House

Hey.

How long have i...?

forced trauma to the head...

since the accident, he's had a continued...

why can't i get up?

No episodes of hyperten...

what's wrong with my legs?

Ekg's show normal...

hey! Someone talk to me.

Dilation, no hypertrophy...

you don't hear me talking to you?

Normal feeling pressure, normal c.k. Troponin...

great heart for transplant.

My heart?!

Oh, god! They don't know i'm in here.

Hey, genius.

I think it violates certain ethical laws

to rip the organs out of a guy who's still alive.

Possibly certain law laws too.

Thank you. Thank you.

Could you, um, get back in your bed, please, mr. House?

It's actually doctor house.

This guy's a doctor? There's also navy seal house.

But you're going to have to save up for that one.

Really? Well, that's interesting, but...

you're here because you crashed your motorcycle,

not because i need a consult.

So, get back in bed.

I scraped my elbow, i just need a truckload of vicodin.

Whereas, this guy...

he's brain dead.

No, i'm not!

So drop it.

See that?

Minimal brainwaves don't mean he's alive.

I am alive! I'm here!

No ekg response to painful stimuli, hot or cold.

What you're seeing is random, barely discernable.

I discerned it. Listen to him, please.

No, that's just the amplifier's

internal noise level.

It's on increased sensitivity.

No, it's not! It's me.

Then why is his eye following you?

Exactly.

Following motion's an involuntary reflex.

No. You're a doctor...

you should know these things.

No, no, i'm not dead, i need help.

I'm here!

I also know about locked-in syndrome...

that things are either involuntary...

or voluntary.

Blink if you can hear me.

I hear you.

Oh, this is going to be fun.

Eye movement is deliberate.

Can you blink once for "yes," twice for "no?"

I hope so.

The square root of nine?

He got that faster than you.

The brain is fully functional.

Lee... where's molly?

You were in an accident.

Hit the brake, hit the brake, hit the brake!

You've sustained a traumatic injury to your brain stem

which has cut off your brain's ability

to communicate with the rest of your body.

Can you fix me? Where's molly?

You still have movement in your eyes.

So we can get you to a rehab facility

where they can teach you how to communicate.

No, i can't be stuck like this.

Unless...

the crash didn't cause the brain damage.

Maybe the brain damage caused the crash.

Yeah, i couldn't stop. Why couldn't i stop?

Look at his palms.

There's no scrapes.

He didn't even try to protect himself.

So you had slowed reflexes... or no reflexes.

You're not a doctor in this hospital.

You are a patient.

Yeah, and you're the guy who wants to cut out my organs,

and he's the guy who doesn't.

Stroke, cancer, even a simple infection,

anything that insults the central pons could do this.

Then that means that i could be fixed.

You're giving him false hope.

He needs to accept what's happened.

And work on making the most of it.

Molly.

Hey.

Don't look at me like that.

That's not making me feel better.

I love you.

I don't know how god is going to get us through this.

But he will.

Stop it. I'm blushing.

What are you doing?

Just looking for some reading material for the crapper.

These cts...

get back in your bed.

Come on.

The children are in the waiting area,

can i bring them in?

No. No, don't.

You don't want to see them?

I don't want them having nightmares.

I don't want to scare them, molly.

You don't want them to see you?

It's okay.

I understand.

You're going to be better soon enough.

You really that sure?

Why are you so sure?

Baby, how'd you get so sure?

You okay?

Never better.

Here's your burger.

If you can't bring mohammed to princeton,

bring princeton to mohammed.

That's my diagnostics posse.

Hot, dark, and darker.

Talk about getting me better, please.

What are you doing up in middletown?

Who cares? Buying a gibson '57 goldtop.

It's the guitar duane allman used to play.

Next to the trauma, the mostly likely causes

of a sudden onset of locked-in syndrome

are basilar artery stroke, and brain hemorrhage.

Ct was clean.

Man, those fries look good.

Guy's an active bike rider, his heart's fine.

A well-placed tumor could explain it.

Jeez, is the last thing i ate gonna be the last thing i ate?

It could evade the ct,

and still show up on an mri with contrast.

It was a melted power bar.

She's the smart one.

I just keep dark and darker to fill out the quota.

If we find it, treat it, you could be fine.

I never thought i'd be praying for a brain tumor,

but please, dear god.

If you're praying in there, stop it right now.

We'll get his doctor to order an mri.

His doctor's busy teaching him how

to blink out "kill me" in morse code.

Luckily, i found some forms under the mattress.

Check it out, they have those mri video goggles.

I heard these were awesome.

What do you see? It's a beach.

Oh, look, there's taub...

drinking a margarita and mocking us

for driving all the way up here...

easy, i can still feel in here.

Excuse dr. Kutner,

he gets a little excited about new technology.

It can get loud in there, and a little closed off.

These will put you in a quiet place.

You can create a relaxing scenario for yourself.

I hope they...

...work.

You're in my relaxing scenario?

I guess you like me.

Either that, or you got sent here.

What? By god?

I'm not sure if i believe in god.

You spend an awful lot of time in church

for someone who doesn't.

I don't not believe either.

It's either one or the other.

I go to church mainly to keep my wife happy,

but...

i don't know, i've never actually thought

that god could reach out and affect my life.

But getting a brilliant doctor in the bed next to me?

God is also the guy

who opened his car door in front of you.

I think molly was right.

I think you were sent here to make me get better.

I think so.

Hey!

Hey, dad.

Making a volcano.

You're making a volcano? It looks like it.

What you doing, baby?

What time is it?

Hope you don't mind.

My new roommate snores.

And my new room doesn't have you.

Your mri showed a lesion in the central pons.

What is that? What does that mean?

See it there?

No.

Mm, that's what they said.

But it's there.

Which means no way head trauma did this.

It's cancer, causing a paraneoplastic syndrome.

Unfortunately, your current doctor thinks