Control

Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler donates $100 million to Princeton-Plainsboro, officially becoming the new Chairman of the Board. Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his biotech venture and also plans to eliminate House's financially draining department for good. Meanwhile, a businesswoman has it all - perfect life, perfect body, perfect job - until she finds herself inexplicably paralyzed. When he diagnoses her condition, House must risk his job and his medical license to save her.

Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a man's mutilation in a subway station. The victim soon becomes a suspect when they learn he used to abduct women, make them his "brides," and force them to live in his dungeon. However, a woman manages to kill him before he is arrested. She claims she took the law into her own hands because when she reported the man's crimes to Detective Benson four years earlier, she didn't believe her.

Concerned about Louie's bad eating habits, Kim puts him on a healthy diet that only aggravates the problem.

Tommy and Mike must put aside their differences when a roadblock puts a halt to a routine call; Sheila uses her leverage to control Tommy's drinking; Lou refuses to give in to the allure of an old flame.

Ryan attempts to have the two women in his life meet one another, and he tries to make the process simple and easy but Wilfred manages to make the seemingly mundane event much more complicated than he could have ever expected. Opening quote: "The master understands that the universe is forever out of control." - Lao Tzu