Charlie Hofheimer

The final 10 fellowship candidates compete ferociously when House splits them into two teams by gender. They are assigned to diagnose and treat a wheelchair-bound man with muscular atrophy who is slowly suffocating. As the two teams are trying to one-up each other, complications arise when one team treats the patient but doesn’t follow through to make sure their treatment was executed. While the students are busy with their assignment, House experiments on himself to see what happens in the moments when people hover between life and death. Meanwhile, Foreman runs his own team of fellows in his new job at another hospital, and resorts to using a very "House-like" treatment to help a patient.

An NCIS agent who used to work under Gibbs asks for the team's help investigating a case where sailors on an aircraft carrier are dying of a drug overdose, but have no history of any kind of drug abuse.

A young Asian woman is found murdered, with her foot sawed off. The victim is of Tibetan origin and by tracking through INS they reveal her identity, Kunsong Tashi, who is married to Preston Bennett (Fredrick Weller). Kunsong has been tortured repeatedly, and Preston admits that he was doing everything he could to help his wife recover from her horrible past. She was always at the Center - a program for torture survivors at Bellevue, and they go there to talk to her physician and psychiatrist. In the meantime, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are starting to question Preston's innocence, because Kunsong was out with another man right before she died, who used Preston's credit card.

Cristina thinks about her future; a patient decides whether to live or not.

When Alicia is assigned to be on a blue ribbon panel investigating a police shooting, she begins to question the motivations of the chairman's actions. Matthew Perry guest stars.