House goes to bother Wilson about his dead-patient case. For some reason, he doesn't use that window between their offices that they made such a big deal out of building. He probably prefers barging in himself. Wilson speculates that House wants to go back to jail so he can be self-destructive. We're supposed to pretend that if Foreman finds out that House is working on this, he'll get thrown back in prison, but I don't buy it. When House is working, he spends a lot of time goofing off, so why couldn't he spend that time diagnosing old cases? House brushes off this concern, and rightfully so. The case goes like this: kidneys died, transfusion, lungs died, patient died. So he starts speculating, to Wilson's increasing annoyance. Maybe the lungs came first? Lupus? Did the kid have a rash? Wilson is ignoring him loudly. Then House goes off to an anger management class.
At the meeting, House insists that platitudes don't help. And he asks a guy named Emory if his dead child had a rash or was sensitive to sunlight. Nope! After the meeting, House has a diagnosis for Emory and wants to exhume the son. Emory says that his ex-wife would have to approve it, but she wants nothing to do with him or Drew's death. House says that Emory's anger comes from Drew's death, but also from not having an answer. Emory tells House that Drew is in a crypt in St. Jude's cemetery.
Adams pokes at Iris, who says she's got some tenderness in the abdomen and the breasts. She hasn't been having regular periods, so maybe she's pregnant. Adams says they just need a drop of blood to test for that. And even though Iris has never had sex (that's two episodes in a row with virgins! The clown kid was last week, right?), pregnancy would explain all of her symptoms. But then she develops a new one: she can't feel her arms! I'm starting to think the doctors on this show have a superpower where they can cause people to generate new symptoms every time they declare a diagnosis.
House is at the cemetery. The old man leading him is too slow for his taste. He asks House what he intends to do. House goes with a NAMBLA joke and tells him that after taking bribes to let him plunder graves, he shouldn't have opinions. Then he relents and says he's looking for a hole in the cartilage of boy's nose. The old man, whose name is Milton, lets House into the tomb where Drew's sarcophagus is lying. Or laying. Anyway, it's in there. And the kid's name is Drew. House slowly starts to jimmy the lid, but his phone rings. He puts it on speakerphone and sets it aside to continue his literally ghoulish activities.













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