"He's got a good pulse." "Maintain head stabilization and flip him over." "guys." "Ready." "Go." "we're paramedics." "The mailman saw you having a seizure." "We had to break down your door." "Do you know what your name is?" "three." "Up." "We're taking you to the hospital." "I can't..." "I can't... we're trying to help." " Sir!" " Stay out of my house!" "You just had a seizure." "You could have a stroke." "A bleed in your brain." "Leave me alone!" "House" " Season 05 Episode 07 " The Itch" "Sync:" "NIZ crushing headache and 3 seizures in the last two days. or infection." " Stick him in a CT." " Can't." "I'm assuming he has a giant head." "Severe agoraphobe." "The world scares the hell out of him." "We can only test him with whatever we can take to him." " Fun." " Agoraphobia a symptom?" "Only of being shot." "He and his girlfriend were mugged 7 years ago." "That's when it started." "Anybody can hate humanity after getting shot." "Takes a big man to hate it beforehand." "How'd you get this case if he didn't come to the ER?" "I talked to him through his door when he had flu last year." "I run the community outreach program now." "See?" "Perfectly reasonable explanation." "She's definitely not here trying to work her way back on the team and steal your job or anything." " It's a legitimate question." " He agreed to meet with us. his brain is a black box." "We can pick this up in a minute." "What's this?" "Take-out menus." "I'm hoping you'll come up with a better answer when everyone asks what we're talking about." " Last night..." " Forget it." "but we need to talk." "There's a reason that we've evolved a feeling of awkwardness." "It tells us not to talk about things." "I was emotional because of the adoptionfalling through." "And you actually let your human side show for a moment." "That is why we kissed." "I just want to say thank you for not... taking advantage." "You're welcome." "I'm there for you." "Portable equipment can't distinguish a bleed or a tumor." "Can't see vasculitis." "What did Cuddy want? so now she's all on my jock." "Wow." "She looks pretty good for someone on roofies." "The only equipment we have is a sonogram and a portable x-ray." "and amphibole don't you understand?" "Pyroxene." "Pyro means "fire"..." "They're indicator minerals." "You can't see diamonds so you look for the indicator minerals." "I assume the diamond is the tumor or bleed or whatever it is." "We provoke a seizure." "The indicator is the increased electrical activity focused around the abnormality. which tells us what the problem is." "The formster and the camster." "Kickin' it old school." "Thank god she's not trying to steal your job." "Go do it." "And search the home for toxins." "not let you in." "You could be very sick." "We need access." "I'm just not ready." " Why does he have two locked doors?" " He must use this room as an airlock." "Deliveries in." "Garbage out." "He never has to go outside." "Just tell us when you are." "We're not going away." " Seriously?" " You want her to admit that all he has to do is ignore us for a few minutes and we'll take off?" "He was shot." "Girlfriend killed." "He probably has post traumatic stress disorder." "He doesn't believe a just universe." "He doesn't trust anyone." "Give him some honesty." "I shouldn't have implied we'd wait forever." "We've got a whole hospital full of patients." "We can give you a few minutes. we're gonna have to leave." " Just one person comes in." " No." "We've got to search the whole house for toxins." "How about I examine you in one room and my colleagues will do the search?" "I'm gonna try to provoke a seizure." "okay?" " You all right?" " Yeah." "I just..." "I haven't been in a room with anyone for a while." " Can you just give me a second?" " Sure." "right?" "Yeah." "you were nice... and smart." "Kind of made me expect someone older." "I'm not that young." " Must've been scary being shot." " Don't do that." "Okay?" "You... you don't know me." "I've got everything I want here." "I make a lot of money writing tech manuals." "I get stuff delivered." "I work out." "I see anything I want over the web." "I'm..." "I'm happy here." "right now I'm not." "Go away." "Did you speak to Cuddy last night?" "She's fine." "Why would it take anyone more than a few hours to get over misplacing a baby?" "You spoke to her?" "Kinda hit that." "So she's all on my jock." "Wha... what?" " Everyone else thought I was kidding." " You hit?" "Like making out or full-on sex or..." "Got a chart laid out with all the bases." "I'll take you through it." " What are you gonna do?" " What can I do?" "I'm going to ignore her for the rest of my life." "This mosquito bite kept me awake." "Don't care about the bug bite." "She's your boss." "So now I have two reasons to ignore her." " It was just a kiss." " There's a reason." "Yes." "Those large things in her bra." "You were hiding it from me means it meant something to you." "I fiendishly concealed it within the phrase "I hit that." " Stop scratching." "You'll draw blood." " Finally you said something useful." "it'll let the poison out." "If you... dated Cuddy... there would..." "Sorry." "I get better reception when you're not here." " What do you got?" " His place is totally clean." "No animals." "No hidden drugs or alcohol." "No lead in the paint." "I assume you're not holding Cameron aloft in triumph." "Which means no seizures. you engaged to Chase yet? - not Dr. Cameron's love life." " We aren't engaged." "Moves things along much faster to give him the answers." "Seizures can also be induced..." " After six years?" " A year and a half." "Through sleep deprivation or..." "Sleep deprivation would take too long." " You living together?" " We spend most nights together." "There's a bunch of drugs that can lower a seizure threshold." "And cloud the diagnosis with side effects." "His place or yours?" " His." " Interesting." "You would've said interesting no matter what the answer." "it would've been interesting." "No engagement." "Commitment issues." "control issues." "but interesting." "moves much faster this way." "Where was the patient when he had his seizure?" "In his entry hallway getting his mail. raised his BP." "Use that fear." " Bring him outside." " He punched out a fireman." "not bouncers." "Okay." "So bring the outside to him." "Floor is genuine wood." "Why are they here?" "They overheard me announce the half price bank foreclosure in the ER waiting room." "Where's everybody?" "Cameron's with the patient." "Everybody else went home." "Because they don't need to be here." "Neither do you." "And yet you are." "This way." "Molding's original?" "Original?" "They were here before the house." "The shut-in's also original." "Come on." "Don't be shy." "get them out of here." "Easy for you to say." "You're not gonna be making some serious capital gains." "This is cruel." "altruistic?" "Procedure worked." "He's seizing." " What do you see?" " Normal theta." "Normal delta." "This isn't a seizure." "It's something." "are you okay?" "Stomach's killing me." "See?" "It's something." " Partial small bowel obstruction." " Blockage explains the pain." "What explains the blockage plus seizures?" "Atrial fibrillation throwing emboli." " Crohn's causing an abscess." " Could be a million things." "There's no way to know unless we get him in for an MRI on his head - which he won't let us do." " Wouldn't." "Pain changes things." "House." " He told you to stay out of here." " He can Chase me out once he's done doubling up in agony. it's caused a complication we call "colon FOS." "full of." ""S" is stool." "Nothing's coming out so the pain's gonna get worse and worse." "We need to stick a pooper scooper in you." "We also need to take a look at your bowel." "I made my wishes clear." "she could grant them." "I'm not insane." "I feel pain when I go outside." "So it... it's rational to avoid that pain." "Except now you're feeling pain inside." "Not as bad." "Nowhere near." "We can give him drugs for the blockage." "If it doesn't work? spew sewage throughout your body." "aren't you more scared of death?" "You obviously can't stand people." "it's worse." "All right?" "I'd rather die in here than live out there." "If you don't mind floppy hair I know a surgeon who will operate in your home." "Thank you." "Chase won't actually..." "He's not gonna do surgery in some crazy dude's house." " You just said..." " I said was that then slip him back into his room for the post-op without him ever finding out that we tricked him." " Some of that was implied." " It's unethical." " He'll be asleep." " He gets to make his own calls" " even if he's asleep." " Why are you siding with him?" "you're that girl who likes broken people because her husband died." "And since Chase isn't all..." "Why don't we operate on his infarcted leg while we're at it?" "Who cares if he said no." "I was risking my life to avoid becoming a cripple." "He's doing it to avoid sunlight and fresh air." "We've got to make it look good." "I know I'm a pain in the ass." "but... you're a good person." "Count down from 10. 8..." "Let's go!" "How you doin'?" " Better." "Great." "Everything else good?" "Everything involving me kissing House is good." "you dragged it out of me." "You're a genius." "It's no big deal." "I was feeling vulnerable." "He's a friend." "And I leaned on him." "It's funny." "I've leaned on friends in the past." "Never leaned so far my tongue fell into their mouths." "I don't think of House that way." "I never have." "Why not?" "You know exactly how it would go." "It'd start off exciting." "We'd get caught up in the novelty and the hostility and the forbiddingness." "And then we'd realize that the flirty hostility is hostility and his inability to open up it's just frustrating." "And then it's the inevitable blowup and the recriminations and we don't talk for two months." "It certainly proves you've never thought about House that way." "I get your point." "I will be more careful with my tongue in the future." "That's not my point." "Maybe novelty and hostility and forbiddingness doesn't have to end bad." "Gotta go." "What time you done?" "We could try that new sushi place next to my house." "Why don't we stay at my house tonight?" " We always stay at mine." " That's what I mean." "We used to split it." "What happened?" " I don't know." "Closer to work." " By five minutes." "And my house doesn't look like it was decorated by a drunk rugby player." "We can discuss it." "I hadn't really..." "Why does it have to be a discussion?" "Can't you just stay over?" "You do know they page me when that much surgical equipment is signed out." " He didn't consent." " He consented to surgery." "You think he's gonna sue over where?" "He won't know where." "He'll wake up in his house." "He won't remember." "Until he catches an infection in his dirty apartment and finds out we tricked him and winds up owning the hospital." "Why aren't you arguing with her?" "Because she's right." "Just that he gets it." "Keep him here." "You okay?" " We don't need to talk." " Your hand." "That's weird." "I usually don't get the stigmata until Easter." "Please tell Dr. Chase the patient's ready for him now." "Wake up." "It's Dr. Cameron." "blink." "We were concerned for your safety so we brought you to the hospital." "it's okay." "Why... why?" "it's okay." " Why..." "I want you to know." "I didn't want you to have a bad shock while you recover." " Gotta get outta of here." " It's okay." "Calm down." "Calm down." "I'm gonna sedate you." "I'm gonna sedate you." "Calm down." "I need some help in here!" "Damn it!" "Somebody get in here!" "What did you do?" "Well done." "threatened to sue us." "He's now heading home completely undiagnosed." "He'll soon be on his way back." "He's sick." "He'll crash." "He'll lose consciousness." "bring him back in." "Not anymore you won't." "His lawyer now holds his health care proxy. will be calling the shots. - it would've been worse." " The benefit of being boss is that I don't have to argue." "You're all off the case." "What's going on between you and Cuddy?" "Bad lovin' gone bad." "Why didn't you argue with her?" " She just threw us off the case." " Because ignoring her is easier." "Convince the patient to let us back in again." "See if you can clear his blockage with lactulose. it won't be fun anymore." "You gonna keep working on this?" " Yeah." "I brought in the case." " There is no case." "He's gone." "You've been tossed." "It's totally nuts." "He's incredibly sick." "We ignore..." "Forget about the patient." "What is going on with you?" "This is why we left the team to avoid this constant flood of pure craziness." "That's why I left House." "You got fired." "I'm sorry." "I know I let you down." "pretty much everyone who's important to me. my boyfriend." "I did that for you." "I'm not gonna let you down again." "It's like the red badge of idiocy. we'd all have southern accents and I'd be paying Foreman less." "She kicked you off the case." "This is what happens when you don't address it." "things get different." "You understand that different implies difference." "She's tossed me a million times before." "she always chastises you." "And you'd always come running to me to complain." "So you're acting different too." "You're scared." "You are scared to get involved." "How is that "scared"?" "It's rational." "Emotionally mature people who work together should not date." "Guaranteed breakup." "Guaranteed ugliness." "Any relationship that doesn't end in a breakup ends in death." "Everything falls apart in the end." "That's your world view. is that you have to grab any chance for happiness." "Why does this matter so much to you?" "Cuddy and I are fine." "The only person getting worked up here is you." "I don't want you to be fine." "I want you to be happy." "I think if you dated her..." "Are you familiar with the adverb "vicariously"?" " If I wanted to ask her out..." " You did ask her out." "Last year." "Whatever happened there?" "I don't know." "I wasn't interested." "Wrong." "You were interested." "But Amber grabbed your genitals first." "and you feel miserable because you think it's too soon for another relationship." "So you're gonna make me miserable." "or something." "For me." "Better or worse?" "Worse." "Drugs aren't working." "I think we should do the surgery in his house like we planned." "Then one of us wasn't paying attention because I thought that it was just a trick." "We prepared the room." "We hung the drapes." "It's 10 times as sterile as any mobile operating theater in a battlefield." "We still need Trapper John." "Chase doesn't want anywhere near this surgery." " Maybe you could talk to him." " I can't understand a word he says." "Doing anything later?" "Blood in the field." "Not where I'm looking." "How can I know where you're looking?" "Here's a hint." "It's the bloody part." "The whole thing's bloody." "He has a hole in his body." " You've done it." "Use the suction." " I will." "not nurse." "Wanna see if your client's actually made of money?" "Cutting out last piece of bowel." "Suture." "Mucosa's pink." "Flattened villi." "Intestinal atrophy." "It's Whipple's Disease." "Explains the seizure and the stomach pain." "Little bleeder here." "Cautery." "wait." "The gas..." "That always happens during surgery." "Just the gas buildup in the blockage." "Nothing to sue about." "Treat him for the burns." "Put him on antibiotics for the Whipple's." "He'll be fine." "Hey." "That's nice of you." "Hi." "He doing good?" "Burns are healing fine." "He's stable otherwise." "I could stay at your place tonight if you'd like." " I can't." "you're not gonna sleep here again." "You might have noticed the lack of nurses." "Because you're not on the case." "You can't really use that as an excuse..." "Wait here." "Your stomach?" "My legs are numb." "I can't feel them at all." "New symptom." "Peripheral neuropathy." "Got worse on antibiotics." " It's not Whipple's." " Porphyria." "Liver's fine." " Amyloidosis." " We would've seen it on the intestines." "What did we see on the intestines?" "flattened villi." "it's gotta be Celiac." "Wheat allergy means he's not absorbing nutrients." "and now the nerves." " We must run a blood test for Celiac." " Not fast enough." "Not accurate enough." "Force-feed him wheat then do an endoscopy as it hits his duodenum." " See if there's an allergic reaction." " His test just exploded." "It might be a tad painful to make him eat." "That's House's point." "There's nothing diagnostic about it." "force him to come in." "It is a valid test." "which is painless." "listen to that little voice in your head that's coming from the telephone." "Force-feed him." "Don't." "You know House." "You know I'm right." "We'll do both tests." "I'm not here to play matchmaker." "House basically... he accused me of being interested in you." "he's just trying to change the subject." "I know." "But I do have..." "I've always... had... some feelings for you." "Are you saying you want to date me?" "No." "I..." "It wouldn't be fair to House and it's too soon after Amber." "But you thought you should just say it." "I thought you should know." "Let's have dinner tomorrow night." "Or maybe it would be better if we just... had sex." " Pardon me?" " In front of House's office." "I don't want to take any chances." "I assume the point of this is to make him jealous and make him realize that he does want a relationship with me?" "You think it'll work?" "You're an idiot." "Trust me." "Everybody will be happier if House and I aren't dating." "You sure this is the best test?" "No." "But you've kind of tied our hands." "I'll look at it through an endoscope." "but... people who get shot often get PTSD." "It's nothing to be ashamed of." "It's very treatable with drugs and therapy." "It's not PTSD." "My girlfriend was with me when I got shot and she died." "I'm sorry." "But that's what I mean." "I lost someone myself." "I know it's traumatic." "what... what I'm trying to say is that..." "I was like this before the shooting." "Since I was a kid." "Everything was hard for me." "I didn't go out that much." "And... and when I did..." "I had panic attacks." "Like physical pain." "worse." "It was like I was dying." "Then I met Angela." "She was the only reason" "that I ever wanted to go out." "But then she died." "And..." "Blood test will be done soon." "I'm guessing that's a new technique." "you remember that idea that Cameron had about trying to torture the patient into admitting himself?" "Pretty sure it was your idea." "You want me to slow down the test?" "Wow." "Everyone's got all these great ideas today." "So you're thinking patient won't leave because leaving so we gotta make staying more painful." "That actually makes sense." "but not enough to make a difference." " He's on morphine." " He's on morphine now." "Pretty soon he'll be on less-phine." "you'll actually be giving" "Cameron IV bags of saline." "And why do you think I'll be doing this?" " Same reason you did the surgery." " That was because it was an emergency." "No." "It was because your marriage is falling apart." "things tend to go bad. and why you'll do this." "She's having me sleep on the couch." "Just for a few nights." "I'm not doing this to save my job." "I'm doing this to save his life." "Right." "That's what we'll tell everyone." "Have you considered that it's not my place you really want to be walking into right now?" "Ric Ocasek would kill me if I-- she's a little nuts." "she can stand you. not because there's a killer mosquito chasing me around my apartment." "there is no mosquito." "This is all about Cuddy." "she's bugging me." "Poetic." "Have you seen this bug?" "Have you seen this bite?" "No." "What I've seen is a suppurating wound that you've scratched and mutilated into a gangrenous state." "Delusional parasitosis." "I am not imagining things." "you're a drug addict." "You're always imagining things." "You got bitten the night you kissed her." "Your itching always gets worse when you think about her." "You need to address this." "She's my boss." "you're not afraid of authority." "You're afraid she actually is right for you." "You're afraid to take a chance because it's too big a chance." "then maybe there's no one out there." "I am not rationalizing." "I'm better off alone." "you seen her ass recently?" "come on." "No." "You can go home. and you're gonna ask her out on a date like regular people do." "At 3:00 in the morning?" "When do regular people sleep?" "Buh-bye." " Is he in enough pain to come in yet?" " No." "Antibody tests back?" "Inconclusive." " Then why are you here?" " I missed you." " Endoscopy?" " Inconclusive." "then do it again." "but I need to test your stomach again." "It's really hurting." "I know." "I'm sorry." "Try to get you on your back and have you open your mouth." "I can't..." "He's out." " Anything?" " No pulse." " Start CPR." " Get the paddles." "Get the paddles!" "Who are you calling?" "Pizza." "You like anchovies?" "I'm calling the lawyer." "Genuine emergency." "He'll okay admission." "He's dying." "Exactly." "Hi." "Sorry to wake you." "Your introvert is having a heart attack." "If we don't restart his heart..." "He can survive 15 minutes on oxygen and CPR." "We can get him to the hospital in five." "Lawyer says yes." "Continue CPR." "2123 Holden green." "Patient with P.E.A." " Clear." " Wait!" "I got a pulse." "Cancel the ambulance." "He's stable enough to stay here." "but it's bradycardic." "Taub's putting in a temporary pacemaker." "It'll keep his heart beating for now." "how would you like your old job back?" "I'm asking 'cause it's the only way I can fire you. - not just let them flop around." " Could be Lymphoma." "We'd have seen it on the abdomen." "It has to be a poison." "Organophosphates." "We checked the place over and over." "It's completely clean." "There are rose petals in the front entry." "he couldn't..." " How clean?" " Very." "He probably has a little OCD." "How often do you wash your tub?" "Every couple days." "Bleach and ammonia?" "Yeah." "You know how kids play toy soldiers in the bath?" "He likes to re-enact the Battle of Cypress." "Three times a week with real gas." "Ammonia and bleach makes chlorine gas." "Highly fat soluble." "He lost weight after the stomach pain." "Explains why his symptoms kept getting worse." "Put him on parenteral steroids and sodium bicarbonate." "that external pacemaker's gonna fail eventually." "And I don't have the skills to put in a permanent one." "maybe the poison hasn't completely shot his heart." "And you won't have to feel guilty for the rest of your life." "How am I gonna place the leads in the exact spot on the right ventricle without fluoroscopy?" "The force?" "Taub put in the temporary one." "You can't do that playing pin the tail on the donkey." "Permanent pacemakers need precision." "So we can use the portable X-ray." " It's not real time." " Sonogram." "And what happens when I put him into V-tach because the sonogram isn't precise enough?" "He's dying." "Exactly why I don't want to be the one to kill him." "Thanks." "You knew I'd have to say no." "But you came anyway." "You just wanted a reason to be angry at me." "then" " Then" " Forget it." "You know why we spend nights at my house?" "Because when we spend them at yours..." "I could tell you didn't want me there." "Why would I keep inviting you over if i didn't want you there?" "You always kicked me out every morning." "You never offered me a drawer." "You never cleared out your closet for me." "I was just a visitor." "How long have you felt like this?" "From the start." "but..." "I can't keep chasing you forever." "I just tried your house." "Where are you?" "Clubbing." "Good or bad?" "Bad." "Vitals are dropping." "The abdominal pain keeps getting worse." "Means we were too late with the treatment." "Tell the lawyer he's off the clock." " We're done." " You're giving up?" "Call Taub." "Tell him to pick up some morphine." "There's no need for the patient to be in pain." "He's on morphine." "No." "He's on saline." "I figured you put him on saline so i switched him back to morphine." "I love you." "give me..." "His abdominal pain." " That was on morphine?" " Yes." "Is there something that causes abdominal pain that doesn't respond to morphine?" "I was right." "He is being poisoned." "What's this density on his hip?" "Just bone." "Think less boney." "You think he's got lead poisoning?" "seizures." "Hold him down." "You're not gonna feel a thing... except excruciating pain." "The mugger used hollow points." "They exploded and left fragments." "Your doctors missed a couple hiding behind your hip bone." "It's no biggie. you started to dissolve." "I'll start him on chelation." "could it" "No." "Lead wouldn't have started to disintegrate till years after." "But it could have exacerbated the fear." "I don't need to change." "I know you think that." "But your life could be better." "You... you'd have choices." " He's lying." " About what?" "About everything." "About his life." "He doesn't even think he's happy here." " He's miserable." " I've got everything I need." "then why did Taub find rose petals in your entry hallway?" "Struck me as a little weird." "Thought it might be medically relevant." "But it actually just told me that you were pathetic." "The day you crashed in your entryway... was your girlfriend's birthday." "You weren't there for the mail." "You were trying to go lay flowers on her grave." "he's got PTSD." "he's agoraphobic." "He's also a coward." "do something." "Don't believe your own rationalizations." "pretend you're happy." " Hi." " Hi." "You were right." "About my husband." "It affected me." "It still affects me." "If you're saying you'll never be able to" "I cleaned out a drawer for you." "Like a big one." "0000"