They’re driving along just fine, when we see the kid have some sort of facial spasm, and his hand squeezes the accelerator, too. His dad starts screaming at him, to no avail, and falls/jumps off the bike. I couldn’t tell which it was, but if he jumped off he should have pulled his son, too. The kid drives off the end of the trail and crashes into a pile of those huge cement pipes you see at construction sites. Everything goes all flamey, and not in the fun, men’s figure skating-Johnny Weir kind of way.

There! I made a joke. That’s probably it, though. Next, the kid is being wheeled in from a helicopter and he’s got some sort of metallic blanket covering him. Cut to House, hiding and translating a medical journal from Hindi. I think just for fun. He’s heard about the burn victim, but wants nothing to do with it, UNTIL he sees that the kid’s heart appears to be all messed up as well. They all head over to the burn unit to observe the kid. Oh no, this is really awful. The kid is a total mess. It’s quite sad. House is all business, though, suggesting an antiquated device that I think is meant to check the kid’s heart, but I’m a little unclear. I’m totally distracted by the awful sight of the nurses scrubbing the patient while he’s still unconscious.

In Cuddy’s office, a doctor is asking for AV equipment for a presentation that Cuddy approved. Cuddy has no recollection of this, which of course means House has been forging signatures and whatnot. There’s some back and forth about Cuddy’s assistant, or lack thereof. Remember the male assistant? Well, now they refer to this person as a “her,” and she’s quit without Cuddy’s knowledge. I think we’re supposed to get that Cuddy is just as hard to work for as House, but in her own special way.

House is fiddling around with an old, unconscious man’s brain. Cuddy comes barging in and notices that this coma patient has a migraine, which seems a bit unusual. And it is. House induced it to test the efficacy of a new migraine drug. Um, is that supposed to be one of his wacky hijinks? That’s pretty horrible. Cuddy thinks so too, enough that she doesn’t seem all that mad about him forging her signature anymore. House says, with a raised eyebrow, that they can talk later about “appropriate discipline.” You know, he says it like he’s joking, but I bet Cuddy has spanked the hell out of him before. More than once.