House (2004–2012): Season 6, Episode 11 - Remorse - full transcript

The team takes on the case of Valerie, an attractive female executive experiencing random episodes of excruciating pain. House agrees to take the case based on Valerie's looks, and while ...

NORRlS: How am l supposed
to walk into that meeting
with no presentation?

How the hell did
you screw this up?

VALERlE: lt wasn't me.

RUSS: She's lying.
No. We agreed. . .

Her team had
all the financials.

And we were swamped
modeling them,

that's why we agreed
that you would
do the slides.

Well, one of you
screwed up.

So please try
to figure it out,

'cause when
the client dumps me,

l need to know
who to fire.



l confirmed in the e-mail.
Hold on. Here.

NORRlS: She did tell you
about it, Russ.

l never got this.

Russ, are you okay?

(GASPS)

Are you drunk?

l'm not drunk.

(EXCLAlMlNG)

l'm not drunk. l'm. . .

l had no idea
he was drinking again.

Well, you should have.

Give me five minutes,
l'll go to
the business center

and print the graphs
directly from
the spreadsheets.

Run. And bring me
some paper towels.



(GROANS)

NORRlS: What?

Oh, it hurts.

NORRlS: Don't tell me
you were drinking, too.

No.

My ears. Oh, my God.

(SCREAMlNG)

Twenty-seven-year-old female,
intense intermittent ear pain,
saw six doctors. . .

HOUSE: Tell her to stop
lurking in the front row.

lf she wants to
hit on musicians,

that's what tour buses
are for. Next.

lf l ask why we're
in Wilson's office,

is there any chance
l'll get a straight answer?

Try it, try it.

Fourteen-year-old boy,
joint pain and
excess hair growth.

Tell him to masturbate
no more than
three times daily.

With meals. Next.

Did l mention that
the 27-year-old female
is really hot?

And her husband
is really not.

Wild guess. He's rich.

Not unless social workers
have begun pulling in
the big money recently.

Give me.

You're taking the case
because she's hot?

No, that would be
an accident of genetics.

lt's because she's hot
and her husband is ugly.

That's a fascinating window
into the mysteries
of human psychology.

Also, she's "really" hot.

Or she, you know,
loves her husband.

She loves something
about him.

Vitamin deficiency.
She changed her diet
a few months ago.

To a healthier diet.
Raw foods, lots of nuts.

lt's not the ear,
it's the heart.

Her protein was cheese,
which can raise cholesterol.

Hers was already elevated,
gave her arterial blockages.

Cardiac arrhythmia
presenting as ear pain.
Very rare. Cool.

So Beauty and the Beast.
Who wants to go see?

(CELL PHONE RlNGlNG)

Let's see.
Dr. Taub, Foreman,
Chase and Hadley.

TAUB: Four for four.

Wow, l can't believe
l get all these doctors.

And such
good-looking ones, too.

Yeah, it's almost
like we don't all
need to be here.

Your case presented
a very interesting
diagnostic challenge.

Oh.

(SlGHS)

You can't sleep
in your own office?

Or bedroom,
for that matter?

Got to avoid my
natural habitat.

Some idiot l went
to med school with
keeps leaving messages,

wants to drop by
for lunch.

So tell him "no."

lt's complicated.

lt's too complicated for you
to tell someone

you don't like
to screw off?

That's practically
your hobby.

A few months ago,
he was sort of
part of my therapy.

My shrink told me
write a letter of apology
to someone l hurt.

And how did you hurt him?

We were in a seminar
on flatworm genetics.

l switched my final paper
with his.

You plagiarized?
Doesn't sound like you.

l was testing a theory.

l thought that our professor
was biased against me.

l assumed he'd
get a high grade
with my paper,

and l'd get
a low grade with his.

lnterestingly,
l was wrong.
l got an A.

So you're in this
mental hospital,

delving into
your subconscious,

and this is who you choose
to apologize to?

Yep. Lorenzo Wibberly.

Of all the people
in the world
you've hurt. . .

Not everyone has a name
that's so easy to find
in the White Pages.

l'm in there.
And so is Cuddy.

Yeah. Yet l picked him.
lt's funny, isn't it?

Yes, it's hilarious.

Great to see
what a success
your therapy was.

We said we'd never
to go to sleep angry!

We did find an arrhythmia,
but it's not from your
arteries, they're clean.

Will the pain
come back?

We'll start her
on cardiac meds,
that should help.

But we still need
to figure out what's
causing the arrhythmia.

RUSS: Hey, Valerie.

Russ.

lt's so nice of you
to stop by.

l got lots of
free time now.

You don't blame me,
do you?

You were drunk
in front of Norris.

No, no, no, no, no.
l'm drunk now.

Then, it was like
someone poisoned me
or something.

Maybe you should
come back later.

Okay.

l just wanna
say goodbye.

Okay, Russ.
Thank you for coming by.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!
What are you doing?

RUSS: You poor
son of a bitch.

She doesn't
love you any more
than she loved me.

Okay, you need
to leave right now.

You're pretending
you had an affair
with my wife?

Yeah, we're all pretending.
You got nothing
to worry about.

Tell them where you were
six months ago, Russ.

l had a breakdown.
l had some paranoid
tendencies, as they say.

But it turns out,
l had a right
to be paranoid.

You need help.

Get him out of here.

Okay. Okay.

(MlMlCKlNG GUNSHOT)

VALERlE: Oh, my God.

Are you okay?
You okay?

Yeah, l'm okay.

We'll keep an eye out.
He's not getting
back in the hospital.

He's making all that up.
You know that, right?

Yeah, of course.

CHASE: (ON SPEAKERPHONE)
Where are you?

Undisclosed location.

TAUB: Who are you
hiding from?

Wilson.

HOUSE: And the Iunch date
that Wilson is,

no doubt, right now,
trying to sic on me.

But in
the great game of chess
that is our relationship,

Wilson sees only
one move ahead,
l see dozens.

That is why he will
never mate me.

That's a chess term.

FOREMAN: That's great.
A co-worker confronted
our patient.

AItered mentaI status.
Basically accused her
of poisoning him.

We think
he was projecting.

So he's poisoning her.

CHASE: What could
he get his hands on

to cause
supraventricular
tachycardia?

Does he have dry skin,
thin eyebrows?

(CLANKlNG)

lf you're sharing
an amazed look,
please do it louder.

He might have.
How did you know that?

He has hypothyroidism,

he dumped his meds
in her coffee,

that would make
her heart go boom,
in a bad way.

FOREMAN: We'II treat
with beta bIockers.

l'm sorry,
but l totally disagree.

CHASE: With what?
THlRTEEN: With everything.

Why are we assuming
he's lying and
she's telling the truth?

Because she's a successful,
happily married consultant,

and he's a crazy,
drunk weirdo

who we just tossed
out of the hospital.

And she's hot.

THlRTEEN:
Maybe she picked him
because he's vuInerabIe.

There's something off
about her, l can feel it.

lf you had
any evidence. . .

Why didn't she tell
us a co-worker puked
on her shoes

right before
she collapsed?

Because it's
medically irrelevant.
He was drunk, she was sick.

THlRTEEN: You don't think
it's suspicious

she didn't mention
it to her husband?

Yeah, Foreman,
why did you break up
with Thirteen?

Oh, no, wait,
the non-subtextual thing
she was saying, why that?

This is about the case,

not some imaginary issue
that you think
Foreman and l have.

Great. Start her
on beta blockers.

You'll do it?

l don't think
he was talking to me.

Well, l am.

l'm the only one who
thinks you're wrong.

Maybe that's why
l'm asking you to do it.

(DOOR OPENS)

Greg? Lorenzo Wibberly.

Dr. Wilson said
you'd be here.
How you been?

Check and mate.

Look,

l'm sorry this is
awkward or whatever.

l just thought
it was nice of you
to write that letter,

and l wanted to tell you
that you don't
have to feel bad.

Thanks.

So, where you
working these days?

You got your own practice
or you at a hospital?

l thought you knew.
Dani's, the organic
supermarket chain.

As an in-house doctor?

l actually never
got licensed.

l didn't graduate
med school.

l planned on going back,
and then my father got sick

and l had to
take care of him,
and l had some bad luck.

Why didn't you graduate?

l was one credit short.

And l was sort of already
on academic probation, so. . .

Which credit?

l got a. . .

He failed me on that
paper you switched.
l thought you knew.

So l'm guessing
you're the CEO of
this supermarket chain.

l bag groceries.

Life works out
weird sometimes.

We were going to do it
in Santa Barbara
because of his parents,

but then I found
this beautifuI hoteI
in Montauk and...

(DOOR OPENS)
(MUTlNG lNTERCOM)

You're testing her
for a brain tumor?

That's what l told her.
You can chastise me

after you look
at the monitor.

Look what's lighting up.

Lateral frontal cortex,
Broca's area. So what?

l told her
it was customary

to talk during MRls,
to relax.

l spent the last 30 minutes
asking her about everything
in life that she loves,

then hates, then feels
any emotion about at all.

There's nothing in
the paralimbic system,
amygdala.

Because she's
using the language
part of her brain

and bypassing
the emotional.

She can understand
love and pain and empathy,

but she can't
feel them at all.

She's a psychopath.

Why do you want to
meet her so badly?

Psychopaths always
fascinate me.

l think it's their
cultural literacy

and strong family values.
Or is that Jews?

We're not gonna
be able to get
an honest read on her

unless we figure out
a way to get the husband
out of there.

Hmm. l got an idea.

Can you get out of here?

Thanks.

lt was the "thanks"
that did it.

Hi, l'm Dr. House.
How long have you
been a psychopath?

Are you kidding?
He's not.

Are you saying
l'm like Ted Bundy
or something?

HOUSE: Psychopathy can
get a bad rap.

Doesn't necessarily
mean you're violent.

Just that
you're completely
without conscience,

you lack
any normal emotion,

you manipulate
everyone around you,

you're promiscuous,
you lie pathologically.

Any of this
ringing bells?

ls that why you
were asking me
all those weird questions?

HOUSE: Yeah. Well,
you have Darwin
to thank for that.

She got the creeps
around you.

Which, oddly, is an actual
medical phenomenon
around psychopaths,

probably an evolved
response to predators.

l'm sorry. You're
really freaking me out.
l have no idea what. . .

Relax. We have a duty
of confidentiality.

And you have
an undiagnosed
heart problem

that could kill you
at any moment.

We believe that
your mental abnormality

is related to
your physical one.

So if you want to
keep on "predating". . .

What do you want
to know?

Your co-worker's
story was true.
You poisoned him.

No. l gave him
a little Valium
and an emetic.

You sure you understand
what the word "no" means?

l've had them both before,
why can't he?

So you were just
helping him out?

l assume he was cool
with the whole seducing
and firing part, too.

Russ knew what
he was getting into.

He got sex every
Thursday night,

and l got to take credit
for his best ideas.

And what are you getting
out of your marriage?

Same thing you get
out of your job.

Bill has a trust fund,
and l have a prenup
his parents made me sign.

Told you he was rich.
She's not that weird.

l'm not so different
than anybody else.

Everyone l've ever known,
my family, my classmates,
the people l work with,

they're all out
for themselves.

Difference is,
l can admit it to myself.

She kind of reminds me
of someone l know.

Tell me about it.

Some of my co-workers
will insult people
right to their faces.

How long have
you been this way?

Just how l am.

Are you gonna cure
my heart problems now?

So, psychopathy plus
cardiac arrhythmia. Go.

l thought you were bluffing
to get information.

You really think
they're connected?

Two rare conditions
in one patient,

it's a fair
assumption they are.

Psychopathy is
generally just genetic,

nothing you can
do about it.

Something that hits
30 years after birth isn't
going to be connected.

There are diseases
that could lie dormant
that long,

hit her heart,
warp her brain.

Maybe a handful
of diseases.

lt'll be super awesome
when we find it.

Tertiary syphilis can cause
pseudopsychopathic syndrome
and cardiomyopathy.

Fits best.
Start her on penicillin,

rule out Wilson's
and Hashimoto's.

(ELEVATOR BELL DlNGS)

There's your handful.
Wasn't so hard, was it?

You gotta do something
about Thirteen.

She flouted both
my authority and yours.

Yes. And she got it right
and you got it wrong.

Which just aggravates
the problem.

She'll do it again.
Next time, it won't
work out so well.

You got to punish her.

You're her boss,

in some vague,
never to be
usefully defined way.

You punish her.

l'm also her ex,
which, as you know,

makes it
a little complicated.

The fact that
you also fired her

takes it from
a little complicated
to a little moronic.

lt was the only way l. . .

lt wasn't because
you were too in love
with her,

it was because
you were too in love
with your career.

We're almost at my floor,
so l'll summarize.
Your problem, not mine.

You cut up my only
copy of that photo.

That rare daguerreotype?

You can charge me
for the effort it takes

to search your hard drive
for a new copy.

Not the one
of me and Lucas,
the one from Ecuador.

Right, l'd forgotten
about your deep emotional
attachment to lemurs.

To my dad.

You got his tail.

He was holding the camera.
That was the last trip
we ever took together.

And l don't have
a digital copy.

Well, l could stand here
all day apologizing,

but l'd rather
expiate my sins
with good, clean work.

You ignoring my texts?

The crazy ones you sent,
trying to get me to
make you feel better

about destroying
your classmate's life?
No, l never got those.

(ALL SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

Wibberly's got
some agenda.

Probably trying to guilt me
into getting him a better job.

How pissed was he?
Not at all.

That's how l know
he's got an agenda.

(BOTH SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

lf you feel guilty,
you should do
something to help.

You are responsible.

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

Thanks.

What?
All l'm responsible for

is the foreseeable
consequences
of switching papers.

A bad grade or
a sleepless night.
Worst case, a retest.

There was no way to know
that one seminar paper

was gonna destroy
this idiot's life.

lf there's any karma
in all this,

he's probably happier
than you are.

Good point.
lf he is happier,
there's no harm done.

l'll go find out.

That is absolutely
not what l said.

Always with the modesty,
this one.

(HOUSE SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(SPEAKlNG SPANlSH)

You want
something to eat?

l'm cool.

How's work?

You happy with it?

You know, it's a job.

l don't need to take
any work home with me
at least.

Free time.
Wouldn't have any of that
if you were a doctor.

Yeah. True.

You like chili?
l could reheat some.

ls that your yard?
That's nice.

Yeah. That sugar maple,
1 00, 1 50 years old.

The most beautiful
leaves in the fall.

Sit underneath
on the bench,

it's like paradise.

l don't have a yard,
myself.

You got
a good thing going.

l know.

So, what are
the boxes for?

l'm moving.

From paradise?

Well, with my dad's
medical bills,

and me being one
of those idiots

that got an adjustable
mortgage, so. . .

You're losing your home.

Hey, could be worse, right?

How?

Even if
the tests are positive,
you don't have to worry.

You're testing for syphilis,
not a cold.

VALERlE: Honey. . .

TAUB: At this stage,
it's probably
not communicable.

You think l'm worried
about myself?

l just want my wife
to get better.

She might have
caught it at birth,

so it doesn't prove
she was cheating.

lf you were worried
about that.

BlLL: Of course not.

How many weeks
am l gonna have to. . .

(COUGHlNG)

You okay?

Why is she coughing?
TAUB: l don't know.

You want some water?

Are you threatened by me?

Not at all.

Well, you should be.

You let him know
what l told you,

l will not only have
your license pulled,

l will sue you
for everything l lose
in the divorce.

So the fun you get
out of making those
snotty little comments,

is it worth $90 million?

Oh, wait.
Will you hold that look?

l'm really bad at
showing emotions.
How's this?

(GASPS)

(DOOR OPENS)

Thanks, baby.

Can l have your arm,
please?

(SCREAMlNG)

(EXCLAlMS)
My arm ! You broke it!

l don't know
what happened.
HOUSE: Neither do l.

But l know what
happened after.

She called Cuddy
and demanded l kick you
off the case.

l backed you up
because l trust you,

but you're gonna have to
earn that trust now.

Thanks.

Actually,
he backed you up

because of the new BUN
creatinine numbers.

Brittle bones were
from kidney failure.

There is that.
So heart and kidneys.

And brain.

Nope. The psychopathy
is not a symptom.

lt was yesterday.

ln the meantime,
kidney failure
ruled out syphilis,

and testing ruled out
the other ideas
that would have fit.

Protein levels,
kidneys, arrhythmia.

FOREMAN:
Could be paraneoplastic.
l'd say lymphoma.

Get her to radiotherapy.

We can't start radiation
without immunoassays
in her urine.

Great. So, you cast
a spell and magically
fix her kidneys,

she can give us
some urine to test.

We have some left
from admission.

Not enough
for a completely
accurate reading.

Then how about
partially accurate?

Those of you who
haven't slept together,
you can go.

Everyone else,
stay behind.

Oh, sorry,
that was our secret. Right.

Go have sex.
No, thanks.

Fine, l'll cover the Viagra
and the lubricants,
just get me a receipt.

FOREMAN: We have
zero feelings for
each other.

That's too bad,

'cause things
worked much better
when you did.

Would it help
if l slept with her?

We were getting
to a diagnosis.

No, we were already
at the diagnosis.

You were creating
a fake argument

about an irrelevant
treatment issue

'cause you can't stand
to be around each other.

So have sex, fight,
or quit, l don't care.

Whatever you're
doing now isn't working.

THlRTEEN: You okay?

Yeah.

Look, l get that
you gotta act fast,
but radiation?

You definitely ruled out
everything else?

l'm sorry, but. . .

We could still check
for environmental toxins.

Where does she spend
most of her time?

Mostly at work, at home.

Hobbies?
Recurring activities
outside the home?

No. Not really.

She took a landscaping
class at the Y.

When did it meet?

Every Thursday night
this summer.

You dig in soil,
you can be exposed
to pesticides,

heavy metals,
lots of bad things.

Can you find out
all about her
landscaping class,

where it was,
details like that?

Yeah. l'll do it now.

So when you watch Star Wars,
which side do you root for?

(ON lNTERCOM)
Dr. House,
what are you doing?

Just checking in
on your radiotherapy.

From what l hear,
you never visit patients.

And now you've come
to chat with me twice.

I wanna know
how you like being
a management consultant.

I'm thinking of
getting into it.

That or psychopathy, maybe.

Which pays better?

I think you're already
into one of them.

Dr. Hadley made
a joke yesterday.

She said
l sound like you.

You sure you understand
what "joke" means?

So you're not just
out for yourself?

For example,
you would never interrupt
a sick woman's treatment

just because of some
personal obsession?

Of course
l'm self-interested.

We all are,
we're born that way.

The rest of us are
born with consciences.

Which is something
you just sound
ecstatic about.

l'm not saying it's logical,
l'm just saying it's human.

So if you know
your conscience is just
an animal instinct,

you don't need
to follow it.

l think you realize that.

That's why
you're talking to me.

(STAMMERlNG) You lied about
your landscaping class.

Dr. Hadley thought the soils
might be poisoned.

You told him that?

l just thought. . .

Russ said you were
having an affair.

Was that your cover?
Every Thursday night,
you'd. . .

l'm so sorry.

Oh, God.

VALERlE: lt's not
what you think.

Do you remember
that telecom case

l said that we didn't
get last year?

ln fact, we did.
And l was swamped.

Every Friday morning,
we had a conference call
with London,

so the night before
l would. . .

That's your excuse?
You expect me to believe
that you were at the office?

What's the biggest argument
we've ever had?

You said l spend
too much time
away from home,

that l don't need a job,
that you would
take care of me.

Yeah. That's all true.

You yelled at me.

You made me feel
like you didn't value
anything that l did.

l need this job

to feel like
l'm accomplishing
something on my own.

That's why l lied to you.

lf l call your office
tomorrow and l check. . .

Call my office,
call my secretary,

call my clients,
interrupt their dinner,

wake them up,
l don't care.

l just want you
to know the truth.

You know l love you.

Come here.

Please.

lt's okay.

Fire her.

What for? You seem
to have lied your way
out of any trouble.

Until Bill checks up
on my cover,

and l have to
create a whole new one
to cover that one up.

l've done it before,
but it's a pain,

and l would like
Dr. Hadley to
share that pain.

She didn't reveal
any confidences,

and she had
a valid medical reason

to ask about your
landscaping class.

We can see what
a jury says about that.

And admit to your
husband the truth?

You're not going
to sue us.

We will remove Dr. Hadley
from all patient contact.

What?

But it's for
Dr. Hadley's benefit,
not yours.

We have no obligation
to inflict you on her.

Fine.

But just so you know,
this is not
for your benefit.

Dr. Cuddy is furious
that you put her hospital
at risk.

She just knows
it's a bad idea

to admit it
in front of me.

CUDDY: Think what you want.

By the way,
your orderly's outside.

But l'd wait about
another 1 0 minutes

if you really want
your husband to think

you're having
radiation treatments.

VALERlE: Dr. Hadley?

Are you, by chance,
gonna cry?

'Cause that's the one
l just can't do.

(CELL PHONE BUZZlNG)

Hello?
This is Dr. Hadley.

What?

You called
the medical board?

What is she talking about?

THlRTEEN: "Accusations
of sexual harassment."

You don't think
l know it's you?

CHASE: Thirteen, come on.

You already got me
fired from the case,
what else do you want?

Dr. Hadley,
get out here now.

You're acting
like an idiot.

She's trying to make me
lose my license!

She'll fail,
unless you're
stupid enough

to go in there
and scream at her.

Sexual harassment accusations
are incredibly serious.

lf she made them anonymously,
the case goes away.

lf she used her name,
we all back you up,
it goes away.

You're completely
overreacting.

You'd be pissed off, too,
if you were me.

Or maybe not,
l don't know.

You're just about as
emotional as she is.

l'm doing you a favor.
l know.

And even when you try
to do something nice,
you sound like a jerk.

l'm sorry.

For what?

For firing you.

Don't do that.
That's not what
this is about.

Then l'll apologize anyway.

l did it for me,
not for you.

l realized that
right after l fired you,

but l couldn't admit it.

l screwed everything up.
l hope that we can
still work together.

(PAGER BEEPlNG)

Something's wrong
with her liver.

Blood flow's backing up,
spilling into her esophagus.

BlLL: From the cancer?
This isn't lymphoma.

We don't know
what it is.

We can wrap bands
around the veins,

but the bleed is so bad,
that might not work.

We want to try something
called the TlPS,

a shunt that
makes the blood
bypass the liver.

That'll save her?

lt should help preserve
her liver and heart.

But the liver
cleans out toxins,
so bypass it too long,

she'll get brain damage,
eventually die.

But that's still
probably less dangerous
than bleeding out now.

Probably?

Valerie usually
makes the decisions. . .

You gotta step up now.

Was she cheating on me?
l can't discuss. . .

Just tell me
she wasn't lying.
Just tell me that.

l'm supposed to
make this decision?

l don't even know
who she is any more.

Either way,
you gotta do it
right now.

Do whatever
you think is right.

l'd give her a day,
two days at the most.

Great. You be the clock,
everyone else
will be the doctors.

Heart, kidneys,
now liver.

Amyloidosis.

No speckles on the MRl.
Alpha-1 antitrypsin
deficiency?

Too much kidney failure.

Primary hepatic fibrosis.

lt's our best guess.
Start her on steroids.

CHASE: Even if we're right,
the liver's probably
too scarred.

We got to list her
for a new one.

With an unconfirmed
diagnosis?

Not gonna happen.
FOREMAN: How about
a family member?

CHASE: l don't think
the husband's
the right blood type.

Even if he was,
he's not going to
give his liver now.

He left her, l assume?

TAUB: Not yet.

He says
he won't abandon her
while she's sick.

She have any other
family members?

No one's going to risk
their life to save hers.

Man, one false accusation
from a psychopath,

and you turn out
to be a real bummer.

l'm gonna go see if
Wilson has any liver left.

What are you doing?

Paying Wibberly's mortgage
for a few months.

Congratulations
on another successful
round of hectoring.

Wait a minute.
ls that actually
a check for him?

No, it's a giant
novelty item for
winning the lottery,

you're just standing
really far away.

Of all the people to
go the extra mile for,
why this guy?

l don't know,
he just kind of smells good
and makes me laugh.

Why not Cuddy?
You never apologized after
you defaced her photo.

Maybe because l recognize
that sending someone
to the poorhouse

is a little more serious
than editing a snapshot.

No, it's because Cuddy
actually means something
to you,

which makes it
much harder to
apologize.

(GROANS)

lf it'll make you shut up,
l will tell her l'm sorry
about the photo.

Forget the photo.
House, she was
in love with you.

And all she got
in return was abuse.

For years, you toyed
with her emotions.

She wasn't
in love with me.

The fact that you
still can't admit it
just proves my point.

What do you want?
Helping the guy
was your idea.

No, help the guy,
whatever.

l'm just pointing out
that it's much easier
to soothe your guilt

by throwing money
at a stranger

than by making amends
to a person you actually
care about.

You had me
at "much easier."

l'm going to pretend
to go to work now.

Ping.

Sarah?

l'm Dr. Hadley.
l'm sorry to bother you,

but l was told that
you're Valerie's sister.

Mmm.

l was just surprised
you came to visit.

(LAUGHS)

So is the rest
of my family.

l was even more surprised
you got tested as a donor.

Wrong blood type.

But why? l mean,
you know what she's like.

She's not that bad.

Yes. She is.

Our dad was a mean drunk.

l was the older sister.

l was supposed to
stand up for her,
not the other way around.

She protected you
when you were kids?

Yeah. And then
all of a sudden,
all of his crap

and all his abuse,
it just changed her.

lt made her cold.

When?

We were wrong.
Psychopathy is
a symptom.

l spoke to her sister.
She wasn't
always like this.

She changed,
and right around
adolescence.

So, liver,
heart, brain lie dormant,
and it starts at puberty.

The raw food diet
made it go fulminant.
Nuts are high in copper.

lt's Wilson's disease.

We ruled that out.
No Keyser-Fleischer rings.

There is one other sign.
l know there are
lipstick lesbians.

Are there
nail-polish-remover bisexuals?

BlLL: She's not
supposed to be here.

As a doctor.

You didn't say
anything about her capacity
as a beautician's assistant.

Her fingernail's blue?

Yep.

Start her on chelation.

What just happened?

You're gonna get better.

Your body has an inability
to process copper.

lt caused all
of your problems.

Even what's wrong
with your brain.

That's going
to change, too?

lt's probably rewired
her neurons permanently
by now.

But it's possible?

Maybe.

l have to go get
the chelation equipment.

Bill, l need you
to sign some forms.

You don't see
what she's doing?

She's laying the groundwork
to get her treatment,

wake up a completely
different person

so that you and
all of your money
stay with her.

lt's a lie.

You said
there was a chance.

Okay, there's
a teeny chance.

But even if it cures her,
it's not going to
make her love you.

l was happy before.

l know, and l'm sorry,
but it wasn't real.

lt felt real.

l don't know. . .

Maybe that can be enough.

WlBBERLY: You're really
doing this for me?

Tax shelter.

l'll take some
of that chili now.

l can't accept this.

Fine, forget the chili.

Bye, Wibberly.

l got an A plus
with your paper.

l was an orthopedic
surgeon for 1 0 years
at New York Mercy.

l had a gambling problem.

l tried to cover it
by overbilling some
Medicare patients.

Lost my license.
That's why l'm here.

Not because of you.

Why are you
telling me this now?

(SlGHS)

Because l thought
you'd be the same bastard

you were
in med school, but. . .

Keep it.

No. l can get
another place.

Just take it.
l screwed you over.

You got me an A plus.

Take it.
No.

Do l have to shove
it down your throat?
Take the damn check!

Your vitals are up.

Treatment's working.

l'm not sure we can
fix your liver,

but we can definitely
list you for a new one.

When you're better,
we're gonna take
a long vacation.

You want to go to Vietnam,
one of the beaches?

We're gonna get a hut,
just you and me,
nothing to worry about.

You're pathetic.

What?

l mean, when you
had a suspicion, fine,
but you know now.

How can you
be this pitiful?

You don't mean this.
You're sick.

l'm not sick.

l almost died,
and l still might.

And who knows,
maybe it's focusing
my mind

because the idea
of spending the rest
of my life with you. . .

Valerie. . .

Why'd you do that?

Because he's pathetic.

He hasn't changed.

But you have.
The treatment actually
worked on your brain.

lf you were still
a psychopath,

you would have just
kept draining him dry.

What do you want?

You're feeling something.

What is it?
What do you feel?

l don't know.

lt hurts.

lt will.

Heard about the diagnosis.
Nice job.

Thanks. Why are you
here so late?

Discharge summary.
Taub's handwriting
isn't helping much.

Apparently on
the third day
of admission,

the patient underwent
"rabbit thumping."

(LAUGHlNG)

"Radiotherapy."

Ah.

"Third day after admission,

"patient underwent
radiotherapy

"including external
beam radiation

"to treat
B-cell lymphomas.

"First treatment was

"full-mantle therapy. . ."