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MAGGIE: You okay?
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I'm thinking.
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Thinking's not gonna
get you to the top.
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Mom, you're supposed
to be encouraging me.
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No, I'm supposed
to be coaching you.
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The slower you go,
the more tired you're gonna get.
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(GRUNTS)
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There's a hold
about a foot above you on the left.
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I know.
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Nice grab!
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Keep going.
You're almost there, babe.
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I can't.
My calf's cramping.
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You need to get
off your toes.
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- Get on the ball of your foot.
- I can't.
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Yes, you can.
You can get all the way to the top.
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It's okay. I got you.
You all right?
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Looks like you were wrong.
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(CHUCKLES) Yeah. But you did awesome.
That's the highest you've gotten.
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I'm proud of you.
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I don't feel so good.
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Okay.
Come on down.
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Mom?
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(SIGHS EXHAUSTEDLY)
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Mom, are you okay?
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Oh, my God.
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(SCREAMING)
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Whoa!
Did you see that? You all right?
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- My arm. I think I broke it.
- Don't move.
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Oh, Jane,
I'm so sorry.
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What happened?
Did the rope break?
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No. My hands,
I can't move them.
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She's been to an ortho,
two neuros and an immunologist.
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None of the treatments
have had any effect.
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- You think it's over?
- It's getting worse.
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Last neurologist found
intermittent numbness in both arms
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as well as
the hand paralysis.
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I meant the game. You think
he's gonna keep all four of us?
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He said he would. No sign
of upper motor neuron involvement.
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He lies.
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HOUSE: My ears
are burning.
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Tell him you're
done firing people.
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Well, if I lie,
that would be little reassurance.
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Dr. Kutner, who told you
that it would be a good idea
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to put up superficial representations
of a hypocritical season
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celebrating a mythical figure?
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It wasn't me.
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He lied.
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Homey knows better,
Hymie doesn't care,
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and Huntington's
would have done a better job.
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I don't have Huntington's.
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- That you know of.
- Why would you...
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Because I got sued
when I called you "honey buns".
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Am I fired if I put up...
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The point of the game
was to scare us.
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Telling us it's over isn't scary.
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Therefore, he has no reason
to say that unless it's true.
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Good.
Then, can we do a Secret Santa?
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I liked you better 15 seconds ago
when you were afraid for your job.
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So, who's sick?
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35-year-old single mom.
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It's an odd presentation of paralysis.
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- Is there any history of drug use?
- No.
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HOUSE: She says
there's no history.
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She's not a liar.
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Okay.
This is gonna be a tough case.
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I have almost no knowledge
of alien physiology.
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Everyone lies.
But there's an exception to every rule.
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Actually, there isn't.
That's kind of what makes it a rule.
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The patient's mother died
of breast cancer when she was seven.
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She never even
knew her mom was sick.
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She promised herself she would never
hide anything from her own daughter.
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Oh. I didn't know
she'd promised.
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And we're not her daughter.
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The patient inherited
the BRCA1 mutation from her mom.
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She had a prophylactic
double mastectomy 10 years ago.
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She lied about it.
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She told her co-workers.
She told her kid.
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She lied to the world.
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Reconstructive surgery
is designed to convince people that...
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She didn't get
reconstructive surgery.
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KUTNER: Okay.
We can rule out breast cancer.
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Actually, I was gonna rule it in.
Paralysis could be paraneoplastic.
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Even the best surgeon can't remove
every cell of breast tissue.
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MRI what's left of her chest.
Set the machine to scan for irony.
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I'm gonna go re-do
the patient history.
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Your mom tell you
about all the drugs she does?
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She smokes pot once in a while,
but not in a long time.
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What about you?
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How would that
make her sick?
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Are you a doctor?
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I'm 11.
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That's not an answer.
That's an evasion.
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Drinking?
You ever sneak a drink?
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I don't do any of that stuff.
It's bad for you.
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I understand
why you don't want your mom to know.
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- But I'm her doctor, so...
- No, I would tell my mom.
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- And I would tell you.
- Why?
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Because she would
never lie to me.
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What's her favorite way
to have sex?
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I don't get what sex has to do
with breast cancer.
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Are you a doctor?
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Did you go to med school
since the last time I asked?
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You just think we've
got to be lying to...
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- White lies?
- What are those?
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Those are lies we tell
to make other people feel better.
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I don't lie.
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- Rationalizations?
- What are those?
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Those are lies we tell
to make ourselves feel better.
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- No. We don't...
- Lies of omission?
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Saddle, bronc or doggie?
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That's sex talk.
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She used to like being on top,
but now she likes to be on her stomach.
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That way she doesn't have to see them
looking at her scars.
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It's child abuse.
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Honesty?
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There's a reason that everybody lies.
It works.
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It's what allows
society to function.
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It's what separates
man from beast.
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Oh, I thought that
was our thumbs.
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You want to know every place
your mom's thumb has been?
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I'm sorry. I missed rehearsal.
Am I taking the truth-is-good side?
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- Don't you usually take that part?
- Lies are a tool.
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They can be used
either for good...
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Wait. I've got a better one.
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Lies are like children.
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They're hard work but they're worth it
because the future depends on them.
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You are so full of
love or something.
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- When you care about someone...
- You lie to them.
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You pretend that their constant,
ponderous musings are interesting.
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You tell them they're not losing
their boyish good looks
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or becoming worn out and...
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I stand corrected. And may I say it's
been a real pleasure chatting with you.
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Axilla is clean.
Surgical margins look clear.
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No lymphadenopathy, no masses,
no nothing. It's not cancer.
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We need a new theory.
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You catch her lying?
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Not yet.
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Wouldn't no have been
a shorter answer?
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Wouldn't you not talking
have made this a shorter conversation?
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Kid says Mom's a slut.
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She called her mom a slut?
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No. I called her mom a slut.
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She jumps anything
with a pole and a pulse.
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Not that I'm judging, here. Given her
medical history, I'm actually impressed.
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Maggie already admitted
to having multiple sexual partners.
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Which is why we
already tested for, and ruled out,
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syphilis and any other STD
that could have caused her symptoms.
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STDs aren't the only risk
in risky sex.
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The problem in sleeping
with strangers is, they're strange.
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We'll follow up
with any recent partners.
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Send Foreman and Taub.
They're better liars.
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More likely to
get to the truth.
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You think I drugged her?
Use a coaster.
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We're not cops. Legally,
we don't care one way or another.
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But we need to know the truth
so we can help her.
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I'd known her for less than an hour
and she offered to take me home.
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There was no need
to drug her.
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(CHUCKLES)
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Not that I would.
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She's gonna be okay, right?
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As long as she doesn't
have to pick up or hold anything, yeah.
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Sorry. I just had
the floors done. Reclaimed pine.
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You always
this thirsty?
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I don't know.
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Water's supposed to
be good for you, right?
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Dehydration, anxiety, aggression.
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I'm not aggressive.
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Spastic chorea
in his right hand.
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- What about my hand?
- How much do you weigh?
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- About 180, 190?
- 180. What is this?
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If you took what she did,
it could take longer to hit you.
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It might affect you differently.
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But you didn't
give her anything, right?
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She was really drunk.
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I just gave her some E
to help enhance things.
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Have any of it left?
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Is my hand gonna be okay?
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There's nothing
wrong with it.
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We lied.
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I've had a sore throat
for a few days now.
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My stomach's also
been bothering me.
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I think my glands are swollen.
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Saint Nicholas?
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Patron saint of children.
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Also seamen, merchants,
archers, prostitutes and prisoners.
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Mmm. He must have been
pretty hard working.
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Or just a credit hog.
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Open wide.
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- Say, "Ah."
- Ah.
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You have strep.
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Is it contagious?
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Only for the next 24 hours,
as long as you take the antibiotics.
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How contagious?
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Take a personal day.
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I can't.
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I'll write your pimp a note.
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My pimp?
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You get tested for AIDS
every three months.
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And your necklace.
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Prostitutes wear religious symbols?
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I think they just
like kneeling.
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You don't have the skin of a seaman,
the fingers of an archer,
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the clothes of a merchant
or the attitude of an ex-con.
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So, that just
leaves one left.
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Mmm, two, actually.
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But I'm not a child, am I?
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You owe me 50 bucks.
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Then you owe me
half a lap dance.
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It's for the nurses' holiday bonus.
I know you got the memo.
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I got the memo last year.
I want to hire 40 more fellows.
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You already fired
the ones you hired?
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They work better
when they're scared.
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You were right.
Guy slipped her Ecstasy.
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- He have any symptoms?
- No.
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Kutner's starting the patient
on hemodialysis,
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and Thirteen's in the lab
trying to figure out
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what the guy put in the drugs.
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See? Clear, simple statement of facts
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describing their cooperation
with absolutely no attitude or fear.
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Something's got to be done.
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Oh, yeah.
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How are you feeling?
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I still can't move my hands.
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It will take a few more hours to cycle
all your blood through the machine.
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What just happened?
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Nothing. What's wrong?
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What do you mean?
The lights just went out.
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Didn't they?
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What did you do?
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Is this from the drugs?
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Most of the drugs
should be out of your system by now.
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- And our drugs wouldn't...
- I can't see.
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Do something!
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I can't see!
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I can't see!
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Nothing in the Ecstasy
except Ecstasy.
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Well, that never hurt anybody.
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Can't make them
blind days later.
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Do you spell "Homey"
with a "Y"?
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I want to be respectful.
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You're actually
gonna let us do Secret Santa?
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Not just y0u guys-
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I like presents, too.
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Pick a name.
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Why are you doing this?
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See, this is why
no one likes your people.
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The notion of picking
one time of the year
248
00:11:32,714 --> 00:11:34,465
to be decent to other people is obscene
249
00:11:34,590 --> 00:11:36,092
'cause it's actually
validating the notion
250
00:11:36,217 --> 00:11:37,844
of being miserable wretches
the rest of the year.
251
00:11:37,969 --> 00:11:40,138
So, you think this is
the part of the year that's screwed up?
252
00:11:40,888 --> 00:11:43,641
On the other hand, you are now a team.
You've got to work together.
253
00:11:43,766 --> 00:11:46,436
And the simple fact is, giving
people crap makes people like people.
254
00:11:46,561 --> 00:11:48,896
So, spend 25 bucks.
Learn to love.
255
00:11:49,772 --> 00:11:51,983
Blindness could be a complication
from the hemodialysis.
256
00:11:52,108 --> 00:11:54,902
No, the dialysate composition
was within range.
257
00:11:56,237 --> 00:11:57,655
- Sweet.
- Interesting.
258
00:11:57,780 --> 00:11:59,240
The dialysate composition
just indicates...
259
00:11:59,365 --> 00:12:02,201
Indicates nothing. I was referring
to his reaction to the name he got.
260
00:12:02,327 --> 00:12:04,162
I was pleased.
I thought it'd be fun to buy for...
261
00:12:04,287 --> 00:12:07,206
Means there's someone here
it wouldn't be fun to buy for.
262
00:12:07,332 --> 00:12:09,917
I wonder who.
Pick a name.
263
00:12:10,043 --> 00:12:14,756
Then go check out
the patient's house.
264
00:12:15,673 --> 00:12:17,258
Interesting.
265
00:12:17,383 --> 00:12:19,177
FOREMAN: We're wasting time
going to the home.
266
00:12:19,302 --> 00:12:21,137
Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
fits the symptoms.
267
00:12:21,262 --> 00:12:23,389
No family history of Kearns.
Go to their house.
268
00:12:23,514 --> 00:12:25,641
She would have told us if there were
any other drugs. You met her.
269
00:12:25,767 --> 00:12:27,727
- She couldn't have been more candid.
- You're absolutely right.
270
00:12:27,852 --> 00:12:30,480
- Go to their house...
- MS or a vascular problem fits better.
271
00:12:30,605 --> 00:12:32,065
They could affect
hands and eyes.
272
00:12:33,232 --> 00:12:35,485
Fine.
Do an MRI, check for MS.
273
00:12:35,610 --> 00:12:38,863
And a fluorescein angiogram of her eyes
to see if we missed a bleed somewhere.
274
00:12:38,988 --> 00:12:42,909
Oh, and whoever goes to their house,
get me their computers.
275
00:12:43,576 --> 00:12:44,786
You talk to your
kid about sex
276
00:12:44,911 --> 00:12:47,121
so she'll think
you're being open about everything.
277
00:12:47,246 --> 00:12:49,791
It keeps her from asking questions about
things you don't want to talk about.
278
00:12:49,916 --> 00:12:52,794
That's right. Her honesty proves
just how dishonest she is.
279
00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:56,756
Yes! Exactly who I wanted.
This is gonna be fun.
280
00:13:02,303 --> 00:13:05,556
The dye may sting
when it enters your bloodstream.
281
00:13:05,681 --> 00:13:07,225
Are you scared, Mom?
282
00:13:07,350 --> 00:13:08,726
Yeah.
283
00:13:08,851 --> 00:13:10,645
- Are you?
- Yeah.
284
00:13:11,062 --> 00:13:11,979
Are they?
285
00:13:13,314 --> 00:13:15,525
They don't
look scared.
286
00:13:15,650 --> 00:13:17,985
Either they're confident
or they just don't care.
287
00:13:18,403 --> 00:13:19,529
We're confident.
288
00:13:19,654 --> 00:13:22,365
Okay if I shift you a bit?
I need to get you into position.
289
00:13:28,287 --> 00:13:30,373
(SCANNER WHIRRING)
290
00:13:30,498 --> 00:13:31,958
Your boss is weird.
291
00:13:32,750 --> 00:13:33,876
Yeah, he is.
292
00:13:34,293 --> 00:13:37,672
He thought he'd get information
you may not have been telling us by...
293
00:13:37,797 --> 00:13:39,006
Being a jerk?
294
00:13:39,132 --> 00:13:41,092
You'd be surprised
how often it works.
295
00:13:41,217 --> 00:13:42,552
Choroidal flush looks good.
296
00:13:43,803 --> 00:13:45,763
Why would people lie to a doctor?
297
00:13:45,888 --> 00:13:48,474
Dozens of reasons to lie.
Only one reason to tell the truth.
298
00:13:48,599 --> 00:13:51,352
You're never even tempted?
299
00:13:51,477 --> 00:13:56,441
I mean, lies do sometimes
smooth things out, make life easier.
300
00:13:56,566 --> 00:13:58,693
Yeah?
Your life easy?
301
00:13:59,777 --> 00:14:01,028
Not even close.
302
00:14:01,821 --> 00:14:05,158
Dye's reached the retinal capillary bed.
No leakage.
303
00:14:06,659 --> 00:14:08,411
That's good, right?
304
00:14:08,911 --> 00:14:10,997
It means it's not
a vascular problem.
305
00:14:11,122 --> 00:14:14,041
- But?
- A vascular problem we could fix.
306
00:14:18,629 --> 00:14:20,840
They look worried now, Mom.
307
00:14:24,469 --> 00:14:25,636
What's with
the Secret Santa?
308
00:14:25,761 --> 00:14:27,138
You trying to
bring them together?
309
00:14:27,263 --> 00:14:28,931
Want to
drive them apart.
310
00:14:29,390 --> 00:14:30,725
With gift giving?
311
00:14:30,850 --> 00:14:32,268
Conflict's built
right into the name.
312
00:14:32,393 --> 00:14:35,229
Santa's about sharing.
Secret's about withholding.
313
00:14:36,230 --> 00:14:38,983
Aside from the Trojan horse,
gifts don't usually...
314
00:14:39,108 --> 00:14:42,528
What did you get your wife
for your final anniversary?
315
00:14:42,653 --> 00:14:44,655
- Uh, a sweater.
- She hated it.
316
00:14:44,780 --> 00:14:45,740
She loved it.
317
00:14:45,865 --> 00:14:47,408
Then you didn't buy it.
318
00:14:47,533 --> 00:14:51,496
I gave her some cash and...
319
00:14:53,247 --> 00:14:56,501
Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly
how little we know about a person.
320
00:14:56,626 --> 00:14:58,127
And nothing pisses off
a person more
321
00:14:58,252 --> 00:15:00,254
than being shoved
in the wrong pigeonhole.
322
00:15:00,838 --> 00:15:02,340
(MUTTERING) Nice.
323
00:15:03,633 --> 00:15:06,052
I'm thinking of spending
a few extra bucks on my Secret Santa.
324
00:15:06,177 --> 00:15:07,261
Bad idea.
325
00:15:07,386 --> 00:15:09,847
You mind if I tell House you asked them
for the key instead of breaking in?
326
00:15:09,972 --> 00:15:12,391
- Yes. I do. Just another 5 bucks.
- 5 will be 10.
327
00:15:12,517 --> 00:15:14,143
The key's proof
she doesn't have anything to hide.
328
00:15:14,268 --> 00:15:16,646
The key is proof I didn't do exactly
what House told me to do.
329
00:15:16,771 --> 00:15:18,105
And what do you care
if it's another 15?
330
00:15:18,231 --> 00:15:20,525
I'm gonna tell him.
Who are you so anxious to please?
331
00:15:20,650 --> 00:15:22,193
(SNORTS) Not you.
332
00:15:22,318 --> 00:15:24,529
You really think you're gonna prove
people are capable of honesty
333
00:15:24,654 --> 00:15:26,781
using a mother and daughter
you've known for one day?
334
00:15:26,906 --> 00:15:29,408
I'm not the one who's based
his entire worldview on the proposition.
335
00:15:29,534 --> 00:15:32,495
If I'm wrong, so what?
If he's wrong...
336
00:15:35,957 --> 00:15:37,458
- So, you've got Huntington's?
- Nope.
337
00:15:37,583 --> 00:15:38,417
But House said that...
338
00:15:38,543 --> 00:15:40,628
If I wanted to talk about it,
why didn't I bring it up?
339
00:15:43,297 --> 00:15:46,008
TAUB: Fluorescein angiogram was clear.
No leaks. No lesions.
340
00:15:46,133 --> 00:15:48,928
(BEEPS)
Definitely not a vascular problem.
341
00:15:49,554 --> 00:15:52,181
Someone get their birthdays
out of the file.
342
00:15:52,306 --> 00:15:53,975
Have you tried
leaving it blank?
343
00:15:56,769 --> 00:16:00,064
Tough to get into the head of someone
who actually trusts people, huh?
344
00:16:01,023 --> 00:16:04,777
Found both computers in an office
on a desk they share.
345
00:16:04,902 --> 00:16:07,071
No sign of macular degeneration
or optic neuritis.
346
00:16:07,196 --> 00:16:08,489
Her eyes are
completely normal.
347
00:16:08,614 --> 00:16:10,241
Except she can't
see out of them.
348
00:16:10,366 --> 00:16:12,535
So she says.
349
00:16:12,660 --> 00:16:13,869
You find anything
on the MRI?
350
00:16:13,995 --> 00:16:15,830
No sign of plaques.
It's not MS.
351
00:16:15,955 --> 00:16:17,665
We haven't found anything abnormal
on any tests.
352
00:16:17,790 --> 00:16:19,584
Except she can't see
or move her hands.
353
00:16:19,709 --> 00:16:20,751
So she says.
354
00:16:20,876 --> 00:16:23,170
You can't lie about
flaccid paralysis.
355
00:16:24,547 --> 00:16:27,300
Maybe she's not lying.
Her brain is.
356
00:16:27,425 --> 00:16:29,594
What if it's
a conversion disorder?
357
00:16:29,719 --> 00:16:31,679
Lacks personal boundaries.
358
00:16:33,180 --> 00:16:37,226
Promiscuous. Inappropriate obsession
with truth telling.
359
00:16:37,351 --> 00:16:39,312
Certainly sounds like a psych case.
360
00:16:40,187 --> 00:16:43,399
Cool. I'll set up a psych consult
and start her on anti-depressants.
361
00:16:43,524 --> 00:16:44,817
No.
362
00:16:46,527 --> 00:16:48,779
Her mind is
tricking her body.
363
00:16:49,905 --> 00:16:51,574
We need to
trick her mind.
364
00:16:53,034 --> 00:16:54,744
Or even better...
365
00:16:58,122 --> 00:16:59,665
- You don't need her.
- I know.
366
00:16:59,790 --> 00:17:01,542
Then this serves
no medical purpose.
367
00:17:01,667 --> 00:17:04,503
You have a genetic defect,
choose to ignore it.
368
00:17:04,629 --> 00:17:06,297
This woman has
a genetic defect,
369
00:17:06,422 --> 00:17:08,591
chooses to butcher herself
to be safe.
370
00:17:08,716 --> 00:17:12,303
Yet, what you claim
to be fascinated by is her honesty.
371
00:17:12,428 --> 00:17:13,554
Interesting.
372
00:17:13,679 --> 00:17:15,556
You claim to
want the truth.
373
00:17:15,681 --> 00:17:18,809
And then you screw with people
who actually live by it. Pathetic.
374
00:17:18,934 --> 00:17:21,103
Hey, I gave you credit
for interesting.
375
00:17:22,730 --> 00:17:26,484
You're protecting her because you're
jealous she did what you couldn't.
376
00:17:27,026 --> 00:17:28,527
I need you.
377
00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:31,530
I'm not lying to her.
378
00:17:31,656 --> 00:17:33,824
Fine. Keep your mouth shut.
I still need you.
379
00:17:33,949 --> 00:17:36,243
If it doesn't work,
you've got to hold the kid down
380
00:17:36,369 --> 00:17:38,663
until someone else
finishes lying to Mom.
381
00:17:39,163 --> 00:17:40,915
That does actually serve
a medical purpose.
382
00:17:46,921 --> 00:17:48,464
Jane.
383
00:17:49,965 --> 00:17:51,801
I have to lie
because she trusts me?
384
00:17:51,926 --> 00:17:55,680
If you show doubt,
the placebo treatment won't work.
385
00:17:55,805 --> 00:17:58,599
If it's just depression,
that's good news, right?
386
00:17:58,724 --> 00:17:59,892
There are a lot of
great medications.
387
00:18:00,017 --> 00:18:03,521
Why can't we just give her those?
Why do we have to lie to her?
388
00:18:03,646 --> 00:18:05,815
Because we might be wrong.
389
00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:07,775
Those medications
take a long time to work,
390
00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:10,319
and since
your mom's condition's declining,
391
00:18:10,444 --> 00:18:13,364
there's a chance the drugs won't tell us
anything until it's too late.
392
00:18:15,241 --> 00:18:16,909
My mom's not depressed.
393
00:18:17,034 --> 00:18:18,577
Maybe she's
hiding it from you.
394
00:18:18,703 --> 00:18:20,037
No.
395
00:18:20,162 --> 00:18:22,498
- She wouldn't.
- She's doing what every good mom does.
396
00:18:22,623 --> 00:18:25,543
Protecting her child from bad news
that she can't do anything about.
397
00:18:25,668 --> 00:18:27,086
My mom's never lied to me.
398
00:18:27,211 --> 00:18:28,713
If you don't know
how to lie,
399
00:18:29,422 --> 00:18:31,882
you don't know how to tell
when you're being lied to.
400
00:18:35,928 --> 00:18:38,180
Maybe you're right.
401
00:18:38,305 --> 00:18:40,057
- I know I'm...
- I was lying.
402
00:18:41,016 --> 00:18:42,727
I know how to lie.
403
00:18:43,811 --> 00:18:46,397
I just won't do it
to my mother.
404
00:18:51,902 --> 00:18:53,863
You like foosball?
405
00:18:55,573 --> 00:18:58,617
Until the treatment of your
infectious paraparesis takes effect,
406
00:18:58,743 --> 00:19:00,286
Jane can't come back
into the room.
407
00:19:00,411 --> 00:19:01,537
I've already been inoculated.
408
00:19:01,662 --> 00:19:03,080
Can she have it already?
409
00:19:03,205 --> 00:19:05,499
Don't worry.
It's a very effective treatment.
410
00:19:05,624 --> 00:19:08,294
You should be feeling better
in a matter of minutes.
411
00:19:09,086 --> 00:19:09,962
(GROANS)
412
00:19:12,339 --> 00:19:14,508
Don't you think
Jane deserves a few secrets?
413
00:19:14,633 --> 00:19:16,427
Some personal space?
414
00:19:16,552 --> 00:19:19,555
Room to make
her own mistakes?
415
00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,099
She makes plenty of mistakes.
416
00:19:22,224 --> 00:19:24,351
Only difference is I'm there
to help her through them.
417
00:19:24,477 --> 00:19:26,771
But she's got to know
you're looking over her shoulder.
418
00:19:26,896 --> 00:19:27,980
It's got to stifle her.
419
00:19:28,105 --> 00:19:29,565
I think the world would
be a better place
420
00:19:29,690 --> 00:19:32,902
if everybody always acted like their mom
was looking over their shoulder.
421
00:19:45,539 --> 00:19:47,666
- I want to go see my mom.
- She's sleeping.
422
00:19:47,792 --> 00:19:49,251
Why don't we just
double the amount we can spend?
423
00:19:49,376 --> 00:19:51,212
- Nope.
- Can't afford another 25?
424
00:19:51,337 --> 00:19:53,380
If we allow people 50,
people will spend 60.
425
00:19:53,506 --> 00:19:55,049
Ah! So, you can't afford
another 35.
426
00:19:55,174 --> 00:19:57,635
- You must really like who you got.
- Or really dislike.
427
00:20:00,429 --> 00:20:01,889
My mom always gives
the best presents
428
00:20:02,014 --> 00:20:03,849
to the teachers
I get along with the worst.
429
00:20:06,352 --> 00:20:07,353
- No.
- No.
430
00:20:11,232 --> 00:20:12,817
How do you know no?
431
00:20:12,942 --> 00:20:14,777
I know you
didn't get House.
432
00:20:16,195 --> 00:20:18,030
I know he
didn't get House.
433
00:20:18,948 --> 00:20:21,492
- You gave them all your name?
- Mmm-hmm.
434
00:20:21,617 --> 00:20:25,788
I figured I could sow some dissension
and get a few ties and sweaters.
435
00:20:25,913 --> 00:20:27,456
What happens
when they find out?
436
00:20:27,581 --> 00:20:29,083
It's Secret Santa.
437
00:20:30,417 --> 00:20:32,419
What happens
when they find out?
438
00:20:32,545 --> 00:20:35,422
They'll argue about what to do
with that information.
439
00:20:35,548 --> 00:20:37,550
The ties are less important
than the dissension.
440
00:20:37,675 --> 00:20:39,718
- We still have to buy him something.
- Not a chance.
441
00:20:39,844 --> 00:20:41,971
We weren't supposed to discuss this.
We're not supposed to know.
442
00:20:42,096 --> 00:20:44,348
He's not supposed
to put his name in there five times.
443
00:20:44,473 --> 00:20:46,725
He wants presents.
It's sad.
444
00:20:46,851 --> 00:20:48,561
It's pathetic.
445
00:20:49,645 --> 00:20:51,021
I'm still buying him a present.
446
00:20:51,146 --> 00:20:52,731
(FIRMLY) No, you're not.
447
00:20:54,233 --> 00:20:55,401
Fine.
448
00:20:57,278 --> 00:20:59,321
(MOANING WEAKLY)
449
00:21:04,702 --> 00:21:06,453
(WHEEZING)
What's wrong?
450
00:21:06,579 --> 00:21:07,663
I think it's
getting worse.
451
00:21:09,248 --> 00:21:10,916
(ALARM BEEPING)
I can't breathe.
452
00:21:11,041 --> 00:21:13,043
(GASPING)
I need a nurse in here!
453
00:21:18,173 --> 00:21:20,593
Her lymph nodes are cutting off
her airway. We've got to intubate!
454
00:21:21,135 --> 00:21:25,806
(GASPING)
455
00:21:32,021 --> 00:21:34,356
The swollen lymph nodes
were cutting off Maggie's airway.
456
00:21:34,481 --> 00:21:37,109
We shrunk them with alcohol
and she's breathing on her own now.
457
00:21:37,651 --> 00:21:38,903
Well, that sucks.
458
00:21:39,028 --> 00:21:41,363
Four thousand, three hundred
saved emails
459
00:21:41,488 --> 00:21:45,367
and not a single mention
of "lesbionic," "Sanchez," or "mangina."
460
00:21:45,492 --> 00:21:47,786
Swollen lymph nodes
means it wasn't psychological.
461
00:21:48,537 --> 00:21:50,039
Who's that from?
462
00:21:50,164 --> 00:21:53,125
Santa, obviously.
As you know, I worship him.
463
00:21:53,250 --> 00:21:56,462
Oh, wait. I meant Satan.
I always get them confused.
464
00:21:57,254 --> 00:22:02,176
What is an "alpine butterfly"?
And why is she learning how to do one?
465
00:22:02,301 --> 00:22:04,511
House, we already have a full history.
You don't need to waste time...
466
00:22:04,637 --> 00:22:06,764
- It's just a climbing knot.
- But what does she use it for?
467
00:22:06,889 --> 00:22:08,474
Try "bondage."
468
00:22:08,599 --> 00:22:09,558
HOUSE: I did once.
469
00:22:09,683 --> 00:22:11,435
But she just tied me down and whined
470
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,312
about how hard it is
to be Dean of Medicine.
471
00:22:13,437 --> 00:22:14,897
Gyms aren't exactly pristine.
472
00:22:15,022 --> 00:22:17,232
Could be a fungal infection.
Seriously, who's it from?
473
00:22:17,358 --> 00:22:18,609
No fever.
No elevated white count.
474
00:22:18,734 --> 00:22:19,902
(LAUGHS OBNOXIOUSLY)
475
00:22:20,027 --> 00:22:23,280
That's funny. Friend sent her
a Garfield cartoon.
476
00:22:23,405 --> 00:22:25,282
That cat sure does love lasagna.
477
00:22:25,407 --> 00:22:28,744
(SHARPLY) House, stop obsessing.
478
00:22:29,495 --> 00:22:34,208
If it weren't for my obsessions, we
wouldn't know that she has sarcoidosis.
479
00:22:35,250 --> 00:22:37,920
Eighteen months ago,
she sold her Stairmaster.
480
00:22:38,045 --> 00:22:39,213
It was only two months old.
481
00:22:39,338 --> 00:22:40,714
Now, either she needed the cash,
482
00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:43,217
or climbing stairs
was getting more difficult.
483
00:22:43,342 --> 00:22:46,387
Twelve months ago,
she canceled a hiking trip.
484
00:22:46,512 --> 00:22:48,722
Now, either she just
wanted to sit home and watch TV,
485
00:22:48,847 --> 00:22:50,557
or walking was
getting more difficult.
486
00:22:50,683 --> 00:22:53,978
She's been suffering joint pain
for the last two years.
487
00:22:54,103 --> 00:22:56,397
Pull my ribbon.
If you know what I mean.
488
00:22:56,522 --> 00:22:59,149
ACE levels are too low
for sarcoidosis.
489
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:01,777
That's not
what I meant.
490
00:23:02,403 --> 00:23:03,779
Could just be
an inactive phase.
491
00:23:03,904 --> 00:23:04,780
It's not Christmas yet.
492
00:23:04,905 --> 00:23:07,116
I remembered.
I'm not a Satanist. I'm a Druid.
493
00:23:07,241 --> 00:23:08,409
- No lung involvement.
- Yet.
494
00:23:08,534 --> 00:23:10,703
We'll need a bronchoalveolar lavage
to confirm it.
495
00:23:10,828 --> 00:23:14,957
That's a shame. I was gonna surprise her
with one for Christmas.
496
00:23:15,749 --> 00:23:17,292
Wow!
497
00:23:18,377 --> 00:23:21,380
Now, either that cost
more than 25 bucks,
498
00:23:21,505 --> 00:23:24,633
or I'm seriously starting to doubt
Steve Jobs' business strategies.
499
00:23:26,343 --> 00:23:27,928
Thanks!
500
00:23:30,723 --> 00:23:33,851
Last round of saline, Maggie.
One more big breath.
501
00:23:33,976 --> 00:23:37,271
You've got to get the liquid
to go all the way into your lungs, okay?
502
00:23:37,396 --> 00:23:38,397
Here we go.
503
00:23:40,649 --> 00:23:42,026
The gift could be
from a patient.
504
00:23:43,068 --> 00:23:44,695
Who sent it to
the wrong doctor?
505
00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:46,530
House obviously
gave the present to himself.
506
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,705
They're arguing
right now.
507
00:23:54,830 --> 00:23:56,498
I've been looking
for this all morning.
508
00:23:56,623 --> 00:23:58,167
Did you look
in the box on my desk?
509
00:23:58,292 --> 00:24:00,919
Oh, by the way, your mom called.
Your dad's dead.
510
00:24:01,879 --> 00:24:03,797
You left the present
sitting on your desk?
511
00:24:03,922 --> 00:24:06,675
It wouldn't have been as effective
sitting in a closet in my home.
512
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,052
- They're gonna know it's from you.
- No.
513
00:24:08,177 --> 00:24:09,762
They're gonna guess
that it was from me.
514
00:24:09,887 --> 00:24:11,388
They might even be 90% sure
that it was from me.
515
00:24:11,513 --> 00:24:13,932
But all that means is
they're 10% percent sure
516
00:24:14,058 --> 00:24:16,226
that one of the other guys
is screwing them over.
517
00:24:17,186 --> 00:24:19,897
Have you ever considered
channeling your powers to,
518
00:24:20,022 --> 00:24:22,566
I don't know,
bring peace to the Mid-east?
519
00:24:22,691 --> 00:24:23,984
I couldn't do that.
520
00:24:24,109 --> 00:24:26,028
But if they ever got it,
you could screw it up.
521
00:24:26,153 --> 00:24:28,655
Yeah. That's more
where my powers lie.
522
00:24:29,114 --> 00:24:31,241
- The gift could be from Wilson.
- It's House.
523
00:24:31,366 --> 00:24:32,910
Why do you have a problem
with him speculating?
524
00:24:33,035 --> 00:24:35,579
Because that's what
House wants us to do.
525
00:24:36,371 --> 00:24:38,957
Lungs are pristine.
No infiltrates or alveolar hemorrhage.
526
00:24:39,083 --> 00:24:42,252
Maggie, I'm gonna remove the scope.
I need you to cough for me, okay?
527
00:24:42,419 --> 00:24:43,378
(COUGHING)
528
00:24:43,504 --> 00:24:44,797
A little harder.
529
00:24:44,922 --> 00:24:46,090
(COUGHING)
530
00:24:46,215 --> 00:24:47,633
Great.
531
00:24:50,010 --> 00:24:52,638
Maggie?
Open your eyes.
532
00:24:58,894 --> 00:25:00,437
Why aren't you
saying anything?
533
00:25:03,273 --> 00:25:04,817
What's wrong?
534
00:25:06,068 --> 00:25:08,028
Maggie tested negative
for sarcoidosis.
535
00:25:08,153 --> 00:25:10,572
But she's bleeding
into her eyes, now.
536
00:25:10,697 --> 00:25:11,990
Have her
platelets dropped?
537
00:25:12,116 --> 00:25:13,826
Plummeted.
New labs show they're under 40.
538
00:25:13,951 --> 00:25:15,869
She'll bleed out of every orifice
if we don't find the cause.
539
00:25:15,994 --> 00:25:18,038
Could be splenic sequestration,
tuberculosis.
540
00:25:18,163 --> 00:25:19,581
Gaucher disease, TTP.
541
00:25:19,706 --> 00:25:21,708
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome,
sepsis, lupus...
542
00:25:21,834 --> 00:25:24,461
Listing all the possible causes
is only impressive
543
00:25:24,586 --> 00:25:26,421
if you can do it
reverse alphabetically.
544
00:25:26,547 --> 00:25:28,882
We need to know
why her platelet machine is broken.
545
00:25:29,007 --> 00:25:32,386
Go to the factory.
Do a bone marrow aspiration.
546
00:25:41,728 --> 00:25:43,313
I'm your Secret Santa.
547
00:25:45,816 --> 00:25:47,234
You're not supposed to tell.
548
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:48,819
But you got
a present already,
549
00:25:48,944 --> 00:25:51,363
which means you have more
than one Secret Santa.
550
00:25:51,488 --> 00:25:54,700
Or somebody else
wants to make me happy.
551
00:25:57,661 --> 00:25:59,496
Merry Christmas.
552
00:26:17,055 --> 00:26:19,975
On the one hand,
you should be in bed.
553
00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,645
On the other hand, I told you to rest.
So, I see your dilemma.
554
00:26:23,770 --> 00:26:26,398
Hey, I don't think
resting is the problem.
555
00:26:26,523 --> 00:26:28,984
Can strep cause this?
556
00:26:29,902 --> 00:26:31,153
Clap on.
557
00:26:31,278 --> 00:26:33,322
Trust me,
first place I went.
558
00:26:34,072 --> 00:26:37,826
No rash on my labia.
Do you need to take a look?
559
00:26:38,368 --> 00:26:41,622
I'm saving my money
for a Red Rider BB gun.
560
00:26:44,082 --> 00:26:45,834
Darker shade of lipstick?
561
00:26:45,959 --> 00:26:47,711
I'm not wearing any.
562
00:26:52,716 --> 00:26:54,801
You tell your mother
what you do?
563
00:26:54,927 --> 00:26:56,678
It doesn't matter.
I'm curious.
564
00:26:57,429 --> 00:27:00,557
I don't need to break her heart
just so I can feel righteous.
565
00:27:07,481 --> 00:27:09,274
Do you do
a donkey show?
566
00:27:10,067 --> 00:27:12,945
I'm not curious.
It matters.
567
00:27:15,155 --> 00:27:17,824
It's a donkey
or a mule.
568
00:27:19,368 --> 00:27:21,662
I can never remember.
569
00:27:22,246 --> 00:27:25,207
Wow. That is a creepy smile.
570
00:27:26,166 --> 00:27:27,960
I bet the donkey's
is even creepier.
571
00:27:28,627 --> 00:27:30,629
- Do I have to explain...
- Nope.
572
00:27:30,963 --> 00:27:32,005
That's my job.
573
00:27:32,130 --> 00:27:33,548
Contagious ecthyma.
574
00:27:33,674 --> 00:27:38,011
Any contact can cause
rashes, flu symptoms, sore throat.
575
00:27:38,136 --> 00:27:39,513
Has there been
576
00:27:39,638 --> 00:27:40,764
contact?
577
00:27:43,267 --> 00:27:46,228
Okay. Antibiotic cream for you
578
00:27:46,353 --> 00:27:48,814
and a love glove for Francis.
579
00:27:48,939 --> 00:27:50,857
You'll both be fine.
580
00:27:54,319 --> 00:27:57,906
You should come and see the show.
I think you'd like it.
581
00:27:58,407 --> 00:28:00,742
Sorry. I hate Westerns.
582
00:28:14,131 --> 00:28:15,549
CHASE: So, they really never lie?
583
00:28:15,674 --> 00:28:16,842
Doesn't seem like it.
584
00:28:16,967 --> 00:28:17,968
Admirable.
585
00:28:18,093 --> 00:28:19,052
You tell Cameron everything?
586
00:28:19,177 --> 00:28:21,013
(SCOFFS) No.
587
00:28:21,388 --> 00:28:22,681
You think she
keeps secrets?
588
00:28:22,806 --> 00:28:26,560
If I knew, they wouldn't be secrets.
I hope she does.
589
00:28:26,685 --> 00:28:30,355
People have a right to a little privacy,
even from the people they love.
590
00:28:35,068 --> 00:28:36,445
Did you buy House a present?
591
00:28:37,112 --> 00:28:38,822
- Why would I?
- To screw with me.
592
00:28:38,947 --> 00:28:40,324
Then, I'm gonna say yes.
593
00:28:41,074 --> 00:28:43,327
No, wait. Stop. Stop.
What's that smell?
594
00:28:45,746 --> 00:28:47,539
The bone is smoking.
595
00:28:49,499 --> 00:28:51,501
Her bones are harder
than the drill?
596
00:28:56,965 --> 00:28:59,801
We ran a full body bone scan to find
the cause of hardening in the hip.
597
00:28:59,926 --> 00:29:01,094
No hot spots anywhere.
598
00:29:01,219 --> 00:29:02,763
Tracer could
have been inactive.
599
00:29:02,888 --> 00:29:04,264
So, I screwed up the test?
600
00:29:04,389 --> 00:29:05,974
There are so many ways
that could have happened.
601
00:29:06,099 --> 00:29:07,809
Maybe it was inactive,
maybe it didn't fully circulate...
602
00:29:07,934 --> 00:29:09,061
It circulated.
The camera picked up.
603
00:29:09,186 --> 00:29:13,440
Hey, hey. It's Christmas.
Why are you guys fighting?
604
00:29:14,608 --> 00:29:16,068
Why do you think
there are no hot spots?
605
00:29:16,193 --> 00:29:18,528
I did not screw up.
The density is consistent.
606
00:29:18,653 --> 00:29:22,074
Just means the density was consistent.
Doesn't mean it was cold.
607
00:29:22,199 --> 00:29:24,910
It's possible
all she has are hot spots.
608
00:29:25,035 --> 00:29:28,413
It's consistent because
her entire skeleton is turning to stone.
609
00:29:31,625 --> 00:29:33,460
Good for an
aspiring superhero.
610
00:29:33,794 --> 00:29:36,421
Fatal for a human
hoping to make it to Kwanzaa.
611
00:29:36,546 --> 00:29:39,091
It's got to be from
a carbonic anhydrase type 2 deficiency.
612
00:29:39,216 --> 00:29:41,301
It has free will. It doesn't have
to be anything it doesn't want to be.
613
00:29:41,426 --> 00:29:44,137
I meant if it's not
CA-2, well,
614
00:29:44,262 --> 00:29:47,057
none of the other causes
of osteopetrosis are treatable.
615
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,188
You're right.
It's got to be.
616
00:29:53,313 --> 00:29:57,150
Go run her blood and hope that
your sunny optimism isn't misplaced.
617
00:30:04,491 --> 00:30:08,328
They accused Kutner of screwing up
a test because they hate him.
618
00:30:08,453 --> 00:30:09,371
You're surprised?
619
00:30:09,496 --> 00:30:10,580
That's the sort of crap
that happens
620
00:30:10,705 --> 00:30:12,416
when you mess
with people's heads.
621
00:30:12,541 --> 00:30:14,167
One day, he will
screw up a test.
622
00:30:15,210 --> 00:30:17,129
And if they don't accuse him of that
because they like him,
623
00:30:17,254 --> 00:30:18,505
someone could die.
624
00:30:20,882 --> 00:30:23,510
- Where are we going?
- Nowhere. I just know it hurts you.
625
00:30:26,930 --> 00:30:30,684
TAUB: CA-2 deficiency's a genetic
disorder that scrambles proteins.
626
00:30:30,809 --> 00:30:34,354
If the blood test is positive,
you'll need a bone marrow transplant.
627
00:30:34,479 --> 00:30:37,524
"Transplant" sounds like
a euphemism for "slim odds."
628
00:30:38,233 --> 00:30:40,735
Slim but not none.
629
00:30:42,779 --> 00:30:45,115
We're gonna need to
test Jane for a match.
630
00:30:45,699 --> 00:30:46,867
Don't you have donor banks?
631
00:30:46,992 --> 00:30:48,118
Jane is your best bet.
632
00:30:48,243 --> 00:30:50,120
The procedure is perfectly safe.
There's no risk.
633
00:30:50,245 --> 00:30:51,705
(SKEPTICALLY)
No risk?
634
00:30:52,205 --> 00:30:55,083
- Any surgery has...
- Then, don't tell me there's no risk.
635
00:30:55,876 --> 00:30:58,420
You're gonna tell me
there's no pain, either?
636
00:30:58,545 --> 00:30:59,504
The testing
will hurt a little.
637
00:30:59,629 --> 00:31:00,922
I'll be fine.
638
00:31:04,426 --> 00:31:07,846
If she doesn't do this
and you don't make it,
639
00:31:08,847 --> 00:31:11,141
she's gonna spend
the rest of her life blaming herself.
640
00:31:14,227 --> 00:31:16,980
(VOICE TREMBLING)
Mom, please.
641
00:31:20,108 --> 00:31:22,110
Find someone else.
642
00:31:23,445 --> 00:31:25,530
Let someone else take the risk.
643
00:31:36,041 --> 00:31:38,335
Donor bank turned up
a 49-year-old man in Cleveland
644
00:31:38,460 --> 00:31:40,462
who's a five out of six
HLA match.
645
00:31:40,587 --> 00:31:41,671
First flight out of
Cleveland leaves at...
646
00:31:41,796 --> 00:31:45,342
Why is a 49-year-old Cleveland man
a closer match than her daughter?
647
00:31:45,467 --> 00:31:47,802
He may not be.
Maggie didn't let us test her.
648
00:31:47,928 --> 00:31:50,597
- Why not?
- Pain, danger, risk of...
649
00:31:50,722 --> 00:31:52,474
Only reason to give
multiple reasons
650
00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:54,935
is you're searching
for what the person wants to hear.
651
00:31:58,522 --> 00:31:59,898
House.
652
00:32:08,448 --> 00:32:10,033
You're wrong about sainted Mommy.
653
00:32:10,158 --> 00:32:13,912
Don't care. You can forget the donor
bank. There's no CA-2 deficiency.
654
00:32:14,037 --> 00:32:15,956
Best we can do is
make her comfortable.
655
00:32:19,709 --> 00:32:21,169
Is that from Taub?
656
00:32:21,753 --> 00:32:22,963
Yes.
657
00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:24,881
Yes, it is.
658
00:32:28,218 --> 00:32:29,219
(SIGHS)
659
00:32:29,344 --> 00:32:30,554
Merry Christmas.
660
00:32:32,013 --> 00:32:33,807
Who's gonna tell the patient
she's dying?
661
00:32:35,809 --> 00:32:37,185
I will.
662
00:32:38,019 --> 00:32:41,314
And nobody leaves here
until we find out what killed her.
663
00:32:47,779 --> 00:32:50,407
Whatever she has is fatal.
664
00:32:50,532 --> 00:32:54,327
Makes no difference
if it's disease number 58 or 907.
665
00:32:56,913 --> 00:32:58,248
Are you guys mad at me?
666
00:32:58,373 --> 00:33:00,750
No. You had no choice.
667
00:33:00,875 --> 00:33:03,336
Of course I had a choice. You had
no choice once I made my choice.
668
00:33:03,461 --> 00:33:05,547
And now, I'm choosing
not to be mad at you.
669
00:33:05,672 --> 00:33:06,506
Why?
670
00:33:06,631 --> 00:33:08,425
Because it will
drive House nuts.
671
00:33:11,136 --> 00:33:13,388
Do you think that will make
your lives better or worse?
672
00:33:16,975 --> 00:33:19,019
I told my mom
I don't care what she thinks.
673
00:33:19,144 --> 00:33:20,979
I want you
to test my marrow.
674
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:27,902
I can't be dying.
675
00:33:28,028 --> 00:33:29,112
Sure you can.
676
00:33:29,237 --> 00:33:30,113
You're wrong.
677
00:33:30,947 --> 00:33:32,907
You don't even know
what I have.
678
00:33:33,033 --> 00:33:36,953
What you have is
one last Christmas with your daughter.
679
00:33:37,078 --> 00:33:39,331
One last chance
to give her a present.
680
00:33:40,582 --> 00:33:42,334
The truth.
681
00:33:42,459 --> 00:33:45,253
It's inexpensive, highly valued.
682
00:33:45,378 --> 00:33:48,006
Never have to stand in line
to return it the day after Christmas.
683
00:33:48,131 --> 00:33:49,549
What are you talking about?
684
00:33:50,675 --> 00:33:52,260
A mother who's going to die
685
00:33:52,385 --> 00:33:55,430
doesn't refuse a donor test
because it might hurt.
686
00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:58,808
She refuses when she knows
it won't match.
687
00:33:59,893 --> 00:34:00,977
Which tends to happen
688
00:34:01,102 --> 00:34:04,939
when mother and daughter
aren't mother and daughter.
689
00:34:10,862 --> 00:34:14,699
I can do DNA tests
if you'd rather keep lying to me.
690
00:34:19,871 --> 00:34:21,790
I never wanted kids.
691
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,003
I loved them,
but with my genes...
692
00:34:27,128 --> 00:34:30,840
I knew this woman, a drug addict.
693
00:34:33,051 --> 00:34:36,721
She got pregnant,
didn't want to have an abortion.
694
00:34:37,806 --> 00:34:41,309
But she also didn't want her daughter
to ever know who her real mother was.
695
00:34:42,686 --> 00:34:44,312
What she was.
696
00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:48,316
I promised never to tell.
697
00:34:53,405 --> 00:34:56,908
A promise to an addict is worth more
than a promise to your daughter?
698
00:34:57,033 --> 00:34:58,702
It'd be cruel to tell her.
699
00:34:58,827 --> 00:35:02,956
Right. She lives a lie.
You get to die a hypocrite.
700
00:35:07,377 --> 00:35:10,880
Mom? The doctors told me
what's happening.
701
00:35:11,005 --> 00:35:13,299
It's gonna be okay, sweetheart.
702
00:35:13,425 --> 00:35:15,093
I promise you.
703
00:35:15,802 --> 00:35:17,470
Doctors can be wrong.
704
00:35:18,054 --> 00:35:21,808
- There's still a chance I can beat...
- You really believe that?
705
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:28,523
I do.
706
00:35:29,941 --> 00:35:32,819
No, Mom.
You're dying.
707
00:35:33,528 --> 00:35:35,989
Nobody can help you.
708
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,286
It's not gonna be okay.
709
00:36:03,224 --> 00:36:04,309
That was cold.
710
00:36:04,434 --> 00:36:06,144
Yeah.
711
00:36:17,739 --> 00:36:19,908
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
712
00:36:28,166 --> 00:36:30,043
What did you get for Christmas?
713
00:36:30,168 --> 00:36:32,754
I got a watch, a vintage LP,
714
00:36:32,879 --> 00:36:35,173
and a second edition Conan Doyle.
715
00:36:35,298 --> 00:36:38,343
And if that wasn't bad enough,
my patient's dying.
716
00:36:38,718 --> 00:36:41,763
Christmas deaths in a hospital.
There's nothing more depressing.
717
00:36:41,888 --> 00:36:43,848
No one ever wants to go in
the patient's room.
718
00:36:43,973 --> 00:36:47,393
Even the candy stripers
leave them alone.
719
00:36:48,311 --> 00:36:49,938
But I saw
something amazing.
720
00:36:51,648 --> 00:36:53,358
Pure truth.
721
00:36:54,108 --> 00:36:56,611
She told her mother
that she was dying.
722
00:36:56,736 --> 00:36:58,822
Stripped her of all hope.
723
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,658
That sounds horrible.
724
00:37:01,783 --> 00:37:04,953
It was like watching
some bizarre astronomical event
725
00:37:05,078 --> 00:37:06,621
that you know
you're never gonna see again.
726
00:37:06,746 --> 00:37:10,625
You tell people the cold, hard truth
all the time. You get off on it.
727
00:37:10,750 --> 00:37:12,085
Because I don't care.
728
00:37:12,210 --> 00:37:14,003
She cared.
729
00:37:14,128 --> 00:37:16,673
And she did it, anyway.
730
00:37:17,257 --> 00:37:19,634
She did it
because she cared.
731
00:37:21,302 --> 00:37:25,348
The angels of Christmas have finally
given House a present he can appreciate.
732
00:37:25,473 --> 00:37:26,349
Oh, don't ruin it.
733
00:37:26,474 --> 00:37:29,060
Don't pin this on Christ.
He's got enough nails in him.
734
00:37:29,185 --> 00:37:31,437
- Patient had to die...
- Why don't you take off that hat?
735
00:37:31,563 --> 00:37:33,857
It's Christmas.
It's a reindeer.
736
00:37:33,982 --> 00:37:36,067
It's a moose, on a Jew.
737
00:37:36,192 --> 00:37:38,069
Who cares?
738
00:37:39,237 --> 00:37:40,989
(SIGHS)
739
00:37:41,114 --> 00:37:42,365
Things have their place.
740
00:37:42,490 --> 00:37:45,201
You wouldn't hang dreidels
from a Christmas tree.
741
00:37:45,326 --> 00:37:47,287
You could.
742
00:37:47,871 --> 00:37:50,081
Things don't care.
743
00:37:54,127 --> 00:37:56,588
No, they don't.
744
00:37:59,841 --> 00:38:01,885
Happy solstice, House.
745
00:38:02,927 --> 00:38:05,513
(HOUSE SINGING)
God rest ye merry gentlemen
746
00:38:05,638 --> 00:38:08,057
Let nothing you dismay
747
00:38:08,182 --> 00:38:11,102
Remember, Christ, our savior
748
00:38:11,227 --> 00:38:13,605
Was born on Christmas day
749
00:38:13,730 --> 00:38:16,107
To save us all
from Satan's power
750
00:38:16,232 --> 00:38:18,985
When we were gone astray
751
00:38:19,110 --> 00:38:20,904
Have you people
no holiday spirit?
752
00:38:21,029 --> 00:38:22,739
Bring me the eggnog
of good cheer.
753
00:38:22,864 --> 00:38:24,574
House, if you have
something to say, say it.
754
00:38:24,699 --> 00:38:26,951
If you don't, give us a chance
to get home before Santa.
755
00:38:27,076 --> 00:38:28,536
Scrooge.
756
00:38:28,661 --> 00:38:30,580
Give the patient risperidone.
757
00:38:30,705 --> 00:38:33,333
That's an anti-psychotic.
She's dying. She's not crazy.
758
00:38:33,458 --> 00:38:36,794
I am gonna perform
a Christmas miracle.
759
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,966
(SINGING)
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
760
00:38:42,926 --> 00:38:45,887
You said all the other causes
of osteopetrosis are fatal.
761
00:38:46,012 --> 00:38:49,682
Except for the one we discounted early
because it was impossible.
762
00:38:49,807 --> 00:38:53,478
When a fetus forms,
it's just a mass of cells.
763
00:38:53,853 --> 00:38:57,106
Breast tissue covers
extensive portions of the body.
764
00:38:57,231 --> 00:39:00,568
As the fetus develops,
most of this tissue recedes
765
00:39:00,693 --> 00:39:03,154
remaining only
in the fun places.
766
00:39:03,279 --> 00:39:05,490
But sometimes, extra breast tissue
767
00:39:05,615 --> 00:39:08,076
is left behind in places
where it doesn't belong.
768
00:39:08,201 --> 00:39:10,870
Risperidone does a lot of things.
769
00:39:10,995 --> 00:39:14,749
One is it makes breast tissue swell
so we can find it more easily.
770
00:39:14,874 --> 00:39:17,543
You're telling me
I could have breast cancer?
771
00:39:17,669 --> 00:39:19,754
Somewhere not in my breasts?
That doesn't make sense.
772
00:39:19,879 --> 00:39:22,799
Taub's parents
have a winter condo in Florida.
773
00:39:22,924 --> 00:39:24,050
They're still New Yorkers.
774
00:39:24,175 --> 00:39:26,010
- Actually, my parents...
- Don't care.
775
00:39:26,135 --> 00:39:27,178
I told a parable.
776
00:39:28,429 --> 00:39:31,349
Now, I'm gonna raise the dead.
777
00:39:32,809 --> 00:39:34,686
Give me that syringe.
778
00:39:35,311 --> 00:39:36,646
That's got to be a fat deposit.
779
00:39:36,771 --> 00:39:38,314
Yes, I could be wrong.
780
00:39:38,439 --> 00:39:41,401
If I am, she's dead.
So, shut up.
781
00:39:46,864 --> 00:39:47,699
What's that?
782
00:39:47,824 --> 00:39:51,369
Risperidone also
causes galactorrhea.
783
00:39:52,662 --> 00:39:55,665
What's that?
Galactic?
784
00:39:56,249 --> 00:39:57,709
Open your mouth.
785
00:39:58,292 --> 00:39:59,877
Relax.
You've had it before.
786
00:40:00,003 --> 00:40:01,379
I am not...
787
00:40:04,507 --> 00:40:05,633
Milk?
788
00:40:05,758 --> 00:40:06,592
Ew!
789
00:40:10,221 --> 00:40:13,433
We'll cut out your mom's tumor
and start her on chemo.
790
00:40:14,267 --> 00:40:16,310
All the rest of your symptoms
should go away.
791
00:40:23,443 --> 00:40:24,694
I love you.
792
00:40:27,447 --> 00:40:28,656
I know.
793
00:40:38,207 --> 00:40:40,418
Have a wonderful life.
794
00:42:26,983 --> 00:42:28,860
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