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When a violent incident involving a patient has serious consequences for one staff member, House and the team are placed under review by Dr. Walter Cofield, Foreman's former mentor and current Chief of Neurology. As House and each member of his team recount the details of the dramatic and life-threatening incident, Cofield must weigh the team's unconventional brand of collaboration against their ability to save lives.—Fox Publicity

Open with images of a disheveled hospital room. Blood is everywhere. We see a scalpel on the ground and a bloody handprint on the wall.

House (Hugh Laurie) sits down with a man named Cofield (Jeffrey Wright). He's a neurosurgeon at another hospital there to evaluate an incident. House realizes he was Foreman's former mentor.

The case in question was a 32-year old chemistry teacher who collapsed while jogging and has no feeling in his extremities.

House tells Cofield about Vicodin and tells him it's been part of the process. House says "bad things sometimes happen. It's nobody's fault."

We learn more about the case as Cofield interviews the rest of the team. House orders a round of steroids an beta blockers.

Cofield notices orange smudges on the file. House admits to dying Chase's hair bright orange. House put dye in Adams' shampoo, which Chase (Jesse Spencer) used.

The team found out Bill (David Anders) was hit by an explosion during an experiment in class. The team didn't find out about it until he woke up. Some of his students show up at the hospital and say it was a student's attempt at creating a viral video. Bill then begins coughing up blood.

The explosion video shows Bill's head hitting the wall. Based on this information, House decided to order treatment with aerosolized heparin. This decision came as a gas mask-wearing House tortured the team with a stink bomb Chase had placed in his office.

Cofield thinks House was torturing his team to come up with a diagnosis. Park (Charlyne Yi) tells him she went to Foreman (Omar Epps) who thought the heparin treatment was a mistake. Cofield speaks with Foreman, who admits if House gets in trouble, he'll probably lose his job. Cofield tells him he won't give him any preferential treatment.

The team notices a rash on Bill's body. Park, Adams (Odette Annable) and Taub (Peter Jacobson) all have slightly different interpretation of what the rash means. House's response was to order high-dose steroids, which gave them the best chance of finding out what is wrong. Two of the three outcomes involve Bill getting worse before he gets better.

Cofield asks House if he still thinks that was the best course of action "in light of what happened." House says yes, since he decision did not account for the disobedience of his own team.

We learn Chase agreed with Adams, who wanted to biopsy the rash. This causes Bill to freak out and get into a huge fight with Chase.

Back to Cofield asking House who he blames for what happened.

After Bill is wrestled back into bed, we see a scalpel is sticking out of Chase's chest. He drops to the floor. Adams ends up sticking a finger into his heart to keep him from bleeding out.

Adams tells Cofield she is to blame.

They take Chase into surgery and are able to get the wound stabilized. At this point, House begins asking about Bill and wants Park to come with him. The team is stunned. House leaves himself.

Taub admits House was being callous, but it wasn't an issue. He allows Chase may have been to blame for bringing a scalpel into a room with a patient they thought capable of having a psychotic episode.

House goes into the room and finds a readout of Bill's heart rate. He then goes to Chase's bedside and starts asking more questions. The team doesn't want to help with Chase still lying there. Chase wakes up and tells them he can't feel his legs.

Cofield goes to see Chase in recovery. He asks who was at fault. Chase wants to know why it matters. He doesn't think what happened to him was anybody's fault. He credits House for the possibility of him being able to walk again.

Flash to House coming up with a possible fixable explanation for Chase not being able to feel his legs. During the procedure on Chase, House walks in and asks the team about Bill.

Cofield can't believe House would have done that. Chase tells him it was House's way of checking on him, since he knew the team wouldn't leave and had already decided how to treat Bill. At this point, Cofield notices Chase's toes moving. He can feel his feet. Cofield says he should be able to get back "at least some of the function." Chase tells Cofield that he would take the scalpel risk again. Cofield says "I thought so," and says the reason he brazenly defied his boss is because House has created a situation promoting recklessness.

During his last round of questions with Cofield, House pulls out his Vicodin. The cap explodes. This gives House an idea about Bill. He gets up and leaves.

House is not allowed access to Bill, because Foreman is having him transferred to another hospital. But he manges to find Bill's wife and tells her that her husband has a tumor in his lymph nodes. The explosion caused the cancer cells to break open. The psychotic break was causes by the team's treatment. House says it's treatable. She must tell his new doctors.

The entire team sits down for a meeting with Cofield. He says House is "brilliant" and a "fiasco." Bill's wife interrupts the proceedings to say House was right about her husband having a tumor, adding "he saved my husband's life." Cofield continues, saying he would be doing the hospital a disservice if he changed House's process. He says the stabbing was "nobody's fault." House calls him a coward and yells at him before leaving the room.

We see Chase in rehab. He tells him the orange hair was a way of telling Chase not to be late. House tells him Cofield decided the stabbing was nobody's fault. He says "They were wrong. I'm sorry."