"Do you see them anywhere?" "wait for them there. 'cause they'll probably answer the door the sixteenth time I knock." "There they are." "Hi." "I'm sorry I followed you here." "I just really wish you could give me a few minutes of your time." "**Chinese language** but I just figured maybe you never had a choice." "right?" "**Chinese language**" "**Chinese language**" " What did he say?" " He wants you to leave them alone." "Please..." "**Chinese language**" "I just want ten minutes." "tell you about my life." "**Chinese language**" "**Chinese language**" "He said they have no daughter." "I am sorry you wasted a trip." "I know that's them." "How does that work?" "How do I pray?" "You make a wish and lift the buddha." "I wish they could understand how badly I need this." "Now make the wish again." "your wish will be granted." "Are you okay?" "**Chinese language**" "House" " Season 05 Episode 04 "Birthmarks" "Synch:" "NIZ I picked cameron's pocket down in E.R." "I came up a doozy." "twice." "She's still healthy." "on the other hand..." "Her messages sounded kind of urgent." "that's the way women sound when their spouse of 50 years dies." "Your dad died?" " Are you..." " Yep." "Fine! vomits blood and collapses on a trip to china. but the pain is worse now than it was before." "call your mom." "my mom?" "We can continue this differential in five minutes." "Are those bags under your eyes?" "You were up all night." "didn't you?" " I don't know but don't deflect them on me." "Told his wife he's been getting some strange." "She kicked his adulterous tuchus to the curb." "I told her." "she did not kick me to the curb." "We stayed up late talking." "We're going to continue talking." "Much like House should be doing with his mother right now." "Anybody read chinese?" "we have no idea what these doctors did to her." "right?" "Get it translated." "What about meckel's diverticulum? bleeding." "Too high up for a colonoscopy." "CT could Miss it." "Ultrasound's fastest." "And since I'm fastest with the ultrasound... let me do the ultrasound." "You need to deal with your dad and..." "I'm not deflecting because I'm avoiding something deep." "I'm deflecting because i'm avoiding something shallow." "I'm fine." "I didn't even like the man." "No meckel's." "Were you there for the rice or the reeducation camps?" "I was there to track down my biological parents." "Like a salmon returning to the stream where it was born." "or did you get eaten by bears?" "They denied my existence." "and not one of them taught you to cover your mouth." "my god!" "You look like they cut you in half." "we're her parents." " I'm just a technician." "Her doctors will be by later." "You can schmooze then. we went by her apartment and collected all her medication." "I'm a technician and a doctor." " You went through my apartment?" " We found alcohol." "We thought you'd quit." " Did her drinking cause this?" " No." "Can you tell her it did?" "Licorice root." "thanks I'm good." "I threw it to you for a reason." "That's what the chinese doctors gave her." "It contains glycyrrhizin." "They were treating her for sars?" "Not very effectively. it's perfect." "Lung involvement isn't very severe." "so call it "ars." "Start her on ribavirin and interferon." " Sorry about your father." " I'm not." "Are we done emoting now?" "just... you're right." "I don't think I can sleep alone tonight." "And you can tell me that that is liquid vicodin." "We giving I.G. shots to everyone who came in contact with your patient." "none of the nurses volunteered to administer yours." "It goes better in a large muscle." "Drop your pants." "I usually pay tens of dollars to hear that." "The funeral's tomorrow." "My mom called you?" "There is 3:40 flight out of Newark." "you can be in Lexington tonight." "Your mother wants you to deliver a eulogy." "Eulogy." "From the greek for "good word." " I'd be happy to..." " Then be a grown-up. - but you're too busy to be there." " She knows when I'm lying." "Then start writing." "They yanked my brother and sister of college." "Can you please tell them I'm not dying?" "You have sars." "I'm wearing a mask." "It's a big deal." "Cut 'em some slack." "right?" "That's what all this stuff is for." "We're gonna need the names and numbs of everyone you came in contact with here and in china." "dates... that doctor that i coughed all over..." "Is he gonna be all right?" "So far he's fine." "It's back." "This is where the pain all started." "She's tachycardic." "Get a crash cart in here!" "What's going on?" "I need to know what's going on." "That's my daughter." "Her liver's failing." "It's not sars." "I am not doing this because I care." "Cuddy drugged me." "She..." "My mom didn't call cuddy." "She called you." "I knew you couldn't stay away I knew you loved me too much." "I'm doing this for your mom." "I'm not doing this at all." "I would have done it in the year he spent dying." "You took my vicodin?" "!" "I'm in pain." "One?" "!" "So the vicodin is my leash. but it won't give me enough relief for an escape back to plainsboro." "Where's my phone?" "That's the team." "It's their ring tone." "Forget it." "The patient's blood is on your hands." "House?" "You there?" "I'being held against my will." "Call the police!" "Nicole had a clot in the epatic vein." "saved her liver." "No signs of a tumor or venous malformations." "Nothing that could..." " She's an addict." " Drugs and alcohol wouldn't" "She's a smoker. and she's a clotting machine." "and the liver." "We need to pinpoint which defect she has so we can start her on the right anticoagulant. let's find out which genetic gift her genetic parents gave her." "Thanks for calling." "by ABBA." "Nicole?" "I need to pee." "Pull over at the next stop." "I'll just pee on the floor." "You bought used floor mats?" "That is brilliant." "There's a rest stop in five miles." " Cane." " The restroom's right there." "You can make it on your own." "I suppose I could talk about the summer he decided he wasn't speaking to me." "not one word." "he typed up and slipped under my bedroom door." "but go." "Tell your mom you're sad for her." "i'd be lying. that she had a happy family." "lie!" "Give me my cane..." "I'll go to the damn funeral." "I said I'd go to the funeral." "I didn't say when." "We have these two categories:" "inside and outside." "Patients stay inside." "we let them go outside." "Thanks." "But they don't let you smoke inside." "So why don't you go back there and give me five minutes outside?" "Make a fist." "we thought we'd do all our doctorg outside." "People stare at me any time I'm out with my family." "It's like a puzzle." "Which one of these things doesn't belong?" "Belonging's overrated." "I was adopted by a white family when I was nine." "I like being different." "The view's better from the outside looking in." "Must be easier to be different when you're a success." "Is that a problem?" "This is why we prefer inside." "You actually keep a flashlight that doesn't need batteries in the trunk? space blanket..." "I like to be ready." "Will you... please hold the flashlight for a minute?" "those aren't just my car keys." "My house keys are on there too." "Amber gave me that key chain." "she didn't." "Not unless your pet name for her was "Volvo." "A man who would lie about a gift from a dead girlfriend... pointless act of petulance." "The struggle to resist most captures is never pointless." "Vive la resistance!" "but simple delay won't work." "Your mother will hold the funeral till we get there. beholden to time." "you didn't eat." "My mother would never disrespect him by starting the funeral late." "you clearly have no issues to work through." "forget the keys." "Call a locksmith." "We go inside and play "guess that smell" with the truckers while we're waiting." "Join me on the dark side." "House." "and that's it." "I have moved on. the "gentle comfort" arrangement or the "warm thoughts" bouquet?" "if he wasn't an ass." "Send one of those giant cookies shaped like a coffin." "His mom would believe it was from him." "I didn't tell you so you could send anything." "You need to know the extent to which he is disconnected from the human race." "Took a six-pack of FFP to stop the oozing." "She's bleeding and clotting?" "which means she's got cancer." " She's young." "It could be leukemia." " Normal WBC makes that less likely." " The belly pain toward a G.I. Tumor." " House did an ultrasound." "He wasn't looking for a tumor." "Go run a CT." "I don't buy it." "Ct can find small intestinal cancers" " that an ultrasound..." " I don't buy House." "I wound up killing a patient." "And I hated the man." "I'm sure the guy's a mess." "So he was a bastard." "He was still your father." "You're biologically programmed to have feelings for him." "I'm not." "Feelings aren't rational." "I know you have trouble with anything that can't be quantified and counted." "He's not my biological father." "I figured it out when I was 12. and you create a parallel universe in which your life doesn't suck." "I look at the facts." "he was deployed on training exercises off Okinawa during the time I had to be conceived." "air travel was impossible." "His second toe is longer than his big toe." " Mine isn't." " This is sad." "You don't believe your mother screwed around..." "I have a distinctive red birthmark on my scalp that matches a certain friend of the family." "you wouldn't tell me about his birthmarks." "You'd be telling me about the genetic testing you had done." "you didn't do it." "Because you don't want..." "What are you doing?" "Get your... get off the..." "There's a cop!" "lie still." "This'll only take a few seconds." "One millimeter cut through upper abdomen." "She was adopted when the parents thought they couldn't have kids. but we have our real children now." "And the real children probably think they're accidents while she was hand-picked." "Everybody's got problems with their parents." "She's an addict." "Something went wrong." "And it has to be the parents?" "Magnifying pancreas." " I'm not saying the parents screwed up." " You're saying you like her." "So you don't want her faults to be her fault." "and the other people you know are..." "I think we may need to call House again." "You lost track of your speed?" "I think that was Hitler's excuse." "Lost track of the Jews." "No one held him responsible." " I'm not playing house." " You were protecting me." "Anybody in their right mind would have ratted me out." "I'm just trying to speed things along." "You are going this funeral." "Make it fast." "I don't want to miss the anal cavity search." "Looks like a mass in the pancreas." "Not to me." "This is radio." " And I want a full play-by-play." " It's fluid-filled." "sir?" "I totally understand." "sir." " Cyst?" "Large cyst." "Something going on there?" "Wilson's getting arrested." "How large?" "or mid-range sedan?" "Seriously?" "What'd you do?" "I'm obviously joking." "Would I be carrying on a differential?" "Diameter is at least eight centimeters." " Is it in the tail or in the head?" " The head." "sir." "Out of the car." "We've got a construction site." "A steamroller is plowing..." "Out now." "No can there's a warrant for your arrest in Louisiana." "What are the traits of a steamroller?" "Powerful." "Maybe pancreatic cancer." "except the only symptom it matches up with is being steamrollerish." "You don't think House is onto something?" "I think he thought he had an idea." "I also think his metaphors are tough enough to decipher after he's said them." " We need to focus on the medicine." " No answer." "There's not gonna be an answer." "They've been arrested." " He was joking." " He reacted to the size and location." "That's what we should be focusing on." "Not playing mad libs while our patient's exploding noun destroys her life-sustaining noun." "I'll try to get Wilson on the line." "but what it does?" "Clears things." "This is a waste of time." "I need that phone call. it's code for "pick up the damn phone before someone dies." "I'm sure there's other smart doctors." "You'd be surprised." " You told me you'd taken care of this." " I did." " First words you ever said to me." " I took care of it." "You must've screwed up somehow." "Sir?" "but we need to be at a funeral..." "Nobody is going anywhere or taking any phone calls till I hear back from Louisiana." "It's a really old warrant." "Isn't there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing?" "It's suspended when you flee the state." "I didn't flee the state." "I left the state." "Because I don't live in the state." "And the charges were just so minor... assault." "There is a simple explanation." "There was a medical convention in New Orleans..." "You don't need to explain to me." "I was fresh out of med school." "I didn't know anybody at the convention." "Wilson." "You don't have to explain." "I am not gonna sit here wasting time just so you can avoid your father's funeral!" "He's my father." "you don't." "Explain." "Did House react to the eight centimeters?" "He whistled." "It's huge." "Anyone would think so." "He doesn't whistle because he's impressed." "He wasn't expecting it." "It means he changed his mind at that point." "A single super-sized cyst ruled out a diffuse process like scleroderma or lupus." "you're stuck with a process only affecting pancreas." "Gallstones or pancreatic divisum." "What he asked next would narrowed that down." "He asked the location." "tails it's divisum." "It's at the head." "She's got gallstones." " The steamroller means potholes..." " Relax." "We got it." "You figured out she's got gallstones?" "have a drink." "There was this guy who kept playing" "Billy Joel's leave a tender moment alone on the jukebox." " Leave a tender moment is a good song." " It's a great song." "He was out of line." "Not as good as scenes from an Italian restaurant or... polity." "You yelled politely. but courtesy made no impression on this ass." "So which successfully conveyed my message." "And smashed a ten-foot antique mirror." "And set an example to two other patrons who threw shot glasses." "I had nothing to do with that fight." "The assault charge was totally bogus." "And I paid for the mirror." "I think I have the picture." "I assume you're the guy who was playing the song." "I was the guy who bailed him out." "That's how we met." "I was in jail." "and you bailed him out?" "It was a boring convention." "I had to have somebody to drink with." "And there's the foundation of our entire friendship." "it wouldn't even exist." "000 people at that convention." "You were the one who wasn't boring." "That says something." "It also says that you lied to me about getting the charges dropped!" "I got a lawyer." "He cut a deal." "You didn't call the guy?" "You've to go at the arraignment." "Everybody knows that." "Everybody with your misdemeanor experience." "You can go." "What?" "He's a fugitive from justice." "That whole story was lies." "He stabbed a man." "Louisiana doesn't want to pay" " to get you back." " Forget louisiana." "He was driving recklessly through your comatose village." "Do the put lead in the jelly doughnuts here?" "Stop acting like such an ingrate and go pay your respects to your father." "The CT confirmed gallstones." "Normally not dangerous." "Almost everyone has them." " But sometimes..." " They kill you?" "Unless I take 'em out." "We do it laproscopically." " How long has her urine been brown?" " Kidney's were fine this afternoon." "They're not now." "It's not the gallstones." "of course it's not gallstones." "Who thought it was gallstones?" " You said "steamroller."" " I also said "construction site." "Gallstones could cause a pancreatic cyst." "Just turn around. and that's the third time we passed that colonial with the cross burning out front." "I'm not lost." "but what the cyst caused." "Everything." "not diagnoses." "with connections to other organs..." "Like a steamroller." "That's a long road down to the kidneys." "How do we prove it?" "Won't be visible in a scan." "Chase isn't gonna go groping around when she's got kidney failure." " Bubbles." " Is that your new stripper name?" "we inject bubbles into the cyst and foil where they drift." "she's fine." "Bubbles is right." "Go echo." "I'm not lost." "you gotta stay still." "I'm nervous." "isn't it?" "I haven't had a drink since I got here." "we haven't missed it after all." "It's like the end of Christmas carol." "I'm so glad you're here." "it's a load off of my mind just to see you." "how could you delay the funeral?" "your dad is dead." "He's not going to care." "Do you know what you're going to say?" "I don't know." "Just let the minister orne of his buddies from the corps..." "You're talking." "I don't care that you didn't like him." "and he loved you." "greg." "Please do this for me." "Stop looking so worried." "I know he's gonna make me proud." "I'm sure you know him better than I do." "Her liver's been compromised." "even under sedation." "We need to paralyze her to do this procedure." "I wanted to stop." "A phenarbital coma will not only" "I'll treat the dts." "she won't be in withdrawal." "We've seen her through withdrawal before." "We've seen her through everything." "We've been... we've been combative." "We've picked her up from bars in the middle of the night." "We've let her spend the night in jail." "I used to say it'd be okay." "That I'd get it together." "I don't say that anymore." "Let's make you healthy." "Then we'll worry about making you sober." "I shall not want..." "I am not talking." "We were strangers who shared some geography 30 years ago." "he had no influence on you at all." "The father who was compulsive about punctuality." "His issue." "Which I deliberately made not my issue." "Thereby making it your issue." "ignoring rules." "he's here." "Who's here?" "The one you're pretending is your father?" "Nice pick." "He looks like Sean Connery. did you tell your father:" "I refuse to recognize your existence because I have chosen james bond as my dad"?" "I used different words." "What?" "!" "Hearing your own son hates you so much he's replaced you in his mind?" "That's gotta suck." "How did he take it?" "I already told you." "He didn't speak to me for a summer." "It means more to me than..." "Than I can say to have all of you here today." "our son Gregory would like to say a few words." "Greg?" "There's a lot of people here today." "Including some from the corps." "And I notice that every one of them is either my father rank or higher." "And that doesn't surprise me." "Because if the test of a man it was a test my father failed. he was incapable of admitting any point of view but his own. and he did not accept anything less than..." "He loved doing what he did." "He saw his work as some kind of..." "Sacred calling." "More important than any personal relationship." "I'd be a better son." "But I am what I am because of him..." "For better or for worse." "And I just..." "I just wish..." "Put it back." "He's not gonna miss it." "I'm done enabling." "You can't even let them put him in the ground without making it serve your agenda?" "You real want to do this in front of everybody?" "You wanna punish me or them?" "How can I still feel surprise?" "a moment of and turn it into a farce." "cut the crap." "You enjoy what I do." "I never had to force you." "You like coming along for the ride." "that's why i'm cheering you on..." " This is about you needing to be prepared for the worst." "So you become an oncologist." "No surprises there." "Worst happens all the time." "she was young and healthy." "Her death came out of nowhere." "Don't bring Amber into this." "And you weren't ready." "That makes you angry." "and you didn't have time to brace yourself." "What happened out there is your show!" "You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters." "So you dump the person who matters the most to you!" "I'm not scared to death." "I'm moving forward!" "Because no one can take away from you what you no longer have." "Your father's death is about you." "Amber's death is about you." "I can'imagine why someone wouldn't want to be your friend!" "you're angry and you're scared of losing me." " I'm not scared." " Admit it." " I'm not afraid." " Admit it." " I've lost people." "It happens." " Admit it." "Admit it!" "five?" " Stop repeating..." " Admit it." "Admit it." "Admit it." "Admit it." "Admit it." "admit it." "Admit it!" "Still not boring." "Did you know I was gonna do that?" "Because I didn't know I was gonna do that." "I know you have trouble losing people." "I saw you carrying this express package around the conference." "but you wouldn't open it." "So I peeked at the return address." "fairbairn." "Divorce attorneys." "Your first wife had just served you with papers." "Did you know that when you bailed me out?" "Were you..." "Doing something nice for me?" "What did I say about being boring?" "We owe your mom an apology." "Hello?" "It's House." "How'd the bubble test go?" "The problem wasn't the cyst." "It's advanced dilated cardiomyopathy." "We did a three-dimensional echo." "Showed a mass in the left atrium. so it's hard to tell." "House" "The images aren't grainy." "They sure look grainy." "I've seen pictures of you where you look tall." "It's iron overload." "makes it look grainy." "and her intestine..." "Atrial myxoma is more likely." "MRI for a better view." "Call me back and tell me you're embarrassed because my eyesight is better 500 miles away." "I need a phone number." "treating one of your clients." "A young woman looking for her biological parents." "you could just wait for the MRI to have your cursity satisfied." "What person who is nothing like me are you saying that to?" "Did the parents look tan?" "which means they should have it too." "They don't look more tan than anyone else." " Discolored teeth?" " They're farmers..." "The village doesn't even have a dentist." "Right." "Thanks." "I'm not convinced they were her parents." "Why not?" "Because they said they have no daughter. and the woman seemed confused and frightened." "Thank you." "Differential." "Say you're a middle-aged chinese woman... fine." "Say it." "I'm a middle-aged chinese woman." "says that she's your long-lost daughter." "Why would yo be frightened?" "I'm frightened because she's a threat?" "Maybe she knows something?" "She hasn't seen you since she was an infant." "Maybe an inheritance issue." "They're peasants." "Her very presence is a threat." "She" "What year was she born?" "'83." "She's not supposed be alive." "China introduced the one-child policy in 1979." "Say they didn't want a girl." " They tried to kill her." " Maybe the baby doesn't die." "Maybe the father panics or regrets it." "Takes the baby to an orphanage." "Maybe he doesn't tell his wife." "Who freaks out like she's seen a ghost 25 years later when the girl shows up." "Why does attempted murder from 25 years ago suddenly become relevant to her health now?" "Maybe they gave her something toxic." "It would have to be fat soluble." "isn't it?" " Let me see the MRI." " We don't have one." "She started vomiting as soon as we started the scan." "Then let her vomit through the MRI." "That's what nurses are for." "Her parents tried to kill her. but I know it caused her to get sick 25 years later trying to lift a buddha." "Explain." "I already had this conversation with Wilson--just go with it." " Poison?" " Buddha wouldn't make it worse." "which... makes sense if she's never lifted anything in her life." "She actually didn't get sick till she tried lifting it that second time." "I'm guessing the weight changed." "Anybody have Taub's pager number?" "What's up?" "Maybe give him a call." "she's dead." "X-ray her brain." "Pins. and the hair hides the entry wounds." "It's the perfect crime." "She's had them in her all these years." " What changed at the temple?" " Same thing that changed in the MRI." "not all religious leaders are honest." "I'm guessing these particular monks are bilking the faithful by pushing a magnet up buddha's butt." "There's another one under the table depending on how you shift them. it moved one of the pins deeper into the sympathetic nervous center of her brain." "This sent a signal through the nerves which caused the symptoms in china and in the giant magnet we call an MRI." "She's lucky." "We're all screwed up by our parents." "She's got documentation." "and she'll be fine." "We'll wake her from the coma after the operation." "Is there any way you could not tell her?" "Please." "She's fragile." "She desperately wanted to know her biological parents." "For her to find out that they wanted her dead..." "I don't know what that'll do to her." "She may not be as fragile as you think." "We know our daughter." "See this pin here?" "It's been pressing directly on her addiction center." "It's not her fault." "And it's definitely not your fault." "She's not who you think she is." "I hear your patient's gonna be all right." "Is that why you're here?" "A colleague checking up on a patient?" "Something going' on?" "I'm celebrating." "My mom hated him too." "Your DNA test showed no match?" "That's incredible. you actually figured out your father wasn't your birth father wasn't it?" "Why should it depress you?" "It doesn't depress me." "Doesn't make any difference at all." "That's what depresses me." "I guess nobody gets to choose who their parents are." "I'm not even sure anymore if we get to choose who our friends are." "I spoke with Cuddy." "She hasn't filled my position yet." "If you're coming back just because you're attracted to the shine of my neediness... i'd be okay with that." "I'm coming back because you're right." "annoying trip we just took was the most fun I've had since Amber died." "You hungry?" "My dad's dead." "Yeah." "My sympathies." "0000"