1 00:00:11,811 --> 00:00:13,779 Am I going to have to give a speech? 2 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:15,508 You're the publisher, can't you do it? 3 00:00:15,582 --> 00:00:17,345 I can warm them up, 4 00:00:17,417 --> 00:00:20,079 but you're gonna have to get over this fear of public speaking 5 00:00:20,153 --> 00:00:22,451 before the book tour. 6 00:00:22,789 --> 00:00:26,486 Everybody! Can I have your attention? Thank you. 7 00:00:26,593 --> 00:00:28,754 Tim has a few words to say. 8 00:00:28,828 --> 00:00:31,319 There you go, Tim. They're warmed up. 9 00:00:33,299 --> 00:00:34,561 Well. 10 00:00:35,602 --> 00:00:38,162 What do you say at a time like this? 11 00:00:38,271 --> 00:00:40,398 Seriously, what do you say? 12 00:00:40,473 --> 00:00:43,306 You could thank people for coming. 13 00:00:43,410 --> 00:00:44,968 Thank you, Nick. 14 00:00:45,078 --> 00:00:47,444 Actually, I'm always thanking Nick. 15 00:00:47,514 --> 00:00:50,574 A man famous not only for his ruthless editor's pen, 16 00:00:50,650 --> 00:00:53,983 but his patient handholding of crazy authors. 17 00:00:54,087 --> 00:00:55,577 You'd think that after three novels, 18 00:00:55,655 --> 00:00:58,123 I'd start to develop a little confidence, but... 19 00:00:58,191 --> 00:01:01,524 For a book like this, we are happy to supply the confidence. 20 00:01:01,628 --> 00:01:03,027 Bestseller. 21 00:01:04,597 --> 00:01:06,292 Well, that's not going to happen. 22 00:01:06,366 --> 00:01:07,355 What? 23 00:01:07,434 --> 00:01:09,425 Come on. Short stories don't make money. 24 00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:11,470 Short stories weren't making money back in 1908. 25 00:01:11,538 --> 00:01:13,130 You'd have to be mathematically illiterate 26 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:14,434 to think they'd do as well as a novel. 27 00:01:14,507 --> 00:01:18,944 Okay, Nick, let's step away from the champagne before somebody gets hurt. 28 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:22,811 You slaved over this book right next to me. 29 00:01:22,882 --> 00:01:25,373 Why would Northrop even publish it if it's only going to tank? 30 00:01:25,485 --> 00:01:28,477 Have you failed to notice you're our star author? 31 00:01:28,555 --> 00:01:30,989 Obviously, Elaine wouldn't want to offend you. 32 00:01:31,057 --> 00:01:32,285 Honey... 33 00:01:36,529 --> 00:01:40,158 I'm sorry, I don't... I don't know why I said that. 34 00:01:40,233 --> 00:01:41,291 He's joking. 35 00:01:41,367 --> 00:01:43,835 Nick knows as well as anyone what you have done is art. 36 00:01:43,903 --> 00:01:45,837 So is folding paper into animal shapes, 37 00:01:45,905 --> 00:01:47,566 but you don't expect to make a living off it. 38 00:01:47,674 --> 00:01:48,800 What the hell is wrong with you? 39 00:01:48,875 --> 00:01:50,900 You really think someone who goes through 10 assistants a year 40 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:53,308 and doesn't return her own children's phone calls 41 00:01:53,379 --> 00:01:55,813 would give a damn about the state of the American short story? 42 00:01:55,882 --> 00:01:57,611 Please, be quiet. 43 00:02:02,722 --> 00:02:04,747 I think something's wrong. 44 00:02:05,358 --> 00:02:07,451 That title was a mistake, too. 45 00:02:07,527 --> 00:02:09,654 People are going to compare you to Salinger. 46 00:02:09,729 --> 00:02:13,028 And boy, are you going to come up short in that one. 47 00:02:17,504 --> 00:02:19,096 Honey? 48 00:02:19,806 --> 00:02:22,900 Call 911. Help! We need help! 49 00:02:56,743 --> 00:02:59,337 Cameron brought this up from the ER. 50 00:02:59,679 --> 00:03:01,670 Doesn't look like a friendship bracelet. 51 00:03:01,748 --> 00:03:03,545 It's Phineas Gage. 52 00:03:03,616 --> 00:03:05,413 The most famous case study in medical history. 53 00:03:05,518 --> 00:03:07,509 You're telling me this patient got a railroad spike 54 00:03:07,587 --> 00:03:08,781 drilled through his frontal lobe? 55 00:03:08,888 --> 00:03:11,880 No, no trauma, but he does have frontal lobe disinhibition. 56 00:03:11,958 --> 00:03:13,118 Just like Gage. 57 00:03:13,226 --> 00:03:14,989 Gage was a different person after the spike. 58 00:03:15,061 --> 00:03:16,460 Argumentative, impulsive. 59 00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:19,430 Whereas our guy became a different person after chardonnay. 60 00:03:19,532 --> 00:03:21,261 He was sober when they brought him in. 61 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:23,699 There's also the nosebleed, the collapse. 62 00:03:23,770 --> 00:03:25,294 MRI show anything? Nothing. 63 00:03:25,405 --> 00:03:27,600 Good. What fun would that be? 64 00:03:27,707 --> 00:03:29,641 So the tumor's not in the cool neighborhood. 65 00:03:29,742 --> 00:03:31,141 It's cool neighborhood adjacent. 66 00:03:31,244 --> 00:03:32,905 A well-placed tumor in the nasal cavity, 67 00:03:32,979 --> 00:03:34,606 eroding into the brain could do the damage. 68 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:38,081 Go stick a scope up Phineas' nose and see what you find. 69 00:03:44,958 --> 00:03:48,052 Daddy, I'm always going to win if you keep telling me what your cards are. 70 00:03:48,127 --> 00:03:51,585 Then suppose I tell you... While I tickle you! 71 00:03:51,664 --> 00:03:54,155 Mr. Greenwald, I'm Dr. Taub and this is Dr. Kutner. 72 00:03:54,267 --> 00:03:56,963 We're here for another test. Sorry about that. 73 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:58,935 You don't look sorry. 74 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:01,239 Um. No offense. 75 00:04:01,307 --> 00:04:03,332 Although you do look kind of cheerful. 76 00:04:03,409 --> 00:04:06,378 It's a little creepy. Should I want a doctor who's excited about how sick I am? 77 00:04:06,446 --> 00:04:08,744 I'm not... We're going to put this up your nose, 78 00:04:08,815 --> 00:04:10,476 scan for any problems. 79 00:04:10,583 --> 00:04:13,780 I can assure you that we are completely unexcited about that. 80 00:04:13,886 --> 00:04:15,581 Excuse me, sweetie. 81 00:04:15,888 --> 00:04:17,981 She has an auditory processing disability. 82 00:04:18,091 --> 00:04:20,616 Marika Balika. You have to get off the bed. 83 00:04:22,562 --> 00:04:24,962 This might be slightly uncomfortable. 84 00:04:25,064 --> 00:04:26,929 Honey, do you mind if I step out? 85 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,231 I have to make sure the final arrangements are in place for the breast cancer walk. 86 00:04:30,303 --> 00:04:31,463 Yeah. You do that. 87 00:04:31,571 --> 00:04:36,099 I'll pretend to be macho while a guy stuffs three feet of plastic up my nose. 88 00:04:36,175 --> 00:04:38,268 It's too bad it's not your nose. 89 00:04:38,344 --> 00:04:40,335 Lots more room to maneuver. 90 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:43,506 I guess the walk can wait 10 minutes. 91 00:04:43,616 --> 00:04:45,584 Or in a sensible world, even longer. 92 00:04:45,652 --> 00:04:48,519 Just how does tying up traffic for six hours stop breast cancer? 93 00:04:48,621 --> 00:04:50,282 You know how it works, people donate. 94 00:04:50,356 --> 00:04:53,951 Why not spend six hours building houses for Habitat for Humanity? 95 00:04:54,027 --> 00:04:56,495 Or is it wrong to help two groups of people at once? 96 00:04:56,596 --> 00:04:59,258 I'll bet there are those who have breast cancer and no home. 97 00:04:59,332 --> 00:05:00,993 It's my job, Nick. 98 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:02,692 You walked yourself last year. 99 00:05:02,769 --> 00:05:03,793 To be supportive. 100 00:05:03,870 --> 00:05:07,465 Because I knew you wouldn't have sex with me if I didn't. 101 00:05:08,541 --> 00:05:10,532 I'm going to make my call. 102 00:05:12,779 --> 00:05:14,440 Make this go away. 103 00:05:15,615 --> 00:05:18,277 God, that honker really is huge, isn't it? 104 00:05:22,188 --> 00:05:23,348 Wednesday night. 105 00:05:23,456 --> 00:05:26,152 Low-Down-Blue-Meanie versus the Incinerator. 106 00:05:26,225 --> 00:05:27,692 I can't. 107 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:30,226 Let me rephrase. Low-Down-Blue-Meanie... 108 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:32,696 I understand Monster Truck code. 109 00:05:32,765 --> 00:05:33,857 Do you understand "can't"? 110 00:05:33,966 --> 00:05:36,628 Not when it follows Low-Down-Blue-Meanie. 111 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:39,467 Is the world coming to an end Tuesday night? 112 00:05:39,539 --> 00:05:42,099 Otherwise, Wednesday... All right. 113 00:05:42,175 --> 00:05:45,042 It's not "can't," it's "don't want to." 114 00:05:45,745 --> 00:05:48,839 The fact is, I just don't like monster trucks. 115 00:05:50,316 --> 00:05:51,374 Yes, you do. 116 00:05:51,451 --> 00:05:52,475 No, I don't. 117 00:05:52,552 --> 00:05:54,076 You've always liked monster trucks. 118 00:05:54,153 --> 00:05:55,643 No, you've always liked them. 119 00:05:55,722 --> 00:05:58,088 I've tolerated them. 120 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:01,183 Seriously, I can only watch so many hyped-up dune buggies 121 00:06:01,294 --> 00:06:05,025 crush so many motor homes without feeling the urge La Bohème. 122 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:06,996 And I hate opera, too. 123 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:09,565 What are you hiding? 124 00:06:09,669 --> 00:06:12,365 I'm not hiding it, I'm saying it loud and proud. 125 00:06:12,472 --> 00:06:14,064 Death to monster trucks. 126 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:15,732 No nasal cancer. 127 00:06:15,808 --> 00:06:17,298 And no marriage either, 128 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:19,572 if our patient keeps saying everything that comes into his head 129 00:06:19,645 --> 00:06:21,670 without regard for the consequences. 130 00:06:21,748 --> 00:06:23,909 You always led me to believe you were one of a kind. 131 00:06:23,983 --> 00:06:26,281 Luckily, jerkiness is a temporary condition for this guy. 132 00:06:26,352 --> 00:06:27,751 No, it's not. 133 00:06:27,820 --> 00:06:30,516 We may be able to fix his impulse to say his thoughts out loud, 134 00:06:30,590 --> 00:06:32,683 but he's always gonna be the guy who thinks them. 135 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:35,489 But he's also gonna be the guy who doesn't say them. 136 00:06:35,561 --> 00:06:38,121 If he spent his whole life constructing a nice-guy persona, 137 00:06:38,197 --> 00:06:41,257 isn't that as much who he really is as anything else? 138 00:06:41,334 --> 00:06:44,098 You would argue that. You're all persona. 139 00:06:44,203 --> 00:06:47,263 I agree with Wilson. This guy's a Harry Potter. 140 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:50,569 The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin, based on his nature. 141 00:06:50,676 --> 00:06:52,837 He refused, so he ended up in Gryffindor. 142 00:06:52,912 --> 00:06:54,277 Through choice. 143 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:57,544 There's damage somewhere in his brain. Go find it. 144 00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:01,079 Are you sure you understand? 145 00:07:01,154 --> 00:07:03,679 No, I'm lying. Except, I can't. 146 00:07:05,224 --> 00:07:06,521 You ask me questions. 147 00:07:06,592 --> 00:07:10,187 While I talk, you look at my brain activity to see where it's screwed up, 148 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:12,493 then you're gonna cut the screwed up part out to test it. 149 00:07:12,565 --> 00:07:14,499 It's depressing, but it's not rocket science. 150 00:07:14,567 --> 00:07:15,864 I think he understands. 151 00:07:15,935 --> 00:07:18,199 I don't mean to be abrasive. 152 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:20,796 Especially since you're such a pleasure to imagine naked. 153 00:07:20,907 --> 00:07:22,602 Again, sorry. It's okay. 154 00:07:22,708 --> 00:07:24,835 Thank you for understanding. 155 00:07:24,911 --> 00:07:26,640 I'd do you, though. 156 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:28,970 Really, my apologies. This stuff just comes out. 157 00:07:29,048 --> 00:07:31,073 It's okay. House paged? 158 00:07:31,150 --> 00:07:35,211 Whoa. I would do her in a minute with fudge and a cherry on top. 159 00:07:36,589 --> 00:07:38,523 Would someone please explain to this woman? 160 00:07:38,591 --> 00:07:39,717 There's only so many apologies I can... 161 00:07:39,792 --> 00:07:41,589 He has frontal lobe disinhibition. 162 00:07:41,661 --> 00:07:44,061 I've already embarrassed myself with one doctor. 163 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:45,256 Whom I am at this moment 164 00:07:45,331 --> 00:07:49,427 imagining with you in a king-sized bed with a mirror on the ceiling. 165 00:07:49,502 --> 00:07:52,562 I am so, so sorry. 166 00:07:52,638 --> 00:07:54,367 But if I couldn't have both of you together, 167 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,635 you would definitely be my first choice. 168 00:07:56,709 --> 00:07:57,698 Where's House? 169 00:07:57,777 --> 00:07:59,574 It's like trying not to think of an elephant. 170 00:07:59,645 --> 00:08:03,411 Not that you're an elephant. Your breasts, in fact, Homo sapiens. 171 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:04,745 House isn't here. 172 00:08:04,817 --> 00:08:06,444 He wouldn't have paged me 173 00:08:06,552 --> 00:08:09,180 if he couldn't watch and enjoy the... 174 00:08:15,261 --> 00:08:18,321 Your tush is like the pistons in a Ferrari. 175 00:08:28,407 --> 00:08:29,533 You're welcome. 176 00:08:29,609 --> 00:08:31,133 That was for my benefit? 177 00:08:31,210 --> 00:08:33,075 You're 40 years old... Thirty eight. 178 00:08:33,145 --> 00:08:34,203 ...and the administrator of a hospital. 179 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,372 Dean of medicine. 180 00:08:35,448 --> 00:08:37,416 People don't get personal with you. 181 00:08:37,483 --> 00:08:40,316 Except for me, and you dismiss me as a jerk who's jerking you around. 182 00:08:40,419 --> 00:08:41,977 But that guy can only tell the truth. 183 00:08:42,088 --> 00:08:44,955 And he prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie. 184 00:08:45,024 --> 00:08:49,017 So that was your way of saying I look good today? 185 00:08:49,762 --> 00:08:52,822 You didn't get the slightest kick out of that? 186 00:08:53,599 --> 00:08:55,692 Don't be ridiculous, House. 187 00:09:00,172 --> 00:09:03,335 I hope you know your pistons are second to none. 188 00:09:03,609 --> 00:09:06,703 I'm okay. I'm not jealous of Cuddy's pistons. 189 00:09:06,812 --> 00:09:08,439 Starting baseline activation. 190 00:09:08,514 --> 00:09:10,709 You sure? You looked upset. 191 00:09:11,350 --> 00:09:12,874 What he was saying was obnoxious. 192 00:09:12,952 --> 00:09:14,385 You've never been called attractive? 193 00:09:14,453 --> 00:09:17,854 He didn't call me attractive, he cast me in his mental porno. 194 00:09:17,957 --> 00:09:19,015 That's what "attractive" means. 195 00:09:19,091 --> 00:09:20,718 It means "I'm attracted to you sexually." 196 00:09:20,826 --> 00:09:25,160 "Attracted" can also mean, "I'm attracted to the whole package, to who you are." 197 00:09:25,231 --> 00:09:27,563 Slight elevation at transaxial 60. 198 00:09:27,667 --> 00:09:28,827 It could. 199 00:09:28,901 --> 00:09:31,369 It never does. It's what women choose to hear, not what men say. 200 00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:34,268 Actually, it's exactly what men say, if they have any brains. 201 00:09:34,340 --> 00:09:35,568 All right, we have enough for a baseline. 202 00:09:35,641 --> 00:09:39,577 What can we ask him that's indiscreet, but that he won't hate us for knowing? 203 00:09:40,379 --> 00:09:42,574 Nick, do you vote the same way as your wife? 204 00:09:42,648 --> 00:09:43,910 God, no. 205 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:45,779 Good. He's spiking at 30. 206 00:09:45,851 --> 00:09:48,081 She believes I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary, 207 00:09:48,154 --> 00:09:49,416 and Obama in the general. 208 00:09:49,488 --> 00:09:51,718 You're thinking I'm secretly Republican, right? 209 00:09:51,791 --> 00:09:52,849 Wrong. 210 00:09:52,925 --> 00:09:55,587 I secretly don't vote ever. 211 00:09:56,896 --> 00:09:59,592 Wait, you're 46 and you've never voted? 212 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:03,101 Your voice is no longer attractive to me with that note of disapproval. 213 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:04,830 Although I'm sure that will pass. 214 00:10:04,904 --> 00:10:05,996 Look at that. 215 00:10:06,072 --> 00:10:09,064 There's a spot on the cingulate gyrus that's not lighting up. 216 00:10:09,141 --> 00:10:10,733 One vote makes a difference? 217 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:12,710 Not mathematically... Okay, Nick, we've got what we need. 218 00:10:12,812 --> 00:10:15,246 We can't biopsy that, it's too close to the brain stem. 219 00:10:15,314 --> 00:10:17,646 Could be neurosarcoidosis. At least it's treatable. 220 00:10:17,717 --> 00:10:19,150 So we give him steroids and if we're right, 221 00:10:19,218 --> 00:10:22,745 we should start seeing his symptoms improve within half a day. 222 00:10:25,925 --> 00:10:28,018 What are you looking at? 223 00:10:28,094 --> 00:10:32,394 I find your strong attachment to a working democracy to be extremely sexy. 224 00:10:32,498 --> 00:10:34,227 You smooth talker. 225 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:38,894 Do you think my nose is too big? 226 00:10:38,971 --> 00:10:41,838 Relax. He also implied my bedside manner was a little off. 227 00:10:41,907 --> 00:10:44,000 You don't agree with that, right? 228 00:10:44,076 --> 00:10:45,134 No. 229 00:10:46,178 --> 00:10:48,840 No one's ever mentioned your nose before? 230 00:10:48,914 --> 00:10:50,279 You're a plastic surgeon. 231 00:10:50,383 --> 00:10:52,374 They tell me it suits my face. It does. 232 00:10:52,451 --> 00:10:54,942 Maybe. Maybe that's just the social contract. 233 00:10:55,021 --> 00:10:56,215 You tell me I look great, 234 00:10:56,288 --> 00:10:58,279 I tell you you're a people person. 235 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:02,020 How can you know the truth? You could ask for the truth. 236 00:11:02,194 --> 00:11:04,219 What do you think of my nose? Please tell me the truth. 237 00:11:04,296 --> 00:11:06,287 It's fine, it's a nose. 238 00:11:07,266 --> 00:11:09,063 Just proving a point. 239 00:11:15,408 --> 00:11:17,273 Anyone sitting here? 240 00:11:17,977 --> 00:11:19,604 Just my persona. 241 00:11:21,547 --> 00:11:25,074 You know, it's amazing the way people cling on to insults. 242 00:11:25,151 --> 00:11:27,813 Or what they think are insults. 243 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,911 So that wasn't an insult? 244 00:11:29,989 --> 00:11:32,822 I'm not suggesting that like our patient, 245 00:11:32,892 --> 00:11:35,053 you're hiding a dark, sarcastic core 246 00:11:35,127 --> 00:11:37,618 beneath a candy shell of compulsive niceness. 247 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:40,198 I'm not always nice. I'm not nice to you. 248 00:11:40,266 --> 00:11:43,758 Because you know nice bores me. Hence, still nice. 249 00:11:44,403 --> 00:11:47,304 No, I'm suggesting that you have no core. 250 00:11:47,406 --> 00:11:50,807 You're what whoever you're with needs you to be. 251 00:11:50,910 --> 00:11:52,935 Okay, I guess that could be insulting. 252 00:11:53,012 --> 00:11:55,412 But the interesting question is why. 253 00:11:55,481 --> 00:11:57,847 Why do you think the world will end in chaos and destruction 254 00:11:57,950 --> 00:11:59,508 if you're not there to save it? 255 00:11:59,618 --> 00:12:02,746 Because when my parents put me in the rocket, and sent me here, 256 00:12:02,822 --> 00:12:05,791 they said, "James, you will grow to manhood under a yellow sun." 257 00:12:05,858 --> 00:12:08,383 And why did you lie about monster trucks? 258 00:12:08,461 --> 00:12:09,519 I didn't. 259 00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:11,586 I checked your appointment book. 260 00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:12,756 You've got tomorrow night marked off, 261 00:12:12,832 --> 00:12:14,800 but you didn't put down what you were doing. 262 00:12:14,867 --> 00:12:16,198 So you thought someone might look at the book... 263 00:12:16,302 --> 00:12:20,102 I'm playing racquetball tomorrow night with Taub. 264 00:12:20,606 --> 00:12:22,096 Why would you hide that? 265 00:12:22,174 --> 00:12:24,108 Because the world revolves around you. 266 00:12:24,176 --> 00:12:25,473 I devote time to anyone else, 267 00:12:25,544 --> 00:12:28,104 you'd end up stalking me and harassing them. 268 00:12:28,180 --> 00:12:30,205 You say that as though it wouldn't be fun. 269 00:12:30,316 --> 00:12:32,375 And maybe I didn't want to rub your nose in the fact 270 00:12:32,451 --> 00:12:35,648 that we'd be doing something you can no longer do. 271 00:12:35,721 --> 00:12:37,450 Because I'm nice. 272 00:12:42,995 --> 00:12:45,691 I thought you said the steroids were gonna help him! 273 00:12:46,866 --> 00:12:48,493 Is it his heart? 274 00:12:49,034 --> 00:12:51,127 EKG says heart's fine. 275 00:12:51,203 --> 00:12:52,830 It's gotta be the kidneys. 276 00:12:52,905 --> 00:12:54,805 We need to get him on dialysis. 277 00:12:55,241 --> 00:12:56,435 Oh, God. 278 00:13:00,713 --> 00:13:02,374 He's on dialysis and he's stable. 279 00:13:02,481 --> 00:13:05,143 We know it's not systemic sclerosis. 280 00:13:05,217 --> 00:13:06,548 Hey. 281 00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:09,019 Cyrano de Berkowitz. 282 00:13:09,088 --> 00:13:10,350 Let it go. 283 00:13:11,524 --> 00:13:14,925 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia could explain brain and kidney problems. 284 00:13:14,994 --> 00:13:17,588 CBC showed normal white blood cells. 285 00:13:18,097 --> 00:13:21,362 So how long have you been playing racquetball with Wilson? 286 00:13:21,433 --> 00:13:23,230 Four or five times. 287 00:13:23,335 --> 00:13:24,700 Could be diabetes. 288 00:13:24,770 --> 00:13:26,897 Or a congenital metabolic disorder. 289 00:13:27,006 --> 00:13:30,066 Congenital disorders generally don't wait till you're 46 to manifest. 290 00:13:30,176 --> 00:13:33,634 So he's a late bloomer. His daughter has a neurological condition. 291 00:13:33,712 --> 00:13:37,239 First of all, Wilson played tennis on his college team, 292 00:13:37,349 --> 00:13:39,874 and you are a Jew. 293 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,182 You're not athletic. 294 00:13:42,254 --> 00:13:44,154 Run to the end of the hall and back, I'll time you. 295 00:13:44,223 --> 00:13:47,090 Sandy Koufax is Jewish. Greatest left-handed pitcher of all time. 296 00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:51,994 Sandy Koufax is all you Jews go on about, Sandy Koufax. 297 00:13:52,064 --> 00:13:54,294 And the Holocaust. It gets old. 298 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,699 There are dozens of congenital conditions that fit our parameters. 299 00:13:57,770 --> 00:13:59,738 We can't spend time gene-testing for all of them 300 00:13:59,805 --> 00:14:01,705 especially when we're only guessing it's congenital. 301 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:04,538 Is a Z-shot offensive or defensive? 302 00:14:04,610 --> 00:14:05,770 It's both. 303 00:14:06,278 --> 00:14:08,109 You suspected that was a trick question. 304 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:10,011 But I could have said neither. 305 00:14:10,082 --> 00:14:12,141 Diabetes makes more sense. 306 00:14:12,418 --> 00:14:15,080 We can narrow the testing down to 40 likely candidates. 307 00:14:15,154 --> 00:14:16,485 Test for peripheral nerve damage. 308 00:14:16,589 --> 00:14:17,613 He's got brain damage, 309 00:14:17,690 --> 00:14:19,954 he's likely to have peripheral nerve damage no matter what the cause. 310 00:14:20,025 --> 00:14:22,391 Yes, that's why we should not test him for it. 311 00:14:22,461 --> 00:14:24,190 Test the daughter. 312 00:14:24,530 --> 00:14:25,861 Kutner runs the nerve test. 313 00:14:25,965 --> 00:14:27,956 Taub, you may be right about the diabetes. 314 00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:31,560 Take supper away from our patient and run a glucose tolerance test. 315 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:34,731 Oh, and the nurses have been working so hard, 316 00:14:34,807 --> 00:14:36,536 you can do the blood draws yourself. 317 00:14:36,609 --> 00:14:38,975 They have to be done every couple of hours. 318 00:14:39,044 --> 00:14:40,136 You're punishing me 319 00:14:40,212 --> 00:14:42,305 because you're jealous that I'm spending time with your best friend. 320 00:14:42,381 --> 00:14:44,042 That would be petty. 321 00:14:44,116 --> 00:14:47,745 I'm punishing you because now you've joined my best friend in lying to me. 322 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:50,880 Let me know when you're ready to confess everything. 323 00:14:58,898 --> 00:15:01,958 These can become either hot or cold. 324 00:15:02,034 --> 00:15:04,832 As soon as it starts to feel uncomfortable, I want you to tell me. 325 00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:06,735 But you don't think there's something wrong with me. 326 00:15:06,805 --> 00:15:09,296 No, baby. They're testing you to help Daddy. 327 00:15:09,375 --> 00:15:11,309 Yes. What you're doing is very important. 328 00:15:11,377 --> 00:15:13,470 It's like the better you do, 329 00:15:13,545 --> 00:15:15,638 the better we know your dad is. 330 00:15:17,082 --> 00:15:18,481 It's okay. 331 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,717 I'll start with heat. 332 00:15:28,394 --> 00:15:30,362 I know it's not his fault. 333 00:15:30,429 --> 00:15:33,193 I know what he says is involuntary, but... 334 00:15:34,566 --> 00:15:36,158 It doesn't help. 335 00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:39,165 Inside he's still the same man. 336 00:15:39,238 --> 00:15:41,172 Yeah, that's the problem. 337 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,367 Apparently he's been thinking this stuff all along. 338 00:15:43,442 --> 00:15:47,902 Whoever that same man is, it's not the person I thought I was married to. 339 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:49,442 You okay? 340 00:15:52,751 --> 00:15:54,742 She should be feeling something by now. 341 00:15:54,853 --> 00:15:56,878 What does that mean? Is she sick too? 342 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:58,924 Marika? 343 00:16:00,025 --> 00:16:01,219 Honey? 344 00:16:02,528 --> 00:16:04,758 You're burned, why didn't you tell me it started to hurt? 345 00:16:04,863 --> 00:16:06,194 I wanted to help Daddy. 346 00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:08,859 You said the better I do, the better Daddy has to be. 347 00:16:08,934 --> 00:16:10,367 I'm sorry. 348 00:16:12,705 --> 00:16:13,865 I'm starving. 349 00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:16,134 It's the only way we can do the test. 350 00:16:16,442 --> 00:16:18,410 Good thing it's you and not Dr. Hadley. 351 00:16:18,477 --> 00:16:21,071 Could you keep her away from me? 352 00:16:21,146 --> 00:16:23,706 I have a rich imaginative life. 353 00:16:23,782 --> 00:16:24,942 I'd rather not share it. 354 00:16:25,017 --> 00:16:26,917 We all have thoughts. 355 00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:29,477 I know we all have sexual thoughts. 356 00:16:29,588 --> 00:16:31,146 We have ignoble thoughts. 357 00:16:31,223 --> 00:16:33,714 I just don't want those to be who I am to people. 358 00:16:33,792 --> 00:16:35,054 Especially not to my wife. 359 00:16:35,127 --> 00:16:38,426 I understand, I don't think it would be fair to define me by my passing thoughts. 360 00:16:38,497 --> 00:16:40,192 My real choices are my actions. 361 00:16:40,265 --> 00:16:44,065 And I've never done anything to hurt her, I've never cheated. 362 00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:46,702 You're kidding me, you've cheated? 363 00:16:46,772 --> 00:16:48,069 What? 364 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:49,232 No. 365 00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:51,331 Why would you say that? 366 00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:53,742 Because you look guilty as hell. 367 00:16:53,812 --> 00:16:55,837 Are you serious? 368 00:16:55,948 --> 00:16:56,972 Of course you're serious. 369 00:16:57,049 --> 00:16:58,846 Yes, everyone knows. 370 00:16:58,917 --> 00:17:01,511 God, they must think you're a creep. 371 00:17:01,987 --> 00:17:04,751 They might not know, they might be idiots. 372 00:17:04,823 --> 00:17:06,290 I just say these things. 373 00:17:16,668 --> 00:17:18,659 Why'd you page me here? 374 00:17:19,271 --> 00:17:22,536 I need you to update me on the patient's condition. 375 00:17:22,941 --> 00:17:24,203 He seems to be dead. 376 00:17:24,309 --> 00:17:26,300 Why'd you page me here? 377 00:17:26,378 --> 00:17:29,575 I need you to update me on the patient's condition 378 00:17:29,648 --> 00:17:32,310 while hitting this against the wall. 379 00:17:33,385 --> 00:17:34,875 This is the only place we can do both. 380 00:17:34,953 --> 00:17:37,148 I finished the last blood draw. 381 00:17:37,222 --> 00:17:41,522 I expect the people who work for me to rise to a challenge. 382 00:17:41,627 --> 00:17:44,391 Unless they don't expect to work for me. 383 00:18:01,313 --> 00:18:04,578 Last blood draw was at 6:00 a.m. 384 00:18:04,683 --> 00:18:08,175 His sugar levels never rose above 120 all night. 385 00:18:12,491 --> 00:18:14,618 So the glucose was normal. 386 00:18:14,693 --> 00:18:16,923 It means you were wrong about diabetes. 387 00:18:16,995 --> 00:18:18,690 I still think it's the endocrine system, 388 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:21,324 maybe I just got the wrong gland. 389 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,996 You were going for thyroid instead of pancreas? It makes sense. 390 00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:35,438 Fine! I'm not playing racquetball with Wilson! 391 00:18:35,514 --> 00:18:36,981 I was never playing racquetball with Wilson! 392 00:18:37,049 --> 00:18:40,348 I have never played racquetball with Wilson. 393 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:44,687 I thought it would be helpful if a department head owed me a favor, 394 00:18:44,756 --> 00:18:46,724 but it's not worth this. 395 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,555 Not bad. You put on a good show. 396 00:18:51,630 --> 00:18:54,064 You studied up, Wilson actually booked a court. 397 00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:56,397 If you were really a racquetball player, 398 00:18:56,468 --> 00:18:59,460 you'd know that you're holding a squash racquet. 399 00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:03,899 Tell Kutner to do a thyroid reuptake scan, 400 00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:06,740 then go grab a nap in one of the on-call rooms. 401 00:19:07,746 --> 00:19:10,271 We're taking you to do a thyroid reuptake scan. 402 00:19:10,382 --> 00:19:12,577 We think your... I'm not going anywhere until you explain 403 00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:14,744 why my daughter has a bandage on her hand. 404 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:16,720 You just said you wanted to run some test. 405 00:19:16,788 --> 00:19:19,757 If I'd known it would involve pain, I'd have said, "Hell no." 406 00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:20,985 It's a mild burn. 407 00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:23,425 Since Marika has a neurological disability, like you, 408 00:19:23,495 --> 00:19:25,656 we needed to make sure. She has no disability. 409 00:19:25,764 --> 00:19:28,494 Nick, you know about her problem with auditory processing. 410 00:19:28,567 --> 00:19:30,364 Auditory processing? 411 00:19:30,435 --> 00:19:33,529 That's code, for "I can't stand thinking my daughter's not perfect." 412 00:19:33,605 --> 00:19:35,596 The therapist said Marika's test scores... 413 00:19:35,674 --> 00:19:37,539 Were indeterminate. 414 00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:41,101 She doesn't have a disability. She daydreams. 415 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:45,742 She gets below average marks in school because she's below average. 416 00:19:45,817 --> 00:19:48,513 Every parent thinks their child is above average. 417 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:49,644 Nick! Do they have any idea 418 00:19:49,755 --> 00:19:51,188 what the word average means? 419 00:19:51,290 --> 00:19:52,882 Somebody has to be under it. 420 00:19:52,958 --> 00:19:54,323 Nick, shut up! 421 00:19:59,998 --> 00:20:01,192 Honey. 422 00:20:03,168 --> 00:20:05,796 I'm not saying you're stupid. 423 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:08,431 Your mother's not the sharpest crayon in the box, 424 00:20:08,507 --> 00:20:10,236 and she does great. 425 00:20:11,643 --> 00:20:16,512 See, this is why I told your mother to keep you at home. 426 00:20:16,615 --> 00:20:18,412 Didn't want you here. 427 00:20:19,384 --> 00:20:20,646 Marika. 428 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,051 Marika, wait. 429 00:20:23,655 --> 00:20:25,145 Get her... 430 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:26,384 You're burning up. 431 00:20:28,860 --> 00:20:30,987 Your lungs are full of fluid, we need to get it out. 432 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:32,860 I need 200 milligrams of furosemide 433 00:20:32,931 --> 00:20:34,796 and two milligrams of morphine, stat. 434 00:20:37,502 --> 00:20:39,766 His temperature is 103. Infection. 435 00:20:39,838 --> 00:20:41,601 The steroids must have forced it into the open. 436 00:20:41,673 --> 00:20:43,140 What kind of infection? It could be anything. 437 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:45,437 Staph aureus, tuberculosis, strongyloides. 438 00:20:45,510 --> 00:20:47,137 Go back to Phineas and get a history. 439 00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:48,838 We got a history. He hasn't been out of the country. 440 00:20:48,947 --> 00:20:50,209 Get a detailed history. 441 00:20:50,282 --> 00:20:52,409 No one at home is sick, no one at work is sick, 442 00:20:52,484 --> 00:20:54,076 there's no sign of ticks or mosquitoes. 443 00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:55,779 Get a more detailed history. 444 00:20:55,854 --> 00:20:58,084 Ask him again. And again, until he remembers something. 445 00:20:58,156 --> 00:21:00,750 Not you. Kutner can do it. 446 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:03,792 You're going to be busy with something else. 447 00:21:10,302 --> 00:21:12,099 I'm here to invite you to lunch. 448 00:21:12,170 --> 00:21:13,967 Why? 449 00:21:18,176 --> 00:21:22,044 I've been made. House sent me back to you as a double agent. 450 00:21:28,453 --> 00:21:29,613 Anything wrong? 451 00:21:29,688 --> 00:21:31,155 Eyes are a little red. 452 00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:32,349 There's a shocker. 453 00:21:32,457 --> 00:21:35,221 I haven't had a good night's sleep since this thing started. 454 00:21:35,327 --> 00:21:37,921 You should get some rest yourself. 455 00:21:37,996 --> 00:21:39,258 That's a good idea. 456 00:21:39,331 --> 00:21:42,664 This is going to take some time, it will be pretty exhaustive. 457 00:21:42,734 --> 00:21:44,793 Are you afraid of what you might say while I'm here? 458 00:21:44,870 --> 00:21:45,928 Yes. 459 00:21:46,505 --> 00:21:49,406 Are you telling me there's something worse than what I've already heard? 460 00:21:49,474 --> 00:21:52,807 No, I don't know what I'm going to say. 461 00:21:52,878 --> 00:21:55,142 I don't know how I'm going to hurt you next. 462 00:21:55,213 --> 00:21:59,172 I think we should be around each other as little as possible right now. 463 00:22:03,088 --> 00:22:04,885 This is pathetic. 464 00:22:04,956 --> 00:22:06,184 I know. 465 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,651 Tell Marika I love her very much. 466 00:22:11,663 --> 00:22:13,290 She understands that. 467 00:22:13,365 --> 00:22:14,855 I don't think she does. 468 00:22:16,568 --> 00:22:19,628 You're just saying that to make me feel better. 469 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:21,499 Yeah. 470 00:22:36,054 --> 00:22:37,954 Guy leads a boring life. 471 00:22:38,023 --> 00:22:39,320 They stay home a lot. 472 00:22:39,391 --> 00:22:42,360 No travel, no exotic pets. No nearby standing water. 473 00:22:42,427 --> 00:22:44,895 You sound pleased about something. Can we get to that part? 474 00:22:44,963 --> 00:22:47,193 His wife rescues dogs. 475 00:22:47,265 --> 00:22:50,098 Among others, a big Rottweiler, who's taken over the house. 476 00:22:50,202 --> 00:22:51,362 Our patient hates it. 477 00:22:51,436 --> 00:22:53,461 Was the wife there to hear this? No. 478 00:22:53,538 --> 00:22:54,698 Too bad. Keep going. 479 00:22:54,773 --> 00:22:57,469 The dog marks its territory all over the living room. 480 00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:58,634 I asked what the odds were 481 00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:01,508 that he would've put down food or drink where the dog could reach. 482 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:03,275 He said he put a glass of juice on the floor 483 00:23:03,348 --> 00:23:04,645 while he was fixing the television. 484 00:23:04,750 --> 00:23:07,048 The dog was fixing the television? Yes. 485 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,177 Patient's eyes red? 486 00:23:08,253 --> 00:23:10,244 Yeah. I'm thinking Weil's. 487 00:23:10,822 --> 00:23:13,552 Bacterial. You lucked out. 488 00:23:13,625 --> 00:23:17,925 Start him on doxycycline. If he improves, we'll know we were right. 489 00:23:20,532 --> 00:23:22,864 I told Wilson you sent me to get information. 490 00:23:22,934 --> 00:23:24,526 And now you're telling me. 491 00:23:24,603 --> 00:23:27,436 What does that make you, a quadruple agent? 492 00:23:28,073 --> 00:23:29,802 He let me print out his e-mails. 493 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:31,103 Wow. Excellent. 494 00:23:31,176 --> 00:23:33,201 Information he wants us to have. 495 00:23:33,278 --> 00:23:34,677 Did he let you print out his deleted e-mails? 496 00:23:34,746 --> 00:23:35,770 No. 497 00:23:35,847 --> 00:23:38,008 Go back there... As long as I was sitting there, 498 00:23:38,116 --> 00:23:41,449 thought I'd print them anyway. Top one's the one you're looking for. 499 00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:45,882 "I confirm Wednesday at 7:00 p.m." 500 00:23:45,957 --> 00:23:49,791 It's outgoing to JGonzalez@NYMercy.net. 501 00:23:49,861 --> 00:23:53,991 There's a Joan Gonzalez in oncology. It's a consult. 502 00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,624 Secret consult at 7:00 p. M? 503 00:23:57,402 --> 00:23:59,836 Oh, Joan is perky. 504 00:23:59,905 --> 00:24:02,874 You're wrong, there was a patient file attached. 505 00:24:02,974 --> 00:24:03,963 Where? 506 00:24:04,042 --> 00:24:05,304 It was password protected. 507 00:24:05,377 --> 00:24:06,401 No. 508 00:24:07,012 --> 00:24:10,175 Wilson doesn't password protect his patient files. 509 00:24:10,248 --> 00:24:11,943 I'm the only one he'd expect ever to look there, 510 00:24:12,017 --> 00:24:15,145 and he knows there's only one patient I'd want to check on. 511 00:24:15,754 --> 00:24:17,722 You think Wilson's sick? 512 00:24:19,324 --> 00:24:20,757 If Wilson had cancer, 513 00:24:20,826 --> 00:24:23,124 there'd be no reason for him to drive three hours to Manhattan. 514 00:24:23,195 --> 00:24:25,425 He knows he could pull strings here to get the best treatment. 515 00:24:25,497 --> 00:24:27,590 Six articles by Gonzalez. 516 00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:31,033 "Managing suicidal thoughts in oncology patients." 517 00:24:31,102 --> 00:24:33,866 "Suicidal ideation in children with leukemia." 518 00:24:33,939 --> 00:24:35,429 I don't want to ask this, 519 00:24:35,507 --> 00:24:39,238 but have you ever had reason to think he might be depressed? 520 00:24:39,744 --> 00:24:42,110 No. Get out of here. 521 00:24:53,959 --> 00:24:56,291 Your fever's down and your lungs are clearing. 522 00:24:56,361 --> 00:24:59,353 How long before this brain thing goes away? 523 00:24:59,464 --> 00:25:00,658 Infection's gone. 524 00:25:00,732 --> 00:25:04,190 The damage the infection did, you'll have to live with. 525 00:25:05,136 --> 00:25:07,195 You telling me you can't fix this? 526 00:25:07,272 --> 00:25:08,637 There's got to be a way... 527 00:25:08,707 --> 00:25:11,505 We'd need to remove the damaged area in your cingulate gyrus, 528 00:25:11,576 --> 00:25:13,669 but it's too close to the brain stem to risk surgery. 529 00:25:13,745 --> 00:25:15,406 You can't risk it? 530 00:25:16,081 --> 00:25:17,571 But I could shop around, 531 00:25:17,682 --> 00:25:20,014 and maybe some better doctors at a better hospital... 532 00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:22,679 The brain stem controls the body's involuntary systems. 533 00:25:22,754 --> 00:25:25,348 The slightest mistake could kill you. 534 00:25:26,057 --> 00:25:27,149 Even if you survive, 535 00:25:27,225 --> 00:25:29,489 you may never be able to breathe on your own again, you may never... 536 00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:31,085 I get it. 537 00:25:31,196 --> 00:25:33,357 I know this seems like a lot to deal with right now, 538 00:25:33,431 --> 00:25:37,731 but people have adapted to living with all kinds of neurological deficits. 539 00:25:37,836 --> 00:25:41,203 Hey, at least we can promise you it won't get any worse. 540 00:25:41,273 --> 00:25:43,434 Get the hell out of my room. 541 00:25:55,287 --> 00:26:00,054 Your assistant said that you were out of the hospital taking a walk. 542 00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:01,922 Is there an emergency? 543 00:26:01,993 --> 00:26:03,255 I don't know, is there? 544 00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:07,854 You never take a walk unless you got something you need to think about. 545 00:26:07,933 --> 00:26:11,926 Maybe you just don't have a good statistical sampling of my walks. 546 00:26:12,037 --> 00:26:16,406 The other thing you do when you need to think is you come to my office. 547 00:26:16,474 --> 00:26:21,537 Apparently, this is something you can only discuss with Gonzalez at New York Mercy. 548 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:29,645 Taub. Another graduate of the House School of Being a Dick. 549 00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:30,813 Private dick. 550 00:26:30,889 --> 00:26:35,053 Look, I'd love to stay for the full inquisition, but I need some hot coffee. 551 00:26:39,497 --> 00:26:42,728 Of course you need hot coffee, it's 45 degrees outside 552 00:26:42,801 --> 00:26:46,328 and you left your coat upstairs. Why? 553 00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:49,373 You're going to tell me why I forgot my coat? 554 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:52,376 Once you get outside, the cold would have reminded you. 555 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:54,503 Could have gone back, but you didn't. 556 00:26:54,579 --> 00:26:56,911 You chose to be uncomfortable. 557 00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:00,918 Now why would someone choose that? 558 00:27:01,987 --> 00:27:04,046 Because they hate themselves? 559 00:27:04,122 --> 00:27:06,420 Has it ever occurred to you that when I don't share something, 560 00:27:06,491 --> 00:27:08,516 it might not be meant as a challenge? 561 00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:10,458 It might just mean that I'd like there to be 562 00:27:10,528 --> 00:27:14,624 one molecule of my life that goes unexamined by Gregory House. 563 00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:32,274 Nick Greenwald. I hear you're the guy in charge. 564 00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:36,715 I'm the patient with the disinhibition. 565 00:27:36,788 --> 00:27:39,256 If you're here to say thanks, you're welcome. Now go away. 566 00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:41,383 I'm not thankful. I'm pissed. 567 00:27:41,459 --> 00:27:42,551 Oh. 568 00:27:42,627 --> 00:27:44,151 All the more reason to go away. 569 00:27:44,229 --> 00:27:46,857 They're talking about sending me home. 570 00:27:47,632 --> 00:27:51,068 To what? A life where I'll continually drive away anyone who might, 571 00:27:51,136 --> 00:27:53,195 for a second, care about me? 572 00:27:53,304 --> 00:27:55,101 Those are the breaks. 573 00:27:59,644 --> 00:28:01,168 You could operate. 574 00:28:03,815 --> 00:28:05,305 You could die. 575 00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:09,684 So I'm either better or dead? I'm okay with that. 576 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:19,694 I've always been kind of an impatient guy. 577 00:28:20,765 --> 00:28:23,325 But I've worked hard to keep my mouth shut. 578 00:28:23,401 --> 00:28:26,996 I've made my wife happy. I've made my little girl happy. 579 00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:31,001 I want that back. 580 00:28:31,609 --> 00:28:33,600 Otherwise, it's no life. 581 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,315 I want you to remove a small problem. 582 00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:51,123 I'm not a neurosurgeon. 583 00:28:51,196 --> 00:28:53,630 Your boss is. You could assist, 584 00:28:53,698 --> 00:28:55,893 I'm sure you'd like to add to your resume. 585 00:28:55,967 --> 00:28:57,958 It's too near the brain stem. Nobody's going to touch it. 586 00:28:58,036 --> 00:29:01,233 Your boss would. He's an egomaniac. 587 00:29:01,306 --> 00:29:03,934 I know 'cause I keep seeing him at the club. 588 00:29:04,042 --> 00:29:05,475 He just needs a little push. 589 00:29:05,543 --> 00:29:08,808 I'm sure by now you've kissed his ass sufficiently. 590 00:29:11,216 --> 00:29:14,185 Would you like me to phrase it as "you're politically gifted"? 591 00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:15,879 I could do that. 592 00:29:17,222 --> 00:29:19,588 You want me to help you? 593 00:29:21,893 --> 00:29:23,326 Tell me why. 594 00:29:24,062 --> 00:29:25,086 Why what? 595 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:26,255 Why you care? 596 00:29:26,998 --> 00:29:28,829 The puzzle's solved, the guy's alive. 597 00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:32,562 And the odds of coming out of this surgery with that same status aren't that great. 598 00:29:32,637 --> 00:29:35,572 My patient has a quality of life issue. 599 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,235 He says awful things. Hardly a medical condition. 600 00:29:40,411 --> 00:29:43,938 When he leaves here, he's going to lose his family. 601 00:29:44,015 --> 00:29:46,245 He's going to alienate the people he works with. 602 00:29:46,317 --> 00:29:49,753 And if he ever finds a friend who's willing to put up with his crap, 603 00:29:49,821 --> 00:29:51,345 he'll be lucky. 604 00:29:53,324 --> 00:29:55,690 Until he drives them away, too. 605 00:30:00,999 --> 00:30:02,933 I'll see what I can do. 606 00:30:28,092 --> 00:30:31,357 You've apparently got this whole coat thing backwards. 607 00:30:31,429 --> 00:30:34,262 I may have overreacted. 608 00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:37,363 You definitely overreacted. 609 00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:39,300 I knew you'd meet me halfway. 610 00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:40,462 But it made me think. 611 00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:44,372 You only snap on one subject, losing people. 612 00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:47,278 So I went back to the intel. 613 00:30:47,378 --> 00:30:50,643 It's true there's only one doctor named Gonzalez at New York Mercy, 614 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:55,049 but there's a Javier Gonzalez who's a nurse in the psych ward. 615 00:30:55,587 --> 00:30:58,078 Now who could you lose who'd end up there? 616 00:30:58,156 --> 00:31:02,456 Maybe the reason I don't always open up to you is because it's redundant. 617 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,152 Daniel Wilson. 618 00:31:05,230 --> 00:31:06,561 Once you've got a name, 619 00:31:06,631 --> 00:31:09,657 it's amazing how much stuff you can learn on the phone. 620 00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:13,192 I mean, if you're a doctor and you lie freely. 621 00:31:13,271 --> 00:31:17,435 They found your brother sleeping in the lobby of an office building in Manhattan. 622 00:31:17,508 --> 00:31:18,998 He got aggressive when they asked him to leave, 623 00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:21,670 and the cops took him to the Mercy psych ward. 624 00:31:21,779 --> 00:31:24,612 There've been new anti-psychotics developed since he ran away. 625 00:31:24,682 --> 00:31:28,015 He's been on them for a couple of days. And by tonight, 626 00:31:28,086 --> 00:31:30,077 he should be in shape to talk to me. 627 00:31:30,154 --> 00:31:32,588 But you're not sure if he wants to. 628 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:37,588 I'll be in New York in a few hours, I guess I'll find out. 629 00:31:38,096 --> 00:31:39,723 Why wouldn't you tell me this? 630 00:31:39,797 --> 00:31:41,287 House, you and I, 631 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:45,635 we don't have the normal social contract. 632 00:31:45,703 --> 00:31:47,694 I don't expect you to tell me the lies that... 633 00:31:47,772 --> 00:31:50,366 I'm fully capable of lying to you. 634 00:31:50,441 --> 00:31:51,840 I've lied plenty of times. 635 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,242 I mean collaborative lies. 636 00:31:54,312 --> 00:31:58,874 Giving someone a hand who maybe needs to deceive themselves, just a little. 637 00:32:01,219 --> 00:32:02,618 For two days, I've been thinking about 638 00:32:02,687 --> 00:32:04,450 how Danny's going to react when he sees me. 639 00:32:04,522 --> 00:32:07,286 If I said that to anybody else, they'd say, 640 00:32:07,358 --> 00:32:09,519 "Don't worry, it'll all be all right." 641 00:32:10,194 --> 00:32:11,627 You wouldn't. 642 00:32:12,697 --> 00:32:14,790 Because it might all go horribly wrong. 643 00:32:17,635 --> 00:32:18,863 Yeah. 644 00:32:20,338 --> 00:32:21,862 Yeah, it might. 645 00:32:22,707 --> 00:32:26,541 In which case, you might want some company. 646 00:32:32,984 --> 00:32:35,509 Your heart's beating. First hurdle passed. 647 00:32:35,586 --> 00:32:38,817 Now we need to know if you can breathe for yourself. 648 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,187 Oh, thank God. 649 00:32:46,097 --> 00:32:48,565 Now, do you know who you are? 650 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:53,267 Nick Greenwald, former S.O.B. 651 00:32:54,939 --> 00:32:56,304 Thank you. 652 00:32:57,709 --> 00:33:01,702 Now I can go back to my beautiful life with my beautiful wife. 653 00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:05,104 Maybe she'll stop whining and cut me some slack 654 00:33:05,216 --> 00:33:07,411 now that I've risked my life. 655 00:33:08,853 --> 00:33:10,445 It doesn't make sense. We removed the problem. 656 00:33:10,521 --> 00:33:13,183 We removed the damage. Maybe we were wrong about the problem. 657 00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:15,282 I need to believe we can get through this. 658 00:33:15,393 --> 00:33:16,724 Temperature's 94.5. 659 00:33:16,794 --> 00:33:19,422 Do you really think I'm stupid? 660 00:33:19,530 --> 00:33:23,591 Honey, you're not stupid, you're just... Please don't do this. 661 00:33:23,701 --> 00:33:24,725 Could be the effect of the surgery. 662 00:33:24,802 --> 00:33:26,565 Do you at least respect me, Nick? 663 00:33:26,637 --> 00:33:28,229 What do you think of what I do for a living? 664 00:33:28,306 --> 00:33:31,571 I think people who publicize important things 665 00:33:31,642 --> 00:33:34,736 are people who can't do important things themselves. 666 00:33:34,812 --> 00:33:36,803 Honey, stop. Don't. 667 00:33:36,914 --> 00:33:38,211 Do you regret marrying me? 668 00:33:38,282 --> 00:33:39,374 94.2. 669 00:33:39,450 --> 00:33:40,644 Sometimes. 670 00:33:40,752 --> 00:33:42,549 Everybody wonders. Get me a heating blanket. 671 00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:43,951 Do you even love me? 672 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:45,114 Yes. 673 00:33:45,823 --> 00:33:46,881 I don't know why. 674 00:33:46,958 --> 00:33:48,016 Aud... 675 00:33:48,459 --> 00:33:50,450 Wait. Let me... 676 00:33:51,662 --> 00:33:53,755 V-tach! Get me the paddles. 677 00:33:59,070 --> 00:34:00,332 Clear. 678 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:05,866 Echo says his heart is structurally fine, 679 00:34:05,943 --> 00:34:07,410 but his temperature is still dropping. 680 00:34:07,478 --> 00:34:08,911 He's headed for hypothermia. 681 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:11,107 I can't reach House. It just goes to voicemail. 682 00:34:11,215 --> 00:34:12,409 Means we were wrong about infection. 683 00:34:12,483 --> 00:34:14,075 His temperature's just going up and down 684 00:34:14,152 --> 00:34:15,585 because something's playing with his thermostat. 685 00:34:15,653 --> 00:34:17,382 Which means the brain damage is spreading. 686 00:34:17,455 --> 00:34:19,116 What causes brain damage and nosebleed, 687 00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:20,817 and involves the lungs, heart, and kidneys? 688 00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:22,654 Cancer. We could text him. 689 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,818 It's not cancer. 690 00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:27,262 Normal PSA, normal blood smear, colonoscopy normal. 691 00:34:27,799 --> 00:34:28,993 Do a full body scan. 692 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:30,329 House hates full body scans. 693 00:34:30,435 --> 00:34:32,300 House isn't here. House is right. 694 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:34,428 Everybody's got three or four meaningless anomalies 695 00:34:34,505 --> 00:34:37,497 that'll come up on a scan. Chasing each one will take time we don't have. 696 00:34:37,608 --> 00:34:39,735 Feel free to send him an IM. 697 00:35:25,389 --> 00:35:29,086 You told me you saw your brother once, after he disappeared. 698 00:35:29,193 --> 00:35:31,024 Thirteen years ago. 699 00:35:31,095 --> 00:35:33,222 I used to go to Princeton whenever I could. 700 00:35:33,331 --> 00:35:35,925 I must have hit every homeless shelter in town. 701 00:35:36,033 --> 00:35:38,331 Then one day, I'm just sitting at this deli having a sandwich, 702 00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:41,769 I look out the window and there he is. 703 00:35:41,873 --> 00:35:44,603 He was gone by the time I got outside. 704 00:35:44,675 --> 00:35:47,940 That's why you were so eager, when I told you there was a job in Princeton. 705 00:35:48,012 --> 00:35:49,479 I thought it was just my charm. 706 00:35:51,616 --> 00:35:53,447 That's the team, shouldn't you answer? 707 00:35:53,518 --> 00:35:56,817 They've already texted me to say they're doing something stupid. 708 00:35:58,189 --> 00:35:59,656 Small abdominal aneurysm. 709 00:35:59,724 --> 00:36:00,986 Irrelevant. What else you got? 710 00:36:01,058 --> 00:36:02,719 A cyst in the pleura around the lungs. 711 00:36:02,793 --> 00:36:04,988 Also irrelevant. Couldn't cause any of the symptoms. 712 00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:06,461 There's a density in the liver, 713 00:36:06,531 --> 00:36:08,294 could be a vascular malformation. 714 00:36:08,366 --> 00:36:11,062 If he's got multiple AVMs, screwed up blood flow would explain everything. 715 00:36:11,135 --> 00:36:13,069 We can only spot them with angiography. 716 00:36:13,137 --> 00:36:15,765 We'll have to do targeted scans with contrast, and then embolize each one. 717 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,171 Can we do that before he freezes? 718 00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:18,765 We'll find out. 719 00:36:20,444 --> 00:36:24,540 The spell-correct on Kutner's phone has got a hair-trigger. 720 00:36:24,615 --> 00:36:27,379 Either that, or the patient has a "cyclone" 721 00:36:27,451 --> 00:36:29,919 in the "floral" of his lungs. 722 00:36:31,289 --> 00:36:36,249 You took a walk in 45-degree weather and you left your coat behind. 723 00:36:39,463 --> 00:36:40,487 Go ahead. 724 00:36:40,565 --> 00:36:42,556 I think you were punishing yourself. 725 00:36:43,334 --> 00:36:45,598 I think you wanted to feel what it would be like to be homeless 726 00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:47,501 in a New Jersey winter. 727 00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:51,005 That tells me guilt. 728 00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:54,269 That tells me something happened. 729 00:36:57,281 --> 00:36:59,476 The schizophrenia started when he was a teenager. 730 00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:01,882 When he was in college, 731 00:37:01,953 --> 00:37:03,420 he was on meds, 732 00:37:03,487 --> 00:37:06,752 but he'd still think a professor was out to get him because he got a B, 733 00:37:06,824 --> 00:37:08,951 or he would fight with his roommates because he never showered. 734 00:37:09,026 --> 00:37:10,186 Where were you? 735 00:37:10,261 --> 00:37:11,353 Med school. 736 00:37:12,396 --> 00:37:17,527 He called me every day, talked for hours. 737 00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:19,603 I didn't have hours. 738 00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:20,898 Interesting. 739 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:24,833 Later for that. Go on. 740 00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:27,469 I was tired of being the guy that everybody counted on. 741 00:37:27,545 --> 00:37:29,672 So one night Danny called... 742 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:34,442 One night Danny called, crying, upset about something. 743 00:37:34,552 --> 00:37:38,852 I had to study for an exam. So I hung up. 744 00:37:40,057 --> 00:37:43,322 Took my things, I went to the library where I wouldn't have to hear the phone ring. 745 00:37:43,394 --> 00:37:46,192 I wonder how that turned out. 746 00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:47,458 My mother called me the next day, 747 00:37:47,531 --> 00:37:49,761 Danny had run away and left his meds behind. 748 00:37:49,867 --> 00:37:55,271 Which I knew meant that he would never be able to choose to come back, 749 00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:58,934 because he'd be so detached from reality. 750 00:37:59,744 --> 00:38:03,578 So you made your one effort to live a normal, selfish life, 751 00:38:03,648 --> 00:38:05,980 and the universe immediately smacked you down. 752 00:38:06,083 --> 00:38:09,610 And because we're wired to find meaning in semi-random events, 753 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:12,712 you decided never to be that careless again. 754 00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:16,082 You don't think that's a little facile? 755 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,153 Actually, I don't. I think you did it consciously. 756 00:38:20,264 --> 00:38:23,791 You developed your people pleasing talents 757 00:38:23,901 --> 00:38:27,132 the way an Olympic athlete develops his muscles. 758 00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:30,139 Talk about an overreaction to a single event. 759 00:38:30,241 --> 00:38:32,175 It was a pretty big event. 760 00:38:32,276 --> 00:38:35,507 Hanging up the phone? That's what you're blaming all this on. 761 00:38:35,613 --> 00:38:38,776 That's the behavior you've been trying to correct. 762 00:38:38,849 --> 00:38:41,943 As though nothing else went wrong in your brother's life. 763 00:38:42,019 --> 00:38:44,613 Of course he overreacted, too, but... 764 00:38:47,191 --> 00:38:49,091 His glucose was normal. 765 00:38:50,127 --> 00:38:53,290 We're not talking about my brother anymore, are we? 766 00:38:57,501 --> 00:39:01,528 It's House. AVMs don't explain his glucose. 767 00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,904 Since this is a significant moment in my life and all, I'll... 768 00:39:05,009 --> 00:39:06,135 Yeah. 769 00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:07,370 I think I'll just go in and... 770 00:39:07,445 --> 00:39:08,503 Explain that. 771 00:39:08,579 --> 00:39:09,807 Right. 772 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:14,379 We'd given him steroids. His glucose should have been elevated. 773 00:39:14,485 --> 00:39:17,750 That wannabe cyst you found in the whole body scan, 774 00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:19,584 without the glucose, it's an irrelevant cyst, 775 00:39:19,657 --> 00:39:22,125 with the glucose, it's a relevant fibroma. 776 00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,093 He has Doege-Potter Syndrome. 777 00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:27,062 His fibroma is secreting human growth hormone 778 00:39:27,164 --> 00:39:29,724 which acts like insulin, lowering his glucose. 779 00:39:29,834 --> 00:39:32,359 That doesn't explain the organ failure, the brain damage. 780 00:39:32,436 --> 00:39:34,836 This whole thing is an overreaction. 781 00:39:34,905 --> 00:39:38,272 That one small fibroma, it's benign, 782 00:39:38,342 --> 00:39:40,606 but his body's acting like it's an invader. 783 00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:43,805 His antibodies went to war against it and got carried away, 784 00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:46,907 attacked his other systems. Take out the fibroma, 785 00:39:47,017 --> 00:39:49,952 he'll be a happy hypocrite again in no time. 786 00:39:57,461 --> 00:39:59,053 Maybe I should call a cab. 787 00:39:59,130 --> 00:40:01,030 Your wife's probably just late. 788 00:40:01,098 --> 00:40:02,258 Yeah. 789 00:40:04,635 --> 00:40:07,604 I'm sorry about, 790 00:40:08,806 --> 00:40:11,707 you know, things I said. 791 00:40:14,478 --> 00:40:17,675 I have a conspicuous nose. 792 00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:19,477 It suits your face. 793 00:40:25,756 --> 00:40:27,883 I'm sorry I'm late. 794 00:40:28,626 --> 00:40:29,888 Traffic. 795 00:40:36,667 --> 00:40:38,225 I have some good news. 796 00:40:38,302 --> 00:40:40,236 I was going to tell you, and then you got sick, 797 00:40:40,304 --> 00:40:42,738 it didn't seem like the best time. 798 00:40:43,474 --> 00:40:46,068 I've been offered a better position. 799 00:40:46,143 --> 00:40:49,840 I'd be coordinating cancer awareness walks in three cities. 800 00:40:49,947 --> 00:40:53,439 That's great. Congratulations. 801 00:40:53,517 --> 00:40:55,644 I know you've worked hard for this. 802 00:40:56,754 --> 00:40:58,085 Thank you. 803 00:41:02,259 --> 00:41:03,817 Is Marika okay? 804 00:41:04,829 --> 00:41:06,820 I'm sure she's moved on. 805 00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:14,735 Kids are so resilient. 806 00:41:34,592 --> 00:41:35,820 You okay? 807 00:41:36,694 --> 00:41:39,356 I'll be seeing Danny again next week. 808 00:41:39,897 --> 00:41:41,387 I'd like you to meet him. 809 00:41:41,465 --> 00:41:42,625 Sure. 810 00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:44,395 Sounds interesting. 811 00:41:46,070 --> 00:41:47,332 Go on. 812 00:41:47,872 --> 00:41:50,340 I thought seeing him again would change everything. 813 00:41:50,407 --> 00:41:53,604 It'd be wonderful or terrible. Instead... 814 00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:59,047 We're just strangers. It's kind of anticlimactic. 815 00:42:00,217 --> 00:42:02,447 Which is better than terrible. 816 00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:09,253 Go on. 817 00:42:10,027 --> 00:42:13,519 Does it bother you that we have no social contract? 818 00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:16,958 My whole life is one big compromise. 819 00:42:17,067 --> 00:42:19,365 I tiptoe around everyone like they're made of china. 820 00:42:19,436 --> 00:42:20,926 I spend all my time analyzing. 821 00:42:21,005 --> 00:42:22,529 "What will the effect be if I say this?" 822 00:42:22,606 --> 00:42:25,268 And then there's you. You're a reality junkie. 823 00:42:25,342 --> 00:42:27,276 If I offered you a comforting lie, 824 00:42:27,344 --> 00:42:29,437 you'd smack me over the head with it. 825 00:42:29,513 --> 00:42:31,344 Let's not change that. 826 00:42:32,283 --> 00:42:33,443 Okay. 827 00:42:34,084 --> 00:42:35,779 No. See, this... 828 00:42:36,487 --> 00:42:40,514 If you were implementing a social contract, you'd say that, 829 00:42:40,624 --> 00:42:44,924 but only because it makes me feel better. 830 00:42:46,830 --> 00:42:49,890 It's kind of fun watching you torture yourself. 831 00:42:50,301 --> 00:42:52,861 Do you think things will work out with my brother? 832 00:42:52,970 --> 00:42:54,028 No. 833 00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:58,836 But when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault. 834 00:42:59,643 --> 00:43:01,167 Thanks, House. 835 00:43:02,146 --> 00:43:04,546 You do actually like monster trucks? 836 00:43:04,648 --> 00:43:06,013 Absolutely.