Everybody Dies (House)

"Everybody Dies" is the last episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House, and the final episode of the series. It aired on Fox Network in the United States on May 21, 2012. The series finale aired immediately following a retrospective episode, entitled "Swan Song", which made for a two-hour special. The title is a reference to the pilot episode which was called "Everybody Lies".

House wakes up in an abandoned building next to a dead body. When Dr. Lawrence Kutner appears (who had committed suicide some seasons earlier), House realizes that he is hallucinating parts of his subconscious. He mentions to his subconscious that the body next to him is his former patient (James LeGros). The majority of the episode is House describing the case and arguing with his subconscious, who appears in various forms— Dr. Lawrence Kutner, Dr. Amber Volakis, Stacy Warner and finally Dr. Allison Cameron. However, while all this is going on, the abandoned building is slowly burning to the ground, and House must decide whether to escape or let himself die.

House identifies his patient as a fellow drug addict who was addicted to heroin (although he is scant on the specific medical details, noting that "nobody cares about the medicine"). House takes an interest in this patient, who describes his life as being so miserable that heroin was the only thing that made him happy.

While discussing the case with his subconscious, House also mentions his attempt to find a way out of going to jail for the felony vandalism offence that he committed in the previous episode. However, both Foreman and Wilson refuse to lie for House. The patient, believing he is about to die, offers to "take the fall" for House. However, as he does this, House notices a symptom that means that the patient would live, and tells him this instead of lying to the patient.