Why does 13 leave

Just 31 countries mandate a maternity leave of less than 12 weeks. The advance notice required for taking maternity leave varies from country to country, the report points out. In Australia, federal legislation stipulates that a woman must inform her employer that she is pregnant and will be taking time off at least ten weeks before leaving.

In Austria, a worker is required to inform her employer of her pregnancy and of the likely date of birth as soon as she herself knows, and is also required to inform the employer of the date that her prenatal leave will begin four weeks before leaving.

In Ireland and the United Kingdom, notification must follow a strict procedure or the woman could lose the protection of the courts in any dispute. In other countries, pregnant women enjoy greater rights — in Denmark, France, Greece and Italy, a woman automatically enjoys protection of maternity leave laws simply by becoming pregnant, no matter how and when the employer learns of it.

In Finland, a woman is required to inform her employer only if she wishes to take leave more than 30 days before the expected date of birth. In some countries, leave entitlement may depend on the number of children already in the family, the frequency of births, or both, length of service or working hours. In Nepal, a woman may take just two maternity leaves in her working life, and in Barbados, Egypt, Grenada, Jamaica and Zimbabwe, just three. In the Bahamas and Tanzania, women are allowed a maternity leave only once every three years.

A minimum length of service with the same employer is the most common condition of maternity leave. Some examples include a minimum of three months of employment in Switzerland; six months in Libya, Syria in agriculture and Somalia; six months during the year preceding the birth in Egypt and the Philippines; one year in Australia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Mauritius, Namibia, New Zealand and United Arab Emirates, and two years in Gambia and Zambia.

Collective bargaining agreements between unions and employers often increase the leave entitlement, the report finds. In Spain, for example, 18, public school teachers in the Basque region receive 18 weeks maternity leave, two more than mandated by law, and 12, private school teachers in the same region receive 17 weeks. In Mexico, two major banks and a power company provide one to four weeks more leave than the 12 weeks mandated by law. In the United Kingdom, 85 per cent of different businesses surveyed in offered longer maternity leaves than mandated by law.

Employment Protection: The ILO says that an essential element in maternity protection is a legal guarantee to pregnant women and young mothers that they will not lose their jobs as a result of pregnancy, absence on maternity leave or the birth of a child. The guarantee is an essential means of preventing maternity from becoming a source of discrimination against women in employment, Ms.

Dy-Hammar says. In the United States, discrimination is prohibited against pregnant women, women at childbirth and women who are affected by a related medical condition, but only in companies with 15 or more workers. In addition, policies and practices in connection with pregnancy and related matters must be applied on the same terms and conditions as those applied to other temporary disabilities. The ILO has found at least 29 countries, most of them in Africa and Asia, that have adopted laws that provide an absolute prohibition against the dismissal of a worker during maternity leave for any reason.

The ILO says that if the protection against dismissal is to be effective, it must also cover the period following the employee's return to work. The actual period of protection varies considerably. In China, Haiti and Romania, the period of protection corresponds to just the nursing period, which is not further defined. Cash and Medical Benefits: The situation of workers who become pregnant shortly after beginning a new job is often precarious. Qualifying periods of 3 to 12 months of employment are frequently found in national laws and collective agreements with regard to access to benefits.

Minimum contribution levels may be required to qualify for social security payments. Part-time and temporary workers may have difficulty meeting eligibility requirements. In fact, a report to the US Congress on family and medical leave policies Note 2 found that per cent of the women eligible for leave who did not take it said that they could not afford to. The report finds that working women have made striking progress in receiving maternity leave paid through social security since the first ILO maternity convention of , when only nine countries provided this benefit.

The number rose to 40 by , and to more than today. In other countries, employers are required to pay all or part of the benefits. In many countries, the number of women entitled to maternity protection has increased mainly because of the extension of social security plans to women who were not previously covered, such as agricultural and domestic workers and the self-employed.

In the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Finland, Philippines, Portugal, Slovakia and Tunisia, for example, self-employed women are protected under the same qualifying conditions, at the same level of benefits and payment as employed women.

Belgium, France, Gabon, Luxembourg and Spain have set up special systems to protect self-employed women during maternity. While paid maternity leave has become standard in most industrialized countries, progress has not been uniform. In the season 4 finale, Wilson's Heart , she tested herself for Huntington's Disease, and the result came back positive, meaning that she does have the disease and can expect to deteriorate and eventually die as a result. Thirteen is the only currently-known doctor on the show that is not heterosexual; her bisexuality has been explored since the episode Don't Ever Change.

Thirteen continued to be slow to reveal any information about herself within the show. However, by Don't Ever Change , Foreman suggests to Thirteen that the reason for her secrecy is that she is bisexual for example, she was once seen looking interestedly at pornography House was watching. House arrives at the same conclusion at the end of the episode. She has since made various jokes about dating girls while refusing to confirm or deny her sexuality, but her lack of anything to say at the moment seems to confirm Foreman's suspicions.

However, the rest of her co-workers adopted Foreman's suspicions and House clearly calls her out on it at every opportunity. Thirteen refused to confirm or deny the rumor, but is not above teasing her teammates about it. In Living The Dream , she said, perhaps jokingly, that she thought she had dated one of the actresses on the show. However, in the episode Lucky Thirteen , her sexual orientation became open to the entire team when she brought her most recent one-night-stand to the hospital after she suffered a seizure in bed.

However, this did not change House's teasing attitude, or the attitudes of her colleagues towards her. This was probably because they had suspected it all along. However, in the same episode, it is clear that Thirteen's behavior is deteriorating; staying up late at night and engaging in promiscuous sex with other women. This was clearly because she decided to take the test for Huntington's, which turned out positive.

When Cuddy catches Thirteen giving herself intravenous fluids after a particularly late night, House manages to convince Cuddy she can't give Thirteen a drug test but then fires her. However, once he sees her bond with Spencer personally, he reinstates her. He only fired her to see if she could form relationships that might stabilize her behavior.

As a parallel, Darryl Nolan decided to help House reinstate his medical license when he saw him form a bond with Lydia. However, the Huntington's diagnosis continued to make Thirteen take unnecessary risks. In the episode Last Resort , she agrees to be a guinea pig for a hostage-taking patient and injects herself with every drug given to the patient to allay his fears that they are giving him a sedative.

It is only at the end, when she is near-complete kidney failure from the drug overdoses, that she realizes she wants to live and refuses to take the last drug, which most likely would have killed her.

She straightens out after that incident. However, when House announces he's not coming back, she starts working for her boyfriend, Eric Foreman. They solve the case with a little help from House.

However, Foreman realizes that he can't work with Thirteen while remaining his girlfriend because she won't stand up to him. He fires her, and she eventually heads off for an indefinitely long trip to Thailand. However, she eventually returns, and although she's offered a job in a community clinic, she agrees to come back to work for House in Teamwork. It is also touched upon in the episode Post Mortem , her team acknowledging her open sexuality.

Taub mentioning to Chase about Thirteen having "Sapphic sex. Thirteen's compassion and care for others are among her best traits, but she has major problems dealing with death and terminal patients, perhaps out of fear of her mortality from her Huntington's disease. She is also afraid of getting attached to people because she doesn't want to 'pull someone down' with her, so she was hesitant to begin her relationship with Foreman.

Thirteen is level headed, bright, enthusiastic, and generally not afraid to speak up when she thinks she is right. She has good relationships with patients, and it is shown she isn't as judgmental as her colleagues when it comes to drug-using patients. This could be attributed to her history of drug use. She has deliberately kept the details of her life guarded, preferring to go by her assigned number, 13, even after being hired. Foreman believes that this is because she is bisexual and wants to keep her private life hidden.

She arguably possesses greater street smarts than any of the other characters. In the episode Joy, she correctly identified a female drug dealer who met up with the patient, while Taub mistook the same woman for a prostitute.

Also, she distinguished unadulterated cocaine from that mixed with impurities and was also aware the dealer kept both pure cocaine for new customers and impure cocaine for addicts and asked for the impure sample for testing.

In the episode The Down Low , when gangsters cornered thirteen and drug dealer Eddie, she easily fell into the role of a prostitute, thereby preventing Eddie's associate from realizing he had brought a doctor to where their drugs were stashed. She also appears well able to defend herself, as when a patient grabbed her in Adverse Events, she not only escaped his grip but did so by breaking his nose. However, when she was younger, Thirteen appears to have been more vulnerable.

In Private Lives , she admitted that at the age of 17, she fell in love for the first time with a man of 30 who was merely manipulating her. Her tough persona might also mask a more sensitive nature, as her encounter with the patient in Mirror Mirror implies she is often in a state of fear and anxiety.

For this season and the following two, Olivia Wilde, was credited as "also starring" starting with Games. Remy first appears as an applicant for House's new team in this episode. House created a type of 'Survivor' contest after the events in Human Error 3. She immediately distinguishes herself from the other applicants but is reluctant to make a connection with anyone at PPTH, even going so far as to refuse to tell them her real name.

When House introduces the patient who is given the code name "Osama bin Laden", the applicants start questioning her. Thirteen guesses the patient frequently flies and has an embolism. He then orders the applicants to do a whole bunch of tasks. The Right Stuff.

House sends Cole to find the patient's car, but Thirteen volunteers to go with him. House comments sarcastically that they have a love connection, and leaves. House calls Thirteen and Cole who have found the patient's car, but it is behind a locked fence with two angry dogs.

When House asks them what's taking so long, Thirteen says that the car was towed and the yard's locked - they can't get the key.

House responds that it's why he sent two of them - one breaks in, the other posts bail. When Thirteen says that getting arrested isn't what she's worried about, House says, "Not a problem. You know how to kill dogs, right? Thirteen and Cole find out who the patient is, but there is no useful information apart from the patient's name.

House is annoyed that they spent so long finding the car when they barely found anything useful, and asks Thirteen why she went with Cole. He thinks that Thirteen didn't want to have the patient mirror her, and decides to make her do the heart biopsy instead.

House tells Foreman that he and Thirteen will do the biopsy and Foreman leaves. House makes Thirteen do the biopsy. The patient starts acting like House, making sexual comments about how hot Thirteen is, but House tries to pretend that she's his boss.

After the patient says, "This is so frustrating," Thirteen says that she doesn't think he's mirroring her, and House realizes that he has to leave, since the patient won't mirror Thirteen while he's there. After House leaves and Thirteen completes the biopsy, the patient starts acting like he is very scared. Thirteen tries to reassure him by saying "It's OK. It's going to be OK," and the patient responds with, "No.

No, it's not. He threatens to fire Kutner if he doesn't, but before Kutner can, Thirteen walks out. Mirror Mirror. Thirteen finally reveals how her mother died when House confronts her about her mother. Thirteen admits she died from Huntington's disease.

Thirteen figures she might have it, but House tells her that she's probably just taking in too much caffeine - he switched out her decaf. Thirteen has not been tested for the Huntington's gene, and House is astounded. While in the episode Thirteen prepares to biopsy House, House awakens and asks if the patient is still alive and Thirteen proceeds with a liver biopsy.

House realizes it was Thirteen who drugged him, but she notes he drugged her too. At the end, Thirteen confronts House about testing her for Huntington's. They don't look at the test results, with House dropping it in a trash bin. You Don't Want To Know. During this season, some Thirteen's personal information is revealed. Thirteen starts displaying signs of self-destructive behaviour and also reveals that she has asthma.

Thirteen is fired but rehired after making a real emotional connection with a patient. However, Thirteen continues on her downward spiral. Thirteen is also forced to become a guinea pig for whatever drugs a hostile patient receives in one of the episodes. Thirteen suggests an insulinoma about the patient illness, House discloses that she probably has Huntington's.

Thirteen denies to the team that she has Huntington's. House tells Thirteen not to feel so bad about being wrong about lymphoma - at least she had a good theory and stuck to her convictions. He reminds her that dying changes everything, but almost dying doesn't. Dying Changes Everything. A lot of information is revealed about Thirteen, including how she is starting to go out of control after finding out she has Huntington's Disease.

Thirteen hooks up with a woman for a one-night stand. Afterwards, the woman suffers a seizure. Cameron asks Thirteen what the patient's name is, but she replies that she doesn't know. Cameron mentions that Thirteen said the patient took drugs about five hours before the seizure. House becomes intrigued at the thought of the two women together at 3 a. As the team goes through the case file, Thirteen laments that her private life is on display, but also thinks it is just dehydration from drugs.

Foreman asks if Thirteen was also taking drugs, but she refuses to answer. Taub reports that the patient had eye hemorrhaging two years ago. Kutner thinks that blood clots could explain everything, but Thirteen dismisses Spencer as a hypochondriac. House orders a bone marrow biopsy. As Thirteen prepares to draw bone marrow from Spencer, House watches their awkward interaction with amusement. The patient reacts by stiffening in pain as Thirteen pushes the biopsy needle into her hip.

Spencer has been told about House. He chats with Spencer about her sexual experience with Thirteen. Spencer rates Thirteen a seven out of ten. Thirteen angrily tells Spencer that she found the letters she wrote trying to get House to take on her case. She accuses Spencer of sleeping with her to get to House, and Spencer admits she followed Thirteen to a bar to ask for help, but counters that Thirteen was only using her for sex. Thirteen notes the biopsy results were negative and wants to discharge her.

Suddenly, Spencer clutches her chest and the cardiac monitor beeps. Thirteen asks a nurse to get the defibrillator paddles and has to admit the symptoms are real. In the hospital, the team is shown looking at a spider they found in Thirteen's apartment. Its venom can cause seizures and heart problems.

House realizes that an inhaler, also found in her apartment, shows that Thirteen had asthma as a child. Thirteen is the one ordered to check Spencer's body for spider bites.

Thirteen admits she doesn't like relationships. Spencer wants to get to know Thirteen more and as they are about to kiss, Spencer comments that Thirteen didn't need to move her hand and Thirteen realizes that Spencer's hip is numb. Foreman approaches Thirteen as she observes the surgery. He hands her the results of the Huntington's test he kept House from finding in her apartment.

He realizes she will be symptomatic in a relatively short time and believes her behavior is getting destructive. When they talk about Thirteen's behavior, Foreman tells her that taking drugs, drinking and having sex with strangers isn't what life is all about. She replies that she only wants to live her life to the fullest and that it sounds fun to her. Thirteen lies on an exam table.

She looks exhausted and disheveled, giving herself a bag of fluids to combat her hangover. Thirteen hears someone coming, bolts up as best she can, yanks the IV out of her arm, but can't do much more before the door swings open. It's Cuddy. House enters Cuddy's office to find a tired and rundown Thirteen. Cuddy wants her to take a drug test. Thirteen resists and House denies permission to Cuddy and orders Thirteen to follow him out of Cuddy's office.

Once they're outside in the main area, House lets Thirteen know that Spencer's surgery was not routine because she had stopped breathing. Thirteen missed a differential, and House fires her.

He only wanted to save her the humiliation of a drug test and to stop her losing her license. Thirteen studies Spencer's chest x-rays. Foreman apologizes to her about her getting fired, saying they ruled out hypertension. Spencer is now on a treadmill running a methacholine challenge. Foreman thinks Thirteen has been acting like an idiot. Thirteen realizes that lung cysts wouldn't show up on an x-ray.

The treadmill test won't close her airway, but will instead make her lungs explode from a broken cyst. Thirteen rushes in to find Spencer on the floor. She stabs a syringe into the patient, and air escapes from Spencer's chest, allowing her lung to expand. Kutner, Taub, Foreman and Thirteen report the cysts to House. Thirteen thinks it is amyloidosis. House tells them to biopsy the cysts. The team encourages House to bring Thirteen back, but House insists to Thirteen that she is still unwelcome.

House then goes to Thirteen with the results, asking her why she doesn't like men. He figures she likes the challenge of seducing pretty women. He tells her to tell the patient she has only ten years to live. Thirteen agrees to do it even though she won't get her job back, just so the patient won't have to deal with House. Thirteen explains the diagnosis to Spencer. She has a disease called LAM.

Surgery can remove the cysts, but the cysts replace healthy lung tissue until the lungs stop working. Spencer drops her head, stunned by this turn, realizing she will eventually die from the disease. Chase and his surgical team remove the cysts from Spencer's lungs. Later, as she lies in recovery, Thirteen tells her what to expect when coping with a fatal condition.

Spencer realizes that Thirteen is talking about herself. Suddenly, Thirteen notices blood spreading across the stitches.

She gathers the team. They can't stop the bleeding. Thirteen thinks it is a new symptom: aplastic anemia. House reminds her that she's been fired. The patient may not have LAM, but what she has is probably worse.

House knocks on the glass, motioning for Thirteen to join him. House wants to do a bone marrow transplant and tells Thirteen to get the consent. House doesn't know what it is, but feels a transplant is her only chance. Thirteen is waiting in House's office and tells him that Spencer agreed to the transplant. House admonishes her. He tells her, "You're gonna keep spiraling, keep screwing around, keep slashing away at every person who tries to help until no one tries to help anymore.

Until you hit bottom; until you're dead. House notices that Thirteen's lips are cracked from the use of her inhaler. He is struck with an idea, and asks if Spencer cried when told she was going to die. Thirteen does not think she did. Thirteen gets her job back, but her self-destructive behavior still continues.

Thirteen returns back to her downward spiral, hooking up with new beautiful women and having one-night stands. Lucky Thirteen. With one person shot and other patients needing medical attention, Thirteen agrees to be used as a guinea pig by the patient to prevent him from being tricked into being sedated by the medications they send in to treat him.

With the SWAT team closing in, House is determined to end the standoff the only way he knows how: by coming up with the right diagnosis. When Thirteen agrees to be injected to save the rest of the patients, House tells Thirteen how stupid she is being - the drug is bad for Huntington's patients. Thirteen collapses in pain. House is trying to figure out the patient and asks him why a diagnosis is so important. The patient reacts in pain to the injection as well.

House starts a carotid artery massage to slow his heart. Thirteen wants to get a drug to slow down his heart, and the patient agrees to give her thirty seconds, but only after pointing the gun at the hostage who gave him the lighter so that Thirteen understands that if she doesn't come back, he will kill the boy. After running outside, Thirteen freezes when she sees police officers.

When it seems that Thirteen will not be coming back, the patient acts as if he's about to shoot the boy, but the nurse yells for the patient to shoot her instead. However, at the last second, she decides she does not want to die. Thirteen rushes back in, and no one is shot. The patient once again asks that someone else be injected with the drug first.

However, the drug slows the heart rate, and slowing the heart rate of someone who already has a normal heart rate is dangerous.

House objects to this, but Thirteen voluntarily injects herself and passes out with a dangerously low heart rate. House injects the patient and his heartbeat returns to normal. House notices that the patient is only sweating on one side of his face, indicating that it's probably lung cancer.

Thirteen's heart rate continues to fall. House orders the nurse and the boy to help her up to raise her heart rate. They get to radiology. After the CT Scan , House writes something down on a notepad and hands the notepad to one of the hostages. He tells the patient that if he wants the answer, he'll have to give him the gun first.

Then he turns about the results of the scan and asks Thirteen what she sees. She replies that it's a starburst caused by the gun he was holding during the scan, obscuring the CT results. The hostage turns the notepad around and it says "starburst" on it. This proves that Thirteen wasn't just making up what she was saying as a way to get the gun from the patient.

The patient finally gives up the gun and two more hostages leave. House, Thirteen, and the boy who gave up the lighter stay with the patient. House gives the patient back the gun and tells the police that the patient overpowered him. Thirteen starts shouting at House for always having to know the answer and being so afraid to be wrong that he'd even risk the lives of others to figure out the answer. House yells back at Thirteen that he's only arrogant, that's she's the coward for trying to shorten her own life, giving her the illusion of control.

The patient shows a new symptom - partial deafness in his right ear. House thinks it might be Cushing's syndrome. The patient trades the boy for drugs. The patient still wants the drug to be used on Thirteen first. The patient finds out that Thirteen has no more than ten years left to live. House injects the patient. However, there is no improvement in his breathing. Thirteen starts having an increased heart rate and fever. House realizes her kidneys are shutting down.

House realizes Thirteen needs more medical care. House chastises the patient for leaving that out of his history. House orders the drug to treat it, but the police are tired of negotiating with the patient. The patient then says that he'll trade House for the drugs. House realizes that he's going to give Thirteen the drug once again and tells the patient that he'll inject the drug in himself because more drugs would kill Thirteen.

The patient doesn't care, noting that since Thirteen has taken everything that he's taken, any bad reactions she has to it would more accurately reflect what would happen to him.

Thirteen tells House that she'll either die from the drug or the patient will shoot her, so she'll die either way. House leaves the room and we see the patient telling Thirteen to inject herself with the drug. Unlike the previous times where she readily injected herself, this time she is scared and admits that she doesn't want to die.

The police set up the concussive charge outside the room. The patient points his gun at her, threatening her. Thirteen puts the needle closer and closer to her arm, but keeps crying that she doesn't want to die. She tells the patient, "Sometimes you just have to trust people.

After more moments of her moving the needle closer to her arm, she exclaims that she doesn't want to die once more. The patient grows frustrated and slams the gun down and takes the drug, injecting himself, since Thirteen is obviously refusing to do so. Right at that moment, the side of the room blows up. The patient and Thirteen are both knocked to the floor. The police rush in. House comes back into the room and goes to Thirteen.

He asks her why she's still alive. Instead of telling House that she was refusing to take the drug, she lies and tells him that he didn't make her take it.

Thirteen wakes up to find Foreman there. He tells her she will need a week of dialysis , but she should recover full kidney function. He apologizes for leaving the differential. Last Resort. Thirteen learns the nerve degeneration has already started and she probably has 10 more years left to live. Let Them Eat Cake. She is the one who finds Kutner's dead body in his apartment.

She tries to bring him back to life, but it's impossible since he died a few hours ago she and Foreman entered into his apartment. She is shocked because of Kutner's death. She goes, along with Foreman and House to Kutner's parents' house. She assists his funeral, along with everybody except Taub.

Simple Explanation. Thirteen is fired by Foreman after Cuddy appoints Foreman the new head of the diagnostics department. Thirteen comes to congratulate him. She realizes he's angry and he admits he shouldn't be. He realizes Thirteen was just afraid to confront him openly. He is afraid it's going to affect their relationship but he doesn't want to break up with her and realizes he has to fire her.

Epic Fail. Thirteen breaks up with Foreman after he fired her in the previous episode. Thirteen gets on a plane and sets off for Thailand. Instant Karma. Thirteen returns from Thailand. House winds up at Thirteen 's apartment to tell her to come back but Thirteen shuts the door in his face without House saying anything. House finds Thirteen at her gym and asks her for a new differential.

Thirteen keeps up her exercise and House realizes she's doing it to treat her Huntington's disease. Thirteen wants to know why House hasn't just asked her to come back and realizes that he doesn't want to be rejected. House calls to Taub and Thirteen for help. Taub gets a fax and throws it out. Thirteen also gets a fax and lets it slide to the floor, ignored.

Thirteen gets the job she was looking for at the community clinic. Suddenly, Thirteen and Taub call simultaneously to tell House that the patient has Crohn's disease.

Thirteen's portrayer, Olivia Wilde, was promoted to the main cast after being a recurring character for three seasons. However, she only made six appearances in this season. Her name was also added to the opening credits. Thirteen asked for an immediate leave of absence. Foreman says he just ripped it open to find out. Thirteen is going to Rome.

Thirteen rebukes him for invading her privacy. Thirteen comes up with an idea - treat Dr. Richardson to get him back on duty. Thirteen goes to Dr. Chase realizes his stomach lining is damaged and unless they find the cause, nothing is going to work.

Thirteen tells Dr. Richardson that the misery will go away if he takes a risky drug. Chase and Thirteen are discussing the side effects of the drugs they gave Dr. When Thirteen gets confused, Chase admits he is sexually interested in her and was being patient, but with her moving away, his deadline has changed. Before she can reply, Dr. Richardson comes in, feeling much better.

The team tells the assistant that Dr. The Department of Public Hospitals will be there in 20 minutes. When the assistant leaves, Thirteen admits the likely diagnoses are hepatitis and peptic ulcer disease.

Thirteen tells Taub she will be flying out the next day. He tells her that he supports her choice to try the new treatment. The DPH is overseeing the shut down. Thirteen says that the hospital is now crawling with bureaucrats. Chase tells them to focus on their patient, who is once again trying to strip. Taub goes to stop him. Chase wonders why Dr. Foreman thinks it might be a symptom and not a side effect.

Richardson lets it slip that he snuck out of the hospital to go to a seafood convention. Chase tries to narrow it down with no luck. However, Thirteen remembers toad eggs can make people high and give them nausea. The antidote is fast acting, so they could get him on his feet quickly.

Thirteen tells Richardson that he will feel better in no time if they are right. He offers to fly over to see her, but she says she will be okay. Richardson is soon on his feet and assures the DPH man that he is fine. He passes a sobriety and cognitive test easily.

The DPH man agrees to lift the restrictions. Chase suggests a sending-off party for Thirteen. She wonders if this trick ever works, and Chase assures her it has. She hugs him, and he complains of mixed signals. However, Thirteen doesn't come for the party. Foreman has found out that Thirteen wasn't even scheduled for the experimental treatment and all her phones are disconnected. She's been lying to them all day. Her sudden departure causes Cuddy to force House to hire a new team member, who would eventually be Martha M.

Now What? Thirteen returns after missing for one year. House finds out that as part of her "leave of absence" Thirteen spent the last half of it in jail. House finds out she pled guilty to a charge of excessive prescribing, but realizes that she was charged with another crime and wants to know what she really did, Thirteen puts up her usual wall of privacy and shuts him out.

In an attempt to bring her out, he keeps her away from the hospital by enlisting her skills in controlled combustion to help build a championship calibre "spud gun" to beat one of House's younger rivals who has won the contest for several years running.

When the doors open, Thirteen walks out of the prison and is surprised to see House waiting for her. He hands her a martini and she drains it in two mouthfuls. House is driving Thirteen down the road and he asks what she did. House confirms he knows she pled guilty to excessive prescribing, but wants to know what she really did. Thirteen avoids the question. Thirteen wants to know why House is taking her to the tournament. House wants to know what Thirteen is going back for when her license practice medicine is obviously suspended because of her conviction.

He figures she was running an illegal medical clinic for some sympathetic group of people. House reveals he wants Thirteen to go along because she won a science fair competition in high school on clean combustion and he needs her skills for the competition. Thirteen realizes how serious House is about the competition and agrees to help, but demands that she be allowed a personal stop along the way. While on a personal stop along the way they arrive at a tidy house in the suburbs and Thirteen goes to the door.

A man answers and Thirteen knees him in the groin and talks to him as he crouches in pain. Thirteen refuses to discuss the incident and asks to go for food.

She tells House she killed a man. Thirteen is now driving House, who is strangely quiet. She realizes House is upset that she killed someone. She asks that House stop asking questions, but House keeps guessing. House wakes up from a nap and finds himself in a park. He sees Thirteen test firing his spud gun. She tells him it needs a fuel valve and a better ignition source. Thirteen and House go shopping for hardware. She asks how they judge the contest and realizes that as every aspect is judged equally, they should ignore accuracy and go for raw power.

She wants to find fertilizer. House and Thirteen arrive at the contest and plan to amp up the power of the gun. However, they see Harold, who has a much bigger contraption of his own, obviously built for power as well. House and Harold march towards each other. They exchange fake pleasantries. House tells Harold Thirteen killed a man. While back at the motel room Thirteen said she has a big plans for the gun.

They start eating some pie she plans on using the pie tins in the gun. House asks Thirteen nicely to tell him what she did.

House promises to put in a good word for her with the medical board, and to hire her back as a non-physician assistant. She tells him that she was with a man she met and he overdosed. As House tries to sleep, he wakes up to find Thirteen by the window sobbing. Thirteen and House plan their strategy, but House finds a clue while Thirteen is talking. He presses. However, House realizes that was the only detail he missed.

Thirteen congratulates him. However, when he was lucid, he made it clear it was time for him to die. She realizes that one day, she will be that sick too, only no one will be there to help her. House goes back to his spud gun. House points the gun at him. However, the next thing we see is House leaving a State Trooper headquarters.

Thirteen offers him a soda. That day would have been his first anniversary together with Cuddy. He calls it an arbitrary time to celebrate. While House's team is trying to find out what is wrong with the patient over the phone with House, House tells them not to rule out the husband.

Finally, Thirteen pipes up and everyone wonders who it is. House is impressed. House returns Thirteen to her house and asks for gas money. He also promises to kill her when the time comes and even offers to use his baseball bat now if it would be convenient. She says she will be in and see him again on Monday and goes inside her house. Thirteen lost her Medical license because of her jail time for euthanized her brother, but House helps her to regain it.

The Dig. When they have to leave the room, Masters agrees to take over. The patient wants to speed up the testing. Masters leaves to do her LP. Masters realizes she has to find House. She finds House arguing with Thirteen about the cover story, but he counters he got her medical license back.

Masters asks about the chickens and Thirteen tells her that House and Wilson have a bet to see how long they can go without getting caught. Foreman encourages Masters to stick around - she remembers what the rules are and stands up for them.