The revelry stops when there?s a massive explosion, which pins our POV guy?s legs under the dash. The team?s sergent pulls him free and drags him to safety. Gunfire starts all around them, and the sergent shoves a rifle into the hands of POV guy with orders. We finally get to see that POV guy is?wha?….House, lying in a ditch in a large pool of blood where his leg should be. His eyes close, and when they open?.House is in his office recliner, awakening from a nightmare to see Cuddy there. She has a patient that he has to take, because he?s the nephew of a benefactor to whom Cuddy owes a favor. The patient is an ex-Marine who thinks he has Gulf War Syndrome. House opens the patient?s file to find?.the military I.D. photo of the guy who saved him in his nightmare! Hey! Pretty cool! But WTF?

Patient experiences a rash, fatigue, cough, sore throats and joint pain, with leg tingles. The ducklings are skeptical at first, thinking his fatigue and joint pain might be do to over-exertion in working out, as the guy is in excellent physical shape.

They monitor him at night for sleep disorders. At one point Foreman is left alone, wondering where Chase and Cameron are. They return without their lab coats and slightly mussed hair, so this is probably the ep where they?re rumored to have sex.

The patient develops typically disgusting complications with equally disgusting treatments.

At one point House is yelling at Cuddy, and Chase moves to break up the argument and slips in a pool of urine, which is coming out of a catheter bag that sprung a leak, strapped to House?s leg. The urine is flowing like a river. House?s nose starts to bleed and he becomes fatigued. He closes his eyes, only to open them and?he?s in bed, having awoken from another dream. Damn! But his catheter bag did break, leaking all over his bed. But he?s smiling the House Smile of Realization.

House solves the puzzle with a clue from the dream. The patient has a genetic disease that?s destroying his capillaries.