Transplant is a Season 8 episode of House that first aired on October 10, 2011. It is written by David Foster and Liz Friedman and directed by Dan Attias. It takes place about two months after the events in Twenty Vicodin. Thanks to his bad behavior, House is serving the remainder of his original remaining four months with another eight tacked on. However, a surprising visitor makes House an offer he can't refuse by giving him the opportunity for conditional release and return to the Princeton Plainsboro team to treat a unique patient in order to save the life of an organ recipient being treated by Wilson. Out of prison and back at PPTH, House is working in medicine again, but is put on a very short leash with a tiny office, a limited supply of Vicodin, and the constant threat of return to