(Ben) Oh, come on! We're gonna be late!
Episode four never comes to the big screen.
This is the pre-lucas-ized version,
remember?
None of that greedo shooting first crap.
Go without me.
What are you talking about? You love star wars.
Don't you?
Ben.
Since when?
Since just before i started pretending i loved it.
I'm sorry.
I was just trying to be supportive.
Fine. I'll go alone.
Baby, i'm sorry. Me too.
I'm so woozy i can hardly think.
We'll hang out at home.
No, you should go.
Did you just feel something?
Feel?
Like what?
Is there an earthquake?
In new jersey?
Oh, god. What?
I think i'm, like, hallucinating.
Call 911.
26-year-old female,
xxx
she was pulled out of the rubble
after six hours.
Two surgeries for multiple fractures and burns.
I'm thinking the broken bones are a response
to the building falling on her head.
And the fever?
She's the only collapse victim
whose body temperature...
put her on antipyrectics.
I can't take the case. I don't have a team.
So hire a team.
What for? I don't have a case.
Have you even interviewed anybody?
You test drive a car before you buy it.
You have sex before you get married,
i can't hire a team based on a ten-minute interview.
What if i don't like having sex with them?
You've spent the last two weeks
doing absolutely nothing.
Concert is over.
In what twisted universe
does mastering eddie van halen's
two-handed arpeggio technique
count as absolutely nothing?
Take the case or you will spend the next month
helping the collapse team change bandages.
I diagnose her. Alone.
By the end of the day, you go away for a week.
Done.
It's not gonna work.
If he solves the case, we cure the girl.
And prove he doesn't need a team.
He's not gonna solve the case.
Not that fast. Why not.
Because he needs a team! And this'll prove to him...
you wanna change his mind about something,
you need a more convincing argument
than "you promised."
Fever.
Non-responsive to antibiotics and antipyretics.
Fluctuating consciousness.
Go!
(leon) You talking to me?
Yes.
Imagine that the roof of the storage closet
collapses on your
favorite floor buffer.
Which then starts overheating.
Why would i have a favorite floor buffer?
Okay.
Maybe the electrical works got banged up in there
from stuff falling on it.
Hmm, interesting.
Brain damage leading to hypothalamic dysregulation.
Nah.
If you're brought in covered in rubble,
it's all about the mri's.
We'd have seen that.
Come on!
You gotta earn that fiver.
Or stuff leaked in the holes,
messing it up.
Lacerations leave multiple portals for infection.
Bacterial would have responded to the antibiotics.
Too high for viral.
Parasites or fungus is possible.
Or maybe lupus.
My grandma has lupus.
Okay, autoimmune.
I'll run a lupus panel.
Infection fits best.
Complete history would be helpful.
Which leads to the worst part of the job.
Dealing with the floor buffer's family.
We talked every couple of weeks,
but ben would know better than l...
no farms, no travel anywhere weird.
You get that, dr. Buffer?
No travel, no farm.
The file says she was sick before the building collapsed.
(ben) I figured it was just a cold.
Why, do you think's related?
Her being sick and her being sick?
Often is.
She was unconscious when i found her.
We'd been fighting.
I just want to...
just tell me she's gonna be okay.
I'm not even sure you're gonna be okay.
We're gonna make her all better.
Showoff.
You oughta be nicer to people.
Where are we going?
You know how the laughter
of little children is infectious?
Well, parasites and fungi are even more so.
We're gonna find out which one is making
her brain bubble over.
Where, the building?
Epa's doing that job for us.
They say it's clean.
Which means we're making a pilgrimage
to castle blackberry.
Her name's bradbury.
I should ask them for keys.
No need.
I'm sure we can find a large rock somewhere.
I'm not breaking in to somebody's house.
I got principles.
I got some loose change here says you don't.
I'm not doing this.
For less than a 50.
Where's the restaurant?
What restaurant?
The one you said you were taking me to for lunch.
Oh, uh, this one's homier.
Dibs on the cold pizza.
I'm sure it looked easier on youtube.
Oops!
Yeah, you don't need a team.
You can't even get arrested without company.
You're right.
Only one solution.
Never replace them. Ever.
Do you need help?
Yeah, yeah, patronize the poor cripple.
Ow.
Let me get that.
I got it.
Will you... let me... just let me get it.
I'll check the bedroom.
Some interesting mold on the windowsill here!
It's gonna take me a while.
I'll cover the bathroom.
She had a secret diary.
Is there any other kind?
What are you doing?
There's a sale on liquid tide.
If you're broke,
i can lend you a tiny bit of the money i owe you.
No, no, i wouldn't put you in that position.
What does the diary say?
It's basically a list of her sexual encounters.
Boys, girls,
vibrating appliances.
If it was, you'd be quoting, not summarizing.
This is a parade of sad banalities.
"I can hardly get out of bed.
Feeling blue."
Then, three months ago,
turns into a parade of happy banalities.
"Starting to turn the corner.
Job's looking up."
We can stop swabbing.
Her clichés are getting healthier.
Or she's less depressed.
Aren't there pills that do that?
Antidepressants don't cause fever.
Not on their own.
But the e.r. Didn't know
she was on m.a.o. Inhibitors,
so they gave her demerol.
It's a nasty combo.
So all you have to do is convince this kid
that his girlfriend had a secret doctor,
and a secret stash,
and a secret life.
It's been a while since a patient
took a swing at you.
Can i watch?
I only have to convince the mother.
Actually...
i don't have to convince anyone.
This it total crap.
If she was seeing a psychiatrist, i'd know.
If she was on drugs, i'd know.
Mrs. Bradbury, please sign the form
so we can start the dialysis.
But why antidepressants? I don't understand!
Mrs. Bradbury, please sign the forms
so we can start the dialysis.
Stop saying that.
Dr. Buffer, what is going on?
What aren't you telling us?
He's a janitor?
More significantly, a blabbermouth.
House, shut up!
I am very sorry how dr. House handled this.
It is completely unforgivable.
Except if he's right.
Dialysis will filter her blood.
There's nothing to filter.
Save her life.
She wasn't depressed.
I'm miserable around ben.
Not me. I like ben.
February 12th.
Either she's depressed,
or she just thinks you're a jerk.
Neither suggests that you should be the one
directing her medical treatment.
Does the diary say
my daughter's taking these drugs?
No, but medically...
did you find drugs in their home?
She's probably hiding them in her purse.
I thought it would be rude to go searching
under 1,000 tons of rubble.
This was months ago.
We were in a fight.
It doesn't mean she's depressed.
And it doesn't mean she doesn't love me.
Fine, maybe the diary proves nothing.
On the other hand, half the country's
on antidepressants.
And it fits her symptoms perfectly.
No ring on your daughter's finger
means you make the decisions.
I'm not sure that i know her
well enough anymore.
You really wanna risk her life
on how well he knows her?
Wilson, you idiot.
(electronically masked voice) Listen carefully,
and no one will get hurt.
You must follow these instructions.
Any attempt to contact the f.b.i.
Or other law enforcement agencies
or... cutty...
will be met with...
and a large coke.
No ice.
Give it back.
What happened?
Did someone...
kidnap your guitar?
A $12,000 1967 flying v?
Or something?
Where'd you hide it?
I'm flattered you would consider me
this bold and brilliant.
No, 'cause it takes a crl...
it takes a criminal mastermind
to pull off a heist from an unlocked,
unguarded room down the hall.
What do you want?
Me? Nothing.
But i'm sure the kidnapper
wants what every kidnapper wants.
To see you interview five to seven
well-qualified fellowship candidates.
I don't need a team.
You were bouncing ideas off a janitor.
And solved the case!
Hi. I'm dr. Cuddy.
If you can hear what i'm saying,
blink once.
You can't talk right now.
You have a tube down your throat.
And try not to move your head.
You've been in a terrible accident.
But it looks like you will have
no permanent injuries.
You've had a bad fever, but it's gone now.
I've been here the whole time, honey, okay?
This is very important.
I need you
to blink one for yes, twice for no.
Were you seeing a psychiatrist?
Were you on m.a.o. Inhibitors?
The antidepressant.
Megan, it's okay.
It doesn't matter, okay? I love you.
Honey? Honey, what's wrong?
Megan, are you all right?
What's happening? Are we upsetting her?
Heart is beating too fast.
Get the family out of here.
Megan? Megan?
Charging to 200. Meg, meg.
Megan.
Clear!
We shocked her back into sinus rhythm,
but she's still tachycardic.
Fascinating.
Equally fascinating is...
why are you here?
I was gonna leave you alone if you won the bet.
But you lost.
I explained the fever.
Which is all we were talking about.
She confirmed the antidepressants.
Go bet with someone else
if you want to explain the heart problems.
She confirmed them by winking.
Maybe there was a cute guy across the room.
She got better when i treated her.
Even i'm not that cute.
Two unrelated symptoms,
just a coincidence.
Or you're grasping at straws to avoid admitting
you can't do this on your own.
Fine, what explains the fever
and persistent tachycardia?
Could be anything. Endocarditis.
Nope. Fever, no infection.
Um...
keep going, you're doing great.
You win.
I don't believe you.
I'm not gonna play this game.
Just give me the damn resumes.
And my guitar.
I don't have it.
Although i did hear some...
plangent strumming from under that couch earlier.
Wow.
This kidnapper isn't just bold,
he's diabolical.
I guess he realized
he probably shouldn't give it back to you
until after you've had the interviews.
Huh, you didn't write anything.
So what you're saying is, you didn't find
that one big explanation...
'cause there isn't one.
Clever.
Well, let's just say...
your antidepressant theory does explain the fever.
What about the heart?
And don't say a building fell on her.
Okay...
A structure collapsed...
shut up. Come on, it fits.
Crushed musculature releases potassium,
causes v-tac...
you'd think she'd get crushed syndrome
after she was crushed, not two days later.
Microvascular occlusions.
Takes that long for the blood to reperfuse.
She'd have a baggy heart.
Echo it to confirm.
Is crush syndrome good or bad?
Does it sound good?
I mean, compared to the other things it could be.
There are no other things it could be.
Then why are you testing her?
Excellent question.
What... what is it?
The heart's fine.
Why is she sweating? Her fever's back.
Why would her fever be back?
I can't say.
You don't know?
I know,
i just can't say.
'Cause you'll hit me.
Let's discuss this in front of witnesses.
The dt's?
So she's an alcoholic now?
Her first fever was from the medication
for her depression.
Or you're wrong.
The second fever was from the self-medication
for depression.
This is insane.
You don't think i would have noticed her
being constantly drunk?
You were practically living with sylvia plath.
You didn't notice that.
Tone it down or i will hit you.
Fine, i'll do liver enzyme tests.
(cuddy) Liver enzymes can also be elevated
from musculoskeletal trauma.
They'd be there whether she had
a drinking problem or not.
They don't know that.
Just pretend to confirm.
What's the treatment?
She's not an alcoholic.
Hair of the dog, iv alcohol.
Taper it off after a few days.
She's sick and traumatized and half-dead.
You wanna make her drunk.
Just do it.
You can't do this.
We lived together, we were gonna have kids.
You barely even know her.
Apparently, neither did you.
Hello?
Hi, could i speak to trevor... kaufman?
Yo yo, it's trev. What up?
This is dr. Gregory house.
Can you come in tomorrow to interview?
House? Are you serious?
Awesome!
Hey, dude, i got the house interview!
(second man) Oh, look at me!
I got the house interview!
(trevor) Dude, shut up! I'm on the phone!
Shut up! I'm so cool!
Give me the phone back. Give me the phone back!
I got a page.
No, you didn't.
They called a code.
No, they didn't.
You got a page, but not from us.
Did you ever see raid on entebbe?
Yeah, in the end, they release the hostages.
How's that working for you?
The ugandans played fair.
They didn't move the hostages on the israelis.
Once again, i am in awe
of the kidnapper's tactical brilliance.
What is el fuego del amor
and why do you need ten of them?
It's a telanovela. I'm learning spanish.
Say adios.
Are you erasing my tivo?
House, not the season finale.
E with terrorists.
I smoke them out of their hidey-holes.
Do you know what terrorists do
when you don't negotiate?
They terrorize.
Bring it on.
Fever's down.
Sweating has abated. Heart's working fine.
I guess house was right. Again.
That's good news, right?
It is good news.
So what does this mean, she's an alcoholic?
There's no other explanation?
No, sorry.
It doesn't make any sense.
Dr. Cuddy...
she's doing this thing with her mouth again.
It's been on and off for the last couple hours.
Is she trying to talk?
(cuddy) No.
I think she's screaming.
Morning!
Uh-huh.
Where did you come from?
Apes, if you believe the democrats.
I heard you were there when i was proven right.
The alcohol treatment took away
the heart and fever problems.
Yes, i was also there when you were proven wrong.
She'd been silently screaming for two hours.
Amylase and lipase are through the roof.
She has pancreatitis.
Iv alcohol can cause pancreatitis.
Okay.
You're not gonna argue with me?
Nope.
You think i'm right? Nope.
Why not?
Nope.
It's not really a yes or no question.
Which is why i'm not answering it.
If it's not the iv alcohol,
it's gotta be...
not interested.
If i'm wrong, she's gonna die.
Are you sure
you're still dean of medicine.
I'm not interested in arguing because i'm not interested
in enabling you.
You need someone to bounce ideas off of.
You need a team.
Don't follow me.
M.a.o. Inhibitor caused the fever.
Alcohol caused the pancreatitis.
Alcohol withdrawal caused the v-tach.
Le."?
(cuddy) you're wrong.
Well, who are you gonna believe?
A classic toy or a woman who,
if she had any confidence in her ideas,
wouldn't feel the need to distract you
with a water bra?
Are you really just gonna treat the pancreatitis?
Are you here to enable me?
I don't want her to die because you're stubborn.
Wow, so you can enable and rationalize
at the same time.
Guess you are still dean of medicine.
If you're right, then this guy,
who's not an ass, who's not a workaholic,
who's not a sociopath,
has somehow missed both her depression
and severe alcoholism.
Yes, imagine that, a couple with secrets.
Why would she lie?
Okay, alcoholism you don't wanna advertise.
But...
if you're right, there'd be an abnormality
on the pancreas.
At least do an mri to confirm.
Oh, my god.
This guy means business.
Or guys.
?
Could be multiple guys.
Or a gal. Who knows?
All i can say is, this reeks of boldness.
I am not hiring a team.
You ever tighten a guitar string
really, really slowly?
Past the point it can handle the strain?
It makes this weird sound.
Almost like a scream.
I thought this was gonna be fun.
I messed with you, you messed with me.
Eventually, you give in.
But you've shown a startling lack of humor,
which got me thinking.
Oh, god.
What's the real reason
you won't hire a team?
I told you, i don't need a team.
Then hire three people
and let 'em sit on their asses.
That wouldn't be right.
Three years ago, you hired a team.
What's changed?
I have become a man of principle.
I've gotten smarter.
What answer will make socrates shut up?
What's changed is,
?
You connected with a team.
You worked with a team.
And you lost a team.
Damn.
There's no abnormalities in her pancreas.
You fall in love, you get married.
50% chance it'll end in misery.
Hiring employees can be even tougher.
Because you know, eventually,
they're gonna leave.
There's increased t2 signal on her hepatic capsule.
If you know what i mean.
You got hurt.
Get over it.
Now, if you'll excuse me,
my patient is about to start bleeding
out of her mouth and anus.
Internal bleeding.
Not anymore.
Now it's all over the place.
Why are you here?
That's my patient down there.
You're here because i'm here.
I am done enabling you.
I know.
The alcohol didn't cause the pancreatitis,
the internal bleeding did.
The question is, what caused the internal bleeding?
I hate myself.
You do know that the patient
had a building land on her.
Four days ago.
Bleeding can start at any time.
It's bleeding from five different sites.
You think they synchronized their watches?
She got warfarin after her hip surgery.
It's designed to mess with bleeding patterns.
Fever, heart, and bleeding.
Three problems,
three completely different explanations.
She must be the unluckiest woman
in the world.
I only cling to this crazy theory
because it's been proven right
every step of the way.
Each treatment worked.
Yes, she looks perfectly healthy.
This much bleeding
is a symptom of something more.
And you need a team because you're wrong
and you're gonna kill this woman.
If i had a team, this patient would be dead.
Because they'd be here instead of me
and they wouldn't notice the size
of this woman's uterus.
Hi!
How's it going?
Mind if i observe?
Got a big room up top window
just for that.
Oh, stop that.
You wanna look at vaginas,
there are websites for that.
Think i'm made of money?
Can you get him out of here?
Enlarged uterus.
Means that she was recently pregnant.
She's a good liar, but i doubt she could
hide a baby from her boyfriend.
Scraping in the uterus
indicates that she had an abortion.
But nothing in her medical history.
Only one reason to hide an abortion.
Boyfriend wants babies, she doesn't.
She's bleeding everywhere.
Unless the guy was performing an abortion
with a shotgun...
stop enabling him!
It's not the abortion, it's what she did after.
The boyfriend would have noticed condoms.
He would notice abstinence.
He would not notice the pill.
Which means, i don't need a team!
Hey, where's your mother-in-common-law?
Dr. House, this is doug mcmurtry.
His girlfriend was working with megan when...
she's dead?
She passed this morning.
Well, then why are you still here?
I need the old lady's consent
to do some treatment.
What'd you find out?
I wish i could tell you,
but since you're not legally related...
did you find out?
Your girlfriend had an abortion.
See why i didn't tell you?
I'd be insane to also tell you
that she's on the pill.
No, she's not.
If they'd known she was on it,
they wouldn't have given her a blood thinner
after her hip surgery.
The combination caused the bleeding.
It's good news. It's treatable.
Just give her tamoxifen.
Which is normally a breast cancer...
it's not true.
'Cause, uh, we wanna have kids.
Huh.
See, i already did the blood tests.
And either she lied to you,
or her blood lied to us.
Tell megan i'm glad she's gonna be okay.
How are you doing?
I got cancer.
You're on an oncology ward.
Everybody's got cancer.
You want sympathy, you wanna try
the "hardly anything wrong with m
in fact, why don't i take you there right now?
How sick are you?
Can you walk?
Are you a doctor?
Admitted today.
First day of a five day chemo course.
Yeah, you can walk.
Come on, let's go.
Does dr. Wilson know you're here?
Well, if he didn't, this would be really stupid.
'Cause then he wouldn't know where his patient was.
No, the room upstairs is bigger.
It's got cable.
Better looking sponge bath nurses.
Oh.
If you feel sick,
you call me directly, not Dr. Wilson.
He's getting his last set of hormone shots.
You put her on tamoxifen? An antl-cancer drug?
It blocks estrogen receptors.
Does it also block breathing
and kidney function?
She's crashing.
Doesn't mean i was wrong.
R. Martin.
We're bringing his patient over now, thanks.
Anybody here a doctor?
Kidney failure,
spiking fever, breathing difficulties.
Any theories?
Am i in an m. Night shyamalan movie?
You're house, right?
Okay, i assume you know me because i once insulted you,
your patient, or your relatives.
If that's so, i apologize.
I was drunk that day.
Patient initially presented with crush injuries.
I know you because Dr. Cuddy issued a memo.
Telling to cooperate fully with me?
Nope.
I figured that was a long shot.
Anybody here not get that memo?
Fungal infection.
Don't you have a patient?
She shot herself in the leg while high on meth.
Wouldn't hurt her to be in pain for a little while.
Fungal infection would be in her eyes by now.
Haemophylus.
Doesn't explain the remitting fever.
You've heard...
that i've got a job opening, right?
I just care about people.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome.
A.r.d.s. Doesn't explain anything.
Except the breathing.
If you care about people, you're not getting the job.
I was lying. Crush syndrome.
Doesn't explain the breathing.
What was the problem with A.R.D.S?
Only explained the breathing.
And the crush syndrome?
It didn't explain the breathing.
You a fan of symmetry?
Sure.
Weird.
'Cause your eyes are lopsided.
And by eyes, i mean breasts.
A.r.d.s. And crush syndrome,
both reactions to severe trauma.
Why can't she have both?
Because...
because then there's nothing we could do.
Boy, you remind me of someone.
Send me your resume.
I'll put it on top of the pile
that i'm never gonna look at.
I couldn't leave.
You don't seem like the type of person
who would give up on giving up.
I love her.
You love somebody.
Someone who didn't drink, who wanted to have babies.
And wasn't miserable.
I know she lied, but...
what are you doing?
Why are you saying these things to him?
The woman you love doesn't exist.
This woman is dying.
She has acute respiratory
distress syndrome and crush syndrome.
Her body's basically giving up.
We can keep her on
supportive dialysis and hope for the best.
Never mind.
She has a lump on her arm.
Does that mean you're wrong?
That would be good news for you guys.
We'll know after the biopsy.
Which patient is that?
Megan... house's patient.
Yep.
Didn't you get my memo?
Sure.
Got both memos.
Both.
And the second memo said to ignore the first memo?
Yep.
Seemed odd.
Did an mri and... of course you did.
What'd you find?
It's kind of freaky.
She's got growths all over the place.
She's got tumors?
Not exactly.
The growths are eosinophilic granulomas.
They are usually from allergic reactions.
I'm putting her on steroids.
Allergy to what? She doesn't have allergies.
We don't know.
Unfortunately,
the only drug she's had enough of
to have this kind of reaction is cephalosporin.
And why is that unfortunate?
Because she was on it two months ago.
That's what you mean, right?
She took it for strep throat,
so she can't be allergic to it.
It would seem so.
What is this hospital doing to her?
She has had three
separate medical disasters.
And now she's dying
of an allergy she can't possibly have!
Mr. Lee, i just have to check...
sam?
Are you okay?
What are you doing here?
I was taking a nap.
Where's my patient?
You stole my patient.
You kidnapped my guitar.
Give him back.
Only when you give her back.
It's a she?
Well, it's certainly not a dude.
It's a guitar! You took a human being!
Now who doesn't have a sense of humor?
I'm monitoring the guy remotely.
What are you, listening
for the distant sound of screaming?
The nurses know to call me.
They don't know who he is!
His name's right there on the chart.
Now go away. I'm working.
They give him the wrong meds,
who the hell knows what's gonna happen?
House!
Bad things would happen.
He's in room 318.
What are you... what are you giving megan?
Megan? Nothing.
Nothing? What's going on?
What's wrong with her?
Her? Nothing.
Then why are you giving her drugs?
Just some amphetamines to wake her up.
Everything could be explained by her lying to you.
The antidepressants, the drinking, the pill.
Until now.
Now she's allergic to something
the chart says she's not allergic to.
That's not her lying,
that's the chart lying.
Which doesn't make s.
Do you know liz masters?
No.
?
That was her boyfriend who you met outside the morgue.
Mm. This is her chart.
She's on m.a.o. Inhibitors for depression.
She's on the pill.
She had an abortion a month ago.
And she's allergic to cephalosporin.
What's going on here?
What, are you saying this isn't megan?
Yes.
Ben.
(ben) since when?
Since right before i began pretending
i loved it.
She's the same size as megan,
same build, h cosameair lor.
They were both horribly injured.
Unrecognizably.
Emt teams do not second guess
family members' identifications
at accident scenes.
No.
Liz died yesterday. This isn't liz.
I know megan.
I know her hair.
I know her hands.
I know her smell. Oh.
What's your name?
Liz...
oh, god!
Your girlfriend never lied to you.
I did it all by myself, mommy.
You talking to me?
Go away.
I did it all by myself, mommy.
How'd you know it was me?
There's a scent given off
by wounded, feral cats.
You were wrong.
I got everything right.
Just treated the wrong...
they had a good relationship.
He couldn't even identify her.
And you were wrong about needing a team.
She almost died.
So i almost need a team.
You were content with your "people are idiots" theory.
But cameron would never have accepted that
this guy knew nothing about the love of his life.
And as soon as you claimed it was multiple conditions,
foreman would have done anything to prove you wrong.
And then chase would have done anything to prove you right.
Any one of them
would have solved this days ago.
Hire a team.
I don't care how you do it.
Just do it.
(house) sometimes, i am wrong.
T for observation.
For reading people in situations.
But sometimes, i am wrong.
This will be the longest job interview of your life.
I will test you in ways that you will often
consider unfair, demeaning, and illegal.
And you will often be right.
Look to your left.
Now look to your right.
By the end of six weeks,
one of you will be gone.
xxx
Wear a cup.