1 00:00:01,794 --> 00:00:06,173 CHILDREN: (SINGING) Joy to the world, The Lord has come 2 00:00:06,298 --> 00:00:10,678 Let Earth receive her king 3 00:00:11,095 --> 00:00:15,558 Let every heart prepare him room 4 00:00:15,683 --> 00:00:19,895 And heaven and nature sing And heaven and nature sing 5 00:00:20,146 --> 00:00:22,231 And heaven, and heaven and nature sing 6 00:00:22,356 --> 00:00:27,570 This sucks. This is why we need to make a statement, you know? 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,238 I don't think that... 8 00:00:29,363 --> 00:00:32,241 What? You afraid we'll end up in detention? 9 00:00:32,742 --> 00:00:34,785 Well, yeah. That's what teachers do. 10 00:00:34,910 --> 00:00:35,911 (CHUCKLES) 11 00:00:36,037 --> 00:00:38,789 They're not going to send all of us to detention. 12 00:00:38,956 --> 00:00:40,583 Mr. Henderson is totally lame, 13 00:00:40,708 --> 00:00:43,044 and this is our best chance to inform him of that fact. 14 00:00:43,711 --> 00:00:45,629 You don't think he's lame? 15 00:00:45,755 --> 00:00:47,840 Well, yeah, but... 16 00:00:47,965 --> 00:00:49,175 Then what's the problem? 17 00:00:52,261 --> 00:00:53,345 Okay- 18 00:00:54,221 --> 00:00:57,516 FEMALE ANNOUNCER ON MIC: The Robert Page Academy vocal jazz ensemble. 19 00:01:02,313 --> 00:01:04,899 (PIANO PLAYING) 20 00:01:07,568 --> 00:01:10,488 ALL: (SINGING) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire 21 00:01:10,613 --> 00:01:13,365 Jack Frost nipping at your nose 22 00:01:13,491 --> 00:01:16,285 Yuletide carols being sung by a choir 23 00:01:16,410 --> 00:01:18,788 And folks dressed up like Eskimos 24 00:01:18,913 --> 00:01:19,747 Everybody knows 25 00:01:19,872 --> 00:01:22,458 Mr. Henderson's a stupid... 26 00:01:22,583 --> 00:01:24,168 (PEOPLE CHUCKLING) 27 00:01:25,252 --> 00:01:27,755 I can't believe she fell for that. 28 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,340 Why'd you do that... 29 00:01:39,183 --> 00:01:41,727 I don't feel so good. 30 00:01:45,147 --> 00:01:46,816 (PEOPLE GASPING) 31 00:01:51,821 --> 00:01:52,822 (COUGHS) 32 00:02:25,980 --> 00:02:28,190 Sixteen-year-old female gets pranked, 33 00:02:28,315 --> 00:02:31,068 also gets visual hallucinations and vomiting. 34 00:02:31,193 --> 00:02:33,487 Turns out to be a failing liver. 35 00:02:33,612 --> 00:02:36,448 Why have Foreman's breasts suddenly started to droop? 36 00:02:36,574 --> 00:02:39,827 Large breasts are a classic symptom of you letting Foreman take vacation days 37 00:02:39,952 --> 00:02:42,746 so he can finish his FDA reports before the end of the year. 38 00:02:42,872 --> 00:02:44,415 When are you taking vacation? 39 00:02:44,540 --> 00:02:46,125 Hepatic and neurological involvement... 40 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:49,420 So, I understand Foreman's absence. Your presence, not so much. 41 00:02:49,545 --> 00:02:51,839 I'm bringing in a case. You may have noticed me doing that before. 42 00:02:51,964 --> 00:02:53,924 I've noticed you a lot recently. 43 00:02:54,049 --> 00:02:56,927 It's almost as if you have a sexual interest in someone here. 44 00:02:57,052 --> 00:02:59,471 Like, say, Taub? 45 00:02:59,597 --> 00:03:03,058 Well, Taub might think I like him if I stayed, 46 00:03:03,184 --> 00:03:05,311 which is why I'm going to do this. 47 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:09,565 Somehow, I don't think that was really about me. 48 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:10,649 Wilson's Disease. 49 00:03:10,774 --> 00:03:11,942 THIRTEEN: Ceruloplasmin's normal. 50 00:03:12,067 --> 00:03:13,652 You got a Christmas present. 51 00:03:15,821 --> 00:03:17,907 "Greg, made me think of you." 52 00:03:25,831 --> 00:03:28,584 That's funny. It usually explodes after I do that. 53 00:03:28,709 --> 00:03:29,710 Alcohol abuse? 54 00:03:29,835 --> 00:03:31,545 She's 16. 55 00:03:31,670 --> 00:03:33,214 The kind of boozing that destroys your liver that early, 56 00:03:33,339 --> 00:03:36,467 her parents or teachers would notice. Wow. 57 00:03:36,592 --> 00:03:39,803 "Manual of the Operations of Surgery by Joseph Bell. " 58 00:03:39,929 --> 00:03:40,763 You're throwing that away? 59 00:03:40,888 --> 00:03:41,805 Twice. 60 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:45,309 Someone's screwing with me, forget it. 61 00:03:45,434 --> 00:03:49,021 Yeah, gifting antique medical texts. Oldest gag in the book. 62 00:03:49,146 --> 00:03:51,607 Handwriting's kind of girly. You got an admirer, House? 63 00:03:51,732 --> 00:03:53,359 I said, forget the book. 64 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:56,820 Why'd they pick on her? 65 00:03:56,946 --> 00:04:00,199 She's an overachiever, high grades, she volunteers, she's a big target. 66 00:04:00,324 --> 00:04:01,784 I'm assuming literally, 67 00:04:01,909 --> 00:04:04,245 depending on where this school falls on the Heathers scale. 68 00:04:04,370 --> 00:04:06,914 You think the kids slipped her something? Their teachers grilled them. 69 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:10,084 When did teachers ever know how to motivate their students? 70 00:04:10,209 --> 00:04:11,752 KUTNER: What did you do to Natalie? 71 00:04:12,044 --> 00:04:16,006 It's all my fault. I didn't stop her from being a total pig. 72 00:04:16,131 --> 00:04:17,508 (CHILDREN CHUCKLING) 73 00:04:17,633 --> 00:04:19,593 - What are you... - Your friend's liver is failing. 74 00:04:19,718 --> 00:04:22,888 We're doing what we can, but she still might need a transplant. 75 00:04:23,430 --> 00:04:26,016 She could die, unless you tell us what you gave her. 76 00:04:26,141 --> 00:04:27,935 - Just tell him. - Shut up. 77 00:04:29,812 --> 00:04:31,605 We gave her some shrooms. 78 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:35,776 We took some ourselves, we just wanted to make her loosen up a little. 79 00:04:35,901 --> 00:04:38,195 How thoughtful of you. You got any left? 80 00:04:40,239 --> 00:04:42,324 They're in Simon's locker. 81 00:04:43,117 --> 00:04:44,285 This was your idea? 82 00:04:44,410 --> 00:04:46,829 No way. I didn't give her anything. 83 00:04:46,954 --> 00:04:48,872 Right, you just knew about it and let them do it. 84 00:04:48,998 --> 00:04:51,125 Poisonous mushrooms and hallucinogenic ones are different. 85 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:53,043 Not if they're not dried correctly. 86 00:04:53,168 --> 00:04:56,130 Get back to school. You better hope we got to her in time. 87 00:05:06,432 --> 00:05:07,266 What? 88 00:05:07,433 --> 00:05:11,103 Am I going to get in trouble? Should we apologize or something? 89 00:05:11,228 --> 00:05:15,357 Yes, you should. Natalie's on the third floor. 90 00:05:15,482 --> 00:05:17,234 - Who's down there? - Mr. Ravitz. 91 00:05:20,571 --> 00:05:22,656 Where's the woman I spoke to last week? 92 00:05:22,781 --> 00:05:25,743 The trial patient with the advanced symptoms. 93 00:05:25,868 --> 00:05:27,244 She dropped out. 94 00:05:27,369 --> 00:05:28,329 She Okay? 95 00:05:28,454 --> 00:05:29,455 Not health related. 96 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:31,540 She just wants to drop out. 97 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:32,666 Why? 98 00:05:32,791 --> 00:05:35,127 She didn't say. And I only break into the houses 99 00:05:35,252 --> 00:05:38,088 of very special patients to get to understand them better. 100 00:05:42,593 --> 00:05:44,136 I do good today, boss? 101 00:05:44,261 --> 00:05:48,265 No rigidity, no cogwheeling. So absolutely, I'd call that good. 102 00:05:48,390 --> 00:05:49,933 Great. Thanks. 103 00:05:52,269 --> 00:05:53,520 Your clipboard. 104 00:05:53,645 --> 00:05:54,646 Keep it. 105 00:06:02,071 --> 00:06:03,947 KUTNER: This place actually smells of evil. 106 00:06:04,073 --> 00:06:05,616 TAUB: Where do you work again? 107 00:06:05,741 --> 00:06:07,951 Why would House throw out a book worth hundreds of dollars? 108 00:06:08,077 --> 00:06:09,828 To make you ask that question. 109 00:06:09,953 --> 00:06:11,789 Can you really put a price tag on screwing with people? 110 00:06:11,914 --> 00:06:14,917 Can you get us into Natalie Soellner's locker while we're here? 111 00:06:16,502 --> 00:06:19,046 House always has an agenda. Just screwing with us isn't... 112 00:06:19,171 --> 00:06:21,965 Yeah, he'd never do that. Oh, wait, he already did, last year. 113 00:06:22,091 --> 00:06:23,634 Remember the Secret Santa gift he got himself? 114 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:26,095 He was making us fight over who could get him the best present. 115 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:28,222 This time, he's just making us wonder. 116 00:06:28,347 --> 00:06:32,851 No animosity, no ugly competition. I think it's a real present. 117 00:06:32,976 --> 00:06:35,396 If it's real, then House really was freaked. 118 00:06:35,854 --> 00:06:38,649 And if it affects him, eventually it'll affect us. 119 00:06:38,774 --> 00:06:39,733 Uh-oh. 120 00:06:40,859 --> 00:06:43,112 Maybe it wasn't those kids who poisoned Natalie. 121 00:06:43,237 --> 00:06:44,947 Maybe it was Natalie herself. 122 00:06:48,659 --> 00:06:50,119 I didn't try to kill myself. 123 00:06:50,244 --> 00:06:52,663 Then why'd you have all those painkillers? 124 00:06:52,788 --> 00:06:54,081 In case I get a headache. 125 00:06:54,790 --> 00:06:56,917 Well, maybe, you took a few too many. 126 00:06:58,085 --> 00:07:00,295 - Do you have any kids? - No. 127 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:06,135 But high school wasn't all that different when I was your age. 128 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:09,638 Teenagers can be incredibly mean. I know what you're going through. 129 00:07:09,763 --> 00:07:10,889 (SCOFFS) 130 00:07:11,807 --> 00:07:15,436 I bet you were cool. You're pretty. 131 00:07:15,561 --> 00:07:17,438 You're pretty, too. 132 00:07:17,563 --> 00:07:20,649 I'm fat. I'm a loser. 133 00:07:21,733 --> 00:07:23,193 They all hate me. 134 00:07:24,736 --> 00:07:26,613 You know what they did last year? 135 00:07:27,239 --> 00:07:29,783 They took these photos of me for the yearbook. 136 00:07:30,868 --> 00:07:34,997 But it wasn't. It was for this website making fun of me, 137 00:07:35,914 --> 00:07:37,458 calling me a pig. 138 00:07:37,583 --> 00:07:38,876 Forget about them. 139 00:07:41,837 --> 00:07:43,297 Let's just make you better. 140 00:07:43,422 --> 00:07:44,715 What's the point? 141 00:07:46,925 --> 00:07:49,970 Acetylcysteine could save her liver, but we have to act fast. 142 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:51,680 If there's any chance that she took all those pills... 143 00:07:51,805 --> 00:07:52,848 There's no chance. 144 00:07:54,766 --> 00:07:56,351 Okay- 145 00:07:56,477 --> 00:07:58,812 She was the happiest, sweetest little girl. 146 00:07:59,771 --> 00:08:01,273 And a year ago, she hits puberty, 147 00:08:01,398 --> 00:08:05,652 and it's like this secretive little stranger moved into her room. 148 00:08:05,777 --> 00:08:09,406 I tried to talk to her about what she's going through, but... 149 00:08:12,618 --> 00:08:13,785 Give her the treatment. 150 00:08:13,911 --> 00:08:14,870 Kimberley, you think that she tried to... 151 00:08:14,995 --> 00:08:17,080 I don't know what to think. 152 00:08:23,670 --> 00:08:26,715 If it's a subpoena, he's gotten that kind of present before. 153 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,383 It was a book. 154 00:08:28,509 --> 00:08:29,801 That narrows it down. 155 00:08:29,927 --> 00:08:31,595 Just look for someone who knows how to read 156 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,180 or has been to a bookstore. 157 00:08:33,305 --> 00:08:36,391 Most bookstores don't carry Joseph Bell on surgery. 158 00:08:39,686 --> 00:08:41,063 Did it have a note? 159 00:08:41,188 --> 00:08:43,440 "Greg, made me think of you." 160 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:45,817 Green wrapping paper. 161 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:48,237 How did you know that? 162 00:08:51,406 --> 00:08:52,699 What is it? 163 00:08:54,826 --> 00:08:56,286 It's nothing. 164 00:08:57,496 --> 00:08:58,789 Yes, when something's nothing, 165 00:08:58,914 --> 00:09:01,416 the natural response is to guess the color of the paper it's wrapped in 166 00:09:01,542 --> 00:09:03,669 and then descend into stunned silence. 167 00:09:07,172 --> 00:09:12,010 Irene Adler. Christmas 2001. 168 00:09:12,844 --> 00:09:16,682 Sarcoid symptoms, but she didn't respond to methotrexate. 169 00:09:17,641 --> 00:09:20,686 I've never seen him so obsessed. 170 00:09:21,853 --> 00:09:24,064 He saved her with a last-minute Wegener's diagnosis. 171 00:09:24,189 --> 00:09:27,776 But the hours he put in, I thought it would kill him. 172 00:09:28,694 --> 00:09:33,699 And then, well, he fell for her. 173 00:09:35,033 --> 00:09:38,787 But it was too soon after Stacy and... 174 00:09:38,912 --> 00:09:44,668 It sounds silly, but Irene was the one who got away. 175 00:09:46,169 --> 00:09:47,337 Really? 176 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:50,716 No, you idiots. House is just screwing with you. 177 00:09:50,841 --> 00:09:52,092 You think there's some woman with a mysterious 178 00:09:52,217 --> 00:09:53,885 green wrapping paper trademark? 179 00:09:54,052 --> 00:09:55,679 Then how did you guess... 180 00:09:55,804 --> 00:09:56,888 I could be wrong. 181 00:09:57,014 --> 00:09:59,099 It's possible a secret admirer 182 00:09:59,224 --> 00:10:02,561 gave House the same book I gave him last Christmas, 183 00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:05,480 and the same paper I wrapped it in, 184 00:10:05,606 --> 00:10:06,857 and the note I wrote. 185 00:10:06,982 --> 00:10:08,150 We gotta go. 186 00:10:11,612 --> 00:10:13,196 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 187 00:10:14,239 --> 00:10:15,574 TAUB: Heartbeat? 188 00:10:15,699 --> 00:10:16,575 One-fifty. 189 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:20,078 BP 180 over 110. Crackling three-quarters of the way up. 190 00:10:20,245 --> 00:10:21,622 (NATALIE GASPING) 191 00:10:22,372 --> 00:10:24,791 At least this means she didn't try to kill herself. 192 00:10:30,047 --> 00:10:33,300 Scratch the hallucinations, that's from the mushrooms. 193 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:37,304 Leaves liver failure and now pulmonary edema. 194 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,892 And you standing there beseechingly. 195 00:10:42,017 --> 00:10:43,477 Yes, I was gonna stalk you at home, 196 00:10:43,602 --> 00:10:45,479 but it was a busy week and your office is closer. 197 00:10:45,604 --> 00:10:47,356 Thirteen and Foreman were busy drug-trialing 198 00:10:47,481 --> 00:10:50,025 and we needed an answer on the overdose, so we called her in. 199 00:10:50,192 --> 00:10:52,402 She's just updating us. 200 00:10:52,527 --> 00:10:54,613 - Convenient. - Update's done. 201 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:01,536 This is a good experience for me as my parents never got divorced. 202 00:11:01,662 --> 00:11:03,789 - Theories? - Glue sniffing. 203 00:11:03,914 --> 00:11:05,415 KUTNER: Effects on the lungs would have been immediate. 204 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:08,043 House, we all know what's going on here. 205 00:11:09,086 --> 00:11:10,921 Cuddy gave you that present. 206 00:11:11,046 --> 00:11:12,089 No. 207 00:11:12,214 --> 00:11:13,423 HOUSE: Infections? 208 00:11:13,548 --> 00:11:15,425 No fever, no polys in the sputum. 209 00:11:15,550 --> 00:11:16,760 I think... 210 00:11:18,470 --> 00:11:19,513 I think she loves you. 211 00:11:19,638 --> 00:11:21,765 HOUSE: I told you to lay off the present. 212 00:11:22,474 --> 00:11:23,767 And the LSD. 213 00:11:23,892 --> 00:11:27,229 We got distracted by the painkillers, toxins are still the most likely... 214 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,314 Just tell her how you feel. 215 00:11:29,690 --> 00:11:34,027 If you won't, then I will. I'll walk right down there. 216 00:11:34,695 --> 00:11:39,241 Damn it, love like this needs to fly free. 217 00:11:39,491 --> 00:11:40,742 (KUTNER SNICKERS) 218 00:11:44,830 --> 00:11:46,665 You talked to Wilson. 219 00:11:46,790 --> 00:11:49,042 He has very girly handwriting, by the way. 220 00:11:49,167 --> 00:11:51,670 I knew I should have just wrapped a new present. 221 00:11:51,795 --> 00:11:53,714 You said the patient volunteered. Where? 222 00:11:54,297 --> 00:11:55,590 Pleasant Valley. 223 00:11:56,675 --> 00:11:58,844 Soup kitchen in Trenton. 224 00:11:58,969 --> 00:12:01,054 Thirteen and Kutner, go search the home and the school. 225 00:12:01,179 --> 00:12:07,894 Taub, you take the anal swabbing of the fragrant and contagious homeless men. 226 00:12:11,690 --> 00:12:13,442 Why don't you hang out in the video store 227 00:12:13,567 --> 00:12:15,819 and tell everyone Kevin Spacey's Keyser Söze? 228 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,322 By the way, that ending really made no sense at all. 229 00:12:19,448 --> 00:12:23,160 You had my present for a year and didn't even open it? 230 00:12:23,285 --> 00:12:25,912 I had no way of knowing there was an expensive book inside. 231 00:12:26,037 --> 00:12:29,040 Completely meaningless prank, even for you. 232 00:12:29,166 --> 00:12:33,086 Stealing your ice cream is a completely meaningless, albeit delicious, prank. 233 00:12:33,211 --> 00:12:35,297 Observing my team's reactions to unexplained phenomena 234 00:12:35,422 --> 00:12:36,923 could have been pretty useful. 235 00:12:37,048 --> 00:12:41,887 Of all the ways to mess with people, why give yourself an imaginary present? 236 00:12:42,012 --> 00:12:44,765 Have you checked the prices for firemen strippers recently? 237 00:12:44,890 --> 00:12:46,141 Yes. 238 00:12:46,266 --> 00:12:49,269 The holidays. They're hard for you, I get it. 239 00:12:49,728 --> 00:12:53,398 You see the people around you giving and receiving gifts, 240 00:12:53,523 --> 00:12:56,860 having sustained, meaningful relationships. And since you can't, 241 00:12:56,985 --> 00:12:58,570 something deep in your subconscious 242 00:12:58,695 --> 00:13:01,907 makes you create the appearance of a gift. 243 00:13:02,532 --> 00:13:03,950 Sad. 244 00:13:04,075 --> 00:13:06,620 You really passed your psych rotation? 245 00:13:06,745 --> 00:13:08,455 It's too bad you can't just be nice to people. 246 00:13:08,580 --> 00:13:10,749 You could get a real present that way. 247 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:12,918 If I wanted gifts, 248 00:13:13,043 --> 00:13:15,962 I would just look deep into my patient's eyes and act like you. 249 00:13:16,505 --> 00:13:20,050 "Oh, I'm so sorry you're dying, Mrs. Moron. 250 00:13:20,175 --> 00:13:23,470 "Of course I'll sleep with you. What I lack in skill, I can make up for in..." 251 00:13:23,595 --> 00:13:27,390 You'd just wind up insulting her. Perhaps calling her Mrs. Moron. 252 00:13:27,516 --> 00:13:29,976 Right. 'Cause I'm physically incapable of being polite. 253 00:13:30,101 --> 00:13:35,106 Being kind in a sustained, meaningful way? No. 254 00:13:35,690 --> 00:13:39,152 Oh, I get it. You're trying to get me to prove you wrong, 255 00:13:39,277 --> 00:13:42,405 then I'm gonna be nice to all my patients all through the holiday season 256 00:13:42,531 --> 00:13:45,992 and then Mr. Potter won't steal Tiny Tim's porridge. I'm totally on it. 257 00:13:46,117 --> 00:13:50,163 Yeah, that actually is what I'm trying to do. 258 00:13:50,288 --> 00:13:53,583 And the pathetic part is, it's not going to work. 259 00:13:55,043 --> 00:13:56,169 You're right. 260 00:13:57,879 --> 00:13:59,548 I gotta stop being such a jerk. 261 00:14:03,635 --> 00:14:04,469 Oops 262 00:14:04,594 --> 00:14:06,388 Kind of undercut myself there. 263 00:14:09,558 --> 00:14:11,351 (MAN CHATTERING ON TV) 264 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:21,778 Janice? 265 00:14:21,903 --> 00:14:24,489 - I'm Remy. I'm... - Yeah, I remember you. 266 00:14:28,577 --> 00:14:30,537 I heard you left the trial. 267 00:14:30,662 --> 00:14:31,705 Yeah. 268 00:14:32,664 --> 00:14:34,833 If there's some way I could help... 269 00:14:35,792 --> 00:14:40,130 it was that doctor. The one that was running the test. 270 00:14:40,255 --> 00:14:41,798 - Dr. Foreman. - Yeah. 271 00:14:41,923 --> 00:14:45,093 He's a great neurologist. He's a great guy. 272 00:14:45,218 --> 00:14:46,928 (SNICKERS) You like him? 273 00:14:47,846 --> 00:14:49,139 Why don't you? 274 00:14:49,264 --> 00:14:53,810 I told him that those injections were making me sick in my stomach, 275 00:14:53,935 --> 00:14:57,522 and he just gave me antacid. 276 00:14:57,647 --> 00:14:59,524 We were warned that nausea's a side effect, 277 00:14:59,649 --> 00:15:02,027 and giving you antacid is all he really could do. 278 00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:06,823 No. He told me, "Get over it." 279 00:15:08,825 --> 00:15:10,535 With or without these drugs, 280 00:15:11,661 --> 00:15:14,956 I don't have a long time. 281 00:15:17,959 --> 00:15:20,754 I'm not gonna spend it being his guinea pig. 282 00:15:24,925 --> 00:15:26,343 TAUB: House. 283 00:15:26,801 --> 00:15:28,386 It's tuberculosis. 284 00:15:29,012 --> 00:15:31,681 You got that from an anal swab? Man, you're good. 285 00:15:31,806 --> 00:15:33,433 There was a more subtle clue. 286 00:15:33,558 --> 00:15:36,728 Homeless guy, uncontrollably hacking up blood. 287 00:15:36,853 --> 00:15:39,731 Cough's lasted two months. He was cachectic. 288 00:15:39,856 --> 00:15:41,858 Unless you could tie him to the patient... 289 00:15:41,983 --> 00:15:44,361 Yes, again, if only there was some subtle clue, 290 00:15:44,486 --> 00:15:48,281 like the fact that he was standing next to her in the soup line for a week. 291 00:15:48,406 --> 00:15:49,324 I hate spunk. 292 00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:51,493 TB can cause liver failure, lung symptoms. 293 00:15:51,618 --> 00:15:52,661 Fits. 294 00:15:53,411 --> 00:15:55,080 Start her on the standard regimen. 295 00:15:55,246 --> 00:15:57,123 You don't have clinic duty today. 296 00:15:57,999 --> 00:15:59,668 Who says it's a duty? 297 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:03,505 Hi. I'm Greg. 298 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,006 Hi. I'm Whitney. 299 00:16:05,131 --> 00:16:07,509 Hi, Whitney, how can I help you? 300 00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:10,095 I have a terrible headache. 301 00:16:10,220 --> 00:16:12,472 Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. 302 00:16:12,597 --> 00:16:16,059 We'll get you fixed up. ls there anything else you need? 303 00:16:16,184 --> 00:16:18,478 Bottled water? Coffee? Mint tea? 304 00:16:18,603 --> 00:16:19,854 No, but that's so nice. 305 00:16:19,980 --> 00:16:22,399 (CHUCKLES) Usually, the clinic doctors are kind of rushed. 306 00:16:23,108 --> 00:16:25,944 If you can't be nice, why be a doctor? 307 00:16:26,945 --> 00:16:29,155 So, where do you feel the pain? 308 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,282 - In the back of my head, here. - Uh-huh. 309 00:16:31,408 --> 00:16:34,911 It's Beccaria's sign. It'll be gone by your third trimester. 310 00:16:35,453 --> 00:16:36,830 Oh, I'm not in school. 311 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:40,500 Neither is your fetus. 312 00:16:42,502 --> 00:16:43,795 Oh, God. 313 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,088 You didn't know you were pregnant? 314 00:16:45,213 --> 00:16:47,590 How do... You know that just from the headache? 315 00:16:49,592 --> 00:16:50,802 How do I know? 316 00:16:51,803 --> 00:16:55,348 I missed my period, I got fat and threw up. 317 00:16:55,473 --> 00:16:57,183 Oh, no, wait, that's how you know. 318 00:16:57,308 --> 00:16:58,309 What? 319 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:01,312 I know because of the tight shirt stretched over the swollen boobs, 320 00:17:01,438 --> 00:17:03,606 the salt craving you imported into the clinic, 321 00:17:03,732 --> 00:17:05,859 the motion sickness patch that doesn't do anything 322 00:17:05,984 --> 00:17:08,028 for the kind of sickness that you feel in the morning. 323 00:17:08,153 --> 00:17:11,114 I'm a virgin. So is my fiancé. 324 00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:13,241 I believe him. 325 00:17:13,533 --> 00:17:15,410 Aren't there other ways I could get pregnant? 326 00:17:15,535 --> 00:17:18,621 Like sitting on a toilet seat? 327 00:17:18,747 --> 00:17:22,459 Absolutely. There would need to be a guy sitting between you and the toilet seat, 328 00:17:22,584 --> 00:17:23,918 but, yes, absolutely. 329 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:27,338 And I was doing so well. 330 00:17:33,344 --> 00:17:34,179 Natalie? 331 00:17:34,304 --> 00:17:35,555 (CONVULSING) 332 00:17:35,805 --> 00:17:37,307 Oh, God. Natalie. 333 00:17:37,432 --> 00:17:38,641 CUDDY: She's having a seizure. 334 00:17:38,767 --> 00:17:39,893 Put her on her side. Nurse! 335 00:17:40,018 --> 00:17:41,728 Is this from the TB? 336 00:17:41,853 --> 00:17:44,230 Not with a supple neck. I don't know what this is. 337 00:17:44,355 --> 00:17:45,607 Four milligrams lorazepam. 338 00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:56,409 Liver, lungs, and now brain, which has mysteriously reappeared. 339 00:17:57,535 --> 00:18:00,038 Speaking of mysteriously reappeared... 340 00:18:00,163 --> 00:18:04,334 Her ALT is 20 times normal, transaminasas and PTs, way up. 341 00:18:04,459 --> 00:18:07,504 She's going to lose her liver. We gotta get her on the transplant list. 342 00:18:07,629 --> 00:18:10,381 You keep showing up. You also keep leaving. 343 00:18:10,507 --> 00:18:14,636 It's possible that you have the hots for me, but really, really hate this kid. 344 00:18:14,761 --> 00:18:17,722 It's also remotely possible I have that reversed. 345 00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:20,475 She's a nice kid, I want to make sure she's okay. 346 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:21,518 Hepatic fibrosis. 347 00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:23,520 Normal complement level, normal-sized liver. 348 00:18:23,645 --> 00:18:25,855 She remind you of you? 349 00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:28,525 No, you weren't a loser in high school. 350 00:18:28,650 --> 00:18:31,611 You had every Tom, Dick and Hershel wet dreaming about you. 351 00:18:31,736 --> 00:18:34,656 But she could be making you think of another helpless, 352 00:18:34,781 --> 00:18:36,866 chubby little girl that you recently met. 353 00:18:36,991 --> 00:18:40,662 You're not really making this about the baby I tried to adopt. 354 00:18:40,787 --> 00:18:42,580 HOUSE: It's been a few weeks. 355 00:18:42,705 --> 00:18:45,208 Just enough time to get over hurt feelings. 356 00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:47,085 Natalie's 16. 357 00:18:47,210 --> 00:18:50,672 I think you're confusing being maternal with being human. 358 00:18:51,714 --> 00:18:53,383 If we hadn't ruled out the mushrooms... 359 00:18:53,508 --> 00:18:55,260 Maybe we shouldn't have. 360 00:18:55,385 --> 00:18:57,178 Forget toxic, think allergic. 361 00:18:57,303 --> 00:19:01,015 Severe mold allergy could cause liver failure, respiratory arrest, 362 00:19:01,141 --> 00:19:02,350 and encephalopathy. 363 00:19:02,475 --> 00:19:04,644 She ate the shrooms days ago. There's no way she'd still be sick. 364 00:19:04,769 --> 00:19:07,480 Unless it also gave her a fungal infection. 365 00:19:07,605 --> 00:19:09,816 Give her a prick test and antifungals. 366 00:19:17,073 --> 00:19:21,161 Hey. Thank you for the gift. I really appreciate it. 367 00:19:22,078 --> 00:19:23,872 I spoke to Janice. 368 00:19:23,997 --> 00:19:25,081 She Okay? 369 00:19:25,206 --> 00:19:26,249 Yeah. 370 00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:32,547 Her nausea, she said you told her, like, "Get over it"? 371 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:33,673 And? 372 00:19:35,049 --> 00:19:38,261 Nausea isn't something you can overcome with sheer willpower. 373 00:19:39,179 --> 00:19:42,724 Which is why I didn't prescribe willpower, I prescribed antacids. 374 00:19:42,849 --> 00:19:45,727 She can't handle that, she'd have to leave the trial anyway. 375 00:19:45,852 --> 00:19:48,980 Just call her, say you're sorry, she'll come back. 376 00:19:49,731 --> 00:19:50,773 No. 377 00:19:50,899 --> 00:19:52,734 God, you're acting like House now. 378 00:19:52,859 --> 00:19:54,777 No, I'm not acting like House, 379 00:19:54,903 --> 00:19:56,738 which is exactly why I don't need to apologize. 380 00:19:56,863 --> 00:19:58,406 I'm not being cruel, I'm not being manipulative. 381 00:19:58,531 --> 00:20:01,117 You said the same thing to me when I told you I was having a hard time. 382 00:20:01,242 --> 00:20:02,744 And it worked. 383 00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:05,455 She's a 40-year-old woman who's falling apart, 384 00:20:05,580 --> 00:20:08,499 physically and emotionally. She's dying. 385 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:13,796 Look, I know seeing the Ghost of your Christmas Future is tough, 386 00:20:13,922 --> 00:20:16,758 but the only way I can help her is to make sure she follows her regimen, 387 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:18,468 not by becoming her life coach. 388 00:20:19,761 --> 00:20:23,223 You're not acting like House. You are like him. 389 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:30,521 Dr. House? 390 00:20:31,022 --> 00:20:33,024 This is my fiancé, Geoff. 391 00:20:34,484 --> 00:20:37,904 She says you told her you can get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat. 392 00:20:40,114 --> 00:20:43,576 I said those words, but with a particular inflection. 393 00:20:44,744 --> 00:20:45,828 I knew it wasn't true. 394 00:20:45,954 --> 00:20:48,289 Is there any other way? Isn't it possible? 395 00:20:49,207 --> 00:20:51,542 There was a reported case of a Civil War soldier. 396 00:20:51,668 --> 00:20:53,169 He was shot in the testicles, 397 00:20:53,336 --> 00:20:57,840 and the musket ball carried the non-musket ball 398 00:20:57,966 --> 00:21:00,927 into the uterus of a woman working in a neighboring field. 399 00:21:01,052 --> 00:21:03,638 Nine months later, a miracle child was born. 400 00:21:04,931 --> 00:21:06,849 Also, maybe she cheated on you. 401 00:21:07,392 --> 00:21:08,935 We made a promise. 402 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:10,895 We do other stuff in bed. 403 00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:14,065 Couldn't some of his sperm have made it up there somehow? 404 00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:17,443 More likely it came from the guy whose penis made it up there somehow, 405 00:21:17,568 --> 00:21:20,154 but sure, anything's possible. 406 00:21:20,321 --> 00:21:21,823 I want a paternity test. 407 00:21:21,948 --> 00:21:24,575 Tell him that amnios are dangerous this early on in the pregnancy. 408 00:21:24,701 --> 00:21:26,995 - Are they? - Who cares? He doesn't know. 409 00:21:28,121 --> 00:21:30,581 We'll do the paternity test. 410 00:21:37,255 --> 00:21:38,965 No reaction. 411 00:21:39,090 --> 00:21:40,174 That's bad? 412 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:42,343 If you had a mold allergy, it would explain your symptoms. 413 00:21:42,468 --> 00:21:44,429 KUTNER: We'll find out what's wrong, don't worry. 414 00:21:44,554 --> 00:21:47,598 And I know some things are hard to talk about with your parents around, 415 00:21:47,724 --> 00:21:49,517 but kids can be really mean. 416 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,394 There are people you can talk to, programs... 417 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:52,854 I'll be okay. 418 00:21:54,731 --> 00:21:57,233 You're in good spirits. You feeling better? 419 00:21:57,358 --> 00:22:01,237 No. I was just doing my homework. 420 00:22:01,362 --> 00:22:03,656 I'm such a dork, I guess that cheers me up. 421 00:22:03,781 --> 00:22:04,741 Parents brought it? 422 00:22:04,866 --> 00:22:06,367 No, Simon did. 423 00:22:06,784 --> 00:22:08,619 The jockey kid in your class? 424 00:22:08,745 --> 00:22:10,788 Yeah. He just left. 425 00:22:13,791 --> 00:22:14,625 (INTERCOM BEEPS) 426 00:22:14,751 --> 00:22:16,210 Security. 427 00:22:16,627 --> 00:22:18,171 I was just bringing her homework. 428 00:22:18,296 --> 00:22:19,547 You helped bully this little girl 429 00:22:19,672 --> 00:22:21,924 and completely refused to accept responsibility. 430 00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:24,302 No way you came here out of compassion. That only leaves guilt. 431 00:22:24,427 --> 00:22:25,678 - What did you do to her? - Nothing. 432 00:22:25,803 --> 00:22:27,638 Stop lying or I'll take the drugs I found in your locker 433 00:22:27,764 --> 00:22:29,849 down to the cops, you slimy little jerk. 434 00:22:33,019 --> 00:22:34,979 - This kid didn't do anything to you. - This isn't about me. 435 00:22:35,104 --> 00:22:36,189 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, 436 00:22:36,314 --> 00:22:38,316 you were bullied yourself when you were in school. 437 00:22:38,441 --> 00:22:40,360 - Take it easy. - I wasn't bullied. 438 00:22:40,485 --> 00:22:42,945 Right. The Indian foster kid whose parents were shot in front of him. 439 00:22:43,071 --> 00:22:45,031 You were clearly Homecoming King. 440 00:22:48,826 --> 00:22:50,703 Let's try this again. Just tell me... 441 00:22:50,828 --> 00:22:52,663 Honestly, you don't understand. 442 00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:55,291 (SIGHS) 443 00:22:56,417 --> 00:22:57,960 We used to be friends. 444 00:22:58,086 --> 00:23:01,839 And I'd be friends with her now if people wouldn't make fun of me. 445 00:23:02,757 --> 00:23:04,759 There's nothing you could tell us that'll help? 446 00:23:05,802 --> 00:23:08,763 Did she mention she used to drink a lot? 447 00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:10,515 No. How do you know that? 448 00:23:11,682 --> 00:23:13,893 Look, don't tell anyone, all right? 449 00:23:14,018 --> 00:23:16,479 I have my brother's ID and I kind of supply people. 450 00:23:16,604 --> 00:23:19,690 I used to get her a few bottles of vodka each week. 451 00:23:19,816 --> 00:23:20,983 Why'd you stop? 452 00:23:21,109 --> 00:23:22,110 She got her own ID. 453 00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:23,861 Said it was cheaper buying it herself. 454 00:23:24,737 --> 00:23:26,030 You can go. 455 00:23:28,699 --> 00:23:32,995 I think we got our diagnosis. Our little girl's a drunk. 456 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:41,879 I don't drink. I did back then, but... 457 00:23:42,004 --> 00:23:43,840 You could die. 458 00:23:43,965 --> 00:23:47,510 We can't get you on the transplant list until we know why your liver is failing. 459 00:23:47,635 --> 00:23:50,346 Alcohol abuse would explain that. 460 00:23:50,972 --> 00:23:52,557 The seizures could be from withdrawal. 461 00:23:52,682 --> 00:23:55,184 I haven't drunk in six months. 462 00:23:55,309 --> 00:23:57,478 I didn't even drink that much back then. 463 00:23:57,603 --> 00:23:59,480 A couple of vodka bottles a week? 464 00:24:00,148 --> 00:24:02,024 I didn't open half of them. 465 00:24:03,151 --> 00:24:08,281 I just bought them because Simon was selling them. 466 00:24:08,531 --> 00:24:10,450 We used to be friends, and that's, like, the only way 467 00:24:10,575 --> 00:24:12,160 I could get him to even talk to me. 468 00:24:12,285 --> 00:24:15,997 Then why did you stop buying from him? He said you got your own ID. 469 00:24:16,831 --> 00:24:18,166 I don't know. 470 00:24:18,291 --> 00:24:19,667 See, that's not a good answer. 471 00:24:21,252 --> 00:24:23,546 Remember when you asked me if I had any kids? 472 00:24:24,213 --> 00:24:26,466 I don't. I don't know, maybe it has nothing to do with it, 473 00:24:26,591 --> 00:24:31,012 but I was good at school, good at work, lousy at life. 474 00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:33,431 I screwed up every relationship I ever had. 475 00:24:33,556 --> 00:24:36,100 I thought, why would I want to bring a child into this? 476 00:24:37,351 --> 00:24:40,146 But then I got older and... 477 00:24:44,233 --> 00:24:49,280 How you feel now will pass. Don't let it screw up your whole life. 478 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:52,742 It's already screwed up. 479 00:24:55,620 --> 00:25:00,583 My asthma. They said they'd fix it, but it didn't make any difference at all. 480 00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:05,713 Well, sometimes doctors make mistakes, Anna, 481 00:25:05,838 --> 00:25:08,299 and then we have to try twice as hard to fix them. 482 00:25:08,424 --> 00:25:09,550 You using your inhaler? 483 00:25:09,675 --> 00:25:11,552 All the time. Go through one a week. 484 00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:14,639 You sure you're using it right? 485 00:25:14,764 --> 00:25:16,849 Do I look like an idiot? 486 00:25:16,974 --> 00:25:18,017 No. 487 00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:22,021 Why don't you show me how your inhaler works? 488 00:25:31,489 --> 00:25:32,698 Jerk. 489 00:25:36,244 --> 00:25:37,620 What was that all about? 490 00:25:37,745 --> 00:25:39,664 Jamaican chicken recipes. 491 00:25:39,789 --> 00:25:40,706 The parents said no to the benzos. 492 00:25:40,831 --> 00:25:43,793 But I still think Natalie's not being honest with me. 493 00:25:43,918 --> 00:25:46,212 So she's willing to die to cover up some boozing? 494 00:25:46,337 --> 00:25:47,755 She's very depressed. 495 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,175 She feels like she deserves what the other kids are dishing out on her. 496 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:52,677 I think she either wants to die 497 00:25:52,802 --> 00:25:55,596 or she wants the attention that dying gives her. 498 00:25:55,721 --> 00:25:59,684 I have no idea why you care so much. Tell Kutner to start her on benzos. 499 00:25:59,809 --> 00:26:00,643 House, the parents just... 500 00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:02,520 Uh-uh. Not the alcoholism, 501 00:26:02,645 --> 00:26:05,648 the seizures, totally different. Don't need their approval for that. 502 00:26:11,988 --> 00:26:13,948 You sure you want to know? 503 00:26:14,073 --> 00:26:16,284 If it makes it any easier, I'm going to tell you anyway. 504 00:26:16,409 --> 00:26:17,660 We want to know. 505 00:26:17,785 --> 00:26:18,995 (EXHALING) 506 00:26:24,625 --> 00:26:25,751 What does it say? 507 00:26:34,969 --> 00:26:36,262 Don't leave. 508 00:26:47,607 --> 00:26:49,525 You go home last night? 509 00:26:49,650 --> 00:26:52,903 I meant to, but started reading this file, just couldn't put it down. 510 00:26:53,029 --> 00:26:54,614 Let me ask you. 511 00:26:54,739 --> 00:26:56,490 That patient who dropped out, the one I told you about? 512 00:26:56,616 --> 00:26:57,658 Yeah. 513 00:26:57,783 --> 00:26:59,619 Do you think I should pursue it more? 514 00:26:59,744 --> 00:27:03,664 No. Patients drop out, that's why we start with hundreds. 515 00:27:03,789 --> 00:27:04,665 I just thought, 516 00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:06,292 if there's an easy way to make the people who drop off 517 00:27:06,417 --> 00:27:07,668 come back, then why not? 518 00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:09,795 - They're not people. - Really? 519 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,923 I thought the zombie trials were all completed during Phase Two. 520 00:27:13,049 --> 00:27:15,885 You can't see the patients as people. You can't even see them as patients. 521 00:27:16,010 --> 00:27:17,011 They're numbers. 522 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:18,220 Look. 523 00:27:18,804 --> 00:27:21,307 A friend of mine has this disease. 524 00:27:21,432 --> 00:27:24,894 I don't want to know. There's a reason this is double-blind. 525 00:27:25,019 --> 00:27:26,812 Any personal stake we have skews the study. 526 00:27:26,937 --> 00:27:30,024 Science is not about human relationships, it's about results. 527 00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:32,234 But you know that. You work for House. 528 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:34,570 Why do you think I brought you on as my partner? 529 00:27:36,656 --> 00:27:37,907 (MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY) Dr. Taub! 530 00:27:38,032 --> 00:27:39,700 She was talking to me and then she just passed out. 531 00:27:39,825 --> 00:27:41,035 Her heart's slowing down. 532 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,203 Can you fix it? 533 00:27:42,578 --> 00:27:44,538 - Can you fix it? - I'm trying. 534 00:27:44,664 --> 00:27:46,457 Push one amp atropine. 535 00:27:53,589 --> 00:27:54,965 (DOOR OPENS) 536 00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:59,595 We've been waiting here for six hours. Am I the father or not? 537 00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:07,687 No, but she also didn't cheat on you. 538 00:28:13,734 --> 00:28:15,945 Normally, sperm meets egg, 539 00:28:16,070 --> 00:28:19,782 DNA meets DNA, goes back to her place, cells divide. 540 00:28:19,907 --> 00:28:22,702 Nine months later, joy is bundled. 541 00:28:22,827 --> 00:28:24,203 That's normally. 542 00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:29,625 Abnormally, an egg could have two naturally occurring gene mutations 543 00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:31,669 that don't naturally occur together. 544 00:28:33,879 --> 00:28:37,675 Spontaneous calcium spike could prep the egg for fertilization without sperm. 545 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,428 And a division mistake could let the egg split up 546 00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:42,722 without ever needing male DNA at all. 547 00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:46,851 Parthenogenesis. A baby without a daddy. 548 00:28:46,976 --> 00:28:51,355 In humans, it's only ever been theorized, and it was never proved. 549 00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:53,607 Until now. 550 00:28:56,026 --> 00:29:01,282 Mommy, baby. Your daughter has only maternal DNA. 551 00:29:01,407 --> 00:29:07,288 I personally checked this five times. In seven months, you will have 552 00:29:09,832 --> 00:29:11,333 a virgin birth. 553 00:29:13,419 --> 00:29:14,712 Merry Christmas. 554 00:29:26,807 --> 00:29:29,685 I've got to tell you about this clinic patient. 555 00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:32,688 Natalie's liver's continuing to fail. And now bradycardia. 556 00:29:32,813 --> 00:29:34,565 Atropine isn't keeping the heart rate up, 557 00:29:34,690 --> 00:29:36,567 we're going to have to put her on a pacemaker. 558 00:29:36,692 --> 00:29:40,780 Alcohol withdrawal would cause her heart to race, not crawl. 559 00:29:40,905 --> 00:29:42,406 There's nothing structurally wrong with her heart. 560 00:29:42,531 --> 00:29:45,117 EKG, echo, electrolyte panel are all normal. 561 00:29:45,242 --> 00:29:46,786 Multiple endocrine syndrome? 562 00:29:46,911 --> 00:29:49,038 Free T4's normal. Hypothalamic brain tumor? 563 00:29:49,163 --> 00:29:51,040 Didn't come up on the CT scan. 564 00:29:51,916 --> 00:29:56,170 It's hitting all her organs. Could be the blood. What's her Alk-Phos? 565 00:30:00,216 --> 00:30:01,467 Three hundred. 566 00:30:03,469 --> 00:30:04,845 It can't be leukemia. 567 00:30:09,934 --> 00:30:11,936 CUDDY: High Alk-Phos could also be from liver failure. 568 00:30:12,061 --> 00:30:15,773 She's a teenager, means bone growth and destruction could throw it off. 569 00:30:15,898 --> 00:30:17,858 Maybe. But it's higher than you'd expect. 570 00:30:18,776 --> 00:30:20,569 Start her on chemo. 571 00:30:20,986 --> 00:30:23,197 We'll do a bone marrow biopsy to confirm. 572 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:25,324 Why are you ordering tests instead of treatment? 573 00:30:25,449 --> 00:30:28,744 Her heart and liver are about to give up. Do whatever you need to. 574 00:30:30,246 --> 00:30:32,248 Why are you so attached to this girl? 575 00:30:35,376 --> 00:30:36,794 It's your call. 576 00:30:39,171 --> 00:30:41,423 He doesn't want us to treat her. 577 00:30:41,549 --> 00:30:44,468 If it's leukemia, even if we kill every cancer cell, 578 00:30:44,593 --> 00:30:45,678 her heart and liver are too far gone. 579 00:30:45,803 --> 00:30:46,804 A double transplant. 580 00:30:46,929 --> 00:30:50,808 With brain involvement? The committee won't even open the file. 581 00:30:51,517 --> 00:30:53,185 There's no reason to put a dying girl 582 00:30:53,310 --> 00:30:55,688 through a painful treatment if it can't save her. 583 00:30:59,316 --> 00:31:00,734 He's being kind. 584 00:31:02,611 --> 00:31:03,779 I'll arrange a biopsy. 585 00:31:08,242 --> 00:31:10,411 (PEOPLE CHATTERING ON TV) 586 00:31:13,163 --> 00:31:14,540 FOREMAN: Mrs. Burke? 587 00:31:16,834 --> 00:31:19,837 We're conducting another trial in tandem with yours. 588 00:31:19,962 --> 00:31:21,797 Same drug, lower dose. 589 00:31:22,798 --> 00:31:24,884 The nausea would be less. 590 00:31:26,010 --> 00:31:29,138 I did some checking, I can switch you. 591 00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:33,517 Here's the forms if you want back in. 592 00:31:41,317 --> 00:31:43,027 What if we're wrong? 593 00:31:43,152 --> 00:31:45,779 Maybe we shouldn't have overlooked autoimmunes. 594 00:31:45,905 --> 00:31:46,906 High sad rate. 595 00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:48,240 We went over this. 596 00:31:48,908 --> 00:31:50,701 Normal complement level. 597 00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:52,411 So it isn't hepatic fibrosis, 598 00:31:52,536 --> 00:31:56,957 it could still be microangiopathic vasculitis. 599 00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:00,377 With high dose steroids, we might be able to reverse... 600 00:32:00,502 --> 00:32:04,548 You run a hospital that treats thousands of patients every day. 601 00:32:04,673 --> 00:32:06,926 Some of them die. Every day. 602 00:32:07,051 --> 00:32:10,012 If you're gonna get this worked up over every one of them... 603 00:32:10,471 --> 00:32:11,764 Yes. 604 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:18,145 BEE! 605 00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:20,856 - What is it? - Thank you from a patient. 606 00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:22,274 For you? 607 00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:23,776 I saved her marriage 608 00:32:23,901 --> 00:32:27,237 by showing that her pregnancy was a result of parthenogenesis. 609 00:32:27,446 --> 00:32:30,491 - Human parthenogenesis? You proved... - Yep. 610 00:32:30,908 --> 00:32:33,869 It's unbelievable. But I personally checked it five times. 611 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:35,537 How did you check it five times? 612 00:32:35,663 --> 00:32:37,206 The cycler's broken. You would have had to send it out. 613 00:32:37,331 --> 00:32:38,999 - It would have taken... - Oh, yeah. 614 00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:41,961 That does sound impossible now that I think of it. 615 00:32:42,086 --> 00:32:45,589 I guess the better explanation is that the paternity test showed she cheated, 616 00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:47,758 so I faked the whole parthenogenesis thingy. 617 00:32:47,883 --> 00:32:49,760 CUDDY: What? Why? 618 00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:52,930 I win. 619 00:32:55,349 --> 00:32:59,395 You faked a scientific miracle just to win a bet with Wilson? 620 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:00,729 More an argument. 621 00:33:00,854 --> 00:33:03,190 I realize it would have been simpler to just fake the paternity test, 622 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:05,693 but, hey, Christmas spirit and all that. 623 00:33:06,986 --> 00:33:09,613 I think you're confusing "nice" and "evil" again. 624 00:33:09,738 --> 00:33:13,117 Letting the woman deceive her husband by inventing a virgin birth, 625 00:33:13,242 --> 00:33:14,410 just so you can... 626 00:33:14,535 --> 00:33:16,078 And it obviously would have been more fitting 627 00:33:16,203 --> 00:33:19,289 if the baby had been born on Christmas, not just invented then. 628 00:33:20,207 --> 00:33:21,959 It's not leukemia. 629 00:33:23,168 --> 00:33:25,879 Seizures, liver failure. 630 00:33:27,673 --> 00:33:29,466 It's eclampsia. 631 00:33:31,719 --> 00:33:34,722 Which means we don't have one dead patient, 632 00:33:36,682 --> 00:33:38,392 we have two. 633 00:33:49,653 --> 00:33:52,239 You have a disease called eclampsia. 634 00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:57,202 It causes liver failure, pulmonary edema and seizures. 635 00:33:57,327 --> 00:33:59,413 It's also associated with cardio myopathy. 636 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:03,542 That's a pregnancy disease. You tested her when she came in. 637 00:34:04,918 --> 00:34:07,671 You can get eclampsia up to a month after giving birth. 638 00:34:07,796 --> 00:34:10,758 That's ridiculous. How could she hide a pregnancy? 639 00:34:10,883 --> 00:34:14,845 Loose clothes. She's heavy to begin with, it was probably premature. 640 00:34:14,970 --> 00:34:18,807 If it was three weeks ago, they could have missed it on a physical exam. 641 00:34:18,932 --> 00:34:20,976 The baby's why you quit drinking, isn't it? 642 00:34:22,603 --> 00:34:24,772 Why you asked me if I had kids. 643 00:34:26,273 --> 00:34:27,733 Why you feel guilty. 644 00:34:32,654 --> 00:34:33,947 I'm sorry. 645 00:34:34,323 --> 00:34:35,324 Oh... 646 00:34:35,866 --> 00:34:38,786 - Who did this to you? - Simon. 647 00:34:40,204 --> 00:34:41,663 It wasn't bad. 648 00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:43,791 We were, like, boyfriend-girlfriend for a while, 649 00:34:43,916 --> 00:34:45,876 we just didn't tell anyone. 650 00:34:47,669 --> 00:34:49,588 He doesn't even know about... 651 00:34:52,049 --> 00:34:53,801 What happened to the baby? 652 00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:55,594 I was going to give her away. 653 00:34:57,763 --> 00:35:00,057 If they found out at school... 654 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,811 I was at the soup kitchen, and she started coming. 655 00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:06,897 There was this empty house down the street, but... 656 00:35:07,481 --> 00:35:09,358 And she wasn't breathing. 657 00:35:11,944 --> 00:35:16,406 I tried so hard, but I couldn't do anything. I'm so sorry. 658 00:35:17,908 --> 00:35:19,076 (SNIFFLING) 659 00:35:19,201 --> 00:35:22,955 If I had her in a hospital, maybe she'd be alive. 660 00:35:24,164 --> 00:35:25,791 Can you cure this? 661 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:29,795 The damage to the heart and liver are permanent. 662 00:35:31,171 --> 00:35:32,840 I'm gonna die? 663 00:35:40,389 --> 00:35:41,807 I'm sorry. 664 00:35:46,186 --> 00:35:47,896 I didn't even bury her. 665 00:35:49,815 --> 00:35:51,942 I just put my coat over her. 666 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,377 MAN: Get out of my house. 667 00:36:53,921 --> 00:36:55,130 I'm a doctor. 668 00:36:55,255 --> 00:36:56,465 I don't care who you are. 669 00:36:56,590 --> 00:37:00,052 Did you find the body of a baby? 670 00:37:00,177 --> 00:37:01,261 I said get out. 671 00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:05,641 WOMAN: Michael? 672 00:37:07,309 --> 00:37:08,602 Who are you? 673 00:37:13,774 --> 00:37:15,275 That's not your baby. 674 00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:19,571 You're tiny. There's no way you gave birth three weeks ago. 675 00:37:19,696 --> 00:37:21,698 She's my sister's. 676 00:37:21,823 --> 00:37:25,077 That baby is sick. She needs clean water. She needs real heat. 677 00:37:25,202 --> 00:37:28,789 She was probably born with a partially blocked airway 678 00:37:28,914 --> 00:37:31,541 and might even have brain damage. 679 00:37:32,376 --> 00:37:34,336 You can't take care of her in a place like this. 680 00:37:34,461 --> 00:37:35,587 MAN: Shut up. 681 00:37:37,547 --> 00:37:38,715 I took care of her. 682 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,675 I know. 683 00:37:41,218 --> 00:37:42,594 You found her. 684 00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:45,222 You saved her life. 685 00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,521 Now you have to let her go. 686 00:37:54,064 --> 00:37:55,274 (GURGLING) 687 00:38:10,122 --> 00:38:11,748 (DOOR OPENS) 688 00:38:26,138 --> 00:38:27,723 Who's that? 689 00:38:27,848 --> 00:38:30,642 It's your daughter. She was alive. 690 00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:33,645 People found her and took care of her. 691 00:38:42,779 --> 00:38:44,614 (GURGLES) 692 00:38:53,915 --> 00:38:55,250 She's beautiful. 693 00:39:02,716 --> 00:39:04,051 It's okay. 694 00:39:14,853 --> 00:39:16,355 (INAUDIBLE) 695 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,291 Kutner. 696 00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:38,585 No transplant? 697 00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:40,796 We appealed. Too sick. 698 00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:42,631 How much time does she have left? 699 00:39:42,756 --> 00:39:44,174 A couple days at most. 700 00:39:44,299 --> 00:39:45,675 What about the baby? 701 00:39:45,801 --> 00:39:47,719 Seems healthy, but it's too early to tell. 702 00:39:47,844 --> 00:39:51,098 She's in the hospital for observation for a few days. But after that... 703 00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:53,225 Best case, winds up with her teenage father, 704 00:39:53,350 --> 00:39:56,520 who just got voted captain of the varsity bullying team. 705 00:39:56,645 --> 00:39:57,687 He's just a kid. 706 00:40:00,107 --> 00:40:02,401 - You all right? - I gotta go. 707 00:40:23,296 --> 00:40:25,340 - Jonathan? - Yeah? 708 00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:28,468 It's Lawrence Kutner. 709 00:40:30,387 --> 00:40:31,888 Why are you here? 710 00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:35,225 I wanted to apologize for all the horrible stuff 711 00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:37,102 I did to you in high school. 712 00:40:38,061 --> 00:40:39,312 I'm sorry. 713 00:41:03,086 --> 00:41:05,005 HOUSE: What's going to happen to her? 714 00:41:05,130 --> 00:41:07,424 I spoke to both sets of grandparents. 715 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,678 It's too painful. They're putting her up for adoption. 716 00:41:15,265 --> 00:41:16,808 What are you going to do? 717 00:41:19,394 --> 00:41:21,104 I already spoke to a lawyer. 718 00:41:23,732 --> 00:41:27,736 I become a foster parent and then I adopt. 719 00:41:30,906 --> 00:41:31,907 (BABY CRIES) 720 00:41:39,956 --> 00:41:41,917 Merry Christmas, Cuddy. 721 00:41:42,042 --> 00:41:43,126 Hey. 722 00:42:09,236 --> 00:42:10,987 Where is everybody? 723 00:42:11,488 --> 00:42:12,697 Down at the party. 724 00:42:14,366 --> 00:42:16,576 I heard Janice is back on the trial. 725 00:42:17,744 --> 00:42:19,204 My Christmas gift to you. 726 00:42:21,790 --> 00:42:24,709 I was wrong. You're not House. 727 00:42:26,545 --> 00:42:28,964 Yeah. Well, that's my Christmas gift to myself. 728 00:42:37,180 --> 00:42:38,682 We should go to the party. 729 00:42:41,184 --> 00:42:42,644 We should.