1 00:00:12,701 --> 00:00:14,661 Am I going to have to give a speech? 2 00:00:15,287 --> 00:00:16,330 You're the publisher, can't you do it? 3 00:00:16,455 --> 00:00:18,123 I can warm them up, 4 00:00:18,248 --> 00:00:20,792 but you're gonna have to get over this fear of public speaking 5 00:00:20,917 --> 00:00:23,253 before the book tour. 6 00:00:23,670 --> 00:00:27,299 Everybody! Can I have your attention? Thank you. 7 00:00:27,424 --> 00:00:29,635 Tim has a few words to say. 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,095 There you go, Tim. They're warmed up. 9 00:00:32,220 --> 00:00:33,597 (PEOPLE CHUCKLE) 10 00:00:34,056 --> 00:00:35,390 (SIGHS) Well. 11 00:00:36,433 --> 00:00:38,894 What do you say at a time like this? 12 00:00:39,186 --> 00:00:41,188 Seriously, what do you say? 13 00:00:41,313 --> 00:00:44,066 You could thank people for coming. 14 00:00:44,191 --> 00:00:45,901 Thank you, Nick. 15 00:00:46,026 --> 00:00:48,236 Actually, I'm always thanking Nick. 16 00:00:48,362 --> 00:00:51,406 A man famous not only for his ruthless editor's pen, 17 00:00:51,531 --> 00:00:54,910 but his patient handholding of crazy authors. 18 00:00:55,035 --> 00:00:56,411 You'd think that after three novels, 19 00:00:56,536 --> 00:00:59,247 I'd start to develop a little confidence, but... 20 00:00:59,373 --> 00:01:02,417 For a book like this, we are happy to supply the confidence. 21 00:01:02,542 --> 00:01:03,794 Bestseller. 22 00:01:03,919 --> 00:01:05,420 (ALL AGREEING) 23 00:01:05,545 --> 00:01:07,130 Well, that's not going to happen. 24 00:01:07,255 --> 00:01:08,215 What? 25 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:10,300 Come on. Short stories don't make money. 26 00:01:10,425 --> 00:01:12,344 Short stories weren't making money back in 1908. 27 00:01:12,469 --> 00:01:13,929 You'd have to be mathematically illiterate 28 00:01:14,054 --> 00:01:15,305 to think they'd do as well as a novel. 29 00:01:15,430 --> 00:01:19,935 Okay, Nick, let's step away from the champagne before somebody gets hurt. 30 00:01:20,435 --> 00:01:23,772 You slaved over this book right next to me. 31 00:01:23,897 --> 00:01:26,233 Why would Northrop even publish it if it's only going to tank? 32 00:01:26,358 --> 00:01:29,361 Have you failed to notice you're our star author? 33 00:01:29,486 --> 00:01:31,988 Obviously, Elaine wouldn't want to offend you. 34 00:01:32,114 --> 00:01:33,115 Honey... 35 00:01:37,411 --> 00:01:40,956 I'm sorry, I don't... I don't know why I said that. 36 00:01:41,081 --> 00:01:42,124 He's joking. 37 00:01:42,249 --> 00:01:44,793 Nick knows as well as anyone what you have done is art. 38 00:01:44,918 --> 00:01:46,795 So is folding paper into animal shapes, 39 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,463 but you don't expect to make a living off it. 40 00:01:48,588 --> 00:01:49,756 What the hell is wrong with you? 41 00:01:49,881 --> 00:01:51,883 You really think someone who goes through 10 assistants a year 42 00:01:52,008 --> 00:01:54,136 and doesn't return her own children's phone calls 43 00:01:54,261 --> 00:01:56,763 would give a damn about the state of the American short story? 44 00:01:56,888 --> 00:01:58,515 Please, be quiet. 45 00:01:58,724 --> 00:01:59,975 (SNIFFLES) 46 00:02:03,729 --> 00:02:05,772 I think something's wrong. 47 00:02:06,273 --> 00:02:08,400 That title was a mistake, too. 48 00:02:08,525 --> 00:02:10,652 People are going to compare you to Salinger. 49 00:02:10,777 --> 00:02:13,864 (CHUCKLING) And boy, are you going to come up short in that one. 50 00:02:18,869 --> 00:02:19,953 (GASPS) Honey? 51 00:02:20,829 --> 00:02:23,957 Call 911. Help! We need help! 52 00:02:57,741 --> 00:03:00,243 FOREMAN: Cameron brought this up from the ER. 53 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:02,746 Doesn't look like a friendship bracelet. 54 00:03:02,871 --> 00:03:04,581 KUTNER: It's Phineas Gage. 55 00:03:04,706 --> 00:03:06,416 The most famous case study in medical history. 56 00:03:06,541 --> 00:03:08,543 You're telling me this patient got a railroad spike 57 00:03:08,668 --> 00:03:09,878 drilled through his frontal lobe? 58 00:03:10,003 --> 00:03:13,006 No, no trauma, but he does have frontal lobe disinhibition. 59 00:03:13,131 --> 00:03:14,049 Just like Gage. 60 00:03:14,174 --> 00:03:15,884 Gage was a different person after the spike. 61 00:03:16,009 --> 00:03:17,469 Argumentative, impulsive. 62 00:03:17,594 --> 00:03:20,430 Whereas our guy became a different person after chardonnay. 63 00:03:20,555 --> 00:03:22,224 He was sober when they brought him in. 64 00:03:22,349 --> 00:03:24,768 There's also the nosebleed, the collapse. 65 00:03:24,893 --> 00:03:26,269 - MRI show anything? - Nothing. 66 00:03:26,394 --> 00:03:28,647 Good. What fun would that be? 67 00:03:28,772 --> 00:03:30,690 So the tumor's not in the cool neighborhood. 68 00:03:30,816 --> 00:03:32,067 It's cool neighborhood adjacent. 69 00:03:32,192 --> 00:03:34,027 A well-placed tumor in the nasal cavity, 70 00:03:34,152 --> 00:03:35,654 eroding into the brain could do the damage. 71 00:03:35,779 --> 00:03:38,990 Go stick a scope up Phineas' nose and see what you find. 72 00:03:46,081 --> 00:03:48,959 Daddy, I'm always going to win if you keep telling me what your cards are. 73 00:03:49,084 --> 00:03:52,629 Then suppose I tell you... While I tickle you! 74 00:03:52,754 --> 00:03:55,090 Mr. Greenwald, I'm Dr. Taub and this is Dr. Kutner. 75 00:03:55,215 --> 00:03:57,425 We're here for another test. Sorry about that. 76 00:03:58,009 --> 00:04:00,053 You don't look sorry. 77 00:04:00,303 --> 00:04:02,264 Um. No offense. 78 00:04:02,389 --> 00:04:04,391 Although you do look kind of cheerful. 79 00:04:04,516 --> 00:04:05,809 It's a little creepy. Should I want a doctor 80 00:04:05,934 --> 00:04:07,435 who's excited about how sick I am? 81 00:04:07,561 --> 00:04:09,729 - I'm not... - We're going to put this up your nose, 82 00:04:09,855 --> 00:04:11,565 scan for any problems. 83 00:04:11,690 --> 00:04:14,943 I can assure you that we are completely unexcited about that. 84 00:04:15,068 --> 00:04:16,695 Excuse me, sweetie. 85 00:04:17,070 --> 00:04:18,947 She has an auditory processing disability. 86 00:04:19,072 --> 00:04:21,741 Marika Balika. You have to get off the bed. 87 00:04:23,660 --> 00:04:26,162 This might be slightly uncomfortable. 88 00:04:26,288 --> 00:04:28,123 Honey, do you mind if I step out? 89 00:04:28,248 --> 00:04:29,541 I have to make sure the final arrangements 90 00:04:29,666 --> 00:04:31,251 are in place for the breast cancer walk. 91 00:04:31,376 --> 00:04:32,544 Yeah. You do that. 92 00:04:32,669 --> 00:04:37,090 I'll pretend to be macho while a guy stuffs three feet of plastic up my nose. 93 00:04:37,215 --> 00:04:39,301 It's too bad it's not your nose. 94 00:04:39,426 --> 00:04:41,386 Lots more room to maneuver. 95 00:04:41,511 --> 00:04:44,598 I guess the walk can wait 10 minutes. 96 00:04:44,723 --> 00:04:46,683 Or in a sensible world, even longer. 97 00:04:46,808 --> 00:04:49,603 Just how does tying up traffic for six hours stop breast cancer? 98 00:04:49,728 --> 00:04:51,313 You know how it works, people donate. 99 00:04:51,438 --> 00:04:54,816 Why not spend six hours building houses for Habitat for Humanity? 100 00:04:54,983 --> 00:04:57,277 Or is it wrong to help two groups of people at once? 101 00:04:57,402 --> 00:04:59,988 I'll bet there are those who have breast cancer and no home. 102 00:05:00,113 --> 00:05:01,907 It's my job, Nick. 103 00:05:02,032 --> 00:05:03,617 You walked yourself last year. 104 00:05:03,742 --> 00:05:04,743 To be supportive. 105 00:05:04,868 --> 00:05:08,330 Because I knew you wouldn't have sex with me if I didn't. 106 00:05:09,414 --> 00:05:11,416 I'm going to make my call. 107 00:05:13,710 --> 00:05:15,295 Make this go away. 108 00:05:16,504 --> 00:05:19,090 God, that honker really is huge, isn't it? 109 00:05:22,969 --> 00:05:24,179 Wednesday night. 110 00:05:24,304 --> 00:05:26,932 Low-Down-Blue-Meanie versus the Incinerator. 111 00:05:27,057 --> 00:05:28,600 I can't. 112 00:05:29,184 --> 00:05:31,019 Let me rephrase. Low-Down-Blue-Meanie... 113 00:05:31,144 --> 00:05:33,605 WILSON: I understand Monster Truck code. 114 00:05:33,730 --> 00:05:34,814 Do you understand "can't"? 115 00:05:34,940 --> 00:05:37,525 Not when it follows Low-Down-Blue-Meanie. 116 00:05:38,568 --> 00:05:40,320 Is the world coming to an end Tuesday night? 117 00:05:40,445 --> 00:05:42,864 - Otherwise, Wednesday... - All right. 118 00:05:42,989 --> 00:05:45,784 It's not "can't," it's "don't want to." 119 00:05:46,660 --> 00:05:49,788 The fact is, I just don't like monster trucks. 120 00:05:51,122 --> 00:05:52,207 Yes, you do. 121 00:05:52,332 --> 00:05:53,333 No, I don't. 122 00:05:53,458 --> 00:05:55,210 You've always liked monster trucks. 123 00:05:55,377 --> 00:05:56,544 No, you've always liked them. 124 00:05:56,670 --> 00:05:58,838 I've tolerated them. 125 00:05:59,089 --> 00:06:02,050 Seriously, I can only watch so many hyped-up dune buggies 126 00:06:02,175 --> 00:06:05,845 crush so many motor homes without feeling the urge to go see La Bohéme. 127 00:06:05,971 --> 00:06:07,806 And I hate opera, too. 128 00:06:08,682 --> 00:06:10,517 What are you hiding? 129 00:06:10,642 --> 00:06:13,269 I'm not hiding it, I'm saying it loud and proud. 130 00:06:13,395 --> 00:06:14,896 Death to monster trucks. 131 00:06:15,021 --> 00:06:16,731 No nasal cancer. 132 00:06:16,856 --> 00:06:18,191 And no marriage either, 133 00:06:18,316 --> 00:06:20,527 if our patient keeps saying everything that comes into his head 134 00:06:20,652 --> 00:06:22,654 without regard for the consequences. 135 00:06:22,779 --> 00:06:24,948 You always led me to believe you were one of a kind. 136 00:06:25,073 --> 00:06:27,158 Luckily, jerkiness is a temporary condition for this guy. 137 00:06:27,283 --> 00:06:28,743 No, it's not. 138 00:06:28,868 --> 00:06:31,454 We may be able to fix his impulse to say his thoughts out loud, 139 00:06:31,579 --> 00:06:33,665 but he's always gonna be the guy who thinks them. 140 00:06:33,790 --> 00:06:36,418 But he's also gonna be the guy who doesn't say them. 141 00:06:36,543 --> 00:06:38,962 If he spent his whole life constructing a nice-guy persona, 142 00:06:39,087 --> 00:06:42,132 isn't that as much who he really is as anything else? 143 00:06:42,257 --> 00:06:44,926 You would argue that. You're all persona. 144 00:06:45,051 --> 00:06:48,138 I agree with Wilson. This guy's a Harry Potter. 145 00:06:48,930 --> 00:06:51,516 The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin, based on his nature. 146 00:06:51,641 --> 00:06:53,852 He refused, so he ended up in Gryffindor. 147 00:06:53,977 --> 00:06:55,145 Through choice. 148 00:06:55,270 --> 00:06:58,481 There's damage somewhere in his brain. Go find it. 149 00:07:00,358 --> 00:07:01,985 THIRTEEN: Are you sure you understand? 150 00:07:02,110 --> 00:07:04,738 No, I'm lying. Except, I can't. 151 00:07:06,156 --> 00:07:07,532 You ask me questions. 152 00:07:07,657 --> 00:07:11,119 While I talk, you look at my brain activity to see where it's screwed up, 153 00:07:11,244 --> 00:07:13,496 then you're gonna cut the screwed up part out to test it. 154 00:07:13,621 --> 00:07:15,498 It's depressing, but it's not rocket science. 155 00:07:15,623 --> 00:07:16,958 I think he understands. 156 00:07:17,083 --> 00:07:19,127 I don't mean to be abrasive. 157 00:07:19,252 --> 00:07:21,880 Especially since you're such a pleasure to imagine naked. 158 00:07:22,005 --> 00:07:23,631 - Again, sorry. - It's okay. 159 00:07:23,757 --> 00:07:25,925 Thank you for understanding. 160 00:07:26,051 --> 00:07:27,677 I'd do you, though. 161 00:07:28,470 --> 00:07:29,846 Really, my apologies. This stuff just comes out. 162 00:07:29,971 --> 00:07:31,973 - It's okay. - House paged? 163 00:07:32,098 --> 00:07:36,144 Whoa. I would do her in a minute with fudge and a cherry on top. 164 00:07:37,604 --> 00:07:39,522 Would someone please explain to this woman? 165 00:07:39,647 --> 00:07:40,774 There's only so many apologies I can... 166 00:07:40,899 --> 00:07:42,609 He has frontal lobe disinhibition. 167 00:07:42,734 --> 00:07:44,944 I've already embarrassed myself with one doctor. 168 00:07:45,070 --> 00:07:46,196 Whom I am at this moment 169 00:07:46,321 --> 00:07:50,408 imagining with you in a king-sized bed with a mirror on the ceiling. 170 00:07:50,533 --> 00:07:53,578 I am so, so sorry. 171 00:07:53,703 --> 00:07:55,330 But if I couldn't have both of you together, 172 00:07:55,455 --> 00:07:57,665 you would definitely be my first choice. 173 00:07:57,791 --> 00:07:58,750 Where's House? 174 00:07:58,875 --> 00:08:00,585 It's like trying not to think of an elephant. 175 00:08:00,710 --> 00:08:04,464 Not that you're an elephant. Your breasts, in fact, are all Homo sapiens. 176 00:08:04,589 --> 00:08:07,509 - House isn't here. - He wouldn't have paged me 177 00:08:07,634 --> 00:08:10,178 if he couldn't watch and enjoy the... 178 00:08:16,267 --> 00:08:19,354 Your tush is like the pistons in a Ferrari. 179 00:08:29,447 --> 00:08:30,615 You're welcome. 180 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:32,117 That was for my benefit? 181 00:08:32,242 --> 00:08:34,035 - You're 40 years old... - Thirty eight. 182 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:35,203 ...and the administrator of a hospital. 183 00:08:35,328 --> 00:08:36,412 Dean of medicine. 184 00:08:36,538 --> 00:08:38,123 People don't get personal with you. 185 00:08:38,331 --> 00:08:41,084 Except for me, and you dismiss me as a jerk who's jerking you around. 186 00:08:41,209 --> 00:08:42,877 But that guy can only tell the truth. 187 00:08:43,044 --> 00:08:45,880 And he prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie. 188 00:08:46,005 --> 00:08:49,717 So that was your way of saying I look good today? 189 00:08:50,635 --> 00:08:53,721 You didn't get the slightest kick out of that? 190 00:08:54,430 --> 00:08:56,558 Don't be ridiculous, House. 191 00:09:00,895 --> 00:09:04,190 FOREMAN: I hope you know your pistons are second to none. 192 00:09:04,524 --> 00:09:07,652 I'm okay. I'm not jealous of (Buddy's pistons. 193 00:09:07,777 --> 00:09:09,320 Starting baseline activation. 194 00:09:09,445 --> 00:09:11,656 You sure? You looked upset. 195 00:09:12,198 --> 00:09:13,867 What he was saying was obnoxious. 196 00:09:13,992 --> 00:09:15,243 You've never been called attractive? 197 00:09:15,368 --> 00:09:18,830 He didn't call me attractive, he cast me in his mental porno. 198 00:09:18,955 --> 00:09:19,789 That's what "attractive" means. 199 00:09:19,914 --> 00:09:21,666 It means "I'm attracted to you sexually." 200 00:09:21,791 --> 00:09:22,959 "Attracted" can also mean, 201 00:09:23,084 --> 00:09:25,962 "I'm attracted to the whole package, to who you are." 202 00:09:26,087 --> 00:09:28,464 Slight elevation at transaxial 60. 203 00:09:28,590 --> 00:09:29,799 It could. 204 00:09:29,924 --> 00:09:32,218 It never does. It's what women choose to hear, not what men say. 205 00:09:32,343 --> 00:09:35,096 Actually, it's exactly what men say, if they have any brains. 206 00:09:35,221 --> 00:09:36,472 All right, we have enough for a baseline. 207 00:09:36,598 --> 00:09:37,807 What can we ask him that's indiscreet, 208 00:09:37,932 --> 00:09:40,476 but that he won't hate us for knowing? 209 00:09:41,227 --> 00:09:43,479 Nick, do you vote the same way as your wife? 210 00:09:43,605 --> 00:09:44,898 God, no. 211 00:09:45,398 --> 00:09:46,733 Good. He's spiking at 30. 212 00:09:46,858 --> 00:09:48,860 She believes I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary, 213 00:09:48,985 --> 00:09:50,278 and Obama in the general. 214 00:09:50,403 --> 00:09:52,655 You're thinking I'm secretly Republican, right? 215 00:09:52,780 --> 00:09:53,823 Wrong. 216 00:09:53,948 --> 00:09:56,492 I secretly don't vote ever. 217 00:09:57,869 --> 00:10:00,496 Wait, you're 46 and you've never voted? 218 00:10:00,622 --> 00:10:03,875 Your voice is no longer attractive to me with that note of disapproval. 219 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,793 Although I'm sure that will pass. 220 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:06,753 Look at that. 221 00:10:06,878 --> 00:10:09,839 There's a spot on the cingulate gyrus that's not lighting up. 222 00:10:09,964 --> 00:10:11,674 One vote makes a difference? 223 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:12,634 Not mathematically... 224 00:10:12,759 --> 00:10:13,635 Okay, Nick, we've got what we need. 225 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,054 We can't biopsy that, it's too close to the brain stem. 226 00:10:16,179 --> 00:10:18,556 Could be neurosarcoidosis. At least it's treatable. 227 00:10:18,681 --> 00:10:19,933 So we give him steroids and if we're right, 228 00:10:20,058 --> 00:10:23,686 we should start seeing his symptoms improve within half a day. 229 00:10:26,898 --> 00:10:28,775 What are you looking at? 230 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:30,485 I find your strong attachment 231 00:10:30,610 --> 00:10:33,238 to a working democracy to be extremely sexy. 232 00:10:33,363 --> 00:10:35,031 You smooth talker. 233 00:10:38,201 --> 00:10:39,869 Do you think my nose is too big? 234 00:10:39,994 --> 00:10:42,789 Relax. He also implied my bedside manner was a little off. 235 00:10:42,914 --> 00:10:44,999 You don't agree with that, right? 236 00:10:45,124 --> 00:10:45,959 No. 237 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,796 No one's ever mentioned your nose before? 238 00:10:49,921 --> 00:10:51,089 You're a plastic surgeon. 239 00:10:51,214 --> 00:10:53,216 - They tell me it suits my face. - It does. 240 00:10:53,341 --> 00:10:55,927 Maybe. Maybe that's just the social contract. 241 00:10:56,052 --> 00:10:57,011 You tell me I look great, 242 00:10:57,136 --> 00:10:59,097 I tell you you're a people person. 243 00:10:59,222 --> 00:11:02,850 - How can you know the truth? - You could ask for the truth. 244 00:11:03,059 --> 00:11:05,103 What do you think of my nose? Please tell me the truth. 245 00:11:05,228 --> 00:11:07,188 It's fine, it's a nose. 246 00:11:08,147 --> 00:11:09,899 Just proving a point. 247 00:11:16,322 --> 00:11:18,157 Anyone sitting here? 248 00:11:19,033 --> 00:11:20,576 Just my persona. 249 00:11:22,495 --> 00:11:25,915 You know, it's amazing the way people cling on to insults. 250 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,835 Or what they think are insults. 251 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:30,962 So that wasn't an insult? 252 00:11:31,087 --> 00:11:33,840 I'm not suggesting that like our patient, 253 00:11:33,965 --> 00:11:35,883 you're hiding a dark, sarcastic core 254 00:11:36,009 --> 00:11:38,594 beneath a candy shell of compulsive niceness. 255 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,055 I'm not always nice. I'm not nice to you. 256 00:11:41,180 --> 00:11:44,767 Because you know nice bores me. Hence, still nice. 257 00:11:45,310 --> 00:11:48,187 No, I'm suggesting that you have no core. 258 00:11:48,313 --> 00:11:51,816 You're what whoever you're with needs you to be. 259 00:11:51,941 --> 00:11:53,985 Okay, I guess that could be insulting. 260 00:11:54,110 --> 00:11:56,321 But the interesting question is why. 261 00:11:56,446 --> 00:11:58,865 Why do you think the world will end in chaos and destruction 262 00:11:58,990 --> 00:12:00,450 if you're not there to save it? 263 00:12:00,575 --> 00:12:03,828 Because when my parents put me in the rocket, and sent me here, 264 00:12:03,953 --> 00:12:06,873 they said, "James, you will grow to manhood under a yellow sun." 265 00:12:06,998 --> 00:12:09,375 And why did you lie about monster trucks? 266 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:10,543 I didn't. 267 00:12:10,668 --> 00:12:12,628 I checked your appointment book. 268 00:12:12,754 --> 00:12:13,838 You've got tomorrow night marked off, 269 00:12:13,963 --> 00:12:15,882 but you didn't put down what you were doing. 270 00:12:16,007 --> 00:12:17,133 So you thought someone might look at the book... 271 00:12:17,258 --> 00:12:21,012 I'm playing racquetball tomorrow night with Taub. 272 00:12:21,637 --> 00:12:23,014 Why would you hide that? 273 00:12:23,139 --> 00:12:25,016 Because the world revolves around you. 274 00:12:25,141 --> 00:12:26,476 I devote time to anyone else, 275 00:12:26,601 --> 00:12:29,020 you'd end up stalking me and harassing them. 276 00:12:29,145 --> 00:12:31,147 You say that as though it wouldn't be fun. 277 00:12:31,272 --> 00:12:33,358 And maybe I didn't want to rub your nose in the fact 278 00:12:33,483 --> 00:12:36,694 that we'd be doing something you can no longer do. 279 00:12:36,819 --> 00:12:38,446 Because I'm nice. 280 00:12:43,910 --> 00:12:46,746 I thought you said the steroids were gonna help him! 281 00:12:46,871 --> 00:12:47,872 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 282 00:12:47,997 --> 00:12:49,499 Is it his heart? 283 00:12:49,916 --> 00:12:52,043 EKG says heart's fine. 284 00:12:52,168 --> 00:12:53,920 It's gotta be the kidneys. 285 00:12:54,045 --> 00:12:55,880 We need to get him on dialysis. 286 00:12:56,172 --> 00:12:57,423 Oh, God. 287 00:12:57,548 --> 00:12:58,549 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 288 00:13:01,594 --> 00:13:03,429 He's on dialysis and he's stable. 289 00:13:03,554 --> 00:13:06,140 THIRTEEN: We know it's not systemic sclerosis. 290 00:13:06,265 --> 00:13:07,642 Hey. 291 00:13:07,767 --> 00:13:09,977 Cyrano de Berkowitz. 292 00:13:10,103 --> 00:13:11,396 Let it go. 293 00:13:12,605 --> 00:13:15,775 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia could explain brain and kidney problems. 294 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:18,694 CBC showed normal white blood cells. 295 00:13:19,070 --> 00:13:22,407 So how long have you been playing racquetball with Wilson? 296 00:13:22,532 --> 00:13:24,242 Four or five times. 297 00:13:24,367 --> 00:13:25,827 Could be diabetes. 298 00:13:25,952 --> 00:13:27,620 Or a congenital metabolic disorder. 299 00:13:27,870 --> 00:13:31,040 Congenital disorders generally don't wait till you're 46 to manifest. 300 00:13:31,165 --> 00:13:34,460 So he's a late bloomer. His daughter has a neurological condition. 301 00:13:34,585 --> 00:13:37,964 First of all, Wilson played tennis on his college team, 302 00:13:38,089 --> 00:13:40,758 and you are a Jew. 303 00:13:41,801 --> 00:13:42,885 You're not athletic. 304 00:13:43,010 --> 00:13:44,846 Run to the end of the hall and back, I'll time you. 305 00:13:44,971 --> 00:13:47,765 Sandy Koufax is Jewish. Greatest left-handed pitcher of all time. 306 00:13:47,890 --> 00:13:52,895 Sandy Koufax is all you Jews go on about, Sandy Koufax. 307 00:13:53,020 --> 00:13:55,022 And the Holocaust. It gets old. 308 00:13:55,148 --> 00:13:58,526 There are dozens of congenital conditions that fit our parameters. 309 00:13:58,651 --> 00:14:00,570 We can't spend time gene-testing for all of them 310 00:14:00,695 --> 00:14:02,613 especially when we're only guessing it's congenital. 311 00:14:02,738 --> 00:14:05,408 Is a Z-shot offensive or defensive? 312 00:14:05,533 --> 00:14:06,701 It's both. 313 00:14:07,076 --> 00:14:08,870 You suspected that was a trick question. 314 00:14:08,995 --> 00:14:10,746 But I could have said neither. 315 00:14:10,872 --> 00:14:12,915 Diabetes makes more sense. 316 00:14:13,249 --> 00:14:15,835 We can narrow the testing down to 40 likely candidates. 317 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:17,336 Test for peripheral nerve damage. 318 00:14:17,462 --> 00:14:18,504 He's got brain damage, 319 00:14:18,629 --> 00:14:20,923 he's likely to have peripheral nerve damage no matter what the cause. 320 00:14:21,048 --> 00:14:23,217 Yes, that's why we should not test him for it. 321 00:14:23,342 --> 00:14:24,969 Test the daughter. 322 00:14:25,386 --> 00:14:26,804 Kutner runs the nerve test. 323 00:14:26,929 --> 00:14:28,931 Taub, you may be right about the diabetes. 324 00:14:29,056 --> 00:14:32,435 Take supper away from our patient and run a glucose tolerance test. 325 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,646 Oh, and the nurses have been working so hard, 326 00:14:35,771 --> 00:14:37,398 you can do the blood draws yourself. 327 00:14:37,523 --> 00:14:39,942 They have to be done every couple of hours. 328 00:14:40,067 --> 00:14:40,902 You're punishing me 329 00:14:41,027 --> 00:14:43,446 because you're jealous that I'm spending time with your best friend. 330 00:14:43,571 --> 00:14:44,780 That would be petty. 331 00:14:44,906 --> 00:14:48,659 I'm punishing you because now you've joined my best friend in lying to me. 332 00:14:48,784 --> 00:14:51,829 Let me know when you're ready to confess everything. 333 00:14:59,837 --> 00:15:02,757 These can become either hot or cold. 334 00:15:02,882 --> 00:15:05,843 As soon as it starts to feel uncomfortable, I want you to tell me. 335 00:15:05,968 --> 00:15:07,720 But you don't think there's something wrong with me. 336 00:15:07,845 --> 00:15:10,181 No, baby. They're testing you to help Daddy. 337 00:15:10,306 --> 00:15:12,183 Yes. What you're doing is very important. 338 00:15:12,308 --> 00:15:14,393 It's like the better you do, 339 00:15:14,519 --> 00:15:16,604 the better we know your dad is. 340 00:15:17,897 --> 00:15:19,398 It's okay. 341 00:15:21,943 --> 00:15:23,694 I'll start with heat. 342 00:15:29,283 --> 00:15:31,244 I know it's not his fault. 343 00:15:31,369 --> 00:15:34,038 I know what he says is involuntary, but... 344 00:15:35,498 --> 00:15:36,999 It doesn't help. 345 00:15:38,334 --> 00:15:40,002 Inside he's still the same man. 346 00:15:40,127 --> 00:15:42,004 Yeah, that's the problem. 347 00:15:42,129 --> 00:15:44,257 Apparently he's been thinking this stuff all along. 348 00:15:44,382 --> 00:15:48,928 Whoever that same man is, it's not the person I thought I was married to. 349 00:15:49,053 --> 00:15:50,346 You Okay? 350 00:15:53,724 --> 00:15:55,726 She should be feeling something by now. 351 00:15:55,851 --> 00:15:59,939 What does that mean? Is she sick too? Marika? 352 00:16:00,815 --> 00:16:02,149 Honey? 353 00:16:03,526 --> 00:16:05,820 You're burned, why didn't you tell me it started to hurt? 354 00:16:05,945 --> 00:16:07,113 I wanted to help Daddy. 355 00:16:07,238 --> 00:16:09,949 You said the better I do, the better Daddy has to be. 356 00:16:10,074 --> 00:16:11,325 I'm sorry. 357 00:16:13,744 --> 00:16:14,954 I'm starving. 358 00:16:15,079 --> 00:16:17,039 It's the only way we can do the test. 359 00:16:17,415 --> 00:16:19,375 Good thing it's you and not Dr. Hadley. 360 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:21,961 Could you keep her away from me? 361 00:16:22,086 --> 00:16:24,755 I have a rich imaginative life. 362 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,550 - I'd rather not share it. - We all have thoughts. 363 00:16:27,758 --> 00:16:30,469 I know we all have sexual thoughts. 364 00:16:30,595 --> 00:16:32,054 We have ignoble thoughts. 365 00:16:32,179 --> 00:16:34,765 I just don't want those to be who I am to people. 366 00:16:34,890 --> 00:16:35,933 Especially not to my wife. 367 00:16:36,058 --> 00:16:38,102 I understand, I don't think it would be fair to define me 368 00:16:38,227 --> 00:16:39,395 by my passing thoughts. 369 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:41,105 My real choices are my actions. 370 00:16:41,230 --> 00:16:44,942 And I've never done anything to hurt her, I've never cheated. 371 00:16:46,277 --> 00:16:47,737 You're kidding me, you've cheated? 372 00:16:47,862 --> 00:16:48,946 What? 373 00:16:49,071 --> 00:16:50,156 No. 374 00:16:51,282 --> 00:16:52,116 Why would you say that? 375 00:16:52,241 --> 00:16:54,535 Because you look guilty as hell. 376 00:16:54,660 --> 00:16:56,662 Are you serious? 377 00:16:56,787 --> 00:16:57,830 Of course you're serious. 378 00:16:57,955 --> 00:16:59,665 Yes, everyone knows. 379 00:16:59,790 --> 00:17:02,335 God, they must think you're a creep. 380 00:17:02,668 --> 00:17:05,630 They might not know, they might be idiots. 381 00:17:05,755 --> 00:17:07,048 I just say these things. 382 00:17:17,516 --> 00:17:19,518 WhTd YOU page me here? 383 00:17:20,019 --> 00:17:23,356 I need you to update me on the patient's condition. 384 00:17:23,856 --> 00:17:24,940 He seems to be dead. 385 00:17:25,066 --> 00:17:27,068 WhTd YOU page me here? 386 00:17:27,193 --> 00:17:30,404 I need you to update me on the patient's condition 387 00:17:30,529 --> 00:17:33,074 while hitting this against the wall. 388 00:17:34,158 --> 00:17:35,785 This is the only place we can do both. 389 00:17:35,910 --> 00:17:37,870 I finished the last blood draw. 390 00:17:37,995 --> 00:17:42,333 I expect the people who work for me to rise to a challenge. 391 00:17:42,458 --> 00:17:45,169 Unless they don't expect to work for me. 392 00:17:57,515 --> 00:17:58,808 (SIGHS) 393 00:18:02,144 --> 00:18:05,481 Last blood draw was at 6:00 a.m. 394 00:18:05,606 --> 00:18:08,984 His sugar levels never rose above 120 all night. 395 00:18:13,364 --> 00:18:15,533 So the glucose was normal. 396 00:18:15,658 --> 00:18:17,910 It means you were wrong about diabetes. 397 00:18:18,035 --> 00:18:19,620 I still think it's the endocrine system, 398 00:18:19,745 --> 00:18:22,164 maybe I just got the wrong gland. 399 00:18:22,289 --> 00:18:26,752 You were going for thyroid instead of pancreas? It makes sense. 400 00:18:30,297 --> 00:18:31,841 (CLATTERING) 401 00:18:33,175 --> 00:18:36,303 Fine! I'm not playing racquetball with Wilson! 402 00:18:36,429 --> 00:18:37,722 I was never playing racquetball with Wilson! 403 00:18:37,847 --> 00:18:41,183 I have never played racquetball with Wilson. 404 00:18:42,101 --> 00:18:45,604 I thought it would be helpful if a department head owed me a favor, 405 00:18:45,730 --> 00:18:47,648 but it's not worth this. 406 00:18:48,941 --> 00:18:52,445 Not bad. You put on a good show. 407 00:18:52,570 --> 00:18:54,822 You studied up, Wilson actually booked a court. 408 00:18:54,947 --> 00:18:57,241 If you were really a racquetball player, 409 00:18:57,366 --> 00:19:00,327 you'd know that you're holding a squash racquet. 410 00:19:01,829 --> 00:19:04,957 Tell Kutner to do a thyroid reuptake scan, 411 00:19:05,082 --> 00:19:07,752 then go grab a nap in one of the on-call rooms. 412 00:19:08,753 --> 00:19:11,714 KUTNER: We're taking you to do a thyroid reuptake scan. We think your... 413 00:19:11,881 --> 00:19:13,591 I'm not going anywhere until you explain 414 00:19:13,758 --> 00:19:15,509 why my daughter has a bandage on her hand. 415 00:19:15,634 --> 00:19:17,470 You just said you wanted to run some test. 416 00:19:17,595 --> 00:19:20,514 If I'd known it would involve pain, I'd have said, "Hell no." 417 00:19:20,639 --> 00:19:21,557 It's a mild burn. 418 00:19:21,682 --> 00:19:24,101 Since Marika has a neurological disability, like you, 419 00:19:24,226 --> 00:19:26,395 - we needed to make sure. - She has no disability. 420 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,190 Nick, you know about her problem with auditory processing. 421 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:31,025 Auditory processing? 422 00:19:31,150 --> 00:19:34,236 That's code, for "I can't stand thinking my daughter's not perfect." 423 00:19:34,361 --> 00:19:36,322 The therapist said Marika's test scores... 424 00:19:36,447 --> 00:19:38,240 Were indeterminate. 425 00:19:38,365 --> 00:19:41,702 She doesn't have a disability. She daydreams. 426 00:19:41,827 --> 00:19:46,499 She gets below average marks in school because she's below average. 427 00:19:46,624 --> 00:19:49,210 Every parent thinks their child is above average. 428 00:19:49,335 --> 00:19:50,377 - Nick! - Do they have any idea 429 00:19:50,503 --> 00:19:53,672 what the word average means? Somebody has to be under it. 430 00:19:53,798 --> 00:19:54,965 Nick, shut up! 431 00:20:01,013 --> 00:20:02,264 Honey. 432 00:20:04,225 --> 00:20:06,560 I'm not saying you're stupid. 433 00:20:06,811 --> 00:20:09,230 Your mother's not the sharpest crayon in the box, 434 00:20:09,355 --> 00:20:10,981 and she does great. 435 00:20:12,483 --> 00:20:17,321 See, this is why I told your mother to keep you at home. 436 00:20:17,446 --> 00:20:19,198 Didn't want you here. 437 00:20:20,157 --> 00:20:21,492 Marika. 438 00:20:22,576 --> 00:20:23,744 Marika, wait. 439 00:20:24,495 --> 00:20:25,871 (MACHINE BEEPING) Get her... 440 00:20:25,996 --> 00:20:27,164 You're burning up. 441 00:20:27,498 --> 00:20:28,749 (COUGHING) 442 00:20:29,750 --> 00:20:31,919 Your lungs are full of fluid, we need to get it out. 443 00:20:32,044 --> 00:20:33,754 I need 200 milligrams of furosemide 444 00:20:33,879 --> 00:20:35,673 and two milligrams of morphine, stat. 445 00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:40,636 - His temperature is 103. - Infection. 446 00:20:40,761 --> 00:20:42,429 The steroids must have forced it into the open. 447 00:20:42,555 --> 00:20:44,098 What kind of infection? it could be anything. 448 00:20:44,265 --> 00:20:46,225 Staph aureus, tuberculosis, strongyloides. 449 00:20:46,350 --> 00:20:47,852 Go back to Phineas and get a history. 450 00:20:47,977 --> 00:20:49,728 We got a history. He hasn't been out of the country. 451 00:20:49,854 --> 00:20:50,938 Get a detailed history. 452 00:20:51,063 --> 00:20:53,190 No one at home is sick, no one at work is sick, 453 00:20:53,315 --> 00:20:54,775 there's no sign of ticks or mosquitoes. 454 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:56,652 Get a more detailed history. 455 00:20:56,777 --> 00:20:58,904 Ask him again. And again, until he remembers something. 456 00:20:59,029 --> 00:21:01,615 Not you. Kutner can do it. 457 00:21:02,283 --> 00:21:04,743 You're going to be busy with something else. 458 00:21:11,125 --> 00:21:12,877 I'm here to invite you to lunch. 459 00:21:13,002 --> 00:21:14,962 Why? 460 00:21:18,966 --> 00:21:22,803 I've been made. House sent me back to you as a double agent. 461 00:21:29,310 --> 00:21:30,519 Anything wrong? 462 00:21:30,644 --> 00:21:31,937 Eyes are a little red. 463 00:21:32,062 --> 00:21:33,188 There's a shocker. 464 00:21:33,314 --> 00:21:36,025 I haven't had a good night's sleep since this thing started. 465 00:21:36,150 --> 00:21:38,903 You should get some rest yourself. 466 00:21:39,028 --> 00:21:40,070 That's a good idea. 467 00:21:40,195 --> 00:21:43,574 This is going to take some time, it will be pretty exhaustive. 468 00:21:43,699 --> 00:21:45,743 Are you afraid of what you might say while I'm here? 469 00:21:45,868 --> 00:21:46,911 Yes. 470 00:21:47,369 --> 00:21:50,247 Are you telling me there's something worse than what I've already heard? 471 00:21:50,372 --> 00:21:53,751 No, I don't know what I'm going to say. 472 00:21:53,876 --> 00:21:55,920 I don't know how I'm going to hurt you next. 473 00:21:56,045 --> 00:21:59,965 I think we should be around each other as little as possible right now. 474 00:22:03,928 --> 00:22:05,930 This is pathetic. 475 00:22:06,055 --> 00:22:07,056 I know. 476 00:22:09,016 --> 00:22:11,644 Tell Marika I love her very much. 477 00:22:12,436 --> 00:22:14,188 She understands that. 478 00:22:14,313 --> 00:22:15,898 I don't think she does. 479 00:22:17,358 --> 00:22:20,611 You're just saying that to make me feel better. 480 00:22:21,236 --> 00:22:22,446 Yeah. 481 00:22:36,877 --> 00:22:39,838 Guy leads a boring life. They stay home a lot. 482 00:22:40,089 --> 00:22:43,258 No travel, no exotic pets. No nearby standing water. 483 00:22:43,384 --> 00:22:45,678 You sound pleased about something. Can we get to that part? 484 00:22:45,803 --> 00:22:48,055 His wife rescues dogs. 485 00:22:48,180 --> 00:22:50,933 Among others, a big Rottweiler, who's taken over the house. 486 00:22:51,058 --> 00:22:52,267 Our patient hates it. 487 00:22:52,393 --> 00:22:54,395 - Was the wife there to hear this? - No. 488 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,688 Too bad. Keep going. 489 00:22:55,813 --> 00:22:58,399 The dog marks its territory all over the living room. 490 00:22:58,524 --> 00:22:59,608 I asked what the odds were 491 00:22:59,733 --> 00:23:02,528 that he would've put down food or drink where the dog could reach. 492 00:23:02,653 --> 00:23:04,238 He said he put a glass of juice on the floor 493 00:23:04,363 --> 00:23:05,364 while he was fixing the television. 494 00:23:05,531 --> 00:23:07,658 - The dog was fixing the television? - Yes. 495 00:23:07,783 --> 00:23:08,826 Patient's eyes red? 496 00:23:08,951 --> 00:23:10,911 Yeah. I'm thinking Weil's. 497 00:23:11,620 --> 00:23:14,289 Bacterial. You lucked out. 498 00:23:14,415 --> 00:23:16,083 Start him on doxycycline. 499 00:23:16,208 --> 00:23:18,752 If he improves, we'll know we were right. 500 00:23:21,255 --> 00:23:23,674 I told Wilson you sent me to get information. 501 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:25,259 And now you're telling me. 502 00:23:25,384 --> 00:23:28,137 What does that make you, a quadruple agent? 503 00:23:28,679 --> 00:23:30,597 He let me print out his e-mails. 504 00:23:30,723 --> 00:23:31,724 Wow. Excellent. 505 00:23:31,849 --> 00:23:33,851 Information he wants us to have. 506 00:23:33,976 --> 00:23:35,894 Did he let you print out his deleted e-mails? 507 00:23:36,020 --> 00:23:37,271 - No. - Go back there... 508 00:23:37,479 --> 00:23:38,605 As long as I was sitting there, 509 00:23:38,731 --> 00:23:42,151 thought I'd print them anyway. Top one's the one you're looking for. 510 00:23:42,943 --> 00:23:46,697 "I confirm Wednesday at 7:00 p.m." 511 00:23:46,822 --> 00:23:50,576 It's outgoing to JGonzalez@NYMercy.net. 512 00:23:50,701 --> 00:23:54,830 There's a Joan Gonzalez in oncology. It's a consult. 513 00:23:54,955 --> 00:23:57,374 Secret consult at 7:00 p.m.? 514 00:23:58,083 --> 00:24:00,627 Oh, Joan is perky. 515 00:24:00,753 --> 00:24:03,756 You're wrong, there was a patient file attached. 516 00:24:03,881 --> 00:24:04,715 Where? 517 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,050 It was password protected. 518 00:24:06,175 --> 00:24:07,176 No. 519 00:24:07,676 --> 00:24:10,888 Wilson doesn't password protect his patient files. 520 00:24:11,013 --> 00:24:12,848 I'm the only one he'd expect ever to look there, 521 00:24:12,973 --> 00:24:15,851 and he knows there's only one patient I'd want to check on. 522 00:24:16,602 --> 00:24:18,562 You think Wilson's sick? 523 00:24:20,064 --> 00:24:21,607 If Wilson had cancer, 524 00:24:21,732 --> 00:24:23,817 there'd be no reason for him to drive three hours to Manhattan. 525 00:24:23,942 --> 00:24:26,195 He knows he could pull strings here to get the best treatment. 526 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,405 Six articles by Gonzalez. 527 00:24:28,530 --> 00:24:31,700 "Managing suicidal thoughts in oncology patients." 528 00:24:31,825 --> 00:24:34,745 "Suicidal ideation in children with leukemia." 529 00:24:34,870 --> 00:24:36,205 I don't want to ask this, 530 00:24:36,330 --> 00:24:39,958 but have you ever had reason to think he might be depressed? 531 00:24:40,584 --> 00:24:42,795 No. Get out of here. 532 00:24:54,848 --> 00:24:57,017 KUTNER: Your fever's down and your lungs are clearing. 533 00:24:57,142 --> 00:25:00,104 How long before this brain thing goes away? 534 00:25:00,229 --> 00:25:01,480 Infection's gone. 535 00:25:01,605 --> 00:25:04,983 The damage the infection did, you'll have to live with. 536 00:25:05,901 --> 00:25:07,986 You telling me you can't fix this? 537 00:25:08,112 --> 00:25:09,530 There's got to be a way... 538 00:25:09,655 --> 00:25:12,366 We'd need to remove the damaged area in your cingulate gyrus, 539 00:25:12,491 --> 00:25:14,576 but it's too close to the brain stem to risk surgery. 540 00:25:14,701 --> 00:25:16,245 You can't risk it? 541 00:25:16,829 --> 00:25:18,455 But I could shop around, 542 00:25:18,580 --> 00:25:20,749 and maybe some better doctors at a better hospital... 543 00:25:20,874 --> 00:25:23,585 The brain stem controls the body's involuntary systems. 544 00:25:23,710 --> 00:25:26,171 The slightest mistake could kill you. 545 00:25:26,797 --> 00:25:27,923 Even if you survive, 546 00:25:28,048 --> 00:25:30,342 you may never be able to breathe on your own again, you may never... 547 00:25:30,467 --> 00:25:31,844 I get it. 548 00:25:31,969 --> 00:25:34,179 I know this seems like a lot to deal with right now, 549 00:25:34,304 --> 00:25:38,642 but people have adapted to living with all kinds of neurological deficits. 550 00:25:38,767 --> 00:25:41,979 Hey, at least we can promise you it won't get any worse. 551 00:25:42,104 --> 00:25:44,273 Get the hell out of my room. 552 00:25:52,948 --> 00:25:54,241 (SIGHS) 553 00:25:56,076 --> 00:26:00,789 Your assistant said that you were out of the hospital taking a walk. 554 00:26:00,914 --> 00:26:04,126 - Is there an emergency? - I don't know, is there? 555 00:26:05,127 --> 00:26:08,338 You never take a walk unless you got something you need to think about. 556 00:26:08,714 --> 00:26:12,676 Maybe you just don't have a good statistical sampling of my walks. 557 00:26:12,801 --> 00:26:17,014 The other thing you do when you need to think is you come to my office. 558 00:26:17,139 --> 00:26:18,098 Apparently, this is something 559 00:26:18,223 --> 00:26:22,186 you can only discuss with Gonzalez at New York Mercy. 560 00:26:26,231 --> 00:26:30,319 Taub. Another graduate of the House School of Being a Dick. 561 00:26:30,444 --> 00:26:31,528 Private dick. 562 00:26:31,653 --> 00:26:35,574 Look, I'd love to stay for the full inquisition, but I need some hot coffee. 563 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:43,415 Of course you need hot coffee, it's 45 degrees outside 564 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:46,919 and you left your coat upstairs. Why? 565 00:26:47,044 --> 00:26:49,963 You're going to tell me why I forgot my coat? 566 00:26:50,088 --> 00:26:52,966 Once you get outside, the cold would have reminded you. 567 00:26:53,091 --> 00:26:55,135 Could have gone back, but you didn't. 568 00:26:55,260 --> 00:26:57,638 You chose to be uncomfortable. 569 00:26:59,056 --> 00:27:01,642 Now why would someone choose that? 570 00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:04,895 Because they hate themselves? 571 00:27:05,020 --> 00:27:07,105 Has it ever occurred to you that when I don't share something, 572 00:27:07,231 --> 00:27:09,233 it might not be meant as a challenge? 573 00:27:09,358 --> 00:27:11,151 It might just mean that I'd like there to be 574 00:27:11,276 --> 00:27:15,364 one molecule of my life that goes unexamined by Gregory House. 575 00:27:29,795 --> 00:27:32,923 Nick Greenwald. I hear you're the guy in charge. 576 00:27:34,549 --> 00:27:37,469 I'm the patient with the disinhibition. 577 00:27:37,594 --> 00:27:39,888 If you're here to say thanks, you're welcome. Now go away. 578 00:27:40,013 --> 00:27:42,057 I'm not thankful. I'm pissed. 579 00:27:42,182 --> 00:27:43,267 Oh. 580 00:27:43,392 --> 00:27:44,768 All the more reason to go away. 581 00:27:44,893 --> 00:27:47,646 They're talking about sending me home. 582 00:27:48,355 --> 00:27:51,650 To what? A life where I'll continually drive away anyone who might, 583 00:27:51,775 --> 00:27:53,819 for a second, care about me? 584 00:27:53,944 --> 00:27:55,696 Those are the breaks. 585 00:28:00,367 --> 00:28:01,868 You could operate. 586 00:28:04,663 --> 00:28:06,039 You could die. 587 00:28:07,082 --> 00:28:10,502 So I'm either better or dead? I'm okay with that. 588 00:28:16,717 --> 00:28:20,512 I've always been kind of an impatient guy. 589 00:28:21,596 --> 00:28:24,057 But I've worked hard to keep my mouth shut. 590 00:28:24,182 --> 00:28:27,644 I've made my wife happy. I've made my little girl happy. 591 00:28:30,063 --> 00:28:31,648 I want that back. 592 00:28:32,399 --> 00:28:34,401 Otherwise, it's no life. 593 00:28:43,535 --> 00:28:46,038 I want you to remove a small problem. 594 00:28:50,125 --> 00:28:51,793 I'm not a neurosurgeon. 595 00:28:51,918 --> 00:28:54,421 Your boss is. You could assist, 596 00:28:54,546 --> 00:28:56,757 I'm sure you'd like to add to your resume. 597 00:28:56,882 --> 00:28:58,842 It's too near the brain stem. Nobody's going to touch it. 598 00:28:58,967 --> 00:29:02,012 Your boss would. He's an egomaniac. 599 00:29:02,137 --> 00:29:04,639 I know 'cause I keep seeing him at the club. 600 00:29:04,765 --> 00:29:06,308 He just needs a little push. 601 00:29:06,433 --> 00:29:09,728 I'm sure by now you've kissed his ass sufficiently. 602 00:29:09,853 --> 00:29:10,979 (CHUCKLES) 603 00:29:11,980 --> 00:29:14,941 Would you like me to phrase it as "you're politically gifted"? 604 00:29:15,067 --> 00:29:16,818 I could do that. 605 00:29:17,986 --> 00:29:20,447 (CLEARS THROAT) You want me to help you? 606 00:29:22,574 --> 00:29:24,117 Tell me why. 607 00:29:24,785 --> 00:29:25,827 Why what? 608 00:29:25,952 --> 00:29:27,037 Why you care? 609 00:29:27,704 --> 00:29:29,748 The puzzle's solved, the guy's alive. 610 00:29:29,873 --> 00:29:31,083 And the odds of coming out of this surgery 611 00:29:31,208 --> 00:29:33,418 with that same status aren't that great. 612 00:29:33,543 --> 00:29:36,421 My patient has a quality of life issue. 613 00:29:36,546 --> 00:29:40,008 He says awful things. Hardly a medical condition. 614 00:29:41,218 --> 00:29:44,888 When he leaves here, he's going to lose his family. 615 00:29:45,013 --> 00:29:47,015 He's going to alienate the people he works with. 616 00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:50,644 And if he ever finds a friend who's willing to put up with his crap, 617 00:29:50,769 --> 00:29:52,145 he'll be lucky. 618 00:29:54,106 --> 00:29:56,566 Until he drives them away, too. 619 00:30:01,696 --> 00:30:03,865 I'll see what I can do. 620 00:30:28,807 --> 00:30:32,144 You've apparently got this whole coat thing backwards. 621 00:30:32,269 --> 00:30:35,021 I may have overreacted. 622 00:30:35,856 --> 00:30:38,150 You definitely overreacted. 623 00:30:38,275 --> 00:30:40,068 I knew you'd meet me halfway. 624 00:30:40,193 --> 00:30:41,278 But it made me think. 625 00:30:41,403 --> 00:30:45,157 You only snap on one subject, losing people. 626 00:30:46,074 --> 00:30:48,034 So I went back to the Intel. 627 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,496 It's true there's only one doctor named Gonzalez at New York Mercy, 628 00:30:51,621 --> 00:30:55,750 but there's a Javier Gonzalez who's a nurse in the psych ward. 629 00:30:56,418 --> 00:30:58,795 Now who could you lose who'd end up there? 630 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:03,341 Maybe the reason I don't always open up to you is because it's redundant. 631 00:31:03,467 --> 00:31:04,968 Daniel Wilson. 632 00:31:06,052 --> 00:31:07,471 Once you've got a name, 633 00:31:07,596 --> 00:31:10,599 it's amazing how much stuff you can learn on the phone. 634 00:31:10,724 --> 00:31:14,019 I mean, if you're a doctor and you lie freely. 635 00:31:14,144 --> 00:31:16,062 They found your brother sleeping in the lobby 636 00:31:16,188 --> 00:31:18,315 of an office building in Manhattan. 637 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,774 He got aggressive when they asked him to leave, 638 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:22,611 and the cops took him to the Mercy psych ward. 639 00:31:22,736 --> 00:31:25,530 There've been new anti-psychotics developed since he ran away. 640 00:31:25,655 --> 00:31:28,783 He's been on them for a couple of days. And by tonight, 641 00:31:28,909 --> 00:31:30,869 he should be in shape to talk to me. 642 00:31:30,994 --> 00:31:33,497 But you're not sure if he wants to. 643 00:31:34,915 --> 00:31:38,502 I'll be in New York in a few hours, I guess I'll find out. 644 00:31:38,877 --> 00:31:40,670 Why wouldn't you tell me this? 645 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:42,130 House, you and I, 646 00:31:43,632 --> 00:31:46,551 we don't have the normal social contract. 647 00:31:46,676 --> 00:31:48,637 I don't expect you to tell me the lies that... 648 00:31:48,762 --> 00:31:51,223 I'm fully capable of lying to you. 649 00:31:51,348 --> 00:31:52,807 I've lied plenty of times. 650 00:31:52,933 --> 00:31:55,060 I mean collaborative lies. 651 00:31:55,185 --> 00:31:59,856 Giving someone a hand who maybe needs to deceive themselves, just a little. 652 00:32:02,108 --> 00:32:03,401 For two days, I've been thinking about 653 00:32:03,527 --> 00:32:05,403 how Danny's going to react when he sees me. 654 00:32:05,529 --> 00:32:08,198 If I said that to anybody else, they'd say, 655 00:32:08,323 --> 00:32:10,492 "Don't worry, it'll all be all right." 656 00:32:11,076 --> 00:32:12,619 You wouldn't. 657 00:32:13,703 --> 00:32:15,830 Because it might all go horribly wrong. 658 00:32:15,956 --> 00:32:17,123 (CHUCKLES) 659 00:32:18,625 --> 00:32:19,918 Yeah. 660 00:32:21,253 --> 00:32:22,921 Yeah, it might. 661 00:32:23,547 --> 00:32:27,509 In which case, you might want some company. 662 00:32:33,765 --> 00:32:36,476 FOREMAN: Your heart's beating. First hurdle passed. 663 00:32:36,601 --> 00:32:39,854 Now we need to know if you can breathe for yourself. 664 00:32:41,022 --> 00:32:42,190 (COUGHS) 665 00:32:42,315 --> 00:32:43,441 (GASPS) 666 00:32:43,567 --> 00:32:45,068 Oh, thank God. 667 00:32:46,945 --> 00:32:49,531 Now, do you know who you are? 668 00:32:51,032 --> 00:32:54,160 Nick Greenwald, former S.O.B. 669 00:32:54,286 --> 00:32:55,912 (LAUGHS) 670 00:32:56,037 --> 00:32:57,205 Thank you. 671 00:32:58,498 --> 00:33:02,794 Now I can go back to my beautiful life with my beautiful wife. 672 00:33:03,670 --> 00:33:06,047 Maybe she'll stop whining and cut me some slack 673 00:33:06,172 --> 00:33:08,425 now that I've risked my life. 674 00:33:09,593 --> 00:33:11,469 It doesn't make sense. We removed the problem. 675 00:33:11,595 --> 00:33:14,139 We removed the damage. Maybe we were wrong about the problem. 676 00:33:14,264 --> 00:33:16,266 I need to believe we can get through this. 677 00:33:16,391 --> 00:33:17,517 FOREMAN: Temperature's 94.5. 678 00:33:17,642 --> 00:33:20,145 Do you really think I'm stupid? 679 00:33:20,270 --> 00:33:24,441 Honey, you're not stupid, you're just... Please don't do this. 680 00:33:24,566 --> 00:33:25,567 Could be the effect of the surgery. 681 00:33:25,692 --> 00:33:27,110 Do you at least respect me, Nick? 682 00:33:27,235 --> 00:33:28,945 What do you think of what I do for a living? 683 00:33:29,070 --> 00:33:32,365 I think people who publicize important things 684 00:33:32,490 --> 00:33:35,577 are people who can't do important things themselves. 685 00:33:35,702 --> 00:33:37,662 Honey, stop. Don't. 686 00:33:37,787 --> 00:33:39,039 Do you regret marrying me? 687 00:33:39,205 --> 00:33:41,291 - 94.2. - Sometimes. 688 00:33:41,583 --> 00:33:43,335 - Everybody wonders. - Get me a heating blanket. 689 00:33:43,460 --> 00:33:44,836 Do you even love me? 690 00:33:44,961 --> 00:33:45,795 Yes. 691 00:33:46,671 --> 00:33:47,756 I don't know why. 692 00:33:47,881 --> 00:33:48,757 Aud... 693 00:33:49,215 --> 00:33:51,217 Wait. Let me... 694 00:33:51,343 --> 00:33:52,385 (MACHINE BEEPING) 695 00:33:52,510 --> 00:33:54,596 V-tach! Get me the paddles. 696 00:33:59,726 --> 00:34:01,061 FOREMAN: Clear. 697 00:34:04,814 --> 00:34:06,816 Echo says his heart is structurally fine, 698 00:34:06,941 --> 00:34:08,234 but his temperature is still dropping. 699 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,861 He's headed for hypothermia. 700 00:34:09,986 --> 00:34:11,863 I can't reach House. It just goes to voice-mail. 701 00:34:11,988 --> 00:34:12,989 Means we were wrong about infection. 702 00:34:13,198 --> 00:34:14,658 His temperature's just going up and down 703 00:34:14,783 --> 00:34:16,284 because something's playing with his thermostat. 704 00:34:16,409 --> 00:34:18,036 Which means the brain damage is spreading. 705 00:34:18,161 --> 00:34:19,704 What causes brain damage and nosebleed, 706 00:34:19,829 --> 00:34:21,581 and involves the lungs, heart, and kidneys? 707 00:34:21,706 --> 00:34:23,375 Cancer. We could text him. 708 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:24,584 It's not cancer. 709 00:34:24,709 --> 00:34:27,879 Normal PSA, normal blood smear, colonoscopy nonnal. 710 00:34:28,546 --> 00:34:29,547 Do a full body scan. 711 00:34:29,673 --> 00:34:30,965 House hates full body scans. 712 00:34:31,091 --> 00:34:32,926 - House isn't here. - House is right. 713 00:34:33,051 --> 00:34:35,095 Everybody's got three or four meaningless anomalies 714 00:34:35,220 --> 00:34:36,137 that'll come up on a scan. 715 00:34:36,262 --> 00:34:38,181 Chasing each one will take time we don't have. 716 00:34:38,306 --> 00:34:40,475 Feel free to send him an IM. 717 00:35:08,878 --> 00:35:10,255 (SIGHS) 718 00:35:26,104 --> 00:35:29,733 You told me you saw your brother once, after he disappeared. 719 00:35:29,858 --> 00:35:31,651 Thirteen years ago. 720 00:35:31,776 --> 00:35:33,903 I used to go to Princeton whenever I could. 721 00:35:34,028 --> 00:35:36,781 I must have hit every homeless shelter in town. 722 00:35:36,906 --> 00:35:39,033 Then one day, I'm just sitting at this deli having a sandwich, 723 00:35:39,159 --> 00:35:42,579 I look out the window and there he is. 724 00:35:42,704 --> 00:35:45,373 He was gone by the time I got outside. 725 00:35:45,498 --> 00:35:46,458 That's why you were so eager, 726 00:35:46,583 --> 00:35:48,793 when I told you there was a job in Princeton. 727 00:35:48,918 --> 00:35:50,211 I thought it was just my charm. 728 00:35:50,336 --> 00:35:51,713 (CELL PHONE RINGING) 729 00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:54,174 That's the team, shouldn't you answer? 730 00:35:54,299 --> 00:35:57,635 They've already texted me to say they're doing something stupid. 731 00:35:58,845 --> 00:36:00,430 Small abdominal aneurysm. 732 00:36:00,555 --> 00:36:01,639 Irrelevant. What else you got? 733 00:36:01,765 --> 00:36:03,475 A cyst in the pleura around the lungs. 734 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,685 Also irrelevant. Couldn't cause any of the symptoms. 735 00:36:05,810 --> 00:36:07,270 There's a density in the liver, 736 00:36:07,395 --> 00:36:09,063 could be a vascular malformation. 737 00:36:09,189 --> 00:36:11,775 If he's got multiple AVMs, screwed up blood flow would explain everything. 738 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:13,777 We can only spot them with angiography. 739 00:36:13,902 --> 00:36:15,320 We'll have to do targeted scans with contrast, 740 00:36:15,445 --> 00:36:16,362 and then embolize each one. 741 00:36:16,488 --> 00:36:17,614 Can we do that before he freezes? 742 00:36:17,739 --> 00:36:19,365 We'll find out. 743 00:36:20,950 --> 00:36:25,079 The spell-correct on Kutner's phone has got a hair-trigger. 744 00:36:25,205 --> 00:36:27,874 Either that, or the patient has a "cyclone" 745 00:36:27,999 --> 00:36:30,543 in the "floral" of his lungs. 746 00:36:32,212 --> 00:36:36,716 You took a walk in 45-degree weather and you left your coat behind. 747 00:36:39,969 --> 00:36:41,012 Go ahead. 748 00:36:41,137 --> 00:36:43,097 I think you were punishing yourself. 749 00:36:44,057 --> 00:36:46,142 I think you wanted to feel what it would be like to be homeless 750 00:36:46,267 --> 00:36:48,019 in a New Jersey winter. 751 00:36:49,187 --> 00:36:51,397 That tells me guilt. 752 00:36:52,273 --> 00:36:54,734 That tells me something happened. 753 00:36:57,737 --> 00:36:59,989 The schizophrenia started when he was a teenager. 754 00:37:00,114 --> 00:37:02,575 When he was in college, 755 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:03,993 he was on meds, 756 00:37:04,118 --> 00:37:07,413 but he'd still think a professor was out to get him because he got a B, 757 00:37:07,539 --> 00:37:09,415 or he would fight with his roommates because he never showered. 758 00:37:09,541 --> 00:37:10,708 Where were you? 759 00:37:10,834 --> 00:37:11,918 Med school. 760 00:37:12,961 --> 00:37:18,132 He called me every day, talked for hours. 761 00:37:18,258 --> 00:37:20,218 I didn't have hours. 762 00:37:20,343 --> 00:37:21,594 Interesting. 763 00:37:23,763 --> 00:37:25,515 Later for that. Go on. 764 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,059 I was tired of being the guy that everybody counted on. 765 00:37:28,184 --> 00:37:30,311 So one night Danny called... 766 00:37:31,604 --> 00:37:35,024 One night Danny called, crying, upset about something. 767 00:37:35,149 --> 00:37:39,529 I had to study for an exam. So I hung up. 768 00:37:40,530 --> 00:37:42,365 Took my things, I went to the library 769 00:37:42,490 --> 00:37:43,867 where I wouldn't have to hear the phone ring. 770 00:37:43,992 --> 00:37:46,703 I wonder how that turned out. 771 00:37:46,828 --> 00:37:48,037 My mother called me the next day, 772 00:37:48,162 --> 00:37:50,415 Danny had run away and left his meds behind. 773 00:37:50,540 --> 00:37:55,795 Which I knew meant that he would never be able to choose to come back, 774 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,632 because he'd be so detached from reality. 775 00:38:00,383 --> 00:38:04,262 So you made your one effort to live a normal, selfish life, 776 00:38:04,387 --> 00:38:06,514 and the universe immediately smacked you down. 777 00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:10,310 And because we're wired to find meaning in semi-random events, 778 00:38:10,435 --> 00:38:13,438 you decided never to be that careless again. 779 00:38:13,646 --> 00:38:16,649 You don't think that's a little facile? 780 00:38:16,774 --> 00:38:20,737 Actually, I don't. I think you did it consciously. 781 00:38:20,862 --> 00:38:24,532 You developed your people pleasing talents 782 00:38:24,657 --> 00:38:27,702 the way an Olympic athlete develops his muscles. 783 00:38:27,827 --> 00:38:30,705 Talk about an overreaction to a single event. 784 00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:32,749 It was a pretty big event. 785 00:38:32,874 --> 00:38:36,169 Hanging up the phone? That's what you're blaming all this on. 786 00:38:36,294 --> 00:38:39,505 That's the behavior you've been trying to correct. 787 00:38:39,631 --> 00:38:42,717 As though nothing else went wrong in your brother's life. 788 00:38:42,842 --> 00:38:45,303 Of course he overreacted, too, but... 789 00:38:47,764 --> 00:38:49,641 His glucose was normal. 790 00:38:50,683 --> 00:38:53,895 We're not talking about my brother anymore, are we? 791 00:38:54,020 --> 00:38:55,396 (CLEARS THROAT) 792 00:38:58,149 --> 00:39:02,278 It's House. AVMs don't explain his glucose. 793 00:39:02,403 --> 00:39:05,740 Since this is a significant moment in my life and all, I'll... 794 00:39:05,865 --> 00:39:06,783 Yeah. 795 00:39:06,908 --> 00:39:08,076 I think I'll just go in and... 796 00:39:08,201 --> 00:39:09,243 Explain that. 797 00:39:09,369 --> 00:39:10,620 Right. 798 00:39:11,829 --> 00:39:15,083 We have given him steroids. His glucose should have been elevated. 799 00:39:15,208 --> 00:39:18,544 That wannabe cyst you found in the whole body scan, 800 00:39:18,670 --> 00:39:20,338 without the glucose, it's an irrelevant cyst, 801 00:39:20,463 --> 00:39:22,757 with the glucose, it's a relevant fibroma. 802 00:39:22,882 --> 00:39:24,717 He has Doege-Potter Syndrome. 803 00:39:24,842 --> 00:39:27,679 His fibroma is secreting human growth hormone 804 00:39:27,804 --> 00:39:30,264 which acts like insulin, lowering his glucose. 805 00:39:30,431 --> 00:39:33,059 That doesn't explain the organ failure, the brain damage. 806 00:39:33,184 --> 00:39:35,645 This whole thing is an overreaction. 807 00:39:35,770 --> 00:39:38,940 That one small fibroma, it's benign, 808 00:39:39,065 --> 00:39:41,359 but his body's acting like it's an invader. 809 00:39:41,484 --> 00:39:44,612 His antibodies went to war against it and got carried away, 810 00:39:44,737 --> 00:39:47,740 attacked his other systems. Take out the fibroma, 811 00:39:47,865 --> 00:39:50,785 he'll be a happy hypocrite again in no time. 812 00:39:58,167 --> 00:39:59,669 NICK: Maybe I should call a cab. 813 00:39:59,794 --> 00:40:01,629 Your wife's probably just late. 814 00:40:01,754 --> 00:40:02,922 Yeah. 815 00:40:05,383 --> 00:40:08,344 I'm sorry about, 816 00:40:09,595 --> 00:40:12,473 you know, things I said. 817 00:40:15,184 --> 00:40:18,438 I have a conspicuous nose. 818 00:40:18,563 --> 00:40:20,189 It suits your face. 819 00:40:26,529 --> 00:40:28,698 I'm sorry I'm late. 820 00:40:29,365 --> 00:40:30,700 Traffic. 821 00:40:37,415 --> 00:40:38,875 I have some good news. 822 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,877 I was going to tell you, and then you got sick, 823 00:40:41,002 --> 00:40:43,504 it didn't seem like the best time. 824 00:40:44,172 --> 00:40:46,674 I've been offered a better position. 825 00:40:46,799 --> 00:40:50,636 I'd be coordinating cancer awareness walks in three cities. 826 00:40:50,762 --> 00:40:54,140 That's great. Congratulations. 827 00:40:54,265 --> 00:40:56,392 I know you've worked hard for this. 828 00:40:57,518 --> 00:40:58,686 Thank you. 829 00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:04,692 Is Marika okay? 830 00:41:05,693 --> 00:41:07,695 I'm sure she's moved on. 831 00:41:13,576 --> 00:41:15,578 Kids are so resilient. 832 00:41:35,389 --> 00:41:36,682 You Okay? 833 00:41:37,517 --> 00:41:40,103 I'll be seeing Danny again next week. 834 00:41:40,645 --> 00:41:42,146 I'd like you to meet him. 835 00:41:42,271 --> 00:41:43,439 Sure. 836 00:41:43,564 --> 00:41:45,149 Sounds interesting. 837 00:41:46,734 --> 00:41:48,069 Go on. 838 00:41:48,736 --> 00:41:51,072 I thought seeing him again would change everything. 839 00:41:51,197 --> 00:41:54,408 It'd be wonderful or terrible. Instead... 840 00:41:55,868 --> 00:41:59,705 We're just strangers. It's kind of anticlimactic. 841 00:41:59,831 --> 00:42:00,832 (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS) 842 00:42:00,957 --> 00:42:03,292 Which is better than terrible. 843 00:42:08,756 --> 00:42:10,049 Go on. 844 00:42:10,758 --> 00:42:14,387 Does it bother you that we have no social contract? 845 00:42:14,512 --> 00:42:15,721 (SCOFFS) 846 00:42:15,847 --> 00:42:17,932 My whole life is one big compromise. 847 00:42:18,057 --> 00:42:20,184 I tiptoe around everyone like they're made of china. 848 00:42:20,309 --> 00:42:21,894 I spend all my time analyzing. 849 00:42:22,019 --> 00:42:23,396 "What will the effect be if I say this?" 850 00:42:23,521 --> 00:42:26,065 And then there's you. You're a reality junkie. 851 00:42:26,190 --> 00:42:28,067 If I offered you a comforting lie, 852 00:42:28,192 --> 00:42:30,278 you'd smack me over the head with it. 853 00:42:30,403 --> 00:42:32,155 Let's not change that. 854 00:42:33,072 --> 00:42:34,282 Okay- 855 00:42:34,824 --> 00:42:36,701 No. See, this... 856 00:42:37,326 --> 00:42:41,372 If you were implementing a social contract, you'd say that, 857 00:42:41,497 --> 00:42:45,877 but only because it makes me feel better. 858 00:42:47,753 --> 00:42:50,840 It's kind of fun watching you torture yourself. 859 00:42:51,090 --> 00:42:53,634 Do you think things will work out with my brother? 860 00:42:53,759 --> 00:42:54,760 No. 861 00:42:56,512 --> 00:42:59,765 But when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault. 862 00:43:00,516 --> 00:43:02,018 Thanks, House. 863 00:43:02,768 --> 00:43:05,479 You do actually like monster trucks? 864 00:43:05,605 --> 00:43:06,814 Absolutely.