By Montykins
Back to Emily's case. The Lex-2 is off the hook. Maybe an embolism caused by falling off the merry-go-round? But before they can get to the treatment, everyone's beepers go off. Simon is taking Emily to a different hospital! He's decided that because this legendary diagnostics department hasn't been right yet, he'll just take Emily to the hospital down the street. He and Elizabeth shout at each other until Chase points out that they're stressing out Emily. He takes Emily for some ice cream so Taub can tell Simon they think Emily has a clot in her lungs. She could die during the trip to the other hospital. "From the AT?" he asks. Taub explains that their current theory involves the fall. Simon gets mad at Elizabeth for not knowing Emily's best friend's name or that she's been having nightmares about penguins. But she fires back that he doesn't know her blood type. She's more interested in the thing that's killing their daughter. Simon, defeated, says, "Just make her better."
Wilson is a wreck. Some kid tells him he doesn't look too good. Wilson's hooked up to about a dozen tubes. The kid claims to have come in through the door and doesn't explain where his parents are. Wilson tries to stand and calls for House. Oh! It's the kid who died. The one that Wilson promised would live. "Why did I die?" "I don't know!" It's that sort of thing. There's a lot of acting going on. Wilson wants to know if he's dead. The kid turns into House as he says, "Not yet."
MRI tube. Dr. Dawson, Taub and Park monitor things. Park announces that Emily's lungs are clear and Taub says that Emily's eyes are jaundiced. "Her liver's failing."
They found a blockage in Emily's hepatic vein. Dr. Lawson's fists are clenched and she suggests that there's no hope thanks to the unique genetic disorder. There's a pause, then Taub gently suggests they stick with their process. Dr. Lawson decides she shouldn't be there and leaves. She's right; she absolutely should not be there. Taub seems to be guessing when he comes up with advanced Lyme disease. Park says it should show up in her blood. But Chase says that it could be so advanced that it's in the organs and not the blood. It fits everything but the nose bleed. Park asks why it would attack everything all at once. What's changed? Adams says that what's changed was Elizabeth. "She stopped giving Emily the Lex-2." And that's what was holding back the Lyme disease. Chase goes off to start some amoxicillin.
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By Montykins
Wilson is still a wreck. He wakes up and House is there with a bucket for him to vomit into. Apparently the soup doesn't actually taste that good coming back up. Wilson wants to know his white blood cell count. Down to 1000. Still dropping. Wilson wants more morphine, but they're out. Wilson's been on House's personal Vicodin supply, but House claims he's got plenty stashed around the place. Wilson has trouble swallowing. House goes into the room and determines that he has only six Vicodins left. He grabs some booze instead.
Both adult Lawsons are at Emily's bedside. Dr. Lawson thinks it can't be Lyme because Emily's never been in the woods. Emily says that she has, in fact, been in the woods. With her father. Simon says he grew up hunting. Dr. Lawson takes it surprisingly well and says they can't protect Emily from everything. "I assume you'll need a lumbar puncture to confirm," she says, going out to get, um, a lumbar puncturer.
Wilson forces himself off the couch and disconnects all the tubes. He crawls with great effort toward the bathroom. House tells him he's got adult diapers. Wilson has already used them and does not wish to be changed by House. He rolls onto his back and calls himself pathetic. He objects to the inevitable irony of being an oncologist with cancer. "WHY ME?" he asks. He has a crisis of conscience for all the times he told patients not to try to make sense of things. Then he insults House for a bit, because that's always fun. House says that even if he'd acted like House, he'd still have cancer. "Yeah. But at least I'd feel like I deserved it!
Emily is in position for the puncture. She wonders if, when she dies, maybe her parents will get back together. Chase and Adams don't like the sound of that. And then Emily's arm stops working. BEEP BEEP BEEP! She's having a stroke!
More beeping in House's apartment. Wilson is vomiting. The situation is critical and House feels that Wilson needs to go to the hospital. "You can't win this." "I'd rather die here. Not in an ambulance. Not in a hospital." Wilson sobs as he begs House to promise that he won't do that to him. House promises. Wilson takes some more oxygen as the beeping continues.
Chase runs through the various symptoms as the team stands in the hallway. Park thinks it still sounds like textbook pulmonary embolism, although they've already ruled that out. Taub suggests a fungal infection. Nope. And House isn't answering. Park suggests a cancer, which Taub rejects as not fast-moving enough. Chase gets Epiphany Face and says a tumor could act like a clot. Nitro-Myxoma. A primary heart tumor. He explains the details in voice-over as we see some inside-the-body shot. He tells the family they'll remove the tumor and hope it's benign.
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