Remy Hadley

Lore & Background

Thirteen is reluctant to reveal information about herself and is extremely secretive. During House's new team member selection process in the fourth season, she simply lets her fellow applicants refer to her as "Thirteen" rather than her real name, and constantly deflects curious prodding from both House and Amber Volakis about her personal life and past. Amber admits to feeling threatened by how Thirteen's unusually secretive nature is fascinating to the prying House, who in season seven tells Thirteen she has the best "game face" he has ever seen. Thirteen spends the episode "Lockdown" engaged in a game of truth or dare with James Wilson, but at the end it is implied that everything she has said has been a lie. Although his meddling with her personal affairs and insatiable curiosity frustrates Thirteen, House comes to respect her as a talented doctor and the two build a relationship of mutual trust and understanding of each other's personalities with occasional shared cynicism or sarcasm. Wilson later states that House is better with her on his team, saying "He needs someone who doesn't need him. You're the only one he's never really been able to suck into his crazy House vortex. Keeps him grounded, his ego in check."

In Their Own Story

Thirteen has a fifty-percent chance of having inherited Huntington's disease from her mother, but she initially refuses to be tested for it because not knowing allows her to live with hope. In the fourth-season finale, Thirteen takes the test and is diagnosed as having the mutated Huntington gene. Shortly after this, she begins to display reckless behavior, having casual sex with random women, using drugs, partying late and showing up at the clinic with a hangover. In "Lucky Thirteen", Thirteen says that her Huntington's is more aggressive, greatly decreasing her life expectancy and hastening the onset of symptoms. She later ceases to behave self-destructively after a near-death experience in the episode "Last Resort", wherein she realizes her conviction to live, agreeing to participate in a Huntington's disease drug trial and becoming more active in her attempts to prolong her life. When Thirteen briefly returns to consult on a case, House subsequently fires her permanently so that she can focus on being happy with her girlfriend in whatever time she has left rather than worry about work.

Reader's Guide

In the episode "Don't Ever Change", Thirteen's contempt at the idea of being categorized or oversimplified leads to both House and Foreman to assume that she is bisexual, although she is surprised and does not respond to either of their comments. Her sexuality remains unclear until the episode "Lucky Thirteen". She becomes more open and blatant about her sexuality as the series progresses. In her game of truth or dare with Wilson, she initially states that her father is supportive of her sexuality, although she later corrects this, saying he is in fact unaware and she never came out to him. She also tells Wilson that she has never been in a threesome. She later states that she may have participated in a foursome, thereby allowing her to truthfully answer "no" to the question about a threesome. However, at the end of the game, it is implied that nothing she had told him has been truthful, leaving her status with her father a mystery. In "Lockdown", Thirteen says she went to Newton North High School. In "Epic Fail", Thirteen reveals she attended Sarah Lawrence College. The episode "Let Them Eat Cake" shows that as a child she resented her mother, who was dying from Huntington's, and she tells Chase that she knew her father was having an affair.

Did You Know?

• Thirteen's surname was not used on the show until the fourth season's penultimate episode "House's Head", nor her given name until the fifth-season episode "Emancipation".
• In the episode "Lockdown", Thirteen plays a game of truth or dare with James Wilson, but at the end it is implied that everything she has said has been a lie.
• Thirteen attended Newton North High School and Sarah Lawrence College.
• In "Let Them Eat Cake", Thirteen reveals that as a child she knew her father was having an affair while her mother was dying from Huntington's.
• House fires Thirteen permanently so she can focus on being happy with her girlfriend rather than worry about work.