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00:11Am I going to have to give a speech?
00:13You're the publisher, can't you do it?
00:15I can warm them up, but you are going to have to get over the spirit public speaking before the
00:20book tour.
00:23Everybody, can I have your attention?
00:26Tim has a few words to say.
00:28There you go, Tim.
00:29They're warmed up.
00:34Well, what do you say at a time like this?
00:38Seriously, what do you say?
00:40You could thank people for coming.
00:42Thank you, Nick.
00:44Actually, I'm always thanking Nick.
00:47A man famous not only for his ruthless editor's pen, but his patient hand-holding of crazy authors.
00:53You'd think that after three novels, I'd start to develop a little confidence, but...
00:58For a book like this, we are happy to supply the confidence.
01:01Bestseller.
01:04Well, that's not going to happen.
01:06What?
01:07Come on.
01:07Short stories don't make money.
01:09Short stories weren't making money back in 1908.
01:11You'd have to be mathematically illiterate to think they'd do as well as a novel.
01:14Okay, Nick.
01:15Let's step away from the champagne before somebody gets hurt.
01:19You slaved over this book right next to me.
01:22Why would Northrop even publish it if it's only going to tank?
01:25Have you failed to notice you're our star author?
01:28Obviously, Elaine wouldn't want to offend you.
01:30Uh, honey.
01:36I'm sorry.
01:37I don't know why I said that.
01:40He's joking.
01:41Nick knows as well as anyone what you have done is art.
01:43So is folding paper into animal shapes, but you don't expect to make a living off it.
01:47What the hell is wrong with you?
01:48You really think someone who goes through ten assistants a year and doesn't return her own children's phone calls
01:53would give a damn about the state of the American short story?
01:55Please, be quiet.
02:02I think something's wrong.
02:04That title was a mistake, too.
02:07People are going to compare you to Salinger.
02:09And, boy, are you going to come up short in that one.
02:17Honey?
02:19Call 911.
02:20Help.
02:21We need help.
02:27We need help.
02:40We need help.
02:41We need help.
02:43We need help.
02:45We need help.
02:46We need help.
02:47We need help.
02:48We need help.
02:49We need help.
02:50We need help.
02:52We need help.
02:52We need help.
02:52We need help.
02:52We need help.
02:52We need help.
02:53We need help.
02:54We need help.
02:56Cameron brought this up from the ER.
02:59Doesn't look like a friendship bracelet?
03:01It's Phineas Gage,
03:03the most famous case study in medical history.
03:05Telling him this patient got a railroad spike
03:07drilled through his frontal lobes?
03:08No, no trauma, but he does have frontal lobe disinhibition,
03:11just like Gage.
03:13Gage was a different person after the spike.
03:15Argumentative, impulsive.
03:16Whereas our guy became a different person after Chardonnay.
03:19He was sober when they brought him in.
03:21There was also the nosebleed, the collapse.
03:23MRI show anything?
03:24Nothing.
03:25Good.
03:26What fun would that be?
03:27So the tumor's not in the cool neighborhood.
03:29It's a cool neighborhood adjacent.
03:31A well-placed tumor in the nasal cavity eroding into the brain
03:33could do the damage.
03:34Go stick a scope up Phineas's nose, see what you find.
03:44Daddy, I'm always gonna win
03:46if you keep telling me what your cards are.
03:47Then suppose I tell you while I tickle you.
03:51Mr. Greenwald, I'm Dr. Taub.
03:53This is Dr. Kuttner.
03:53We're here for another test.
03:55Sorry about that.
03:56You don't look sorry.
03:59Um, no offense.
04:00Although you do look kind of cheerful.
04:02A little creepy.
04:04Should I want a doctor who's excited about how sick I am?
04:06I'm not...
04:06We're gonna put this up your nose, scan for any problems.
04:09I can assure you that we are completely unexcited about that.
04:13Excuse me, sweetie.
04:14Hold on.
04:15She has an auditory processing disability.
04:18Marika Belika, you have to get off the bed.
04:22This might be slightly uncomfortable.
04:25Honey, do you mind if I step out?
04:26I'd have to make sure the final arrangements are in place for the breast cancer walk.
04:30Yeah, you do that.
04:31I'll pretend to be macho while a guy stuffs three feet of plastic up my nose.
04:35It's too bad it's not your nose.
04:38Lots more room to maneuver.
04:39I guess the walk can wait ten minutes.
04:43On a sensible world even longer.
04:45Just how does tying up traffic for six hours stop breast cancer?
04:48You know how it works.
04:49People donate.
04:50Why not spend six hours building houses for Habitat for Humanity?
04:53Or is it wrong to help two groups of people at once?
04:56I'll bet there are those who have breast cancer and no home.
04:59It's my job, Nick.
05:01I mean, you walked yourself last year.
05:02To be supportive.
05:03Because I knew you wouldn't have sex with me if I didn't.
05:08I'm gonna make my call.
05:12Make this go away.
05:15God, that honker really is huge, isn't it?
05:21Wednesday night.
05:23Lowdown, Blue Meanie versus the incinerator.
05:25I can't.
05:27Let me rephrase.
05:29Lowdown, Blue Meanie.
05:30I understand monster truck code.
05:32Do you understand can't?
05:33Not when it follows Lowdown, Blue Meanie.
05:37Is the world coming to an end Tuesday night?
05:39Otherwise, Wednesday.
05:40All right.
05:41It's not can't.
05:42It's don't want to.
05:45The fact is, I just don't like monster trucks.
05:49Yes, you do.
05:51No, I don't.
05:52You've always liked monster trucks.
05:54No, you've always liked them.
05:55I've tolerated them.
05:57Seriously.
05:58I can only watch so many hyped-up dune buggies crush so many motorhomes without feeling the urge to go
06:03see La Boheme.
06:04And I hate opera, too.
06:07What are you hiding?
06:09I'm not hiding it.
06:10I'm saying it loud and proud.
06:12Death to monster trucks.
06:13No nasal cancer.
06:15And no marriage, either, if our patient keeps saying everything that comes into his head without regard for the consequences.
06:21You always led me to believe you were one of a kind.
06:23Luckily, jerkiness is a temporary condition for this guy.
06:26No, it's not.
06:27He may be able to fix his impulse to say his thoughts out loud.
06:30He's always going to be the guy who thinks them.
06:32But he's also going to be the guy who doesn't say them.
06:35If he spent his whole life constructing this nice guy persona, isn't that as much who he really is as
06:40anything else?
06:40You would argue that.
06:42You're all persona.
06:43I agree with Wilson.
06:44This guy's Harry Potter.
06:47The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin based on his nature.
06:50He refused, so he ended up in Gryffindor through choice.
06:54There's damage somewhere in his brain.
06:55Go find it.
06:58Are you sure you understand?
07:00No, I'm lying.
07:02Except I can't.
07:04You ask me questions.
07:06While I talk, you look at my brain activity to see where it's screwed up.
07:10Then you're going to cut the screwed up part out to test it.
07:12It's depressing, but it's not rocket science.
07:14I think he understands.
07:15I don't mean to be abrasive.
07:17Especially since you're such a pleasure to imagine naked.
07:20Again, sorry.
07:21It's okay.
07:22Thank you for understanding.
07:24I do you, though.
07:27Really, my apologies.
07:28This stuff just comes...
07:29It's okay.
07:29How's Paige?
07:30Whoa.
07:31I would do her in a minute with fudge and a cherry on top.
07:36Would someone please explain to this woman?
07:38There's only so many apologies.
07:39He has frontal lobe disinhibition.
07:41I've already embarrassed myself with one doctor,
07:43whom I am at this moment imagining with you in a king-size bed,
07:47with a mirror on the ceiling.
07:49I am so, so sorry.
07:52But if I couldn't have both of you together,
07:54you would definitely be my first choice.
07:56Where's house?
07:57It's like trying not to think of an elephant.
07:59Not that you're an elephant.
08:00Your breasts, in fact, are all homo sapiens.
08:03House isn't here.
08:04Oh, he wouldn't have paged me
08:06if he couldn't watch and enjoy the...
08:14Your tush is like the pistons in a Ferrari.
08:27You're welcome.
08:29That was for my benefit.
08:30You're 40 years old.
08:3238.
08:32The administrator of a hospital.
08:34Dean of medicine.
08:35People don't get personal with you.
08:37Except for me.
08:37You dismiss me as a jerk who's jerking you around.
08:40But that guy can only tell the truth.
08:41He prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie.
08:44So that was your way of saying,
08:47I look good today.
08:49You don't get the slightest kick out of that?
08:53Don't be a ridiculous house.
08:59I hope you know your pistons are second to none.
09:03I'm okay.
09:04I'm not jealous of Cuddy's pistons.
09:06Starting baseline activation.
09:08Are you sure?
09:09You look upset.
09:10What he was saying was obnoxious.
09:12Never been called attractive.
09:14He didn't call me attractive.
09:15He cast me in his mental porno.
09:17That's what attractive means.
09:18It means I'm attracted to you sexually.
09:20Attracted can also mean I'm attracted to the whole package,
09:23to who you are.
09:25Slight elevation at transaxial 60.
09:27It could.
09:28Never does is what women choose to hear
09:30and not what men say.
09:31Actually, it's exactly what men say,
09:32if they have any brains.
09:34All right, we have enough for baseline.
09:35What can we ask him that's indiscreet,
09:36but that he won't hate us for knowing?
09:40Nick, do you vote the same way as your wife?
09:42God, no.
09:44Good.
09:44He's spiking at 30.
09:45She believes I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary
09:47and Obama in the general.
09:49You're thinking I'm secretly Republican, right?
09:51Wrong.
09:52I secretly don't vote.
09:54Ever.
09:56Wait, you're 46 and you've never voted?
09:59Your voice is no longer attractive to me
10:01with that note of disapproval.
10:02Although I'm sure that'll pass.
10:04Look at that.
10:05It's just a spot on the cingulate gyrus.
10:07It's not lining up.
10:08One vote makes a difference.
10:10Not mathematically true.
10:11Okay, Nick, we've got what we need.
10:12We can't biopsy that.
10:13It's too close to the brainstem.
10:15Could be neurosarcoidosis.
10:16At least it's treatable.
10:17So we give him steroids,
10:18and if we're right,
10:19we should start seeing his symptoms improve
10:20within half a day.
10:25What are you looking at?
10:27I find your strong attachment
10:29to a working democracy
10:30to be extremely sexy.
10:32You smooth talker.
10:36Do you think my nose is too big?
10:38Relax.
10:39He also implied my bedside manner
10:40was a little off.
10:41You don't agree with that, right?
10:43No.
10:45No one's ever mentioned your nose before?
10:48You're a plastic surgeon.
10:50They tell me it suits my face.
10:51It does.
10:52Maybe, maybe that's just
10:53the social contract.
10:54You tell me I look great,
10:56I tell you you're a people person.
10:58How can you know the truth?
10:59You could ask for the truth.
11:01What do you think of my nose?
11:03Please, tell me the truth.
11:04It's fine.
11:04It's a nose.
11:06Just proving a point.
11:15Anyone sitting here?
11:17Just my persona.
11:20You know, it's amazing
11:22the way people cling on to insults
11:24or what they think are insults.
11:27So that wasn't an insult?
11:29I'm not suggesting that,
11:30like our patient,
11:32you're hiding a dark, sarcastic core
11:34beneath a candy shell
11:36of compulsive niceness.
11:37I'm not always nice.
11:38I'm not nice to you.
11:39Because you know nice bores me.
11:41Hence, still nice.
11:43You know, I'm suggesting
11:44that you have no core.
11:47You're what, whoever you're with
11:48needs you to be.
11:50Okay, I guess that could be insulting.
11:52The interesting question is why.
11:55Why do you think the world
11:56will end in chaos and destruction
11:57if you're not there to save it?
11:59Because when my parents
12:00put me in the rocket
12:01and sent me here,
12:02they said,
12:03James, you will grow to manhood
12:04under a yellow sun.
12:05And why'd you lie
12:06about monster trucks?
12:08I didn't.
12:09I checked your appointment book.
12:11You got tomorrow night marked off,
12:12but you didn't put down
12:13what you were doing.
12:14So you thought someone
12:15might look at the book.
12:16I'm playing racquetball
12:17tomorrow night with Taub.
12:20Why would you hide that?
12:21Because the world revolves around you.
12:23I devote time to anyone else.
12:25You'd end up stalking me
12:26and harassing them.
12:27You say that as though
12:28it wouldn't be fun.
12:29And maybe I didn't want
12:31to rub your nose in the fact
12:32that we'd be doing something
12:33you can no longer do
12:35because I'm nice.
12:42I thought you said
12:43the steroids were going to help him.
12:46But is it his heart?
12:48Lincoln G says his heart's fine.
12:50It's got to be the kidneys.
12:52We need to get him on dialysis.
13:00He's on dialysis and he's stable.
13:01We know it's not systemic.
13:03Scorosis.
13:04Hey.
13:05Serenade Berkowitz.
13:08Let go.
13:10Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
13:12could explain brain
13:13and kidney problems.
13:14The CBC showed
13:15normal white blood cells.
13:17So how long have you been
13:19playing racquetball with Wilson?
13:20Four or five times.
13:22Could be diabetes.
13:24Or a congenital metabolic disorder.
13:26Congenital disorders generally
13:27don't wait until you're 46
13:28to manifest.
13:29So he's a late bloomer.
13:31His daughter has a
13:32neurological condition.
13:33First of all,
13:34Wilson played tennis
13:35on his college team
13:36and you
13:38are a Jew.
13:40You're not athletic.
13:41Run to the end of the hall
13:42and back.
13:43I'll time you.
13:43Sandy Koufax is Jewish.
13:45Greatest left-handed pitcher
13:46of all time.
13:46Sandy Koufax.
13:47I saw you Jews go on
13:49about Sandy Koufax
13:51and the Holocaust gets old.
13:53There are dozens
13:54of congenital conditions
13:55that fit our parameters.
13:57We can't spend time
13:58gene testing for all of them,
13:59especially when we're only
14:00guessing it's congenital.
14:01Is a Z-shot
14:02offensive or defensive?
14:04It's both.
14:05You suspected
14:06that was a trick question,
14:07but I could have said neither.
14:09Diabetes makes more sense.
14:11We can narrow the testing
14:12down to 40 likely candidates.
14:14Test for peripheral nerve damage.
14:15He's got brain damage.
14:17He's likely to have
14:17peripheral nerve damage
14:18no matter what the cost.
14:19Yes.
14:20That's why we should not
14:20test him for it.
14:21Test the daughter.
14:24Kuttner runs the nerve test.
14:25Taub, you may be right
14:26about the diabetes.
14:27Take supper away from our patient
14:28and run a glucose tolerance test.
14:31Oh, and the nurse
14:32has been working so hard,
14:34you can do the blood draws yourself.
14:35They have to be done
14:36every couple hours.
14:38You're punishing me
14:39because you're jealous
14:40that I'm spending time
14:41with your best friend.
14:42That would be petty.
14:43I'm punishing you
14:44because now you've joined
14:45my best friend in life.
14:45Don't be lying to me.
14:47Let me know
14:47when you're ready
14:48to confess everything.
14:58These can become
14:59either hot or cold.
15:01As soon as it starts
15:02to feel uncomfortable,
15:03I want you to tell me.
15:04But you don't think
15:05there's something wrong with me?
15:06No, baby.
15:07They're testing you
15:07to help Daddy.
15:08Yes, what you're doing
15:09is very important.
15:10It's like the better you do,
15:13the better we know your dad is.
15:20I'll start with heat.
15:27I know it's not his fault.
15:29I know what he says
15:30is involuntary,
15:32but it doesn't help.
15:36Inside, he's still the same man.
15:38Yeah, that's the problem.
15:40Apparently, he's been thinking
15:41this stuff all along.
15:42Whoever that same man is,
15:44it's not the person
15:44I thought I was married to.
15:47You okay?
15:52She should be feeling
15:53something by now.
15:54What does that mean?
15:55Is she sick too?
15:57Marika?
16:02You're burned.
16:02Why didn't you tell me
16:03it started to hurt?
16:04Why didn't I help Daddy?
16:05She said, the better I do,
16:06the better Daddy has to be.
16:08Sorry.
16:12I'm starving.
16:13It's the only way
16:13we can do the test.
16:15Good thing it's you
16:16and not Dr. Hadley.
16:18Could you keep her away from me?
16:20I have a rich, imaginative life.
16:23I'd rather not share it.
16:24We all have thoughts.
16:26I know we all have sexual thoughts.
16:28We have ignoble thoughts.
16:30I just don't want those
16:32to be who I am to people,
16:33especially not to my wife.
16:34I understand.
16:35I don't think it would be fair
16:36to define me by my passing thoughts.
16:37My real choices are my actions,
16:39and I've never done anything
16:40to hurt her.
16:41I've never cheated.
16:44You're kidding me.
16:45You've cheated?
16:46What?
16:47No.
16:49Why would you say that?
16:50Because you look guilty as hell.
16:53Are you serious?
16:55Of course you're serious.
16:56Yes, everyone knows.
16:58God, they must think you're a creep.
17:01They might not know.
17:02They might be idiots.
17:04I just say these things...
17:16Why'd you page me here?
17:18I need you to update me
17:19on the patient's condition.
17:22He seems to be dead.
17:23Why'd you page me here?
17:25I need you to update me
17:26on the patient's condition
17:28while hitting this
17:30against the wall.
17:32This is the only place
17:33we can do both.
17:34I've finished the last blood draw.
17:36I expect the people
17:37who work for me
17:38to rise to a challenge.
17:40Unless they don't expect
17:42to work for me.
18:00last blood draw.
18:02It was at 6 a.m.
18:04The sugar levels never rose
18:05above 120 all night.
18:11So the glucose was normal.
18:13Means you were wrong
18:14about diabetes.
18:16I still think
18:17it's the endocrine system.
18:18Maybe I just got
18:18the wrong gland.
18:20I think you're going
18:21for a thyroid
18:23instead of pancreas.
18:24Make sense?
18:31Fawn,
18:32I'm not playing
18:33racquetball with Wilson.
18:34I was never playing
18:35racquetball with Wilson.
18:36I have never played
18:37racquetball with Wilson.
18:40I thought it would be helpful
18:41if a department
18:42had owed me a favor.
18:43But it's not worth this.
18:47Not bad.
18:48You put on a good show.
18:50We studied up.
18:52Wilson actually booked a court.
18:53If you were really
18:54a racquetball player,
18:55you'd know that you're
18:56holding a squash racquet.
19:00It's a little cutter
19:00to do a thyroid
19:01reuptake scan.
19:03You can go grab a nap
19:04at one of the on-call rooms.
19:06We're taking you
19:07to do a thyroid
19:08reuptake scan.
19:09We think you're
19:10I'm not going anywhere
19:11until you explain
19:12why my daughter
19:12has a bandage on her hand.
19:14You just said
19:14you wanted to run some test.
19:16I'd known it would
19:16involve pain.
19:17I'd have said hell no.
19:19It's a mild burn.
19:20Since Marika
19:21has a neurological disability
19:22like you,
19:23we needed to make sure
19:23She has no disability.
19:25Nick, you know
19:26about her problem
19:26with auditory processing.
19:28Auditory processing?
19:29That's code
19:30for I can't stand
19:31thinking my daughter's
19:32not perfect.
19:33The therapist said
19:34Marika's test scores
19:35were indeterminate.
19:36She doesn't have a disability.
19:38She daydreams.
19:40She gets below average
19:41marks in school
19:42because she's below average.
19:45Every parent thinks
19:46their child's above average.
19:48Nick?
19:48Do they have any idea
19:49what the word average means?
19:50Somebody has to be under it.
19:52Nick, shut up!
19:56Oh.
19:59Honey?
20:02I'm not saying
20:03you're stupid.
20:05Your mother's
20:06not the sharpest
20:07crayon in the box
20:07and she does great.
20:10See, this is
20:11this is why
20:13I told your mother
20:13to keep you at home.
20:15I didn't want you here.
20:18Marika.
20:21Marika, wait!
20:23Get her...
20:24You're burning up.
20:28Your lungs are full of fluid.
20:29We need to get it out.
20:30I need 200 milligrams
20:31of prosamide
20:32and 2 milligrams
20:32of morphine stat.
20:36His temperature is 103.
20:38Infection.
20:39The steroids
20:39must have forced it
20:40into the open.
20:40What kind of infection?
20:41It could be anything.
20:42Staph aureus,
20:43tuberculosis,
20:43strongyloides.
20:44Go back to Phineas.
20:45Get a history.
20:46We got a history.
20:47He hasn't been out
20:47of the country.
20:48Get a detailed history.
20:49No one at home is sick.
20:50No one at work is sick.
20:51There's no sign
20:52of ticks or mosquitoes.
20:53Get a more detailed history.
20:54Ask him again
20:55and again
20:56until he remembers something.
20:57Not you.
20:58Kutner can do it.
21:00You're going to be busy
21:01with something else.
21:09I'm here to invite you
21:10to lunch.
21:11Uh, why?
21:17I've been made.
21:19How's something back
21:19to you as a double agent?
21:27Anything wrong?
21:28Eyes are a little red.
21:30There's a shocker.
21:31I haven't had a good night's sleep
21:32since this thing started.
21:34You should get some rest yourself.
21:36That's a good idea.
21:38This is going to take some time.
21:40It'll be pretty exhausting.
21:41Are you afraid
21:42of what you might say
21:43while I'm here?
21:44Yes.
21:45Are you telling me
21:46there's something worse
21:47than what I've already heard?
21:48No, I don't know
21:50what I'm going to say.
21:51I don't know
21:52how I'm going to hurt you next.
21:54I think we should be around each other
21:55as little as possible right now.
22:01This is pathetic.
22:03I know.
22:06Tell Marika I love her very much.
22:10She understands that.
22:12I don't think she does.
22:15You're just saying that
22:16to make me feel better.
22:19Yeah.
22:34Guy leads a boring life.
22:36They stay home a lot.
22:38No travel,
22:39no exotic pets,
22:40no nearby standing water.
22:41You sound pleased about something.
22:43Can we get to that part?
22:44His wife rescues dogs,
22:46among others,
22:47a big Rottweiler
22:48who's taken over the house.
22:49Our patient hates it.
22:50The wife there to hear this?
22:51No.
22:52Too bad.
22:53Keep going.
22:53The dog marks his territory
22:55all over the living room.
22:56I asked what the odds were
22:57that he would have put down
22:58food or drink
22:59where the dog could reach.
23:00He said he put a glass of juice
23:01on the floor
23:02while he was fixing the television.
23:03Dog was fixing the television?
23:05Yes.
23:06Patient's eyes red?
23:07Yeah.
23:07I'm thinking Wiles.
23:10Bacterial.
23:11You lucked out.
23:12Start him on doxycycline.
23:14If he improves,
23:15he'll know we were right.
23:19I told Wilson
23:20you sent me to get information.
23:22Now you're telling me.
23:23What does that make you?
23:24Quadruple agent?
23:26He let me print out his emails.
23:29Wow.
23:29Excellent.
23:30Information he wants us to have.
23:32He let you print out
23:33his deleted emails.
23:34No.
23:34I go back there.
23:35As long as I was sitting there,
23:37I thought I'd print them anyway.
23:38Top one's the one
23:39you're looking for.
23:40Trying to confirm Wednesday
23:42at 7 p.m.
23:44It's outgoing to
23:46jgonzalez at nymercy.net.
23:48There's a Joan Gonzales
23:50in oncology.
23:51It's a consult.
23:52Secret consult
23:54at 7 p.m.?
23:56Oh.
23:57Joan is perky.
23:58You're wrong.
23:59There was a patient file attached.
24:01Where?
24:02It was password protected.
24:04No.
24:05Wilson doesn't password protect
24:07his patient files.
24:09I'm the only one
24:10he'd expect ever to look there
24:11and he knows
24:11there's only one patient
24:12I'd want to check on.
24:14You think Wilson's sick?
24:18Wilson had cancer.
24:19There'd be no reason
24:20for him to drive
24:21three hours to Manhattan.
24:22He knows he could pull strings here
24:23and get the best treatment.
24:24Six articles by Gonzales.
24:26Managing suicidal thoughts
24:28in oncology patients.
24:31Suicidal ideation
24:31in children with leukemia.
24:33I don't want to ask this,
24:34but have you ever had reason
24:36to think he might be depressed?
24:38No.
24:39Get out of here.
24:52Your fever's down
24:54and your lungs are clearing.
24:55How long before this
24:56brain thing goes away?
24:58The infection's gone.
24:59The damage the infection did,
25:01you'll have to live with.
25:04You're telling me
25:04you can't fix this?
25:06There's got to be a way.
25:07We'd need to remove
25:08the damaged area
25:09on your cingulate gyrus,
25:10but it's too close
25:11to the brainstem
25:11to risk surgery.
25:12You can't risk it.
25:15But I could shop around
25:16and maybe some better doctors
25:18at a better hospital.
25:19The brainstem controls
25:20the body's involuntary systems.
25:22The slightest mistake
25:23could kill you.
25:25Even if you survive,
25:26you may never be able
25:27to breathe on your own again.
25:28You may never...
25:28I get it.
25:30I know this seems like
25:31a lot to deal with right now,
25:32but people have adapted
25:34to living with all kinds
25:35of neurological deficits.
25:36Hey, at least we can promise
25:38you won't get any worse.
25:40Get the hell out of my room.
25:54Your assistant said
25:56that you were out of the hospital
25:57taking a walk.
25:59Is there an emergency?
26:00I don't know.
26:01Is there?
26:03You never take a walk
26:04unless you've got something
26:05you need to think about.
26:07Maybe you just don't have
26:08a good statistical sampling
26:09of my walks.
26:10The other thing you do
26:12when you need to think
26:13is you come to my office.
26:15Apparently this is something
26:16you can only discuss
26:17with Gonzales
26:18in New York Mercy.
26:25Taub, another graduate
26:26of the House School
26:27of Being a Dick.
26:28Private dick.
26:29Look, I'd love to stay
26:30for the full inquisition,
26:31but I need some hot coffee.
26:38Of course you need hot coffee.
26:40It's 45 degrees outside
26:41and you left your coat upstairs.
26:44Why?
26:45You're going to tell me
26:46why I forgot my coat?
26:48Once you get outside,
26:49the cold would have reminded you
26:51that it would have come back,
26:52but you didn't.
26:53You chose to be uncomfortable.
26:57Why would someone choose that?
27:01Because they hate themselves?
27:03Has it ever occurred to you
27:04that when I don't share something,
27:05it might not be meant
27:06as a challenge?
27:07It might just mean
27:08that I'd like there to be
27:09one molecule of my life
27:11that goes unexamined
27:12by Gregory House.
27:28Nick Greenwald,
27:29I hear you're the guy in charge.
27:33I'm the patient
27:33with the disinhibition.
27:35You're here to say thanks.
27:37You're welcome.
27:37Now go away.
27:38Oh, I'm not thankful.
27:39I'm pissed.
27:40Oh.
27:41Well, I'm all reason to go away.
27:42They're talking about
27:44sending me home
27:46to what?
27:47A life where I'll
27:48continually drive away
27:49anyone who might
27:50for a second care about me?
27:52Those are the breaks.
27:58You could operate.
28:02You could die.
28:05So I'm either better or dead?
28:07I'm okay with that.
28:14I've always been kind of a
28:16an impatient guy.
28:19But I've worked hard
28:20to keep my mouth shut.
28:22I've made my wife happy.
28:23I've made my little girl happy.
28:28I want that back.
28:30Otherwise, it's no life.
28:41I want you to remove
28:42a small problem.
28:48I'm not a neurosurgeon.
28:50Your boss is.
28:51You could assist.
28:52I'm sure you'd like
28:53to add to your resume.
28:55It's too near the brainstem.
28:56Nobody's going to touch it.
28:57Your boss would.
28:58He's an egomaniac.
29:00I know because I keep
29:01seeing him at the club.
29:02Just needs a little push.
29:04I'm sure by now
29:05you've kissed his ass
29:06sufficiently.
29:09Would you like me to
29:10freeze it as
29:11you're politically gifted?
29:13I can do that.
29:16You want me to help you?
29:20Tell me why.
29:23Why what?
29:24Why you care?
29:25The puzzle's solved.
29:27The guy's alive.
29:28And the odds of coming
29:28out of this surgery
29:29with that same status
29:30aren't that great.
29:31My patient has
29:33a quality of life issue.
29:34He says awful things.
29:36It's hardly
29:36a medical condition.
29:39When he leaves here
29:41he's going to lose
29:42his family.
29:42He's going to alienate
29:44the people he works with.
29:45And if he ever finds
29:46a friend who's willing
29:47to put up with this crap
29:48he'll be lucky.
29:52Until he drives them away too.
29:59I'll see what I can do.
30:27You've apparently got this whole
30:28coat thing backwards.
30:30I may have overreacted.
30:33You definitely overreacted.
30:36I knew you'd meet me halfway.
30:38It made me think.
30:39You only snap on one subject.
30:42Losing people.
30:44So I went back to the intel.
30:46It's true there's only one doctor
30:48named Gonzales in New York Mercy.
30:49But there's a Javier Gonzales
30:51who's a nurse in the psych ward.
30:54Now who could you lose
30:56who'd end up there?
30:57Maybe the reason I don't
30:58always open up to you
30:59is because it's redundant.
31:01Daniel Wilson.
31:04Once you get a name
31:05it's amazing how much stuff
31:06you can learn on the phone.
31:08I mean if you're a doctor
31:09and you lie freely.
31:12I found your brother
31:13sleeping in the lobby
31:14of an office building
31:15in Manhattan.
31:16Got aggressive
31:17when they asked him to leave
31:18and the cops took him
31:18to the Mercy psych ward.
31:20There have been new
31:21anti-psychotics developed
31:22since he ran away.
31:23He's been on them
31:24for a couple of days
31:25and by tonight
31:27he should be in shape
31:28to talk to me.
31:29But you're not sure
31:29if he wants to.
31:32I'll be in New York
31:33in a few hours.
31:34I guess I'll find out.
31:36Why wouldn't you tell me this?
31:38House, you and I
31:41we don't have
31:42the normal social contract.
31:44I don't expect you
31:45to tell me the lies
31:46that I am fully capable
31:48of lying to you.
31:49I've lied plenty of times.
31:50I mean collaborative lies.
31:53Giving someone a hand
31:54who maybe needs
31:55to deceive themselves
31:56just a little.
32:00For two days
32:00I've been thinking
32:01about how Danny's
32:02going to react
32:02when he sees me.
32:03If I said that
32:04to anybody else
32:05they'd say
32:05don't worry
32:07it'll all be alright.
32:09You wouldn't.
32:11Because it might all
32:12go horribly wrong.
32:16Yeah.
32:19Yeah.
32:20It might.
32:21In which case
32:23you might want
32:24some company.
32:31Your heart's beating.
32:33First hurt'll pass.
32:34Now we need to know
32:35if you can breathe
32:35for yourself.
32:41Oh thank God.
32:45Do you know
32:46who you are?
32:49Nick Greenwald.
32:51Former SOB.
32:56Now I can go back
32:57to my beautiful life
32:59with my beautiful wife.
33:01Maybe she'll stop whining
33:03and cut me some slack
33:04now that I've risked
33:05my life.
33:07Doesn't make sense.
33:08We removed the problem.
33:09If we removed the damage
33:10maybe we were wrong
33:11about the problem.
33:12I need to believe
33:13we can get through this.
33:14Temperature's 94.5.
33:15Do you really think
33:17I'm stupid?
33:18Honey you're not stupid.
33:20You're just
33:21please don't do this.
33:22Could be the effect
33:23of the surgery.
33:23Do you at least
33:24respect me?
33:25Nick what do you think
33:26of what I do
33:26for a living?
33:27I think people
33:28who publicize
33:29important things
33:30are people who
33:31can't do
33:31important things
33:32themselves.
33:34Honey stop.
33:35Don't.
33:36Do you regret
33:36marrying me?
33:3794.2.
33:38Sometimes.
33:39Everybody wonders.
33:40Give me a heating blanket.
33:41Do you even love me?
33:43Yes.
33:44I don't know why.
33:46What?
33:47Wait.
33:48Let me.
33:50V-Tech
33:51get me the paddles.
33:57Clear.
34:02Echo says
34:03his heart
34:03is structurally fine
34:04but his temperature
34:05is still dropping.
34:06He's headed
34:06for hypothermia.
34:07He can't reach
34:08house.
34:08It just goes to
34:09voicemail.
34:09It means we're
34:10wrong about infection.
34:11His temperature
34:11is just going
34:12up and down
34:12because something
34:13is playing
34:13with his thermostat.
34:14Which means
34:14the brain damage
34:15is spreading.
34:16It causes brain
34:16damage and nose
34:17bleeding involves
34:18the lungs,
34:18heart and kidneys.
34:19Cancer?
34:20We could text him.
34:21It's not cancer.
34:22Normal PSA,
34:23normal blood smear,
34:24colonoscopy,
34:24normal.
34:26Do a full body scan.
34:27House hates
34:28full body scans.
34:29House isn't here.
34:30House is right.
34:31Everybody's got
34:31three or four
34:32meaningless anomalies
34:33that'll come up
34:33on a scan.
34:34Chasing each one
34:34will take time
34:35we don't have.
34:36Feel free to
34:36send him in, I am.
35:23You told me you saw
35:25your brother once
35:25after he disappeared.
35:27Thirteen years ago.
35:29I used to go to
35:30Princeton whenever I could.
35:31I must have hit
35:32every homeless shelter
35:33in town.
35:34Then one day
35:35I'm just sitting
35:35at this deli
35:36having a sandwich.
35:37I look out the window
35:38and there he is.
35:40He was gone
35:41by the time
35:41I got outside.
35:43That's why you
35:43were so eager
35:44when I told you
35:45there was a job
35:45in Princeton.
35:46I thought it was
35:47just my charm.
35:50That's the team.
35:51Shouldn't you answer?
35:52They already texted me
35:53to say they're doing
35:53something stupid.
35:56It's a small
35:57abdominal aneurysm.
35:58Irrelevant.
35:59What else you got?
35:59The cyst and the pleura
36:00around the lungs.
36:01Also irrelevant.
36:02Couldn't cause
36:02any of his symptoms.
36:03So density in the liver
36:04could be vascular malformation.
36:06If he's got multiple AVM,
36:08screwed up blood flow
36:09would explain everything.
36:09You can only spot them
36:10with angiography.
36:11I'd like to do
36:12targeted scans
36:12with contrast
36:13and then embolize each one.
36:14Can we do that
36:15before he freezes?
36:15We'll find out.
36:18The spell correct
36:20on Kutner's phone
36:21has got a hair trigger.
36:23Either that
36:23or the patient
36:24has a cyclone
36:26in the floral
36:27of his lungs.
36:29You took a walk
36:31in 45 degree weather
36:32and you left
36:33your coat behind.
36:37Go ahead.
36:39I think you were
36:39punishing yourself.
36:41I think you wanted
36:42to feel what it would
36:43be like to be homeless
36:44in a New Jersey winter.
36:47That tells me guilt.
36:50That tells me
36:51something happened.
36:55The schizophrenia started
36:57when he was a teenager.
36:58When he was in college.
37:00He was on meds.
37:02But he'd still think
37:03a professor was out
37:03to get him
37:04because he got a B
37:05or he'd fight
37:06with his roommates
37:06because he never showered.
37:07Where were you?
37:08Med school.
37:11He called me
37:13every day,
37:15talked for hours.
37:16I didn't have hours.
37:18Interesting.
37:21Later for that.
37:22Go on.
37:23I was tired
37:24of being the guy
37:25that everybody counted on.
37:26So one night
37:26Danny called.
37:29One night Danny called
37:30crying,
37:31upset about something.
37:33I had to study
37:33for an exam.
37:34So I,
37:36I hung up.
37:38Took my things.
37:39I went to the library.
37:40I wouldn't have to hear
37:41the phone ring.
37:41I wonder how that
37:43turned out.
37:44My mother called me
37:45the next day.
37:46Danny had run away
37:47and left his meds behind.
37:48Which I knew
37:49meant
37:50that he would never
37:51be able to choose
37:52to come back
37:53because he'd be so
37:55detached
37:56from reality.
37:58So you made your
37:59one effort
37:59to live a normal,
38:01selfish life
38:02and the universe
38:03immediately smacked
38:04you down.
38:04And because we're
38:05wired to find meaning
38:06in semi-random events,
38:08you decided
38:08never to be
38:09that careless again.
38:11You don't think
38:12that's a little facile?
38:14Actually,
38:15I don't.
38:16Like you did it
38:17consciously.
38:18You developed
38:19your people-pleasing
38:21talents
38:22the way an Olympic
38:23athlete develops
38:24his muscles.
38:25Talk about an
38:26overreaction
38:27to a single event.
38:28It was a pretty
38:29big event.
38:30Hanging up the phone?
38:32That's what you're
38:33blaming all this on.
38:34That's the behavior
38:35you've been trying
38:35to correct.
38:37As though nothing
38:38else went wrong
38:38in your brother's life.
38:40Of course,
38:41he overreacted too,
38:43but...
38:45his glucose
38:46was normal.
38:48We're not talking
38:49about my brother
38:50anymore, are we?
38:56This house.
38:57AVMs.
38:58Don't explain
38:59his glucose.
39:00Since this is
39:00a significant moment
39:01in my life and all,
39:02I...
39:03Yeah.
39:04Maybe I'll just
39:05go in then.
39:06Explain that.
39:07Right.
39:09Given him steroids,
39:11his glucose
39:11should have been elevated.
39:12That wannabe cyst
39:14you found
39:15in the whole body scan
39:16without the glucose
39:17is an irrelevant cyst.
39:18With the glucose,
39:19it's a relevant fibroma.
39:21He has
39:21Doge Potter syndrome.
39:22His fibroma
39:24is secreting
39:24human growth hormone,
39:25which acts
39:26like insulin
39:27lowering his glucose.
39:28That doesn't explain
39:29the organ failure,
39:30the brain damage.
39:31This whole thing
39:32is an overreaction.
39:33That one small fibroma.
39:35It's benign.
39:37His body's acting
39:38like it's an invader.
39:39His antibodies
39:39went to war against it,
39:41got carried away,
39:42and attacked
39:42his other systems.
39:43Take out the fibroma,
39:45he'll be a happy
39:46hypocrite again
39:47again in no time.
39:55Maybe I should call a cab.
39:57Your wife's probably
39:58just late.
39:59Yeah.
40:03I'm, uh,
40:05sorry about,
40:07you know,
40:09things I said.
40:12I have a conspicuous nose.
40:16It suits your face.
40:24I'm sorry I'm late.
40:27Traffic.
40:35I have some good news.
40:37I was gonna tell you
40:38and then you got sick.
40:39Didn't seem like
40:39the best time.
40:41I've been offered
40:42a better position.
40:44I'd be coordinating
40:45cancer awareness walks
40:47in three cities.
40:48That's great.
40:50Congratulations.
40:51I know you've worked
40:52hard for this.
41:00Is Brick okay?
41:03I'm sure she's moved on.
41:05I'm sure she's moved on.
41:11The kids are so resilient.
41:32You okay?
41:35I'll be seeing Danny
41:36again next week.
41:38I'd like you to meet him.
41:40Sure.
41:41Sounds interesting.
41:44Go on.
41:46I thought seeing him again
41:47would change everything.
41:49It would be wonderful
41:49or terrible.
41:51Instead,
41:53we're just strangers.
41:55It's kind of
41:56anticlimactic.
41:58It's just better
41:59than terrible.
42:06Go on.
42:08Does it bother you?
42:10Do we have no
42:11social contract?
42:13My whole life
42:14is one big compromise.
42:15I tiptoe around
42:16everyone like
42:17they're made of China.
42:18I spend all my time
42:19analyzing.
42:19What will the effect
42:20be if I say this?
42:21Then there's you.
42:22You're a reality junkie.
42:24If I offered you
42:24a comforting lie,
42:26you'd smack me
42:26over the head with it.
42:28Let's not change that.
42:31Okay.
42:32No, see, this...
42:33pay you.
42:34If you were
42:35implementing
42:36the social contract,
42:37you'd say that,
42:39but only because
42:40it makes me feel better.
42:45It is kind of fun
42:46watching you
42:47torture yourself.
42:48Do you think
42:49things will work out
42:50with my brother?
42:51No.
42:54When it does go wrong,
42:55it won't be your fault.
42:58Thanks, House.
43:00You do actually
43:01like monster trucks.
43:03Absolutely.
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