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 House’s ability to diagnose patients. Meanwhile, Remy Hadley takes personal leave and her position is eventually 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) and sister (Paula Marshall) show up for the first time in the series 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. Near the end of the season, Remy Hadley returns as Masters departs from the hospital. Furthermoremospt if not all of the intimate relationships of the characters blow up by the end of the season. . In the episode Bombshells Cuddy finally breaks up with House, and the fallout of their relationship takes us to the end of the season. Although the producers hinted about “wedding bells”, the only wedding was an immigration driven marriage between House and Dominika Patrova, a young Russian immigrant who needed a green card.

The season ended with the final episode Moving On on May 23, 2011. It was confirmed by Fox as of May 10, 2011, that there will be a Season 8.

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, such as 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, although towards the end of the season, House and Rachel seem to share a strange bond over a cartoon about pirates.

Throughout the season we see that House chooses his own interests over Cuddy until Cuddy comes down with what seems to be cancer that has metastasized, which will most likely result in her death. It is learned, though, that the tumor is benign and the metastasis was just harmless inflammation, 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 for 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 euthanized her sibling with Hungtington's Disease, meaning the original leave was to take care of her dying brother. 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 euthanize 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. Despite this push and pull, House finally offers Masters a job when she graduates medical school, only to yank it away when she refuses to hand in a log book with a lumbar puncture she didn’t actually perform as a final test from House. However, after doing one more case with House and bending ethics to save her patient, Masters decides to re-evaluate her decision to become a surgeon and to see if she can’t truly excell.

Chase deals with his estrangement from Cameron by engaging in promiscuous sex. After he‘s pranked by a woman who he passed over, and Masters confronts him over his behavior, Chase decides to try celibacy with mixed results.

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 of her patient files which Wilson feels were falsified but Sam insists were honest mistakes. Wilson decides to fix it by taking in a diabetic cat, and although he was taken out to a bar by House, he finds that he is not ready to date yet.

Feeling that he is a continuing disappointment, Taub divorces his wife. Thrown out of his home, he builds a relationship with Eric Foreman and moves into Foreman‘s spare room. However, when Taub starts dating both a beautiful young CNA, Ruby, and his ex-wife, his life is complicated beyond belief when both women get pregnant.

Main Cast

• Hugh Laurie as Gregory House
• Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy
• Robert Sean Leonard as James Wilson
• Omar Epps as Eric Foreman
• Jesse Spencer as Robert Chase
• Olivia Wilde as Remy “Thirteen” Hadley

Recurring Characters

Amber Tamblyn as Martha M. Masters (14 episodes) Candice Bergen as Arlene Cuddy (3 episodes) Paula Marshall as Julia Cuddy (3 episodes) Kayla Colbert and Rylie Colbert as Rachel Cuddy (6 episodes) Jennifer Crystal Foley as Rachel Taub (5 epidodes) Zena Grey as Ruby (3 episodes) Nigel Gibbs as Sanford Wells (3 episodes) Cynthia Watros as Sam Carr (3 episodes)

Notable Guest Stars

Alyson Stoner as Della Amy Irving as Alice Tanner Jennifer Grey as Abbey Dylan Baker as Dr. Dave Broda Matthew Lillard as Jack Linda Park as Kelly Lee Shohreh Aghdashloo as Afsoun Hamidi

Major Events

• House and Cuddy start a sexual relationship, which they soon announce to the hospital.
• Thirteen takes personal leave. She misleads the rest of the team that she is seeking treatment for her Huntington’s disease in Rome, but in reality she is leaving to take care of her older brother, who is in the final stages of the disease.
• House and Cuddy get into their first fight over House’s use of a masseuse who also used to be one of his prostitutes. He finally switches to a new masseuse.
• House babysits Rachel Cuddy for the first time and it turns into a disaster when she gets into some change and seems to have swallowed some. When the dime doesn’t pass, House later figures she didn’t actually swallow any, but when the dime turns up in her diaper and Cuddy finds it, Rachel points the finger directly at House.
• After House hires and fires three female fellows in quick succession, Cuddy sticks a medical student, Martha M. Masters, on his team. Despite Masters unfailing honesty, she makes a bigger contribution to the team than the other three members.
• Sam Carr asks Wilson to review some of her treatment records to please her new supervisor. Wilson finds what appear to be dosing errors that he feels were an attempt by Sam to treat particularly aggressive cancer. He proposes marriage to Sam saying that he admires her for taking those risks, but Sam is taken aback and says they really were errors. She breaks up with him instead.
• Sanford Wells marries a woman much younger than he is. Chase goes to the wedding and scores with three women. Foreman strikes out.
• House meets Cuddy’s mother Arlene, with disastrous consequences for all involved.
• Taub becomes the face of Princeton-Plainsboro when his picture is plastered on billboards all over town. Initially, his wife becomes much more affectionate but he realizes that neither one is enjoying it the way they are supposed to and he decides to ask for a divorce.
• Someone pranks Chase’s social networking account. He finally finds its one of the women he blew off at the wedding because she said she didn’t sleep with guys after just meeting them.
• House secretly preps Rachel Cuddy for a pre-school evaluation. She aces the evaluation but the teachers are suspicious. However, Rachel lies rather than tell anyone that House helped her.
• Cuddy’s mother is admitted with a mysterious illness. After the mother throws House off the case, they must work secretly to help her. Despite a threat by House to end her medical career, Masters finds out about the deception and informs Cuddy’s mother. However, Cuddy manages to convince her mother to stay at the hospital and House manages to successfully diagnose her.
• Taub fails his board exams in pathology and, facing being fired, turns to Foreman for assistance. However, Taub winds up cheating instead.
• House tries to pull strings with Sanford Wells to get Rachel Cuddy admitted to an exclusive pre-school. However, in exchange, Wells asks House to go to Career Day. The consequences are disastrous.
• House loses another patient and figures his relationship with Cuddy is affecting his ability to do his job. He tells Cuddy this, but instead of breaking up, he tells her he would rather be happy than be a good doctor.
• Cuddy gets a cancer scare and House is AWOL during the whole process. When he finally shows up and the scare turns out to be a false alarm, Cuddy realizes House took Vicodin again. She breaks off the relationship.
• House descends into a haze of Vicodin, booze and hookers.
• House marries a Russian immigrant, Dominika Patrova, so she can get her green card.
• Masters develops a crush on a patient - a professional rodeo bull rider.
• The team treat a patient who later turns out to be a serial killer.
• Thirteen is released from prison to find House waiting to drive her to a spud gun competition. House finds out that Thirteen gave her brother a fatal overdose when he was suffering from the final stages of Huntington’s disease and she was sentenced for excessive prescribing because the D.A. couldn’t prove she administered the drugs.
• Masters graduates medical school. House offers her an internship, but he withdraws it when she won’t falsify records. She goes into a surgical program, but when the patient she was treating gets worse, she returns to finish the case and bends medical ethics to get her patient treated. She leaves to re-evaluate her future.
• In a desperate attempt to get Cuddy and House back together again, Cuddy’s mother tries to get them to unite against her by threatening to sue the hospital. However, House figures out the plan and when confronted, Cuddy’s mother admits it.
• House starts taking an untested experimental drug that re-builds muscle tissue. It starts to work.
• House finds out the rats being tested with the drug have all gotten tumors. He scans himself and finds three growing in his thigh. He tries to operate on himself without success. When no-one else answers his calls, he contacts Cuddy, who gets him to the hospital.
• Cuddy and House finally confront each other about their breakup. However, when House finds out Cuddy is dating someone new, he crashes his car into her living room and runs off to a tropical island to escape arrest.

False Rumours

• Jennifer Morrison was supposed to return for a mini-arc, but did not.
• There was no intimate relationship between Thirteen and Masters
• Shohreh Agdashloo was rumored to be playing the mother of House’s immigration wife, Dominika, but instead played a completely unrelated role.

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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