Everybody lies. It's House's motto: an always-true philosophy. That motto was taken to the extreme in this episode, which revolved around an emancipated 16-year-old girl who seizes and collapses at her factory job.   She tells the doctors that her...

A severe agoraphobe makes treating his relentless stomach pain difficult for House's team, as he refuses to leave his home. Allowing the team and Dr. Cameron into his home is difficult for the patient, as "outside people" make his pain worse. Sneaky House...

Another hallucinating patient visits Princeton-Plainsboro this week. However, to make matters more interesting, this particular man also has blackouts in which he loses several hours at a time. The man lives alone with his six-year-old daughter in what...

Dr. Hadley, "13," is in a reckless stage of her life now that she has been diagnosed with Huntington's Disease. She stays out all night, does drugs and brings home strange women whom she's never met before. All's fine and dandy until one "date" starts...

There is a 25 year old woman in China trying to find her birth parents. After she coughs up blood and collapses, she is transferred to Princeton-Plainsboro to be diagnosed. She is also a recovering addict, something her adoptive parents use as an excuse. Since they are opportunists, they try to use every possible occasion for House and his team to tell their daughter that the alcohol and smoking caused her illness, whether or not it is the truth.

A painter (guest star Breckin Meyer) is hired to paint a lifelike portrait of a woman. He is exceptionally proud of his work, yet the woman’s husband is furious with him for not making the image realistic. The artist maintains it his the best work he’s ever done. Viewers are finally shown what the painting looks like, and the portrait is not realistic at all, but completely distorted. Somebody call a doctor. We learn House’s new best friend, the private investigator, is named Lucas Douglas. House is still trying to get the hospital to pay for his services, which he is wisely utilizing to run background checks on his team.