
The wife is trying to arrange a breast cancer walk, and he starts insulting that too. Nick's daughter is getting in the way because she has an auditory processing deficiency. Taub and Kutner go to see the patient, Nick, who is still saying everything he thinks. House thinks it is a brain tumor, and Thirteen suggests it's in a nasal cavity. The patient is suffering from frontal lobe disinhibition - he's unable to control what he says. Suddenly, he starts having a nosebleed and collapses.Ĭameron brings the case to House. He's asked to be quiet, but he keeps going. He says he doesn't know why he said it, but then he starts insulting people again. His editor starts making negative comments about his book. House is determined to get to the bottom of it.Īn author is having a party, but he's having trouble giving a speech. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him when he catches them both in a lie. As Nick’s free speech lends to some amusing and insightful comments regarding the team, he must deal with the consequences of being unable to lie to his wife and everyone else important in his life. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe disinhibition, which has caused him to lose his filter and vocalize all of his innermost thoughts, resulting in extremely insulting outbursts. House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions and starts insulting coworkers and clients at a dinner party one night before falling ill. The Social Contract is a 5th season episode of House which first aired on March 9, 2009. If I said that to anybody else they’d say ‘Don’t worry, it’ll all be all right.’ You wouldn’t." - The Social Contract For two days, I’ve been thinking about how Danny’s going to react when he sees me. Giving someone a hand who maybe needs to deceive themselves, just a little. I’ve lied plenty of times." Wilson: " I mean collaborative lies. I don’t expect you to tell me the lies, the." House: " I am fully capable of lying to you.

Wilson: " House, you and I.we don’t have the normal social contract.
