1 00:00:01,668 --> 00:00:04,706 If you don't know how to use a computer, we will teach you here. 2 00:00:04,805 --> 00:00:07,649 Most jobs require at least basic word processing skills. 3 00:00:07,708 --> 00:00:10,382 We try to get you up to 50 words per minute. 4 00:00:10,477 --> 00:00:14,323 We also have a course in how to talk to someone in an interview. 5 00:00:14,381 --> 00:00:16,884 Stuff like what employers are looking for, 6 00:00:16,984 --> 00:00:18,554 how to turn negatives into positives. 7 00:00:18,652 --> 00:00:20,791 We can also provide clothes for the interview if you need them. 8 00:00:20,854 --> 00:00:23,664 People donate shoes and suits all the time. 9 00:00:24,291 --> 00:00:27,534 What if I had a history with drugs? 10 00:00:28,228 --> 00:00:30,037 That is nothing to be ashamed of. 11 00:00:30,130 --> 00:00:31,905 Many of our clients have struggled with addiction, 12 00:00:31,999 --> 00:00:35,208 and if you want to get clean, we'll help you do that. 13 00:00:35,302 --> 00:00:36,804 And what if I have a kid? 14 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:39,009 No one to help you? 15 00:00:39,072 --> 00:00:43,578 If I need someone to watch her while I'm in a class or on an interview 16 00:00:44,244 --> 00:00:45,814 could you help with that? 17 00:00:45,879 --> 00:00:47,256 We do not provide child care. 18 00:00:47,347 --> 00:00:49,725 Actually, it's something that comes up often. 19 00:00:49,883 --> 00:00:51,885 I would love to be able to do it. 20 00:00:51,985 --> 00:00:53,931 I just don't have the resources. 21 00:00:54,021 --> 00:00:56,558 But it's definitely on the wish list. 22 00:00:57,424 --> 00:01:02,203 Okay. Okay, uh, thank you. I'll be back. 23 00:01:02,396 --> 00:01:03,670 I have to take this. 24 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:06,006 Yes, please come back. We'll get you started. 25 00:01:06,333 --> 00:01:09,246 It was nice to meet you, Benjamin. 26 00:01:09,336 --> 00:01:10,906 Hey, Oscar. 27 00:01:11,772 --> 00:01:14,343 Ugh! That is too bad. 28 00:01:14,408 --> 00:01:16,388 Did they tell you why? 29 00:01:23,684 --> 00:01:24,856 Yeah. 30 00:01:26,186 --> 00:01:27,221 Mmm-hmm. 31 00:01:27,287 --> 00:01:30,860 Well, look, you know what? Sometimes you just don't get the job. 32 00:01:30,958 --> 00:01:33,529 Oscar, I've got to call you back. 33 00:01:35,262 --> 00:01:36,366 Uh... 34 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:39,205 Uh, uh... 35 00:01:43,370 --> 00:01:46,112 Benjamin! Benjamin, wait. 36 00:01:51,378 --> 00:01:53,051 Oh, my God. 37 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:05,501 Somebody call an ambulance! 38 00:03:08,055 --> 00:03:10,626 Why am I watching you cut your hair? 39 00:03:10,724 --> 00:03:14,035 If I do it at home, I'm the one who has to clean it up. 40 00:03:14,127 --> 00:03:18,303 I was referring less to where it's happening and more to why. 41 00:03:18,365 --> 00:03:20,311 New life, new look. 42 00:03:21,968 --> 00:03:24,972 Does that mean you like your new life? 43 00:03:25,072 --> 00:03:27,052 If you're asking if your job is safe, 44 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:30,144 that depends on what you have to say about the file you're holding. 45 00:03:30,243 --> 00:03:32,655 It doesn't seem like much of a case. 46 00:03:32,713 --> 00:03:34,556 Although, I'm sure I'm wrong. 47 00:03:34,648 --> 00:03:36,650 You are. Tell me why. 48 00:03:36,750 --> 00:03:39,230 Guy collapsed after being on his feet for hours 49 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:42,823 on a hot day without breakfast, so that's really weird. 50 00:03:42,889 --> 00:03:47,497 ER found nothing wrong then I decided I should test his wallet. 51 00:03:47,594 --> 00:03:49,665 He's rich? That's why we're taking the case? 52 00:03:49,730 --> 00:03:51,038 No, we're taking the case because 53 00:03:51,098 --> 00:03:53,169 no one knows what's wrong with him. 54 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:54,837 And he's rich. 55 00:03:58,004 --> 00:03:59,506 Dr. Adams. 56 00:04:00,173 --> 00:04:01,584 Give her the file. 57 00:04:01,675 --> 00:04:03,245 This is my only copy. 58 00:04:04,611 --> 00:04:07,353 My MO depends upon the use of a team. 59 00:04:07,414 --> 00:04:10,588 Definitionally, that involves more than one person, 60 00:04:10,684 --> 00:04:12,027 so I really have no choice. 61 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:14,190 Give her the file. You can't afford a team. 62 00:04:14,521 --> 00:04:16,091 Adams is free. 63 00:04:16,189 --> 00:04:19,033 And I'm referring both to her availability and her price tag. 64 00:04:20,527 --> 00:04:23,633 New girl meet newer girl, and vice versa. 65 00:04:24,765 --> 00:04:26,267 You said we were meeting for coffee. 66 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,744 Well, when someone asks if you want coffee, 67 00:04:28,802 --> 00:04:31,043 they obviously don't just mean coffee. 68 00:04:31,438 --> 00:04:34,942 Wait. Did you think I was referring to sex? 69 00:04:35,041 --> 00:04:36,782 Would you shut the blinds on your way out'? 70 00:04:36,877 --> 00:04:38,879 I thought you were referring to talking. 71 00:04:38,979 --> 00:04:40,788 Talking about medicine. 72 00:04:40,881 --> 00:04:43,623 Specifically, as it refers to the guy whose name is on the file 73 00:04:43,717 --> 00:04:45,719 she still hasn't handed you. 74 00:04:45,819 --> 00:04:49,733 I'm not working, House. I'm in the process of looking for a paying job. 75 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:52,293 And in the meantime, there's no way a do-gooder like you 76 00:04:52,392 --> 00:04:54,133 isn't volunteering all over town, 77 00:04:54,227 --> 00:04:56,400 ladling kittens, spaying soup. 78 00:04:56,496 --> 00:04:58,737 There's a free clinic in Trenton. 79 00:04:59,566 --> 00:05:01,443 Well, think of this as today's free clinic. 80 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:03,412 Only with fewer bums with herpes. 81 00:05:03,470 --> 00:05:05,916 I don't think we actually have much of a case. 82 00:05:06,006 --> 00:05:08,350 I think it's just dehydration. 83 00:05:10,076 --> 00:05:11,612 What happened the last time another doctor 84 00:05:11,678 --> 00:05:13,157 told you I was wrong about a case? 85 00:05:13,246 --> 00:05:14,691 I lost my job. 86 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:16,758 But you saved a life. 87 00:05:20,353 --> 00:05:23,664 Is an ultrasound really necessary? I'm feeling much better now. 88 00:05:23,757 --> 00:05:25,759 A sudden collapse at your age can indicate 89 00:05:25,826 --> 00:05:27,499 a deterioration in the heart muscle, 90 00:05:28,028 --> 00:05:29,769 a pretty serious condition. 91 00:05:29,830 --> 00:05:32,333 It could also just be dehydration. 92 00:05:32,432 --> 00:05:34,708 Next time, you could probably drop the undercover act. 93 00:05:36,136 --> 00:05:40,175 I walk in in a suit, and they're gonna put their best foot forward. 94 00:05:40,273 --> 00:05:42,219 Also I don't own a suit. 95 00:05:43,043 --> 00:05:45,614 You give away millions, and you don't own a suit? 96 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:47,181 I gave those away too. 97 00:05:47,948 --> 00:05:49,894 One day I was writing a check to my landscaper, 98 00:05:49,983 --> 00:05:51,519 and it suddenly hit me, 99 00:05:51,618 --> 00:05:55,794 $6,000 to take out plants and put in different plants 100 00:05:55,889 --> 00:05:58,028 so I can look at them. 101 00:05:58,124 --> 00:06:00,297 Shouldn't I use that money to do something important? 102 00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:03,704 And by money, you mean all your money. 103 00:06:03,797 --> 00:06:05,037 I started with $10 million, 104 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:09,637 and then I couldn't think of a reason not to give 20 or 40. 105 00:06:11,738 --> 00:06:13,718 I figure I can live on $25,000 a year. 106 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:18,714 One room apartment, bus pass, thrift stores, bare necessities. 107 00:06:18,812 --> 00:06:21,315 I still have my software company. 108 00:06:21,414 --> 00:06:24,554 And when I make more, I'll give that away too. 109 00:06:24,651 --> 00:06:26,494 He's nuts. He's generous. 110 00:06:26,987 --> 00:06:29,490 There's a neurological issue. He's getting rid of everything. 111 00:06:29,589 --> 00:06:32,229 His echocardiogram was negative for cardiomyopathy. 112 00:06:32,325 --> 00:06:34,566 Head CT showed no signs of stroke or hemorrhage. 113 00:06:34,661 --> 00:06:36,072 He has one pair of pants! 114 00:06:36,162 --> 00:06:37,903 Most people with his kind of money 115 00:06:37,998 --> 00:06:40,911 are commissioning oil paintings of their Yorkshire terrier. 116 00:06:41,001 --> 00:06:44,244 Benjamin is sacrificing his own comfort to help others. 117 00:06:44,337 --> 00:06:47,580 That's 'cause helping others is his Yorkie oil painting. 118 00:06:47,674 --> 00:06:49,915 That's good, not sick. 119 00:06:50,010 --> 00:06:51,751 That's naive and sick. 120 00:06:51,845 --> 00:06:54,018 You really want to improve things, you do it through policy. 121 00:06:54,114 --> 00:06:56,754 This guy empties his pockets, what really changes? 122 00:06:56,850 --> 00:06:59,922 That's right. All those babies with AIDS, they're just using us. 123 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:02,859 My parents had $800 between them when they got here. 124 00:07:02,956 --> 00:07:05,698 They scraped and borrowed so we could go to good schools. 125 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:09,104 And I worked my ass off. No one gave me a handout. 126 00:07:09,195 --> 00:07:10,299 It makes me work harder. 127 00:07:11,631 --> 00:07:13,110 Rebuttal. 128 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:15,304 What's your evil plan? 129 00:07:15,402 --> 00:07:16,938 I object to your cynicism. 130 00:07:17,037 --> 00:07:19,039 It's been earned. That's what I object to. 131 00:07:19,139 --> 00:07:21,585 New Dean of Medicine has an ethical obligation to come in 132 00:07:21,708 --> 00:07:23,949 with a completely open mind about all employees, 133 00:07:24,044 --> 00:07:27,218 thus letting me blithely run roughshod tor at least four weeks. 134 00:07:27,547 --> 00:07:29,754 My theory is that you're running a battery of tests 135 00:07:29,883 --> 00:07:31,590 to convince him that you've saved his life, 136 00:07:31,718 --> 00:07:33,664 and then con him into funding you to hire back your team. 137 00:07:33,753 --> 00:07:35,255 What? Your old team? 138 00:07:36,089 --> 00:07:38,069 What? This is your new reality. 139 00:07:38,158 --> 00:07:40,331 You've got your office, you've got neighbors, 140 00:07:40,427 --> 00:07:42,100 you've got one employee, one volunteer 141 00:07:42,228 --> 00:07:45,072 until she finds actual paid work or gets sick of you. 142 00:07:45,165 --> 00:07:48,078 I talked to Chase and Taub. They're willing to come back. 143 00:07:49,002 --> 00:07:50,447 What about Thirteen? 144 00:07:50,570 --> 00:07:55,076 Not a good choice. She's not a long-term, because she has no long-term. 145 00:07:55,942 --> 00:07:57,080 Not taking your calls? 146 00:07:58,745 --> 00:07:59,849 She will. 147 00:07:59,946 --> 00:08:01,448 Discharge the patient. 148 00:08:01,581 --> 00:08:04,960 Unexplained loss of consciousness could be cardiomyopathy, 149 00:08:05,085 --> 00:08:07,122 global anoxia, subarachnoid hemorrhage... 150 00:08:07,253 --> 00:08:09,927 Dehydration. He was given fluids, and he got better. 151 00:08:10,023 --> 00:08:11,366 And I'm sure your tests have come up negative, 152 00:08:11,458 --> 00:08:13,335 or you'd have shut me up already. 153 00:08:13,426 --> 00:08:14,598 Which means he goes home. 154 00:08:17,263 --> 00:08:19,265 There is a symptom. 155 00:08:19,866 --> 00:08:21,436 Extreme altruism. 156 00:08:25,805 --> 00:08:27,648 You've got two choices, House. 157 00:08:27,774 --> 00:08:29,845 You can recognize that your patient is just 158 00:08:29,943 --> 00:08:32,048 a very nice, healthy guy and send him home. 159 00:08:32,145 --> 00:08:34,716 Or you can consider altruism a symptom, 160 00:08:34,814 --> 00:08:37,385 in which case, you cannot take his money. 161 00:08:42,389 --> 00:08:44,562 Send him home. 162 00:08:44,657 --> 00:08:47,638 And check with admitting for the net worth of all new patients. 163 00:08:59,973 --> 00:09:02,146 I'm not coming back, House. 164 00:09:05,178 --> 00:09:07,488 Technically, you're back right now. 165 00:09:09,349 --> 00:09:11,920 I need you to stop calling me. 166 00:09:12,018 --> 00:09:13,895 The first 17 messages were cute, but... 167 00:09:13,987 --> 00:09:16,228 I'm putting the band back together. 168 00:09:16,322 --> 00:09:18,495 Interesting that you've never showed up at my place, 169 00:09:18,558 --> 00:09:20,162 what with your love of annoying me 170 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:23,070 and your inability to take no for an answer. 171 00:09:23,163 --> 00:09:24,574 I'm guessing ankle monitor. 172 00:09:28,835 --> 00:09:32,339 Guilty as charged. Literally. 173 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:35,510 I'm not a doctor any more, House. 174 00:09:36,609 --> 00:09:39,613 The job went away but not the profession. 175 00:09:40,346 --> 00:09:42,758 You look healthy, so that's not it. 176 00:09:45,185 --> 00:09:47,426 You met a boy or a girl, 177 00:09:48,455 --> 00:09:50,366 fallen in love, wanna be happy. 178 00:09:50,924 --> 00:09:54,462 You've decided to enjoy what time you have left. 179 00:09:56,529 --> 00:09:57,940 You're going to Thailand. 180 00:10:00,266 --> 00:10:03,304 Girl. And Mýkonos. 181 00:10:05,371 --> 00:10:06,873 Turns out I like boring. 182 00:10:06,973 --> 00:10:09,044 No, you want to like boring. 183 00:10:09,142 --> 00:10:10,382 But if you actually liked boring 184 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:12,946 you would have figured that out in fifth grade when you were bored. 185 00:10:13,046 --> 00:10:15,287 Please, stop calling me. 186 00:10:18,785 --> 00:10:20,128 No. 187 00:10:21,721 --> 00:10:24,565 You showed up to tell me that you don't want to hear from me. 188 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:26,968 That's a mixed signal. 189 00:10:27,060 --> 00:10:30,303 And I'm gonna choose to listen to your actions rather than your words, 190 00:10:30,396 --> 00:10:31,670 'cause they're more honest. 191 00:10:38,738 --> 00:10:40,149 I'm a little confused. 192 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,481 The test is designed to determine if your nerves are... 193 00:10:42,575 --> 00:10:45,579 No, I meant you're running a test and discharging me'? 194 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:47,989 Was I dehydrated or not? 195 00:10:48,081 --> 00:10:50,994 I think so. But out of an abundance of caution, 196 00:10:51,084 --> 00:10:53,690 my colleague has taken it upon herself to do one more test. 197 00:10:54,254 --> 00:10:55,358 All right. 198 00:10:58,258 --> 00:10:59,931 You scare me a little. 199 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:04,438 Why? 200 00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:07,603 I've been considering applying to Doctors Without Borders, 201 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:09,111 going overseas awhile, 202 00:11:09,202 --> 00:11:12,843 and that seems like a huge sacrifice, but you... 203 00:11:12,939 --> 00:11:15,351 You don't scare her. You make her feel guilty. 204 00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:20,116 You like your life the way it is. 205 00:11:20,180 --> 00:11:22,126 Most people give the minimum they have to give, 206 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:23,684 so they can enjoy what they have left. 207 00:11:23,783 --> 00:11:27,697 I guess my minimum is just higher than most. 208 00:11:27,787 --> 00:11:30,529 Complete recruitment and interference pattern. 209 00:11:30,623 --> 00:11:32,296 His leg muscles are fine. 210 00:11:32,392 --> 00:11:34,633 I feel, uh, funny. 211 00:11:34,694 --> 00:11:36,469 Where? My chest. 212 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:39,408 You're tachycardic. Your heart's beating too fast. 213 00:11:39,499 --> 00:11:41,137 Unbelievable. 214 00:11:49,676 --> 00:11:51,815 Patient got tachycardia to 185. 215 00:11:51,878 --> 00:11:54,654 We pushed 18 milligrams adenosine. 216 00:11:54,714 --> 00:11:56,853 There's definitely something wrong with him. 217 00:11:56,916 --> 00:12:00,056 Which is awesome. Now, there's something to cure, 218 00:12:00,153 --> 00:12:01,496 which means there's something to be 219 00:12:01,554 --> 00:12:04,433 disproportionately financially grateful for. 220 00:12:04,524 --> 00:12:06,765 Morning. Got you coffee. 221 00:12:06,859 --> 00:12:08,065 Thanks. 222 00:12:08,161 --> 00:12:10,232 Arrhythmia could easily have caused the collapse 223 00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:14,437 that landed Father Teresa here in the first place. 224 00:12:14,534 --> 00:12:16,707 Oh, it's fine. Keep it. 225 00:12:16,769 --> 00:12:18,271 We looked at his heart yesterday. 226 00:12:18,371 --> 00:12:20,112 Didn't see any structural abnormalities. 227 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:21,913 I'm thinking occult long QT syndrome? 228 00:12:22,008 --> 00:12:23,009 What about Whipple's? 229 00:12:23,076 --> 00:12:25,579 If it was Whipple's, there'd be some kind of neurological involvement 230 00:12:25,678 --> 00:12:28,090 You don't think defying human nature is neurological? 231 00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:30,058 Racing heart, medical condition. 232 00:12:30,116 --> 00:12:31,959 Bleeding heart, stupid condition. 233 00:12:32,051 --> 00:12:33,621 Are you saying that because you believe it, 234 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,360 or because it's in your financial best interests 235 00:12:36,422 --> 00:12:39,062 to think his generosity isn't just temporary? 236 00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:42,629 I'm told that some people are just nice. 237 00:12:42,729 --> 00:12:44,265 I'm trying to embrace that wisdom. 238 00:12:44,364 --> 00:12:47,368 Benjamin's been taking allergy medication the last few weeks. 239 00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:49,777 Long QT syndrome can be medication-induced. 240 00:12:50,136 --> 00:12:52,377 Flush him with saline. Get rid of the antihistamines. 241 00:12:52,438 --> 00:12:54,384 Then do an EKG. 242 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,442 No, wait. I'll do the flushing. 243 00:12:57,744 --> 00:12:59,451 And take the damn two dollars. 244 00:12:59,545 --> 00:13:00,990 She hasn't even sipped the coffee. 245 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:08,129 I just got so angry, you know? 246 00:13:08,221 --> 00:13:10,758 So I made a terrible mistake, 247 00:13:10,823 --> 00:13:13,667 and now, I'm trying to start my life over. 248 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,831 To help people the way I always wanted. 249 00:13:17,297 --> 00:13:21,677 But my department got defunded, and it's my fault. 250 00:13:23,269 --> 00:13:26,443 I just can't stand to think of all those patients going untreated 251 00:13:26,506 --> 00:13:29,851 because I don't have the resources to do my best work. 252 00:13:31,577 --> 00:13:32,783 How about I help you out? 253 00:13:33,813 --> 00:13:35,793 How do you mean? 254 00:13:37,083 --> 00:13:39,654 I'll give a million dollars as an endowment to the hospital 255 00:13:39,752 --> 00:13:40,958 earmarked for Diagnostics. 256 00:13:42,855 --> 00:13:43,959 Wow. 257 00:13:45,925 --> 00:13:50,704 I'm an opportunistic ex-con who just gave you a two-minute sob story 258 00:13:50,797 --> 00:13:52,936 as step three in my master plan, 259 00:13:52,999 --> 00:13:56,344 and you've offered me a million dollars. 260 00:13:56,436 --> 00:13:57,881 Which was step 17. 261 00:13:59,972 --> 00:14:01,042 Is that bad? 262 00:14:03,309 --> 00:14:05,846 Ethics are not my strong suit. 263 00:14:08,314 --> 00:14:09,987 Hypothetical. 264 00:14:10,049 --> 00:14:14,623 If I'm offered oral sex from a sexaholic, do I have to decline? 265 00:14:14,987 --> 00:14:18,525 Don't answer yet. Saying "no" will cause both of us pain. 266 00:14:18,624 --> 00:14:20,365 Saying "yes" will cause both of us pleasure. 267 00:14:21,060 --> 00:14:22,869 You can't take sex from a sexaholic, 268 00:14:22,962 --> 00:14:24,999 you can't give booze to an alcoholic, 269 00:14:25,064 --> 00:14:26,566 and you can't take this guy's money. 270 00:14:26,666 --> 00:14:29,545 I could be wrong about the symptom. I'm wrong all the lime. 271 00:14:29,635 --> 00:14:33,515 Taking money from a sick person is ethically suspect at best. 272 00:14:33,573 --> 00:14:36,816 What is this? Canada? All we do is take money from sick people. 273 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:37,911 We work for it. 274 00:14:38,010 --> 00:14:39,011 I'm working. 275 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:40,817 How much? 276 00:14:41,748 --> 00:14:42,852 $20. 277 00:14:43,916 --> 00:14:46,328 Well, what if it was? It's the same principle. 278 00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:48,498 $20, a million, what's the difference? 279 00:14:49,589 --> 00:14:52,263 Actually, the difference is pretty much a million dollars. 280 00:14:52,859 --> 00:14:54,395 He came up with the figure, not me. 281 00:14:56,095 --> 00:15:00,441 Crap. Got a patient with end-stage renal disease. 282 00:15:00,533 --> 00:15:02,274 Her heart can't support dialysis. 283 00:15:02,368 --> 00:15:04,405 She needs a transplant but... 284 00:15:04,504 --> 00:15:07,451 You tuned out as soon as it stopped being about you, didn't you? 285 00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:09,076 What? I got to go. 286 00:15:09,175 --> 00:15:12,179 It's all moot. The patient probably has long QT. 287 00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:15,192 He's probably just a really, really decent person. 288 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:16,454 They exist, right? 289 00:15:16,549 --> 00:15:19,223 You can't take the money, House. 290 00:15:19,285 --> 00:15:21,561 Is long QT bad? 291 00:15:22,455 --> 00:15:25,595 It's a tough thing to control. 292 00:15:25,691 --> 00:15:28,365 Is there someone you want me to call? 293 00:15:29,295 --> 00:15:31,241 There's someone I would like to call. 294 00:15:31,631 --> 00:15:34,874 She's the same person who won't take my calls. 295 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:37,480 My wife. 296 00:15:39,138 --> 00:15:41,414 When I started giving away the money, 297 00:15:41,474 --> 00:15:43,715 I hoped she'd want to do it with me. 298 00:15:45,244 --> 00:15:46,655 She didn't. 299 00:15:49,148 --> 00:15:51,150 I miss them. 300 00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:52,994 I have two little boys. 301 00:15:56,823 --> 00:15:59,667 Having a family doesn't exempt me from social responsibility. 302 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:01,796 But family comes first. 303 00:16:01,894 --> 00:16:03,066 But should it? 304 00:16:03,429 --> 00:16:06,467 I know that sounds weird. 305 00:16:06,566 --> 00:16:07,977 But if someone is related to you, 306 00:16:08,067 --> 00:16:10,138 does that empirically make them more special, 307 00:16:10,236 --> 00:16:11,840 more deserving than anyone else? 308 00:16:12,338 --> 00:16:14,579 Yes, it gives you a responsibility. 309 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,486 My boys have a roof over their heads. They're not starving. 310 00:16:22,248 --> 00:16:23,989 I pay court-ordered child support. 311 00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:26,825 And frankly' it's more than they need. 312 00:16:28,588 --> 00:16:31,501 I love them more than anything. 313 00:16:31,591 --> 00:16:34,663 I can't justify buying video games and private schools 314 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,934 when other people's children are starving. 315 00:16:39,432 --> 00:16:41,639 I hope one day they'll understand that. 316 00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:45,281 Your hands are trembling. 317 00:16:45,338 --> 00:16:46,715 Is it the electrodes? 318 00:16:46,806 --> 00:16:48,183 Are you in pain? 319 00:16:48,274 --> 00:16:50,845 No. What's happening? 320 00:16:50,943 --> 00:16:52,980 I'm not sure, but it's not what we thought it was. 321 00:16:57,183 --> 00:17:01,996 So arrhythmia, fainting, muscle tremors. 322 00:17:02,121 --> 00:17:04,692 Plus unfortunately, mental changes. 323 00:17:08,794 --> 00:17:12,003 I still don't think it's neurological. 324 00:17:12,131 --> 00:17:13,201 God bless you. 325 00:17:13,299 --> 00:17:16,143 He lost his wife and kids, 'cause he couldn't stop giving money away. 326 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:20,344 He lost his wife, because she couldn't accept not being filthy rich. 327 00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:22,180 She's not drinking the coffee either. 328 00:17:22,308 --> 00:17:26,654 Drink it, don't drink it. The point is I gave it to you, so we're even. 329 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:32,656 Even? It was a gift, an insignificant token. There was nothing owed. 330 00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:34,322 That was the whole point. 331 00:17:34,687 --> 00:17:35,893 Why? 332 00:17:36,022 --> 00:17:37,228 "Why?" 333 00:17:37,323 --> 00:17:38,666 Yeah. Why? 334 00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:40,833 She's the crazy one. 335 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:45,208 So a guy gives everything away to strangers, sane. 336 00:17:45,264 --> 00:17:48,734 Girl who doesn't want anything from strangers, crazy? 337 00:17:48,834 --> 00:17:50,177 You're not a stranger. 338 00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:52,238 And your perverse view of the world is 339 00:17:52,338 --> 00:17:54,249 making you force a neurological component 340 00:17:54,340 --> 00:17:55,842 onto an obviously cardiological... 341 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:57,910 Your parents didn't love you enough, 342 00:17:58,010 --> 00:17:59,921 so you need to prove your superiority. 343 00:18:00,012 --> 00:18:03,357 Or they loved you too much, so you need to prove your humility. 344 00:18:04,050 --> 00:18:07,691 Or it's just rich guilt. I'm betting on the last one. 345 00:18:10,356 --> 00:18:12,962 There's a whole list of drugs that could have caused his symptoms. 346 00:18:13,059 --> 00:18:14,766 I doubt the guy would spend money on drugs 347 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:16,862 when there are orphans out there without cable. 348 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:19,466 Anyway, he'd be getting better right now, not worse. 349 00:18:19,565 --> 00:18:22,102 Could be polyarteritis nodosa. 350 00:18:22,201 --> 00:18:23,305 That comes with a rash. 351 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:26,542 Echovirus. 352 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,051 Virus, virus, virus... 353 00:18:28,474 --> 00:18:30,647 Fits his physical symptoms. 354 00:18:30,743 --> 00:18:35,055 And could, but doesn't necessarily, cause personality changes. 355 00:18:35,414 --> 00:18:36,552 Works for everyone? 356 00:18:37,783 --> 00:18:39,126 Start him on antivirals. 357 00:18:39,919 --> 00:18:42,490 And, Adams, when you treat, 358 00:18:42,588 --> 00:18:46,434 and he gets better and doesn't give Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off, 359 00:18:46,492 --> 00:18:48,563 you owe me a coffee. 360 00:18:51,063 --> 00:18:52,838 Click the third tab from the left 361 00:18:52,932 --> 00:18:55,105 and find a box that says "previous entry." 362 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:56,805 You get a drop-down menu that's sorted 363 00:18:56,902 --> 00:18:59,007 by patient name and department. 364 00:18:59,105 --> 00:19:00,914 Thank you. I appreciate your help. 365 00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:02,611 You're gonna read too much into this, aren't you? 366 00:19:02,675 --> 00:19:04,086 No. Not at all. 367 00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:05,349 We're going to fundamentally disagree 368 00:19:05,444 --> 00:19:08,186 about what it means to read too much into this, aren't we? 369 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,918 Yes, absolutely. 370 00:19:11,417 --> 00:19:14,091 Look, I thought about what you said, and I realized you were right. 371 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,258 Great. See you tomorrow morning. 372 00:19:16,322 --> 00:19:17,665 No, you won't. 373 00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:21,301 Afternoon? I can't think of another interpretation. 374 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:24,807 Shut up. Look, I'm not sure what you were trying to achieve. 375 00:19:24,864 --> 00:19:26,502 I'm never quite sure, but you were 376 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:28,374 actually a friend to me when I needed it. 377 00:19:29,435 --> 00:19:31,381 I don't want to come back to work for you. 378 00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:34,875 But I was wrong to try to push you out of my life. 379 00:19:36,876 --> 00:19:38,719 Everything has gone blue. 380 00:19:39,378 --> 00:19:42,450 That's not supposed to happen, right? 381 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:44,654 Stay there. I'm coming. 382 00:19:44,784 --> 00:19:46,821 No, you don't have to do that. 383 00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:50,490 Although if you did come, maybe you could swing by the Hunan Palace 384 00:19:50,623 --> 00:19:52,899 and get some Lo Mein and a Szechuan Beef. 385 00:19:52,992 --> 00:19:54,903 That is six miles out of my way. 386 00:19:54,994 --> 00:19:58,032 Okay, then, I guess I'll just get something from the hospital cafeteria, 387 00:19:58,130 --> 00:20:01,475 which is where I get all of my meals since I can't go anywhere. 388 00:20:02,635 --> 00:20:04,376 Fine. I'll get the food. 389 00:20:04,470 --> 00:20:05,471 You're a peach. 390 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:12,485 I started the last round of pleconaril. 391 00:20:12,645 --> 00:20:13,988 Can you do me a favor? 392 00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:16,693 A favor? 393 00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:23,162 You want me to return these? 394 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:26,726 Give them to someone? Wear them while you masturbate? 395 00:20:28,327 --> 00:20:30,329 I want you to have them. 396 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:32,406 That's not a favor. 397 00:20:32,498 --> 00:20:36,537 It was a two-for-one sale I couldn't resist. I need to justify buying them. 398 00:20:36,669 --> 00:20:39,206 They're $120. 399 00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:42,251 My car's in the shop. I'm short on cash this month. 400 00:20:42,341 --> 00:20:44,082 I can't pay you back. 401 00:20:44,176 --> 00:20:47,749 The first pair were $120. These were free. 402 00:20:49,849 --> 00:20:52,386 You do know I punched the last person that pissed me off? 403 00:20:54,186 --> 00:20:55,256 Was it Santa? 404 00:21:11,604 --> 00:21:14,312 What's your patient's status? 405 00:21:14,406 --> 00:21:16,750 Better. We're discharging him. 406 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:18,944 Good. 407 00:21:20,079 --> 00:21:22,719 Hey' hey. Why do you care? 408 00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:27,487 Specifically. Although, I'm curious about a general answer loo. 409 00:21:27,586 --> 00:21:30,795 Your guy just signed up to donate a kidney to my patient with renal failure. 410 00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:35,000 Did he meet your patient with renal failure? 411 00:21:35,094 --> 00:21:38,439 No. He heard the nurses talking about her, that she was short on time. 412 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:42,472 I was wrong. 413 00:21:42,568 --> 00:21:45,674 Don't say that. House, she really needs this kidney. 414 00:21:45,771 --> 00:21:48,911 He's not better. His mental status is declining. 415 00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:52,820 Or he's doing an amazing thing for another human being. 416 00:21:53,245 --> 00:21:54,918 I thought it was an ethical no-brainer 417 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,789 that we can't take stuff from sick people. 418 00:21:57,817 --> 00:21:59,592 I changed my mind. 419 00:22:07,626 --> 00:22:09,003 He's still sick. 420 00:22:09,094 --> 00:22:10,368 His symptoms have gone away. 421 00:22:10,462 --> 00:22:14,535 Not all of them. Offering an organ to a stranger is a symptom. 422 00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:17,705 A couple dozen people a year make undirected kidney donations. 423 00:22:17,803 --> 00:22:20,511 How many of them are also in the process of pauperizing themselves'? 424 00:22:20,606 --> 00:22:22,984 If the guy threw himself on a grenade, he'd be a hero. 425 00:22:23,108 --> 00:22:24,985 If it saves a life, who cares? 426 00:22:25,110 --> 00:22:29,115 You do. Yesterday when you made the exact opposite argument. 427 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:32,158 If there's even a chance I'm right, 428 00:22:32,284 --> 00:22:33,854 it'd be dangerous to give his kidney to someone else. 429 00:22:33,953 --> 00:22:38,368 More dangerous than complete renal failure? My patient needs this now. 430 00:22:38,457 --> 00:22:39,800 Why do you want to give away your kidney? 431 00:22:41,126 --> 00:22:42,628 There are 70,000 people in this country 432 00:22:42,695 --> 00:22:44,174 on the active Waiting list for a kidney, 433 00:22:44,296 --> 00:22:46,503 and less than 10,000 dead people a year to give them one. 434 00:22:46,632 --> 00:22:49,806 Yeah, if only We could kill 60,000 more people a year, 435 00:22:49,869 --> 00:22:51,177 all would be golden. 436 00:22:51,303 --> 00:22:52,338 I'll give you your money. 437 00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:54,374 See? Crazy. 438 00:22:54,473 --> 00:22:56,146 Being a live donor has risks. 439 00:22:56,208 --> 00:22:59,815 I looked ii up. The risk is one in 4,000. I could die during surgery. 440 00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:01,825 Which means if I don't donate, 441 00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,487 I'm valuing my life at 4,000 times someone else's. 442 00:23:05,851 --> 00:23:07,387 It's not like I want to be cut open 443 00:23:07,486 --> 00:23:09,488 and have a part of me taken out, 444 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:12,832 but I've got two, and this woman has none. She'll die without it. 445 00:23:13,325 --> 00:23:14,497 Perfectly logical. 446 00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:17,666 People with mental deficiency can be logical. 447 00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:19,901 Just like sane people can be illogical. 448 00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:22,411 This kidney thing is the only evidence you have that he's sick. 449 00:23:25,204 --> 00:23:27,684 I'm going to let him be a donor. 450 00:23:31,677 --> 00:23:34,021 Dr. House, it's not a symptom. 451 00:23:35,381 --> 00:23:36,883 Come back after you're convinced that I'm healthy, 452 00:23:37,016 --> 00:23:38,859 and I will give you your money. 453 00:23:39,685 --> 00:23:41,358 No, you won't. 454 00:23:46,558 --> 00:23:48,970 We have time for one more test before we move him. 455 00:23:49,061 --> 00:23:50,199 What test? 456 00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:52,708 Whatever test will prove that it wasn't echovirus... 457 00:23:52,865 --> 00:23:55,539 Virus, virus... And he's not cured, obviously. 458 00:23:55,601 --> 00:23:57,706 I've been saying all along this could be Whipple's. 459 00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:01,877 Causes arrhythmia, tremor and mental changes. 460 00:24:01,941 --> 00:24:04,581 Bad idea. There's no joint pain. 461 00:24:04,710 --> 00:24:05,654 Where's Adams? 462 00:24:05,744 --> 00:24:06,882 We thought the case was over. 463 00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:09,085 She has a job interview. 464 00:24:13,052 --> 00:24:14,463 Why is she here? 465 00:24:14,553 --> 00:24:15,964 Because I called her. 466 00:24:16,588 --> 00:24:19,091 Bigger question is why that worked. 467 00:24:19,491 --> 00:24:21,732 I'm here because I have time, and you have a crisis and... 468 00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:23,501 We're too busy for rationalizations. 469 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:26,166 Patient made a big downgrade in his personal life. 470 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:27,936 He's probably not eating all that healthy. 471 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,741 Magnesium deficiency? 472 00:24:31,170 --> 00:24:33,741 Wait until they take him back to his room, draw blood, 473 00:24:33,806 --> 00:24:36,013 and do an expanded electrolyte profile. 474 00:24:36,108 --> 00:24:38,645 No, he hasn't had anxiety or any trouble sleeping. 475 00:24:38,744 --> 00:24:39,916 I think it's Whipple's disease. 476 00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:42,152 Bad idea. He doesn't have joint pain. 477 00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:44,284 Joint pain is common but not definitive. 478 00:24:44,350 --> 00:24:46,159 Whipple's explains all of his symptoms 479 00:24:46,251 --> 00:24:48,026 including the personality change. 480 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:49,656 And it would respond to antibiotics, 481 00:24:49,755 --> 00:24:51,257 which is why he started to feel better, 482 00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:52,802 which doesn't mean he's not still sick. 483 00:24:53,792 --> 00:24:57,001 You were right. Counts for nothing if you can't defend ii. 484 00:24:58,130 --> 00:25:00,303 Book a procedure room, do an upper endoscopy, 485 00:25:00,366 --> 00:25:02,937 and run a PCR test for Whipple's. 486 00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:07,112 Guilt. 487 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:10,183 You feel guilty about leaving. 488 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,653 Yes, I think that little of you and that much of me. 489 00:25:12,711 --> 00:25:13,883 You're nothing without me. 490 00:25:13,979 --> 00:25:16,357 Not leaving me, leaving humanity. 491 00:25:17,449 --> 00:25:20,328 I'm going with my girlfriend, the woman I love. 492 00:25:20,819 --> 00:25:22,162 To have fun. 493 00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:25,032 You're trying to make me feel guilty, 494 00:25:25,124 --> 00:25:26,694 because you're saving lives here. 495 00:25:26,792 --> 00:25:29,398 I think that's great. I'm proud to have been a part of ii. 496 00:25:29,495 --> 00:25:33,705 But now, I just want to be happy. 497 00:25:34,967 --> 00:25:38,244 Well, no one's unhappy in Greece. 498 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,551 It just appeared in the last few weeks. 499 00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:45,679 He's having trouble holding a pencil in school. 500 00:25:46,011 --> 00:25:47,422 Does it itch? 501 00:25:49,415 --> 00:25:50,758 Get anything different lately, 502 00:25:50,849 --> 00:25:53,386 new baseball glove, new kitten? 503 00:25:53,485 --> 00:25:54,589 The neighbors put in a pool, 504 00:25:54,686 --> 00:25:56,666 so he's been spending a lot of time over there. 505 00:25:56,722 --> 00:25:58,861 But if it were something in the water 506 00:25:58,924 --> 00:26:02,030 it would be everywhere, wouldn't it? 507 00:26:05,597 --> 00:26:06,940 It is in the water. 508 00:26:07,032 --> 00:26:08,204 He's allergic to chlorine? 509 00:26:08,834 --> 00:26:09,869 No. 510 00:26:11,170 --> 00:26:13,946 He's allergic to Summer Lilac. 511 00:26:14,606 --> 00:26:18,110 That's my lotion, and it's not in the pool. 512 00:26:18,210 --> 00:26:20,690 No, it's on the palms of his hands. 513 00:26:21,547 --> 00:26:23,618 In the pool, is the neighbor's daughter 514 00:26:25,884 --> 00:26:28,125 or the neighbor's hot wife. 515 00:26:32,057 --> 00:26:34,037 Here's some lube. 516 00:26:35,227 --> 00:26:36,968 Sorry. Too late for your eyesight. 517 00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:50,553 Endoscopy didn't reveal any lesions in the small intestine. 518 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:53,112 I'm running the PCR test now. 519 00:26:55,881 --> 00:26:59,454 I found it in my office. Appears to be a gift. 520 00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:01,792 That can't be good. 521 00:27:01,887 --> 00:27:02,957 Damn it. 522 00:27:03,055 --> 00:27:04,466 You got her the job interview. 523 00:27:04,556 --> 00:27:08,470 And that was supposed to be the end of it. I don't take charity. 524 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,335 Good for you, you loon. 525 00:27:10,429 --> 00:27:12,636 I don't like owing people things. 526 00:27:12,731 --> 00:27:15,007 So either you're so insecure 527 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,478 that you feel like you need to always have the upper hand, 528 00:27:17,569 --> 00:27:21,073 or you're so arrogant that the notion of a favor is insulting to you. 529 00:27:21,340 --> 00:27:24,344 Or it's your family, some kind of immigrant pride thing. 530 00:27:25,244 --> 00:27:26,518 I'm betting on the last one. 531 00:27:26,612 --> 00:27:31,652 I just don't like it. It makes me feel icky. 532 00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:33,955 That's the reason? Ickiness? 533 00:27:35,087 --> 00:27:36,691 You never even tried to analyze this? 534 00:27:36,788 --> 00:27:39,200 That's even crazier than the gift thing. 535 00:27:39,291 --> 00:27:42,966 House. There's no sign of tropheryma DNA. 536 00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:46,331 It's not Whipple's. 537 00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:51,173 We did what we could. 538 00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:58,818 You sure you want to do this? 539 00:27:58,877 --> 00:28:02,791 Relax. This is gonna make me very happy. 540 00:28:18,997 --> 00:28:22,740 Dr. Simpson, heart rate's 140, and pressure's dropping. 541 00:28:22,834 --> 00:28:24,074 Get him adenosine, stat. 542 00:28:24,169 --> 00:28:26,809 Patient's unstable Surgery's off. 543 00:28:30,842 --> 00:28:33,516 Arrhythmia's back. He's on heparin and stable for now, 544 00:28:33,579 --> 00:28:35,718 but this could put him at risk for stroke or embolism. 545 00:28:35,814 --> 00:28:37,384 Maybe he got bit by a spider. 546 00:28:37,482 --> 00:28:39,928 The symptoms can take up to three days to manifest. 547 00:28:40,018 --> 00:28:41,361 He'd have localized pain. 548 00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:42,421 LCDD. 549 00:28:42,521 --> 00:28:43,693 Almost always hits the kidneys. 550 00:28:45,524 --> 00:28:48,004 Ah, Dr. Foreman, perhaps you can help us. 551 00:28:48,227 --> 00:28:50,002 I can't decide whether to take out an 552 00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:52,440 I-told-you-so ad in the New England Journal, 553 00:28:52,531 --> 00:28:55,910 or stay classy and just spray-paint it on your car. 554 00:28:56,001 --> 00:28:57,207 You're off the case. 555 00:28:58,337 --> 00:28:59,873 That seems like an overreaction. 556 00:28:59,938 --> 00:29:02,748 You dosed him. You couldn't stand losing him as a patient, 557 00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:04,377 so you faked a symptom to prove yourself right. 558 00:29:04,443 --> 00:29:05,547 That's idiotic. 559 00:29:07,446 --> 00:29:09,119 - Sorry. - Don't apologize. 560 00:29:10,249 --> 00:29:11,922 I don't know if you're power-crazed 561 00:29:12,017 --> 00:29:13,758 or paranoid, but I know she's right. 562 00:29:14,019 --> 00:29:15,692 Two lives are in the balance here. 563 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:19,133 House, I worked for you for seven years. I know how you operate. 564 00:29:19,224 --> 00:29:22,262 So when I see symptoms magically show up right when you need them... 565 00:29:22,361 --> 00:29:23,965 And I was your boss for seven years, 566 00:29:24,062 --> 00:29:27,202 and I know what a suspicious, micromanaging hard-ass you are. 567 00:29:27,733 --> 00:29:32,204 Why would I do this now, knowing you can send me right back to jail? 568 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:33,272 What did you give him? 569 00:29:33,372 --> 00:29:34,612 Nothing. 570 00:29:34,706 --> 00:29:36,879 You can't prove otherwise. 571 00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:40,116 So why don't you do the smart thing here? 572 00:29:40,212 --> 00:29:44,456 You're off the case. You no longer have access to this patient. 573 00:29:47,419 --> 00:29:48,591 You can't let him do this. 574 00:29:48,887 --> 00:29:51,128 He's the boss. 575 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,065 And he's right. 576 00:30:05,170 --> 00:30:06,843 I assume you dosed the patient 577 00:30:06,938 --> 00:30:10,613 because you're really certain he has a neurological condition. 578 00:30:10,676 --> 00:30:14,180 I assume you're interpreting my actions in the best possible light 579 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:15,485 because you didn't get the job. 580 00:30:17,849 --> 00:30:20,159 What's with you and Park? 581 00:30:20,252 --> 00:30:21,356 Nothing. 582 00:30:22,921 --> 00:30:25,128 I expect my people to lie better than that. 583 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:28,335 Either you're getting her gifts 584 00:30:28,427 --> 00:30:30,270 because you want her to like you, 585 00:30:30,329 --> 00:30:31,933 in which case, I don't like you. 586 00:30:31,997 --> 00:30:34,944 Or you're getting her gifts to screw with her, 587 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,176 in which case, I will be teaching you my secret homie handshake. 588 00:30:40,939 --> 00:30:43,351 I just... I thought it was interesting 589 00:30:43,442 --> 00:30:45,854 she couldn't accept that coffee, 590 00:30:45,944 --> 00:30:49,016 and I wanted to see how deep it went. 591 00:30:49,114 --> 00:30:50,115 But now? 592 00:30:50,182 --> 00:30:52,287 Oh, now, I just wanna win. 593 00:30:54,286 --> 00:30:56,630 What was in the box? 594 00:30:56,722 --> 00:30:59,362 Gift certificate. The spa. 595 00:31:00,392 --> 00:31:04,704 That's not going to do ii. You're up against a lifetime of training. 596 00:31:04,796 --> 00:31:06,036 If you wanna win, you've got to do 597 00:31:06,131 --> 00:31:07,872 something she can't possibly reciprocate. 598 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:10,813 You've got to push her neuroses to the point 599 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:14,316 where even she thinks that she's crazy. 600 00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:29,231 One more favor, and I promise I'll leave you alone forever. 601 00:31:29,321 --> 00:31:30,823 Or I'm lying. 602 00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:33,836 Either way, it's more interesting than whatever you're doing now. 603 00:31:43,502 --> 00:31:44,674 Can I help you? 604 00:31:44,836 --> 00:31:46,008 I'm his wife. 605 00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:48,846 We're separated. 606 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:52,912 I heard he was sick. I just wanted to see him. 607 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,785 He's giving a kidney to someone he's never met? 608 00:31:59,418 --> 00:32:00,692 He wants to, yeah. 609 00:32:03,021 --> 00:32:04,762 I know he's talked about you. 610 00:32:04,856 --> 00:32:06,597 He's been alone all this time. 611 00:32:06,691 --> 00:32:08,693 I'm sure it would mean a lot to him to see you. 612 00:32:10,796 --> 00:32:13,402 I wanted to spend my life with him, 613 00:32:16,368 --> 00:32:20,817 but I need to feel like he loves me more than other people. 614 00:32:20,906 --> 00:32:22,749 Like he loves our kids more. 615 00:32:25,644 --> 00:32:27,646 Maybe that's selfish. 616 00:32:33,919 --> 00:32:35,421 I should go. 617 00:32:46,264 --> 00:32:47,607 Was that my wife? 618 00:32:47,732 --> 00:32:49,109 I don't know. 619 00:32:50,402 --> 00:32:52,006 Are you the guy, the kidney donor? 620 00:32:54,739 --> 00:32:58,744 There was a problem, but I'm gonna try again. 621 00:33:00,579 --> 00:33:01,580 Um... 622 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,648 To give it to the same lady? 623 00:33:03,748 --> 00:33:04,920 She needs it. 624 00:33:06,084 --> 00:33:07,859 Okay. Never mind. 625 00:33:07,953 --> 00:33:09,091 Wait. 626 00:33:10,255 --> 00:33:11,757 What do you want? 627 00:33:12,757 --> 00:33:14,930 Uh, it's nothing. It's just... 628 00:33:20,265 --> 00:33:24,338 I have polycystic kidney disease, and I need a transplant, 629 00:33:24,436 --> 00:33:25,938 and they say I don't have much time. 630 00:33:26,037 --> 00:33:28,677 So when I heard that you were willing, I just... 631 00:33:28,773 --> 00:33:31,276 But I'm glad it's going to someone. 632 00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:35,783 I'll give it to you. 633 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:42,192 But you already promised it to someone else. 634 00:33:42,287 --> 00:33:44,289 I have another one. 635 00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:47,859 Saving one life is good, saving two is better. 636 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,366 You give away two kidneys, and you die. 637 00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:53,136 I could live on dialysis for years. 638 00:33:53,231 --> 00:33:55,142 Yes, and then you die. 639 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,546 And then I could donate my other organs, heart, lungs. 640 00:34:00,972 --> 00:34:02,974 I could save four or five more lives. 641 00:34:21,326 --> 00:34:23,897 Foreman's going to need a diagnostician. 642 00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:26,669 This guy is crazy. 643 00:34:32,337 --> 00:34:35,511 Arrhythmia, muscle tremors, and yes, mental changes. 644 00:34:35,607 --> 00:34:38,349 If his heart doesn't rupture, he's liable to rip it out and give it away. 645 00:34:38,843 --> 00:34:40,618 You know, the down vibe in here is 646 00:34:40,712 --> 00:34:43,522 totally ruining my Charlie's Angels fantasy. 647 00:34:45,350 --> 00:34:47,694 And that haircut isn't helping, either. 648 00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:50,756 Seems like Graves disease or some other thyroid issue. 649 00:34:50,855 --> 00:34:53,529 Is she on the team now, like, forever? 650 00:34:56,027 --> 00:34:59,372 His thyroid levels were within normal range when he was admitted. 651 00:35:00,131 --> 00:35:01,633 Could be Coxsackie B virus. 652 00:35:01,733 --> 00:35:03,041 No pericarditis. 653 00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:05,445 What about porphyria? It's a little weird without the rash, 654 00:35:05,537 --> 00:35:07,039 but it fits all of his other symptoms. 655 00:35:07,372 --> 00:35:09,443 And if it's acute intermittent porphyria, 656 00:35:09,541 --> 00:35:11,543 that would explain why his symptoms keep recurring. 657 00:35:12,711 --> 00:35:14,987 Unlikely, but it's possible. What else? 658 00:35:17,382 --> 00:35:18,725 I said, "What else?" 659 00:35:22,053 --> 00:35:24,624 Oh, for crying out loud. 660 00:35:40,405 --> 00:35:43,409 There, that's better. Now, what else? 661 00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:51,953 Well, if there's nothing better than possible, 662 00:35:52,017 --> 00:35:54,122 then possible gets upgraded to probable. 663 00:35:54,619 --> 00:35:55,927 I'll start him on hematin. 664 00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:57,295 No, I'll go. 665 00:36:04,696 --> 00:36:07,108 So what's the answer? 666 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,772 Are you now on the team, like, forever? 667 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:12,610 I don't know. 668 00:36:12,671 --> 00:36:15,311 Because I was thinking of ordering t-shirts. 669 00:36:15,373 --> 00:36:18,877 I don't know, House. I mean, what am I supposed to do'? 670 00:36:19,377 --> 00:36:23,621 I trained to be a doctor. I know how to take someone's pain away, 671 00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:25,855 how to make a stopped heart beat again. 672 00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:30,628 We've brought people's kids back, their husbands. 673 00:36:32,524 --> 00:36:33,696 50 guilt? 674 00:36:33,792 --> 00:36:38,002 Yes you were right You're always right. I just... 675 00:36:39,397 --> 00:36:42,003 I have the skills to help people. 676 00:36:42,067 --> 00:36:47,176 Is it okay for me to walk away from that because I wanna just have fun'? 677 00:36:49,074 --> 00:36:50,178 Obviously not. 678 00:37:01,853 --> 00:37:04,060 How's your patient? 679 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:06,828 She died a few hours ago. 680 00:37:14,933 --> 00:37:16,776 Thirteen's back. 681 00:37:19,003 --> 00:37:21,005 No department, no money, 682 00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:23,746 and somehow, you manage to con her into hanging around. 683 00:37:24,876 --> 00:37:26,412 I have a gift. 684 00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:33,521 What? 685 00:37:33,685 --> 00:37:34,857 It was a con. 686 00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:36,858 The patient was faking? 687 00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:38,861 No, I was. 688 00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:46,440 I brought him in here under false pretenses just to get his money. 689 00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:49,472 I ordered a bunch of random tests to keep him here. 690 00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:54,073 One of them was a head CT which uses iodine contrast. 691 00:37:54,139 --> 00:37:55,550 You think he's allergic to iodine? 692 00:37:55,774 --> 00:37:57,310 No. Again. 693 00:37:57,408 --> 00:37:59,319 Just don't interrupt me. 694 00:37:59,410 --> 00:38:02,653 Thirteen was right. This is a thyroid issue. 695 00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:07,752 He has Plummer's disease. 696 00:38:11,322 --> 00:38:16,101 He has a nodule in his thyroid. It produces excess hormone. 697 00:38:16,161 --> 00:38:19,904 Not enough to test abnormal, just more than his brain was used to. 698 00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:22,308 Just enough to make him irrationally generous, 699 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,471 make him vulnerable to overheating. 700 00:38:24,569 --> 00:38:26,446 Then you pumped his body full of iodine 701 00:38:26,504 --> 00:38:28,108 and kicked him into thyrotoxicosis. 702 00:38:28,173 --> 00:38:30,346 I said don't interrupt. 703 00:38:30,441 --> 00:38:34,412 But yes, you're right. We take out the nodule. He'll be fine. 704 00:38:48,626 --> 00:38:51,004 Two days, one surgery. 705 00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:55,173 I now accept that you are all better. 706 00:38:56,201 --> 00:38:57,202 Where's my money? 707 00:38:57,302 --> 00:38:58,610 You made me sick. 708 00:38:58,670 --> 00:39:03,676 You were already sick. I just made you much, much worse. 709 00:39:04,876 --> 00:39:06,947 Seriously, the money. 710 00:39:11,015 --> 00:39:12,551 You're not giving it to me, are you? 711 00:39:13,384 --> 00:39:18,060 When you're facing death, some things come into focus... 712 00:39:19,524 --> 00:39:20,525 My wife... 713 00:39:20,625 --> 00:39:22,627 You love your family. You want them back. 714 00:39:24,295 --> 00:39:27,071 Your altruism was always a symptom. 715 00:39:27,832 --> 00:39:29,971 No, it wasn't. I'm still gonna... 716 00:39:30,034 --> 00:39:32,640 Give less? How much less? 717 00:39:32,704 --> 00:39:33,910 Just enough to spoil your kids? 718 00:39:34,005 --> 00:39:35,177 No. 719 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:37,379 But they need it more than people with TB 720 00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:39,512 or children in Indonesia with no eyes? 721 00:39:39,911 --> 00:39:41,857 Diagnosticians with hearts of gold? 722 00:39:41,913 --> 00:39:44,826 I don't want to give you money because you're an ass. 723 00:39:47,151 --> 00:39:48,528 I was an ass last week. 724 00:39:51,890 --> 00:39:56,032 I love my family. I want to be with them. 725 00:39:58,029 --> 00:39:59,565 That doesn't make me a bad person. 726 00:39:59,764 --> 00:40:00,868 No. 727 00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:03,410 It makes you a healthy person. 728 00:40:14,612 --> 00:40:18,116 My mechanic called. Said the work's been paid for. 729 00:40:18,216 --> 00:40:20,196 You mentioned your car was in the shop. 730 00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:22,731 That's $4,500. 731 00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:27,764 Smile and say thank you, or I get you GPS. 732 00:40:31,195 --> 00:40:32,367 You win. 733 00:40:37,201 --> 00:40:38,236 Thank you. 734 00:40:48,546 --> 00:40:52,221 Your car's getting fixed. You were right. She went for it. 735 00:40:53,618 --> 00:40:55,291 Good work. 736 00:40:56,220 --> 00:40:59,793 Need a lift tomorrow? Your car's still in the shop. 737 00:40:59,891 --> 00:41:01,837 I don't take charity. 738 00:41:01,926 --> 00:41:03,405 I'm just glad it's over. 739 00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:08,069 Nothing is ever over. 740 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,765 Thirteen. 741 00:41:32,457 --> 00:41:33,993 Need a minute. 742 00:41:41,766 --> 00:41:42,836 You're fired. 743 00:41:43,668 --> 00:41:45,011 Now what? House, I'm starving... 744 00:41:45,103 --> 00:41:46,446 I'm not joking. 745 00:41:47,438 --> 00:41:49,008 You're fired. Don't come in tomorrow. 746 00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:50,142 House... 747 00:41:51,943 --> 00:41:54,048 I can work with people who've got nowhere else to go, 748 00:41:54,145 --> 00:41:55,681 people who've got something to prove, 749 00:41:55,780 --> 00:41:57,623 people who just get off on weird cases. 750 00:41:57,782 --> 00:42:00,888 Who I can't work with is someone who's here 751 00:42:00,985 --> 00:42:02,794 so she doesn't have to feel bad. 752 00:42:06,791 --> 00:42:08,361 You're trying to save me. 753 00:42:08,459 --> 00:42:11,963 Yes, I think that little of you and that much of me. 754 00:42:24,142 --> 00:42:25,314 Okay. 755 00:42:29,647 --> 00:42:31,024 Bye, House.