House and Cuddy are investigating the repercussions of those emotions and endeavoring to make a genuine relationship work. In the interim, because of an associate's ailment, Princeton Plainsboro is left without a neurosurgeon on location, compromising the emergency clinic's accreditation as a Level 1 Trauma Center. As the group endeavors therapy to get their wiped out partner back to work, they find there is a whole other world to the sickness than they initially suspected and go to House for bearing. All things being equal, House stays slippery, leaving the group all alone.