A woman tries to order food, but doesn't get the chance before her waitress, Nadia, informs her that teriyaki chicken is no longer on the menu, remembering that the woman ordered it the last time she was there. The woman says she's never been to this restaurant before and neither has her husband. He agrees, saying they're only "up north" to visit a friend. But Nadia insists that the woman has been here before, and that her hair was lighter and she was wearing glasses last time. Not only that, but it was August 14th and the woman was wearing a blue polka dotted dress and looked like she'd been crying. This all rings a bell with the husband, who suddenly realizes that his wife has been cheating on him with the "up north" friend they were on their way to see. Nadia finally realizes that she just made things awful for her customers and offers to get them some water, perhaps hoping to salvage her tip. I don't think that's going to happen. Ultimately, Nadia is unable to get the water or the tip, as she takes a few steps and collapses, unable to move her legs.

House starts the meeting in a most dramatic fashion, turning the lights off and placing a flashlight under his face. Or maybe this is just the natural progression in lighting on this show after last week's barely-visible episode. Martha M. Masters refuses to play along, so House gives up and turns a light on and tells the Cottages to check out the file of their latest patient, a woman with temporary paralysis and a perfect memory. She has complete recall of every second of her life since puberty. House says there are only a handful of reported cases like hers in the world. One of them is Marilu Henner, or so she claimed on 60 Minutes recently. House wants to include Nadia's memory as a symptom, but Foreman really doubts this, pointing out that it would mean a twenty-year-gap between the onset of her symptoms. He seems so confident that he's right even though he's obviously wrong. Of course Nadia's memory will have something to do with the case. They wouldn't have written it in if it didn't. Also, she'll probably have to choose between living without the memory or dying, just like what happens to every other patient on this show who has some kind of gift. House sends Taub and Foreman off to check Nadia's home for toxins and Chase and Martha to get a complete medical history from her, which I'm assuming will be pretty thorough.

But before they can go, House has to take a second to publicly embarrass Taub for failing his pathology recertification exam. Now he has to take the test again and pass or else he'll lose his board certification and be fired. Foreman doesn't understand how Taub could have failed it at all since they do so much lab work for House. True, but they're usually violating all kinds of safety rules when they do it, so I could see how that worked against Taub. Taub says he failed because he was sick at the time, but he's retaking the test next week and is confident he'll pass. House doesn't want to take the risk, though, since Taub is still the face of PPTH and if he doesn't pass the second exam and gets fired, that's going to be kind of embarrassing. Yeah, because PPTH hasn't had any hugely embarrassing moments before. Martha cheerfully suggests that Taub get a tutor to help him study. House loves this idea, and lets Taub pick which Cottage he wants to tutor him. It's slim pickings, though, between annoying Martha, lazy Chase, and Foreman, who is an asshole. Taub goes with the lesser of three evils in Foreman, much to Foreman's surprise and displeasure.