1 00:00:24,984 --> 00:00:28,529 I still can't believe you talked me into this. 2 00:00:28,654 --> 00:00:30,948 Come on, honey, you're gonna throw him off. 3 00:00:31,073 --> 00:00:33,451 It's okay, I'm almost done. 4 00:00:35,828 --> 00:00:38,080 A little more light on your hips. 5 00:00:38,206 --> 00:00:39,206 God. 6 00:00:39,290 --> 00:00:41,792 Why couldn't you have come up with this before I had two kids? 7 00:00:41,918 --> 00:00:44,921 You look amazing. 8 00:00:46,672 --> 00:00:51,552 Okay, I think... yeah, I'm done. Want to come take a look? 9 00:00:58,309 --> 00:00:59,560 I can't. 10 00:01:00,978 --> 00:01:02,021 You first. 11 00:01:02,146 --> 00:01:03,689 No, we'll look together. 12 00:01:11,614 --> 00:01:13,658 I don't understand. I thought... 13 00:01:13,783 --> 00:01:14,783 What the hell is that? 14 00:01:14,867 --> 00:01:16,077 Honey, it's okay. 15 00:01:16,202 --> 00:01:18,162 This is not what we discussed, or what I paid for. 16 00:01:18,246 --> 00:01:20,849 I don't understand. I think this is one of the best I've ever done. 17 00:01:20,873 --> 00:01:21,874 I want my money back. 18 00:01:21,999 --> 00:01:24,585 I'm sorry, but this is not some department store photo studio. 19 00:01:24,710 --> 00:01:26,337 And this is not my wife. 20 00:01:26,462 --> 00:01:27,505 Yes, it is. 21 00:01:27,630 --> 00:01:32,051 You asked me to paint her exactly as she looks. That's exactly what I did. 22 00:01:32,969 --> 00:01:34,679 Honey! Stop it! 23 00:01:34,804 --> 00:01:36,722 What's going on? Brandon. 24 00:01:36,847 --> 00:01:41,310 That check better be in my mailbox by Friday, or I'll be back. 25 00:01:42,937 --> 00:01:44,313 Come on. 26 00:01:44,897 --> 00:01:47,066 - What happened? - I don't know. 27 00:01:47,191 --> 00:01:49,819 They saw the painting, and they just freaked out. 28 00:01:53,572 --> 00:01:54,824 Brandon, what is this? 29 00:01:54,949 --> 00:01:56,784 What do you mean? It's her portrait. 30 00:01:58,494 --> 00:01:59,912 What's wrong with it? 31 00:02:41,203 --> 00:02:42,496 Why is this in here? 32 00:02:42,621 --> 00:02:44,248 First column, last entry. 33 00:02:46,292 --> 00:02:48,627 Today is going to be a good day. 34 00:02:53,382 --> 00:02:54,383 This him? 35 00:02:54,508 --> 00:02:56,093 - Yes. 36 00:02:56,886 --> 00:02:58,888 She means, are you the private investigator 37 00:02:59,013 --> 00:03:01,724 whose bills I've tried to slip through as medical expenses? 38 00:03:01,849 --> 00:03:04,477 Oh. Hi. I'm Lucas Douglas, pi. 39 00:03:04,602 --> 00:03:07,563 This hospital is not putting a private investigator on retainer, 40 00:03:07,688 --> 00:03:08,981 nor is it going to pay any more 41 00:03:09,106 --> 00:03:11,025 phony repairs on vending machines, 42 00:03:11,150 --> 00:03:12,693 cryostats, or elevators. 43 00:03:12,818 --> 00:03:15,363 Information saves lives. Saving lives saves money. 44 00:03:15,488 --> 00:03:17,782 No, saving lives costs money, 45 00:03:17,907 --> 00:03:20,993 which is why I'm trying to make sure there's still some left. 46 00:03:21,118 --> 00:03:22,661 You want your own personal pi, 47 00:03:22,787 --> 00:03:25,414 you're gonna have to pay for him yourself. 48 00:03:25,539 --> 00:03:27,291 - Sorry. - No, I understand. 49 00:03:27,625 --> 00:03:29,502 Hey, I like the shoes, by the way. 50 00:03:32,797 --> 00:03:34,256 Thank you. 51 00:03:37,093 --> 00:03:39,553 You don't like her shoes, you like her legs. 52 00:03:39,678 --> 00:03:41,847 It sounds less creepy if you say shoes. 53 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:43,766 Less creepy, more gay. 54 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:45,393 That's my firm's motto. 55 00:03:46,477 --> 00:03:47,937 What is a cryostat? 56 00:03:48,062 --> 00:03:52,942 No idea. Whoever fixed ours is about to get stiffed. 57 00:04:05,121 --> 00:04:08,249 There's no distorted perspective in any of his other recent works. 58 00:04:08,374 --> 00:04:09,792 Not much talent either. 59 00:04:09,917 --> 00:04:11,877 It's like the symptom just came on. 60 00:04:12,002 --> 00:04:14,755 Acute onset visual agnosia points to a stroke or brain tumor. 61 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,799 Taub: Mri revealed no stroke or brain tumor. 62 00:04:16,924 --> 00:04:18,276 We should do another with contrast. 63 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:19,861 If he's like the other struggling artists I've known, 64 00:04:19,885 --> 00:04:20,886 he's also into drugs. 65 00:04:21,011 --> 00:04:23,514 We should... What are you looking at? 66 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:25,057 Apparently a moron. 67 00:04:25,182 --> 00:04:27,810 One, er routinely tests for drugs. 68 00:04:27,935 --> 00:04:30,038 If it was positive, we wouldn't be looking at this file. 69 00:04:30,062 --> 00:04:34,108 Two, who pays 12% interest on a car loan? 70 00:04:34,233 --> 00:04:36,527 How did you... Did you run a credit check on me? 71 00:04:36,652 --> 00:04:38,195 No, that would be illegal. 72 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,407 Interestingly enough, paying someone to run it for me, though... 73 00:04:45,202 --> 00:04:46,912 What? It's part of my job. 74 00:04:47,037 --> 00:04:48,414 Your job is to diagnose patients. 75 00:04:48,539 --> 00:04:49,540 Which I do with a team. 76 00:04:49,665 --> 00:04:52,418 How am I supposed to know how best to utilize that team 77 00:04:52,543 --> 00:04:54,712 if I don't know everything about them? 78 00:04:54,837 --> 00:04:57,840 Say that Van gogh turns out to have neurosyphilis, 79 00:04:57,965 --> 00:05:00,384 and our last vial of penicillin is in a storeroom 80 00:05:00,509 --> 00:05:03,804 at the end of a 20-mile hallway with a two-foot-high ceiling. 81 00:05:03,929 --> 00:05:06,241 You've discovered that one of us has been hiding the ability 82 00:05:06,265 --> 00:05:08,142 to stretch or shrink themselves? 83 00:05:08,267 --> 00:05:11,854 No, I would never out someone's superpowers. 84 00:05:12,813 --> 00:05:14,523 This, on the other hand... 85 00:05:17,151 --> 00:05:19,195 You crawled 20 miles? 86 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:20,863 My name's in the guinness book. 87 00:05:20,988 --> 00:05:22,740 I'll bet that really impresses the babes. 88 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:24,617 I didn't do it to get the babes. 89 00:05:24,742 --> 00:05:27,244 No, that would cheapen the purity of your achievement. 90 00:05:27,369 --> 00:05:30,206 Sorry to interrupt, but we have a patient with a probable brain tumor. 91 00:05:30,331 --> 00:05:33,042 Who needs an mri with contrast. We've established that. 92 00:05:33,167 --> 00:05:34,877 What do you got on Taub? 93 00:05:35,878 --> 00:05:37,087 I got nothing on Taub. 94 00:05:37,213 --> 00:05:38,231 Thirteen: Could also be environmental. 95 00:05:38,255 --> 00:05:40,424 We should check his studio for toxins, mold, fungus... 96 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:41,829 Taub's wife, on the other hand... 97 00:05:41,884 --> 00:05:42,884 Foreman: House. 98 00:05:43,594 --> 00:05:44,929 That's enough. 99 00:05:46,597 --> 00:05:49,058 Dad's right. This is no time for gossip. 100 00:05:49,183 --> 00:05:51,519 Patient desperately needs our help. 101 00:05:52,019 --> 00:05:54,063 Check his head and his house. 102 00:05:54,188 --> 00:05:56,106 - Can't Lucas... - No. 103 00:05:56,232 --> 00:05:57,608 He's very busy. 104 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:01,588 Foreman: If there is a tumor, this test will show us... 105 00:06:01,612 --> 00:06:02,821 Is that stuff dangerous? 106 00:06:02,947 --> 00:06:04,907 This is just the contrast material. 107 00:06:05,616 --> 00:06:08,953 There is a small risk of an anaphylactic reaction. 108 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:11,080 I could stop breathing? 109 00:06:11,205 --> 00:06:13,582 Don't worry. We're prepared to deal with whatever happens. 110 00:06:13,707 --> 00:06:16,168 You know, I did some drawings this morning and they seem fine. 111 00:06:16,293 --> 00:06:18,230 So, maybe it was just a reaction to something I ate. 112 00:06:18,254 --> 00:06:20,065 Foreman: How many people you know have reactions like that 113 00:06:20,089 --> 00:06:21,483 to something they ate for breakfast? 114 00:06:21,507 --> 00:06:22,526 But if I'm getting better... 115 00:06:22,550 --> 00:06:23,801 You'll continue to get better. 116 00:06:23,926 --> 00:06:25,446 If you're not, we need to know why not, 117 00:06:25,511 --> 00:06:27,805 so we can start treatment immediately. 118 00:06:27,930 --> 00:06:29,431 Baby, let them do the test. 119 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,531 Can lead poisoning cause visual agnosia? 120 00:06:45,656 --> 00:06:47,741 Taub: Not without lead showing up in the blood work. 121 00:06:47,866 --> 00:06:51,453 Nothing in the medicine cabinet except some harmless toiletries. 122 00:06:51,579 --> 00:06:54,248 No signs of mold or fungus anywhere, either. 123 00:06:54,373 --> 00:06:56,333 You think house really got something on your wife? 124 00:06:56,417 --> 00:06:58,794 No, not that I care if he did. 125 00:06:59,128 --> 00:07:02,214 Wait, your wife's doing the doorman in your bed, 126 00:07:02,339 --> 00:07:04,859 and they're sweating all over the sheets that you paid for and... 127 00:07:04,883 --> 00:07:06,778 - My wife's not doing the doorman. - How do you know? 128 00:07:06,802 --> 00:07:09,221 We don't have a doorman. 129 00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:12,057 And I just do, okay? Drop it. 130 00:07:13,183 --> 00:07:16,395 In college, my friends and I came up with an inverse-square law. 131 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,771 Sounds like a real fun group. 132 00:07:17,896 --> 00:07:21,317 The girls who you think are the most inhibited, straight arrows? 133 00:07:21,442 --> 00:07:22,762 They're the ones you hook up with. 134 00:07:22,860 --> 00:07:24,528 Are you saying my wife's a slut? 135 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:27,281 I'm saying if my wife was a slut, I'd want to know. 136 00:07:31,035 --> 00:07:32,620 Kutner: His place was clean. 137 00:07:32,745 --> 00:07:34,038 So is his head. 138 00:07:34,163 --> 00:07:37,416 Even with contrast, no masses, no lesions. 139 00:07:37,541 --> 00:07:40,461 A neurological symptom with no apparent neurological cause. 140 00:07:40,586 --> 00:07:43,005 Time course means we can rule out cancer and Ms. 141 00:07:43,130 --> 00:07:44,965 That just leaves toxins or drugs. 142 00:07:45,090 --> 00:07:47,843 You called thirteen a moron for thinking it was drugs. 143 00:07:47,968 --> 00:07:49,928 Yeah, when she said it, she had other options. 144 00:07:50,054 --> 00:07:53,015 And I really just wanted a segue into her stupid loan and your... 145 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:54,860 A cavernous angioma in the brain could leak. 146 00:07:54,975 --> 00:07:56,310 Once the blood gets reabsorbed, 147 00:07:56,435 --> 00:07:57,912 pressure goes down, symptom goes away. 148 00:07:57,936 --> 00:07:59,813 He'll never consent to petrosal vein sampling. 149 00:08:02,358 --> 00:08:03,359 Really? 150 00:08:03,484 --> 00:08:06,236 He was nervous about an injection of contrast. 151 00:08:07,112 --> 00:08:08,989 Is his girlfriend hot? 152 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:10,908 I'm not talking fever, here. 153 00:08:11,033 --> 00:08:12,910 I mean, is she all curvy and perky? 154 00:08:13,035 --> 00:08:15,412 Very. And if he dies, it's good news for all of us, but... 155 00:08:15,537 --> 00:08:18,290 That explains why all his paintings suck. 156 00:08:18,415 --> 00:08:20,000 And what's wrong with him. 157 00:08:20,125 --> 00:08:21,543 Where are you going? 158 00:08:21,669 --> 00:08:23,396 To tell him he may have a massive brain tumor. 159 00:08:23,420 --> 00:08:24,421 He doesn't. 160 00:08:24,546 --> 00:08:27,800 I know. I'm not a moron. It's drugs. 161 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:34,515 You seem to have a massive brain tumor. 162 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,766 Who are you? 163 00:08:35,891 --> 00:08:37,851 He's Dr. House. He's pleased to meet you. 164 00:08:37,976 --> 00:08:39,812 We've found no trace on any of your imaging, 165 00:08:39,937 --> 00:08:41,689 so we need to cut your head open. 166 00:08:41,814 --> 00:08:45,025 It's risky, but it's the only way to save your life. 167 00:08:46,652 --> 00:08:47,945 Wrong answer. 168 00:08:48,070 --> 00:08:49,110 I'm not allowed to say no? 169 00:08:49,196 --> 00:08:51,407 You're not allowed to not be terrified. 170 00:08:52,324 --> 00:08:54,511 There's only two good reasons not to be terrified in a hospital. 171 00:08:54,535 --> 00:08:58,831 You're delusional, but then you're not afraid of contrast material either, 172 00:08:58,956 --> 00:09:01,792 or you know you're fine. Since we haven't told you you're fine, 173 00:09:01,917 --> 00:09:04,670 you obviously have information that we don't have. 174 00:09:04,795 --> 00:09:05,629 What drugs are you on? 175 00:09:05,754 --> 00:09:06,922 His drug tests were clean. 176 00:09:07,047 --> 00:09:09,466 Drug tests only test for drugs they've made tests for. 177 00:09:09,591 --> 00:09:11,135 What are you talking about? 178 00:09:12,636 --> 00:09:15,347 Hottie thinks that he's a great artist, 179 00:09:15,472 --> 00:09:17,182 selling art to the rich and tasteful. 180 00:09:17,307 --> 00:09:19,685 She's stupid enough to be fooled by the canvasses, 181 00:09:19,810 --> 00:09:22,354 but bank accounts don't lie. He needed money. 182 00:09:22,479 --> 00:09:24,541 There are not many jobs you can do that don't require time, 183 00:09:24,565 --> 00:09:25,774 training and intelligence. 184 00:09:25,899 --> 00:09:28,193 And I know you're not a news anchor or supermodel 185 00:09:28,318 --> 00:09:32,531 because those jobs seldom cause agnosia. He's a Guinea pig. 186 00:09:32,656 --> 00:09:34,908 Companies pay him to test their untested drugs. 187 00:09:41,415 --> 00:09:43,500 Did hottie go for a pee or coffee? 188 00:09:43,625 --> 00:09:47,421 'Cause either way, I don't think we should waste any time on denials. 189 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:52,134 The clinical trials were supposed to be safe. 190 00:09:52,259 --> 00:09:54,028 The drugs are about to be approved by the fda. 191 00:09:54,052 --> 00:09:56,889 "Drugs"? How many trials are you on? 192 00:09:58,015 --> 00:09:59,349 Three. 193 00:10:00,976 --> 00:10:05,022 Admirable. Not many idiots have that much ambition. 194 00:10:05,147 --> 00:10:06,875 You've been symptom-free since your admission, 195 00:10:06,899 --> 00:10:09,359 so whatever you took has probably cleared your system now. 196 00:10:09,485 --> 00:10:10,903 You'll be fine. 197 00:10:11,028 --> 00:10:12,213 Keep him overnight just to make sure, 198 00:10:12,237 --> 00:10:15,032 and get the names of all the trials he's been in. 199 00:10:15,157 --> 00:10:17,409 You gonna tell Heather? 200 00:10:17,534 --> 00:10:19,411 Couldn't, even if I cared enough to want to. 201 00:10:34,384 --> 00:10:37,179 Not bad. You almost made it the whole day. 202 00:10:37,304 --> 00:10:38,555 What did you find out? 203 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:40,808 The point is to see how everyone reacts. 204 00:10:40,933 --> 00:10:42,434 You may go get the rest of the gang. 205 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:43,685 Cut the crap, house. 206 00:10:47,147 --> 00:10:49,483 Your wife has a separate bank account 207 00:10:49,608 --> 00:10:50,609 in her name only. 208 00:10:50,734 --> 00:10:53,862 She's been making weekly cash deposits for about a year now. 209 00:10:53,987 --> 00:10:56,156 No withdrawals yet. 210 00:10:57,533 --> 00:11:00,202 That's it? A bank account? 211 00:11:00,327 --> 00:11:01,870 A secret bank account. 212 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:03,872 What makes you think it's a secret? 213 00:11:03,997 --> 00:11:08,001 Because if it wasn't you would call it "the" bank account. 214 00:11:08,126 --> 00:11:12,297 Damn, always forget to use the right article when lying. 215 00:11:12,422 --> 00:11:14,341 It's not secret. We're refurnishing. 216 00:11:14,466 --> 00:11:15,906 We set the budget, set up an account. 217 00:11:15,968 --> 00:11:17,987 I just couldn't make it to the bank the day we opened it. 218 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:21,598 You're spending almost $100,000 on furniture? 219 00:11:23,392 --> 00:11:24,392 Yes. 220 00:11:27,396 --> 00:11:28,230 Taub: What happened? 221 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:31,400 Foreman: I don't know. He was fine, then all of a sudden he started seizing. 222 00:11:31,525 --> 00:11:32,985 He said you told him he was better. 223 00:11:33,110 --> 00:11:35,404 What's happening? What's wrong with him? 224 00:11:38,407 --> 00:11:39,992 She is hot. 225 00:11:44,162 --> 00:11:46,456 Obviously, the drugs weren't out of his system. 226 00:11:46,582 --> 00:11:48,782 None of these drugs, nor the drugs they're derived from, 227 00:11:48,876 --> 00:11:50,854 - are known for causing seizures. - By themselves, no. 228 00:11:50,878 --> 00:11:53,422 But three unproven, untested drugs? 229 00:11:53,547 --> 00:11:55,966 It's like the mod squad, no one can stop them. 230 00:11:56,091 --> 00:11:57,610 It's ridiculous that they let people take 231 00:11:57,634 --> 00:11:59,261 potentially dangerous drugs for money. 232 00:11:59,386 --> 00:12:00,888 Just to short circuit that discussion, 233 00:12:01,013 --> 00:12:03,413 people should not be testing drugs because they're desperate. 234 00:12:03,473 --> 00:12:06,518 But people won't test drugs unless they're desperate. 235 00:12:06,643 --> 00:12:08,562 We need drugs to save children and puppies, 236 00:12:08,687 --> 00:12:12,900 ergo we need desperate people, ergo welfare kills sick children. 237 00:12:14,651 --> 00:12:17,029 - First drug... - Why don't we call it bisexidrene? 238 00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:20,407 Clinical trials involve experimental drugs. 239 00:12:20,532 --> 00:12:22,510 Means they don't have comforting, catchy names yet, 240 00:12:22,534 --> 00:12:25,078 just random, unmemorable trial numbers. 241 00:12:25,203 --> 00:12:26,330 Go ahead. 242 00:12:26,455 --> 00:12:28,707 Bisexidrene is designed as an anticoagulant. 243 00:12:28,832 --> 00:12:31,793 Phase one indicated some risk of nausea, ed and insomnia. 244 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:32,753 Second drug... 245 00:12:32,878 --> 00:12:34,463 Cuckoldisol. 246 00:12:35,839 --> 00:12:37,883 - She is having an affair? - Worse. 247 00:12:38,008 --> 00:12:41,386 Sex can be dismissed as hormonal or emotional, can be easily regretted. 248 00:12:41,511 --> 00:12:43,347 Money is always a calculated decision. 249 00:12:43,472 --> 00:12:44,890 My wife has her own bank account 250 00:12:45,015 --> 00:12:46,558 that house doesn't think I know about. 251 00:12:46,683 --> 00:12:48,435 Shocking. Discuss. 252 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,229 Drug b is an autoimmune treatment, almost no side effects. 253 00:12:51,355 --> 00:12:53,124 But even if it's doing what it's supposed to be doing, 254 00:12:53,148 --> 00:12:55,734 it doesn't mix well with anticoagulants or anticonvulsants. 255 00:12:55,859 --> 00:12:57,086 Kutner: Which is the third drug? 256 00:12:57,110 --> 00:12:59,863 World's-sorest-knees-isil. 257 00:12:59,988 --> 00:13:01,174 Cuddy used to have that title, by the way. 258 00:13:01,198 --> 00:13:03,367 There's a million ways these drugs could interact, 259 00:13:03,492 --> 00:13:05,053 if they're doing what they're supposed to. 260 00:13:05,077 --> 00:13:06,197 If they're not, two million. 261 00:13:06,286 --> 00:13:08,514 And it'd be interesting to know which of those interactions 262 00:13:08,538 --> 00:13:10,778 was causing the problem. Unfortunately, we don't have to. 263 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:12,310 We just have to stop the interacting. 264 00:13:12,334 --> 00:13:14,174 - If we don't know which... - We stop them all. 265 00:13:14,211 --> 00:13:15,921 Put him on dialysis, clear out his system. 266 00:13:16,046 --> 00:13:17,589 Rapid detox risks arrhythmia, 267 00:13:17,714 --> 00:13:19,025 another seizure, hepatic failure... 268 00:13:19,049 --> 00:13:22,219 Difference is we know what those risks are. Put him on dialysis. 269 00:13:24,638 --> 00:13:27,474 Dialysis. You use that for kidney failure, right? 270 00:13:27,599 --> 00:13:29,017 Don't worry, your kidneys are fine. 271 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:30,502 He's not worried about his kidneys. 272 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,163 He's worried about how he's going to explain 273 00:13:32,187 --> 00:13:34,356 the dialysis to his girlfriend. 274 00:13:34,481 --> 00:13:35,774 I just don't want her to worry. 275 00:13:35,899 --> 00:13:37,651 You mean you don't want her to leave you. 276 00:13:37,776 --> 00:13:40,487 What's wrong with that? I love her. 277 00:13:40,612 --> 00:13:42,757 It's not like I've lied to her about anything important. 278 00:13:42,781 --> 00:13:43,865 I am an artist. 279 00:13:43,991 --> 00:13:46,493 I've sold plenty of paintings in the past, 280 00:13:46,618 --> 00:13:48,620 I just hit a bit of a dry spell lately, so... 281 00:13:48,745 --> 00:13:50,414 So tell her that. 282 00:13:50,539 --> 00:13:51,832 He can't. 283 00:13:51,957 --> 00:13:54,084 He wants her to be happy, too. 284 00:13:54,209 --> 00:13:55,877 He's telling her what she wants to hear. 285 00:14:01,341 --> 00:14:03,301 You didn't know. 286 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,263 What are you gonna do? 287 00:14:06,388 --> 00:14:08,491 She's not sleeping around, she's not gambling it away, 288 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:09,659 she hasn't even spent any of it, 289 00:14:09,683 --> 00:14:12,019 so I don't see a reason to do anything. 290 00:14:12,144 --> 00:14:13,424 You don't think a conversation... 291 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:14,604 How many people do you know 292 00:14:14,730 --> 00:14:18,358 in completely happy and fulfilled relationships? 293 00:14:18,483 --> 00:14:20,235 - None. - I am. 294 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,655 Most people cling to some storybook notion of what a relationship is. 295 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:25,365 You can't have an imperfect thought. 296 00:14:25,490 --> 00:14:27,325 You can't have a private zone. You can't... 297 00:14:27,451 --> 00:14:30,495 Steal money and hide it away in a secret account? 298 00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:33,874 She makes me happy. I make her happy. It works. 299 00:14:33,999 --> 00:14:35,292 Because we don't do storybook, 300 00:14:35,417 --> 00:14:37,586 and I don't plan to poke into her business. 301 00:14:45,052 --> 00:14:46,887 You were right about the dialysis. 302 00:14:47,012 --> 00:14:48,698 He made it through the night without any more seizures 303 00:14:48,722 --> 00:14:49,723 or visual symptoms. 304 00:14:49,848 --> 00:14:51,349 And I'm gonna be just as right 305 00:14:51,475 --> 00:14:53,185 after breakfast up in my office. 306 00:14:53,310 --> 00:14:55,950 The only difference is I'm gonna be right in front of other people. 307 00:14:55,979 --> 00:14:58,273 Which means you're not here to talk about the medicine. 308 00:14:58,398 --> 00:14:59,917 You can screw with me all you want at work, 309 00:14:59,941 --> 00:15:01,610 but stay out of my personal life. 310 00:15:01,735 --> 00:15:03,737 What did she say? 311 00:15:03,862 --> 00:15:05,006 Did you just hear what I said? 312 00:15:05,030 --> 00:15:07,633 I heard the part about "you can screw with me at work all you want." 313 00:15:07,657 --> 00:15:09,135 - You want my advice? - Of course not. 314 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:11,328 Good, because I have no idea what you should do. 315 00:15:11,453 --> 00:15:12,871 I only know what you're going to do. 316 00:15:12,996 --> 00:15:14,557 - You're gonna... - I said I didn't want your advice. 317 00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:15,874 I said this is not advice. 318 00:15:15,999 --> 00:15:18,210 You are going to forgive her for opening that account, 319 00:15:18,335 --> 00:15:19,812 and you're gonna confess everything you've done 320 00:15:19,836 --> 00:15:21,596 and then you're gonna beg her to forgive you. 321 00:15:22,214 --> 00:15:24,174 What purpose could that possibly serve? 322 00:15:24,299 --> 00:15:28,178 None, which is why I'm not saying you should, but you will. 323 00:15:32,474 --> 00:15:34,476 Douglas on earphone: What's your end game? 324 00:15:35,393 --> 00:15:36,436 Where are you? 325 00:15:36,561 --> 00:15:37,437 I'm at the track. 326 00:15:37,562 --> 00:15:40,816 That's like six miles away. How cool are these things? 327 00:15:40,941 --> 00:15:42,651 I feel like an idiot. 328 00:15:48,031 --> 00:15:49,658 I'm not giving you any more of my stuff. 329 00:15:49,783 --> 00:15:51,993 Do you have those night vision goggles? 330 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:54,496 You're lying. 331 00:15:54,621 --> 00:15:56,373 You like making him miserable. 332 00:15:56,498 --> 00:15:58,875 You like driving people away from you. 333 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,418 He deserved to know the truth. 334 00:16:00,544 --> 00:16:02,064 There was no truth until you dug it up. 335 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:03,648 House on earphone: You do know that stuff exists 336 00:16:03,672 --> 00:16:05,966 even when you can't see it, right? 337 00:16:06,091 --> 00:16:07,509 It was a truth that mattered to him 338 00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:08,927 and a truth that mattered to her, 339 00:16:09,052 --> 00:16:10,512 why did it matter to you? 340 00:16:10,637 --> 00:16:14,266 First of all, stop saying "a" truth. There is only one truth. 341 00:16:14,391 --> 00:16:15,934 That may be true for you. 342 00:16:16,643 --> 00:16:18,979 Miserable people save more lives. 343 00:16:19,104 --> 00:16:21,648 If your life has meaning, your job doesn't have to have meaning. 344 00:16:21,773 --> 00:16:25,110 Screw-ups are more palatable if you have someone's arms to go cry in. 345 00:16:25,235 --> 00:16:27,154 That makes sense. 346 00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:29,072 Usually, I have more of a fight on that one. 347 00:16:29,197 --> 00:16:31,366 So why are you making Taub miserable? 348 00:16:31,491 --> 00:16:32,491 I just said... 349 00:16:32,576 --> 00:16:34,411 He left his last job to save his marriage. 350 00:16:34,536 --> 00:16:37,664 If his marriage falls apart, you think he'll be working harder for you? 351 00:16:37,789 --> 00:16:39,958 Or you think he won't be working for you at all? 352 00:16:44,546 --> 00:16:46,274 Foreman: His head and neck are completely swollen. 353 00:16:46,298 --> 00:16:48,633 I need a trach kit. His throat's closing. 354 00:16:54,431 --> 00:16:56,433 - Can't find any landmarks. - Just start cutting. 355 00:16:56,558 --> 00:16:59,436 - An exploratory trach? - We don't have a choice. 356 00:17:00,937 --> 00:17:02,981 - I got it. - Here. 357 00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:14,492 Kutner: His face is so swollen it's squeezed his tear ducts shut. 358 00:17:14,618 --> 00:17:16,203 We've been lubricating his eyes by hand. 359 00:17:16,328 --> 00:17:19,372 We've started him on steroids, iv, and cream to reduce the swelling, 360 00:17:19,497 --> 00:17:20,516 but it's having limited effect. 361 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:23,710 Negative for thrombosis and chagas. Could be infection. 362 00:17:23,835 --> 00:17:24,669 Cultures still negative. 363 00:17:24,794 --> 00:17:27,505 Could be his immune system's on hyperdrive, cytokine storm. 364 00:17:27,631 --> 00:17:30,175 Why would you pay for a three-year gym membership 365 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:32,010 and only go twice? 366 00:17:35,138 --> 00:17:37,515 Sorry. You guys still diagnosing? 367 00:17:37,641 --> 00:17:38,784 I thought we finished hours ago. 368 00:17:38,808 --> 00:17:40,620 You remember, when we decided it was the unproven, 369 00:17:40,644 --> 00:17:45,232 unapproved cocktail of drugs he's been downing like... like a cocktail. 370 00:17:45,357 --> 00:17:47,525 He just completed a total dialysis. 371 00:17:47,651 --> 00:17:48,836 If it was the drugs, he'd be better. 372 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:50,237 Or he'd be worse. 373 00:17:52,072 --> 00:17:53,949 I take it none of you saw trainspotting. 374 00:17:54,074 --> 00:17:55,843 You think swelling is a symptom of withdrawal? 375 00:17:55,867 --> 00:17:58,346 You think it's a coincidence that three new symptoms cropped up 376 00:17:58,370 --> 00:17:59,680 as soon as we took him off the drugs? 377 00:17:59,704 --> 00:18:00,765 It's possible some of the symptoms... 378 00:18:00,789 --> 00:18:02,415 Either the drugs are the answer 379 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:03,780 or the drugs are a coincidence. 380 00:18:03,833 --> 00:18:05,770 If it's one, we have to find a better way to detox him. 381 00:18:05,794 --> 00:18:08,672 If it's two, we have to know which symptoms are withdrawal related 382 00:18:08,797 --> 00:18:10,382 before we can formulate a diagnosis. 383 00:18:10,507 --> 00:18:12,884 Which means we have to find a better way to detox him. 384 00:18:13,009 --> 00:18:14,761 So how do we do it? 385 00:18:14,886 --> 00:18:16,263 Hair of the drug that bit him. 386 00:18:16,388 --> 00:18:17,222 That's ridiculous. 387 00:18:17,347 --> 00:18:19,575 If it is the drugs, they're dangerous, and they've already caused... 388 00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:21,452 That's why we're gonna put him back on the drugs, 389 00:18:21,476 --> 00:18:22,686 then wean him off again. 390 00:18:22,811 --> 00:18:24,145 Just much slower. 391 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:28,233 Why are you looking at him? 392 00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:30,485 Try it out. 393 00:18:30,819 --> 00:18:33,488 You heard the boss. Go! 394 00:18:36,533 --> 00:18:38,410 - Taub... - I didn't talk to her. 395 00:18:47,377 --> 00:18:49,045 Why are you... 396 00:18:49,170 --> 00:18:50,338 Excuse me. 397 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:52,090 Uh, sorry. 398 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:01,474 He does look like me, doesn't he? 399 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:02,599 You gave him your hat? 400 00:19:02,684 --> 00:19:04,704 I needed you out of here so I could go through your desk. 401 00:19:04,728 --> 00:19:05,854 Of course. 402 00:19:05,979 --> 00:19:08,690 Nice blouse. I really like that color on you. 403 00:19:08,815 --> 00:19:10,817 Tell house that if he wants to know what I'm doing, 404 00:19:10,942 --> 00:19:11,818 all he has to do... 405 00:19:11,943 --> 00:19:15,322 It's not house. It's me. I was... I don't know. 406 00:19:15,447 --> 00:19:18,199 I was thinking maybe we could get together for a drink or something. 407 00:19:18,325 --> 00:19:20,785 I wasn't sure exactly what you like to do, so I thought... 408 00:19:20,910 --> 00:19:23,246 - You'd spy on me? - No, no, not spying. 409 00:19:23,371 --> 00:19:26,583 More like research. I think it's a good idea to get to know a little bit more 410 00:19:26,708 --> 00:19:28,626 about a woman before you ask her out. 411 00:19:28,752 --> 00:19:31,921 Show you care about more than just what she looks like. 412 00:19:32,714 --> 00:19:35,091 As romantic as you make that sound, 413 00:19:35,216 --> 00:19:37,302 pretty sure that what you're doing 414 00:19:37,427 --> 00:19:40,096 is not so much caring as creepy. 415 00:19:40,221 --> 00:19:41,056 That's not fair. 416 00:19:41,181 --> 00:19:42,766 You were scrounging through my desk. 417 00:19:42,891 --> 00:19:45,161 What the hell am I going to find out? You went to Michigan. 418 00:19:45,185 --> 00:19:47,103 You like your sandwiches a little light on Mayo. 419 00:19:47,228 --> 00:19:48,688 You stay in touch with your mother. 420 00:19:48,813 --> 00:19:50,106 You rented the English patient 421 00:19:50,231 --> 00:19:52,901 and you gave money to amnesty international. 422 00:19:53,026 --> 00:19:54,337 There's not one thing I can find out in here 423 00:19:54,361 --> 00:19:57,655 that you wouldn't tell a co-worker while riding in an elevator. 424 00:19:59,074 --> 00:20:01,910 I'm not a creep. I just thought you seemed interesting. 425 00:20:04,329 --> 00:20:05,914 I'll go now. 426 00:20:06,581 --> 00:20:08,249 Yeah, these... 427 00:20:15,465 --> 00:20:18,676 I'll give you embarrassing info on house. 428 00:20:18,802 --> 00:20:19,844 In exchange for... 429 00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:21,262 No. No need for a date. 430 00:20:21,388 --> 00:20:24,099 You'd be employing me, so I'd have all the time in the world 431 00:20:24,224 --> 00:20:26,601 to ask you all about you and it would fall 432 00:20:26,726 --> 00:20:29,354 under the category of socializing, instead of creepy stalking. 433 00:20:29,479 --> 00:20:31,165 - And I'd be paying you? - I know it's weird. 434 00:20:31,189 --> 00:20:34,192 But if you pay me while I check you out, it's all cool. 435 00:20:34,317 --> 00:20:36,337 And you'd get value. You'd get leverage against him. 436 00:20:36,361 --> 00:20:37,487 Help you keep him in line. 437 00:20:37,612 --> 00:20:39,332 You think I need help keeping house in line? 438 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,952 Nope. I'm sorry. 439 00:20:45,453 --> 00:20:46,746 This hospital can't afford... 440 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:48,498 Oh, whatever you can afford. 441 00:20:53,837 --> 00:20:55,255 How did you know I liked roses? 442 00:20:55,380 --> 00:20:57,048 I was in your house last night. 443 00:20:57,173 --> 00:20:59,551 No, I'm kidding. 444 00:21:00,552 --> 00:21:02,470 Who the hell doesn't like roses? 445 00:21:16,484 --> 00:21:17,360 I forgot to tell you, 446 00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:20,488 the Parker quartet is going to play at the library fundraiser. 447 00:21:24,617 --> 00:21:27,245 That's it? It was your idea. 448 00:21:28,371 --> 00:21:29,539 They'll be great. 449 00:21:30,165 --> 00:21:31,374 Mmm-hmm. 450 00:21:36,838 --> 00:21:37,839 You okay? 451 00:21:40,258 --> 00:21:42,594 I couldn't find the letter opener. 452 00:21:42,719 --> 00:21:47,265 I went through some of the drawers in your desk, looking for it. 453 00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:52,353 There were a bunch of statements in there from Jefferson mutual. 454 00:22:02,155 --> 00:22:03,531 I was so close. 455 00:22:04,991 --> 00:22:06,075 To what? 456 00:22:06,201 --> 00:22:10,038 You've got $83,000 socked away in a secret account. 457 00:22:10,163 --> 00:22:11,664 Not anymore. 458 00:22:14,250 --> 00:22:16,252 I wanted to keep it a surprise, 459 00:22:19,547 --> 00:22:21,633 but I bought you the car. 460 00:22:27,138 --> 00:22:29,265 The one that I... 461 00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:36,231 I knew you would never buy it yourself, so I've been saving. 462 00:22:36,814 --> 00:22:39,317 And it's gonna be delivered on Friday. 463 00:22:44,030 --> 00:22:45,990 You are amazing. 464 00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:48,867 Lucky you. 465 00:22:54,541 --> 00:22:57,210 We've gradually reduced your dosage. 466 00:22:57,335 --> 00:22:58,586 You're actually drug-free now. 467 00:22:58,711 --> 00:23:01,339 I feel great. Thanks to you. 468 00:23:01,464 --> 00:23:03,591 All part of the job. 469 00:23:03,716 --> 00:23:06,344 Your blood pressure is normal. Can you sit up? 470 00:23:11,641 --> 00:23:12,641 What are you... 471 00:23:20,608 --> 00:23:21,442 What happened to his face? 472 00:23:21,568 --> 00:23:23,319 Question is, what happened to his hormones? 473 00:23:23,444 --> 00:23:25,989 We're gonna need an ice pack in here. 474 00:23:30,034 --> 00:23:32,263 Kutner: We can rule out the clinical trial drugs at this point. 475 00:23:32,287 --> 00:23:34,163 His system has been completely cleaned twice. 476 00:23:34,289 --> 00:23:36,433 So unless the drugs found a hiding place under the stairs... 477 00:23:36,457 --> 00:23:38,960 Drugs could have set off a dormant neurological condition. 478 00:23:39,085 --> 00:23:42,922 Good point. Coming clean causes a lot of damage. 479 00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:45,133 Alienation, divorce... 480 00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:47,468 My wife's buying me a car. 481 00:23:49,053 --> 00:23:50,948 - I was talking about the patient. - You were wrong. 482 00:23:50,972 --> 00:23:53,016 The divorce was metaphorical. 483 00:23:53,141 --> 00:23:55,143 Foreman: What about kliiver-bucy syndrome? 484 00:23:55,268 --> 00:23:56,978 Bilateral lesions in the temporal lobes. 485 00:23:57,103 --> 00:23:59,480 Visual agnosia and hyper-sexuality are the key symptoms. 486 00:23:59,606 --> 00:24:01,232 Good thing he's got that girlfriend. 487 00:24:01,357 --> 00:24:03,197 If it's kliiver-bucy, his brain will melt down, 488 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:04,652 he'll try to swallow his own hands 489 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:06,922 and she can take care of him for the rest of his talentless life. 490 00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:07,947 You owe me an apology. 491 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:09,949 Any rationalization you had for meddling 492 00:24:10,074 --> 00:24:11,743 in my private life disappeared 493 00:24:11,868 --> 00:24:12,948 when she had good reason... 494 00:24:12,994 --> 00:24:14,287 You're right. 495 00:24:15,622 --> 00:24:18,583 Fact is, nothing I said applies. 496 00:24:18,708 --> 00:24:20,209 You had no reason to forgive her, 497 00:24:20,335 --> 00:24:24,047 therefore no reason to seek forgiveness, no reason to be an idiot. 498 00:24:27,342 --> 00:24:30,094 Kliiver-bucy wouldn't explain the seizure or the cytokine storm. 499 00:24:30,219 --> 00:24:31,471 Withdrawal complications. 500 00:24:31,596 --> 00:24:34,015 Then again, she is handing you a giant gift 501 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:35,460 that you don't think you deserve. 502 00:24:35,558 --> 00:24:38,638 The fact that the mri showed no lesions on the temporal lobe tends to rule out 503 00:24:38,686 --> 00:24:40,122 your "lesions on the temporal lobe" theory. 504 00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:42,899 The damage can be a circulatory issue, rather than structural. 505 00:24:43,024 --> 00:24:44,942 We wouldn't see that on the mri. 506 00:24:45,068 --> 00:24:45,943 Foreman's right. 507 00:24:46,069 --> 00:24:47,838 Go call your wife, tell her you're not coming home, 508 00:24:47,862 --> 00:24:50,657 say you have to give a patient a cranial mr angiogram, 509 00:24:50,782 --> 00:24:53,326 then say good night and hang up. 510 00:25:15,098 --> 00:25:20,061 Odd that a man who can't run would own so many pairs of sneakers. 511 00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:22,105 You mind hanging this up when you're done? 512 00:25:23,231 --> 00:25:25,608 I have to find something embarrassing about you. 513 00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:29,445 No, you don't. I ordered us Indian. 514 00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:33,032 Not too embarrassing. Just something credible. 515 00:25:33,157 --> 00:25:37,036 Well, if you hand her that, she's not gonna need you anymore. 516 00:25:37,161 --> 00:25:39,348 If I don't hand her anything, she'll think I'm incompetent. 517 00:25:39,372 --> 00:25:42,458 I don't care if she thinks you're incompetent. 518 00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:44,335 This isn't gonna work. 519 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:46,129 It's worked so far. 520 00:25:46,254 --> 00:25:47,922 I'm not good at lying. 521 00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:48,881 I know. 522 00:25:49,006 --> 00:25:51,759 That's why your cover is that you want to do her. 523 00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:54,679 I like her. I don't want to do her. 524 00:25:54,804 --> 00:25:56,889 Then what's the point of liking her? 525 00:25:57,014 --> 00:25:59,809 I meant I don't just want to do her. I like her. 526 00:25:59,934 --> 00:26:02,437 What do you think you're gonna find out about her? 527 00:26:03,104 --> 00:26:06,941 Something personal, something embarrassing. 528 00:26:07,066 --> 00:26:10,278 I spend half my life negotiating with that woman. 529 00:26:10,403 --> 00:26:13,156 Anything I can use to scare her into saying yes. 530 00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:19,245 Okay. 531 00:26:21,539 --> 00:26:22,790 Iiokayll? 532 00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:26,377 You're okay with being paid twice to facilitate blackmail? 533 00:26:26,502 --> 00:26:29,297 I'm okay. I don't believe you. But I'm okay. 534 00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:33,760 You're doing this for the same reason I'm doing this. 535 00:26:33,885 --> 00:26:35,595 We'll see who gets there first. 536 00:26:39,474 --> 00:26:42,935 Here it is. Circle of Willis, the vessels are narrow. 537 00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:46,189 Narrow for you, normal for him. 538 00:26:46,314 --> 00:26:47,708 If there were problems with the vessels, 539 00:26:47,732 --> 00:26:49,132 he would have had symptoms long ago. 540 00:26:49,233 --> 00:26:51,861 - Not if something else changed. - Like? 541 00:26:51,986 --> 00:26:52,820 Taub: His heart. 542 00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:54,882 He could have recently gotten an intermittent arrhythmia. 543 00:26:54,906 --> 00:26:57,450 I know "heart" and "head" start with the same three letters, 544 00:26:57,575 --> 00:27:00,036 but you've got to read all the way to the end. 545 00:27:00,161 --> 00:27:01,801 The experimental drugs cause an arrhythmia 546 00:27:01,913 --> 00:27:03,581 which causes low blood pressure. 547 00:27:03,706 --> 00:27:05,249 Combine that with those narrow vessels, 548 00:27:05,374 --> 00:27:06,918 the brain doesn't get enough blood. 549 00:27:07,043 --> 00:27:08,753 That causes all of his symptoms. 550 00:27:08,878 --> 00:27:10,647 If we can trigger the arrhythmia and identify it, 551 00:27:10,671 --> 00:27:13,174 we might be able to stop it from killing him. 552 00:27:15,593 --> 00:27:17,094 - Been home? - No. 553 00:27:18,513 --> 00:27:21,474 Good. Do an ep study. Find the arrhythmia. 554 00:27:24,769 --> 00:27:27,313 We're gonna insert three electrical catheters into your heart. 555 00:27:27,438 --> 00:27:28,856 Tell Dr. Hadley I'm sorry. 556 00:27:28,981 --> 00:27:31,567 She understands, and you should tell her yourself. 557 00:27:31,692 --> 00:27:33,132 Maybe I should tell Heather about it. 558 00:27:33,194 --> 00:27:34,403 You're gonna be fine. 559 00:27:34,529 --> 00:27:38,866 She's so supportive, she's so great. All I do is lie to her. 560 00:27:38,991 --> 00:27:41,369 What happens if you tell her? 561 00:27:41,786 --> 00:27:43,246 I don't know. 562 00:27:43,371 --> 00:27:44,956 You love her, right? 563 00:27:45,081 --> 00:27:46,433 More than anything, and she loves me. 564 00:27:46,457 --> 00:27:48,709 If you open your mouth, one of two things happens, 565 00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:50,962 she either forgives you or she leaves you. 566 00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:54,048 At best, you wind up exactly where you are right now. 567 00:27:54,173 --> 00:27:57,051 It's noble to want to confess. Really, it is. 568 00:27:57,176 --> 00:27:59,679 But if the result's just damage and pain, 569 00:27:59,804 --> 00:28:01,973 that's not noble, it's selfish. 570 00:28:04,934 --> 00:28:07,520 Taub: Stimulate right atrium. 571 00:28:07,645 --> 00:28:08,771 Normal conduction. 572 00:28:08,896 --> 00:28:11,148 How long you plan on keeping me from going home? 573 00:28:11,274 --> 00:28:13,442 Until you're convinced I'm a different person, 574 00:28:13,568 --> 00:28:15,653 one who won't do anything stupid? 575 00:28:16,571 --> 00:28:20,074 Guilt fades quickly. By Wednesday, you'll be fine. 576 00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:23,995 Right ventricle. And why do you want it to fade? 577 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,122 Why do you suddenly care about my marriage? 578 00:28:26,247 --> 00:28:28,165 Because if it ain't broke... 579 00:28:28,291 --> 00:28:29,917 You obviously think it is broke. 580 00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:31,460 And you obviously think it ain't. 581 00:28:31,586 --> 00:28:33,296 Your marriage is like a broken toaster. 582 00:28:33,421 --> 00:28:35,482 Bread keeps popping out, and you keep calling it toast, 583 00:28:35,506 --> 00:28:37,860 which is weird because you've put your bread in a lot of toasters, 584 00:28:37,884 --> 00:28:40,571 and apparently you don't see any difference. It's kind of fascinating. 585 00:28:40,595 --> 00:28:42,114 He's going into v-tach. 586 00:28:42,138 --> 00:28:42,972 What's wrong? 587 00:28:43,097 --> 00:28:45,182 Good news, test is working. 588 00:28:45,308 --> 00:28:47,953 Your heart's freaking out, but it's cool that you're still conscious. 589 00:28:47,977 --> 00:28:49,562 Try to overdrive. 590 00:28:50,187 --> 00:28:51,439 Didn't work. 591 00:28:57,862 --> 00:29:00,865 This might burn a little bit. Charging to 60. Clear. 592 00:29:03,284 --> 00:29:05,119 Going again. Charging to 120. 593 00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:07,246 Have you been dyeing your hair? 594 00:29:08,998 --> 00:29:10,917 - No. - House. Clear. 595 00:29:11,042 --> 00:29:12,251 Right. 596 00:29:15,212 --> 00:29:16,589 Your hair's growing in red. 597 00:29:18,633 --> 00:29:20,968 Taub: His heart rate is stabilized. 598 00:29:21,093 --> 00:29:23,262 Does your theory include any genetic mutations 599 00:29:23,387 --> 00:29:25,681 that could cause his hair to change color? 600 00:29:26,766 --> 00:29:29,644 Then either he's lying about dyeing 601 00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:32,229 or just dying. 602 00:29:35,942 --> 00:29:37,777 Red hair means it's not kliiver-bucy. 603 00:29:37,902 --> 00:29:40,237 Melanin affects hair color. What affects melanin? 604 00:29:40,363 --> 00:29:42,323 - Hormones. - Hormone panels were all normal. 605 00:29:42,448 --> 00:29:43,491 Age. 606 00:29:43,616 --> 00:29:45,368 He's turning prematurely crimson? 607 00:29:45,493 --> 00:29:46,613 Foreman: A genetic disorder. 608 00:29:46,702 --> 00:29:49,622 Waardenburg syndrome causes arrhythmias and can change hair color. 609 00:29:49,747 --> 00:29:51,290 And make you deaf. Next. 610 00:29:51,415 --> 00:29:54,543 I found a long qt interval. I think it's Romano-ward syndrome. 611 00:29:54,669 --> 00:29:56,420 Explains the irregular heart rhythms. 612 00:29:56,545 --> 00:29:57,672 But not the ginger nut. 613 00:29:57,797 --> 00:30:00,517 Foreman: If he's got Romano's, he's got at least five gene mutations. 614 00:30:00,591 --> 00:30:02,861 It's not a big leap to think he has others that would give him the hair. 615 00:30:02,885 --> 00:30:05,846 It also gives him the likelihood of sudden and unexpected death. 616 00:30:05,972 --> 00:30:09,767 Beta blockers don't work. His heart can't handle an icd. 617 00:30:09,892 --> 00:30:11,268 Pete best. 618 00:30:15,898 --> 00:30:19,193 Good god, has none of you ever read a history book? 619 00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:21,487 The original Beatles drummer. 620 00:30:21,612 --> 00:30:23,864 A bunch of nerves controls the tempo of the heart. 621 00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:26,551 They're all playing in time, except one dude who can't keep the beat, 622 00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:28,953 wrecks the whole thing, so we hire Ringo. 623 00:30:29,078 --> 00:30:30,746 Pete best was actually a great drummer. 624 00:30:30,871 --> 00:30:33,457 But I assume you mean the patient needs a cardiac sympathectomy? 625 00:30:33,582 --> 00:30:34,893 I probably should have just said that, huh? 626 00:30:34,917 --> 00:30:38,129 You start cutting nerves, you risk his swallowing, vocal cords, sweating... 627 00:30:38,254 --> 00:30:41,716 So he saves a fortune on karaoke machines and deodorant. 628 00:30:41,841 --> 00:30:43,843 You think he's stable enough for surgery? 629 00:30:45,594 --> 00:30:47,388 If he was, he wouldn't need it. 630 00:30:51,559 --> 00:30:52,810 Cuddy: Wow. 631 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:58,941 - Wow. - Yeah. 632 00:30:59,442 --> 00:31:01,777 Do you have any brothers and sisters? 633 00:31:01,902 --> 00:31:03,112 One sister. 634 00:31:03,237 --> 00:31:04,947 He told me he was on the lacrosse team. 635 00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:09,285 In high school. In college hejust cheered the lacrosse team on to victory. 636 00:31:09,410 --> 00:31:10,870 - Wow. - Yeah. 637 00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:13,539 How was your relationship with your dad? 638 00:31:13,664 --> 00:31:15,875 Fine. You have three more questions. 639 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,269 How was your relationship with your mom? 640 00:31:17,293 --> 00:31:18,335 Fine. 641 00:31:18,461 --> 00:31:20,629 When did you lose your virginity? 642 00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:24,300 Not something I discuss with co-workers in an elevator. 643 00:31:26,260 --> 00:31:27,595 And... 644 00:31:28,512 --> 00:31:29,805 And... 645 00:31:32,683 --> 00:31:33,976 You know, don't you? 646 00:31:37,021 --> 00:31:39,440 Bit of a wasted third question 647 00:31:40,024 --> 00:31:42,109 'cause the answer is "know what?" 648 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:43,778 Okay, bear with me here, 649 00:31:43,903 --> 00:31:47,740 because some people sometimes consider my thought processes complicated. 650 00:31:47,865 --> 00:31:51,077 I'm into you 'cause you're hot and smart, 651 00:31:51,202 --> 00:31:53,412 in that order, but both are needed. 652 00:31:53,537 --> 00:31:55,039 Photos can be retouched, 653 00:31:55,164 --> 00:31:58,918 and house is an evil genius, which makes this photo suspicious. 654 00:31:59,043 --> 00:32:00,669 And yet you're not suspicious. 655 00:32:00,795 --> 00:32:02,814 Which means either you're not smart enough to be suspicious, 656 00:32:02,838 --> 00:32:06,467 in which case, I am less interested in you. 657 00:32:06,592 --> 00:32:09,136 Or you're not suspicious because you know 658 00:32:09,261 --> 00:32:12,014 this is actually a doctored photo of house. 659 00:32:12,139 --> 00:32:15,309 In which case, I am more interested in you. 660 00:32:15,434 --> 00:32:17,394 But I'm wasting my time because you know 661 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,063 this is a game we are playing on you 662 00:32:19,188 --> 00:32:22,108 and I am busted and I'm screwed. 663 00:32:24,819 --> 00:32:26,570 I know the photo's a fake. 664 00:32:27,404 --> 00:32:29,365 I know this is a game. 665 00:32:29,698 --> 00:32:31,158 Sorry. 666 00:32:34,036 --> 00:32:35,454 Too bad. 667 00:32:37,873 --> 00:32:39,458 Good bye. 668 00:32:46,215 --> 00:32:50,219 So you knew that I wasn't gonna give you anything worthwhile? 669 00:32:50,344 --> 00:32:53,264 And you were never gonna give me anything worthwhile? 670 00:32:55,057 --> 00:32:56,892 Then why did you bother coming out with me? 671 00:32:57,017 --> 00:32:59,562 I wanted to screw with house. 672 00:33:00,771 --> 00:33:04,608 By wasting my time? That doesn't make sense. 673 00:33:06,152 --> 00:33:10,281 No. There must be another reason. 674 00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:12,448 Hmm. 675 00:33:12,533 --> 00:33:15,286 Is it okay if I sit back down here? 676 00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:21,268 Thirteen: Your heartbeat's out of control. 677 00:33:21,292 --> 00:33:24,712 We need to surgically sever the connection between your heart and brain. 678 00:33:24,837 --> 00:33:28,174 We believe it's necessary, but you need to know the ramifications. 679 00:33:28,299 --> 00:33:30,092 You'll never be able to feel angina. 680 00:33:30,217 --> 00:33:32,303 You may not know if you have a heart attack, 681 00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:34,430 may not be able to get help in time. 682 00:33:34,555 --> 00:33:36,807 Where are my regular doctors? 683 00:33:36,932 --> 00:33:37,933 Regular doctors? 684 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:39,894 Dr. Taub and Dr. Hadley. 685 00:33:40,019 --> 00:33:42,062 Why aren't they telling me this? 686 00:33:42,188 --> 00:33:44,899 Brandon, I am Dr. Hadley, and this is Dr. Taub. 687 00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:50,279 What are you talking about? I've never seen you before in my life. 688 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:57,703 Taub: We can't do the surgery. 689 00:33:57,828 --> 00:33:59,556 We're back to where we started, visual agnosia. 690 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:01,308 We need to re-examine neurological disorders, 691 00:34:01,332 --> 00:34:03,310 - something slowly progressing. - This isn't progressing. 692 00:34:03,334 --> 00:34:05,169 It's there, then it's not, then it is. 693 00:34:05,294 --> 00:34:07,838 It's a new symptom, interrnittence. 694 00:34:09,006 --> 00:34:10,007 It's irrelevant. 695 00:34:10,132 --> 00:34:11,884 Since when is a new symptom irrelevant? 696 00:34:12,009 --> 00:34:13,844 Since it points towards the same disease. 697 00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:15,596 Intermittence can fit with Romano-ward. 698 00:34:15,721 --> 00:34:17,181 We still need to do a sympathectomy. 699 00:34:17,306 --> 00:34:19,141 Maybe we missed something, toxins. 700 00:34:19,266 --> 00:34:21,602 When? When you checked every bottle, 701 00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:24,438 every can, every tube of paint, or when you detoxed him twice? 702 00:34:24,563 --> 00:34:26,523 Maybe there was a batch of toxic paint 703 00:34:26,649 --> 00:34:28,108 that he used up a few months ago. 704 00:34:28,234 --> 00:34:30,128 Then he would have been sick months ago, not now. 705 00:34:30,152 --> 00:34:31,779 He's lost weight since he got here. 706 00:34:31,904 --> 00:34:33,673 That's a symptom of trying to cram hospital food 707 00:34:33,697 --> 00:34:35,133 down a throat he can barely get air down. 708 00:34:35,157 --> 00:34:36,200 It's not a symptom, 709 00:34:36,325 --> 00:34:40,079 but what if the toxins were stored in his fat cells a year ago, 710 00:34:40,204 --> 00:34:44,500 and now they're being released into his bloodstream? 711 00:34:44,625 --> 00:34:47,503 So where are you gonna get this old paint, the city dump? 712 00:34:47,628 --> 00:34:50,673 On his old paintings. We know he hasn't sold one in ages, 713 00:34:50,798 --> 00:34:54,051 but there weren't many in his studio. He's hid them somewhere. 714 00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:57,179 If you're wrong, he could drop dead 715 00:34:57,304 --> 00:35:00,266 from Romano-ward at any moment. You okay with that? 716 00:35:00,391 --> 00:35:02,518 Just give me a few hours. 717 00:35:02,643 --> 00:35:03,936 You got one. 718 00:35:11,068 --> 00:35:12,945 I need to talk to him alone. 719 00:35:13,070 --> 00:35:15,948 It's about your work. Your paintings. 720 00:35:16,073 --> 00:35:19,618 I need to look at all the ones you've sold recently. 721 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,320 Honey, can you give us a minute? 722 00:35:26,417 --> 00:35:28,294 To talk about your paintings? 723 00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:32,923 Brandon, please. Tell me what's going on. 724 00:35:40,556 --> 00:35:46,145 I've only sold two paintings in the last three years, since we met. 725 00:35:47,438 --> 00:35:49,106 One was to my cousin. 726 00:35:49,231 --> 00:35:52,151 I've been making money enrolling in drug trials. 727 00:35:52,276 --> 00:35:54,945 Two, three at a time. 728 00:36:01,869 --> 00:36:04,121 Why did you lie to me? 729 00:36:04,246 --> 00:36:05,622 I want to be... 730 00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:11,587 The way you look at me, the way it makes me feel... 731 00:36:11,712 --> 00:36:16,383 I want to be what you see when you look at me. 732 00:36:21,055 --> 00:36:23,057 You think I'm that shallow? 733 00:36:24,433 --> 00:36:28,854 When I look at you, I see you. 734 00:36:47,039 --> 00:36:48,957 Where are the ones you didn't sell? 735 00:38:17,129 --> 00:38:18,964 It's not the paint, it's the drugs. 736 00:38:19,089 --> 00:38:20,299 He's not on the drugs 737 00:38:20,424 --> 00:38:21,300 I know it doesn't make sense, 738 00:38:21,425 --> 00:38:23,665 but I'm looking at his paintings for the last six months. 739 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,597 They're normal April, June and August, 740 00:38:26,722 --> 00:38:29,808 but they're distorted may, July, September. 741 00:38:29,933 --> 00:38:32,227 Every other month, he was having visual agnosia 742 00:38:32,352 --> 00:38:35,355 because every other month, he was on all three drugs simultaneously. 743 00:38:35,481 --> 00:38:38,400 The statin was one month on, one month off. 744 00:38:38,525 --> 00:38:40,295 I don't know why the symptoms keep coming and going, 745 00:38:40,319 --> 00:38:41,945 but it is the drugs. 746 00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:44,323 They're hiding under the stairs. 747 00:38:44,448 --> 00:38:46,116 In the fat? That doesn't make sense. 748 00:38:46,241 --> 00:38:47,481 These drugs aren't fat soluble. 749 00:38:47,534 --> 00:38:49,620 I said stairs, not closet. 750 00:38:49,745 --> 00:38:52,498 What was the last drug he was on before the drugs he was on 751 00:38:52,623 --> 00:38:53,749 when the symptoms started? 752 00:38:53,874 --> 00:38:55,000 I'm not sure, I think... 753 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:56,418 Antacid. 754 00:38:57,002 --> 00:38:58,962 - How do you know? - It makes sense. 755 00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:01,673 Also, I'm looking at the file. 756 00:39:06,512 --> 00:39:07,638 Yes. 757 00:39:11,475 --> 00:39:12,851 It's Dr. House. 758 00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:14,937 Wake him up. We're done. 759 00:39:15,062 --> 00:39:18,148 No, no, he says he needs surgery, but not this one. 760 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:19,566 Did he give any specifics? 761 00:39:19,691 --> 00:39:22,486 Abdominal surgery to remove a bezoar. 762 00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:27,991 It's like a hairball, but it's made up of undigested food. 763 00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:30,035 You can get it if your stomach acid's low, 764 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,330 which Brandon's was because of an experimental antacid. 765 00:39:33,455 --> 00:39:35,707 The fruit and vegetable fibers and skins 766 00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:38,043 get stuck together and form a ball. 767 00:39:38,168 --> 00:39:40,879 It gets sticky, ferments, grows. 768 00:39:41,004 --> 00:39:43,507 It starts sucking up some of the pills he'd taken. 769 00:39:43,632 --> 00:39:46,802 Some are never heard from again, but some get released. 770 00:39:46,927 --> 00:39:48,929 For the last week, it's basically been giving him 771 00:39:49,054 --> 00:39:51,682 massive doses of all three at once. 772 00:39:56,436 --> 00:40:00,065 That is why I won't let Cameron buy a cat. 773 00:40:00,941 --> 00:40:02,359 He should be fine. 774 00:40:05,862 --> 00:40:07,864 Are you glad he told you the truth? 775 00:40:07,990 --> 00:40:09,825 Yes. Of course. 776 00:40:12,077 --> 00:40:16,039 But were you happier before you knew? 777 00:40:24,881 --> 00:40:27,092 About 10 more feet. 778 00:40:27,217 --> 00:40:30,012 I do know what it looks like, so maybe this whole blindfold thing... 779 00:40:30,137 --> 00:40:33,140 Shh. My gift, my rules. Bump! 780 00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:36,184 All right, if you don't like the color, 781 00:40:36,310 --> 00:40:37,510 apparently we can exchange it, 782 00:40:37,561 --> 00:40:39,980 but I'm hoping... you ready? 783 00:40:43,025 --> 00:40:44,359 Ta-da! 784 00:40:47,362 --> 00:40:48,822 Do you like it? 785 00:40:55,996 --> 00:40:57,414 Baby, are you okay? 786 00:41:06,715 --> 00:41:08,425 We need to talk. 787 00:41:32,616 --> 00:41:34,284 She didn't buy it. 788 00:41:34,409 --> 00:41:35,786 Damn. 789 00:41:37,579 --> 00:41:39,081 So, you didn't get anything? 790 00:41:39,206 --> 00:41:42,542 Nothing. We probably overstepped. 791 00:41:42,668 --> 00:41:45,337 You're really not the cheerleader type. 792 00:41:45,462 --> 00:41:49,508 On the other hand, I figured she probably wouldn't figure me as the 793 00:41:49,633 --> 00:41:54,096 "photoshopping a photo and planting it in a college paper" type either. 794 00:41:54,221 --> 00:41:57,140 Yeah. About that, 795 00:41:58,725 --> 00:42:00,852 I took a little trip to your Alma mater. 796 00:42:02,521 --> 00:42:06,191 You took a little trip 150 miles? 797 00:42:06,316 --> 00:42:10,779 Online, by phone. I meant I did research. 798 00:42:16,076 --> 00:42:17,786 That's a real photo, isn't it? 799 00:42:20,747 --> 00:42:22,332 Wow, that is humiliating. 800 00:42:25,252 --> 00:42:27,045 There was a girl. 801 00:42:28,338 --> 00:42:30,048 Even more so. 802 00:42:30,173 --> 00:42:32,676 That's too bad. You wanted her to see you in a different light, 803 00:42:32,801 --> 00:42:35,679 and not only didn't she see it, 804 00:42:35,804 --> 00:42:38,557 but she didn't even believe it was possible. 805 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:43,603 You know, people hate people who have theories about people. 806 00:42:52,237 --> 00:42:53,822 You want me to back off? 807 00:42:53,947 --> 00:42:55,907 Would you? 808 00:42:56,032 --> 00:42:57,743 I barely know you.