Walnut Tourist
Item:
Cane #3 (Walnut Tourist)

Episodes: 14
  • Wood cane made of Walnut
  • Tourist handle (a.k.a. "Hook" or "J")
  • Manufacturer: Harvy Canes
  • House's most basic and inexpensive cane
First Appearance:
Sleeping Dogs Lie
[S02-E18]
House is trying to take a nap in an exam room but Cuddy finds him and nags him to take a case while he tries to ignore her. Cane #3 is hooked over a coat rack in the foreground.
Last Appearance #1a (real):
No Reason
[S02-E24]
Cane #3 has a tricky history. It takes a brief holiday at the beginning of Season 3 when House is temporarily pain-free. The last time we see it in the "real world" is hooked over the whiteboard in the beginning of No Reason, right before House gets shot.

Last Appearance #1b (imagined):
No Reason
[S02-E24]
Complicating matters, House hallucinates on the way to the Emergency Room. In his dream he uses the cane until he realizes that an experimental Ketamine treatment for chronic pain that Cuddy has tried on him has been successful.

Reappearance:
Cane and Able
[S03-E02]
Back in real life, House asks for the Ketamine treatment. It works, but only for a short time, and by the end of the second episode of the third season he's hurting too much to continue walking without a cane. In the final scene he opens his hall closet and retrieves Cane #3 from a golf bag inside.
Last Appearance #2:
Whack-A-Mole
[S03-E08]
The stress of Detective Tritter hounding him over his Vicodin use has caused a psychosomatic pain in House's shoulder. He sees a physical therapist at the hospital who confiscates Cane #3 and gives him a Quad Cane.