Alan must see the school principal over a picture Jake drew of a schoolmate and calls Charlie to watch over the boy.
House and his team scramble to find the cause of kidney and brain dysfunction in a pregnant patient, leaving the woman and her husband to face a heartbreaking choice, and Vogler continues his quest to have House fired.
Jake returns home to Malibu, and is eager to re-kindle his relationship with Miley. However, he soon learns that in this case absence hasn't necessarily made the heart grow fonder.
Miley and Jake are officially a couple. Jake adjusts his lifestyle to make the relationship work. Meanwhile, Rico tries to steal Jackson's and Oliver's cheese jerky recipe.
Lori argues that a bullet not be removed from her former informant, despite the fact that it could endanger his life, on the grounds that it could incriminate him.