House spent the last year in prison at the East New Jersey Correctional Facility after ramming his car into Cuddy's house and attempting to escape responsibility with his trip outside the country. Entirely cut off from his old life, House determines his current problems result from his inability to deal with people. Feeling he will never be able to practice medicine again, he plans instead to return to university to earn a doctorate in physics. This field will all but assure his isolation from other human beings. When a fellow inmate becomes ill with strange symptoms, House tries to help him while encouraging the young prison clinic doctor, Jessica Adams, to risk her job and trust his diagnosis.
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Eleven months after driving his car into Cuddy's house, three of which were spent on the run and the other eight in prison, House goes before the parole board and learns he has only five days left before he is released. A local prison gang leader then demands twenty Vicodin pills as an "exit tax." As House scrambles to pay up, he tries to treat another inmate (Sebastian Sozzi) with joint pain while turning Dr. Jessica Adams ( Odette Annable ) to his point of view. Final diagnosis: Mastocytosis Absent: Omar Epps as Eric Foreman, Jesse Spencer as Robert Chase, Robert Sean Leonard as James Wilson, Peter Jacobson as Chris Taub, and Charlyne Yi as Chi Park.