mom!
I'm thirsty.
I just gave you water.
I want juice.
It's bedtime.
Close your eyesand go to sleep.
Mom!
What do you want,clance?
Oh. Hi,dad.
Go to bed.
Can I turn the tv on?
Tv is only for the daytime.
I'll keep the volume down. I just like the light.
Go to bed.
Dad,what if...
what if they cometo get me again?
Nobody is comingto get you.
Go to bed. Now.
Mom!
Come on,bud. It's time to get up--
I guess he's already up.
That's a first.
I-I will,uh,I'll seeif he needs breakfast.
Hey,clance,you hungry?
Hon,he's not down here.
You sure?
Clancy?
Where are you?
Sweetie,are you hiding?
- Clancy? - Where is he?
Clancy!
Clancy?
You're gonna bein big trouble when i find you.
honey,come out right now,wherever you are. This is not funny.
Clancy!
Clancy?
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Where's the sweat and the B.O.?
You've taken such pride in bathing us all in your musk.
Showered at home.
And yet you're earlier than usual.
Is this an intervention?
It's a little late, since I'm not using drugs anymore.
I am,however,still hooked on phonics.
If you did your morning run and showered at home, you'd be later than usual.
Thought of you in the shower.
How's your leg?
You seem to be favoring your left side.
I was hanging down my right pant leg yesterday. Makes all the difference in the world.
- You've taken the stairs every day. - Did I need a restraining order?
You slack on your rehab, the muscle will weaken.
And your leg will hurt again.
Looks like the ketamine treatment might not stick.
Or maybe we've made him depressed because we're lying to him.
Telling him he got that case wrong.
We didn't hurt him. The pain isn'T...
he gets depressed,he stops exercising.
He stops exercising,the muscle atrophies.
The muscle atrophies,the pain returns.
Maybe he stopped exercising because the giant hole in his leg actually hurts.
The ketamine could work perfectly and he would still be back on his cane popping vicon again.
You can't tell him.
He got lucky. There was no medical...
he was right.
We tell him he was right,and we're feeding his addiction.
Without vicodin,he's only got one to focus on.
Well,he's not gonna O.D.On puzzles.
No,it's not gonna hurt him.
But he could just as easily have killed that patient.
We have a tiny window of time here where house may be healthy enough to change.
And based on that limp,the window's closing fast.
Kid is a product of an in vitro fertilization pregnancy.Had all his vaccinations.
Fractured his right ulna at age three, chicken pox at age fivE...
did he ever get his feelings hurt?
I'll need to know that too.
You are 0 for 1 since you came back. We just wanna make sure...
rectal bleeding plus alien abduction fantasies, most likely sexual abuse.
Penetration causes the bleed, trauma causes the fantasy.
E.R. Ran a rape kit,found no evidence of tearing,semen,or pubic hairs.
I think we should talk to the kid.
Why?
In case he's telling the truth?
You're a believer,aren't you?
I'm just not arrogant enough to think that of the 50 billion galaxies,
100 billion stars per galaxy and ten million billion planets in the universe,
that we're the only ones with life.
No.
But I'm guessing we're the only ones who like shoving things through our backdoors.
There is new research indicating a link between neurological problems and bleeding disorders.
Perfect. Especially if there wereneurological problems.
What part of hallucinating an alien abduction isn't neurological?
It wasn't a hallucination.
What?
- You think the kid... - is having nightmares.
Nightmares aren'ta symptom of anything other than wanting to sleep with mommy.
Which just leaves uswith one symptom, the bloody tuchus.
Which can easily be explained by a G.I. Problemor a bleeding disorder.
Check his coags with a pt,ptt,and bleeding time.
Prep him for endoscopiesfrom above and below.
Gonna make a tiny nick in your forearm,okay?
Then I'm gonna time how longit takes for you to stop bleeding.
This is gonnasting a little, so you might want tolook the other way.
Are those windows locked?
Those windowsdon't even open. They're just hereto let sunshine in.
Good. 'Cause they know I'm here.
clancy...
don't bother the doctorwith this stuff.
No,it's okay. How do they know you're here?
They put a chip in my neck so they cankeep track of me.
I can feel it back there.
Clancy,you knowthere is nothing back there.
There is.
Let me see. Lean forwards.
And they havethis other thing. And they put it...in between these two ribs.
Always on this side.
And then they move itaround my insides. It hurts.
You know what,clancy?
I think I might havefound the chip back there.
And I think I might be able to get it out.
- Really? - Mmm-hmm.
Okay,lean forwards.
Now hold very still,okay?
Got it.
I'm seven... not three.
All you didwas pinch my neck.
Sorry.
His alien abduction story, the level of detail is...
I don't knowwhere he gets it from.
The parents sayhe doesn't watch sci-fi, he doesn't read comic books.
Great. You do any of thatmedical stuff we talked about?
Upper d lower endoscopieswere clean.
So,it's a simplebleeding disorder.
No. Blood testswere all normal. And he clotted insix minutes.
So it's a simplebleeding disorder and you screwed upthe test.
I didn't screw upthe test.
So it's a U.F.O.
Unidentified flowing orifice.
Either youscrewed up the test or i screwed upmy analysis of this case.
If you screwed up,I don't have to cry myself to sleep.
It's a simplebleeding disorder. Foreman,redo the test.
How could I screw up a simplebleeding time test?
Maybe you were abductedand lost time.
Kid's got a bleeding disorder.
You're sure?
I had to stopthe bleeding myself after 25 minutes.
So you're sayingchase did screw up.
Or foreman screwed up.
Big hand points to minutes. Maybe you got itmixed up.
Oh,snap.
Foreman's playin'the dozens. You're at a huge cultural disadvantage here,chase.
Take a couple minutesto think of a witty retort.
So we have contradictingbleeding time tests.
If we run labsto check his clotting factors, we can confirmwhich one's right.
Yeah,testing. Nice idea.
Way better than trying to guess which doctor's incompetent.
Looks betterin the paperwork too.
Hey,foreman,your mama's so fat,
when her beeper goes off, people thinkshe's backing up.
Where's clancy?
He's asleep. He'S...
house!
Clancy's gone missing.
Oh,no!
You take alpha centauri, foreman can look on tatooine,
and cameron can set upan intergalactic checkpoint.
Let's pray he hasn'tgone into hyperdrive.
We'll never catch him.
Clancy?
I had to gowhere there are no windows so I could getthe chip out like you said.
GoD.
- I can feel it,I just can't grab it. - Clancy,stop!
There is no chip.
We're gonna clean you upand we're gonna go back to your room.
You can't do thingslike this.
Your parents--
Said it might noteven be terrestrial.
Really?
No,you idiot,it's titanium.
Like from a surgical pin.
Like the kind the kidhad inserted into his broken armfour years ago.
Nice medical history.
That pin was removedsix months after--
so a little piece broke offduring removal.
Titanium is used to build nuclear subs. Pieces don't just break off.
Tell that to guyson the kursk.
And how exactly did it getfrom his arm to the back of his neck?
Body attacksany foreign object.
Inflammatory reactioncould erode it into a vein,fragment gets a free ride.
To his lungs,maybe. Not his neck.
Yeah,an alien chipmakes more sense.
The real mystery is that you didn'tactually screw up.
You okay?
Fine. Tripped.
Kid carved a hole in the back of his neck... and apparentlydidn't bleed to death.
Now,that's weird.
He clotted on his own?
Sure did.
So first there wasno bleeding disorder, then there was,now there is not again.
Which is impossible.
Or foreman screwed up. Two out of three testsagree with my findings.
Well,lucky for us, the fourth test will be the charm.
So you're just gonnakeep cutting him?
Until what?
This test is different.
We draw some blood and see if any clotting factorsare low or missing.
But whyhaven't the other tests--
we've got three resultsthat haven't been consistent.One of themmust be wrong.
Or two of them.
Is it possible the problemisn't his blood?
It's just psychological.
I mean,he almost killed himself.
He wasn't tryingto hurt himself.
No...
he was just looking for an alien tracking device.
I have timefor one more.
Don't blame youfor spending extra time down here.
Heard the artistformerly known as gimp is back upstairs.
Oh,dr.Cuddywants that one.
She's busy. I'll take it.
Oh,my god. You're...
how...
you're okay.
Have we met?
I was one of your doctors.
You were ina vegetative state when you left here last week.
Addison's disease.
All I needed was cortisol
and my brain turned onlike a switch.
This is amazing.
Surprised you didn't know.
How would I know?
Not quitemy old self yet.
Baby steps,the doctors tell me.
With rehab,you'll do great. What hospital did you go to?
- How would I... - I wanna have sexwith my wife.
And I was hoping that maybe...
you could...
viagra? You're here for viagra?
A bucketfulwould be nice.
Dr.Cuddy.
Hi.
It's completely unethical.
- He was recklesswith a patient. - He was right.
But he didn't know that. He needs at leastsome glimmer of humility.
Why doeshe need that? Because other peoplehave that?
Why does he need to belike other people?
He needs to beless reckless.
Well,you did it.
He's dismissing symptoms, looking for easy solutions.He's in pain.
- How much pain? - Why?
You know this isaffecting him,don't you?
Telling him that hegot his last case right won't do anything to help him.
- It'll make himless depressed. - Which might nothelp his leg.
But you don't know.
Just let merun a pet scan on his parietal thalamic area to see if it's sensing pain.
If it is,the ketamineisn't working anymore and he's headed fora huge crash.
If it's not,the leg pain is my fault and I willtell him the truth.
Too tight?
My parentsthink I'm crazy.
No,they don'T.
They're justworried about you,that's all.
I'm not weird.
It's just that weird thingskeep happening to me.
Slight pinch.
If you make me better,do you think the alienswill leave me alone?
I don't thinkthey're gonna be bothering you for much longer.
- You lying again? - No.
We figure this out,everything's gonna be okay.
You still with us?
Pulmonary edema,stage two hypertensive crisis.
- What is happening? - Wait outside.
Get him oxygen. Start him on an iv drip of sodium nitroprusside.
Get them outside!
He's in icu. Systolic is hoveringaround 170.
I left instructionsto lower it slowly so we don't riskhypoperfusing his organs.
The trade-off being thatleaving his blood pressure that high risks stroke,M.I.,And blindness.
I'm open to suggestions.
Solve the case.
- Kidneys could explain... - kidneys are clean.
Tell me he's a mutant/human hybrid.
It is a bleeding disorder. Clancy tested positive for von willebrand'S.
I didn't screw up.
How could he clot on his owntwo out of three times?
- Maybe he cheated. - right.
Kids always cheat ontheir bleeding time tests.
she was being metaphorical. She's tryingto sound like me.
I have no ideawhat you meant, but I could smellwhat the rock was cooking.
I meanthe's clotting right now and he's inhypertensive crisis.
Maybe the two e related.
What if he was hypertensive the other two times that he clotted?
Hypertensive crisiscan activate clotting factors.
Someone low onvon willebrands could theoretically clot.
And the first timeclancy clotted,he was all worked uprecounting his alien abduction.
He could have easilybeen hypertensive.
I know I get worked up when I cut microchip trackingimplants out of my neck.
Sounds like a cheat to me.
Yeah,we get it.
Okay,what's the differentialfor seven-year-old boys suffering multiplehypertensive crises?
We think the problemis in your son's heart.
We need to do a procedurecalled a transesophegeal echo.
Okay,and that willfix his heart?
That will tell uswhere the problem is.
Hopefully.
Then we can fix him.
Listen...
this isn't reallypart of my job,but...
he's worried that you thinkhe's crazy.
Well,isn't he?
There are stillplenty of other explanations for what's going on.
It's important he knowsyou believe in him.
Even if you don'T.
it's clean. His heartisn't the problem.
Why don't I have a hi defin my office?
I'm a department head.
- There are nostructural defects. - Valves are intact.
Tissue characterizationis impossible when the pixelsare the size of legos.
See,this iswhat I'm talking about.
Foreman,you gottasteal this thing for me.
Let me ring upone of the homies.
The clearer the image,the clearer it is that there are no masses,no clots,no tears.
The problem's got to be somewhere else.
We're gonna needa bigger boat.
You're wrong,house.
Think he'll make usbreak into the imax before he admits it?
- There. - Where?
Right there.Left side. No movement.
Well,don't freeze it.
Something's not moving.How do you seesomething not move if nothing's moving?
I need a laser pointer.
- We don't havea laser pointer. - Well,why not?
Who's gonnatake us seriously if we don't have a laser pointer?
Right here.
A few thousand myocytesnot beating with the rest.
So you foundan arrhythmia.
That's not an arrhythmia. That's a no-rhythmia.
Myocytes contract. These aren't movingat all.
Go get methose myocytes.
I want to talk to themin my office.
How's the kid doing?
Heart nearly exploded.
Still beating,though.
Most of it anyway.
Why do they botherputting age restrictions on these things
when all you have to do is click"yes,I am 18"?
Even a 17-year-oldcan figure that out.
What's going onwith the leg?
First tell me what's going onwith the boobs.
- If you're feeling pain... - they're firmer.
It's called an underwire.
I wanna geta pet scan of your brain.
I think it's hormones.
As long as there'sno increased activity in the thalamus--
looks to melike those puppies are going intothe dairy business.
Then the pain can be good.
It could be muscleregenerating.
After you work out,you get sore. Pain doesn't meanthe ketamine failed.
Guess I should be sayingmazel tov. Who gets to pass outthe cigars?
I'm not pregnant.
I need to geta pet scan of your brain.
Boy or girl? You got a name picked out?
- I'm not pregnant. - My leg doesn't hurt.
- You're in denial. - No,I'm not!
Oh,you got me.
If I thought thatmy leg was deteriorating,
don't you think I'd want totake steps to prevent that?
Okay.
Gotta go.
Ha.
Here's clancy's dna.
And here's the dnafrom that piece of his heart we just biopsied.
That is impossible.
Run it again.
We already did.
And once moreafter that.
The genesfrom clancy's myocytes don't match the genesfrom the rest of his body.
Alien dna.
Anybody watch any x-files that inspired an explanation?
there are waysdna can become mutated.
Extreme uv radiation.
That much sun,he'd be dying with a healthy bronze glow.
Nitrous acid or ethidium bromide exposure.
First daddy was a rapist,now he's a chemist.
various species of fungus have been proven mutagenic.
Not unless the kid'sbeen eating barrels of celery or livingin indonesia or both.
- Is your leg hurting? - Is that question helping?
- You're leaning. - You're sitting.
- You're evading. - My head's hurting.
Please,someone give mea plausible,
terrestrial explanationfor this kid's alien dna.
We could search his homefor toxins, fungals,and radiation.
Who cares what caused it?
A kid comes in with a strep, we don't conduct a search to see
which classmatehe got it from,we cure it.
We know he's got this inside him. Let's get a scalpeland cut it out.
Where do we cut? Chances are it's notjust in his heart.
we got luckywith the heart.
Myocytes contract,we could see that these weren't working.
I don't know how the hellwe're gonna find it anywhere else.
What if we takethe heart cells with the bad dnaand we tag them?
Can you phrase thatin the form of a metaphor?
It's the same waywe search for cancer.
The bad dna creates a unique protein on the surface of the affected cells.
We create an antibodythat recognizes only that protein.
We flush it throughout his system and the similar cells light up like...
lightbulbs.
Okay. Let's do that.
You have to tell him.
- He said he wasn'tin any pain. - He's lying.
Of course he's lying.
We need another plan.
Don't talk about itthat way.
What way?
Plan. Sounds likewe're conspiring against him.
- I'm gonna tell him. - No,you're not.
Then come upwith a cunning plan and fast.
She's not nearly as delightfulas she thinks she is.
What's this machine do?
It makes a lot of noise.
And it's gonna help usfigure out what's wrong with you.
You think househas lost a step?
He's fine.
There,a clump of affected cellsin the bone marrow of the femur.
Explains the intermittentbleeding disorder.
'Cause I don't need tosubject myself to house's tortureif there's no upside.
I'm telling you,he's fine.
We missed some affected cells in his heart.
Explains the continuinghypertensive issues.
You said the last casereally threw him. And now suddenly...
I was wrong.
So you changedyour mind.
Why?
His brilliant ideason this case have all been yours.
There's the reason for him needing glasS.
Apparently it's a symptom. Means the condition predates--
you don't change your mindwithout a reason.
What do you know?
House...
didn't blow the last case.
Cuddy cured the guyusing house's idea.
Cuddy and wilsonare trying to teach him some humility.
Scan is complete. Three hot spots,but nothing in his brain.
House's original theorywas right.
It is not neurological.
is he gonna be able to walk?
his leg should be functional after some rehab.
Functional? What does that mean?
He's be able to walkbut not run? He'll have a limp?
If everything goes well,he'll walk,he'll run.
He'll probably beeven stronger than he is now.
Whwhen we close him up,we'll move over to his other leg.
Snake a catheter up through the femoral artery and into his heart.
Once the affected areas are removed, his normal tissue will set back in and do its job.
He should have no more problemswith his blood pressure.
After confirmingthose areas are clear, we'll startthe final procedure.
I'm gonna insert a needlethrough the pupil and get rid of theabnormal cells in the retina.
Close your right eye.
Can you see my face?
Yeah. It's clear.
You can throw awayyour glasses. We got it all.
Get some sleep.
You're going home tomorrow.
Thank you.
You wannago for a run?
What do you want?
I want you to run.
When did youbecome an enabler?
I'm enabling youto exercise.
Vicodin blocks the pain, you get through your rehab.
Muscle strength increases,and pain decreases.
I'd rather not becomedependent on pain pills to get through my day.
You're just likeany other patient.
Running away from knowledgethat won't make you happy.
I'm as happyas a pig in poop.
You're scared the ketaminetreatment's wearing off.
That it was just A...
torturous windowto the good life.
What part of poopdidn't you understand?
How can you be so sureit isn't just a sore muscle?
It's my leg.
We've known each othera long time.
You're not always right,house.
You've proven that lately.
- What's happening to him? - He's seizing.
- I need clonazepam. - I thought you got it all!
Yeah,yell at me. That'll fix the kid.
bviously we missedsome foreign tissue. There's somethingstill in him.
The hallucinationsand seizures indicate problemsin the temporal lobe.
Sorry,house,it is neurological.
Looks likeyou were wrong,again.
We didn't miss anythinG.
The brain scanwas completely clean.
Our tag must not have penetratedthe blood brain barrier.
Don't use an iv this time, get it right into the brain.
no cells are lighting up.
His brain is clean.
It is not neurological.
His symptomsare neurological.
His conditionhas to be neurological.
His scan was clean twice.
It's not there.
What if it is there, but didn't show up on the scan?
What if the tagjust doesn't work in his brain?
Brain cellsare structurally different. They express a different protein.
So how do we find it?
Where are we going?
I am going to think.
Send the kid home.
What do you mean?
Make sure his blood pressureis stabilized and send him home.
Like nothing ever happened?
We curedhis bleeding disorder
and removed all the damagedcells we could find.
We don't knowthat we fixed anything. It's only been a day.
Maybe these symptoms come and go like the blood disorder.
It's more probablethat his remaining symptoms are
just a nightmare.
He had a convulsion.
Maybe epilepsy,maybe psychological.
Maybe nothing.
If the kid gets sick again,that'll give us another clue and we'llstart searching again.
If he doesn't,it doesn't matter.
Send him home.
House!
You're just giving upon this kid?
You gotta knowwhen to stop.
You don't stop.
You never stop,you just keep on going until you come up
with something so insane that it's usually right.
Except on my last case.
Don't be pathetic.
Just forgetthe last case.
This kid obviouslyhas something wrong with him.
When did you developsuch strong opinions about my patients?
Last week you were convinced that my patient wasn't sick.
Now you're convincedthis one is.
This oneis a young boy.
His parents are desperate.
Just get togetherwith your team, spend a few extra hours...
well,I guess we couldamputate his left leg.
It's wherewe found most of it.Maybe we should just removehis affected eye completely.
If you have reason to believethat that might help...
I'm not gonna startlopping off body parts.
But it's interesting that yougive me the green light.
I just want youto do something.
You've been overly supportivethis entire week.
Well,either you're hormonal or you're guilt-ridden.
And it's too earlyin the pregnancy for this to be hormonal.
- I'm not pregnant. - Then what did you do wrong?
He had addison'S.
Your last patient. You were right.
I gave him one shot of cortisoland he work up like rip van winkle.
Oh,your mommy'sin such trouble.
She's such a liar.
That's why youdon't have a daddy. That's why she had to...
how does one person...
end up withtwo different sets of dna?
- We've been through this. - Our assumptions are faulty.
We've confirmedtwo different sets of dna. We re-ran the sequence.
I didn't say the lab workwas faulty, I said our assumptionswere faulty.
We assumedhe's a person.
Of course.The aliensdidn't just visit him, they replaced him.
You're being silly.
What if he's not a person? What if he's two persons?
- I'm not gettingthe metaphor. - No metaphor.
Chase said the mom used in vitro fertilization,right?
Yeah,they had troubleconceiving.
Kid was right all along. He was implanted with something.
Back when he was young. I mean,really young.Like 12 cells young.
In vitro increasesthe likelihood of twinning.
But he doesn't havea twin.
Not walking around...
but in vitro fertilization costs around 25 grand a pop.
So doctors implant two to six embryos to make sure you get your money's worth.
The problem is,there's not always enough bedrooms for all the kiddies.
Two brothers get stuck sharing, but there's no bunk beds.
So they cuddle up to keep warm and they never untangle.
He's two people in one.
It's called chimerism.
Unfortunately,his brother'S...
like a bad doubles partner.
The guy just takes up space,gets in the way.
Clancy's body thinks he's gonnaput away the easy winners,
his brother just keepsswatting the balls into the net.
We gotta get himoff the court.
So does that meanthat you can find the bad cellsin his brain or not?
Sure,abandon the metaphor. Fine.
Clancy thinks differentlythan his brother... because he thinks.
If we inducean alien abduction...
wait,what the hellare you talking about?
The foreign dnahas got to be in the portionof your son's brain
that makes him believe that he's being abducted.
If we stimulate those neuronswith an electric probe,we can trick your son's braininto hallucinating.
Your son's neurons will light up, and his brother's cellswill remain dark.
Those are the oneswe cut out.
You're talking aboutbrain surgery.
I'm talking aboutreally cool brain surgery.
One of your sons will die.
But the taller one won't beso annoying anymore.
So I have a twin?
Not really.
What's on the card?
Light bulb.
Start us out at ten.
I'm not doing that.
It was all me,kid. Sorry.
You're in motor function.
Try two centimeters back.
He lives inside me.
Sort of.
That tickles. Stop tickling my feet.
You're in sensory. Getting closer.
- What do you seeon this one? - Moon and stars.
So...
I am kind of weird?
We're all kind of weird.
No!
- Clancy? - We got something.
- What do you see? - The light.
Here they come. I think.
Brain waves indicate mild hallucination.
- Neurons are lighting up. - Any dark spots?
- area's too fuzzy. - Hallucinationisn't strong enough.
Turn up the juice.
His blood pressure's alreadyat 160 over 110. Any higher and...
riding the short bus is betterthan not breathing.
Take us to 100.
Area's still too fuzzy to make any kind of distinction.
Crank it up higher.
You've already exceededthe pre-set maximum.
Next step's brain damage.
They're gonna get you. They're comingthrough the walls.
They're gonna take you,torture you.
You'll never see your parents again.
Clancy,can you hear me?
Clancy?
You got them.
Yep.
We got 'em all.
Close him up.
Everything's gonnabe normal again.
You believe what cuddytried to pull?
What now?
She lied to me.
She cured my patientwith my diagnos, then she lied about it.
That doesn'tsound like her.
You're right.
Does soundlike you,though.
What exactlydid cuddy tell you?
Nothing thatyour body language isn't telling me right now.
So what was the plan?
I'd feel so humbled by missing a case...
that I'd re-evaluatemy entire life,question the natureof truth and goodness,and become cameron?
Something like that.
More that if we told you the truth,
that you'd solved a casebased on absolutely no medical proof,
you'd think you were god.
And I was worriedyour wings would melt.
God doesn't limp.
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House Season 03 Episode 02