Season 7

Season 7: 2010-2011

"I'm seeing Cuddy... generally without any clothes on."

―House breaks the news to Wilson and the team.

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House, M.D.'s seventh season premiered September 20, 2010.

House and Cuddy attempt to make a real relationship work and face the question as to whether their new relationship will affect their ability to diagnose patients. Meanwhile, Remy Hadley takes personal leave and her position is taken over by a bright young medical student, Martha M. Masters(Amber Tamblyn), whose only fault is that she's not quite qualified as a physician. Also, Cuddy's mother (Candice Bergen) shows up for the first time in the series as does her sister (Paula Marshall). A story-arc featuring House on the road over a series of episodes was scrapped by David Shore, bringing him back from working on a reboot of The Rockford Files to rework the rest of the season. Furthermore FOX requested that one more episode be created for the season, bringing the total number of episodes to 23. "Thirteen" returns as Masters departs from the hospital near the end of the season. Furthermore, it is speculated by an inside source that more break-ups other than James Wilson and Sam Carr & Chris Taub and Rachel Taub are possible. This would later prove to be the case in the episode Bombshells in which Cuddy breaks up with House. However, it has also been said that there would be wedding bells by the end of the season, although they may just be what we find in the episode Fall From Grace.

The season finale will air May 23, 2011, and Season 8 will begin this fall, having been renewed on 10th May, 2011 by Fox.

Overview

House and Cuddy make their relationship public, but despite the fact that they are both happier than they have been for years, they both see problems. House is sure that Cuddy is merely hopped up on the sex and good feelings that are typical early in the relationship and that she will dump him once she realizes what she's gotten herself into. Cuddy is sure that her supervisory role over House is either going to poison their relationship or ruin House's medical skills, and she's uncomfortable with many aspects of House's past, particularly the prostitute he's still seeing for non-sexual purposes. House is also not certain he wants to have a role in Rachel Cuddy's life and starts to balk at the responsibility. Throughout the season we see that House chooses himself over Cuddy until Cuddy comes down with what seems to be cancer that has metasticized, possibly resulting in her death. It is learned, though, that the tumor is benign, and what was thought to be the cancer spreading was an allergy to antibiotics. Even so, Cuddy is disappointed in House for never truly being there for her, and furthermore that he decided to take Vicodin before showing up to her surgery, and thus ends her relationship with him. House returns not only to his Vicodin habit, but also appears to lose his interest in even the medical puzzles he once found fulfillment in solving.

Thirteen arranges personal leave and the team decides she's off to Rome for experimental treatment for her Huntington's. However, when she doesn't appear on the clinic's patient list, they realize she's disappeared without a trace. A year later, however, House has figured out that Thirteen has been in jail for the past six months, and therefore goes to meet her the day she was due to be released. On their road trip, Thirteen and House catch up, with House continually trying to deduce why she was in jail despite claiming down to excessive prescribing. After a hard reveal by House that Cuddy and him were an item and currently aren't, Thirteen reveals that she killed a man. However, the next day, at the spud gun competition, Thirteen slips in her story by saying "us", which then leads House to solve the puzzle and deduce that Thirteen euthenized her sibling for Hungtingdon's Disease. Even so, House allows her in on the case he was on during the road trip, and to the team's surprise, Thirteen solves the case for them. Afterward, House promises to be there to euthenize Thirteen when the time comes in her own battle with Huntingdon's.

While Thirteen is absent, Cuddy insists that House hire a new female to replace her for the time being, but when House fires the initial new fellows, Cuddy sticks him with a bright young medical student, Martha M. Masters. This leads to various collisions of personalities when Masters reveals herself to be rather intelligent academically, rather awkward socially, and very persistent about telling the truth. However, her nature tends to lead to contradictions in thought and action, as evidenced when she allows herself to break the rules by falling for a patient while chiding House for using narcotics while on duty and on the hospital's premises.

Chase deals with his estrangement from Cameron by engaging in promiscuous sex. On the other hand, Wilson seems to be rebuilding his relationship with Sam Carr, only for it to fall apart after a misunderstanding between them over an issue regarding some reports filed by her. Wilson decides to fix it by taking a diabetic cat, and although he was taken out to a bar by House, he finds that he is not ready to date yet. Taub divorces his wife, but is then found fooling around with her even though they were separated and Taub started dating someone else.

Episodes

1. "Now What?" (September 20, 2010)
2. "Selfish" (September 27, 2010)
3. "Unwritten" (October 4, 2010)
4. "Massage Therapy" (October 11, 2010)
5. "Unplanned Parenthood" (October 18, 2010)
6. "Office Politics" (November 8, 2010)
7. "A Pox on Our House" (November 15, 2010)
8. "Small Sacrifices" (November 22, 2010)
9. "Larger than Life" (January 17, 2011)
10. "Carrot or Stick" (January 24, 2011)
11. "Family Practice" (February 7, 2011)
12. "You Must Remember This" (February 14, 2011)
13. "Two Stories" (February 21, 2011)
14. "Recession Proof" (February 28, 2011)
15. "Bombshells" (March 7, 2011)
16. "Out of the Chute" (March 14, 2011)
17. "Fall From Grace" (March 21, 2011)
18. "The Dig" (April 11, 2011)
19. "Last Temptation" (April 18, 2011)
20. "Changes" (May 2, 2011)
21. "The Fix" (May 9, 2011)
22. "After Hours" (May 16, 2011)
23. "Moving On" (May 23, 2011)

Video

thumb|300px|left|Season 7 Promo - Huddy

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