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During a meeting on an upcoming drug deal, Mickey, one of the thugs, gets in a fight with another thug. Mickey collapses and the other guys run while his friend Eddie tries to help him.

House meets with the team to discuss Mickey’s case. After discussing the symptoms House decides Mickey has loud noise-induced vertigo and asks the team to run a hearing test on him. House suspects Mickey and his associate are drug dealers and wonders if his work activities are causing his problems. During a casual work conversation Foreman finds out Thirteen and Taub make more money than he does. Thinking he deserves more money than the rest of the team as their supervisor, Foreman is determined to confront Cuddy about the issue.

Wilson is talking with his new neighbor Nora at his condo building. Wilson asks Nora out and she suggests he bring along House. To Wilson’s dismay Nora thinks House and Wilson are a gay couple. As Taub and Foreman test Mickey’s hearing he convulses. House and the team discuss Mickey’s case and decide he has high blood pressure. Thirteen suggests they test his carotid arteries for blockage. Mickey decides to get himself discharged because a big drug deal is going down soon. Mickey will not tell the team where he lives or anything about his personal history. When his artery tests come back negative, House tells Thirteen and Chase to follow Mickey to see where he lives. House believes Mickey is suffering from toxic exposure and a survey of his home may provide clues in the case.

Mickey shakes Thirteen as she and Chase are pulled over after Thirteen runs a red light while chasing Mickey. Eddie brings Mickey back to the hospital emergency room after Mickey develops a high fever. House discusses Mickey’s illness with Eddie and talks in code about their illegal profession in order to get information from Eddie to help Mickey. House meets Nora in the lobby of their condo complex. As House tells Nora he and Wilson aren’t gay, a giant framed picture of the musical “A Chorus Line” arrives for House and Wilson. House pretends to be gay to get close to Nora. Wilson confronts House about his method of getting close to Nora. House admits he likes Nora and will compete with Wilson for her attention. Eddie agrees to take Thirteen to the dry cleaners where Mickey has been staying, a front for drug activity, to test the cocaine they are selling which might show what is making Mickey ill.

After Foreman finds out Chase makes more than him as well, Foreman tells Cuddy he is making less than the team and wants a raise. Cuddy denies him a raise. Foreman admits to Taub he has no real job offer, he was pretending in order to change Cuddy’s mind. Foreman tells Taub after this case, he plans to leave his job. Thirteen, Taub and Chase are concerned about Foreman’s news. They discuss Foreman’s dilema and decide they may have gone too far pranking Foreman about making more money than he does. Chase feels guilty and suggests they come clean to Foreman.

The team does a lumbar puncture on Mickey’s back for more tests. Mickey confesses to House that he has been taking beta-blocker pills for his nerves. House orders an MRI of Mickey’s adrenal glands to check for Pheochromocytoma. Wilson arrives home at the condo to find Nora giving House a shoulder massage. They offer Wilson some chinese food and wine. Wilson thinks a moment then agrees to join in, ruining House’s plans with Nora.

House hears voices from the surveillance bug he placed in Mickey’s room. Realizing there is a second surveillance bug in place in the hospital room, House visits Mickey. House tells Mickey he knows he is an undercover cop. Mickey admits he has been undercover for 16 months to bust the drug gang with a major drug deal in the next 24 hours. Mickey begs House not to reveal anything to Eddie so he can work the cocaine drug bust.

House and Nora are at dinner in a fine dining restaurant. House pretends to need Nora’s shoulder to lean on because as he has told her, his relationship with Wilson is not going well. Wilson shows up and proceeds to get on one knee announcing to the entire restaurant his marriage proposal to House. Stunned but impressed by Wilson’s ingenuity, House is speechless as Nora decides to leave the two love birds alone.

Mickey has a GI infarction from a clot in his artery and starts throwing up blood. Thirteen, Chase and Taub runs tests on the cocaine Thirteen brought back from the dry cleaners. Chase tells the team that Mickey has aneurysms in his lungs. They start him on antifungal medicine in case the problem is caused by a fungus. Mickey and Eddie share some time together. Eddie tells Mickey he is his friend but Mickey lets Eddie walk into the drug bust anyway.

A guilty Taub, Chase and Thirteen visit Cuddy and ask that she take part of their salary to boost Foreman’s so he doesn’t leave his job. Cuddy tells them she has no idea what they are talking about. As they leave Cuddy’s office a smiling Foreman lets them know they have been pranked by him.

House asks Nora to come to his office. House confesses to Nora that he was only pretending to be gay to get her in bed. House tells Nora she should go out with Wilson and that he is a good guy. Nora leaves disgusted by House’s admission. House has a realization that Mickey’s aneurysms are inflammatory not fungal. Mickey’s condition deteriorates as House tells him he has Hughes-Stovin, an untreatable autoimmune disease. When Mickey realizes he is going to die soon he asks to call his wife. Mickey’s wife lays in bed with Mickey as he is dying. Eddie and the rest of the drug gang are busted by the cops. Mickey dies as his wife is by his side.

House compliments Foreman on his success pranking the rest of the team. House and Wilson sit on the recliners House ordered with the huge “A Chorus Line” poster staring them in the face. Wilson hates the recliners and tells House he will sing from “A Chorus Line” until he gets rid of them. As Wilson sings to torture House, a disgruntled House grimaces in pain from the show tunes.