While telling the team this, they notice bleeding from his eyes and hands, blood in his urine, and an enlarged spleen.
After House makes Taub guess several explanations during the differential diagnosis, he eventually comes up with sarcoidosis.
The patient decides to announce on live TV why he showed the video tape for which he was found treasonous, and unless he is granted this, he won't accept treatment.
Chase, Taub and Foreman suggest his older brother sign a form to be his conservator.
House decides to give the patient an offer he can't refuse, so they manage to get the Army to declassify the pages from his father's record.
During this, Taub tricks House into providing a stool sample which proves his liver is failing.
Chase argues this puts patients at risk due to House being suspended if he rejects treatment.
The team decide against this due to their belief that House is seriously ill and his mental state is off.
When Taub confronts the brother, he tells the patient that their father drank a lot and died in a car crash, killing himself along with a civilian, but asked his friends to change the file records to state that he died a hero's death.
House also tells them that typhus presents with psychiatric problems, so he can fight his case by claiming that he had suffered from disease-related mental instability.