"Hey." "How long have i...?" "forced trauma to the head... he's had a continued... why can't i get up?" "No episodes of hyperten... what's wrong with my legs?" "Ekg's show normal... hey!" "Someone talk to me." "no hypertrophy... you don't hear me talking to you?" "normal c.k. Troponin... great heart for transplant." "My heart?" "!" "god!" "They don't know i'm in here." "genius." "I think it violates certain ethical laws to rip the organs out of a guy who's still alive." "Possibly certain law laws too." "Thank you." "Thank you." "mr." "House?" "It's actually doctor house." "This guy's a doctor?" "There's also navy seal house." "But you're going to have to save up for that one." "but... not because i need a consult." "get back in bed." "i just need a truckload of vicodin." "this guy... he's brain dead." "i'm not!" "So drop it." "See that?" "Minimal brainwaves don't mean he's alive." "I am alive!" "I'm here!" "hot or cold." "barely discernable." "please." "that's just the amplifier's internal noise level." "It's on increased sensitivity." "it's not!" "It's me." "Then why is his eye following you?" "Exactly." "Following motion's an involuntary reflex." "No." "You're a doctor... you should know these things." "i need help." "I'm here!" "I also know about locked-in syndrome... that things are either involuntary... or voluntary." "Blink if you can hear me." "I hear you." "this is going to be fun." "Eye movement is deliberate." "twice for "no?" "I hope so." "The square root of nine?" "He got that faster than you." "The brain is fully functional." "Lee..." "where's molly?" "You were in an accident." "hit the brake!" "You've sustained a traumatic injury to your brain stem which has cut off your brain's ability to communicate with the rest of your body." "Can you fix me?" "Where's molly?" "You still have movement in your eyes." "So we can get you to a rehab facility where they can teach you how to communicate." "i can't be stuck like this." "Unless... the crash didn't cause the brain damage." "Maybe the brain damage caused the crash." "i couldn't stop." "Why couldn't i stop?" "Look at his palms." "There's no scrapes." "He didn't even try to protect himself." "So you had slowed reflexes..." "or no reflexes." "You're not a doctor in this hospital." "You are a patient. and he's the guy who doesn't. anything that insults the central pons could do this." "Then that means that i could be fixed." "You're giving him false hope." "He needs to accept what's happened." "And work on making the most of it." "Molly." "Hey." "Don't look at me like that." "That's not making me feel better." "I love you." "I don't know how god is going to get us through this." "But he will." "Stop it." "I'm blushing." "What are you doing?" "Just looking for some reading material for the crapper." "These cts... get back in your bed." "Come on. can i bring them in?" "don't." "You don't want to see them?" "I don't want them having nightmares." "molly." "You don't want them to see you?" "It's okay." "I understand." "You're going to be better soon enough." "You really that sure?" "Why are you so sure?" "how'd you get so sure?" "You okay?" "Never better." "Here's your burger. bring princeton to mohammed." "That's my diagnostics posse." "and darker." "please." "What are you doing up in middletown?" "Who cares?" "Buying a gibson '57 goldtop." "It's the guitar duane allman used to play." "the mostly likely causes of a sudden onset of locked-in syndrome and brain hemorrhage." "Ct was clean." "those fries look good." "his heart's fine." "A well-placed tumor could explain it." "is the last thing i ate gonna be the last thing i ate? and still show up on an mri with contrast." "It was a melted power bar." "She's the smart one." "I just keep dark and darker to fill out the quota." "you could be fine. dear god." "stop it right now." "We'll get his doctor to order an mri." "His doctor's busy teaching him how to blink out "kill me" in morse code." "i found some forms under the mattress." "they have those mri video goggles." "I heard these were awesome." "What do you see?" "It's a beach." "there's taub... drinking a margarita and mocking us for driving all the way up here... i can still feel in here. he gets a little excited about new technology." "and a little closed off." "These will put you in a quiet place." "You can create a relaxing scenario for yourself." "I hope they work." "You're in my relaxing scenario?" "I guess you like me." "or you got sent here." "What?" "By god?" "I'm not sure if i believe in god." "You spend an awful lot of time in church for someone who doesn't." "I don't not believe either." "It's either one or the other. but... i've never actually thought that god could reach out and affect my life." "But getting a brilliant doctor in the bed next to me?" "God is also the guy who opened his car door in front of you." "I think molly was right." "I think you were sent here to make me get better." "I think so." "Hey!" "dad." "Making a volcano." "You're making a volcano?" "It looks like it." "baby?" "What time is it?" "Hope you don't mind." "My new roommate snores." "And my new room doesn't have you." "Your mri showed a lesion in the central pons." "What is that?" "What does that mean?" "See it there?" "No." "that's what they said." "But it's there." "Which means no way head trauma did this." "causing a paraneoplastic syndrome." "your current doctor thinks its diffuse nature means an infection." "the antivirals he's got you on might kill you." "I'm not gonna die. then dr." "Idiot will realize that his name is not a coincidence and he'll let me do whatever i want." "Thank you." "the irony here is... you're kind of fascinating." "So many questions. you wouldn't be fascinating." "aren't you?" "Your wife is the one getting you through this." "Your wife and me." "the mri was a lot more useful than four hours of hand-holding." "I think." "you'd know why it matters." "You're a good guy." "Easy to talk to." "something's happening." "What's happening to me?" "I need some help in here!" "Your patient is seizing." "Why would he have a seizure?" "Because he has cancer!" "His brain stem is compromised." "Why are you still arguing with this guy?" "You thought i was dead." "Welcome back." "And nicely played." "You almost died." "Exactly as we planned." "You knew this was going to happen?" "It usually happens when you treat cancer by pretending it's not cancer." "doctor?" "My turn?" "It's cancer?" "it isn't." "Yes! causing paraneoplastic syndrome." "He needs plasmapheresis." "Can you give that to him?" "i completely disagree with dr." "House." "Please shut up." "I don't." "Which means i can treat him." "Let him." "Let him." "Is that what you want?" "Absolutely." "Would you send up a couple of bellboys?" "I got the transfefer papers." "Plasmapheresis is all set up." "Are you okay?" "Fresh infusion of macho." "You like?" "and she's worried about his boo-boo?" "anyway?" "Antiquing." "I found you a late victorian corset." "i'll tie you up." "Is heitting on her?" "she's into him too." "yeah." "Sorry i didn't show up in middletown." "I didn't get the message." "Probably because there was no message." "I've decided to accept your resignation." "i thought we were past this." "I decided to stay." "you didn't." "You had it decided for you." "So now you're stuck here with a boss who knows that you want to be somewhere else. which means you're no longer motivated to come up with good ideas." "Unless i'm wrong." "Save the cheerleader." "Save your world." "I got it from here." "I thought you already solved this." "Are you thinking you might be wrong?" "What's going on?" "just curious... what were you driving up to middletown for?" "What do you care?" "Why does he care?" "Because i'm your friend." "I was buying a guitar." "i heard that." "It used to belong to a guitarist who died in a motorcycle accident." "It just reeks of you screwing with people." "Your crash was ten miles from the orange county progressive pain clinic." "You live ten miles from mary's dress shop." "that's not even on my list of reasons that i think you're secretly a transvestite." "If you're going to another state to get more narcotics... he's on drugs?" "!" "I went to visit your ex-ex-ex-wife..." "what?" "!" "Who lives in thompson ridge." "I let her know about the extra money you're making on the lecture circuit." "So she'll be sure to adjust your alimony." "You wouldn't do that." "Yeah." "I wouldn't do that." "Would you?" "You guys are friends?" "Shouldn't we be entertaining our patient?" "I performed euripides with sock puppets." "You just missed it." "House said we should." "The mind is like a muscle. just like anything else." "Whoever's with him needs to talk." "and it'll show house you still care." "Not sure if i do." "you're my doctor?" "Then why don't you just quit?" "either." "Maybe you should figure it out before house figures it out for you." "maybe you should have your midlife crisis after i'm better." "Kutner... we'll be right back." "what did you just see?" "Do you drink?" "He's a roofer." "Alcohol hardly proves your theory." "Marchiafava bignami disease fits." "Lft's are normal." "Speak english." "Is it fixable?" "What does that mean?" "That hurts." "No tremors." "How much do you drink?" "A six-pack a day?" "i don't even drink beer." "Maybe more or less." "Or maybe something else." "It may not be alcohol at all." "Street opiates can also cause locked-in... i don't get high." "000 questions we talk to the lesion." "Talk to me." "We're going to biopsy the brain stem?" "that doesn't count as your inspired idea." "It's sort of where i was heading." "You're going to cut into my head?" "Why?" "Stop treating me like a piece of furniture!" "I have a right to know what's going on!" "Where's that going?" "Blood in your urine clogged up your old catheter." "Peeing blood?" "That must be what the insecure doctor saw." "Every new clue gets us closer to the answer." "Damnit." "The surgery will get us more clues." "You have visitors." "molly." "Come in." "Daddy!" "Daddy!" "I told you not to bring them." "they wanted to see their father." "I can't even hug them." "They can handle it." "It's going to be all right." "are you?" "They must've told you that it's dangerous." "That i could die." "And that's why you brought them in here... i got an a+ on my test." "To see me before i die." "daddy." "Daddy loves you too." "I want to show you my drawings." "Kids just want a dad." "Even if he's just a lump." "Maybe you should go now." "please." "Let them stay." "daddy." "daddy." "Sorry." "You were crying." "Damn. just so we can drill the hole." "that's very thoughtful of you." "Then we'll wake you back up." "We'l'll need you to answer some simple yes or no questions to make sure we're not cutting... it seems to be working." "Deep breaths." "you'll feel lightheaded." "And by now... you should be floating high with lucy in the sky." "How come i'm not better?" "God's not supposed to work in trial and error." "God's mistakes are well-documented. there'd have been one plague and zero great floods." "Those were because of human mistakes." "You think your doctor has an apartment on mount olympus?" "God put me with you for a reason." "right?" "I don't know." "Lee." "You with me now?" "Easy questions." "You'll be done before you know it." "Is this equation correct? i'm not going to know that anymore?" "Are these lines parallel?" "Spatial relationships intact." "Take a look at this circle." "Is more than half of it shaded?" "Of course." "Don't forget to blink." "Is more than half of the circle shaded?" "yes." "lee." "Again." "Is more than half of this circle shaded?" "blink." "back out." "Why can't i blink?" "Why can't i blink?" "Why aren't his eyes moving?" "Two options: or else something the hospital lawyer's going to have to come up with when you sue us." "Blinking and eye movements are controlled just millimeters from the biopsy site." "right?" "he just can't communicate?" "It's possible." "Also possible is that the surgery caused so much swelling that he's just gone." "and now that's gone." "Well played." "Brain biopsy revealed severe damage to the myelin sheath." "why?" "malaria. he could've picked up rotavirus." "Did he report having bloody diarrhea?" "says he doesn't complain." "Did you ask him?" "We've prioritized." "a real history would've taken weeks." "he'd have belly pains." "he'd have headaches. and maybe we'd know what treatment to give." "And what treatment would kill him." "Unless he's already dead." "Maybe there's another way." "Brain computer interface... better known as bcl." "The goal is to get you to move that cursor with your mind. the computer records the pattern. it eventually learns what you're thinking." "So... start thinking "up." "You in there?" "Are you trying?" "I called the ex-ex-ex-wife." "She was at a sweat lodge in new mexico last week." "What were you really doing in new york?" "You know how you hate it when i meddle in your lies?" "I mean your life." "Why are you being so evasive?" "Unless you have something to evade." "Interesting." "or my pain." "I was heading to the down-state correctional facility in fishkill." "One of your hookers arrange a conjugal visit?" "It's where foreman's brother is being held. wondering if i could've done something differently." "Maybe it's not that i'm sick of house." "It's that i'm sick of being scared out of my mind to go to work every day." "Sorry." "Did that just... was that you?" "Are you really in there?" "I knew you were in there." "I was scared." "Thank god." "I am scared." "i love you so much." "Have you had any bloody diarrhea in the last two weeks?" "Rotavirus out." "Any recent joint pain?" "Epstein barr's out." "Have you traveled out of the country lately?" "What about inside the country?" "He was in st." "Louis." "Good." "Could be missouri malaria." "Let's start treatment." "He was... he was there." "The machine must not be working." "or he lied to you about it." "People do that sometimes." "i just lied to him about missouri malaria." "Did you go to st." "Louis?" "I should've told you." "Why didn't i just tell you?" "Down. i assume you were getting some strange for two days." "So does she." "You have to tell her i wasn't." "Amazing." "A man who only has two blips at his disposal can still lie." "I'm not lying. you could've contracted neurosyphilis." "froze you right up." "Good news is it's treatable." "You'll be up and moving in time to sign the divorce papers. and then not tell you the truth about this? and you think he's lying when she's not even in here?" "I'm liking this one more and more." "Don't fire him." "Were you out of the state?" "I never left." "[beeping] were you within 20 miles of your house?" "Yes." "Were you within five miles?" "Yes." "Within two miles?" "Yes." "Did you stay at a hotel?" "No." "You had to sleep somewhere." "Your car?" "No." "A friend's house?" "Yes." "Yes. depending on how popular you are." "get in here. he was staying at a friend's house." "Really." "Yes." "Let's assume that you believe him for the moment." "Name your friends within two miles." "Martin and kim's?" "No." "Guess someone who doesn't have a wife." "Dave?" "Yes." "Got an address? someone else here should have symptoms." "Not if lee was the only one coming down to the basement." "but no gas leaks." "Resumes and cover letters here... some are weeks old." "He's been spending time here for a while." "Business wasn't going good." "I didn't want you and the kids to worry." "I was trying to protect you." "Molly... i wish you could hear me." "I wish i could make all of this better." "Looks like he temped a few times." "As a janitor." "Factory out on route 10." "Factory foreman says they make rechargeable batteries." "Mostly for cell phones. to sweeping up." "Doing what i had to do." "Metal filings." "i'd say cadmium. then right into his lungs." "Heavy metal poisoning..." "explains everything." "The chelation will scrub the heavy metals out of your blood. we should see some movement in about a day or so." "Can't put this thing on turbo?" "I'm getting a little anxious in here." "Somebody will be here at all times keep you company." "it'll help make the time go quicker." "My eyes still feel really dry." "Thank you..." "for thinking "up." "For helping me find you in there." "when you moved that cursor... bought my first girlfriend a necklace." "It was silver." "It cost 180 bucks..." "had to save for six months." "She hated it." "seriously?" "Did you tell this story to someone who could walk away?" "Never bought another girlfriend jewelry again." "Until dr." "Hadley." "You're dating her?" "You might want to start all your stories with that." "Same thing... she didn't even wear it." "she was wearing it the other day." "she doesn't like it. but at least have the guts to tell me." "getting boring again." "How long until we know if this treatment is working?" "You lied to me." "I wasn't having an affair." "So we needed money." "Who cares?" "you got migraines every day." "Why would you do that to me?" "i was..." "i was stupid." "I was... don't go!" "somebody... put "i'm sorry" on this stupid computer." "My eye is killing me." "I want to keep my job." "Great." "All you got to do is come up with a good idea." "How about we hook the guy's brain so he can communicate?" "That's a great idea." "For the guy who invented the computer that can read minds." "Your idea was to use his idea." "You didn't come up with it." "No one else came up with it. we never would've found... what's interesting is why you're here now." "Not when i gave you the ultimatum." "Was it something the patient said?" "I realized that what we do here...terrifies me." "And... overcoming that is the only way i can matter." "Kutner found the battery factory." "Kutner came up with the cadmium." "Maybe you don't matter." "I'm going to close your eyes so you can get some sleep." "we'll see some improvement." "Hope that includes my eye feeling better." "Hand me the flourescein stain." "What's that mean?" "Epithelium looks torn." "These drops sting." "I'm going to close your left eye to keep it protected." "I'm going to blink your eye a few times to distribute the dye." "Ulcerative keratitis." "Means it's not cadmium poisoning." "Which means you don't know what's wrong." "Again." "When's the last time you changed that dressing?" "i'd say never. and now his eye is oozing puss." "I assume you went over all of that with your team. or you wouldn't still be muttering to yourself." "This is going to hurt." "The way he's losing his myelin makes an infection most likely." "Could be varicella... road debris has come to the surface." "I'm going to have to scrub it out." "But the initial acyclovir would've treated that." "Which pushes me towards an autoimmune disease." "Like behcet's." "Here...this is going to hurt even more." "two later. it wouldn't matter what they did up in middletown." "Do an lp." "You've been in the er too long. white blood cells only indicate that he had head trauma." "Or you could use the lp for something useful." "it's varicella." "behcet's." "Why did i fire you again?" "You didn't." "I quit." "either." "Busy... so i have to focus." "phone records." "You've never had any contact with anyone at fishkill." "i ask again... what were you doing up in middletown?" "You know what's more interesting than what i was doing?" "The reason you are so obsessed with what i was doing." "house." "Says the deflector." "The reason i was up there... is the reason you're scared i was up there." "little secret." "How long have you been sleeping with her?" "How did you know?" "Your only secrets are the girls you find embarrassing." "And the only embarrassing girl you've met recently is the one at your brother's cuckoo facility." "We've only been out a few times." "She's a caregiver." "Like all of your other failed exes." "And someone who takes care of your brother." "Who was the last person who took care of your brother?" "You think this is oedipal?" "i was thinking masturbatory." "I guess your mom took care of him first." "the safe course is to gouge your eyes out." "Lp stands for lumbar puncture." "We use this needle to collect fluid from your spine." "That's a really big needle." "You're going to feel some extreme pressure in your back." "I already feel pressure in my front... my chest hurts." "Something's wrong." "my chest!" "Something's wrong." "I think i'm hav... god!" "Call the code." "There is no god." "You don't know what's wrong with me." "It doesn't seem that way." "So am i dead?" "Not yet." "But you're about to be." "Okay." "Charging...clear." "Again...clear." "He's back." "No." "No." "Let me go." "He can't fix me. everything hurts." "just..." "just stop fighting." "She's got to go on with her life." "The kids don't need this." "I can't do nothing for them..." "i can't... really itches." "So we put in a temporary pacer." "shut up." "He's trying to talk." "Is something bothering you?" "it's expected." "Is it your eye?" "Why is he saying "no" three times?" "You only asked one question. maybe he's saying "down." "Are you saying that the pain is lower?" "your leg?" "Your foot?" "Left foot?" "Check his..." "let me see now... his right foot." "no cuts." "Then there should be no pain." "Is there a tingling sensation?" "Is it itching?" "Itchy foot means liver failure." "The liver's fine." "His enzymes have been normal since we admitted him." "i said "failure." "Just like you." "Liver's like a cruise ship taking on water. it uses enzymes." "the worse the liver is. there's no more s.o.s. but it's already at the bottom of the sea. led to locked-in syndrome." "Now we just need to know what's causing the liver failure." "plus kidney... most likely sclerosing cholangitis. it would've been a happy ending." "Do a biopsy to confirm." "I'm going to numb up the area where we'll go in for the punch biopsy." "Where's the new bracelet?" "She was wearing the bracelet?" "You didn't notice that i was wearing it?" "Because you weren't." "and you didn't?" "it's not a big deal." "that's the point." "I'd rather have it at home in the jewelry box than getting peed on at work." "You got the patient's urine on that arm?" "When i was putting in the catheter." "Why?" "You've got a rash." "The bracelet's real." "I figured." "So what if the rash isn't just a rash?" "What if it's an infection? then the liver failure could be caused by leptospirosis." "It transfers through urine." "his pee to you." "The infection would need an entry point." "cuts." "Look." "Next to his fingernail. which released toxins that caused the locked-in syndrome." "You were dying of a paper cut." "I hope you're right this time." "We found rats in your buddy dave's basement." "Tested positive for leptospirosis." "That means we're on the right treatment." "So... try moving a finger." "Your brain needs to get used to doing its job again." "Try harder." "I'm sure you've lost hope." "I know we've told you several times but this time we're right." "Concentrate." "Move one finger for me." "Welcome back." "I did it." "Rat pee." "Very nice idea." "Who came up with it?" "I did." "Good." "You okay with him claiming the credit?" "It was his idea." "He saw the rash... he'd have hung a "mission accomplished" banner in my outer office." "Don't toy with him." "If you're going to fire him... the fact that he stole your idea means that he cares enough to lie." "That's all i needed to know." "Rat pee." "That's a very nice idea." "House." "You left this in my office." "i didn't." "So either i have a hole in my pocket... i stole it. you wouldn't have come back here and lied to me about it." "You would've thrown her right in my face." "You underestimate the entertainment value of your obsessions." "And then there were all those calls you weren't taking in front of me." "So i dialed the number of the calls you weren't taking." "You're seeing a psychiatrist." "You had no right to invade my privacy." "Is... is that...?" "yeah." "It's irony." "Hey... god sent you." "you're not so fascinating." "You're spying on your team." "wilson." "Is that what you really want to torture me about right now?" "I don't want to torture you at all." "I think this is a great thing." "Not something you have to drive an hour out of town to shroud in mystery." "Whining on someone's couch." "That's an excellent use of my time." "Maybe i'll discover that my childhood wasn't perfect." "So your attitude about therapy clearly hasn't changed." "And yet you went." "Which leads me to believe that maybe something else has changed." "Maybe you think you can change." "I credit cuddy with that." "because i'm not going back." "please... i assume you went because you're tired of screwing up every chance you get at happiness." "New contact." "Delete contact." "Do not let the fact that i found out about it... don't beat yourself up." "I'm not going back because it doesn't work." "You'll end up alone." "0000"