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Am I gonna have to give a speech?

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You're the publisher. Can't you do it?

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I can warm them up.

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But you are gonna have to get over this fear of public speaking before the book tour.

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Everybody. Can I have your attention? Thank you.

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Tim has a few words to say.

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There you go, Tim. They're warmed up.

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Well, what do you say at a time like this?

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Seriously, what do you say?

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You could thank people for coming.

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Thank you, Nick.

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Actually, I’m always thanking Nick, a man famous not only for his ruthless editor's pen,

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but his patient hand-holding of crazy authors.

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You'd think that after three novels, I'd start to develop a little confidence, but...

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For a book like this, we are happy to supply the confidence.

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Best-seller.

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- Well, that's not gonna happen.
- What?

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Come on. Short stories don't make money.

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Short stories weren't making money back in 1908.

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You'd have to be mathematically illiterate to think they'd do as well as a novel.

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Okay, Nick, let's step away from the champagne before somebody gets hurt.

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You slaved over this book right next to me.

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Why would Northrop even publish it if it's only going to tank?

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Have you failed to notice you're our star author?

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Obviously, Elaine wouldn't want to offend you.

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Uh, honey.

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I-I'm sorry. I don't--I don't know why I said that.

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He's joking.

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Nick knows as well as anyone what you have done is art.

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So is folding paper into animal shapes, but you don't expect to make a living off it.

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What the hell is wrong with you?

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You really think someone who goes through ten assistants a year

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and doesn't return her own children's phone calls

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would give a damn about the state of the American short story?

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Please, be quiet.

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I think something's wrong.

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That title was a mistake too.

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People are gonna compare you to Salinger, and, boy, are you gonna come up short on that one.

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Honey!

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Call 911. Help! We need help!

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www.gwedynn.com

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Cameron brought this up from the ER.

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Doesn't look like a friendship bracelet.

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It's Phineas Gage.

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The most famous case study in medical history.

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You're telling me this patient got a railroad spike drilled through his frontal lobe?

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No. No trauma, but he does have frontal lobe disinhibition.

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Just like Gage.

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Gage was a different person after the spike. Argumentative. Impulsive.

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Whereas our guy became a different person after Chardonnay.

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He was sober when they brought him in.

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There's also the nosebleed, the collapse.

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- MRI show anything?
- Nothing.

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Good. What fun would that be?

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So the tumor's not in the cool neighborhood.

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It's cool neighborhood adjacent.

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A well-placed tumor in the nasal cavity eroding into the brain could do the damage.

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Go stick a scope up Phineas's nose. See what you find.

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Daddy, I'm always gonna win if you keep telling me what your cards are.

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Well, then suppose I tell you... while I tickle you.

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Mr. Greenwald, I'm Dr. Taub. This is Dr. Kutner.

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We're here for another test. Sorry about that.

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You don't look sorry.

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Um, no offense. Although you do look kind of cheerful.

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It's a little creepy. Should I want a doctor who's excited about how sick I am?

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- I'm not--
- We're going to put this up your nose, scan for any problems.

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I can assure you that we are completely unexcited about that.

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Excuse me, sweetie.

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She has an auditory processing disability.

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Marika-beleeka, you have to get off the bed.

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This might be slightly uncomfortable.

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Honey, do you mind if I step out?

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I have to make sure the final arrangements are in place for the breast cancer walk.

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Yeah, you do that.

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I'll pretend to be macho while a guy stuffs three feet of plastic up my nose.

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It's too bad it's not your nose.

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Lots more room to maneuver.

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I guess the walk can wait ten minutes.

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Or in a sensible world, even longer.

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Just how does tying up traffic for six hours stop breast cancer?

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You know how it works. People donate--

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Why not spend six hours building houses for habitat for humanity?

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Or is it wrong to help two groups of people at once?

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I bet there are those who have breast cancer and no home.

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It's my job, Nick. You walked yourself last year.

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To be supportive.

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And because I knew you wouldn't have sex with me if I didn’t.

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I'm gonna make my call.

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Make this go away.

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God, that honker really is huge, isn't it?

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Wednesday night.

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Low-down-blue-meanie versus the Incinerator.

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I can’t.

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Let me rephrase. Low-down-blue-meanie--

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I understand monster truck code.

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Do you understand "can't"?

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Not when it follows "low-down-blue-meanie."

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Is the world coming to an end Tuesday night? Otherwise, Wednesday--

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All right, it's not "can’t." It's "don't want to."

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The fact is I just don't like monster trucks.

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- Yes, you do.
- No, I don't.

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You've always liked monster trucks.

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No, you've always liked them. I've tolerated them.

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Seriously, I can only watch so many hyped-up dune buggies crush so many motor homes

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without feeling the urge to go see La Boheme.

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And I hate opera too.

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What are you hiding?

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I'm not hiding it. I'm saying it loud and proud.

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- Death to monster trucks.
- No nasal cancer.

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And no marriage either if our patient keeps saying everything that comes into his head

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without regard for the consequences.

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You always led me to believe you were one of a kind.

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Luckily jerkiness is a temporary condition for this guy.

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No, it's not.

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We may be able to fix his impulse to say his thoughts out loud, but he always gonna be the guy who thinks them.

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But he's also gonna be the guy who doesn't say them.

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If he spent his whole life constructing this nice guy persona,

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isn't that as much who he really is as anything else?

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You would argue that. You're all persona.

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I agree with Wilson. This guy's a Harry Potter.

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The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin based on his nature.

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He refused, so he ended up in Gryffindor.

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Through choice.

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There's damage somewhere in his brain. Go find it.

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Are you sure you understand?

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No, I'm lying. Except I can’t.

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You ask questions.

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While I talk, you look at my brain activity to see where it's screwed up.

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Then you're gonna cut the screwed up part out to test it.

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It's depressing, but it's not rocket science.

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I think he understands.

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I don't mean to be abrasive.

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Especially since you're such a pleasure to image naked.

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- Again, sorry.
- It's okay.

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Thank you for understanding.

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I'd do you, though.

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- Really, my apologies. This stuff just comes out.
- It's okay.

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House paged.

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Whoa, I would do her in a minute with fudge and a cherry on top.

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Would someone please explain to this woman? There's only so many apologies--

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He has frontal lobe disinhibition.

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I've already embarrassed myself with one doctor,

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whom I am at this moment imagining with you in a king-sized bed with a mirror on the ceiling.

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I am so, so sorry.

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But if I couldn't have both of you together, you definitely would be my first choice.

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Where's House?

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It's like trying not to think of an elephant.

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Not that you're an elephant. Your breasts, in fact, are all homo sapiens--

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House isn't here.

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Oh, he wouldn't have paged me if he couldn't watch and enjoy the--

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Your tush is like the pistons in a Ferrari.

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You're welcome.

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That was for my benefit?

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- You're 40 years old...
- 38.

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The administrator of a hospital...

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- Dean of medicine.
- People don't get personal with you.

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Except for me, and you dismiss me as a jerk who's jerking you around.

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But that guy can only tell the truth.

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And he prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie.

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So that was your way of saying I look good today.

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You didn't get the slightest kick out of that?

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Don't be ridiculous, House.

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I hope you know your pistons are second to none.

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I'm okay. I'm not jealous of Cuddy’s pistons.

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Starting baseline activation.

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You sure? You looked upset.

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What he was saying was obnoxious.

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You've never been called attractive?

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He didn't call me attractive. He cast me in his mental porno.

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That's what attractive means. It means "I'm attracted to you, sexually."

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Attracted can also mean "I'm attracted to the whole package. To who you are."

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Slight elevation at transaxial 60.

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It could. It never does. It's what women choose to hear, not what men say.

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Actually, it's exactly what men say if they have any brains.

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All right, we have enough for a baseline.

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What can we ask him that's indiscreet, but that he won't hate us for knowing?

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Nick, do you vote the same way as your wife?

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God, no.

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Good. He's spiking at 30.

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She believes I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary and Obama in the General.

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You're thinking I’m secretly a Republican, right?

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Wrong. I secretly don't vote. Ever.

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Wait, you're 46, and you've never voted?

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Your voice is no longer attractive to me with that note of disapproval.

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Although I'm sure that will pass.

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Look at that. There's a spot in the cingulate gyrus that's not lighting up.

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One vote makes a difference?

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- Not mathematical true.
- Okay, Nick. We've got what we need.

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We can't biopsy that. It's too close to the brainstem.

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Could be neurosarcoidosis. At least it's treatable.

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So we give him steroids, and if we're right, we should start seeing his symptoms improve within half a day.

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What are you looking at?

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I find your strong attachment to a working democracy to be extremely sexy.

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Ooh, you smooth talker.

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Do you think my nose is too big?

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Relax, he also implied my bedside manner was a little off. You don't agree with that, right?

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No.

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No one's ever mentioned your nose before? You're a plastic surgeon.

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- They tell me it suits my face.
- It does.

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Maybe. Maybe that's just the social contract.

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You tell me I look great. I tell you you're a people person.

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How can you know the truth?

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You could ask for the truth.

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What do you think of my nose? Please tell me the truth.

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It's fine. It's a nose.

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Just proving a point.

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Anyone sitting here?

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Just my persona.

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You know, it's amazing the way people cling on to insults.

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Or what they think are insults.

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So that wasn't an insult?

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I'm not suggesting that, like our patient, you're hiding a dark,

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sarcastic core beneath a candy shell of compulsive niceness.

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I'm not always nice. I'm not nice to you.

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Because you know nice bores me.

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Hence, still nice.

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No, I'm suggesting that you have no core.

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You're what whoever you're with needs you to be.

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Okay, I guess that could be insulting.

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The interesting question is why.

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Why do you think the world will end in chaos and destruction if you're not there to save it?

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Because when my parents put me in the rocket and sent me here, they said,

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"James, you will grow to manhood under a yellow sun--"

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And why'd you lie about monster trucks?

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- I didn’t.
- I checked your appointment book.

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You got tomorrow night marked off, but you didn't put down what you were doing.

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So you thought someone might look at the book--

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I'm playing racquet ball tomorrow night with Taub.

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Why would you hide that?

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Because the world revolves around you.

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I devote time to anyone else, you'd end up stalking me and harassing them.

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You say that as though it wouldn't be fun.

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And maybe I didn't want to rub your nose in the fact that we'd be doing something you can no longer do.

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Because I'm nice.

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I thought you said the steroids were gonna help him.

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What--is it his heart?

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EKG says heart's fine. It's gotta be the kidneys.

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I need to get him on dialysis.

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He's on dialysis, and he's stable.

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We know it's not systemic sclerosis.

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Hey, Cyrano de Berkowitz.

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Let it go.

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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia could explain brain and kidney problems.

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The CBC showed normal white blood cells.

245
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So how long have you been playing racquetball with Wilson?

246
00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:22,830
Four or five times.

247
00:13:22,830 --> 00:13:24,210
Could be diabetes.

248
00:13:24,210 --> 00:13:26,390
Or a congenital metabolic disorder.

249
00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:29,610
Congenital disorders generally don't wait till you're 46 to manifest.

250
00:13:29,610 --> 00:13:31,550
So he's a late bloomer.

251
00:13:31,550 --> 00:13:33,140
His daughter has a neurological condition.

252
00:13:33,140 --> 00:13:39,270
First of all, Wilson played tennis on his college team, and you are a Jew.

253
00:13:40,340 --> 00:13:43,610
You're not athletic. Run to the end of the hall and back. I'll time you.

254
00:13:43,610 --> 00:13:45,080
Sandy Koufax is Jewish.

255
00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,900
Greatest left-handed pitcher of all time.

256
00:13:46,900 --> 00:13:49,360
Sandy Koufax is all you Jews go on about.

257
00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,750
Sandy Koufax and the holocaust. Gets old.

258
00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:57,110
There are dozens of congenital conditions that fit our parameters.

259
00:13:57,110 --> 00:14:01,240
We can't spend time gene testing for all of 'em, especially when we're only guessing it's congenital.

260
00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,940
Is a z-shot offensive or defensive?

261
00:14:03,940 --> 00:14:05,670
It's both.

262
00:14:05,670 --> 00:14:07,610
You suspected that was a trick question.

263
00:14:07,610 --> 00:14:09,480
But could have said neither.

264
00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,720
Diabetes makes more sense.

265
00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,600
We can narrow the testing down to 40 likely candidates.

266
00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,110
Test for peripheral nerve damage.

267
00:14:16,110 --> 00:14:19,460
He's got brain damage. He's likely to have peripheral nerve damage no matter what the cause.

268
00:14:19,460 --> 00:14:21,910
Yes, that's why we should not test him for it.

269
00:14:21,910 --> 00:14:23,620
Test the daughter.

270
00:14:23,850 --> 00:14:25,390
Kutner runs the nerve test.

271
00:14:25,390 --> 00:14:27,410
Taub, you might be right about the diabetes.

272
00:14:27,410 --> 00:14:30,430
Take supper away from our patient and run a glucose tolerance test.

273
00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,200
Oh, and the nurses have been working so hard.

274
00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,070
You can do the blood draws yourself.

275
00:14:36,070 --> 00:14:38,460
They have to be done every couple hours.

276
00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:41,950
You're punishing me because you're jealous that I'm spending time with your best friend.

277
00:14:41,950 --> 00:14:43,480
That would be petty.

278
00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,210
I'm punishing you because now you've joined my best friend in lying to me.

279
00:14:47,210 --> 00:14:50,120
Let me know when you're ready to confess everything.

280
00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,370
This can become either hot or cold.

281
00:15:01,370 --> 00:15:04,320
As soon as it starts to feel uncomfortable, I want you to tell me.

282
00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,320
But you don't think there's something wrong with me.

283
00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,840
No, baby, they're testing you to help daddy.

284
00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,750
Yes, what you're doing is very important.

285
00:15:10,750 --> 00:15:15,410
It's like the better you do, the better we know your dad is.

286
00:15:20,410 --> 00:15:22,530
I'll start with heat.

287
00:15:27,780 --> 00:15:29,840
I know it's not his fault.

288
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:35,350
I know what he says is involuntary, but it doesn't help.

289
00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,980
Inside, he's still the same man.

290
00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:40,670
That's the problem.

291
00:15:40,670 --> 00:15:42,860
Apparently he's been thinking this stuff all along.

292
00:15:42,860 --> 00:15:46,730
Whoever that "same man" is, it's not the person I thought I was married to.

293
00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,840
You okay?

294
00:15:52,210 --> 00:15:54,500
She should be feeling something by now.

295
00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:57,050
What does that mean? Is she sick too?

296
00:15:57,050 --> 00:16:00,520
Marika! Honey!

297
00:16:02,190 --> 00:16:04,330
You're burned. Why didn't you tell me it started to hurt?

298
00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:05,860
I wanted to help daddy.

299
00:16:05,860 --> 00:16:08,590
You said the better I do, the better daddy has to be.

300
00:16:08,590 --> 00:16:09,310
Sorry.

301
00:16:12,220 --> 00:16:13,300
I'm starving.

302
00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:15,460
It's the only way we can do the test.

303
00:16:15,870 --> 00:16:17,930
Good thing it's you and not Dr. Hadley.

304
00:16:17,930 --> 00:16:20,550
Could you keep her away from me?

305
00:16:20,550 --> 00:16:23,290
I have a rich imaginative life.

306
00:16:23,290 --> 00:16:24,440
I'd rather not share it.

307
00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,400
We all have thoughts.

308
00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,020
I know we all have sexual thoughts.

309
00:16:29,020 --> 00:16:30,620
We have ignoble thoughts.

310
00:16:30,620 --> 00:16:34,570
I just don't want those to be who I am to people, especially not to my wife.

311
00:16:34,570 --> 00:16:37,860
I understand. I don't think it would be fair to define me by my passing thoughts.

312
00:16:37,860 --> 00:16:39,630
My real choices are my actions.

313
00:16:39,630 --> 00:16:41,260
And I've never done anything to hurt her.

314
00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:43,360
I've never cheated.

315
00:16:44,790 --> 00:16:47,220
- You're kidding me. You've cheated?
- What?

316
00:16:47,550 --> 00:16:50,550
No. Why would you say that?

317
00:16:50,550 --> 00:16:53,070
Because you look guilty as hell.

318
00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:55,330
Are you serious?

319
00:16:55,330 --> 00:16:56,300
Of course you're serious.

320
00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:58,300
Yes, everyone knows.

321
00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:00,770
God, they must think you're a creep.

322
00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:04,210
They might not know. They might be idiots.

323
00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,060
I just say these things.

324
00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:18,540
Why'd you page me here?

325
00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:22,160
I need you to update me on the patient's condition.

326
00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,680
Seems to be dead.

327
00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,800
Why'd you page me here?

328
00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:31,590
I need you to update me on the patient's condition while hitting this against the wall.

329
00:17:32,890 --> 00:17:34,420
This is the only place we can do both.

330
00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:36,630
I finished the last blood draw.

331
00:17:36,630 --> 00:17:41,060
I expect the people who work for me to rise to a challenge.

332
00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:44,110
Unless they don't expect to work for me.

333
00:18:01,030 --> 00:18:04,240
Last blood draw was at 6:00 AM.

334
00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,810
Sugar levels never rose above 120 all night.

335
00:18:11,690 --> 00:18:14,210
So the glucose was normal.

336
00:18:14,210 --> 00:18:16,160
Means you were wrong about diabetes.

337
00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,370
I still think it's the endocrine system. Maybe I just got the wrong gland.

338
00:18:21,010 --> 00:18:26,100
So you're going for thyroid instead pancreas? Makes sense.

339
00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,770
Fine. I'm not playing racquetball with Wilson.

340
00:18:34,770 --> 00:18:36,510
I was never playing racquetball with Wilson.

341
00:18:36,510 --> 00:18:39,430
I have never played racquetball with Wilson.

342
00:18:40,970 --> 00:18:44,300
I thought it would be helpful if a Department Head owed me a favor.

343
00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:46,580
But it's not worth this.

344
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,960
Not bad. You put on a good show. You studied up.

345
00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:53,610
Wilson actually booked a court.

346
00:18:53,610 --> 00:18:58,300
If you were really a racquetball player, you'd know that you were holding a squash racket.

347
00:19:00,210 --> 00:19:06,440
Tell Kutner to do a thyroid reuptake scan, then go grab a nap in one of the on-call rooms.

348
00:19:07,210 --> 00:19:10,250
We're taking you to do a thyroid reuptake scan. We think your--

349
00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:14,290
I'm not going anywhere until you explain why my daughter has a bandage on her hand.

350
00:19:14,290 --> 00:19:16,230
You just said you wanted to run some test.

351
00:19:16,230 --> 00:19:19,310
I'd known it would involve pain, I’d have said, "hell, no."

352
00:19:19,310 --> 00:19:20,420
It's a mild burn.

353
00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:23,560
Since Marika has a neurological disability like you, we needed to make sure--

354
00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,070
She has no disability.

355
00:19:25,070 --> 00:19:28,020
Nick, you know about her problem with auditory processing.

356
00:19:28,020 --> 00:19:29,860
"Auditory processing"?

357
00:19:29,860 --> 00:19:33,070
That's code for "I can't stand thinking my daughter's not perfect."

358
00:19:33,070 --> 00:19:35,050
The therapist said Marika's test scores--

359
00:19:35,050 --> 00:19:38,750
Were indeterminate. She doesn't have a disability.

360
00:19:38,750 --> 00:19:40,580
She day dreams.

361
00:19:40,580 --> 00:19:45,060
She gets below-average marks in school because she's below average.

362
00:19:45,370 --> 00:19:48,100
Every parent thinks their child's "above average."

363
00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:48,710
Nick!

364
00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:50,750
Do you have any idea what the word average means?

365
00:19:50,750 --> 00:19:52,470
Somebody has to be under it.

366
00:19:52,470 --> 00:19:54,940
Nick, shut up.

367
00:19:59,610 --> 00:20:01,790
Oh, honey...

368
00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,350
I'm not saying you're stupid.

369
00:20:05,350 --> 00:20:09,890
Your mother's not the sharpest crayon in the box, and she does great.

370
00:20:11,070 --> 00:20:16,020
See, this is why I told your mother to keep you at home.

371
00:20:16,020 --> 00:20:19,000
Didn't want you here.

372
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,790
Marika!

373
00:20:21,250 --> 00:20:24,370
Marika, wait! Get her...

374
00:20:24,930 --> 00:20:27,350
You're burning up.

375
00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:30,420
And your lungs are full of fluid. We need to get it out.

376
00:20:30,420 --> 00:20:34,820
I need 200 milligrams of furosemide and two milligrams of morphine, stat.

377
00:20:36,660 --> 00:20:38,310
His temperature is 103.

378
00:20:38,310 --> 00:20:39,090
Infection.

379
00:20:39,090 --> 00:20:40,830
The steroids must have forced it into the open.

380
00:20:40,830 --> 00:20:42,420
What kind of infection? It could be anything.

381
00:20:42,420 --> 00:20:44,600
Staph aureus, tuberculosis, strongyloides...

382
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,350
Go back to Phineas, get a history.

383
00:20:46,350 --> 00:20:48,000
We've got a history. He hasn't been out of the country.

384
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,390
Get a detailed history.

385
00:20:49,390 --> 00:20:51,500
No one at home is sick. No one at work is sick.

386
00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,340
There's no sign of ticks or mosquitoes.

387
00:20:53,340 --> 00:20:55,870
Get a more detailed history. Ask him again.

388
00:20:55,870 --> 00:20:59,990
And again until he remembers something. Not you. Kutner can do it.

389
00:21:00,470 --> 00:21:03,460
You're gonna be busy with something else.

390
00:21:09,410 --> 00:21:11,290
I'm here to invite you to lunch.

391
00:21:11,290 --> 00:21:13,840
Uh, why?

392
00:21:17,310 --> 00:21:19,280
I've been made.

393
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,050
House sent me back to you as a double agent.

394
00:21:27,610 --> 00:21:28,840
Anything wrong?

395
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,350
Eyes are a little red.

396
00:21:30,350 --> 00:21:31,540
There's a shocker.

397
00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:34,420
I haven't had a good night's sleep since this thing started.

398
00:21:34,420 --> 00:21:37,120
You should get some rest yourself.

399
00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:39,750
That's a good idea. This is going to take some time.

400
00:21:39,750 --> 00:21:41,850
It'll be pretty exhaustive.

401
00:21:41,850 --> 00:21:43,990
Are you afraid of what you might say while I'm here?

402
00:21:43,990 --> 00:21:45,610
Yes.

403
00:21:45,610 --> 00:21:48,540
Are you telling me there's something worse than what I've already heard?

404
00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:51,970
No, I-I don't know what I'm gonna say.

405
00:21:51,970 --> 00:21:54,380
I don't know how I'm gonna hurt you next.

406
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:57,930
I think we should be around each other as little as possible right now.

407
00:22:02,270 --> 00:22:04,150
This is pathetic.

408
00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:06,280
I know.

409
00:22:07,290 --> 00:22:10,370
Tell Marika I love her very much.

410
00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:12,520
She understands that.

411
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,140
I don't think she does.

412
00:22:15,740 --> 00:22:18,480
You're just saying that to make me feel better.

413
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:20,760
Yeah.

414
00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:38,380
Guy leads a boring life. They stay home a lot.

415
00:22:38,380 --> 00:22:41,580
No travel, no exotic pets, no nearby standing water.

416
00:22:41,580 --> 00:22:44,130
You sound pleased about something. Can we get to that part?

417
00:22:44,130 --> 00:22:46,340
His wife rescues dogs.

418
00:22:46,340 --> 00:22:49,300
Among others, a big rottweiler who's taken over the house.

419
00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:50,540
Our patient hates it.

420
00:22:50,540 --> 00:22:52,490
- Was the wife there to hear this?
- No.

421
00:22:52,490 --> 00:22:53,900
Too bad. Keep going.

422
00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:56,610
The dog marks his territory all over the living room.

423
00:22:56,610 --> 00:23:00,670
I asked what the odds were that he would have put down food or drink where the dog could reach.

424
00:23:00,670 --> 00:23:03,810
He said he put a glass of juice on the floor while he was fixing the television.

425
00:23:03,810 --> 00:23:06,200
- The dog was fixing the television?
- Yes.

426
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,930
- The patient's eyes red?
- Yeah.

427
00:23:07,930 --> 00:23:10,070
I'm thinking Weil's.

428
00:23:10,070 --> 00:23:14,480
Bacterial. He lucked out. Start him on doxycycline.

429
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,590
If he improves, we'll know we were right.

430
00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:22,030
I told Wilson you sent me to get information.

431
00:23:22,030 --> 00:23:23,700
And now you're telling me.

432
00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:26,740
What does that make you, a quadruple agent?

433
00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:29,410
He let me print out his e-mails.

434
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,240
Excellent. Information he wants us to have.

435
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,600
- Did he let you print out his deleted e-mails?
- No.

436
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:35,520
Then go back there--

437
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,790
As long as I was sitting there, I thought I'd print 'em anyway.

438
00:23:38,790 --> 00:23:41,000
Top one's the one you're looking for.

439
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:45,120
Writing to confirm Wednesday at 7:00 PM.

440
00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:48,970
It's out going to jgonzalez@nymercy.net.

441
00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:51,520
There's a Joan Gonzalez in oncology.

442
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,140
It's a consult.

443
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:55,840
Secret consult, 7:00 PM.

444
00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,960
Oh, Joan is perky.

445
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,900
You're wrong. There was a patient file attached.

446
00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:02,960
Where?

447
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,910
- It was password-protected.
- No.

448
00:24:05,910 --> 00:24:09,290
Wilson doesn't password-protect his patient files.

449
00:24:09,290 --> 00:24:11,180
I'm the only one he'd expect ever to look there,

450
00:24:11,180 --> 00:24:14,290
and he knows there's only one patient I'd want to check on.

451
00:24:14,910 --> 00:24:17,190
You think Wilson’s sick?

452
00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:22,380
If Wilson had cancer, there'd be no reason for him to drive three hours to Manhattan.

453
00:24:22,380 --> 00:24:24,610
He could pull strings here and get the best treatment.

454
00:24:24,610 --> 00:24:26,740
Six articles by Gonzalez.

455
00:24:26,740 --> 00:24:30,140
"Managing suicidal thoughts in oncology patients,"

456
00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:33,120
"suicidal ideation in children with leukemia."

457
00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:38,520
I don't want to ask this, but have you ever had reason to think he might be depressed?

458
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,800
No. Get out of here.

459
00:24:53,110 --> 00:24:55,420
Your fever's down and your lungs are clearing.

460
00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:58,450
How long before this brain thing goes away?

461
00:24:58,450 --> 00:25:01,920
The infection's gone, but the damage the infection did...

462
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,020
You'll have to live with.

463
00:25:04,310 --> 00:25:06,360
You're telling me you can't fix this?

464
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:07,820
There's gotta be a way.

465
00:25:07,820 --> 00:25:12,810
We'd need to remove the damaged area in our cingulate gyrus, but it's too close to the brainstem to risk surgery.

466
00:25:12,810 --> 00:25:14,890
You can't risk it.

467
00:25:15,170 --> 00:25:19,020
But I could shop around, and maybe some better doctors at a better hospital--

468
00:25:19,020 --> 00:25:21,800
The brain stem controls the body's involuntary systems.

469
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,610
The slightest mistake could kill you.

470
00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:28,260
Even if you survive, you may never be able to breathe on your own again.

471
00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:30,200
- You may never--
- I get it.

472
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,540
I know this seems like a lot to deal with right now.

473
00:25:32,540 --> 00:25:36,940
But people have adapted to living with all kinds of neurological deficits.

474
00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:40,330
Hey, at least we can promise you it won't get any worse.

475
00:25:40,330 --> 00:25:42,980
Get the hell out of my room.

476
00:25:54,530 --> 00:25:59,210
Your assistant said that you were out of the hospital, taking a walk.

477
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,090
Is there an emergency?

478
00:26:01,090 --> 00:26:02,810
I don't know. Is there?

479
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,020
You never take a walk unless you've got something you need to think about.

480
00:26:07,020 --> 00:26:11,140
Maybe you just don't have a good statistical sampling of my walks.

481
00:26:11,140 --> 00:26:15,460
The other thing you do when you need to think is you come to my office.

482
00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:20,160
Apparently, this is something you can only discuss with Gonzalez at New York Mercy.

483
00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:25,810
Taub.

484
00:26:25,810 --> 00:26:28,890
Another graduate of the House school of being a dick.

485
00:26:28,890 --> 00:26:29,950
Private dick.

486
00:26:29,950 --> 00:26:33,610
Look, I'd love to stay for the full inquisition, but I need some hot coffee.

487
00:26:38,690 --> 00:26:40,380
Of course you need hot coffee.

488
00:26:40,380 --> 00:26:44,170
It's 45 degrees outside, and you left your coat upstairs.

489
00:26:44,170 --> 00:26:45,530
Why?

490
00:26:45,530 --> 00:26:48,570
You're going to tell me why I forgot my coat?

491
00:26:48,570 --> 00:26:51,560
Once you get outside, the cold would have reminded you.

492
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,640
You could have come back, but you didn't.

493
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,440
You chose to be uncomfortable.

494
00:26:57,550 --> 00:26:59,940
Why would someone choose that?

495
00:27:01,150 --> 00:27:03,430
Because they hate themselves?

496
00:27:03,430 --> 00:27:07,700
Has it ever occurred to you that when I don't share something, it might not be meant as a challenge?

497
00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:13,830
It might just mean that I'd like there to be one molecule of my life that goes unexamined by Gregory House.

498
00:27:28,310 --> 00:27:31,320
Nick Greenwald. I hear you're the guy in charge.

499
00:27:33,060 --> 00:27:35,820
I'm the patient with the disinhibition.

500
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:38,320
If you're here to say thanks, you're welcome. Now go away.

501
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,510
Oh, I'm not thankful. I'm pissed.

502
00:27:40,510 --> 00:27:43,360
Oh, all the more reason to go away.

503
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:46,150
They're talking about sending me home.

504
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,920
To what? A life where I'll continually drive away anyone who might for a second care about me?

505
00:27:52,470 --> 00:27:54,760
Those are the brakes.

506
00:27:58,690 --> 00:28:00,790
You could operate.

507
00:28:02,870 --> 00:28:05,400
You could die.

508
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,500
So I'm either better or dead?

509
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:09,690
I'm okay with that.

510
00:28:13,740 --> 00:28:18,720
I-I've always been kind of a... an impatient guy.

511
00:28:19,910 --> 00:28:22,590
But I've worked hard to keep my mouth shut.

512
00:28:22,590 --> 00:28:26,610
I've made my wife happy. I've made my little girl happy.

513
00:28:28,590 --> 00:28:30,760
I want that back.

514
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,390
Otherwise, it's no life.

515
00:28:41,870 --> 00:28:44,720
I want you to remove a small problem.

516
00:28:48,510 --> 00:28:50,320
I'm not a neuro surgeon.

517
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,660
But your boss is. You could assist.

518
00:28:52,660 --> 00:28:55,110
I'm sure you'd like to add to your resume.

519
00:28:55,110 --> 00:28:56,900
It's too near the brain stem. Nobody's gonna touch it.

520
00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,350
Your boss would. He's an egomaniac.

521
00:29:00,350 --> 00:29:03,070
I know 'cause I keep seeing him at the club.

522
00:29:03,070 --> 00:29:04,640
He just needs a little push.

523
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,760
I'm sure by now you've kissed his ass sufficiently.

524
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:13,380
Would you like me to phrase it as "you're politically gifted"?

525
00:29:13,380 --> 00:29:15,600
I can do that.

526
00:29:16,830 --> 00:29:18,940
You want me to help you?

527
00:29:20,910 --> 00:29:22,950
Tell me why.

528
00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:26,010
- Why what?
- Why you care.

529
00:29:26,010 --> 00:29:28,060
The puzzle's solved. The guy's alive.

530
00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:31,680
And the odds of coming out of this surgery with that same status aren't that great.

531
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,750
My patient has a quality of life issue.

532
00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:36,140
He says awful things.

533
00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:38,910
Hardly a medical condition.

534
00:29:39,490 --> 00:29:43,110
When he leaves here, he's going to lose his family.

535
00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:45,450
He's gonna alienate the people he works with.

536
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:50,330
And if he ever finds a friend who's willing to put up with his crap, he'll be lucky.

537
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,640
Until he drives them away too.

538
00:30:00,190 --> 00:30:02,530
I'll see what I can do.

539
00:30:27,190 --> 00:30:30,550
You've apparently got this whole coat thing backwards.

540
00:30:30,550 --> 00:30:34,120
I may have overreacted.

541
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,470
You definitely overreacted.

542
00:30:36,470 --> 00:30:39,580
- I knew you'd meet me halfway.
- It made me think.

543
00:30:39,580 --> 00:30:43,840
You only snap on one subject: Losing people.

544
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:46,380
So I went back to the intel.

545
00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:49,640
It's true there's only one doctor named Gonzalez at New York Mercy,

546
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,190
but there's a Javier Gonzalez who's a nurse in the psych ward.

547
00:30:54,590 --> 00:30:57,300
And who could you lose who'd end up there?

548
00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:01,640
Maybe the reason I don't always open up to you is because it's redundant.

549
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,240
Daniel Wilson.

550
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,810
Once you got a name, it's amazing how much stuff you can learn on the phone.

551
00:31:08,810 --> 00:31:12,380
I mean, if you're a doctor and you lie freely.

552
00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:16,600
They found your brother sleeping in the lobby of an office building in Manhattan.

553
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,850
Got aggressive when they asked him to leave, and the cops took him to the Mercy psych ward.

554
00:31:20,850 --> 00:31:23,800
There have been new anti-psychotics developed since he ran away.

555
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,320
He's been on them for a couple of days.

556
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,240
And by tonight, he should be in shape to talk to me.

557
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,720
But you're not sure if he wants to.

558
00:31:33,090 --> 00:31:36,530
I'll be in New York in a few hours. I guess I'll find out.

559
00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:38,900
Why wouldn't you tell me this?

560
00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:41,310
House, you and I...

561
00:31:41,790 --> 00:31:44,830
We don't have the normal social contract.

562
00:31:44,830 --> 00:31:46,850
I don't expect you to tell me the lies--

563
00:31:46,850 --> 00:31:49,490
I am fully capable of lying to you.

564
00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:50,800
I've lied plenty of times.

565
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,350
I mean, collaborative lies.

566
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:57,920
Giving someone a hand who maybe needs to deceive themselves just a little.

567
00:32:00,390 --> 00:32:03,590
For two days I've been thinking about how Danny’s gonna react when he sees me.

568
00:32:03,590 --> 00:32:08,760
If I said that to anybody else, they'd say, "don't worry. It’ll all be all right."

569
00:32:09,290 --> 00:32:11,660
You wouldn't.

570
00:32:11,660 --> 00:32:14,230
Because it might all go horribly wrong.

571
00:32:16,690 --> 00:32:17,940
Yeah.

572
00:32:19,420 --> 00:32:21,840
Yeah, it might.

573
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,060
In which case, you might want some company.

574
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,600
Your heart's beating. First hurdle past.

575
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,510
Now we need know if you can breathe for yourself.

576
00:32:41,710 --> 00:32:43,690
Oh, thank god.

577
00:32:45,190 --> 00:32:48,650
Now, do you know who you are?

578
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:53,040
Nick Greenwald. Former SOB.

579
00:32:54,130 --> 00:32:56,350
Thank you.

580
00:32:56,860 --> 00:33:01,410
Now I can go back to my beautiful life with my beautiful wife.

581
00:33:01,820 --> 00:33:06,920
Maybe she'll stop whining and cut me some slack now that I've risked my life.

582
00:33:07,930 --> 00:33:09,520
Doesn't make sense. We removed the problem.

583
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,340
We removed the damage. Maybe we were wrong about the problem.

584
00:33:12,340 --> 00:33:14,580
I need to believe we can get through this.

585
00:33:14,580 --> 00:33:15,980
Temperature's 94.5

586
00:33:15,980 --> 00:33:18,510
Do you really think I'm stupid?

587
00:33:18,510 --> 00:33:22,650
Honey, you're not stupid. You' just-- please don't do this.

588
00:33:22,650 --> 00:33:23,870
It could be the effect of the surgery.

589
00:33:23,870 --> 00:33:27,420
Do you at least respect me, Nick, what do you think of what I do for a living?

590
00:33:27,420 --> 00:33:33,860
I think people who publicize important things are people who can't do important things themselves.

591
00:33:33,860 --> 00:33:35,980
Honey, stop. Don't.

592
00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:38,430
- Do you regret marrying me?
- 94.2

593
00:33:38,430 --> 00:33:41,650
- Sometimes. Everybody wonders--
- Get me a heating blanket.

594
00:33:41,650 --> 00:33:43,990
- Do you even love me?
- Yes.

595
00:33:44,950 --> 00:33:46,020
I don't know why.

596
00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:49,990
Audrey, wait. Let me--

597
00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:52,930
V-tach. Get me the paddles.

598
00:33:58,170 --> 00:33:59,770
Clear.

599
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,630
Echo says his heart is structurally fine.

600
00:34:04,630 --> 00:34:06,260
But his temperature is still dropping.

601
00:34:06,260 --> 00:34:07,480
He's headed for hypothermia.

602
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,780
I can't reach House. It just goes to voicemail.

603
00:34:09,780 --> 00:34:11,110
It means we were wrong about infection.

604
00:34:11,110 --> 00:34:14,410
His temperature's just going up and down because something's playing with his thermostat.

605
00:34:14,410 --> 00:34:16,130
Which means the brain damage is spreading.

606
00:34:16,130 --> 00:34:19,540
What causes brain damage and nosebleed and involves the lungs, heart and kidneys?

607
00:34:19,540 --> 00:34:21,360
Cancer? We could text him.

608
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,840
It's not cancer. Normal PSA, normal blood smear, colonoscopy normal.

609
00:34:26,510 --> 00:34:27,750
Do a full body scan.

610
00:34:27,750 --> 00:34:29,090
House hates full body scans.

611
00:34:29,090 --> 00:34:31,000
- House isn't here.
- House is right.

612
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,170
Everybody's got three or four meaningless anomalies that'll come up on a scan.

613
00:34:34,170 --> 00:34:36,300
Chasing each one will take time we don't have.

614
00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:38,590
Feel free to send him an IM.

615
00:35:24,050 --> 00:35:26,240
You told me you saw your brother once.

616
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:27,870
After he disappeared.

617
00:35:27,870 --> 00:35:29,780
13 years ago.

618
00:35:29,780 --> 00:35:32,030
I used to go to Princeton whenever I could.

619
00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:34,690
I must have hit every homeless shelter in town.

620
00:35:34,690 --> 00:35:40,280
And then one day, I’m just sitting at this deli, having a sandwich, I look out the window, and there he is.

621
00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:43,300
He was gone by the time I got outside.

622
00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,700
That's why you were so eager when I told you there was a job at Princeton.

623
00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:49,150
I thought it was just my charm.

624
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,200
That's the team. Shouldn't you answer?

625
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,450
They already texted me to say they're doing something stupid.

626
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,260
There's a small abdominal aneurysm.

627
00:35:58,260 --> 00:35:59,560
Irrelevant. What else you got?

628
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,610
Cyst in the pleura around the lungs.

629
00:36:01,610 --> 00:36:03,710
Also irrelevant. Couldn't cause any of the symptoms.

630
00:36:03,710 --> 00:36:06,900
There's a density in the liver. Could be a vascular malformation.

631
00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:09,820
If he's got multiple AVMS, screwed-up blood flow would explain everything.

632
00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:11,760
We can only spot them with angiography.

633
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,540
We'll have to do targeted scans with contrast and then embolize each one.

634
00:36:14,540 --> 00:36:15,890
Can we do that before he freezes?

635
00:36:15,890 --> 00:36:17,690
We'll find out.

636
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,250
The spell-correct on Kutner’s phone has got a hair trigger.

637
00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:28,500
Either that, or the patient has a cyclone in the floral of his lungs.

638
00:36:30,180 --> 00:36:35,320
You took a walk in 45-degree weather, and you left your coat behind.

639
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,250
Go ahead.

640
00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:41,750
I think you were punishing yourself.

641
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:46,310
I think you wanted to feel what it would be like be homeless in a New Jersey winter.

642
00:36:47,340 --> 00:36:50,390
That tells me guilt.

643
00:36:50,390 --> 00:36:53,370
That tells me something happened.

644
00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:58,190
The schizophrenia started when he was a teenager.

645
00:36:58,190 --> 00:37:00,130
When he was in college...

646
00:37:00,690 --> 00:37:05,430
He was on meds, but he'd still think a professor was out to get him because he got a B,

647
00:37:05,430 --> 00:37:07,780
or he'd fight with his roommates because he never showered.

648
00:37:07,780 --> 00:37:10,100
- Where were you?
- Med school.

649
00:37:10,950 --> 00:37:16,300
He called me every day. Talked for hours.

650
00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:18,350
I didn't have hours.

651
00:37:18,350 --> 00:37:20,570
Interesting.

652
00:37:21,940 --> 00:37:23,620
Later for that. Go on.

653
00:37:23,620 --> 00:37:28,050
I was tired of being the guy that everybody counted on, so one night, Danny called--

654
00:37:29,750 --> 00:37:33,240
One night, Danny called, crying, upset about something.

655
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:34,750
I had to study for an exam.

656
00:37:34,750 --> 00:37:38,550
So I-I hung up...

657
00:37:38,550 --> 00:37:42,260
Took my things. I went to the library so I wouldn't have to hear the phone ring.

658
00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:44,970
I wonder how that turned out.

659
00:37:44,970 --> 00:37:46,190
My mother called me the next day.

660
00:37:46,190 --> 00:37:48,570
Danny had run away and left his meds behind.

661
00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:54,040
Which I knew meant that he would never be able to choose to come back,

662
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:58,230
because he'd be so detached from reality.

663
00:37:58,530 --> 00:38:04,850
So you made your one effort to live a normal, selfish life, and the universe immediately smacked you down.

664
00:38:04,850 --> 00:38:08,360
And because we're wired to find meaning in semi-random events,

665
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,600
you decided never to be that careless again.

666
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,930
You don't think that's a little facile?

667
00:38:14,930 --> 00:38:16,690
Actually, I don't.

668
00:38:16,690 --> 00:38:19,010
I think you did it consciously.

669
00:38:19,010 --> 00:38:25,710
You developed your people-pleasing talents the way an Olympic athlete develops his muscles.

670
00:38:25,710 --> 00:38:29,010
Talk about an overreaction to a single event.

671
00:38:29,010 --> 00:38:31,040
It was a pretty big event.

672
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,520
Hanging up the phone?

673
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,320
That's what you're blaming all this on.

674
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,180
That's the behavior you've been trying to correct.

675
00:38:37,570 --> 00:38:40,680
As though nothing else went wrong in your brother's life.

676
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,000
Of course, he overreacted too but...

677
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:48,830
His glucose was normal.

678
00:38:48,830 --> 00:38:51,740
We're not talking about my brother anymore, are we?

679
00:38:56,500 --> 00:39:00,290
It's House. ADMS don't explain his glucose.

680
00:39:00,290 --> 00:39:03,550
Since this is a significant moment in my life and all...

681
00:39:03,850 --> 00:39:06,330
- Yeah.
- I think I'll just go in then.

682
00:39:06,330 --> 00:39:08,680
- Explain that.
- Right.

683
00:39:09,860 --> 00:39:13,160
You'd given him steroids. His glucose should have been elevated.

684
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:18,280
That wannabe cyst you found in the whole body scan, without the glucose, it's an irrelevant cyst.

685
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,960
With the glucose, it's a relevant fibroma.

686
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,920
He has Doege-Potter syndrome.

687
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:28,300
His fibroma is secreting human growth hormone, which acts like insulin, lowering his glucose.

688
00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:31,120
It doesn't explain the organ failure or the brain damage.

689
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,640
This whole thing is an overreaction.

690
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,950
That one small fibroma.

691
00:39:35,950 --> 00:39:39,370
It's benign, but his body's acting like it's an invader.

692
00:39:39,370 --> 00:39:43,820
His antibodies went to war against it and got carried away, attacked his other systems.

693
00:39:43,820 --> 00:39:48,730
Take out the fibroma, he'll be a happy hypocrite again in no time.

694
00:39:56,430 --> 00:39:57,940
Maybe I should call a cab.

695
00:39:57,940 --> 00:40:00,870
- Your wife's probably just late.
- Yeah.

696
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,620
I'm sorry about...

697
00:40:07,490 --> 00:40:10,800
You know... the things I said.

698
00:40:13,170 --> 00:40:16,520
I have a conspicuous nose.

699
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,900
It suits your face.

700
00:40:24,470 --> 00:40:28,650
I'm sorry I'm late. Traffic.

701
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:37,120
I have some good news.

702
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,090
I was gonna tell you, and then you got sick.

703
00:40:39,090 --> 00:40:41,750
It didn't seem like the best time.

704
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,900
I've been offered a better position.

705
00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:48,730
I'd be coordinating cancer awareness walks in three cities.

706
00:40:48,730 --> 00:40:52,050
That's great. Congratulations.

707
00:40:52,050 --> 00:40:54,880
I know you've worked hard for this.

708
00:40:55,450 --> 00:40:57,360
Thank you.

709
00:41:01,030 --> 00:41:03,000
Is Marika okay?

710
00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:06,150
I'm sure she's moved on.

711
00:41:11,590 --> 00:41:13,930
Kids are so resilient.

712
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,490
You okay?

713
00:41:35,490 --> 00:41:38,130
I'll be seeing Danny again next week.

714
00:41:38,470 --> 00:41:42,810
- I'd like you to meet him.
- Sure. He sounds interesting.

715
00:41:44,830 --> 00:41:46,650
Go on.

716
00:41:46,650 --> 00:41:49,180
I thought seeing him again would change everything.

717
00:41:49,180 --> 00:41:51,270
It would be wonderful or terrible.

718
00:41:51,270 --> 00:41:55,740
Instead... we're just strangers.

719
00:41:56,110 --> 00:41:59,170
It's kind of anticlimactic.

720
00:41:59,170 --> 00:42:02,130
Which is better than terrible.

721
00:42:06,870 --> 00:42:08,720
Go on.

722
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:12,740
Does it bother you that we have no social contract?

723
00:42:13,620 --> 00:42:15,770
My whole life is one big compromise.

724
00:42:15,770 --> 00:42:18,190
I tiptoe around everyone like they're made of china.

725
00:42:18,190 --> 00:42:21,400
I spend all my time analyzing: What will the effect be if I say this?

726
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,970
Then there's you. You're a reality junkie.

727
00:42:23,970 --> 00:42:28,210
If I offered you a comforting lie, you'd smack me over the head with it.

728
00:42:28,210 --> 00:42:30,920
Let's not change that.

729
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:31,920
Okay.

730
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,600
No, see, this-- if you were implementing the social contract,

731
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,750
you'd say that, but only because...

732
00:42:41,750 --> 00:42:44,450
It makes me feel better...

733
00:42:45,550 --> 00:42:48,930
It is kind of fun watching you torture yourself.

734
00:42:48,930 --> 00:42:52,620
- Do you think things will work out with my brother?
- No.

735
00:42:54,670 --> 00:42:57,820
But when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault.

736
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,880
Thanks, House.

737
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,400
You do actually like monster trucks.

738
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,680
Absolutely.

739
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:13,710
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