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Aired 2009-10-12

A very rich man named Roy Randall heads into his very large mansion to meet with some very important business people about a very big business deal. He ignores their advice and issues orders before abruptly leaving the meeting and tabling the rest of the agenda to go upstairs to his son's room, where we see lots of toys and medical equipment. A doctor tells Roy that his son does not have C. diff as the doctor suspected, so he's at a loss. He recommends sending his son to a hospital. The son, Jack, speaks up to protest this plan and worries that he's going to die, but Roy promises that won't happen and he's "always right." And then the credits kick in without Jack bleeding out of his ass or mouth or anything! How low key.

Roy meets with Cuddy to demand that House treat his son. Cuddy says House is not available, but she highly recommends Foreman, neglecting to mention that his last patient -- a wealthy and prominent leader of an entire country -- totally died. Roy does not want Foreman. He wants House. "Is House in jail?" he asks. "No," Cuddy says after a pause, because when it comes to House, you really do have to take a second to think "wait -- is he in jail? Or was that last season?" before answering. She tries to plug Cameron and Chase as "House's most veteran associates," but even she doesn't sound like she's buying that. Roy sure isn't. He says his son is dying and he wants the best doctor to treat him. And that doctor is House. "So unless he's dead, comatose, or insane, I want him treating my son today," he says. Funnily enough, House has actually been all three of those things. But then he got better and we were supposed to forget they ever happened. So House Jack shall have!

Cuddy heads to the meeting room and explains that while Jack is technically Foreman's patient, House will be making all of the decisions. Foreman bristles, saying he'll have none of the responsibility and all of the liability. House very much likes this deal. It just gets worse for Foreman, because he also has to prepare Dibala's case for the weekly Morbidity and Mortality conference, much to Foreman and Chase's obvious alarm. They both try to get out of it, saying they're busy and the case wasn't a big deal anyway, but Cuddy says it's "worth discussing" and leaves. I don't know why Chase and Foreman look so surprised about this. Did they really think that misdiagnosing an African dictator who then died because of it -- probably making headlines worldwide -- wouldn't attract some attention from the PPTH community? Cameron turns the team's attention back to the case, and House says that seventeen doctors have tested Jack for just about everything and ruled just about everything out. He thinks the first thing they should do is start from scratch with a new physical and medical history.

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Cameron asks Jack if he's been out of the country. He says he went to Montreal to see an NHL All-Star game. "Awesome!" Cameron says, like she knows anything about hockey. Roy wants to know why this silly woman is treating his son and not House. Did Cuddy not explain to him that House doesn't have his medical license right now? Doesn't she think that's something Roy should know? Cameron explains that House prefers to keep a distance from his patients and send his fellows out to do the work. Also, he isn't allowed to practice medicine. But she doesn't mention that one. To prove that she's on point, she finds a lump in Jack's abdomen. Roy asks what it is. "I'm not sure," she admits.

And where are Foreman and Chase during all of this? Back in the meeting room, freaking out about the M&M. Chase tries to assure Foreman that it won't be a big deal -- they just have to go over what happened and all the steps they took. On the surface, they did nothing wrong. Foreman worries that people will ask about the scleroderma test they did that ultimately changed their diagnosis and killed Dibala. Chase says all the steps they took look correct on paper and no one can prove otherwise. Foreman gets way too close to the camera and says that might be true in any other case, but since it was House's team that screwed up and the M&M attendees presumably hate House, they're going to ask them a lot of questions and examine this case with under a microscope and with a fine-toothed comb. He wants to make sure they won't find anything. House walks in at this moment and overhears the last part of their conversation. Chase tries to play it off, but he looks totally guilty and House obviously picks up on it. But before he can do much digging, Cameron runs in the room to announce that Jack is constipated. Like, seriously constipated. So constipated that the mass she felt in Jack's abdomen was actually impacted poop. Gross!! Foreman says that could explain Jack's abdominal pain, and perhaps the older X-ray of the area that didn't show a mass was simply a mistake by whoever treated Jack before. House doesn't think so.

Foreman tells Roy that his son has Hirschprung's Disease, in which nerves are missing in parts of the large intestine, thus making it difficult for the intestine to push the poop along on its merry way out of the body. It's an extremely uncommon diagnosis in someone as old as Jack (it almost always shows up much earlier on, like when the kid is born and can't poop). Roy is dubious until Foreman reassures him that this was House's diagnosis. Poor Jack still doesn't understand where his problem is and how it'll be approached, thinking they're giving him something to drink for it. Ah, no, says Foreman. It's going into another orifice. Jack's eyes bulge in horror. Heh.

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House decides to waste his time and ours by visiting a coffee shop where Hadley is working on a laptop. He recommends she search for "Misty May digs for gold." I do not recommend anyone search for that in real life because it appears to lead to computer viruses. Hadley says she's searching for her own gold -- the gold of not being in New Jersey. She's making travel plans. House asks if that means she's given up on getting back with Foreman. She isn't moving, House. Just going on vacation. I wish she was moving. But we all know she'll be back. She tells House that she's glad he's better and she enjoyed working for him. Yes, those were good times. Like when she got that brain tumor for one episode. Or when her co-worker shot himself and she found the body. Or when she killed her patient and his dog. But, she insists, she will not return to PPTH. HOORAY!!! Now please get off the show. House says he's fine with that, since Foreman would step down as head of diagnostics to save his relationship with her if she did come back and House likes things the way they are, with Foreman in charge dealing with all the administrative headaches and House free to do whatever he wants. But is he getting an administrator's salary or a fellow's? Because there's a big difference. Anyway, Hadley tells House that she's going to Thailand. "Interesting," House says. No, it isn't.

Back at PPTH, Jack is doing much better since his poop-removing barium enema and Roy is thrilled. Cameron and Foreman tell them not to celebrate just yet, since it's only ten minutes into the show and that means this is the part where Jack gets better momentarily before getting much, much worse. Sure enough, as Cameron notices that Jack's abdomen "looks bigger" although the mass of poop is gone, Jack suddenly has some serious brain problems. One eyeball is looking off to the side and the other is staring straight ahead at nothing. Then he has a seizure. Foreman checks out Jack's eyes and says there's intracranial pressure. He orders Cameron to give Jack 500 mg of phenytoin, but she says that's too much and gives him only 50. That's, like, a tenth of what Foreman ordered so it does absolutely nothing to help the pressure. Jack will need surgery. And that means Chase will have to get off his ass and do something.

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Jack is rushed to the OR. Foreman says they need Roy's consent to do the surgery and hurriedly tries to explain why it's necessary, but Roy doesn't want to go on the word of any doctor but House. Foreman says they don't have time to wait for House to show up and do his job, so either Roy gives his consent and they do the surgery, or Jack's brain will herniate. Roy finally nods his consent. They'd better hope they do this surgery right, because I don't think a nod will hold up in court. Also, are they seriously using a drill that looks just like the one I bought for light home repair at Home Depot to drill into Jack's brain? Because if so, that thing isn't even powerful enough to get through hard woods, let alone a skull. And it runs out of batteries like every three minutes. Fortunately, they only need to get through some bad CGI and the drill is fine for that purpose. The monitors show the seizures stopping and the intracranial pressure declining to normal levels.

After the break, the team (including House, back from his coffee break) look at scans of Jack's head. House admits that brain damage following an enema and rectal biopsy is pretty unexpected, but Foreman quickly defends himself, saying Jack was just fine after the procedure, so they didn't do anything to cause this. It must be another symptom. Cameron says that Jack has fluid building up in his abdomen just like his brain, which is what caused the intracranial pressure increase. So now Jack has drains in his head and his abdomen. That's fun. Foreman points out that the fluid collection around Jack's brain has an odd shape. "Oh, God. The Virgin Mary," House jokes. But it's not really that funny because what Foreman is trying to say is that it looks like early brain cancer. Jack will need another biopsy to confirm it. Cameron makes a sad face. "Nice catch," House tells Foreman, almost sounding sincere.

Um... what is this. Why are we in a cab with Hadley as she drives to the airport for her stupid flight to stupid Thailand? GET OFF THE SHOW ALREADY. It's like they're doing this on purpose, either to reward us because they think we love Hadley and Olivia Wilde that much or to punish us for hating her. The cab driver listens in on her phone conversation with the airline and says a trip to Bangkok "sounds awesome!" Whoa, settle down there, Gary Glitter. Hadley, too, is troubled by a man who's so high on Bangkok and quickly lets him know that someone will be staying at her place to take care of her big dog who hates cab drivers, especially ones that try to break into her apartment hint hint. Cabbie makes a sour face and asks if Hadley just said that because she's afraid he'll try to rob her apartment. "In case you haven't noticed, I have a job," he says. Yes, because people with jobs never commit crimes. Hadley apologizes, saying she doesn't know the guy and was just erring on the side of caution, like every woman should when talking to a strange man. I don't see anything wrong with what Hadley did, nor would I be particularly offended if she said something like that to me. I would, however, totally rob her apartment because she was obviously lying about the friend and the dog. "Treat a stranger like an ass. Nice way to live your life, bitch," the cab driver says. Well, there goes your tip, idiot. Anyway, Hadley returns to her phone call and asks if she can use her miles to upgrade to a business class seat. HA!! You can't use your miles for anything these days. Even though she's clearly on the phone with someone, Cabbie starts talking, saying that he trusted a stranger when he let Hadley into his cab. "Okay, you're a saint," Hadley says. Seriously, though. It's Cabbie's job to let people into his car. Trust has nothing to do with it. And it's a lot easier to trust some harmless-looking stick thin woman than it is a large man. Especially if you're a harmless-looking stick-thin woman. Anyway, while he sits there and looks like he's about to cry like a giant baby, Hadley discovers that someone pretending to be her cancelled her booking last night. Cabbie is very pleased with this, and thinks it taught Hadley a lesson on trusting strangers or whatever. Actually, I think she just learned not to trust former bosses.

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Cameron and Chase tell Roy about his son's brain cancer, which the biopsy should confirm (except that it won't because it isn't brain cancer). Cameron tries to make Roy feel better, saying they caught the brain cancer early. "Oh, so you're telling me this is good news?" Roy snaps back. Well, yes. I mean, if your son is going to have brain cancer, it's much better to catch it early than late. Roy apologizes for his attitude with Cameron (which is totally understandable, unlike the Cabbie's attitude with Hadley. Or the fact that we had to watch that scene at all) while Chase is paged away by Foreman for more M&M prep help. Cameron offers to join them, but Chase quickly says there's no need. He sends her home to "get some rest" before he comes home and has sex with her. Cameron smiles at this, but then looks concerned as soon as he walks away. I would, too. It can't be fun to have sex with someone with such greasy hair.

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House opens his door to find an indignant Hadley standing there. "Stay out of my life," she tells him, trying to look all tough and mean which would be hilarious if I wasn't so annoyed to see yet another scene with her. House agrees and tries to slam the door in her face, but she holds it open and accuses him of cancelling her flight reservation by spying on her log in info on her laptop. House denies this. "I'm not coming back on the team," Hadley says. She might as well. She's been on the show more now that she's been fired than she was before. House says he doesn't want her back. Hadley says she won't work "for, with, or around" Foreman. She will not work with him on a plane. She will not work with him on a train. She will not work with him in a box. She will not work with him with a fox. And she shouldn't have started a relationship with him at all if she couldn't be a professional about it if and when it ended. House says, again, that he's perfectly happy with the way things are without her. Foreman's work has been better than ever and House has been "less miserable." He tells her to get going on her trip to the Bahamas or some other non-Thailand destination, figuring that she was lying when she told him she was going to Thailand before because it would have been stupid of her to tell him the truth. "I have no use for you," he says, closing the door in her face. Ha!

Foreman has some bad news for Chase: Cameron sent Dibala's blood to the PPTH lab to test for scleroderma instead of doing the test herself and even though she only ordered the one test from them, they did a full blood panel along with it because they never get a chance to run any tests so I guess they figured they might as well go crazy because they never know if and when they'll get a chance to do another lab test again. Chase doesn't see the problem with this, since the body he took the blood sample from had the same blood type as Dibala. Blood type isn't something that a lab tests as part of a full panel, but whatever. They do test cholesterol, though, and the corpse's levels are off by 20%. Whoops!

The morning, Cameron wakes up to find Chase's side of the bed empty. That's because he's already at PPTH, still talking about that cholesterol thing with Foreman. He decides they have nothing to worry about, as the chances that someone would even compare the two cholesterol reports are very slim since it had nothing to do with Dibala's death. Foreman says if he found the discrepancy, then it stands to reason that someone at the M&M will, too. Chase says they can just say the "blood analyzer" broke, but Foreman says, "Cameron documented that it was perfectly calibrated when she did the test." Wait, what? Didn't they just say that the lab did the test and NOT Cameron? Chase's suggestion is that Foreman act surprised if someone brings it up, but Foreman says no -- they have to figure out a way to explain the discrepancy. With that, Cameron shows up and asks Chase where he was in the morning. He says he had to get into work early and didn't want to wake her up. Chase is very concerned about Cameron getting plenty of sleep. "I thought you did want to wake me. At least, that's what you said last night," Cameron says. Foreman's like, "um, good-bye," but Cameron tells him to stay and look at the biopsy results for Jack. It's not brain cancer.

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At the meeting room, the Cottages are clearly stumped, but House, of course, has a diagnosis: it's still cancer, but not in the brain. Stomach cancer. A special kind of stomach cancer that doesn't show up on scans. "You were right about the cancer. Just wrong about the place," House tells Foreman, really into bumping up his self-esteem this week. Meanwhile, Chase's mind is clearly elsewhere. Foreman orders him and Cameron off to biopsy Jack's stomach, leaving him with House, who accuses Foreman of canceling Hadley's flight. Foreman denies this and seemingly had no idea that Hadley was even flying anywhere. He says he did "all [he] could" to get her back (um, except tell her the one thing she wanted to hear) and it didn't work, so he's moving on. House decides that Foreman is telling the truth and thus is clearly more "sane" than House is. "You're gonna be a good boss, boss," House says. What a kiss ass.

On their way to the biopsy, Cameron demands to know what's bothering Chase. He denies that anything is, but she knows that's not true because it's really freaking obvious. She doesn't have to know what it is (yet), but she doesn't like being lied to. She even calls Chase "Robert" to show that she is serious about this. He tells her half of the truth, saying there's a discrepancy in Dibala's cholesterol levels but not why. He claims it isn't a big deal, but Foreman is especially nervous about this because of his notable past failures. Chase uses that as an excuse for Cameron to keep this quiet, saying that Foreman does not want people to think he's weak. Way to throw Foreman under the bus because you couldn't think of a better excuse for your wife, Chase.

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Chase sticks a scope down Jack's throat while Cameron explains to Roy that they're still looking for cancer. "It's my fault," Roy says. Cameron tries to explain that there's nothing Roy could have possibly done or not done to cause this cancer, but Roy thinks it goes higher than that. He inherited millions of dollars at the age of twenty-four and turned that into billions since. All of his financial deals work out extremely well, but things are the opposite when it comes to his family. His wife apparently died long ago, and now his son is sick, too. "It's karma," Roy says. His business life is so great that his family life has to suck to balance it out. "That's obviously not true," Cameron says, not knowing what else to say. How self-absorbed do you have to be to think that someone else's cancer is your fault for being so awesome? Jack starts seizing, except this time they can't blame intracranial pressure. "Then what the hell is it?" Chase asks. Roy knows. It's the universe working against him because he's just that special.

After the break, Jack's seizures have stopped, but now he's in a coma and the biopsies were negative for stomach cancer. And yet, his brain and stomach linings are still taking on fluid. Some non-cancer theories are bounced around that don't work until Cameron suggests abdominal epilepsy. Maybe Jack's seizures aren't a new symptom -- he was having them all along but no one knew it because they presented as stomach pain until they eventually spread to his motor cortex. The only thing that doesn't explain are Jack's fevers, but Cameron says those could be from malnutrition, since people with excruciating stomach pain don't like to eat. Foreman looks to House for the final say. "It's the best we got," he shrugs. Cameron goes off to treat Jack while Chase and Foreman run off together in the other direction, something that does not escape the notice of House.

Chase tells Foreman he has a solution to the Dibala problem: he gave Dibala some cholesterol-lowering statins and simply forgot to write them in the chart. Foreman points out that this would be proven wrong easily by a trip to the pharmacy, where they'll find no records of Chase ordering any statins. Chase says he can say that he saw some hanging around on a cart and took them. That's believable in the sense that PPTH is a joke of a hospital that tends to leave drugs unlocked and unattended, but Foreman points out that there's no reason why Chase would steal drugs that he could easily order from the pharmacy. Foreman says Chase's story will bring up more questions than it answers. "I'll handle it," he says. Chase asks how. "By telling the truth," Foreman says.

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Well, half of it. He goes to Cuddy and says quite truthfully that he's too busy for this stupid M&M and doesn't want to do it. Then he whines that House is "trying to push all of his responsibilities onto me," which doesn't win him any points with Cuddy, who rightly points out that these are Foreman's responsibilities and he should happily take them on since he's the one who begged her to become the head of diagnostics. He maintains that this M&M is stupid. Cuddy asks him what his problem really is, because she's not buying his story. "I just don't want to do the M&M," he says. Cut to him leaving Cuddy's office and telling Chase that his attempt to get out of it didn't work. Now he still has to do the M&M and Cuddy is suspicious.

Cuddy finds House sitting outside Jack's room while Cameron works on him. He says he's waiting for something to go wrong because that seems to happen every time they touch the kid. But dying children aren't important to Cuddy right now because she has something much more important to talk about: Hadley. Apparently Hadley called Cuddy to complain about someone hacking into her email account and canceling her stupid plane reservation. And Cuddy didn't hang up on Hadley's tattletale face? If she's going to get all bent out of shape with Foreman for trying to get out of an M&M then she should really be mad at Hadley for wasting her time with cybercrimes that have absolutely nothing to do with PPTH. Unless the email address that was hacked into was Hadley's PPTH address, which it shouldn't be since she was fired and there's no reason for her to use a work address for a personal vacation anyway. Cuddy thinks Foreman was the hacker, and House is just pleased that she suspects him and not House. She asks if House really wants Foreman to be in charge of diagnostics. House says yes -- Foreman can have the power he wants and House can have his puzzles. House says that when he had power and puzzles, he ended up in a mental hospital. So maybe removing the power from the equation will be just what he needs to be slightly less of an asshole. That hasn't seemed to be the case so far, though. House says Foreman didn't hack into Hadley's email and then gets a page from Cameron. He heads into Jack's room. And just what is he supposed to do in there when he doesn't have his medical license?

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Roy meets House for the first time and Cameron tells him that the tests have come back negative for abdominal epilepsy and now there's a rash on Jack's chest. "That I did not expect," House says. Roy is understandably displeased to hear that from the best doctor in the world and says so. House blows him off even though he's the father of a mysteriously dying child who House and his team have only made worse. Good to see that loss of power is helping House interact with others.

Back in the meeting room, the team is back to square one. Cameron goes for the gold with her diagnosis of both lupus AND vasculitis. Oh, vasculitis, how I've missed you! But Cameron is wrong, of course, because a diagnosis of lupus and vasculitis is going to be the series finale. Chase suggests polyarteritis nodosa, which Foreman turns down. "Okay, you come up with something better," Chase snaps at him. Settle down, Chase. Foreman is your boss (I think) and he can't just accept your diagnosis that doesn't fit because there aren't any other ones. Oh wait -- I guess they will. And it'll mean yet another biopsy for poor Jack, this time from his testicle. Good thing he's in a coma. Foreman volunteers himself and Cameron to do it. Cameron whines that Chase should do it because this was his diagnosis. Foreman says Cameron has a better rapport with Roy, which will come in handy when they tell him that his kid needs more biopsies and from his balls, too. Cameron suspects that Foreman really wants to keep Chase behind to "overprep" for the M&M. Foreman immediately says that's what it is, and Cameron buys it. "Don't be a child," she says. Don't talk to your boss that way, Cameron. House, meanwhile, isn't paying attention to everyone's attitude problem because he just came up with a diagnosis that fits much better than Chase's. Unfortunately, it's Degos disease, which is fatal. House offers to break the news to Roy. That seems like a terrible idea, but no one bothers to stop him because they're too busy worrying about saving their own asses (Foreman, Chase) or making sad faces (Cameron).

House enters the room and tells Roy that they have their diagnosis. The tell-tale sign was the chest rash that apparently spread down to Jack's penis, which is usually the first symptom of Degos but this time decided to hold off for a while. House lets Roy ask him what the treatment for this is before informing him that there isn't one. "You're wrong," Roy says. Which is perfectly reasonable, since they were wrong with the other five diagnoses. But this time, House says, they "re-checked" the biopsies and found it was definitely Degos somehow. Jack will never wake up from his coma and he'll be dead within a day. House says he's sorry, and then he just leaves. I guess he only stays with people and their dying relatives in season premieres.

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While House watches from the office (which he is apparently sharing with Foreman), Chase sits in the meeting room and runs his hands through his hair before shaking his head and leaving the room. He enters Cuddy's office and says they need to talk about Dibala. Really? He'd rather go to jail for murder for sure than just go to the M&M and hope no one notices the cholesterol? That's dumb. He starts to tell Cuddy the truth, but they're both interrupted by a nurse before he can. She says Cuddy is needed in Jack's room right away. There are lawyers present. Cuddy hops to it, telling Chase to just "come clean" if he and Foreman are trying to tell her they made a mistake on Dibala. "It's not gonna be that bad," she says. Um, Dibala died. So if Foreman and Chase made a mistake that caused his death, then yeah -- it would be that bad. And the look on Chase's face makes it pretty obvious that something really serious is going on. But Cuddy blows all of this off because she sucks at her job. I mean, I love her and all, but she is terrible at this.

Foreman and House are hanging out in Jack's room while Roy gets ready to sign a bunch of papers over his lawyers' protests. They demand that Cuddy do something to stop this. What can she do? Roy isn't a patient at PPTH. And even if he was, what could she do? Cuddy has proven over and over again that she can't make anyone do anything. Apparently, Roy has decided to sign papers to borrow huge amounts of money for some deal that will surely ruin him. He's hoping that if he sucks at business, his family life will improve because of karma or whatever. How did someone that silly become so rich? Surely he would have given all of his money to a deposed Nigerian princess by now. Roy says he doesn't want to have all of his "good fortune" in just one area of his life. So by losing all of his money he'll, what? Shift all of that good fortune to his family life instead? Then he'll have the same balance problem! One lawyer tells Roy to at least give the money to a charity if he's going to do this. For real. That would definitely help his karma. Another lawyer tries to have Roy declared insane, but House won't do it, saying he's simply being irrational. The lawyer says that Roy isn't just ruining his own life -- he'll put his company out of business and ruin the lives of all of his employees who will be laid off. Oh, and they have kids, too. Kids who might be sick or who might get sick and then they won't be able to afford doctors and hospitals for them. That would be bad for Roy's karma. But he doesn't seem to care. Because he's totally unrealistic. No one does this. Cuddy urges Roy not to make a big decision at a time like this. But Roy can't wait on it because then his son will be dead. Also, we all know Cuddy is only telling Roy not to ruin himself because she wants to make sure he can pay for PPTH's bills. Roy says he won't "let" his son die. "People don't get what they deserve, they just get what they get," House speaks up. That does nothing to change Roy's mind. He signs the papers. Are we supposed to applaud this decision? Because he just made hundreds or even thousands of fictional employees unemployed and it's going to take them a really long time to get a job. The lawyers leave with the papers and Jack flatlines. It sure would suck if he would up penniless and son-less. Fortunately for him, a patient died just last week so the odds are very much in Jack's favor to live.

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Wilson stops by House's office. It turns out that he wasn't the person who canceled the plane ticket and hacked into Hadley's email account after all -- it was House. Oh, gross. I was really hoping that House was sincere in all of his assertions that he didn't want her to come back. Wilson asks if House wants Hadley to stay for himself or for Foreman. House reminds him that he doesn't care about other people's happiness, so he would not do something like that for Foreman. Wilson likes to believe that House really does care about people underneath it all, but House says that he just made $10,000 off of stock in Roy's company based on insider information that it would crash. Um, that's illegal. Is this our Season 6 story arc? House is investigated for white-collar crime? Eh, it'll probably be something about Hadley being really awesome and everyone loving her so much. Wilson wants House to admit that he wants Hadley back on the team and that she's "good" for him. House says he will not, because he was "born with a heart three sizes too small." Which makes him The Grinch. And that makes Jack Cindy Lou Who, because House just thought of a way to save his Christmas. And his life. He takes off in mid-word. Wilson is used to this.

They somehow brought Jack back after he flatlined, which House says is good because he doesn't have to die after all. It isn't Degos, but Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome, which causes the same obstructive blood vessels that they saw on the biopsy that caused them to diagnose Jack with Degos. Um, then why did they diagnose him with Degos at all if the biopsy wasn't totally conclusive? They are terrible! House realized that Jack's heart stopped because of a large blood vessel problem, which rules out Degos (it only obstructs small blood vessels) and gives him the new diagnosis. He tells Foreman to give Jack some blood-thinners and immunoglobulin and if he gets better, then they'll know it was Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome for sure. But instead of getting right on that to save the kid's life, he holds Foreman back for a minute to tell him that Hadley accused everyone of screwing her over with the plane ticket except Foreman. "She's not over you," House says. "Or she is," Foreman says. Either way I do not care.

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Chase finds an envelope on the meeting room table. He opens it and likes what he sees. He runs to Foreman and congratulates him coming up with the answer to the M&M problem -- niacin-bound chromium supplements, which one of Dibala's doctors prescribed for him to raise his cholesterol levels. It will explain the cholesterol level discrepancy, but now they have a new problem: Foreman wasn't the one who left that envelope. Which means House knows what they did.

The front page of the Generic Newspaper Times business section has an article about Roy and how he is now bankrupt. But his son is fine and alive, so he's pretty happy. "It worked!" he says. Way to take credit for House's brilliance, asshole. Also, have fun finding out what a dick you truly are now that you aren't so rich that people are afraid to tell you. Life is going to be different.

House returns to his office to find Chase waiting for him. "What now?" he asks. House says it's not up to him because he isn't the boss anymore and it's not like they're going to make a habit out of treating genocidal dictators. "Better a murder than a misdiagnosis," he says. Um, no, not really. "Whether you want to be in charge or not, you are. And you always will be," Chase says.

And Cameron wakes up to find Chase missing from the bed again. He's at the M&M.

OH MY GOD MORE HADLEY?!?!? She's boarding the plane. I don't care. Go away already! But no, we have to see her walking down the aisle and sitting on the plane (it appears that she got her business class seats after all).

Roy's mansion is now owned by the bank. Wow, that was fast. Have fun trying to sell that place, bank! Meanwhile, he eats pizza at Jack's bedside. I guess it's free pizza? Otherwise he really shouldn't be able to afford it. Also they should be tossing Jack out of PPTH on his sick ass right about now.

And House hangs out in his office and studies the giant tennis ball, which is apparently a symbol of power on this show. Oh, who am I kidding? He's probably thinking about how awesome Hadley is.

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