1 00:00:06,069 --> 00:00:08,155 (PEOPLE SHOUTING) 2 00:00:35,766 --> 00:00:38,393 You made your point, now how about letting us do our job? 3 00:00:38,518 --> 00:00:41,605 Our point will be made when your company stops tearing down this mountain. 4 00:00:41,730 --> 00:00:43,523 Then who's gonna feed our kids? You? 5 00:00:43,649 --> 00:00:44,816 If you really cared about your kids, 6 00:00:44,941 --> 00:00:47,152 you'd want them to have air to breathe when they grow up. 7 00:00:47,277 --> 00:00:48,737 What did you say, you son of a bitch? 8 00:00:48,862 --> 00:00:50,822 You guys aren't the problem. 9 00:00:50,947 --> 00:00:52,783 You're being hurt more than anyone. 10 00:00:52,908 --> 00:00:54,534 You breathe in that coal dust... 11 00:00:54,660 --> 00:00:56,828 Coal is the dirtiest energy on Earth. 12 00:00:59,331 --> 00:01:00,666 Gonna need some backup. 13 00:01:00,791 --> 00:01:02,834 Not enough for you thugs to assault the environment? 14 00:01:02,959 --> 00:01:04,211 Doug, please, don't. 15 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,049 Susan? Susan, you okay? 16 00:01:13,470 --> 00:01:15,222 She needs to get to a hospital. 17 00:01:15,347 --> 00:01:18,058 She's just dehydrated. We have medics here. Let them give her fluids. 18 00:01:18,183 --> 00:01:19,351 She has no pulse. 19 00:01:20,852 --> 00:01:23,105 Either unhook your arm or I'm gonna break it off. 20 00:01:23,230 --> 00:01:24,940 Either way, this protest is over. 21 00:01:25,065 --> 00:01:27,025 The protest is over, come on! 22 00:01:27,818 --> 00:01:29,236 (MINERS SHOUTING) 23 00:01:32,906 --> 00:01:34,157 All right. 24 00:01:34,825 --> 00:01:36,451 (MINERS CHEERING) 25 00:01:41,248 --> 00:01:43,083 - What happened? - You passed out. 26 00:01:43,208 --> 00:01:45,919 It's okay. Just dehydrated. 27 00:01:47,379 --> 00:01:50,674 You know we'll be back. We'll be back! 28 00:02:03,645 --> 00:02:05,439 Hey, stop screwing around. 29 00:02:05,564 --> 00:02:07,774 I'm not screwing around. I just can't... 30 00:02:14,656 --> 00:02:15,949 I can't stand up. 31 00:02:17,909 --> 00:02:19,202 (GRUNTS) 32 00:03:04,623 --> 00:03:06,166 I need to push back our getaway. 33 00:03:06,333 --> 00:03:09,961 No, you don't. I found you a board, perfect size to learn on. 34 00:03:10,086 --> 00:03:11,880 I'm just postponing. O'Neil, from Philly General, 35 00:03:12,005 --> 00:03:13,840 wants me to get a patient in to see House. 36 00:03:13,965 --> 00:03:14,800 So? 37 00:03:14,925 --> 00:03:16,134 I owe him a favor. 38 00:03:16,259 --> 00:03:18,845 He's taken about a dozen of my referrals over the last year. 39 00:03:18,970 --> 00:03:22,307 I meant, so, that's five seconds to hand House the file, 40 00:03:22,432 --> 00:03:24,684 30 for him to question your real motives, 41 00:03:24,810 --> 00:03:25,894 a minute for witty comments 42 00:03:26,019 --> 00:03:28,688 comparing the length of your legs to Thirteen's... 43 00:03:28,814 --> 00:03:29,856 Plenty of time left over for the shore. 44 00:03:29,981 --> 00:03:32,108 I need to make sure he doesn't toss the file in the trash 45 00:03:32,234 --> 00:03:33,443 as soon as I'm out of sight. 46 00:03:33,568 --> 00:03:36,029 Babe, can't you repay the favor on another case? 47 00:03:36,571 --> 00:03:39,533 After last week, I could really use a break from this place. 48 00:03:39,658 --> 00:03:40,867 We both could. 49 00:03:41,451 --> 00:03:44,412 Once I'm sure he's really on the case, 50 00:03:44,538 --> 00:03:45,997 then we're out of here. 51 00:03:46,331 --> 00:03:49,084 And these legs, and every other part of me, will be all yours. 52 00:03:53,547 --> 00:03:55,799 He's seen three different specialists. 53 00:03:55,924 --> 00:03:57,717 Interesting. 54 00:03:57,843 --> 00:04:00,512 Almost as interesting as you trying to step into Kutner's shoes 55 00:04:00,637 --> 00:04:02,514 just days after he stepped out of them. 56 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:04,766 CAMERON: I am not shoe shopping, 57 00:04:04,891 --> 00:04:06,977 I'm just trying to repay a favor to his referring doctor. 58 00:04:07,102 --> 00:04:08,103 What's the mystery? 59 00:04:08,228 --> 00:04:11,815 The nutcase spends all his free time wreaking havoc at toxic waste dumps. 60 00:04:11,940 --> 00:04:12,983 Tox screen's negative. 61 00:04:13,108 --> 00:04:16,152 No neurological, muscular or cardiovascular abnormalities. 62 00:04:16,278 --> 00:04:18,864 The guy cares about the environment, that makes him a nutcase? 63 00:04:18,989 --> 00:04:20,240 TAUB: He's a single guy in his 20s, 64 00:04:20,365 --> 00:04:22,868 he cares about getting his hybrid waxed by girls 65 00:04:22,993 --> 00:04:24,077 who care about the environment. 66 00:04:24,202 --> 00:04:25,996 See? Not a nutcase. 67 00:04:26,121 --> 00:04:27,706 He's probably just faking so he can sue the cops 68 00:04:27,831 --> 00:04:28,915 and get a six-figure settlement. 69 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,083 If he was trying to fake an illness, 70 00:04:30,208 --> 00:04:33,503 why would he consent to be seen by the best diagnostician in the country? 71 00:04:33,628 --> 00:04:36,631 Now look who's trying to get her hybrid waxed. 72 00:04:36,756 --> 00:04:39,092 We need to do a vestibular caloric test, 73 00:04:39,217 --> 00:04:41,803 see if the balance problem starts above or below the neck. 74 00:04:41,928 --> 00:04:44,472 And when I say "we," I mean you. 75 00:04:44,598 --> 00:04:47,058 You're the one with a favor to repay, not them. 76 00:04:53,690 --> 00:04:56,484 I'm going to be injecting ice-water in your ear canal. 77 00:04:56,610 --> 00:04:58,820 If the resulting eye movements are at all erratic, 78 00:04:58,945 --> 00:05:01,531 then the balance problem's in your inner ear. 79 00:05:01,656 --> 00:05:03,992 Those in every room? 80 00:05:04,117 --> 00:05:05,076 I think so. 81 00:05:05,201 --> 00:05:09,122 Can you get rid of them? Preferably from every room? 82 00:05:09,247 --> 00:05:12,334 They use over 30 pesticides to grow commercial flowers. 83 00:05:12,459 --> 00:05:13,919 You'd think the medical industry would be a lot more... 84 00:05:14,044 --> 00:05:15,295 Concerned with medicine? 85 00:05:15,420 --> 00:05:18,048 Let's fix your body, then you can go back to fixing the Earth. 86 00:05:18,173 --> 00:05:19,132 This is gonna get a little uncomfortable. 87 00:05:19,257 --> 00:05:21,384 I just spent 14 hours chained to a tire. 88 00:05:21,509 --> 00:05:23,011 Most doctors would recommend... 89 00:05:23,136 --> 00:05:24,804 Our planet's headed for destruction. 90 00:05:24,930 --> 00:05:27,724 Coastlines underwater, a million species extinct. 91 00:05:27,849 --> 00:05:31,519 Whoa! Feels like I'm tumbling head over heels. 92 00:05:31,645 --> 00:05:34,064 It's normal. Sometimes this test causes vertigo 93 00:05:37,150 --> 00:05:38,652 and nausea. 94 00:05:40,946 --> 00:05:43,615 Cameron just brought me a case. 95 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:45,784 Cameron is happy in the ER. 96 00:05:45,909 --> 00:05:48,870 There's no way she wants her nose back on your grindstone. 97 00:05:49,454 --> 00:05:52,666 Egg-white omelet, no bacon, whole-wheat toast. 98 00:05:52,791 --> 00:05:54,960 I say it's not my grindstone she's after, 99 00:05:55,085 --> 00:05:57,045 and not her nose she wants on it. 100 00:05:57,170 --> 00:05:59,422 She and Chase are practically living together. 101 00:06:01,758 --> 00:06:03,593 What did you just order? 102 00:06:03,718 --> 00:06:05,136 An omelet. 103 00:06:06,179 --> 00:06:08,306 Since when do you pass on the swine? 104 00:06:09,099 --> 00:06:12,686 And wheat toast? Might as well eat a sheet of sandpaper. 105 00:06:12,811 --> 00:06:15,981 Yes, but I don't like eating the same thing two days in a row. 106 00:06:16,106 --> 00:06:18,817 Your bro's nurse not loving the love handles? 107 00:06:18,942 --> 00:06:20,819 I'm just not in the mood for bacon, 108 00:06:20,944 --> 00:06:23,363 and you are obviously trying to avoid talking about Kutner, 109 00:06:23,488 --> 00:06:27,033 which is odd because you spent a whole week obsessing about why... 110 00:06:27,158 --> 00:06:29,202 He's no longer on my team. 111 00:06:29,327 --> 00:06:30,745 I'm sorry he's no longer on my team. 112 00:06:30,870 --> 00:06:32,622 There's nothing else to talk about. 113 00:06:34,332 --> 00:06:36,710 You're wearing the watch he gave you for Secret Santa. 114 00:06:37,419 --> 00:06:39,754 Five functions, including a stopwatch 115 00:06:39,879 --> 00:06:42,465 to time how long it takes you to ask me if I'm okay. 116 00:06:43,466 --> 00:06:44,926 You gonna order? 117 00:06:46,970 --> 00:06:48,263 Not hungry. 118 00:06:52,267 --> 00:06:54,144 It's just weird. She's brought cases before, 119 00:06:54,269 --> 00:06:55,979 but he's never made her run the tests. 120 00:06:56,104 --> 00:06:58,898 Maybe he's looking for someone to mother him after what happened. 121 00:06:59,024 --> 00:07:00,358 The only kind of mothering House wants 122 00:07:00,483 --> 00:07:03,361 involves a bullwhip, leather diapers and a credit card. 123 00:07:05,405 --> 00:07:06,781 Mommy's home. 124 00:07:09,868 --> 00:07:12,662 Test made the patient lose his lunch, but his calorics are normal, 125 00:07:12,787 --> 00:07:14,998 his inner ear is fine and he still can't balance himself. 126 00:07:15,123 --> 00:07:16,833 How many normal test results do we need 127 00:07:16,958 --> 00:07:18,835 to know the patient's a granola-filled phony? 128 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,587 He's not lying about his symptoms. 129 00:07:20,712 --> 00:07:21,796 And you know this because... 130 00:07:21,921 --> 00:07:23,882 She changed her shoes. 131 00:07:24,007 --> 00:07:26,843 If he was faking, he'd have vomited on the other side of the bed. 132 00:07:26,968 --> 00:07:30,930 Sparring with the police and chaining yourself up for days can cause stress. 133 00:07:31,056 --> 00:07:32,640 Stress screws with the heart and arteries. 134 00:07:32,766 --> 00:07:35,060 Carotid atherosclerosis could cause a loss of balance. 135 00:07:35,185 --> 00:07:37,395 Wouldn't show up on CT or MRI. 136 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,398 It could also be our only warning before a massive stroke. 137 00:07:40,523 --> 00:07:42,942 (SIGHS) Do a Holter and a carotid doppler, 138 00:07:43,068 --> 00:07:45,820 see if his heart skips for more than the Spotted Owl. 139 00:07:46,488 --> 00:07:50,533 Although I didn't say "we," if I had... 140 00:08:02,045 --> 00:08:03,379 (HICCUPPING) 141 00:08:03,630 --> 00:08:06,007 Sorry if this is screwing up the test. 142 00:08:06,132 --> 00:08:09,511 Been hiccupping a lot lately, but not as bad as this. 143 00:08:09,636 --> 00:08:11,763 How much is a lot? And how long is lately? 144 00:08:11,888 --> 00:08:13,890 It's been on and off for about a week. 145 00:08:14,015 --> 00:08:15,934 Maybe a few hours a day. 146 00:08:16,059 --> 00:08:17,936 Did you tell the doctors in Philly about it? 147 00:08:18,728 --> 00:08:20,980 They didn't seem to think it was any big deal. 148 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:28,238 Hey, so we're still leaving tomorrow, aren't we? 149 00:08:28,363 --> 00:08:30,657 I'm not sure. 150 00:08:30,782 --> 00:08:33,952 The referring doctors didn't realize that his hiccups were... 151 00:08:34,077 --> 00:08:35,120 Hiccups? 152 00:08:35,578 --> 00:08:38,331 With this duration and intensity, most likely pathological, 153 00:08:38,456 --> 00:08:40,166 and it could mean it's serious. 154 00:08:41,251 --> 00:08:42,794 Are you avoiding me? 155 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:44,045 No. 156 00:08:44,170 --> 00:08:46,005 So, I shouldn't be at all concerned 157 00:08:46,131 --> 00:08:48,550 that you're treating another doctor's patient for hiccups 158 00:08:48,675 --> 00:08:51,636 instead of going on the vacation I spent a week planning? 159 00:08:54,430 --> 00:08:57,767 There is a reason I need to stay with this case a while longer, 160 00:08:57,892 --> 00:09:00,979 but I can't tell you what it is. 161 00:09:02,522 --> 00:09:06,901 So, you admit you lied to me, now you're asking me to trust you. 162 00:09:08,403 --> 00:09:09,737 Yes. 163 00:09:13,616 --> 00:09:14,826 Okay- 164 00:09:24,335 --> 00:09:26,087 No sign of heart or arterial problems, 165 00:09:26,212 --> 00:09:28,298 but he's been hiccupping on and off for over a week. 166 00:09:28,423 --> 00:09:32,760 Nice. I'm hooked. You can get back to your shift at the ER, 167 00:09:32,886 --> 00:09:35,346 except, as far as the ER is concerned, you're on vacation, right? 168 00:09:35,471 --> 00:09:38,099 I postponed a trip because I'm concerned about the patient. 169 00:09:38,224 --> 00:09:40,310 Explains why you ditched Chase and came to the differentials, 170 00:09:40,435 --> 00:09:41,436 not why you ran the tests. 171 00:09:41,561 --> 00:09:43,062 You told me to. 172 00:09:43,188 --> 00:09:44,105 Well, I'm not your boss, 173 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:46,191 something you usually take great pleasure in pointing out. 174 00:09:46,316 --> 00:09:49,360 Hey, you don't still have the hots for me, do you? 175 00:09:50,737 --> 00:09:53,781 I care about the patient and I care about the people who work on your team, 176 00:09:53,907 --> 00:09:55,325 they've been through a lot lately. 177 00:09:55,450 --> 00:09:57,535 - I just thought I... - Was Florence Nightingale 178 00:09:57,660 --> 00:09:59,829 and you're gonna nurse us back to spiritual and mental oneness. 179 00:09:59,954 --> 00:10:02,582 That would make sense if we were having this conversation a week ago. 180 00:10:02,707 --> 00:10:04,292 Think what you want, that I'm here to get a job, 181 00:10:04,417 --> 00:10:06,336 that I'm here to wrap you in swaddling clothes. 182 00:10:08,004 --> 00:10:10,632 Problem is, I think neither. Because neither makes sense. 183 00:10:11,841 --> 00:10:15,053 The only thing that does, doesn't. 184 00:10:21,726 --> 00:10:25,813 Pathological hiccups plus inability to balance, go. 185 00:10:27,148 --> 00:10:28,900 What she said. 186 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:31,527 Brain would connect the two. 187 00:10:31,778 --> 00:10:35,031 It could if Cameron hadn't already CT'd his head. 188 00:10:35,156 --> 00:10:37,075 Empty as her boyfriend's calendar. 189 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,118 What does this have to do with Chase? 190 00:10:39,244 --> 00:10:40,745 - Nothing. - Not sure yet. 191 00:10:41,329 --> 00:10:43,289 Patient is on a jihad against commercial flowers, 192 00:10:43,414 --> 00:10:44,749 he's picketed several nurseries. 193 00:10:44,874 --> 00:10:46,834 Organophosphate poisoning can cause both hiccups and... 194 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,878 No GI problems, no hypersalivation. 195 00:10:49,003 --> 00:10:51,047 It's possible it's not connected to a protest. 196 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:53,841 MS wouldn't show on the CT, and his name is Swanson. 197 00:10:53,967 --> 00:10:56,970 Scandinavians have an increased susceptibility to MS. 198 00:10:57,262 --> 00:10:59,138 Better theory than, "He's faking it." 199 00:11:00,056 --> 00:11:03,476 The clogs have it. Do a lumbar puncture to confirm MS. 200 00:11:06,854 --> 00:11:09,148 I guess we'll just continue to twiddle our thumbs. 201 00:11:10,024 --> 00:11:12,068 God, I hope that's a euphemism. 202 00:11:12,193 --> 00:11:13,361 How am I supposed to do a lumbar puncture 203 00:11:13,486 --> 00:11:15,029 on a patient with intractable hiccups? 204 00:11:15,154 --> 00:11:18,366 I'm trying to figure out what that could be a euphemism for. 205 00:11:19,951 --> 00:11:21,119 You'll find a way. 206 00:11:21,244 --> 00:11:22,495 (SIGHS) 207 00:11:24,622 --> 00:11:25,915 (DOUG HICCUPPING) 208 00:11:28,084 --> 00:11:31,087 You're not worried House is gonna be pissed you're helping me do the test? 209 00:11:31,212 --> 00:11:33,256 He said find a way, and you did. 210 00:11:34,799 --> 00:11:36,384 How do you think House is doing? 211 00:11:36,509 --> 00:11:37,927 That why you're here? 212 00:11:38,136 --> 00:11:39,429 Yeah. 213 00:11:40,555 --> 00:11:41,973 No, it isn't. 214 00:11:42,098 --> 00:11:45,226 Even if House was messed up by Kutner's suicide, it wouldn't matter. 215 00:11:45,351 --> 00:11:48,438 He already thinks life is nasty, brutish and long, 216 00:11:48,563 --> 00:11:51,107 and misery helps his diagnostic skills. 217 00:11:51,232 --> 00:11:54,277 All of which you know, so, why are you here? 218 00:11:54,402 --> 00:11:56,404 Which answer would you believe? 219 00:11:56,529 --> 00:11:58,781 If you want Kutner's place, it's fine by me. 220 00:11:58,906 --> 00:12:01,826 I could use someone else with the stones to stand up to House. 221 00:12:01,951 --> 00:12:05,872 But you've got to know that's gonna blow up your relationship with Chase. 222 00:12:06,456 --> 00:12:08,708 All I did was postpone a three-day trip. 223 00:12:08,833 --> 00:12:10,710 With Chase, to be with House. 224 00:12:11,919 --> 00:12:13,129 (HICCUPS) 225 00:12:14,630 --> 00:12:16,966 - What are you doing? - Ordering IV chlorpromazine. 226 00:12:17,091 --> 00:12:18,760 This could still be neurological. 227 00:12:18,885 --> 00:12:20,762 You can cloud his mental status. 228 00:12:20,887 --> 00:12:22,972 You wanna get the needle in his spine or you wanna talk? 229 00:12:30,938 --> 00:12:34,317 You and House been talking about filling Kutner's slot? 230 00:12:34,442 --> 00:12:37,362 Yeah, we went straight from the funeral to Human Resources. 231 00:12:39,655 --> 00:12:41,324 You interested in getting back on the team? 232 00:12:41,449 --> 00:12:43,493 I'm interested in knowing if Cameron's interested. 233 00:12:43,785 --> 00:12:46,579 She's been running all the tests for House's case. 234 00:12:46,704 --> 00:12:48,956 Well, she hasn't said anything to me. 235 00:12:49,082 --> 00:12:53,795 But I guess the referring doctor might have asked her to keep an eye on him. 236 00:12:56,714 --> 00:12:59,175 Do you think Cameron's in love with House? 237 00:12:59,842 --> 00:13:03,012 That is a ridiculous question. She's in love with you. 238 00:13:04,722 --> 00:13:07,141 Are you in love with House? 239 00:13:07,266 --> 00:13:10,770 That is an even more ridiculous question. 240 00:13:11,938 --> 00:13:14,232 Two questions, zero answers. 241 00:13:15,858 --> 00:13:17,860 I think I can extrapolate from there. 242 00:13:31,791 --> 00:13:33,000 FRANNI: Dr. House? 243 00:13:33,751 --> 00:13:37,004 Sorry, I'm just the zone delivery guy. 244 00:13:37,130 --> 00:13:39,632 I'm Doug Swenson's wife. 245 00:13:42,385 --> 00:13:45,179 His history said the environmental kamikaze was single. 246 00:13:45,304 --> 00:13:47,765 He probably didn't want me to worry. 247 00:13:47,890 --> 00:13:50,601 He told me he was in jail with some of the other protesters. 248 00:13:50,726 --> 00:13:52,186 Yeah, well, no worries there. 249 00:13:53,020 --> 00:13:57,859 He's in jail a lot. Not so often in the hospital. 250 00:13:57,984 --> 00:14:00,695 I searched his e-mail, and I found the referral to you yesterday. 251 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:04,115 You must really love your husband, and travel by rickshaw. 252 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,367 Only took you 18 hours to get here. 253 00:14:09,537 --> 00:14:13,833 Who eats kale? It's so bland it doesn't even taste like kale. 254 00:14:14,375 --> 00:14:17,170 I had to find somebody to take care of our 4-year-old son. 255 00:14:18,379 --> 00:14:19,839 Doug's all right, isn't he? 256 00:14:19,964 --> 00:14:20,840 I have no idea. 257 00:14:20,965 --> 00:14:22,300 I know he's an idiot, 258 00:14:22,425 --> 00:14:25,386 and now I've learned that he's a liar, so we're making... 259 00:14:27,513 --> 00:14:28,806 Who told you that I was in here? 260 00:14:28,931 --> 00:14:32,310 The doctor in the office next to yours said that you might be here. 261 00:14:39,525 --> 00:14:40,818 I got it figured out. 262 00:14:40,943 --> 00:14:42,862 That mean we don't need to do the LP? 263 00:14:42,987 --> 00:14:45,781 I was talking to her. You're not even supposed to be here. 264 00:14:45,907 --> 00:14:47,158 You want us to stop or not? 265 00:14:47,283 --> 00:14:50,161 What? I don't care what you do with him. 266 00:14:50,286 --> 00:14:52,205 You're not doing a favor for a doctor in Philly, 267 00:14:52,330 --> 00:14:55,124 you're doing a favor for an oncologist in North Jersey. 268 00:14:55,249 --> 00:14:56,834 I'm spying on you for Wilson? 269 00:14:56,959 --> 00:14:59,337 Spying, pre-emptive grief counseling... 270 00:14:59,462 --> 00:15:02,215 Wilson sees you 10 times more than I do, he's a better liar, 271 00:15:02,340 --> 00:15:04,884 and he wouldn't have to cancel a vacation to do it. 272 00:15:05,885 --> 00:15:09,347 Good points. Also doesn't explain the diet. 273 00:15:09,472 --> 00:15:11,807 What does any of this have to do with my husband? 274 00:15:11,933 --> 00:15:13,267 Nothing. 275 00:15:13,935 --> 00:15:18,147 Meet Mrs. Environmental Nutbag, or did you keep your maiden name? 276 00:15:18,272 --> 00:15:20,566 - He's married? - Yep. Got a kid, too. 277 00:15:20,691 --> 00:15:22,944 Double threat, ecu-freak and deadbeat dad. 278 00:15:23,110 --> 00:15:23,945 House! 279 00:15:24,070 --> 00:15:26,864 - Sorry, parentally challenged. - No, his neck. 280 00:15:29,534 --> 00:15:31,911 It's torticollis, reaction to the chlorpromazine. 281 00:15:32,078 --> 00:15:33,788 That's not just a spasm, it's swollen. 282 00:15:35,998 --> 00:15:37,667 Crunchy. 283 00:15:40,002 --> 00:15:41,879 FOREMAN: It's definitely not MS. 284 00:15:42,004 --> 00:15:44,257 Crunching sounds were caused by an air leak between his lungs. 285 00:15:44,423 --> 00:15:45,258 CAMERON: The leak in his mediastinum 286 00:15:45,383 --> 00:15:46,884 could've been caused by prolonged hiccups. 287 00:15:47,009 --> 00:15:48,261 More likely it was the neck spasm. 288 00:15:48,386 --> 00:15:49,679 CAMERON: Most likely it was there all along. 289 00:15:49,804 --> 00:15:51,931 We just didn't notice until the other symptoms made it worse. 290 00:15:52,056 --> 00:15:55,226 So, what causes loss of balance, pathological hiccups, 291 00:15:55,351 --> 00:15:57,228 and a hole in his Gloria Steinem? 292 00:15:57,353 --> 00:15:59,438 He was protesting a lumber mill last fall. 293 00:15:59,564 --> 00:16:01,440 Sarcoid's been linked to pine forests. 294 00:16:01,566 --> 00:16:03,317 No, his AC levels are normal. 295 00:16:03,442 --> 00:16:05,236 THIRTEEN: Progressive systemic sclerosis? 296 00:16:05,361 --> 00:16:07,113 Guy practically lives in industrial waste sites. 297 00:16:07,238 --> 00:16:08,698 If a solvent got absorbed through his lungs, 298 00:16:08,823 --> 00:16:11,450 caused an autoimmune firestorm... 299 00:16:11,576 --> 00:16:14,453 Start him on IV methylprednisolone for systemic sclerosis. 300 00:16:14,579 --> 00:16:16,205 Do a full work-up to confirm. 301 00:16:16,330 --> 00:16:18,124 - By myself? - Without yourself. 302 00:16:19,667 --> 00:16:22,795 Grab a bat. Grab some pine. 303 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:24,171 Time to bring in the first string. 304 00:16:30,469 --> 00:16:31,637 Why? 305 00:16:32,179 --> 00:16:35,266 You obviously want to be here. I can't figure out why. 306 00:16:35,391 --> 00:16:37,977 So I want to see where you go when you can't be here. 307 00:17:00,625 --> 00:17:02,418 You know what vacation means, right? 308 00:17:02,543 --> 00:17:04,920 You here because of House, Chase, or overtime issues? 309 00:17:05,046 --> 00:17:09,008 He's very concerned. Chase, not House. 310 00:17:09,133 --> 00:17:09,967 If it's all right with you, 311 00:17:10,092 --> 00:17:12,553 I'd rather communicate with Chase by communicating with Chase. 312 00:17:16,641 --> 00:17:18,309 Are you in love with House? 313 00:17:20,186 --> 00:17:24,190 You are not concerned about me. 314 00:17:24,315 --> 00:17:25,858 You're marking your territory. 315 00:17:26,734 --> 00:17:28,903 You shouldn't be involved with House, 316 00:17:29,028 --> 00:17:30,696 neither should I, neither should anyone. 317 00:17:32,365 --> 00:17:36,160 You and Chase are good together. Don't screw it up. 318 00:17:42,833 --> 00:17:44,460 FRANNI: When are you gonna stop this? 319 00:17:44,585 --> 00:17:45,878 How can you ask me to stop? 320 00:17:46,253 --> 00:17:49,090 You're in a hospital. You have a son. 321 00:17:50,299 --> 00:17:53,094 The steroids ought to get him breathing normally again. 322 00:17:53,219 --> 00:17:55,513 But autoimmune diseases are serious. 323 00:17:55,638 --> 00:17:58,808 Might not be a bad idea to take some time at home, rest up. 324 00:17:59,433 --> 00:18:01,143 (BREATHING HEAVILY) I can't just quit. 325 00:18:02,812 --> 00:18:04,897 Do you hate us that much? 326 00:18:05,022 --> 00:18:07,900 I love you, and I love our son. 327 00:18:09,485 --> 00:18:12,238 But why should he matter more than everyone else's? 328 00:18:12,905 --> 00:18:13,906 He does. 329 00:18:14,031 --> 00:18:15,116 Why? 330 00:18:16,075 --> 00:18:19,120 Because he's biologically connected to me? 331 00:18:19,245 --> 00:18:21,539 There's no rational reason. 332 00:18:22,498 --> 00:18:23,916 He's our son. 333 00:18:24,875 --> 00:18:29,630 And he's going to need to drink clean water and breathe clean air. 334 00:18:31,090 --> 00:18:32,883 I'm doing this for him, too. 335 00:18:37,138 --> 00:18:38,764 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 336 00:18:41,934 --> 00:18:43,894 Come on in, House. 337 00:18:45,938 --> 00:18:48,482 Because who else is it going to be at 10:30 at night? 338 00:18:48,607 --> 00:18:50,693 And, no, thanks, I already ate. 339 00:18:50,818 --> 00:18:53,195 I didn't ask you to dinner. 340 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,739 But you were going to. 341 00:18:54,864 --> 00:18:57,283 And when I explained that I'd eaten hours ago, 342 00:18:57,408 --> 00:18:59,869 you were going to move on to your real entree, 343 00:18:59,994 --> 00:19:01,829 rifling through my kitchen. 344 00:19:05,916 --> 00:19:06,751 Hmm. 345 00:19:06,876 --> 00:19:09,170 Inviting me to search your kitchen. 346 00:19:09,295 --> 00:19:10,838 Means you know that I'd find nothing, 347 00:19:10,963 --> 00:19:12,798 or you know that I'd find something, 348 00:19:12,923 --> 00:19:16,177 so you're hoping that I'm gonna assume the former and I won't bother to look. 349 00:19:17,845 --> 00:19:21,640 Or it means it's late, I'm tired, 350 00:19:21,766 --> 00:19:24,185 I know you're here to advance some paranoid theory 351 00:19:24,310 --> 00:19:27,062 based on a single egg-white omelet, and I'd like to get it over with 352 00:19:27,188 --> 00:19:28,439 so we can both go to sleep. 353 00:19:28,564 --> 00:19:29,899 Your single-omelet theory 354 00:19:30,024 --> 00:19:33,944 conveniently overlooks the grassy knoll you had for lunch today, 355 00:19:34,069 --> 00:19:36,113 a vegetable and grain gag-a-thon. 356 00:19:36,697 --> 00:19:39,658 The Warren Commission found no evidence of a second lunch, 357 00:19:39,784 --> 00:19:42,411 possibly because it was stolen from the doctors' lounge. 358 00:19:42,536 --> 00:19:44,455 You're not getting any fatter, 359 00:19:44,580 --> 00:19:46,665 your medical records were clean. 360 00:19:46,791 --> 00:19:47,958 You checked my... 361 00:19:48,083 --> 00:19:51,337 You're alone tonight, so it's Kutner. 362 00:19:53,422 --> 00:19:55,758 How could Kutner have any conceivable... 363 00:19:55,883 --> 00:19:57,968 Your patients live, your patients die, 364 00:19:58,093 --> 00:20:01,055 you float above it all like a medical colossus. 365 00:20:01,180 --> 00:20:02,640 But a fellow doctor dies... 366 00:20:02,765 --> 00:20:03,933 That's brilliant. 367 00:20:04,058 --> 00:20:06,769 Kutner was a wake-up call that if I didn't eat healthier, 368 00:20:06,894 --> 00:20:08,896 I might kill myself. 369 00:20:09,021 --> 00:20:10,940 Mortality is mortality. 370 00:20:12,274 --> 00:20:16,946 And ice cream is ice cream. 371 00:20:17,071 --> 00:20:21,575 Full-fat content. Quadruple-fat content. 372 00:20:24,787 --> 00:20:27,873 Stuff you haven't eaten just proves you haven't eaten it. 373 00:20:27,998 --> 00:20:31,001 You were hoping for evidence of stuff I have eaten? 374 00:20:31,126 --> 00:20:31,961 First door on the right. 375 00:20:32,086 --> 00:20:34,046 (CELL PHONE RINGING) 376 00:20:35,256 --> 00:20:36,799 (DOUG SCREAMING) 377 00:20:38,551 --> 00:20:40,261 Excruciating pain in his left leg. 378 00:20:40,386 --> 00:20:41,887 Acute onset, about 10 minutes ago. 379 00:20:42,012 --> 00:20:43,931 What are you doing to him? 380 00:20:44,682 --> 00:20:48,310 I assume they were checking for vascular pulsation. 381 00:20:48,435 --> 00:20:50,312 Either it's negative or he's a big wuss. 382 00:20:50,437 --> 00:20:52,064 It's not a tumor or an aneurysm. 383 00:20:53,899 --> 00:20:55,359 Metabolic bone disease? 384 00:20:55,484 --> 00:20:56,694 Bone density's normal. 385 00:20:56,819 --> 00:20:58,988 But the bone covering might not be. 386 00:20:59,113 --> 00:21:02,575 If it's osteomyelitis, an infection eating away at his periosteum... 387 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:05,411 Explains the pain. Odds are it's a subclinical infection 388 00:21:05,536 --> 00:21:07,037 that we made worse with the steroids we gave him. 389 00:21:07,705 --> 00:21:11,876 Start him on IV antibiotics, x-ray his legs to confirm osteomyelitis. 390 00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:14,086 Cameron's already done a full set of lower body x-rays. 391 00:21:14,378 --> 00:21:17,298 Infection obviously flared, do them again. 392 00:21:20,217 --> 00:21:22,052 Even if I had changed my diet, 393 00:21:22,177 --> 00:21:25,472 what possible reason could I have for hiding it from you? 394 00:21:33,731 --> 00:21:36,066 Ankle, tibia, fibula, all look normal. 395 00:21:36,191 --> 00:21:38,944 No inflammation, no signs of osteo. 396 00:21:39,361 --> 00:21:40,738 (GROANS) 397 00:21:41,614 --> 00:21:43,073 Hang in there, we're almost done. 398 00:21:46,535 --> 00:21:48,996 You and your wife, you talk about stuff? 399 00:21:49,121 --> 00:21:50,331 Sex. 400 00:21:50,456 --> 00:21:52,041 No. Anything else. 401 00:21:52,166 --> 00:21:53,167 Money. 402 00:21:54,543 --> 00:21:57,504 I'm gonna go way out on a limb here. 403 00:21:57,630 --> 00:22:00,007 Foreman not a Chatty Cathy? 404 00:22:01,050 --> 00:22:05,012 Normally, it doesn't matter. Last week, it did. 405 00:22:08,307 --> 00:22:11,936 You want to date men, good chance talking won't be... 406 00:22:15,856 --> 00:22:17,107 His femur's fractured. 407 00:22:17,232 --> 00:22:19,526 That's impossible. It's the hardest bone in the body. 408 00:22:19,652 --> 00:22:21,403 And he broke it lying in bed. 409 00:22:28,994 --> 00:22:32,414 How can you have a broken femur without so much as a bruise? 410 00:22:32,539 --> 00:22:34,625 Whatever broke it had to do it from within. 411 00:22:34,750 --> 00:22:36,502 Osteogenesis imperfecta? 412 00:22:36,627 --> 00:22:38,045 Brittle bones wouldn't cause hiccups, 413 00:22:38,170 --> 00:22:40,631 plus we'd have seen abnormal coloring in the sclerae. 414 00:22:40,756 --> 00:22:42,049 Which leaves cancer. 415 00:22:42,174 --> 00:22:44,051 Since when does bone cancer cause hiccups? 416 00:22:44,176 --> 00:22:46,011 Which means it's not bone cancer. 417 00:22:46,136 --> 00:22:48,055 Or it's not cancer. 418 00:22:48,180 --> 00:22:51,308 House is right. It'd be hard to find a guy outside Chernobyl 419 00:22:51,433 --> 00:22:53,477 who'd been exposed to more carcinogens, 420 00:22:53,602 --> 00:22:56,146 pesticide plants, nuclear waste sites. 421 00:22:57,731 --> 00:22:59,566 Tell Chase to repair the break. 422 00:22:59,692 --> 00:23:01,318 You two prep him for chemo. 423 00:23:01,443 --> 00:23:04,321 You want to blast him with chemo for a cancer we don't even know he has? 424 00:23:04,446 --> 00:23:08,158 No. I want to blast him with chemo for a cancer that explains the symptoms. 425 00:23:14,832 --> 00:23:16,709 CHASE: lntramedullary nail. 426 00:23:17,668 --> 00:23:19,378 FOREMAN: Hold on. 427 00:23:19,503 --> 00:23:21,839 That your House imitation? Some late-breaking epiphany? 428 00:23:22,047 --> 00:23:24,967 Just need you to get a bone biopsy before you insert the pin. 429 00:23:25,175 --> 00:23:26,176 For a broken leg? 430 00:23:26,301 --> 00:23:27,970 House is prepping him for chemo. 431 00:23:28,095 --> 00:23:29,513 Thought it might be worth checking for cancer 432 00:23:29,638 --> 00:23:32,099 before pumping him full of poison. 433 00:23:32,224 --> 00:23:33,809 Does Cameron agree with House? 434 00:23:33,934 --> 00:23:35,686 Cameron's not on the case anymore. 435 00:23:37,104 --> 00:23:38,230 Oh. 436 00:23:44,403 --> 00:23:47,114 Still enjoying your day off, I see. 437 00:23:47,239 --> 00:23:48,824 Why are you prepping him for chemo? 438 00:23:48,949 --> 00:23:52,369 The more interesting question is, why do you care? 439 00:23:52,494 --> 00:23:53,912 You're not even sure that it's... 440 00:23:54,038 --> 00:23:56,331 What I mean is, why do you care from here? 441 00:23:56,457 --> 00:23:57,916 You can monitor the patient from home. 442 00:23:58,042 --> 00:23:59,168 What's the difference between here and home? 443 00:23:59,293 --> 00:24:01,211 You're not at my home. 444 00:24:01,336 --> 00:24:02,671 This has nothing to do with... 445 00:24:02,796 --> 00:24:04,089 Any other differences? 446 00:24:04,423 --> 00:24:05,507 Hmm. 447 00:24:05,632 --> 00:24:08,260 There's less medical equipment, more training bras, 448 00:24:08,385 --> 00:24:11,180 and more Vegemite sandwiches. 449 00:24:11,305 --> 00:24:13,891 Actually, technically, right now Chase is here, 450 00:24:14,016 --> 00:24:16,018 but that's because I called him and you didn't know that, 451 00:24:16,143 --> 00:24:21,023 and it's irrelevant to my point, which is you and Chase are over. 452 00:24:22,733 --> 00:24:24,068 You are wrong. 453 00:24:24,193 --> 00:24:28,155 You decided that his single drawer of clothes is one drawer too many. 454 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:29,573 But you don't have the guts to tell him, 455 00:24:29,698 --> 00:24:34,870 so you're emotionally walking away instead of actually walking away, 456 00:24:34,995 --> 00:24:38,207 which is stupid because only one of those is good for your heart. 457 00:24:45,672 --> 00:24:47,841 He's gonna ask me to marry him. 458 00:24:50,010 --> 00:24:54,098 I was looking for some thick socks, found the ring. 459 00:24:56,975 --> 00:24:58,685 And you want to say no. 460 00:24:58,811 --> 00:25:01,730 So I circle right back to his single drawer of clothes... 461 00:25:01,855 --> 00:25:04,608 I don't want to say anything. I don't want him to ask. 462 00:25:06,610 --> 00:25:07,986 Not now. 463 00:25:09,571 --> 00:25:14,034 Kutner... We're all a little freaked out. 464 00:25:14,910 --> 00:25:17,621 We go home, we just want to hug someone. 465 00:25:17,746 --> 00:25:20,040 We just want to know everything's gonna be okay. 466 00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:27,089 I don't want him to propose just because he's scared. 467 00:25:30,092 --> 00:25:30,968 Oh. 468 00:25:39,643 --> 00:25:42,437 She's got a headache, fever, she's completely exhausted. 469 00:25:42,896 --> 00:25:44,857 Tell him about your chest, honey. 470 00:25:44,982 --> 00:25:47,609 Her breasts are really tender. 471 00:25:49,486 --> 00:25:51,947 You guys have a hot tub? 472 00:25:52,072 --> 00:25:52,906 No. 473 00:25:53,031 --> 00:25:54,283 So you must go to the gym a lot? 474 00:25:54,408 --> 00:25:55,659 Not in years. 475 00:25:56,827 --> 00:26:00,372 But maybe when you travel on business, you zip on down 476 00:26:00,497 --> 00:26:02,249 to that complimentary hotel spa. 477 00:26:02,374 --> 00:26:03,458 No. 478 00:26:03,917 --> 00:26:05,586 Sorry, did you just say yes? 479 00:26:05,794 --> 00:26:07,296 What the hell is wrong with her? 480 00:26:07,421 --> 00:26:08,672 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 481 00:26:09,339 --> 00:26:10,340 Got a minute? 482 00:26:10,465 --> 00:26:12,134 He doesn't. What's wrong with her? 483 00:26:12,593 --> 00:26:15,220 Sorry, I'm sure she's got a medical crisis, 484 00:26:15,387 --> 00:26:18,599 and I need more time to figure out some leading questions for your wife. 485 00:26:20,434 --> 00:26:21,768 What's going on with Cameron? 486 00:26:21,894 --> 00:26:24,813 She doesn't want back on my team, and she doesn't want to jump me. 487 00:26:26,773 --> 00:26:28,275 Okay- 488 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,735 What? 489 00:26:31,111 --> 00:26:34,823 You ask a question, I rule out two possibilities, and you're satisfied? 490 00:26:36,408 --> 00:26:38,035 That means you don't want an answer, 491 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,787 you just wanted to know there wasn't a particular answer. 492 00:26:40,913 --> 00:26:42,915 Either you were worried that she wanted back on my team 493 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,626 or you were worried she wanted back on me. 494 00:26:45,751 --> 00:26:47,669 This isn't a medical crisis, is it? 495 00:26:49,296 --> 00:26:52,466 Could be. A lot of STDs hang in the balance. 496 00:26:59,306 --> 00:27:02,017 I give up. Vinegar compresses four times a day. 497 00:27:02,643 --> 00:27:04,895 Any chance I could just leave it at that? 498 00:27:06,772 --> 00:27:09,691 No. Pseudomonas folliculitis. 499 00:27:09,816 --> 00:27:13,070 It's a skin infection from crowded and contaminated hot tubs, 500 00:27:13,195 --> 00:27:16,657 which you obviously use, but not with your husband. 501 00:27:19,159 --> 00:27:21,245 Tried to help a sister out. 502 00:27:26,792 --> 00:27:28,877 The nuclei were all normal-sized, 503 00:27:29,002 --> 00:27:31,088 bone cells are well-differentiated. 504 00:27:31,213 --> 00:27:33,131 No dysplasia means no cancer. 505 00:27:33,257 --> 00:27:34,675 That's good, isn't it? 506 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:35,842 We hope so, 507 00:27:35,968 --> 00:27:38,845 although it also means we still have no idea what caused the break. 508 00:27:39,054 --> 00:27:40,472 How does it feel? 509 00:27:40,597 --> 00:27:41,682 It hurts. 510 00:27:45,894 --> 00:27:47,145 Is it supposed to look like that? 511 00:27:47,271 --> 00:27:50,565 No, but it's probably just residual bleeding from the surgery. 512 00:27:50,691 --> 00:27:52,192 We should be able to... 513 00:27:57,114 --> 00:27:58,991 Need two units of FFP, right away. 514 00:27:59,116 --> 00:28:00,450 Oh, my God. What's happening? 515 00:28:00,575 --> 00:28:01,660 He's bleeding out. 516 00:28:06,748 --> 00:28:08,166 Means it's gotta be cancer. 517 00:28:08,292 --> 00:28:10,627 It's gotta be, except it's not. The biopsy was negative. 518 00:28:10,752 --> 00:28:12,629 Biopsies can be wrong, symptoms can't. 519 00:28:12,754 --> 00:28:13,922 All signs point to cancer, 520 00:28:14,047 --> 00:28:16,550 but you can't blast a cancer you can't find. 521 00:28:16,675 --> 00:28:20,679 Sure you can. Prep him for total-body irradiation. 522 00:28:20,804 --> 00:28:22,723 You do realize that's insane. 523 00:28:23,015 --> 00:28:26,018 Not unless you think the cancer's cleverly hiding outside his body. 524 00:28:26,143 --> 00:28:27,561 Steroids already weakened his immune system. 525 00:28:27,686 --> 00:28:30,355 That much radiation will kill him before it kills the cancer. 526 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,524 And if he doesn't have cancer, we could cause one, 527 00:28:32,649 --> 00:28:34,318 or destroy his immune system altogether. 528 00:28:34,443 --> 00:28:35,986 The guy could die from an infected toenail. 529 00:28:36,153 --> 00:28:38,322 So you'd rather do nothing, just let him die on his own? 530 00:28:38,447 --> 00:28:39,948 I'd rather make his cancer worse. 531 00:28:43,660 --> 00:28:47,122 Give him insulin-like growth factor, make any tumor or malignancy grow. 532 00:28:47,247 --> 00:28:49,082 Grows big enough, we can find it. 533 00:28:49,249 --> 00:28:50,751 That's like pouring gasoline on a fire. 534 00:28:50,876 --> 00:28:53,045 At least total-body irradiation is an actual treatment. 535 00:28:56,673 --> 00:28:59,468 His idea is better. Pour away. 536 00:29:15,067 --> 00:29:16,818 I've lost my mojo. 537 00:29:17,861 --> 00:29:19,905 Have you retraced your steps? 538 00:29:20,030 --> 00:29:21,823 Does your cleaning lady check your pockets before... 539 00:29:21,948 --> 00:29:25,827 I was clueless about Kutner, I was wrong about Cameron, 540 00:29:26,870 --> 00:29:30,874 Taub just came up with an idea that I should have seen long before he did. 541 00:29:30,999 --> 00:29:33,418 No one saw anything coming with Kutner, 542 00:29:33,543 --> 00:29:35,170 you hardly ever see Cameron anymore, 543 00:29:35,295 --> 00:29:38,882 and you hired Taub to come up with ideas that you wouldn't have come up with. 544 00:29:39,007 --> 00:29:41,593 And I have no idea why you're eating carrots. 545 00:29:41,718 --> 00:29:42,886 Good. 546 00:29:43,595 --> 00:29:46,932 I'm losing my mind, all you got to say is, "Good"? 547 00:29:47,057 --> 00:29:49,810 House, a guy you worked with for two years, who you mentored, 548 00:29:49,935 --> 00:29:53,397 and, yes, possibly even cared about, just blew his brains out. 549 00:29:54,398 --> 00:29:56,817 You can't find the reason, can't find the meaning in it, 550 00:29:56,942 --> 00:29:58,110 because sometimes there isn't any. 551 00:29:58,235 --> 00:30:01,321 Sometimes this is all there is. 552 00:30:02,406 --> 00:30:03,990 You should be losing it. 553 00:30:04,116 --> 00:30:06,993 You'd be crazy not to be off your game. 554 00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:08,829 But your mojo's right where you left it. 555 00:30:09,329 --> 00:30:11,540 Just keep playing with it. 556 00:30:12,499 --> 00:30:15,627 I gotta go. Help yourself. 557 00:30:20,924 --> 00:30:22,717 I know this is a tough process. 558 00:30:22,843 --> 00:30:25,303 At the first sign of any tumors or masses we can... 559 00:30:25,429 --> 00:30:27,222 Start saying prayers? 560 00:30:27,347 --> 00:30:29,891 - It's gonna be okay. Once we can... - No, it is not gonna be okay. 561 00:30:30,016 --> 00:30:31,518 You're growing his cancer. 562 00:30:31,643 --> 00:30:33,520 This isn't the doctors' fault. 563 00:30:34,354 --> 00:30:38,817 I've exposed myself to a lot of bad stuff. I knew the risks. 564 00:30:39,734 --> 00:30:41,486 (wmzeznqe) 565 00:30:41,862 --> 00:30:45,240 I want my life to mean something, 566 00:30:45,365 --> 00:30:47,159 and if that means I'm destined to... 567 00:30:49,035 --> 00:30:50,912 (EKG ALARM BLARING) 568 00:30:51,037 --> 00:30:53,540 He's in V-tach, and no pulse. Grab the paddles. 569 00:30:53,665 --> 00:30:54,958 Oh, God. 570 00:30:57,878 --> 00:30:59,796 Charging. Clear. 571 00:31:00,881 --> 00:31:02,591 Charging. Clear. 572 00:31:05,886 --> 00:31:08,180 I've been looking for you. 573 00:31:08,305 --> 00:31:10,390 And I've been thinking about you. 574 00:31:12,058 --> 00:31:15,854 Just hadn't reached the looking stage yet. 575 00:31:15,979 --> 00:31:17,355 Which is the problem. 576 00:31:19,191 --> 00:31:22,360 You asked for a day, I gave you two. 577 00:31:22,486 --> 00:31:26,198 You told me you had a secret you couldn't share, I respected that. 578 00:31:26,323 --> 00:31:27,657 Now I don't know what's worse, 579 00:31:27,782 --> 00:31:29,868 blowing off our vacation to hang around House, 580 00:31:29,993 --> 00:31:32,287 or continuing to blow it off when he won't hang around you. 581 00:31:32,412 --> 00:31:33,997 If you think I'm the least bit interested in House... 582 00:31:34,122 --> 00:31:36,625 I don't know what I'm supposed to think. 583 00:31:37,751 --> 00:31:40,086 I know this looks bad and... 584 00:31:40,212 --> 00:31:43,089 I don't care how it looks, I care what it is. 585 00:31:43,215 --> 00:31:45,425 And you're not telling me what it is. 586 00:31:45,550 --> 00:31:47,886 I'm trying to trust you, but... 587 00:31:52,307 --> 00:31:53,475 I just... 588 00:31:57,187 --> 00:31:59,064 I need a little more time. 589 00:32:02,984 --> 00:32:04,027 No. 590 00:32:05,946 --> 00:32:10,575 This has nothing to do with House. 591 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:15,997 Yeah, well, it has nothing to do with me either, not anymore. 592 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,798 Let me know when I can come pick up my things. 593 00:32:41,231 --> 00:32:43,233 TAUB: Nothing on the echo. We drew a troponin level, 594 00:32:43,358 --> 00:32:45,068 no signs of myocardial ischemia. 595 00:32:45,193 --> 00:32:46,361 All the tests were normal. 596 00:32:47,654 --> 00:32:51,866 Loss of balance, pathological hiccups, air leak between the lungs, 597 00:32:52,033 --> 00:32:55,120 broken femur, now tachycardia. Go. 598 00:32:59,374 --> 00:33:01,626 Come on, give me something. Give me a bad idea, 599 00:33:01,751 --> 00:33:03,587 maybe I can turn it into a good one. 600 00:33:10,302 --> 00:33:13,680 Fine. Open him up, put in a defibrillator. 601 00:33:13,805 --> 00:33:15,140 FOREMAN: That's permanent and risky. 602 00:33:15,265 --> 00:33:17,559 We don't even know what, if anything, is wrong with his heart. 603 00:33:17,684 --> 00:33:18,852 Redo all the tests. 604 00:33:18,977 --> 00:33:22,564 In the meantime, open him up, put in a defibrillator, 605 00:33:22,689 --> 00:33:25,400 so he can live long enough for you to finish the tests. 606 00:33:40,165 --> 00:33:44,294 Balance organs, nerves, lungs, bones, heart. 607 00:33:45,587 --> 00:33:49,382 Things you use to make bratwurst? 608 00:33:49,507 --> 00:33:52,052 There's no sign of infection, 609 00:33:52,177 --> 00:33:54,846 it's not a metabolic or autoimmune disease. 610 00:33:54,971 --> 00:33:57,474 It's definitely not cancer. I think. 611 00:33:57,599 --> 00:33:58,933 Definitely not cancer. 612 00:34:01,895 --> 00:34:03,396 Aren't you gonna pick? 613 00:34:03,521 --> 00:34:05,482 I'm thinking. ls there a ticking clock? 614 00:34:06,399 --> 00:34:09,402 You already put your money in. 615 00:34:09,527 --> 00:34:11,571 You never do that until you decide. 616 00:34:11,696 --> 00:34:12,864 That's very observant of you. 617 00:34:12,989 --> 00:34:13,990 Too bad you distracted me. 618 00:34:14,115 --> 00:34:17,577 Now I'm thinking I might change my mind. 619 00:34:21,081 --> 00:34:22,707 There's nothing healthy in that machine. 620 00:34:22,832 --> 00:34:24,501 No, there's not. 621 00:34:29,339 --> 00:34:33,301 Gummi Bears. You hate Gummi Bears. 622 00:34:35,261 --> 00:34:36,680 People can change. 623 00:34:36,805 --> 00:34:38,181 No. 624 00:34:38,306 --> 00:34:39,974 And more importantly, I hate them. 625 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:42,769 Oh, fine. Then I won't offer you any. 626 00:34:45,772 --> 00:34:47,774 You manipulative bitch. 627 00:34:48,983 --> 00:34:52,112 You're not suddenly eating healthy because you want to. 628 00:34:52,237 --> 00:34:55,448 You're eating healthy because you know I don't want to. 629 00:34:55,573 --> 00:34:58,451 I've been mooching food for 10 years, 630 00:34:58,576 --> 00:35:02,539 so either something started bothering you this week or you're... 631 00:35:02,664 --> 00:35:06,209 Screwing with you. It needed to be done. 632 00:35:07,168 --> 00:35:10,672 After Amber died, I withdrew, tried to change everything, 633 00:35:10,797 --> 00:35:13,591 hoping I'd sort it out, find some deeper truth. 634 00:35:13,717 --> 00:35:14,843 It was a mistake. 635 00:35:15,218 --> 00:35:17,512 I should have gone back to normal, to here and now. 636 00:35:17,637 --> 00:35:20,098 Because that's all we can ever really count on. 637 00:35:21,808 --> 00:35:23,977 Things need to get back to normal in your life. 638 00:35:24,102 --> 00:35:28,314 And what could be more normal than me screwing with you, 639 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,983 and you figuring it out? 640 00:35:31,693 --> 00:35:33,319 You manipulative bitch. 641 00:35:50,253 --> 00:35:52,630 TAUB: We need to put in a cardioverter defibrillator. 642 00:35:52,756 --> 00:35:55,759 It'll keep your heart beating while we keep looking. 643 00:35:55,884 --> 00:35:56,760 What does that mean? 644 00:35:56,885 --> 00:36:00,054 It means, even if we figure this out, 645 00:36:00,180 --> 00:36:04,517 you'll have to stop protesting anywhere not near a hospital. 646 00:36:06,853 --> 00:36:09,773 Hi. Got a few questions. 647 00:36:09,939 --> 00:36:11,900 We're about to start doing... 648 00:36:12,025 --> 00:36:14,068 A hopefully pointless medical procedure. 649 00:36:14,194 --> 00:36:18,281 Your life and my mojo hang in the balance. 650 00:36:18,406 --> 00:36:22,744 Pesticides are evil, which means that commercial flowers are doused in evil, 651 00:36:22,869 --> 00:36:26,331 but plant life is nature's answer to evil. 652 00:36:27,081 --> 00:36:28,708 So you have a garden. 653 00:36:28,833 --> 00:36:30,668 No. We live in an apartment. 654 00:36:32,712 --> 00:36:35,256 - A window box then? - No. 655 00:36:36,925 --> 00:36:37,967 Potted plants? 656 00:36:38,092 --> 00:36:39,719 Nothing. The commercial growers... 657 00:36:39,844 --> 00:36:41,095 Yeah, they're evil. Yeah, got it. 658 00:36:41,304 --> 00:36:44,349 House, I really don't think we have time for this. 659 00:36:47,018 --> 00:36:48,812 Your marriage sucks. 660 00:36:51,105 --> 00:36:52,315 Thank you. 661 00:36:53,107 --> 00:36:55,568 All marriages suck. Your marriage sucks. 662 00:36:55,693 --> 00:36:57,278 - No. - I love her. 663 00:36:58,029 --> 00:37:00,406 He loves a tree in Oregon more than he loves you, 664 00:37:00,532 --> 00:37:02,200 but he can't have sex with it. 665 00:37:02,325 --> 00:37:04,494 Unless it's that slutty oak outside Portland. 666 00:37:04,619 --> 00:37:06,496 You want to get to your point? 667 00:37:06,621 --> 00:37:07,914 She's had enough. 668 00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:11,042 She's gonna leave, maybe she's just not putting out, whatever. 669 00:37:11,167 --> 00:37:13,294 You gotta make it right. Right away. 670 00:37:13,419 --> 00:37:16,798 You gotta compromise that precious flower principle. 671 00:37:18,132 --> 00:37:19,425 Never. 672 00:37:22,095 --> 00:37:22,971 Once. 673 00:37:27,851 --> 00:37:30,728 Three weeks ago. Our anniversary. 674 00:37:30,854 --> 00:37:33,314 I missed the dinner to be at that rally. 675 00:37:33,439 --> 00:37:37,318 You planned it for months. You were mad, really mad. 676 00:37:38,236 --> 00:37:42,407 I bought you flowers. I brought them home. 677 00:37:42,532 --> 00:37:44,701 You were gone, so was your suitcase. 678 00:37:46,119 --> 00:37:48,329 I tossed them, bought you the earrings. 679 00:37:49,455 --> 00:37:50,540 Roses? 680 00:37:54,043 --> 00:37:55,420 Yes. 681 00:37:55,545 --> 00:37:58,339 You have sporotrichosis. 682 00:37:58,464 --> 00:38:00,675 It's an infection from the thorn of the rose, 683 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,762 which by any other name is still a cheap marital aid. 684 00:38:04,888 --> 00:38:06,306 The flowers are what gave me... 685 00:38:06,431 --> 00:38:09,392 Lesion on your eighth cranial nerve knocks out your balance, 686 00:38:09,517 --> 00:38:12,478 another on your phrenic nerve gives you serial hiccups. 687 00:38:12,604 --> 00:38:14,647 We then spread it to your bones and heart with steroids 688 00:38:14,772 --> 00:38:16,608 and insulin-like growth factor. 689 00:38:16,733 --> 00:38:18,735 Please tell us that this is good news. 690 00:38:19,485 --> 00:38:21,321 It's good news for him, 691 00:38:21,446 --> 00:38:23,573 it's good news for future generations. 692 00:38:23,698 --> 00:38:26,826 It's crappy news for you. He's gonna be fine. 693 00:38:27,493 --> 00:38:29,454 And he'll never doubt himself again. 694 00:38:38,004 --> 00:38:39,297 There you go. 695 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,095 Damn. I was hoping to interrupt something. 696 00:38:49,223 --> 00:38:51,893 Your favor's repaid, patient's cured. 697 00:38:52,477 --> 00:38:55,521 He's already packing for another Earth Day extravaganza next week. 698 00:38:55,647 --> 00:38:58,441 He almost died. He can't take a few days at home with his family? 699 00:38:58,566 --> 00:39:02,737 People only change after a trauma if they wanted to change before the trauma. 700 00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:05,740 Or if they've watched too many After School Specials. 701 00:39:05,865 --> 00:39:07,033 You talking about Chase? 702 00:39:07,158 --> 00:39:08,326 I'm talking about you. 703 00:39:09,577 --> 00:39:11,496 You lost husband number one, 704 00:39:11,621 --> 00:39:13,414 no surprise that the death of a colleague 705 00:39:13,539 --> 00:39:16,542 would make you question another long-term lease. 706 00:39:16,668 --> 00:39:18,002 You teaching commitment classes? 707 00:39:18,127 --> 00:39:19,587 'Cause I thought you were too busy with your lecture... 708 00:39:19,712 --> 00:39:21,381 I'm sure that was going to be hysterical. 709 00:39:21,506 --> 00:39:22,548 Let me just give you the Cliff Notes. 710 00:39:22,674 --> 00:39:26,052 Don't try to dump him by dumping cases on me. 711 00:39:26,177 --> 00:39:29,222 I told you, I never wanted to dump Chase. 712 00:39:29,347 --> 00:39:31,557 Absolutely. You wanted him to dump you. 713 00:39:31,683 --> 00:39:34,560 It's totally different, much less guilt. 714 00:39:34,686 --> 00:39:37,605 Either way, you're out of reasons to avoid him. 715 00:39:39,148 --> 00:39:41,484 Kutner was a pretty dumb one to begin with. 716 00:39:49,075 --> 00:39:50,994 I should never have postponed our vacation. 717 00:39:54,664 --> 00:39:56,249 I should never have planned it. 718 00:40:00,044 --> 00:40:02,005 I found the ring in your sock. 719 00:40:09,053 --> 00:40:12,265 I didn't want you to propose out of some sort of knee-jerk reaction 720 00:40:12,390 --> 00:40:13,766 to what happened to Kutner. 721 00:40:16,894 --> 00:40:18,855 Well, I guess you don't have to worry about that anymore. 722 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:20,606 I'm not. I... 723 00:40:22,817 --> 00:40:26,571 I don't care how it happens, I just want it to happen. 724 00:40:31,409 --> 00:40:33,202 Are you proposing to me? 725 00:40:34,037 --> 00:40:37,331 I'm proposing that 726 00:40:39,375 --> 00:40:40,918 you propose to me. 727 00:40:41,878 --> 00:40:45,798 After I broke up with you? After you ruined my planned proposal? 728 00:40:45,923 --> 00:40:46,924 You expect me to... 729 00:40:47,050 --> 00:40:48,634 I'm not expecting. 730 00:40:50,678 --> 00:40:52,263 I'm hoping. 731 00:40:56,642 --> 00:40:58,019 (SIGHS) 732 00:41:21,042 --> 00:41:22,210 Yes. 733 00:41:22,376 --> 00:41:24,378 (HOUSE PLAYING JAZZ ON PIANO) 734 00:42:55,887 --> 00:42:57,972 Solved another case, 735 00:42:59,140 --> 00:43:00,933 busted Wilson. 736 00:43:03,811 --> 00:43:07,148 Looks like you're not losing it after all.