1 00:00:38,393 --> 00:00:39,519 HOUSE: Hey. 2 00:00:45,901 --> 00:00:47,319 (GRUNTING) 3 00:01:00,791 --> 00:01:01,917 KUTNER: Don't bother. 4 00:01:02,918 --> 00:01:04,127 He's dead. 5 00:01:09,633 --> 00:01:11,218 You're dead, too. 6 00:01:13,553 --> 00:01:14,763 The fire isn't. 7 00:01:17,015 --> 00:01:18,809 (FIRE CRACKLING) 8 00:02:04,855 --> 00:02:07,065 You might want to get up and start heading for the exit signs. 9 00:02:07,190 --> 00:02:08,233 For all I know, 10 00:02:08,483 --> 00:02:10,944 I already am up. 11 00:02:11,069 --> 00:02:12,154 More interesting question is, 12 00:02:12,279 --> 00:02:14,406 why would I hallucinate an ex-employee 13 00:02:14,531 --> 00:02:17,200 who I last saw with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, 14 00:02:17,325 --> 00:02:20,120 as opposed to someone more busty? 15 00:02:20,620 --> 00:02:22,330 Care to explain why you're here? 16 00:02:22,456 --> 00:02:23,457 The dead guy. 17 00:02:24,082 --> 00:02:25,500 Who is he? 18 00:02:26,084 --> 00:02:28,044 How'd you meet him? 19 00:02:33,133 --> 00:02:34,968 I was in a car accident last month. 20 00:02:35,927 --> 00:02:39,097 I won a swimming trophy in high school. Your turn. 21 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:41,975 I ran out of pain medication. 22 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:44,978 I got an orbital fracture. It's just taking ages to heal. 23 00:02:45,103 --> 00:02:46,104 Take off your shirt. 24 00:02:47,105 --> 00:02:48,106 MY 'file's up here. 25 00:02:49,107 --> 00:02:51,359 Orbital fracture means your face went into the windshield. 26 00:02:51,485 --> 00:02:53,862 Which means your chest went into the steering wheel. 27 00:02:53,987 --> 00:02:55,989 Painkillers can suppress heart rate, 28 00:02:56,114 --> 00:02:57,073 so unless you want me to kill you, 29 00:02:57,199 --> 00:02:59,117 take off your shirt, let me do a heart exam. 30 00:03:09,628 --> 00:03:12,756 I also wanted to see the ring of burns around your collarbone. 31 00:03:16,051 --> 00:03:17,552 - How did you know? - The "codeine allergy" 32 00:03:17,677 --> 00:03:18,845 you told the nurse about, 33 00:03:18,970 --> 00:03:21,014 that's shorthand for "give me the strong stuff," 34 00:03:21,139 --> 00:03:24,142 which matches your seen-better-days -because-my-life-fell-apart suit. 35 00:03:24,267 --> 00:03:25,602 The two old burns on your fingers 36 00:03:25,727 --> 00:03:27,020 mean you tend to nod off with a cigarette 37 00:03:27,145 --> 00:03:29,356 in your hand. No reason you shouldn't do that with one in your mouth. 38 00:03:29,981 --> 00:03:32,150 May all your doctors be stupid. 39 00:03:34,152 --> 00:03:35,153 Hold on a second. 40 00:03:37,906 --> 00:03:39,533 That bruising around your belly button. 41 00:03:43,954 --> 00:03:47,457 You might get some fun drugs out of this after all. 42 00:03:48,542 --> 00:03:49,835 HOUSE: Cullen's sign, 43 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,922 but the ultrasound showed air as well as blood. Now, 44 00:03:54,047 --> 00:03:57,175 I know what you're thinking. Hemorrhagic pancreatitis. 45 00:03:57,717 --> 00:03:59,135 But I also know what I'm thinking. 46 00:03:59,261 --> 00:04:00,804 Doesn't explain the pneumoperitoneum. 47 00:04:01,888 --> 00:04:03,014 You took a new case? 48 00:04:03,348 --> 00:04:05,183 You ran tests yourself? 49 00:04:06,309 --> 00:04:11,064 I saw the chance to help someone in need, and I instinctively... 50 00:04:11,189 --> 00:04:13,066 No, wait, that was someone else's instincts. 51 00:04:13,191 --> 00:04:15,527 Wilson's dying, your parole officer 52 00:04:15,652 --> 00:04:17,070 is probably on his way here right now. 53 00:04:17,195 --> 00:04:19,239 How are you possibly in a good mood? 54 00:04:19,364 --> 00:04:22,784 Did you never see Dead Poets Society? Carpe diam. 55 00:04:23,368 --> 00:04:27,080 Air in his abdomen could mean blah, blah, blah. 56 00:04:27,205 --> 00:04:30,250 But blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 57 00:04:30,375 --> 00:04:31,543 Blah, blah, blah. 58 00:04:32,752 --> 00:04:34,212 Nobody cares about the medicine. 59 00:04:34,713 --> 00:04:35,839 Perforated ulcer. 60 00:04:35,964 --> 00:04:38,091 Laparotomy to find the hole in his tummy and close it up. 61 00:04:38,216 --> 00:04:39,259 You didn't answer the team's question. 62 00:04:39,384 --> 00:04:42,053 Which is weird 'cause normally when I talk to my own employees, 63 00:04:42,178 --> 00:04:44,097 I'm under oath and hooked up to a lie detector. 64 00:04:44,222 --> 00:04:45,599 You were looking at six months of prison 65 00:04:45,724 --> 00:04:47,100 instead of five months of Wilson. 66 00:04:47,225 --> 00:04:48,101 Why happy? 67 00:04:48,226 --> 00:04:49,352 Obviously I had a plan. 68 00:04:49,477 --> 00:04:51,062 Obviously, obviously you had a plan. 69 00:04:51,187 --> 00:04:52,105 The more interesting question is, 70 00:04:52,230 --> 00:04:53,815 why you didn't tell the team. 71 00:04:53,940 --> 00:04:55,609 I think it's because part of you knew from the start 72 00:04:55,734 --> 00:04:57,527 that the plan wouldn't work. 73 00:05:02,198 --> 00:05:03,199 HOUSE: I need a meeting. 74 00:05:03,325 --> 00:05:04,576 I'm busy. Call my office. 75 00:05:05,577 --> 00:05:07,078 Yes. 76 00:05:07,203 --> 00:05:10,582 Because wobbly tables don't just un-wobble themselves. (DIALING) 77 00:05:10,707 --> 00:05:12,250 (PHONE RINGING) 78 00:05:14,044 --> 00:05:15,253 I need a meeting. 79 00:05:16,254 --> 00:05:17,339 Thanks for fitting me in. 80 00:05:17,464 --> 00:05:20,675 My team has eight urgent, life-or-death cases 81 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,844 that they've been waiting for me to accept or reject. 82 00:05:23,386 --> 00:05:25,305 When is that not true? 83 00:05:25,722 --> 00:05:27,265 Well, right now for one. 84 00:05:27,766 --> 00:05:31,061 But tell my parole board that I'm taking all eight. 85 00:05:32,062 --> 00:05:33,063 That no one else can crack them, 86 00:05:33,188 --> 00:05:34,439 that you need me here for the next five months 87 00:05:34,564 --> 00:05:36,274 or eight people will die. 88 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:38,109 You're asking me to perjure myself. 89 00:05:38,234 --> 00:05:41,696 Just a tiny white lie. No offence. 90 00:05:41,821 --> 00:05:45,158 Especially since from what I hear nothing black is tiny. 91 00:05:45,283 --> 00:05:48,244 Except your penis, I guess. 92 00:05:48,370 --> 00:05:50,497 You really think I wanted to cave in that ceiling? 93 00:05:50,622 --> 00:05:53,583 It was a prank that went wrong. 94 00:05:53,708 --> 00:05:55,001 Dock my pay, sue me... 95 00:05:55,126 --> 00:05:56,419 Felony vandalism should've added 96 00:05:56,544 --> 00:05:57,754 another year or two to your sentence. 97 00:05:57,879 --> 00:06:00,298 It's a miracle the parole board agreed to six months. 98 00:06:02,425 --> 00:06:04,886 I will go to jail. Eventually. 99 00:06:06,262 --> 00:06:09,849 I will pay the price. I'd just rather that Wilson didn't. 100 00:06:11,601 --> 00:06:13,395 Come on. Be a friend. 101 00:06:19,401 --> 00:06:20,527 Okay. (ELEVATOR DINGS) 102 00:06:20,652 --> 00:06:24,531 But whatever cases you have, you have to take them all. 103 00:06:34,749 --> 00:06:37,002 "Be a friend"? 104 00:06:37,127 --> 00:06:38,962 How many fingers am I holding up? 105 00:06:39,421 --> 00:06:40,630 Of course, you know it's three 106 00:06:40,755 --> 00:06:42,132 because you know everything I know, 107 00:06:42,257 --> 00:06:44,634 everything my smack-addled brain can remember. 108 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:47,762 Including that I actually said, "Be a friend." 109 00:06:47,887 --> 00:06:49,139 My point wasn't that you said it. 110 00:06:49,264 --> 00:06:51,307 My point was, once again, why? 111 00:06:51,433 --> 00:06:52,434 I think it's because part of you knew 112 00:06:52,559 --> 00:06:53,643 you were going to need a friend. 113 00:06:53,893 --> 00:06:57,397 Part of you knew the plan, even when it was working, wouldn't work. 114 00:06:59,149 --> 00:07:01,317 And right now, I'm curious about why you're sitting on the ground 115 00:07:01,443 --> 00:07:02,652 instead of heading for the door. 116 00:07:09,367 --> 00:07:11,578 Guess we've figured out why you're seeing me, 117 00:07:11,995 --> 00:07:13,788 your suicidal friend. 118 00:07:19,753 --> 00:07:22,547 He'll call you twice a day. Then his wife will call you twice a day 119 00:07:22,672 --> 00:07:25,258 to make sure she understands what he told her you told him. 120 00:07:25,383 --> 00:07:27,469 Which she won't, because he didn't. 121 00:07:27,594 --> 00:07:29,262 Maybe you want to give this one to Connors. 122 00:07:29,387 --> 00:07:30,430 (LAUGHS) (DOOR OPENS) 123 00:07:31,264 --> 00:07:32,265 Where's House? 124 00:07:33,224 --> 00:07:35,226 Don't know, don't care, working. 125 00:07:41,024 --> 00:07:42,400 Excuse me. 126 00:07:44,486 --> 00:07:47,155 No one has seen or heard from him since two nights ago. 127 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,573 I'm sure he's enjoying himself. 128 00:07:48,698 --> 00:07:49,741 Last time he went to prison 129 00:07:49,866 --> 00:07:50,950 he maxed out his credit cards. 130 00:07:51,076 --> 00:07:55,246 Last time he went to prison, he thought he had you waiting for him. 131 00:07:56,081 --> 00:07:59,084 You think he could have done something stupid? 132 00:08:00,794 --> 00:08:03,588 I think stupid is our best-case scenario. 133 00:08:04,422 --> 00:08:06,591 Why do you want to kill yourself? 134 00:08:06,716 --> 00:08:10,303 Here's a reason. I can't even get stoned without some annoying jerk 135 00:08:10,428 --> 00:08:13,139 deciding I need to be deeply analyzed. 136 00:08:14,641 --> 00:08:17,769 Isn't this just an incredibly simple calculation? 137 00:08:17,894 --> 00:08:22,190 I'm going to jail, losing my job, losing my best friend. 138 00:08:22,315 --> 00:08:23,316 Do I need more? 139 00:08:23,441 --> 00:08:25,318 You think that's the sum total of who you are? 140 00:08:25,443 --> 00:08:26,861 A doctor, a friend to Wilson? 141 00:08:26,986 --> 00:08:29,739 I'm also a tremendous baritone. 142 00:08:29,864 --> 00:08:31,366 Now go away. 143 00:08:32,492 --> 00:08:35,453 Even with your subconscious, you're evasive. 144 00:08:38,790 --> 00:08:41,292 Death's not interesting. 145 00:08:41,417 --> 00:08:43,336 You exist for what's interesting. 146 00:08:43,461 --> 00:08:46,172 Puzzles, ideas, analysis. 147 00:08:46,297 --> 00:08:49,467 Death is the opposite of a cool puzzle. 148 00:08:50,468 --> 00:08:52,470 It's eternal nothingness. 149 00:08:58,476 --> 00:09:01,479 But you don't find life interesting anymore. 150 00:09:03,314 --> 00:09:05,024 AMBER: Stop being an idiot. 151 00:09:08,820 --> 00:09:10,238 Can I have Kutner back, please? 152 00:09:10,363 --> 00:09:11,948 How much pathetic wallowing do I have to sit through? 153 00:09:12,073 --> 00:09:13,366 How are things in hell? 154 00:09:13,491 --> 00:09:14,826 Is the humidity the big issue? 155 00:09:14,951 --> 00:09:17,662 What happened next with the guy's medical case? 156 00:09:19,497 --> 00:09:21,374 Why? Exactly. 157 00:09:21,499 --> 00:09:23,376 Why am I, meaning you, 158 00:09:23,501 --> 00:09:25,920 still obsessing about this case? 159 00:09:26,504 --> 00:09:27,964 Obviously, we think it's relevant 160 00:09:28,089 --> 00:09:31,759 to why we're still sitting on the floor of a burning building. 161 00:09:35,388 --> 00:09:36,431 There was a code. 162 00:09:36,556 --> 00:09:37,974 (MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY) 163 00:09:38,391 --> 00:09:40,435 Gotta be a clot in his lungs. We need to get him to an OR. 164 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:42,437 CHI: No time, his O2 sats are falling. 165 00:09:42,562 --> 00:09:43,563 We have to suck it out here, 166 00:09:43,688 --> 00:09:45,523 bedside embolectomy. Float a catheter through his heart 167 00:09:45,648 --> 00:09:47,442 and his oxygenation'll get even worse. 168 00:09:47,567 --> 00:09:50,153 He'll die before we can finish the procedure. 169 00:09:51,571 --> 00:09:53,615 House, we need a call here. 170 00:09:58,536 --> 00:09:59,537 What are you doing? 171 00:10:01,581 --> 00:10:02,582 What did you give him? 172 00:10:03,750 --> 00:10:04,792 Five, 173 00:10:05,210 --> 00:10:06,211 four, 174 00:10:06,669 --> 00:10:09,589 three, two... 175 00:10:10,215 --> 00:10:11,549 (YELLING) 176 00:10:16,596 --> 00:10:17,597 Naloxone. 177 00:10:18,431 --> 00:10:19,432 We should have got suspicious 178 00:10:19,557 --> 00:10:23,603 when his visiting cousin signed in as Mr. Tar H. Horse. 179 00:10:24,229 --> 00:10:26,105 The heroin caused the respiratory distress, 180 00:10:26,231 --> 00:10:29,108 the naloxone turned off the receptors, causing your distress. 181 00:10:29,234 --> 00:10:31,736 I'm not going to stop doing drugs! 182 00:10:32,403 --> 00:10:34,572 It's reality that sucks! 183 00:10:35,615 --> 00:10:37,242 (AMBER LAUGHING) 184 00:10:38,785 --> 00:10:41,663 You're saying I'm lying? To my subconscious? 185 00:10:42,247 --> 00:10:44,582 People do it all the time. And like it or not, you are a person. 186 00:10:44,707 --> 00:10:45,917 He said every one of those... 187 00:10:46,042 --> 00:10:47,460 But not then. And not like that. 188 00:10:47,585 --> 00:10:49,045 This guy was going nuts from the naloxone. 189 00:10:49,170 --> 00:10:50,922 He couldn't be rational if you wanted him to be. 190 00:10:51,047 --> 00:10:53,508 Which you did. Why? 191 00:10:53,633 --> 00:10:54,676 I compressed the story a little to... 192 00:10:54,801 --> 00:10:55,885 Context matters. 193 00:10:56,427 --> 00:10:59,055 You never talk to patients for non-diagnostic reasons. 194 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:00,640 But this guy... 195 00:11:10,275 --> 00:11:11,651 Feeling better? 196 00:11:12,652 --> 00:11:15,113 I'm not going to stop doing drugs. 197 00:11:15,655 --> 00:11:19,409 You were a stockbroker, son of a stockbroker, 198 00:11:19,534 --> 00:11:20,660 married, children... 199 00:11:20,785 --> 00:11:22,829 And I was miserable. 200 00:11:24,831 --> 00:11:26,291 You say you were miserable 201 00:11:26,416 --> 00:11:29,752 because you need to rationalize screwing it up. 202 00:11:29,877 --> 00:11:31,963 Except I didn't. 203 00:11:32,088 --> 00:11:33,840 I mean, I did, 204 00:11:35,341 --> 00:11:37,552 but I'm not miserable. 205 00:11:37,677 --> 00:11:39,304 Not anymore. 206 00:11:41,431 --> 00:11:44,309 I had a ski injury 207 00:11:44,434 --> 00:11:46,561 and painkillers weren't enough 208 00:11:46,686 --> 00:11:49,689 and a friend of mine gave me some heroin. 209 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,447 The second it entered my veins, it was like 210 00:11:58,364 --> 00:12:01,242 God had taken over my body. 211 00:12:03,578 --> 00:12:05,997 It was like there was no more pain 212 00:12:06,122 --> 00:12:09,917 or unhappiness in my life or anybody else's. 213 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,385 But then you lost everything. 214 00:12:19,510 --> 00:12:21,554 Everything wasn't enough. 215 00:12:23,931 --> 00:12:26,309 Because it's reality that sucks. 216 00:12:28,269 --> 00:12:31,397 Are you arguing that he's a good role model? 217 00:12:31,522 --> 00:12:32,774 He's haPPY- 218 00:12:32,899 --> 00:12:33,900 He's dead. 219 00:12:35,735 --> 00:12:36,819 You heard what you wanted to hear. 220 00:12:36,944 --> 00:12:38,613 The more interesting question, 221 00:12:38,738 --> 00:12:41,908 always, is why you wanted to hear it. 222 00:12:44,744 --> 00:12:46,579 (PEOPLE TALKING ON TV) 223 00:12:49,415 --> 00:12:51,000 (INHALING DEEPLY) (DOOR SLIDES OPEN) 224 00:12:53,961 --> 00:12:56,547 You're stealing this guy's oxygen? 225 00:12:56,672 --> 00:12:58,508 There's oxygen everywhere. 226 00:12:58,633 --> 00:13:00,134 You passed on all your cases, 227 00:13:00,259 --> 00:13:02,637 reassigned them to other doctors. 228 00:13:03,596 --> 00:13:05,598 They weren't interesting. 229 00:13:05,723 --> 00:13:07,642 They were my reason for getting your sentence delayed. 230 00:13:07,767 --> 00:13:09,060 Yeah, I guess you'll have to tell 231 00:13:09,185 --> 00:13:10,728 the parole board something else. 232 00:13:10,853 --> 00:13:13,564 Maybe that I was in the OR the entire day the ceiling collapsed, 233 00:13:13,689 --> 00:13:16,567 so I couldn't have caused the plumbing problem. 234 00:13:18,277 --> 00:13:19,946 You set me up. Not really. 235 00:13:20,071 --> 00:13:22,156 You were going to basically perjure yourself 236 00:13:22,281 --> 00:13:23,741 so that I could delay jail time. 237 00:13:23,866 --> 00:13:26,077 Doesn't it make more sense to actually perjure yourself 238 00:13:26,202 --> 00:13:28,413 so I can actually avoid jail time? 239 00:13:29,705 --> 00:13:31,624 Why are you doing this? 240 00:13:32,667 --> 00:13:34,460 Why are you risking destroying yourself? 241 00:13:34,585 --> 00:13:36,671 There is no risk. I know you. 242 00:13:36,796 --> 00:13:38,673 You'll do the honest thing. 243 00:13:38,798 --> 00:13:40,216 You'll lie. 244 00:13:47,432 --> 00:13:48,516 No. 245 00:13:51,310 --> 00:13:53,104 (DOOR OPENS) 246 00:13:54,272 --> 00:13:56,190 (DOOR CLOSES) 247 00:14:01,988 --> 00:14:04,157 He's haPPY- 248 00:14:04,282 --> 00:14:06,033 He's dead. 249 00:14:08,619 --> 00:14:10,371 You weren't worried. 250 00:14:10,496 --> 00:14:13,082 Of course I was worried. My plan fell through. 251 00:14:13,207 --> 00:14:16,127 The plan didn't matter. Your plan to replace that plan didn't matter. 252 00:14:16,836 --> 00:14:19,130 Wilson didn't matter, jail didn't matter, 253 00:14:19,422 --> 00:14:20,506 the only thing that mattered, 254 00:14:20,631 --> 00:14:24,218 the only thing that ever mattered, was the puzzle. 255 00:14:30,516 --> 00:14:34,061 I noticed a slight twitch in his thenar eminence. 256 00:14:34,937 --> 00:14:36,147 Which meant... 257 00:14:36,272 --> 00:14:37,482 You're dying. 258 00:14:39,317 --> 00:14:41,068 Because my thumb is a little shaky? 259 00:14:41,611 --> 00:14:42,820 Plus the thinning of the muscle. 260 00:14:42,945 --> 00:14:45,156 Plus that speech you gave at Yankee Stadium 261 00:14:45,281 --> 00:14:48,034 saying you were the luckiest man on the face of the earth. 262 00:14:48,618 --> 00:14:50,661 Add them up, it means ALS. 263 00:14:52,455 --> 00:14:53,539 Lou Gehrig's disease? 264 00:14:54,457 --> 00:14:56,459 You're trapped in your body. You can't move or speak 265 00:14:57,460 --> 00:14:58,920 while you just die? 266 00:14:59,045 --> 00:15:00,213 If it makes you feel any better, 267 00:15:00,338 --> 00:15:02,757 at this rate, it'll be fast. 268 00:15:09,472 --> 00:15:11,474 You're not symmetrical. 269 00:15:11,599 --> 00:15:12,558 AMBER: Wait. 270 00:15:12,683 --> 00:15:13,851 Now you're standing at the door. 271 00:15:13,976 --> 00:15:15,102 What happened in the meantime? 272 00:15:15,228 --> 00:15:18,523 And lo, there was a miraculous wonder. I walked across the room... 273 00:15:18,648 --> 00:15:21,651 No, you just skipped over a chunk of conversation. 274 00:15:21,776 --> 00:15:24,362 He swore that he'd live a better, more selfless life 275 00:15:24,487 --> 00:15:26,113 in his remaining time, blah, blah, blah. 276 00:15:26,239 --> 00:15:29,367 After two blahs, I'd heard enough and I moved to the door. 277 00:15:29,492 --> 00:15:31,494 No. You're avoiding it. 278 00:15:33,412 --> 00:15:35,039 Do you smell smoke? 279 00:15:36,499 --> 00:15:37,792 Fair enough. 280 00:15:38,501 --> 00:15:40,419 You're not symmetrical. 281 00:15:43,130 --> 00:15:45,591 The veins on your right side are distended. 282 00:15:45,716 --> 00:15:46,676 What does that mean? 283 00:15:46,801 --> 00:15:49,554 There's a bulge in your supraclavicular notch. 284 00:15:49,804 --> 00:15:50,846 There's something in there. 285 00:15:50,972 --> 00:15:51,973 What? 286 00:15:52,848 --> 00:15:54,976 I'm not that good a doctor. 287 00:16:08,864 --> 00:16:10,616 Good news. 288 00:16:10,741 --> 00:16:12,368 Your case is fascinating. 289 00:16:12,952 --> 00:16:14,245 And good news for you, 290 00:16:14,370 --> 00:16:15,538 you're gonna live. 291 00:16:16,247 --> 00:16:18,416 You've inhaled a small branch, 292 00:16:18,541 --> 00:16:21,168 probably while you were realizing that it's all worth it 293 00:16:21,294 --> 00:16:23,379 while you were passed out on a park bench. 294 00:16:23,504 --> 00:16:25,590 Anyone else would have coughed it up, but 'cause you're a junkie, 295 00:16:25,715 --> 00:16:27,508 your cough reflex is suppressed. 296 00:16:27,633 --> 00:16:28,676 OLIVER: And it grew? 297 00:16:28,801 --> 00:16:30,720 HOUSE: Not unless you also inhaled a chunk of the sun 298 00:16:30,845 --> 00:16:33,723 and a drip-irrigation system, you idiot. 299 00:16:33,848 --> 00:16:37,935 It set off an autoimmune reaction which, and I can't help saying this, 300 00:16:38,060 --> 00:16:40,396 was the root of all your problems. 301 00:16:43,024 --> 00:16:44,567 AMBER: You're smiling. 302 00:16:46,819 --> 00:16:49,071 I was, and now I'm not. 303 00:16:50,573 --> 00:16:52,617 Because a moment's fun a few days ago 304 00:16:52,742 --> 00:16:54,452 does not trump a friend dying. 305 00:16:54,577 --> 00:16:55,828 Yeah, it does, you idiot. 306 00:16:56,829 --> 00:16:58,205 Because after he's dead you cry for a while 307 00:16:58,331 --> 00:17:00,541 and then you go back to doing what you love. 308 00:17:01,709 --> 00:17:04,086 Every patient I've had, 309 00:17:04,211 --> 00:17:07,632 in 70 years from now, they'll all be as dead as Wilson. 310 00:17:07,757 --> 00:17:09,925 Everybody dies. It's meaningless. 311 00:17:10,051 --> 00:17:11,427 When you solve a puzzle, 312 00:17:12,094 --> 00:17:15,473 the world makes sense and everything feels right. 313 00:17:15,598 --> 00:17:17,224 And you'll always have another one, 314 00:17:17,350 --> 00:17:19,602 because people will always get sick. 315 00:17:19,727 --> 00:17:21,479 It's shallow and it's insignificant, 316 00:17:21,604 --> 00:17:23,481 but if you don't give a damn if idiots live, 317 00:17:23,606 --> 00:17:26,692 why would you possibly give a damn about shallowness? 318 00:17:27,610 --> 00:17:29,362 It makes you happy. 319 00:17:30,529 --> 00:17:33,157 And why would you need more than that? 320 00:17:34,450 --> 00:17:35,618 Go home. 321 00:18:15,574 --> 00:18:16,659 Foreman. 322 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,830 House would never leave food out here rotting for days. 323 00:18:20,955 --> 00:18:23,374 His suitcases are in his closet. 324 00:18:25,668 --> 00:18:27,294 If we had handled this differently... 325 00:18:27,420 --> 00:18:29,338 We did the right thing. 326 00:18:31,006 --> 00:18:32,800 (CELL PHONE RINGING) 327 00:18:39,598 --> 00:18:40,599 Hello? 328 00:18:43,602 --> 00:18:45,563 I'll let his accountant know. 329 00:18:45,688 --> 00:18:47,273 House no-showed on a hooker two nights ago. 330 00:18:48,941 --> 00:18:50,568 Outgoing calls. 331 00:18:52,611 --> 00:18:53,696 Hooker. 332 00:18:55,030 --> 00:18:56,991 Me. I didn't pick up. 333 00:18:57,700 --> 00:18:59,577 The Chinese place... 334 00:18:59,952 --> 00:19:01,579 Wait, wait, wait. Who's that? 335 00:19:01,704 --> 00:19:03,539 He called four times. 336 00:19:03,664 --> 00:19:04,707 I don't know. 337 00:19:16,510 --> 00:19:17,720 (SNAPPING) 338 00:19:21,015 --> 00:19:22,475 (CREAKING) 339 00:19:24,727 --> 00:19:25,895 (TAPPING) 340 00:19:42,912 --> 00:19:44,079 (GRUNTING) 341 00:20:00,554 --> 00:20:01,722 (GROANS) 342 00:20:15,361 --> 00:20:18,697 It's a total disaster. Do you have any idea how hard it is 343 00:20:18,823 --> 00:20:22,117 to schedule a cable appointment with the hours that I work? 344 00:20:22,243 --> 00:20:24,203 House has been missing for two days, we know he talked to you. 345 00:20:24,328 --> 00:20:26,372 WILSON: Anything you can tell us about his mental state, 346 00:20:26,497 --> 00:20:27,998 or where he was headed, anything at all... 347 00:20:28,123 --> 00:20:30,543 Would be a breach of confidentiality and a violation of the law. 348 00:20:30,668 --> 00:20:33,128 Not if he's a danger to himself or someone else. 349 00:20:34,922 --> 00:20:37,341 Is this coming out of our 50 minutes? 350 00:20:37,466 --> 00:20:38,592 Is this your douchebag group? 351 00:20:39,051 --> 00:20:40,511 Excuse me. 352 00:20:45,808 --> 00:20:47,017 What makes you think he's a danger to himself? 353 00:20:47,142 --> 00:20:48,769 He hasn't been home, but he didn't take anything with him, 354 00:20:48,894 --> 00:20:50,604 not even his cell. 355 00:20:52,523 --> 00:20:53,649 You're not saying anything, 356 00:20:53,774 --> 00:20:55,818 which means he didn't specifically mention suicide. 357 00:20:55,943 --> 00:20:57,403 But you came out here to talk to us, 358 00:20:57,528 --> 00:21:00,531 so he must've said something that worries you. 359 00:21:01,866 --> 00:21:04,618 There are other ways of reaching oblivion. 360 00:21:04,743 --> 00:21:06,120 Vicodin? He always has his Vicodin, 361 00:21:06,245 --> 00:21:08,706 there's no reason to call a shrink... 362 00:21:08,831 --> 00:21:10,374 His last patient was a heroin addict. 363 00:21:13,836 --> 00:21:15,546 So I guess we're all done here. 364 00:21:16,839 --> 00:21:18,716 The guy's address has gotta be in the file. 365 00:21:22,678 --> 00:21:23,846 STACY: What about God? 366 00:21:26,348 --> 00:21:27,975 You were leaving, and then you stopped. 367 00:21:29,143 --> 00:21:30,436 Why? 368 00:21:30,561 --> 00:21:33,981 Your theory is I'm not leaving because I believe in God? 369 00:21:34,565 --> 00:21:35,816 What? He's calling me home? 370 00:21:35,941 --> 00:21:38,444 Maybe falling through that floor was a sign. 371 00:21:38,569 --> 00:21:40,654 Maybe that the universe hates you. Something. 372 00:21:42,781 --> 00:21:44,783 You really don't believe? 373 00:21:45,576 --> 00:21:48,621 Really, not in some deep crack of some remote recess 374 00:21:48,746 --> 00:21:51,248 of some dark corner of your mind? 375 00:21:51,373 --> 00:21:52,583 No. 376 00:21:53,584 --> 00:21:56,211 Except that some deep crack of some remote recess 377 00:21:56,337 --> 00:21:58,213 of some dark corner is here telling me... 378 00:21:58,339 --> 00:21:59,298 That's enough. 379 00:21:59,423 --> 00:22:02,885 In a burning building, facing imminent death, that's more than enough. 380 00:22:03,510 --> 00:22:05,095 Pascal's wager is facile. 381 00:22:05,220 --> 00:22:07,514 Saying it's facile is facile. 382 00:22:08,807 --> 00:22:10,309 Why is it wrong? 383 00:22:11,894 --> 00:22:13,604 Don't be logical. Be desperate. 384 00:22:13,938 --> 00:22:16,732 You've gotta have something to hold on to. 385 00:22:18,108 --> 00:22:20,903 But you can't live your life based on something you don't believe. 386 00:22:21,028 --> 00:22:24,907 But you could end your life based on something you don't believe? 387 00:22:25,032 --> 00:22:26,325 What about love? 388 00:22:27,326 --> 00:22:30,621 I lived with you for years. I know you believe in love. 389 00:22:34,625 --> 00:22:36,710 Foreman wouldn't help me. 390 00:22:37,795 --> 00:22:40,923 Which means I need you to take the fall. 391 00:22:42,007 --> 00:22:43,509 You do remember I'm dying, right? 392 00:22:43,634 --> 00:22:46,637 Which is why you'll never spend a day in jail. 393 00:22:47,179 --> 00:22:49,515 Fresh-faced, cancer-ridden. 394 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,266 It's tough to do both, but you pull it off. 395 00:22:51,392 --> 00:22:52,935 Your fingerprints are all over those hockey tickets. 396 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:55,521 I never admitted to flushing anything. 397 00:22:55,646 --> 00:22:58,899 My prints make sense if I gave those tickets to you, 398 00:22:59,024 --> 00:23:00,651 as an incentive to stay alive. 399 00:23:01,276 --> 00:23:03,612 And I was so angry that you didn't respect my dying wishes, 400 00:23:03,737 --> 00:23:05,823 I took thousands of dollars of season tickets 401 00:23:05,948 --> 00:23:07,324 and flushed them down toilets? 402 00:23:07,449 --> 00:23:10,202 All you have to do is create reasonable doubt. 403 00:23:10,327 --> 00:23:11,704 Great. What if I do more than that? 404 00:23:11,829 --> 00:23:12,997 What if I end up in jail? 405 00:23:13,122 --> 00:23:16,667 Or spending my final months in endless hearings? 406 00:23:18,293 --> 00:23:20,921 That's a risk you're willing to take. 407 00:23:22,715 --> 00:23:25,968 I have a reputation, I have a legacy that could... 408 00:23:26,093 --> 00:23:27,636 Wilson. 409 00:23:30,222 --> 00:23:32,891 I don't want to lose this time with you. 410 00:23:42,860 --> 00:23:44,028 Okay- 411 00:23:48,323 --> 00:23:49,700 Thanks. 412 00:23:50,701 --> 00:23:52,161 I knew I could count on you. 413 00:23:57,458 --> 00:23:58,709 Wait! Wait! 414 00:24:01,712 --> 00:24:03,714 You want the fries back? 415 00:24:06,341 --> 00:24:08,594 I'm not gonna take the fall. 416 00:24:14,725 --> 00:24:15,893 Don't do this to me, Wilson. 417 00:24:17,895 --> 00:24:19,605 - It's our only option. - Exactly. 418 00:24:19,730 --> 00:24:22,024 Because you overplayed your hand with Foreman. 419 00:24:22,149 --> 00:24:25,152 Because you knew you had me as a backstop. 420 00:24:25,277 --> 00:24:28,072 Even with me dying, you just assumed 421 00:24:28,197 --> 00:24:29,281 I'd be here to bail you out. 422 00:24:30,115 --> 00:24:32,242 Since you are here, and you are bailing me out, 423 00:24:32,367 --> 00:24:34,745 seems like a pretty safe assumption. 424 00:24:36,330 --> 00:24:37,498 Hey! 425 00:24:39,208 --> 00:24:41,001 I won't be here soon. 426 00:24:41,126 --> 00:24:42,836 If I do this, I'm teaching you 427 00:24:42,961 --> 00:24:45,047 that your bad behavior will always be rewarded. 428 00:24:45,172 --> 00:24:46,465 You need to learn... 429 00:24:46,590 --> 00:24:48,425 How to act when you're gone? 430 00:24:48,550 --> 00:24:51,011 If that's the lesson, we've a really great opportunity coming up. 431 00:24:51,136 --> 00:24:53,388 You'll just try to find someone else, and it won't work, 432 00:24:53,514 --> 00:24:54,640 and it shouldn't work. 433 00:24:54,765 --> 00:24:56,767 So that's the great wisdom you're imparting? 434 00:24:56,892 --> 00:24:58,393 That I'll always be alone? 435 00:24:58,519 --> 00:25:01,730 There's only one person you can count on. 436 00:25:05,234 --> 00:25:07,194 I thought there were two. 437 00:25:10,197 --> 00:25:11,824 I need to do this. 438 00:25:12,950 --> 00:25:14,201 For you. 439 00:25:24,795 --> 00:25:25,963 Wilson's right. 440 00:25:26,338 --> 00:25:29,341 He's always right. He's always been your good side. 441 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,803 I always wondered why I photographed so poorly. 442 00:25:33,804 --> 00:25:35,472 And because he's always played that role, 443 00:25:35,597 --> 00:25:37,808 you've never had to develop a conscience of your own. 444 00:25:39,017 --> 00:25:43,063 People don't change. Consciences don't spontaneously develop. 445 00:25:45,357 --> 00:25:47,025 You're wrong, Greg. 446 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,822 Which is why you'll be better off without him. 447 00:25:54,783 --> 00:25:59,454 You've been looking to him to find what you've gotta find within yourself. 448 00:26:02,666 --> 00:26:04,751 Something you can find. 449 00:26:22,352 --> 00:26:24,104 Hold your child. 450 00:26:42,164 --> 00:26:44,166 This is a reason to die. 451 00:26:46,126 --> 00:26:48,837 This is what my life could have been, not what it can be. 452 00:26:48,962 --> 00:26:50,130 If it could have been, 453 00:26:50,255 --> 00:26:52,341 you're capable of it now. 454 00:26:55,135 --> 00:26:57,429 You're married, Cuddy's gone. 455 00:26:57,554 --> 00:27:00,140 We aren't the only two people who could love you. 456 00:27:09,775 --> 00:27:11,777 Why settle so easily? 457 00:27:15,447 --> 00:27:18,575 These are just idiotic fantasies. 458 00:27:19,618 --> 00:27:20,619 Greg, don't. 459 00:27:21,745 --> 00:27:24,957 At odds with every logical bone in my body. 460 00:27:25,082 --> 00:27:26,166 Get up. 461 00:27:26,708 --> 00:27:29,169 You do not have to die in here! 462 00:27:44,268 --> 00:27:45,769 Is this hell? 463 00:27:46,645 --> 00:27:49,314 An eternity of people trying to convince me to live? 464 00:27:54,695 --> 00:27:57,531 Who says I'm here to convince you to live? 465 00:28:02,828 --> 00:28:04,705 You're the last one I thought would hate me. 466 00:28:04,830 --> 00:28:05,872 I don't hate you. 467 00:28:06,915 --> 00:28:08,417 I love you. 468 00:28:10,669 --> 00:28:12,337 And yet you think I deserve to die. 469 00:28:12,921 --> 00:28:15,716 But not as a punishment. 470 00:28:15,841 --> 00:28:17,259 As a reward. 471 00:28:19,845 --> 00:28:21,138 I think 472 00:28:21,847 --> 00:28:23,890 you've suffered enough. 473 00:28:24,016 --> 00:28:25,726 You've given enough. 474 00:28:25,851 --> 00:28:29,855 I think you deserve a chance to just 475 00:28:32,441 --> 00:28:33,859 give up. 476 00:28:37,154 --> 00:28:38,363 Like Wilson did? 477 00:28:38,655 --> 00:28:40,490 Like Wilson did. 478 00:28:40,615 --> 00:28:44,870 You accepted his choice that ending the pain is better than the pain. 479 00:28:47,664 --> 00:28:50,292 Why can't you give yourself that gift? 480 00:29:01,762 --> 00:29:03,305 This is the address House's patient gave? 481 00:29:04,890 --> 00:29:06,558 Everybody lies. 482 00:29:10,103 --> 00:29:11,897 Do you smell smoke? 483 00:29:25,911 --> 00:29:27,913 (SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE) 484 00:29:33,794 --> 00:29:35,045 Just let go. 485 00:29:35,921 --> 00:29:37,756 Just go to sleep. 486 00:29:42,928 --> 00:29:45,806 I had a chance to avoid this. 487 00:29:45,931 --> 00:29:48,934 You had many chances, and you blew them all up. 488 00:29:51,395 --> 00:29:52,979 No, this was different. 489 00:29:53,438 --> 00:29:56,817 They're all different. But the reasons are all the same. 490 00:29:56,942 --> 00:29:59,694 You're arrogant. You're self-destructive. 491 00:29:59,986 --> 00:30:03,240 You only care about yourself. 492 00:30:03,949 --> 00:30:06,243 That moment with the patient. 493 00:30:08,078 --> 00:30:10,956 That chunk of conversation I skipped over. 494 00:30:13,959 --> 00:30:15,961 I told him he was dying. 495 00:30:16,294 --> 00:30:17,587 If it makes you feel any better, 496 00:30:17,712 --> 00:30:20,048 at this rate, it'll be fast. 497 00:30:28,390 --> 00:30:30,058 Let me take the fall. 498 00:30:32,978 --> 00:30:34,980 Foryou. For that prank. 499 00:30:39,651 --> 00:30:40,694 You don't owe me anything. 500 00:30:40,819 --> 00:30:41,820 You tried to save me. 501 00:30:41,945 --> 00:30:44,865 I failed. Motives don't matter. Only actions. 502 00:30:44,990 --> 00:30:46,867 Trying is an action. 503 00:30:46,992 --> 00:30:49,286 Why are you trying to talk me out of this? 504 00:30:49,995 --> 00:30:53,748 You just fake the records, you say I came into the clinic last week. 505 00:30:53,874 --> 00:30:56,001 I'll tell the cops you treated me like crap. 506 00:30:56,126 --> 00:30:59,004 So I stole your tickets and flushed them. 507 00:31:05,218 --> 00:31:06,636 Thank you. 508 00:31:20,567 --> 00:31:22,527 And you're doing this because you're dying? 509 00:31:22,652 --> 00:31:25,030 I'm doing this because I have nothing left to lose. 510 00:31:29,034 --> 00:31:31,578 So when you were living, you did nothing for anyone and didn't care. 511 00:31:31,703 --> 00:31:36,541 Now that you're dying, you're willing to help a virtual stranger. 512 00:31:36,666 --> 00:31:40,795 Which means you're a better person dying than you ever were living. 513 00:31:41,713 --> 00:31:45,175 And the world's a better place because I didn't save you. 514 00:31:48,803 --> 00:31:52,057 Which makes me wonder why I'm about to tell you, 515 00:31:53,975 --> 00:31:55,852 you're not symmetrical. 516 00:31:55,977 --> 00:31:57,896 What's your point? 517 00:31:58,021 --> 00:32:00,774 That you cared about him more than you cared about yourself? 518 00:32:01,775 --> 00:32:05,612 You cared about the puzzle more than you cared about yourself. 519 00:32:07,155 --> 00:32:10,951 If I kept it to myself, then it would just be a puzzle. 520 00:32:12,077 --> 00:32:14,120 But I opened my mouth because I thought it was more. 521 00:32:14,246 --> 00:32:16,122 You know it's the same or you wouldn't be bickering with me 522 00:32:16,248 --> 00:32:17,624 while the flames lick at your feet. 523 00:32:18,083 --> 00:32:19,417 You're afraid of this decision, 524 00:32:19,543 --> 00:32:22,170 and you are trying to argue until fate takes it out of your hands. 525 00:32:24,089 --> 00:32:26,550 You're taking the cowardly way out. 526 00:32:27,259 --> 00:32:29,970 And worse, 527 00:32:30,095 --> 00:32:34,266 you're too cowardly to even admit you're taking the cowardly way out. 528 00:32:41,273 --> 00:32:42,857 You're right. 529 00:32:44,109 --> 00:32:45,819 But I can change. 530 00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:01,918 (SIREN WAILING) 531 00:34:00,602 --> 00:34:02,103 JESSICA: He could have gotten out. 532 00:34:03,605 --> 00:34:05,607 CHI: People are found sometimes. 533 00:34:05,982 --> 00:34:08,109 Even in collapsed... 534 00:34:10,820 --> 00:34:12,405 I think they're pulling a body out. 535 00:34:55,907 --> 00:34:57,909 The coroner confirms it's him. 536 00:35:15,593 --> 00:35:18,972 House hired me when no one else would. 537 00:35:19,597 --> 00:35:21,725 He got me fired. 538 00:35:22,392 --> 00:35:24,102 He gave me the guts to get fired. 539 00:35:24,519 --> 00:35:26,354 He gave me the courage to quit. (CHUCKLES) 540 00:35:26,813 --> 00:35:27,814 MRS. HOUSE: Gregory was... 541 00:35:29,482 --> 00:35:30,859 He was a good son. 542 00:35:31,818 --> 00:35:35,864 STACY: He was a trying boyfriend, but I 543 00:35:38,908 --> 00:35:40,827 never stopped loving him. 544 00:35:41,953 --> 00:35:44,164 DOMINIKA: He was my husband for real. 545 00:35:46,332 --> 00:35:47,751 (CHUCKLES) 546 00:35:47,876 --> 00:35:49,502 I couldn't help but love him. 547 00:35:49,753 --> 00:35:50,795 FOREMAN: He was my boss 548 00:35:51,838 --> 00:35:53,840 and my employee. 549 00:35:55,008 --> 00:35:56,217 At both times, 550 00:35:59,596 --> 00:36:00,638 I learned from him. 551 00:36:00,764 --> 00:36:02,974 TAUB: He made me a better parent, 552 00:36:03,433 --> 00:36:05,059 whether he meant to or not. 553 00:36:05,185 --> 00:36:06,603 THIRTEEN: He was willing to kill me. 554 00:36:08,938 --> 00:36:10,398 And I'll always be grateful. 555 00:36:11,816 --> 00:36:13,651 He wasn't always easy to deal with... 556 00:36:13,777 --> 00:36:15,862 CAMERON: ...but somewhere in there, 557 00:36:20,867 --> 00:36:22,744 he knew how to love. 558 00:36:27,874 --> 00:36:29,459 He was my friend. 559 00:36:32,170 --> 00:36:35,423 The thing you have to remember, 560 00:36:36,257 --> 00:36:37,842 the thing you can't forget, 561 00:36:37,967 --> 00:36:41,387 is that Gregory House saved lives. 562 00:36:43,681 --> 00:36:47,477 He was a healer, and in the end... 563 00:36:57,946 --> 00:36:59,364 House was an ass. 564 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:04,911 He mocked anyone. 565 00:37:05,036 --> 00:37:07,789 Patients, co-workers, his dwindling friends, 566 00:37:07,914 --> 00:37:11,417 anyone who didn't measure up to his insane ideals of integrity. 567 00:37:11,543 --> 00:37:14,087 He claimed to be on some heroic quest for truth. 568 00:37:14,212 --> 00:37:16,631 But the truth is he was a bitter jerk 569 00:37:16,756 --> 00:37:18,091 who liked making people miserable. 570 00:37:18,216 --> 00:37:21,511 And he proved that by dying selfishly, 571 00:37:21,636 --> 00:37:24,097 numbed by narcotics, without a thought of anyone. 572 00:37:26,808 --> 00:37:28,977 A betrayal of everyone who cared about him. CELL PHONE CHIMING) 573 00:37:29,978 --> 00:37:31,020 Phone. 574 00:37:31,145 --> 00:37:32,897 (CHIMING STOPS) 575 00:37:33,940 --> 00:37:35,441 (ALL MURMURING) 576 00:37:36,067 --> 00:37:37,819 A million times he needed me 577 00:37:37,944 --> 00:37:39,404 and the one time that I needed... (CELL PHONE CHIMING) 578 00:37:40,113 --> 00:37:42,407 Oh, come on! This is a funeral. 579 00:37:42,949 --> 00:37:44,117 Just get it. 580 00:37:45,201 --> 00:37:46,953 (CHIMING CONTINUES) 581 00:37:53,376 --> 00:37:54,377 (LAUGHS) 582 00:37:54,502 --> 00:37:55,879 This is embarrassing. 583 00:37:56,671 --> 00:37:58,673 I'd sworn I'd turned this off. 584 00:37:59,757 --> 00:38:00,967 This isn't my phone. 585 00:38:33,166 --> 00:38:34,250 Hi. 586 00:38:39,005 --> 00:38:40,006 How... 587 00:38:42,258 --> 00:38:44,552 I got out of the back of the building. 588 00:38:47,931 --> 00:38:48,973 The body... 589 00:38:50,016 --> 00:38:52,393 Just switched the dental records. 590 00:38:59,525 --> 00:39:01,361 You're destroying your entire life. 591 00:39:02,570 --> 00:39:05,031 You can't go back from this. 592 00:39:06,950 --> 00:39:08,493 You'll go to jail for years. 593 00:39:09,619 --> 00:39:11,120 You can never be a doctor again. 594 00:39:15,166 --> 00:39:16,793 I'm dead, Wilson. 595 00:39:19,128 --> 00:39:21,422 How do you want to spend your last five months? 596 00:39:27,887 --> 00:39:29,180 (CHUCKLES) 597 00:39:33,059 --> 00:39:35,061 (COUNTRY ROCK SONG PLAYING) 598 00:40:02,422 --> 00:40:04,090 (INAUDIBLE) 599 00:41:53,908 --> 00:41:56,244 When the cancer starts getting really bad... 600 00:41:59,205 --> 00:42:00,623 Cancer's boring. 601 00:42:10,466 --> 00:42:12,176 (UPBEAT SONG PLAYING) 602 00:42:13,219 --> 00:42:15,304 (MOTORBIKES STARTING)