1 00:00:02,941 --> 00:00:04,901 (LILTING MUSIC PLAYING) 2 00:00:05,694 --> 00:00:06,862 NICOLE: Do you see them anywhere? 3 00:00:06,987 --> 00:00:09,823 Why don't we go back to their house, wait for them there? 4 00:00:09,948 --> 00:00:12,534 Yeah, because they'll probably answer the door 5 00:00:12,659 --> 00:00:14,411 the 16th time I knock. 6 00:00:23,295 --> 00:00:24,713 There they are. 7 00:00:27,758 --> 00:00:30,510 Hi. I'm sorry I followed you here. 8 00:00:30,636 --> 00:00:32,929 I just really wish you could give me a few minutes of your time. 9 00:00:33,055 --> 00:00:35,599 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 10 00:00:35,724 --> 00:00:38,018 I know you never agreed to make it an open adoption, 11 00:00:38,143 --> 00:00:40,103 but I just figured maybe you never had a choice. 12 00:00:40,228 --> 00:00:41,813 I mean, it's China, right? 13 00:00:41,938 --> 00:00:44,024 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 14 00:00:44,441 --> 00:00:46,193 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 15 00:00:49,946 --> 00:00:53,116 - What did he say? - He wants you to leave them alone. 16 00:00:56,328 --> 00:00:57,579 Please. 17 00:00:57,704 --> 00:00:58,830 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 18 00:00:58,955 --> 00:01:00,874 I just want 10 minutes. 19 00:01:00,999 --> 00:01:02,918 Learn what you're like, tell you about my life. 20 00:01:03,043 --> 00:01:03,919 (SPITS) 21 00:01:04,461 --> 00:01:06,838 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 22 00:01:14,221 --> 00:01:16,973 He said they have no daughter. 23 00:01:18,350 --> 00:01:20,769 I am sorry you wasted a trip. 24 00:01:21,895 --> 00:01:23,397 I know that's them. 25 00:01:26,775 --> 00:01:28,151 How does that work? 26 00:01:32,823 --> 00:01:34,366 How do I pray? 27 00:01:34,491 --> 00:01:36,827 You make a wish and lift the Buddha. 28 00:01:41,873 --> 00:01:45,419 I wish they could understand how badly I need this. 29 00:01:56,471 --> 00:01:58,682 Now make the wish again. 30 00:01:58,807 --> 00:02:02,102 If you cannot lift the Buddha this time, your wish will be granted. 31 00:02:13,613 --> 00:02:14,865 (GRUNTS) 32 00:02:14,990 --> 00:02:16,283 Are you okay? 33 00:02:16,616 --> 00:02:18,118 (GROANING) 34 00:02:21,371 --> 00:02:23,540 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 35 00:02:59,451 --> 00:03:03,121 Picked Cameron's pocket down in the ER. Came up with a doozy. 36 00:03:03,246 --> 00:03:04,915 Your mother called. Twice. 37 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,335 But she's still healthy. This 25-year-old woman, on the other hand... 38 00:03:08,460 --> 00:03:10,253 Her messages sounded kind of urgent. 39 00:03:10,378 --> 00:03:14,090 Well, that's the way women sound when their spouse of 50 years dies. 40 00:03:17,969 --> 00:03:20,013 Your dad died? Are you... 41 00:03:20,138 --> 00:03:22,682 Yep, fine. Our patient, 42 00:03:22,808 --> 00:03:25,685 who's been known to take a few drinks on non-occasions, 43 00:03:25,811 --> 00:03:28,855 vomits blood and collapses on a trip to China. 44 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:31,358 Chinese surgeons cut out a foot of bowel, 45 00:03:31,483 --> 00:03:33,360 but the pain is worse now than it was before. 46 00:03:33,485 --> 00:03:35,153 House, call your mom. 47 00:03:35,278 --> 00:03:36,696 What are you, my mom? 48 00:03:37,322 --> 00:03:39,741 We can continue this differential in five minutes. 49 00:03:39,866 --> 00:03:43,495 Are those bags under your eyes? You were up all night. 50 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:44,746 You told her, didn't you? 51 00:03:44,871 --> 00:03:49,501 I don't know what your daddy issues are, but don't deflect them on me. 52 00:03:49,626 --> 00:03:51,670 Told his wife he's been getting some strange. 53 00:03:51,795 --> 00:03:54,130 She kicked his adulterous tuchus to the curb. 54 00:03:54,256 --> 00:03:55,215 Seriously? You told her? 55 00:03:55,340 --> 00:03:56,716 Yes, I told her, 56 00:03:56,842 --> 00:03:58,510 but, no, she did not kick me to the curb. 57 00:03:58,635 --> 00:04:01,012 We stayed up late talking. We're going to continue talking. 58 00:04:01,137 --> 00:04:03,807 Much like House should be doing with his mother right now. 59 00:04:03,932 --> 00:04:05,809 FOREMAN: Anybody read Chinese? 60 00:04:05,934 --> 00:04:08,186 Otherwise, we have no idea what these doctors did to her. 61 00:04:08,311 --> 00:04:12,232 Kutner, you're sort of Asian, right? Get it translated. 62 00:04:12,357 --> 00:04:14,025 What about Meckel's diverticulum? 63 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:16,027 If the surgeons didn't remove the diverticulum, 64 00:04:16,152 --> 00:04:17,988 it could cause pain, bleeding. 65 00:04:18,113 --> 00:04:19,906 Too high up for a colonoscopy. 66 00:04:20,031 --> 00:04:22,701 CT could miss it. Ultrasound's fastest. 67 00:04:22,826 --> 00:04:24,452 And since I'm the fastest with the ultrasound... 68 00:04:24,578 --> 00:04:26,955 House. Let me do the ultrasound. 69 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,665 You need to deal with your dad and stop... 70 00:04:28,790 --> 00:04:31,626 I'm not deflecting because I'm avoiding something deep. 71 00:04:31,751 --> 00:04:34,588 I'm deflecting because I'm avoiding something shallow. 72 00:04:34,713 --> 00:04:37,799 Seriously, I'm fine. I didn't even like the man. 73 00:04:41,845 --> 00:04:43,555 HOUSE: No Meckel's. 74 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,766 You there for the rice or the re-education camps? 75 00:04:46,892 --> 00:04:49,227 I was there to track down my biological parents. 76 00:04:49,352 --> 00:04:52,606 Like a salmon returning to the stream where it was born. 77 00:04:52,731 --> 00:04:55,233 Did you become whole again or did you get eaten by bears? 78 00:04:55,358 --> 00:04:57,319 They denied my existence. 79 00:04:57,444 --> 00:04:58,945 (COUGHING) 80 00:05:00,655 --> 00:05:03,825 Four parents and not one of them taught you to cover your mouth. 81 00:05:03,950 --> 00:05:07,412 My God, it looks like they cut you in half. 82 00:05:07,537 --> 00:05:09,205 Doctor, we're her parents, I'm... 83 00:05:09,331 --> 00:05:10,790 I'm just a technician. 84 00:05:10,916 --> 00:05:12,918 Her doctors will be by later, you can schmooze then. 85 00:05:13,043 --> 00:05:15,921 Can you let them know that we went by her apartment, 86 00:05:16,046 --> 00:05:18,423 collected all her medications... 87 00:05:19,257 --> 00:05:20,967 I'm a technician and a doctor. 88 00:05:21,092 --> 00:05:22,510 You went through my apartment? 89 00:05:22,636 --> 00:05:25,847 We found alcohol. We thought you'd quit. 90 00:05:26,264 --> 00:05:28,016 - Did her drinking cause this? - No. 91 00:05:30,226 --> 00:05:31,561 Can you tell her it did? 92 00:05:39,861 --> 00:05:41,363 HOUSE: Licorice root. 93 00:05:42,697 --> 00:05:44,866 No, thanks, I'm good. 94 00:05:44,991 --> 00:05:47,786 I threw it to you for a reason. 95 00:05:47,911 --> 00:05:51,581 It's what the Chinese doctors gave her. It contains glycyrrhizin. 96 00:05:51,706 --> 00:05:54,417 They were treating her for SARS? 97 00:05:54,542 --> 00:05:58,838 Not very effectively. But SARS explains the cough, 98 00:05:58,964 --> 00:06:02,342 causes hypoperfusion, which explains the ischemic bowel. It's perfect. 99 00:06:02,467 --> 00:06:04,219 Lung involvement isn't very severe. 100 00:06:04,344 --> 00:06:07,097 Okay, well, so call it ARS. 101 00:06:07,222 --> 00:06:09,391 Start her on ribavirin and interferon. 102 00:06:15,313 --> 00:06:16,231 (DOOR OPENS) 103 00:06:17,732 --> 00:06:19,818 I'm sorry about your father. 104 00:06:19,943 --> 00:06:20,777 I'm not. 105 00:06:22,112 --> 00:06:24,239 Are we done emoting now? 106 00:06:24,364 --> 00:06:25,907 If there's anything I can do, just... 107 00:06:26,032 --> 00:06:29,411 You know, you're right. I don't think I can sleep alone tonight. 108 00:06:31,287 --> 00:06:33,748 Tell me that is liquid Vicodin. 109 00:06:33,873 --> 00:06:35,333 We're giving IG shots to everyone 110 00:06:35,458 --> 00:06:37,168 who came in contact with your patient. 111 00:06:37,293 --> 00:06:41,172 Shockingly, none of the nurses volunteered to administer yours. 112 00:06:42,632 --> 00:06:44,426 It goes better in a large muscle. 113 00:06:45,427 --> 00:06:46,678 Drop your pants. 114 00:06:46,803 --> 00:06:51,349 You know, I usually pay tens of dollars to hear that. 115 00:06:57,939 --> 00:06:59,024 The funeral's tomorrow. 116 00:06:59,149 --> 00:07:00,358 My mom called you? 117 00:07:00,483 --> 00:07:03,403 There is a 3:40 flight out of Newark. 118 00:07:03,528 --> 00:07:07,032 If you leave now, you can be in Lexington tonight. 119 00:07:07,157 --> 00:07:09,117 Your mother wants you to deliver a eulogy. 120 00:07:09,242 --> 00:07:12,620 Eulogy, from the Greek for "good word." 121 00:07:13,121 --> 00:07:16,750 Now if she'd asked me to deliver a bastardogy, I'd be happy to... 122 00:07:16,875 --> 00:07:19,502 Then be a grownup. Call your mother back 123 00:07:19,627 --> 00:07:21,838 and tell her you're sick with grief, 124 00:07:21,963 --> 00:07:23,173 but you're too busy to be there. 125 00:07:23,298 --> 00:07:24,799 She knows when I'm lying. 126 00:07:24,924 --> 00:07:26,509 Then start writing. 127 00:07:34,392 --> 00:07:36,811 NICOLE: I yanked my brother and sister out of college? 128 00:07:38,104 --> 00:07:39,856 Can you please tell them I'm not dying? 129 00:07:39,981 --> 00:07:42,567 You have SARS. I'm wearing a mask. 130 00:07:42,692 --> 00:07:45,195 It's a big deal. Cut them some slack. 131 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:46,946 But I am going to be okay, right? 132 00:07:47,072 --> 00:07:49,157 That's what all this stuff is for. 133 00:07:49,282 --> 00:07:50,742 We're gonna need the names and numbers 134 00:07:50,867 --> 00:07:52,035 of everyone you came in contact with 135 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,996 here and in China. Flight numbers, dates. 136 00:07:55,121 --> 00:07:58,374 That doctor that I coughed all over, is he gonna be all right? 137 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:00,126 So far, he's fine. 138 00:08:11,513 --> 00:08:15,809 (GROANS) It's back. This is where the pain all started. 139 00:08:16,935 --> 00:08:19,312 She's tachycardic. Get a crash cart in here! 140 00:08:19,437 --> 00:08:20,814 (MACHINE BEEPING) 141 00:08:21,189 --> 00:08:22,941 What's going on? 142 00:08:23,066 --> 00:08:25,360 I need to know what's going on. That's my daughter. 143 00:08:25,485 --> 00:08:27,153 (YELLING) 144 00:08:29,447 --> 00:08:31,950 Her liver's failing. It's not SARS. 145 00:08:51,386 --> 00:08:54,222 I am not doing this because I care. 146 00:09:03,940 --> 00:09:06,943 Cuddy drugged me. She... 147 00:09:10,613 --> 00:09:14,284 My mom didn't call Cuddy. She called you. 148 00:09:15,827 --> 00:09:19,080 I knew you couldn't stay away. I knew you loved me too much. 149 00:09:19,205 --> 00:09:20,707 I'm doing this for your mom. 150 00:09:20,832 --> 00:09:22,584 I'm not doing this at all. 151 00:09:22,709 --> 00:09:23,668 If there was something to be done, 152 00:09:23,793 --> 00:09:26,171 I would have done it in the year he spent dying. 153 00:09:27,589 --> 00:09:29,424 You took my Vicodin? 154 00:09:31,176 --> 00:09:32,343 I'm in pain. 155 00:09:39,976 --> 00:09:40,894 One? 156 00:09:43,897 --> 00:09:47,150 So the Vicodin is my leash. One will take the edge off, 157 00:09:47,275 --> 00:09:48,401 but it won't give me enough relief 158 00:09:48,526 --> 00:09:50,528 for an escape back to Plainsboro. 159 00:09:53,948 --> 00:09:56,701 (CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING MMMBOP) 160 00:09:57,702 --> 00:09:59,287 Where's my phone? 161 00:10:01,289 --> 00:10:03,708 It's the team, it's their ring tone. 162 00:10:06,085 --> 00:10:08,922 Forget it. The patient's blood is on your hands. 163 00:10:09,464 --> 00:10:12,008 (RINGING CONTINUES) 164 00:10:15,428 --> 00:10:17,722 FOREMAN: House? You there? 165 00:10:17,847 --> 00:10:19,599 I'm being held against my will. Call the police. 166 00:10:19,724 --> 00:10:21,392 Nicole had a clot in the hepatic vein. 167 00:10:21,517 --> 00:10:22,977 Chase sucked it out, saved her liver. 168 00:10:23,102 --> 00:10:25,271 No signs of a tumor or venous malformations, 169 00:10:25,396 --> 00:10:26,898 - nothing that could cause... - She's an addict. 170 00:10:27,023 --> 00:10:29,108 - Drugs and alcohol wouldn't... - She's a smoker. 171 00:10:29,234 --> 00:10:31,819 Combine smoking with any one of a dozen genetic disorders 172 00:10:31,945 --> 00:10:33,071 and she's a clotting machine. 173 00:10:33,196 --> 00:10:34,530 Multiple blood clots would tie together 174 00:10:34,656 --> 00:10:36,282 bowel ischemia, lungs and the liver. 175 00:10:36,407 --> 00:10:38,284 FOREMAN: We need to pinpoint which defect she has 176 00:10:38,409 --> 00:10:40,453 so we can start her on the right anti-coagulant. 177 00:10:40,578 --> 00:10:41,537 Draw blood. 178 00:10:41,663 --> 00:10:44,499 Let's find out which genetic gift her genetic parents gave her. 179 00:10:45,959 --> 00:10:47,585 Thanks for calling. 180 00:10:49,712 --> 00:10:53,091 My ring tone for you is Dancing Queen by Abba. 181 00:11:00,056 --> 00:11:01,140 Nicole? 182 00:11:04,477 --> 00:11:06,729 I need to pee. Pull over at the next stop. 183 00:11:11,818 --> 00:11:13,236 I'll just pee on the floor. 184 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:20,201 You bought used floor mats? That is brilliant. 185 00:11:21,619 --> 00:11:22,662 (UNZIPS) 186 00:11:22,787 --> 00:11:25,290 There's a rest stop in five miles. 187 00:11:25,415 --> 00:11:26,457 (ZIPS) 188 00:11:39,387 --> 00:11:41,222 - Cane. - The restroom's right there. 189 00:11:41,347 --> 00:11:42,890 You can make it on your own. 190 00:11:47,228 --> 00:11:49,022 I suppose I could talk about the summer 191 00:11:49,147 --> 00:11:51,065 he decided he wasn't speaking to me. 192 00:11:51,190 --> 00:11:53,901 Two months. Not one word. 193 00:11:54,027 --> 00:11:56,321 Anything he wanted to say, he typed up 194 00:11:56,446 --> 00:11:59,032 and slipped under my bedroom door. 195 00:11:59,157 --> 00:12:02,118 You don't want to say anything, don't say anything, but go. 196 00:12:02,243 --> 00:12:04,746 Tell your mom you're sad. For her. 197 00:12:04,871 --> 00:12:06,748 Just by being there I'd be lying. 198 00:12:06,873 --> 00:12:10,543 She wants to think, for a moment, that she had a happy family. 199 00:12:10,668 --> 00:12:13,588 So give her a gift. Lie. 200 00:12:13,713 --> 00:12:17,800 Give me my cane, I'll go to the damn funeral. 201 00:12:34,150 --> 00:12:35,443 (WILSON GROANS) 202 00:12:35,568 --> 00:12:36,778 (CLINKING) 203 00:12:38,863 --> 00:12:41,949 I said I'd go to the funeral. I didn't say when. 204 00:12:46,996 --> 00:12:50,541 We have these two categories, inside and outside. 205 00:12:50,666 --> 00:12:53,169 Patients stay inside, then, when they're better, 206 00:12:53,294 --> 00:12:54,837 we let them go outside. 207 00:12:54,962 --> 00:12:58,049 Thanks, but they don't let you smoke inside. 208 00:12:58,174 --> 00:12:59,717 So why don't you go back there 209 00:12:59,842 --> 00:13:02,261 and give me five minutes outside? 210 00:13:10,686 --> 00:13:12,313 Make a fist. 211 00:13:18,528 --> 00:13:21,989 Such a beautiful day, we thought we'd do all our doctoring outside. 212 00:13:22,949 --> 00:13:26,661 People stare at me any time I'm out with my family. 213 00:13:26,786 --> 00:13:29,914 It's like a puzzle. Which one of these things doesn't belong? 214 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:31,874 Belonging is overrated. 215 00:13:33,042 --> 00:13:35,503 I was adopted by a white family when I was nine. 216 00:13:36,170 --> 00:13:40,550 I like being different. The view's better from the outside looking in. 217 00:13:44,429 --> 00:13:48,349 Must be easier to be different when you're a success. 218 00:13:50,393 --> 00:13:51,686 Is that a problem? 219 00:13:51,811 --> 00:13:54,147 This is why we prefer inside. 220 00:14:05,283 --> 00:14:06,534 You actually keep a flashlight 221 00:14:06,659 --> 00:14:08,786 that doesn't need batteries in the trunk? 222 00:14:08,911 --> 00:14:12,081 Next to the jacket, emergency water, 223 00:14:12,206 --> 00:14:15,042 nail clippers, toothbrush, space blanket. 224 00:14:15,168 --> 00:14:17,086 When things go wrong, I like to be ready. 225 00:14:18,796 --> 00:14:21,883 Will you please hold the flashlight for a minute? 226 00:14:26,095 --> 00:14:28,055 (CLANKING) 227 00:14:30,099 --> 00:14:31,559 (SIGHS) 228 00:14:34,187 --> 00:14:36,731 You know, those aren't just my car keys. 229 00:14:36,856 --> 00:14:38,941 My house keys are on there, too. 230 00:14:39,066 --> 00:14:40,693 Amber gave me that key chain. 231 00:14:40,818 --> 00:14:42,320 No, she didn't. 232 00:14:42,445 --> 00:14:44,864 Not unless your pet name for her was "Volvo." 233 00:14:53,748 --> 00:14:57,376 A man who would lie about a gift from his dead girlfriend... 234 00:14:57,502 --> 00:15:01,881 ls probably responding to a childish, pointless act of petulance. 235 00:15:02,006 --> 00:15:04,717 The struggle to resist one's captors is never pointless. 236 00:15:05,510 --> 00:15:07,220 (SPEAKING FRENCH) 237 00:15:07,345 --> 00:15:11,390 Well, I hate to break it to you, Che, but simple delay won't work. 238 00:15:11,516 --> 00:15:14,143 Your mother will hold the funeral till we get there. 239 00:15:15,811 --> 00:15:19,857 My father was a punctual man, beholden to time. 240 00:15:19,982 --> 00:15:22,818 Two minutes late for dinner, you didn't eat. 241 00:15:22,944 --> 00:15:26,364 My mother would never disrespect him by starting the funeral late. 242 00:15:26,531 --> 00:15:30,660 Yeah, you clearly have no issues to work through. 243 00:15:31,077 --> 00:15:34,247 Come on, forget the keys. Call a locksmith. 244 00:15:34,372 --> 00:15:35,998 We'll go inside and play Guess that Smell 245 00:15:36,123 --> 00:15:38,417 with the truckers while we're waiting. 246 00:15:38,543 --> 00:15:39,961 Join me on the dark side. 247 00:15:41,796 --> 00:15:44,048 Dark side's done, House. 248 00:15:44,173 --> 00:15:46,759 I'm delivering you to your mother, and that's it. 249 00:15:48,594 --> 00:15:50,304 I've moved on. 250 00:15:54,392 --> 00:15:55,643 What do you think House would send? 251 00:15:55,768 --> 00:15:59,939 The Gentle Comfort arrangement or the Warm Thoughts bouquet? 252 00:16:00,648 --> 00:16:03,317 I mean, if he wasn't an ass. 253 00:16:03,442 --> 00:16:06,654 Send one of those giant cookies shaped like a coffin. 254 00:16:07,530 --> 00:16:09,156 His mom would believe it was from him. 255 00:16:09,282 --> 00:16:11,117 I didn't tell you so you could send anything. 256 00:16:11,242 --> 00:16:12,493 Just wanted you to know the extent 257 00:16:12,618 --> 00:16:14,704 to which the man is disconnected from the human race. 258 00:16:14,829 --> 00:16:17,206 Took a six pack of FFP to stop the oozing. 259 00:16:17,331 --> 00:16:18,499 She's bleeding and clotting? 260 00:16:18,624 --> 00:16:20,710 Plus schistocytes on her smear means it's DIC, 261 00:16:20,835 --> 00:16:21,752 which means she's got cancer. 262 00:16:21,877 --> 00:16:23,212 She's young. It could be leukemia. 263 00:16:23,337 --> 00:16:25,298 Normal WBC makes that less likely. 264 00:16:25,423 --> 00:16:26,841 Belly pain points toward a GI tumor. 265 00:16:26,966 --> 00:16:28,050 House already did an ultrasound. 266 00:16:28,175 --> 00:16:30,928 He wasn't looking for a tumor. Go run a CT. 267 00:16:31,470 --> 00:16:32,805 CHASE: I don't buy it. 268 00:16:32,930 --> 00:16:35,516 CT can find small intestinal cancers that an ultrasound... 269 00:16:35,641 --> 00:16:36,976 I don't buy House. 270 00:16:38,436 --> 00:16:42,523 When my father died, I wound up killing a patient. And I hated the man. 271 00:16:42,648 --> 00:16:46,777 Whatever House says or doesn't say, I'm sure the guy's a mess. 272 00:16:49,155 --> 00:16:51,449 So he was a bastard. He was still your father. 273 00:16:51,574 --> 00:16:54,744 You're biologically programmed to have feelings for him. 274 00:16:54,869 --> 00:16:56,537 No, I'm not. 275 00:16:56,662 --> 00:16:58,664 Feelings aren't rational. 276 00:16:58,789 --> 00:17:00,249 I know you have trouble with anything 277 00:17:00,374 --> 00:17:02,501 that can't be quantified and counted. 278 00:17:02,627 --> 00:17:04,712 He's not my biological father. 279 00:17:08,466 --> 00:17:10,926 I figured it out when I was 12. 280 00:17:11,052 --> 00:17:14,180 Of course. You're a brilliant, socially-isolated 12-year-old, 281 00:17:14,305 --> 00:17:16,015 and you create a parallel universe 282 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:17,767 in which your life doesn't suck. 283 00:17:17,892 --> 00:17:19,518 I looked at the facts. 284 00:17:20,144 --> 00:17:24,148 First of all, he was deployed on training exercises off Okinawa 285 00:17:24,273 --> 00:17:25,900 during the time I had to be conceived. 286 00:17:26,025 --> 00:17:29,612 And since you're 150 years old, air travel was impossible. 287 00:17:29,737 --> 00:17:32,615 His second toe was longer than his big toe. 288 00:17:32,740 --> 00:17:34,075 Mine isn't. 289 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,203 This is sad. You don't believe your mother screwed around. 290 00:17:37,328 --> 00:17:39,789 I have a distinctive red birthmark on my scalp 291 00:17:39,914 --> 00:17:42,333 that matches a certain friend of the family. 292 00:17:42,458 --> 00:17:45,836 If you believed this story, you wouldn't be telling me about his birthmarks, 293 00:17:45,961 --> 00:17:48,547 you'd be telling me about the genetic testing you had done. 294 00:17:48,673 --> 00:17:50,800 And since you haven't mentioned it, obviously, you didn't do it, 295 00:17:50,925 --> 00:17:53,427 because you don't want to... House, what are you doing? 296 00:17:53,552 --> 00:17:56,764 Get your... Get off the... There's a cop. 297 00:17:58,933 --> 00:18:00,726 (SIREN BLARING) 298 00:18:02,603 --> 00:18:03,646 Uh-oh! 299 00:18:06,190 --> 00:18:08,734 Nicole, lie still. This will only take a few seconds. 300 00:18:09,819 --> 00:18:12,363 TAUB: One-millimeter cut through upper abdomen. 301 00:18:12,488 --> 00:18:15,241 She was adopted when the parents thought they couldn't have kids. 302 00:18:15,366 --> 00:18:16,534 Then they had three more. 303 00:18:16,659 --> 00:18:18,744 She took the message as, "Thanks for playing, 304 00:18:18,869 --> 00:18:20,538 "but we have our real children now." 305 00:18:20,663 --> 00:18:22,915 And the real children probably think they were accidents 306 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,125 while she was hand-picked. 307 00:18:24,250 --> 00:18:26,043 Everybody's got problems with their parents. 308 00:18:26,168 --> 00:18:28,254 She's an addict. Something went wrong. 309 00:18:28,379 --> 00:18:32,174 And it has to be the parents? Magnifying pancreas. 310 00:18:32,299 --> 00:18:33,718 I'm not saying the parents screwed up. 311 00:18:33,843 --> 00:18:37,513 You're saying you like her, so you don't want her faults to be her fault. 312 00:18:37,638 --> 00:18:41,600 But they're someone's fault, and the only other people you know are... 313 00:18:41,726 --> 00:18:43,769 (BEEPING) 314 00:18:43,894 --> 00:18:46,063 I think we may need to call House again. 315 00:18:48,023 --> 00:18:50,901 HOUSE: You lost track of your speed? 316 00:18:51,777 --> 00:18:56,073 I think that was Hitler's excuse, "Lost track of the Jews." 317 00:18:56,198 --> 00:18:57,658 No one held him responsible. 318 00:18:57,783 --> 00:18:59,034 I'm not playing, House. 319 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:00,494 You were protecting me. 320 00:19:00,619 --> 00:19:03,581 Anybody in their right mind would have ratted me out. 321 00:19:03,706 --> 00:19:05,833 I'm just trying to speed things along. 322 00:19:05,958 --> 00:19:07,960 You are going to this funeral. 323 00:19:09,253 --> 00:19:12,006 (CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING MMMBOP) 324 00:19:16,135 --> 00:19:19,680 Make it fast. I don't want to miss the anal cavity search. 325 00:19:19,805 --> 00:19:21,849 Looks like a mass in the pancreas. 326 00:19:21,974 --> 00:19:23,517 Not to me. This is radio. 327 00:19:23,642 --> 00:19:25,311 And I want a full play-by-play. 328 00:19:25,436 --> 00:19:27,062 It's fluid-filled. 329 00:19:27,188 --> 00:19:28,314 Could you get out of the car, please, sir? 330 00:19:28,439 --> 00:19:30,900 Officer, if you want to give me a ticket, I totally understand. 331 00:19:31,025 --> 00:19:32,526 Just get out of the car, sir. 332 00:19:32,651 --> 00:19:34,361 - Cyst? - FOREMAN: Large cyst. 333 00:19:34,487 --> 00:19:35,863 Something going on there? 334 00:19:35,988 --> 00:19:38,407 Wilson's getting arrested. How large? 335 00:19:38,532 --> 00:19:40,993 SUV-sized or mid range-sedan? 336 00:19:41,118 --> 00:19:42,578 Seriously? What did you do? 337 00:19:42,703 --> 00:19:44,914 I'm obviously joking. 338 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:47,291 If Wilson was getting handcuffed on the hood of his car, 339 00:19:47,416 --> 00:19:49,210 would I be carrying on a differential? 340 00:19:49,335 --> 00:19:51,295 Diameter's at least eight centimeters. 341 00:19:51,420 --> 00:19:52,421 (WHISTLES) 342 00:19:52,546 --> 00:19:54,048 Is it in the tail or the head? 343 00:19:54,173 --> 00:19:55,216 The head. 344 00:19:55,341 --> 00:19:57,510 You, too, sir, out of the car. 345 00:19:57,635 --> 00:20:00,012 We've got a construction site. 346 00:20:00,137 --> 00:20:02,223 A steamroller is plowing... 347 00:20:03,265 --> 00:20:04,517 Out, now. 348 00:20:08,979 --> 00:20:10,356 No cane. 349 00:20:21,283 --> 00:20:25,996 James Evan Wilson. There's a warrant for your arrest in Louisiana. 350 00:20:27,748 --> 00:20:29,500 (HANDCUFFS CLICKING) 351 00:20:30,668 --> 00:20:32,253 (SIGHS) 352 00:20:35,005 --> 00:20:36,966 What are the traits of a steamroller? 353 00:20:37,091 --> 00:20:39,385 Powerful. Maybe pancreatic cancer. 354 00:20:39,510 --> 00:20:41,345 Great idea. Except the only symptom 355 00:20:41,470 --> 00:20:44,139 it matches up with is being steamroller-ish. 356 00:20:44,265 --> 00:20:45,808 You don't think House is onto something? 357 00:20:45,933 --> 00:20:47,768 I think he thought he had an idea. 358 00:20:47,893 --> 00:20:51,939 I also think his metaphors are tough enough to decipher after he's said them. 359 00:20:52,064 --> 00:20:53,524 We need to be focusing on the medicine. 360 00:20:53,649 --> 00:20:54,733 No answer. 361 00:20:54,859 --> 00:20:57,361 There's not going to be an answer. They've been arrested. 362 00:20:57,486 --> 00:20:58,445 He was joking. 363 00:20:58,571 --> 00:21:00,531 He reacted to the size and location. 364 00:21:00,656 --> 00:21:03,284 That's what we should be focusing on, not playing Madlibs 365 00:21:03,409 --> 00:21:06,787 while our patient's exploding "noun" destroys her life-sustaining "noun." 366 00:21:06,912 --> 00:21:08,414 I'll try to get Wilson on the line. 367 00:21:08,539 --> 00:21:12,126 What if it's not how a steamroller works, but what it does? 368 00:21:12,251 --> 00:21:13,669 Clears things. 369 00:21:14,670 --> 00:21:16,714 It's a waste of time. 370 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,720 (CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING MMMBOP) 371 00:21:25,389 --> 00:21:27,349 I need that phone call. 372 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:29,476 I'm a doctor. 373 00:21:29,602 --> 00:21:32,813 When someone tries to call you three times, it's code for 374 00:21:32,938 --> 00:21:35,190 "Pick up the damn phone before someone dies." 375 00:21:35,316 --> 00:21:37,610 I'm sure there's other smart doctors. 376 00:21:37,735 --> 00:21:39,194 You'd be surprised. 377 00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:41,989 You told me you'd taken care of this. 378 00:21:42,114 --> 00:21:43,574 I did. 379 00:21:43,699 --> 00:21:45,743 The first words you ever said to me. 380 00:21:45,868 --> 00:21:47,786 I took care of it. 381 00:21:47,912 --> 00:21:49,705 You must have screwed up somehow. 382 00:21:50,915 --> 00:21:56,629 Sir? Not to hurry you, but we need to be at a funeral in... 383 00:21:56,754 --> 00:21:59,798 Nobody is going anywhere or taking any phone calls 384 00:21:59,924 --> 00:22:01,884 till I hear back from Louisiana. 385 00:22:02,009 --> 00:22:04,053 It's a really old warrant. 386 00:22:04,178 --> 00:22:06,430 Isn't there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing? 387 00:22:06,555 --> 00:22:09,266 It's suspended when you flee the state. 388 00:22:09,391 --> 00:22:12,937 I didn't flee the state, I left the state, 389 00:22:13,062 --> 00:22:14,772 because I don't live in the state. 390 00:22:14,897 --> 00:22:18,943 And the charges were just so minor... 391 00:22:19,068 --> 00:22:22,905 "Vandalism, destruction of property, assault..." 392 00:22:23,030 --> 00:22:25,282 There is a simple explanation. 393 00:22:25,407 --> 00:22:27,618 There was a medical convention in New Orleans. 394 00:22:27,743 --> 00:22:29,536 You don't need to explain to me. 395 00:22:29,662 --> 00:22:30,746 I was fresh out of med school. 396 00:22:30,871 --> 00:22:32,414 I didn't know anybody at the convention. 397 00:22:32,539 --> 00:22:35,626 You heard the man, Wilson. You don't have to explain. 398 00:22:35,751 --> 00:22:37,670 I am not going to sit here wasting time 399 00:22:37,795 --> 00:22:40,339 just so you can avoid your father's funeral. 400 00:22:42,716 --> 00:22:44,218 He's my father. 401 00:22:44,635 --> 00:22:46,512 I have the right to avoid his funeral. 402 00:22:46,637 --> 00:22:48,347 Not if your mother's alive, you don't. 403 00:22:49,974 --> 00:22:53,018 Okay. Explain. 404 00:22:54,103 --> 00:22:55,980 CHASE: Did House react to the eight centimeters? 405 00:22:56,105 --> 00:22:59,024 He whistled. It's huge. Anyone would think so. 406 00:22:59,149 --> 00:23:01,193 House doesn't whistle because he's impressed. 407 00:23:01,318 --> 00:23:03,195 Means he wasn't expecting it. 408 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,489 Means he changed his mind at that point. 409 00:23:05,614 --> 00:23:08,283 A single super-sized cyst ruled out a diffuse process, 410 00:23:08,409 --> 00:23:09,785 like scleroderma or lupus. 411 00:23:09,910 --> 00:23:11,578 Rule out diffuse process, you're stuck with single process, 412 00:23:11,704 --> 00:23:13,288 affecting just the pancreas. 413 00:23:13,414 --> 00:23:15,416 Gallstones or pancreatic divisum. 414 00:23:15,541 --> 00:23:17,459 Whatever he asked next would have narrowed that down. 415 00:23:17,584 --> 00:23:18,669 He asked about location. 416 00:23:18,794 --> 00:23:20,713 Heads, it's gallstones. Tails, it's divisum. 417 00:23:20,838 --> 00:23:23,048 It's at the head. She's got gallstones. 418 00:23:23,173 --> 00:23:24,800 The steamroller means potholes, means... 419 00:23:24,925 --> 00:23:26,593 Relax. We got it. 420 00:23:26,719 --> 00:23:28,721 You figured out she's got gallstones? 421 00:23:31,348 --> 00:23:35,561 I was at the hotel bar, trying to unwind with a drink. 422 00:23:35,686 --> 00:23:38,814 There was this guy who kept playing 423 00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:42,317 Billy Joel's Leave a Tender Moment Alone on the jukebox. 424 00:23:42,443 --> 00:23:44,153 Leave a Tender Moment is a good song. 425 00:23:44,278 --> 00:23:46,280 It's a great song. He was out of line. 426 00:23:46,405 --> 00:23:48,782 Not as good as Scenes from an Italian Restaurant or... 427 00:23:48,907 --> 00:23:52,828 So I asked the man to stop. Politely. 428 00:23:52,953 --> 00:23:54,830 Yeah, you yelled politely. 429 00:23:54,955 --> 00:23:57,041 I was polite the first couple of times. 430 00:23:57,166 --> 00:24:00,627 But courtesy made no impression on this ass. 431 00:24:00,753 --> 00:24:05,841 So I threw a bottle into the mirror, 432 00:24:05,966 --> 00:24:08,761 which successfully conveyed my message. 433 00:24:08,886 --> 00:24:11,597 And smashed a 10-foot antique mirror. 434 00:24:11,722 --> 00:24:15,059 And set an example for two other patrons, who threw shot glasses... 435 00:24:15,184 --> 00:24:17,269 WILSON: I had nothing to do with that fight. 436 00:24:17,394 --> 00:24:19,605 The assault charge was totally bogus. 437 00:24:19,730 --> 00:24:22,191 And I paid for the mirror. 438 00:24:22,316 --> 00:24:23,650 I think I have the picture. 439 00:24:25,110 --> 00:24:28,072 I assume you're the guy who was playing the song. 440 00:24:28,197 --> 00:24:30,574 No, I was the guy who bailed him out. 441 00:24:30,699 --> 00:24:33,285 That's how we met. I was in jail. 442 00:24:33,410 --> 00:24:36,580 This guy was a total stranger to you, and you bailed him out? 443 00:24:36,705 --> 00:24:38,540 It was a boring convention. 444 00:24:38,665 --> 00:24:40,375 I had to have somebody to drink with. 445 00:24:40,501 --> 00:24:42,753 And there's the foundation of our entire friendship. 446 00:24:42,878 --> 00:24:45,798 If you hadn't been bored one weekend, it wouldn't even exist. 447 00:24:45,923 --> 00:24:48,842 Hey, with 3,000 people at that convention, 448 00:24:48,967 --> 00:24:51,095 you were the one I thought wasn't boring. That says something. 449 00:24:51,220 --> 00:24:53,597 It also says something that you lied to me about getting the charges dropped. 450 00:24:53,722 --> 00:24:56,350 I got a lawyer, he cut a deal. You didn't call the guy? 451 00:24:56,475 --> 00:24:59,019 You have to show up at the arraignment. Everybody knows that. 452 00:24:59,144 --> 00:25:01,897 Everybody with your misdemeanor experience. 453 00:25:02,022 --> 00:25:03,857 You can go. 454 00:25:03,982 --> 00:25:05,067 What? 455 00:25:05,192 --> 00:25:07,861 He's a fugitive from justice. 456 00:25:07,986 --> 00:25:10,405 That whole story was lies. He stabbed a man. 457 00:25:10,531 --> 00:25:14,118 Louisiana doesn't want to pay to get you back. 458 00:25:14,243 --> 00:25:17,246 Forget Louisiana. He was driving recklessly 459 00:25:17,371 --> 00:25:19,414 through your comatose village. 460 00:25:19,540 --> 00:25:21,750 What, do they put lead in the jelly donuts here? 461 00:25:21,875 --> 00:25:23,669 Stop acting like such an ingrate 462 00:25:23,794 --> 00:25:26,213 and go pay your respects to your father. 463 00:25:28,215 --> 00:25:30,634 CT confirmed gallstones. 464 00:25:31,051 --> 00:25:35,139 Normally not dangerous, almost everyone has them, but sometimes... 465 00:25:35,264 --> 00:25:36,431 They kill you? 466 00:25:36,557 --> 00:25:39,143 Yup. Unless I take them out. 467 00:25:39,268 --> 00:25:40,769 We do it laparoscopically. 468 00:25:42,729 --> 00:25:43,939 Um... 469 00:25:46,608 --> 00:25:48,485 How long has her urine been brown? 470 00:25:48,610 --> 00:25:50,487 Kidneys were fine this afternoon. 471 00:25:50,612 --> 00:25:51,947 CHASE: They're not now. 472 00:25:54,032 --> 00:25:55,409 It's not the gallstones. 473 00:25:58,495 --> 00:26:00,706 HOUSE: Well, of course it's not gallstones. 474 00:26:00,831 --> 00:26:02,082 Who thought it was gallstones? 475 00:26:02,207 --> 00:26:03,292 You said "steamroller." 476 00:26:03,417 --> 00:26:05,294 I also said "construction site." 477 00:26:05,419 --> 00:26:08,046 Gallstones could cause a pancreatic cyst. 478 00:26:08,172 --> 00:26:11,258 Just turn around. The thing is two hours over already, 479 00:26:11,383 --> 00:26:13,260 and that's the third time we've passed that colonial 480 00:26:13,385 --> 00:26:15,429 with the cross burning out front. 481 00:26:15,554 --> 00:26:16,889 I'm not lost. 482 00:26:17,806 --> 00:26:19,516 I'm not talking about what caused the cyst. 483 00:26:19,641 --> 00:26:21,393 I'm talking about what the cyst caused. 484 00:26:21,518 --> 00:26:22,352 Everything- 485 00:26:22,477 --> 00:26:24,313 Cysts are symptoms, not diagnoses. 486 00:26:24,438 --> 00:26:28,025 Unless it's a multiple cyst with connections to other organs. 487 00:26:28,150 --> 00:26:29,359 Like a steamroller. 488 00:26:29,484 --> 00:26:31,486 That's a long road down to the kidneys. 489 00:26:31,612 --> 00:26:33,989 How do we prove it? Won't be visible on a scan, 490 00:26:34,114 --> 00:26:35,616 Chase isn't gonna go groping around 491 00:26:35,741 --> 00:26:36,783 when she's got kidney failure. 492 00:26:36,909 --> 00:26:37,993 Bubbles. 493 00:26:38,118 --> 00:26:40,162 - Is that your new stripper name? - Yes. 494 00:26:40,287 --> 00:26:43,081 And also, we inject bubbles into the cyst and follow where they drift. 495 00:26:43,207 --> 00:26:44,208 If they end up in her other organs, 496 00:26:44,333 --> 00:26:46,126 we know you're right, cut it out, she's fine. 497 00:26:46,251 --> 00:26:48,337 Bubbles is right. Go echo. 498 00:26:51,381 --> 00:26:52,841 I'm not lost. 499 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,940 (NICOLE SHUDDERING) 500 00:27:09,733 --> 00:27:11,526 Nicole, you gotta stay still. 501 00:27:11,652 --> 00:27:12,945 (STAMMERS) I'm nervous. 502 00:27:13,070 --> 00:27:15,948 You're not nervous. It's the DTs, isn't it? 503 00:27:17,574 --> 00:27:20,577 I haven't had a drink since I got here. 504 00:27:22,788 --> 00:27:25,999 Good heavens. We haven't missed it after all. 505 00:27:26,124 --> 00:27:28,043 It's like the end of A Christmas Carol. 506 00:27:36,134 --> 00:27:37,552 (SIGHS) 507 00:27:39,888 --> 00:27:41,473 I'm so glad you're here. 508 00:27:43,058 --> 00:27:46,895 It's a load off of my mind just to see you. 509 00:27:49,147 --> 00:27:50,274 Thank you, James. 510 00:27:50,399 --> 00:27:52,150 Mom, how could you delay the funeral? 511 00:27:52,276 --> 00:27:55,737 Honey, your dad is dead. He's not going to care. 512 00:27:55,862 --> 00:27:57,614 Do you know what you're going to say? 513 00:27:57,739 --> 00:27:59,866 I don't know. Just let the minister, 514 00:27:59,992 --> 00:28:01,660 or one of his buddies from the Corps... 515 00:28:01,785 --> 00:28:02,953 You're talking. 516 00:28:03,078 --> 00:28:05,080 I don't care that you didn't like him. 517 00:28:05,205 --> 00:28:07,874 He was your father and he loved you. 518 00:28:08,458 --> 00:28:10,377 The war is over, Greg. 519 00:28:11,878 --> 00:28:13,839 Please do this for me. 520 00:28:16,717 --> 00:28:19,011 Stop looking so worried. 521 00:28:20,178 --> 00:28:22,806 I know he's gonna make me proud. 522 00:28:22,931 --> 00:28:25,851 I'm sure you know him better than I do. 523 00:28:31,356 --> 00:28:33,025 Her liver's been compromised. 524 00:28:33,150 --> 00:28:34,651 And the DTs will cause her muscles 525 00:28:34,776 --> 00:28:37,070 to continue to twitch, even under sedation. 526 00:28:37,195 --> 00:28:39,156 We need to paralyze her to do this procedure. 527 00:28:39,281 --> 00:28:40,782 I wanted to stop. 528 00:28:40,907 --> 00:28:42,909 A phenobarbital coma will not only allow us 529 00:28:43,035 --> 00:28:45,495 to inject the cyst, it'll treat the DTs. 530 00:28:45,620 --> 00:28:48,123 When she wakes up, she won't be in withdrawal. 531 00:28:48,248 --> 00:28:50,876 We've seen her through withdrawal before. 532 00:28:51,001 --> 00:28:53,045 We've seen her through everything. 533 00:28:53,170 --> 00:28:56,173 We've been supportive, we've been combative. 534 00:28:56,298 --> 00:28:58,383 We've picked her up from bars in the middle of the night, 535 00:28:58,508 --> 00:29:00,844 we've let her spend the night in jail. 536 00:29:03,889 --> 00:29:08,226 I used to say it would be okay, that I'd get it together. 537 00:29:08,352 --> 00:29:10,062 I don't say that anymore. 538 00:29:12,272 --> 00:29:14,191 Let's make you healthy. 539 00:29:14,316 --> 00:29:16,401 Then we'll worry about making you sober. 540 00:29:17,944 --> 00:29:20,697 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 541 00:29:20,822 --> 00:29:23,033 I am not talking. 542 00:29:23,909 --> 00:29:27,954 We were strangers. We shared some geography 30 years ago. 543 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,415 Right. He had no influence on you at all. 544 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:33,043 The father who was compulsive about punctuality. 545 00:29:33,168 --> 00:29:36,713 His issue, which I deliberately made not my issue. 546 00:29:36,838 --> 00:29:38,548 Thereby making it your issue. 547 00:29:38,673 --> 00:29:40,759 Compulsively showing up four hours late, 548 00:29:40,884 --> 00:29:43,637 ignoring discipline, ignoring rules... 549 00:29:43,762 --> 00:29:45,263 Oh, God. He's here. 550 00:29:45,389 --> 00:29:46,598 Who's here? 551 00:29:47,557 --> 00:29:50,018 The one you're pretending is your father? 552 00:29:51,686 --> 00:29:54,147 Nice pick, he looks like Sean Connery. 553 00:29:54,272 --> 00:29:58,527 So, back when you were devising this fantasy, did you tell your father? 554 00:29:58,652 --> 00:30:00,737 "Dad, I refuse to recognize your existence 555 00:30:00,862 --> 00:30:04,157 "because I've chosen James Bond as my dad?" 556 00:30:05,784 --> 00:30:07,369 I used different words. 557 00:30:08,662 --> 00:30:09,496 What? 558 00:30:10,705 --> 00:30:13,208 Hearing your own son hates you so much 559 00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:16,086 he's replaced you in his mind? 560 00:30:16,837 --> 00:30:19,214 That's gotta suck. How did he take it? 561 00:30:19,339 --> 00:30:21,133 I already told you. 562 00:30:21,258 --> 00:30:23,510 He didn't speak to me for a summer. 563 00:30:30,016 --> 00:30:31,017 (CLEARS THROAT) 564 00:30:31,143 --> 00:30:34,604 It means more to me than I can say 565 00:30:34,729 --> 00:30:36,440 to have all of you here today. 566 00:30:37,941 --> 00:30:43,905 And now our son, Gregory, would like to say a few words. 567 00:30:47,993 --> 00:30:49,202 Greg? 568 00:31:07,387 --> 00:31:10,056 There's a lot of people here today, 569 00:31:10,182 --> 00:31:12,184 including some from the Corps. 570 00:31:13,643 --> 00:31:15,854 And I notice that every one of them 571 00:31:15,979 --> 00:31:18,857 is either my father's rank or higher, 572 00:31:19,941 --> 00:31:22,194 and that doesn't surprise me, 573 00:31:23,820 --> 00:31:29,868 because if the test of a man is how he treats those he has power over, 574 00:31:31,953 --> 00:31:34,164 it was a test my father failed. 575 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,003 This man you're eager to pay homage to, 576 00:31:41,129 --> 00:31:45,509 he was incapable of admitting any point of view but his own. 577 00:31:45,634 --> 00:31:49,721 He punished failure, and he did not accept anything less than... 578 00:32:01,942 --> 00:32:03,944 He loved doing what he did. 579 00:32:05,946 --> 00:32:08,114 He saw his work as some kind of 580 00:32:09,282 --> 00:32:10,992 sacred calling, 581 00:32:12,536 --> 00:32:14,788 more important than any personal relationship. 582 00:32:19,668 --> 00:32:23,004 Maybe if he'd been a better father, I'd be a better son. 583 00:32:26,341 --> 00:32:30,262 But I am what I am because of him. For better or for worse. 584 00:32:33,139 --> 00:32:36,184 And I just... I just wish... 585 00:32:36,309 --> 00:32:37,936 (CRYING) 586 00:33:12,971 --> 00:33:14,931 (WHISPERS) Put it back. 587 00:33:15,056 --> 00:33:16,391 Well, he's not gonna miss it. 588 00:33:16,516 --> 00:33:19,519 I'm done enabling. You can't even let them put him in the ground 589 00:33:19,644 --> 00:33:21,688 without making it serve your agenda. 590 00:33:21,813 --> 00:33:23,857 HOUSE: You really wanna do this in front of everybody? 591 00:33:23,982 --> 00:33:25,859 You wanna punish me or them? 592 00:33:38,997 --> 00:33:41,750 How can I still feel surprise? 593 00:33:41,875 --> 00:33:45,420 You would take even this, a moment of real human grief, 594 00:33:45,545 --> 00:33:46,796 and turn it into a farce. 595 00:33:46,921 --> 00:33:50,508 Oh, cut the crap. You enjoy what I do. 596 00:33:50,634 --> 00:33:52,969 I never had to force you, you like coming along for the ride. 597 00:33:53,094 --> 00:33:55,180 Yes, that's why I'm cheering you on now. 598 00:33:55,305 --> 00:33:58,516 This is about you needing to be prepared for the worst. 599 00:33:58,642 --> 00:34:00,518 So you become an oncologist. 600 00:34:00,644 --> 00:34:03,313 No surprises there, the worst happens all the time. 601 00:34:03,438 --> 00:34:05,440 But Amber, she was young and healthy. 602 00:34:05,565 --> 00:34:06,816 Her death came out of nowhere. 603 00:34:06,941 --> 00:34:08,485 Don't bring Amber into this. 604 00:34:08,610 --> 00:34:09,944 And you weren't ready. 605 00:34:10,070 --> 00:34:11,905 That makes you angry. The world sucks, 606 00:34:12,030 --> 00:34:13,573 and you didn't have time to brace yourself. 607 00:34:13,698 --> 00:34:15,784 What happened out there is your show. 608 00:34:15,909 --> 00:34:18,328 You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters, 609 00:34:18,453 --> 00:34:20,288 so you dump the person who matters the most to you. 610 00:34:20,413 --> 00:34:22,707 I'm not scared to death, I'm moving forward. 611 00:34:22,832 --> 00:34:25,627 Because no one can take away from you what you no longer have. 612 00:34:25,752 --> 00:34:26,920 (LAUGHING) 613 00:34:27,045 --> 00:34:28,922 Your father's death is about you. 614 00:34:29,047 --> 00:34:30,340 Amber's death is about you. 615 00:34:30,465 --> 00:34:32,425 I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to be your friend. 616 00:34:32,550 --> 00:34:35,845 Admit it. You're angry and you're scared of losing me. 617 00:34:35,970 --> 00:34:38,264 - I'm not angry, I'm not scared. - Admit it. 618 00:34:38,390 --> 00:34:39,766 - I'm not afraid. - Admit it! 619 00:34:39,891 --> 00:34:42,060 - I've lost people. It happens. - Admit it. Admit it! 620 00:34:42,185 --> 00:34:43,853 What are you, five? Stop repeating... 621 00:34:43,978 --> 00:34:47,065 Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. 622 00:34:47,190 --> 00:34:48,858 Come on, admit it! Admit it! 623 00:34:54,656 --> 00:34:56,866 Still not boring. 624 00:34:59,953 --> 00:35:02,539 Did you know I was going to do that? 625 00:35:02,664 --> 00:35:04,332 Because I didn't know I was going to do that. 626 00:35:04,457 --> 00:35:06,876 I know you have trouble losing people. 627 00:35:07,627 --> 00:35:09,504 In New Orleans, I saw you carrying 628 00:35:09,629 --> 00:35:12,090 this express package around the conference, 629 00:35:12,882 --> 00:35:16,136 and you wouldn't let it go, but you wouldn't open it, 630 00:35:16,261 --> 00:35:18,304 so I peeked at the return address. 631 00:35:18,430 --> 00:35:20,181 Diamond, Fairbarren. 632 00:35:20,306 --> 00:35:21,599 Divorce attorneys. 633 00:35:22,267 --> 00:35:24,269 Your first wife had just served you with papers. 634 00:35:24,394 --> 00:35:26,938 Did you know that when you bailed me out? 635 00:35:27,063 --> 00:35:30,316 Were you doing something nice for me? 636 00:35:30,442 --> 00:35:32,152 What did I say about being boring? 637 00:35:34,154 --> 00:35:35,572 We owe your mom an apology. 638 00:35:37,073 --> 00:35:38,283 (RINGING) 639 00:35:38,408 --> 00:35:40,535 Hello. It's House. 640 00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:42,036 HOUSE: How'd the bubble test go? 641 00:35:42,162 --> 00:35:44,998 The problem wasn't the cyst. It's advanced dilated cardiomyopathy. 642 00:35:45,123 --> 00:35:47,584 We did a three-dimensional echo, showed a mass in the left atrium. 643 00:35:47,709 --> 00:35:49,377 KUTNER: Looks like an atrial myxoma. 644 00:35:49,502 --> 00:35:53,047 But the ultrasound images are a little grainy, so it's hard to tell. 645 00:35:53,173 --> 00:35:54,299 House? 646 00:35:54,424 --> 00:35:56,050 The images aren't grainy. 647 00:35:56,176 --> 00:35:57,427 They sure look grainy. 648 00:35:57,552 --> 00:36:00,221 I've seen pictures of you where you looked tall. 649 00:36:00,346 --> 00:36:01,639 It's an iron overload, 650 00:36:01,765 --> 00:36:03,850 creates speckles on the image, makes it look grainy. 651 00:36:03,975 --> 00:36:06,686 Also makes her pancreas fail, her blood clot, her intestines... 652 00:36:06,811 --> 00:36:08,521 Atrial myxoma is more likely. 653 00:36:08,646 --> 00:36:10,106 MRI for a better view. 654 00:36:10,231 --> 00:36:11,566 Then call me back and tell me you're embarrassed 655 00:36:11,691 --> 00:36:14,152 because my eyesight is better 500 miles away. 656 00:36:15,403 --> 00:36:17,363 I need a phone number. 657 00:36:17,739 --> 00:36:19,282 (PHONE RINGING) 658 00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:23,953 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 659 00:36:24,078 --> 00:36:26,956 I'm a doctor in New Jersey, treating one of your clients. 660 00:36:27,081 --> 00:36:29,584 Young woman looking for her biological parents. 661 00:36:29,709 --> 00:36:31,419 You know, you could just wait for the MRI 662 00:36:31,544 --> 00:36:34,297 to have your curiosity satisfied. 663 00:36:34,422 --> 00:36:38,551 What person who is nothing like me are you saying that to? 664 00:36:39,803 --> 00:36:41,346 Did the parents look tan? 665 00:36:41,471 --> 00:36:44,474 The disease she has is genetic, which means they should have it, too. 666 00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:46,434 They don't look more tan than anyone else. 667 00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:47,685 Discolored teeth? 668 00:36:47,811 --> 00:36:50,355 They're farmers. Their village doesn't even have a dentist. 669 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,565 Right. Thanks. 670 00:36:52,690 --> 00:36:56,152 But if it matters, I'm not convinced they were her parents. 671 00:36:56,277 --> 00:36:57,111 Why not? 672 00:36:57,237 --> 00:36:58,947 Because they said they had no daughter. 673 00:36:59,072 --> 00:37:02,450 The man was adamant, and the woman seemed confused and frightened. 674 00:37:02,575 --> 00:37:03,910 Thank you. 675 00:37:06,496 --> 00:37:08,206 Differential. 676 00:37:08,331 --> 00:37:11,209 Say you're a middle-aged Chinese woman. 677 00:37:11,334 --> 00:37:13,044 - Fine. - Say it. 678 00:37:13,169 --> 00:37:15,129 I'm a middle-aged Chinese woman. 679 00:37:15,255 --> 00:37:18,716 Girl comes to you, says that she's your long-lost daughter. 680 00:37:18,842 --> 00:37:20,260 Why would you be frightened? 681 00:37:20,385 --> 00:37:26,558 I'm frightened because she's a threat, maybe she knows something. 682 00:37:26,683 --> 00:37:29,227 She hasn't seen you since she was an infant. 683 00:37:29,352 --> 00:37:30,728 Maybe an inheritance issue. 684 00:37:30,854 --> 00:37:32,272 They're peasants. 685 00:37:33,147 --> 00:37:37,360 Her very presence is a threat. She... 686 00:37:38,194 --> 00:37:39,654 What year was she born? 687 00:37:39,779 --> 00:37:40,905 '83. 688 00:37:41,030 --> 00:37:42,740 She's not supposed to be alive. 689 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,620 China introduced the One Child Policy in 1979. 690 00:37:47,745 --> 00:37:49,998 Say they didn't want a girl. 691 00:37:50,123 --> 00:37:51,583 They tried to kill her. 692 00:37:51,708 --> 00:37:52,876 But maybe the baby doesn't die, 693 00:37:53,001 --> 00:37:55,128 maybe the father panics, or regrets it, 694 00:37:55,253 --> 00:37:57,547 takes the baby to an orphanage, 695 00:37:57,672 --> 00:37:58,882 maybe he doesn't tell his wife. 696 00:37:59,007 --> 00:38:01,885 Who freaks out like she's seen a ghost 25 years later 697 00:38:02,010 --> 00:38:03,094 when the girl shows up. 698 00:38:03,219 --> 00:38:05,680 But why does attempted murder from 25 years ago 699 00:38:05,805 --> 00:38:07,515 suddenly become relevant to her health now? 700 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,684 Maybe they gave her something toxic. 701 00:38:09,809 --> 00:38:11,603 It would have to be fat soluble. 702 00:38:15,106 --> 00:38:16,774 This is fun, isn't it? 703 00:38:24,157 --> 00:38:25,408 Let me see the MRI. 704 00:38:25,533 --> 00:38:26,451 We don't have one. 705 00:38:26,576 --> 00:38:28,494 She started vomiting as soon as we started the scan. 706 00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:33,082 Then let her vomit through the MRI. That's what nurses are for. 707 00:38:33,207 --> 00:38:36,210 Her parents tried to kill her. 708 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,924 I don't know how, but I know it caused her to get sick 25 years later 709 00:38:41,049 --> 00:38:43,384 trying to lift a Buddha. Explain. 710 00:38:44,761 --> 00:38:47,931 I already had this conversation with Wilson. Just go with it. 711 00:38:48,056 --> 00:38:49,098 Poison? 712 00:38:49,223 --> 00:38:50,433 Buddha wouldn't make it worse. 713 00:38:50,558 --> 00:38:52,352 Maybe the weight stressed her back, which... 714 00:38:52,477 --> 00:38:55,188 Makes sense if she's never lifted anything in her life. 715 00:38:55,313 --> 00:38:58,524 She actually didn't get sick till she tried lifting it that second time. 716 00:38:58,650 --> 00:39:00,151 I'm guessing the weight changed. 717 00:39:03,863 --> 00:39:06,074 Anyone have Taub's pager number? 718 00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:07,450 What's up? 719 00:39:07,575 --> 00:39:09,243 Maybe give him a call. 720 00:39:09,369 --> 00:39:12,455 If he tosses that switch on the MRI, she's dead. 721 00:39:12,580 --> 00:39:14,082 X-ray her brain. 722 00:39:16,709 --> 00:39:18,169 HOUSE: Pins. 723 00:39:18,544 --> 00:39:20,630 Push them through the soft fontanel of an infant, 724 00:39:20,755 --> 00:39:24,509 you skewer the brain, and the hair hides the entry wounds. 725 00:39:24,634 --> 00:39:25,969 It's the perfect crime. 726 00:39:26,094 --> 00:39:27,512 She's had them in her all these years. 727 00:39:27,637 --> 00:39:28,721 What changed at the temple? 728 00:39:28,846 --> 00:39:30,807 Same thing that changed in the MRI. 729 00:39:30,932 --> 00:39:33,476 HOUSE: Shockingly, not all religious leaders are honest. 730 00:39:33,601 --> 00:39:35,937 I'm guessing these particular monks are bilking the faithful 731 00:39:36,062 --> 00:39:37,981 by pushing a magnet up Buddha's butt. 732 00:39:38,106 --> 00:39:39,357 There's another one under the table 733 00:39:39,482 --> 00:39:41,943 that'll repel or attract, depending on how you shift it. 734 00:39:42,068 --> 00:39:43,611 When she picked up that magnet, 735 00:39:43,736 --> 00:39:44,779 it moved one of the pins deeper 736 00:39:44,904 --> 00:39:47,115 into the sympathetic nervous center of her brain. 737 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:48,658 This sent a signal through the nerves 738 00:39:48,783 --> 00:39:51,160 to the blood vessels in her small intestines 739 00:39:51,285 --> 00:39:55,748 that caused the symptoms in China and in the giant magnet we call an MRI. 740 00:39:55,873 --> 00:39:57,208 She's lucky. 741 00:39:58,710 --> 00:40:02,714 We're all screwed up by our parents, she's got documentation. 742 00:40:06,801 --> 00:40:09,262 The pins will be removed surgically, and she'll be fine. 743 00:40:09,387 --> 00:40:12,140 We'll wake her from the coma after the operation. 744 00:40:12,265 --> 00:40:14,851 Is there any way you could not tell her? 745 00:40:15,518 --> 00:40:18,229 Please. She's fragile. 746 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:22,316 She desperately wanted to know her biological parents. 747 00:40:22,442 --> 00:40:24,902 For her to find out that they wanted her dead, 748 00:40:26,029 --> 00:40:27,572 I don't know what that'll do to her. 749 00:40:27,697 --> 00:40:30,033 She may not be as fragile as you think. 750 00:40:30,158 --> 00:40:31,159 We know our daughter. 751 00:40:33,036 --> 00:40:34,746 See this pin here? 752 00:40:34,871 --> 00:40:38,166 It's been pressing directly on her addiction center. 753 00:40:38,291 --> 00:40:41,335 It's not her fault, and it's definitely not your fault. 754 00:40:41,461 --> 00:40:43,087 She's not who you think she is. 755 00:40:54,599 --> 00:40:55,892 (KNOCKING) 756 00:41:00,188 --> 00:41:03,232 I hear your patient's going to be all right. 757 00:41:05,276 --> 00:41:10,281 Is that why you're here? A colleague checking up on a patient? 758 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,535 Something going on? 759 00:41:14,660 --> 00:41:15,828 I'm celebrating. 760 00:41:24,462 --> 00:41:26,255 My mom hated him, too. 761 00:41:27,632 --> 00:41:30,968 Your DNA test showed no match? That's incredible. 762 00:41:31,094 --> 00:41:33,262 At the age of 12, you actually figured out 763 00:41:33,387 --> 00:41:35,306 your father wasn't your birth father? 764 00:41:36,224 --> 00:41:38,226 That's what you wanted, wasn't it? 765 00:41:39,227 --> 00:41:40,937 Why should it depress you? 766 00:41:41,062 --> 00:41:42,230 It doesn't depress me. 767 00:41:42,939 --> 00:41:46,818 It doesn't make any difference at all. That's what depresses me. 768 00:41:50,321 --> 00:41:55,701 Well, I guess nobody gets to choose who their parents are. 769 00:41:57,829 --> 00:42:02,208 I'm not even sure anymore we get to choose who our friends are. 770 00:42:08,089 --> 00:42:11,259 I spoke with Cuddy. She hasn't filled my position yet. 771 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,804 If you're coming back just because you're attracted 772 00:42:14,929 --> 00:42:17,431 to the shine of my neediness, 773 00:42:19,767 --> 00:42:21,018 I'd be okay with that. 774 00:42:24,272 --> 00:42:26,858 I'm coming back because you were right. 775 00:42:28,234 --> 00:42:32,029 That strange, annoying trip we just took 776 00:42:32,155 --> 00:42:34,240 was the most fun I've had since Amber died. 777 00:42:37,994 --> 00:42:39,453 You hungry? 778 00:42:49,922 --> 00:42:51,591 Wilson. 779 00:42:51,716 --> 00:42:52,884 Yeah? 780 00:42:55,887 --> 00:42:57,054 My dad's dead. 781 00:42:58,598 --> 00:43:01,767 Yeah. My sympathies.