1 00:00:09,722 --> 00:00:11,656 He's got a temperature of 103. 2 00:00:11,724 --> 00:00:13,487 And why do we care? 3 00:00:13,559 --> 00:00:16,460 Because we're human beings. It's what we do. 4 00:00:16,729 --> 00:00:18,993 He said he was at a luncheon meeting. 5 00:00:19,064 --> 00:00:20,463 You took his history? 6 00:00:20,532 --> 00:00:22,693 The guy looks like Harpo. You should see him. 7 00:00:22,768 --> 00:00:25,862 You asked him what book he's currently reading? 8 00:00:25,938 --> 00:00:28,270 It's hilarious to watch him try and talk. 9 00:00:28,340 --> 00:00:30,365 I asked him anything I could think of. 10 00:00:30,442 --> 00:00:32,740 Favorite color. "Blwoo." 11 00:00:33,078 --> 00:00:35,945 Favorite dessert topping? 12 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:42,587 Trust me. You never know what fact may prove the key to saving your life. 13 00:00:43,289 --> 00:00:45,189 (MUFFLED) Whipped cream. 14 00:00:45,658 --> 00:00:48,821 I asked him if he was sure. Where are you going? 15 00:00:48,894 --> 00:00:50,327 You're an ass. 16 00:00:50,396 --> 00:00:51,920 I know. Where are you going? 17 00:00:51,997 --> 00:00:55,330 This is either a toxin, an infection or an allergic reaction. 18 00:00:55,401 --> 00:00:57,801 I assume you gave him epi, so that rules out allergies. 19 00:00:57,870 --> 00:01:00,134 Put him on antibiotics in case it's an infection, 20 00:01:00,205 --> 00:01:02,537 and if it's a toxin, we'll keep him here overnight, 21 00:01:02,608 --> 00:01:04,473 let the swelling go down, send him home. 22 00:01:04,543 --> 00:01:06,511 I'm going to the movies. 23 00:01:07,379 --> 00:01:09,438 Which one of you is House? 24 00:01:10,683 --> 00:01:12,480 Skinny brunette. 25 00:01:12,785 --> 00:01:14,719 No, that's Dr. Cameron. 26 00:01:15,921 --> 00:01:18,151 I'm skinny. How do you know her name? 27 00:01:18,223 --> 00:01:19,918 I was a patient of yours. 28 00:01:19,992 --> 00:01:23,553 Oh, well, if you wanna leave the chocolates downstairs... 29 00:01:27,333 --> 00:01:29,358 Stay! Stay away from him. 30 00:01:34,773 --> 00:01:36,741 Shocking, isn't it? 31 00:01:37,676 --> 00:01:39,610 Who'd want to hurt you? 32 00:02:37,503 --> 00:02:39,095 You're pathetic. 33 00:02:42,908 --> 00:02:47,072 Judging by the growth, I'd say I've been unconscious for two days. 34 00:02:47,946 --> 00:02:49,277 You been sitting there the whole time? 35 00:02:49,348 --> 00:02:50,440 No. 36 00:02:50,516 --> 00:02:54,111 Judging by the oily buildup in your hair, I'd say you're lying. 37 00:02:54,186 --> 00:02:56,677 I was scared. Pardon me for caring. 38 00:02:58,624 --> 00:03:00,091 Did I lose any organs? 39 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:02,753 The bullet to your abdomen pierced your stomach, nicked the bowel, 40 00:03:02,828 --> 00:03:04,523 Iodged in the posterior rib. 41 00:03:04,596 --> 00:03:08,191 I always say if you're gonna get shot, do it in a hospital. 42 00:03:08,267 --> 00:03:09,700 The one in your neck... 43 00:03:09,768 --> 00:03:10,757 I don't remember that one. 44 00:03:10,869 --> 00:03:13,099 went right through, severed your jugular. 45 00:03:13,172 --> 00:03:14,332 The shooter turns out to be a guy... 46 00:03:14,406 --> 00:03:15,395 Don't care. 47 00:03:16,241 --> 00:03:20,143 You don't care why a guy walked into a hospital and shot a doctor? 48 00:03:20,212 --> 00:03:21,270 Shot you? 49 00:03:21,346 --> 00:03:23,280 I assume his reasoning was faulty. 50 00:03:24,750 --> 00:03:26,775 So what was it? Infection? 51 00:03:26,852 --> 00:03:28,877 The surgery went fine. You've had no post-op... 52 00:03:28,954 --> 00:03:31,684 Not me. The patient. Harpo. 53 00:03:31,757 --> 00:03:34,749 You just got shot, House. You should rest. 54 00:03:34,827 --> 00:03:37,352 I got shot. Diagnostically boring. 55 00:03:38,464 --> 00:03:42,127 Big fat tongue, on the other hand, endlessly entertaining. 56 00:03:42,401 --> 00:03:44,335 We biopsied his tongue. 57 00:03:44,603 --> 00:03:46,230 And it was negative. 58 00:03:47,206 --> 00:03:49,640 And the blood tests were negative. 59 00:03:49,708 --> 00:03:51,300 I didn't say we did blood tests. 60 00:03:51,376 --> 00:03:53,867 You don't biopsy a tongue unless you have to biopsy a tongue. 61 00:03:53,946 --> 00:03:57,473 And you don't have to biopsy a tongue unless you've already come up with nothing 62 00:03:57,549 --> 00:04:01,781 on a routine battery of tests which don't involve torturing the patient. 63 00:04:01,854 --> 00:04:05,915 Any new symptoms other than the increased intracranial pressure? 64 00:04:06,725 --> 00:04:09,455 Any guesses on how I figured that one out? 65 00:04:12,698 --> 00:04:14,689 You knew the next step would be a lumbar puncture. 66 00:04:14,766 --> 00:04:17,701 A lumbar puncture would almost certainly give us a definitive answer. 67 00:04:17,769 --> 00:04:20,670 Since we don't have a definitive answer, we must not have done an LP. 68 00:04:20,739 --> 00:04:25,472 And the most common reason to not do an LP is increased intracranial pressure. 69 00:04:28,247 --> 00:04:30,772 He was shot by security trying to... 70 00:04:30,849 --> 00:04:32,749 House, what are you... 71 00:04:33,152 --> 00:04:34,449 House. 72 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:35,509 I'm talking to Cuddy. 73 00:04:36,288 --> 00:04:38,756 Lie down. You've gotta be in pain. 74 00:04:40,125 --> 00:04:42,855 Not today. Today I'm on morphine. 75 00:04:44,663 --> 00:04:46,756 You're gonna rip your stitches out. 76 00:04:46,832 --> 00:04:48,129 Check Harpo's trash. 77 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,758 Forget about the patient. 78 00:04:49,835 --> 00:04:52,326 Come on, you're curious. 79 00:04:52,671 --> 00:04:53,797 Trash? 80 00:04:53,872 --> 00:04:56,340 You don't know what I'm talking about, but you know it's good. 81 00:04:56,408 --> 00:04:57,875 You can't just be walking around. 82 00:04:57,943 --> 00:04:58,932 Well, then stop me. 83 00:04:59,077 --> 00:05:00,874 You've lost blood. Physically stop me. 84 00:05:00,946 --> 00:05:02,607 You could damage... You can't. 85 00:05:02,681 --> 00:05:04,546 Because that would involve physically touching me. 86 00:05:04,616 --> 00:05:07,608 And then things would get so sexually charged... 87 00:05:13,392 --> 00:05:16,225 I'm twice your size. Get your hands off me. 88 00:05:17,863 --> 00:05:20,457 Everything that lives, eats. And everything that eats, poops. 89 00:05:20,532 --> 00:05:24,298 That's why every organ has a sanitation department, the lymph system. 90 00:05:24,369 --> 00:05:27,395 Whatever's doing the damage is dumping its waste in there. 91 00:05:27,472 --> 00:05:29,770 That's what you meant by trash. 92 00:05:31,843 --> 00:05:34,368 Biopsy the lymph node under the jaw. 93 00:05:42,387 --> 00:05:44,753 I'm sorry, I know it's crazy, but there's no other place. 94 00:05:44,823 --> 00:05:48,418 It's the lCU. It stands for lntensive Care. He needs intensive care. So do you. 95 00:05:48,493 --> 00:05:49,960 He needs to be shot again. 96 00:05:50,028 --> 00:05:53,054 He is handcuffed to his bed. He is sedated. He's not going to hurt you. 97 00:05:53,131 --> 00:05:56,532 If your security was any good, I wouldn't have been shot in the first place. 98 00:05:56,602 --> 00:05:59,400 He is where he's supposed to be, where you're supposed to be. 99 00:05:59,471 --> 00:06:00,563 Who did my surgery? 100 00:06:00,672 --> 00:06:02,606 Gillick. Why? Are you gonna send him a fruit basket? 101 00:06:02,674 --> 00:06:03,868 He screwed up. 102 00:06:03,942 --> 00:06:06,934 It's annoying enough dealing with your Vicodin habit. 103 00:06:07,012 --> 00:06:08,536 Quit upping your morphine. 104 00:06:08,614 --> 00:06:09,603 I'm not. 105 00:06:11,583 --> 00:06:13,210 I'm reducing it. 106 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,854 And you're not in pain? 107 00:06:18,523 --> 00:06:19,820 I'm feeling better. 108 00:06:19,891 --> 00:06:22,451 Gillick is very good. Your recovery time... 109 00:06:22,527 --> 00:06:25,360 This stomach kills me, my neck is throbbing. 110 00:06:25,430 --> 00:06:27,398 My leg feels better. 111 00:06:30,202 --> 00:06:31,601 That's amazing. 112 00:06:31,670 --> 00:06:32,694 It's unbelievable. 113 00:06:32,771 --> 00:06:35,865 Since getting shot is not an FDA-approved treatment for anything, 114 00:06:35,941 --> 00:06:38,671 it means something must've gone wrong in the surgery. 115 00:06:38,744 --> 00:06:41,542 Yes, terribly, tragically wrong. 116 00:06:42,014 --> 00:06:43,709 Enjoy the mistake. 117 00:06:43,782 --> 00:06:47,274 He must have nicked something in my peripheral nervous system. 118 00:06:47,352 --> 00:06:50,321 If it's alleviating pain, who knows what else it's doing? 119 00:06:50,389 --> 00:06:53,449 Get back to the lCU before you rip out your stitches, 120 00:06:53,525 --> 00:06:56,050 and I have to chain you to your bed. 121 00:07:17,215 --> 00:07:19,342 Why did you try to kill me? 122 00:07:21,853 --> 00:07:23,150 I didn't. 123 00:07:23,655 --> 00:07:26,283 Then the gun thing might have been a mistake. 124 00:07:26,358 --> 00:07:29,054 If I'd have killed you, it would have been over. 125 00:07:30,128 --> 00:07:31,959 I needed you to live, 126 00:07:33,732 --> 00:07:35,962 'cause I want to see you suffer. 127 00:08:04,930 --> 00:08:07,023 Get the needle out of there. 128 00:08:09,267 --> 00:08:10,427 He can't breathe. 129 00:08:18,643 --> 00:08:19,837 House. 130 00:08:23,949 --> 00:08:25,280 The test was negative. 131 00:08:25,350 --> 00:08:26,977 Are you sure you want to be doing this? 132 00:08:27,052 --> 00:08:28,747 I'm fine, I think. 133 00:08:29,187 --> 00:08:30,552 Cameron, have you got my records? 134 00:08:30,622 --> 00:08:32,886 They don't like to release patient's operative notes. 135 00:08:32,958 --> 00:08:35,188 Yet you're holding them. 136 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:36,727 And whispering. 137 00:08:36,795 --> 00:08:37,784 He's sleeping. 138 00:08:39,698 --> 00:08:42,633 Yeah, killer needs his rest. 139 00:08:42,701 --> 00:08:45,067 Otherwise, he's grumpy all day. 140 00:08:45,137 --> 00:08:46,968 Hey, wake up! 141 00:08:47,572 --> 00:08:49,062 Watch me save a life. 142 00:08:49,141 --> 00:08:51,371 Almost for sure it's some sort of infection. 143 00:08:51,443 --> 00:08:53,138 We've got him on broad-spectrum antibiotics, 144 00:08:53,211 --> 00:08:54,872 but it's not even slowing the thing down. 145 00:08:54,946 --> 00:08:57,380 Unless we figure out what type of infection, we can't treat. 146 00:08:57,449 --> 00:09:00,577 And we can't figure out what type because we can't do an LP. 147 00:09:00,652 --> 00:09:01,949 Do an LP. 148 00:09:02,687 --> 00:09:05,588 See what I did there? Couldn't have done that if you'd killed me. 149 00:09:05,657 --> 00:09:07,921 We would have done an LP two days ago if we could have, 150 00:09:07,993 --> 00:09:09,722 but that much pressure, something's bound to go... 151 00:09:09,795 --> 00:09:11,092 We would've done an LP two days ago 152 00:09:11,163 --> 00:09:13,757 if the risks hadn't so obviously outweighed the benefits. 153 00:09:13,832 --> 00:09:17,529 We just cut a hole in his throat. The equation has changed. 154 00:09:19,171 --> 00:09:21,696 Couldn't have put it better myself. 155 00:09:28,313 --> 00:09:32,682 Pressure is 120 milliliters, 156 00:09:33,251 --> 00:09:37,688 H2O, with small, visible excursions related to respiration and pulse. 157 00:09:37,756 --> 00:09:39,451 Well within normal, that's good. 158 00:09:39,524 --> 00:09:40,650 No. That's weird. 159 00:09:49,034 --> 00:09:50,763 You wanna hear a story? 160 00:09:53,104 --> 00:09:54,628 I have a rule. 161 00:09:56,041 --> 00:09:58,305 People who shoot me forfeit the right... 162 00:09:58,376 --> 00:09:59,365 My wife was sick. 163 00:10:01,446 --> 00:10:03,311 None of the doctors could figure out why. 164 00:10:03,381 --> 00:10:05,440 Oh, I know this story. 165 00:10:07,719 --> 00:10:09,016 She died. 166 00:10:09,788 --> 00:10:11,847 So you selected one of her doctors to kill, 167 00:10:11,923 --> 00:10:14,255 because that would make everything right again. 168 00:10:14,326 --> 00:10:16,624 No, she lived. You cured her. 169 00:10:19,431 --> 00:10:21,763 I'm truly sorry I did that. 170 00:10:21,833 --> 00:10:24,734 In the course of investigating her illness, 171 00:10:24,803 --> 00:10:28,000 you convinced me that everything was relevant. 172 00:10:29,508 --> 00:10:31,339 You needed the truth. 173 00:10:32,677 --> 00:10:35,544 I confessed to you that I'd had an affair. 174 00:10:39,284 --> 00:10:42,720 But it turns out that it had nothing to do with why she was sick. 175 00:10:43,221 --> 00:10:46,748 Genetic predisposition to brain aneurysms. 176 00:10:49,427 --> 00:10:51,122 You told her that. 177 00:10:53,398 --> 00:10:55,866 You also told her about my affair. 178 00:10:56,935 --> 00:10:59,733 And you caught crap, she left you, 179 00:11:00,272 --> 00:11:01,864 and now I've got to pay 180 00:11:01,940 --> 00:11:05,671 because you couldn't keep your little killer in your pants. 181 00:11:07,212 --> 00:11:08,975 She killed herself. 182 00:11:38,543 --> 00:11:41,205 What sort of a hospital has glass walls? 183 00:11:41,613 --> 00:11:43,205 That's my husband. 184 00:11:44,616 --> 00:11:45,674 Really? 185 00:11:45,750 --> 00:11:49,015 You thought I just liked watching people get needles poked in the back? 186 00:11:49,087 --> 00:11:50,247 No. 187 00:11:50,722 --> 00:11:54,055 I figured a co-worker or a sister, not wife. 188 00:11:55,193 --> 00:11:56,285 Why? 189 00:11:57,028 --> 00:12:00,589 Don't worry, it's not insulting. At least not to you. 190 00:12:04,703 --> 00:12:07,035 You're satisfied by that answer? 191 00:12:07,105 --> 00:12:08,629 You're Dr. House, aren't you? 192 00:12:08,707 --> 00:12:10,334 You're not going to shoot me, are you? 193 00:12:10,408 --> 00:12:12,569 You treated a friend of mine. 194 00:12:12,644 --> 00:12:15,374 She told me you only talk to people if you have to. 195 00:12:15,447 --> 00:12:19,508 And then you insult them, while showing off how insightful you are. 196 00:12:19,918 --> 00:12:24,582 Sevens marry sevens, nines marry nines, fours marry fours. 197 00:12:25,323 --> 00:12:26,688 Maybe there's some wiggle room 198 00:12:26,758 --> 00:12:29,955 if there's enough money or somebody got pregnant. 199 00:12:30,695 --> 00:12:33,664 But you've got at least three points on your husband, 200 00:12:33,732 --> 00:12:36,758 and your frock says you didn't do it for the money, 201 00:12:36,835 --> 00:12:39,395 and your breasts say that you haven't had any kids. 202 00:12:39,471 --> 00:12:42,497 So you figure my marriage is a mathematical error? 203 00:12:42,574 --> 00:12:44,235 Numbers don't lie. 204 00:12:45,276 --> 00:12:48,245 We're having trouble finding out what infection your husband has, 205 00:12:48,313 --> 00:12:50,907 and the most likely culprit is an STD. 206 00:12:50,982 --> 00:12:55,385 You want to know if I've had an affair with someone closer to my integer, 207 00:12:55,453 --> 00:12:58,684 and I have to tell you the truth or my husband will die. 208 00:12:58,757 --> 00:12:59,985 Is your friend single? 209 00:13:00,058 --> 00:13:01,047 No. 210 00:13:01,926 --> 00:13:04,292 And I've always been faithful. 211 00:13:08,266 --> 00:13:10,700 I would've bet money something would go wrong. 212 00:13:10,769 --> 00:13:12,669 Let's rotate him back. 213 00:13:15,674 --> 00:13:17,767 He's bleeding into his ocular orbit. 214 00:13:17,842 --> 00:13:19,605 LP wouldn't do this. 215 00:13:21,746 --> 00:13:24,613 Lots of pressure behind. Gotta relieve it. 216 00:13:31,022 --> 00:13:33,650 What's going on? What are they doing? 217 00:13:34,693 --> 00:13:36,092 I should go. 218 00:13:39,297 --> 00:13:42,858 I seem to have torn my stitches. 219 00:13:56,681 --> 00:13:59,775 You collapsed in the hall, tore your stitches. 220 00:14:00,919 --> 00:14:02,682 I remember. I was there. 221 00:14:02,754 --> 00:14:04,449 How's your gut? It's hurting? 222 00:14:04,522 --> 00:14:06,683 You shoot the guy who sold her the gun? 223 00:14:06,758 --> 00:14:10,626 She locked herself in the garage, and she started the car. 224 00:14:10,895 --> 00:14:14,331 You shoot the guy who sold her the garage-door opener? 225 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:16,994 You're an ass. 226 00:14:17,068 --> 00:14:20,162 Now that is a bold position to take given that I shot you. 227 00:14:20,238 --> 00:14:22,103 The shooting just makes you an idiot. 228 00:14:22,173 --> 00:14:26,007 You're an ass because you're trying to wrap it in the flag, like you did a good thing. 229 00:14:26,077 --> 00:14:27,476 You're an ass and a hypocrite. 230 00:14:27,545 --> 00:14:30,173 You don't believe in rules. You do whatever you think is right. 231 00:14:30,248 --> 00:14:32,716 That's all I did. You were my role model. 232 00:14:32,784 --> 00:14:35,218 Watch out, you're getting crumbs on the flag. 233 00:14:35,286 --> 00:14:38,221 I didn't commit to honor her. I didn't commit to never lie to her. 234 00:14:38,289 --> 00:14:41,224 If you'd kept your mouth shut, she'd be alive, and you wouldn't be shot. 235 00:14:41,292 --> 00:14:43,192 If you'd kept your pistols in your pants... 236 00:14:43,261 --> 00:14:45,752 It's my fault she's dead! 237 00:14:46,598 --> 00:14:47,963 I know it. 238 00:14:48,867 --> 00:14:52,598 But why can't you admit that it's maybe just a little bit yours, too? 239 00:14:54,272 --> 00:14:58,174 That maybe it's not just medical mistakes that screw things up. 240 00:14:59,477 --> 00:15:01,377 Here's how life works. 241 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:05,807 You either get to ask for an apology, or you get to shoot people. 242 00:15:05,884 --> 00:15:07,146 Not both. 243 00:15:11,122 --> 00:15:12,953 lnfections don't make your eyes pop out. 244 00:15:13,024 --> 00:15:15,288 We should get back. You're supposed be chained to your bed. 245 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,989 I'm not done eating. Got to be some sort of bleeding disorder. 246 00:15:19,964 --> 00:15:21,829 This is really stupid. 247 00:15:23,501 --> 00:15:27,733 If my stitches pop out again, I got three doctors to save me. 248 00:15:27,939 --> 00:15:31,932 Could be some sort of weakness in the lining of the ocular veins. 249 00:15:33,077 --> 00:15:35,011 Okay, I'll be you guys. 250 00:15:35,313 --> 00:15:38,373 (lMlTATlNG CHASE) No way, mate, too much blood to just be a vein. 251 00:15:38,616 --> 00:15:42,313 (lMlTATlNG FOREMAN) No way, Hizzy, if it was an artery, he'd still be bleeding. 252 00:15:42,420 --> 00:15:44,354 (lMlTATlNG CAMERON) Actually, he'd be dead. 253 00:15:44,989 --> 00:15:47,787 He could've had a granuloma in his sinuses that bled, 254 00:15:47,859 --> 00:15:49,383 which could've been caused by Wegener's. 255 00:15:49,460 --> 00:15:51,587 You'd think the surgeon would've noticed a giant growth 256 00:15:51,663 --> 00:15:53,324 while he was sticking the eyeball back in. 257 00:15:53,398 --> 00:15:55,332 Tongue and eyes are sick, what about the nose? 258 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,265 It's right in between them. Why isn't it sick? 259 00:15:57,335 --> 00:15:59,428 So it's not spreading. It's got a common source. 260 00:15:59,504 --> 00:16:01,062 Which can only be what? 261 00:16:01,139 --> 00:16:03,266 The brain, except the CT was clean. 262 00:16:03,341 --> 00:16:05,241 Check the brain's trash. See what it's hiding. 263 00:16:05,310 --> 00:16:06,800 The brain doesn't have a lymph system. 264 00:16:06,878 --> 00:16:08,709 I know. All its garbage just blows off, 265 00:16:08,780 --> 00:16:11,214 gets caught in the snow fence by the side of the road. 266 00:16:11,282 --> 00:16:14,217 You're referring to the blood-brain barrier. 267 00:16:14,619 --> 00:16:17,179 What else? Biopsy the barrier. 268 00:16:17,255 --> 00:16:20,053 Wouldn't it be safer to make a few educated guesses first? 269 00:16:20,124 --> 00:16:22,115 Try some relatively safe treatments? 270 00:16:22,193 --> 00:16:25,492 Biopsy the barrier. But first, start him on Mebendazole in case it's a worm. 271 00:16:25,563 --> 00:16:29,090 And Levofloxacin in case it's an infection that slipped by the first antibiotic. 272 00:16:29,167 --> 00:16:31,533 And Azithromycin for STDs. 273 00:16:32,837 --> 00:16:36,739 I really don't think the wife is the kind to be messing around. 274 00:16:38,643 --> 00:16:40,042 If I was married to her, I certainly... 275 00:16:40,111 --> 00:16:41,669 House. 276 00:16:41,746 --> 00:16:44,613 The patient isn't married. He's a widower. 277 00:16:47,285 --> 00:16:51,381 Really, it's more helpful if you do the prescribed rehab yourself. 278 00:16:52,557 --> 00:16:54,184 My body is fine. 279 00:16:54,792 --> 00:16:56,225 My mind, on the other hand... 280 00:16:56,294 --> 00:16:57,921 Maybe she was a girlfriend. 281 00:16:57,996 --> 00:17:00,123 Or maybe she was just trying to jerk you around. 282 00:17:00,198 --> 00:17:02,393 I spoke to every one of the nurses on that floor. 283 00:17:02,467 --> 00:17:03,866 The patient only had six visitors, 284 00:17:03,935 --> 00:17:06,403 two females, no babes. His mother and his aunt. 285 00:17:06,471 --> 00:17:08,632 So they missed someone. They're not security. 286 00:17:08,706 --> 00:17:12,039 My posse never saw her or me talking on the other side of the glass. 287 00:17:12,110 --> 00:17:14,442 They were a little busy trying to save the guy's life. 288 00:17:14,512 --> 00:17:17,106 There's only one possible conclusion. 289 00:17:17,315 --> 00:17:19,249 It was a hallucination. 290 00:17:20,551 --> 00:17:23,645 What does that look like to you? Point six? 291 00:17:23,721 --> 00:17:24,745 Anesthesia? 292 00:17:24,822 --> 00:17:28,258 No. It's got to be six smudge. Let's say you're right. 293 00:17:28,326 --> 00:17:31,818 It wouldn't be that uncommon after a trauma, after that much blood loss. 294 00:17:31,896 --> 00:17:35,354 If my perceptions are compromised, then my judgment is compromised. 295 00:17:35,433 --> 00:17:39,597 What if his wife told me that the patient just got bit by a rabid Vietnamese leper? 296 00:17:39,671 --> 00:17:41,571 So pull yourself off the case. 297 00:17:41,639 --> 00:17:42,765 And the next case? 298 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,865 You take two weeks, you recover. 299 00:17:44,943 --> 00:17:45,932 What if I don't? 300 00:17:47,011 --> 00:17:48,444 What if it wasn't the shooting? 301 00:17:48,513 --> 00:17:50,606 The guy who sees connections between everything 302 00:17:50,682 --> 00:17:53,810 sees no connection between being shot and minor brain disruptions? 303 00:17:53,885 --> 00:17:55,113 What if it was the surgery? 304 00:17:55,186 --> 00:18:00,055 What if it was the fact that you tore out your stitches and lost two pints of blood? 305 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:05,661 Why did Gillick give me Ketamine during my surgery? 306 00:18:08,733 --> 00:18:10,030 Working. 307 00:18:10,101 --> 00:18:11,090 We need to talk. 308 00:18:12,036 --> 00:18:14,630 Get back to the lCU. Who uncuffed you? 309 00:18:14,706 --> 00:18:17,436 Why would a surgeon administer Ketamine? 310 00:18:18,009 --> 00:18:19,340 Who showed you your surgical file? 311 00:18:19,410 --> 00:18:20,570 How do you know it's mine? 312 00:18:20,645 --> 00:18:24,046 Because your patient hasn't had surgery, and you don't care about anybody else. 313 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:27,414 My anesthesia was almost nonexistent, and yet I wasn't awake. 314 00:18:27,485 --> 00:18:30,750 For some reason, somebody decided to put me in a dissociative coma 315 00:18:30,822 --> 00:18:32,551 instead of just putting me out. 316 00:18:32,623 --> 00:18:34,215 There are plenty of reasons to use... 317 00:18:34,292 --> 00:18:38,228 Fine. I'll go beat the truth out of my surgeon. Gillick, right? 318 00:18:46,170 --> 00:18:47,501 It worked. 319 00:18:52,176 --> 00:18:55,373 There's a clinic in Germany. They've been treating chronic pain 320 00:18:55,446 --> 00:18:59,109 by inducing comas and letting the mind basically reboot itself. 321 00:18:59,183 --> 00:19:02,050 There's about a 50% chance your pain will come back, 322 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,817 which of course means there is a 50% chance that it won't. 323 00:19:08,026 --> 00:19:09,550 You had no right. 324 00:19:09,627 --> 00:19:10,651 To heal you? 325 00:19:10,728 --> 00:19:12,025 You messed with my brain. 326 00:19:12,096 --> 00:19:13,688 Why are you so upset? 327 00:19:15,533 --> 00:19:18,593 Are you experiencing any neurological symptoms? 328 00:19:18,669 --> 00:19:20,330 Dizziness, tremors, hallucinations? 329 00:19:20,405 --> 00:19:21,394 No. 330 00:19:22,206 --> 00:19:24,265 It's a point of principle. 331 00:19:30,181 --> 00:19:31,443 Test was negative. 332 00:19:31,516 --> 00:19:32,847 No trash against the fence. 333 00:19:32,917 --> 00:19:34,179 Is your leg really better? 334 00:19:34,252 --> 00:19:36,277 Don't worry, I'm sure something else is wrong. 335 00:19:36,354 --> 00:19:38,049 We did find blood. 336 00:19:38,289 --> 00:19:40,314 On which side? The wrong side. 337 00:19:40,391 --> 00:19:41,619 First thing that makes sense. 338 00:19:41,692 --> 00:19:44,092 The wrong side's the wrong side. It can't make sense. 339 00:19:44,162 --> 00:19:46,960 It'd mess with his brain, wouldn't cause fever. 340 00:19:47,031 --> 00:19:48,726 He's been sleeping a lot lately. 341 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:49,789 You worried? 342 00:19:50,768 --> 00:19:53,464 I marked a change of meds on his chart. 343 00:19:54,605 --> 00:19:58,097 Foreign object, body wants to get rid of it, that causes the fever. 344 00:19:58,176 --> 00:19:59,404 Blood's a foreign object? 345 00:19:59,477 --> 00:20:01,001 In the brain lining it is. 346 00:20:01,079 --> 00:20:02,273 Blood dyscrasia means cancer. 347 00:20:02,346 --> 00:20:03,370 Find it. 348 00:20:03,448 --> 00:20:05,348 All the tests... Have been negative. 349 00:20:05,416 --> 00:20:08,317 What do you do if your trashcans are full? 350 00:20:09,020 --> 00:20:11,079 You use your neighbor's trashcans. 351 00:20:11,155 --> 00:20:14,124 Except it's still light outside, your neighbor will see you. 352 00:20:14,192 --> 00:20:18,094 So you go out the back way into an alley and drop off your trash by their garage. 353 00:20:18,162 --> 00:20:21,222 We'll check the lymphatic system in the chest. 354 00:20:21,299 --> 00:20:23,563 You got that from trash cans in the alley? 355 00:20:23,634 --> 00:20:25,295 The saliva glands from the tongue 356 00:20:25,369 --> 00:20:27,667 are connected to the lymphatic system in the lungs. 357 00:20:27,738 --> 00:20:30,263 It's the next lymphatic system over. 358 00:20:31,843 --> 00:20:32,969 Yeah. 359 00:20:33,711 --> 00:20:35,372 Go get lung lymph. 360 00:20:41,853 --> 00:20:43,650 How did he know that? 361 00:20:46,357 --> 00:20:49,155 I wouldn't have hired him if he wasn't smart. 362 00:20:49,227 --> 00:20:50,387 Right. 363 00:20:52,063 --> 00:20:54,998 'Cause you have nothing but respect for him. 364 00:20:56,534 --> 00:21:00,129 Maybe he knew the answer because the question 365 00:21:01,639 --> 00:21:04,335 wasn't nearly as tricky as you thought. 366 00:21:07,478 --> 00:21:09,776 Maybe he's not getting smarter, 367 00:21:10,615 --> 00:21:12,515 you're getting dumber. 368 00:21:32,904 --> 00:21:36,806 You pretend to buck the system, pretend to be a rebel. 369 00:21:38,209 --> 00:21:40,177 You claim to hate rules. 370 00:21:41,245 --> 00:21:45,045 But all you do is substitute your own rules for society's. 371 00:21:46,384 --> 00:21:48,352 And it's a nice simple rule, 372 00:21:49,654 --> 00:21:53,215 tell the blunt, honest truth 373 00:21:54,125 --> 00:21:56,355 in the starkest, darkest way. 374 00:21:57,361 --> 00:21:59,386 And what will be, will be. 375 00:22:00,398 --> 00:22:02,298 What will be, should be. 376 00:22:03,901 --> 00:22:07,393 And everyone else is a coward. 377 00:22:10,708 --> 00:22:12,369 But you're wrong. 378 00:22:13,077 --> 00:22:16,137 It's not cowardly to not call someone an idiot. 379 00:22:17,048 --> 00:22:20,575 People aren't tactful or polite just because it's nice. 380 00:22:21,886 --> 00:22:26,346 They do it because they got an ounce of humility. 381 00:22:30,795 --> 00:22:33,889 Because they know that they will make mistakes, 382 00:22:34,832 --> 00:22:37,699 and they know that their actions have consequences, 383 00:22:38,336 --> 00:22:43,000 and they know that those consequences are their fault. 384 00:22:53,484 --> 00:22:56,476 Why do you want so bad not to be human, House? 385 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:03,759 No, he's awake. 386 00:23:04,462 --> 00:23:06,589 House, we need to talk to you. 387 00:23:06,664 --> 00:23:08,598 How the hell did you know I was awake? 388 00:23:08,666 --> 00:23:10,657 Your nostrils flare when you sleep. 389 00:23:10,735 --> 00:23:12,327 No, they do not. 390 00:23:12,403 --> 00:23:13,392 Fine. I'm lying. 391 00:23:15,773 --> 00:23:17,536 Test was negative. You knew? 392 00:23:17,608 --> 00:23:19,098 Force of habit. Showed no cancer. 393 00:23:19,176 --> 00:23:20,837 No reason why he's got a fever of 103, 394 00:23:20,911 --> 00:23:22,674 and no reason why his tongue won't fit in his mouth. 395 00:23:22,747 --> 00:23:24,908 He's post-op. Chase is getting him up and around. 396 00:23:24,982 --> 00:23:28,179 It's important that you're up ASAP after surgery. 397 00:23:28,452 --> 00:23:30,477 You think you can urinate? 398 00:23:38,763 --> 00:23:40,526 It's getting bigger! 399 00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:44,767 Are you getting aroused? 400 00:23:44,835 --> 00:23:46,826 No! Not that part! 401 00:23:46,904 --> 00:23:49,031 Oh, God, it hurts! 402 00:23:49,974 --> 00:23:51,635 It's not stopping! 403 00:23:55,913 --> 00:23:58,541 Surgeons found no evidence of a burst artery. 404 00:23:59,083 --> 00:24:02,712 The blood had to come from somewhere, you took a shower in it. 405 00:24:03,387 --> 00:24:04,376 Trauma? 406 00:24:04,455 --> 00:24:07,322 Do you think someone snuck in here just to kick him in the jewels 407 00:24:07,391 --> 00:24:09,859 and poke out his eye and swell up his tongue? 408 00:24:09,927 --> 00:24:11,053 Keep riding. 409 00:24:11,128 --> 00:24:14,564 I got a bet with my physio that I can do 100 klicks by Friday. 410 00:24:14,632 --> 00:24:17,066 What about blood from the kidneys? 411 00:24:20,071 --> 00:24:23,302 Kidneys drain into the bladder, which drains into the ureter. 412 00:24:23,374 --> 00:24:25,865 There's no way it would mess with the scrotum. 413 00:24:25,943 --> 00:24:28,878 Yeah, basic human anatomy. 414 00:24:29,613 --> 00:24:32,946 Therefore, I think it's safe to assume that the problem lies elsewhere. 415 00:24:33,017 --> 00:24:35,850 But given that this case doesn't make any kind of sense whatsoever, 416 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,785 maybe we should even question the basics. 417 00:24:37,855 --> 00:24:39,288 Maybe he's not human? 418 00:24:39,357 --> 00:24:42,690 An anatomical defect would seem more likely, but let's not rule that one out. 419 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,923 Even more likely, he is human, his anatomy is where it's supposed to be, 420 00:24:45,996 --> 00:24:48,191 but he has testicular cancer. 421 00:24:48,265 --> 00:24:49,732 We tested for cancer. 422 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,324 We tested the lymph system in his chest. 423 00:24:51,402 --> 00:24:52,562 Surgeons found no growths. 424 00:24:52,636 --> 00:24:55,127 Surgeon was trying to put everything back where it was. 425 00:24:55,206 --> 00:24:56,537 They weren't doing an inventory. 426 00:24:56,607 --> 00:25:00,737 May have been lucky. You don't catch testicular cancer early, it kills. 427 00:25:00,811 --> 00:25:02,176 Probably eroded some vessel. 428 00:25:02,246 --> 00:25:03,338 Yeah, yeah, I know. 429 00:25:03,414 --> 00:25:05,211 The question is why I didn't think of it. 430 00:25:05,282 --> 00:25:08,274 Well, eyes popping out is a rather odd presentation. 431 00:25:08,352 --> 00:25:10,820 Sack blowing up, on the other hand... 432 00:25:10,888 --> 00:25:14,187 If you could think of everything yourself, you wouldn't need a team to annoy. 433 00:25:14,258 --> 00:25:16,089 I screwed up some basic anatomy, 434 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,460 and I missed connecting a testicular explosion with a testicular problem. 435 00:25:20,531 --> 00:25:23,694 You think there's any way I would've done that before Cuddy messed with my brain? 436 00:25:23,768 --> 00:25:25,736 She was trying to help you, and it worked. 437 00:25:25,803 --> 00:25:28,966 Yeah, I can run like the wind, but I can't think. 438 00:25:29,340 --> 00:25:32,104 And seeing as how I'm too old to become a professional athlete, 439 00:25:32,176 --> 00:25:35,168 it looks to me as if she screwed me over big time. 440 00:25:38,783 --> 00:25:40,614 You don't want a healthy leg. 441 00:25:40,684 --> 00:25:41,844 Oh, here we go. 442 00:25:41,919 --> 00:25:45,150 If you've got a good life, if you're healthy, you've got no reason to bitch. 443 00:25:45,222 --> 00:25:46,519 No reason to hate life. 444 00:25:46,590 --> 00:25:47,614 Well, here's the flaw in your argument. 445 00:25:47,691 --> 00:25:50,057 If I enjoy hating life, I don't hate life, I enjoy it. 446 00:25:50,127 --> 00:25:52,322 I didn't say it was rational. 447 00:25:53,764 --> 00:25:55,891 HlV testing is 99% accurate, 448 00:25:55,966 --> 00:25:59,163 which means there are some people who test positive, 449 00:25:59,236 --> 00:26:01,932 who live with their own impending doom for months or years 450 00:26:02,006 --> 00:26:03,633 before finding out everything's okay. 451 00:26:03,707 --> 00:26:07,666 Weirdly, most of them don't react with happiness, or even anger. 452 00:26:08,112 --> 00:26:09,704 They get depressed. 453 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:11,077 Not because they wanted to die, 454 00:26:11,148 --> 00:26:13,708 but because they've defined themselves by their disease. 455 00:26:13,784 --> 00:26:16,548 Suddenly what made them them, isn't real. 456 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:18,781 I don't define myself by my leg. 457 00:26:18,856 --> 00:26:22,155 No. You have taken it one step further. 458 00:26:23,194 --> 00:26:25,856 The only way you could come to terms with your disability 459 00:26:25,930 --> 00:26:28,797 was to somehow make it mean nothing. 460 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,068 So you had to redefine everything. 461 00:26:32,770 --> 00:26:35,739 You have dismissed anything physical, 462 00:26:36,874 --> 00:26:40,833 anything not coldly, calculatingly intellectual. 463 00:26:40,911 --> 00:26:43,004 Why are you protecting her? 464 00:26:47,451 --> 00:26:49,885 Because she's done nothing wrong. 465 00:26:51,689 --> 00:26:54,681 You're completely comfortable with what she did to me? 466 00:26:54,758 --> 00:26:56,419 Yeah, I am. Yeah. 467 00:26:58,662 --> 00:27:00,960 You agonize over moral choices. 468 00:27:01,665 --> 00:27:03,929 You're not completely comfortable with anything 469 00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:08,062 until you've taken days to get your head around every possible side. 470 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:11,239 I've known what she did for six hours. 471 00:27:11,308 --> 00:27:14,106 How come you're acting like you've known for days? 472 00:27:15,946 --> 00:27:17,072 What do I have? 473 00:27:17,147 --> 00:27:18,978 You're not sick. What do I have? 474 00:27:19,049 --> 00:27:20,175 You need to calm down! 475 00:27:20,251 --> 00:27:21,741 I have my brain! That's it! 476 00:27:21,819 --> 00:27:23,252 We were trying to help you. 477 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,221 Yeah, nobody tries to screw up, they just do. 478 00:27:26,290 --> 00:27:28,986 You were out of control. You were shooting morphine. 479 00:27:29,059 --> 00:27:30,856 I can make people better. 480 00:27:30,928 --> 00:27:33,294 And you two decide to trade that for jogging shoes! 481 00:27:33,364 --> 00:27:36,094 If you're suffering from side-effects, then we can look at that. 482 00:27:36,166 --> 00:27:37,827 You value the physical so much. 483 00:27:37,902 --> 00:27:40,803 Let me put this in terms you can understand. 484 00:27:45,576 --> 00:27:47,373 You're unbelievable. 485 00:27:47,444 --> 00:27:49,878 Even when you're out of your mind with anger and fear, 486 00:27:49,947 --> 00:27:52,438 you still couch it in logical terms. 487 00:27:52,516 --> 00:27:53,676 Are you hallucinating? 488 00:27:53,751 --> 00:27:54,740 Yeah, I'm hallucinating. 489 00:27:54,852 --> 00:27:56,615 No, I mean right now. 490 00:27:56,687 --> 00:27:58,382 Are you hallucinating? 491 00:28:01,091 --> 00:28:02,991 How did you know I was... 492 00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:04,960 You were yelling at me. 493 00:28:05,663 --> 00:28:07,255 You were calling me Wilson. 494 00:28:07,331 --> 00:28:08,320 No. 495 00:28:09,366 --> 00:28:11,334 You're losing it, House. 496 00:28:11,936 --> 00:28:13,904 I never call Wilson by his name. 497 00:28:13,971 --> 00:28:15,165 Yeah, right. 498 00:28:15,239 --> 00:28:18,003 Now the hallucinator is going to tell the hallucinatee what happened. 499 00:28:18,075 --> 00:28:20,373 You're not the hallucinatee. Wilson was the hallucinatee. 500 00:28:20,444 --> 00:28:22,810 You think maybe you're focusing on the wrong thing here? 501 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,839 Cuddy's office was the hallucinatee. The bathroom was the hallucinatee. 502 00:28:26,917 --> 00:28:28,714 Bathroom. It figures. 503 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,410 What figures? 504 00:28:33,057 --> 00:28:34,752 You wet your bed. 505 00:28:36,193 --> 00:28:37,421 Damn it. 506 00:28:39,997 --> 00:28:40,986 Test was negative. 507 00:28:41,065 --> 00:28:42,089 No. 508 00:28:42,166 --> 00:28:45,192 AFP and beta HCG say no testicular cancer. 509 00:28:45,269 --> 00:28:47,965 So, let's recap. We've just ruled out everything, 510 00:28:48,038 --> 00:28:49,130 which doesn't make sense. 511 00:28:49,206 --> 00:28:51,697 So the answer has to be something that doesn't make sense. 512 00:28:51,775 --> 00:28:54,403 Do a cystoscopy. Make sure he's human. 513 00:28:55,346 --> 00:28:56,973 The test was negative. 514 00:28:57,047 --> 00:28:58,412 For him being human? 515 00:28:58,482 --> 00:29:00,541 Everything was right where it's supposed to be. 516 00:29:00,618 --> 00:29:02,279 All the tubes go where they're supposed to go. 517 00:29:02,353 --> 00:29:05,914 Most likely scenario, some kind of bacterial prostatitis. 518 00:29:18,469 --> 00:29:20,801 Did you find out if his father hunched? 519 00:29:21,005 --> 00:29:23,303 His father have trouble peeing? 520 00:29:24,575 --> 00:29:27,339 His father have sex with his own mother? 521 00:29:27,411 --> 00:29:30,778 If the answers to any of those questions is yes, assume you're right. 522 00:29:30,848 --> 00:29:33,578 If the answers are no, assume you're right, 523 00:29:33,651 --> 00:29:35,846 but biopsy some prostate lymphs just to be sure. 524 00:29:35,919 --> 00:29:38,979 But then we'd have to cut through his stomach, 525 00:29:39,056 --> 00:29:42,219 and since he's clearly got a bleeding problem, this kind of surgery... 526 00:29:42,292 --> 00:29:44,692 He doesn't clearly have anything. 527 00:29:48,265 --> 00:29:50,062 How did I get here? 528 00:29:50,567 --> 00:29:52,660 What are you talking about? 529 00:29:53,570 --> 00:29:55,197 I was in the lCU, 530 00:29:56,940 --> 00:30:00,398 and then I was coming down these stairs with you guys. 531 00:30:01,111 --> 00:30:03,102 What happened in between? 532 00:30:06,650 --> 00:30:09,016 I don't remember how I got here. 533 00:30:21,932 --> 00:30:23,957 I'm taking myself off my case. 534 00:30:24,034 --> 00:30:27,060 Your patient is in critical care. He's had a fever unabated for two... 535 00:30:27,137 --> 00:30:28,866 I think I'm losing my mind. 536 00:30:30,407 --> 00:30:32,238 I'm having blackouts. 537 00:30:32,309 --> 00:30:34,072 You said you weren't having any... 538 00:30:34,144 --> 00:30:35,202 I lied. 539 00:30:35,279 --> 00:30:38,407 If you are doing this to scare me, you made your point. 540 00:30:38,482 --> 00:30:42,543 Next time you get shot, I promise to only treat the bullet wounds. 541 00:30:42,686 --> 00:30:44,347 I'm off the case. 542 00:30:50,227 --> 00:30:52,821 Why did you jump up when I came in? 543 00:30:52,896 --> 00:30:55,831 I thought you were going to attack me again. 544 00:30:56,433 --> 00:30:57,832 Again? 545 00:30:57,935 --> 00:30:59,493 Yeah, you were in my face. 546 00:31:00,370 --> 00:31:02,395 You were... No, I wasn't. 547 00:31:02,906 --> 00:31:04,635 You came in here with Wilson and... 548 00:31:04,708 --> 00:31:05,902 That was a hallucination. 549 00:31:05,976 --> 00:31:07,000 No, you... 550 00:31:07,077 --> 00:31:08,066 Which means this is a hallucination. 551 00:31:26,897 --> 00:31:29,764 How can I tell what's real and what's not? 552 00:31:32,169 --> 00:31:35,696 Everything looks the same, sounds the same, 553 00:31:37,107 --> 00:31:38,699 tastes the same. 554 00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:45,048 Seems like I'd be the last person you'd want to ask. 555 00:31:45,115 --> 00:31:46,377 Why not? 556 00:31:46,683 --> 00:31:49,846 You're obviously not here. I'm obviously not here. 557 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,448 Which means this is a creation of my mind, which means I'm really just asking myself. 558 00:31:54,525 --> 00:31:58,120 If you're talking to yourself, that's a lot of unnecessary explanation. 559 00:31:58,195 --> 00:32:00,322 Hey, I'm trying to work this out. 560 00:32:00,397 --> 00:32:03,560 That requires give and take, even in my own mind. 561 00:32:04,568 --> 00:32:06,195 What was the question? 562 00:32:06,270 --> 00:32:08,397 How can I tell what's real? 563 00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:10,363 Does it matter? 564 00:32:11,642 --> 00:32:13,974 That doesn't sound like something I'd ask. 565 00:32:14,044 --> 00:32:16,945 All right. Your concern is that if you act in the real world 566 00:32:17,014 --> 00:32:20,814 based on information that's not real, the results are impossible to foresee. 567 00:32:20,884 --> 00:32:22,010 With you so far. 568 00:32:22,085 --> 00:32:25,521 But information is incapable of harm in and of itself. 569 00:32:25,589 --> 00:32:29,958 Ideas are neither good nor bad but merely as useful as what we do with them. 570 00:32:30,027 --> 00:32:32,860 Only actions can cause harm. 571 00:32:34,031 --> 00:32:35,999 That sounds like me. 572 00:32:36,533 --> 00:32:40,162 So you do nothing. You refrain from taking any actions. 573 00:32:42,139 --> 00:32:44,733 You continue to throw out your ideas as you always would, 574 00:32:44,808 --> 00:32:49,302 but if they're based on faulty assumptions, your team will point that out. 575 00:32:49,646 --> 00:32:52,581 They won't do anything that could hurt him. 576 00:32:55,586 --> 00:32:57,315 So I trust my team? 577 00:32:58,755 --> 00:32:59,744 Test was negative. 578 00:32:59,823 --> 00:33:00,983 No blood in the prostate. 579 00:33:01,058 --> 00:33:02,423 No structural abnormalities. 580 00:33:02,492 --> 00:33:05,893 If something doesn't make sense, what does that mean? 581 00:33:07,798 --> 00:33:09,197 It's not rhetorical. 582 00:33:09,266 --> 00:33:13,362 I need your input on everything I ask, no matter how obvious it might seem. 583 00:33:13,437 --> 00:33:15,530 It means you're wrong. 584 00:33:15,606 --> 00:33:17,574 It means one of your assumptions is wrong. 585 00:33:17,641 --> 00:33:20,041 Because if something doesn't make sense, it can't be real. 586 00:33:20,110 --> 00:33:21,304 So what are our assumptions? 587 00:33:21,378 --> 00:33:23,778 We don't have any. We're just guessing and testing. 588 00:33:23,847 --> 00:33:25,246 We assume the tests are right. 589 00:33:25,315 --> 00:33:27,180 We've already re-done them. Twice. 590 00:33:27,251 --> 00:33:28,411 Let's go more basic. 591 00:33:28,485 --> 00:33:30,578 What's more basic than the test results? 592 00:33:30,654 --> 00:33:32,485 The tests themselves. 593 00:33:32,623 --> 00:33:34,591 What does a biopsy consist of? 594 00:33:34,658 --> 00:33:36,751 You take a sample. 595 00:33:36,827 --> 00:33:38,089 Define sample. 596 00:33:38,528 --> 00:33:42,123 It's a small representative piece of whatever you think is the problem. 597 00:33:42,199 --> 00:33:44,463 You go down to the shore, you fill a cup of water. 598 00:33:44,534 --> 00:33:47,264 It's got no fish in it. Does that mean no fish in the ocean? 599 00:33:47,337 --> 00:33:48,668 We can do another biopsy. 600 00:33:48,739 --> 00:33:50,434 We could fill another cup of water. 601 00:33:50,507 --> 00:33:52,771 But we gotta dive in. We got to see what's actually in there. 602 00:33:52,843 --> 00:33:54,640 We can't operate, he's got a bleeding problem. 603 00:33:54,711 --> 00:33:56,406 We assume he's got a bleeding problem. 604 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,176 Yeah, because he bled from where he wasn't supposed to bleed, 605 00:33:59,249 --> 00:34:01,149 causing parts of his body to blow up. 606 00:34:01,218 --> 00:34:06,019 Assuming that crazy assumption is correct, if we operate on him, we'll kill him. 607 00:34:06,089 --> 00:34:09,456 What if we could find a way to do this surgery 608 00:34:10,827 --> 00:34:13,295 without giving him more than a paper cut? 609 00:34:13,797 --> 00:34:18,325 You want to let a robot operate on me? 610 00:34:18,402 --> 00:34:20,427 The technology is amazing. 611 00:34:20,504 --> 00:34:23,337 It magnifies everything 10 times. It's 10 times the accuracy. 612 00:34:23,407 --> 00:34:25,739 No way. I want a person. 613 00:34:25,809 --> 00:34:26,969 A person would be controlling... 614 00:34:27,044 --> 00:34:28,511 People suck. 615 00:34:29,780 --> 00:34:32,248 People have turned you from a guy with a swollen tongue 616 00:34:32,316 --> 00:34:35,342 into a guy with one eye, one ball, and a stapled-on face. 617 00:34:35,419 --> 00:34:38,855 If you want someone to hold you while you cry yourself to sleep at night, 618 00:34:38,922 --> 00:34:40,719 choose warm and soft. 619 00:34:40,791 --> 00:34:44,591 You want someone to write you a poem, pick the sensitive loner. 620 00:34:44,661 --> 00:34:46,686 If all you care about is that something's done right, 621 00:34:46,763 --> 00:34:48,025 pick the guy with the metal head. 622 00:34:48,098 --> 00:34:50,396 No way. No way, no way. 623 00:34:50,467 --> 00:34:53,527 You gotta see this thing in action before you say no way. Come on. 624 00:34:53,603 --> 00:34:55,662 House, what are you doing? 625 00:34:57,007 --> 00:34:59,703 Nothing. I'm not doing anything. 626 00:35:00,077 --> 00:35:01,669 Just throwing out ideas. 627 00:35:01,745 --> 00:35:04,976 I think that you should put him in a wheelchair and take him down to the OR. 628 00:35:05,048 --> 00:35:06,777 But I may be out of my mind. 629 00:35:16,326 --> 00:35:17,884 Relax, Cameron. 630 00:35:18,495 --> 00:35:20,463 I'm not going to cut you. 631 00:35:20,530 --> 00:35:23,363 I just wanna show what this puppy can do. 632 00:35:23,433 --> 00:35:26,027 It can make one-millimeter incisions. 633 00:35:26,703 --> 00:35:28,830 You don't know how small that is? 634 00:35:28,905 --> 00:35:30,930 It's small even in metric. 635 00:35:31,575 --> 00:35:35,067 If I do something that doesn't make sense, even to you, 636 00:35:35,979 --> 00:35:37,207 stop me. 637 00:35:47,858 --> 00:35:49,348 Delicate, no? 638 00:36:22,492 --> 00:36:23,686 House. 639 00:36:24,461 --> 00:36:25,985 Does that hurt? 640 00:36:31,034 --> 00:36:32,467 Seen enough. 641 00:36:34,204 --> 00:36:35,262 No. 642 00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:38,167 That wasn't a question. 643 00:36:38,241 --> 00:36:40,505 You either do this, or you die. 644 00:36:45,148 --> 00:36:46,740 You've wasted your life. 645 00:36:46,817 --> 00:36:47,806 Yeah. 646 00:36:49,019 --> 00:36:53,922 If only I'd spent more time dedicating myself to finding someone worthy to shoot. 647 00:36:54,724 --> 00:36:56,885 If I had killed you, would it have mattered? 648 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,155 Not to me. Have you got a pen? 649 00:36:59,229 --> 00:37:01,060 You don't care if you live or die? 650 00:37:01,131 --> 00:37:04,589 I care because I live. I can't care if I'm dead. 651 00:37:05,502 --> 00:37:07,595 I don't want to hear semantics. 652 00:37:07,671 --> 00:37:09,696 You anti-semantic bastard. 653 00:37:11,007 --> 00:37:13,601 Would anybody care that the world lost that wit? 654 00:37:13,677 --> 00:37:14,871 Working here. 655 00:37:14,945 --> 00:37:17,345 That's all right. You don't have to say anything. 656 00:37:17,414 --> 00:37:20,144 Just let me soak into your subconscious. 657 00:37:21,618 --> 00:37:26,282 You think that the only truth that matters is the truth that can be measured. 658 00:37:26,723 --> 00:37:30,682 Good intentions don't count. What's in your heart doesn't count. 659 00:37:31,328 --> 00:37:33,091 Caring doesn't count. 660 00:37:33,163 --> 00:37:35,324 But a man's life can be measured 661 00:37:35,398 --> 00:37:38,799 by how many tears are shed when he dies. 662 00:37:41,404 --> 00:37:43,929 Just because you can't measure them, 663 00:37:44,341 --> 00:37:47,276 just because you don't want to measure them, 664 00:37:48,411 --> 00:37:50,538 doesn't mean it's not real. 665 00:37:55,218 --> 00:37:57,584 That does not make sense. 666 00:37:59,689 --> 00:38:03,420 And even if I'm wrong, you're still miserable. 667 00:38:05,762 --> 00:38:08,322 Did you really think that your life's purpose 668 00:38:08,398 --> 00:38:11,856 was to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? 669 00:38:14,004 --> 00:38:15,062 No. 670 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,633 You believe there's no purpose to anything. 671 00:38:22,012 --> 00:38:24,606 Even the lives you save, you dismiss. 672 00:38:28,051 --> 00:38:30,281 You turn the one decent thing in your life 673 00:38:30,353 --> 00:38:33,186 and you taint it, strip it of all meaning. 674 00:38:40,630 --> 00:38:42,860 You're miserable for nothing. 675 00:38:44,834 --> 00:38:47,394 And I don't know why you'd want to live. 676 00:39:10,293 --> 00:39:11,658 I'm sorry. 677 00:39:25,842 --> 00:39:27,639 I know what's wrong. 678 00:39:32,182 --> 00:39:35,117 House, get out of here, you're not sterile. 679 00:39:37,087 --> 00:39:38,611 He'll be fine. 680 00:39:38,688 --> 00:39:39,882 Great. 681 00:39:41,658 --> 00:39:43,182 What's he got? 682 00:39:43,727 --> 00:39:47,458 How come you guys have never tried to yank me off this case? 683 00:39:48,632 --> 00:39:51,226 I'm having hallucinations, blackouts. 684 00:39:51,334 --> 00:39:55,293 But you're always insane, and you're always right. 685 00:39:55,672 --> 00:39:58,539 I'm almost always eventually right. 686 00:39:59,943 --> 00:40:02,969 You have no way of knowing when eventually is. 687 00:40:03,513 --> 00:40:06,482 Every time I've had an epiphany on this one, 688 00:40:06,616 --> 00:40:08,846 you guys were right on board. 689 00:40:08,918 --> 00:40:11,386 No challenges, nothing to explain. 690 00:40:12,122 --> 00:40:16,058 No offense, but either you guys are getting smarter or I'm getting dumber. 691 00:40:16,126 --> 00:40:18,253 We've worked with you long enough to know... 692 00:40:18,328 --> 00:40:21,161 I know the test results even before you enter the room. 693 00:40:21,231 --> 00:40:23,358 We have identical knowledge. 694 00:40:23,733 --> 00:40:24,825 How is that possible? 695 00:40:24,901 --> 00:40:25,925 You're wrong. 696 00:40:26,002 --> 00:40:28,027 If something doesn't make sense, 697 00:40:28,104 --> 00:40:30,368 one of your assumptions has to be wrong. 698 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,705 Because if it doesn't make sense, it can't be real. 699 00:40:34,177 --> 00:40:38,443 But what if the faulty assumption is that it's real? 700 00:40:39,215 --> 00:40:41,547 House, you're losing it. 701 00:40:42,319 --> 00:40:43,809 I've lost it. 702 00:40:47,590 --> 00:40:48,852 Why did you stop me? 703 00:40:48,925 --> 00:40:51,120 Because I think you're going to kill him. 704 00:40:51,194 --> 00:40:54,322 No, you don't think that. You know it. 705 00:40:55,465 --> 00:40:57,524 Because you're in my head. 706 00:40:57,801 --> 00:41:01,532 As long as the delusion makes sense, my mind lets it go on. 707 00:41:02,672 --> 00:41:05,698 I have to make it not make sense. I have to 708 00:41:05,775 --> 00:41:08,972 push it past the point where it can trick my mind. 709 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,505 If this is a nightmare, you're gonna wake up. 710 00:41:12,582 --> 00:41:14,311 If it's real, you're killing a man. 711 00:41:14,384 --> 00:41:17,046 It's also possible that I may already be dead. 712 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,815 And I don't believe in the afterlife. 713 00:41:18,888 --> 00:41:20,651 House, go back to your room. 714 00:41:20,724 --> 00:41:22,749 If this is a hallucination, it's a good one. 715 00:41:22,826 --> 00:41:24,316 You're pain-free. You can walk. 716 00:41:24,394 --> 00:41:28,091 It's not real. Therefore, it's meaningless. I want meaning. 717 00:42:12,409 --> 00:42:13,842 Oh, God. 718 00:42:47,310 --> 00:42:48,572 Goodbye. 719 00:42:49,646 --> 00:42:51,375 He was shot. Twice. 720 00:42:51,448 --> 00:42:53,382 Once in the abdomen, once in the neck. 721 00:42:53,450 --> 00:42:55,111 Hello. It's gonna be okay. 722 00:42:55,185 --> 00:42:56,709 You're gonna be okay. 723 00:42:56,786 --> 00:42:58,219 You don't know nothing. 724 00:42:59,155 --> 00:43:00,520 Tell Cuddy 725 00:43:02,258 --> 00:43:03,850 I want Ketamine.