1 00:00:57,099 --> 00:00:58,099 (PHONE CLICKS) 2 00:01:02,855 --> 00:01:04,856 You. Give me that. 3 00:01:05,774 --> 00:01:07,817 What are you talking about? 4 00:01:07,943 --> 00:01:09,819 - Mrs. Miller? - Your phone, young lady. 5 00:01:09,945 --> 00:01:12,530 I was just switching it to silent in case someone called. 6 00:01:12,656 --> 00:01:14,490 No, you were cheating. 7 00:01:14,616 --> 00:01:16,284 - Please. Like I have to cheat. - Lady? 8 00:01:16,410 --> 00:01:18,453 I said wait! 9 00:01:18,579 --> 00:01:20,079 Give it here. 10 00:01:20,205 --> 00:01:21,330 Sure. 11 00:01:26,003 --> 00:01:28,129 Love the blouse. 12 00:01:31,550 --> 00:01:33,634 I need to use the bunk room. 13 00:01:34,303 --> 00:01:36,053 The bathroom? Sure. 14 00:01:36,764 --> 00:01:37,805 In 19 minutes. 15 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:39,015 Can't do it. 16 00:01:39,892 --> 00:01:42,143 You got a friend in the bathroom with the answers? 17 00:01:42,269 --> 00:01:43,394 (GROANS) 18 00:01:46,774 --> 00:01:49,150 Fine. I'll get you an escort. 19 00:01:55,491 --> 00:01:56,824 (PANTING) 20 00:01:56,992 --> 00:01:59,619 Don't stink up till I kill you. 21 00:02:01,455 --> 00:02:02,914 Don't stand up. 22 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,624 Dx... 23 00:02:05,626 --> 00:02:06,667 Dt... 24 00:02:06,794 --> 00:02:09,128 Hey, he's really sick. 25 00:02:13,008 --> 00:02:14,175 Eyes on your work. 26 00:02:14,301 --> 00:02:15,635 Are you all right? 27 00:02:16,804 --> 00:02:17,845 What is going on? 28 00:02:17,971 --> 00:02:19,180 Get some help. 29 00:02:57,052 --> 00:02:58,886 FOREMAN: The kid was just taking his AP calculus exam, 30 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:00,847 when all of a sudden, he got nauseous and disoriented. 31 00:03:00,973 --> 00:03:02,807 That's the way calculus presents. 32 00:03:02,933 --> 00:03:04,100 Severe bradycardia. 33 00:03:04,226 --> 00:03:05,977 Heart rate's down to 48 and falling fast. 34 00:03:06,103 --> 00:03:08,771 - You know the kid? - No, he just came in. 35 00:03:08,897 --> 00:03:12,984 - Mom real good looking? - I didn't notice. 36 00:03:13,277 --> 00:03:15,111 Then it's a mystery. 37 00:03:15,237 --> 00:03:17,738 Not why he's sick, but why you care so much. 38 00:03:17,865 --> 00:03:19,824 Gift shop's open. Buy him a card. 39 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:22,618 - He's not responding to atropine. - Boys love fart jokes. 40 00:03:22,744 --> 00:03:24,579 Find one with a good fart joke. 41 00:03:26,415 --> 00:03:28,666 He's a teenager. It's drugs. 42 00:03:29,418 --> 00:03:32,461 Tell those ER geniuses to give him charcoal and naloxone, 43 00:03:32,588 --> 00:03:33,796 and stop following me. 44 00:03:33,922 --> 00:03:37,341 His tox screen was negative. He's still whacked out. 45 00:03:38,427 --> 00:03:41,888 You don't care about the kid. You just find his illness intriguing. 46 00:03:42,014 --> 00:03:43,264 His CAT scan was clean. 47 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:45,308 There's no sign of infection. It's not diabetes. 48 00:03:45,434 --> 00:03:47,059 And you don't care about him. 49 00:03:47,185 --> 00:03:49,896 If that's what you wanna hear, not in the slightest. 50 00:03:50,022 --> 00:03:51,439 Me, neither. 51 00:03:53,191 --> 00:03:55,026 Means we'll be objective. 52 00:04:01,658 --> 00:04:02,867 Maybe it's shigellosis. 53 00:04:02,993 --> 00:04:04,869 Wouldn't account for the bradycardia. 54 00:04:04,995 --> 00:04:05,953 Viral myocarditis? 55 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:08,164 Wouldn't account for the whacked out. 56 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:11,334 So, what's the differential for a negative tox screen? 57 00:04:11,460 --> 00:04:12,418 He was clean. 58 00:04:12,544 --> 00:04:13,836 Unless someone screwed up the test. 59 00:04:13,962 --> 00:04:15,504 That never happens. 60 00:04:15,631 --> 00:04:18,007 Or he OD'd on something we didn't test for. 61 00:04:18,133 --> 00:04:20,885 1,4-butanediol would give you these symptoms. 62 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:23,804 - That's a new one. - Copy machine toner. 63 00:04:24,139 --> 00:04:28,559 Same punch as GHB. A little pricier, way more dangerous. 64 00:04:29,019 --> 00:04:31,062 On the other hand, it is legal. 65 00:04:31,188 --> 00:04:34,065 I want you to go to his house and find his stash. 66 00:04:34,191 --> 00:04:36,442 I'll bet you know all the good hiding spots. 67 00:04:36,568 --> 00:04:38,736 Actually, I never did drugs. 68 00:04:39,071 --> 00:04:42,114 Better go with him, in case he gets high. 69 00:04:43,116 --> 00:04:44,283 How much atropine is the kid getting? 70 00:04:44,409 --> 00:04:45,409 One ml. 71 00:04:45,535 --> 00:04:48,788 Make it two. In case he needs his heart later on. 72 00:04:51,083 --> 00:04:53,918 CHASE: Matt, did you take any drugs this morning? 73 00:04:54,378 --> 00:04:55,962 Pencils down. 74 00:04:57,673 --> 00:04:59,757 Can you squeeze my fingers for me? 75 00:05:03,845 --> 00:05:07,348 Did anyone give you anything to help with the math test? 76 00:05:08,141 --> 00:05:09,183 Matt? 77 00:05:09,309 --> 00:05:11,102 I told you. He doesn't take drugs. 78 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:15,690 Ms. Davis, all parents think that about their children, 79 00:05:15,816 --> 00:05:17,817 and they're usually wrong. 80 00:05:17,985 --> 00:05:20,945 I gave my mum a little trouble when I was his age. 81 00:05:21,071 --> 00:05:23,280 I turned out okay. Even she thought so. 82 00:05:23,407 --> 00:05:24,991 I know my kid. 83 00:05:25,117 --> 00:05:28,244 The fact that you did drugs doesn't mean he did. 84 00:05:29,830 --> 00:05:31,998 Did he go anywhere last night? 85 00:05:34,042 --> 00:05:36,377 No, he was home studying. 86 00:05:36,503 --> 00:05:39,422 - Any friends come over to help him? - And bring him drugs? 87 00:05:39,548 --> 00:05:41,382 - Is that what your friends did? - Ms. Davis... 88 00:05:41,508 --> 00:05:42,466 Look, 89 00:05:44,761 --> 00:05:46,178 I tested him myself. 90 00:05:46,304 --> 00:05:48,889 The home kit. I took some hair off his brush. 91 00:05:49,016 --> 00:05:52,226 I didn't want him to know about it, because I do trust him. 92 00:05:53,103 --> 00:05:55,187 Then why did you test him? 93 00:05:57,232 --> 00:05:59,150 MARGO: All he did last night was study 94 00:05:59,276 --> 00:06:01,861 and argue about his college interviews. 95 00:06:02,154 --> 00:06:06,866 He wants to be himself. No haircut, ratty old clothes. 96 00:06:06,992 --> 00:06:08,868 That'll go over big. 97 00:06:08,994 --> 00:06:11,537 Then we both gave up and went to bed. That's it. 98 00:06:11,663 --> 00:06:16,125 CHASE: Has he ever had any problems like this before? Any family history? 99 00:06:16,251 --> 00:06:18,669 No, it's just me and Matt. 100 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:20,796 - Diazepam, 10 milligrams, stat. - Right. 101 00:06:20,922 --> 00:06:23,924 MARGO: What's going on? Just taking some precautions. 102 00:06:24,676 --> 00:06:27,803 He's seizing. Help me hold him. 103 00:06:29,598 --> 00:06:32,224 Stay cool, mate. We'll calm you down. 104 00:06:42,861 --> 00:06:45,237 This room is way too clean for a teenage boy. 105 00:06:45,363 --> 00:06:47,031 You know why House thinks I'm a druggie? 106 00:06:47,157 --> 00:06:48,783 This is gonna be a racial thing, isn't it? 107 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:51,202 Same reason he thinks this kid overdosed. 108 00:06:51,328 --> 00:06:54,455 When you're a drug addict, you wanna believe everyone else is, too. 109 00:06:54,581 --> 00:06:56,791 He's not addicted. He has to take drugs. 110 00:06:56,917 --> 00:06:59,293 The definition of an addict. 111 00:06:59,961 --> 00:07:00,961 He's in pain. 112 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:02,838 FOREMAN: And addicted to pain killers. 113 00:07:02,964 --> 00:07:04,632 What a coincidence! 114 00:07:07,052 --> 00:07:09,011 You really never did any drugs? 115 00:07:09,137 --> 00:07:09,929 (FOREMAN CHUCKLES) 116 00:07:10,055 --> 00:07:12,431 Now this is gonna be a racial thing. 117 00:07:13,391 --> 00:07:14,892 Deflecting a personal question with a joke. 118 00:07:15,018 --> 00:07:16,852 Gee, who do I know that does that? 119 00:07:16,978 --> 00:07:18,896 Yeah, I'm just like him. 120 00:07:19,022 --> 00:07:21,899 Except for the angry, bitter, pompous cripple part. 121 00:07:22,025 --> 00:07:24,193 Maybe we should all pitch in and get you a nice cane. 122 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:26,862 You already have the matching gym shoes. 123 00:07:36,498 --> 00:07:37,414 Check this out! 124 00:07:39,835 --> 00:07:43,170 Mom's not too careful with the homemade tomato sauce. 125 00:07:44,881 --> 00:07:45,923 When the top sticks out like that, 126 00:07:46,049 --> 00:07:49,468 it's a sign of bacterial contamination. 127 00:07:55,016 --> 00:07:56,517 This one's open. 128 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,903 I am extremely disappointed. 129 00:08:10,574 --> 00:08:13,033 I send you out for exciting new designer drugs, 130 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,744 and you come back with tomato sauce. 131 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:19,748 I bet you paid twice as much. I got mine online. 132 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,836 Matt decided to make himself a homemade pizza for a bedtime snack. 133 00:08:23,962 --> 00:08:26,547 Source of botulism, as well as a million other toxins 134 00:08:26,673 --> 00:08:29,717 that cause gastroenteritis, cardiac symptoms and mental confusion. 135 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:31,510 I'm not so sure about gastroenteritis. 136 00:08:31,636 --> 00:08:34,013 But mental confusion? Bring it on. 137 00:08:34,139 --> 00:08:35,848 Don't, but... 138 00:08:35,974 --> 00:08:37,975 (EXCLAIMS) Delicious. 139 00:08:38,101 --> 00:08:39,476 Do you have a death wish? 140 00:08:39,603 --> 00:08:41,020 I notice you didn't try to save me. 141 00:08:41,146 --> 00:08:43,063 I figured you were trying to make some kind of subtle point. 142 00:08:43,190 --> 00:08:45,608 I was. The kid just started seizing. 143 00:08:45,734 --> 00:08:47,693 Not a symptom of food borne toxins. 144 00:08:48,278 --> 00:08:49,904 Also not a symptom of drug use, 145 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:52,114 not two hours after admission. 146 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,116 So, what would make him seize, 147 00:08:54,242 --> 00:08:56,493 in addition to all these other delightful symptoms? 148 00:08:56,620 --> 00:08:59,079 - Pesticide poisoning. - Carbamates. 149 00:08:59,206 --> 00:09:04,001 - Or organophosphates, organochlorines. - Inhalation or absorption? 150 00:09:04,127 --> 00:09:05,294 Too soon to tell. 151 00:09:05,670 --> 00:09:07,963 We should wash him down. The poison could still be on his skin. 152 00:09:08,423 --> 00:09:09,757 Already told the nurses. 153 00:09:24,189 --> 00:09:26,565 WOMAN ON PA: Nursing supervisor to the instrument room. 154 00:09:26,691 --> 00:09:28,567 I feel good. 155 00:09:30,028 --> 00:09:31,987 That's your complaint? 156 00:09:32,739 --> 00:09:33,906 Your major symptom. 157 00:09:34,032 --> 00:09:35,574 I told her this was a waste of time. 158 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:37,368 I notice colors more. 159 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:42,373 And music! I'm really hearing music. 160 00:09:43,041 --> 00:09:45,918 I'm 82, and I'm supposed to be 161 00:09:46,044 --> 00:09:48,504 playing canasta with the other old ladies, 162 00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:53,509 but now, when I see a guy with a cute butt, 163 00:09:54,719 --> 00:10:00,724 I can't stop looking at him. Or a sexy beard. 164 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,980 And you figure that enjoying cute butts is a sign of disease? 165 00:10:06,106 --> 00:10:08,482 It all started a month ago when Mark 166 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:10,651 rented Gone with the Wind for me, 167 00:10:10,777 --> 00:10:12,444 but it had the wrong DVD in it. 168 00:10:12,988 --> 00:10:15,114 Right, I forgot. This is all my fault. 169 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,491 Of course, he was too busy to bring it back. 170 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:18,909 Yeah, like I don't have a life. 171 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:22,413 So I watched it, and it had this actor in it, 172 00:10:22,831 --> 00:10:25,666 this kid called Ashton Kutcher. 173 00:10:26,126 --> 00:10:32,131 Now, I think about Ashton all the time. 174 00:10:34,301 --> 00:10:36,343 All the time. 175 00:10:37,178 --> 00:10:38,304 Ah. 176 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:43,392 You remind me of him. Same bedroom eyes. 177 00:10:44,102 --> 00:10:46,186 People are always mixing us up. 178 00:10:46,313 --> 00:10:49,273 I suppose you, you need to check my heart? 179 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:52,818 No. No, no, that... That won't be necessary. 180 00:10:52,944 --> 00:10:53,902 I told you. 181 00:10:54,029 --> 00:10:56,196 HOUSE: But I am going to admit you to the hospital for tests. 182 00:10:56,323 --> 00:10:58,198 What tests? She's just old. 183 00:10:58,325 --> 00:11:00,159 And you're just insufferable. 184 00:11:00,285 --> 00:11:02,036 Your mother has had a sudden personality change. 185 00:11:02,162 --> 00:11:03,037 She should be checked out. 186 00:11:03,163 --> 00:11:05,247 I'll have a nurse come in and admit her. 187 00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:07,124 I'm too handsome to do paperwork. 188 00:11:10,545 --> 00:11:11,920 (BEEPING) 189 00:11:13,298 --> 00:11:15,632 WOMAN ON PA: Anesthesiologist to OR Room 4. 190 00:11:16,343 --> 00:11:19,219 Anesthesiologist to OR Room 4. 191 00:11:21,306 --> 00:11:22,931 (SIGHS) 192 00:11:23,350 --> 00:11:25,934 He's been on this medication for over an hour. 193 00:11:26,061 --> 00:11:27,519 Pralidoxime is very effective. 194 00:11:27,645 --> 00:11:29,813 It just takes a little time for it to kick in. 195 00:11:29,939 --> 00:11:32,274 And maybe you're wrong. Maybe it's not a pesticide. 196 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,651 The blood work was pretty conclusive. 197 00:11:34,778 --> 00:11:36,362 It's an organophosphate. 198 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,448 (ERRATIC BEEPING) 199 00:11:41,284 --> 00:11:42,117 Oh, my God. 200 00:11:42,243 --> 00:11:45,454 Move back. Ms. Davis, move back, please. 201 00:11:47,499 --> 00:11:49,792 We're at 30, bradycardic arrest. Get me the pads. 202 00:11:52,170 --> 00:11:53,712 MARGO: What are you doing? 203 00:11:53,838 --> 00:11:55,964 CHASE: We're gonna beat his heart for him. 204 00:11:56,883 --> 00:11:58,300 Set it at 60. 205 00:12:12,357 --> 00:12:27,246 (SIGHS) 206 00:12:31,209 --> 00:12:33,419 I can't stand this anymore. 207 00:12:33,545 --> 00:12:35,379 We'll keep him on the pads for another hour. 208 00:12:35,505 --> 00:12:36,880 Then what? 209 00:12:37,966 --> 00:12:39,174 Let's see what happens. 210 00:12:41,261 --> 00:12:46,515 Well, that's not my philosophy, especially when it comes to my son. 211 00:12:46,641 --> 00:12:49,935 And if something bad might happen, 212 00:12:50,061 --> 00:12:51,645 I'd like to know what our options are. 213 00:12:53,940 --> 00:12:55,649 The pralidoxime isn't doing him any good. 214 00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:56,817 We're gonna have to wire his heart. 215 00:12:56,943 --> 00:12:58,026 Maybe we're wrong about the pesticides. 216 00:12:58,153 --> 00:12:59,778 I ran his plasma again, twice. 217 00:12:59,904 --> 00:13:02,114 Are there any stronger treatments for the organophosphate poisoning? 218 00:13:02,824 --> 00:13:05,242 Damn it! You caught me. We went with the weak stuff. 219 00:13:05,368 --> 00:13:06,535 I was just trying to save a little money. 220 00:13:06,661 --> 00:13:08,203 Actually, one of my professors at Columbia 221 00:13:08,329 --> 00:13:10,080 developed an experimental treatment for the Army. 222 00:13:10,206 --> 00:13:11,999 CAMERON: What's the success rate? FOREMAN: They're targeted. 223 00:13:12,125 --> 00:13:14,126 There's a different hydrolase treatment for each poison. 224 00:13:14,252 --> 00:13:16,879 We need to know if Matt got hit with Orthene or malathion... 225 00:13:17,005 --> 00:13:17,963 What's the success rate? 226 00:13:18,089 --> 00:13:20,048 Excellent, I'm sure. It's the US Army. 227 00:13:20,175 --> 00:13:21,842 "Be all you can be." 228 00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:24,052 Point is, what are the kid's chances without it? 229 00:13:24,304 --> 00:13:26,847 Minimal at best. The poison's broken the blood-brain barrier. 230 00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:29,766 I assume "minimal at best" is your stiff-upper-lip, 231 00:13:29,893 --> 00:13:31,518 British way of saying "no chance in hell". 232 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:32,853 I'm Australian. 233 00:13:32,979 --> 00:13:34,980 You put the Queen on your money. You're British. 234 00:13:35,106 --> 00:13:36,648 And call your professor. 235 00:13:36,774 --> 00:13:39,067 If we don't know what kind of organophosphate we're targeting, 236 00:13:39,194 --> 00:13:40,986 we don't know which hydrolase to ask for. 237 00:13:41,112 --> 00:13:42,154 There's over 40 organophosphates. 238 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,740 - I'll get all of them. - Get all of them. 239 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:47,117 Great minds think alike. 240 00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:49,119 By the time they get here, we're gonna know which one we need. 241 00:13:49,245 --> 00:13:50,829 Well, if we figure out how he got exposed, 242 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:52,247 we'll figure out what he was exposed to. 243 00:13:52,373 --> 00:13:54,082 HOUSE: Well, the mom had homemade tomato sauce. 244 00:13:54,209 --> 00:13:57,836 Call me crazy, but I'm thinking maybe homemade tomatoes. 245 00:13:57,962 --> 00:13:59,213 - Front yard, vegetable garden. - Yeah. 246 00:13:59,339 --> 00:14:02,090 Kid's out there spraying, sees a pretty girl, 247 00:14:02,217 --> 00:14:05,052 hormones raging, spray can goes off in his face. 248 00:14:06,179 --> 00:14:08,680 - I'll check into it. - I'll make the call. 249 00:14:08,806 --> 00:14:11,725 I'll keep the kid alive, for a while, at least. 250 00:14:12,894 --> 00:14:14,811 I'll have lunch. 251 00:14:15,647 --> 00:14:20,567 Through the superior vena cava, into the right atrium. 252 00:14:21,611 --> 00:14:23,862 Through the tricuspid valve 253 00:14:25,907 --> 00:14:29,243 and lodging into the wall of the right ventricle. 254 00:14:31,955 --> 00:14:33,997 Can you turn off the pads? 255 00:14:34,832 --> 00:14:36,458 (MACHINES BEEPING) 256 00:14:39,087 --> 00:14:41,088 Capturing? 257 00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:42,839 Getting a native heart rate of 36. 258 00:14:42,966 --> 00:14:44,758 No, that won't do. Let's get him to 50. 259 00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:12,619 "The healer with his magic powers, 260 00:15:13,079 --> 00:15:16,957 I could rub his gentle brow for hours 261 00:15:17,834 --> 00:15:21,336 His manly chest, his stubbled jaw 262 00:15:21,838 --> 00:15:25,132 Everything about him leaves me raw" 263 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:26,341 Psych ward's upstairs. 264 00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:27,634 "With joy 265 00:15:28,511 --> 00:15:33,265 Oh, House, your very name will never leave this girl the same" 266 00:15:33,808 --> 00:15:36,101 It's not bad for an 82-year-old. 267 00:15:36,227 --> 00:15:38,186 She asked me to give that to her true love. 268 00:15:38,313 --> 00:15:41,189 What can I say? Chicks with no teeth turn me on. 269 00:15:41,316 --> 00:15:44,192 - That's fairly disgusting. - And that's ageism. 270 00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:46,528 You better watch yourself around this babe. 271 00:15:46,654 --> 00:15:48,655 Here are her test results. 272 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,287 Impressive. 273 00:15:55,413 --> 00:15:56,538 (CELL PHONE RINGS) 274 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,709 Yeah. CAMERON: I found the pesticide. 275 00:16:00,835 --> 00:16:02,544 It's disulfoton. 276 00:16:02,670 --> 00:16:04,379 And it's empty. He used up the whole can. 277 00:16:04,505 --> 00:16:05,881 Okay, I'll get Chase on it. 278 00:16:06,924 --> 00:16:08,967 CHASE: The poison's called disulfoton. 279 00:16:09,093 --> 00:16:11,678 This should bond with it and neutralize the poison. 280 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:13,347 Then his nervous system will start sending 281 00:16:13,473 --> 00:16:14,848 the correct signals to the rest of his body. 282 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:16,933 But there was no disul... 283 00:16:17,060 --> 00:16:18,143 Well, that stuff in that can. 284 00:16:18,269 --> 00:16:20,145 The label says "disulfoton". I can show you. 285 00:16:20,271 --> 00:16:22,189 But you didn't test it. 286 00:16:22,357 --> 00:16:24,983 You said Matt sprayed with it this morning before school. 287 00:16:25,109 --> 00:16:28,111 Matt started that garden himself for an environmental science class. 288 00:16:28,237 --> 00:16:29,655 They weren't allowed to use pesticides. 289 00:16:29,781 --> 00:16:30,906 Apparently, he cheated a little. 290 00:16:31,032 --> 00:16:33,992 It was orange-peel oil, totally organic. 291 00:16:34,118 --> 00:16:35,410 He dumped that other stuff last winter. 292 00:16:35,536 --> 00:16:36,953 The symptoms fit. 293 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,580 There must have been some left in the can. 294 00:16:38,706 --> 00:16:42,042 If you're wrong, what will this treatment do to him? 295 00:16:42,210 --> 00:16:46,296 Well, theoretically, it could increase the toxicity and... 296 00:16:47,048 --> 00:16:47,881 But we're not wrong. 297 00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:50,050 - Don't. - We're not wrong. 298 00:16:50,176 --> 00:16:52,094 I can't let you do this. 299 00:16:56,349 --> 00:16:57,641 HOUSE: Get a court order. 300 00:16:57,767 --> 00:17:00,519 Unless you wanna see someone killed by sheer irrationality. 301 00:17:00,645 --> 00:17:02,562 Maternal instinct is always irrational. 302 00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:04,439 Doesn't mean it's wrong. 303 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:06,400 Actually, that's the definition. 304 00:17:06,526 --> 00:17:08,443 It doesn't make her mentally incompetent. 305 00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:10,404 She is risking her son's life 306 00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:13,448 based on a teenager's claim that he washed something. 307 00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:15,492 How mentally incompetent can you get? 308 00:17:15,618 --> 00:17:17,869 That's a brilliant legal argument. 309 00:17:19,997 --> 00:17:21,957 Listen, have your Harvard law dog whip up 310 00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:25,085 some high-grade, legal-sounding psychobabble. 311 00:17:25,211 --> 00:17:28,255 "Temporary insanity brought on by acute panic distress syndrome." 312 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:30,090 I don't care. We have to give him the hydrolase. 313 00:17:30,216 --> 00:17:34,010 Her only sign of mental illness is that she disagrees with you. 314 00:17:34,637 --> 00:17:36,638 Some would consider that a sign of sanity. 315 00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:38,890 Not the kid. Let's ask him. 316 00:17:39,016 --> 00:17:41,017 Oh, no, I forgot. We can't. He's dying. 317 00:17:42,645 --> 00:17:46,148 Get the mother to sign off that she's refusing this treatment. 318 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,617 Good-bye. 319 00:17:58,119 --> 00:17:59,161 (HOUSE CLEARS THROAT) 320 00:18:00,121 --> 00:18:02,914 "I, Margo Davis, have been informed of the risks 321 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,834 which may arise from my refusal of advised medical care. 322 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,211 - I hereby release..." - Who are you? 323 00:18:08,337 --> 00:18:09,546 I work for the hospital. 324 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:13,800 "...the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and its employees, 325 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:16,303 agents and otherwise, from any adverse medical conditions 326 00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:17,679 resulting from my refusal. 327 00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:21,141 It is not the hospital's fault if my son kicks off." 328 00:18:21,267 --> 00:18:22,976 Kicks off? 329 00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:26,605 I punched up the language, mostly for clarification. 330 00:18:27,482 --> 00:18:30,817 "I understand my doctors consider my decision to be completely idiotic..." 331 00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:31,777 Why are you doing this? 332 00:18:31,903 --> 00:18:33,904 "...but I am convinced I know more than they do. 333 00:18:34,155 --> 00:18:36,656 I took a biology course in high school." 334 00:18:36,783 --> 00:18:38,700 I assume that's... Yeah. 335 00:18:39,285 --> 00:18:43,997 "Besides, I enjoy controlling every single aspect of my son's life, 336 00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:46,249 even if it means his death." 337 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:51,046 Sign here, please. I brought a pen. 338 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:54,216 Who are you? 339 00:18:54,342 --> 00:18:56,802 I'm the doctor who's trying to save your son. 340 00:18:56,928 --> 00:18:59,221 You're the mom who's letting him die. 341 00:18:59,347 --> 00:19:02,098 Clarification, it's a beautiful thing. 342 00:19:08,523 --> 00:19:10,982 MAN ON PA: Dr. Morell, contact the CAP lab. 343 00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:12,776 Dr. Morell, contact the CAP lab. 344 00:19:13,194 --> 00:19:15,862 She rethought her position. 345 00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:19,866 - Start him on the hydrolase. - No. We've got a problem. 346 00:19:21,369 --> 00:19:23,245 Three. One, two, three. 347 00:19:25,456 --> 00:19:28,208 Heart rate's 49. O2 stat, 84 and falling. 348 00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:30,502 Saline, atropine and diazepam, now. 349 00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:34,005 His name is Chi Ling. He was admitted 12 minutes ago. 350 00:19:34,131 --> 00:19:36,883 Identical symptoms as Matt. Chase isn't sure he's gonna make it. 351 00:19:47,562 --> 00:19:48,812 This one. 352 00:19:49,772 --> 00:19:50,939 Bag. 353 00:20:01,075 --> 00:20:02,242 (BEEPING) 354 00:20:05,538 --> 00:20:08,248 Matt's next-door neighbor, by any chance? 355 00:20:08,791 --> 00:20:10,959 They live 10 miles apart. 356 00:20:11,294 --> 00:20:14,337 Apparently, they don't even know each other. 357 00:20:36,027 --> 00:20:39,279 We live in an apartment. We have two bamboo trees. 358 00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:43,199 No pesticides, just dry seaweed for fertilizer. 359 00:20:43,910 --> 00:20:46,077 The second kid's heart is almost as weak as Matt's. 360 00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:47,871 We may need to get it wired up, too. 361 00:20:47,997 --> 00:20:49,623 And I don't know how long Matt's brain will hold up. 362 00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:50,832 His heart's not pumping enough oxygen. 363 00:20:50,958 --> 00:20:52,500 - How much are you giving him? - Eighty percent. 364 00:20:52,627 --> 00:20:53,585 Make it 90. 365 00:20:53,711 --> 00:20:55,045 We're risking damage to his retina. 366 00:20:55,171 --> 00:20:56,796 What the heck. Do it anyway. 367 00:20:56,923 --> 00:20:57,964 He's a calculus student. 368 00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:00,175 Probably likes having a brain. 369 00:21:00,301 --> 00:21:01,885 I'll have Foreman take care of it. 370 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:03,720 I'm the primary. 371 00:21:03,846 --> 00:21:05,972 Yeah, but the mom wants to get rid of you. 372 00:21:06,098 --> 00:21:08,099 And you know me. I'm a people-pleasing kind of guy. 373 00:21:08,225 --> 00:21:10,268 What, she complained? About me? 374 00:21:10,394 --> 00:21:11,436 She went to the principal. 375 00:21:11,562 --> 00:21:13,939 Told Cuddy you took drugs in high school. 376 00:21:14,065 --> 00:21:15,941 This is gonna go on your permanent record. 377 00:21:16,067 --> 00:21:17,275 I was trying to get information. 378 00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:18,568 It was a strategy. 379 00:21:18,694 --> 00:21:21,404 She also used the word "slacker". You wanna come in? 380 00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:24,032 Smoke a little weed? Watch some MTV? 381 00:21:26,911 --> 00:21:28,078 High school has no idea what could have happened. 382 00:21:28,204 --> 00:21:31,039 You sure that Chi didn't sneak onto Matt's tomato patch? 383 00:21:31,165 --> 00:21:33,625 Maybe they sniffed disulfoton together to get high. 384 00:21:33,751 --> 00:21:36,252 Same school, different grades, different cliques, different everything. 385 00:21:36,379 --> 00:21:37,796 They managed to get poisoned together. 386 00:21:37,922 --> 00:21:39,047 They must have something in common. 387 00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:40,799 Their classes aren't even in the same building. 388 00:21:40,925 --> 00:21:43,551 They don't even eat lunch in the same lunchroom. 389 00:21:44,178 --> 00:21:46,012 How do they get to school? 390 00:21:47,431 --> 00:21:50,058 BUS DRIVER: Unless you're with the board, the police or the union, 391 00:21:50,184 --> 00:21:51,768 I don't care who you are. 392 00:21:51,894 --> 00:21:53,979 Sir, we need to test the bus for chemical residue. 393 00:21:54,105 --> 00:21:56,189 And I need to pick up the basketball team. 394 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:59,109 You got a problem with that, call my supervisor. 395 00:21:59,652 --> 00:22:02,112 Two kids were poisoned on your bus this morning. 396 00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:03,863 They're dying. 397 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:11,621 My God. The things he said. 398 00:22:12,999 --> 00:22:15,959 Dr. House wanted your son to get the medicine he needed. 399 00:22:16,085 --> 00:22:18,003 He was willing to do whatever it took to make that happen. 400 00:22:18,129 --> 00:22:22,132 - The wrong kind of medicine. - He didn't know that. 401 00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:24,009 At the time, it was our only choice. 402 00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:27,220 He would have known if he had listened to me. 403 00:22:27,388 --> 00:22:31,558 He listened. He just assumed you were wrong. 404 00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:34,853 To be honest, that's true of most of our patients. 405 00:22:34,979 --> 00:22:36,730 (SCOFFS) 406 00:22:36,856 --> 00:22:39,941 You're just as pompous and superior as he is. 407 00:22:42,945 --> 00:22:44,362 BUS DRIVER: Matt is back row, right. 408 00:22:44,488 --> 00:22:46,531 The Asian kid, first or second row, left. 409 00:22:46,657 --> 00:22:48,158 - Okay. - Look, 410 00:22:48,284 --> 00:22:51,161 I got this rash in kind of my groin region. 411 00:22:51,579 --> 00:22:53,705 It's not a symptom. 412 00:22:53,998 --> 00:22:55,248 Neither is being obnoxious. 413 00:22:55,374 --> 00:22:57,834 Looks like you're in the clear. 414 00:23:02,882 --> 00:23:04,007 So who poisoned them? 415 00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:06,843 We're not sure yet if it was done on purpose. 416 00:23:06,969 --> 00:23:08,970 Oh, yeah? You ought to see these little bastards, 417 00:23:09,096 --> 00:23:10,764 screaming and punching each other all day long. 418 00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:12,390 Did you happen to notice if anyone was doing any spraying 419 00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:14,893 near the bus route? 420 00:23:15,603 --> 00:23:17,562 Yeah, there was this truck down by the pond 421 00:23:17,688 --> 00:23:18,980 doing something or other. 422 00:23:19,106 --> 00:23:20,899 It smelled kind of funny, too. 423 00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:29,908 Dr. House! 424 00:23:30,034 --> 00:23:32,494 Well, it took you long enough. We've been waiting here... 425 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:34,746 Mr. Adams, would you step outside for a moment? 426 00:23:35,081 --> 00:23:37,957 - Why? - Because you irritate me. 427 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:40,960 He is my son, Doctor. 428 00:23:41,087 --> 00:23:44,130 He's just a little cranky from not eating. 429 00:23:45,549 --> 00:23:49,677 Fine. Mrs. Adams, have you had any recent sexual activity? 430 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:50,929 What? 431 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:56,101 Well, I don't suppose fantasies count. 432 00:23:56,227 --> 00:23:57,644 Oh, my God. 433 00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:01,147 Unfortunately, I've hit kind of a dry spell. 434 00:24:02,024 --> 00:24:05,693 Only for the last, I don't know, 15 years. 435 00:24:05,820 --> 00:24:08,029 You see? She's confused. 436 00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:10,406 My father died eight years ago. Heart attack. 437 00:24:10,533 --> 00:24:12,242 Not in bed, dear. 438 00:24:16,247 --> 00:24:18,164 Why do you ask? 439 00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:22,502 Because you have tested positive for syphilis. 440 00:24:22,628 --> 00:24:26,005 That's impossible! And insulting. 441 00:24:27,716 --> 00:24:28,925 I don't think it's the first time 442 00:24:29,051 --> 00:24:31,845 that Mom has heard this diagnosis. 443 00:24:35,349 --> 00:24:37,809 Cupid's disease. 444 00:24:37,935 --> 00:24:39,269 That's what we used to call it. 445 00:24:40,855 --> 00:24:42,313 When did you get it? 446 00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:49,362 1939, prom night, I think. He had a Chevrolet. 447 00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:53,992 It was before I met your father. 448 00:24:54,118 --> 00:24:55,201 But you said that... 449 00:24:57,121 --> 00:25:01,541 - You said Dad was your first love. - He was. 450 00:25:03,419 --> 00:25:05,545 We're talking about sex. 451 00:25:08,465 --> 00:25:10,133 But I was treated. 452 00:25:10,259 --> 00:25:12,927 Which suppressed it, in your case, for 60 years, 453 00:25:13,637 --> 00:25:16,806 but now it's back, and the spirochetes that cause syphilis 454 00:25:16,932 --> 00:25:18,975 are eating away at your brain cells. 455 00:25:19,101 --> 00:25:22,020 (EXCLAIMS) That's revolting. 456 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:24,105 It's not as revolting as chlamydia. 457 00:25:24,231 --> 00:25:25,565 That's got seepage. 458 00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,233 And it's the 21st century. 459 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,862 We've got flying cars, robot dogs and penicillin. 460 00:25:31,572 --> 00:25:33,448 High-dose regimen for two weeks, you're cured. 461 00:25:33,574 --> 00:25:36,826 - I can't believe this. - Yeah, well, pinch yourself. 462 00:25:36,952 --> 00:25:41,247 I guess for the next two weeks, I'd better practice safe sex. 463 00:25:42,917 --> 00:25:47,003 You'll be fine. Just feed that cranky kid. 464 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:54,969 CAMERON: The county's worried about West Nile, 465 00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:57,805 so they sprayed ethyl parathion right next to the bus route. 466 00:25:58,307 --> 00:26:00,516 Do you have the hydrolase for ethyl parathion? 467 00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:03,978 Yeah, only one problem. Matt's mother faxed his records to the CDC. 468 00:26:04,104 --> 00:26:05,480 She refuses to let us do anything 469 00:26:05,606 --> 00:26:07,815 until she hears back from them. 470 00:26:07,942 --> 00:26:10,526 Well, you're getting good at this godlike doctor racket. 471 00:26:10,653 --> 00:26:12,445 Why don't you talk her out of this lunacy? 472 00:26:12,571 --> 00:26:14,239 She's not really a big fan of mine. 473 00:26:14,365 --> 00:26:15,448 Or mine. 474 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:19,661 Well, only one man left in the bull pen, and he throws like a girl. 475 00:26:22,164 --> 00:26:24,123 I hate sports metaphors. 476 00:26:25,793 --> 00:26:27,627 Give her the high, hard one. 477 00:26:28,128 --> 00:26:30,046 We really think the hydrolase is the only... 478 00:26:30,172 --> 00:26:32,048 I'm thinking about transferring Matt out of here. 479 00:26:32,174 --> 00:26:34,217 Ms. Davis, your son is very sick. 480 00:26:34,343 --> 00:26:35,551 He won't survive a transfer. 481 00:26:35,678 --> 00:26:38,596 I'm getting a second opinion from the Center for Disease Control. 482 00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:42,392 Right. Look, when my grandmother got sick... 483 00:26:42,518 --> 00:26:46,062 What? You're gonna tell me some tough decision you had to make? 484 00:26:46,188 --> 00:26:47,146 I know how hard this is for you. 485 00:26:47,273 --> 00:26:48,898 Maybe embroider the story a little? 486 00:26:49,024 --> 00:26:50,525 Make it fit? 487 00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:52,527 I can't imagine being in your position. 488 00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:55,029 Honesty, a kind of vulnerable honesty. 489 00:26:55,155 --> 00:26:56,614 That's your thing. And the looks. 490 00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:57,782 Oh, boy. 491 00:26:57,908 --> 00:27:00,702 They send a single woman to hustle the single mom. 492 00:27:00,828 --> 00:27:03,079 Actually, they sent a doctor 493 00:27:03,205 --> 00:27:05,707 to tell you that if your son doesn't get this treatment, 494 00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:07,875 there's a good chance he'll die. 495 00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:12,046 That's what House said about a treatment that would have killed Matt. 496 00:27:12,172 --> 00:27:13,298 You've gotta do better than that. 497 00:27:13,424 --> 00:27:15,800 No, it's on you. 498 00:27:15,926 --> 00:27:18,511 You need to do better. Right now. Yes or no? 499 00:27:21,682 --> 00:27:24,600 - I don't know. - Figure it out. 500 00:27:25,936 --> 00:27:27,061 Wait. 501 00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:32,150 (HEART MONITOR BEEPING) 502 00:28:21,492 --> 00:28:22,492 Nurse! 503 00:28:22,618 --> 00:28:23,576 (ALARM BEEPING) 504 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,536 Help! WOMAN: Okay. Coming. 505 00:28:27,498 --> 00:28:28,873 Seizing. Suction. 506 00:28:28,999 --> 00:28:30,166 WOMAN: Watch his head. 507 00:28:31,251 --> 00:28:33,044 My son! 508 00:28:37,758 --> 00:28:38,925 Coming. 509 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:40,093 Diazepam. 510 00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:41,260 WOMAN: Got it. 511 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,474 CAMERON: Suction. Ten milligrams. 512 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:47,725 CAMERON: Right. 513 00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:50,186 He's not responding. Another 10 milligrams. 514 00:28:50,312 --> 00:28:51,896 You're killing him! 515 00:28:52,773 --> 00:28:54,023 MARGO: You're killing him! 516 00:28:54,149 --> 00:28:55,691 Get her out of here. Get her out of here! 517 00:28:55,818 --> 00:28:57,902 Come on, ma'am. Ma'am? 518 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,029 (ERRATIC BEEPING) 519 00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:10,248 FOREMAN: Their hearts are barely pumping. Their lungs are shot. 520 00:29:10,374 --> 00:29:12,291 Now they're showing liver toxicity. 521 00:29:12,418 --> 00:29:14,127 HOUSE: I guess Matt's mom won't nominate us 522 00:29:14,253 --> 00:29:16,003 for any doctor-of-the-year awards. 523 00:29:16,130 --> 00:29:19,841 Only explanation is they got poisoned by something besides ethyl parathion. 524 00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:21,551 Then the hydrolase would release the neurotoxins 525 00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:22,677 instead of bonding with them. 526 00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:24,804 The only thing they have in common is the bus. 527 00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:26,431 Except their symptoms. 528 00:29:26,557 --> 00:29:29,308 Given their severity and the fact their cardiac symptoms are getting worse 529 00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:31,519 much faster than their other ones, what does that tell us? 530 00:29:31,645 --> 00:29:33,521 The poison was probably absorbed through the skin. 531 00:29:33,647 --> 00:29:35,940 They were admitted at 8:45 and 11:00. 532 00:29:36,066 --> 00:29:36,816 When were they poisoned? 533 00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:39,819 Absorption through the skin, anywhere from three to eight hours. 534 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:41,779 In a case that bad, more like one-and-a-half to four. 535 00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:46,576 So Matt was poisoned before 7:15. Before he got on the bus. 536 00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:50,204 You're thinking each kid got poisoned in his own house? 537 00:29:50,330 --> 00:29:51,497 Two separate exposures? 538 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:54,959 What do teenage boys do in the morning, besides the obvious? 539 00:29:55,294 --> 00:29:57,378 Wake up, go to the bathroom, 540 00:29:57,504 --> 00:30:00,673 then the obvious, then check their zits in the mirror. 541 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:02,884 Do they both use the same acne cream? 542 00:30:03,010 --> 00:30:05,678 Because acne cream contains lanolin, which could have pesticides, 543 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,847 and you're thinking they both bought the same product. 544 00:30:07,973 --> 00:30:09,807 It was contaminated. Shaving cream. 545 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:11,142 Chi doesn't look like he shaves. 546 00:30:11,268 --> 00:30:12,226 But he sweats. 547 00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:13,394 Deodorant could contain lanolin. 548 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:14,896 Do these people have animals? 549 00:30:15,022 --> 00:30:16,564 Chi has a dog. Matt has a cat. 550 00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:19,484 - Fleas, flea powder. - Okay. Go to their houses. 551 00:30:19,610 --> 00:30:20,902 Check for anything that might have touched their skin 552 00:30:21,028 --> 00:30:23,529 between the time they got up and the time they went to school. 553 00:30:23,655 --> 00:30:25,364 And I'm running low on tomato sauce. 554 00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:27,116 (EXCLAIMS) 555 00:30:27,242 --> 00:30:28,659 Dr. House! 556 00:30:30,245 --> 00:30:31,496 Hello. 557 00:30:32,915 --> 00:30:36,292 - I sent you home. - Well, I came back. 558 00:30:36,919 --> 00:30:38,836 I took a cab, 559 00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:42,840 so my son wouldn't try to chaperone us this time. 560 00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:46,135 I'm sorry, but the fact that the sexual-pleasure center 561 00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:49,180 of your cerebral cortex has been over-stimulated by spirochetes, 562 00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:52,683 it's a poor basis for a relationship. 563 00:30:52,809 --> 00:30:54,101 I learned that one the hard way. 564 00:30:55,521 --> 00:30:59,649 Doctor, these feelings that I've been having, 565 00:31:00,817 --> 00:31:03,653 is it all because of the syphilis? 566 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:05,029 Yes. 567 00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:07,823 Then 568 00:31:09,326 --> 00:31:11,869 here's the prescription you gave me. 569 00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:20,753 Well, it's not likely I'm going to infect anyone. 570 00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:23,965 No, but it'll kill you. 571 00:31:24,841 --> 00:31:27,927 Well, gotta go sometime, 572 00:31:29,388 --> 00:31:31,973 and I really don't want to play canasta 573 00:31:32,099 --> 00:31:33,891 for the rest of my life. 574 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,479 I like feeling sexy again, 575 00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:44,777 making a fool out of myself with handsome, young doctors. 576 00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:50,700 Do you think that I would have given you this 577 00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:53,160 if it would stop you from flirting with me? 578 00:31:53,287 --> 00:31:54,620 Well, but if I'm cured... 579 00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:57,665 Then all the spirochetes will die off. 580 00:31:57,791 --> 00:31:59,917 But the little pieces of your cerebral cortex 581 00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:02,420 that have been destroyed won't grow back. 582 00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:06,090 You're brain damaged. 583 00:32:07,801 --> 00:32:10,928 Doomed to feeling good for the rest of your life. 584 00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:12,096 (GIGGLING) 585 00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:16,017 Really? Well, thank you. 586 00:32:16,143 --> 00:32:17,435 Georgia. 587 00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:27,111 When I stop being contagious, I'll come by for a checkup. 588 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:34,952 Yeah. 589 00:32:38,749 --> 00:32:39,749 Matt uses Sure. 590 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,208 Chi uses Old Spice. 591 00:32:41,335 --> 00:32:42,293 No zit cream. 592 00:32:42,419 --> 00:32:43,419 Lucky kid. 593 00:32:44,338 --> 00:32:45,463 Floral air freshener. 594 00:32:45,589 --> 00:32:46,631 Doesn't matter. 595 00:32:46,757 --> 00:32:48,215 When was the last time you heard of a teenage boy 596 00:32:48,342 --> 00:32:51,093 using air freshener? 597 00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:54,972 - Pert shampoo. - Johnson's over here. 598 00:32:55,932 --> 00:32:57,808 Matt's mom would make him use air freshener. 599 00:32:57,934 --> 00:33:01,020 There are limits to a mother's power, even hers. 600 00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:02,938 Just check. 601 00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:06,275 Negative on the floral. 602 00:33:06,401 --> 00:33:08,361 Matt's ALTs are up to 800. 603 00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:10,029 If they get any higher, we can toss his liver. 604 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:11,030 (CELL PHONE RINGS) 605 00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:13,991 - Yeah. - No matches on flea powder 606 00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:15,242 or underarm deodorant. 607 00:33:15,369 --> 00:33:16,494 Or any other kind of deodorant. 608 00:33:16,620 --> 00:33:17,703 What about shampoo? 609 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:21,582 No to shampoo, bar soap, dish soap, dish detergent. 610 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:22,958 How about laundry detergent? 611 00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:24,752 Maybe they both washed their clothes this morning. 612 00:33:24,878 --> 00:33:25,878 I'll check. 613 00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:27,004 FOREMAN: You know, if we cure Matt, 614 00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:30,049 he can use his close brush with death on his college essays. 615 00:33:30,175 --> 00:33:31,759 Admission guys love that stuff. 616 00:33:31,885 --> 00:33:35,137 That's how you got in, right? Jailhouse diary? 617 00:33:38,725 --> 00:33:41,477 TKO. 618 00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:45,481 - Liquid? - Liquid, 128 ounces. 619 00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:47,858 128, yellow jug. "Special..." 620 00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:50,194 "Environmentally safe formula." 621 00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:52,154 CAMERON: It's the same. Bring in the detergent. 622 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,573 So the detergent was contaminated with pesticides? 623 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:55,950 Which soaked into their clothes 624 00:33:56,076 --> 00:33:58,619 and got absorbed into their skin. 625 00:33:59,955 --> 00:34:03,290 HOUSE: Hi. Listen, the clothes your son wore today, 626 00:34:03,417 --> 00:34:05,334 he washed them this morning, right? 627 00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:06,460 What? 628 00:34:06,586 --> 00:34:09,046 Nice, respectful Asian kid does the laundry. 629 00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:10,548 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 630 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:14,135 My wife said he didn't. 631 00:34:15,178 --> 00:34:18,139 Well, then I'm betting he washed them last night without you knowing. 632 00:34:18,265 --> 00:34:20,391 (BOTH SPEAKING CHINESE) 633 00:34:20,517 --> 00:34:22,852 He doesn't even know how to turn on the machine. 634 00:34:22,978 --> 00:34:24,145 And those clothes were new. 635 00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:26,731 - Nobody washed them. - His clothes are all new? 636 00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:30,276 The ones he wore today, yes. Never washed. 637 00:34:38,368 --> 00:34:40,035 Now what? 638 00:34:42,748 --> 00:34:45,624 What about Matt's clothes? Were they new? 639 00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:48,669 They're ratty old jeans, I think. 640 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:51,547 They've been bagged and taken downstairs. 641 00:35:01,683 --> 00:35:04,018 - "Davis." - Yeah, they're Matt's. 642 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,189 And they're old. 643 00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:12,651 And yet the label isn't faded in the slightest. 644 00:35:12,778 --> 00:35:15,905 Fake old. $100 for the homeless look. 645 00:35:16,823 --> 00:35:19,658 What? Kids aren't pretentious in England? 646 00:35:20,744 --> 00:35:21,827 Chi was wearing a different brand. 647 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:23,788 How could they both have been contaminated? 648 00:35:23,914 --> 00:35:25,581 That is the question for the ages. 649 00:35:25,707 --> 00:35:27,666 Meantime, get these tested. 650 00:35:57,739 --> 00:36:00,950 I never bother to wash new clothes before I wear them. 651 00:36:01,076 --> 00:36:02,952 Right. Your wife does. 652 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:04,995 She likes you feeling nice and comfortable. 653 00:36:05,121 --> 00:36:06,580 Hey, I'm a man. 654 00:36:06,748 --> 00:36:10,000 I don't have time for laundry. I'm saving lives here. 655 00:36:11,711 --> 00:36:13,003 No, she doesn't wash them, either. 656 00:36:13,129 --> 00:36:17,174 So your skin absorbs a little dye, the odd chemical here and there. 657 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:20,010 You know me, Mr. Living-on-the-Edge. 658 00:36:20,136 --> 00:36:21,971 Judging by the self-importance of your strut, 659 00:36:22,097 --> 00:36:24,014 you have identified the chemical in question. 660 00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:25,599 Phosdrin. 661 00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:27,935 Hit them with the hydrolase. 662 00:36:28,061 --> 00:36:31,105 - Chi's parents said yes, but... - Mighty Mom said no. 663 00:36:31,773 --> 00:36:33,065 Well, she's gonna feel like a million bucks 664 00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:36,151 when Chi lives and her son dies. 665 00:36:36,444 --> 00:36:37,987 Send Cameron. 666 00:36:38,113 --> 00:36:40,155 She's the only one of you who's managed to talk her into anything. 667 00:36:40,282 --> 00:36:42,575 Not this time. Matt's mom won't make a move 668 00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:45,786 until she gets that opinion from the CDC. 669 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,204 (SCOFFS) 670 00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:49,498 Godot would be faster. 671 00:37:22,657 --> 00:37:24,325 What is this? 672 00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:27,411 Thought I'd hang out. 673 00:37:29,122 --> 00:37:30,706 In case you change your mind. 674 00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:36,086 Then I could give Matt the medicine right away. 675 00:37:42,177 --> 00:37:44,303 Don't worry. I've got time. 676 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:50,434 - The CDC promised they'd call. - I'm sure they will. 677 00:37:50,936 --> 00:37:53,604 Maybe tomorrow. Maybe the day after. 678 00:37:54,314 --> 00:37:57,024 It takes time to review faxed records. 679 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,525 Then they'll probably tell you 680 00:37:58,652 --> 00:38:01,779 they can't make a decision based on faxed records. 681 00:38:04,074 --> 00:38:05,699 This is Suzie. 682 00:38:06,409 --> 00:38:08,953 She's never gonna marry him. No money. 683 00:38:09,704 --> 00:38:12,498 What makes you think you're right this time? 684 00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:15,042 Same reason as last time. 685 00:38:18,672 --> 00:38:22,216 If you wanna see how the other kid does first, that's okay. 686 00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:23,384 Might help you. 687 00:38:24,135 --> 00:38:26,053 Although there's a real good chance... 688 00:38:26,179 --> 00:38:28,430 What? Matt might kick off? 689 00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:31,058 That's a little blunt. 690 00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:33,185 I was gonna say "run out of time", 691 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:37,106 or just kind of let my voice trail off. 692 00:38:39,693 --> 00:38:40,985 (CELL PHONE RINGS) 693 00:38:46,992 --> 00:38:47,825 Hello? 694 00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:50,911 Yes, this is Margo Davis. 695 00:38:55,208 --> 00:38:58,085 But you have his records. I sent them. 696 00:39:01,923 --> 00:39:03,757 Yes, I understand. 697 00:39:11,224 --> 00:39:12,933 They can't help me. 698 00:39:14,144 --> 00:39:15,769 They haven't seen him. 699 00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:17,938 - They can't make a decision... - Give it to him. 700 00:39:29,743 --> 00:39:33,579 "The CDC is unable to give an opinion at this time, ma'am. 701 00:39:33,705 --> 00:39:37,124 We're gonna have a doctor in your area next week." 702 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:39,501 You fooled her with that? 703 00:40:47,237 --> 00:40:48,737 (BEEPING) 704 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:51,990 House! 705 00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:32,531 So I'm gonna be cured? 706 00:41:32,657 --> 00:41:35,784 As long as you don't wear any more poison pants. 707 00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:38,162 I'm sorry, Mom. 708 00:41:38,288 --> 00:41:39,705 I knew the pants were stolen. 709 00:41:40,456 --> 00:41:42,332 They were only five bucks. 710 00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:43,876 You're gonna give me hell, aren't you? 711 00:41:44,002 --> 00:41:46,753 Honey, I'm just glad you're alive. 712 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,464 Let's get you home so you can rest. 713 00:41:49,924 --> 00:41:52,217 Maybe I am too hard on you. 714 00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:54,845 You don't have to make up that test till next week. 715 00:41:54,971 --> 00:41:58,265 You can stay in bed and work on your applications. 716 00:41:58,391 --> 00:42:01,476 Some guy was selling pants off the back of his truck near the school. 717 00:42:02,061 --> 00:42:04,104 When he wasn't busy as a clothing entrepreneur, 718 00:42:04,230 --> 00:42:06,899 he did day labor at a cornfield out on Route 1. 719 00:42:07,025 --> 00:42:08,525 He used the same truck for both jobs. 720 00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:12,196 So he spilled pesticide on the pants and was too lazy to clean up. 721 00:42:12,322 --> 00:42:15,240 Real question is why are you still here? 722 00:42:16,117 --> 00:42:19,953 Why aren't you out there making up with the joyful mother? 723 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:23,749 - Why would I do that? - No reason at all. 724 00:42:23,958 --> 00:42:26,835 If you don't care about her or her son. 725 00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:34,968 Dr. House. 726 00:42:36,137 --> 00:42:37,721 The CDC called 727 00:42:39,057 --> 00:42:41,683 - again. - Oops. 728 00:42:45,021 --> 00:42:46,021 Who are those guys? 729 00:42:46,147 --> 00:42:49,274 They're the arrogant jerks that saved your life. 730 00:43:09,921 --> 00:43:11,213 (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)