  Meanwhile, House and Wilson are getting their footing back as BFF.  It was especially heartwarming when House removed a wheel from Wilson's chair, leaving him on the floor.  Let the practical joke war begin.

Hi all! Christine has given up our favorite crazy doc, so I will be your new recapper! As a more recent fan of House (thanks to USA's reruns...) I am happy to take the show off her hands! Especially with Tuesday's episode, seeing how it was a great one.  Dr. House has lost his father, who it seems, he couldn't care less about.  Nothing like a Chinese-American women vomiting blood to take your mind off the death of the man who partly gave you life.  At least, that's what everyone thinks.

Next time, I promise a new picture!

Our patient this week is a painter, played by Breckin Meyer, who will always be Travis Birkenstock from "Clueless" to me. He's working on a portrait of a nude lady (who also looks familiar.) He wraps up and signs his work and the woman's husband is less-than-happy with the results and demands his money back. He tells the artist the picture isn't his wife, but the artist said he painted her exactly as he saw her. The husband then punches the artist, Brandon, in the face, knocking him to the floor and prompting his girlfriend to rush to his aid. Brandon didn't understand why the couple freaked out about the painting and, when we finally see the face on the painting, it's distorted. The lady almost looked like that puppet Madame, if you ask me.

We open on a vigorous tennis match between two athletic ladies. All of a sudden, one of the women clutches her chest and falls to the ground. At a construction site, a crane operator passes out and almost squashes his co-worker with a huge flatbed truck container. A mixed martial arts fighter collapses while pummeling his opponent. A man playing a french horn (or is that a tuba? It's been a long time since music class!) starts coughing up blood - and collapses. A teacher is leading a class when Thirteen barges in (gee, that was a surprise, I thought she was going to collapse too!) She asks the teacher if she had had a corneal implant five years earlier and she said that she had. Thirteen informed her that she got an implant from a donor who had also given organs to all of the people we saw collapse. They're now either dead or dying - and she's next. Wow, what an introduction to our patient of the week!