- House entertains a school class on Career Day telling about his patient, a college student, who coughed up his lung. He spices up the story with quotes from movies. He later gets advice from 2 students outside principal's office.
- House participates in a school's Career Day and breaks a few rules by sharing explicit medical stories. Waiting outside the principal's office, he meets two fifth-grade students who assess House's relationship woes and try to help him understand how his selfish antics get in the way of showing Cuddy how he really feels.—Fox Publicity
- We open at a private school of some sort. A girl (Colleen) with a black eye gives a boy (Zack) a note and later they meet behind some dumpsters. She tells him she's finally ready. Just before they kiss, a teacher catches them and brings them to the principal's office. They find House (Hugh Laurie) sitting on the bench.
Next, we find House telling the story of investigating the home of a patient, demanding they hack into a laptop in a scene right out of "Pulp Fiction." He was telling this story on a Career Day and the kids call him on his exaggeration. House is re-telling this story to Zack and Colleen. House wants to know why the kids are seeing the principal, and vice-versa. He wants to know how Colleen hurt her eye. She won't tell until House tells more of his story.
House (who is being called Dr. Hourani) tries to cut his presentation short with a fake off-color anecdote but the kids are curious about this day-to-day.
Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) is upset at House, refusing to have lunch with him. She goes on a tirade and says "I'm sick of it. I'm done."
Colleen wants to know why Cuddy was mad at House. To get House to talk, they tell him they were busted almost kissing behind the school.
We see a patient (Phillip) coughing and having trouble breathing. While Chase (Jesse Spencer) and Taub (Peter Jacobson) hit on a new nurse, Phillip (Willis Chung) starts coughing blood into his hand.
After yet another cinematic flourish, the teacher wants to shut down House and turn the floor over to a Mr. Dryden who a big-deal advertising guy. But the kids want to hear more about Phillip. House (who is still being called Dr. Hourani) tells them Phillip died.The kids don't buy it.
As the doctors work on Phillip, he coughs up what Chase says is a piece of his lung.
House tells the Career Day kids Phillip is a college student who really did cough a piece of lung into his hand.
Masters (Amber Tamblyn) wonders if perhaps Phillip's computer science roommates are fabricating chips and working with toxic materials. House thinks Phillip has Sarcoidosis but wants to go with Foreman (Omar Epps) so he can get into the laptop he's trying to search.
House tells the kids the laptop belonged to his girlfriend. He says he stole Cuddy's computer in an attempt to fix things with her. One again House tries to turn the floor over to Dryden but the kids want him to finish.
We see House spilled some chemicals in a waiting room to distract Cuddy long enough to get her computer.
House tells Colleen (and earlier Wilson) he stole Cuddy's computer to try and read her journal. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) gives her some suggestions for passwords.
The Career Day kids seem surprised House was annoyed by Foreman asking him questions about the dying Phillip while he was trying to get into Cuddy's Apple. House reminds them not every dying person is interesting.
Zack tells House the kiss with Colleen was the result of him winning a bet he could outlast her in double Dutch. He says the bet allowed her to do what she wanted to do without her friends making fun of her. House finally tells the kids.
House got in trouble when he wouldn't take out the trash. After he left, Cuddy saw he had used her toothbrush. The toothbrush thing was something Cuddy had mentioned in the past.
House tells the kids he treats Cuddy harshly because he respects her enough not to coddle her the way she is at work. This leads to Zack saying a similar philosophy led to Colleen's black eye, which she got when he fired a slap shot at her in floor hockey.
The actual Dr. Hourani finds House hiding in his office, finally having broken into Cuddy's journal.
Telling this story clues in the Career Day kids to the fact House isn't himself Dr. Hourani.
While House sits with Colleen and Zack, Foreman calls to say Phillip was negative for Sarcoidosis. He still wants them to give the same treatment. House points out Sarcoidosis is a diagnosis of exclusion and often patients die before doctors give any treatment.
We see more of Cuddy and House's fight. She thinks all House cares about is what he wants. Cuddy says House may love her, but she deserves someone who cares about her.
House learned in the journal Cuddy didn't even attempt to get Rachel into her first choice school, since it requires donations or pulling strings. That school is the one he's been at all day. The hospital CEO is a board member at the school. He tells House he might be able to help as long as House does him a favor, presumably helping out at Career Day.
On the way to Career Day, Foreman tells House they still don't think its Sarcoidosis or a foreign body. House insists they proceed with the Sarcoidosis treatment just as he rear-ends Dryden. As Dryden approaches House's window, House slips his wallet under the seat.
Colleen and Zack realize House gave him a fake name.
We cut to Career Day. Dryden realizes during the Hourani story that House isn't who he said he was. Dryden approaches him at the front of the classroom and tries to wrestle House's wallet from his pants. They wrestle back and forth until one of the assistant principals spots them.
Colleen tells the story. Zack actually confessed he paid one of the double Dutch rope holders to let him win the bet. He felt bad about getting a kiss he didn't earn and told her to let him know when she was ready. That led to the near-kiss from the opening. Colleen thinks House is like Zack in that way and he should quit playing games.
House finally gets in to see Ms. Fields (Erika Alexander), the headmaster of the school. He apologizes for his actions. She has spoken to the CEO. House assures her Cuddy and Rachel will be great additions. He says he needs Cuddy in his life. House spots a poster on the wall for Princess and the Pea and has his revelation.
At the hospita,l House tells Foreman it must be food small enough not to show on scans. "I got $100 it's a pea."
Cuddy knows what House did at the school. He says he did that (as well as steal her computer) to prove he cares about her needs. He says he was wrong and he can do better if given a chance. Before House gets to the door, Cuddy invites him over for dinner that night. He accepts.
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