1.11 Detox
From tv.com: While trying to figure out why a young patient won't stop bleeding after a car wreck, House takes Cuddy's challenge and goes off Vicodin for a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. If House and his team can't determine the source of his patient's blood loss, the 16-year-old car victim will die in a matter of days. As House's withdrawal symptoms become more and more severe, his patient directives for his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, and Foreman and Cameron are afraid he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the patient's life.

isn't that the one where he breaks his fingers on purpose? Always makes me flinch. And the hit from the daddy... poor HL. But I love the ep.

I can't watch House break his own bones. It remindes me too much of The Contractverse. *shudders and twitches*

This was totally Cameron's Jorja Fox period. As much as I love That Scene from 97 Seconds, I think the closing H/W scene from this episode is, if any one scene can be, the essence of the show. It's very painful, but it shows that both House and Wilson know completely what's going on. When Wilson asks House what the pills do for him and House says, kind of plaintively, "They take away my pain," it's probably the most honest moment we've seen ever from House. The H/W comes from the fact that I don't believe House could ever be that unguarded and honest with anybody aside from Wilson. I find it that one sentence - weirdly - as touching as the (IMO sincere) "I love you" from 97 Seconds.