A teenage girl Callie/Jane Doe (Bridgit Mendler) needs a surgery requiring adult consent, but claims she is fleeing an abusive household.
House and Adams debate whether to call Social Services, but then her mom shows up and it turns out the relationship is far more complicated than the team could have anticipated.
Meanwhile, Taub can't connect with his infant daughters and House threatens to exploit Foreman's relationship with a married woman.
House is examining a young girl (Callie) in the clinic who is having trouble breathing.
The patient registered under a fake name, but Adams and Park decide to scan the foreclosed house she listed as her address.
When Callie realizes they went to her school she tries to leave the hospital, knowing that social services will come, but she collapses and complains she can't feel her legs.
Foreman explains that House called back and cancelled the real social worker and has arranged another one.
House meets the team to start a new differential, as it appears steroids made it worse.
House decides on Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and tells them to get consent from the mother to test for it.
The mother gives him back his pills and tells him to treat her daughter for alcoholism.
House notes those don't wait for years to appear and goes to dismiss the idea when he thinks of something.
They are generally asymptomatic, but when set off by a small trauma, they attack the body's organs.