House (2004–2012): Season 6, Episode 13 - 5 to 9 - full transcript

- Slow down, sister.
- I need to speed up.

Rachel woke up early with a fever

and she's been terrorizing me
all morning.

I'm already late.

Sorry, stakeout went longer
than I thought.

- Have you ever been to a rave?
- Good-bye.

You're already late
and Rachel's sick.

Neither of which can be solved
by you leaving right this second.

The entire hospital is depending
on a proposal I've yet to finish

and need to present at 8:30.

It's 7:30.



It's 7:37.

I'll have you on the road in 10 min.

You don't want to go
into your meeting all tight

and stressed out, do you?

That's yours.

- It's House.
- Ignore it.

It says "emergency page".

I said ignore it.

Sweet.

I'm sorry.
It's hard to pace yourself

when you've been thinking about it
for ten hours straight.

That's great.

Now I'm late, stressed out,

and frustrated.



Sorry.
If you give me a minute, I can...

It'll wait.

You can do it.

Do what?

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{\pos(192,220)}- I thought you were coming in at 7:30.
- Rachel woke up with a fever

{\pos(192,220)}and then I... just couldn't
get here any sooner.

{\pos(192,220)}- There's a problem in the pharmacy.
- Hey, boss lady!

{\pos(192,230)}You don't answer
emergency pages anymore?

{\pos(192,230)}Tell them all I'll be
by as soon as I can and tell him

{\pos(192,230)}I assumed it was either
about the wolf again

{\pos(192,230)}or the procedure I refused
to approve yesterday.

{\pos(192,210)}Turned out
it wasn't a resistant staph,

{\pos(192,210)}but I still say that if it had been,
infecting him with malaria...

- Seriously, I don't have time for this.
- You're lying.

{\pos(192,210)}- I have a meeting in 20 minutes.
- Not talking about your meeting.

{\pos(192,210)}- I'm talking about the phone call.
- I don't care.

{\pos(192,190)}I was with your boy toy
on a stakeout last night.

{\pos(192,190)}You were with Lucas?

{\pos(192,220)}He needed someone who could diagnose
a soft injury from across the street.

{\pos(192,220)}Apparently he doesn't know
any good doctors.

{\pos(192,220)}Or the ones he does know
actually have lives outside of work.

{\pos(192,220)}Things got a little slow,

so we made some wagers.

{\pos(192,220)}One being
whether I could get you to stop

{\pos(192,220)}the miscegenation

{\pos(192,220)}with an emergency page.

- What made you think...
- He said you do it every morning.

- Everybody lies. Remember?
- So you weren't actually...

Good-bye, House.

{\pos(192,220)}I'm gonna need a definitive answer
before any money changes hands.

{\pos(192,220)}Sorry to interrupt,
but the GRC called about the budgets,

{\pos(192,220)}The pharmacy is still waiting,
and your 8:30 just arrived on campus.

{\pos(192,220)}He should be here in ten minutes.

{\pos(192,220)}Figured this would be the one day
he comes early.

Can you proofread this for me?

- When are you gonna find an assistant?
- Not today. Thank you.

I'll be back in five.

We're usually fine
with two C.S. reps,

{\pos(192,220)}but I want a few extra hands
today just in case.

{\pos(192,220)}And have I.T.
recheck the network.

{\pos(192,220)}I don't want to hear later
that the new lines

{\pos(192,220)}can only dial out
or the computer crashed.

- What's going on?
- Nothing.

{\pos(192,220)}Just make sure you're ready
if people start calling.

You wanted to see me?

{\pos(192,220)}Yeah, I wanted to let you know
there's a problem with one of the orders

{\pos(192,220)}that came in last night.

{\pos(192,220)}Which is?

{\pos(192,220)}They sent double
the amount of meds we ordered.

- Did you call and ask why?
- They insist it's not a mistake.

{\pos(192,220)}- So fax them the original P.O.
- That's what I was planning on doing,

{\pos(192,200)}but I can't find it.
Actually, I can't find any of them.

{\pos(192,200)}Oscar, I don't have time
to straighten out your paperwork.

{\pos(192,220)}- Where's Stan?
- He doesn't get in till 9:00

{\pos(192,220)}and it's not my paperwork.

It's Gail's paperwork,
she's out sick today.

Put it on her desk and let her
figure it out when she comes back.

{\pos(192,220)}All right,
but it's not my problem if...

{\pos(192,220)}Not today, okay?

{\pos(192,220)}Was it the whole shipment
or just one med?

{\pos(192,220)}- It's just one.
- Vicodin?

No, 25 milligram ephedrine tablets.

{\pos(192,220)}Call Gail. Tell her I want to see her
in my office ASAP.

But she's sick.

{\pos(192,220)}This place is full of sick people.
Just get her in here.

{\pos(192,220)}Dr. Cuddy, your 8:30
is waiting in your office.

Now.

I got to make a quick trip upstairs.

Can you get the guy a cup of coffee?
I'll be right back.

I've gotten you coffee before.

What's wrong?

It's freezing in here.
I can hardly feel my fingers.

Please tell me
you didn't send a 911 page

- to tell me the heater's broken.
- It's not broken.

House bribed the physical plant
to turn on the AC

so I'd hurry up.

- So hurry up.
- This man's abdomen is wide open.

- His core temp is down to 95.
- Fine.

I will deal with it.

You better or I'm gonna file...

I don't care what he told you.
Turn it back up now.

- Thought you had an important meeting.
- You're an idiot.

What are you gonna do the next time
your patients needs a liver transplant?

Go talk to Wilson about something
completely unrelated

and see what happens.

Mystery infection guy
is now covered in boils

and has an abscess big enough
to put your fist in.

He needs to get into
an O.R. tout suite.

Hourani will be done soon.

Good.
I'll have some hot chocolate waiting.

Marina, hey.

How's she doing?

She vomited?

Give her some more ibuprofen
and put her in the bath for a bit.

Call me in a half an hour
if it doesn't go down.

Sorry, I have another call.

Just call me
in a half an hour either way.

What's up?

Tell him I'm halfway there.

He's the one who insisted
on the early meeting.

All right, I'm coming.

Morning, Eli.

- Sorry about the wait.
- It's all right.

I hear you got a sick kid.

Yeah, I know what that's like.
Or I should say my wife does.

So you guys ready to give some ground
so we can make this deal?

- Why would we do that?
- We've been going at this for 8 months.

- Soon as you decide to get reasonable.
- I'm the one that's unreasonable?

You've taken weeks to respond
to every proposal I've presented.

Atlanticnet insurance is the largest
healthcare provider in New Jersey,

and you're not the only hospital
whose contracts are up.

So is your team
ready to come back to the table?

We're not going to.

Our final offer.

We're willing to go
with a capitated structure,

But we need at least 12% increase
in reimbursements across the board.

The good news is
I can give you a quick response.

Not a chance.

But as always, nice talking to you.

Say hi to your sister for me.

If you don't accept the offer,
we're gonna terminate the contract.

Gonna be hard to keep this place open
If all your patients have to pay cash.

Princeton Plainsboro is the smallest
hospital in our entire network.

- We're also the best.
- Doesn't matter.

We are responsible
for covering 13 million people.

We don't have enough cash
to buy them all Maseratis.

I know what you paid Bergen,

Newark Beth Israel,
Robert Wood Johnson...

'Cause they have leverage.

You can be expensive or small,
but you can't be both.

I've engaged Jones/Curtin
to handle the P.R.,

and I'm prepared to make
the announcement at 3:00 p.m. today.

First lesson every good poker player
learns is don't get emotional.

You don't have the cards.
And the sooner you realize that,

the sooner a reasonable contract
will get signed.

You have until 3:00 p.m.
to change your mind.

I always did like your style.

Gonna be sad to see you go.

They're waiting for you
in the conference room.

Thanks.

Take this up to the call center

and tell Claudia to give one
to each C.S. rep

and to start going over
the answers to each question.

Under no circumstances is
any of this info to go outside here.

The scripts are numbered, I want a list
of every person she gives one to.

Got it.
Anything else?

If you really wanted to make a deal,
you should have ditched the push-up

and gone with a demi.

Nothing makes a guy
wanna close like high beams.

- You heard?
- Your meeting with the weasel

lasted less than five minutes,

which means you either agreed
to a completely sensible

30-day extension

or one of you issued a completely
ridiculous ultimatum.

Oh, goody.
You or him?

Me.

- Way to go, boss.
- You just said it was ridiculous.

Ridiculous to make.
Fun to watch.

As long as it's not just a bluff.
Please tell me it's not a bluff.

It is not a bluff,
and it is not ridiculous.

Just because we're not some huge...

Mr. Pluta started hallucinating
before we could put him under.

His B.P. is plummeting.
Elevated heart rate.

- Looks like congestive heart failure.
- Interesting.

I don't care how interesting it is.
You are not infecting him with malaria.

Since when is malaria
a cure for heart failure?

It's not.

It's not congestive heart failure.

It's gotta be...

Just got off the phone with Hourani.

Sorry, Dave.
I don't really have time...

Think I had time to listen
to him go for 20 min

- about the temperature in the O.R.?
- I took care of it.

It's not an "it".
It's a "him" you need to take care of.

You got the entire staff catering
to House's every whim,

and I can't get approval
to hire a replacement for the surgeon

he stole from my department?

A doctor I only took on
because of pressure from you.

So you didn't want Chase,
but you're pissed you can't have him?

You want to convene a search committee
and look for a new chief of surgery?

Then you better stop spending
all your time putting out his fires

and start doing your damn job.

There a problem with Dr. Thomas?

No, just refereeing
a dispute about the O.R.

We don't yet have
a contract with Atlanticnet.

We gave you an extra week

and you assured us
you'd have a deal by today.

We could have a deal,
just not the deal we deserve.

So what do you want,
approval for an extension?

We've been at this for eight months.
Extension isn't gonna change anything.

- So what's your plan?
- I presented a final offer.

I told them that we would agree
to a capitated structure

if they increase
reimbursements by 12%.

A final offer?
What does that mean?

If they don't accept it by 3:00,
we're gonna terminate.

Are you out of your mind?

If we don't accept
Atlanticnet insurance,

we'll lose 80% of our patients.

- We'd be lucky to last three months.
- We're not asking

for anything they can't afford.

Their last offer was a 4% increase,

and you're demanding 12.

They're paying even more
at some places.

Units that have lower ratings
than ours.

- In a perfect world, that would matter.
- Sanford, they're all about growth.

They know they don't get new customers
by marketing themselves as the biggest.

They do it by claiming
they're the best,

and they can't do that
if their patients can't come to us.

What was Morgan's reaction
when you told him?

He didn't give in, but he will.

I told him
I'd make the announcement at 3:00.

He'll call back before then.

They need us.

- We need them.
- We need each other.

The negotiation
is your responsibility.

So we can't stop you
if this is what you want to do.

But just so we're clear,

if we don't have a contract
with Atlanticnet,

you're not gonna have a contract
with us.

Guess who didn't show up
for clinic duty?

Don't tell me.

The guy with all the boils
needs a liver transplant.

His doctor needs a nap.
You want me to try to find him?

- You really need him?
- I need someone.

I have cancer.

- Why do you think you have cancer?
- I don't think I have cancer.

I know I have cancer.

I had surgery
to remove a malignant polyp

in my colon six months ago.

And now it's spread
to my liver and lymph nodes.

So you're under the care
of an oncologist?

He won't give me
the prescription I need.

Do you need more painkillers?

I need breast milk.

Human breast milk?

It has cancer-fighting qualities.

In newborns,
it's been shown to reduce future risk.

No, in adults with cancer too.

I've read studies.

Look...

I know a place where I can buy it.

I need a prescription to get reimbursed
by my insurance company.

They said they'd reimburse the cost
of breast milk as a cancer treatment?

They reimburse prescriptions.

If you write me a prescription,
they have to pay.

Well, actually, they have a choice.

What are you, some type of shill
for the insurance company?

I've been paying premiums
for 30 years,

and I've never been sick in my life
till this happened.

Now I can't work.

I got no money.

You wanna help them screw me over?

- I'm not.
- Then give me the script.

- It won't help.
- Will it hurt me?

Okay, so it won't harm me

and it won't harm you,

- It's this company...
- This is not about that.

Then give me the damn script!

I'm sick.

I need help.

I need something.

I'm sorry.

Bitch.

Anyone call?

The ER. They said the vascular
who's on call doesn't have privileges.

Then why is he on call?

Dowd's at a conference,
got him to fill in.

Be nice if he got somebody
who can work here.

Call Ereshefsky.

Ereshefsky? She's not gonna do it.

- She owes me a favor.
- Still...

All right.

There's a guy in your office.
A lawyer.

- In my office?
- Didn't wanna sit around sick people.

I tried to stop him.

- I'm Dr. Lisa Cuddy.
- Ronald Westbrook.

Thanks for taking the time
to meet me.

Hard to avoid
since you're in my office.

Sorry about that, I just got over
a wicked cold...

How can I help you?

I represent Martin Acevedo.

He's filed a suit against PPH

and Dr. Robert Chase
for performing surgery without consent.

I saw that, I also saw
the consent forms. They were all signed.

Yes, but my client was assured

the procedure
would be a few minor sutures.

Wait.

Your client cut his thumb off
with a table saw, right?

And Dr. Chase reattached it?

He didn't want it reattached?

No, he most certainly did not.

His insurance only covered 60%
of inpatient expenses.

- So he agreed to the cheapest option.
- What did you tell him?

I said I'd sew up the skin
over the exposed bone.

Then I put him under, got his thumb
from the paramedics, and reattached it.

Is he gonna tell the judge
I harmed him

by reattaching a vital digit?

He and the insurance company
are suing to get out of paying the bill.

It's over $80,000.

It was his thumb.

I couldn't let him toss it
in the trash to save a few bucks.

The pharm tech who called in sick
is here.

She's in your office.

He barely even looks at me anymore.

We haven't had sex in months.

You don't need pills to lose weight.

There are healthier ways,
legal ways.

You don't understand how hard it is.

Ever since our second child,
no matter what I do.

I just wanted to lose ten more pounds
and then stop.

I'm sorry.

Forging pharmaceutical orders...

- Stealing...
- Don't fire me, Dr. Cuddy.

Please, I'm begging you.

If Sam finds out, he'll divorce me
for sure, and my kids...

I will never do it again, I swear.
Just give me a second chance.

I won't report the theft to the DEA.

But I have to fire you.

Just take a few minutes
to compose yourself,

Then go down to HR
and they'll give you your last check.

I've been a perfect employee
for seven years.

I know, but this is too big.

I'm sorry.

How's it going?

Got three hours to save this place
from bankruptcy,

I fired one of my best employees,

and the woman taking care
of my child isn't returning my calls.

Rachel's gonna be fine, I'm sure
whoever he or she is deserved it,

and we're not going bankrupt.

- Are we?
- Don't worry.

The board will fire me before
that happens.

They'd never fire you.

I just told Atlanticnet insurance
I'd terminate

unless they gave us a 12% bump.

They might fire you.

Marina, it's me.

I haven't heard back from you,
call me as soon as you can.

You try Lucas?

He's either sleeping or avoiding me.

- You in a fight?
- Not yet, but we're gonna be.

What should I do about Atlanticnet?

You're asking a guy who paid
full sticker price for his last car.

You ask House?

He's a manipulator
who always gets what he wants.

This situation
is out of control enough already.

House is the last person
I want to get involved.

Get out of my chair.

And the answer is no.

You ever noticed how many porn sites
have "mom" in the domain name?

Hot moms, hungry moms, mature moms.

That ought to make you feel
pretty good.

What do you want?

Looks like boils,
altered mental status,

and heart failure
was called by renal cell carcinoma.

I need your signature
to treat him with malaria.

- Don't worry, I'm giving him chemo too.
- What is your obsession with malaria?

Trying to play my part
cutting costs.

Malaria is the simplest, cheapest
method of delivering hypothermia.

The only money you care about...

You bet someone you could use malaria
as a diagnostic tool?

- That doesn't sound like me.
- Forget it.

Let me see
if I've got this straight.

A bet that puts one patient
at minor risk is juvenile?

And irresponsible and dangerous.

But going all-in
against Atlanticnet...

Is not a bet.

That is a carefully considered
negotiating position.

I'm gonna put this in your inbox.

Hope it doesn't get lost

Underneath all the other stuff
you're carefully considering.

Take a look at these schedules.

- Let me know if you see any conflicts.
- Got it.

Ereshefsky actually did come in.

You catch her
leaving a sponge in a guy?

- Wasn't a medical mistake.
- What was it?

Can't tell you now. She came in.

Have you audited
the ephedrine orders yet?

Why? She confessed.

- I will.
- Today.

- He's cussing you out in there now.
- As long as he does it.

- What a bitch.
- What are you doing here?

You were gonna be too busy
for lunch.

So my specialty, spinach lasagna.

Didn't come looking for more people
you could brag about our sex life too?

From now on, I got nothing
but bad things to say about that.

Or nothing to say.

What's going on with Marina?
She hasn't called me.

She was gonna call. I told her
I'd let you know everything was okay.

So her fever broke?

What exactly does that mean,
when a fever breaks?

I'm very busy.
Does she have a fever or not?

That was gonna be your lunch?
And you didn't have breakfast either.

No, she doesn't have a fever,

and the rash was a diaper rash.

- She has a rash?
- Little one.

Lisa, don't worry, I'm telling you.

I must've grabbed Marina's cell
by mistake.

And I turned the ringer off
on the home phone

so I could sleep.

- What are you doing to me?
- Your deal's not done.

Not yet.

How about I take a quick look into
the guy in charge of the negotiations?

Or better yet, the CEO.

If I get some dirt,
you can use it as leverage.

There's no time.

How do you even find these guys?

You should have seen his face.

I thought he was gonna have a coronary
in the tee box.

Excuse me, you're Keith Tannenbaum,
CEO of Atlanticnet insurance, right?

- That's me. How can I help you?
- I think we can help each other.

I am Dr. Lisa Cuddy, dean of medicine
at Princeton Plainsboro.

- How are you?
- I'm a little unhappy.

You're aware our contract
with your company is up this week?

We have a negotiating team
that's working all that out.

Princeton Plainsboro
has the highest-rated ER in the state,

the most advanced ICU,

and the most innovative
diagnostic medicine department

in the country.

Good to know.

- Now if you don't mind...
- While Atlanticnet insurance

has a marketing budget
that's more than our pediatric ICUs

and transplant units combined.

Your PGA sponsorship
could pay for our walk-in clinic,

and the money spent on your jets
could fund our air ambulance service

- for the next three years.
- Your point being?

Your growth may be good
for your bottom line,

but ours saves lives.

And I would rather
not have to announce to the press

how selective your company appears to be
when it comes to cutting costs.

Morgan was right.

You are tough.

You can portray me as a rich bastard
in the press all you want.

Just as long as I stay rich.

- Stan is looking for you.
- Busy.

He said it's urgent.

I don't understand how it's possible.
I've checked it twice.

- How much?
- Ten cases.

- Ten cases?
- Going back three years.

What have you been doing?
You're supposed to be managing.

The paperwork I signed was correct.

She must have altered
the orders afterwards.

Didn't you ever cross-check it
with the bills that came in?

I delegated it.

To whom?

Gail.

She seemed perfectly trustworthy.
How was I supposed to know?

- By doing your job.
- Sorry.

- Have you notified the DEA?
- The DEA?

Geez, Stan. Hello!

You don't steal $50,000 worth of pills
because you want to lose weight.

She's supplying a meth lab.
Just get her back in here.

- All right.
- Now.

You ever want a job, trust me.
He'll double what you're making here.

Take it he liked my proposal.

Enough to tell me
to get my ass back over here today.

Here.

He's willing to go to 8%.

- Eight?
- We were at four.

Your board's gonna think
you walk on water.

I want 12.

You're not gonna get 12.

- There's just no way.
- 8% barely covers our cost inflation.

Capitated structure
should allow you to hold down inflation.

And shifts all your risk onto us,
which is why we deserve 12.

Lisa, come on. The guy who mows my lawn
makes more than my kid's teacher.

The two guys whose lunch
you interrupted could get fired,

and their severance would be more than
most of their employees make.

It doesn't have anything to do
with what you deserve.

This is it.

Take it or leave it.

What are you doing?

Know any good transplant surgeons?

Turns out his kidneys
aren't the only thing failing.

And I know what you're thinking.

Malaria wouldn't destroy
his liver that fast,

especially since
we never infected him.

- I thought...
- Foreman thinks

that he has the authority to overrule me
because the FDA wouldn't approve.

Don't worry. I'll deal with him.
If you could just talk to Hourani...

What would you do?

If you paged me during sex?

About the contract with Atlanticnet.

I got them to come up to 8%,
but we should get at least 12.

It's all numbers.
Do the math

and nothing else.

It's not about my pride.
It's about the principle.

They're trying to screw us over
because we're small.

- They're supposed to do.
- They should be pressuring

other hospitals to be more like us,
not trying to make us more like them.

It's stupid.

Putting your job on the line in
an effort to stamp out stupidity isn't?

You would.

Probably.

But then I also wanted
to try to cure cancer

by infecting a guy with malaria
to win a $50 bet.

You really want to be like me?

As you know,
for the past eight months,

we've been trying to renegotiate
our contract with Atlanticnet insurance.

It's been a difficult process,
but I wanted to let you all know,

before we made the formal
announcement that as of 5:00 p.m. today,

our contract with Atlanticnet
will be terminated.

We've doubled the number
of customer service representatives

in our call center.

Current patients will still be allowed
to remain in our care for 30 days,

but starting tomorrow,
we will no longer

be accepting patients
with Atlanticnet health insurance.

Why weren't
we told about this sooner?

Come on, Marina.
Pick up the phone.

I'm busy.

- We found a liver match.
- All right.

Get him prepped.
I'll straighten things out with Hourani.

Hourani's not the problem.
House is.

Now he wants Chase
to do the surgery.

To prove to Hourani
he doesn't need him?

To prove to Thomas that Chase
was his department's best surgeon.

- What does Chase want to do?
- He wants to do the surgery.

- And you don't want him?
- I don't care who does it.

- What's the problem?
- To get our patient into the O.R.,

we've to get him on surgery schedule.
To do that, we need someone

to put him there who neither House
nor Thomas can overrule.

What?

- Would you rather I go back on Vicodin?
- She's not massaging your leg.

She will... Eventually.

Why am I the only person here
who cares what happens to this hospital?

Get off your ass
and get your department under control.

At least for the next few days.

Gonna take longer
than a few days for a company

of the size of Atlanticnet

to start feeling
the squeeze of your P.R. campaign.

- If they ever do.
- And you know this how?

From all the time you've spent
researching them and their contracts?

- How they handle their press relations?
- I know they have a nascar team.

Despite what you may have learned
at Hebrew school or from Jimmy Cliff,

sometimes the bigger they are,

the harder they kick your ass.

I'm not trying to be greedy.

But he's also not interested in being
forced into a medical bankruptcy.

Mr. Acevedo, I am sorry
you're having financial difficulties.

But because of us,
you still have a thumb.

I assume that's something
a carpenter might need.

I assume you didn't ask for this meeting
so you could lecture my client.

You have insurance.

But by filing this suit,

you've caused us to get paid
nothing by them either.

- That's not our problem.
- Actually it is, since he's responsible

for any expense
we're not reimbursed.

But if you drop this suit
and make it clear that Dr. Chase

was acting in your best interest
when he reattached your thumb,

- we'll be able to resubmit the claim.
- And you'll cover his deductible,

attorney's fees, and 50 grand
for pain and suffering?

Actually, I was thinking more like
we'd cover half his deductible,

which means you'd only owe $16,000.

You want him to pay you?

Do you have any idea
how much it costs?

How many years it takes
to train someone in microsurgery?

We gave you back your life.

You can still work.
You can button your own shirt,

- hold a fork.
- Martin, let's go.

I'm sorry.
I know I should pay.

But,

I just can't.

I still cannot work.

I'm already underwater on my house.
And I have two kids with braces.

You think you'd be in better shape
without a thumb?

Right now...

Financially?

I would be.

Well, so would we.

But when you came in, we didn't think
about that, we just took care of you.

Made sure we did
whatever you needed to get well.

Yeah, right, all you doctors
care about is healing.

That's why there's those BMWs
and Porsches in the parking.

- Damn it.
- Come on, we're out of here.

- We'll see you in court.
- You're right, you will.

You still have a thumb
because of us.

And like everyone else,
we don't work for free.

We earn this money. And if we have
to take your house to get it, we will.

- What's going on?
- I think they're fighting.

Out of my way, now.
Out of my way.

What the hell is going on?

I told them to use their words.

That pharm tech is back.
She's in your office.

You, there.
You, over there.

I don't wanna hear a word out
of either one of you until I get back.

- You lied.
- So?

What're you gonna do about it?

Well, for one...
Notify the DEA.

Good. I'm sure
they'll be very interested to hear

how doctor House forced me
to help him steal the meds.

And the administrator
who he's having sex with

has been helping him cover it up.

You think
you can lie your way out of this?

Yeah, I do.

Anything else
you wanna know... bitch?

- HBC wants to speak to you.
- Tell him I'm busy. I did, but...

Tell him I quit.

You owe Lucas the money.

We were having sex when you called.

The breast milk guy finally found
a doctor to give him what he wanted.

If it works,
it's way better than malaria.

It was worth a shot.

I thought
they were the ones bluffing.

No way they'd let us terminate.

They're not gonna fire you.

And you're not gonna quit.

Why not?

Because you're an idiot.

This place needs you.

And that matters to you.

What do you think
of that pharm tech?

- She's a sociopath.
- You knew she was stealing meds?

But have you seen
the way she opens the mail?

Why didn't you ever tell me?

Figured it might
come in handy one day.

Gail, I like you.
I always have.

And I know you must've gotten sucked up
into a situation you couldn't control.

Really, is that what happened
with you and House?

I'm not gonna back down
just because you threaten to smear me.

Now, if you agree to tell the truth,
there are things I can do to help.

Think about your husband, your kids.

I know you're a good person
deep down inside.

You can't completely hide everything
about yourself in seven years.

You're an idiot.

I started stealing from here
six months after you hired me.

You still don't even know
the half of it, and you never will.

You wouldn't have even found out
about this if I hadn't gotten sick.

And you aren't
as tough as you think you are.

There's no way
you'd let this job get taken away.

And if I go down...

You're going down.

Can you tell Stan to give this
to the DEA agent when he comes by.

- A flower?
- Yeah, Lucas gave it to me.

I thought he might
come in handy one day.

I started stealing from here
six months after you hired me.

Nice.

Least I came out on top once today.

Where you going?

To hand the board of my resignation.

Hopefully whoever they hire
to replace me can still get the 8%.

I've been trying to get
in touch with you all day.

All right, I understand.

Just how is Rachel?

And the rash?

Great.

I'll be home early.

You bitch.

I didn't think you'd actually do it.

I told you I would.

Call the dogs off.

You got your 12.

Congratulations.

You gonna get that?