“Help Me” is the House M.D. episode set largely around a building collapse and its medical aftermath. It is the two-part seventh-season finale, broadcast in 2010, and centers on a rescue operation involving a trapped construction worker.
The episode places Gregory House outside his usual hospital environment. He must make urgent medical decisions at the disaster site while working with emergency personnel and trying to save a seriously injured patient.
The story also has major consequences for House’s relationships and emotional state. Its unusual setting distinguishes it from the standard Princeton-Plainsboro diagnostic cases, which usually unfold through repeated consultations and tests inside the hospital.
“Help Me” is sometimes confused with “Locked In,” another unusual episode involving a patient whose condition limits communication. However, the building-collapse rescue story belongs specifically to “Help Me.”