" 145 pounds!" "Johnson!" "Miller!" " Aaaah!" " Aaaaah!" " House." "House." "I know you're not asleep." " That insight would be a lot more impressive if you weren't just a product of my exhausted brain." " Aren't you curious about why I'm here?" " curious why no french maid's outfit." "No spanky pants." " I'm a hallucination..." "not a fantasy." " It's insomnia." "Four nights without REM sleep can cause" " That might explain why you're hallucinating." "Doesn't explain why you're hallucinating" "Wilson's dead girlfriend." " Probably just my secret and very unconscious desire to get Wilson into my bedroom." " Or maybe your guilt of Kutner's suicide reminds you how guilty you felt about me." " Who cares why you're here?" "you won't be." " Guess I'll be around a few more hours." " Need some coffee?" " Addictive substances are no substitute for nature's healing balm." "Let's make this fast." "I need to sleep." " Deaf 14-year-old started hearing imaginary explosions." " Exploding head syndrome." "Cool." "obviously his brain knows how to hear." " Patient went deaf at age four." "Complication of meningitis." " So why no cochlear implant? and head trauma which didn't show up on the CT." " Damn imaginary pen." " Mom's signature's on everything." "Did the dad die?" "I doubt it." "He was a sperm donor." "Medical records couldn't be cleaner." " So we're left with temporal lobe seizure." " Wrong." " Someone at the wrestling meet would have noticed a seizure." " Could have just looked like a bad shot to the leg." "Put him in the seizure lab." "See if his head blows up all over again." " You're gonna ignore your own subconscious?" "Gonna be the limp leading the blind." "for sleeping pills. and seems strangely invulnerable to poison." "Why is the soon-to-be- second-prettiest Dr. Chase here?" " I'll take that as a congratulations." " We're discussing a case." " Why did he close that file?" " Wedding in two weeks? but I don't think Chase's body is mature enough to produce sperm." " It's a small ceremony." "Why wait?" " Nighty night." " Drugs with no lecture?" "He wants you out." " Interesting case?" " Possible prostate cancer came into the E.R." " Pencil cup." " Oh!" "No wonder his prostate's enlarged." "It's full of pool cues and cigars." " Chase's best man doesn't get here so I asked Wilson to throw his bachelor party." " No retired ministers available to plan it?" "raucous party." " So she says." "there are people in this world ready to stand up for what's right." "I don't want-- I don't want you to-- two things I do well." "Bachelor parties rank towards the top." "right?" " Starting five hertz." "House made it through that entire differential without mocking our patient for not having a cochlear implant." " The patient doesn't want an implant because he's comfortable with who he is." "It's admirable." " He's deaf." "it's a disability." " It's also a culture." "their own language." "Still no spiking." " Going to 20." "Anything I can simulate with a $3.00 pair of ear plugs is not a culture." "No sign of seizure." "Temporal lobe activity is still clean." "he can't see." "One of his eyes." " The limp leading the blind." " Is that supposed to mean something?" " I didn't think so." "plus vision loss." " Subclavian steal syndrome." "Vascular defect coupled with constant arm movement could siphon blood flow from the brain." "check his" " Knock yourselves out." " How did I know he was gonna go blind?" "gazoo." "You're in my mind." "You're obviously there." " C-reactive protein." "I noticed in his file it was slightly elevated." "I figured the stress of the seizure lab lead to optic neuritis." " That's a lot clearer than "the limp leading the blind." " It was just a glimmer." "I couldn't put it into words." " It was a long shot." "I don't even remember the C-reactive protein level." " Obviously you do." "You just don't know it." " How high is K2?" " I don't know." " Me neither." "But I read a book about it years ago." "bending over-- 251 feet." " Cool." "An all-access pass to my own brain." " Go play the kid some music." " Why?" " Another long shot." " We're using iodine dye to track blood flow in your neck and arm." "# fight the power # # fight the power # # fight the power # # fight the power # # fight the power # # fight the power # # fight the power # # we've got to fight the powers that be... #" "what are you doing?" " What does it look like I'm doing?" "Fighting the power." "Feel that?" "How cool is that?" "Apparently your mom doesn't care what you're missing." " You're an ass. but not his hands." "What does that mean?" " It's a new symptom." "Neuropathy." " Thought you were gonna get some sleep." " Case got interesting." " Like the zoo." "Except you can bang on the glass as much as you want." " How did you know about the neuropathy?" " Good question." " Enough with the riddles." " Tell me about it." " Think "wrestling record." " Juggling." "pins." "Three pins." "Patient was pinned in his last three matches." "he was 15 and 0." "I figured his balance was off from diminished sensation." " Could be increased ICP from a brain tumor." " That we missed on the head CT?" " Cutting weight for wrestling could have led to rhabdomyolysis." " He just went up a weight class three months ago." " Foreman's right." "increased ICP could make sense." " You just said" " I was processing." " It also puts a new symptom on the table." " His deafness." "What if it was caused by NF2 cancer instead of his childhood meningitis?" " So meningitis was a coincidence?" " Or a byproduct of the cancer suppressing his immune system." "MRI his head." "his deafness may be reversible." "I'll set it up and talk to the patient." " You two...doing anything?" " You know what a broken cowboy is?" "It was on House's list of requirements." " I have three theories." " Why is House so into this bachelor party thing?" " He needs to have a reason to be into a bachelor party?" " He needs a reason to be into anything." " Give me your wallet." " House could be trying to tempt Chase into cheating." "Break them up." " You think House is into Cameron?" " I think House is into Cameron being into him." "Marrying Chase would shatter that fantasy. then they shouldn't be getting married in the first place." " So you're okay with House getting Chase smashed enough to make a stupid mistake?" " Being drunk doesn't change who you are." "It just reveals it." " You think she can do the broken cowboy?" "I hope so. which makes it very treatable." "taking out the tumor means there's a chance you'll regain your hearing." " No." "He said you have to." " What's wrong?" "but leave him deaf." "sorry." "Doesn't work like that. but no masses on or around the nerves." "It's not cancer." " Slight bowing in the wall of the fourth ventricle." "Could still indicate a tumor." " We brought pictures." " The fact that you sent me on a scouting mission" " No skirts." " You're not on the guest list." "Bachelor parties are an ancient and sacred male rite of passage." " The ventricle bowing is most likely not the indication of a tumor." " No way to know for sure without a brain biopsy." "there's a chance" "I might make out with one of the strippers." "Or become one." "Sold." " We can't just drill into our patient's brain on a hunch." "not her." "She's the one that got me hooked in with Madoff." " Taub's right." "It's not cancer. abandon a great diagnostic theory because it's difficult to prove." "Do a biopsy." "We need to take a better look at his fourth ventricle." " Or an older look." " The mom's never gonna let us touch his brain without some evidence." " Patient broke his nose years ago." "Hospital could have done an MRI." "Okay." " The main reason my third wife and I eloped was to avoid House's bachelor party." "Have you seen Caligula?" " My patient's brain now... versus three years ago." "See any difference?" "Is he telling you to avoid the party?" " I took an oath to do no harm." "don't come." "If you want your wedding vows to be meaningless." " This should be interesting." " You are going to commit which is beautiful." "But if your commitment the day after the wedding then the wedding meant nothing. muck-covered pig the day before." " You're evil." "See ya." " The wall of the fourth ventricle changed." "It isn't bowed in the older scan." "right?" " You'd need to do a brain biopsy to confirm." "I'm not going to the bachelor party." "I end up embarrassing myself in some new and unexpected way." " That whole thing with the duck was hardly unexpected." " I'm not going." " Okay." " It's not okay." "Do you know who we need?" "That stripper you got for Wilson's bachelor party." "You could do body shots right off her." " Why go back to that well? a whole new generation of hot girls have been abused by their stepfathers." " She loved cats." " What made you remember the stripper loved cats?" " Chase has a cat." "They'll bond." "House?" "entertaining yourself up there?" " Just rehearsing for the revival of Evita." "What'd you find?" " The biopsy shows nerve inflammation consistent with increased intracranial pressure." "but it's not cancer." " He's gonna go through life deaf." " He's okay with that." " He has no idea what he's missing." "His mom's a moron." "He's gonna pay for her stupidity for the rest of his life?" "Are we okay with that?" " Why are you closing?" "Let's put in a cochlear implant." " That wasn't in the paperwork." "someone must have screwed up." "I'll go track it down." " I'll wait." " That's a great idea." "Let the kid spend more time under anesthesia with his skull cracked open." " I'll wait." " I have been known to lie to serve my own agenda." "An implant does absolutely nothing to help me diagnose him." " Let's get an implant tray in here." " Just-- just try to relax." " Just during the recovery phase..." " Her son didn't want the implant." "I'll take it out. if he wants to experience that culture." "Remove it now." " Kid's just had brain surgery." "He's not stable." "I'm not trying to minimize Dr. House's wrongdoing." "But the best thing..." " Why is she sitting?" "not pacing." "Just sitting." "Dr. House?" "House!" "Focus." "I need you to say you accept the arrangement." " No problem." "You're not mad." " I'm mad." " Not mad enough." "You wanted your son to hear." "You just didn't have the guts to make him get the implant." "I want that thing out of his head." " Why did you do this? and he's being raised by an idiot." " Not good enough." "You always have" " My patient is opting into a handicap!" "It's an insult to all the other gimps out there." " Okay." "But I'm still putting Foreman in charge of the case." " That's the arrangement?" " Okay." " You're okay with Foreman in charge?" "Who you calling?" "you don't want to look like a lunatic." "about that..." " You think we did the wrong thing?" " I'm not sure." "I'm not even sure why we did it." "that argument you made to Cuddy sounded pretty good." "maybe." " Huh." "I figured by now you'd be at the board in your monocle and jodhpurs." "you did something stupid." "better mock someone." " Why did you do it?" " Why did I give a human being the power of hearing?" "he'll give you the same answer." " Patient has a fever now too." " Probably just a post-op complication." "Arnold-Chiari?" " Not without muscle weakness." " Pseudotumor cerebri?" " We checked his eyes before the surgery." "No papilledema." " Candy?" "I'm pretty sure Wilson's stripper's name was something sweet." " Maybe his fever is more than the post-op reaction." "His girlfriend was sick a few months ago." "Maybe her flu was really Epstein-Barr." " Lolli? leads to increased intracranial pressure." " I agree." "Taffy?" " I agree." "start him on rivavirin for Epstein-Barr." " Keep making decisions like that." "It really bolsters the illusion that you're in charge." " Why aren't you in my office?" " Because I know what the word "my" means. and you're not all over me analyzing why." " It was nice." " I gave that idiot an implant to prove to him what an idiot he's been." "How is that nice?" " You didn't do it to solve the case." "You didn't do it to save his life." "You...did it to make his life better." "It was a caring act." "Which you did in a way that was... but... baby steps." " Doesn't sound like us." " You can't make me go to the bachelor party." " I know." " And you're okay with that?" " What choice do I have?" "Seth!" "God." "Seth"?" "Yes." "Seth." "Oh." "I think he just wet the bed." "but stable." "the fountain of whiz seems to have stopped for the moment." " Not before hosing Epstein-Barr off the table." "Now eat up." "We're gonna pick out the ice cream flavors for the bachelor party." " Could be systemic autoimmune disease." "Sarcoido" "This tastes like..." "Vodka." "it'd be stupid if it tasted like bourbon." "That's the brown one." " It is vodka?" " Flash frozen in a secret process." "Guy figured it out in his basement." "Lemoncello." "Genius." " Symptoms came on too hard and too fast." "Sarcoidosis is progressive." " Remember in med school when Donovan gave grand rounds?" "There was that guy who was peeing liters." " Glomerulonephritis?" "A wrestler--steroids could have damaged the kidneys." "the scotch is nice." " His urine would have been brown." " Donovan ruled out osmotic diuresis" "Kidney disease." " Pheochromocytoma?" " No hypertension." "Plasma metanephrine's normal." " Devic's?" " It happened at night." "That was the clue. changes in B.P." " It's his heart." "watch him for four hours." "Foreman concurs." "What the hell just happened?" "Everything started to fade away." " You're getting better at focusing." "Ignoring everything that doesn't matter." "Uh-oh." "He looks pissed." "I think he might hit us." " Is your eyesight better than mine?" " We need to talk about the bachelor party." " Excellent topic choice. and my lying to you is just so yesterday." " It's my fault for letting you talk me into the implant." "Cameron is not gonna be happy about this party." "on the other hand..." " Plan on spending the rest of my life with Cameron." " So..." "I need to cancel the fart band?" " So..." "I need you to kidnap me." " Spoken like a true Aussie." "if you know where I can get me the sheet music to Waltzing Matilda..." "Hey...want some ice cream?" "We're having a sundae bar." " Sweet." " That's her name." " Sundae or bar?" " Karamel." " With a "K." "Bathroom?" "two doors on your right." " Thank you." " Do I..." "sound like... her?" "I do." " It takes time." " You still haven't slept?" "And then I have a clever response." "normal intervals." "His heart's fine." " His heart's not fine." " The heart was fine during this test." "The arrhythmia's hiding." " Or we were wrong about the heart." " Could be the thyroid." " Hashimodo's would explain the kid's urine and brain pressure." " Treadmill." " Or the arrhythmia is hiding." "We need to stress him." "Put the patient on a treadmill." " The patient just had brain surgery." "A stress test could cause a brain bleed and kill him." " I value your opinion." "I value rejecting your opinion." " You're not doing this." "You haven't been sleeping." " Cuddy doesn't actually want you in charge." "She just wants to avoid a lawsuit and to win an NAACP award." " And if I let you risk our patient's life we accomplish neither." "Run a thyroid panel." "How do we get him into the stress lab without Foreman's sign-off?" " We could kill Foreman." "Is she new?" " Focus." "The lab simulates stress." "What if it's not simulated?" " We could tell him his girlfriend dumped him." " That's a tough sell." "She never leaves the room for more than five minutes." "We could kill her." "Or...asthma meds." "Force the heart to beat faster." " Revealing the arrhythmia." "Nice idea." " It was yours." " I just left the room for a few minutes." "He ripped out his implant." "So much for improving his life." "I think we just saved it." " Look at that." "Arrhythmia." " You were right about the heart." "Should have listened to you." "I should always listen to you." " He's got problems everywhere." "What goes everywhere?" " Blood." "Could be thrombocythemia." "Excess platelets lead to clotting throughout the body." " Not with a normal platelet count. it starts in the lungs-- pulmonary embolism." "see if his lungs are clear." " Go." "You sure I did this at Wilson's party?" "you used grain alcohol instead of the sambuca." " And it worked?" "Explains my lack of eyebrows by the end of the evening." "I" " This is why we're rehearsing." "Ever wonder what's happening every time our patient gets sicker?" " Not right now!" "wrestling." "under the lights of the seizure lab-- because this feels" " Just keep doing what you're doing--it helps." "under the stress of blindness... and post-op fever." "What do all the symptoms have in common?" " Heat. that would have just popped into my head." "Which actually would have been way cooler." "kid's got Uhthoff phenomenon." "Which means it's MS." "Start him on double-dose interferon." " Let's get our drink on." " Not before I've added "chemical burns to this guy's cause of death." "the patient's responding to interferon." "Looks like I can retire as department figurehead." " Dr. Robert Chase." "We're with the department of citizenship and immigration." "Did you recently apply for a marriage license?" " Uh..." "Yes." "your work permit is expired." "If you could come with us." "I'm his fiancee." "I can come along and clear this-- ma'am." "Illegals only." " I'm--I'm sure it's a mistake." "I'll call you as soon as I know what's going on." " Don't let House get him in too much trouble." " Oh ho!" " Allow me to welcome you to the best night of your life." " Ahem!" " Whoo!" " Yeah!" "a few ground rules for the evening." "safety is job one." "We've now gone 18 days without an injury in the workplace." "these girls are all working their way through law school." "Don't test them." " House!" " I knew you couldn't stay away." " This is my apartment." "You can't do this." "reality begs to differ." " Where's my furniture?" " Out back somewhere." " James!" " Karamel?" "Hi." " How's your wife?" " Uh...we--we got divorced." " Ohh." " How is your cat?" " Dead." " Oh." " How 'bout we go have a drink?" " Oh..." "Okay." " Yeah...yeah..." " All right!" " Yeah!" " You're okay with this?" " I paid 50 bucks for this." " You guys are great together." "Trust is everything." "I gotta get some air." "Keep it real." " You should be out there... enjoying the lap dances of your labors." "I kind of like it in here." " Me too." "To us figuring out M.S." " And the blindness and neuropathy and arrhythmia and anything else we did." "What exactly did my team do?" " Look good in their lab coats." "Except for Taub." " Some people just work better alone... so to speak." " One more drink." " No!" "I can't!" "I need to take a break." " Meet Karamel." " Huh?" " Maybe one more drink." " Ooh..." " What's that taste?" "Is that-- is that strawberry?" "you in there?" " Use the other bathroom." "It's in the kitchen." "Looks like a sink." " Chase went into anaphylactic shock from the stripper's body butter or something." " Is he okay?" "so he's fine." "We're taking him to the hospital to be safe." " Okay. didn't I?" "That's why you wanted Karamel at this party." " I suggested Karamel 'cause she was great at Wilson's party." " I knew about her body butter and about his strawberry allergy." "I tried to kill Chase." "Why would I do that?" "I don't want Cameron." "either." "Hello." "You confirm?" "Thanks." "That kid we saved... he's dying." "It's not M.S." "We were wrong." " Thank God you're okay." "What happened?" " It was a good-- long story." " Your patient's lung failure rules out M.S." "We put him on a ventilator." "enlarged lymphs could" " Are any of you sober?" " Turn around." "You need to go to the hospital." " I need to sleep." " I'm you." "You can't just shut a door." " You tried to kill Chase." "I need to push you back down." "You're dangerous." " That's the hospital." " Not answering." "Hello. trying to sober them up so they can...help treat your dying patient." " Foreman's dying patient." " What causes lung failure plus your patient's previous symptoms?" " Eosinophilic pneumonitis. lead to heart problems." "It fits." "are you there?" " It's not eosinophilic pneumonitis." "I gotta crash." "don't hang up." "We need your help." " I can't." " We can solve this." " Good night." " Eosinophilic pneumonitis could actually make sense." "House ruled it out because it would affect the larynx." "Patient would be... Which we wouldn't notice in a deaf kid who rarely speaks." " Wait." "Everyone's getting breath mints." " We need to hear Seth speak." " But that means taking out the tube." "Isn't that dangerous?" " It's the safest way to confirm what's wrong with him." " I need him to breathe out as I pull on the tube." " okay." "Breathe out." "ah." " Ahhhh." " I'm sorry." "We were wrong." "suction out your throat before we reintubate." "Your son smoke?" "Smoke?" "I don't think so." " Tobacco stains on his teeth." " He says he used to chew tobacco to cut weight for wrestling." " Used to?" " Chewing tobacco wouldn't explain his symptoms." " But not chewing tobacco might." "Taub was right." "It's sarcoidosis." "The tobacco releases toxins." "Those toxins suppressed his immune system. the absence of those toxins kicked a dormant condition into hyper-drive." " Is it treatable?" " Usually responds to corticosteroids and methotrexate." "I'll start the meds." " I need sleeping pills. but he's not answering his phone." " He must have left it in his pants." "Which he wasn't wearing when the police found him trying to walk home... from his own apartment." " Pills." " Your patient's doing fine." "Thanks to your team." "was it?" " Sarcoidosis." " Good." "please talk to me." " I haven't slept through the night since Kutner killed himself." " The wrestling might have to wait." "I'm gonna tell your doctors to repair your implant." " And then you ripped it out even." "I'm your mother." "This is my call." "I don't know if I'm making the right one." "But it's mine to make." " Sleep well?" "0000"