House has relented to interviewing potential team members, but he's doing it his way. He called in all 40 applicants for the open three positions on his team and puts them to the test in a Darwinian trial period. As he drills the fellows and arbitrarily fires some along the way, an Air Force fighter pilot named Greta asks him to secretly treat her. She is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. House sets the applicants against one another to help treat the pilot with an unusual neurological disorder.