House (2004–2012): Season 6, Episode 17 - Knight Fall - full transcript

House and the team take on the case of Sir William, a "knight" in a closed-off community of men and women living according to the ideals of the High Renaissance. As the team searches the ...

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

(MEDlEVAL MUSlC PLAYlNG)

My lords and ladies!

Today, your Queen
will choose her champion.

Here he will battle
for not only her honor,

but for a title
of his own.

But only if he can defeat
the Captain of my Guard,

Sir Horace the Black!

(CHEERlNG)

Sir William,
wouldst thou fight
for my honor?

To the death,
Your Majesty.



Let's hope it does not
come to that, eh?

l choose Sir William
as my champion.

(CHEERlNG)

Attack from
his left side.

l saw his squire
bandaging that shoulder
this morning.

l wish thee
luck and strength.

l fear l shall need
all l can get.

MlLES:
The Captain of my Guard,
Sir Horace the Black!

(CHEERlNG)

(GROWLlNG SOFTLY)

Are you sure you
wouldn't like to reconsider
your choice, my Queen?

l believe
l chose rightly,
my King.

(SNARLlNG)

Brave knights,
in the honored tradition
of our land, have at ye!



(AUDlENCE CHEERlNG LOUDLY)

l fear you chose
most poorly, my love.

(AUDlENCE EXCLAlMlNG)

(SCREAMlNG)

(BREATHlNG HEAVlLY)

(AUDlENCE CHEERlNG LOUDLY)

AUDlENCE: (CHANTlNG)
William ! William !
William ! William !

William ! William !
William ! William !

William?
What is it?

Your eyes.

(ALL GASPlNG)

William.

We need an ambulance
at the Camden Fairgrounds.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHlNG)

You're new.

You're naked.

And for the record,
a little bit cold.

l'm sorry, l didn't know
that anyone was home.

James had an early call,
and l was just leaving.

Without breakfast?

l'm fine, thanks.
l'm Sam, by the way.

House. Nice to meet you.

lt'd be nicer
if you put this on.

So you and Wilson. . .

Thought you were staying
in New York last night.

Sorry, must have missed
the "if this trailer be
a-rocking" sign out front.

l'm really late, so. . .

lf there's any chance
that we can pretend
this never happened,

l'd be completely
fine with that.

An eight-year-old
with bleeding ears.

l'll see your bleeding ears
and raise you a total
muscular degeneration.

What the hell?

l had a dream
like this once.
lt didn't end well.

Huzzah,
my loyal peasants.

House,
what are you doing?

Filling in for Rabbi Shmuhl
at the Goldstein Bris.

While l'm busy,
you all can check out
the knight down in the ER,

who instead
of seizing the throne,
just seized.

He works at
a Renaissance festival?

Doesn't work there,
he lives there.

He's part of
a wonderful
little troupe

who spend their weekends
re-enacting a nobler age

when people crapped in
the streets and Thirteen
would've been a grandmother.

Weeks, not weekends.
Says here he's been
camping out for a month.

Try doing that
with a pen.

Why don't you put
that down before
you kill one of us?

Better idea.
Why don't you give me
something l can use

so l won't feel
the need to?

Seizure right after
a fight obviously
suggests concussion.

Obviously it isn't,
or the ER wouldn't
have called House.

A full suit of armor
would protect against
visible trauma,

but not transmitted
concussive force.

Could be a subdural
hematoma.

(SlGHlNG)
You're forgetting
to demonize.

An evil, satanic
subdural hematoma.

No, two demon eyes.
Hemorrhaging
in the sclerae.

Could be an allergic reaction
to something from
the Renaissance fair.

Which is why
we need to check
out Middle Earth.

Foreman, take Frodo
and break bread
with the Hobbits.

l still think
a hematoma
is more likely.

That's why you
and Chase are
gonna get an MRl.

But you just. . .

l said Frodo,
not Gollum.

ls he saying
l have short legs
or hairy feet?

l don't even know
who Frodo is.

Who's the chick,
and why are you
hiding her?

You were home
last night?

And this morning.
l bumped into
your babe naked.

l told you to stay
out of my bathroom.

l was in the kitchen.

She was naked
in the kitchen?
l was naked.

Why were you naked
in the kitchen?

That's not important
right now.

What is, is why you
didn't want me to meet her
in the first place.

ls she married?
No.

Patient?

l don't have time
for this.

She used to be a man.
House!

She wants to be a man.

Sam is a man's name,
short for. . .

Samantha.

The soulless harpy
you were married to
before we met.

(SlGHlNG)

People change, House.

Sure. They get older,
their ovaries start
drying up

and nice guys like you
look attractive again.

Listen, l know
that in your own
demented way,

you think you're
looking out for me.
But l have this.

By "this" you mean
a sinking feeling in
the pit of the stomach.

Fine, l get it.

lt's your life,
you go screw it up.
l can wait.

For what?

To tell you,
"l told you so."

No signs of a hematoma.
Brain looks completely normal.

Normal, except for
the fact that he likes
to play dress-up.

My uncle used to pretend
that he was King Leopold.

WlLLlAM: (ON lNTERCOM)
I'm not pretending.

Sorry about that.

But you don't really think
you're a knight, do you?

Being a knight
isn't a game,
it's a lifestyle,

and we do it every day,
not just when
we play dress-up.

We live by a code,
and uphold ideals like
loyalty, courage, humility.

And the part where
you beat the crap out
of each other in armor?

That we do for fun.
At Ieast it was
up until yesterday.

Are we aImost done?
I'm feeling...

Let's get him out of there
before he aspirates.

(COUGHlNG)

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

Anything abnormal
on the MRl?

God's teeth !
What strange manner
of garments be these?

Okay. We'll be back soon.

He consorts with tiny
demons in his hand.
'Tis witchcraft, l say.

Do l look like l'm here
to play pretend with you?

THlRTEEN: Relax.
lt's not personal.

Just tell them
you're a time traveler
or something.

Well, if we're gonna
be here, we might
as well enjoy it.

Our knight just vomited
inside the MRl.

Taub thinks it might
be food poisoning.

Which shouldn't
be surprising.

Outdoor latrines,
food prep going on
next to livestock.

l hear you wish
to speak with me
concerning Sir William.

How faireth he?

Not well,
or we wouldn't be here.

A pox indeed is. . .
Miles.

We just thought
it was a concussion.

He's going to be
okay, right?

We need to look
at the area he was
camping out in.

And you might want
to invest into a dental
plan for the kingdom.

You sure he got sick
from something here?

l'm not sure
of anything,
yet, but. . .

What do you make of this?

Mmm.
Looks like vomit.

Means he was
showing symptoms
prior to the fight.

True, but l meant this.

Oh. lt's a cow eye
from the night before
the tournament.

He makes the knights
eat all kinds of
disgusting stuff.

Why?

Got the idea
from Fear Factor.

Why didn't he mention it
when he checked
into the hospital?

l make them all take
an oath of secrecy
about the ritual.

William tends to take
his role as a knight
very seriously.

SHANNON: You think
that's what caused
him to pass out?

(CLEARlNG THROAT)

lt's not exactly sanitary.

Fun stuff never is.

Serious bacterial food
poisoning explains
seizure and vomiting.

A lumbar puncture
could confirm.

Except it's not
food poisoning.

lf it was,
the ER would look like
Camelot right now.

All it takes is
one bad eyeball.

Or testicle, cow brain,
or my personal favorite,

pig rectum with a side
order of sphincter.

l think they call that
breakfast in Australia.

HOUSE: No one else was sick
because they weren't
allergic like he was.

To what?
That's what l sent you
to Middle Earth

to find out.

Run scratch tests
with the samples
you brought back.

CHASE:
That's gonna take time,
and he's getting worse.

So treat him with
epinephrine, too.

FOREMAN:
This should prevent
any more symptoms

until we can figure out
what it is you're allergic to.

WlLLlAM: Thanks.

l told you,
you shouldn't have
eaten all that stuff.

You know,
you don't have to stay.

l'm sure you and Miles
are crazy busy, what
with the wedding and all.

Miles said we could
postpone it until. . .

Don't worry, l'll be fine.
l'll be there. l just hope
you have a good photographer.

'Cause l don't think
the standard red-eye filter's
going to work on these.

THlRTEEN: l need
your right arm.

That feels. . .
Feels strange.

(MONlTORS BEEPlNG)

What is it?
What's wrong?

His heart rate's
become irregular.

My chest hurts.
lt feels like it's
going to explode.

Tachycardia.
We need to shock
him back into rhythm.

Oh, my God,
William. . .

l need his gown open.

(PANTlNG)

What is that?
What is that stuff?

l don't know.

(GASPlNG)

lt's definitely
not an allergy,

or the epi would
have helped him,
not made him worse.

Unless he's allergic
and allergic to the cure.
Sodium bisulfite,

the preservative
that keeps epi peppy,
can cause tachycardia.

So can Wolff-Parkinson-
White syndrome,

and it also causes
hemorrhaging in the eyes.

And abnormal electrical
pathways in the heart,
which could cause seizures.

But not skin infections.

There is an infection
that can cause skin
and neurological damage

and spreads rapidly
without treatment.

Methicillin-resistant
staphylococcus aureus?

Lord have MRSA.

You weren't wearing
gloves when we shocked his
heart back into rhythm.

l'm sure you'll be fine.
You two, get a sample
to the lab to confirm.

You get the knight
into isolation and
on lV antibiotics.

You, stay away from me.

Need to talk.
About the MRSA?

l know. We're. . .
MRSA, shmrsa.

Something important.

Something you think
is more important than
a potentially lethal bacteria

spreading like
wildfire through
my hospital?

Well, that narrows it
down to something
personal and stupid.

Wilson.
Theory confirmed.

He is dating
his first wife,
l know.

l don't believe it.

That he didn't ask
your permission first?

No, that he's actually
capable of keeping
a secret from me.

Well, you'd be surprised
how many things
Wilson doesn't tell you.

Would l? Like how you
slept with your father's
best friend? Or. . .

l'm going to kill him.

You need to break them up.

Forget it.

So you'd rather
sit back and watch

while the evil blonde
gorges on Wilson's
tender flesh

and then tosses out his bones
like she did the last time?

You remember what
he was like after that?

Yes, l do.

Well, then
do something.

God knows
he's not gonna
listen to me.

You, on the other hand,
have decades of
experience dating

and being attracted
to losers.

Obviously l don't
include myself.

You know what happens when
you interfere in other
people's relationships?

Of course,
l do it all the time.

Hmm. l see your point.

That is why
l'm staying out of this.

You force him to choose,
you might not like the answer.

He doesn't seem
to be in as much
pain anymore.

That's good.

But we won't be out of
the woods for sure until
the blisters start to recede.

l'm really thirsty.
You mind getting me a soda?

Sure.
l'll be right back.

(EXHALlNG)

What's wrong?

The pain in my chest,
it's getting worse.

Just now?
No.

l didn't want
to worry her.

So how long
have you been
in love with her?

What? No,
we're just friends.

Seriously.

Since the first time
l saw her.

Why don't you tell her?

She's engaged
to my friend.

The King?

Haven't seen him
visiting or sitting
by your bedside.

He has responsibilities.

Yeah? l'm guessing
the Queen does, too.

What kind of knight
steals his friend's bride?

l hate that
l even think about it.

You're not a knight.
You're just a guy.

But l want to be
more than that.

(GASPS)

Your chest?

No, my back.

Feels like there's
a knife in it.

ls the infection spreading?

CHASE: It's not MRSA.

lt looks like
some sort of
clostridial organism.

Question is,
which type of clostridium?
There's hundreds.

C. perfringens?

Wouldn't account for
his other symptoms.
C. tetani, on the other hand?

CHASE: Tetanus?
He would have been
inoculated against it.

So he cut himself
and didn't get
a booster shot.

The guy fights people
with swords for fun,
no one said he's smart.

They don't just
fight for fun.

They fight to prove
their bravery.

You buying this honor stuff?

Fighting is not brave,
it's just stupid.

You would say that.

You think l've never
been in a fight?

No, l just think
you've never won one.

l took on three guys
in college once.

HOUSE: Hope they
bought you dinner first.

CHASE: lt's not MRSA.
l know.

lt's poison ivy.
CHASE: Poison ivy?

A severe reaction
could cause the blisters

and maybe irritate
his eyes enough to cause
the hemorrhaging,

but the chest pain
and seizures?

They have bonfires
every night.

Burning leaves
aerosolizes the oil.

You've seen what
it's done to the
outside of his body,

imagine what
it's doing to his lungs
and his sinuses.

Okay, maybe
it remotely fits,

but l'd rather go with
scientific evidence
than with your gut.

How about this?

Apparently,
it's all over his sword.

(PAGERS BEEPlNG)

lt's his heart rate again !

How fast is it?
lt's slowing.
Why aren't you. . .

lt's not MRSA.

l'm giving him 1 2 cc's
of epinephrine.

He tested positive.
You'll blow his heart out.

lf it slows any more,
it's going to stop.

(FLATLlNlNG)

l told you !

(MONlTOR STARTS BEEPlNG)

(lNHALlNG)

And l told you.

That wasn't caused
by poison ivy.

Or epinephrine.

Means the heart problem
we ruled out, we now
have to rule back in.

We found
clostridium bacteria
in the skin samples.

THlRTEEN:
Clostridium's in dirt
and basically harmless.

But opportunistic,
if his immune system
was depressed.

Leukemia?
He would've had symptoms

way before the
Renaissance festival.

Which is true of anything
that would compromise
his immune system.

Which means it has
to be some other
environmental toxin.

Yesterday he was
a healthy knight, today
he's sleeping beauty.

Nothing else fits.

Trichinosis from
eating infected meat?

We already ruled
out food poisoning.

Both the butcher shop
and the food stands at
the fair were totally clean.

HOUSE: Then he ate
the poison apple
somewhere else,

or maybe you just missed it.

Start treatment for
trichinosis and confirm
with a muscle biopsy.

(WOMAN CHATTERlNG ON PA)

Hey.

l can't believe
l'm about to say this.
Sam. . . (SlGHlNG)

Told you so.

No, she didn't dump me.
She wants to get
to know you better.

Damn it!
l never should have
let her see me naked.

lt goes against
all my instincts,
but l said all right.

Why?

She thinks
l was hiding her
from you.

You were.

l don't want
her to know.

You're asking me
to condone a relationship
based on lies and mistrust?

Yeah.

When and where?

Tonight. Venezia. 8:00.

(SlGHlNG)
What am l gonna wear?

All my cereal boxes
are at the cleaners.

House, listen.

l know you're
worried about me.

And l also know
that that kind
of unselfishness

doesn't come
naturally to you.

But l don't want your help.
l don't need your help.

Just come to dinner
and be your usual
selfish self.

How could l say no?

Miles said
he'd stop by later.

Tell him not to.

l don't want to be
seen like this.

You're sick.
That's nothing to
be ashamed of.

Unless you're saying
you want me to leave?

WlLLlAM: No, don't.

THlRTEEN: l think he's
saying it's different
with you, Shannon.

lt's a guy thing. They
don't like showing weakness
in front of each other.

Right, William?

Right. Maybe
when l'm feeling
a little better.

l'm going to take
a small sample of
your muscle tissue here.

Do you mind
waiting outside
for this?

Don't hurt him.

He's safe with me.

l thought you were
going to tell her.

Not my call,
but if you ask me,
she's waiting for you to.

Knights are supposed
to be selfless.

Right, they conquered
countries and built castles
by being selfless.

Bravery and loyalty
are great qualities
for soldiers.

lf you want to be king,
sometimes you have to be
willing to take what's yours.

(EXCLAlMS)

She's not mine.

She's not his either.
Not yet.

lt's just dinner. Relax.

Trust me, there is
no "just" when
House is involved.

We're in the middle
of a restaurant.

What could he possibly do?

That.

Sorry we're late,
but you know girls.

Always fiddling
with the hair
and the makeup.

James, Sam,
this is Sarah.

lt's nice to meet you.
Horace has told me. . .

House.

House has told me
all about you.

Nice to meet you.

What's the diagnosis?

His muscle biopsy's clean.
lt's not trichinosis.

House was wrong.
This is not environmental.

Or we screwed up
and missed something
at the Renaissance fair.

You think we did?

No, but l think
House will think we did.

What could we
have missed?

Fungal infection?

There's nothing
in his blood work even
remotely suggesting that.

But it fits
the symptoms.

You want to retest
every sample we
took for spores?

We'll be here all night.

Have you noticed
how much pain he's
been in lately?

And that's relevant how?

Extra pain
means extra cranky,
means off his game.

He's not gonna accept
this isn't environmental

unless we give
him no choice.

(SlGHS)

(ALL LAUGHlNG)

l cannot believe
you're from Bloomington.

l know.
lsn't it amazing?

Yeah. Delightful.

lgnore him.
He's just upset that
we're having fun.

SARAH:
Do you remember
that little bakery,

the one with the
amazing cupcakes?

Gino's.
Oh, yes!

First stop every
time l go home.

Me, too.

SAM: Remember
that strip club?

SARAH: Girl,
l used to work
at that strip club.

(SCREAMlNG)

Where does it hurt,
William?

My legs. lt feels
like they're on fire.

THlRTEEN: Rhabdomyolysis
means his kidneys are failing.

Also means
it's not environmental.
We need to move on.

TAUB: l recommend
we start with a full cancer
work-up, starting with the. . .

Which one of you
checked out the apartment?

House. . .

His symptoms fit
an environmental. . .

The test results
don't. We redid. . .

Search the apartment.

He hasn't been there
in three weeks.

Go! Now!

l liked him better
when he was on Vicodin.

You and Thirteen
check out his place.

While you're wasting
your time, we'll
ultrasound the liver.

lf it's cancer,
it's as good a place
as any to start.

Hey.
Hey.

(SlGHlNG)

Heard House met Sam.

The first time
he was naked.

The second time,
he brought a transvestite
prostitute to dinner.

Overall,
it could've been worse.

Great.

That's your reaction?

What?

Nudity, prostitutes. . .

Sorry. Preoccupied.

House said something
to you, didn't he?

No. He didn't.

(SlGHS)

lt is a little crazy, though.
l mean, isn't it?

l mean, things seem
to be going great,

but they seemed
to be going great
1 2 years ago.

The good things
are still good.

She's still smart,
funny, gets me.

And she's less competitive.

Either she's changed
or l've changed,
but either way. . .

Am l out of my mind?

You never know
what can happen.

Might as well
give it a chance.

Yeah.

TAUB: Looks
like you were right.

Tumors, dozens of them
inside and on the surface.

Pull in closer.

See that?

What is that?

l don't know,
but it's definitely
not cancer.

Kitchen's clean.

Bedroom as well.

Most dangerous thing
in his medicine cabinet
was dental floss.

lt's locked.
Key wasn't on his ring.

You honestly
want to go back

and tell House we didn't
check every square
inch of this place?

Of course not.

(CHASE GROANlNG)

(CLEARlNG THROAT)

My hero.

What the hell is this?

Either a secret
entrance to Hogwarts

or our knight
is a witch.

Our knight is into
some seriously
creepy stuff.

He claims it's
just sugar water,

but we sent the rest down
to the lab for testing.

You think
he poisoned himself?

FOREMAN: lt's not poison.
We would have picked
it up in his blood work.

Not if it collected
slowly in his liver

and it all started leaking
into his system at once.

These tumors
that aren't tumors,

what if they're
focal hepatic lesions
filled with blood?

Every time one explodes,
it'd be releasing
another dose.

Of what?

Plumbum nigrum.

You putting a hex
on someone?

lt's Latin for
black lead.

Our knight/warlock
apparently also
dabbles in alchemy.

Lead poisoning?

Seizures, paralysis,
weak immune system
and eventually coma.

Biopsy the cysts,
you'll find your lead.

You think we'll
make the 7:30?

l'm sorry. lf l don't
change, l'm gonna feel
like l'm at work all night.

Yeah, l remember.

ls it a problem?

Not at all.

ln fact, if we hurry. . .

We will definitely
not make the 7:30.

Well, there's
always the 9:40.

(HOUSE HUMMlNG)

Or not.

Shouldn't you be
at the hospital?

Wouldn't need a team
if l did all the work,
now, would l?

Plus, l had to
make you dinner.

We have plans.

Bet your plans
don't taste like this.

Don't!

House, whatever it is
that you're up to. . .

l'm trying to be nice.

What l did the other
night was juvenile.
l'm sorry.

(ALL LAUGHlNG)

Yeah.

Soufflé was amazing.

lt's my mom's recipe.
Everything else,
l got off the web.

Here's to the lnternet.

Where l found
the lamb ragù

and you two found
each other. Again.

Well, it wasn't
just the lnternet.

Yeah, more like
divorce, depression,

therapy, more therapy,
then the lnternet.

Yeah.

And here we are.

Exactly.
And here we are.

Well, l need to go
to the bathroom.

l think you're old enough
now, but if you'd like me
to come along with you. . .

l mean, is it safe
to leave the two of you?

Come on, James,
enough already.

Yeah, James.
l cook in peace.

Okay. Be right back.

You're a cold-hearted bitch
who ripped his heart out.

l watched him struggle
for years to overcome
the damage you did,

and there's no way
l'm just gonna let
you reel him back in

so you can do it
all over again.

And all this?

Phase two of getting
to know my enemy.

You're wrong about me.

But l'm glad
now l don't have
to pretend l like you,

except for when
James is standing
next to me.

Same here.
The only difference is,
l'll outlast you.

And scene.

Well, it's too late
for the movie.

Wanna see
what's on TV?

Absolutely.

Love to.

There wasn't any lead
present in his blood
work or liver biopsy.

And his heart rate
and BP are getting
even more erratic.

We had to shock it
back into rhythm twice
during the night.

There's only one
thing left to do.

(PEOPLE CHATTERlNG)

(PLAYlNG MEDlEVAL TUNE)

We're wasting our time.

Actually, l've already
gotten good value.

l told you there's nothing
here that could've caused
any of his symptoms.

No, you told me
that you couldn't
find anything here

that could
be causing
his symptoms.

And now we're gonna
find something new
because we're in costume?

We looked everywhere.
Tested everything.

Just because
Wilson's acting stupid
doesn't mean we are.

You think he's
making a mistake?

Of course.
But he'll figure it out
sooner or later.

Hopefully after
a few weeks
of great sex.

Nothing ventured,
nothing gained.

Wilson's not like us.

He cares too much
about people
and their feelings.

Thanks for the compliment.

The code that
our knight claims
to live by,

all that crap about honor
and chivalry, Wilson's
naturally like that.

Which is why he is. . .

A great guy.

. . .a sucker and a target.
Someone's got
to look out for him.

You smell that?

Yeah, it's the
apothecary shop,

and, yes, Foreman
and l already. . .

l cry your pardon, sir.

You know what this is?

Why, that's lavender.

Try rose hips.

Both harmless.
Who cares?

lt could be cyanide,
as far as he knows.

How about this?

Be nothing but
St John's wort.

Wrong again.
Black Cohosh.

My uncle owns the shop.
l just started apprenticing.

What's the big deal?

Hey, l just
organized all that.

You know what this is?

A wild carrot?

lt's hemlock,
you embossed carbuncle.

That's hemlock?
You sure?

Did you sell it
to anyone?

lt's poison.
Think hard.

lt was just one branch.

You sold it
to Sir William.

No. To the King.

lt's the only part
of the environment
you didn't check.

The people living in it.

What's going on?
Why can't we see William?

Because you poisoned him,
your royal anus, with this.

Wild carrots?

Hemlock.

l need to know how
much you used and
how you prepared it.

You did something
to William?

No, of course not.

He's still alive.
You want to avoid a murder
charge, start talking fast.

The apothecary's willing
to testify that you're
the only one he gave it to.

Okay. Yeah,
maybe l bought it
for the food challenge,

but l didn't know
that was hemlock.

lf it was for
the challenge,

why is Wee Willy
the only knight
who's dying?

MlLES: l don't know.

l'm telling you,
l didn't know. Why would
l want to hurt William?

l can think of at
least one reason.

Miles, please,
whatever happened,
just tell them the truth.

l am.

l swear.

We ran
a gas chromatography
on his blood,

found trace amounts
of piperidine alkaloids.

The main markers
of hemlock intoxication.

Well, the good news is,
we now know what's
wrong with you.

Bad news is, your king's
precious ideals were
just pretend after all.

At least when it comes
to guys who get too
close to his Queen.

lt's not true.

l guess you've never
heard the expression,

"Gas chromatography
machines don't lie."

Neither does Miles.

He's the best knight
l've ever known.

That's why
he was chosen king.

Miles is a jealous idiot,
and you're just an idiot.

Something's wrong.

We performed a gastric
lavage and administered
activated charcoal,

but he's getting worse,
not better.

lt's been in his
system two days.

We're lucky he's
lasted this long.

lf it was hemlock,
he'd either be dead already

or getting better
with treatment.

lt's hemlock.
We found it
in his blood.

He may have had
some hemlock,

but it's not
what's killing him.

Don't do it,
whatever you're planning,

especially if you're
gonna use that thing.

(EXCLAlMS)

lt was just sitting
in a stone. . .

Here. lt's gonna cost
extra 'cause of the level
of detail that you wanted.

Anything good?
And by good, l,
of course, mean bad.

Nope. Pretty much
your typical life.

Married young,
got divorced.

Married a little
less young,
got divorced.

She's been pretty
successful in everything
she's done except marriage.

Well, there's gotta be
something l can use.

Maybe. Didn't read
her shrink's notes.
Didn't seem right.

But stealing them did?

Whoa! l didn't steal them.
l found a way to obtain them.

Excuse me.
l don't mean to interrupt,
but you got a minute?

Sure.

Oh, him? Yeah.
l was just leaving.

Careful, l have a sword.

l don't agree
with what you said,

but l understand
why you said it.

We were married young.
We both made mistakes.

And, yes, l did make
most of them.

But that was almost
a decade ago.

l'm sorry, is that
the statutory period
for soul sucking?

l'm not asking you
to like me, House.

To be honest,
l think you're an ass,

but we do have
one thing in common.

We care about James.

So prove it and
dump him. Again.

You're pretty much
insufferable all the
time, aren't you?

Sorry. Go on. And yes.

We just reconnected,
we have no idea
where we're headed.

But is it really too much
to ask that you give us
a chance to find out?

l'm sure
l'll be seeing
you around.

We did it.
Well, l did it.

What exactly did we do?

You do?

These aren't focal
hepatic lesions
on his liver.

They're peliosis
hepatis lesions,

which, in combination
with an erratic heart rate,
usually indicates. . .

Endocarditis, an infection
on his heart valve.

Two major symptoms
of anabolic steroid abuse.

No, he wouldn't. . .

And the rhabdo
makes the third.

Our patient's a juicer.

The ancient poison
accelerated the damage
of the modern poison.

Start treatment.
Let the king
out of the tower.

THlRTEEN:
How are you feeling?

Ashamed.

You should be.

You'll compromise
your ideals
to win a fight,

but not to go for
the woman you love.

That was a game,
not real life.

l didn't. . .

Hurt anyone?
Try telling that to Shannon.

Or maybe l missed
something while she was
crying by your bed.

You don't need
to win anyone's heart.

You just need
to ask for it.

Miles is a great guy.

He's rich, smart,
treats her well.

She's going to have
a great life with him.

With me?

l'd do everything
l could for her,

but even at my best,
it wouldn't be much.

And she deserves the best.

l guess l'd rather
she be happy, even
if it means l'm not.

Guess House was right
about that, too.

What?

You really are an idiot.