1 00:00:12,597 --> 00:00:14,557 Am I going to have to give a speech? 2 00:00:15,183 --> 00:00:16,226 You're the publisher, can't you do it? 3 00:00:16,351 --> 00:00:18,019 I can warm them up, 4 00:00:18,144 --> 00:00:20,689 but you're gonna have to get over this fear of public speaking 5 00:00:20,814 --> 00:00:23,149 before the book tour. 6 00:00:23,566 --> 00:00:27,195 Everybody! Can I have your attention? Thank you. 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,531 Tim has a few words to say. 8 00:00:29,656 --> 00:00:31,991 There you go, Tim. They're warmed up. 9 00:00:32,117 --> 00:00:33,493 (PEOPLE CHUCKLE) 10 00:00:33,952 --> 00:00:35,286 (SIGHS) Well. 11 00:00:36,329 --> 00:00:38,790 What do you say at a time like this? 12 00:00:39,082 --> 00:00:41,084 Seriously, what do you say? 13 00:00:41,209 --> 00:00:43,962 You could thank people for coming. 14 00:00:44,087 --> 00:00:45,797 Thank you, Nick. 15 00:00:45,922 --> 00:00:48,133 Actually, I'm always thanking Nick. 16 00:00:48,258 --> 00:00:51,302 A man famous not only for his ruthless editor's pen, 17 00:00:51,428 --> 00:00:54,806 but his patient handholding of crazy authors. 18 00:00:54,931 --> 00:00:56,307 You'd think that after three novels, 19 00:00:56,433 --> 00:00:59,144 I'd start to develop a little confidence, but... 20 00:00:59,269 --> 00:01:02,313 For a book like this, we are happy to supply the confidence. 21 00:01:02,439 --> 00:01:03,690 Bestseller. 22 00:01:03,815 --> 00:01:05,316 (ALL AGREEING) 23 00:01:05,442 --> 00:01:07,026 Well, that's not going to happen. 24 00:01:07,152 --> 00:01:08,111 What? 25 00:01:08,236 --> 00:01:10,196 Come on. Short stories don't make money. 26 00:01:10,321 --> 00:01:12,240 Short stories weren't making money back in 1908. 27 00:01:12,365 --> 00:01:13,825 You'd have to be mathematically illiterate 28 00:01:13,950 --> 00:01:15,201 to think they'd do as well as a novel. 29 00:01:15,326 --> 00:01:19,831 Okay, Nick, let's step away from the champagne before somebody gets hurt. 30 00:01:20,331 --> 00:01:23,668 You slaved over this book right next to me. 31 00:01:23,793 --> 00:01:26,129 Why would Northrop even publish it if it's only going to tank? 32 00:01:26,254 --> 00:01:29,257 Have you failed to notice you're our star author? 33 00:01:29,382 --> 00:01:31,885 Obviously, Elaine wouldn't want to offend you. 34 00:01:32,010 --> 00:01:33,011 Honey... 35 00:01:37,307 --> 00:01:40,852 I'm sorry, I don't... I don't know why I said that. 36 00:01:40,977 --> 00:01:42,020 He's joking. 37 00:01:42,145 --> 00:01:44,689 Nick knows as well as anyone what you have done is art. 38 00:01:44,814 --> 00:01:46,691 So is folding paper into animal shapes, 39 00:01:46,816 --> 00:01:48,359 but you don't expect to make a living off it. 40 00:01:48,485 --> 00:01:49,652 What the hell is wrong with you? 41 00:01:49,778 --> 00:01:51,780 You really think someone who goes through 10 assistants a year 42 00:01:51,905 --> 00:01:54,032 and doesn't return her own children's phone calls 43 00:01:54,157 --> 00:01:56,659 would give a damn about the state of the American short story? 44 00:01:56,785 --> 00:01:58,411 Please, be quiet. 45 00:01:58,620 --> 00:01:59,871 (SNIFFLES) 46 00:02:03,625 --> 00:02:05,668 I think something's wrong. 47 00:02:06,169 --> 00:02:08,296 That title was a mistake, too. 48 00:02:08,421 --> 00:02:10,548 People are going to compare you to Salinger. 49 00:02:10,673 --> 00:02:13,760 (CHUCKLING) And boy, are you going to come up short in that one. 50 00:02:18,765 --> 00:02:19,849 (GASPS) Honey? 51 00:02:20,725 --> 00:02:23,853 Call 911. Help! We need help! 52 00:02:57,637 --> 00:03:00,139 FOREMAN: Cameron brought this up from the ER. 53 00:03:00,557 --> 00:03:02,642 Doesn't look like a friendship bracelet. 54 00:03:02,767 --> 00:03:04,477 KUTNER: It's Phineas Gage. 55 00:03:04,602 --> 00:03:06,312 The most famous case study in medical history. 56 00:03:06,437 --> 00:03:08,439 You're telling me this patient got a rail road spike 57 00:03:08,565 --> 00:03:09,774 drilled through his frontal lobe? 58 00:03:09,899 --> 00:03:12,902 No, no trauma, but he does have frontal lobe disinhibition. 59 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:13,945 Just like Gage. 60 00:03:14,070 --> 00:03:15,780 Gage was a different person after the spike. 61 00:03:15,905 --> 00:03:17,365 Argumentative, impulsive. 62 00:03:17,490 --> 00:03:20,326 Whereas our guy became a different person after chardonnay. 63 00:03:20,451 --> 00:03:22,120 He was sober when they brought him in. 64 00:03:22,245 --> 00:03:24,664 There's also the nosebleed, the collapse. 65 00:03:24,789 --> 00:03:26,165 - MRI show anything? - Nothing. 66 00:03:26,291 --> 00:03:28,543 Good. What fun would that be? 67 00:03:28,668 --> 00:03:30,587 So the tumor's not in the cool neighborhood. 68 00:03:30,712 --> 00:03:31,963 It's cool neighborhood adjacent. 69 00:03:32,088 --> 00:03:33,923 A well-placed tumor in the nasal cavity, 70 00:03:34,048 --> 00:03:35,550 eroding into the brain could do the damage. 71 00:03:35,675 --> 00:03:38,887 Go stick a scope up Phineas' nose and see what you find. 72 00:03:45,977 --> 00:03:48,855 Daddy, I'm always going to win if you keep telling me what your cards are. 73 00:03:48,980 --> 00:03:52,525 Then suppose I tell you... While I tickle you! 74 00:03:52,650 --> 00:03:54,986 Mr. Greenwald, I'm Dr. Taub and this is Dr. Kutner. 75 00:03:55,111 --> 00:03:57,322 We're here for another test. Sorry about that. 76 00:03:57,906 --> 00:03:59,949 You don't look sorry. 77 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:02,160 Um. No offense. 78 00:04:02,285 --> 00:04:04,287 Although you do look kind of cheerful. 79 00:04:04,412 --> 00:04:05,705 It's a little creepy. Should I want a doctor 80 00:04:05,830 --> 00:04:07,332 who's excited about how sick I am? 81 00:04:07,457 --> 00:04:09,626 - I'm not... - We're going to put this up your nose, 82 00:04:09,751 --> 00:04:11,461 scan for any problems. 83 00:04:11,586 --> 00:04:14,839 I can assure you that we are completely unexcited about that. 84 00:04:14,964 --> 00:04:16,591 Excuse me, sweetie. 85 00:04:16,966 --> 00:04:18,843 She has an auditory processing disability. 86 00:04:18,968 --> 00:04:21,638 Marika Balika. You have to get off the bed. 87 00:04:23,556 --> 00:04:26,059 This might be slightly uncomfortable. 88 00:04:26,184 --> 00:04:28,019 Honey, do you mind if I step out? 89 00:04:28,144 --> 00:04:29,437 I have to make sure the final arrangements 90 00:04:29,562 --> 00:04:31,147 are in place for the breast cancer walk. 91 00:04:31,272 --> 00:04:32,440 Yeah. You do that. 92 00:04:32,565 --> 00:04:36,986 I'll pretend to be macho while a guy stuffs three feet of plastic up my nose. 93 00:04:37,111 --> 00:04:39,197 It's too bad it's not your nose. 94 00:04:39,322 --> 00:04:41,282 Lots more room to maneuver. 95 00:04:41,407 --> 00:04:44,494 I guess the walk can wait 10 minutes. 96 00:04:44,619 --> 00:04:46,579 Or in a sensible world, even longer. 97 00:04:46,704 --> 00:04:49,499 Just how does tying up traffic for six hours stop breast cancer? 98 00:04:49,624 --> 00:04:51,209 You know how it works, people donate. 99 00:04:51,334 --> 00:04:54,712 Why not spend six hours building houses for Habitat for Humanity? 100 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:57,173 Or is it wrong to help two groups of people at once? 101 00:04:57,298 --> 00:04:59,884 I'll bet there are those who have breast cancer and no home. 102 00:05:00,009 --> 00:05:01,803 It's my job, Nick. 103 00:05:01,928 --> 00:05:03,513 You walked yourself last year. 104 00:05:03,638 --> 00:05:04,639 To be supportive. 105 00:05:04,764 --> 00:05:08,226 Because I knew you wouldn't have sex with me if I didn't. 106 00:05:09,310 --> 00:05:11,312 I'm going to make my call. 107 00:05:13,606 --> 00:05:15,191 Make this go away. 108 00:05:16,401 --> 00:05:18,987 God, that honker really is huge, isn't it? 109 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:24,075 Wednesday night. 110 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,828 Low-Down-Blue-Meanie versus the Incinerator. 111 00:05:26,953 --> 00:05:28,496 I can't. 112 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,915 Let me rephrase. Low-Down-Blue-Meanie... 113 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,501 WILSON: I understand Monster Truck code. 114 00:05:33,626 --> 00:05:34,711 Do you understand "can't"? 115 00:05:34,836 --> 00:05:37,422 Not when it follows Low-Down-Blue-Meanie. 116 00:05:38,464 --> 00:05:40,216 Is the world coming to an end Tuesday night? 117 00:05:40,341 --> 00:05:42,760 - Otherwise, Wednesday... - All right. 118 00:05:42,885 --> 00:05:45,680 It's not "can't," it's "don't want to." 119 00:05:46,556 --> 00:05:49,684 The fact is, I just don't like monster trucks. 120 00:05:51,019 --> 00:05:52,103 Yes, you do. 121 00:05:52,228 --> 00:05:53,229 No, I don't. 122 00:05:53,354 --> 00:05:55,106 You've always liked monster trucks. 123 00:05:55,273 --> 00:05:56,441 No, you've always liked them. 124 00:05:56,566 --> 00:05:58,735 I've tolerated them. 125 00:05:58,985 --> 00:06:01,946 Seriously, I can only watch so many hyped-up dune buggies 126 00:06:02,071 --> 00:06:05,742 crush so many motor homes without feeling the urge to go see La Bohéme. 127 00:06:05,867 --> 00:06:07,702 And I hate opera, too. 128 00:06:08,578 --> 00:06:10,413 What are you hiding? 129 00:06:10,538 --> 00:06:13,166 I'm not hiding it, I'm saying it loud and proud. 130 00:06:13,291 --> 00:06:14,792 Death to monster trucks. 131 00:06:14,917 --> 00:06:16,627 No nasal cancer. 132 00:06:16,753 --> 00:06:18,087 And no marriage either, 133 00:06:18,212 --> 00:06:20,423 if our patient keeps saying everything that comes into his head 134 00:06:20,548 --> 00:06:22,550 without regard for the consequences. 135 00:06:22,675 --> 00:06:24,844 You always led me to believe you were one of a kind. 136 00:06:24,969 --> 00:06:27,055 Luckily, jerkiness is a temporary condition for this guy. 137 00:06:27,180 --> 00:06:28,639 No, it's not. 138 00:06:28,765 --> 00:06:31,350 We may be able to fix his impulse to say his thoughts out loud, 139 00:06:31,476 --> 00:06:33,561 but he's always gonna be the guy who thinks them. 140 00:06:33,686 --> 00:06:36,314 But he's also gonna be the guy who doesn't say them. 141 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:38,858 If he spent his whole life constructing a nice-guy persona, 142 00:06:38,983 --> 00:06:42,028 isn't that as much who he really is as anything else? 143 00:06:42,153 --> 00:06:44,822 You would argue that. You're all persona. 144 00:06:44,947 --> 00:06:48,034 I agree with Wilson. This guy's a Harry Potter. 145 00:06:48,826 --> 00:06:51,412 The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin, based on his nature. 146 00:06:51,537 --> 00:06:53,748 He refused, so he ended up in Gryffindor. 147 00:06:53,873 --> 00:06:55,041 Through choice. 148 00:06:55,166 --> 00:06:58,377 There's damage somewhere in his brain. Go find it. 149 00:07:00,254 --> 00:07:01,881 THIRTEEN: Are you sure you understand? 150 00:07:02,006 --> 00:07:04,634 No, I'm lying. Except, I can't. 151 00:07:06,052 --> 00:07:07,428 You ask me questions. 152 00:07:07,553 --> 00:07:11,015 While I talk, you look at my brain activity to see where it's screwed up, 153 00:07:11,140 --> 00:07:13,392 then you're gonna cut the screwed up part out to test it. 154 00:07:13,518 --> 00:07:15,394 It's depressing, but it's not rocket science. 155 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:16,854 I think he understands. 156 00:07:16,979 --> 00:07:19,023 I don't mean to be abrasive. 157 00:07:19,148 --> 00:07:21,776 Especially since you're such a pleasure to imagine naked. 158 00:07:21,901 --> 00:07:23,528 - Again, sorry. - It's okay. 159 00:07:23,653 --> 00:07:25,822 Thank you for understanding. 160 00:07:25,947 --> 00:07:27,573 I'd do you, though. 161 00:07:28,366 --> 00:07:29,742 Really, my apologies. This stuff just comes out. 162 00:07:29,867 --> 00:07:31,869 - It's okay. - House paged? 163 00:07:31,994 --> 00:07:36,040 Whoa. I would do her in a minute with fudge and a cherry on top. 164 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:39,418 Would someone please explain to this woman? 165 00:07:39,544 --> 00:07:40,670 There's only so many apologies I can... 166 00:07:40,795 --> 00:07:42,505 He has frontal lobe disinhibition. 167 00:07:42,630 --> 00:07:44,841 I've already embarrassed myself with one doctor. 168 00:07:44,966 --> 00:07:46,092 Whom I am at this moment 169 00:07:46,217 --> 00:07:50,304 imagining with you in a king-sized bed with a mirror on the ceiling. 170 00:07:50,429 --> 00:07:53,474 I am so, so sorry. 171 00:07:53,599 --> 00:07:55,226 But if I couldn't have both of you together, 172 00:07:55,351 --> 00:07:57,562 you would definitely be my first choice. 173 00:07:57,687 --> 00:07:58,646 Where's House? 174 00:07:58,771 --> 00:08:00,481 It's like trying not to think of an elephant. 175 00:08:00,606 --> 00:08:04,360 Not that you're an elephant. Your breasts, in fact, are all Homo sapiens. 176 00:08:04,485 --> 00:08:07,405 - House isn't here. - He wouldn't have paged me 177 00:08:07,530 --> 00:08:10,074 if he couldn't watch and enjoy the... 178 00:08:16,164 --> 00:08:19,250 Your tush is like the pistons in a Ferrari. 179 00:08:29,343 --> 00:08:30,511 You're welcome. 180 00:08:30,636 --> 00:08:32,013 That was for my benefit? 181 00:08:32,138 --> 00:08:33,931 - You're 40 years old... - Thirty eight. 182 00:08:34,056 --> 00:08:35,099 ...and the administrator of a hospital. 183 00:08:35,224 --> 00:08:36,309 Dean of medicine. 184 00:08:36,434 --> 00:08:38,019 People don't get personal with you. 185 00:08:38,227 --> 00:08:40,980 Except for me, and you dismiss me as a jerk who's jerking you around. 186 00:08:41,105 --> 00:08:42,773 But that guy can only tell the truth. 187 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:45,776 And he prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie. 188 00:08:45,902 --> 00:08:49,614 So that was your way of saying I look good today? 189 00:08:50,531 --> 00:08:53,618 You didn't get the slightest kick out of that? 190 00:08:54,327 --> 00:08:56,454 Don't be ridiculous, House. 191 00:09:00,791 --> 00:09:04,086 FOREMAN: I hope you know your pistons are second to none. 192 00:09:04,420 --> 00:09:07,548 I'm okay. I'm not jealous of Cuddy's pistons. 193 00:09:07,673 --> 00:09:09,217 Starting baseline activation. 194 00:09:09,342 --> 00:09:11,552 You sure? You looked upset. 195 00:09:12,094 --> 00:09:13,763 What he was saying was obnoxious. 196 00:09:13,888 --> 00:09:15,139 You've never been called attractive? 197 00:09:15,264 --> 00:09:18,726 He didn't call me attractive, he cast me in his mental porno. 198 00:09:18,851 --> 00:09:19,685 That's what "attractive" means. 199 00:09:19,810 --> 00:09:21,562 It means "I'm attracted to you sexually." 200 00:09:21,687 --> 00:09:22,855 "Attracted" can also mean, 201 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:25,858 "I'm attracted to the whole package, to who you are." 202 00:09:25,983 --> 00:09:28,361 Slight elevation at transaxial 60. 203 00:09:28,486 --> 00:09:29,695 It could. 204 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:32,114 It never does. It's what women choose to hear, not what men say. 205 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,992 Actually, it's exactly what men say, if they have any brains. 206 00:09:35,117 --> 00:09:36,369 All right, we have enough for a baseline. 207 00:09:36,494 --> 00:09:37,703 What can we ask him that's indiscreet, 208 00:09:37,828 --> 00:09:40,373 but that he won't hate us for knowing? 209 00:09:41,123 --> 00:09:43,376 Nick, do you vote the same way as your wife? 210 00:09:43,501 --> 00:09:44,794 God, no. 211 00:09:45,294 --> 00:09:46,629 Good. He's spiking at 30. 212 00:09:46,754 --> 00:09:48,756 She believes I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary, 213 00:09:48,881 --> 00:09:50,174 and Obama in the general. 214 00:09:50,299 --> 00:09:52,551 You're thinking I'm secretly Republican, right? 215 00:09:52,677 --> 00:09:53,719 Wrong. 216 00:09:53,844 --> 00:09:56,389 I secretly don't vote ever. 217 00:09:57,765 --> 00:10:00,393 Wait, you're 46 and you've never voted? 218 00:10:00,518 --> 00:10:03,771 Your voice is no longer attractive to me with that note of disapproval. 219 00:10:03,896 --> 00:10:05,690 Although I'm sure that will pass. 220 00:10:05,815 --> 00:10:06,649 Look at that. 221 00:10:06,774 --> 00:10:09,735 There's a spot on the cingulate gyrus that's not lighting up. 222 00:10:09,860 --> 00:10:11,570 One vote makes a difference? 223 00:10:11,696 --> 00:10:12,530 Not mathematically... 224 00:10:12,655 --> 00:10:13,531 Okay, Nick, we've got what we need. 225 00:10:13,656 --> 00:10:15,950 We can't biopsy that, it's too close to the brain stem. 226 00:10:16,075 --> 00:10:18,452 Could be neurosarcoidosis. At least it's treatable. 227 00:10:18,577 --> 00:10:19,829 So we give him steroids and if we're right, 228 00:10:19,954 --> 00:10:23,582 we should start seeing his symptoms improve within half a day. 229 00:10:26,794 --> 00:10:28,671 What are you looking at? 230 00:10:28,796 --> 00:10:30,381 I find your strong attachment 231 00:10:30,506 --> 00:10:33,134 to a working democracy to be extremely sexy. 232 00:10:33,259 --> 00:10:34,927 You smooth talker. 233 00:10:38,097 --> 00:10:39,765 Do you think my nose is too big? 234 00:10:39,890 --> 00:10:42,685 Relax. He also implied my bedside manner was a little off. 235 00:10:42,810 --> 00:10:44,895 You don't agree with that, right? 236 00:10:45,021 --> 00:10:45,855 No. 237 00:10:46,856 --> 00:10:49,692 No one's ever mentioned your nose before? 238 00:10:49,817 --> 00:10:50,985 You're a plastic surgeon. 239 00:10:51,110 --> 00:10:53,112 - They tell me it suits my face. - It does. 240 00:10:53,237 --> 00:10:55,823 Maybe. Maybe that's just the social contract. 241 00:10:55,948 --> 00:10:56,907 You tell me I look great, 242 00:10:57,033 --> 00:10:58,993 I tell you you're a people person. 243 00:10:59,118 --> 00:11:02,747 - How can you know the truth? - You could ask for the truth. 244 00:11:02,955 --> 00:11:04,999 What do you think of my nose? Please tell me the truth. 245 00:11:05,124 --> 00:11:07,084 It's fine, it's a nose. 246 00:11:08,044 --> 00:11:09,795 Just proving a point. 247 00:11:16,218 --> 00:11:18,054 Anyone sitting here? 248 00:11:18,929 --> 00:11:20,473 Just my persona. 249 00:11:22,391 --> 00:11:25,811 You know, it's amazing the way people cling on to insults. 250 00:11:25,936 --> 00:11:28,731 Or what they think are insults. 251 00:11:28,856 --> 00:11:30,858 So that wasn't an insult? 252 00:11:30,983 --> 00:11:33,736 I'm not suggesting that like our patient, 253 00:11:33,861 --> 00:11:35,780 you're hiding a dark, sarcastic core 254 00:11:35,905 --> 00:11:38,491 beneath a candy shell of compulsive niceness. 255 00:11:38,616 --> 00:11:40,951 I'm not always nice. I'm not nice to you. 256 00:11:41,077 --> 00:11:44,663 Because you know nice bores me. Hence, still nice. 257 00:11:45,206 --> 00:11:48,084 No, I'm suggesting that you have no core. 258 00:11:48,209 --> 00:11:51,712 You're what whoever you're with needs you to be. 259 00:11:51,837 --> 00:11:53,881 Okay, I guess that could be insulting. 260 00:11:54,006 --> 00:11:56,217 But the interesting question is why. 261 00:11:56,342 --> 00:11:58,761 Why do you think the world will end in chaos and destruction 262 00:11:58,886 --> 00:12:00,346 if you're not there to save it? 263 00:12:00,471 --> 00:12:03,724 Because when my parents put me in the rocket, and sent me here, 264 00:12:03,849 --> 00:12:06,769 they said, "James, you will grow to manhood under a yellow sun." 265 00:12:06,894 --> 00:12:09,271 And why did you lie about monster trucks? 266 00:12:09,397 --> 00:12:10,439 I didn't. 267 00:12:10,564 --> 00:12:12,525 I checked your appointment book. 268 00:12:12,650 --> 00:12:13,734 You've got tomorrow night marked off, 269 00:12:13,859 --> 00:12:15,778 but you didn't put down what you were doing. 270 00:12:15,903 --> 00:12:17,029 So you thought someone might look at the book... 271 00:12:17,154 --> 00:12:20,908 I'm playing racquetball tomorrow night with Taub. 272 00:12:21,534 --> 00:12:22,910 Why would you hide that? 273 00:12:23,035 --> 00:12:24,912 Because the world revolves around you. 274 00:12:25,037 --> 00:12:26,372 I devote time to anyone else, 275 00:12:26,497 --> 00:12:28,916 you'd end up stalking me and harassing them. 276 00:12:29,041 --> 00:12:31,043 You say that as though it wouldn't be fun. 277 00:12:31,168 --> 00:12:33,254 And maybe I didn't want to rub your nose in the fact 278 00:12:33,379 --> 00:12:36,590 that we'd be doing something you can no longer do. 279 00:12:36,715 --> 00:12:38,342 Because I'm nice. 280 00:12:43,806 --> 00:12:46,642 I thought you said the steroids were gonna help him! 281 00:12:46,767 --> 00:12:47,768 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 282 00:12:47,893 --> 00:12:49,395 Is it his heart? 283 00:12:49,812 --> 00:12:51,939 EKG says heart's fine. 284 00:12:52,064 --> 00:12:53,816 It's gotta be the kidneys. 285 00:12:53,941 --> 00:12:55,776 We need to get him on dialysis. 286 00:12:56,068 --> 00:12:57,319 Oh, God. 287 00:12:57,445 --> 00:12:58,446 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 288 00:13:01,490 --> 00:13:03,325 He's on dialysis and he's stable. 289 00:13:03,451 --> 00:13:06,036 THIRTEEN: We know it's not systemic sclerosis. 290 00:13:06,162 --> 00:13:07,538 Hey. 291 00:13:07,663 --> 00:13:09,874 Cyrano de Berkowitz. 292 00:13:09,999 --> 00:13:11,292 Let it go. 293 00:13:12,501 --> 00:13:15,671 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia could explain brain and kidney problems. 294 00:13:15,796 --> 00:13:18,591 CBC showed normal white blood cells. 295 00:13:18,966 --> 00:13:22,303 So how long have you been playing racquetball with Wilson? 296 00:13:22,428 --> 00:13:24,138 Four or five times. 297 00:13:24,263 --> 00:13:25,723 Could be diabetes. 298 00:13:25,848 --> 00:13:27,516 Or a congenital metabolic disorder. 299 00:13:27,766 --> 00:13:30,936 Congenital disorders generally don't wait till you're 46 to manifest. 300 00:13:31,061 --> 00:13:34,356 So he's a late bloomer. His daughter has a neurological condition. 301 00:13:34,482 --> 00:13:37,860 First of all, Wilson played tennis on his college team, 302 00:13:37,985 --> 00:13:40,654 and you are a Jew. 303 00:13:41,697 --> 00:13:42,781 You're not athletic. 304 00:13:42,907 --> 00:13:44,742 Run to the end of the hall and back, I'll time you. 305 00:13:44,867 --> 00:13:47,661 Sandy Koufax is Jewish. Greatest left-handed pitcher of all time. 306 00:13:47,786 --> 00:13:52,791 Sandy Koufax is all you Jews go on about, Sandy Koufax. 307 00:13:52,917 --> 00:13:54,919 And the Holocaust. It gets old. 308 00:13:55,044 --> 00:13:58,422 There are dozens of congenital conditions that fit our parameters. 309 00:13:58,547 --> 00:14:00,466 We can't spend time gene-testing for all of them 310 00:14:00,591 --> 00:14:02,510 especially when we're only guessing it's congenital. 311 00:14:02,635 --> 00:14:05,304 Is a Z-shot offensive or defensive? 312 00:14:05,429 --> 00:14:06,597 It's both. 313 00:14:06,972 --> 00:14:08,766 You suspected that was a trick question. 314 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:10,643 But I could have said neither. 315 00:14:10,768 --> 00:14:12,811 Diabetes makes more sense. 316 00:14:13,145 --> 00:14:15,731 We can narrow the testing down to 40 likely candidates. 317 00:14:15,856 --> 00:14:17,233 Test for peripheral nerve damage. 318 00:14:17,358 --> 00:14:18,400 He's got brain damage, 319 00:14:18,526 --> 00:14:20,819 he's likely to have peripheral nerve damage no matter what the cause. 320 00:14:20,945 --> 00:14:23,113 Yes, that's why we should not test him for it. 321 00:14:23,239 --> 00:14:24,865 Test the daughter. 322 00:14:25,282 --> 00:14:26,700 Kutner runs the nerve test. 323 00:14:26,825 --> 00:14:28,827 Taub, you may be right about the diabetes. 324 00:14:28,953 --> 00:14:32,331 Take supper away from our patient and run a glucose tolerance test. 325 00:14:32,456 --> 00:14:35,543 Oh, and the nurses have been working so hard, 326 00:14:35,668 --> 00:14:37,294 you can do the blood draws yourself. 327 00:14:37,419 --> 00:14:39,838 They have to be done every couple of hours. 328 00:14:39,964 --> 00:14:40,798 You're punishing me 329 00:14:40,923 --> 00:14:43,342 because you're jealous that I'm spending time with your best friend. 330 00:14:43,467 --> 00:14:44,677 That would be petty. 331 00:14:44,802 --> 00:14:48,556 I'm punishing you because now you've joined my best friend in lying to me. 332 00:14:48,681 --> 00:14:51,725 Let me know when you're ready to confess everything. 333 00:14:59,733 --> 00:15:02,653 These can become either hot or cold. 334 00:15:02,778 --> 00:15:05,739 As soon as it starts to feel uncomfortable, I want you to tell me. 335 00:15:05,864 --> 00:15:07,616 But you don't think there's something wrong with me. 336 00:15:07,741 --> 00:15:10,077 No, baby. They're testing you to help Daddy. 337 00:15:10,202 --> 00:15:12,079 Yes. What you're doing is very important. 338 00:15:12,204 --> 00:15:14,290 It's like the better you do, 339 00:15:14,415 --> 00:15:16,500 the better we know your dad is. 340 00:15:17,793 --> 00:15:19,295 It's okay. 341 00:15:21,839 --> 00:15:23,591 I'll start with heat. 342 00:15:29,179 --> 00:15:31,140 I know it's not his fault. 343 00:15:31,265 --> 00:15:33,934 I know what he says is involuntary, but... 344 00:15:35,394 --> 00:15:36,895 It doesn't help. 345 00:15:38,230 --> 00:15:39,898 Inside he's still the same man. 346 00:15:40,024 --> 00:15:41,900 Yeah, that's the problem. 347 00:15:42,026 --> 00:15:44,153 Apparently he's been thinking this stuff all along. 348 00:15:44,278 --> 00:15:48,824 Whoever that same man is, it's not the person I thought I was married to. 349 00:15:48,949 --> 00:15:50,242 You Okay? 350 00:15:53,621 --> 00:15:55,623 She should be feeling something by now. 351 00:15:55,748 --> 00:15:59,835 What does that mean? Is she sick too? Marika? 352 00:16:00,711 --> 00:16:02,046 Honey? 353 00:16:03,422 --> 00:16:05,716 You're burned, why didn't you tell me it started to hurt? 354 00:16:05,841 --> 00:16:07,009 I wanted to help Daddy. 355 00:16:07,134 --> 00:16:09,845 You said the better I do, the better Daddy has to be. 356 00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:11,221 I'm sorry. 357 00:16:13,641 --> 00:16:14,850 I'm starving. 358 00:16:14,975 --> 00:16:16,935 It's the only way we can do the test. 359 00:16:17,311 --> 00:16:19,271 Good thing it's you and not Dr. Hadley. 360 00:16:19,396 --> 00:16:21,857 Could you keep her away from me? 361 00:16:21,982 --> 00:16:24,652 I have a rich imaginative life. 362 00:16:24,777 --> 00:16:27,446 - I'd rather not share it. - We all have thoughts. 363 00:16:27,655 --> 00:16:30,366 I know we all have sexual thoughts. 364 00:16:30,491 --> 00:16:31,950 We have ignoble thoughts. 365 00:16:32,076 --> 00:16:34,662 I just don't want those to be who I am to people. 366 00:16:34,787 --> 00:16:35,829 Especially not to my wife. 367 00:16:35,954 --> 00:16:37,998 I understand, I don't think it would be fair to define me 368 00:16:38,123 --> 00:16:39,291 by my passing thoughts. 369 00:16:39,416 --> 00:16:41,001 My real choices are my actions. 370 00:16:41,126 --> 00:16:44,838 And I've never done anything to hurt her, I've never cheated. 371 00:16:46,173 --> 00:16:47,633 You're kidding me, you've cheated? 372 00:16:47,758 --> 00:16:48,842 What? 373 00:16:48,967 --> 00:16:50,052 No. 374 00:16:51,178 --> 00:16:52,012 Why would you say that? 375 00:16:52,137 --> 00:16:54,431 Because you look guilty as hell. 376 00:16:54,556 --> 00:16:56,558 Are you serious? 377 00:16:56,684 --> 00:16:57,726 Of course you're serious. 378 00:16:57,851 --> 00:16:59,561 Yes, everyone knows. 379 00:16:59,687 --> 00:17:02,231 God, they must think you're a creep. 380 00:17:02,564 --> 00:17:05,526 They might not know, they might be idiots. 381 00:17:05,651 --> 00:17:06,944 I just say these things. 382 00:17:17,413 --> 00:17:19,415 Why'd YOU page me here? 383 00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:23,252 I need you to update me on the patient's condition. 384 00:17:23,752 --> 00:17:24,837 He seems to be dead. 385 00:17:24,962 --> 00:17:26,964 Why'd YOU page me here? 386 00:17:27,089 --> 00:17:30,300 I need you to update me on the patient's condition 387 00:17:30,426 --> 00:17:32,970 while hitting this against the wall. 388 00:17:34,054 --> 00:17:35,681 This is the only place we can do both. 389 00:17:35,806 --> 00:17:37,766 I finished the last blood draw. 390 00:17:37,891 --> 00:17:42,229 I expect the people who work for me to rise to a challenge. 391 00:17:42,354 --> 00:17:45,065 Unless they don't expect to work for me. 392 00:17:57,411 --> 00:17:58,704 (SIGHS) 393 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,377 Last blood draw was at 6:00 a.m. 394 00:18:05,502 --> 00:18:08,881 His sugar levels never rose above 120 all night. 395 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:15,429 So the glucose was normal. 396 00:18:15,554 --> 00:18:17,806 It means you were wrong about diabetes. 397 00:18:17,931 --> 00:18:19,516 I still think it's the endocrine system, 398 00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:22,060 maybe I just got the wrong gland. 399 00:18:22,186 --> 00:18:26,648 You were going for thyroid instead of pancreas? It makes sense. 400 00:18:30,194 --> 00:18:31,737 (CLATTERING) 401 00:18:33,071 --> 00:18:36,200 Fine! I'm not playing racquetball with Wilson! 402 00:18:36,325 --> 00:18:37,618 I was never playing racquetball with Wilson! 403 00:18:37,743 --> 00:18:41,079 I have never played racquetball with Wilson. 404 00:18:41,997 --> 00:18:45,501 I thought it would be helpful if a department head owed me a favor, 405 00:18:45,626 --> 00:18:47,544 but it's not worth this. 406 00:18:48,837 --> 00:18:52,341 Not bad. You put on a good show. 407 00:18:52,466 --> 00:18:54,718 You studied up, Wilson actually booked a court. 408 00:18:54,843 --> 00:18:57,137 If you were really a racquetball player, 409 00:18:57,262 --> 00:19:00,224 you'd know that you're holding a squash racquet. 410 00:19:01,725 --> 00:19:04,853 Tell Kutner to do a thyroid reuptake scan, 411 00:19:04,978 --> 00:19:07,648 then go grab a nap in one of the on-call rooms. 412 00:19:08,649 --> 00:19:11,610 KUTNER: We're taking you to do a thyroid reuptake scan. We think your... 413 00:19:11,777 --> 00:19:13,487 I'm not going anywhere until you explain 414 00:19:13,654 --> 00:19:15,405 why my daughter has a bandage on her hand. 415 00:19:15,531 --> 00:19:17,366 You just said you wanted to run some test. 416 00:19:17,491 --> 00:19:20,410 If I'd known it would involve pain, I'd have said, "Hell no." 417 00:19:20,536 --> 00:19:21,453 It's a mild burn. 418 00:19:21,578 --> 00:19:23,997 Since Marika has a neurological disability, like you, 419 00:19:24,122 --> 00:19:26,291 - we needed to make sure. - She has no disability. 420 00:19:26,416 --> 00:19:29,086 Nick, you know about her problem with auditory processing. 421 00:19:29,211 --> 00:19:30,921 Auditory processing? 422 00:19:31,046 --> 00:19:34,132 That's code, for "I can't stand thinking my daughter's not perfect." 423 00:19:34,258 --> 00:19:36,218 The therapist said Marika's test scores... 424 00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:38,136 Were indeterminate. 425 00:19:38,262 --> 00:19:41,598 She doesn't have a disability. She daydreams. 426 00:19:41,723 --> 00:19:46,395 She gets below average marks in school because she's below average. 427 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,106 Every parent thinks their child is above average. 428 00:19:49,231 --> 00:19:50,274 - Nick! - Do they have any idea 429 00:19:50,399 --> 00:19:53,569 what the word average means? Somebody has to be under it. 430 00:19:53,694 --> 00:19:54,862 Nick, shut up! 431 00:20:00,909 --> 00:20:02,160 Honey. 432 00:20:04,121 --> 00:20:06,456 I'm not saying you're stupid. 433 00:20:06,707 --> 00:20:09,126 Your mother's not the sharpest crayon in the box, 434 00:20:09,251 --> 00:20:10,878 and she does great. 435 00:20:12,379 --> 00:20:17,217 See, this is why I told your mother to keep you at home. 436 00:20:17,342 --> 00:20:19,094 Didn't want you here. 437 00:20:20,053 --> 00:20:21,388 Marika. 438 00:20:22,472 --> 00:20:23,640 Marika, wait. 439 00:20:24,391 --> 00:20:25,767 (MACHINE BEEPING) Get her... 440 00:20:25,893 --> 00:20:27,060 You're burning up. 441 00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:28,645 (COUGHING) 442 00:20:29,646 --> 00:20:31,815 Your lungs are full of fluid, we need to get it out. 443 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:33,650 I need 200 milligrams of furosemide 444 00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:35,569 and two milligrams of morphine, stat. 445 00:20:38,196 --> 00:20:40,532 - His temperature is 103. - Infection. 446 00:20:40,657 --> 00:20:42,326 The steroids must have forced it into the open. 447 00:20:42,451 --> 00:20:43,994 What kind of infection? It could be anything. 448 00:20:44,161 --> 00:20:46,121 Staph aureus, tuberculosis, strongyloides. 449 00:20:46,246 --> 00:20:47,748 Go back to Phineas and get a history. 450 00:20:47,873 --> 00:20:49,625 We got a history. He hasn't been out of the country. 451 00:20:49,750 --> 00:20:50,834 Get a detailed history. 452 00:20:50,959 --> 00:20:53,086 No one at home is sick, no one at work is sick, 453 00:20:53,211 --> 00:20:54,671 there's no sign of ticks or mosquitoes. 454 00:20:54,796 --> 00:20:56,548 Get a more detailed history. 455 00:20:56,673 --> 00:20:58,800 Ask him again. And again, until he remembers something. 456 00:20:58,926 --> 00:21:01,511 Not you. Kutner can do it. 457 00:21:02,179 --> 00:21:04,640 You're going to be busy with something else. 458 00:21:11,021 --> 00:21:12,773 I'm here to invite you to lunch. 459 00:21:12,898 --> 00:21:14,858 Why? 460 00:21:18,862 --> 00:21:22,699 I've been made. House sent me back to you as a double agent. 461 00:21:29,206 --> 00:21:30,415 Anything wrong? 462 00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:31,833 Eyes are a little red. 463 00:21:31,959 --> 00:21:33,085 There's a shocker. 464 00:21:33,210 --> 00:21:35,921 I haven't had a good night's sleep since this thing started. 465 00:21:36,046 --> 00:21:38,799 You should get some rest yourself. 466 00:21:38,924 --> 00:21:39,967 That's a good idea. 467 00:21:40,092 --> 00:21:43,470 This is going to take some time, it will be pretty exhaustive. 468 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:45,639 Are you afraid of what you might say while I'm here? 469 00:21:45,764 --> 00:21:46,807 Yes. 470 00:21:47,265 --> 00:21:50,143 Are you telling me there's something worse than what I've already heard? 471 00:21:50,268 --> 00:21:53,647 No, I don't know what I'm going to say. 472 00:21:53,772 --> 00:21:55,816 I don't know how I'm going to hurt you next. 473 00:21:55,941 --> 00:21:59,861 I think we should be around each other as little as possible right now. 474 00:22:03,824 --> 00:22:05,826 This is pathetic. 475 00:22:05,951 --> 00:22:06,952 I know. 476 00:22:08,912 --> 00:22:11,540 Tell Marika I love her very much. 477 00:22:12,332 --> 00:22:14,084 She understands that. 478 00:22:14,209 --> 00:22:15,794 I don't think she does. 479 00:22:17,254 --> 00:22:20,507 You're just saying that to make me feel better. 480 00:22:21,133 --> 00:22:22,342 Yeah. 481 00:22:36,773 --> 00:22:39,735 Guy leads a boring life. They stay home a lot. 482 00:22:39,985 --> 00:22:43,155 No travel, no exotic pets. No nearby standing water. 483 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,574 You sound pleased about something. Can we get to that part? 484 00:22:45,699 --> 00:22:47,951 His wife rescues dogs. 485 00:22:48,076 --> 00:22:50,829 Among others, a big Rottweiler, who's taken over the house. 486 00:22:50,954 --> 00:22:52,164 Our patient hates it. 487 00:22:52,289 --> 00:22:54,291 - Was the wife there to hear this? - No. 488 00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:55,584 Too bad. Keep going. 489 00:22:55,709 --> 00:22:58,295 The dog marks its territory all over the living room. 490 00:22:58,420 --> 00:22:59,504 I asked what the odds were 491 00:22:59,629 --> 00:23:02,424 that he would've put down food or drink where the dog could reach. 492 00:23:02,549 --> 00:23:04,134 He said he put a glass of juice on the floor 493 00:23:04,259 --> 00:23:05,260 while he was fixing the television. 494 00:23:05,427 --> 00:23:07,554 - The dog was fixing the television? - Yes. 495 00:23:07,679 --> 00:23:08,722 Patient's eyes red? 496 00:23:08,847 --> 00:23:10,807 Yeah. I'm thinking Weil's. 497 00:23:11,516 --> 00:23:14,186 Bacterial. You lucked out. 498 00:23:14,311 --> 00:23:15,979 Start him on doxycycline. 499 00:23:16,104 --> 00:23:18,648 If he improves, we'll know we were right. 500 00:23:21,151 --> 00:23:23,570 I told Wilson you sent me to get information. 501 00:23:23,695 --> 00:23:25,155 And now you're telling me. 502 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,033 What does that make you, a quadruple agent? 503 00:23:28,575 --> 00:23:30,494 He let me print out his e-mails. 504 00:23:30,619 --> 00:23:31,620 Wow. Excellent. 505 00:23:31,745 --> 00:23:33,747 Information he wants us to have. 506 00:23:33,872 --> 00:23:35,791 Did he let you print out his deleted e-mails? 507 00:23:35,916 --> 00:23:37,167 - No. - Go back there... 508 00:23:37,375 --> 00:23:38,502 As long as I was sitting there, 509 00:23:38,627 --> 00:23:42,047 thought I'd print them anyway. Top one's the one you're looking for. 510 00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:46,593 "I confirm Wednesday at 7:00 p.m." 511 00:23:46,718 --> 00:23:50,472 It's outgoing to JGonzalez@NYMercy.net. 512 00:23:50,597 --> 00:23:54,726 There's a Joan Gonzalez in oncology. It's a consult. 513 00:23:54,851 --> 00:23:57,270 Secret consult at 7:00 p.m.? 514 00:23:57,979 --> 00:24:00,524 Oh, Joan is perky. 515 00:24:00,649 --> 00:24:03,652 You're wrong, there was a patient file attached. 516 00:24:03,777 --> 00:24:04,611 Where? 517 00:24:04,736 --> 00:24:05,946 It was password protected. 518 00:24:06,071 --> 00:24:07,072 No. 519 00:24:07,572 --> 00:24:10,784 Wilson doesn't password protect his patient files. 520 00:24:10,909 --> 00:24:12,744 I'm the only one he'd expect ever to look there, 521 00:24:12,869 --> 00:24:15,747 and he knows there's only one patient I'd want to check on. 522 00:24:16,498 --> 00:24:18,458 You think Wilson's sick? 523 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,503 If Wilson had cancer, 524 00:24:21,628 --> 00:24:23,713 there'd be no reason for him to drive three hours to Manhattan. 525 00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:26,091 He knows he could pull strings here to get the best treatment. 526 00:24:26,216 --> 00:24:28,301 Six articles by Gonzalez. 527 00:24:28,426 --> 00:24:31,596 "Managing suicidal thoughts in oncology patients." 528 00:24:31,721 --> 00:24:34,641 "Suicidal ideation in children with leukemia." 529 00:24:34,766 --> 00:24:36,101 I don't want to ask this, 530 00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:39,855 but have you ever had reason to think he might be depressed? 531 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,691 No. Get out of here. 532 00:24:54,744 --> 00:24:56,913 KUTNER: Your fever's down and your lungs are clearing. 533 00:24:57,038 --> 00:25:00,000 How long before this brain thing goes away? 534 00:25:00,125 --> 00:25:01,376 Infection's gone. 535 00:25:01,501 --> 00:25:04,880 The damage the infection did, you'll have to live with. 536 00:25:05,797 --> 00:25:07,883 You telling me you can't fix this? 537 00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:09,426 There's got to be a way... 538 00:25:09,551 --> 00:25:12,262 We'd need to remove the damaged area in your cingulate gyrus, 539 00:25:12,387 --> 00:25:14,472 but it's too close to the brain stem to risk surgery. 540 00:25:14,598 --> 00:25:16,141 You can't risk it? 541 00:25:16,725 --> 00:25:18,351 But I could shop around, 542 00:25:18,476 --> 00:25:20,645 and maybe some better doctors at a better hospital... 543 00:25:20,770 --> 00:25:23,481 The brain stem controls the body's involuntary systems. 544 00:25:23,607 --> 00:25:26,067 The slightest mistake could kill you. 545 00:25:26,693 --> 00:25:27,819 Even if you survive, 546 00:25:27,944 --> 00:25:30,238 you may never be able to breathe on your own again, you may never... 547 00:25:30,363 --> 00:25:31,740 I get it. 548 00:25:31,865 --> 00:25:34,075 I know this seems like a lot to deal with right now, 549 00:25:34,201 --> 00:25:38,538 but people have adapted to living with all kinds of neurological deficits. 550 00:25:38,663 --> 00:25:41,875 Hey, at least we can promise you it won't get any worse. 551 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,169 Get the hell out of my room. 552 00:25:52,844 --> 00:25:54,137 (SIGHS) 553 00:25:55,972 --> 00:26:00,685 Your assistant said that you were out of the hospital taking a walk. 554 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:04,022 - Is there an emergency? - I don't know, is there? 555 00:26:05,023 --> 00:26:08,235 You never take a walk unless you got something you need to think about. 556 00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:12,572 Maybe you just don't have a good statistical sampling of my walks. 557 00:26:12,697 --> 00:26:16,910 The other thing you do when you need to think is you come to my office. 558 00:26:17,035 --> 00:26:17,994 Apparently, this is something 559 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,082 you can only discuss with Gonzalez at New York Mercy. 560 00:26:26,127 --> 00:26:30,215 Taub. Another graduate of the House School of Being a Dick. 561 00:26:30,340 --> 00:26:31,424 Private dick. 562 00:26:31,549 --> 00:26:35,470 Look, I'd love to stay for the full inquisition, but I need some hot coffee. 563 00:26:40,016 --> 00:26:43,311 Of course you need hot coffee, it's 45 degrees outside 564 00:26:43,436 --> 00:26:46,815 and you left your coat upstairs. Why? 565 00:26:46,940 --> 00:26:49,859 You're going to tell me why I forgot my coat? 566 00:26:49,985 --> 00:26:52,862 Once you get outside, the cold would have reminded you. 567 00:26:52,988 --> 00:26:55,031 Could have gone back, but you didn't. 568 00:26:55,156 --> 00:26:57,534 You chose to be uncomfortable. 569 00:26:58,952 --> 00:27:01,538 Now why would someone choose that? 570 00:27:02,455 --> 00:27:04,791 Because they hate themselves? 571 00:27:04,916 --> 00:27:07,002 Has it ever occurred to you that when I don't share something, 572 00:27:07,127 --> 00:27:09,129 it might not be meant as a challenge? 573 00:27:09,254 --> 00:27:11,047 It might just mean that I'd like there to be 574 00:27:11,172 --> 00:27:15,260 one molecule of my life that goes unexamined by Gregory House. 575 00:27:29,691 --> 00:27:32,819 Nick Greenwald. I hear you're the guy in charge. 576 00:27:34,446 --> 00:27:37,365 I'm the patient with the disinhibition. 577 00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:39,784 If you're here to say thanks, you're welcome. Now go away. 578 00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:41,953 I'm not thankful. I'm pissed. 579 00:27:42,078 --> 00:27:43,163 Oh. 580 00:27:43,288 --> 00:27:44,664 All the more reason to go away. 581 00:27:44,789 --> 00:27:47,542 They're talking about sending me home. 582 00:27:48,251 --> 00:27:51,546 To what? A life where I'll continually drive away anyone who might, 583 00:27:51,671 --> 00:27:53,715 for a second, care about me? 584 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,592 Those are the breaks. 585 00:28:00,263 --> 00:28:01,765 You could operate. 586 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:05,935 You could die. 587 00:28:06,978 --> 00:28:10,398 So I'm either better or dead? I'm okay with that. 588 00:28:16,613 --> 00:28:20,408 I've always been kind of an impatient guy. 589 00:28:21,493 --> 00:28:23,953 But I've worked hard to keep my mouth shut. 590 00:28:24,079 --> 00:28:27,540 I've made my wife happy. I've made my little girl happy. 591 00:28:29,959 --> 00:28:31,544 I want that back. 592 00:28:32,295 --> 00:28:34,297 Otherwise, it's no life. 593 00:28:43,431 --> 00:28:45,934 I want you to remove a small problem. 594 00:28:50,021 --> 00:28:51,689 I'm not a neurosurgeon. 595 00:28:51,815 --> 00:28:54,317 Your boss is. You could assist, 596 00:28:54,442 --> 00:28:56,653 I'm sure you'd like to add to your resume. 597 00:28:56,778 --> 00:28:58,738 It's too near the brain stem. Nobody's going to touch it. 598 00:28:58,863 --> 00:29:01,908 Your boss would. He's an egomaniac. 599 00:29:02,033 --> 00:29:04,536 I know 'cause I keep seeing him at the club. 600 00:29:04,661 --> 00:29:06,204 He just needs a little push. 601 00:29:06,329 --> 00:29:09,624 I'm sure by now you've kissed his ass sufficiently. 602 00:29:09,749 --> 00:29:10,875 (CHUCKLES) 603 00:29:11,876 --> 00:29:14,838 Would you like me to phrase it as "you're politically gifted"? 604 00:29:14,963 --> 00:29:16,714 I could do that. 605 00:29:17,882 --> 00:29:20,343 (CLEARS THROAT) You want me to help you? 606 00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:24,013 Tell me why. 607 00:29:24,681 --> 00:29:25,723 Why what? 608 00:29:25,849 --> 00:29:26,933 Why you care? 609 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,644 The puzzle's solved, the guy's alive. 610 00:29:29,769 --> 00:29:30,979 And the odds of coming out of this surgery 611 00:29:31,104 --> 00:29:33,314 with that same status aren't that great. 612 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,317 My patient has a quality of life issue. 613 00:29:36,443 --> 00:29:39,904 He says awful things. Hardly a medical condition. 614 00:29:41,114 --> 00:29:44,784 When he leaves here, he's going to lose his family. 615 00:29:44,909 --> 00:29:46,911 He's going to alienate the people he works with. 616 00:29:47,036 --> 00:29:50,540 And if he ever finds a friend who's willing to put up with his crap, 617 00:29:50,665 --> 00:29:52,041 he'll be lucky. 618 00:29:54,002 --> 00:29:56,463 Until he drives them away, too. 619 00:30:01,593 --> 00:30:03,761 I'll see what I can do. 620 00:30:28,703 --> 00:30:32,040 You've apparently got this whole coat thing backwards. 621 00:30:32,165 --> 00:30:34,918 I may have overreacted. 622 00:30:35,752 --> 00:30:38,046 You definitely overreacted. 623 00:30:38,171 --> 00:30:39,964 I knew you'd meet me halfway. 624 00:30:40,089 --> 00:30:41,174 But it made me think. 625 00:30:41,299 --> 00:30:45,053 You only snap on one subject, losing people. 626 00:30:45,970 --> 00:30:47,931 So I went back to the Intel. 627 00:30:48,056 --> 00:30:51,392 It's true there's only one doctor named Gonzalez at New York Mercy, 628 00:30:51,518 --> 00:30:55,647 but there's a Javier Gonzalez who's a nurse in the psych ward. 629 00:30:56,314 --> 00:30:58,691 Now who could you lose who'd end up there? 630 00:30:58,816 --> 00:31:03,238 Maybe the reason I don't always open up to you is because it's redundant. 631 00:31:03,363 --> 00:31:04,864 Daniel Wilson. 632 00:31:05,949 --> 00:31:07,367 Once you've got a name, 633 00:31:07,492 --> 00:31:10,495 it's amazing how much stuff you can learn on the phone. 634 00:31:10,620 --> 00:31:13,915 I mean, if you're a doctor and you lie freely. 635 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,959 They found your brother sleeping in the lobby 636 00:31:16,084 --> 00:31:18,211 of an office building in Manhattan. 637 00:31:18,336 --> 00:31:19,671 He got aggressive when they asked him to leave, 638 00:31:19,796 --> 00:31:22,507 and the cops took him to the Mercy psych ward. 639 00:31:22,632 --> 00:31:25,426 There've been new anti-psychotics developed since he ran away. 640 00:31:25,552 --> 00:31:28,680 He's been on them for a couple of days. And by tonight, 641 00:31:28,805 --> 00:31:30,765 he should be in shape to talk to me. 642 00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:33,393 But you're not sure if he wants to. 643 00:31:34,811 --> 00:31:38,398 I'll be in New York in a few hours, I guess I'll find out. 644 00:31:38,773 --> 00:31:40,567 Why wouldn't you tell me this? 645 00:31:40,692 --> 00:31:42,026 House, you and I, 646 00:31:43,528 --> 00:31:46,447 we don't have the normal social contract. 647 00:31:46,573 --> 00:31:48,533 I don't expect you to tell me the lies that... 648 00:31:48,658 --> 00:31:51,119 I'm fully capable of lying to you. 649 00:31:51,244 --> 00:31:52,704 I've lied plenty of times. 650 00:31:52,829 --> 00:31:54,956 I mean collaborative lies. 651 00:31:55,081 --> 00:31:59,752 Giving someone a hand who maybe needs to deceive themselves, just a little. 652 00:32:02,005 --> 00:32:03,298 For two days, I've been thinking about 653 00:32:03,423 --> 00:32:05,300 how Danny's going to react when he sees me. 654 00:32:05,425 --> 00:32:08,094 If I said that to anybody else, they'd say, 655 00:32:08,219 --> 00:32:10,388 "Don't worry, it'll all be all right." 656 00:32:10,972 --> 00:32:12,515 You wouldn't. 657 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,727 Because it might all go horribly wrong. 658 00:32:15,852 --> 00:32:17,020 (CHUCKLES) 659 00:32:18,521 --> 00:32:19,814 Yeah. 660 00:32:21,149 --> 00:32:22,817 Yeah, it might. 661 00:32:23,443 --> 00:32:27,405 In which case, you might want some company. 662 00:32:33,661 --> 00:32:36,372 FOREMAN: Your heart's beating. First hurdle passed. 663 00:32:36,497 --> 00:32:39,751 Now we need to know if you can breathe for yourself. 664 00:32:40,918 --> 00:32:42,086 (COUGHS) 665 00:32:42,211 --> 00:32:43,338 (GASPS) 666 00:32:43,463 --> 00:32:44,964 Oh, thank God. 667 00:32:46,841 --> 00:32:49,427 Now, do you know who you are? 668 00:32:50,928 --> 00:32:54,057 Nick Greenwald, former S.O.B. 669 00:32:54,182 --> 00:32:55,808 (LAUGHS) 670 00:32:55,933 --> 00:32:57,101 Thank you. 671 00:32:58,394 --> 00:33:02,690 Now I can go back to my beautiful life with my beautiful wife. 672 00:33:03,566 --> 00:33:05,943 Maybe she'll stop whining and cut me some slack 673 00:33:06,069 --> 00:33:08,321 now that I've risked my life. 674 00:33:09,489 --> 00:33:11,366 It doesn't make sense. We removed the problem. 675 00:33:11,491 --> 00:33:14,035 We removed the damage. Maybe we were wrong about the problem. 676 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,162 I need to believe we can get through this. 677 00:33:16,287 --> 00:33:17,413 FOREMAN: Temperature's 94.5. 678 00:33:17,538 --> 00:33:20,041 Do you really think I'm stupid? 679 00:33:20,166 --> 00:33:24,337 Honey, you're not stupid, you're just... Please don't do this. 680 00:33:24,462 --> 00:33:25,463 Could be the effect of the surgery. 681 00:33:25,588 --> 00:33:27,006 Do you at least respect me, Nick? 682 00:33:27,131 --> 00:33:28,841 What do you think of what I do for a living? 683 00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:32,261 I think people who publicize important things 684 00:33:32,387 --> 00:33:35,473 are people who can't do important things themselves. 685 00:33:35,598 --> 00:33:37,558 Honey, stop. Don't. 686 00:33:37,684 --> 00:33:38,935 Do you regret marrying me? 687 00:33:39,102 --> 00:33:41,187 - 94.2. - Sometimes. 688 00:33:41,479 --> 00:33:43,231 - Everybody wonders. - Get me a heating blanket. 689 00:33:43,356 --> 00:33:44,732 Do you even love me? 690 00:33:44,857 --> 00:33:45,692 Yes. 691 00:33:46,567 --> 00:33:47,652 I don't know why. 692 00:33:47,777 --> 00:33:48,653 Aud... 693 00:33:49,112 --> 00:33:51,114 Wait. Let me... 694 00:33:51,239 --> 00:33:52,281 (MACHINE BEEPING) 695 00:33:52,407 --> 00:33:54,492 V-tach! Get me the paddles. 696 00:33:59,622 --> 00:34:00,957 FOREMAN: Clear. 697 00:34:04,711 --> 00:34:06,713 Echo says his heart is structurally fine, 698 00:34:06,838 --> 00:34:08,131 but his temperature is still dropping. 699 00:34:08,256 --> 00:34:09,757 He's headed for hypothermia. 700 00:34:09,882 --> 00:34:11,759 I can't reach House. It just goes to voice-mail. 701 00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:12,885 Means we were wrong about infection. 702 00:34:13,094 --> 00:34:14,554 His temperature's just going up and down 703 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:16,180 because something's playing with his thermostat. 704 00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:17,932 Which means the brain damage is spreading. 705 00:34:18,057 --> 00:34:19,600 What causes brain damage and nosebleed, 706 00:34:19,726 --> 00:34:21,477 and involves the lungs, heart, and kidneys? 707 00:34:21,602 --> 00:34:23,271 Cancer. We could text him. 708 00:34:23,396 --> 00:34:24,480 It's not cancer. 709 00:34:24,605 --> 00:34:27,775 Normal PSA, normal blood smear, colonoscopy normal. 710 00:34:28,443 --> 00:34:29,444 Do a full body scan. 711 00:34:29,569 --> 00:34:30,862 House hates full body scans. 712 00:34:30,987 --> 00:34:32,822 - House isn't here. - House is right. 713 00:34:32,947 --> 00:34:34,991 Everybody's got three or four meaningless anomalies 714 00:34:35,116 --> 00:34:36,033 that'll come up on a scan. 715 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,077 Chasing each one will take time we don't have. 716 00:34:38,202 --> 00:34:40,371 Feel free to send him an IM. 717 00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:10,151 (SIGHS) 718 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,629 You told me you saw your brother once, after he disappeared. 719 00:35:29,754 --> 00:35:31,547 Thirteen years ago. 720 00:35:31,672 --> 00:35:33,800 I used to go to Princeton whenever I could. 721 00:35:33,925 --> 00:35:36,677 I must have hit every homeless shelter in town. 722 00:35:36,803 --> 00:35:38,930 Then one day, I'm just sitting at this deli having a sandwich, 723 00:35:39,055 --> 00:35:42,475 I look out the window and there he is. 724 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,269 He was gone by the time I got outside. 725 00:35:45,394 --> 00:35:46,354 That's why you were so eager, 726 00:35:46,479 --> 00:35:48,689 when I told you there was a job in Princeton. 727 00:35:48,815 --> 00:35:50,107 I thought it was just my charm. 728 00:35:50,233 --> 00:35:51,609 (CELL PHONE RINGING) 729 00:35:52,276 --> 00:35:54,070 That's the team, shouldn't you answer? 730 00:35:54,195 --> 00:35:57,532 They've already texted me to say they're doing something stupid. 731 00:35:58,741 --> 00:36:00,326 Small abdominal aneurysm. 732 00:36:00,451 --> 00:36:01,536 Irrelevant. What else you got? 733 00:36:01,661 --> 00:36:03,371 A cyst in the pleura around the lungs. 734 00:36:03,496 --> 00:36:05,581 Also irrelevant. Couldn't cause any of the symptoms. 735 00:36:05,706 --> 00:36:07,166 There's a density in the liver, 736 00:36:07,291 --> 00:36:08,960 could be a vascular malformation. 737 00:36:09,085 --> 00:36:11,671 If he's got multiple AVMs, screwed up blood flow would explain everything. 738 00:36:11,796 --> 00:36:13,673 We can only spot them with angiography. 739 00:36:13,798 --> 00:36:15,216 We'll have to do targeted scans with contrast, 740 00:36:15,341 --> 00:36:16,259 and then embolize each one. 741 00:36:16,384 --> 00:36:17,510 Can we do that before he freezes? 742 00:36:17,635 --> 00:36:19,262 We'll find out. 743 00:36:20,847 --> 00:36:24,976 The spell-correct on Kutner's phone has got a hair-trigger. 744 00:36:25,101 --> 00:36:27,770 Either that, or the patient has a "cyclone" 745 00:36:27,895 --> 00:36:30,439 in the "floral" of his lungs. 746 00:36:32,108 --> 00:36:36,612 You took a walk in 45-degree weather and you left your coat behind. 747 00:36:39,866 --> 00:36:40,908 Go ahead. 748 00:36:41,033 --> 00:36:42,994 I think you were punishing yourself. 749 00:36:43,953 --> 00:36:46,038 I think you wanted to feel what it would be like to be homeless 750 00:36:46,163 --> 00:36:47,915 in a New Jersey winter. 751 00:36:49,083 --> 00:36:51,294 That tells me guilt. 752 00:36:52,169 --> 00:36:54,630 That tells me something happened. 753 00:36:57,633 --> 00:36:59,886 The schizophrenia started when he was a teenager. 754 00:37:00,011 --> 00:37:02,471 When he was in college, 755 00:37:02,597 --> 00:37:03,890 he was on meds, 756 00:37:04,015 --> 00:37:07,310 but he'd still think a professor was out to get him because he got a B, 757 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:09,312 or he would fight with his roommates because he never showered. 758 00:37:09,437 --> 00:37:10,605 Where were you? 759 00:37:10,730 --> 00:37:11,814 Med school. 760 00:37:12,857 --> 00:37:18,029 He called me every day, talked for hours. 761 00:37:18,154 --> 00:37:20,114 I didn't have hours. 762 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:21,490 Interesting. 763 00:37:23,659 --> 00:37:25,411 Later for that. Go on. 764 00:37:25,536 --> 00:37:27,955 I was tired of being the guy that everybody counted on. 765 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,207 So one night Danny called... 766 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,921 One night Danny called, crying, upset about something. 767 00:37:35,046 --> 00:37:39,425 I had to study for an exam. So I hung up. 768 00:37:40,426 --> 00:37:42,261 Took my things, I went to the library 769 00:37:42,386 --> 00:37:43,763 where I wouldn't have to hear the phone ring. 770 00:37:43,888 --> 00:37:46,599 I wonder how that turned out. 771 00:37:46,724 --> 00:37:47,934 My mother called me the next day, 772 00:37:48,059 --> 00:37:50,311 Danny had run away and left his meds behind. 773 00:37:50,436 --> 00:37:55,691 Which I knew meant that he would never be able to choose to come back, 774 00:37:55,816 --> 00:37:59,528 because he'd be so detached from reality. 775 00:38:00,279 --> 00:38:04,158 So you made your one effort to live a normal, selfish life, 776 00:38:04,283 --> 00:38:06,410 and the universe immediately smacked you down. 777 00:38:06,535 --> 00:38:10,206 And because we're wired to find meaning in semi-random events, 778 00:38:10,331 --> 00:38:13,334 you decided never to be that careless again. 779 00:38:13,542 --> 00:38:16,545 You don't think that's a little facile? 780 00:38:16,671 --> 00:38:20,633 Actually, I don't. I think you did it consciously. 781 00:38:20,758 --> 00:38:24,428 You developed your people pleasing talents 782 00:38:24,553 --> 00:38:27,598 the way an Olympic athlete develops his muscles. 783 00:38:27,723 --> 00:38:30,601 Talk about an overreaction to a single event. 784 00:38:30,726 --> 00:38:32,645 It was a pretty big event. 785 00:38:32,770 --> 00:38:36,065 Hanging up the phone? That's what you're blaming all this on. 786 00:38:36,190 --> 00:38:39,402 That's the behavior you've been trying to correct. 787 00:38:39,527 --> 00:38:42,613 As though nothing else went wrong in your brother's life. 788 00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:45,199 Of course he overreacted, too, but... 789 00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:49,537 His glucose was normal. 790 00:38:50,579 --> 00:38:53,791 We're not talking about my brother anymore, are we? 791 00:38:53,916 --> 00:38:55,292 (CLEARS THROAT) 792 00:38:58,045 --> 00:39:02,174 It's House. AVMs don't explain his glucose. 793 00:39:02,299 --> 00:39:05,636 Since this is a significant moment in my life and all, I'll... 794 00:39:05,761 --> 00:39:06,679 Yeah. 795 00:39:06,804 --> 00:39:07,972 I think I'll just go in and... 796 00:39:08,097 --> 00:39:09,140 Explain that. 797 00:39:09,265 --> 00:39:10,516 Right. 798 00:39:11,726 --> 00:39:14,979 We have given him steroids. His glucose should have been elevated. 799 00:39:15,104 --> 00:39:18,441 That wannabe cyst you found in the whole body scan, 800 00:39:18,566 --> 00:39:20,234 without the glucose, it's an irrelevant cyst, 801 00:39:20,359 --> 00:39:22,653 with the glucose, it's a relevant fibroma. 802 00:39:22,778 --> 00:39:24,613 He has Doege-Potter Syndrome. 803 00:39:24,739 --> 00:39:27,575 His fibroma is secreting human growth hormone 804 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,161 which acts like insulin, lowering his glucose. 805 00:39:30,327 --> 00:39:32,955 That doesn't explain the organ failure, the brain damage. 806 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,541 This whole thing is an overreaction. 807 00:39:35,666 --> 00:39:38,836 That one small fibroma, it's benign, 808 00:39:38,961 --> 00:39:41,255 but his body's acting like it's an invader. 809 00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:44,508 His antibodies went to war against it and got carried away, 810 00:39:44,633 --> 00:39:47,636 attacked his other systems. Take out the fibroma, 811 00:39:47,762 --> 00:39:50,681 he'll be a happy hypocrite again in no time. 812 00:39:58,064 --> 00:39:59,565 NICK: Maybe I should call a cab. 813 00:39:59,690 --> 00:40:01,525 Your wife's probably just late. 814 00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:02,818 Yeah. 815 00:40:05,279 --> 00:40:08,240 I'm sorry about, 816 00:40:09,492 --> 00:40:12,369 you know, things I said. 817 00:40:15,081 --> 00:40:18,334 I have a conspicuous nose. 818 00:40:18,459 --> 00:40:20,086 It suits your face. 819 00:40:26,425 --> 00:40:28,594 I'm sorry I'm late. 820 00:40:29,261 --> 00:40:30,596 Traffic. 821 00:40:37,311 --> 00:40:38,771 I have some good news. 822 00:40:38,896 --> 00:40:40,773 I was going to tell you, and then you got sick, 823 00:40:40,898 --> 00:40:43,400 it didn't seem like the best time. 824 00:40:44,068 --> 00:40:46,570 I've been offered a better position. 825 00:40:46,695 --> 00:40:50,533 I'd be coordinating cancer awareness walks in three cities. 826 00:40:50,658 --> 00:40:54,036 That's great. Congratulations. 827 00:40:54,161 --> 00:40:56,288 I know you've worked hard for this. 828 00:40:57,414 --> 00:40:58,582 Thank you. 829 00:41:02,878 --> 00:41:04,588 Is Marika okay? 830 00:41:05,589 --> 00:41:07,591 I'm sure she's moved on. 831 00:41:13,472 --> 00:41:15,474 Kids are so resilient. 832 00:41:35,286 --> 00:41:36,579 You Okay? 833 00:41:37,413 --> 00:41:39,999 I'll be seeing Danny again next week. 834 00:41:40,541 --> 00:41:42,042 I'd like you to meet him. 835 00:41:42,168 --> 00:41:43,335 Sure. 836 00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:45,045 Sounds interesting. 837 00:41:46,630 --> 00:41:47,965 Go on. 838 00:41:48,632 --> 00:41:50,968 I thought seeing him again would change everything. 839 00:41:51,093 --> 00:41:54,305 It'd be wonderful or terrible. Instead... 840 00:41:55,764 --> 00:41:59,602 We're just strangers. It's kind of anticlimactic. 841 00:41:59,727 --> 00:42:00,728 (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS) 842 00:42:00,853 --> 00:42:03,189 Which is better than terrible. 843 00:42:08,652 --> 00:42:09,945 Go on. 844 00:42:10,654 --> 00:42:14,283 Does it bother you that we have no social contract? 845 00:42:14,408 --> 00:42:15,618 (SCOFFS) 846 00:42:15,743 --> 00:42:17,828 My whole life is one big compromise. 847 00:42:17,953 --> 00:42:20,080 I tiptoe around everyone like they're made of china. 848 00:42:20,206 --> 00:42:21,790 I spend all my time analyzing. 849 00:42:21,916 --> 00:42:23,292 "What will the effect be if I say this?" 850 00:42:23,417 --> 00:42:25,961 And then there's you. You're a reality junkie. 851 00:42:26,086 --> 00:42:27,963 If I offered you a comforting lie, 852 00:42:28,088 --> 00:42:30,174 you'd smack me over the head with it. 853 00:42:30,299 --> 00:42:32,051 Let's not change that. 854 00:42:32,968 --> 00:42:34,178 Okay- 855 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,597 No. See, this... 856 00:42:37,223 --> 00:42:41,268 If you were implementing a social contract, you'd say that, 857 00:42:41,393 --> 00:42:45,773 but only because it makes me feel better. 858 00:42:47,650 --> 00:42:50,736 It's kind of fun watching you torture yourself. 859 00:42:50,986 --> 00:42:53,530 Do you think things will work out with my brother? 860 00:42:53,656 --> 00:42:54,657 No. 861 00:42:56,408 --> 00:42:59,662 But when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault. 862 00:43:00,412 --> 00:43:01,914 Thanks, House. 863 00:43:02,665 --> 00:43:05,376 You do actually like monster trucks? 864 00:43:05,501 --> 00:43:06,710 Absolutely.