"What time?" "4:30." "Why so late?" "Medical test and social studies." "Did you invite Shelby for Saturday?" "No. you calling a 12-year-old girl for a sleep over." "It'll be fine." "I'll make you a deal." "I'll call a friend when you call a friend." "do as you want." "Thank you." "Bye." "Bye." "What'd you forget?" "Nothing." "Then why'd you came back?" "'cause I live here." "you're gonna be late for school." "What are you talking about?" "It's 4:30." "Are you okay?" "I..." "I guess." "What's wrong?" "I don't know." "House M.D. Season 5 Episode 6 "Joy" "Great." "That's all I need to know." "You're late!" "bye." "37-year-old male with recurrent blackouts." "Tell him to switch from tequila to bourbon." "It worked for me." "The three doctors he's already seen already ruled out drugs and alcohol." "then it's epilepsy." "Tell him to buy a hockey helmet" "ET's clean so is the CT." "Relax." "Just 'cause you got approved by an adoption agency doesn't mean you'll get approved by the birth mother." "You're a single mom." "That puts you somewhere below couples that quitted in daycare scandals." "Dr. House." "It is an interesting case." "What time are you seeing the mom?" "You're having your guy follow me?" "I just trash your social value as a mother and all I got was a little sarcasm. which means you've already got one." "We're meeting at 11:00." "She's due to deliver a baby girl in two weeks." "I'm sure the mom will be thrilled to hand her crack baby off to a doctor." "She's not a crack baby. she just had to give up the baby in order to continue her work on the human genome." "She confessed to some past meth use." "What they don't confess to is almost always more interesting." "This is a mistake." "Because a kid you don't know may have some problem that you don't know about that she may have passed on to a kid?" "Because you're a control-seeking narcicist." "good even in some jobs." "But you're not equipped to handle a real kid nevermind a factory second." "Where are you meeting her?" "In a little place called "Follow me and your urologist will be buying himself a new yacht." "right?" "It's worse than video games." "Not changing my mind." "Could be post-concussion syndrome." "Not without a preconcussion." "Pick a number." "For what?" "Cuddy pool." "She got the ." "The little tweaker is doing 14 days." "That's great news..." "I think." "It's good news." "The great news is... which means she's actually thought about changing her mind" "which means she's gonna change her mind." "The only question is when." "$100 buyin'." "Less than seven means the next seven days." "But she's been dying for a kid for three years." "No way she's gonna back out now." "Not one of the options." "memory loss." "Nine hours is a lot of time to be out from a mini-stroke." "And there'd be residual damage on the CT." "Guy works at home as a consumer product tester. which wouldn't show up on imaging." "Cavernous sinus thrombosis could cause absence seizures and memory loss." "I'll take 7 to 14." "We have a player." "You just said it was great news." "Now you want to bet against her?" "It's only great news if she wants it to be great news." "House knows her better than any of us." "I'd rather you use a pseudonym." "Good thinking." "I say she's gonna meet the mom and bolt." "I'm going for the early fold." "Check his home for toxins and his sinuses for thrombosises." "he didn't drink the coffee." "Just smelled it." "Wow!" "Did they just move here?" "Six years ago." "This is no way to raise a kid." "He's a single dad." "I'm sure he's doing his best." "Which is why single people shouldn't have kids." "You got a problem with what Cuddy's doing?" "You think single mothers can't" "I think the traditional family is a fraud." "Even married moms are single moms." "Daddy just pays some bills and reads just enough bedtime stories to not kill himself out of guilt." "My dad was great." "After my mum died-- you are fairly screwed up." "no drugs." "And no view." "The building's half empty." "He's rather have a view at the turnpike than the park." "Park views are probably 50% more." "Are you surprised the guy's a pragmatist after looking at this place?" "Guy's not a pragmatist." "He's a flagellant." "Looks like mold." "A mom would've cleaned better." "Exposure to certain types of mold can cause  short-term memory loss." "We're testing both of you." "I feel fine." "I'm sure you are..." "We're just being cautious." "Where do you guys go other than home and school?" "Nowhere." "Dad works at home and I go to school." "travel?" "dad works at home and I go to school." "huh?" "I was only 4 when the accident happened." "I'm sure you both miss her sometimes." "Not really..." "You're strong." "you know?" "Yeah." "How is she?" "she's fine." "she's weird." "I'm sure she's just freaked out about her dad." "Mr. Harmon?" "Mr. Harmon." "Where are you going?" "I have an appointment." "I have to go." "We haven't finished with your treatment." "We're still waiting on some test results." "I have an appointment." "you're gonna have to reschedule." "I really have to go." "do you know where you are?" "Why are you trying to stop me?" "His eyes." "Is he having a seizure?" "His pupils are responsive." "I think he's... asleep." "He was just asleep." "Means no memory loss." "And sleepwalking doesn't kill." "Unless he walks out a window." "Sleepwalking's not a diagnosis." "It's a symptom." "As long as we can't figure out why" "Stress-induced insomnia." "Lots of people sleepwalk." "Not in the middle of the day before they've even put their head on a pillow." "Could be some sort of narcolepsy." "Which is caused by" "There's usually genetic history." "Or?" "can you tell us the answer?" "I don't know the answer." "Which brings us back to--or?" "Some sort of environmental trigger." "Which means?" "It's a toxin." "So we are?" "Being lead down an annoying path." "I honestly don't know where this is going." "Just following the clues." "We're right back where we started." "The mold we found doesn't cause these symptoms." "And there's nothing else at his home." "and?" "And you're obnoxious." "He never goes anywhere else." "Which we know because?" "Because he says so." "Because his daughter says so." "Because they have no reason to lie." "Which proves he never goes anywhere else..." "When..." "He's..." "Conscious." "you're right." "He said he had an appointment." "let him keep it." "Send him home." "See where his dreams take him." "Becca?" "Dr. Cuddy?" "Lisa." "Nice to meet you." "you want one?" "No thanks." "a craving." "a dozen a day." "and this is decaf." "How have you been feeling?" "nervous." "anything you want to ask me?" "I just have one question." "what are you gonna call her?" "I'm not sure." "you know?" "I like joy." "I haven't really decided yet." "is there anything you want to ask me?" "It's okay." "The agency web site is filled with prospective parents." "their biographies." "There's so many wonderful people out there." "Wonderful couples." "Why did I choose a single mom?" "My grandmother was married for 37 years to a man that treated her like garbage." "And my mom would've stayed married but he dumped her." "I never understood how you could fall for the same crap as your mother." "Then I met Tony." "I saw your picture..." "I don't want her raised by a loser." "How long have you had that rash?" "I don't know." "A few days?" "Have you had any joint pain?" "I'm pregnant." "All my joints hurt." "They shouldn't all hurt." "Have you been using?" "Not in seven months." "Not since I found out I was pregnant." "That needs to be checked out." "You sure you don't want children?" "just because we're stuck here and I'm lying down doesn't mean we need to get deep." "You're afraid you'll make the same mistake you made with your wife." "Get caught taking some other kid to a ball game." "I like my life as it is." "Alpha waves increasing." "Any change in demeanor?" "nothing." "He just got up." "Maybe it's a result of the blood pressure change." "Delta waves out of nowhere." "He's now asleep." "Brain's supposed to turn off motor function." "we wouldn't be here." "He's leaving." "Come on." "She's 38 weeks." "You think it's fifth disease?" "What's that?" "It's a viral infection." "It can infect the fetus. and in women who have trouble with their immune system." "History of drug abuse could've compromised her immune system." "I told you I haven't used anything in seven months." "It does look more like a heat rash to me." "maybe we want to look at the actual blood tests." "Of course." "She work for you?" "Yeah." "Everybody here works for you. are you okay to deliver here?" "sure." "Good." "Blood work's normal." "Test it again." "Tested it twice." "I'll get you some topical cream for that rash." "I'm admitting her." "There's nothing wrong with her." "There are dozens of other things this rash could indicate." "I want a full fetal work up." "You're losing it." "That's what happens when you have kids." "Ceaseless crying and nagging leads to irrational fears." "It's impressive that you didn't wait for the actual crying and nagging. and a history of drug abuse." "You would've done exactly the same thing." "and I'd be an excellent father." "Oh!" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Baby barf." "Maternity ward was handing out free samples." "sir." "You leave me no choice but to change." "not my mind." "That's exactly my point." "It's not gonna be me and a cup." "It's gonna be eight times a day. you can't handle a baby." "Why do you even care?" "It's not like I'm ever gonna ask you to babysit." "I'm a humanitarian." "We should stop him." "The whole point was to-- let him plow into some innocent bystander?" "His legs are working." "his eyes are working too." "His reaction time could be slower." "I see." "He's having sleep sex." "Maybe." "Pull up to her." "I know." "What'd that guy want?" "Piss off." "Go after him." "She's not a hooker." "How do you know?" "or do you want to stop him before he finishes off the drugs he just bought?" "rip's a coke fiend." "So sleeping beauty has a jones for snow white." "Coke explains the narcolepsy." "Narcolepsy explains the sleepwalking." "But it doesn't explain the rip in the space time continuum." "which leads to sleepwalking." "What caused the first sleepwalking?" "The coke he took while he was wide awake." "Says he didn't." "Wouldn't be the first time somebody lied about drug use." "He has no reason to lie." "He knows he's sick." "His job doesn't drug test." "No relationship." "His daughter wouldn't find out." "Maybe he just forgot." "Forgot he did cocaine?" "You're going with forgot over lying?" "fits." "Cocaine explains the narcolepsy." "Narcolepsy explains the sleepwalking." "Whatever is in the cocaine other than the cocaine explains the memory loss." "Dealers cut this stuff with all kinds of garbage." "we'll start him on immediate treatment for all kinds of garbage." "You can narrow it down in the lab." "Not without a sample." "So get a sample." "You want us to score cocaine from a drug dealer?" "It's exciting." "It's a felony." "It's necessary." "There she is." "Amniotic fluid looks good." "Good fetal movement." "Heart's beating nicely." "heh." "What?" "It looks like pulmonary hypoplasia." "What's that?" "The baby's lungs are underdeveloped." "She won't be able to breath on her own." "She might die?" "I don't know. but we're not gonna let that happen." "We'll put you on magnesium to prevent labor and steroids to grow the lungs." "It's a good thing dr." "Cuddy brought you in." "How do you know what a drug dealer looks like?" "if that's what you're asking." "I just noticed that she had cash in her hand." "Obviously came from him." "Obviously didn't have enough time to perform any other services." "I didn't notice her holding" "There she is." "we're not cops." "right?" "they can say it." "Oh." "you'd know that." "What do you want?" "Um--ahem." "please." "definitely not a cop." "Thank you." "Wait." "It's good." "pablo." "Now can we go?" "No." "You gave us the wrong stuff." "What are you talking about?" "You got my best." "I know." "I don't want the good get your new customer hooked" stuff." "I want the stepped on keep the old customer coming back for more" stuff." "bitch?" "I'm a just a bitch who knows what she wants." "Looks like this kid thing is really working out for you." "none of the stretch marks." "Not a good time." "kid's getting worse." "Blessing in disguise." "Although a completely predictable one." "don't be surprised by the worms." "Still wearing the sweater." "I didn't say you weren't stubborn." "I said you weren't maternal." "Thank you." "Go away." "You're getting crankier." "Baby's sick." "Sorry I'm not finding the fun in that." "Is it really worth it?" "Just for the pursuit of unconditional love?" "Only you could see that as a bad thing." "It's a fake thing." "There's no unconditional love." "It's just unconditional need." "Don't make this child a victim of your biological clock." "Victim?" "You think she's better off staying-- yes!" "Because at least she knows she's not qualified for the job." "Let me guess. but she's not gonna listen." "I was going for and he wants to do it on the desk. but she has issues with self-esteem." "You know you're gonna pay for that." "I'm paying for it right now." "With wisdom." "Get out." "We found lactose." "The coke was cut with milk powder." "Makes it nutritious." "Not much of a toxin." "It is if he's allergic to milk." "He's not." "He has milk in his fridge." "How does he like his coffee?" "I don't know." "What does that" "What type of cereal's in the cabinet?" "what does it matter?" "He likes his coffee black." "Milk's for the kid." "How can you be sure? he'd know that he's lactose intolerant." "then treat him for allergic reaction. we all get to go home early." "Steroids make you more prone to infection." "You'll have to stay here for the new two weeks so we can monitor you." "is that because of...the meth?" "Could be." "You must hate me." "I wouldn't be getting a baby." "You're not scared?" "I am scared." "this perfect life." "Not yet." "What's that?" "Heart rate's climbing." "What's wrong with her?" "It's not the baby." "It's you." "stat!" "The mother had a stage two placental abruption." "She's losing blood." "So deliver the baby." "The lungs are ten weeks premature." "risk the baby." "risk the mom." "It's not your baby yet." "It's not your call." "She'll do whatever I tell her to do." "you know." "You should deliver now." "Right." "Are you serious?" "You're not?" "You just told me" "The wrong answer." "You can give the mom more blood." "You can't give the fetus more lungs." "The lungs might work." "It's the right decision medically." "And yet you're here." "not to get jerked around." "this is what's screwed up here. but you are sure that this is what you want to tell her." "And that scares you because your motives aren't medical. and that part wants to tell her to kill it." "This is an impossible situation." "I'm advising her to take the safest route." "Right." "Doesn't explain why you changed your sweater." "I need your advice." "It's not cancer." "wow!" "Can you remove spleens with your mind too?" "You're here to talk about Cuddy." "The file is a pretext." "Why the hell haven't you come to talk to me about Cuddy?" "I've been doing all sorts of insane stuff. she can't handle a baby." "That's exactly my point." "it isn't." "You're feeling threatened because she's going on to high school and leaving you behind to repeat the eighth grade." "She's sleeping with the math teacher to get a diploma." "Adoption is cheating?" "Are they giving her a fake kid?" "That's the problem. but she can't handle one with an adult." "So she's gonna kill it." "it does seem cleaner." "I've seen the file." "She's making a judgment call." "Decisions are never made in a vacuum." "Just like your decision to make her miserable." "You're doing this because we no longer have inkwells and Cuddy doesn't have pigtails." "Why do you think I did that?" "How you doing?" "Not sure." "Been keeping an eye on the clock like you said." "I don't think I lost any time." "The machinery agrees with you." "That means your problems were caused by the coke." "Can't believe I did coke." "You were asleep." "I chose to do coke." "In your sleep." "You weren't responsible." "Something inside me wanted to do it." "Something inside of me didn't think it was wrong." "It's like a dream." "We all do stuff in our dreams we wouldn't do when we're awake." "I don't." "What's that?" "Did I fall asleep and hurt myself?" "I don't see any cuts." "Because there aren't any." "I think..." "You're sweating blood." "Guy's bleeding out of his pores." "What does that tell us?" "Other than you don't want to play basketball against him and he's dying?" "And neither cocaine or allergies are the answer." "It's gotta be systemic." "Hemoraging virus maybe?" "You think it's ebola?" "his white blood cell count would be through the roof." "It's not an infection." "D.I.C.?" "Coags are normal." "It's cancer." "Leukemia explains everything." "no fever." "The bleeding." "no weight loss." "The rash." "no headache." "The fatigue." "Leukemia'd be obvious from the CBC." "Leukemia has false negatives all the time. four reasons against." "Only need one against." "if we had one reason for anything else." "Go do a bone marrow biopsy." "What would you do?" "I think..." "I think you should wait." "But if I wait..." "I could die." "but" "Is this your opinion as a doctor or as a mother?" "It's my medical opinion." "It's my personal opinion" "I don't want to wait." "It might only be one week." "We will keep you on plasma." "This is not my baby." "I have already sacrificed nine months for this stupid mistake." "I don't--I don't want to sacrifice any more." "you asked my opinion because you wanted to do the right thing." "You are giving up this baby because you don't want to make the mistakes her mom made. to do something great for this baby." "No." "I need you to hold still." "unh." "Wait." "Have you been testing any tanning creams or sprays?" "No." "It's not a tan." "Means it's not leukemia." "Unh." "end stage." "Got him on dialysis?" "BP's too low." "Too bad." "It would've been nice to have more than an hour or two to solve this thing." "Hemachromatosis?" "He have tiny testes?" "No." "Scleroderma." "not lighter. you think it just might be vascular?" "Vasculitis? would you have said "vitas gerulaitis?" "angio and blood. he's gonna need a kidney transplant." "Test the daughter." "She's 12." "Small kidney." "It just means he won't pee as much." "Great for road trips. so we're gonna need Cuddy's signoff." "So get it." "She's...kind of busy." "Clamp." "Suction." "Entering the abdominal cavity." "There's the head." "Got a minute?" "get out of here." "Who's that?" "Dr." "Gregory House." "He's the one you'll be suing when you develop sepsis." "why is he here?" "Better question is why is she here?" "You're an administrator." "Administrate." "I have a patient's daughter needs a guardian ad litem." "That's it." "Tests are inconclusive." "But either way he's gonna need-- get out!" "This doesn't need you." "I do." "Head's out." "Later." "Later's too late." "And there she is." "cry." "Come on." "Come on." "cry." "Joy." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "That's the sound we like to hear." "Apgar's nine out of ten." "You hear that?" "You just got your first "a." "She's...yours now." "Mazel tov." "Now it's time to say those magic words you'll be telling her for the rest of her life." "Mommy's gotta go to work." "Have the risks of the transplant procedure been explained to you?" "Damn it." "I was hoping you weren't going to ask her that." "Of course she knows." "Can you just sign the paperwork?" "Dr. House explained to you that all surgeries carry risk?" "You could die." "daddy will die." "Stop pressuring her." "Sorry." "Daddy's perfectly healthy." "But we want you to give him a kidney anyway because it'd be cool if he had three." "Shut up." "Do you understand the risks of living with one kidney?" "Yeah." "And you still want to proceed with the transplant?" "Yeah." "go ahead." "No." "I'm saying you can proceed." "I'm saying I can't." "she has too." "She's sleepwalking." "he's dead in a week." "We have to transplant. you don't replace it with another dead battery." "Whatever's killing the dad's kidneys is gonna kill the kid's too." "It is possible the sleep issues aren't medically related." "Maybe they're both insomniacs due to the turnpike noise." "maybe" "House is right." "How do you know?" "Because the daughter's sweating blood." "it means there has to be a common cause." "or genetic." "And since we've ruled out infections and toxins-- each of which takes more than a week to run." "Call Foreman." "Get to work." "Cuddy is positively aglow." "What's your theory?" "She's only acting happy to make you miserable?" "I need a genetic disease." "I'm sure you're carrying a few." "and insomnia." "You paid off the pool?" "anyone who didn't enter is a winner." "It's not over yet." "Everyone's happy until they unwrap that pretty present and find they got a wall clock in the shape of Africa." "remember?" "so there's no postpartum depression." "Cuddy will be the happiest new mother you've ever seen." "haven't I?" "And now you're going to walk out of here without saying a word." "Nope!" "Good news. and you're both gonna be fine." "What?" "Are you serious?" "Yes and no." "So you do know what they have?" "Yeah." "But they aren't gonna be fine?" "no idea." "They might be." "Why the hell would you say they were?" "To make them happy." "For two seconds?" "to see if they can be happy. something." "They're sick." "They're tired. incapable of experiencing pleasure." "Something's bushwhacked their dopamine receptors." "They're depressed." "Mom's dead." "Dad's dying." "You should know that being bummed isn't necessarily a pathology." "Being bummed doesn't explain their lack of friends or their indifference to each other. no decor." "what's with the cocaine?" "Really?" "Is that why you do drugs?" "Because you're happy?" "Most people do 'em because they want to be happy." "needed it." "Most common cause of anhedonia is schizophrenia." "in white folk." "They're black?" "They're liars." "What's your name?" "Jerry Harmon." "Your real name." "Hosarian?" "Herzog?" "H'Ali-Baba?" "Hammoud." "Jamal Hammoud." "Changed it when we invaded Iraq the first time." "How'd you know?" "You and your daughter have familial Mediterranean fever." "It's a genetic disease contracted by people of Mediterranean descent." "Arabs. even lactose intolerance." "Symptoms are set off by age and stress." "but she could get stressed by daddy dying." "You don't know if we'll get better?" "Treatment tends to be hit and miss once you reach the sweating blood stage." "Start them on colchicine and melphalan." "His kidneys are fried." "the colchicine will kill him." "sure hope I'm right." "Mr. Harmon?" "I need you to open your eyes." "Feeling better?" "How's Samantha?" "Healthy enough to toss you a kidney." "Dad?" "Sammy." "Labor  delivery" "the baby's doing great." "I..." "I can't imagine how hard this must be for you." "I was--I was stupid and selfish." "You were scared." "but you wouldn't have been." "That's not true. but...you would've done the right thing anyway." "And I want to be like that." "I don't--I don't want to be a loser." "You're not a loser." "When I saw you hold her" "it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." "And that's when I realized..." "I can't." "Becca. never about love." "it could be." "And I can't give that away." "don't do this." "Uh..." "What you're feeling is natural." "But you're filled and..." "You just can't make a huge decision like this right now." "You have to give it some time." "I am..." "I'm so sorry." "It's a decision that changes everything." "Changes the rest of your life." "I hope so." "* Don't take away my shine *" "* My shine is all I have * and my glad *" "* It worries me sometimes *" "* That I want love *" "* And live a life of sad *" "* My tremolo *" "* Sweet baby *" "* My fire *" "It's really not the greatest time for gloating." "There's more than one baby in the sea." "The world is full of teenage boys riding bareback." "No." "I'm done." "I can't go through that again." "You're quitting." "Just like you quit IVF." "just like that." "you just did it again." "It's too bad." "You would've made a great mother." "You son of a bitch." "you told me I'd suck as a mother. you tell me I'd be great as a mother." "Why do you need to negate everything?" "I don't know." "Good night." "Good night." "Sync:" "NIZ"