1 00:00:37,404 --> 00:00:38,508 Hey. 2 00:00:59,726 --> 00:01:01,034 Don't bother. 3 00:01:01,862 --> 00:01:03,205 He's dead. 4 00:01:08,602 --> 00:01:10,275 You're dead, too. 5 00:01:12,539 --> 00:01:13,711 The fire isn't. 6 00:02:03,724 --> 00:02:06,102 You might want to get up and start heading for the exit signs. 7 00:02:06,226 --> 00:02:07,227 For all I know, 8 00:02:07,427 --> 00:02:09,930 I already am up. 9 00:02:10,063 --> 00:02:11,167 More interesting question is, 10 00:02:11,264 --> 00:02:13,403 why would I hallucinate an ex-employee 11 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:16,243 who I last saw with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, 12 00:02:16,303 --> 00:02:19,147 as opposed to someone more busty? 13 00:02:19,573 --> 00:02:21,314 Care to explain why you're here? 14 00:02:21,408 --> 00:02:22,409 The dead guy. 15 00:02:23,076 --> 00:02:24,453 Who is he? 16 00:02:25,112 --> 00:02:26,921 How'd you meet him? 17 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:33,825 I was in a car accident last month. 18 00:02:34,788 --> 00:02:37,928 I won a swimming trophy in high school. Your turn. 19 00:02:39,593 --> 00:02:41,038 I ran out of pain medication. 20 00:02:41,128 --> 00:02:43,938 I got an orbital fracture. It's just taking ages to heal. 21 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:44,998 Take off your shirt. 22 00:02:45,932 --> 00:02:46,933 My eye's up here. 23 00:02:48,101 --> 00:02:50,342 Orbital fracture means your face went into the windshield. 24 00:02:50,437 --> 00:02:52,781 Which means your chest went into the steering wheel. 25 00:02:52,839 --> 00:02:54,841 Painkillers can suppress heart rate, 26 00:02:54,941 --> 00:02:56,113 so unless you want me to kill you, 27 00:02:56,176 --> 00:02:57,985 take off your shirt, let me do a heart exam. 28 00:03:08,555 --> 00:03:11,661 I also wanted to see the ring of burns around your collarbone. 29 00:03:14,895 --> 00:03:16,499 How did you know? The "codeine allergy" 30 00:03:16,630 --> 00:03:19,873 you told the nurse about, that's shorthand for "give me the strong stuff," 31 00:03:19,966 --> 00:03:21,570 which matches your seen-better-days 32 00:03:21,668 --> 00:03:23,147 - because-my-life-fell-apart suit. 33 00:03:23,236 --> 00:03:24,544 The two old burns on your fingers 34 00:03:24,638 --> 00:03:25,878 mean you tend to nod off with a cigarette 35 00:03:25,972 --> 00:03:28,350 in your hand. No reason you shouldn't do that with one in your mouth. 36 00:03:28,842 --> 00:03:31,186 May all your doctors be stupid. 37 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,081 Hold on a second. 38 00:03:36,817 --> 00:03:38,490 That bruising around your belly button. 39 00:03:42,823 --> 00:03:46,430 You might get some fun drugs out of this after all. 40 00:03:47,494 --> 00:03:48,734 Cullen's sign, 41 00:03:48,829 --> 00:03:52,834 but the ultrasound showed air as well as blood. Now, 42 00:03:52,933 --> 00:03:56,176 I know what you're thinking. Hemorrhagic pancreatitis. 43 00:03:56,670 --> 00:03:58,172 But I also know what I'm thinking. 44 00:03:58,238 --> 00:03:59,717 Doesn't explain the pneumoperitoneum. 45 00:04:00,774 --> 00:04:01,878 You took a new case? 46 00:04:02,342 --> 00:04:04,117 You ran tests yourself? 47 00:04:05,345 --> 00:04:10,090 I saw the chance to help someone in need, and I instinctively... 48 00:04:10,183 --> 00:04:12,060 No, wait, that was someone else's instincts. 49 00:04:12,185 --> 00:04:14,529 Wilson's dying, your parole officer 50 00:04:14,588 --> 00:04:16,090 is probably on his way here right now. 51 00:04:16,189 --> 00:04:18,260 How are you possibly in a good mood? 52 00:04:18,358 --> 00:04:21,703 Did you never see Dead Poets Society? Carpe diem. 53 00:04:22,362 --> 00:04:26,037 Air in his abdomen could mean blah, blah, blah. 54 00:04:26,133 --> 00:04:29,273 But blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 55 00:04:29,369 --> 00:04:30,541 Blah, blah, blah. 56 00:04:31,705 --> 00:04:33,207 Nobody cares about the medicine. 57 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,778 Perforated ulcer. 58 00:04:34,875 --> 00:04:36,946 Laparotomy to find the hole in his tummy and close it up. 59 00:04:37,043 --> 00:04:38,283 You didn't answer the team's question. 60 00:04:38,378 --> 00:04:40,949 Which is weird 'cause normally when I talk to my own employees, 61 00:04:41,047 --> 00:04:43,049 I'm under oath and hooked up to a lie detector. 62 00:04:43,116 --> 00:04:44,595 You were looking at six months of prison 63 00:04:44,651 --> 00:04:46,062 instead of five months of Wilson. 64 00:04:46,153 --> 00:04:47,131 Why happy? 65 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:48,392 Obviously I had a plan. 66 00:04:48,455 --> 00:04:49,957 Obviously, obviously you had a plan. 67 00:04:50,056 --> 00:04:51,160 The more interesting question is, 68 00:04:51,258 --> 00:04:52,737 why you didn't tell the team. 69 00:04:52,826 --> 00:04:54,601 I think it's because part of you knew from the start 70 00:04:54,661 --> 00:04:56,504 that the plan wouldn't work. 71 00:05:01,067 --> 00:05:02,239 I need a meeting. 72 00:05:02,302 --> 00:05:03,576 I'm busy. Call my office. 73 00:05:04,571 --> 00:05:05,948 Yes. 74 00:05:06,072 --> 00:05:09,576 Because wobbly tables don't just un-wobble themselves. 75 00:05:12,913 --> 00:05:14,256 I need a meeting. 76 00:05:15,248 --> 00:05:16,352 Thanks for fitting me in. 77 00:05:16,483 --> 00:05:19,657 My team has eight urgent, life-or-death cases 78 00:05:19,753 --> 00:05:21,755 that they've been waiting for me to accept or reject. 79 00:05:22,422 --> 00:05:24,333 When is that not true? 80 00:05:24,658 --> 00:05:26,262 Well, right now for one. 81 00:05:26,693 --> 00:05:29,936 But tell my parole board that I'm taking all eight. 82 00:05:30,931 --> 00:05:31,932 That no one else can crack them, 83 00:05:32,032 --> 00:05:33,443 that you need me here for the next five months 84 00:05:33,533 --> 00:05:35,274 or eight people will die. 85 00:05:35,368 --> 00:05:37,006 You're asking me to perjure myself. 86 00:05:37,103 --> 00:05:40,676 Just a tiny white lie. No of fence. 87 00:05:40,774 --> 00:05:44,187 Especially since from what I hear nothing black is tiny. 88 00:05:44,277 --> 00:05:47,281 Except your penis, I guess. 89 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:49,452 You really think I wanted to cave in that ceiling? 90 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:52,520 It was a prank that went wrong. 91 00:05:52,619 --> 00:05:53,859 Dock my pay, sue me... 92 00:05:53,954 --> 00:05:55,365 Felony vandalism should've added 93 00:05:55,455 --> 00:05:56,661 another year or two to your sentence. 94 00:05:56,723 --> 00:05:59,067 It's a miracle the parole board agreed to six months. 95 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:03,739 I will go to jail. Eventually. 96 00:06:05,031 --> 00:06:08,706 I will pay the price. I'd just rather that Wilson didn't. 97 00:06:10,503 --> 00:06:12,312 Come on. Be a friend. 98 00:06:18,245 --> 00:06:19,485 Okay. 99 00:06:19,546 --> 00:06:23,494 But whatever cases you have, you have to take them all. 100 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:35,867 "Be a friend"? 101 00:06:35,929 --> 00:06:37,840 How many fingers am I holding up? 102 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:39,574 Of course, you know it's three 103 00:06:39,666 --> 00:06:40,940 because you know everything I know, 104 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:43,547 everything my smack-addled brain can remember. 105 00:06:43,670 --> 00:06:46,674 Including that I actually said, "Be a friend." 106 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:47,946 My point wasn't that you said it. 107 00:06:48,041 --> 00:06:50,112 My point was, once again, why? 108 00:06:50,210 --> 00:06:51,382 I think it's because part of you knew 109 00:06:51,444 --> 00:06:52,548 you were going to need a friend. 110 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:56,193 Part of you knew the plan, even when it was working, wouldn't work. 111 00:06:57,951 --> 00:07:00,090 And right now, I'm curious about why you're sitting on the ground 112 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:01,563 instead of heading for the door. 113 00:07:08,128 --> 00:07:10,540 Guess we've figured out why you're seeing me, 114 00:07:10,864 --> 00:07:12,707 your suicidal friend. 115 00:07:19,706 --> 00:07:22,585 He'll call you twice a day. Then his wife will call you twice a day 116 00:07:22,642 --> 00:07:25,248 to make sure she understands what he told her you told him. 117 00:07:25,312 --> 00:07:27,485 Which she won't, because he didn't. 118 00:07:27,580 --> 00:07:29,150 Maybe you want to give this one to Connors. 119 00:07:31,117 --> 00:07:32,118 Where's House? 120 00:07:33,086 --> 00:07:35,088 Don't know, don't care, working. 121 00:07:40,927 --> 00:07:42,235 Excuse me. 122 00:07:44,497 --> 00:07:47,068 No one has seen or heard from him since two nights ago. 123 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:48,612 I'm sure he's enjoying himself. 124 00:07:48,668 --> 00:07:49,738 Last time he went to prison 125 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:50,907 he maxed out his credit cards. 126 00:07:50,971 --> 00:07:55,113 Last time he went to prison, he thought he had you waiting for him. 127 00:07:55,976 --> 00:07:58,980 You think he could have done something stupid? 128 00:08:00,747 --> 00:08:03,591 I think stupid is our best-case scenario. 129 00:08:04,451 --> 00:08:06,624 Why do you want to kill yourself? 130 00:08:06,686 --> 00:08:10,259 Here's a reason. I can't even get stoned without some annoying jerk 131 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:13,031 deciding I need to be deeply analyzed. 132 00:08:14,627 --> 00:08:17,767 Isn't this just an incredibly simple calculation? 133 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:22,109 I'm going to jail, losing my job, losing my best friend. 134 00:08:22,168 --> 00:08:23,169 Do I need more? 135 00:08:23,269 --> 00:08:25,215 You think that's the sum total of who you are? 136 00:08:25,305 --> 00:08:26,807 A doctor, a friend to Wilson? 137 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:29,716 I'm also a tremendous baritone. 138 00:08:29,809 --> 00:08:31,220 Now go away. 139 00:08:32,512 --> 00:08:35,288 Even with your subconscious, you're evasive. 140 00:08:38,785 --> 00:08:41,163 Death's not interesting. 141 00:08:41,287 --> 00:08:43,198 You exist for what's interesting. 142 00:08:43,289 --> 00:08:46,065 Puzzles' ideas, analysis. 143 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:49,368 Death is the opposite of a cool puzzle. 144 00:08:50,296 --> 00:08:52,298 It's eternal nothingness. 145 00:08:58,304 --> 00:09:01,478 But you don't find life interesting anymore. 146 00:09:03,176 --> 00:09:04,985 Stop being an idiot. 147 00:09:08,815 --> 00:09:10,158 Can I have Kutner back, please? 148 00:09:10,216 --> 00:09:11,889 How much pathetic wallowing do I have to sit through? 149 00:09:11,985 --> 00:09:13,259 How are things in hell? 150 00:09:13,353 --> 00:09:14,832 Is the humidity the big issue? 151 00:09:14,888 --> 00:09:17,664 What happened next with the guy's medical case? 152 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:21,403 Why? Exactly. 153 00:09:21,494 --> 00:09:23,337 Why am I, meaning you, 154 00:09:23,530 --> 00:09:25,874 still obsessing about this case? 155 00:09:26,499 --> 00:09:27,910 Obviously, we think it's relevant 156 00:09:28,001 --> 00:09:31,744 to why we're still sitting on the floor of a burning building. 157 00:09:35,208 --> 00:09:36,243 There was a code. 158 00:09:38,211 --> 00:09:40,350 Gotta be a clot in his lungs. We need to get him to an OR. 159 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:42,393 No time, his O2 sats are falling. 160 00:09:42,449 --> 00:09:43,553 We have to suck it out here, 161 00:09:43,683 --> 00:09:45,526 - bedside embolectomy. - Float a catheter through his heart 162 00:09:45,585 --> 00:09:47,428 and his oxygenation'll get even worse. 163 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,023 He'll die before we can finish the procedure. 164 00:09:51,524 --> 00:09:53,595 House, we need a call here. 165 00:09:58,364 --> 00:09:59,365 What are you doing? 166 00:10:01,367 --> 00:10:02,471 What did you give him? 167 00:10:03,703 --> 00:10:04,738 Five, 168 00:10:05,071 --> 00:10:06,072 four, 169 00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:09,483 three, two... 170 00:10:16,549 --> 00:10:17,550 Naloxone. 171 00:10:18,251 --> 00:10:19,252 We should have got suspicious 172 00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:23,458 when his visiting cousin signed in as Mr. Tar H. Horse. 173 00:10:24,090 --> 00:10:26,001 The heroin caused the respiratory distress, 174 00:10:26,092 --> 00:10:29,005 the naloxone turned off the receptors, causing your distress. 175 00:10:29,095 --> 00:10:31,735 I'm not going to stop doing drugs! 176 00:10:32,232 --> 00:10:34,405 It's reality that sucks! 177 00:10:38,738 --> 00:10:41,651 You're saying I'm lying? To my subconscious? 178 00:10:42,108 --> 00:10:44,588 People do it all the time. And like it or not, you are a person. 179 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:45,850 He said every one of those... 180 00:10:45,945 --> 00:10:47,288 But not then. And not like that. 181 00:10:47,413 --> 00:10:48,949 This guy was going nuts from the naloxone. 182 00:10:49,082 --> 00:10:50,857 He couldn't be rational if you wanted him to be. 183 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:53,362 Which you did. Why? 184 00:10:53,453 --> 00:10:54,659 I compressed the story a little to... 185 00:10:54,754 --> 00:10:55,824 Context matters. 186 00:10:56,256 --> 00:10:58,964 You never talk to patients for non-diagnostic reasons. 187 00:10:59,092 --> 00:11:00,594 But this guy... 188 00:11:10,136 --> 00:11:11,638 Feeling better? 189 00:11:12,605 --> 00:11:15,017 I'm not going to stop doing drugs. 190 00:11:15,642 --> 00:11:19,283 You were a stockbroker, son of a stockbroker, 191 00:11:19,345 --> 00:11:20,653 married, children... 192 00:11:20,780 --> 00:11:22,782 And I was miserable. 193 00:11:24,784 --> 00:11:26,161 You say you were miserable 194 00:11:26,286 --> 00:11:29,733 because you need to rationalize screwing it up. 195 00:11:29,822 --> 00:11:31,893 Except I didn't. 196 00:11:31,991 --> 00:11:33,800 I mean, I did, 197 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:37,573 but I'm not miserable. 198 00:11:37,664 --> 00:11:39,166 Not anymore. 199 00:11:41,301 --> 00:11:44,180 I had a ski injury 200 00:11:44,304 --> 00:11:46,545 and painkillers weren't enough 201 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:49,643 and a friend of mine gave me some heroin. 202 00:11:54,214 --> 00:11:57,320 The second it entered my veins, it was like 203 00:11:58,218 --> 00:12:01,165 God had taken over my body. 204 00:12:03,389 --> 00:12:05,926 It was like there was no more pain 205 00:12:06,025 --> 00:12:09,871 or unhappiness in my life or anybody else's. 206 00:12:17,170 --> 00:12:19,241 But then you lost everything. 207 00:12:19,339 --> 00:12:21,376 Everything wasn't enough. 208 00:12:23,876 --> 00:12:26,186 Because it's reality that sucks. 209 00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:31,253 Are you arguing that he's a good role model? 210 00:12:31,351 --> 00:12:32,762 He's happy. 211 00:12:32,852 --> 00:12:33,853 He's dead. 212 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:36,795 You heard what you wanted to hear. 213 00:12:36,889 --> 00:12:38,562 The more interesting question, 214 00:12:38,725 --> 00:12:41,865 always, is why you wanted to hear it. 215 00:12:53,906 --> 00:12:56,386 You're stealing this guy's oxygen? 216 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,384 There's oxygen everywhere. 217 00:12:58,444 --> 00:13:00,082 You passed on all your cases, 218 00:13:00,146 --> 00:13:02,456 reassigned them to other doctors. 219 00:13:03,416 --> 00:13:05,418 They weren't interesting. 220 00:13:05,551 --> 00:13:07,553 They were my reason for getting your sentence delayed. 221 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:08,997 Yeah, I guess you'll have to tell 222 00:13:09,088 --> 00:13:10,726 the parole board something else. 223 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:13,430 Maybe that I was in the OR the entire day the ceiling collapsed, 224 00:13:13,493 --> 00:13:16,406 so I couldn't have caused the plumbing problem. 225 00:13:18,164 --> 00:13:19,939 You set me up. Not really. 226 00:13:19,999 --> 00:13:22,104 You were going lo basically perjure yourself 227 00:13:22,168 --> 00:13:23,738 so that I could delay jail time. 228 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:26,010 Doesn't it make more sense to actually perjure yourself 229 00:13:26,105 --> 00:13:28,278 so I can actually avoid jail time? 230 00:13:29,509 --> 00:13:31,455 Why are you doing this? 231 00:13:32,478 --> 00:13:34,321 Why are you risking destroying yourself? 232 00:13:34,414 --> 00:13:36,587 There is no risk. I know you. 233 00:13:36,749 --> 00:13:38,626 You'll do the honest thing. 234 00:13:38,685 --> 00:13:40,130 You'll lie. 235 00:13:47,293 --> 00:13:48,363 No. 236 00:14:01,941 --> 00:14:04,114 He's happy. 237 00:14:04,177 --> 00:14:05,986 He's dead. 238 00:14:09,982 --> 00:14:11,791 You weren't worried. 239 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:14,354 Of course I was worried. My plan fell through. 240 00:14:14,454 --> 00:14:17,401 The plan didn't matter. Your plan to replace that plan didn't matter. 241 00:14:18,157 --> 00:14:20,398 Wilson didn't matter, jail didn't matter, 242 00:14:20,827 --> 00:14:21,897 the only thing that mattered, 243 00:14:21,994 --> 00:14:25,464 the only thing that ever mattered was the puzzle. 244 00:14:31,904 --> 00:14:35,351 I noticed a slight twitch in his thenar eminence. 245 00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:37,414 Which meant... 246 00:14:37,510 --> 00:14:38,887 You're dying. 247 00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:42,355 Because my thumb is a little shaky? 248 00:14:42,982 --> 00:14:44,188 Plus the thinning of the muscle. 249 00:14:44,250 --> 00:14:46,423 Plus that speech you gave at Yankee Stadium 250 00:14:46,519 --> 00:14:49,329 saying you were the luckiest man on the face of the earth. 251 00:14:49,989 --> 00:14:52,026 Add them up, it means ALS. 252 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:54,932 Lou Gehrig's disease? 253 00:14:55,695 --> 00:14:57,834 You're trapped in your body. You can't move or speak 254 00:14:58,765 --> 00:15:00,244 while you just die? 255 00:15:00,333 --> 00:15:01,505 If it makes you feel any better, 256 00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:04,104 at this rate, it'll be fast. 257 00:15:10,710 --> 00:15:12,883 You're not symmetrical. 258 00:15:12,945 --> 00:15:13,946 Wait. 259 00:15:14,046 --> 00:15:15,218 Now you're standing at the door. 260 00:15:15,281 --> 00:15:16,385 What happened in the meantime? 261 00:15:16,549 --> 00:15:19,928 And lo, there was a miraculous wonder. I walked across the room... 262 00:15:20,019 --> 00:15:23,057 No, you just skipped over a chunk of conversation. 263 00:15:23,122 --> 00:15:25,625 He swore that he'd live a better, more selfless life 264 00:15:25,725 --> 00:15:27,432 in his remaining lime, blah, blah, blah. 265 00:15:27,527 --> 00:15:30,736 After two blahs, I'd heard enough and I moved to the door. 266 00:15:30,797 --> 00:15:32,777 No. You're avoiding it. 267 00:15:34,634 --> 00:15:36,375 Do you smell smoke? 268 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,147 Fair enough. 269 00:15:39,739 --> 00:15:41,650 You're not symmetrical. 270 00:15:44,410 --> 00:15:46,981 The veins on your right side are distended. 271 00:15:47,079 --> 00:15:48,080 What does that mean? 272 00:15:48,147 --> 00:15:50,957 There's a bulge in your supraclavicular notch. 273 00:15:51,150 --> 00:15:52,220 There's something in there. 274 00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:53,286 What? 275 00:15:54,220 --> 00:15:56,291 I'm not that good a doctor. 276 00:16:10,236 --> 00:16:12,011 Good news. 277 00:16:12,104 --> 00:16:13,606 Your case is fascinating. 278 00:16:14,273 --> 00:16:15,513 And good news for you, 279 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:16,847 you're gonna live. 280 00:16:17,510 --> 00:16:19,786 You've inhaled a small branch, 281 00:16:19,912 --> 00:16:22,483 probably while you were realizing that it's all worth it 282 00:16:22,582 --> 00:16:24,619 while you were passed out on a park bench. 283 00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:26,990 Anyone else would have coughed it up, but 'cause you're a junkie, 284 00:16:27,086 --> 00:16:28,929 your cough reflex is suppressed. 285 00:16:28,988 --> 00:16:30,092 And it grew? 286 00:16:30,156 --> 00:16:32,136 Not unless you also inhaled a chunk of the sun 287 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:35,138 and a drip-irrigation system, you idiot. 288 00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:39,301 It set off an autoimmune reaction which, and I can't help saying this, 289 00:16:39,365 --> 00:16:41,641 was the root of all your problems. 290 00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:45,839 You're smiling. 291 00:16:48,174 --> 00:16:50,381 I was, and now I'm not. 292 00:16:51,978 --> 00:16:54,015 Because a moment's fun a few days ago 293 00:16:54,113 --> 00:16:55,786 does not trump a friend dying. 294 00:16:55,848 --> 00:16:57,191 Yeah, it does, you idiot. 295 00:16:58,184 --> 00:16:59,527 Because after he's dead you cry for a while 296 00:16:59,619 --> 00:17:01,792 and then you go back to doing what you love. 297 00:17:03,122 --> 00:17:05,398 Every patient I've had, 298 00:17:05,491 --> 00:17:09,029 in 70 years from now, they'll all be as dead as Wilson. 299 00:17:09,128 --> 00:17:11,301 Everybody dies. It's meaningless. 300 00:17:11,464 --> 00:17:12,670 When you solve a puzzle, 301 00:17:13,399 --> 00:17:16,846 the world makes sense and everything feels right. 302 00:17:16,903 --> 00:17:18,541 And you'll always have another one, 303 00:17:18,638 --> 00:17:21,016 because people will always get sick. 304 00:17:21,073 --> 00:17:22,882 It's shallow and it's insignificant, 305 00:17:22,975 --> 00:17:24,818 but if you don't give a damn if idiots live, 306 00:17:24,877 --> 00:17:28,086 why would you possibly give a damn about shallowness? 307 00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:30,656 It makes you happy. 308 00:17:31,751 --> 00:17:34,493 And why would you need more than that? 309 00:17:35,688 --> 00:17:37,031 Go home. 310 00:18:16,796 --> 00:18:18,036 Foreman. 311 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:22,208 House would never leave food out here rotting for days. 312 00:18:22,301 --> 00:18:24,645 His suitcases are in his closet. 313 00:18:27,039 --> 00:18:28,609 If we had handled this differently... 314 00:18:28,708 --> 00:18:30,619 We did the right thing. 315 00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:41,821 Hello? 316 00:18:44,824 --> 00:18:46,895 I'll let his accountant know. 317 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,563 House no-showed on a hooker two nights ago. 318 00:18:50,296 --> 00:18:51,798 Outgoing calls. 319 00:18:53,833 --> 00:18:55,073 Hooker. 320 00:18:56,402 --> 00:18:58,348 Me. I didn't pick up. 321 00:18:59,071 --> 00:19:00,812 The Chinese place... 322 00:19:01,307 --> 00:19:02,843 Wait, wait, wait. Who's that? 323 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:04,816 He called four times. 324 00:19:04,910 --> 00:19:05,911 I don't know. 325 00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:21,387 It's a total disaster. Do you have any idea how hard it is 326 00:20:21,487 --> 00:20:24,696 to schedule a cable appointment with the hours that I work? 327 00:20:24,824 --> 00:20:26,770 House has been missing for two days, we know he talked to you. 328 00:20:26,859 --> 00:20:28,896 Anything you can tell us about his mental state, 329 00:20:28,994 --> 00:20:30,598 or where he was headed, anything at all... 330 00:20:30,696 --> 00:20:33,233 Would be a breach of confidentiality and a violation of the law. 331 00:20:33,332 --> 00:20:35,710 Not if he's a danger to himself or someone else. 332 00:20:37,536 --> 00:20:39,880 Is this coming out of our 50 minutes? 333 00:20:40,005 --> 00:20:41,279 Is this your douchebag group? 334 00:20:41,674 --> 00:20:43,176 Excuse me. 335 00:20:48,447 --> 00:20:49,619 What makes you think he's a danger to himself? 336 00:20:49,715 --> 00:20:51,422 He hasn't been home, but he didn't take anything with him, 337 00:20:51,517 --> 00:20:53,292 not even his cell. 338 00:20:55,187 --> 00:20:56,359 You're not saying anything, 339 00:20:56,422 --> 00:20:58,459 which means he didn't specifically mention suicide. 340 00:20:58,557 --> 00:21:00,093 But you came out here to talk to us, 341 00:21:00,192 --> 00:21:03,196 so he must've said something that worries you. 342 00:21:04,530 --> 00:21:07,306 There are other ways of reaching oblivion. 343 00:21:07,399 --> 00:21:08,707 Vicodin? He always has his Vicodin, 344 00:21:08,801 --> 00:21:11,372 there's no reason to calla shrink... 345 00:21:11,470 --> 00:21:12,915 His last patient was a heroin addict. 346 00:21:16,475 --> 00:21:18,079 So I guess we're all done here. 347 00:21:19,478 --> 00:21:21,389 The guy's address has gotta be in the file. 348 00:21:25,384 --> 00:21:26,488 What about God? 349 00:21:28,888 --> 00:21:30,595 You were leaving, and then you stopped. 350 00:21:31,724 --> 00:21:32,964 Why? 351 00:21:33,058 --> 00:21:36,596 Your theory is I'm not leaving because I believe in God? 352 00:21:37,229 --> 00:21:38,469 What? He's calling me home? 353 00:21:38,564 --> 00:21:41,067 Maybe falling through that floor was a sign. 354 00:21:41,167 --> 00:21:43,340 Maybe that the universe hates you. Something. 355 00:21:45,437 --> 00:21:47,439 You really don't believe? 356 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,312 Really, not in some deep crack of some remote recess 357 00:21:51,410 --> 00:21:53,822 of some dark corner of your mind? 358 00:21:53,913 --> 00:21:55,256 No. 359 00:21:56,081 --> 00:21:58,789 Except that some deep crack of some remote recess 360 00:21:58,918 --> 00:22:00,829 of some dark corner is here telling me... 361 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:01,864 That's enough. 362 00:22:01,954 --> 00:22:05,527 In a burning building, facing imminent death, that's more than enough. 363 00:22:06,025 --> 00:22:07,698 Pascal's wager is facile. 364 00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:10,034 Saying it's facile is facile. 365 00:22:11,463 --> 00:22:12,874 Why is it wrong? 366 00:22:14,533 --> 00:22:16,137 Don't be logical. Be desperate. 367 00:22:16,602 --> 00:22:19,446 You've gotta have something to hold on to. 368 00:22:20,706 --> 00:22:23,550 But you can't live your life based on something you don't believe. 369 00:22:23,642 --> 00:22:27,556 But you could end your life based on something you don't believe? 370 00:22:27,646 --> 00:22:28,886 What about love? 371 00:22:29,882 --> 00:22:33,295 I lived with you for years. I know you believe in love. 372 00:22:37,323 --> 00:22:39,394 Foreman wouldn't help me. 373 00:22:40,459 --> 00:22:43,565 Which means I need you to take the fall. 374 00:22:44,630 --> 00:22:46,234 You do remember I'm dying, right? 375 00:22:46,332 --> 00:22:49,313 Which is why you'll never spend a day in jail. 376 00:22:49,802 --> 00:22:52,180 Fresh-faced, cancer-ridden. 377 00:22:52,238 --> 00:22:53,842 It's tough to do both, but you pull it off. 378 00:22:53,973 --> 00:22:55,577 Your fingerprints are all over those hockey tickets. 379 00:22:55,674 --> 00:22:58,154 I never admitted to flushing anything. 380 00:22:58,244 --> 00:23:01,555 My prints make sense if I gave those tickets to you, 381 00:23:01,647 --> 00:23:03,149 as an incentive to stay alive. 382 00:23:03,849 --> 00:23:06,329 And I was so angry that you didn't respect my dying wishes, 383 00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:08,524 Hook thousands of dollars of season tickets 384 00:23:08,587 --> 00:23:09,895 and flushed them down toilets? 385 00:23:09,989 --> 00:23:12,833 All you have to do is create reasonable doubt. 386 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,394 Great. What if I do more than that? 387 00:23:14,493 --> 00:23:15,665 What if I end up in jail? 388 00:23:15,728 --> 00:23:19,232 Or spending my final months in endless hearings? 389 00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:23,574 That's a risk you're willing to take. 390 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:28,613 I have a reputation, I have a legacy that could... 391 00:23:28,707 --> 00:23:30,186 Wilson. 392 00:23:32,845 --> 00:23:35,553 I don't want to lose this time with you. 393 00:23:45,524 --> 00:23:46,696 Okay. 394 00:23:50,896 --> 00:23:52,204 Thanks. 395 00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:54,768 I knew I could count on you. 396 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:01,382 Wait! Wait! 397 00:24:04,243 --> 00:24:06,223 You want the fries back? 398 00:24:08,914 --> 00:24:11,121 I'm not gonna take the fall. 399 00:24:17,389 --> 00:24:18,561 Don't do this to me, Wilson. 400 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:22,334 It's our only option. Exactly. 401 00:24:22,428 --> 00:24:24,669 Because you overplayed your hand with Foreman. 402 00:24:24,763 --> 00:24:27,767 Because you knew you had me as a backstop. 403 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,744 Even with me dying, you just assumed 404 00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:31,907 I'd be here to bail you out. 405 00:24:32,738 --> 00:24:34,843 Since you are here, and you are bailing me out 406 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:37,443 seems like a pretty safe assumption. 407 00:24:38,911 --> 00:24:40,083 Hey! 408 00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:43,657 I won't be here soon. 409 00:24:43,749 --> 00:24:45,524 If I do this, I'm teaching you 410 00:24:45,617 --> 00:24:47,688 that your bad behavior will always be rewarded. 411 00:24:47,786 --> 00:24:49,026 You need to learn.“ 412 00:24:49,121 --> 00:24:50,998 How to act when you're gone? 413 00:24:51,090 --> 00:24:53,661 If that's the lesson, we've a really great opportunity coming up. 414 00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:55,966 You'll just try to find someone else, and it won't work, 415 00:24:56,095 --> 00:24:57,165 and it shouldn't work. 416 00:24:57,262 --> 00:24:59,469 So that's the great wisdom you're imparting? 417 00:24:59,598 --> 00:25:00,975 That I'll always be alone? 418 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:04,274 There's only one person you can count on. 419 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,820 I thought there were two. 420 00:25:12,811 --> 00:25:14,518 I need to do this. 421 00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:16,820 For you. 422 00:25:27,493 --> 00:25:28,631 Wilson's right. 423 00:25:28,961 --> 00:25:31,965 He's always right. He's always been your good side. 424 00:25:32,464 --> 00:25:35,377 I always wondered why I photographed so poorly. 425 00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:38,041 And because he's always played that role, 426 00:25:38,137 --> 00:25:40,481 you've never had to develop a conscience of your own. 427 00:25:41,673 --> 00:25:45,712 People don't change. Consciences don't spontaneously develop. 428 00:25:47,980 --> 00:25:49,687 You're wrong, Greg. 429 00:25:50,983 --> 00:25:54,487 Which is why you'll be better off without him. 430 00:25:57,656 --> 00:26:02,162 You've been looking to him to find what you've gotta find within yourself. 431 00:26:05,364 --> 00:26:07,605 Something you can find. 432 00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:26,388 Hold your child. 433 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:46,605 This is a reason to die. 434 00:26:48,407 --> 00:26:51,149 This is what my life could have been, not what it can be. 435 00:26:51,243 --> 00:26:52,483 If it could have been, 436 00:26:52,711 --> 00:26:54,748 you're capable of it now. 437 00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:59,827 You're married, Cuddy's gone. 438 00:26:59,918 --> 00:27:02,592 We aren't the only two people who could love you. 439 00:27:12,097 --> 00:27:14,099 Why settle so easily? 440 00:27:17,836 --> 00:27:20,942 These are just idiotic fantasies. 441 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:22,975 Greg, don't. 442 00:27:24,076 --> 00:27:27,285 At odds with every logical bone in my body. 443 00:27:27,346 --> 00:27:28,620 Get up. 444 00:27:29,181 --> 00:27:31,752 You do not have to die in here! 445 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,034 Is this hell? 446 00:27:48,934 --> 00:27:51,676 An eternity of people trying to convince me to live? 447 00:27:56,975 --> 00:27:59,854 Who says I'm hereto convince you to live? 448 00:28:06,552 --> 00:28:08,395 You're the last one I thought would hate me. 449 00:28:08,487 --> 00:28:09,693 I don't hate you. 450 00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:12,133 I love you. 451 00:28:14,326 --> 00:28:16,067 And yet you think I deserve to die. 452 00:28:16,728 --> 00:28:19,538 But not as a punishment 453 00:28:19,631 --> 00:28:21,008 As a reward. 454 00:28:23,468 --> 00:28:24,913 I think 455 00:28:25,571 --> 00:28:27,710 you've suffered enough. 456 00:28:27,873 --> 00:28:29,580 You've given enough. 457 00:28:29,675 --> 00:28:33,487 I think you deserve a chance to just 458 00:28:36,148 --> 00:28:37,650 give up 459 00:28:40,919 --> 00:28:42,091 Like Wilson did? 460 00:28:42,321 --> 00:28:44,198 Like Wilson did. 461 00:28:44,323 --> 00:28:48,567 You accepted his choice that ending the pain is better than the pain. 462 00:28:51,330 --> 00:28:54,038 Why can't you give yourself that gift? 463 00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,048 This is the address House's patient gave? 464 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,250 Everybody lies. 465 00:29:13,885 --> 00:29:15,728 Do you smell smoke? 466 00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:38,887 Just lei go. 467 00:29:39,711 --> 00:29:41,418 Just go to sleep. 468 00:29:46,652 --> 00:29:49,565 I had a chance to avoid this. 469 00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:52,727 You had many chances, and you blew them all up. 470 00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:56,800 No, this was different. 471 00:29:57,162 --> 00:30:00,632 They're all different. But the reasons are all the same. 472 00:30:00,732 --> 00:30:03,406 You're arrogant You're self-destructive. 473 00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:07,011 You only care about yourself. 474 00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:10,018 That moment with the patient. 475 00:30:11,910 --> 00:30:14,754 That chunk of conversation I skipped over. 476 00:30:17,783 --> 00:30:19,763 I told him he was dying. 477 00:30:20,085 --> 00:30:21,325 If it makes you feel any better, 478 00:30:21,420 --> 00:30:23,866 at this rate, it'll be fast. 479 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:33,871 Let me take the fall. 480 00:30:36,702 --> 00:30:38,704 For you. For that prank. 481 00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,377 You don't owe me anything. 482 00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:45,510 You tried to save me. 483 00:30:45,610 --> 00:30:48,716 I failed. Motives don't matter. Only actions. 484 00:30:48,814 --> 00:30:50,657 Trying is an action. 485 00:30:50,782 --> 00:30:53,058 Why are you trying to talk me out of this? 486 00:30:53,652 --> 00:30:57,464 You just fake the records, you say I came into the clinic last week. 487 00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,695 I'll tell the cops you treated me like crap. 488 00:30:59,958 --> 00:31:02,837 So I stole your tickets and flushed them. 489 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,343 Thank you. 490 00:31:24,316 --> 00:31:26,262 And you're doing this because you're dying? 491 00:31:26,351 --> 00:31:28,854 I'm doing this because I have nothing left to lose. 492 00:31:32,824 --> 00:31:35,327 So when you were living, you did nothing for anyone and didn't care. 493 00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:40,275 Now that you're dying, you're willing to help a virtual stranger. 494 00:31:40,365 --> 00:31:44,507 Which means you're a better person dying than you ever were living. 495 00:31:45,404 --> 00:31:49,011 And the world's a better place because I didn't save you. 496 00:31:52,511 --> 00:31:55,788 Which makes me wonder why I'm about to tell you, 497 00:31:57,616 --> 00:31:59,527 you're not symmetrical. 498 00:31:59,618 --> 00:32:01,598 What's your point? 499 00:32:01,686 --> 00:32:04,462 That you cared about him more than you cared about yourself? 500 00:32:05,457 --> 00:32:09,371 You cared about the puzzle more than you cared about yourself. 501 00:32:10,962 --> 00:32:14,603 If I kept it to myself, then it would just be a puzzle. 502 00:32:15,767 --> 00:32:17,940 But I opened my mouth because I thought it was more. 503 00:32:18,036 --> 00:32:19,947 You know it's the same or you wouldn't be bickering with me 504 00:32:20,038 --> 00:32:21,381 while the flames lick at your feet. 505 00:32:21,706 --> 00:32:23,208 You're afraid of this decision, 506 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:25,983 and you are trying to argue until fate takes it out of your hands. 507 00:32:27,813 --> 00:32:30,293 You're taking the cowardly way out. 508 00:32:31,049 --> 00:32:33,723 And worse 509 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:38,063 you're too cowardly to even admit you're taking the cowardly way out. 510 00:32:45,063 --> 00:32:46,565 You're right. 511 00:32:47,833 --> 00:32:49,506 But I can change. 512 00:34:04,643 --> 00:34:06,213 He could have gotten out. 513 00:34:07,646 --> 00:34:09,648 People are found sometimes. 514 00:34:10,148 --> 00:34:12,219 Even in collapsed... 515 00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:16,492 I think they're pulling a body out. 516 00:34:59,965 --> 00:35:02,036 The coroner confirms ifs him. 517 00:35:19,718 --> 00:35:23,222 House hired me when no one else would. 518 00:35:23,722 --> 00:35:25,827 He got me fired. 519 00:35:26,558 --> 00:35:28,333 He gave me the guts to get fired. 520 00:35:28,660 --> 00:35:30,571 He gave me the courage to quit. 521 00:35:30,996 --> 00:35:32,066 Gregory was... 522 00:35:33,632 --> 00:35:35,134 He was a good son. 523 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:40,144 He was a trying boyfriend, but I 524 00:35:43,174 --> 00:35:45,085 never stopped loving him. 525 00:35:46,244 --> 00:35:48,417 He was my husband for real. 526 00:35:52,250 --> 00:35:53,661 I couldn't help but love him. 527 00:35:53,852 --> 00:35:54,922 He was my boss 528 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,991 and my employee. 529 00:35:59,257 --> 00:36:00,429 At both times, 530 00:36:03,762 --> 00:36:04,763 I learned from him. 531 00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,272 He made me a better parent, 532 00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:09,340 whether he meant to or not. 533 00:36:09,434 --> 00:36:10,777 He was willing to kill me. 534 00:36:13,204 --> 00:36:14,615 And I'll always be grateful. 535 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:17,783 He wasn't always easy to deal with... 536 00:36:18,043 --> 00:36:20,023 but somewhere in there, 537 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:26,859 he knew how to love. 538 00:36:32,123 --> 00:36:33,625 He was my friend. 539 00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:39,637 The thing you have to remember, 540 00:36:40,465 --> 00:36:42,035 the thing you can't forget, 541 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,579 is that Gregory House saved lives. 542 00:36:47,806 --> 00:36:51,652 He was a healer, and in the end... 543 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:03,563 House was an ass. 544 00:37:06,825 --> 00:37:08,998 He mocked anyone. 545 00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:11,900 Patients, co-workers, his dwindling friends, 546 00:37:11,996 --> 00:37:15,603 anyone who didn't measure up to his insane ideals of integrity. 547 00:37:15,767 --> 00:37:18,338 He claimed to be on some heroic quest for truth. 548 00:37:18,436 --> 00:37:20,780 But the truth is he was a bitter jerk 549 00:37:20,872 --> 00:37:22,351 who liked making people miserable. 550 00:37:22,507 --> 00:37:25,681 And he proved that by dying selfishly, 551 00:37:25,844 --> 00:37:28,347 numbed by narcotics, without a thought of anyone. 552 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:33,259 A betrayal of everyone who cared about him. 553 00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:35,287 Phone. 554 00:37:40,358 --> 00:37:42,065 A million times he needed me 555 00:37:42,193 --> 00:37:43,604 and the onetime that I needed... 556 00:37:44,362 --> 00:37:46,603 Oh, come on! This is a funeral. 557 00:37:47,031 --> 00:37:48,374 Just get it. 558 00:37:58,710 --> 00:37:59,984 This is embarrassing. 559 00:38:00,812 --> 00:38:02,814 I'd sworn I'd turned this off. 560 00:38:03,882 --> 00:38:05,225 This isn't my phone. 561 00:38:37,415 --> 00:38:38,485 Hi. 562 00:38:43,254 --> 00:38:44,255 How... 563 00:38:46,491 --> 00:38:48,767 I got out of the back of the building. 564 00:38:52,030 --> 00:38:53,100 The body... 565 00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:56,611 Just switched the dental records. 566 00:39:03,708 --> 00:39:05,619 You're destroying your entire life. 567 00:39:06,778 --> 00:39:09,122 You can't go back from this. 568 00:39:11,049 --> 00:39:12,687 You'll go to jail for years. 569 00:39:13,785 --> 00:39:15,389 You can never be a doctor again. 570 00:39:19,457 --> 00:39:20,959 I'm dead, Wilson. 571 00:39:23,394 --> 00:39:25,635 How do you want to spend your last five months? 572 00:41:58,049 --> 00:42:00,529 When the cancer starts getting really bad... 573 00:42:03,388 --> 00:42:04,833 Cancer's boring.