1 00:00:02,107 --> 00:00:03,442 (KEN LAUGHING) 2 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:07,029 KEN: I ought to have this framed. 3 00:00:07,154 --> 00:00:09,990 My last bill from Princeton. 4 00:00:11,283 --> 00:00:12,576 And I thought we were celebrating 5 00:00:12,701 --> 00:00:14,369 the fact that I actually graduated. 6 00:00:14,494 --> 00:00:15,996 I always knew you'd be able to graduate. 7 00:00:16,121 --> 00:00:20,375 What I didn't know was whether I would be able to pay for it. 8 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:24,004 Your mom, she'd be so proud of you. 9 00:00:25,130 --> 00:00:27,007 You always say that. 10 00:00:27,132 --> 00:00:30,135 I'm so proud of you. Always was. 11 00:00:33,138 --> 00:00:35,557 Come on, Dad, you're gonna cry. 12 00:00:36,642 --> 00:00:39,269 You wanna be embarrassed? You got it! 13 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,572 Look, don't party too hard tonight. 14 00:00:50,697 --> 00:00:52,991 Your grandmother wants a picture of you getting that sheepskin, 15 00:00:53,116 --> 00:00:55,327 and it'd be nice if you didn't look completely hung over. 16 00:00:55,452 --> 00:00:56,745 Oh, no, don't worry, 17 00:00:56,870 --> 00:00:58,497 I've had enough alcohol in the past week 18 00:00:58,622 --> 00:01:02,125 - to last me another four years. - Good, I think. 19 00:01:03,710 --> 00:01:05,629 (LOUD ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 20 00:01:06,797 --> 00:01:08,715 (PEOPLE CHATTERING) 21 00:01:11,093 --> 00:01:14,012 ALL: Drink! Drink! Drink! 22 00:01:14,137 --> 00:01:17,432 MAN: More! More! Drink! Drink! Drink! 23 00:01:23,146 --> 00:01:24,940 12:55! 24 00:01:25,065 --> 00:01:26,483 (ALL WHOOPING) 25 00:01:27,567 --> 00:01:28,777 26 00:01:29,903 --> 00:01:33,156 - You are the man! - Tell me something I don't know! 27 00:01:33,949 --> 00:01:35,992 (GROANING) 28 00:01:36,118 --> 00:01:37,994 - Hey, that's not funny, man. - What? 29 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,123 - Yeah, right, you shocked me. - With what? I got nothing. 30 00:01:46,169 --> 00:01:48,880 Well, hey, whoever's doing that better cut it out! 31 00:01:52,634 --> 00:01:53,760 (YELLS) 32 00:01:55,762 --> 00:01:57,389 What the hell's going on? 33 00:01:57,514 --> 00:01:59,933 Maybe there's a short somewhere, the floor's covered with beer. 34 00:02:00,058 --> 00:02:01,059 No way, no, the outlets are GFI, 35 00:02:01,184 --> 00:02:02,769 plus he's got rubber-soled shoes on. 36 00:02:04,521 --> 00:02:07,149 KATRINA: Oh, my God! TADDY: Somebody call 911! 37 00:02:45,312 --> 00:02:46,480 (GRUNTING) 38 00:02:50,776 --> 00:02:53,570 WILSON: Patient experiences shock-like sensations 39 00:02:53,695 --> 00:02:57,824 as well as headaches, nausea, and drowsiness. 40 00:02:57,949 --> 00:02:59,242 CHASE: Shocks? 41 00:02:59,367 --> 00:03:01,244 Excruciatingly painful shocks. 42 00:03:01,369 --> 00:03:03,246 ER docs referred him to a neurologist, 43 00:03:03,371 --> 00:03:05,749 who referred him to five other doctors in the last seven days. 44 00:03:05,874 --> 00:03:08,460 Shocks could be Lherlnitte's sign. Early symptom of MS. 45 00:03:08,585 --> 00:03:10,754 No. MRI showed no white matter lesions, 46 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:13,256 and the shocks aren't accompanied by neck flexing. 47 00:03:13,381 --> 00:03:15,425 - Good morning! - It's almost noon. 48 00:03:15,550 --> 00:03:17,719 Really? That must be why I'm so hungry. 49 00:03:17,844 --> 00:03:18,887 Who's up for lunch? 50 00:03:19,012 --> 00:03:20,305 What's with the jacket? 51 00:03:20,430 --> 00:03:23,975 It keeps me warm and cool. How does it know? 52 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:25,393 WILSON: We're discussing your new patient. 53 00:03:25,519 --> 00:03:28,230 Must be a boring discussion, seeing as I haven't accepted a new patient. 54 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:31,525 You accepted him the moment I loaned you 5 grand. 55 00:03:31,650 --> 00:03:33,151 Oh, wait, wait. 56 00:03:33,276 --> 00:03:35,821 When I said I'd do anything for the money, obviously I didn't mean it. 57 00:03:35,946 --> 00:03:38,657 You're gonna like this. The kid's getting shocked every few minutes. 58 00:03:38,782 --> 00:03:40,242 Why would you need $5,000? 59 00:03:40,367 --> 00:03:43,245 Bad night at poker, or great night with a hooker? 60 00:03:43,370 --> 00:03:44,746 Thank you for saving me the trouble 61 00:03:44,871 --> 00:03:48,333 of deflecting that personal question with a joke. 62 00:03:48,458 --> 00:03:50,252 College student? 63 00:03:50,377 --> 00:03:52,254 Nitrous oxide's fun at parties. 64 00:03:52,379 --> 00:03:54,589 Caused the shocks, and drinking till we puke every night 65 00:03:54,714 --> 00:03:55,799 can cause everything else. 66 00:03:55,924 --> 00:03:57,342 - Give him some B12. - Been there, done that. 67 00:03:57,467 --> 00:04:00,470 Also ruled out cancer, MS, pyridoxine toxicity, 68 00:04:00,595 --> 00:04:02,722 and all the popular neuropathies. 69 00:04:03,473 --> 00:04:06,268 - Cervical spondylosis. - Doesn't explain the low white count. 70 00:04:06,393 --> 00:04:07,727 He's black. 71 00:04:07,853 --> 00:04:10,856 I'm assuming he's not just really dirty, but is of African descent, 72 00:04:10,981 --> 00:04:12,315 which means he'd have a lower white count. 73 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,651 - Not this low. - He's a wrestler. 74 00:04:14,776 --> 00:04:16,945 Probably uses diuretics to cut weight. 75 00:04:17,070 --> 00:04:18,071 That can also cause low white count. 76 00:04:18,196 --> 00:04:19,990 Not this low. "Not this low." 77 00:04:20,115 --> 00:04:21,616 Behcet's. No skin lesions. 78 00:04:21,741 --> 00:04:25,036 - Cervical herpes zoster, myelitis... - No external outbreak. 79 00:04:27,998 --> 00:04:31,209 Something's missing. Find out what it is. 80 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,296 - I don't even know what that means. - Well, figure it out. 81 00:04:34,421 --> 00:04:37,340 Find it out, and then find me. I'll be at lunch. 82 00:04:38,383 --> 00:04:40,927 CARNELL: No ideas? CAMERON: Lots of ideas. 83 00:04:41,052 --> 00:04:43,388 Too many ideas, that's why so many tests. 84 00:04:44,097 --> 00:04:46,600 Have you used any recreational drugs? 85 00:04:49,686 --> 00:04:53,148 What? I'm gonna get mad at you for getting stoned? 86 00:04:53,273 --> 00:04:54,983 Not today, not here. 87 00:04:58,069 --> 00:05:01,239 At Christmas, one of the guys had some ecstasy, 88 00:05:01,364 --> 00:05:02,240 I mean, I... It was... 89 00:05:02,365 --> 00:05:04,367 (GRUNTING LOUDLY) 90 00:05:07,370 --> 00:05:09,039 Son of a bitch! 91 00:05:14,502 --> 00:05:17,047 ANA is negative for lupus, again. 92 00:05:17,172 --> 00:05:20,800 House wants more information, not the same information done over again. 93 00:05:20,926 --> 00:05:21,968 "Find what's missing." 94 00:05:22,093 --> 00:05:24,554 For all we know, the kid is dying and he's giving us riddles? 95 00:05:24,679 --> 00:05:27,098 Did a more detailed history, went back three generations. 96 00:05:27,223 --> 00:05:28,808 - And? - His mom died in a car accident, 97 00:05:28,934 --> 00:05:30,977 his mom's mom had arthritis, and his mom's mom's dad 98 00:05:31,102 --> 00:05:33,480 served in an all-black tank battalion under Patton. 99 00:05:33,605 --> 00:05:36,191 Fascinating. If it's not a tumor, it has to be MS. 100 00:05:36,316 --> 00:05:37,233 Wilson already ruled out... 101 00:05:37,359 --> 00:05:39,694 MRI can't rule out MS 100% of the time. 102 00:05:39,819 --> 00:05:42,948 - Doesn't explain the low white count. - Alcoholism does. 103 00:05:43,073 --> 00:05:46,493 On admission, his BAC was 2.0, liver enzymes off the chart. 104 00:05:46,618 --> 00:05:49,496 It was graduation weekend. He barely drank in the weeks before that, 105 00:05:49,621 --> 00:05:51,998 and he didn't drink at all during his wrestling season. 106 00:05:52,123 --> 00:05:54,042 - If you believe him. - I did a tox screen... 107 00:05:54,167 --> 00:05:56,920 It doesn't matter if she believes him or not, it's already in the chart. 108 00:05:57,045 --> 00:05:59,506 We're supposed to find out what's missing. 109 00:06:06,638 --> 00:06:09,808 Well, this... This is perfect. 110 00:06:09,933 --> 00:06:12,227 Invite me to dinner on Thursday night. 111 00:06:12,352 --> 00:06:15,230 Come on, we haven't had a nice meal together since... 112 00:06:15,355 --> 00:06:18,942 Yesterday, when I loaned you $5,000 to buy a new car. 113 00:06:19,067 --> 00:06:20,360 My treat. 114 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,240 Two-wheeled vehicles that travel 150 miles an hour 115 00:06:25,365 --> 00:06:28,493 don't really go well with crippled, irresponsible drug addicts. 116 00:06:28,618 --> 00:06:32,455 Actually, two-wheeled vehicles that go 180 miles an hour do not go well 117 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:34,541 with healthy, responsible architects 118 00:06:34,666 --> 00:06:36,751 who don't know how to separate braking and turning. 119 00:06:36,876 --> 00:06:39,254 Good news is, it brings the price right down. 120 00:06:39,379 --> 00:06:42,048 - You're taking it back. - Mom! 121 00:06:42,841 --> 00:06:44,592 How about we talk about this over dinner? 122 00:06:44,718 --> 00:06:46,720 Forget dinner, you're gonna kill yourself! 123 00:06:46,845 --> 00:06:49,389 - CHASE: Nice bike! - Thank you. 124 00:06:50,015 --> 00:06:53,601 See, that's how you do it. Compliments, dinner. 125 00:06:53,727 --> 00:06:55,603 What do you do with your cane? 126 00:06:55,729 --> 00:06:57,564 If he buys me dinner, he'll find out. 127 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,237 Evel Knievel had the same setup. 128 00:07:04,362 --> 00:07:06,072 And he broke every bone in his body. 129 00:07:06,197 --> 00:07:09,492 We went through all the imaging studies and redid the blood cultures. 130 00:07:09,617 --> 00:07:12,245 (REVVING) I don't want hand-me-downs, I want brand-new stuff. 131 00:07:12,370 --> 00:07:15,582 (REVVING HARDER) Well, there's nothing... There's nothing missing! 132 00:07:15,707 --> 00:07:18,376 Sorry, I didn't catch that last part! 133 00:07:19,419 --> 00:07:21,921 (ENGINE REVVING) There's... There's... 134 00:07:27,385 --> 00:07:29,262 There's nothing else we can do. 135 00:07:29,387 --> 00:07:31,347 - Did you check the police report? - On what? 136 00:07:31,473 --> 00:07:32,932 On his mom's car accident. 137 00:07:33,058 --> 00:07:35,268 That was 15 years ago. The kid wasn't even in the car. 138 00:07:35,393 --> 00:07:37,979 She veered off a straight, dry road in broad daylight. 139 00:07:38,104 --> 00:07:39,147 That doesn't seem odd to you? 140 00:07:39,272 --> 00:07:41,816 She probably got distracted changing radio stations or something. 141 00:07:41,941 --> 00:07:43,109 That's what the police thought. 142 00:07:43,234 --> 00:07:45,236 Of course, they didn't know that she has a family member 143 00:07:45,361 --> 00:07:48,239 who is frequently incapacitated by shock-like sensations. 144 00:07:48,364 --> 00:07:51,451 - A genetic component seems unlikely. - But it's interesting. 145 00:07:51,576 --> 00:07:53,953 Type ll neurofibromatosis could cause the shocks. 146 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:55,371 You knew this was missing? 147 00:07:55,497 --> 00:07:58,249 I knew something was missing, maybe this, maybe something else. 148 00:07:58,374 --> 00:08:01,544 Get a DNA analysis of the long arln of chromosome 22. 149 00:08:01,669 --> 00:08:03,379 (REVVING) 150 00:08:06,466 --> 00:08:08,134 You'd rather have dinner with your wife? 151 00:08:08,259 --> 00:08:11,846 Yes, I would. If she were speaking to me. 152 00:08:12,847 --> 00:08:15,642 Unlike her, I could make it worth your while. 153 00:08:17,477 --> 00:08:18,603 Fine. 154 00:08:19,395 --> 00:08:20,855 Shall I drive? 155 00:08:21,981 --> 00:08:23,274 No. 156 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:26,653 And I'm not letting you in my car until I see your wallet. 157 00:08:29,364 --> 00:08:31,699 NF2. It's an inherited disease. 158 00:08:32,325 --> 00:08:35,245 It could cause abnorlnal growths on the cranial nerves. 159 00:08:35,370 --> 00:08:37,122 It would explain the shocks and other symptoms. 160 00:08:37,247 --> 00:08:39,165 DNA analysis will show whether your son 161 00:08:39,290 --> 00:08:41,042 has the specific chromosome mutation 162 00:08:41,167 --> 00:08:42,252 which causes the disease. 163 00:08:42,460 --> 00:08:45,338 But if it's inherited, that means someone else in our family would have it. 164 00:08:45,463 --> 00:08:47,048 We think your wife may have had it. 165 00:08:47,173 --> 00:08:49,551 No. She never had any sort of health problems. 166 00:08:49,676 --> 00:08:52,137 No odd-looking freckles, nodules in the iris? 167 00:08:52,262 --> 00:08:54,347 Nothing. I mean, why would you think she was sick? 168 00:08:54,472 --> 00:08:57,600 We think it may have been what caused her car accident. 169 00:08:57,725 --> 00:09:00,353 Wait, what do you mean? My mom's car was hit by a drunk driver. 170 00:09:00,478 --> 00:09:03,231 That's not what the police report indicated. 171 00:09:04,732 --> 00:09:07,360 Well, you must have gotten the wrong report. 172 00:09:07,485 --> 00:09:09,821 No. They didn't. 173 00:09:15,577 --> 00:09:16,744 (SIGHS) 174 00:09:16,870 --> 00:09:19,330 When you started driving... 175 00:09:19,455 --> 00:09:20,456 lull 176 00:09:22,292 --> 00:09:24,043 You lied about how Mom died? 177 00:09:24,169 --> 00:09:26,379 KEN: I figured if her death could somehow mean something, it... 178 00:09:26,504 --> 00:09:29,340 How does lying about it mean something? 179 00:09:29,465 --> 00:09:31,926 How could you use her like that, Dad? Her death? 180 00:09:32,051 --> 00:09:35,138 - I was just trying to protect you. - What else isn't true? 181 00:09:35,263 --> 00:09:37,348 She wasn't a teacher, you just wanted me to read? 182 00:09:37,473 --> 00:09:38,850 What's that smell? 183 00:09:39,475 --> 00:09:41,477 I don't smell... 184 00:09:46,149 --> 00:09:47,233 We're gonna need a nurse. 185 00:09:47,358 --> 00:09:50,695 - What the hell? - It's okay. We'll take care of it. 186 00:09:50,820 --> 00:09:52,363 You didn't feel anything? 187 00:09:52,488 --> 00:09:53,489 No. 188 00:09:56,492 --> 00:09:58,161 - You feel that? - Yeah. 189 00:09:58,286 --> 00:09:59,996 But you didn't feel any of this? 190 00:10:00,121 --> 00:10:01,122 No. 191 00:10:12,717 --> 00:10:15,470 Sphincter paralysis plus shocks equals Miller Fisher Syndrome. 192 00:10:15,595 --> 00:10:16,971 Not if you add the stool sample, 193 00:10:17,096 --> 00:10:18,348 which is negative for C. jejuni. 194 00:10:18,473 --> 00:10:21,601 He lied to his son about how his mom died? 195 00:10:21,726 --> 00:10:23,353 CAMERON: He was just protecting him. 196 00:10:23,478 --> 00:10:24,812 Manipulating him. 197 00:10:24,938 --> 00:10:27,523 - That's what parents do. - They lie to us because they love us. 198 00:10:27,649 --> 00:10:28,858 Who's getting teary? 199 00:10:28,983 --> 00:10:30,360 Mom's death is irrelevant. 200 00:10:30,485 --> 00:10:32,195 DNA revealed no NF2 markers 201 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:33,738 or any other inherited disease. 202 00:10:33,863 --> 00:10:36,449 Apparently, she really did fall asleep at the wheel. 203 00:10:36,574 --> 00:10:39,244 So, what exactly are we talking about here? 204 00:10:39,369 --> 00:10:43,206 A little peeker, or did the prairie dog actually come out to play? 205 00:10:43,331 --> 00:10:45,667 - Excuse me? - Are we talking explosive? 206 00:10:46,501 --> 00:10:48,962 (PHONE RINGING) The hemoccult was negative for blood, 207 00:10:49,087 --> 00:10:53,967 and I wouldn't say he actually exploded. More like gushed? 208 00:10:54,092 --> 00:10:56,177 Good, then we're getting somewhere. 209 00:10:56,302 --> 00:10:57,345 Yeah? Where? 210 00:10:57,470 --> 00:10:59,347 I have no idea. 211 00:10:59,472 --> 00:11:00,473 - Of course. - Hello? 212 00:11:00,598 --> 00:11:02,934 - Love the riddles. - Hi, Mom. 213 00:11:03,059 --> 00:11:06,980 Look, I have a business dinner on Thursday night. I can't get out of it. 214 00:11:08,106 --> 00:11:10,483 I know, I really wanted to see you, too. 215 00:11:12,485 --> 00:11:15,363 Actually, can I call you back? I'm in a meeting right now. 216 00:11:15,488 --> 00:11:16,864 Okay, thanks. 217 00:11:18,741 --> 00:11:19,826 Who was that? 218 00:11:19,951 --> 00:11:21,369 Angelina Jolie. 219 00:11:21,494 --> 00:11:24,664 I call her "Mom". Who thinks that's sexy? 220 00:11:24,789 --> 00:11:26,791 So, explosive or gushing... 221 00:11:26,916 --> 00:11:29,127 She never calls here, is everything okay? 222 00:11:30,545 --> 00:11:32,380 Great, yeah. 223 00:11:32,505 --> 00:11:34,465 My dad's taking her to Europe. 224 00:11:34,590 --> 00:11:37,010 They got a nine-hour layover in Newark on Thursday. 225 00:11:37,135 --> 00:11:40,388 - If it's gastrointestinal... - You lied to avoid seeing your own mom. 226 00:11:40,513 --> 00:11:43,766 Are you kidding? I can't lie to my mom. 227 00:11:43,891 --> 00:11:45,268 Seriously, I can't. 228 00:11:45,393 --> 00:11:46,602 Wilson's invited me to dinner. 229 00:11:46,728 --> 00:11:49,272 It'd be rude to stand up a guy who just loaned me 5 grand. 230 00:11:49,397 --> 00:11:51,190 Transverse myelitis. 231 00:11:51,316 --> 00:11:53,526 Could cause numbness, anal sphincter dysfunction, 232 00:11:53,651 --> 00:11:54,652 and the shocks. 233 00:11:54,777 --> 00:11:57,405 Thank you for taking no interest in my mother. 234 00:11:57,530 --> 00:11:58,906 But that begs the question, 235 00:11:59,032 --> 00:12:01,284 what caused the transverse myelitis? 236 00:12:01,409 --> 00:12:03,661 Well, we've ruled out cancer and MS. 237 00:12:03,786 --> 00:12:04,954 Leaves infection. 238 00:12:05,079 --> 00:12:06,456 If there was infection, there'd be a fever. 239 00:12:06,581 --> 00:12:08,416 And his blood and CSF cultures are all negative. 240 00:12:08,541 --> 00:12:11,794 Maybe the infection's gone but the memory remains. 241 00:12:12,503 --> 00:12:14,380 Molecular mimicry. 242 00:12:14,505 --> 00:12:15,882 Nice. 243 00:12:16,007 --> 00:12:19,510 Okay, get an immunoglobulin level and electrophoresis. 244 00:12:23,473 --> 00:12:26,976 You're good, my friend. I'm sure we'll meet again. 245 00:12:28,394 --> 00:12:30,355 Do you really think that was his mom on the phone? 246 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,274 Probably, don't know why he'd lie about that. 247 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:34,359 Who cares? 248 00:12:34,484 --> 00:12:36,986 You're not the least bit curious what his parents are like? 249 00:12:37,111 --> 00:12:38,363 I'm sure his mom's a piece of work. 250 00:12:38,488 --> 00:12:40,239 Only a mother could do that much damage. 251 00:12:40,365 --> 00:12:41,991 My bet's he was born the way he is. 252 00:12:42,116 --> 00:12:44,369 Probably torlnented his parents, not the other way around. 253 00:12:44,494 --> 00:12:46,871 Yeah, he was either a fast runner or one hell of a fighter. 254 00:12:46,996 --> 00:12:48,915 Where are you going? 255 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,376 You guys can handle the tests, right? 256 00:12:57,507 --> 00:13:00,760 Is there something important that you and House need to discuss over dinner? 257 00:13:00,885 --> 00:13:02,678 Other than the skyrocketing 258 00:13:02,804 --> 00:13:04,597 interest rates on personal loans? 259 00:13:04,722 --> 00:13:07,392 You know, this is the fourth time I've loaned him money. 260 00:13:07,517 --> 00:13:09,602 Not lunch money, money-money. 261 00:13:09,727 --> 00:13:10,812 House's parents. 262 00:13:11,479 --> 00:13:13,981 They have a layover in Newark Thursday evening. 263 00:13:16,859 --> 00:13:19,112 - I'm canceling dinner. - No. 264 00:13:20,488 --> 00:13:23,825 I thought maybe you could just invite a few more people. 265 00:13:23,950 --> 00:13:26,285 FOREMAN: An infectious agent's molecular structure 266 00:13:26,411 --> 00:13:27,954 can resemble the spinal card's. 267 00:13:28,079 --> 00:13:29,956 And when the immune system attacks the infection, 268 00:13:30,081 --> 00:13:32,625 it ends up attacking the spinal card's as well. 269 00:13:33,376 --> 00:13:34,377 So he has an infection? 270 00:13:34,502 --> 00:13:35,461 They just said I don't. 271 00:13:35,586 --> 00:13:38,381 Even after the infection is gone, it goes right on attacking 272 00:13:38,506 --> 00:13:39,632 because the spinal cord is still there. 273 00:13:39,757 --> 00:13:40,758 KEN: ls there a treatment? 274 00:13:40,883 --> 00:13:43,052 Depends on what the original infection was. 275 00:13:43,177 --> 00:13:44,053 All right, you're done. 276 00:13:44,178 --> 00:13:47,557 You need to lay flat after a lumbar puncture for about an hour. 277 00:13:47,682 --> 00:13:49,600 I feel like I'm gonna throw up. 278 00:13:49,725 --> 00:13:52,186 Hey, Dad, can you get me a Coke, please? 279 00:13:52,311 --> 00:13:54,313 Yeah, that usually helps. 280 00:13:55,773 --> 00:13:57,233 You're done. 281 00:13:58,484 --> 00:13:59,569 If you're nauseous... 282 00:13:59,694 --> 00:14:02,363 No, I'm not nauseous. I just want him out of here. 283 00:14:02,488 --> 00:14:05,199 He's your dad. He's gonna be around. 284 00:14:05,324 --> 00:14:06,534 Yeah, I know. 285 00:14:07,577 --> 00:14:09,495 It's not that, it's... 286 00:14:10,788 --> 00:14:13,082 Are these people completely incapable 287 00:14:13,207 --> 00:14:14,375 of telling the truth to each other? 288 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:16,961 He went to Jamaica with his friends. 289 00:14:17,086 --> 00:14:18,379 No wonder he lied. 290 00:14:18,504 --> 00:14:20,548 Children aren't supposed to have good times. 291 00:14:20,673 --> 00:14:22,425 One of his friends flew them down. 292 00:14:22,550 --> 00:14:25,678 Carnell's dad has this thing about him accepting stuff from rich friends. 293 00:14:25,803 --> 00:14:28,848 He wants him to remember who he is, where he came from. 294 00:14:28,973 --> 00:14:30,099 Where have you been? 295 00:14:30,224 --> 00:14:32,643 Making dinner plans. What's up? 296 00:14:32,768 --> 00:14:34,937 The boys have uncovered the shocking fact 297 00:14:35,062 --> 00:14:38,024 that the patient has a crappy relationship with his dad. 298 00:14:38,149 --> 00:14:40,234 - They seem to actually care. - Well, I don't. 299 00:14:40,359 --> 00:14:42,653 There's only one reason any kid with a plane flies to Jamaica. 300 00:14:42,778 --> 00:14:45,198 It wasn't for marijuana. He doesn't do anything but drink. 301 00:14:45,323 --> 00:14:46,491 He said that to you or his pops? 302 00:14:46,616 --> 00:14:48,659 Tex screen was negative for THC . 303 00:14:49,368 --> 00:14:51,245 Spring break was over a month ago. 304 00:14:51,370 --> 00:14:52,497 Even pot would have washed out by now. 305 00:14:52,622 --> 00:14:54,040 Even if he'd smoked, 306 00:14:54,165 --> 00:14:56,501 no way marijuana causes transverse myelitis. 307 00:14:56,626 --> 00:14:59,712 True. But the stuff they put on it does. 308 00:14:59,837 --> 00:15:00,922 Pesticides. 309 00:15:01,047 --> 00:15:04,133 Well, why would he come clean about the trip but lie about smoking pot? 310 00:15:04,258 --> 00:15:06,761 He wouldn't necessarily have to smoke to get pesticide poisoning. 311 00:15:06,886 --> 00:15:08,763 He could have eaten fruit that'd been sprayed, 312 00:15:08,888 --> 00:15:10,932 or been exposed through his skin on a hike. 313 00:15:11,057 --> 00:15:13,559 Or he could have smoked it. A lot of it. 314 00:15:13,684 --> 00:15:16,354 Then lied about it because that's what this family does. 315 00:15:16,479 --> 00:15:18,689 Start him on IV pralidoxime. Two grams per liter, 316 00:15:18,814 --> 00:15:21,526 and then one gram every eight hours until you see some improvement. 317 00:15:21,651 --> 00:15:24,403 You have no evidence to support a poisoning diagnosis. 318 00:15:24,529 --> 00:15:28,115 Which is why it's gonna be so cool when I turn out to be right. 319 00:15:30,743 --> 00:15:32,036 Cameron. 320 00:15:33,162 --> 00:15:35,206 Who are you making dinner plans with? 321 00:15:35,331 --> 00:15:36,415 No one. 322 00:15:41,504 --> 00:15:42,922 HOUSE: You bastard. 323 00:15:45,007 --> 00:15:47,510 You invited my parents to dinner. 324 00:15:49,095 --> 00:15:50,471 Cameron's got a big mouth. 325 00:15:50,596 --> 00:15:51,639 Not as big as yours. 326 00:15:51,764 --> 00:15:54,850 Hey! You used me to avoid seeing your parents. 327 00:15:54,976 --> 00:15:56,185 - Well, what do you care? - I don't. 328 00:15:56,310 --> 00:15:58,312 I just thought it might be interesting to find out why. 329 00:15:58,437 --> 00:16:00,982 - You could've just asked. - You would've lied. 330 00:16:01,107 --> 00:16:02,650 And you would've believed me. 331 00:16:02,775 --> 00:16:04,485 Which would've kept us both happy. 332 00:16:06,028 --> 00:16:08,364 You want your money back? Is that what this is about? 333 00:16:08,489 --> 00:16:09,532 No! 334 00:16:10,575 --> 00:16:13,411 Wait, have you got the money? 335 00:16:18,374 --> 00:16:20,668 If you have the money, then why did you need theloan? 336 00:16:20,793 --> 00:16:23,254 I didn't. I just wanted to see if you'd give it to me. 337 00:16:23,379 --> 00:16:25,172 I've been borrowing increasing amounts 338 00:16:25,298 --> 00:16:27,633 ever since you lent me $40 a year ago. 339 00:16:27,758 --> 00:16:28,843 A little experiment, 340 00:16:28,968 --> 00:16:30,886 to see where you draw the line. 341 00:16:32,096 --> 00:16:36,058 You're trying to objectively measure 342 00:16:36,183 --> 00:16:38,311 how much I value our friendship? 343 00:16:38,436 --> 00:16:41,063 Hey, it's 5 grand. You've got nothing to be ashamed of. 344 00:16:41,188 --> 00:16:45,276 So, what do you say? One little phone call, one big check? 345 00:16:47,570 --> 00:16:48,696 Fine. 346 00:16:50,406 --> 00:16:51,532 Thanks. 347 00:16:52,158 --> 00:16:53,200 Now, be a grownup 348 00:16:53,326 --> 00:16:55,369 and either tell Mommy and Daddy you don't wanna see them, 349 00:16:55,494 --> 00:16:58,164 or I'm picking you up at 7:00 for dinner. 350 00:16:58,998 --> 00:17:00,249 What do you mean? You just said that... 351 00:17:00,374 --> 00:17:01,751 I lied. 352 00:17:01,876 --> 00:17:03,961 I've been lying to you in increasing amounts 353 00:17:04,086 --> 00:17:07,089 ever since I told you you looked good unshaved a year ago. 354 00:17:07,214 --> 00:17:08,758 It's a little experiment, you know, 355 00:17:08,883 --> 00:17:10,635 to see where you draw the line. 356 00:17:12,428 --> 00:17:13,596 (CAR ENGINE STARTING) 357 00:17:16,223 --> 00:17:17,099 CUDDY: How's the patient? 358 00:17:17,224 --> 00:17:18,726 Haven't been in yet, today. 359 00:17:18,851 --> 00:17:21,228 As long as he hasn't gotten any worse. 360 00:17:22,188 --> 00:17:24,106 We're treating him for pesticide poisoning 361 00:17:24,231 --> 00:17:26,067 without any proof of pesticides. 362 00:17:26,192 --> 00:17:27,234 I'm gonna have a hell of a time 363 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:28,861 explaining that to our lawyer. 364 00:17:28,986 --> 00:17:31,030 I told House not to... 365 00:17:34,575 --> 00:17:35,701 Wow. 366 00:17:36,619 --> 00:17:38,496 Lawyer's not gonna believe this. 367 00:17:39,246 --> 00:17:41,123 He's got his appetite back. 368 00:17:42,166 --> 00:17:43,250 Whatever you did, it's working. 369 00:17:44,418 --> 00:17:46,504 He's healthy, so all is forgiven. 370 00:17:46,629 --> 00:17:48,089 Now I'm feeling nauseous. 371 00:17:48,214 --> 00:17:49,840 He is not healthy. 372 00:17:49,965 --> 00:17:52,093 Nausea and diarrhea were not his only symptoms. 373 00:17:52,218 --> 00:17:53,552 The shocks have also decreased. 374 00:17:53,678 --> 00:17:55,096 But not disappeared. 375 00:17:55,221 --> 00:17:56,180 And he's out of the diaper, 376 00:17:56,305 --> 00:17:57,598 which is good news for everyone. 377 00:17:57,723 --> 00:17:59,392 What about his low white count? 378 00:17:59,517 --> 00:18:02,645 Well, the little buggers need time to grow. 379 00:18:02,770 --> 00:18:05,773 Don't worry, our wrestling Rastafarian will be back on his feet 380 00:18:05,898 --> 00:18:08,901 and sneaking around behind Pop's back again in no time. 381 00:18:09,026 --> 00:18:10,111 (PHONE RINGING) 382 00:18:10,236 --> 00:18:11,362 Yeah. 383 00:18:13,781 --> 00:18:15,241 Check it again. 384 00:18:17,034 --> 00:18:18,536 I'll be right there. 385 00:18:18,661 --> 00:18:20,037 What happened? 386 00:18:20,162 --> 00:18:21,288 Apparently I can save money 387 00:18:21,414 --> 00:18:24,125 by switching to another long-distance carrier. 388 00:18:24,250 --> 00:18:25,418 Oh, I was right, wasn't I? 389 00:18:25,543 --> 00:18:28,254 Oh, yeah, it's always about you, isn't it? 390 00:18:29,255 --> 00:18:31,132 CAMERON: He has the chills and his temperature's spiking. 391 00:18:31,257 --> 00:18:33,134 - It's nearly 106. - KEN: What's that mean? 392 00:18:33,259 --> 00:18:34,719 I mean, what's happening? 393 00:18:34,844 --> 00:18:36,011 You want the truth, 394 00:18:36,137 --> 00:18:38,097 or you want me to make something up to protect you? 395 00:18:38,222 --> 00:18:40,099 We think a drunk driver broke into his room... 396 00:18:40,224 --> 00:18:42,059 What's happening to my son? 397 00:18:44,270 --> 00:18:46,856 The truth is I have no idea. 398 00:18:56,907 --> 00:18:59,285 There's the fever that Cameron was looking for. 399 00:18:59,410 --> 00:19:01,620 We knew if it was myelitis, there had to be an "-itis". 400 00:19:01,746 --> 00:19:03,539 This must be the infection that set it off. 401 00:19:03,664 --> 00:19:06,751 Yeah. Except in this universe, effect follows cause. 402 00:19:06,876 --> 00:19:08,043 I've complained about it, but... 403 00:19:08,169 --> 00:19:09,128 Maybe the tests were wrong. 404 00:19:09,253 --> 00:19:12,423 No. The tests were right. Yesterday he had no fever, no infection. 405 00:19:12,548 --> 00:19:14,842 So he just happened to catch a bug while he was here? 406 00:19:14,967 --> 00:19:15,968 That's all this is? 407 00:19:16,093 --> 00:19:16,969 Yeah. 408 00:19:17,094 --> 00:19:19,388 Because his white blood cell count was down, he was vulnerable. 409 00:19:19,513 --> 00:19:22,850 Because it's really down, it might kill him. That's all this is. 410 00:19:22,975 --> 00:19:24,643 Is he still pooping his pants? 411 00:19:24,769 --> 00:19:26,145 It just started again. 412 00:19:26,270 --> 00:19:27,229 Again? 413 00:19:27,354 --> 00:19:29,231 It stopped when he was getting better. 414 00:19:30,274 --> 00:19:33,319 When he was feeling better. He was never getting better. 415 00:19:33,444 --> 00:19:36,864 So, all we have to answer is, what causes a 22-year-old kid 416 00:19:36,989 --> 00:19:38,324 to become immunocompromised 417 00:19:38,449 --> 00:19:40,117 with GI involvement and shocks? 418 00:19:40,242 --> 00:19:42,036 Just stop and start for no apparent reason. 419 00:19:42,161 --> 00:19:43,120 And we need to find an answer 420 00:19:43,245 --> 00:19:44,497 before this infection kills him. 421 00:19:44,622 --> 00:19:46,499 That would be the ideal. 422 00:19:46,624 --> 00:19:48,918 You. Intravenous broad spectrum antibiotics. 423 00:19:49,043 --> 00:19:52,797 You get a cervical, thoracic, and lumbar T2-weighted fast spin-echo MRI. 424 00:19:52,922 --> 00:19:55,966 And you, track down all those Richie Rich's who went to Jamaica, 425 00:19:56,091 --> 00:19:59,428 see if any of them have got the shocks, the trots or the hots. 426 00:20:00,513 --> 00:20:02,306 The hots, it's the fever. 427 00:20:04,350 --> 00:20:07,061 You guys gonna join us for dinner Thursday? 428 00:20:07,186 --> 00:20:08,729 Gotta do my laundry. 429 00:20:08,854 --> 00:20:10,523 You're not curious? 430 00:20:10,648 --> 00:20:13,818 I'm curious about crocs, but I don't stick my head in their mouths. 431 00:20:13,943 --> 00:20:16,570 I'm out, too. Look, House is a freak! 432 00:20:16,695 --> 00:20:19,365 There's no virus that causes that, no DNA mutation. 433 00:20:19,490 --> 00:20:21,116 You're gonna have one dinner with two people. 434 00:20:21,242 --> 00:20:24,203 Sixty minutes, most of it spent chewing or talking about the weather. 435 00:20:24,328 --> 00:20:25,788 Unless they say something like, 436 00:20:25,913 --> 00:20:27,790 "Do you prefer the chardonnay or the merlot?" 437 00:20:27,915 --> 00:20:30,543 and, "Oh, we kept Greg locked in a closet for 17 years". 438 00:20:30,668 --> 00:20:32,211 You're not gonna learn anything. 439 00:20:32,336 --> 00:20:33,754 Okay- 440 00:20:33,879 --> 00:20:35,798 CAMERON: We'd like to talk to some of your friends, 441 00:20:35,923 --> 00:20:37,508 see if they have any similar symptoms. 442 00:20:37,633 --> 00:20:40,094 The doctors in the ER already asked me that. 443 00:20:40,219 --> 00:20:41,136 We understand, 444 00:20:41,262 --> 00:20:43,472 but they didn't have all the inforlnation that we have now. 445 00:20:43,597 --> 00:20:45,266 What kind of information? 446 00:20:47,810 --> 00:20:51,105 Would you mind if I spoke with Carnell alone for a minute? 447 00:20:52,106 --> 00:20:53,148 Is this bad news? 448 00:20:53,274 --> 00:20:55,234 No. It's just confidential. 449 00:20:56,235 --> 00:20:58,612 Why is something suddenly confidential? 450 00:20:58,737 --> 00:21:00,656 I mean, if you know something about my son, 451 00:21:00,781 --> 00:21:02,116 I need to know what's going on. 452 00:21:02,241 --> 00:21:04,618 I'm sorry, I have to insist. 453 00:21:04,743 --> 00:21:06,120 I'm his father, 454 00:21:06,245 --> 00:21:08,706 and if I'm going to take care of him, I need to know the truth. 455 00:21:08,831 --> 00:21:09,957 Dad. 456 00:21:11,709 --> 00:21:14,503 She wants to know who I went to Jamaica with. 457 00:21:14,628 --> 00:21:16,130 You've never been to Jamaica. 458 00:21:16,255 --> 00:21:19,258 Taddy's dad flew a bunch of us down over spring break. 459 00:21:22,261 --> 00:21:25,306 You told me you had two papers to write over the break. 460 00:21:25,431 --> 00:21:29,143 'Cause I didn't want to come home and work my ass off. 461 00:21:29,268 --> 00:21:32,479 I wanted an actual break during a break for once. 462 00:21:35,316 --> 00:21:37,151 I shouldn't have lied to you. 463 00:21:37,276 --> 00:21:39,570 No, what you should have done is come home 464 00:21:39,695 --> 00:21:42,114 instead of partying with your rich friends. 465 00:21:42,239 --> 00:21:44,408 I'm sorry, we need those names. 466 00:21:50,247 --> 00:21:51,498 What do you want? 467 00:21:52,249 --> 00:21:53,584 To apologize. 468 00:21:54,251 --> 00:21:57,504 I realize that my attention to the clinic has been somewhat lax of late, 469 00:21:57,630 --> 00:21:59,757 and I wanna make amends. 470 00:21:59,882 --> 00:22:02,134 How about tomorrow night? I take the night shift. 471 00:22:02,259 --> 00:22:03,844 The clinic's closed at night. 472 00:22:03,969 --> 00:22:06,472 Yeah, but I'm sure there's plenty of things to be done, 473 00:22:06,597 --> 00:22:09,141 there's charts to be reviewed, supplies inventoried... 474 00:22:09,266 --> 00:22:11,143 Dinners avoided. 475 00:22:11,268 --> 00:22:12,144 You're going, too? 476 00:22:12,269 --> 00:22:13,854 I love their Cobb Salad. 477 00:22:15,814 --> 00:22:17,149 Give me a reason to get out of this, 478 00:22:17,274 --> 00:22:18,984 and I'll tell you who started the rumor 479 00:22:19,109 --> 00:22:21,445 about you being a transsexual. 480 00:22:21,570 --> 00:22:23,489 - There is no such rumor. - There will be, 481 00:22:23,614 --> 00:22:25,199 unless you get me out of this dinner. 482 00:22:25,324 --> 00:22:26,867 No one's making you do this, House. 483 00:22:26,992 --> 00:22:28,369 Just do what everybody else does. 484 00:22:28,494 --> 00:22:29,620 Lie to them. 485 00:22:29,745 --> 00:22:30,871 You lie to your mother? 486 00:22:30,996 --> 00:22:32,247 Only since I was 12! 487 00:22:32,373 --> 00:22:34,541 My mom's a human polygraph. 488 00:22:34,667 --> 00:22:37,044 My dad should be taking her to Vegas, not the Louvre. 489 00:22:37,169 --> 00:22:39,546 Trust me, your mom would much rather think 490 00:22:39,672 --> 00:22:42,424 you have a business meeting than you hate her. 491 00:22:42,549 --> 00:22:45,344 I don't hate her. I hate him. 492 00:22:47,554 --> 00:22:50,724 TADDY: We all had headaches, nausea, vomiting. 493 00:22:50,849 --> 00:22:52,184 You know, we figured it was connected 494 00:22:52,309 --> 00:22:54,144 to the massive amounts of drinking. 495 00:22:54,269 --> 00:22:56,146 What, you think what happened to Came“ 496 00:22:56,271 --> 00:22:57,147 has something to do with the trip? 497 00:22:57,272 --> 00:22:58,399 Don't know. 498 00:22:58,524 --> 00:23:00,150 You haven't had any unexplained pain 499 00:23:00,275 --> 00:23:01,652 or strange feelings since you got back? 500 00:23:01,777 --> 00:23:04,738 No, except for a little athlete's foot, I'm fine. 501 00:23:04,863 --> 00:23:06,281 Can I see it? 502 00:23:07,032 --> 00:23:08,534 - See what? - Your feet. 503 00:23:08,659 --> 00:23:12,162 There's a common parasite in Jamaica 504 00:23:12,287 --> 00:23:14,581 that can resemble foot fungus. 505 00:23:16,208 --> 00:23:17,793 It's not really my feet. 506 00:23:18,669 --> 00:23:21,005 You know, I figured fungus is fungus. 507 00:23:22,756 --> 00:23:24,091 It's my groin. 508 00:23:25,843 --> 00:23:28,137 I'm going to need to take a look at that. 509 00:23:28,262 --> 00:23:29,138 Now? 510 00:23:29,263 --> 00:23:31,140 Unless you wanna come down to the hospital with me. 511 00:23:31,265 --> 00:23:33,142 No, no, I can't. I mean, I just started two days ago. 512 00:23:33,267 --> 00:23:34,935 We're right in the middle of a big merger... 513 00:23:35,060 --> 00:23:36,478 Then drop your pants. 514 00:23:51,744 --> 00:23:54,955 Reilly, I need the... What the hell's going on here? 515 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,081 She's a doctor. 516 00:23:56,206 --> 00:23:58,167 I'm a doctor, he has a rash, and a friend of his is... 517 00:23:58,292 --> 00:24:01,003 Right. Well, as soon as she's done treating your rash, 518 00:24:01,128 --> 00:24:02,379 I need the numbers on D-Port Technology. 519 00:24:02,504 --> 00:24:03,672 Yes, sir. 520 00:24:03,797 --> 00:24:07,301 And, Doctor, why don't you leave a card on your way out? 521 00:24:15,476 --> 00:24:17,144 Except for one guy with a rash, 522 00:24:17,269 --> 00:24:19,229 no one else on the trip has any health issues. 523 00:24:19,354 --> 00:24:20,355 What kind of rash? 524 00:24:20,481 --> 00:24:22,107 I don't know, I took some scrapings, 525 00:24:22,232 --> 00:24:23,692 it doesn't appear to be ringworm. 526 00:24:23,817 --> 00:24:26,570 What did it look like, aside from "not ringworm"? 527 00:24:26,695 --> 00:24:28,155 Basically like diaper rash. 528 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:29,448 He's been working around the clock, 529 00:24:29,573 --> 00:24:31,533 he said he hasn't changed his clothes in three days. 530 00:24:31,658 --> 00:24:33,452 Kaposi's Sarcoma can look like diaper rash. 531 00:24:33,577 --> 00:24:35,162 Any discoloration around the edges? 532 00:24:35,287 --> 00:24:37,164 Get him in here. We all wanna take a look. 533 00:24:37,289 --> 00:24:39,291 Even if it is Kaposi's, it's not related. 534 00:24:39,416 --> 00:24:40,918 Our patient doesn't have any skin symptoms 535 00:24:41,043 --> 00:24:42,419 and we've already ruled out cancer. 536 00:24:42,544 --> 00:24:44,171 What are the odds of two friends 537 00:24:44,296 --> 00:24:46,131 who just returned from a trip outside the country 538 00:24:46,256 --> 00:24:48,717 coming down with unexplained but unrelated illnesses? 539 00:24:48,842 --> 00:24:50,135 Get him in here. CAMERON: He won't come. 540 00:24:50,260 --> 00:24:51,678 Just started a new job after graduation, 541 00:24:51,804 --> 00:24:53,138 they're working on some big merger. 542 00:24:53,263 --> 00:24:55,099 Tell him his friend's life hangs in the balance. 543 00:24:55,224 --> 00:24:56,975 That's what I told him the first time. 544 00:24:57,101 --> 00:24:59,645 Still wound up driving into Manhattan. 545 00:24:59,770 --> 00:25:02,022 Tell him his life hangs in the balance. 546 00:25:02,147 --> 00:25:03,774 Tell him the rash is flesh-eating, 547 00:25:03,899 --> 00:25:07,069 and the next course on the menu is his frank and beans. 548 00:25:10,614 --> 00:25:12,366 Where's Stacy? 549 00:25:12,491 --> 00:25:15,077 Speaking at a conference in Baltimore. Why, what do you need? 550 00:25:15,202 --> 00:25:16,203 Can I subpoena a patient? 551 00:25:16,328 --> 00:25:18,580 House wants me to lie to the kid to get him in here. 552 00:25:18,705 --> 00:25:20,707 Well, then you'll be the one getting the subpoena. 553 00:25:20,833 --> 00:25:23,168 Well, we do need him to diagnose his friend. 554 00:25:23,293 --> 00:25:24,461 Take the test to the kid. 555 00:25:24,586 --> 00:25:27,172 There is no test, House just wants to look at it. 556 00:25:27,297 --> 00:25:28,799 Then take House to it. 557 00:25:28,924 --> 00:25:30,509 Yeah, like that's gonna happen. 558 00:25:32,427 --> 00:25:34,138 Tell House his parents called. 559 00:25:34,263 --> 00:25:35,848 Said they were coming in early. 560 00:25:35,973 --> 00:25:38,267 He'll go anywhere just to avoid them. 561 00:25:40,435 --> 00:25:43,772 So, it's okay to lie to House but not to a patient? 562 00:25:43,897 --> 00:25:45,023 Yup. 563 00:25:45,149 --> 00:25:47,234 (PAGER BEEPING) 564 00:25:48,819 --> 00:25:51,697 FOREMAN: What's wrong? KEN: His stomach's getting a lot worse. 565 00:25:51,822 --> 00:25:53,490 (CARNELL SCREAMING) It's rigid! 566 00:25:58,203 --> 00:25:59,997 He's bleeding into his abdomen! 567 00:26:00,122 --> 00:26:01,081 CAMERON: What's going on? 568 00:26:01,206 --> 00:26:04,084 - We need a surgeon and an OR, stat! - On it. 569 00:26:05,294 --> 00:26:07,212 Try to hang in there, Carnell. 570 00:26:16,221 --> 00:26:19,057 The infection caused a perforation in his sigmoid colon. 571 00:26:19,183 --> 00:26:20,225 It's repairable. 572 00:26:20,350 --> 00:26:22,227 But it means the antibiotics aren't working. 573 00:26:22,352 --> 00:26:24,730 Double the dose, and add Tygacil to the list. 574 00:26:24,855 --> 00:26:26,148 Soon as he's out of surgery. 575 00:26:26,273 --> 00:26:27,524 Where's Richie Rich? 576 00:26:27,649 --> 00:26:29,484 He said he can't leave work. 577 00:26:29,610 --> 00:26:31,445 Yeah, you told me that two hours ago. 578 00:26:31,570 --> 00:26:33,030 I'm not gonna lie. 579 00:26:33,155 --> 00:26:36,074 Why, 'cause it's wrong? Or because you're a coward? 580 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,284 Tough choice. 581 00:26:37,409 --> 00:26:40,204 You'd be wasting two hours of the kid's time. 582 00:26:40,329 --> 00:26:43,248 Is that deeply and unforgivably morally wrong? No. 583 00:26:43,373 --> 00:26:46,793 Because it's not a waste of his time. Unless we're wrong. 584 00:26:46,919 --> 00:26:50,380 Unless his condition's got nothing to do with his friend's. 585 00:26:50,505 --> 00:26:53,050 You're just afraid of being wrong. 586 00:26:56,762 --> 00:26:58,472 Your parents called. 587 00:26:59,848 --> 00:27:02,809 - They had to catch an earlier... - You don't have to lie to him. 588 00:27:02,935 --> 00:27:03,936 Kid's on his way here. 589 00:27:04,061 --> 00:27:05,062 He got off work? 590 00:27:05,187 --> 00:27:09,191 Yeah, by vomiting blood. Ambulance is 10 minutes out. 591 00:27:16,657 --> 00:27:18,242 - You Taddy? - Why? 592 00:27:18,951 --> 00:27:21,161 Love the name. If I ever had a dog. 593 00:27:21,286 --> 00:27:22,412 Take off his pants. 594 00:27:22,537 --> 00:27:23,538 Hey. 595 00:27:23,664 --> 00:27:25,082 Don't talk to her, listen to me. 596 00:27:25,207 --> 00:27:27,084 He's vomited in excess of three units of blood. 597 00:27:27,209 --> 00:27:29,253 - He needs to be admitted before... - If you wanted to be a doctor, 598 00:27:29,378 --> 00:27:31,880 maybe you should have buckled down a little more in high school. 599 00:27:32,005 --> 00:27:33,173 - Bite me. - What are you doing? 600 00:27:33,298 --> 00:27:35,092 Exactly how close were you and Carnell? 601 00:27:35,217 --> 00:27:36,093 Not so close. 602 00:27:36,218 --> 00:27:37,970 Spend a lot of time together in Jamaica? 603 00:27:38,095 --> 00:27:39,096 Share a room? 604 00:27:39,221 --> 00:27:42,099 Wait, you don't think... Look, we're not gay. 605 00:27:42,224 --> 00:27:45,352 - I'm not saying you're gay. - I'm saying you had sex. 606 00:27:45,477 --> 00:27:47,396 Look, we're not gay. We hardly even hung out. 607 00:27:47,521 --> 00:27:49,189 Right. Guess you just flew him down to Jamaica 608 00:27:49,314 --> 00:27:50,315 'cause he won a contest. 609 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,858 No, he's in my frat. 610 00:27:51,984 --> 00:27:53,277 All right, between school and wrestling 611 00:27:53,402 --> 00:27:56,071 and going home every break to work in his father's junkyard, 612 00:27:56,196 --> 00:27:58,323 Carnell didn't have any time to hang out with anybody. 613 00:27:58,448 --> 00:27:59,658 It's not fungus. 614 00:27:59,783 --> 00:28:01,076 CAMERON: I already told you that. 615 00:28:01,201 --> 00:28:03,787 There's no pustules, it's not staph. 616 00:28:06,540 --> 00:28:07,499 His dad's what? 617 00:28:07,624 --> 00:28:10,043 His dad owns a scrap metal salvage yard. 618 00:28:10,168 --> 00:28:12,212 Came“ worked there during breaks. 619 00:28:18,802 --> 00:28:19,761 You lied. 620 00:28:19,886 --> 00:28:21,096 What are you talking about? 621 00:28:21,221 --> 00:28:23,348 Oh, yeah, of course, in this family, 622 00:28:23,473 --> 00:28:25,559 you probably need more specifics. 623 00:28:25,684 --> 00:28:28,854 You told us you owned a construction company, not a salvage yard. 624 00:28:28,979 --> 00:28:30,272 I know the way things work. 625 00:28:30,397 --> 00:28:32,899 The better my job, the better my son gets treated. 626 00:28:33,025 --> 00:28:34,568 Right, that's why I'm mad, 627 00:28:34,693 --> 00:28:37,070 we wasted all that filet mignon on you. 628 00:28:37,195 --> 00:28:39,906 Did your kid find anything unusual the last time he worked for you? 629 00:28:40,032 --> 00:28:41,033 No. 630 00:28:41,158 --> 00:28:42,075 Braided wire? 631 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,661 Metal weights on each end, a lead canister, maybe just a lid. 632 00:28:44,786 --> 00:28:46,747 Probably used it as a doorstop or a paperweight. 633 00:28:46,872 --> 00:28:48,415 Why would he wanna... 634 00:28:50,208 --> 00:28:52,252 Okay, here it comes. 635 00:28:52,377 --> 00:28:54,087 I gave him an early graduation gift, 636 00:28:54,212 --> 00:28:56,506 an old plumb I found, looks like a fishing weight. 637 00:28:56,631 --> 00:29:00,093 Put it on a keychain, so he'd always remember where he came from. 638 00:29:00,218 --> 00:29:02,095 So he could lie about it later? 639 00:29:02,220 --> 00:29:04,973 - Where's the keychain? - I don't know, he never used it. 640 00:29:05,098 --> 00:29:06,433 Just kept it as a good luck charm. 641 00:29:06,558 --> 00:29:09,144 - Kept it where? - I don't know. 642 00:29:09,269 --> 00:29:12,105 Why? Why does it matter? 643 00:29:13,231 --> 00:29:14,316 Where are the kid's clothes? 644 00:29:14,441 --> 00:29:16,234 In the bureau back in his regular room. 645 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,820 - You two, get it to radiology. - His clothes? 646 00:29:18,945 --> 00:29:20,906 The bureau. Don't open it. 647 00:29:21,031 --> 00:29:22,616 You, come with me. 648 00:29:28,455 --> 00:29:29,998 HOUSE: Set it down there. 649 00:29:32,959 --> 00:29:35,670 Now get out of here, this thing's radioactive. 650 00:29:35,796 --> 00:29:39,091 The chances of radiation causing CNS symptoms? 651 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,009 (CRACKLING) 652 00:29:43,261 --> 00:29:45,180 (CRACKLING INTENSIFIES) FOREMAN: Whoa. 653 00:29:50,143 --> 00:29:52,687 Call the boys in the lead pajamas. 654 00:30:05,909 --> 00:30:07,744 The radiation measurements weren't high enough 655 00:30:07,869 --> 00:30:10,163 to cause central nervous system damage. 656 00:30:10,288 --> 00:30:11,665 It mightn't have caused nerve damage, 657 00:30:11,790 --> 00:30:13,875 but it definitely destroyed his immune system. 658 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,335 And caused tumors. 659 00:30:15,460 --> 00:30:18,839 We don't know that. None of the MRls showed anything. 660 00:30:20,298 --> 00:30:23,552 Do a PET scan. Check his cervical spine. 661 00:30:25,053 --> 00:30:27,097 It's not gonna be good news. 662 00:30:30,225 --> 00:30:32,853 FOREMAN: Mr. Hall, it's not good news. 663 00:30:33,854 --> 00:30:35,814 The piece of metal you gave Carnell 664 00:30:35,939 --> 00:30:39,025 was from an industrial device used to test wells. 665 00:30:39,151 --> 00:30:41,736 People aren't supposed to just dump radioactive material. 666 00:30:41,862 --> 00:30:43,113 But they do. 667 00:30:48,285 --> 00:30:50,745 So, what now? I mean, what do you do? 668 00:30:50,871 --> 00:30:52,873 FOREMAN: Anyone who's had contact with the source 669 00:30:52,998 --> 00:30:56,168 will have to immediately get treatment for radiation sickness. 670 00:30:56,293 --> 00:30:58,211 Taddy carried it on his lap on the flight. 671 00:30:58,336 --> 00:31:00,088 So there is a treatment? 672 00:31:00,755 --> 00:31:02,424 Transfusions. 673 00:31:02,549 --> 00:31:05,552 And we try to get the fluids and electrolytes balanced. 674 00:31:05,677 --> 00:31:06,845 Came“, 675 00:31:08,430 --> 00:31:10,348 he's had much more exposure. 676 00:31:10,474 --> 00:31:13,602 The equivalent of about 70,000 chest X rays. 677 00:31:14,311 --> 00:31:18,023 His ability to create white blood cells has been completely destroyed. 678 00:31:18,940 --> 00:31:21,693 And that's why he can't fight off this infection? 679 00:31:21,818 --> 00:31:24,779 Yeah. He's gonna need a bone marrow transplant. 680 00:31:26,865 --> 00:31:29,826 And we did another PET scan. 681 00:31:29,951 --> 00:31:34,080 There's a cavernous angioma within his spinal cord, it's a tumor. 682 00:31:34,206 --> 00:31:38,126 That's what's been causing the shocks and CNS symptoms. 683 00:31:38,251 --> 00:31:41,713 He has a tumor inside of his spinal cord? 684 00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:46,593 The cord is made of strands 685 00:31:46,718 --> 00:31:49,471 put together, sort of like a kite string. 686 00:31:49,596 --> 00:31:54,142 The surgeon should be able to pull the strands apart and excise the tumor. 687 00:31:54,267 --> 00:31:58,855 But surgery on someone who's as hemopoetically compromised as your son 688 00:32:00,065 --> 00:32:01,775 is extremely risky. 689 00:32:11,743 --> 00:32:12,869 And, 690 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,749 if you don't do the surgery? I mean... 691 00:32:17,874 --> 00:32:20,877 The tumor could cause his breathing to stop. 692 00:32:21,586 --> 00:32:23,338 Possibly his heart as well. 693 00:32:27,217 --> 00:32:29,844 There's no way you could have known. 694 00:32:41,856 --> 00:32:43,608 Now, you're gonna have to come with us. 695 00:32:43,733 --> 00:32:44,818 You need to start treatment yourself. 696 00:32:44,943 --> 00:32:46,611 No. No, no. 697 00:32:47,862 --> 00:32:49,739 I can start my treatment later. 698 00:32:49,864 --> 00:32:51,157 But he can't. 699 00:32:51,866 --> 00:32:55,954 He needs to be in a sterile isolation room to prevent further infections. 700 00:33:03,128 --> 00:33:04,879 - Mom. - We're early. 701 00:33:05,547 --> 00:33:08,508 - It's great to see you. - Oh, Greg, don't lie. 702 00:33:11,678 --> 00:33:13,471 We came at a bad time, didn't we? 703 00:33:13,597 --> 00:33:17,475 Actually, yeah, I think I have to take a rain check. 704 00:33:17,601 --> 00:33:20,478 Oh, plans have been made. Wilson made them. 705 00:33:21,187 --> 00:33:22,564 I asked him to cancel. 706 00:33:22,689 --> 00:33:24,858 I'm dealing with a kind of a complicated case right now so... 707 00:33:24,983 --> 00:33:26,693 Well, we'll just come back 708 00:33:26,818 --> 00:33:28,862 when things aren't so out of control. 709 00:33:29,863 --> 00:33:31,281 My team is busy. 710 00:33:31,406 --> 00:33:32,574 You don't wanna see us. 711 00:33:32,699 --> 00:33:34,159 Mom, don't make me feel guilty. 712 00:33:34,284 --> 00:33:36,161 No, no, of course not. Sorry. 713 00:33:36,286 --> 00:33:39,372 I've got a patient who's probably gonna die of radiation poisoning. 714 00:33:39,497 --> 00:33:41,666 So that means you can't eat? 715 00:33:43,168 --> 00:33:45,795 Come on, let's grab a bite in the cafeteria. 716 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,672 I'll buy you a Reuben. 717 00:33:51,384 --> 00:33:52,761 Well, I guess I got time for a sandwich. 718 00:33:52,886 --> 00:33:53,887 Good. 719 00:33:57,891 --> 00:33:58,767 Yeah? 720 00:33:58,892 --> 00:34:00,226 I just wanted to let you know 721 00:34:00,352 --> 00:34:01,728 that Carnell's prepped for surgery. 722 00:34:01,853 --> 00:34:03,229 Thank you. 723 00:34:04,856 --> 00:34:09,277 Hi, I'm Allison Cameron. I work with your son. 724 00:34:09,402 --> 00:34:10,945 Greg's told us all about you. 725 00:34:11,071 --> 00:34:12,072 Really? 726 00:34:13,782 --> 00:34:14,741 New, huh? 727 00:34:14,866 --> 00:34:16,326 Nope, just gullible. 728 00:34:16,451 --> 00:34:19,162 I'm sorry, I was just making fun of my son, 729 00:34:19,287 --> 00:34:20,747 not of you. 730 00:34:20,872 --> 00:34:22,957 We were just about to go to get something to eat, 731 00:34:23,083 --> 00:34:24,751 would you care to join us? 732 00:34:28,421 --> 00:34:30,757 You don't have a lot of time with your son. 733 00:34:30,882 --> 00:34:32,884 Maybe another time. 734 00:34:42,102 --> 00:34:45,146 - Do you like the Beatles? - They're all right. 735 00:34:46,439 --> 00:34:49,401 My 12-year-old just turned me back on to them. 736 00:34:51,861 --> 00:34:54,823 McCartney's gotta have more money than God. 737 00:34:56,408 --> 00:34:59,035 I think that's all of it. Reverse him. 738 00:35:00,161 --> 00:35:01,830 How's he doing? 739 00:35:03,164 --> 00:35:06,459 - Looks pretty good down here. - Do I rock, or what? 740 00:35:07,419 --> 00:35:09,045 (BEEPING) NURSE: His pressure's dropping! 741 00:35:09,170 --> 00:35:11,047 - Give him another two units. - I did already! 742 00:35:11,172 --> 00:35:12,924 His heart rate's falling. 743 00:35:13,049 --> 00:35:14,884 CHASE: He's hemorrhaging. 744 00:35:22,976 --> 00:35:25,937 They're talking about Mom's last trip to the dentist. 745 00:35:26,896 --> 00:35:28,773 Grown children talking to their parents, 746 00:35:28,898 --> 00:35:30,483 nothing gets talked about. 747 00:35:30,608 --> 00:35:32,902 Trust me, you're not missing anything. 748 00:35:34,821 --> 00:35:36,990 So, besides work, what you been up to? 749 00:35:37,115 --> 00:35:38,158 Not much. 750 00:35:38,283 --> 00:35:40,785 MR. HOUSE: You always say that, "Not much". 751 00:35:41,411 --> 00:35:42,787 It's always the answer. 752 00:35:42,912 --> 00:35:45,415 Any new babes you might wanna tell me about? 753 00:35:45,540 --> 00:35:47,417 Leave him alone, John. 754 00:35:48,293 --> 00:35:49,878 Got a new motorcycle. 755 00:35:51,963 --> 00:35:53,506 Might have seen it out front, 756 00:35:53,631 --> 00:35:55,800 it's orange with a gigantic scrape. 757 00:35:55,925 --> 00:35:58,136 Is it the one in the handicapped parking? 758 00:35:58,261 --> 00:35:59,345 Yeah. 759 00:36:00,096 --> 00:36:01,806 Looks like crap, but it drives great. 760 00:36:01,931 --> 00:36:04,142 Well, you'll be careful, right? 761 00:36:04,267 --> 00:36:06,770 Last I checked, you still have two legs. 762 00:36:06,895 --> 00:36:08,146 Actually, three. 763 00:36:09,397 --> 00:36:11,065 You know what your problem is, Greg? 764 00:36:11,191 --> 00:36:12,567 Shifting gears? 765 00:36:12,692 --> 00:36:15,236 You just don't know how lucky you are. 766 00:36:18,990 --> 00:36:20,784 Where's the head? 767 00:36:27,874 --> 00:36:29,876 Well, good thing we got that cleared up. 768 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:32,003 Oh, he was just trying to help. 769 00:36:32,128 --> 00:36:33,671 I don't need help. 770 00:36:33,797 --> 00:36:35,048 I know. 771 00:36:35,173 --> 00:36:38,259 You're absolutely perfect just the way you are. 772 00:36:55,777 --> 00:36:56,861 Thank you. 773 00:37:02,909 --> 00:37:05,912 So, how much longer do you think he'll be in surgery? 774 00:37:06,037 --> 00:37:07,747 It's hard to say. 775 00:37:18,758 --> 00:37:21,761 You know, he just started school when Ann died. 776 00:37:22,428 --> 00:37:23,805 I was a mess. 777 00:37:27,267 --> 00:37:30,728 Still adjusting to being a parent, much less a single parent. 778 00:37:32,313 --> 00:37:36,484 You know, I used to put cold pancakes in his lunch box. 779 00:37:37,986 --> 00:37:39,737 I mean, that was the only thing 780 00:37:39,863 --> 00:37:41,698 I could make that he would eat. 781 00:37:42,782 --> 00:37:45,535 - You did okay, he's a good kid. - Yeah. 782 00:37:50,290 --> 00:37:53,418 Hey. So, how is he? 783 00:37:54,752 --> 00:37:57,422 Well, the surgeon has removed the tumor 784 00:37:57,547 --> 00:37:59,591 without damaging the spinal cord. 785 00:37:59,716 --> 00:38:02,260 But, the infection has caused 786 00:38:02,385 --> 00:38:04,596 another intestinal perforation. 787 00:38:05,763 --> 00:38:06,723 We stopped the bleeding, 788 00:38:06,848 --> 00:38:08,850 but his white count keeps falling. 789 00:38:08,975 --> 00:38:10,143 Okay- 790 00:38:13,313 --> 00:38:16,608 So what now? Another drug, antibiotics, what? 791 00:38:19,319 --> 00:38:20,737 I'm sorry. 792 00:38:21,863 --> 00:38:24,073 The reality is, no matter what we give him, 793 00:38:24,198 --> 00:38:27,994 it's unlikely he's gonna be able to fight off the infections. 794 00:38:53,061 --> 00:38:54,520 Okay, okay' 795 00:38:56,648 --> 00:38:57,774 (ENGINE ROARING) 796 00:39:01,486 --> 00:39:04,197 The father and the friend are responding well to treatment. 797 00:39:04,322 --> 00:39:07,116 Things aren't looking so good for Carnell. 798 00:39:08,493 --> 00:39:09,786 Thank you, 799 00:39:10,620 --> 00:39:12,080 for not eating. 800 00:39:14,958 --> 00:39:16,793 It was none of my business. 801 00:39:18,836 --> 00:39:21,089 They seem perfectly pleasant, don't they? 802 00:39:21,798 --> 00:39:22,799 They are. 803 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,886 He was a marine pilot. She was a housewife. 804 00:39:27,887 --> 00:39:31,307 Married 47 years, they had one child. 805 00:39:33,059 --> 00:39:34,769 Mom is just like everyone else, 806 00:39:35,812 --> 00:39:37,355 she's nice enough, 807 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,441 no great sense of humor, hates confrontation. 808 00:39:41,818 --> 00:39:43,778 My dad's just like you. 809 00:39:44,529 --> 00:39:47,448 Not the caring till your eyes pop out part, 810 00:39:48,366 --> 00:39:50,159 just the insane moral compass 811 00:39:50,284 --> 00:39:52,662 that won't let you lie to anybody about anything. 812 00:39:52,787 --> 00:39:54,664 It's a great quality for Boy Scouts 813 00:39:54,789 --> 00:39:56,249 and police witnesses. 814 00:39:58,209 --> 00:40:00,253 Crappy quality for a dad. 815 00:40:15,393 --> 00:40:16,519 Hey. 816 00:40:17,603 --> 00:40:18,771 How you doing? 817 00:40:19,397 --> 00:40:20,815 I'm hanging in there. 818 00:40:26,362 --> 00:40:28,781 I'm sorry I lied to you about Mom. 819 00:40:30,783 --> 00:40:32,910 I'm sorry I lied to you, too. 820 00:40:35,663 --> 00:40:38,666 There was nothing good that came out of her dying. 821 00:40:38,791 --> 00:40:40,126 I'm not mad. 822 00:40:41,794 --> 00:40:43,755 I know why you did it. 823 00:40:45,798 --> 00:40:47,008 It worked. 824 00:40:48,843 --> 00:40:50,803 I never drink and drive. 825 00:40:57,310 --> 00:40:58,811 I'm scared, Dad. 826 00:41:03,441 --> 00:41:04,776 Come on. 827 00:41:06,444 --> 00:41:08,780 There's nothing to be scared of. 828 00:41:09,572 --> 00:41:11,282 You're gonna be just fine. 829 00:41:11,407 --> 00:41:12,575 Don't play me. 830 00:41:14,368 --> 00:41:16,245 I wanna know the truth. 831 00:41:17,622 --> 00:41:19,665 I'm telling you the truth. 832 00:41:21,167 --> 00:41:23,795 You're gonna be fine, I swear. 833 00:41:30,802 --> 00:41:32,428 I love you, Dad. 834 00:41:34,806 --> 00:41:36,516 I love you, too. 835 00:41:51,906 --> 00:41:55,034 Why does he hate seeing his parents? 836 00:41:55,159 --> 00:41:58,830 So his dad tells the truth, he can't handle that? 837 00:41:58,955 --> 00:42:01,457 He hates being a disappointment. 838 00:42:01,582 --> 00:42:03,960 He's a doctor, world famous. 839 00:42:05,086 --> 00:42:07,380 How disappointed can they be? 840 00:42:08,798 --> 00:42:10,174 You know what I figure is worse 841 00:42:10,299 --> 00:42:12,552 than watching your son become crippled? 842 00:42:13,553 --> 00:42:15,638 Watching him be miserable.