Shannon McClung

With a big football game coming up and a record to break, Coach Cam is intensely focused and showing no mercy even when the opposing team is playing with an unexpected disadvantage. Elsewhere, Claire is determined to prove to the staff that she is more than just the boss’s daughter, and Phil tries to teach his kids a lesson about optimism, but the universe just isn’t cooperating.

The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S.

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.

Jane joins a separatist commune to find out how a U.S. attorney was found dead in Mexico, even though there's no record of her crossing the border. Meanwhile, Rigsby and Van Pelt convince J.J. LaRoche (recurring guest star Pruitt Taylor Vince) to help them discover who's stalking former CBI members.

Jane and Fischer investigate a murder at an oil fracking site, while Rigsby and Van Pelt travel to Austin to reunite with the team and help investigate suspects in the string of attacks on former CBI team members.