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00:30Ain't the slightest spark out
00:32upon my clackin' jaws.
00:36Who's there? Who is it?
00:38Stoppin' for a visit?
00:40Is that you, Santa Claus?
00:42Merry Christmas.
00:44Had a happy go to hell.
00:47What's he doing here?
00:48Is he with you?
00:51Detective Tritter and I...
00:53We worked out a deal.
00:56Already got a lawyer. Get out of my office.
01:00I told him I didn't write those prescriptions.
01:04I spoke with the DA.
01:07He agreed to two months in a rehab facility
01:09in exchange for a guilty plea.
01:13Get out of my office.
01:15No jail time?
01:16Right. Unless you get locked up in some place I don't belong,
01:18in order to avoid getting locked up in some other place I don't belong.
01:21I got you on forgery and fraud, enough drugs...
01:24No sanctions to the medical board.
01:25Mm-hmm. You can get your car back and your bank accounts,
01:28and your precious tumor-ridden patients.
01:30I did this to help you.
01:31Next Christmas, buy me a sweater.
01:33You punched out an employee.
01:35You nearly cut a little girl in half because you were too strung out...
01:37I was in pain!
01:44You need to believe that I've got a problem
01:45so that your betrayal has the illusion of nobility.
01:48But you're just selfish...
01:50Knock it off.
01:51Look, I don't care why Dr. Wilson is doing this.
01:55And right now, it makes no difference to you either.
01:58But you need to deal with the reality of your current situation.
02:01You want to stand on principle?
02:03You end up in a cell.
02:04And you end up never practicing medicine again.
02:09So you got two choices, your principles or your life.
02:21Get out of my office.
02:29The DA put a clock up a deal.
02:31You got three days to decide.
02:33Alright, let's go.
02:43Thanks for a great time.
02:44You're welcome.
02:45Let a Joey.
02:46We could leave him.
02:46I know.
03:03I'm excited.
03:15You're afraid of the pain.
03:19You're not?
03:21You can still have pain meds in rehab.
03:23Trimadol, gabapentin.
03:24Hose don't work.
03:25They will once you're weaned off the Vicodin.
03:27What? There's Jesus.
03:29Go tell the Romans.
03:30Fine. Run to Cuddy.
03:31You don't think she's going to support me on this?
03:39Well, the stitches are healing nicely.
03:41There's no sign of infection.
03:44Whoa.
03:47Sorry.
03:49Just need her for a tiny moment.
03:53Small favor.
03:55Pills.
03:56Who's the wit?
03:58Doctor.
03:59Don't worry.
03:59I'll be firing him soon.
04:02Wait in my office.
04:04Incision looks just big enough for a chest tube.
04:07Collapsed lung?
04:08Someone mistake you for a pinata?
04:10Delightful.
04:11Usually we just get the elf jokes this time of year.
04:14No on trauma.
04:17Negative PPD.
04:19What flavored dwarves are you guys?
04:21My daughter and I both have cartilage hair hypoplasia.
04:24Think you can make a pun out of that?
04:26Yes, but I don't want to be insensitive.
04:29She's got a bit of a short fuse, hasn't she?
04:32It's a bleb.
04:33Wait in my office.
04:34Bleb's not a diagnosis.
04:36It's an evasion.
04:36We'll schedule an MRI to make sure.
04:38But a certain number of these cases are idiopathic.
04:41Let me translate that into talking for you guys.
04:44It means Dr. Cuddy's got no idea why your daughter's lungs suddenly pop like a balloon.
04:48You think you do?
04:52Give me her a chart and my pills.
04:57Santa needs us.
05:02Did you get that looked at?
05:05I'm fine.
05:07Great.
05:07I just admitted a cartilage hair hypoplasia dwarf.
05:10Fifteen years old.
05:11What are you going to do?
05:13I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own.
05:16The usual.
05:17Wilson told us you were at it.
05:19Your choice of verb, I take it.
05:21It's appropriate.
05:22He betrayed you.
05:23And you should take the deal.
05:27Unexplained lung collapse and anemia.
05:29Cuddy thinks it's idiopathic.
05:31Cuddy and idiop being the relevant parts of that sentence.
05:34Well, I'd say TB, but Cuddy's already ruled it out.
05:36You'd be just as big an idiop as her.
05:38Don't you people know you're dwarfs?
05:40There are over 200 varieties of dwarfism, each with different medical complications.
05:44You can't expect us to be intimately familiar with all of them.
05:46The sick dwarfs sure expect you to.
05:48Cartilage hair hypoplasia.
05:50They have compromised immune systems.
05:52Gold star for Cameron.
05:54For extra credit, explain to the special needs section of the class why our patient's negative
05:58TB test is irrelevant.
05:59A PPD involves planting a fragment of TB under the skin to see if the immune system recognizes
06:03it.
06:03Because of a compromised immune system, our patient could have TB but not recognize it.
06:08The little people love you.
06:10Let's go see a dwarf about a gallium scan.
06:16Gallium is a radioactive isotope that travels through your veins, allowing us to see any
06:20bright spots that might indicate infection.
06:24I'm 4'1".
06:25That's 1.5 canes in metric.
06:28You don't look a day over 4 feet.
06:32I saw in the file that her dad was normal sized.
06:35It's average sized.
06:36Compared to you, I'm sure it was huge.
06:39So did he have a fetish or did he just fall in love with your long-legged soul?
06:43He grew up in the circus.
06:45Said I reminded him of home.
06:47Seems like you're the one with the fetish.
06:49I'm certainly curious about the logistics.
06:52Did you stand on a table?
06:53What house?
06:56Pretty much he lay flat and spin me.
06:59Mom.
07:01So, Abigail, you want to hop up on the table for me?
07:05That's going to be tough.
07:07Oh, I'm sorry.
07:09Um, let me give you a boost.
07:11Stop treating her like she's 5.
07:12Just bring over a stool and let her climb up herself.
07:15Mom, it's okay.
07:16I'm just trying to be helpful.
07:20She also hates Jews.
07:23I've dealt with worse.
07:24Being different, you get used to people's idiocy.
07:27Still beats the hell out of actually being an idiot.
07:32What?
07:35Care to go for a spin?
07:42What the hell were you thinking?
07:43You didn't think ratting out this hospital's best doctor
07:46merited checking with your boss first?
07:48I didn't rat him out.
07:50I got him a deal.
07:50Which he'll never take.
07:52He will if we...
07:53How long have you known house?
07:54Did you think he'd suddenly become reasonable?
07:56I made the deal.
07:57It's done.
07:57You can either keep yelling at me
07:58or you can help me avoid a complete disaster.
08:00It already is going to be a complete disaster.
08:03He's not going to take the deal.
08:04He's going to go to jail.
08:06Because he's a child.
08:07He's too stubborn.
08:08When a child misbehaves, what do you do?
08:10You take away something he loves.
08:12He can't take away his Vicodin.
08:14Not only will he be in pain, he'll start to detox.
08:17And we tell him the only way to get the pills back
08:19is to take the deal.
08:20He won't be able to function.
08:21That's the point.
08:22Are you going to explain that to his patient?
08:26What choice do we have?
08:34Gallium scan shows no bright spots of any kind.
08:36It means it's not TB or any other infection.
08:38There are no bright spots
08:39because the whole thing is too bright.
08:41Except for the liver.
08:43That tech overexposed the image a bit.
08:45But it's nothing.
08:46The liver looks fine.
08:47Could be lung cancer.
08:49The tumor causes structural damage.
08:51The lung caves in on itself.
08:52Also explains the anemia.
08:53Doesn't explain the liver problem, though.
08:55Her lung collapsed.
08:57There is no liver problem.
08:58You guys look at the liver on this thing.
08:59There's no liver problem.
09:01Seriously, look at the liver.
09:02There's nothing there.
09:03Why not?
09:04Because there's nothing wrong.
09:05Every organ in the scan
09:07is lit up like a 100-watt bulb.
09:09Except for her liver,
09:10which is hovering around 60 watts.
09:13Not one of them good 60 waters,
09:14but an energy-saving...
09:15You're saying her liver's shutting down
09:17because the lighting is off?
09:18You just don't want a cancer diagnosis
09:20because then you'd have to deal with Wilson.
09:21Lung cancer is a lame diagnosis.
09:24Winning Wilson is an added bonus.
09:26House, we need to talk.
09:28Not taking the deal.
09:29Glad we talked.
09:31Ultrasound her liver.
09:33Sit down.
09:35Stand up.
09:36Your turn.
09:37House, you're off the case.
09:39Your treatment privileges are suspended
09:41until you accept Tritter's deal.
09:43Well, I'm obviously not going to take the deal
09:44just so I can have the fun of treating a dwarf,
09:46so I assume there's more to this threat.
09:49I'm also cutting off your Vicodin.
09:51That could work.
09:52I'm taking over as attending.
09:54Get an MRI of her lungs.
09:55This is not lung cancer.
09:56We'll find out as soon as we MRI her lungs.
10:06You're going to come begging me to save this girl
10:08long before I come begging you for pills.
10:10I hope not.
10:13For everyone's sake.
10:21This is wrong.
10:23Cutting house off?
10:24Might not work, but it's not wrong.
10:26My windows look clean.
10:30Abigail, we need you to hold still, okay?
10:32Can I come out?
10:34Just hang in there two more minutes
10:35and we'll be done.
10:36Okay.
10:37Because it's effective doesn't make it right.
10:39Cuddy's bending the rules to get a patient
10:41to do the right thing.
10:43Who would work for a doctor like that?
10:45And the ends justify the means?
10:46The ends involve us keeping our jobs, sure.
10:49Lung brain can merge clean.
10:51No masses.
10:52It's not lung cancer.
10:55Abigail, you okay?
11:05Alice was right.
11:06Her liver's failing.
11:08Endoscopy confirmed the vomiting
11:09was caused by variceal bleeding.
11:11Blood work also confirms
11:13House's hypothesis.
11:14I get it.
11:14House was right.
11:15It's the liver.
11:16Let's move on.
11:17What causes liver disease
11:18and a collapsed lung?
11:21Schistosomiasis.
11:21Parasite could have...
11:22There's no eosinophilia.
11:23Cirrhosis could explain...
11:24Could be a hepatoma.
11:27She's 15.
11:28It's not liver cancer.
11:30It's not unheard of.
11:32Cirrhosis fits better.
11:33The question is what caused it.
11:34Could be hepatitis, but Chiari.
11:36Or drugs and alcohol.
11:38If anyone has a reason to dull the pain,
11:39it's a teenage dwarf.
11:41I'll do a liver biopsy to confirm.
11:42And I'll search the patient's time
11:43for drugs and alcohol.
11:47Cameron.
11:48Got a moment?
11:56What exactly is your problem with me?
12:00Hepatoma is a weak diagnosis.
12:02So this is all about the case.
12:04What else would it be about?
12:08I made this deal to help him.
12:11And helped yourself at the same time.
12:13This is not about my practice.
12:15This is not about my car.
12:16I gave both of them up to help House,
12:18and I would have gone on without them
12:19if he hadn't almost named that little girl
12:21and if he hadn't punched out Chase.
12:23Was it an easy choice?
12:24Of course not.
12:26But it's right.
12:27Then why wasn't it easy?
12:29Because he's my friend.
12:31It's obviously complicated.
12:33It's complicated?
12:34When you decided to talk to Tritter,
12:36your life got a million times better.
12:38How do you separate that out?
12:40How do you pretend your windfall
12:42isn't relevant to this decision?
12:47It was the right thing to do.
12:50You pretending your motives are pure
12:51is why I have a problem.
13:06Where's Cuddy?
13:07In this drawer.
13:09It's a rescue mission.
13:10I got it under control.
13:11You can leave.
13:14You were right about the liver failure.
13:16The patient had very still bleeding,
13:18which suggested cirrhosis, but...
13:19Off the clock.
13:20You predicted this.
13:22You obviously saw something.
13:23Obviously.
13:24Liver biopsy was negative for cirrhosis,
13:26but it shows sclerosing cholangitis.
13:29Even weirder,
13:30there's no increase in alkaline phosphatase.
13:32Hmm.
13:32Medical mystery.
13:34Sounds like the kind of thing I'd be good at.
13:39Breaking and entering.
13:40Sounds like the kind of thing you'd be good at.
13:42I take it that's where Cuddy's been keeping your pills.
13:46One theory, one drawer.
13:55I thought you'd be all for this torture house plan.
13:58It works, therefore it's good.
13:59On the other hand,
14:00I don't want to talk you out of this deal
14:01by pointing out your hypocrisy,
14:03so patient's life at stake,
14:04blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
14:06Forget about the specific nature
14:08of the liver dysfunction.
14:09It's irrelevant.
14:10Dwarf's problem is global.
14:11That's why the gallium scan was bright.
14:13It's going to spread throughout her entire body
14:15unless you stop it.
14:16If that was true,
14:17more than the lungs and liver would be affected.
14:19It will be.
14:20It'll spread through the biliary tree
14:22and hit her pancreas next.
14:24Stop retracing your steps.
14:25Get ahead of it.
14:26Forget the liver and focus on the pancreas,
14:28because after that,
14:29actually after that,
14:30it doesn't really matter what it hits,
14:31because pretty much all roads lead to a dead dwarf.
14:36I get why you don't want to go to rehab,
14:39but only an idiot goes to prison for being stubborn.
14:42Only an idiot stands between Ahab and his whale.
14:45Move.
14:56Sorry.
15:06Santa's got gifts.
15:09Olive oil wasn't in the kitchen.
15:10It was in the medicine cabinet.
15:12Home remedy for ear infections.
15:13Ear infections are fairly typical among C.H.A. dwarfs.
15:16Or it's a symptom.
15:17It certainly wouldn't indicate a pancreatic problem.
15:20Or a house is wrong and it's a symptom.
15:23Laxatives.
15:23I don't think they were used to maintain her girlish figure.
15:26Again, intestinal problems are common.
15:28Again, it might be a symptom.
15:30Glucose means just chronic joint pain.
15:33You ordered an alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency test.
15:36I did.
15:37You think the problem's in her pancreas?
15:39Well, I think it will be.
15:40I think we need to forget about the liver.
15:41We just forgot about the lungs.
15:43Now we need to forget about the liver.
15:44We need to stop retracing our steps and get ahead of this thing.
15:50House, you've tanned.
15:52You don't think I could have come up with this?
15:54Did you?
15:56You suspended House because it'd be dangerous having him in charge,
15:58but getting his opinion...
15:59I'm sure he gave you that opinion simply because he was worried about the patient.
16:03Just because House wants his pills doesn't mean his theory is wrong.
16:06No, the test results mean that.
16:08Your test was negative.
16:09And the biopsy indicated severe duct inflammation.
16:12Do an ERCP to check the liver for bile duct cancer.
16:15Just because it wasn't alpha-1 doesn't mean the pancreas isn't next.
16:18You needed an organ.
16:19He needed a fix.
16:20He'd have made up any story for a pill.
16:22You didn't give him anything, did you?
16:24No.
16:32Ow.
16:34There's no bruise or nothing, but that really hurts.
16:38Unfortunately, that pain and lack of bruising is typical of a zygomatic break.
16:42Well, that sounds bad.
16:44Bones are aligned properly.
16:46Which ER did you go to after the car accident?
16:48Princeton, Plainsboro.
16:50Here's my discharge slip.
16:52Okay.
16:53I'm going to get you some acetaminophen with codeine.
16:56Uh, yeah, I tried that.
16:58It makes me nauseous.
16:59Uh, there's a drug called gabapentin, which is good for certain kinds of pain.
17:04Great.
17:05I haven't slept in days.
17:07Gabapentin's not really going to help with the sleep.
17:09Oh.
17:10Is there something else you can give me?
17:15Uh, Vicodin's your best bet with sleep issues.
17:18Thanks so much.
17:19Unfortunately, our policy forbids prescribing opiates to new patients.
17:22Well, how could a clinic have a rule against relieving pain?
17:26Just with opiates.
17:27We find that it helps weed out drug seekers.
17:29You think I'm a drug seeker?
17:31I'm not saying that.
17:32Well, then give me the Vicodin.
17:33I can't.
17:34Because you think I'm a drug seeker.
17:35I just said I didn't.
17:36No.
17:37You said that the policy was to stop drug seeking.
17:40Then you said, I'm not a drug seeker.
17:42The policy doesn't apply.
17:43I'm sorry.
17:43That's the policy.
17:46Gabapentin works on nerve damage.
17:47You're prescribing it for a broken face.
17:49Might as well hand out band-aids for a severed carotid.
17:52You're a doctor.
17:52Not by this clinic's definition, since I'm neither a moron nor a mindless drone.
17:57Security.
17:58Forget it.
17:59I'll throw myself out.
18:06That tube is going all the way down to my liver?
18:09Don't worry.
18:10It'll be sedated.
18:11Sometimes doctors have to do things that make people uncomfortable to help them.
18:16But we always want to respect the patient's wishes and not shove things down their throats.
18:23Foreman.
18:26You haven't given her the sedative.
18:28No.
18:30Abigail?
18:31Abigail?
18:33She's unconscious.
18:34Check her airway.
18:38Airway's clear.
18:39Her breath smells fruity.
18:41I bet a ketoacidosis.
18:43Hang an insulin drip at 0.1 mg per kick per hour.
18:46Pancreas is failing.
18:47You ready to call a house yet?
18:57You were right.
18:58The patient's pancreas is failing.
19:01Told you you'd come begging me for help.
19:02Her insulin production is almost non-existent.
19:07Give me my pills or loosen arm.
19:09The girl is dying.
19:10Don't give me my pills.
19:11Take the deal and I will.
19:14You'd rather kill this girl than give me my pills.
19:18I would rather lose one patient now than the dozens we will lose while you're in prison.
19:26We'll have fun explaining that to her itsy-bitsy grieving mother.
19:34What if we sacrifice this girl and House still goes to jail?
19:37I'd feel bad.
19:38Can we get on with this?
19:39House correctly predicted the spread.
19:41Means we've got a global systemic illness affecting lungs, liver, and pancreas.
19:45So far.
19:46Ideas.
19:46Langerhans' cell histiocytosis attacks multiple organ systems.
19:50Histiocytosis usually starts in the brain, then moves to the internal organs.
19:53Abigail's brain is fine.
19:55Cystic fibrosis.
19:56Exocrine functions normal.
19:58Hodgkin's lymphoma.
19:59It's a systemic cancer which her dwarfism predisposes her to.
20:01Any ideas that aren't cancer?
20:03Cancer fits.
20:04Autoimmune fits better.
20:05We should treat her with prednisone for lupus.
20:06That'll spike her blood sugar and put her back in a coma.
20:08It's much safer just to run a double-stranded DNA test.
20:10Not if she dies before we get the results.
20:13One of you is probably right.
20:14Why don't we hold the sniping until we find out which?
20:17Wilson, do an LP for lymphoma.
20:19You guys run an antibody test for lupus.
20:27Because of your daughter's dwarfism,
20:29we've had to pick a higher entry point for the lumbar puncture,
20:32which increases the risk.
20:33So why not do the lupus test first?
20:35In the interest of time,
20:36we think it's best to proceed on both fronts.
20:39You have no idea what's wrong with my daughter.
20:41We have several theories.
20:43What does Dr. House think?
20:45He's... he had to go home sick.
20:47My daughter may be dying,
20:48and he's gone home with the sniffles?
20:50Well, he's not...
20:51He was the only one who seemed to have any idea
20:53what was wrong with her.
20:54He better be really damn sick.
20:57He is.
21:02Unless you've got Vicodin, go away.
21:05House, it's me.
21:07I, uh...
21:11Oh, God.
21:14I don't have...
21:15No pills.
21:17No eggnog.
21:21What happened to your arm?
21:24Cut myself.
21:30What's wrong about lymphoma?
21:32Kids not losing any weight.
21:34No night sweats.
21:36Cut he sent you?
21:37No.
21:38She doesn't trust me not to give you pills.
21:41Is she right?
21:43House, these cuts are straight in a row.
21:46You did this on purpose.
21:52Cutting releases endorphins.
21:54Endorphins relieve pain.
21:55You gonna get me some pills?
21:58No.
22:00Well, then you can leave.
22:02No constitutional symptoms means...
22:05As soon as the kid gets cured,
22:07Cuddy's got no pressure to fold.
22:08You really think she's gonna fold?
22:17Autoimmune, it's better than cancer.
22:20Lupus loves kidneys.
22:22Usually attacks them first.
22:24Kidneys are fine, right?
22:26Yeah.
22:27House.
22:29Take the deal.
22:30You can survive without Vicodin.
22:32After you were shot,
22:33you stayed clean for months.
22:36Yeah.
22:36I wonder if it had something to do
22:37with the absence of pain.
22:39Not me.
22:40I don't want to be able to pour alcohol in it
22:41so I can distract myself.
22:42Then you can rip off the bandage.
22:50Kid been sick lately.
22:52There's a history of ear infections.
22:57You see, Abigail's immune system
23:01is like a shy guy in a bar.
23:04Ear infections.
23:05You come in and you try to coax him to...
23:11What the hell are the metaphor?
23:12You get the point, right?
23:14Nerd gets drunk, trashes the bar.
23:16One of the autoimmunes triggered by a minor infection.
23:20Infectory in her age, elevated set rate, anemia.
23:23It's stills disease.
23:26You start around prednisone, methotrexate, cyclosporine.
23:31House.
23:33Stop this.
23:36Please.
24:01What did he say?
24:02Still's disease.
24:03It's chronic, but manageable.
24:05Pneosis, that's virtually unconfirmable.
24:07And with the treatment, that's more dangerous
24:08than what we were considering for lupus.
24:12How bad is he?
24:13Are you asking because you care,
24:15because you're wondering whether to trust his opinion?
24:18Both.
24:18He's detoxing, in agony.
24:22He started cutting himself.
24:25But he's still house.
24:30I'll order the treatment.
24:54Your plan isn't working.
24:56Two days down, one to go.
25:00Figured I'd show you how much it isn't working.
25:03Yeah.
25:04Clearly the drugs have no hold on you.
25:08We both know that my pride far surpasses my instinct for self-preservation.
25:13You want to redeem yourself?
25:14Give up now.
25:15And you'll go to jail.
25:18I've done nothing wrong.
25:20And you'll go to jail.
25:23Which makes this your last chance to do me a kindness
25:26before ruining my life forever.
25:31Nausea's bad this time.
25:36Can you write me a script for me to clopper mine
25:38so I can stop puking?
25:42Give me that in rehab.
25:45Then you should go to rehab.
25:47I have a patient.
26:06I'm so sorry.
26:07I know it's Gonzales, but he went without pain.
26:14House?
26:16Well, look on the bright side.
26:18At least you don't have to go by Mrs. Zabalewski anymore.
26:22It's got to be a relief.
26:24You know this man?
26:26I'm sorry.
26:27He's sick.
26:27You hear my diagnosis on the dwarf?
26:30Still his disease.
26:31Did you even consider those ear infections
26:33or he just wrote it off as a dwarf thing?
26:36Are you sure he's dead?
26:37But Dr. Wilson sometimes misses things.
26:39Trying to embarrass me in front of a grieving widow
26:41and cross his lines that he...
26:43Right.
26:44I'm pathetic.
26:46I'm strung out.
26:47I haven't slept puking every hour.
26:48And I still out-diagnosed you.
26:50But I'm supposed to let you decide what's best.
26:52Please.
26:54Please leave.
26:58Sorry.
27:00I'm done.
27:04House?
27:10You didn't come in here just to embarrass me.
27:12You could do that anytime.
27:16Stealing oxy from a dead man.
27:18Yeah.
27:19You don't have a problem.
27:34How's the girl?
27:35Much better.
27:38House was right.
27:39It happens.
27:42I thought we could handle this.
27:45Still's disease never crossed my mind.
27:47Don't beat yourself up.
27:48I didn't get it either.
28:02I feel like a mob informant.
28:06You want to go inside?
28:09You've got a cafeteria in there, right?
28:11I can't testify.
28:15Drug addicts hurt the people around them with their habit.
28:19House has hurt plenty of people.
28:21You included.
28:22He saves lives.
28:24People that no one else can save.
28:27And no matter how much of an ass he is, statistically, House is a positive force in the universe.
28:34The pills let him do that.
28:37Vicodin does not make House a genius.
28:40Whatever he does on the pills, he can do off.
28:44If he is just not willing to try, I won't testify against him.
28:52Then we'll subpoena you.
28:55Your previous statement will be read into evidence, and you will be charged with interfering with an investigation.
29:03And you will go to jail.
29:12Again, statistically, better me than him.
29:15Statistically, the two of you will be in jail.
29:45Statistically, the two of you will be in jail.
29:55Dr. Cameron, come quick.
29:57There's something wrong with Abby.
29:58It's going to be too, Zebira.
29:59Her cardiac alarm didn't go off.
30:00It's not her heart.
30:01She's bleeding.
30:06Picking up a script.
30:07There's Zebuluski.
30:14This is, uh, Dr. Wilson's patient.
30:17Yeah.
30:18Uh, Wilson's busy right now.
30:21What with Mr. Zebuluski dying in agony on account of his metastatic lung cancer.
30:26Not having the pills to relieve that agony because of some moron pharmacist.
30:32Sign the book.
31:00Bleeding wasn't a ruptured ear drum, ear infection, or bleeding disorder.
31:04Her heart rate's climbing, blood pressure's dropping.
31:06She's on the verge of a multi-system failure.
31:09The head CT was clean.
31:10It means it's not a neurological problem.
31:12Basically, we have nothing.
31:13The cancer is still on the table.
31:15Spinal fluid was negative for lymphoma.
31:17What other...
31:17Leukemia.
31:18We need to do a bone marrow biopsy.
31:19None of the blood tests suggest leukemia.
31:21Cancer doesn't explain the collapsed lung.
31:23Unless a small clot led to a pulmonary infarct.
31:26It's a long shot.
31:26Autoimmune is way more likely.
31:28Autoimmune diseases respond to steroids, which we've given her.
31:30And she got better for a while.
31:31We stopped the treatment too soon.
31:32Because she crashed.
31:33All we're doing is bouncing back and forth between cancer and autoimmune.
31:37We're going in circles.
31:46Give me half an hour.
31:57Can I have a french fry?
32:00It's your own.
32:01You took the last ones.
32:05What's wrong with you?
32:06I got spinal muscular atrophy.
32:10This is not contagious.
32:13Nice bear.
32:16It's a dog.
32:17House.
32:18It's not stills.
32:20Steroids helped until the patient started bleeding from the ears and mouth.
32:25It's a bear.
32:26His name is Bill.
32:28He's a dog.
32:29You win.
32:30You can have Vicodin.
32:33Words have set meanings for a reason.
32:35If you see an animal like Bill and you try to play fetch,
32:37Bill's going to eat you.
32:39Because Bill's a bear.
32:40Are you on something?
32:43You got your hands on pain meds.
32:46Bill Hasbro.
32:46Four legs and a collar.
32:49He's a dog.
32:50It's between cancer and autoimmune.
32:53See, that's what we call a faulty syllogism.
32:55Just because you call Bill a dog doesn't mean that he is...
33:00It's a dog.
33:07We got to x-ray our patient's leg.
33:13Her leg looks fine.
33:15Weird, huh?
33:16Why aren't you detoxing?
33:18Willpower.
33:20What?
33:20What?
33:21Normal is not normal if you're not normal.
33:24Did you just take a pill?
33:26No.
33:28So how does a dwarf have completely normal growth plates?
33:31It's impossible.
33:33We must be missing something.
33:34How many pills have you taken?
33:36Not nearly as many as I'm going to take.
33:38I've forgotten how delicious they were.
33:40I didn't give them to him.
33:42Can we forget my vices?
33:43Get back to my virtues.
33:44We were missing the fact that just because we called her a dwarf doesn't mean she is a dwarf.
33:49Everyone assumed she was because of her mother.
33:51There's no test for CHH dwarfism, so she lost an identity, but we gained a symptom.
33:57If she doesn't have skeletal dwarfism, then her short stature must be caused by growth hormone deficiency.
34:04And something's wrong with her pituitary gland, and based on her size, it's been wrong for a while.
34:08So what connects a long-term pituitary issue with problems in the lungs, liver, and pancreas?
34:14Oh, you guys and your bickering.
34:17Cancer versus autoimmune.
34:18Obviously you think it's something else.
34:20No, I think it's both.
34:23Langerhans cell histiocytosis, also known as, you've got your cancer in my autoimmune disease.
34:29The immune component responded to the Stills treatment and led to the short-term improvement.
34:33The cancer portion didn't.
34:35We dismissed this earlier because there were no neurological symptoms.
34:38Yeah, it's not your fault.
34:40The only neurological symptom was her height.
34:43Who could have noticed?
34:54This is your pituitary gland, and this is the granuloma that's been crushing it.
34:59No pituitary equals no growth hormone equals not that much.
35:05She's not a dwarf?
35:07Just hormonally challenged.
35:09What about my mom?
35:10Your mom's the real deal.
35:12She was just a tiny little poser.
35:15Her recent ear infections caused her body to release a cascade of the same cells that made the granuloma.
35:19It attacked your lungs, moved onto your liver, and hitched her right over to your pancreas.
35:24We can nuke them with a mild course of chemo, and then remove the granuloma.
35:28And then what?
35:29What will happen to her then?
35:32Let me see if I can make this clear.
35:35This pill represents a pill, and my mouth represents your daughter's mouth.
35:44We deposit the pill in the mouth.
35:52You may never be tall enough to play in the WNBA.
35:54You should be able to post up your mom, no problem.
35:58What if I don't take the pills?
36:01What if you remove the thing in my head and give me the chemo, but not the pills?
36:06Would I still get better?
36:07Your body needs growth hormone for lots of things, like to grow.
36:13I like who I am now.
36:15Nobody at your age likes who they are now.
36:17I do.
36:21You like needing help when you want something off a high shelf?
36:24Not being able to press an elevator button above the eighth floor?
36:26Having to smell ass every time you stand in line?
36:29You don't need growth hormone.
36:31It's just your ticket out of the freak show.
36:48Can't you deliver a diagnosis without making her feel that her life isn't worth living?
36:52I'm trying to help her.
36:53You're trying to make her taller.
36:56Not too tall.
36:58Just tall enough to wipe her own butt.
37:04Are you high?
37:05Higher than you.
37:07If my daughter doesn't want to choose the easy path, I won't force her to.
37:11Then you're a lousy mom.
37:13You want your daughter to be a freak.
37:15We're not freaks.
37:17You want her to overcome adversity?
37:19Yes.
37:20Then why stop at height?
37:22Poke a stick in her eye.
37:23Imagine how interesting she'll be then.
37:25Being little is not the same.
37:27You and I have found out that being normal sucks.
37:30You just wear freaks.
37:32The energy of being a freak is it makes you stronger.
37:36How strong do you really want her to have to be?
37:41You told her what you had to tell her.
37:44Now you tell her you lied.
37:48Even if you didn't.
37:57This is who you were supposed to be.
38:00You hate normal.
38:03It's not that simple.
38:05If I grow, I'll fade into the background.
38:08I'll be boring.
38:13We'll get you a funny hat.
38:20You could never be boring.
38:23You want me to be like everybody else?
38:30I want you to have what I can.
38:51Abigail agreed.
38:53Abigail agreed to take growth hormone.
38:56Who's Abigail?
38:58Your non-dwarf dwarf patient.
39:01Oh, good.
39:03Then the growth hormone makes sense.
39:07Christmas Eve.
39:08Yeah, I know.
39:10The deal expires tomorrow.
39:12Do you have plans for tonight?
39:15You're worried I'm going to be popping more pills?
39:18I thought you might prefer people over pills.
39:47Do you know.
39:50He's not such a good night.
39:51Hey, Mom, I guess you guys are already up at Aunt Sarah's.
39:58I'm sure Dad's in the eggnog.
40:00You're probably suffering through another dried-out turkey.
40:11I just wanted to say Merry Christmas.
40:25Bill!
40:41Alf?
40:43Are you okay? I called three times.
40:58I don't know.
41:48I don't know.
42:00I'm ready to take the deal.
42:04Well, that's off the table.
42:08The clock doesn't expire.
42:10It's got new evidence.
42:11We don't need Wilson anymore.
42:14The thing about addicts is, uh, no matter how smart they are, they are dumb when it comes
42:23to drugs.
42:24So, uh, I've been keeping an eye on the pharmacy log.
42:27It seems some patient of Wilson's named Zabaluski managed to pick up his oxyprescription after
42:36he died.
42:44Jesus walks, huh?
42:49So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
42:55Merry Christmas.
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