A disciplinary hearing reconstructs the previous day's near-fatal incident through layered testimony: Dr. Walter Cofield, Foreman's former mentor at Hopkins, determines whether House's methods caused Chase to be stabbed in the chest by a patient mid-psychotic break. The underlying case — a chemistry teacher paralyzed after a collapse — turns on a classroom explosion nobody knew about, a tumor ruptured by the blast, and a diagnostic trial that carried known risks Chase chose to accelerate alone.

The episode uses the hearing structure to examine how accountability actually works inside House's team: whether enabling a genius constitutes negligence, whether a good outcome retroactively justifies the process that produced it, and what it means that Cofield had already drafted his verdict before the patient's wife arrived. Chase's private exchange with House at the end — no witnesses, no concession asked for — is the clearest window the season offers into what House costs the people around him.

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