Plot

House takes time to dabble in Cameron and Chase's love life while he treats an agoraphobic patient she's brought to the team.

Cameron's extremely agoraphobic former patient Stewart Nozick needs to be treated for an apparent seizure but refuses hospitalization, being too scared. House finds clever ways to trick him, but Cameron stupidly messes that up, which contributes to his worsening condition, while the diagnose also gets worse. Chase refuses to be used. Meanwhile Wilson tries to help House and Cuddy figure out how to proceed after their romantic evening.—KGF Vissers

We opened on a guy unconscious in his house, where paramedics broke down the door to get to him. Sounds were muffled and bright lights disturbed him. Once they wheeled him out of his house, he punched a paramedic and ran back inside, closing the door behind him and telling them to stay out of his house.

Cue: awesome theme music.

Cameron sighting! Cameron was in House's meeting room explaining the case. The 35-year-old man had had a crushing headache and three seizures in the past three days. He's also a severe agoraphobe. They could only treat him with what they could take to his house because he wouldn't leave. House assured Taub that Cameron wasn't trying to work her way back on the team after she explained that she runs a community outreach program and that was why she was the first to treat the patient at his home.

Cuddy pulled House aside and handed him a bunch of take-out menus, hoping he could come up with a better explanation of what they were talking about when his team asked. She explained she was emotional and he was showing his human side the night before, and that was why they kissed. She thanked him for not taking advantage. When House came back into the room, Thirteen asked him what Cuddy wanted. "I kinda hit that last night, so now she's all up on my jock," House said.

The team tried to figure out what was causing the patient's seizures, and Cameron and the team eventually went to his house. He at first didn't want to let anyone in, but Cameron convinced him to let her treat him in one room while the other doctors searched the rest of his house for toxins. He tried to convince Cameron that he was happy living his life in his house. He worked from home, could see whatever he wanted online.

House told Wilson he "hit that" with Cuddy. Wilson was blown away, but House explained it was just a kiss. House started messing with a mosquito bite on his hand.

House called Cameron and the team to find out the guy's seizures all seemed to happen when he was in the hallway of his house, near the door. House figured he got spooked being close to the outside world. During their conversation, House sprinkled in questions to Cameron about her love life with Chase, and found out that they mostly stay at Chase's place, which House said sounded like "control issues."

Since they couldn't take the patient, Stewart, outside, House decided to bring the outside to him, inviting perfect strangers into the man's house that night. When House and the three strangers went into the man's room, he appeared to have another seizure, but his brain levels were normal and he said his stomach was killing him. "It's something," House said.

The doctors found a bowel obstruction, which caused the pain. They still couldn't explain the seizures. House tried to convince Stewart, to come to the hospital for potentially life-saving surgery, but he refused. He said he's rather die at home than live outside. House said he knew a surgeon who would operate in his house. House later explained to Cameron that even though they couldn't possible operate in his house, they could set it all up as if they were going to, put the guy under, take him to the hospital and bring him back home before he came to. "We've got to make it look good," Cameron said. They set the plan in place, but before they put Stewart under, he held Cameron's hand and told her she was a "good person." When Chase put him under, they rolled him out of the house.

At the hospital, Wilson talked to Cuddy about her kiss with House. He asked Cuddy why she's never thought of House "that way." She talked about how it would all be exciting at first, then would end badly. Chase and Cameron talked about their plans for the night and Cameron suggested they stay at her place, which Chase didn't really agree to right away. Cuddy stopped them as they rolled the patient to surgery. She demanded that the patient stay in the hospital for his post-op treatment.

Before surgery and when no one was around, Cameron woke Stewart up to tell him they'd brought him to the hospital because she felt bad about what they'd done. He freaked out, pushed her away, and ripped something out of his chest, which started to squirt blood. Chase ran into the room and asked Cameron, "What did you do?"

Stewart left the hospital and his lawyer threatened to sue. Cuddy kicked all the doctors off the case. Cameron told Chase she was still going to work on it, but Chase said there was no case, and continued to say they'd left House's team to get away from all the craziness. "That's why I left House," she said. "You got fired."

Cameron went to Stewart's house and apologized through the door, saying she let everyone close to her down to help him. "I won't let you down again," she promised. He opened the door. Wilson told House he was acting different toward Cuddy because he was scared to get involved. He was trying to get House to get involved with Cuddy. House put another band-aid on his hand. House told Wilson to stop trying to live vicariously through him.

Cameron suggested they do the surgery in Stewart's house, which Taub and Kutner did while Stewart's lawyer looked on. The discovered signs of Whipple's Disease. A mishap with the cauterizer and the build up of gas in Stewart's intestine caused flames to shoot out of his belly, but House told the lawyer it happens all the time. Chase didn't want Cameron to stay the night at Stewart's house, but she was going to. Just then, Stewart shouted for her and said his legs were numb.

The new symptom ruled out Whipple's so the doctors were left to keep brainstorming. House wanted to force-feed Stewart, which he hoped would cause him to come back to the hospital. Cameron preferred a blood test, which would be painless. Foreman made the call to do both tests.

Wilson, meanwhile, told Cuddy that he'd always had feelings for her. She asked him on a date the next night, then she suggested they just have sex in front of House's office. She knew the point was to make House jealous so he'd realize he should be with Cuddy.

Stewart explained to Cameron that he'd always been hesitant to go outside and his girlfriend was the reason he ever wanted to go out. "Then she died," he said. House told Taub to give Stewart less morphine in order to make staying at home more painful for Stewart than going to the hospital would be. House told Taub he'd do it because his marriage was falling apart. Taub agreed to do it admitted his wife had him sleeping on the couch, but that it was only temporary.

House had a bizarre dream that involved luring the mosquito in his apartment with a propane tank, swatting it, breaking off a hose, and then swatting at the stove in his kitchen, igniting a burner. His apartment then blew up, waking him from his dream. House went to Wilson's apartment. Wilson told House he was imagining his mosquito bite, which only seemed to bother him when he thought of Cuddy. Wilson kicked him out at 3 a.m., so House went to Stewart's.

Stewart's heart stopped and House called his lawyer for permission to take him to the hospital. He got the OK just as Cameron shocked Stewart despite House's order to wait. She got a pulse, which meant they didn't have to take him in. House offered Cameron her old job back so he could fire her.

House figured out that Stewart's OCD caused him to clean his tub often with bleach and ammonia, which created chlorine and was causing his stomach pain. Still, they weren't sure if his heart was OK and it was unlikely Stewart would let them take him to the hospital for surgery.

Cameron asked Chase if he'd do it and he said no, as she knew he would. He knew she was thinking there was something wrong with their relationship, and he explained the reason they stay at his house was because he always felt like a visitor at hers. She always kicked him out in the morning and never cleared a drawer for him. He told her he understood being in a relationship was difficult because she'd lost her husband, "but I can't keep chasing you forever."

Cameron told House that Stewart was getting worse, including the stomach pain. She told House that she knew he'd take Stewart off morphine, so she switched his meds back from the saline that Taub had switched them to earlier. House said "I love you, call me when you get done with puberty....." That's when House realized he was right -- Stewart was being poisoned. House went to his House, sliced open the area around Stewart's hip and pulled out shards of the hollow-point bullet the mugger used when he shot Stewart. The lead was dissolving and causing the pain.

House then went on a rant about how Stewart was pathetic and lying about being happy living in his house. There were roses by his door when the paramedics came to get him and House knew that Stewart was going to put flowers on his dead girlfriend's grave for her birthday but couldn't leave the house. "If you want to change your life, so something," House told Stewart. "Don't believe your own rationalizations. Don't just lock yourself up and pretend you're happy."

Cameron heard this and went to Chase, told him he was right about her husband's lasting effect on her. But she cleaned out a drawer for Chase, a nice big one.

House was at home when a mosquito landed on his other hand. Instead of swatting it, he blew it away and got up and left. Meanwhile, a montage showed Chase at Cameron's, Stewart gearing up to leave his house, House on Cuddy's doorstep, and Taub's wife coming to hug him.

Stewart made it out of his house, stepping outside and heading toward the street. But House, standing at Cuddy's doorstep and seeing her though her window, turned around and walked away.