The team treats a brutal African dictator named Dibala (James Earl Jones) who has fallen ill; The dictator had made threats of ethnic cleansing against an ethnic minority, and the team deal with ethical issues of treating a potential mass murderer. Chase is more curious than others and confronts Dibala, who eventually makes his views plain that he plans on killing off the ethnic minority.



After many trials, House's new team, Cameron, and Chase with Foreman as boss decide on scleroderma. Dibala afterwards dies from severe bleeding into his lungs. Foreman finds that Chase faked the results with the blood of a 70 year old woman, to cause the team to treat incorrectly and kill the politician.[1]



At the end of the episode, Foreman is seen burning the records which showed that Chase had accessed the morgue without a valid reason, incriminating him of faking the blood test.



The subplot involves Wilson, who tries to make amends with a difficult neighbor. House is staying with Wilson and his curiosity and meddling leads him to confront the neighbor and look into his apartment. He finds that the neighbor is a wounded veteran who lost an arm. The neighbor's anger is derived from his pain, and his pain is due to a psychosomatic attachment to a phantom limb. House solves the dispute with Wilson's neighbor by kidnapping him and forcing him to undergo V.S. Ramachandran's Mirror box therapy, curing his phantom pains in his amputated hand.