An attractive 27-year-old business consultant experiences intermittent episodes of excruciating ear pain.
While treating her ear pain, caused by supraventricular tachycardia, the men on the team are charmed by Valerie's beauty and personality.
Following up on clues from a conversation with Thirteen, Valerie's husband finds out his wife was not attending weekly evening classes as claimed.
Thirteen returns to verbally assault Valerie, but Foreman enters and removes her from the room and convinces her to ignore it.
When Thirteen asks her what she feels, she replies that she does not know, but it hurts, indicating she is experiencing guilt for having manipulated her husband (and pushing him away as a result) but is not familiar with the sensation.
House also uncharacteristically reaches out to a former medical school colleague named Wibberly (Ray Abruzzo) he wronged.
House had exchanged a medical school assignment with one Wibberly wrote to test a hypothesis a professor was going to give him a bad grade regardless of the quality of his work.
Wibberly originally claimed he got a failing grade, triggering a series of events and forcing him out of medical school.
When House tried to give him a check to help with expenses, Wibberly admitted he got an A+ for the paper, had a successful medical practice but lost his money to a gambling habit.