1 00:00:01,898 --> 00:00:06,278 CHILDREN: (SINGING) Joy to the world, The Lord has come 2 00:00:06,403 --> 00:00:10,782 Let Earth receive her king 3 00:00:11,199 --> 00:00:15,662 Let every heart prepare him room 4 00:00:15,787 --> 00:00:20,000 And heaven and nature sing And heaven and nature sing 5 00:00:20,250 --> 00:00:22,336 And heaven, and heaven and nature sing 6 00:00:22,461 --> 00:00:27,674 This sucks. This is why we need to make a statement, you know? 7 00:00:28,425 --> 00:00:29,343 I don't think that... 8 00:00:29,468 --> 00:00:32,346 What? You afraid we'll end up in detention? 9 00:00:32,846 --> 00:00:34,890 Well, yeah. That's what teachers do. 10 00:00:35,015 --> 00:00:36,016 (CHUCKLES) 11 00:00:36,141 --> 00:00:38,894 They're not going to send all of us to detention. 12 00:00:39,061 --> 00:00:40,687 Mr. Henderson is totally lame, 13 00:00:40,812 --> 00:00:43,148 and this is our best chance to inform him of that fact. 14 00:00:43,815 --> 00:00:45,734 You don't think he's lame? 15 00:00:45,859 --> 00:00:47,944 Well, yeah, but... 16 00:00:48,070 --> 00:00:49,279 Then what's the problem? 17 00:00:52,366 --> 00:00:53,450 Okay- 18 00:00:54,326 --> 00:00:57,621 FEMALE ANNOUNCER ON MIC: The Robert Page Academy vocal jazz ensemble. 19 00:01:02,417 --> 00:01:05,003 (PIANO PLAYING) 20 00:01:07,673 --> 00:01:10,592 ALL: (SINGING) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire 21 00:01:10,717 --> 00:01:13,470 Jack Frost nipping at your nose 22 00:01:13,595 --> 00:01:16,390 Yuletide carols being sung by a choir 23 00:01:16,515 --> 00:01:18,892 And folks dressed up like Eskimos 24 00:01:19,017 --> 00:01:19,851 Everybody knows 25 00:01:19,976 --> 00:01:22,562 Mr. Henderson's a stupid... 26 00:01:22,688 --> 00:01:24,272 (PEOPLE CHUCKLING) 27 00:01:25,357 --> 00:01:27,859 I can't believe she fell for that. 28 00:01:27,984 --> 00:01:29,444 Why'd you do that... 29 00:01:39,287 --> 00:01:41,832 I don't feel so good. 30 00:01:45,252 --> 00:01:46,920 (PEOPLE GASPING) 31 00:01:51,925 --> 00:01:52,926 (COUGHS) 32 00:02:26,084 --> 00:02:28,295 Sixteen-year-old female gets pranked, 33 00:02:28,420 --> 00:02:31,173 also gets visual hallucinations and vomiting. 34 00:02:31,298 --> 00:02:33,592 Turns out to be a failing liver. 35 00:02:33,717 --> 00:02:36,553 Why have Foreman's breasts suddenly started to droop? 36 00:02:36,678 --> 00:02:39,931 Large breasts are a classic symptom of you letting Foreman take vacation days 37 00:02:40,056 --> 00:02:42,851 so he can finish his FDA reports before the end of the year. 38 00:02:42,976 --> 00:02:44,519 When are you taking vacation? 39 00:02:44,644 --> 00:02:46,229 Hepatic and neurological involvement... 40 00:02:46,354 --> 00:02:49,524 So, I understand Foreman's absence. Your presence, not so much. 41 00:02:49,649 --> 00:02:51,943 I'm bringing in a case. You may have noticed me doing that before. 42 00:02:52,068 --> 00:02:54,029 I've noticed you a lot recently. 43 00:02:54,154 --> 00:02:57,032 It's almost as if you have a sexual interest in someone here. 44 00:02:57,157 --> 00:02:59,576 Like, say, Taub? 45 00:02:59,701 --> 00:03:03,163 Well, Taub might think I like him if I stayed, 46 00:03:03,288 --> 00:03:05,415 which is why I'm going to do this. 47 00:03:06,792 --> 00:03:09,669 Somehow, I don't think that was really about me. 48 00:03:09,795 --> 00:03:10,754 Wilson's Disease. 49 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:12,047 THIRTEEN: Ceruloplasmin's normal. 50 00:03:12,172 --> 00:03:13,757 You got a Christmas present. 51 00:03:15,926 --> 00:03:18,011 "Greg, made me think of you." 52 00:03:25,936 --> 00:03:28,688 That's funny. It usually explodes after I do that. 53 00:03:28,814 --> 00:03:29,815 Alcohol abuse? 54 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:31,650 She's 16. 55 00:03:31,775 --> 00:03:33,318 The kind of boozing that destroys your liver that early, 56 00:03:33,443 --> 00:03:36,571 her parents or teachers would notice. Wow. 57 00:03:36,696 --> 00:03:39,908 "Manual of the Operations of Surgery by Joseph Bell." 58 00:03:40,033 --> 00:03:40,867 You're throwing that away? 59 00:03:40,992 --> 00:03:41,910 Twice. 60 00:03:43,829 --> 00:03:45,413 Someone's screwing with me, forget it. 61 00:03:45,539 --> 00:03:49,125 Yeah, gifting antique medical texts. Oldest gag in the book. 62 00:03:49,251 --> 00:03:51,711 Handwriting's kind of girly. You got an admirer, House? 63 00:03:51,837 --> 00:03:53,463 I said, forget the book. 64 00:03:55,423 --> 00:03:56,925 Why'd they pick on her? 65 00:03:57,050 --> 00:04:00,303 She's an overachiever, high grades, she volunteers, she's a big target. 66 00:04:00,428 --> 00:04:01,888 I'm assuming literally, 67 00:04:02,013 --> 00:04:04,349 depending on where this school falls on the Heathers scale. 68 00:04:04,474 --> 00:04:07,018 You think the kids slipped her something? Their teachers grilled them. 69 00:04:07,143 --> 00:04:10,188 When did teachers ever know how to motivate their students? 70 00:04:10,313 --> 00:04:11,857 KUTNER: What did you do to Natalie? 71 00:04:12,148 --> 00:04:16,111 It's all my fault. I didn't stop her from being a total pig. 72 00:04:16,236 --> 00:04:17,612 (CHILDREN CHUCKLING) 73 00:04:17,737 --> 00:04:19,698 - What are you... - Your friend's liver is failing. 74 00:04:19,823 --> 00:04:22,993 We're doing what we can, but she still might need a transplant. 75 00:04:23,535 --> 00:04:26,121 She could die, unless you tell us what you gave her. 76 00:04:26,246 --> 00:04:28,039 - Just tell him. - Shut up. 77 00:04:29,916 --> 00:04:31,710 We gave her some shrooms. 78 00:04:31,835 --> 00:04:35,881 We took some ourselves, we just wanted to make her loosen up a little. 79 00:04:36,006 --> 00:04:38,300 How thoughtful of you. You got any left? 80 00:04:40,343 --> 00:04:42,429 They're in Simon's locker. 81 00:04:43,221 --> 00:04:44,389 This was your idea? 82 00:04:44,514 --> 00:04:46,933 No way. I didn't give her anything. 83 00:04:47,058 --> 00:04:48,977 Right, you just knew about it and let them do it. 84 00:04:49,102 --> 00:04:51,229 Poisonous mushrooms and hallucinogenic ones are different. 85 00:04:51,354 --> 00:04:53,148 Not if they're not dried correctly. 86 00:04:53,273 --> 00:04:56,234 Get back to school. You better hope we got to her in time. 87 00:05:06,536 --> 00:05:07,370 What? 88 00:05:07,537 --> 00:05:11,207 Am I going to get in trouble? Should we apologize or something? 89 00:05:11,333 --> 00:05:15,462 Yes, you should. Natalie's on the third floor. 90 00:05:15,587 --> 00:05:17,339 - Who's down there? - Mr. Ravitz. 91 00:05:20,675 --> 00:05:22,761 Where's the woman I spoke to last week? 92 00:05:22,886 --> 00:05:25,847 The trial patient with the advanced symptoms. 93 00:05:25,972 --> 00:05:27,349 She dropped out. 94 00:05:27,474 --> 00:05:28,433 She Okay? 95 00:05:28,558 --> 00:05:29,559 Not health related. 96 00:05:29,684 --> 00:05:31,645 She just wants to drop out. 97 00:05:31,770 --> 00:05:32,771 Why? 98 00:05:32,896 --> 00:05:35,231 She didn't say. And I only break into the houses 99 00:05:35,357 --> 00:05:38,193 of very special patients to get to understand them better. 100 00:05:42,697 --> 00:05:44,240 I do good today, boss? 101 00:05:44,366 --> 00:05:48,370 No rigidity, no cogwheeling. So absolutely, I'd call that good. 102 00:05:48,495 --> 00:05:50,038 Great. Thanks. 103 00:05:52,374 --> 00:05:53,625 Your clipboard. 104 00:05:53,750 --> 00:05:54,751 Keep it. 105 00:06:02,175 --> 00:06:04,052 KUTNER: This place actually smells of evil. 106 00:06:04,177 --> 00:06:05,720 TAUB: Where do you work again? 107 00:06:05,845 --> 00:06:08,056 Why would House throw out a book worth hundreds of dollars? 108 00:06:08,181 --> 00:06:09,933 To make you ask that question. 109 00:06:10,058 --> 00:06:11,893 Can you really put a price tag on screwing with people? 110 00:06:12,018 --> 00:06:15,021 Can you get us into Natalie Soellner's locker while we're here? 111 00:06:16,606 --> 00:06:19,150 House always has an agenda. Just screwing with us isn't... 112 00:06:19,275 --> 00:06:22,070 Yeah, he'd never do that. Oh, wait, he already did, last year. 113 00:06:22,195 --> 00:06:23,738 Remember the Secret Santa gift he got himself? 114 00:06:23,863 --> 00:06:26,199 He was making us fight over who could get him the best present. 115 00:06:26,324 --> 00:06:28,326 This time, he's just making us wonder. 116 00:06:28,451 --> 00:06:32,956 No animosity, no ugly competition. I think it's a real present. 117 00:06:33,081 --> 00:06:35,500 If it's real, then House really was freaked. 118 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:38,753 And if it affects him, eventually it'll affect us. 119 00:06:38,878 --> 00:06:39,838 Uh-oh. 120 00:06:40,964 --> 00:06:43,216 Maybe it wasn't those kids who poisoned Natalie. 121 00:06:43,341 --> 00:06:45,051 Maybe it was Natalie herself. 122 00:06:48,763 --> 00:06:50,223 I didn't try to kill myself. 123 00:06:50,348 --> 00:06:52,767 Then why'd you have all those painkillers? 124 00:06:52,892 --> 00:06:54,185 In case I get a headache. 125 00:06:54,894 --> 00:06:57,022 Well, maybe, you took a few too many. 126 00:06:58,189 --> 00:07:00,400 - Do you have any kids? - No. 127 00:07:01,026 --> 00:07:06,239 But high school wasn't all that different when I was your age. 128 00:07:06,364 --> 00:07:09,743 Teenagers can be incredibly mean. I know what you're going through. 129 00:07:09,868 --> 00:07:10,994 (SCOFFS) 130 00:07:11,911 --> 00:07:15,540 I bet you were cool. You're pretty. 131 00:07:15,665 --> 00:07:17,542 You're pretty, too. 132 00:07:17,667 --> 00:07:20,754 I'm fat. I'm a loser. 133 00:07:21,838 --> 00:07:23,298 They all hate me. 134 00:07:24,841 --> 00:07:26,718 You know what they did last year? 135 00:07:27,343 --> 00:07:29,888 They took these photos of me for the yearbook. 136 00:07:30,972 --> 00:07:35,101 But it wasn't. It was for this website making fun of me, 137 00:07:36,019 --> 00:07:37,562 calling me a pig. 138 00:07:37,687 --> 00:07:38,980 Forget about them. 139 00:07:41,941 --> 00:07:43,401 Let's just make you better. 140 00:07:43,526 --> 00:07:44,819 What's the point? 141 00:07:47,030 --> 00:07:50,075 Acetylcysteine could save her liver, but we have to act fast. 142 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:51,785 If there's any chance that she took all those pills... 143 00:07:51,910 --> 00:07:52,952 There's no chance. 144 00:07:54,871 --> 00:07:56,456 Okay- 145 00:07:56,581 --> 00:07:58,917 She was the happiest, sweetest little girl. 146 00:07:59,876 --> 00:08:01,377 And a year ago, she hits puberty, 147 00:08:01,503 --> 00:08:05,757 and it's like this secretive little stranger moved into her room. 148 00:08:05,882 --> 00:08:09,511 I tried to talk to her about what she's going through, but... 149 00:08:12,722 --> 00:08:13,890 Give her the treatment. 150 00:08:14,015 --> 00:08:14,974 Kimberley, you think that she tried to... 151 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:17,185 I don't know what to think. 152 00:08:23,775 --> 00:08:26,820 If it's a subpoena, he's gotten that kind of present before. 153 00:08:26,945 --> 00:08:28,488 It was a book. 154 00:08:28,613 --> 00:08:29,906 That narrows it down. 155 00:08:30,031 --> 00:08:31,699 Just look for someone who knows how to read 156 00:08:31,825 --> 00:08:33,284 or has been to a bookstore. 157 00:08:33,409 --> 00:08:36,496 Most bookstores don't carry Joseph Bell on surgery. 158 00:08:39,791 --> 00:08:41,167 Did it have a note? 159 00:08:41,292 --> 00:08:43,545 "Greg, made me think of you." 160 00:08:44,504 --> 00:08:45,922 Green wrapping paper. 161 00:08:46,798 --> 00:08:48,341 How did you know that? 162 00:08:51,511 --> 00:08:52,804 What is it? 163 00:08:54,931 --> 00:08:56,391 It's nothing. 164 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:58,893 Yes, when something's nothing, 165 00:08:59,018 --> 00:09:01,521 the natural response is to guess the color of the paper it's wrapped in 166 00:09:01,646 --> 00:09:03,773 and then descend into stunned silence. 167 00:09:07,277 --> 00:09:12,115 Irene Adler. Christmas 2001. 168 00:09:12,949 --> 00:09:16,786 Sarcoid symptoms, but she didn't respond to methotrexate. 169 00:09:17,745 --> 00:09:20,790 I've never seen him so obsessed. 170 00:09:21,958 --> 00:09:24,169 He saved her with a last-minute Wegener's diagnosis. 171 00:09:24,294 --> 00:09:27,881 But the hours he put in, I thought it would kill him. 172 00:09:28,798 --> 00:09:33,803 And then, well, he fell for her. 173 00:09:35,138 --> 00:09:38,892 But it was too soon after Stacy and... 174 00:09:39,017 --> 00:09:44,772 It sounds silly, but Irene was the one who got away. 175 00:09:46,274 --> 00:09:47,442 Really? 176 00:09:48,109 --> 00:09:50,820 No, you idiots. House is just screwing with you. 177 00:09:50,945 --> 00:09:52,197 You think there's some woman with a mysterious 178 00:09:52,322 --> 00:09:53,990 green wrapping paper trademark? 179 00:09:54,157 --> 00:09:55,783 Then how did you guess... 180 00:09:55,909 --> 00:09:56,993 I could be wrong. 181 00:09:57,118 --> 00:09:59,204 It's possible a secret admirer 182 00:09:59,329 --> 00:10:02,665 gave House the same book I gave him last Christmas, 183 00:10:03,041 --> 00:10:05,585 and the same paper I wrapped it in, 184 00:10:05,710 --> 00:10:06,961 and the note I wrote. 185 00:10:07,086 --> 00:10:08,254 We gotta go. 186 00:10:11,716 --> 00:10:13,301 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 187 00:10:14,344 --> 00:10:15,678 TAUB: Heartbeat? 188 00:10:15,803 --> 00:10:16,679 One-fifty. 189 00:10:16,804 --> 00:10:20,183 BP 180 over 110. Crackling three-quarters of the way up. 190 00:10:20,350 --> 00:10:21,726 (NATALIE GASPING) 191 00:10:22,477 --> 00:10:24,896 At least this means she didn't try to kill herself. 192 00:10:30,151 --> 00:10:33,404 Scratch the hallucinations, that's from the mushrooms. 193 00:10:33,529 --> 00:10:37,408 Leaves liver failure and now pulmonary edema. 194 00:10:37,784 --> 00:10:41,996 And you standing there beseechingly. 195 00:10:42,121 --> 00:10:43,581 Yes, I was gonna stalk you at home, 196 00:10:43,706 --> 00:10:45,583 but it was a busy week and your office is closer. 197 00:10:45,708 --> 00:10:47,460 Thirteen and Foreman were busy drug-trialing 198 00:10:47,585 --> 00:10:50,129 and we needed an answer on the overdose, so we called her in. 199 00:10:50,296 --> 00:10:52,507 She's just updating us. 200 00:10:52,632 --> 00:10:54,717 - Convenient. - Update's done. 201 00:10:58,388 --> 00:11:01,641 This is a good experience for me as my parents never got divorced. 202 00:11:01,766 --> 00:11:03,893 - Theories? - Glue sniffing. 203 00:11:04,018 --> 00:11:05,520 KUTNER: Effects on the lungs would have been immediate. 204 00:11:05,645 --> 00:11:08,147 House, we all know what's going on here. 205 00:11:09,190 --> 00:11:11,025 Cuddy gave you that present. 206 00:11:11,150 --> 00:11:12,193 No. 207 00:11:12,318 --> 00:11:13,528 HOUSE: Infections? 208 00:11:13,653 --> 00:11:15,530 No fever, no polys in the sputum. 209 00:11:15,655 --> 00:11:16,864 I think... 210 00:11:18,574 --> 00:11:19,617 I think she loves you. 211 00:11:19,742 --> 00:11:21,869 HOUSE: I told you to lay off the present. 212 00:11:22,578 --> 00:11:23,871 And the LSD. 213 00:11:23,997 --> 00:11:27,333 We got distracted by the painkillers, toxins are still the most likely... 214 00:11:27,458 --> 00:11:29,419 Just tell her how you feel. 215 00:11:29,794 --> 00:11:34,132 If you won't, then I will. I'll walk right down there. 216 00:11:34,799 --> 00:11:39,345 Damn it, love like this needs to fly free. 217 00:11:39,595 --> 00:11:40,847 (KUTNER SNICKERS) 218 00:11:44,934 --> 00:11:46,769 You talked to Wilson. 219 00:11:46,894 --> 00:11:49,147 He has very girly handwriting, by the way. 220 00:11:49,272 --> 00:11:51,774 I knew I should have just wrapped a new present. 221 00:11:51,899 --> 00:11:53,818 You said the patient volunteered. Where? 222 00:11:54,402 --> 00:11:55,695 Pleasant Valley. 223 00:11:56,779 --> 00:11:58,948 Soup kitchen in Trenton. 224 00:11:59,073 --> 00:12:01,159 Thirteen and Kutner, go search the home and the school. 225 00:12:01,284 --> 00:12:07,999 Taub, you take the anal swabbing of the fragrant and contagious homeless men. 226 00:12:11,794 --> 00:12:13,546 Why don't you hang out in the video store 227 00:12:13,671 --> 00:12:15,923 and tell everyone Kevin Spacey's Keyser S6ze? 228 00:12:16,924 --> 00:12:19,427 By the way, that ending really made no sense at all. 229 00:12:19,552 --> 00:12:23,264 You had my present for a year and didn't even open it? 230 00:12:23,389 --> 00:12:26,017 I had no way of knowing there was an expensive book inside. 231 00:12:26,142 --> 00:12:29,145 Completely meaningless prank, even for you. 232 00:12:29,270 --> 00:12:33,191 Stealing your ice cream is a completely meaningless, albeit delicious, prank. 233 00:12:33,316 --> 00:12:35,401 Observing my team's reactions to unexplained phenomena 234 00:12:35,526 --> 00:12:37,028 could have been pretty useful. 235 00:12:37,153 --> 00:12:41,991 Of all the ways to mess with people, why give yourself an imaginary present? 236 00:12:42,116 --> 00:12:44,869 Have you checked the prices for firemen strippers recently? 237 00:12:44,994 --> 00:12:46,245 Yes. 238 00:12:46,371 --> 00:12:49,374 The holidays. They're hard for you, I get it. 239 00:12:49,832 --> 00:12:53,503 You see the people around you giving and receiving gifts, 240 00:12:53,628 --> 00:12:56,964 having sustained, meaningful relationships. And since you can't, 241 00:12:57,090 --> 00:12:58,674 something deep in your subconscious 242 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,011 makes you create the appearance of a gift. 243 00:13:02,637 --> 00:13:04,055 Sad. 244 00:13:04,180 --> 00:13:06,724 You really passed your psych rotation? 245 00:13:06,849 --> 00:13:08,559 It's too bad you can't just be nice to people. 246 00:13:08,684 --> 00:13:10,853 You could get a real present that way. 247 00:13:10,978 --> 00:13:13,022 If I wanted gifts, 248 00:13:13,147 --> 00:13:16,067 I would just look deep into my patient's eyes and act like you. 249 00:13:16,609 --> 00:13:20,154 "Oh, I'm so sorry you're dying, Mrs. Moron. 250 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:23,574 "Of course I'll sleep with you. What I lack in skill, I can make up for in..." 251 00:13:23,699 --> 00:13:27,495 You'd just wind up insulting her. Perhaps calling her Mrs. Moron. 252 00:13:27,620 --> 00:13:30,081 Right. 'Cause I'm physically incapable of being polite. 253 00:13:30,206 --> 00:13:35,211 Being kind in a sustained, meaningful way? No. 254 00:13:35,795 --> 00:13:39,257 Oh, I get it. You're trying to get me to prove you wrong, 255 00:13:39,382 --> 00:13:42,510 then I'm gonna be nice to all my patients all through the holiday season 256 00:13:42,635 --> 00:13:46,097 and then Mr. Potter won't steal Tiny Tim's porridge. I'm totally on it. 257 00:13:46,222 --> 00:13:50,268 Yeah, that actually is what I'm trying to do. 258 00:13:50,393 --> 00:13:53,688 And the pathetic part is, it's not going to work. 259 00:13:55,148 --> 00:13:56,274 You're right. 260 00:13:57,984 --> 00:13:59,652 I gotta stop being such a jerk. 261 00:14:03,739 --> 00:14:04,574 Oops 262 00:14:04,699 --> 00:14:06,492 Kind of undercut myself there. 263 00:14:09,662 --> 00:14:11,456 (MAN CHATTERING ON TV) 264 00:14:20,465 --> 00:14:21,883 Janice? 265 00:14:22,008 --> 00:14:24,594 - I'm Remy. I'm... - Yeah, I remember you. 266 00:14:28,681 --> 00:14:30,641 I heard you left the trial. 267 00:14:30,766 --> 00:14:31,809 Yeah. 268 00:14:32,768 --> 00:14:34,937 If there's some way I could help... 269 00:14:35,897 --> 00:14:40,234 it was that doctor. The one that was running the test. 270 00:14:40,359 --> 00:14:41,903 - Dr. Foreman. - Yeah. 271 00:14:42,028 --> 00:14:45,198 He's a great neurologist. He's a great guy. 272 00:14:45,323 --> 00:14:47,033 (SNICKERS) You like him? 273 00:14:47,950 --> 00:14:49,243 Why don't you? 274 00:14:49,368 --> 00:14:53,915 I told him that those injections were making me sick in my stomach, 275 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,627 and he just gave me antacid. 276 00:14:57,752 --> 00:14:59,629 We were warned that nausea's a side effect, 277 00:14:59,754 --> 00:15:02,131 and giving you antacid is all he really could do. 278 00:15:02,256 --> 00:15:06,928 No. He told me, "Get over it." 279 00:15:08,930 --> 00:15:10,640 With or without these drugs, 280 00:15:11,766 --> 00:15:15,061 I don't have a long time. 281 00:15:18,064 --> 00:15:20,858 I'm not gonna spend it being his guinea pig. 282 00:15:25,029 --> 00:15:26,447 TAUB: House. 283 00:15:26,906 --> 00:15:28,491 It's tuberculosis. 284 00:15:29,116 --> 00:15:31,786 You got that from an anal swab? Man, you're good. 285 00:15:31,911 --> 00:15:33,538 There was a more subtle clue. 286 00:15:33,663 --> 00:15:36,832 Homeless guy, uncontrollably hacking up blood. 287 00:15:36,958 --> 00:15:39,835 Cough's lasted two months. He was cachectic. 288 00:15:39,961 --> 00:15:41,963 Unless you could tie him to the patient... 289 00:15:42,088 --> 00:15:44,465 Yes, again, if only there was some subtle clue, 290 00:15:44,590 --> 00:15:48,386 like the fact that he was standing next to her in the soup line for a week. 291 00:15:48,511 --> 00:15:49,428 I hate spunk. 292 00:15:49,554 --> 00:15:51,597 TB can cause liver failure, lung symptoms. 293 00:15:51,722 --> 00:15:52,765 Fits. 294 00:15:53,516 --> 00:15:55,184 Start her on the standard regimen. 295 00:15:55,351 --> 00:15:57,228 You don't have clinic duty today. 296 00:15:58,104 --> 00:15:59,772 Who says it's a duty? 297 00:16:02,024 --> 00:16:03,609 Hi. I'm Greg. 298 00:16:03,734 --> 00:16:05,111 Hi. I'm Whitney. 299 00:16:05,236 --> 00:16:07,613 Hi, Whitney, how can I help you? 300 00:16:07,738 --> 00:16:10,199 I have a terrible headache. 301 00:16:10,324 --> 00:16:12,577 Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. 302 00:16:12,702 --> 00:16:16,163 We'll get you fixed up. ls there anything else you need? 303 00:16:16,289 --> 00:16:18,583 Bottled water? Coffee? Mint tea? 304 00:16:18,708 --> 00:16:19,959 No, but that's so nice. 305 00:16:20,084 --> 00:16:22,503 (CHUCKLES) Usually, the clinic doctors are kind of rushed. 306 00:16:23,212 --> 00:16:26,048 If you can't be nice, why be a doctor? 307 00:16:27,049 --> 00:16:29,260 So, where do you feel the pain? 308 00:16:29,385 --> 00:16:31,387 - In the back of my head, here. - Uh-huh. 309 00:16:31,512 --> 00:16:35,016 It's Beccaria's sign. It'll be gone by your third trimester. 310 00:16:35,558 --> 00:16:36,934 Oh, I'm not in school. 311 00:16:39,020 --> 00:16:40,605 Neither is your fetus. 312 00:16:42,607 --> 00:16:43,899 Oh, God. 313 00:16:44,025 --> 00:16:45,192 You didn't know you were pregnant? 314 00:16:45,318 --> 00:16:47,695 How do... You know that just from the headache? 315 00:16:49,697 --> 00:16:50,906 How do I know? 316 00:16:51,907 --> 00:16:55,453 I missed my period, I got fat and threw up. 317 00:16:55,578 --> 00:16:57,288 Oh, no, wait, that's how you know. 318 00:16:57,413 --> 00:16:58,414 What? 319 00:16:58,539 --> 00:17:01,417 I know because of the tight shirt stretched over the swollen boobs, 320 00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:03,711 the salt craving you imported into the clinic, 321 00:17:03,836 --> 00:17:05,963 the motion sickness patch that doesn't do anything 322 00:17:06,088 --> 00:17:08,132 for the kind of sickness that you feel in the morning. 323 00:17:08,257 --> 00:17:11,218 I'm a virgin. So is my fiancé. 324 00:17:12,303 --> 00:17:13,346 I believe him. 325 00:17:13,638 --> 00:17:15,514 Aren't there other ways I could get pregnant? 326 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,726 Like sitting on a toilet seat? 327 00:17:18,851 --> 00:17:22,563 Absolutely. There would need to be a guy sitting between you and the toilet seat, 328 00:17:22,688 --> 00:17:24,023 but, yes, absolutely. 329 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:27,443 And I was doing so well. 330 00:17:33,449 --> 00:17:34,283 Natalie? 331 00:17:34,408 --> 00:17:35,660 (CONVULSING) 332 00:17:35,910 --> 00:17:37,411 Oh, God. Natalie. 333 00:17:37,536 --> 00:17:38,746 CUDDY: She's having a seizure. 334 00:17:38,871 --> 00:17:39,997 Put her on her side. Nurse! 335 00:17:40,122 --> 00:17:41,832 Is this from the TB? 336 00:17:41,957 --> 00:17:44,335 Not with a supple neck. I don't know what this is. 337 00:17:44,460 --> 00:17:45,711 Four milligrams lorazepam. 338 00:17:50,508 --> 00:17:56,514 Liver, lungs, and now brain, which has mysteriously reappeared. 339 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,142 Speaking of mysteriously reappeared... 340 00:18:00,267 --> 00:18:04,438 Her ALT is 20 times normal, transaminasas and PTs, way up. 341 00:18:04,563 --> 00:18:07,608 She's going to lose her liver. We gotta get her on the transplant list. 342 00:18:07,733 --> 00:18:10,486 You keep showing up. You also keep leaving. 343 00:18:10,611 --> 00:18:14,740 It's possible that you have the hots for me, but really, really hate this kid. 344 00:18:14,865 --> 00:18:17,827 It's also remotely possible I have that reversed. 345 00:18:17,952 --> 00:18:20,579 She's a nice kid, I want to make sure she's okay. 346 00:18:20,705 --> 00:18:21,622 Hepatic fibrosis. 347 00:18:21,747 --> 00:18:23,624 Normal complement level, normal-sized liver. 348 00:18:23,749 --> 00:18:25,960 She remind you of you? 349 00:18:27,128 --> 00:18:28,629 No, you weren't a loser in high school. 350 00:18:28,754 --> 00:18:31,716 You had every Tom, Dick and Hershel wet dreaming about you. 351 00:18:31,841 --> 00:18:34,760 But she could be making you think of another helpless, 352 00:18:34,885 --> 00:18:36,971 chubby little girl that you recently met. 353 00:18:37,096 --> 00:18:40,766 You're not really making this about the baby I tried to adopt. 354 00:18:40,891 --> 00:18:42,685 HOUSE: It's been a few weeks. 355 00:18:42,810 --> 00:18:45,312 Just enough time to get over hurt feelings. 356 00:18:45,438 --> 00:18:47,189 Natalie's 16. 357 00:18:47,314 --> 00:18:50,776 I think you're confusing being maternal with being human. 358 00:18:51,819 --> 00:18:53,487 If we hadn't ruled out the mushrooms... 359 00:18:53,612 --> 00:18:55,364 Maybe we shouldn't have. 360 00:18:55,489 --> 00:18:57,283 Forget toxic, think allergic. 361 00:18:57,408 --> 00:19:01,120 Severe mold allergy could cause liver failure, respiratory arrest, 362 00:19:01,245 --> 00:19:02,455 and encephalopathy. 363 00:19:02,580 --> 00:19:04,749 She ate the shrooms days ago. There's no way she'd still be sick. 364 00:19:04,874 --> 00:19:07,585 Unless it also gave her a fungal infection. 365 00:19:07,710 --> 00:19:09,920 Give her a prick test and antifungals. 366 00:19:17,178 --> 00:19:21,265 Hey. Thank you for the gift. I really appreciate it. 367 00:19:22,183 --> 00:19:23,976 I spoke to Janice. 368 00:19:24,101 --> 00:19:25,186 She Okay? 369 00:19:25,311 --> 00:19:26,353 Yeah. 370 00:19:28,606 --> 00:19:32,651 Her nausea, she said you told her, like, "Get over it"? 371 00:19:32,777 --> 00:19:33,778 And? 372 00:19:35,154 --> 00:19:38,365 Nausea isn't something you can overcome with sheer willpower. 373 00:19:39,283 --> 00:19:42,828 Which is why I didn't prescribe willpower, I prescribed antacids. 374 00:19:42,953 --> 00:19:45,831 She can't handle that, she'd have to leave the trial anyway. 375 00:19:45,956 --> 00:19:49,084 Just call her, say you're sorry, she'll come back. 376 00:19:49,835 --> 00:19:50,878 No. 377 00:19:51,003 --> 00:19:52,838 God, you're acting like House now. 378 00:19:52,963 --> 00:19:54,882 No, I'm not acting like House, 379 00:19:55,007 --> 00:19:56,842 which is exactly why I don't need to apologize. 380 00:19:56,967 --> 00:19:58,511 I'm not being cruel, I'm not being manipulative. 381 00:19:58,636 --> 00:20:01,222 You said the same thing to me when I told you I was having a hard time. 382 00:20:01,347 --> 00:20:02,848 And it worked. 383 00:20:02,973 --> 00:20:05,559 She's a 40-year-old woman who's falling apart, 384 00:20:05,684 --> 00:20:08,604 physically and emotionally. She's dying. 385 00:20:09,355 --> 00:20:13,901 Look, I know seeing the Ghost of your Christmas Future is tough, 386 00:20:14,026 --> 00:20:16,862 but the only way I can help her is to make sure she follows her regimen, 387 00:20:16,987 --> 00:20:18,572 not by becoming her life coach. 388 00:20:19,865 --> 00:20:23,327 You're not acting like House. You are like him. 389 00:20:29,124 --> 00:20:30,626 Dr. House? 390 00:20:31,126 --> 00:20:33,128 This is my fiancé, Geoff. 391 00:20:34,588 --> 00:20:38,008 She says you told her you can get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat. 392 00:20:40,219 --> 00:20:43,681 I said those words, but with a particular inflection. 393 00:20:44,849 --> 00:20:45,933 I knew it wasn't true. 394 00:20:46,058 --> 00:20:48,394 Is there any other way? Isn't it possible? 395 00:20:49,311 --> 00:20:51,647 There was a reported case of a Civil War soldier. 396 00:20:51,772 --> 00:20:53,274 He was shot in the testicles, 397 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,945 and the musket ball carried the non-musket ball 398 00:20:58,070 --> 00:21:01,031 into the uterus of a woman working in a neighboring field. 399 00:21:01,156 --> 00:21:03,742 Nine months later, a miracle child was born. 400 00:21:05,035 --> 00:21:06,954 Also, maybe she cheated on you. 401 00:21:07,496 --> 00:21:09,039 We made a promise. 402 00:21:09,164 --> 00:21:11,000 We do other stuff in bed. 403 00:21:11,125 --> 00:21:14,169 Couldn't some of his sperm have made it up there somehow? 404 00:21:14,295 --> 00:21:17,548 More likely it came from the guy whose penis made it up there somehow, 405 00:21:17,673 --> 00:21:20,259 but sure, anything's possible. 406 00:21:20,426 --> 00:21:21,927 I want a paternity test. 407 00:21:22,052 --> 00:21:24,680 Tell him that amnios are dangerous this early on in the pregnancy. 408 00:21:24,805 --> 00:21:27,099 - Are they? - Who cares? He doesn't know. 409 00:21:28,225 --> 00:21:30,686 We'll do the paternity test. 410 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,069 No reaction. 411 00:21:39,194 --> 00:21:40,279 That's bad? 412 00:21:40,404 --> 00:21:42,448 If you had a mold allergy, it would explain your symptoms. 413 00:21:42,573 --> 00:21:44,533 KUTNER: We'll find out what's wrong, don't worry. 414 00:21:44,658 --> 00:21:47,703 And I know some things are hard to talk about with your parents around, 415 00:21:47,828 --> 00:21:49,622 but kids can be really mean. 416 00:21:49,747 --> 00:21:51,498 There are people you can talk to, programs... 417 00:21:51,624 --> 00:21:52,958 I'll be okay. 418 00:21:54,835 --> 00:21:57,338 You're in good spirits. You feeling better? 419 00:21:57,463 --> 00:22:01,342 No. I was just doing my homework. 420 00:22:01,467 --> 00:22:03,761 I'm such a dork, I guess that cheers me up. 421 00:22:03,886 --> 00:22:04,845 Parents brought it? 422 00:22:04,970 --> 00:22:06,472 No, Simon did. 423 00:22:06,889 --> 00:22:08,724 The jockey kid in your class? 424 00:22:08,849 --> 00:22:10,893 Yeah. He just left. 425 00:22:13,896 --> 00:22:14,730 (INTERCOM BEEPS) 426 00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:16,315 Security. 427 00:22:16,732 --> 00:22:18,275 I was just bringing her homework. 428 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,652 You helped bully this little girl 429 00:22:19,777 --> 00:22:22,029 and completely refused to accept responsibility. 430 00:22:22,154 --> 00:22:24,406 No way you came here out of compassion. That only leaves guilt. 431 00:22:24,531 --> 00:22:25,783 - What did you do to her? - Nothing. 432 00:22:25,908 --> 00:22:27,743 Stop lying or I'll take the drugs I found in your locker 433 00:22:27,868 --> 00:22:29,954 down to the cops, you slimy little jerk. 434 00:22:33,123 --> 00:22:35,084 - This kid didn't do anything to you. - This isn't about me. 435 00:22:35,209 --> 00:22:36,293 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, 436 00:22:36,418 --> 00:22:38,420 you were bullied yourself when you were in school. 437 00:22:38,545 --> 00:22:40,464 - Take it easy. - I wasn't bullied. 438 00:22:40,589 --> 00:22:43,050 Right. The Indian foster kid whose parents were shot in front of him. 439 00:22:43,175 --> 00:22:45,135 You were clearly Homecoming King. 440 00:22:48,931 --> 00:22:50,808 Let's try this again. Just tell me... 441 00:22:50,933 --> 00:22:52,768 Honestly, you don't understand. 442 00:22:54,395 --> 00:22:55,396 (SIGHS) 443 00:22:56,522 --> 00:22:58,065 We used to be friends. 444 00:22:58,190 --> 00:23:01,944 And I'd be friends with her now if people wouldn't make fun of me. 445 00:23:02,861 --> 00:23:04,863 There's nothing you could tell us that'll help? 446 00:23:05,906 --> 00:23:08,867 Did she mention she used to drink a lot? 447 00:23:08,993 --> 00:23:10,619 No. How do you know that? 448 00:23:11,787 --> 00:23:13,998 Look, don't tell anyone, all right? 449 00:23:14,123 --> 00:23:16,583 I have my brother's ID and I kind of supply people. 450 00:23:16,709 --> 00:23:19,795 I used to get her a few bottles of vodka each week. 451 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,088 Why'd you stop? 452 00:23:21,213 --> 00:23:22,214 She got her own ID. 453 00:23:22,339 --> 00:23:23,966 Said it was cheaper buying it herself. 454 00:23:24,842 --> 00:23:26,135 You can go. 455 00:23:28,804 --> 00:23:33,100 I think we got our diagnosis. Our little girl's a drunk. 456 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:41,984 I don't drink. I did back then, but... 457 00:23:42,109 --> 00:23:43,944 You could die. 458 00:23:44,069 --> 00:23:47,614 We can't get you on the transplant list until we know why your liver is failing. 459 00:23:47,740 --> 00:23:50,451 Alcohol abuse would explain that. 460 00:23:51,076 --> 00:23:52,661 The seizures could be from withdrawal. 461 00:23:52,786 --> 00:23:55,289 I haven't drunk in six months. 462 00:23:55,414 --> 00:23:57,583 I didn't even drink that much back then. 463 00:23:57,708 --> 00:23:59,585 A couple of vodka bottles a week? 464 00:24:00,252 --> 00:24:02,129 I didn't open half of them. 465 00:24:03,255 --> 00:24:08,385 I just bought them because Simon was selling them. 466 00:24:08,635 --> 00:24:10,554 We used to be friends, and that's, like, the only way 467 00:24:10,679 --> 00:24:12,264 I could get him to even talk to me. 468 00:24:12,389 --> 00:24:16,101 Then why did you stop buying from him? He said you got your own ID. 469 00:24:16,935 --> 00:24:18,270 I don't know. 470 00:24:18,395 --> 00:24:19,772 See, that's not a good answer. 471 00:24:21,356 --> 00:24:23,650 Remember when you asked me if I had any kids? 472 00:24:24,318 --> 00:24:26,570 I don't. I don't know, maybe it has nothing to do with it, 473 00:24:26,695 --> 00:24:31,116 but I was good at school, good at work, lousy at life. 474 00:24:31,241 --> 00:24:33,535 I screwed up every relationship I ever had. 475 00:24:33,660 --> 00:24:36,205 I thought, why would I want to bring a child into this? 476 00:24:37,456 --> 00:24:40,250 But then I got older and... 477 00:24:44,338 --> 00:24:49,384 How you feel now will pass. Don't let it screw up your whole life. 478 00:24:51,220 --> 00:24:52,846 It's already screwed up. 479 00:24:55,724 --> 00:25:00,687 My asthma. They said they'd fix it, but it didn't make any difference at all. 480 00:25:01,647 --> 00:25:05,818 Well, sometimes doctors make mistakes, Anna, 481 00:25:05,943 --> 00:25:08,403 and then we have to try twice as hard to fix them. 482 00:25:08,529 --> 00:25:09,655 You using your inhaler? 483 00:25:09,780 --> 00:25:11,657 All the time. Go through one a week. 484 00:25:12,616 --> 00:25:14,743 You sure you're using it right? 485 00:25:14,868 --> 00:25:16,954 Do I look like an idiot? 486 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:18,122 No. 487 00:25:19,957 --> 00:25:22,126 Why don't you show me how your inhaler works? 488 00:25:31,593 --> 00:25:32,803 Jerk. 489 00:25:36,348 --> 00:25:37,724 What was that all about? 490 00:25:37,850 --> 00:25:39,768 Jamaican chicken recipes. 491 00:25:39,893 --> 00:25:40,811 The parents said no to the benzos. 492 00:25:40,936 --> 00:25:43,897 But I still think Natalie's not being honest with me. 493 00:25:44,022 --> 00:25:46,316 So she's willing to die to cover up some boozing? 494 00:25:46,441 --> 00:25:47,860 She's very depressed. 495 00:25:47,985 --> 00:25:51,280 She feels like she deserves what the other kids are dishing out on her. 496 00:25:51,405 --> 00:25:52,781 I think she either wants to die 497 00:25:52,906 --> 00:25:55,701 or she wants the attention that dying gives her. 498 00:25:55,826 --> 00:25:59,788 I have no idea why you care so much. Tell Kutner to start her on benzos. 499 00:25:59,913 --> 00:26:00,747 House, the parents just... 500 00:26:00,873 --> 00:26:02,624 Uh-uh. Not the alcoholism, 501 00:26:02,749 --> 00:26:05,752 the seizures, totally different. Don't need their approval for that. 502 00:26:12,092 --> 00:26:14,052 You sure you want to know? 503 00:26:14,178 --> 00:26:16,388 If it makes it any easier, I'm going to tell you anyway. 504 00:26:16,513 --> 00:26:17,764 We want to know. 505 00:26:17,890 --> 00:26:19,099 (EXHALING) 506 00:26:24,730 --> 00:26:25,856 What does it say? 507 00:26:35,073 --> 00:26:36,366 Don't leave. 508 00:26:47,711 --> 00:26:49,630 You go home last night? 509 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:53,008 I meant to, but started reading this file, just couldn't put it down. 510 00:26:53,133 --> 00:26:54,718 Let me ask you. 511 00:26:54,843 --> 00:26:56,595 That patient who dropped out, the one I told you about? 512 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:57,763 Yeah. 513 00:26:57,888 --> 00:26:59,723 Do you think I should pursue it more? 514 00:26:59,848 --> 00:27:03,769 No. Patients drop out, that's why we start with hundreds. 515 00:27:03,894 --> 00:27:04,770 I just thought, 516 00:27:04,895 --> 00:27:06,396 if there's an easy way to make the people who drop off 517 00:27:06,521 --> 00:27:07,773 come back, then why not? 518 00:27:07,898 --> 00:27:09,900 - They're not people. - Really? 519 00:27:10,025 --> 00:27:13,028 I thought the zombie trials were all completed during Phase Two. 520 00:27:13,153 --> 00:27:15,989 You can't see the patients as people. You can't even see them as patients. 521 00:27:16,114 --> 00:27:17,115 They're numbers. 522 00:27:17,241 --> 00:27:18,325 Look. 523 00:27:18,909 --> 00:27:21,411 A friend of mine has this disease. 524 00:27:21,536 --> 00:27:24,998 I don't want to know. There's a reason this is double-blind. 525 00:27:25,123 --> 00:27:26,917 Any personal stake we have skews the study. 526 00:27:27,042 --> 00:27:30,128 Science is not about human relationships, it's about results. 527 00:27:30,254 --> 00:27:32,339 But you know that. You work for House. 528 00:27:32,464 --> 00:27:34,675 Why do you think I brought you on as my partner? 529 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,011 (MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY) Dr. Taub! 530 00:27:38,136 --> 00:27:39,805 She was talking to me and then she just passed out. 531 00:27:39,930 --> 00:27:41,139 Her heart's slowing down. 532 00:27:41,265 --> 00:27:42,307 Can you fix it? 533 00:27:42,683 --> 00:27:44,643 - Can you fix it? - I'm trying. 534 00:27:44,768 --> 00:27:46,561 Push one amp atropine. 535 00:27:53,694 --> 00:27:55,070 (DOOR OPENS) 536 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,700 We've been waiting here for six hours. Am I the father or not? 537 00:28:03,245 --> 00:28:07,791 No, but she also didn't cheat on you. 538 00:28:13,839 --> 00:28:16,049 Normally, sperm meets egg, 539 00:28:16,174 --> 00:28:19,886 DNA meets DNA, goes back to her place, cells divide. 540 00:28:20,012 --> 00:28:22,806 Nine months later, joy is bundled. 541 00:28:22,931 --> 00:28:24,308 That's normally. 542 00:28:25,017 --> 00:28:29,730 Abnormally, an egg could have two naturally occurring gene mutations 543 00:28:29,855 --> 00:28:31,773 that don't naturally occur together. 544 00:28:33,984 --> 00:28:37,779 Spontaneous calcium spike could prep the egg for fertilization without sperm. 545 00:28:37,904 --> 00:28:40,532 And a division mistake could let the egg split up 546 00:28:40,657 --> 00:28:42,826 without ever needing male DNA at all. 547 00:28:43,493 --> 00:28:46,955 Parthenogenesis. A baby without a daddy. 548 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,460 In humans, it's only ever been theorized, and it was never proved. 549 00:28:52,419 --> 00:28:53,712 Until now. 550 00:28:56,131 --> 00:29:01,386 Mommy, baby. Your daughter has only maternal DNA. 551 00:29:01,511 --> 00:29:07,392 I personally checked this five times. In seven months, you will have 552 00:29:09,936 --> 00:29:11,438 a virgin birth. 553 00:29:13,523 --> 00:29:14,816 Merry Christmas. 554 00:29:26,912 --> 00:29:29,790 I've got to tell you about this clinic patient. 555 00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:32,793 Natalie's liver's continuing to fail. And now bradycardia. 556 00:29:32,918 --> 00:29:34,669 Atropine isn't keeping the heart rate up, 557 00:29:34,795 --> 00:29:36,671 we're going to have to put her on a pacemaker. 558 00:29:36,797 --> 00:29:40,884 Alcohol withdrawal would cause her heart to race, not crawl. 559 00:29:41,009 --> 00:29:42,511 There's nothing structurally wrong with her heart. 560 00:29:42,636 --> 00:29:45,222 EKG, echo, electrolyte panel are all normal. 561 00:29:45,347 --> 00:29:46,890 Multiple endocrine syndrome? 562 00:29:47,015 --> 00:29:49,142 Free T4's normal. Hypothalamic brain tumor? 563 00:29:49,267 --> 00:29:51,144 Didn't come up on the CT scan. 564 00:29:52,020 --> 00:29:56,274 It's hitting all her organs. Could be the blood. What's her Alk-Phos? 565 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,571 Three hundred. 566 00:30:03,573 --> 00:30:04,950 It can't be leukemia. 567 00:30:10,038 --> 00:30:12,040 CUDDY: High Alk-Phos could also be from liver failure. 568 00:30:12,165 --> 00:30:15,877 She's a teenager, means bone growth and destruction could throw it off. 569 00:30:16,002 --> 00:30:17,963 Maybe. But it's higher than you'd expect. 570 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,674 Start her on chemo. 571 00:30:21,091 --> 00:30:23,301 We'll do a bone marrow biopsy to confirm. 572 00:30:23,427 --> 00:30:25,429 Why are you ordering tests instead of treatment? 573 00:30:25,554 --> 00:30:28,849 Her heart and liver are about to give up. Do whatever you need to. 574 00:30:30,350 --> 00:30:32,352 Why are you so attached to this girl? 575 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:36,898 It's your call. 576 00:30:39,276 --> 00:30:41,528 He doesn't want us to treat her. 577 00:30:41,653 --> 00:30:44,573 If it's leukemia, even if we kill every cancer cell, 578 00:30:44,698 --> 00:30:45,782 her heart and liver are too far gone. 579 00:30:45,907 --> 00:30:46,908 A double transplant. 580 00:30:47,033 --> 00:30:50,912 With brain involvement? The committee won't even open the file. 581 00:30:51,621 --> 00:30:53,290 There's no reason to put a dying girl 582 00:30:53,415 --> 00:30:55,792 through a painful treatment if it can't save her. 583 00:30:59,421 --> 00:31:00,839 He's being kind. 584 00:31:02,716 --> 00:31:03,884 I'll arrange a biopsy. 585 00:31:08,346 --> 00:31:10,515 (PEOPLE CHATTERING ON TV) 586 00:31:13,268 --> 00:31:14,644 FOREMAN: Mrs. Burke? 587 00:31:16,938 --> 00:31:19,941 We're conducting another trial in tandem with yours. 588 00:31:20,066 --> 00:31:21,902 Same drug, lower dose. 589 00:31:22,903 --> 00:31:24,988 The nausea would be less. 590 00:31:26,114 --> 00:31:29,242 I did some checking, I can switch you. 591 00:31:31,620 --> 00:31:33,622 Here's the forms if you want back in. 592 00:31:41,421 --> 00:31:43,131 What if we're wrong? 593 00:31:43,256 --> 00:31:45,884 Maybe we shouldn't have overlooked autoimmunes. 594 00:31:46,009 --> 00:31:47,010 High sad rate. 595 00:31:47,135 --> 00:31:48,345 We went over this. 596 00:31:49,012 --> 00:31:50,805 Normal complement level. 597 00:31:50,931 --> 00:31:52,516 So it isn't hepatic fibrosis, 598 00:31:52,641 --> 00:31:57,062 it could still be microangiopathic vasculitis. 599 00:31:57,979 --> 00:32:00,482 With high dose steroids, we might be able to reverse... 600 00:32:00,607 --> 00:32:04,653 You run a hospital that treats thousands of patients every day. 601 00:32:04,778 --> 00:32:07,030 Some of them die. Every day. 602 00:32:07,155 --> 00:32:10,116 If you're gonna get this worked up over every one of them... 603 00:32:10,575 --> 00:32:11,868 Yes. 604 00:32:16,623 --> 00:32:18,250 BEE! 605 00:32:18,375 --> 00:32:20,961 - What is it? - Thank you from a patient. 606 00:32:21,086 --> 00:32:22,379 F0ryou? 607 00:32:22,504 --> 00:32:23,880 I saved her marriage 608 00:32:24,005 --> 00:32:27,342 by showing that her pregnancy was a result of parthenogenesis. 609 00:32:27,551 --> 00:32:30,595 - Human parthenogenesis? You proved... - Yep. 610 00:32:31,012 --> 00:32:33,974 It's unbelievable. But I personally checked it five times. 611 00:32:34,099 --> 00:32:35,642 How did you check it five times? 612 00:32:35,767 --> 00:32:37,310 The cycler's broken. You would have had to send it out. 613 00:32:37,435 --> 00:32:39,104 - It would have taken... - Oh, yeah. 614 00:32:39,771 --> 00:32:42,065 That does sound impossible now that I think of it. 615 00:32:42,190 --> 00:32:45,694 I guess the better explanation is that the paternity test showed she cheated, 616 00:32:45,819 --> 00:32:47,862 so I faked the whole parthenogenesis thingy. 617 00:32:47,988 --> 00:32:49,864 CUDDY: What? Why? 618 00:32:51,783 --> 00:32:53,034 I win. 619 00:32:55,453 --> 00:32:59,499 You faked a scientific miracle just to win a bet with Wilson? 620 00:32:59,624 --> 00:33:00,834 More an argument. 621 00:33:00,959 --> 00:33:03,295 I realize it would have been simpler to just fake the paternity test, 622 00:33:03,420 --> 00:33:05,797 but, hey, Christmas spirit and all that. 623 00:33:07,090 --> 00:33:09,718 I think you're confusing "nice" and "evil" again. 624 00:33:09,843 --> 00:33:13,221 Letting the woman deceive her husband by inventing a virgin birth, 625 00:33:13,346 --> 00:33:14,514 just so you can... 626 00:33:14,639 --> 00:33:16,182 And it obviously would have been more fitting 627 00:33:16,308 --> 00:33:19,394 if the baby had been born on Christmas, not just invented then. 628 00:33:20,312 --> 00:33:22,063 It's not leukemia. 629 00:33:23,273 --> 00:33:25,984 Seizures, liver failure. 630 00:33:27,777 --> 00:33:29,571 It's eclampsia. 631 00:33:31,823 --> 00:33:34,826 Which means we don't have one dead patient, 632 00:33:36,786 --> 00:33:38,496 we have two. 633 00:33:49,758 --> 00:33:52,344 You have a disease called eclampsia. 634 00:33:52,469 --> 00:33:57,307 It causes liver failure, pulmonary edema and seizures. 635 00:33:57,432 --> 00:33:59,517 It's also associated with cardio myopathy. 636 00:33:59,643 --> 00:34:03,647 That's a pregnancy disease. You tested her when she came in. 637 00:34:05,023 --> 00:34:07,776 You can get eclampsia up to a month after giving birth. 638 00:34:07,901 --> 00:34:10,862 That's ridiculous. How could she hide a pregnancy? 639 00:34:10,987 --> 00:34:14,949 Loose clothes. She's heavy to begin with, it was probably premature. 640 00:34:15,075 --> 00:34:18,912 If it was three weeks ago, they could have missed it on a physical exam. 641 00:34:19,037 --> 00:34:21,081 The baby's why you quit drinking, isn't it? 642 00:34:22,707 --> 00:34:24,876 Why you asked me if I had kids. 643 00:34:26,378 --> 00:34:27,837 Why you feel guilty. 644 00:34:32,759 --> 00:34:34,052 I'm sorry. 645 00:34:34,427 --> 00:34:35,428 Oh... 646 00:34:35,970 --> 00:34:38,890 - Who did this to you? - Simon. 647 00:34:40,308 --> 00:34:41,768 It wasn't bad. 648 00:34:42,352 --> 00:34:43,895 We were, like, boyfriend-girlfriend for a while, 649 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:45,980 we just didn't tell anyone. 650 00:34:47,774 --> 00:34:49,693 He doesn't even know about... 651 00:34:52,153 --> 00:34:53,905 What happened to the baby? 652 00:34:54,030 --> 00:34:55,699 I was going to give her away. 653 00:34:57,867 --> 00:35:00,161 If they found out at school... 654 00:35:01,204 --> 00:35:03,915 I was at the soup kitchen, and she started coming. 655 00:35:04,958 --> 00:35:07,001 There was this empty house down the street, but... 656 00:35:07,585 --> 00:35:09,462 And she wasn't breathing. 657 00:35:12,048 --> 00:35:16,511 I tried so hard, but I couldn't do anything. I'm so sorry. 658 00:35:18,012 --> 00:35:19,180 (SNIFFLING) 659 00:35:19,305 --> 00:35:23,059 If I had her in a hospital, maybe she'd be alive. 660 00:35:24,269 --> 00:35:25,895 Can you cure this? 661 00:35:26,855 --> 00:35:29,899 The damage to the heart and liver are permanent. 662 00:35:31,276 --> 00:35:32,944 I'm gonna die? 663 00:35:40,493 --> 00:35:41,911 I'm sorry. 664 00:35:46,291 --> 00:35:48,001 I didn't even bury her. 665 00:35:49,919 --> 00:35:52,046 I just put my coat over her. 666 00:36:50,522 --> 00:36:52,482 MAN: Get out of my house. 667 00:36:54,025 --> 00:36:55,235 I'm a doctor. 668 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:56,569 I don't care who you are. 669 00:36:56,694 --> 00:37:00,156 Did you find the body of a baby? 670 00:37:00,281 --> 00:37:01,366 I said get out. 671 00:37:04,369 --> 00:37:05,745 WOMAN: Michael? 672 00:37:07,413 --> 00:37:08,706 Who are you? 673 00:37:13,878 --> 00:37:15,380 That's not your baby. 674 00:37:16,631 --> 00:37:19,676 You're tiny. There's no way you gave birth three weeks ago. 675 00:37:19,801 --> 00:37:21,803 She's my sister's. 676 00:37:21,928 --> 00:37:25,181 That baby is sick. She needs clean water. She needs real heat. 677 00:37:25,306 --> 00:37:28,893 She was probably born with a partially blocked airway 678 00:37:29,018 --> 00:37:31,646 and might even have brain damage. 679 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,440 You can't take care of her in a place like this. 680 00:37:34,566 --> 00:37:35,692 MAN: Shut up. 681 00:37:37,652 --> 00:37:38,820 I took care of her. 682 00:37:38,945 --> 00:37:39,779 I know. 683 00:37:41,322 --> 00:37:42,699 You found her. 684 00:37:43,867 --> 00:37:45,326 You saved her life. 685 00:37:50,707 --> 00:37:52,625 Now you have to let her go. 686 00:37:54,168 --> 00:37:55,378 (GURGLING) 687 00:38:10,226 --> 00:38:11,853 (DOOR OPENS) 688 00:38:26,242 --> 00:38:27,827 Who's that? 689 00:38:27,952 --> 00:38:30,747 It's your daughter. She was alive. 690 00:38:31,748 --> 00:38:33,750 People found her and took care of her. 691 00:38:42,884 --> 00:38:44,719 (GURGLES) 692 00:38:54,020 --> 00:38:55,355 She's beautiful. 693 00:39:02,820 --> 00:39:04,155 It's okay. 694 00:39:14,958 --> 00:39:16,459 (INAUDIBLE) 695 00:39:35,144 --> 00:39:36,396 Kutner. 696 00:39:37,397 --> 00:39:38,690 No transplant? 697 00:39:38,815 --> 00:39:40,900 We appealed. Too sick. 698 00:39:41,484 --> 00:39:42,735 How much time does she have left? 699 00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:44,278 A couple days at most. 700 00:39:44,404 --> 00:39:45,780 What about the baby? 701 00:39:45,905 --> 00:39:47,824 Seems healthy, but it's too early to tell. 702 00:39:47,949 --> 00:39:51,202 She's in the hospital for observation for a few days. But after that... 703 00:39:51,327 --> 00:39:53,329 Best case, winds up with her teenage father, 704 00:39:53,454 --> 00:39:56,624 who just got voted captain of the varsity bullying team. 705 00:39:56,749 --> 00:39:57,792 He's just a kid. 706 00:40:00,211 --> 00:40:02,505 - You all right? - I gotta go. 707 00:40:23,401 --> 00:40:25,445 - Jonathan? - Yeah? 708 00:40:27,030 --> 00:40:28,573 It's Lawrence Kutner. 709 00:40:30,491 --> 00:40:31,993 Why are you here? 710 00:40:32,452 --> 00:40:35,329 I wanted to apologize for all the horrible stuff 711 00:40:35,455 --> 00:40:37,206 I did to you in high school. 712 00:40:38,166 --> 00:40:39,417 I'm sorry. 713 00:41:03,191 --> 00:41:05,109 HOUSE: What's going to happen to her? 714 00:41:05,234 --> 00:41:07,528 I spoke to both sets of grandparents. 715 00:41:08,905 --> 00:41:11,783 It's too painful. They're putting her up for adoption. 716 00:41:15,369 --> 00:41:16,913 What are you going to do? 717 00:41:19,499 --> 00:41:21,209 I already spoke to a lawyer. 718 00:41:23,836 --> 00:41:27,840 I become a foster parent and then I adopt. 719 00:41:31,010 --> 00:41:32,011 (BABY CRIES) 720 00:41:40,061 --> 00:41:42,021 Merry Christmas, Cuddy. 721 00:41:42,146 --> 00:41:43,231 Hey. 722 00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:11,092 Where is everybody? 723 00:42:11,592 --> 00:42:12,802 Down at the party. 724 00:42:14,470 --> 00:42:16,681 I heard Janice is back on the trial. 725 00:42:17,849 --> 00:42:19,308 My Christmas gift to you. 726 00:42:21,894 --> 00:42:24,814 I was wrong. You're not House. 727 00:42:26,649 --> 00:42:29,068 Yeah. Well, that's my Christmas gift to myself. 728 00:42:37,285 --> 00:42:38,786 We should go to the party. 729 00:42:41,289 --> 00:42:42,748 We should.