House performs a specialized brain surgery to remove the tissue containing the twin's DNA, effectively "curing" the boy of his visions. The Internal Conflict: "God Doesn't Limp"
House eventually realizes Clancy is a chimera . He was an in-vitro baby who absorbed his twin’s DNA in the womb; that "foreign" DNA was expressing itself in his brain, causing the vivid "alien" hallucinations. Cane & AbleHouse M.D. : Season 3 Episode 2
In , titled " Cane & Able ," the medical drama delivers one of its most poignant reflections on House's identity, shifting from the temporary hope of his ketamine recovery back to his familiar, painful reality. The Medical Case: Aliens or Anatomy? House performs a specialized brain surgery to remove
The team treats Clancy, a 7-year-old boy who believes he is being tortured and abducted by aliens. While the team initially dismisses his claims as hallucinations, the discovery of a in his neck and contradictory DNA results forces them to reconsider. In , titled " Cane & Able ,"
The episode's title is a play on the biblical Cain and Abel, symbolizing the internal struggle between House's "able" self (the man who can run and skateboard) and his "cane" self (the man defined by chronic pain).