1 00:00:02,035 --> 00:00:04,003 (LILTING MUSIC PLAYING) 2 00:00:04,804 --> 00:00:06,135 NICOLE: Do you see them anywhere? 3 00:00:06,206 --> 00:00:09,107 Why don't we go back to their house, wait for them there? 4 00:00:09,175 --> 00:00:11,666 Yeah, because they'll probably answer the door 5 00:00:11,745 --> 00:00:13,576 the 16th time I knock. 6 00:00:22,489 --> 00:00:23,922 There they are. 7 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:29,654 Hi. I'm sorry I followed you here. 8 00:00:29,729 --> 00:00:32,197 I just really wish you could give me a few minutes of your time. 9 00:00:32,265 --> 00:00:34,233 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 10 00:00:34,834 --> 00:00:37,268 I know you never agreed to make it an open adoption, 11 00:00:37,337 --> 00:00:39,202 but I just figured maybe you never had a choice. 12 00:00:39,272 --> 00:00:41,103 I mean, it's China, right? 13 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:42,869 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 14 00:00:43,610 --> 00:00:45,077 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 15 00:00:49,015 --> 00:00:50,039 What did he say? 16 00:00:50,116 --> 00:00:52,346 He wants you to leave them alone. 17 00:00:55,522 --> 00:00:56,716 Please. 18 00:00:56,790 --> 00:00:57,916 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 19 00:00:57,991 --> 00:00:59,959 I just want 10 minutes. 20 00:01:00,026 --> 00:01:02,119 Learn what you're like, tell you about my life. 21 00:01:02,195 --> 00:01:03,184 (SPITS) 22 00:01:03,563 --> 00:01:05,690 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 23 00:01:13,373 --> 00:01:16,171 He said they have no daughter. 24 00:01:17,477 --> 00:01:19,809 I am sorry you wasted a trip. 25 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:22,438 I know that's them. 26 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:27,318 How does that work? 27 00:01:31,858 --> 00:01:33,485 How do I pray? 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,051 You make a wish and lift the Buddha. 29 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:44,537 I wish they could understand how badly I need this. 30 00:01:55,582 --> 00:01:57,846 Now make the wish again. 31 00:01:57,917 --> 00:02:01,216 If you cannot lift the Buddha this time, your wish will be granted. 32 00:02:12,632 --> 00:02:14,031 (GRUNTS) 33 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:15,362 Are you okay? 34 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:17,227 (GROANING) 35 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,567 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 36 00:02:58,511 --> 00:03:02,174 Picked Cameron's pocket down in the ER. Came up with a doozy. 37 00:03:02,248 --> 00:03:03,806 Your mother called. Twice. 38 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:07,444 But she's still healthy. This 25-year-old woman, on the other hand... 39 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,579 Her messages sounded kind of urgent. 40 00:03:09,656 --> 00:03:13,251 Well, that's the way women sound when their spouse of 50 years dies. 41 00:03:17,363 --> 00:03:19,263 Your dad died? Are you... 42 00:03:19,332 --> 00:03:21,994 Yep, fine. Our patient, 43 00:03:22,068 --> 00:03:24,832 who's been known to take a few drinks on non-occasions, 44 00:03:24,904 --> 00:03:28,067 vomits blood and collapses on a trip to China. 45 00:03:28,141 --> 00:03:30,575 Chinese surgeons cut out a foot of bowel, 46 00:03:30,643 --> 00:03:32,668 but the pain is worse now than it was before. 47 00:03:32,745 --> 00:03:34,303 House, call your mom. 48 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:35,870 What are you, my mom? 49 00:03:36,649 --> 00:03:38,844 We can continue this differential in five minutes. 50 00:03:38,918 --> 00:03:42,786 Are those bags under your eyes? You were up all night. 51 00:03:42,855 --> 00:03:43,981 You told her, didn't you? 52 00:03:44,057 --> 00:03:48,790 I don't know what your daddy issues are, but don't deflect them on me. 53 00:03:48,861 --> 00:03:50,920 Told his wife he's been getting some strange. 54 00:03:50,997 --> 00:03:53,488 She kicked his adulterous tuchus to the curb. 55 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:54,555 Seriously? You told her? 56 00:03:54,634 --> 00:03:55,862 Yes, I told her, 57 00:03:55,935 --> 00:03:57,800 but, no, she did not kick me to the curb. 58 00:03:57,870 --> 00:03:58,928 We stayed up late talking. 59 00:03:59,005 --> 00:04:00,165 We're going to continue talking. 60 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,004 Much like House should be doing with his mother right now. 61 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:05,010 FOREMAN: Anybody read Chinese? 62 00:04:05,078 --> 00:04:07,376 Otherwise, we have no idea what these doctors did to her. 63 00:04:07,447 --> 00:04:11,508 Kutner, you're sort of Asian, right? Get it translated. 64 00:04:11,584 --> 00:04:13,347 What about Meckel's diverticulum? 65 00:04:13,419 --> 00:04:15,080 If the surgeons didn't remove the diverticulum, 66 00:04:15,154 --> 00:04:17,315 it could cause pain, bleeding. 67 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:19,119 Too high up for a colonoscopy. 68 00:04:19,192 --> 00:04:21,888 CT could miss it. Ultrasound's fastest. 69 00:04:21,961 --> 00:04:23,519 And since I'm the fastest with the ultrasound... 70 00:04:23,596 --> 00:04:26,156 House. Let me do the ultrasound. 71 00:04:26,232 --> 00:04:27,722 You need to deal with your dad and stop... 72 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,826 I'm not deflecting because I'm avoiding something deep. 73 00:04:30,903 --> 00:04:33,804 I'm deflecting because I'm avoiding something shallow. 74 00:04:33,873 --> 00:04:37,172 Seriously, I'm fine. I didn't even like the man. 75 00:04:41,214 --> 00:04:42,772 HOUSE: No Meckel's. 76 00:04:42,849 --> 00:04:45,841 You there for the rice or the re-education camps? 77 00:04:45,918 --> 00:04:48,443 I was there to track down my biological parents. 78 00:04:48,521 --> 00:04:52,013 Like a salmon returning to the stream where it was born. 79 00:04:52,091 --> 00:04:54,423 Did you become whole again or did you get eaten by bears? 80 00:04:54,494 --> 00:04:56,587 They denied my existence. 81 00:04:56,663 --> 00:04:57,994 (COUGHING) 82 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:01,590 Four parents and not one of them 83 00:05:01,668 --> 00:05:03,135 taught you to cover your mouth. 84 00:05:03,202 --> 00:05:06,603 My God, it looks like they cut you in half. 85 00:05:06,673 --> 00:05:08,436 Doctor, we're her parents, I'm... 86 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:09,907 I'm just a technician. 87 00:05:09,976 --> 00:05:11,910 Her doctors will be by later, you can schmooze then. 88 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:15,038 Can you let them know that we went by her apartment, 89 00:05:15,114 --> 00:05:17,605 collected all her medications... 90 00:05:18,484 --> 00:05:20,247 I'm a technician and a doctor. 91 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,651 You went through my apartment? 92 00:05:21,721 --> 00:05:24,781 We found alcohol. We thought you'd quit. 93 00:05:25,491 --> 00:05:27,288 Did her drinking cause this? No. 94 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:30,828 Can you tell her it did? 95 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:40,571 HOUSE: Licorice root. 96 00:05:42,041 --> 00:05:44,032 No, thanks, I'm good. 97 00:05:44,143 --> 00:05:46,907 I threw it to you for a reason. 98 00:05:46,979 --> 00:05:48,446 It's what the Chinese doctors gave her. 99 00:05:48,514 --> 00:05:50,744 It contains glycyrrhizin. 100 00:05:50,817 --> 00:05:53,615 They were treating her for SARS? 101 00:05:53,686 --> 00:05:58,146 Not very effectively. But SARS explains the cough, 102 00:05:58,224 --> 00:06:01,489 causes hypoperfusion, which explains the ischemic bowel. It's perfect. 103 00:06:01,561 --> 00:06:03,392 Lung involvement isn't very severe. 104 00:06:03,463 --> 00:06:06,296 Okay, well, so call it ARS. 105 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:08,527 Start her on ribavirin and interferon. 106 00:06:14,273 --> 00:06:15,399 (DOOR OPENS) 107 00:06:17,009 --> 00:06:18,874 I'm sorry about your father. 108 00:06:18,945 --> 00:06:19,969 I'm not. 109 00:06:21,314 --> 00:06:23,407 Are we done emoting now? 110 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:24,950 If there's anything I can do, just... 111 00:06:25,017 --> 00:06:28,282 You know, you're right. I don't think I can sleep alone tonight. 112 00:06:30,123 --> 00:06:32,819 Tell me that is liquid Vicodin. 113 00:06:32,892 --> 00:06:34,382 We're giving IG shots to everyone 114 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:36,360 who came in contact with your patient. 115 00:06:36,429 --> 00:06:38,397 Shockingly, none of the nurses 116 00:06:38,464 --> 00:06:40,364 volunteered to administer yours. 117 00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:43,565 It goes better in a large muscle. 118 00:06:44,504 --> 00:06:45,903 Drop your pants. 119 00:06:45,972 --> 00:06:49,874 You know, I usually pay tens of dollars to hear that. 120 00:06:56,983 --> 00:06:58,177 The funeral's tomorrow. 121 00:06:58,251 --> 00:06:59,513 My mom called you? 122 00:06:59,585 --> 00:07:02,486 There is a 3:40 flight out of Newark. 123 00:07:02,555 --> 00:07:06,184 If you leave now, you can be in Lexington tonight. 124 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:08,250 Your mother wants you to deliver a eulogy. 125 00:07:08,327 --> 00:07:11,455 Eulogy, from the Greek for "good word." 126 00:07:12,265 --> 00:07:15,757 Now if she'd asked me to deliver a bastardogy, I'd be happy to... 127 00:07:15,835 --> 00:07:18,565 Then be a grownup. Call your mother back 128 00:07:18,638 --> 00:07:20,936 and tell her you're sick with grief, 129 00:07:21,007 --> 00:07:22,497 but you're too busy to be there. 130 00:07:22,575 --> 00:07:24,008 She knows when I'm lying. 131 00:07:24,076 --> 00:07:25,566 Then start writing. 132 00:07:33,486 --> 00:07:36,011 NICOLE: I yanked my brother and sister out of college? 133 00:07:37,256 --> 00:07:39,053 Can you please tell them I'm not dying? 134 00:07:39,125 --> 00:07:41,616 You have SARS. I'm wearing a mask. 135 00:07:41,694 --> 00:07:44,322 It's a big deal. Cut them some slack. 136 00:07:44,397 --> 00:07:46,126 But I am going to be okay, right? 137 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:48,292 That's what all this stuff is for. 138 00:07:48,367 --> 00:07:49,766 We're gonna need the names and numbers 139 00:07:49,836 --> 00:07:51,201 of everyone you came in contact with 140 00:07:51,270 --> 00:07:53,966 here and in China. Flight numbers, dates. 141 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,476 That doctor that I coughed all over, is he gonna be all right? 142 00:07:57,543 --> 00:07:59,033 So far, he's fine. 143 00:08:10,656 --> 00:08:14,956 (GROANS) It's back. This is where the pain all started. 144 00:08:15,862 --> 00:08:18,353 She's tachycardiac. Get a crash cart in here! 145 00:08:18,431 --> 00:08:19,762 (MACHINE BEEPING) 146 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:21,858 What's going on? 147 00:08:21,934 --> 00:08:24,664 I need to know what's going on. That's my daughter. 148 00:08:24,737 --> 00:08:26,068 (YELLING) 149 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:31,102 Her liver's failing. It's not SARS. 150 00:08:50,429 --> 00:08:53,262 I am not doing this because I care. 151 00:09:03,009 --> 00:09:06,001 Cuddy drugged me. She... 152 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:13,144 My mom didn't call Cuddy. She called you. 153 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,779 I knew you couldn't stay away. 154 00:09:16,856 --> 00:09:18,016 I knew you loved me too much. 155 00:09:18,090 --> 00:09:19,614 I'm doing this for your mom. 156 00:09:19,692 --> 00:09:21,523 I'm not doing this at all. 157 00:09:21,594 --> 00:09:22,856 If there was something to be done, 158 00:09:22,929 --> 00:09:25,193 I would have done it in the year he spent dying. 159 00:09:26,532 --> 00:09:28,397 You took my Vicodin? 160 00:09:30,202 --> 00:09:31,601 I'm in pain. 161 00:09:38,844 --> 00:09:39,970 One? 162 00:09:42,782 --> 00:09:46,183 So the Vicodin is my leash. One will take the edge off, 163 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:47,378 but it won't give me enough relief 164 00:09:47,453 --> 00:09:49,478 for an escape back to Plainsboro. 165 00:09:52,825 --> 00:09:55,623 (CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING MMMBOP) 166 00:09:56,629 --> 00:09:58,119 Where's my phone? 167 00:10:00,299 --> 00:10:02,631 It's the team, it's their ring tone. 168 00:10:05,137 --> 00:10:08,004 Forget it. The patient's blood is on your hands. 169 00:10:08,441 --> 00:10:11,035 (RINGING CONTINUES) 170 00:10:14,413 --> 00:10:16,643 FOREMAN: House? You there? 171 00:10:16,716 --> 00:10:18,479 I'm being held against my will. Call the police. 172 00:10:18,551 --> 00:10:20,382 Nicole had a clot in the hepatic vein. 173 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:22,045 Chase sucked it out, saved her liver. 174 00:10:22,121 --> 00:10:25,056 No signs of a tumor or venous malformations, nothing that could cause... 175 00:10:25,124 --> 00:10:26,614 She's an addict. Drugs and alcohol wouldn't... 176 00:10:26,692 --> 00:10:28,159 She's a smoker. 177 00:10:28,227 --> 00:10:30,559 Combine smoking with any one of a dozen genetic disorders 178 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:31,927 and she's a clotting machine. 179 00:10:31,998 --> 00:10:33,488 Multiple blood clots would tie together 180 00:10:33,566 --> 00:10:35,295 bowel ischemia, lungs and the liver. 181 00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:37,302 FOREMAN: We need to pinpoint which defect she has 182 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:39,429 so we can start her on the right anti-coagulant. 183 00:10:39,505 --> 00:10:40,494 Draw blood. 184 00:10:40,573 --> 00:10:43,371 Let's find out which genetic gift her genetic parents gave her. 185 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:46,534 Thanks for calling. 186 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:52,140 My ring tone for you is Dancing Queen by Abba. 187 00:10:58,924 --> 00:10:59,982 Nicole? 188 00:11:03,396 --> 00:11:05,591 I need to pee. Pull over at the next stop. 189 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:12,194 I'll just pee on the floor. 190 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:19,170 You bought used floor mats? That is brilliant. 191 00:11:20,513 --> 00:11:21,605 (UNZIPS) 192 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:24,241 There's a rest stop in five miles. 193 00:11:24,316 --> 00:11:25,374 (ZIPS) 194 00:11:38,330 --> 00:11:40,093 Cane. The restroom's right there. 195 00:11:40,166 --> 00:11:41,724 You can make it on your own. 196 00:11:46,038 --> 00:11:48,029 I suppose I could talk about the summer 197 00:11:48,107 --> 00:11:50,041 he decided he wasn't speaking to me. 198 00:11:50,109 --> 00:11:52,737 Two months. Not one word. 199 00:11:52,812 --> 00:11:55,280 Anything he wanted to say, he typed up 200 00:11:55,347 --> 00:11:57,838 and slipped under my bedroom door. 201 00:11:57,917 --> 00:12:01,045 You don't want to say anything, don't say anything, but go. 202 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,645 Tell your mom you're sad. For her. 203 00:12:03,723 --> 00:12:05,691 Just by being there I'd be lying. 204 00:12:05,758 --> 00:12:09,558 She wants to think, for a moment, that she had a happy family. 205 00:12:09,628 --> 00:12:12,426 So give her a gift. Lie. 206 00:12:12,498 --> 00:12:16,400 Give me my cane, I'll go to the damn funeral. 207 00:12:32,818 --> 00:12:33,978 (WILSON GROANS) 208 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:35,578 (CLINKING) 209 00:12:37,656 --> 00:12:40,716 I said I'd go to the funeral. I didn't say when. 210 00:12:45,865 --> 00:12:49,392 We have these two categories, inside and outside. 211 00:12:49,468 --> 00:12:51,902 Patients stay inside, then, when they're better, 212 00:12:51,971 --> 00:12:53,734 we let them go outside. 213 00:12:53,806 --> 00:12:56,900 Thanks, but they don't let you smoke inside. 214 00:12:56,976 --> 00:12:58,637 So why don't you go back there 215 00:12:58,711 --> 00:13:01,111 and give me five minutes outside? 216 00:13:09,522 --> 00:13:10,955 Make a fist. 217 00:13:17,329 --> 00:13:20,696 Such a beautiful day, we thought we'd do all our doctoring outside. 218 00:13:21,767 --> 00:13:25,430 People stare at me any time I'm out with my family. 219 00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:28,735 It's like a puzzle. Which one of these things doesn't belong? 220 00:13:28,808 --> 00:13:30,605 Belonging is overrated. 221 00:13:31,844 --> 00:13:34,312 I was adopted by a white family when I was nine. 222 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:39,076 I like being different. The view's better from the outside looking in. 223 00:13:43,322 --> 00:13:46,780 Must be easier to be different when you're a success. 224 00:13:49,228 --> 00:13:50,525 Is that a problem? 225 00:13:50,596 --> 00:13:53,030 This is why we prefer inside. 226 00:14:03,742 --> 00:14:05,039 You actually keep a flashlight 227 00:14:05,110 --> 00:14:07,271 that doesn't need batteries in the trunk? 228 00:14:07,346 --> 00:14:10,543 Next to the jacket, emergency water, 229 00:14:10,616 --> 00:14:13,414 nail clippers, toothbrush, space blanket. 230 00:14:13,485 --> 00:14:15,715 When things go wrong, I like to be ready. 231 00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:20,420 Will you please hold the flashlight for a minute? 232 00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:26,391 (CLANKING) 233 00:14:28,434 --> 00:14:29,799 (SIGHS) 234 00:14:32,504 --> 00:14:35,132 You know, those aren't just my car keys. 235 00:14:35,207 --> 00:14:37,300 My house keys are on there, too. 236 00:14:37,376 --> 00:14:39,105 Amber gave me that key chain. 237 00:14:39,178 --> 00:14:40,702 No, she didn't. 238 00:14:40,779 --> 00:14:43,247 Not unless your pet name for her was "Volvo." 239 00:14:52,157 --> 00:14:55,649 A man who would lie about a gift from his dead girlfriend... 240 00:14:55,728 --> 00:15:00,256 Is probably responding to a childish, pointless act of petulance. 241 00:15:00,332 --> 00:15:03,062 The struggle to resist one's captors is never pointless. 242 00:15:03,869 --> 00:15:05,302 (SPEAKING FRENCH) 243 00:15:05,704 --> 00:15:09,731 Well, I hate to break it to you, Che, but simple delay won't work. 244 00:15:09,808 --> 00:15:12,402 Your mother will hold the funeral till we get there. 245 00:15:14,146 --> 00:15:18,310 My father was a punctual man, beholden to time. 246 00:15:18,384 --> 00:15:21,148 Two minutes late for dinner, you didn't eat. 247 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:24,781 My mother would never disrespect him by starting the funeral late. 248 00:15:24,857 --> 00:15:28,486 Yeah, you clearly have no issues to work through. 249 00:15:29,361 --> 00:15:32,660 Come on, forget the keys. Call a locksmith. 250 00:15:32,731 --> 00:15:34,494 We'll go inside and play Guess that Smell 251 00:15:34,566 --> 00:15:36,693 with the truckers while we're waiting. 252 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:38,396 Join me on the dark side. 253 00:15:40,139 --> 00:15:42,334 Dark side's done, House. 254 00:15:42,408 --> 00:15:45,104 I'm delivering you to your mother, and that's it. 255 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,538 I've moved on. 256 00:15:52,718 --> 00:15:53,980 What do you think House would send? 257 00:15:54,053 --> 00:15:58,251 The Gentle Comfort arrangement or the Warm Thoughts bouquet? 258 00:15:59,024 --> 00:16:01,720 I mean, if he wasn't an ass. 259 00:16:01,794 --> 00:16:04,763 Send one of those giant cookies shaped like a coffin. 260 00:16:05,864 --> 00:16:07,491 His mom would believe it was from him. 261 00:16:07,566 --> 00:16:09,500 I didn't tell you so you could send anything. 262 00:16:09,568 --> 00:16:10,830 Just wanted you to know the extent 263 00:16:10,903 --> 00:16:13,133 to which the man is disconnected from the human race. 264 00:16:13,205 --> 00:16:15,571 Took a six pack of FFP to stop the oozing. 265 00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:16,869 She's bleeding and clotting? 266 00:16:16,942 --> 00:16:18,967 Plus schistocytes on her smear means it's DIC, 267 00:16:19,044 --> 00:16:20,102 which means she's got cancer. 268 00:16:20,212 --> 00:16:21,577 She's young. It could be leukemia. 269 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:23,638 Normal WBC makes that less likely. 270 00:16:23,716 --> 00:16:25,274 Belly pain points toward a GI tumor. 271 00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:26,443 House already did an ultrasound. 272 00:16:26,518 --> 00:16:29,248 He wasn't looking for a tumor. Go run a CT. 273 00:16:29,788 --> 00:16:31,255 CHASE: I don't buy it. 274 00:16:31,323 --> 00:16:33,951 CT can find small intestinal cancers that an ultrasound... 275 00:16:34,026 --> 00:16:35,391 I don't buy House. 276 00:16:36,762 --> 00:16:40,323 When my father died, I wound up killing a patient. And I hated the man. 277 00:16:41,033 --> 00:16:45,231 Whatever House says or doesn't say, I'm sure the guy's a mess. 278 00:16:47,539 --> 00:16:49,837 So he was a bastard. He was still your father. 279 00:16:49,908 --> 00:16:53,207 You're biologically programmed to have feelings for him. 280 00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:54,939 No, I'm not. 281 00:16:55,014 --> 00:16:57,141 Feelings aren't rational. 282 00:16:57,216 --> 00:16:58,683 I know you have trouble with anything 283 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:00,719 that can't be quantified and counted. 284 00:17:00,786 --> 00:17:03,050 He's not my biological father. 285 00:17:06,725 --> 00:17:09,285 I figured it out when I was 12. 286 00:17:09,361 --> 00:17:10,419 Of course. 287 00:17:10,496 --> 00:17:12,691 You're a brilliant, socially-isolated 12-year-old, 288 00:17:12,765 --> 00:17:14,460 and you create a parallel universe 289 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:16,160 in which your life doesn't suck. 290 00:17:16,235 --> 00:17:17,759 I looked at the facts. 291 00:17:18,470 --> 00:17:22,463 First of all, he was deployed on training exercises off Okinawa 292 00:17:22,574 --> 00:17:24,269 during the time I had to be conceived. 293 00:17:24,343 --> 00:17:28,040 And since you're 150 years old, air travel was impossible. 294 00:17:28,113 --> 00:17:31,048 His second toe was longer than his big toe. 295 00:17:31,116 --> 00:17:32,413 Mine isn't. 296 00:17:32,484 --> 00:17:35,612 This is sad. You don't believe your mother screwed around. 297 00:17:35,687 --> 00:17:38,053 I have a distinctive red birthmark on my scalp 298 00:17:38,123 --> 00:17:40,751 that matches a certain friend of the family. 299 00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:44,023 If you believed this story, you wouldn't be telling me about his birthmarks, 300 00:17:44,096 --> 00:17:46,963 you'd be telling me about the genetic testing you had done. 301 00:17:47,032 --> 00:17:49,057 And since you haven't mentioned it, obviously, you didn't do it, 302 00:17:49,134 --> 00:17:51,762 because you don't want to... House, what are you doing? 303 00:17:51,837 --> 00:17:54,965 Get your... Get off the... There's a cop. 304 00:17:57,576 --> 00:17:58,941 (SIREN BLARING) 305 00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:02,006 Uh-oh! 306 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:07,078 Nicole, lie still. This will only take a few seconds. 307 00:18:08,153 --> 00:18:10,781 TAUB: One-millimeter cut through upper abdomen. 308 00:18:10,856 --> 00:18:13,654 She was adopted when the parents thought they couldn't have kids. 309 00:18:13,725 --> 00:18:14,919 Then they had three more. 310 00:18:14,993 --> 00:18:17,086 She took the message as, "Thanks for playing, 311 00:18:17,162 --> 00:18:18,823 "but we have our real children now." 312 00:18:18,897 --> 00:18:21,229 And the real children probably think they were accidents 313 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:22,494 while she was hand-picked. 314 00:18:22,568 --> 00:18:24,468 Everybody's got problems with their parents. 315 00:18:24,536 --> 00:18:26,504 She's an addict. Something went wrong. 316 00:18:26,572 --> 00:18:30,440 And it has to be the parents? Magnifying pancreas. 317 00:18:30,509 --> 00:18:32,067 I'm not saying the parents screwed up. 318 00:18:32,144 --> 00:18:35,910 You're saying you like her, so you don't want her faults to be her fault. 319 00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:39,974 But they're someone's fault, and the only other people you know are... 320 00:18:40,052 --> 00:18:41,349 (BEEPING) 321 00:18:42,287 --> 00:18:44,346 I think we may need to call House again. 322 00:18:46,258 --> 00:18:49,227 HOUSE: You lost track of your speed? 323 00:18:49,928 --> 00:18:54,490 I think that was Hitler's excuse, "Lost track of the Jews." 324 00:18:54,566 --> 00:18:56,033 No one held him responsible. 325 00:18:56,101 --> 00:18:57,329 I'm not playing, House. 326 00:18:57,402 --> 00:18:58,835 You were protecting me. 327 00:18:58,904 --> 00:19:01,839 Anybody in their right mind would have ratted me out. 328 00:19:01,907 --> 00:19:04,205 I'm just trying to speed things along. 329 00:19:04,276 --> 00:19:06,210 You are going to this funeral. 330 00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:10,240 (CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING MMMBOP) 331 00:19:14,453 --> 00:19:18,048 Make it fast. I don't want to miss the anal cavity search. 332 00:19:18,123 --> 00:19:20,114 Looks like a mass in the pancreas. 333 00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:21,955 Not to me. This is radio. 334 00:19:22,027 --> 00:19:23,688 And I want a full play-by-play. 335 00:19:23,762 --> 00:19:25,457 It's fluid-filled. 336 00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:26,691 Could you get out of the car, please, sir? 337 00:19:26,765 --> 00:19:29,325 Officer, if you want to give me a ticket, I totally understand. 338 00:19:29,401 --> 00:19:30,891 Just get out of the car, sir. 339 00:19:30,969 --> 00:19:32,766 Cyst? FOREMAN: Large cyst. 340 00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,237 Something going on there? 341 00:19:34,306 --> 00:19:36,740 Wilson's getting arrested. How large? 342 00:19:36,808 --> 00:19:39,333 SUV-sized or midrange-sedan? 343 00:19:39,411 --> 00:19:41,003 Seriously? What did you do? 344 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:43,274 I'm obviously joking. 345 00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:45,748 If Wilson was getting handcuffed on the hood of his car, 346 00:19:45,817 --> 00:19:47,614 would I be carrying on a differential? 347 00:19:47,686 --> 00:19:49,586 Diameter's at least eight centimeters. 348 00:19:49,655 --> 00:19:50,815 (WHISTLES) 349 00:19:50,889 --> 00:19:52,379 Is it in the tail or the head? 350 00:19:52,457 --> 00:19:53,583 The head. 351 00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:56,184 You, too, sir, out of the car. 352 00:19:56,261 --> 00:19:58,354 We've got a construction site. 353 00:19:58,430 --> 00:20:00,523 A steamroller is plowing... 354 00:20:01,633 --> 00:20:02,964 Out, now. 355 00:20:07,339 --> 00:20:08,636 No cane. 356 00:20:19,651 --> 00:20:24,145 James Evan Wilson. There's a warrant for your arrest in Louisiana. 357 00:20:25,958 --> 00:20:27,755 (HANDCUFFS CLICKING) 358 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:29,986 (SIGHS) 359 00:20:33,365 --> 00:20:35,333 What are the traits of a steamroller? 360 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,891 Powerful. Maybe pancreatic cancer. 361 00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:39,870 Great idea. Except the only symptom 362 00:20:39,938 --> 00:20:42,463 it matches up with is being steamroller-ish. 363 00:20:42,541 --> 00:20:44,202 You don't think House is onto something? 364 00:20:44,276 --> 00:20:46,176 I think he thought he had an idea. 365 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:50,306 I also think his metaphors are tough enough to decipher after he's said them. 366 00:20:50,382 --> 00:20:51,906 We need to be focusing on the medicine. 367 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:53,144 No answer. 368 00:20:53,218 --> 00:20:55,743 There's not going to be an answer. They've been arrested. 369 00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:56,913 He was joking. 370 00:20:56,989 --> 00:20:58,923 He reacted to the size and location. 371 00:20:58,991 --> 00:21:01,653 That's what we should be focusing on, not playing Madlibs 372 00:21:01,727 --> 00:21:05,185 while our patient's exploding "noun" destroys her life-sustaining "noun." 373 00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:06,788 I'll try to get Wilson on the line. 374 00:21:06,865 --> 00:21:10,494 What if it's not how a steamroller works, but what it does? 375 00:21:10,569 --> 00:21:12,002 Clears things. 376 00:21:13,038 --> 00:21:14,733 It's a waste of time. 377 00:21:18,043 --> 00:21:20,876 (CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING MMMBOP) 378 00:21:23,682 --> 00:21:25,582 I need that phone call. 379 00:21:26,385 --> 00:21:27,682 I'm a doctor. 380 00:21:27,753 --> 00:21:31,154 When someone tries to call you three times, it's code for 381 00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:33,623 "Pick up the damn phone before someone dies." 382 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:35,956 I'm sure there's other smart doctors. 383 00:21:36,028 --> 00:21:37,461 You'd be surprised. 384 00:21:38,530 --> 00:21:40,464 You told me you'd taken care of this. 385 00:21:40,532 --> 00:21:41,931 I did. 386 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,093 The first words you ever said to me. 387 00:21:44,169 --> 00:21:46,137 I took care of it. 388 00:21:46,204 --> 00:21:48,138 You must have screwed up somehow. 389 00:21:49,241 --> 00:21:55,009 Sir? Not to hurry you, but we need to be at a funeral in... 390 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,208 Nobody is going anywhere or taking any phone calls 391 00:21:58,283 --> 00:22:00,342 till I hear back from Louisiana. 392 00:22:00,419 --> 00:22:02,444 It's a really old warrant. 393 00:22:02,521 --> 00:22:04,819 Isn't there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing? 394 00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:07,688 It's suspended when you flee the state. 395 00:22:07,759 --> 00:22:11,320 I didn't flee the state, I left the state, 396 00:22:11,396 --> 00:22:13,057 because I don't live in the state. 397 00:22:13,131 --> 00:22:17,192 And the charges were just so minor... 398 00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:21,262 "Vandalism, destruction of property, assault..." 399 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:23,672 There is a simple explanation. 400 00:22:23,742 --> 00:22:26,006 There was a medical convention in New Orleans. 401 00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:27,943 You don't need to explain to me. 402 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:29,173 I was fresh out of med school. 403 00:22:29,247 --> 00:22:30,874 I didn't know anybody at the convention. 404 00:22:30,949 --> 00:22:33,918 You heard the man, Wilson. You don't have to explain. 405 00:22:33,985 --> 00:22:35,953 I am not going to sit here wasting time 406 00:22:36,021 --> 00:22:38,683 just so you can avoid your father's funeral. 407 00:22:40,992 --> 00:22:42,584 He's my father. 408 00:22:43,128 --> 00:22:45,028 I have the right to avoid his funeral. 409 00:22:45,097 --> 00:22:47,065 Not if your mother's alive, you don't. 410 00:22:48,266 --> 00:22:51,429 Okay. Explain. 411 00:22:52,504 --> 00:22:54,404 CHASE: Did House react to the eight centimeters? 412 00:22:54,473 --> 00:22:57,442 He whistled. It's huge. Anyone would think so. 413 00:22:57,509 --> 00:22:59,568 House doesn't whistle because he's impressed. 414 00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:01,509 Means he wasn't expecting it. 415 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:03,878 Means he changed his mind at that point. 416 00:23:03,949 --> 00:23:06,577 A single super-sized cyst ruled out a diffuse process, 417 00:23:06,651 --> 00:23:08,243 like scleroderma or lupus. 418 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,015 Rule out diffuse process, you're stuck with single process, 419 00:23:10,088 --> 00:23:11,715 affecting just the pancreas. 420 00:23:11,790 --> 00:23:13,758 Gallstones or pancreatic divisum. 421 00:23:13,825 --> 00:23:15,816 Whatever he asked next would have narrowed that down. 422 00:23:15,894 --> 00:23:17,088 He asked about location. 423 00:23:17,162 --> 00:23:19,130 Heads, it's gallstones. Tails, it's divisum. 424 00:23:19,197 --> 00:23:21,392 It's at the head. She's got gallstones. 425 00:23:21,466 --> 00:23:23,400 The steamroller means potholes, means... 426 00:23:23,468 --> 00:23:24,833 Relax. We got it. 427 00:23:24,903 --> 00:23:26,564 You figured out she's got gallstones? 428 00:23:29,641 --> 00:23:33,907 I was at the hotel bar, trying to unwind with a drink. 429 00:23:33,979 --> 00:23:37,210 There was this guy who kept playing 430 00:23:37,282 --> 00:23:40,774 Billy Joel's Leave a Tender Moment Alone on the jukebox. 431 00:23:40,852 --> 00:23:42,615 Leave a Tender Moment is a good song. 432 00:23:42,687 --> 00:23:44,621 It's a great song. He was out of line. 433 00:23:44,689 --> 00:23:47,180 Not as good as Scenes from an Italian Restaurant or... 434 00:23:47,292 --> 00:23:51,194 So I asked the man to stop. Politely. 435 00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:53,231 Yeah, you yelled politely. 436 00:23:53,298 --> 00:23:55,459 I was polite the first couple of times. 437 00:23:55,534 --> 00:23:59,061 But courtesy made no impression on this ass. 438 00:23:59,137 --> 00:24:04,165 So I threw a bottle into the mirror, 439 00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:07,109 which successfully conveyed my message. 440 00:24:07,179 --> 00:24:09,977 And smashed a 10-foot antique mirror. 441 00:24:10,048 --> 00:24:13,347 And set an example for two other patrons, who threw shot glasses... 442 00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:15,886 WILSON: I had nothing to do with that fight. 443 00:24:15,954 --> 00:24:17,979 The assault charge was totally bogus. 444 00:24:18,056 --> 00:24:20,456 And I paid for the mirror. 445 00:24:20,525 --> 00:24:22,015 I think I have the picture. 446 00:24:23,395 --> 00:24:26,489 I assume you're the guy who was playing the song. 447 00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:28,965 No, I was the guy who bailed him out. 448 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:31,662 That's how we met. I was in jail. 449 00:24:31,736 --> 00:24:34,933 This guy was a total stranger to you, and you bailed him out? 450 00:24:35,006 --> 00:24:36,974 It was a boring convention. 451 00:24:37,042 --> 00:24:38,600 I had to have somebody to drink with. 452 00:24:38,677 --> 00:24:41,271 And there's the foundation of our entire friendship. 453 00:24:41,346 --> 00:24:44,144 If you hadn't been bored one weekend, it wouldn't even exist. 454 00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:47,185 Hey, with 3,000 people at that convention, 455 00:24:47,252 --> 00:24:49,379 you were the one I thought wasn't boring. That says something. 456 00:24:49,454 --> 00:24:51,115 It also says something that you lied to me 457 00:24:51,189 --> 00:24:52,315 about getting the charges dropped. 458 00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:54,756 I got a lawyer, he cut a deal. You didn't call the guy? 459 00:24:54,826 --> 00:24:57,317 You have to show up at the arraignment. Everybody knows that. 460 00:24:57,395 --> 00:25:00,228 Everybody with your misdemeanor experience. 461 00:25:00,298 --> 00:25:02,323 You can go. 462 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,458 What? 463 00:25:03,535 --> 00:25:06,265 He's a fugitive from justice. 464 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,636 That whole story was lies. He stabbed a man. 465 00:25:08,707 --> 00:25:12,404 Louisiana doesn't want to pay to get you back. 466 00:25:12,477 --> 00:25:15,605 Forget Louisiana. He was driving recklessly 467 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,978 through your comatose village. 468 00:25:18,049 --> 00:25:20,176 What, do they put lead in the jelly donuts here? 469 00:25:20,252 --> 00:25:22,117 Stop acting like such an ingrate 470 00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:24,417 and go pay your respects to your father. 471 00:25:26,491 --> 00:25:28,755 CT confirmed gallstones. 472 00:25:29,294 --> 00:25:33,560 Normally not dangerous, almost everyone has them, but sometimes... 473 00:25:33,632 --> 00:25:34,860 They kill you? 474 00:25:34,933 --> 00:25:37,527 Yup. Unless I take them out. 475 00:25:37,602 --> 00:25:39,229 We do it laparoscopically. 476 00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:42,366 Um... 477 00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:46,935 How long has her urine been brown? 478 00:25:47,012 --> 00:25:48,809 Kidneys were fine this afternoon. 479 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,507 CHASE: They're not now. 480 00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:53,747 It's not the gallstones. 481 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,887 HOUSE: Well, of course it's not gallstones. 482 00:25:58,957 --> 00:26:00,219 Who thought it was gallstones? 483 00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:01,589 You said "steamroller." 484 00:26:01,660 --> 00:26:03,457 I also said "construction site." 485 00:26:03,528 --> 00:26:06,395 Gallstones could cause a pancreatic cyst. 486 00:26:06,464 --> 00:26:09,365 Just turn around. The thing is two hours over already, 487 00:26:09,434 --> 00:26:11,459 and that's the third time we've passed that colonial 488 00:26:11,536 --> 00:26:13,697 with the cross burning out front. 489 00:26:13,772 --> 00:26:15,262 I'm not lost. 490 00:26:16,007 --> 00:26:17,599 I'm not talking about what caused the cyst. 491 00:26:17,676 --> 00:26:19,507 I'm talking about what the cyst caused. 492 00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:20,602 Everything. 493 00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:22,442 Cysts are symptoms, not diagnoses. 494 00:26:22,514 --> 00:26:26,211 Unless it's a multiple cyst with connections to other organs. 495 00:26:26,284 --> 00:26:27,478 Like a steamroller. 496 00:26:27,552 --> 00:26:29,577 That's a long road down to the kidneys. 497 00:26:29,654 --> 00:26:32,179 How do we prove it? Won't be visible on a scan, 498 00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:33,622 Chase isn't gonna go groping around 499 00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:35,023 when she's got kidney failure. 500 00:26:35,093 --> 00:26:36,185 Bubbles. 501 00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:37,250 Is that your new stripper name? 502 00:26:37,329 --> 00:26:38,318 Yes. 503 00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:41,263 And also, we inject bubbles into the cyst and follow where they drift. 504 00:26:41,333 --> 00:26:44,302 If they end up in her other organs, we know you're right, cut it out, she's fine. 505 00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:46,360 Bubbles is right. Go echo. 506 00:26:49,507 --> 00:26:50,872 I'm not lost. 507 00:27:04,422 --> 00:27:06,083 (NICOLE SHUDDERING) 508 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:09,556 Nicole, you gotta stay still. 509 00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:11,095 (STAMMERS) I'm nervous. 510 00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:14,097 You're not nervous. It's the DTs, isn't it? 511 00:27:15,734 --> 00:27:18,601 I haven't had a drink since I got here. 512 00:27:20,772 --> 00:27:23,935 Good heavens. We haven't missed it after all. 513 00:27:24,009 --> 00:27:26,170 It's like the end of A Christmas Carol. 514 00:27:34,252 --> 00:27:35,514 (SIGHS) 515 00:27:37,889 --> 00:27:39,516 I'm so glad you're here. 516 00:27:41,192 --> 00:27:45,060 It's a load off of my mind just to see you. 517 00:27:47,265 --> 00:27:48,357 Thank you, James. 518 00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:50,333 Mom, how could you delay the funeral? 519 00:27:50,402 --> 00:27:53,735 Honey, your dad is dead. He's not going to care. 520 00:27:53,805 --> 00:27:55,636 Do you know what you're going to say? 521 00:27:55,707 --> 00:27:57,834 I don't know. Just let the minister, 522 00:27:57,909 --> 00:27:59,809 or one of his buddies from the Corps... 523 00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:01,140 You're talking. 524 00:28:01,212 --> 00:28:03,237 I don't care that you didn't like him. 525 00:28:03,314 --> 00:28:06,078 He was your father and he loved you. 526 00:28:06,584 --> 00:28:08,381 The war is over, Greg. 527 00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:11,751 Please do this for me. 528 00:28:14,826 --> 00:28:16,885 Stop looking so worried. 529 00:28:18,229 --> 00:28:20,925 I know he's gonna make me proud. 530 00:28:20,999 --> 00:28:23,968 I'm sure you know him better than I do. 531 00:28:29,507 --> 00:28:31,168 Her liver's been compromised. 532 00:28:31,242 --> 00:28:32,869 And the DTs will cause her muscles 533 00:28:32,944 --> 00:28:35,242 to continue to twitch, even under sedation. 534 00:28:35,313 --> 00:28:37,213 We need to paralyze her to do this procedure. 535 00:28:37,282 --> 00:28:38,943 I wanted to stop. 536 00:28:39,017 --> 00:28:41,110 A phenobarbital coma will not only allow us 537 00:28:41,186 --> 00:28:43,677 to inject the cyst, it'll treat the DTs. 538 00:28:43,755 --> 00:28:46,189 When she wakes up, she won't be in withdrawal. 539 00:28:46,257 --> 00:28:48,987 We've seen her through withdrawal before. 540 00:28:49,060 --> 00:28:51,119 We've seen her through everything. 541 00:28:51,196 --> 00:28:54,393 We've been supportive, we've been combative. 542 00:28:54,466 --> 00:28:56,491 We've picked her up from bars in the middle of the night, 543 00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:58,763 we've let her spend the night in jail. 544 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,306 I used to say it would be okay, that I'd get it together. 545 00:29:06,377 --> 00:29:08,004 I don't say that anymore. 546 00:29:10,281 --> 00:29:12,340 Let's make you healthy. 547 00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:14,351 Then we'll worry about making you sober. 548 00:29:15,987 --> 00:29:18,785 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 549 00:29:18,857 --> 00:29:20,848 I am not talking. 550 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,987 We were strangers. We shared some geography 30 years ago. 551 00:29:26,064 --> 00:29:28,532 Right. He had no influence on you at all. 552 00:29:28,666 --> 00:29:31,134 The father who was compulsive about punctuality. 553 00:29:31,202 --> 00:29:34,865 His issue, which I deliberately made not my issue. 554 00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:36,634 Thereby making it your issue. 555 00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:38,938 Compulsively showing up four hours late, 556 00:29:39,010 --> 00:29:41,535 ignoring discipline, ignoring rules... 557 00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:43,376 Oh, God. He's here. 558 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:44,745 Who's here? 559 00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:47,880 The one you're pretending is your father? 560 00:29:49,721 --> 00:29:52,281 Nice pick, he looks like Sean Connery. 561 00:29:52,357 --> 00:29:56,623 So, back when you were devising this fantasy, did you tell your father? 562 00:29:56,694 --> 00:29:58,924 "Dad, I refuse to recognize your existence 563 00:29:58,997 --> 00:30:02,194 "because I've chosen James Bond as my dad?" 564 00:30:04,002 --> 00:30:05,629 I used different words. 565 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:07,999 What? 566 00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:11,334 Hearing your own son hates you so much 567 00:30:11,409 --> 00:30:14,242 he's replaced you in his mind? 568 00:30:14,846 --> 00:30:17,337 That's gotta suck. How did he take it? 569 00:30:17,415 --> 00:30:19,280 I already told you. 570 00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:21,580 He didn't speak to me for a summer. 571 00:30:27,992 --> 00:30:29,186 (CLEARS THROAT) 572 00:30:29,260 --> 00:30:32,752 It means more to me than I can say 573 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:34,731 to have all of you here today. 574 00:30:35,934 --> 00:30:41,998 And now our son, Gregory, would like to say a few words. 575 00:30:46,177 --> 00:30:47,337 Greg? 576 00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:08,294 There's a lot of people here today, 577 00:31:08,366 --> 00:31:10,266 including some from the Corps. 578 00:31:11,769 --> 00:31:13,999 And I notice that every one of them 579 00:31:14,072 --> 00:31:16,802 is either my father's rank or higher, 580 00:31:18,076 --> 00:31:19,907 and that doesn't surprise me, 581 00:31:21,779 --> 00:31:28,014 because if the test of a man is how he treats those he has power over, 582 00:31:30,088 --> 00:31:32,249 it was a test my father failed. 583 00:31:35,126 --> 00:31:37,924 This man you're eager to pay homage to, 584 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:43,690 he was incapable of admitting any point of view but his own. 585 00:31:43,768 --> 00:31:47,704 He punished failure, and he did not accept anything less than... 586 00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:01,813 He loved doing what he did. 587 00:32:04,122 --> 00:32:06,147 He saw his work as some kind of 588 00:32:07,292 --> 00:32:08,850 sacred calling, 589 00:32:10,561 --> 00:32:13,086 more important than any personal relationship. 590 00:32:17,835 --> 00:32:20,861 Maybe if he'd been a better father, I'd be a better son. 591 00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:28,435 But I am what I am because of him. For better or for worse. 592 00:32:31,316 --> 00:32:34,308 And I just... I just wish... 593 00:32:34,385 --> 00:32:35,477 (CRYING) 594 00:33:11,055 --> 00:33:13,046 (WHISPERS) Put it back. 595 00:33:13,124 --> 00:33:14,455 Well, he's not gonna miss it. 596 00:33:14,525 --> 00:33:17,722 I'm done enabling. You can't even let them put him in the ground 597 00:33:17,795 --> 00:33:19,888 without making it serve your agenda. 598 00:33:19,964 --> 00:33:21,795 HOUSE: You really wanna do this in front of everybody? 599 00:33:21,866 --> 00:33:23,697 You wanna punish me or them? 600 00:33:37,148 --> 00:33:39,878 How can I still feel surprise? 601 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:45,014 You would take even this, a moment of real human grief, and turn it into a farce. 602 00:33:45,089 --> 00:33:48,684 Oh, cut the crap. You enjoy what I do. 603 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,194 I never had to force you, you like coming along for the ride. 604 00:33:51,262 --> 00:33:53,321 Yes, that's why I'm cheering you on now. 605 00:33:53,398 --> 00:33:56,697 This is about you needing to be prepared for the worst. 606 00:33:56,768 --> 00:33:58,702 So you become an oncologist. 607 00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:01,466 No surprises there, the worst happens all the time. 608 00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:03,564 But Amber, she was young and healthy. 609 00:34:03,641 --> 00:34:05,006 Her death came out of nowhere. 610 00:34:05,076 --> 00:34:06,600 Don't bring Amber into this. 611 00:34:06,677 --> 00:34:08,167 And you weren't ready. 612 00:34:08,246 --> 00:34:10,146 That makes you angry. The world sucks, 613 00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:11,681 and you didn't have time to brace yourself. 614 00:34:11,749 --> 00:34:13,979 What happened out there is your show. 615 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:16,452 You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters, 616 00:34:16,521 --> 00:34:18,421 so you dump the person who matters the most to you. 617 00:34:18,523 --> 00:34:20,991 I'm not scared to death, I'm moving forward. 618 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:23,823 Because no one can take away from you what you no longer have. 619 00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:25,157 (LAUGHING) 620 00:34:25,229 --> 00:34:26,958 Your father's death is about you. 621 00:34:27,031 --> 00:34:28,498 Amber's death is about you. 622 00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:30,693 I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to be your friend. 623 00:34:30,768 --> 00:34:34,033 Admit it. You're angry and you're scared of losing me. 624 00:34:34,105 --> 00:34:36,039 I'm not angry, I'm not scared. Admit it. 625 00:34:36,107 --> 00:34:37,938 I'm not afraid. Admit it! 626 00:34:38,009 --> 00:34:40,273 I've lost people. It happens. Admit it. Admit it! 627 00:34:40,344 --> 00:34:42,039 What are you, five? Stop repeating... 628 00:34:42,113 --> 00:34:45,139 Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. 629 00:34:45,216 --> 00:34:47,116 Come on, admit it! Admit it! 630 00:34:52,857 --> 00:34:54,882 Still not boring. 631 00:34:57,995 --> 00:35:00,361 Did you know I was going to do that? 632 00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:02,160 Because I didn't know I was going to do that. 633 00:35:02,233 --> 00:35:04,599 I know you have trouble losing people. 634 00:35:05,403 --> 00:35:07,530 In New Orleans, I saw you carrying 635 00:35:07,605 --> 00:35:09,766 this express package around the conference, 636 00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:14,009 and you wouldn't let it go, but you wouldn't open it, 637 00:35:14,078 --> 00:35:16,137 so I peeked at the return address. 638 00:35:16,214 --> 00:35:17,841 Diamond, Fairbarren. 639 00:35:17,915 --> 00:35:19,382 Divorce attorneys. 640 00:35:19,917 --> 00:35:22,112 Your first wife had just served you with papers. 641 00:35:22,186 --> 00:35:24,654 Did you know that when you bailed me out? 642 00:35:24,722 --> 00:35:27,953 Were you doing something nice for me? 643 00:35:28,025 --> 00:35:30,016 What did I say about being boring? 644 00:35:31,896 --> 00:35:33,363 We owe your mom an apology. 645 00:35:34,765 --> 00:35:35,925 (RINGING) 646 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,327 Hello. It's House. 647 00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:39,733 HOUSE: How'd the bubble test go? 648 00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:42,705 The problem wasn't the cyst. It's advanced dilated cardiomyopathy. 649 00:35:42,773 --> 00:35:43,933 We did a three-dimensional echo, 650 00:35:44,008 --> 00:35:45,373 showed a mass in the left atrium. 651 00:35:45,443 --> 00:35:47,172 KUTNER: Looks like an atrial myxoma. 652 00:35:47,245 --> 00:35:50,806 But the ultrasound images are a little grainy, so it's hard to tell. 653 00:35:50,882 --> 00:35:52,144 House? 654 00:35:52,216 --> 00:35:53,740 The images aren't grainy. 655 00:35:53,818 --> 00:35:55,251 They sure look grainy. 656 00:35:55,319 --> 00:35:57,879 I've seen pictures of you where you looked tall. 657 00:35:57,955 --> 00:35:59,422 It's an iron overload, 658 00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:01,515 creates speckles on the image, makes it look grainy. 659 00:36:01,592 --> 00:36:04,493 Also makes her pancreas fail, her blood clot, her intestines... 660 00:36:04,562 --> 00:36:06,257 Atrial myxoma is more likely. 661 00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:07,888 MRI for a better view. 662 00:36:07,965 --> 00:36:09,398 Then call me back and tell me you're embarrassed 663 00:36:09,467 --> 00:36:11,958 because my eyesight is better 500 miles away. 664 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:14,934 I need a phone number. 665 00:36:15,439 --> 00:36:16,872 (PHONE RINGING) 666 00:36:20,545 --> 00:36:21,569 (SPEAKING CANTONESE) 667 00:36:21,646 --> 00:36:24,774 I'm a doctor in New Jersey, treating one of your clients. 668 00:36:24,849 --> 00:36:27,374 Young woman looking for her biological parents. 669 00:36:27,451 --> 00:36:29,146 You know, you could just wait for the MRI 670 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:32,087 to have your curiosity satisfied. 671 00:36:32,156 --> 00:36:35,956 What person who is nothing like me are you saying that to? 672 00:36:37,495 --> 00:36:39,122 Did the parents look tan? 673 00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:40,596 The disease she has is genetic, 674 00:36:40,665 --> 00:36:42,223 which means they should have it, too. 675 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:44,200 They don't look more tan than anyone else. 676 00:36:44,268 --> 00:36:45,394 Discolored teeth? 677 00:36:45,469 --> 00:36:48,131 They're farmers. Their village doesn't even have a dentist. 678 00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:50,299 Right. Thanks. 679 00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:54,037 But if it matters, I'm not convinced they were her parents. 680 00:36:54,111 --> 00:36:55,135 Why not? 681 00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:56,737 Because they said they had no daughter. 682 00:36:56,814 --> 00:37:00,215 The man was adamant, and the woman seemed confused and frightened. 683 00:37:00,284 --> 00:37:01,512 Thank you. 684 00:37:04,188 --> 00:37:05,917 Differential. 685 00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:08,925 Say you're a middle-aged Chinese woman. 686 00:37:08,993 --> 00:37:10,824 Fine. Say it. 687 00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:12,920 I'm a middle-aged Chinese woman. 688 00:37:12,997 --> 00:37:16,489 Girl comes to you, says that she's your long-lost daughter. 689 00:37:16,567 --> 00:37:18,000 Why would you be frightened? 690 00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:24,235 I'm frightened because she's a threat, maybe she knows something. 691 00:37:24,342 --> 00:37:26,970 She hasn't seen you since she was an infant. 692 00:37:27,044 --> 00:37:28,568 Maybe an inheritance issue. 693 00:37:28,646 --> 00:37:30,011 They're peasants. 694 00:37:30,848 --> 00:37:34,875 Her very presence is a threat. She... 695 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,387 What year was she born? 696 00:37:37,455 --> 00:37:38,683 '83. 697 00:37:38,756 --> 00:37:40,417 She's not supposed to be alive. 698 00:37:41,859 --> 00:37:45,386 China introduced the One Child Policy in 1979. 699 00:37:45,463 --> 00:37:47,761 Say they didn't want a girl. 700 00:37:47,832 --> 00:37:49,265 They tried to kill her. 701 00:37:49,333 --> 00:37:50,664 But maybe the baby doesn't die, 702 00:37:50,735 --> 00:37:52,930 maybe the father panics, or regrets it, 703 00:37:53,004 --> 00:37:55,234 takes the baby to an orphanage, 704 00:37:55,306 --> 00:37:56,671 maybe he doesn't tell his wife. 705 00:37:56,741 --> 00:37:59,301 Who freaks out like she's seen a ghost 25 years later 706 00:37:59,377 --> 00:38:00,810 when the girl shows up. 707 00:38:00,878 --> 00:38:03,403 But why does attempted murder from 25 years ago 708 00:38:03,514 --> 00:38:05,209 suddenly become relevant to her health now? 709 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,410 Maybe they gave her something toxic. 710 00:38:07,485 --> 00:38:09,214 It would have to be fat soluble. 711 00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:14,519 This is fun, isn't it? 712 00:38:21,899 --> 00:38:23,093 Let me see the MRI. 713 00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:24,225 We don't have one. 714 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:26,395 She started vomiting as soon as we started the scan. 715 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:30,839 Then let her vomit through the MRI. That's what nurses are for. 716 00:38:30,908 --> 00:38:34,139 Her parents tried to kill her. 717 00:38:34,612 --> 00:38:38,673 I don't know how, but I know it caused her to get sick 25 years later 718 00:38:38,749 --> 00:38:41,274 trying to lift a Buddha. Explain. 719 00:38:42,586 --> 00:38:45,714 I already had this conversation with Wilson. Just go with it. 720 00:38:45,790 --> 00:38:46,984 Poison? 721 00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:48,184 Buddha wouldn't make it worse. 722 00:38:48,259 --> 00:38:50,056 Maybe the weight stressed her back, which... 723 00:38:50,127 --> 00:38:53,028 Makes sense if she's never lifted anything in her life. 724 00:38:53,097 --> 00:38:56,260 She actually didn't get sick till she tried lifting it that second time. 725 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,097 I'm guessing the weight changed. 726 00:39:01,605 --> 00:39:03,937 Anyone have Taub's pager number? 727 00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:05,373 What's up? 728 00:39:05,443 --> 00:39:07,035 Maybe give him a call. 729 00:39:07,111 --> 00:39:10,342 If he tosses that switch on the MRI, she's dead. 730 00:39:10,414 --> 00:39:11,972 X-ray her brain. 731 00:39:14,485 --> 00:39:15,747 HOUSE: Pins. 732 00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:18,379 Push them through the soft fontanel of an infant, 733 00:39:18,456 --> 00:39:22,324 you skewer the brain, and the hair hides the entry wounds. 734 00:39:22,393 --> 00:39:23,690 It's the perfect crime. 735 00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:25,194 She's had them in her all these years. 736 00:39:25,262 --> 00:39:26,627 What changed at the temple? 737 00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,722 Same thing that changed in the MRI. 738 00:39:28,799 --> 00:39:31,097 HOUSE: Shockingly, not all religious leaders are honest. 739 00:39:31,168 --> 00:39:33,728 I'm guessing these particular monks are bilking the faithful 740 00:39:33,804 --> 00:39:35,772 by pushing a magnet up Buddha's butt. 741 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,102 There's another one under the table 742 00:39:37,174 --> 00:39:39,665 that'll repel or attract, depending on how you shift it. 743 00:39:39,744 --> 00:39:41,405 When she picked up that magnet, 744 00:39:41,479 --> 00:39:42,741 it moved one of the pins deeper 745 00:39:42,813 --> 00:39:44,872 into the sympathetic nervous center of her brain. 746 00:39:44,949 --> 00:39:46,439 This sent a signal through the nerves 747 00:39:46,517 --> 00:39:48,917 to the blood vessels in her small intestines 748 00:39:48,986 --> 00:39:53,514 that caused the symptoms in China and in the giant magnet we call an MRI. 749 00:39:53,591 --> 00:39:55,081 She's lucky. 750 00:39:56,494 --> 00:40:00,487 We're all screwed up by our parents, she's got documentation. 751 00:40:04,568 --> 00:40:07,036 The pins will be removed surgically, and she'll be fine. 752 00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:09,971 We'll wake her from the coma after the operation. 753 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,565 Is there any way you could not tell her? 754 00:40:13,344 --> 00:40:15,904 Please. She's fragile. 755 00:40:16,714 --> 00:40:19,979 She desperately wanted to know her biological parents. 756 00:40:20,050 --> 00:40:22,644 For her to find out that they wanted her dead, 757 00:40:23,754 --> 00:40:25,312 I don't know what that'll do to her. 758 00:40:25,389 --> 00:40:27,755 She may not be as fragile as you think. 759 00:40:27,825 --> 00:40:29,156 We know our daughter. 760 00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:32,524 See this pin here? 761 00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:35,861 It's been pressing directly on her addiction center. 762 00:40:35,933 --> 00:40:38,993 It's not her fault, and it's definitely not your fault. 763 00:40:39,069 --> 00:40:40,764 She's not who you think she is. 764 00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:53,443 (KNOCKING) 765 00:40:58,088 --> 00:41:01,216 I hear your patient's going to be all right. 766 00:41:03,093 --> 00:41:08,087 Is that why you're here? A colleague checking up on a patient? 767 00:41:09,834 --> 00:41:12,394 Something going on? 768 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:13,528 I'm celebrating. 769 00:41:22,246 --> 00:41:24,077 My mom hated him, too. 770 00:41:25,382 --> 00:41:28,647 Your DNA test showed no match? That's incredible. 771 00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,017 At the age of 12, you actually figured out 772 00:41:31,088 --> 00:41:33,113 your father wasn't your birth father? 773 00:41:34,058 --> 00:41:36,049 That's what you wanted, wasn't it? 774 00:41:37,061 --> 00:41:38,722 Why should it depress you? 775 00:41:38,796 --> 00:41:40,058 It doesn't depress me. 776 00:41:40,631 --> 00:41:44,533 It doesn't make any difference at all. That's what depresses me. 777 00:41:48,138 --> 00:41:53,474 Well, I guess nobody gets to choose who their parents are. 778 00:41:55,546 --> 00:41:59,676 I'm not even sure anymore we get to choose who our friends are. 779 00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:09,019 I spoke with Cuddy. She hasn't filled my position yet. 780 00:42:10,427 --> 00:42:12,657 If you're coming back just because you're attracted 781 00:42:12,730 --> 00:42:15,164 to the shine of my neediness, 782 00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:18,934 I'd be okay with that. 783 00:42:21,939 --> 00:42:24,806 I'm coming back because you were right. 784 00:42:26,010 --> 00:42:29,639 That strange, annoying trip we just took 785 00:42:29,713 --> 00:42:32,011 was the most fun I've had since Amber died. 786 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,186 You hungry? 787 00:42:47,631 --> 00:42:49,292 Wilson. 788 00:42:49,366 --> 00:42:50,526 Yeah? 789 00:42:53,537 --> 00:42:54,970 My dad's dead. 790 00:42:56,307 --> 00:42:59,538 Yeah. My sympathies.