1 00:00:18,269 --> 00:00:19,312 (LEE GRUNTING) 2 00:00:27,904 --> 00:00:32,075 (WOMAN CHATTERING ON PA ) 3 00:00:32,659 --> 00:00:33,952 LEE: Hey! 4 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:36,788 How long have I... 5 00:00:37,247 --> 00:00:39,916 Blunt force trauma to the head did the fatal damage. 6 00:00:40,041 --> 00:00:41,751 Since the accident, he's had a continuous... 7 00:00:41,918 --> 00:00:45,547 LEE: Can't get up. What's wrong with my legs? 8 00:00:46,589 --> 00:00:49,342 Hey, someone talk to me! 9 00:00:49,884 --> 00:00:52,220 Hey, you don't hear me talking to you? 10 00:00:52,762 --> 00:00:54,681 (PEOPLE CHATTERING) 11 00:00:56,015 --> 00:00:57,225 (SIGHS) 12 00:00:57,350 --> 00:00:58,685 Great heart for transplant. 13 00:00:58,810 --> 00:00:59,769 LEE: Who? 14 00:01:00,103 --> 00:01:03,606 My heart? Oh, God. They don't know I'm in here. 15 00:01:03,732 --> 00:01:08,069 HOUSE: Hey, genius. I think it violates certain ethical laws 16 00:01:08,278 --> 00:01:10,447 to rip the organs out of a guy that's still alive. 17 00:01:10,697 --> 00:01:12,157 Possibly certain law laws, too. 18 00:01:12,282 --> 00:01:13,241 LEE: Thank you. 19 00:01:13,366 --> 00:01:16,494 Could you get back in your bed, please, Mr. House? 20 00:01:16,619 --> 00:01:17,579 HOUSE: It's actually Dr. House. 21 00:01:17,704 --> 00:01:18,663 LEE: This guy's a doctor? 22 00:01:18,788 --> 00:01:20,749 There's also a Navy SEAL House, 23 00:01:20,874 --> 00:01:22,125 but you're gonna have to save up for that one. 24 00:01:22,250 --> 00:01:24,544 Really? Well, that's interesting, 25 00:01:24,669 --> 00:01:26,129 but you're here because you crashed your motorcycle, 26 00:01:26,254 --> 00:01:29,340 not because I need a consult, so get back in bed. 27 00:01:29,507 --> 00:01:32,051 HOUSE: Scraped my elbow. Just need a truckload of Vicodin. 28 00:01:32,177 --> 00:01:34,095 - Whereas this guy... - He's brain dead. 29 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:35,263 LEE: No, I'm not! 30 00:01:35,388 --> 00:01:36,931 So drop it. 31 00:01:37,056 --> 00:01:38,433 HOUSE: See that? 32 00:01:38,558 --> 00:01:40,643 KURTZ: Minimal brain waves don't mean he's alive. 33 00:01:40,769 --> 00:01:43,354 LEE: I am alive. I'm here. 34 00:01:43,521 --> 00:01:45,190 No EEG response to painful stimuli, hot or cold. 35 00:01:45,356 --> 00:01:47,442 What you're seeing is random, barely discernable. 36 00:01:47,567 --> 00:01:48,401 HOUSE: I discerned it. 37 00:01:48,526 --> 00:01:49,569 LEE: Listen to him. Please. 38 00:01:49,694 --> 00:01:52,030 No. That's just the amplifier's internal noise level. 39 00:01:52,197 --> 00:01:53,323 It's on increased sensitivity. 40 00:01:53,448 --> 00:01:55,533 LEE: No, no, no, it's not! It's me. 41 00:01:55,658 --> 00:01:57,035 HOUSE: Then why is his eye following you? 42 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:57,994 LEE: Exactly. 43 00:01:58,119 --> 00:02:00,079 Following motion is an involuntary reflex. 44 00:02:00,205 --> 00:02:01,039 LEE: No. 45 00:02:01,164 --> 00:02:02,040 You're a doctor, 46 00:02:02,165 --> 00:02:03,416 you should know these things. 47 00:02:03,541 --> 00:02:07,378 LEE: No, no. I'm not dead. I need help. I'm here. 48 00:02:09,464 --> 00:02:12,342 I also know about locked-in syndrome. 49 00:02:12,884 --> 00:02:18,139 And things are either involuntary or voluntary. 50 00:02:20,350 --> 00:02:21,851 Blink if you can hear me. 51 00:02:21,976 --> 00:02:23,520 LEE: I hear you. 52 00:02:25,021 --> 00:02:27,106 Oh. This is gonna be fun. 53 00:03:05,770 --> 00:03:07,689 Eye movement is deliberate. 54 00:03:08,523 --> 00:03:11,776 Can you blink once for yes, twice for no? 55 00:03:11,901 --> 00:03:13,027 LEE: I hope so. 56 00:03:13,736 --> 00:03:15,572 HOUSE: Square root of nine? 57 00:03:19,158 --> 00:03:22,912 He got that faster than you. Brain is fully functional. 58 00:03:23,037 --> 00:03:24,414 LEE: Where's Molly? 59 00:03:24,539 --> 00:03:25,915 You were in an accident. 60 00:03:29,836 --> 00:03:32,380 Lee, hit the brake. Hit the brake. Hit the brake. 61 00:03:33,214 --> 00:03:36,050 You sustained a traumatic injury to your brain stem, 62 00:03:36,175 --> 00:03:37,552 which has cut off your brain's ability 63 00:03:37,677 --> 00:03:39,178 to communicate with the rest of your body. 64 00:03:39,304 --> 00:03:41,723 LEE: Can you fix me? Where's Molly? 65 00:03:41,848 --> 00:03:43,766 You still have movement in your eyes, 66 00:03:43,892 --> 00:03:45,518 so we can get you to a rehab facility 67 00:03:45,643 --> 00:03:47,061 where they can teach you how to communicate. 68 00:03:47,186 --> 00:03:49,647 LEE: No, I can't be stuck like this. 69 00:03:49,772 --> 00:03:53,568 HOUSE: Unless the crash didn't cause the brain damage. 70 00:03:54,152 --> 00:03:56,696 Maybe the brain damage caused the crash. 71 00:03:56,821 --> 00:04:00,992 LEE: Yeah. I couldn't stop. Why couldn't I stop? 72 00:04:01,117 --> 00:04:03,620 Look at his palms. No scrapes. 73 00:04:05,914 --> 00:04:08,833 He didn't even try to protect himself. 74 00:04:08,958 --> 00:04:11,294 Suggests slowed reflexes or no reflexes. 75 00:04:11,419 --> 00:04:13,922 You're not a doctor in this hospital, you are a patient. 76 00:04:14,047 --> 00:04:16,591 LEE: Yeah. And you're the guy who wants to cut out my organs 77 00:04:16,716 --> 00:04:17,842 and he's the guy who doesn't. 78 00:04:17,967 --> 00:04:18,968 Stroke, cancer, 79 00:04:19,093 --> 00:04:22,764 even a simple infection, anything that insults the central pons could do this. 80 00:04:22,889 --> 00:04:24,098 LEE: Then that means I could be fixed. 81 00:04:24,223 --> 00:04:25,767 KURTZ: You're giving him false hope. 82 00:04:25,892 --> 00:04:28,603 He needs to accept what's happened 83 00:04:28,728 --> 00:04:30,772 and work on making the most of it. 84 00:04:40,865 --> 00:04:42,200 LEE: Molly. 85 00:04:42,325 --> 00:04:43,534 Hey. 86 00:04:44,744 --> 00:04:47,830 LEE: Don't look at me like that. That's not making me feel better. 87 00:04:49,290 --> 00:04:50,625 (SNIFFLING) I love you. 88 00:04:51,793 --> 00:04:55,463 I don't know how God is gonna get us through this, but he will. 89 00:04:55,588 --> 00:04:57,632 Stop it, I'm blushing. 90 00:04:57,882 --> 00:04:59,258 KURTZ: What are you doing? 91 00:04:59,384 --> 00:05:02,470 Just looking for some reading material for the crapper. 92 00:05:02,595 --> 00:05:05,848 - These CTs... - Get back in your bed. Come on. 93 00:05:05,974 --> 00:05:08,476 The children are in the waiting area. Can I bring them in? 94 00:05:08,601 --> 00:05:10,645 LEE: No. No, don't. 95 00:05:10,770 --> 00:05:12,355 You don't wanna see them? 96 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,940 LEE: I don't want them having nightmares. 97 00:05:14,065 --> 00:05:15,566 I don't wanna scare them, Molly. 98 00:05:15,692 --> 00:05:17,485 You don't want them to see you? 99 00:05:20,738 --> 00:05:22,907 It's okay. I understand. 100 00:05:23,032 --> 00:05:24,075 (SIGHS) 101 00:05:24,742 --> 00:05:26,536 You're gonna be better soon enough. 102 00:05:27,078 --> 00:05:28,913 LEE: You really that sure? 103 00:05:29,497 --> 00:05:31,958 Why are you so sure, babe? How do you get so sure? 104 00:05:38,798 --> 00:05:40,258 FOREMAN: Are you okay? 105 00:05:40,383 --> 00:05:41,426 HOUSE: Never better. 106 00:05:41,551 --> 00:05:42,510 Here's your burger. 107 00:05:45,388 --> 00:05:49,726 If you can't bring Mohammed to Princeton, bring Princeton to Mohammed. 108 00:05:49,851 --> 00:05:52,311 It's my diagnostics posse. 109 00:05:52,437 --> 00:05:54,188 Hot, dark and darker. 110 00:05:54,313 --> 00:05:55,940 LEE: Talk about getting me better, please. 111 00:05:56,065 --> 00:05:57,066 What are you doing up in Middletown? 112 00:05:57,191 --> 00:05:58,026 LEE: Who cares? 113 00:05:58,151 --> 00:06:00,820 Buying a Gibson '57 Goldtop. 114 00:06:00,945 --> 00:06:03,072 It's the guitar Duane Allman used to play. 115 00:06:03,197 --> 00:06:05,366 FOREMAN: Next to the trauma, the most likely causes of 116 00:06:05,491 --> 00:06:07,618 a sudden onset of locked-in syndrome 117 00:06:07,744 --> 00:06:09,579 are basilar artery stroke and brain hemorrhage. 118 00:06:09,704 --> 00:06:10,788 CT was clean. 119 00:06:10,913 --> 00:06:11,914 LEE: Man, those fries look good. 120 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:12,874 FOREMAN: Certain circulatory diseases. 121 00:06:12,999 --> 00:06:15,501 Guy's an active bike rider, his heart's fine. 122 00:06:15,626 --> 00:06:17,378 A well-placed tumor could explain it. 123 00:06:17,503 --> 00:06:20,798 LEE: Jeez, is the last thing I ate gonna be the last thing I ate? 124 00:06:20,923 --> 00:06:24,177 It could evade the CT, and still show up on an MRI with contrast. 125 00:06:24,302 --> 00:06:26,095 LEE: It was a melted PowerBar. 126 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:27,305 She's the smart one. 127 00:06:27,430 --> 00:06:29,849 I just keep dark and darker to fill out the quota. 128 00:06:30,850 --> 00:06:34,812 If we find it, treat it, you can be fine. 129 00:06:35,897 --> 00:06:37,982 LEE: I never thought I'd be praying for a brain tumor, 130 00:06:38,107 --> 00:06:39,776 but please, dear God. 131 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:43,905 If you're praying in there, stop it right now. 132 00:06:44,030 --> 00:06:45,656 We'll get his doctor to order an MRI. 133 00:06:45,782 --> 00:06:46,908 HOUSE: His doctor's busy teaching him 134 00:06:47,033 --> 00:06:49,619 how to blink out "kill me" in Morse code. 135 00:06:50,328 --> 00:06:54,082 Luckily, I found some forms under the mattress. 136 00:06:58,127 --> 00:07:00,922 KUTNER: Check it out, they have those MRI video goggles. 137 00:07:01,047 --> 00:07:03,925 I heard these were awesome. THIRTEEN: What do you see? 138 00:07:04,050 --> 00:07:05,343 KUTNER: It's a beach. 139 00:07:05,885 --> 00:07:07,887 Oh, look. There's Taub. 140 00:07:08,012 --> 00:07:11,933 Drinking a margarita and mocking us for driving all the way up here 141 00:07:12,058 --> 00:07:14,685 - because House said "jump." - LEE: Easy. I can still feel in here. 142 00:07:14,852 --> 00:07:18,356 Excuse Dr. Kutner. He gets a little excited about new technology. 143 00:07:18,481 --> 00:07:21,317 It can get loud in there, and a little closed off. 144 00:07:21,442 --> 00:07:23,945 These will put you in a quiet place. 145 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:26,614 You can create a relaxing scenario for yourself. 146 00:07:26,739 --> 00:07:29,659 LEE: I hope they work. 147 00:07:29,784 --> 00:07:30,993 Wow. 148 00:07:38,876 --> 00:07:41,504 You're in my relaxing scenario? 149 00:07:42,922 --> 00:07:44,215 I guess you like me. 150 00:07:45,508 --> 00:07:47,844 Either that or you got sent here. 151 00:07:47,969 --> 00:07:49,720 What, by God? 152 00:07:49,846 --> 00:07:52,390 I'm not sure if I believe in God. 153 00:07:52,515 --> 00:07:55,643 You spend an awful lot of time in church for someone who doesn't. 154 00:07:57,478 --> 00:07:59,230 I don't not believe either. 155 00:08:00,106 --> 00:08:02,316 It's either one or the other. 156 00:08:02,441 --> 00:08:05,194 I go to church mainly to keep my wife happy, but... 157 00:08:06,821 --> 00:08:08,114 I don't know. I've never actually thought that 158 00:08:08,239 --> 00:08:10,700 God could reach out and affect my life. 159 00:08:10,825 --> 00:08:15,663 But getting a brilliant doctor in the bed next to me... 160 00:08:15,788 --> 00:08:19,709 God is also the guy who opened his car door in front of you. 161 00:08:19,834 --> 00:08:21,210 I think Molly was right. 162 00:08:21,544 --> 00:08:24,005 I think you were sent here to make me get better. 163 00:08:25,506 --> 00:08:26,465 I think so. 164 00:08:32,513 --> 00:08:33,639 Hey. 165 00:08:35,391 --> 00:08:37,768 Hey, Dad. Making a volcano. 166 00:08:37,894 --> 00:08:41,105 Yeah. You're making a volcano. Looks like it. What you doing, baby? 167 00:08:41,564 --> 00:08:43,316 (DOOR OPENING) 168 00:08:45,735 --> 00:08:47,320 LEE: What time is it? 169 00:08:47,445 --> 00:08:51,407 Hope you don't mind. My new roommate snores. 170 00:08:51,532 --> 00:08:55,203 And my new room doesn't have you. 171 00:08:56,621 --> 00:09:00,208 Your MRI showed a lesion in the central pons. 172 00:09:00,333 --> 00:09:02,001 LEE: What is that? What does that mean? 173 00:09:02,126 --> 00:09:03,169 See it there? 174 00:09:03,294 --> 00:09:04,128 LEE: No. 175 00:09:06,589 --> 00:09:08,090 Yeah, that's what they said. 176 00:09:09,217 --> 00:09:13,262 But it's there, which means no way head trauma did this. 177 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,475 It's cancer, causing a paraneoplastic syndrome. 178 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,685 Unfortunately, your current doctor thinks 179 00:09:19,810 --> 00:09:22,813 its diffused nature means an infection. 180 00:09:22,939 --> 00:09:25,608 Now, the bad news is the antivirals 181 00:09:25,733 --> 00:09:28,653 he's got you on might kill you. 182 00:09:28,778 --> 00:09:29,737 LEE: I'm not gonna die. 183 00:09:29,862 --> 00:09:33,282 The good news is, if they just almost kill you, 184 00:09:33,407 --> 00:09:37,578 then Dr. Idiot will realize that his name is not a coincidence, 185 00:09:37,703 --> 00:09:39,497 and he'll let me do whatever I want. 186 00:09:39,622 --> 00:09:40,539 LEE: Thank you. 187 00:09:44,126 --> 00:09:45,836 See, the irony here is, 188 00:09:47,588 --> 00:09:49,298 you're kind of fascinating. 189 00:09:50,591 --> 00:09:52,385 So many questions. 190 00:09:53,261 --> 00:09:54,929 But if you could answer any of them, 191 00:09:55,054 --> 00:09:56,597 then you wouldn't be fascinating. 192 00:09:56,722 --> 00:09:59,725 LEE: I get it. You're a little nuts, aren't you? 193 00:10:03,396 --> 00:10:05,773 Your wife is the one getting you through this. 194 00:10:05,898 --> 00:10:07,733 Your wife and me. 195 00:10:09,694 --> 00:10:12,238 Although, frankly, the MRI was a lot more useful 196 00:10:12,363 --> 00:10:14,365 than four hours of hand holding. 197 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:17,326 I think. 198 00:10:18,411 --> 00:10:20,538 LEE: If he had a wife, he'd know it matters. 199 00:10:21,706 --> 00:10:25,001 You're a good guy. Easy to talk to. 200 00:10:25,126 --> 00:10:29,297 LEE: Wait, something's happening. What's happening to me? 201 00:10:29,422 --> 00:10:31,549 HOUSE: Need some help in here. 202 00:10:31,674 --> 00:10:33,551 Your patient is seizing. 203 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:37,722 Why would he have a seizure? 204 00:10:37,847 --> 00:10:39,265 HOUSE: Because he has cancer. 205 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:40,558 His brain stem is compromised. 206 00:10:40,683 --> 00:10:43,227 LEE: Why are you still arguing with this guy? You thought I was dead. 207 00:10:43,352 --> 00:10:45,563 Welcome back. And nicely played. 208 00:10:45,688 --> 00:10:49,483 You almost died, exactly as we planned. 209 00:10:49,608 --> 00:10:50,901 You knew this was gonna happen? 210 00:10:51,027 --> 00:10:54,572 Usually happens when you treat cancer by pretending it's not cancer. 211 00:10:54,697 --> 00:10:57,450 - Right, Doctor? My turn? - It's cancer? 212 00:10:57,575 --> 00:10:58,534 - No, it isn't. - LEE: Yes. 213 00:10:58,659 --> 00:11:01,746 Small tumor in his brain stem causing paraneoplastic syndrome. 214 00:11:01,871 --> 00:11:04,665 - He needs plasmapheresis. - Can you give that to him? 215 00:11:04,790 --> 00:11:06,834 No, no, I'm sorry. I completely disagree with Dr. House. 216 00:11:06,959 --> 00:11:07,918 LEE: Please shut up! 217 00:11:08,044 --> 00:11:09,211 I don't. 218 00:11:09,337 --> 00:11:11,464 Which means I can treat him. 219 00:11:11,589 --> 00:11:13,341 LEE: Let him. Let him. 220 00:11:13,466 --> 00:11:14,800 Is that what you want? 221 00:11:14,925 --> 00:11:16,469 LEE: Absolutely. 222 00:11:18,012 --> 00:11:20,056 Could you send up a couple of bellboys? 223 00:11:26,604 --> 00:11:28,647 (WOMAN CHATTERING ON PA ) 224 00:11:30,649 --> 00:11:34,320 I got the transfer papers, plasmapheresis is all set up. 225 00:11:34,445 --> 00:11:35,446 Are you okay? 226 00:11:35,571 --> 00:11:38,324 Fresh infusion of macho. You like? 227 00:11:38,449 --> 00:11:41,452 LEE: I can't move, and she's worried about his boo-boo? 228 00:11:41,577 --> 00:11:43,037 What were you doing up there anyway? 229 00:11:43,162 --> 00:11:44,580 Antiquing. 230 00:11:44,705 --> 00:11:46,415 Found you a late Victorian corset. 231 00:11:46,540 --> 00:11:47,833 Come by later. I'll tie you up. 232 00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:52,046 LEE: He hitting on her? If she turns around, she's into him, too. 233 00:11:52,171 --> 00:11:53,381 And there you have it. 234 00:11:53,506 --> 00:11:55,549 Sorry, I didn't show up in Middletown. I didn't get the message. 235 00:11:55,674 --> 00:11:57,510 Probably 'cause there was no message. 236 00:11:57,635 --> 00:12:00,096 I decided to accept your resignation. 237 00:12:00,221 --> 00:12:02,681 Uh, I thought we were past this. I decided to stay. 238 00:12:02,807 --> 00:12:04,725 HOUSE: No, you didn't, you had it decided for you. 239 00:12:04,850 --> 00:12:06,310 So now you're stuck here with a boss 240 00:12:06,435 --> 00:12:08,312 who knows that you wanna be somewhere else. 241 00:12:08,437 --> 00:12:10,314 Which means you're no longer motivated to impress me. 242 00:12:10,439 --> 00:12:13,359 Which means you're no longer motivated to come up with good ideas. 243 00:12:13,484 --> 00:12:14,902 Unless I'm wrong. 244 00:12:15,653 --> 00:12:18,864 Save the cheerleader, save your world. 245 00:12:20,157 --> 00:12:20,991 I got it from here. 246 00:12:21,117 --> 00:12:22,493 LEE: I thought you already solved this. 247 00:12:22,618 --> 00:12:24,912 You thinking you might be wrong? 248 00:12:25,037 --> 00:12:26,539 What's going on? 249 00:12:26,664 --> 00:12:29,583 Hey, just curious. 250 00:12:29,708 --> 00:12:31,877 What're you driving up to Middletown for? 251 00:12:32,002 --> 00:12:32,837 Why do you care? 252 00:12:32,962 --> 00:12:33,921 LEE: Why does he care? 253 00:12:34,046 --> 00:12:35,423 Because I'm your friend. 254 00:12:35,548 --> 00:12:37,591 - I was buying a guitar. - Yeah. I heard that. 255 00:12:37,716 --> 00:12:40,970 Used to belong to a guitarist who died in a motorcycle accident. 256 00:12:41,095 --> 00:12:43,681 Just reeks of you screwing with people. 257 00:12:43,806 --> 00:12:48,227 Your crash was 10 miles from the Orange County Progressive Pain Clinic. 258 00:12:48,352 --> 00:12:50,396 You live 10 miles from Mary's Dress Shop. 259 00:12:50,521 --> 00:12:52,231 And yet, that's not even on my list of reasons 260 00:12:52,356 --> 00:12:54,316 that I think you're secretly a transvestite. 261 00:12:54,442 --> 00:12:58,237 If you're going to another state to get more narcotics... 262 00:12:58,362 --> 00:12:59,196 LEE: He's on drugs? 263 00:12:59,321 --> 00:13:02,158 I went to visit your ex-ex-ex wife who lives in Thompson Ridge. 264 00:13:02,283 --> 00:13:04,827 Let her know about the extra money you're making on the lecture circuit, 265 00:13:04,952 --> 00:13:07,288 so she'll be sure to adjust your alimony. 266 00:13:07,413 --> 00:13:08,664 You wouldn't do that. 267 00:13:08,789 --> 00:13:10,416 Yeah, I wouldn't do that. 268 00:13:10,541 --> 00:13:11,667 Would you? 269 00:13:11,792 --> 00:13:13,127 LEE: You guys are friends? 270 00:13:16,964 --> 00:13:19,425 Shouldn't we be entertaining our patient? 271 00:13:19,550 --> 00:13:23,429 I performed Euripides with sock puppets, you just missed it. 272 00:13:23,554 --> 00:13:25,306 House said we should. 273 00:13:25,431 --> 00:13:26,724 The mind is like a muscle. 274 00:13:26,849 --> 00:13:29,852 If you don't exercise it, it'll atrophy, just like anything else. 275 00:13:29,977 --> 00:13:33,105 Whoever's with him needs to talk, keep his mind active. 276 00:13:33,230 --> 00:13:36,150 And it'll show House you still care. 277 00:13:36,275 --> 00:13:37,443 Not sure if I do. 278 00:13:37,568 --> 00:13:39,236 LEE: Jeez, you're my doctor. 279 00:13:39,361 --> 00:13:40,613 KUTNER: Then why don't you just quit? 280 00:13:40,738 --> 00:13:42,406 - Not sure I want to do that, either. - Oh. 281 00:13:43,741 --> 00:13:46,619 Maybe you should figure it out before House figures it out for you. 282 00:13:46,744 --> 00:13:50,706 LEE: Dude, maybe you should have your midlife crisis after I'm better. 283 00:13:50,831 --> 00:13:52,249 Kutner. 284 00:13:54,418 --> 00:13:55,544 We'll be right back. 285 00:13:55,669 --> 00:13:58,547 LEE: Wait. Wait, what did you just see? 286 00:14:04,678 --> 00:14:06,013 Do you drink? 287 00:14:06,138 --> 00:14:09,058 He's a roofer, alcohol hardly proves your theory. 288 00:14:09,183 --> 00:14:10,976 Marchiafava-Bignami disease fits. 289 00:14:11,101 --> 00:14:12,102 LFT's are normal. 290 00:14:12,228 --> 00:14:15,272 LEE: Speak English. Is it fixable? What does that mean? 291 00:14:15,397 --> 00:14:16,232 That hurts. 292 00:14:16,357 --> 00:14:17,858 THIRTEEN: No tremors. 293 00:14:17,983 --> 00:14:19,818 How much do you drink? A six-pack a day? 294 00:14:19,944 --> 00:14:21,362 LEE: I hate beer. I don't even drink beer. 295 00:14:21,487 --> 00:14:22,404 Could mean he drinks more or less, 296 00:14:22,530 --> 00:14:23,489 or maybe something else. 297 00:14:23,614 --> 00:14:24,865 KUTNER: It may not be alcohol at all. 298 00:14:24,990 --> 00:14:26,367 Street opiates could also cause locked-in... 299 00:14:26,492 --> 00:14:27,326 LEE: I don't get high. 300 00:14:27,451 --> 00:14:28,285 ...MPPP. 301 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:31,163 Either we play 20,000 questions with every street drug, 302 00:14:31,288 --> 00:14:34,458 or instead of talking to him, we talk to the lesion. 303 00:14:34,583 --> 00:14:35,417 LEE: Talk to me. 304 00:14:35,543 --> 00:14:38,295 TAUB: We're going to biopsy the brain stem? 305 00:14:38,420 --> 00:14:41,340 For the record, that doesn't count as your inspired idea. 306 00:14:41,465 --> 00:14:42,508 It's sort of where I was heading. 307 00:14:42,633 --> 00:14:45,427 LEE: You're gonna cut into my head? Why? 308 00:14:46,387 --> 00:14:48,430 Stop treating me like a piece of furniture! 309 00:14:48,556 --> 00:14:50,516 I have a right to know what's going on! 310 00:14:56,188 --> 00:14:57,606 Where is that going? 311 00:14:57,731 --> 00:15:00,150 Blood in your urine clogged up your old catheter. 312 00:15:00,276 --> 00:15:04,071 LEE: Peeing blood? That must be what the insecure doctor saw. 313 00:15:04,196 --> 00:15:07,116 Every clue gets us closer to the answer. 314 00:15:08,284 --> 00:15:09,118 LEE: Damn it! 315 00:15:09,243 --> 00:15:11,370 The surgery will get us more clues. 316 00:15:18,335 --> 00:15:19,587 You have visitors. 317 00:15:23,090 --> 00:15:25,926 LEE: No. No, Molly. 318 00:15:26,051 --> 00:15:27,344 You can come in now. 319 00:15:27,469 --> 00:15:29,555 - Daddy. - Daddy. 320 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,348 LEE: I told you not to bring them. 321 00:15:31,473 --> 00:15:33,350 They wanted to see their father. 322 00:15:35,644 --> 00:15:37,396 LEE: I can't even hug them. 323 00:15:37,521 --> 00:15:40,190 They can handle it. It's gonna be all right. 324 00:15:40,316 --> 00:15:42,651 LEE: You're not so sure anymore, are you? 325 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:46,905 They must have told you that it's dangerous, that I could die. 326 00:15:47,531 --> 00:15:49,283 And that's why you brought them in here. 327 00:15:49,408 --> 00:15:50,826 I got an A plus on my test. 328 00:15:50,951 --> 00:15:52,870 LEE: To see me before I die. 329 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:54,038 I love you, Daddy. 330 00:15:54,163 --> 00:15:55,539 LEE: Daddy loves you, too. 331 00:15:55,664 --> 00:15:58,542 I want to show my drawings. 332 00:15:58,667 --> 00:16:03,547 LEE: Kids just want a dad. Even if he's just a lump. 333 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:05,966 Maybe you should go now. 334 00:16:06,091 --> 00:16:09,053 LEE: Oh no, they can stay. Please, let them stay. 335 00:16:09,511 --> 00:16:11,347 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 336 00:16:12,389 --> 00:16:13,766 Bye, Daddy. 337 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:17,936 Bye, Daddy. 338 00:16:23,233 --> 00:16:26,236 Sorry. You were crying. 339 00:16:27,446 --> 00:16:28,697 LEE: Damn. 340 00:16:35,829 --> 00:16:39,083 We're going to put you out, just so we can drill the hole. 341 00:16:39,208 --> 00:16:42,002 LEE: Oh, that's very thoughtful of you. 342 00:16:42,586 --> 00:16:44,755 Then we'll wake you back up. 343 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,591 We need you to answer some simple "yes" or "no" questions 344 00:16:47,716 --> 00:16:48,717 while we're cutting to make sure 345 00:16:48,842 --> 00:16:49,677 we're not cutting where we shouldn't. 346 00:16:49,802 --> 00:16:50,761 LEE: Seems to be working. 347 00:16:50,886 --> 00:16:55,683 Deep breaths. In about 10 seconds, you will feel light headed. 348 00:16:56,767 --> 00:17:00,104 By now, you should be floating high... 349 00:17:02,064 --> 00:17:04,400 (ALL LAUGHING) 350 00:17:11,573 --> 00:17:13,409 (CHILDREN LAUGHING) 351 00:17:19,289 --> 00:17:20,958 How come I'm not better? 352 00:17:21,250 --> 00:17:24,002 God's not supposed to work in trial and error. 353 00:17:24,128 --> 00:17:26,255 God's mistakes are well documented. 354 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:27,881 If he'd done everything right the first time, 355 00:17:28,006 --> 00:17:30,634 there'd have been one plague and zero great floods. 356 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:32,803 Those were because of human mistakes. 357 00:17:32,928 --> 00:17:35,180 You think your doctor has an apartment on Mount Olympus? 358 00:17:35,347 --> 00:17:37,266 God put me with you for a reason. 359 00:17:37,391 --> 00:17:39,143 I'm gonna be all right still, right? 360 00:17:41,353 --> 00:17:42,604 I don't know. 361 00:17:48,277 --> 00:17:50,696 Lee? You with me now? 362 00:17:54,241 --> 00:17:56,118 Easy questions. 363 00:17:56,827 --> 00:17:58,787 You'll be done before you know it. 364 00:17:58,912 --> 00:18:00,789 Is this equation correct? 365 00:18:00,914 --> 00:18:02,499 LEE: What? So if you make a mistake, 366 00:18:02,624 --> 00:18:04,710 I'm not gonna know that anymore? 367 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:06,378 Are these lines parallel? 368 00:18:07,254 --> 00:18:09,798 Spatial relationship's intact. 369 00:18:09,923 --> 00:18:11,258 Take a look at this circle. 370 00:18:12,551 --> 00:18:14,178 Is more than half of it shaded? 371 00:18:14,303 --> 00:18:15,679 LEE: Of course. 372 00:18:16,513 --> 00:18:19,600 Don't forget to blink. ls more than half of the circle shaded? 373 00:18:19,725 --> 00:18:21,518 LEE: Sorry. Yes. 374 00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:22,895 Look at me, Lee. 375 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:26,231 Again. ls more than half of this circle shaded? 376 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:28,358 Blink. Come on, Lee. Blink. 377 00:18:28,484 --> 00:18:29,401 Foreman, back out. 378 00:18:29,526 --> 00:18:31,570 LEE: I can't blink. Cannot blink. 379 00:18:37,868 --> 00:18:39,411 MOLLY: Why aren't his eyes moving? 380 00:18:41,038 --> 00:18:44,124 HOUSE: Two options, my neurologist screwed up, 381 00:18:44,249 --> 00:18:46,376 or else something that the hospital lawyer 382 00:18:46,502 --> 00:18:47,836 is going to have to come up with when you sue us. 383 00:18:47,961 --> 00:18:49,046 FOREMAN: Blinking and eye movements 384 00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:51,048 are controlled by a small cluster of nerves 385 00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:53,217 just millimeters from the biopsy site. 386 00:18:54,051 --> 00:18:56,345 MOLLY: But he's still in there, right? I mean, he just can't communicate? 387 00:18:56,470 --> 00:18:57,554 HOUSE: It's possible. 388 00:18:57,679 --> 00:19:01,058 Also possible is that the surgery caused so much swelling in his brain stem 389 00:19:01,183 --> 00:19:02,351 that he's just gone. 390 00:19:03,977 --> 00:19:08,023 He had one way to communicate and now that's gone. Well played. 391 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,734 Brain biopsy revealed severe damage to the myelin sheath. 392 00:19:10,859 --> 00:19:12,110 The question is why. 393 00:19:12,236 --> 00:19:14,947 Epstein Barr. Picornaviruses. Malaria. 394 00:19:15,072 --> 00:19:18,325 He runs a business, meets a lot of people, could have picked up rotavirus. 395 00:19:18,450 --> 00:19:20,077 Did he report having bloody diarrhea? 396 00:19:20,202 --> 00:19:22,120 Wife's not sure. Says he doesn't complain. 397 00:19:22,246 --> 00:19:23,080 Did you ask him? 398 00:19:23,205 --> 00:19:24,039 THIRTEEN: We prioritized. 399 00:19:24,164 --> 00:19:26,291 He can only blink, a real history would've taken weeks. 400 00:19:26,416 --> 00:19:28,460 If he had Epstein-Barr, he'd have belly pains. 401 00:19:28,585 --> 00:19:30,587 If he had picornavirus, he'd have headaches. 402 00:19:30,712 --> 00:19:31,922 Five other "yes/no" questions, 403 00:19:32,047 --> 00:19:34,007 and maybe we'd know what treatment to give, 404 00:19:34,132 --> 00:19:35,926 and what treatment would kill him. 405 00:19:36,385 --> 00:19:37,970 Unless he's already dead. 406 00:19:38,762 --> 00:19:41,265 Maybe there's another way. 407 00:19:45,561 --> 00:19:50,107 Brain-computer interface, better known as BCI. 408 00:19:50,816 --> 00:19:55,487 The goal is to get you to move that cursor with your mind. 409 00:19:55,612 --> 00:19:58,365 When you think "up", the computer records the pattern. 410 00:19:58,490 --> 00:20:02,202 Think "up" enough times, it eventually learns what you're thinking. 411 00:20:02,327 --> 00:20:05,372 So, start thinking "up." 412 00:20:25,434 --> 00:20:26,768 You in there? 413 00:20:28,770 --> 00:20:30,272 Are you trying? 414 00:20:34,318 --> 00:20:35,903 (SIGHING) 415 00:20:47,456 --> 00:20:50,584 I called the ex-ex-ex-wife. 416 00:20:50,709 --> 00:20:54,004 She was at a sweat lodge in New Mexico last week. 417 00:20:54,129 --> 00:20:56,256 What were you really doing in New York? 418 00:20:57,674 --> 00:21:00,761 Know how you hate it when I meddle in your lies? 419 00:21:00,886 --> 00:21:03,138 (EXCLAIMS) I mean, your life? 420 00:21:03,263 --> 00:21:04,598 Why are you being so evasive? 421 00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:06,934 Unless you have something to evade. 422 00:21:07,976 --> 00:21:09,269 Interesting. 423 00:21:10,437 --> 00:21:14,066 So it's nothing to do with you, your ex-wife, or my pain. 424 00:21:14,191 --> 00:21:18,111 I was heading to the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill. 425 00:21:18,236 --> 00:21:21,406 One of your hookers arrange a conjugal visit? 426 00:21:21,531 --> 00:21:23,825 It's where Foreman's brother is being held. 427 00:21:27,996 --> 00:21:29,331 (TAUB SIGHING) 428 00:21:30,165 --> 00:21:33,335 This is gonna mean months of sleepless nights wondering 429 00:21:33,460 --> 00:21:35,587 if I could've done something differently. 430 00:21:36,171 --> 00:21:39,341 Maybe it's not that I'm sick of House, 431 00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:42,636 it's that I'm sick of being scared 432 00:21:42,761 --> 00:21:46,223 out of my mind to go to work every day. 433 00:21:51,228 --> 00:21:52,479 Sorry. 434 00:21:56,233 --> 00:21:57,567 (MACHINE BEEPS) 435 00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:02,322 Did that just... 436 00:22:04,157 --> 00:22:05,492 Was that you? 437 00:22:07,953 --> 00:22:09,329 (MACHINE BEEPS) 438 00:22:17,170 --> 00:22:19,214 (CRYING) 439 00:22:22,884 --> 00:22:24,511 Are you really in there? 440 00:22:31,143 --> 00:22:32,644 (LAUGHS) 441 00:22:32,769 --> 00:22:34,813 I knew you were in there. 442 00:22:34,938 --> 00:22:36,106 LEE: I was scared. 443 00:22:36,231 --> 00:22:37,607 Thank God. 444 00:22:37,733 --> 00:22:39,109 (SIGHING) 445 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,153 LEE: I am scared. 446 00:22:41,945 --> 00:22:43,822 Molly, I love you so much. 447 00:22:45,782 --> 00:22:48,702 Have you had any bloody diarrhea in the last two weeks? 448 00:22:48,827 --> 00:22:50,120 (BEEPING "No-q 449 00:22:50,245 --> 00:22:51,663 Rotavirus out. 450 00:22:51,788 --> 00:22:53,457 Any recent joint pain? 451 00:22:53,582 --> 00:22:54,416 (BEEPING "No-q 452 00:22:54,541 --> 00:22:55,584 Epstein-Barr's out. 453 00:22:55,709 --> 00:22:58,086 Have you traveled out of the country lately? 454 00:22:58,211 --> 00:23:00,005 What about inside the country? 455 00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:01,757 (CONTINUES BEEPING "NO") 456 00:23:01,882 --> 00:23:03,592 He was in St. Louis. 457 00:23:06,678 --> 00:23:08,180 Good. 458 00:23:08,472 --> 00:23:12,100 Could be Missouri malaria. We'll start treatment. 459 00:23:13,769 --> 00:23:15,103 (BEEPS "No-q 460 00:23:16,396 --> 00:23:18,106 (STAMMERS) He was there. 461 00:23:19,149 --> 00:23:21,068 The machine must not be working. 462 00:23:21,401 --> 00:23:22,694 Hmm. 463 00:23:22,819 --> 00:23:24,905 Either that or he lied to you about it. 464 00:23:25,113 --> 00:23:26,823 People do that sometimes. 465 00:23:27,365 --> 00:23:30,368 For example, I just lied to him about Missouri malaria. 466 00:23:36,124 --> 00:23:38,168 Did you go to St. Louis? 467 00:23:39,878 --> 00:23:44,132 LEE: I should've told you. Why didn't I just tell you? 468 00:23:45,258 --> 00:23:46,301 Down. 469 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,220 (MACHINE BEEPS "NO") 470 00:23:56,103 --> 00:23:58,980 When you weren't in St. Louis for two days, 471 00:23:59,147 --> 00:24:02,150 I assume you were getting some strange for two days. 472 00:24:02,567 --> 00:24:03,902 LEE: So does she. 473 00:24:04,027 --> 00:24:05,946 You have to tell her I wasn't. 474 00:24:06,071 --> 00:24:07,489 Amazing. 475 00:24:08,573 --> 00:24:11,910 A man who only has two blips at his disposal can still lie. 476 00:24:12,035 --> 00:24:13,578 LEE: I'm not lying. 477 00:24:13,703 --> 00:24:16,164 If you were getting some really strange strange, 478 00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:18,667 you could have contracted neurosyphilis. 479 00:24:18,792 --> 00:24:21,461 Infection went to your brain, froze you right up. 480 00:24:21,586 --> 00:24:23,463 Good news is, it's treatable. 481 00:24:24,256 --> 00:24:27,175 You'll be up and moving in time to sign the divorce papers. 482 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:29,261 LEE: Why would I tell you the truth about being in St. Louis 483 00:24:29,386 --> 00:24:31,555 and then not tell you the truth about this? 484 00:24:32,556 --> 00:24:36,101 TAUB: He just admitted he wasn't in St. Louis in front of his wife. 485 00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:39,312 And you think he's lying when she's not even in here? 486 00:24:39,437 --> 00:24:42,274 LEE: I'm liking this one more and more. Don't fire him. 487 00:24:43,733 --> 00:24:45,652 Were you out of the state? 488 00:24:45,777 --> 00:24:47,362 LEE: I never left. 489 00:24:47,904 --> 00:24:50,824 Were you within 20 miles of your house? 490 00:24:50,949 --> 00:24:52,868 LEE: Yes. 491 00:24:52,993 --> 00:24:54,995 HOUSE: Were you within five miles? 492 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:56,538 LEE: Yes. 493 00:24:56,663 --> 00:24:57,873 Within two miles? 494 00:24:57,998 --> 00:24:59,291 Yes. 495 00:25:00,959 --> 00:25:02,669 Did you stay at a hotel? 496 00:25:04,254 --> 00:25:05,422 No. 497 00:25:06,464 --> 00:25:09,426 You had to sleep somewhere. Your car? 498 00:25:10,802 --> 00:25:12,053 No. 499 00:25:13,430 --> 00:25:14,764 A friend's house? 500 00:25:16,016 --> 00:25:17,392 Yes. 501 00:25:18,018 --> 00:25:19,269 Yes. 502 00:25:19,811 --> 00:25:23,815 That narrows it down, depending on how popular you are. 503 00:25:23,940 --> 00:25:26,610 Tell the wife to stop crying, get in here. 504 00:25:30,822 --> 00:25:34,826 He says that when he was supposed to be in St. Louis, 505 00:25:34,951 --> 00:25:36,244 he was staying at a friend's house. 506 00:25:36,912 --> 00:25:38,788 - Really? - Yes. 507 00:25:39,456 --> 00:25:41,750 Let's assume that you believe him for the moment. 508 00:25:41,875 --> 00:25:43,627 Name your friends within two miles. 509 00:25:43,752 --> 00:25:45,670 Martin and Kim's? 510 00:25:45,795 --> 00:25:46,755 No. 511 00:25:47,255 --> 00:25:50,258 Guess someone who doesn't have a wife. 512 00:25:52,344 --> 00:25:53,970 - Dave? - Yes. 513 00:25:56,848 --> 00:25:58,058 You got an address? 514 00:25:59,434 --> 00:26:00,852 TAUB: If this is where he got sick, 515 00:26:00,977 --> 00:26:03,271 someone else here should have symptoms. 516 00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:06,066 Not if Lee was the only one coming down to the basement. 517 00:26:06,191 --> 00:26:09,027 Furnace is rusty but no gas leaks. 518 00:26:09,152 --> 00:26:11,154 Résumés and cover letters here. 519 00:26:11,488 --> 00:26:15,367 Some are weeks old, he's been spending time here for a while. 520 00:26:17,661 --> 00:26:19,412 Business wasn't going good. 521 00:26:20,455 --> 00:26:22,540 I didn't want you and the kids to worry. 522 00:26:26,086 --> 00:26:27,837 I was trying to protect you. 523 00:26:31,967 --> 00:26:33,218 Molly... 524 00:26:35,553 --> 00:26:38,306 I wish you could hear me. 525 00:26:39,015 --> 00:26:41,559 I wish I could make all of this better. 526 00:26:42,978 --> 00:26:44,938 Looks like he temped a few times. 527 00:26:45,063 --> 00:26:48,191 As a janitor. Factory out on Route 10. 528 00:26:52,529 --> 00:26:53,822 (METALLIC CLANGING) 529 00:26:53,947 --> 00:26:56,866 TAUB: The factory foreman says they make rechargeable batteries, 530 00:26:57,075 --> 00:26:58,076 mostly for cell phones. 531 00:26:58,201 --> 00:27:01,913 Big step down from running your own business to sweeping up. 532 00:27:02,038 --> 00:27:04,207 Doing what I had to do. 533 00:27:04,332 --> 00:27:05,792 KUTNER: Metal filings. 534 00:27:06,876 --> 00:27:09,004 Judging by the color, I'd say cadmium. 535 00:27:09,129 --> 00:27:12,424 Which he'd aerosolize with the broom, then right into his lungs. 536 00:27:12,549 --> 00:27:14,759 Heavy metal poisoning explains everything. 537 00:27:28,106 --> 00:27:31,192 The chelation will scrub the heavy metals out of your blood. 538 00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:32,444 If we're right about the cause, 539 00:27:32,569 --> 00:27:34,779 we should see some movement in about a day or so. 540 00:27:34,904 --> 00:27:36,823 LEE: Can you put this thing on turbo? 541 00:27:36,948 --> 00:27:38,533 Getting a little anxious in here. 542 00:27:38,658 --> 00:27:41,036 Somebody will be here at all times 543 00:27:41,161 --> 00:27:45,749 to irrigate your eyes, keep you company. 544 00:27:45,874 --> 00:27:47,709 Hopefully help make the time go quicker. 545 00:27:47,834 --> 00:27:49,753 LEE: My eyes still feel really dry. 546 00:27:49,878 --> 00:27:53,381 Thank you for thinking "up". 547 00:27:53,882 --> 00:27:56,134 For helping me find you in there. 548 00:27:57,719 --> 00:27:59,512 Man, when you moved that cursor... 549 00:27:59,971 --> 00:28:02,515 (CHUCKLES) 550 00:28:11,191 --> 00:28:14,736 Bought my first girlfriend a necklace, it was silver. 551 00:28:15,403 --> 00:28:19,407 Cost 180 bucks. Had to save for six months. 552 00:28:20,158 --> 00:28:21,368 She hated it. 553 00:28:21,493 --> 00:28:23,578 LEE: Really, seriously, would you tell this story 554 00:28:23,703 --> 00:28:25,330 to someone who could walk away? 555 00:28:25,455 --> 00:28:27,791 Never bought another girlfriend jewelry again. 556 00:28:30,627 --> 00:28:31,503 Until Dr. Hadley. 557 00:28:31,628 --> 00:28:34,506 LEE: You're dating her? You might want to start all your stories with that. 558 00:28:34,631 --> 00:28:37,634 Same thing. She didn't even wear it. 559 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:40,011 LEE: The diamond thing? She was wearing it the other day. 560 00:28:40,136 --> 00:28:42,514 If she doesn't like it, she doesn't like it. 561 00:28:42,639 --> 00:28:44,474 Apparently, I suck at picking out jewelry, 562 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:46,101 but at least have the guts to tell me. 563 00:28:46,226 --> 00:28:48,311 LEE: Okay, getting boring again. 564 00:28:48,436 --> 00:28:51,147 How long till we know if this treatment is working? 565 00:28:53,691 --> 00:28:55,110 You lied to me. 566 00:28:55,235 --> 00:28:57,070 LEE: I wasn't having an affair! 567 00:28:57,195 --> 00:29:00,365 So, we needed money, who cares? 568 00:29:00,490 --> 00:29:03,368 LEE: The last time business was slow, you got migraines every day. 569 00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:04,369 Why would you do that to me? 570 00:29:04,536 --> 00:29:06,704 LEE: I'm sorry, I was stupid, I was... 571 00:29:06,830 --> 00:29:09,124 Don't go. Don't... Damn it! Somebody put 572 00:29:09,249 --> 00:29:11,709 "I'm sorry" on this stupid computer. 573 00:29:12,627 --> 00:29:14,629 My eye is killing me. 574 00:29:24,013 --> 00:29:25,557 I want to keep my job. 575 00:29:26,808 --> 00:29:30,687 Great. All you gotta do is come up with a good idea. 576 00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:35,692 How about we hook the guy's brain to a computer so he can communicate? 577 00:29:35,817 --> 00:29:37,318 That's a great idea. 578 00:29:38,236 --> 00:29:41,573 For the guy who invented the computer that can read minds. 579 00:29:41,698 --> 00:29:43,450 Your idea was to use his idea. 580 00:29:43,575 --> 00:29:46,411 You didn't come up with it. No one else came up with it. 581 00:29:46,536 --> 00:29:48,997 If I didn't re-establish communication, we never would have found... 582 00:29:49,122 --> 00:29:52,375 What's interesting is why you're here now. 583 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,544 Not when I gave you the ultimatum. 584 00:29:54,669 --> 00:29:56,504 Was it something the patient said? 585 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,849 I realized that what we do here terrifies me. 586 00:30:09,225 --> 00:30:13,771 And overcoming that 587 00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:16,649 is the only way I can matter. 588 00:30:21,988 --> 00:30:24,240 Kutner found the battery factory, 589 00:30:24,365 --> 00:30:26,242 Kutner came up with cadmium. 590 00:30:27,619 --> 00:30:29,370 Maybe you don't matter. 591 00:30:45,762 --> 00:30:48,097 I'm gonna close your eyes so you can get some sleep. 592 00:30:48,223 --> 00:30:50,975 Hopefully, when you wake up, we'll see some improvement. 593 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,520 LEE: Hope that includes my eye feeling better. 594 00:30:58,191 --> 00:30:59,692 Hand me the fluorescein stain. 595 00:30:59,817 --> 00:31:00,902 LEE: What does that mean? 596 00:31:01,027 --> 00:31:02,695 Epithelium looks torn. 597 00:31:04,864 --> 00:31:06,241 These drops sting. 598 00:31:06,366 --> 00:31:08,868 I'm going to close your left eye to keep it protected. 599 00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:22,090 (LEE GROANING) 600 00:31:25,426 --> 00:31:28,471 I'm gonna blink your eye a few times to distribute the dye. 601 00:31:36,854 --> 00:31:38,565 Ulcerative keratitis. 602 00:31:39,691 --> 00:31:41,526 It means it's not cadmium poisoning. 603 00:31:41,651 --> 00:31:44,862 LEE: Which means you don't know what's wrong. 604 00:31:45,446 --> 00:31:46,739 Again. 605 00:31:58,167 --> 00:32:01,546 When was the last time you changed that dressing? 606 00:32:01,671 --> 00:32:03,339 Judging by the smell of it, I'd say never. 607 00:32:03,464 --> 00:32:04,799 (CLEARS THROAT) 608 00:32:04,924 --> 00:32:06,217 (SIGHING) 609 00:32:06,342 --> 00:32:10,722 He's locked-in, his kidneys blew a fuse, 610 00:32:11,764 --> 00:32:13,891 and now his eye's oozing pus. 611 00:32:14,017 --> 00:32:15,727 I assume you went over all that with your team. 612 00:32:15,852 --> 00:32:17,604 Also assume they didn't have any brilliant ideas 613 00:32:17,729 --> 00:32:19,814 or you wouldn't still be muttering to yourself. 614 00:32:19,939 --> 00:32:21,232 This is gonna hurt. 615 00:32:21,357 --> 00:32:22,525 Ow! 616 00:32:24,527 --> 00:32:26,904 The way he's losing his myelin 617 00:32:27,030 --> 00:32:28,865 makes an infection most likely. 618 00:32:28,990 --> 00:32:30,491 Could be varicella. 619 00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:33,661 Road debris has come to the surface. I'm gonna have to scrub it out. 620 00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:35,997 And the initial acyclovir would've treated that. 621 00:32:36,122 --> 00:32:39,250 Which pushes me towards an auto-immune disease. 622 00:32:39,375 --> 00:32:40,585 Like Behcet's. 623 00:32:40,710 --> 00:32:42,670 Here, this is gonna hurt even more. 624 00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:44,672 Take two now, two later. 625 00:32:47,133 --> 00:32:48,343 Oops. 626 00:32:50,637 --> 00:32:51,763 (SIGHING) 627 00:32:52,221 --> 00:32:53,556 (EXCLAIMING) 628 00:32:55,058 --> 00:32:56,476 (EXHALING) 629 00:32:57,810 --> 00:33:00,229 Of course, if the varicella was resistant, 630 00:33:00,355 --> 00:33:02,231 it wouldn't matter what they did up in Middletown. 631 00:33:02,357 --> 00:33:03,524 Do an LP. 632 00:33:05,818 --> 00:33:07,820 You've been in the ER too long. 633 00:33:07,945 --> 00:33:09,030 When the patient had a head trauma, 634 00:33:09,155 --> 00:33:11,783 white blood cells only indicate that he had head trauma. 635 00:33:11,908 --> 00:33:14,202 Or you could use the LP for something useful. 636 00:33:14,327 --> 00:33:18,122 If you find polys, it's varicella, lymph's, Behcet's. 637 00:33:21,459 --> 00:33:22,835 Why did I fire you again? 638 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,796 You didn't. I quit. 639 00:33:32,011 --> 00:33:34,472 You weren't visiting Foreman's brother either. 640 00:33:35,139 --> 00:33:38,810 Busy. Kutner's doing an LP so I have to focus. 641 00:33:39,769 --> 00:33:42,021 I had prison security check visitor logs, phone records, 642 00:33:42,146 --> 00:33:44,607 you've never had any contact with anyone at Fishkill. 643 00:33:44,732 --> 00:33:46,567 So I ask again, 644 00:33:47,318 --> 00:33:49,737 what were you doing up in Middletown? 645 00:33:51,489 --> 00:33:54,242 You know what's more interesting than what I was doing? 646 00:33:54,367 --> 00:33:57,995 The reason you are so obsessed with what I was doing. 647 00:33:58,121 --> 00:33:59,122 Stop deflecting, House. 648 00:33:59,247 --> 00:34:00,623 Says the deflector. 649 00:34:00,748 --> 00:34:02,458 (CELL PHONE RINGING) 650 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,839 The reason I was up there is the reason you're scared I was up there. 651 00:34:08,756 --> 00:34:11,217 I was checking out your dirty little secret. 652 00:34:12,552 --> 00:34:14,804 How long have you been sleeping with her? 653 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,267 (EXCLAIMS) 654 00:34:19,392 --> 00:34:20,810 How did you know? 655 00:34:20,935 --> 00:34:23,980 Your only secrets are the girls you find embarrassing. 656 00:34:24,105 --> 00:34:26,149 And the only embarrassing girl you've met recently 657 00:34:26,274 --> 00:34:28,526 is the one at your brother's cuckoo facility. 658 00:34:28,651 --> 00:34:30,069 We've only been out a few times. 659 00:34:30,194 --> 00:34:34,157 She's a caregiver. Like all your other failed exes. 660 00:34:34,282 --> 00:34:36,951 And someone who takes care of your brother. 661 00:34:37,076 --> 00:34:39,245 Who was the last person that took care of your brother? 662 00:34:39,370 --> 00:34:41,122 (LAUGHING) 663 00:34:41,247 --> 00:34:42,540 You think this is oedipal? 664 00:34:42,665 --> 00:34:45,001 Actually I was thinking masturbatory, 665 00:34:45,126 --> 00:34:47,378 but I guess your mom took care of him first. 666 00:34:47,503 --> 00:34:51,591 So the safe course is to gouge your eyes out. 667 00:34:55,970 --> 00:34:57,305 (SIGHING) 668 00:34:58,598 --> 00:35:00,892 LP stands for lumbar puncture. 669 00:35:01,017 --> 00:35:03,770 We use this needle to collect fluid from your spine. 670 00:35:03,895 --> 00:35:05,688 LEE: That's a really big needle. 671 00:35:05,813 --> 00:35:07,648 You're going to feel some extreme pressure in your back. 672 00:35:07,774 --> 00:35:10,860 I already feel pressure in my front. My chest hurts. 673 00:35:10,985 --> 00:35:11,861 ...sort of a fetal position... 674 00:35:11,986 --> 00:35:12,862 LEE: Something's wrong. 675 00:35:12,987 --> 00:35:13,988 ...the best angle into your spine. 676 00:35:14,113 --> 00:35:15,698 LEE: (SLURS) No, my chest. 677 00:35:15,823 --> 00:35:18,576 Something's wrong. I think I'm... 678 00:35:18,701 --> 00:35:19,535 FOREMAN: Pull the needle out! 679 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:20,912 LEE: Oh, God, I'm flatlining. 680 00:35:22,121 --> 00:35:23,331 Call a Code. 681 00:35:26,876 --> 00:35:28,795 (DEFIBRILLATOR CHARGING) 682 00:35:34,008 --> 00:35:35,843 There is no God. 683 00:35:36,969 --> 00:35:38,971 You don't know what's wrong with me. 684 00:35:40,765 --> 00:35:42,266 Doesn't seem that way. 685 00:35:43,976 --> 00:35:45,269 So am I dead? 686 00:35:45,937 --> 00:35:47,104 Not yet. 687 00:35:47,230 --> 00:35:49,941 (EKG ALARM BLARING) 688 00:35:50,525 --> 00:35:52,109 But you're about to be. 689 00:35:52,610 --> 00:35:53,653 LEE: Okay. 690 00:35:57,031 --> 00:35:58,074 Charging. Clear. 691 00:35:59,617 --> 00:36:01,118 Again. Clear. 692 00:36:01,911 --> 00:36:02,995 He's back. 693 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,208 LEE: No. No. Let me go. 694 00:36:07,333 --> 00:36:08,626 LEE: You can't fix me. 695 00:36:08,751 --> 00:36:11,754 I've been here for three days. Everything hurts. 696 00:36:11,921 --> 00:36:13,005 We need to get him started on steroids. 697 00:36:13,130 --> 00:36:16,801 LEE: It's okay. Just stop fighting. 698 00:36:17,260 --> 00:36:19,178 LEE: She's gotta go on with her life. 699 00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:25,852 The kids don't need this. I can't do nothing for them. I can't. 700 00:36:26,602 --> 00:36:30,898 God, this foot. Oh, that really, really itches. 701 00:36:31,023 --> 00:36:32,900 So we put in a temporary pacer, it's not gonna... 702 00:36:33,025 --> 00:36:34,193 Shut up! Shut up! 703 00:36:34,318 --> 00:36:37,071 (MACHINE BEEPING) 704 00:36:37,238 --> 00:36:38,614 He's trying to talk. 705 00:36:42,910 --> 00:36:44,245 Something bothering you? 706 00:36:45,955 --> 00:36:48,457 If there's still tightness in your chest, it's expected. 707 00:36:48,583 --> 00:36:49,876 Is it your eye? 708 00:36:50,626 --> 00:36:53,504 (MACHINE BEEPS THREE TIMES) 709 00:36:53,629 --> 00:36:57,133 Why's he saying "no" three times? You only asked one question. 710 00:36:57,258 --> 00:36:58,384 Maybe he's not saying "no". 711 00:36:58,509 --> 00:37:00,219 Maybe he's saying "down"? 712 00:37:05,349 --> 00:37:07,268 Are you saying that the pain is lower? 713 00:37:07,727 --> 00:37:09,061 How low? Your leg? 714 00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:10,730 Your foot? 715 00:37:13,190 --> 00:37:14,567 Left foot? 716 00:37:14,942 --> 00:37:16,193 (MACHINE BEEPS "NO") 717 00:37:16,319 --> 00:37:19,488 Check his... Let me see now. Yeah. His right foot. 718 00:37:19,614 --> 00:37:21,157 No bruises, no rashes, no cuts. 719 00:37:21,282 --> 00:37:23,701 Then there should be no pain. 720 00:37:23,826 --> 00:37:25,661 Is it a tingling sensation? 721 00:37:26,829 --> 00:37:28,164 Is it itching? 722 00:37:28,289 --> 00:37:29,498 (MACHINE BEEPS "YES") 723 00:37:32,752 --> 00:37:35,630 Itchy foot means liver failure. 724 00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:38,633 TAUB: The liver's fine, his enzymes have been normal since we admitted him. 725 00:37:38,758 --> 00:37:40,551 I didn't say failing, I said failure. 726 00:37:40,676 --> 00:37:42,094 Just like you. 727 00:37:42,762 --> 00:37:44,931 Liver's like a cruise ship taking on water. 728 00:37:45,056 --> 00:37:46,891 As it starts to sink, it sends out an SOS. 729 00:37:47,016 --> 00:37:49,644 Only instead of radio waves, it uses enzymes. 730 00:37:49,769 --> 00:37:52,313 The more enzymes in the blood, the worse the liver is. 731 00:37:52,438 --> 00:37:55,816 But once the ship has sunk, there's no more SOS. 732 00:37:55,942 --> 00:37:58,945 You think the liver's fine, but it's already at the bottom of the sea. 733 00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:00,529 So dying liver released toxins, 734 00:38:00,655 --> 00:38:03,240 damaged the nerves, led to locked-in syndrome. 735 00:38:03,366 --> 00:38:05,701 Now we just need to know what's causing the liver failure. 736 00:38:05,826 --> 00:38:09,580 Liver plus eye plus kidney, most likely sclerosing cholangitis. 737 00:38:09,705 --> 00:38:12,416 Oh, God, if only Taub had said that, 738 00:38:12,541 --> 00:38:13,876 it would have been a happy ending. 739 00:38:14,377 --> 00:38:15,628 Do a biopsy to confirm. 740 00:38:20,508 --> 00:38:24,136 I'm gonna numb up the area where we'll go in for the punch biopsy. 741 00:38:25,012 --> 00:38:26,639 Where's the new bracelet? 742 00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:29,433 She was wearing the bracelet? 743 00:38:29,558 --> 00:38:30,977 You didn't notice that I was wearing it? 744 00:38:31,102 --> 00:38:32,103 Because you weren't. 745 00:38:32,228 --> 00:38:33,604 He noticed and you didn't? 746 00:38:33,729 --> 00:38:35,564 If you don't like it, it's fine, it's not a big deal. 747 00:38:35,690 --> 00:38:37,024 THIRTEEN: I like it. That's the point. 748 00:38:37,149 --> 00:38:38,901 I'd rather have it at home in the jewelry box 749 00:38:39,026 --> 00:38:41,112 than getting peed on at work. 750 00:38:41,237 --> 00:38:42,822 You got the patient's urine on that arm? 751 00:38:42,947 --> 00:38:45,574 When I was putting in the catheter. Why? 752 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:48,452 - You've got a rash. - The bracelet's real. 753 00:38:48,577 --> 00:38:51,580 I figured. So what if the rash 754 00:38:51,706 --> 00:38:54,667 isn't just a rash, what if it's an infection? 755 00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:57,211 If there were rats in that basement, 756 00:38:57,336 --> 00:39:00,589 then the liver failure could be caused by leptospirosis. 757 00:39:00,715 --> 00:39:04,135 Transfers through urine. Rat pee to him. His pee to you. 758 00:39:04,260 --> 00:39:06,762 The infection would need an entry point. 759 00:39:06,887 --> 00:39:09,265 Look for any recent scratches, cuts. 760 00:39:13,686 --> 00:39:16,731 Look. Next to his fingernail. 761 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,736 The infection destroyed your liver, 762 00:39:21,861 --> 00:39:25,031 which released toxins that caused the locked-in syndrome. 763 00:39:25,281 --> 00:39:26,532 You were dying of a paper cut. 764 00:39:26,949 --> 00:39:28,492 LEE: I hope you're right this time. 765 00:39:28,659 --> 00:39:29,994 Let's start him on high dose penicillin G. 766 00:39:30,369 --> 00:39:32,997 We found rats in your buddy Dave's basement. 767 00:39:33,122 --> 00:39:35,416 Tested positive for leptospirosis. 768 00:39:36,167 --> 00:39:37,960 Means we're on the right treatment. 769 00:39:39,211 --> 00:39:42,715 So try moving a finger. 770 00:39:44,842 --> 00:39:47,303 Your brain needs to get used to doing its job again. 771 00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:48,721 Try harder. 772 00:39:50,973 --> 00:39:53,225 I'm sure you've lost hope. 773 00:39:54,602 --> 00:39:57,021 I know we've told you several times that we knew what this was, 774 00:39:57,146 --> 00:39:59,065 but this time we're right. 775 00:40:00,441 --> 00:40:04,487 Concentrate. Move one finger for me. 776 00:40:15,456 --> 00:40:16,749 Welcome back. 777 00:40:17,666 --> 00:40:18,584 (LEE LAUGHS) 778 00:40:18,709 --> 00:40:19,794 LEE: I did it. 779 00:40:27,384 --> 00:40:28,511 Rat pee. 780 00:40:29,553 --> 00:40:30,971 Very nice idea. 781 00:40:32,431 --> 00:40:33,557 Who came up with it? 782 00:40:34,517 --> 00:40:35,810 I did. 783 00:40:38,938 --> 00:40:40,231 Good. 784 00:40:46,612 --> 00:40:48,906 You okay with him claiming the credit? 785 00:40:49,031 --> 00:40:51,367 It was his idea, he saw the rash, he... 786 00:40:51,534 --> 00:40:53,369 If he did, he would have hung 787 00:40:53,494 --> 00:40:56,413 a "Mission Accomplished" banner in my outer office. 788 00:40:58,582 --> 00:41:00,251 Don't toy with him, if you're going to fire him... 789 00:41:00,376 --> 00:41:03,879 Fact that he stole your idea means that he cares enough to lie. 790 00:41:04,839 --> 00:41:06,590 That's all I needed to know. 791 00:41:06,715 --> 00:41:10,177 Rat pee. It's a very nice idea. 792 00:41:13,139 --> 00:41:16,433 House, you left this in my office. 793 00:41:18,477 --> 00:41:20,020 No, I didn't. 794 00:41:20,396 --> 00:41:22,189 So either I have a hole in my pocket... 795 00:41:22,314 --> 00:41:25,151 No, that's right. I remember now. I stole it. 796 00:41:25,276 --> 00:41:27,987 Because if you had gone up there to check out my girlfriend, 797 00:41:28,112 --> 00:41:29,947 you wouldn't have come back here and lied to me about it. 798 00:41:30,072 --> 00:41:31,490 You would have thrown her right in my face. 799 00:41:31,615 --> 00:41:34,118 You underestimate the entertainment value of your obsessions. 800 00:41:34,243 --> 00:41:37,746 And then there were all those calls you weren't taking in front of me. 801 00:41:40,249 --> 00:41:42,793 So I dialed the number of the calls you weren't taking. 802 00:41:42,918 --> 00:41:44,587 You're seeing a psychiatrist. 803 00:41:54,889 --> 00:41:57,474 You had no right to invade my privacy. 804 00:41:59,226 --> 00:42:01,645 - Is that? - Yeah, it's irony. 805 00:42:03,439 --> 00:42:04,607 Hey. 806 00:42:07,234 --> 00:42:10,613 God sent you. 807 00:42:12,364 --> 00:42:15,159 Suddenly, you're not so fascinating. 808 00:42:18,370 --> 00:42:20,664 WILSON: You're spying on your team? 809 00:42:20,789 --> 00:42:22,541 Prioritize, Wilson. 810 00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:24,835 Is that really what you want to torture me about right now? 811 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,170 I don't want to torture you at all. 812 00:42:26,295 --> 00:42:27,463 I think this is a great thing, 813 00:42:27,588 --> 00:42:30,674 not something you have to drive an hour out of town to shroud in mystery. 814 00:42:30,799 --> 00:42:32,635 Yeah, whining on someone's couch 815 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,595 is an excellent use of my time. 816 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,722 Maybe I'll discover that my childhood wasn't perfect. 817 00:42:36,847 --> 00:42:39,516 So your attitude about therapy clearly hasn't changed. 818 00:42:39,642 --> 00:42:41,477 And yet you went. 819 00:42:41,602 --> 00:42:44,480 Which leads me to believe that maybe something else has changed. 820 00:42:44,605 --> 00:42:48,359 Maybe you think you can change. Credit Cuddy with that. 821 00:42:48,484 --> 00:42:51,320 Not much credit to take 'cause I'm not going back. 822 00:42:51,445 --> 00:42:53,072 Oh, House, please. 823 00:42:53,739 --> 00:42:55,574 I assume you went because you're tired of screwing up 824 00:42:55,699 --> 00:42:57,409 every chance you get at happiness. 825 00:42:57,534 --> 00:42:58,535 Delete contact. 826 00:42:59,078 --> 00:43:01,121 Do not let the fact that I found out about it... 827 00:43:01,247 --> 00:43:02,915 (SIGHS) Don't beat yourself up. 828 00:43:03,165 --> 00:43:05,668 I'm not going back because it doesn't work. 829 00:43:10,339 --> 00:43:11,674 You'll end up alone.