Whatever It Takes is the sixth episode of the fourth season of House and the seventy-sixth episode overall, which aired on November 6, 2007. A champion drag racer collapses after a race and Foreman is sure it is only heat stroke. However, when a CIA agent comes to take House to a special case, Foreman is left alone with the rest of the applicants. The drag racer takes a turn for the worse, and Foreman finds his authority with the applicants crumbling and the confidence of the patient disappearing. With House out of contact, Brennan comes up with a crazy idea and fights with Foreman on both the diagnosis and treatment. Meanwhile, House treats a spy with life-threatening symptoms while trying to impress his attractive attending physician and undercut one of the world's leading doctors at the