Kay Lenz

When an office building collapses, House has to work fast to diagnose a young woman, Megan, who survived the disaster. Due to her injuries, Megan’s only form of communication is blinking. House, without a team since Foreman and Cameron quit and he fired Chase, talks through his ideas with a janitor at the hospital. As Megan’s condition worsens, Cuddy puts pressure on House to hire a new team, but House defiantly ignores her, and Wilson resorts to desperate measures and hits House where he knows it will hurt. As House persists in diagnosing Megan by himself, he realizes that the case is not what it appears, and that solitude may not be the answer.

When ADA Cabot (Stephanie March) is faced with a reluctant witness (guest star Bret Harrison) in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to convict the serial abuser (guest star Beau Gravitte). But her passion supercedes her compliance with the law as she misrepresents herself to Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) to bring them into an illegal search of the traumatized boy's home -- jeopardizing not only her case, but the careers of all involved.

The Jeffersonian team investigates the death of Colin Haynes, a struggling country music singer whose remains were found in a shallow grave. When the team learns about the victim’s music career, it leads them to his record label, which, they discover, was deceitful in its dealings with him. Meanwhile, squintern Wendall Bray breaks his arm during a hockey game and Brennan takes a closer look at his injuries, only to discover some shocking news.

While stuck working on a case over Christmas, the team searches for a suspect presumed dead...and begins to discover some startling personal revelations.

While investigating a suspicious suicide, the squad wades into a nasty child-custody dispute between a dying man and his meth-addicted ex-wife. Meanwhile, Pope applies for the police chief job, but Brenda might have something to say about whether or not he gets it.