The team treats a performance artist Afsoun Hamidi who deliberately made herself ill, to turn the diagnostics department into her new masterpiece documentary. House must decide which of her symptoms are real and which are self-inflicted. The team questions whether treatments are necessary and if they are unwitting participants in creating a piece of her art. As the case progresses, House vows to change his life but remains rooted in old habits. After the case is over, House finally deals with his anger over the breakup and lashes out by driving through Cuddy's dining room and escaping to a beach.