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Aired 05-07-2007

With the giant Griffith Park fire raging outside my window, I was almost as distracted as Wilson on amphetamines while watching this episode, so I hope I caught everything. A nineteen-year-old girl starts bleeding out of her mouth during karate class and gets sent to PPTH, where House is sure that she's suffering from an infection. Then she goes into the MRI of DOOOM!! and her head explodes, and House is sure that she has some rare protein deficiency that is, of course, impossible to diagnose without sticking needles in the girl's eye and giving her a heart attack. Just when it looks like she does have the protein thing and will die in a matter of days, House realizes that her problem is just a bridge between her artery and veins made of scar tissue, the result of a suicide attempt involving kitchen cleaner and gel caps. Fun! At least, it is to House, because Wilson has been secretly been switching his regular coffee with new Folgers Crystals (now with Prozac). He notices. Wilson's coffee has a special kick to it, too -- amphetamines that House snuck in there to figure out why Wilson was yawning/make Wilson goofy and the most entertaining I've ever seen him. As for everyone else, the news of Foreman's resignation travels quickly. Chase tries to figure out why Foreman's quitting, whether he really wants to leave, and whether House really wants him to go, while Cameron shows her concern by sneaking into House's bedroom at night. A bedroom that might be getting a little crowded in the future if House continues wooing his Clinic patient's awful vegan (ex-)girlfriend.

Viewer discretion continues to be advised. Two young folks square off in a karate match. The girl is winning soundly, although that could be because the camera's multiple and rather gratuitous speed changes are throwing her male opponent off. The guy suffers a few humiliating ass-kickings until the girl throws a roundhouse kick (I guess that's what it's called; close enough) and blood suddenly comes flying off of her. She staggers, then starts punching away at the guy until the sensei finally has to step in. The girl, Addie, starts bleeding out of her mouth, and the guy says this isn't his fault since he sucks at karate too much to have even touched her.

House enters the office looking bright and cheery and even starts reading a humorous yet thought-provoking quote off his coffee cup. He gets the first two words out: "people don't --" before Cameron interrupts him and says she hasn't finished reading the case file, so House can take his coffee cup and go away until she does. I think she should be more impressed about the fact that the coffee cup House is holding clearly has no writing on it, nor is it filled with any liquid. Even a great, award-winning, perfect-American-accented actor like Hugh Laurie can't fake a full cup. By the way, the coffee cup quote is a little inside joke -- David Shore has a quote on a Starbucks cup that also starts with "people don't," although I don't remember what came after that because I stopped paying attention.

The Cottages go over Addie's file and try to figure out where that blood came from. They rule out her lungs, and House comes back in the room with his coffee cup and tries to chat with his underlings, only to be sent back out again. The Cottages then rule out the blood coming from Addie's gastrointestinal tract and are left with no place the blood could have come from. House takes their silence to mean they're stumped, and he enters the room for a third time. But he is soon interrupted by Cuddy, who calls him back into his office for a special meeting. She calls Foreman in as well. Of course, Cameron has to ask what's going on, even though it is clearly none of her business. House tells her and Chase to feel free to speculate about it amongst themselves.

In House's office, Cuddy asks Foreman if he's sure he wants to resign. Foreman says he is, and House bitterly says Foreman's reason for quitting is that he doesn't want to turn into House. Cuddy immediately sees the logic in this and has Foreman sign a form. Back in the meeting room, Chase and Cameron are totally spying and guessing that whatever's going on isn't good. Cuddy wishes Foreman luck, and House wonders where her speech about them all being a family that has to stick together is. I'm guessing it's back in the eighteenth century, when businesses were run by actual families. These days, workers are usually allowed to quit without getting a guilt trip for it. Cuddy hugs Foreman, which is kind of weird, especially since he has two weeks of work left, and the meeting is over. Foreman and House go back to the meeting room, where Chase and Cameron hurriedly turn their heads back to their files and try to look innocent. Foreman doesn't leave them in suspense for very long and announces that he quit. Chase and Cameron are shocked. House is also shocked -- having the same three employees for three years was a personal record.

Chase decides to ignore all the weird feelings and stuff and changes the subject back to Addie. No wonder Chase and Cameron aren't together anymore -- they are total opposites in their determination to change the subject either away from or back to personal stuff. Chase suggests a heart problem as a possible source of the bloody mouth, and House sends Foreman and Chase off to test this theory and sends Cameron off on the fun task of checking Addie's dorm room and redoing the ER labs. House says he'll be planning Foreman's farewell party. Given his treatment of Foreman, I'm expecting the theme to be "You're Black." Expect watermelon to feature prominently in the buffet.

Chase and Foreman supervise Addie doing what might be my favorite ridiculous PPTH medical test -- the stress test, where old men are forced to exercise until they're on the brink of death. While Addie works out to get her heart rate up, Chase shoots a few looks at Foreman and tries to work up the nerve/desire/words to ask him why he's resigning. "Is it about House?" he asks. Out of nowhere, Foreman remarks that Chase isn't his first choice of people to confide in. Chase looks stung and asks why Foreman wouldn't want to tell him. Foreman: "I don't like you. Never have, never will. You want me to share some more?" What is it with Foreman and his need to tell his co-workers how much he hates them? Even if it's true, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to fake friendliness in a professional environment. And how does Foreman know he'll never like Chase? I used to hate French fries and thought I would never like them, and now I can't stop eating them and they make me fat. People change. Chase thinks for a second, then says that "even if" Foreman hates him (I like that Chase refuses to believe Foreman doesn't like him, much like he refuses to believe Cameron doesn't like him despite all evidence to the contrary. I wish I had that kind of self-esteem), he'd still tell Chase the reason why he quit...unless he was ashamed of it. Addie interrupts their talk to tell them that she has reached the target heart rate. Chase walks in and does an ECHO on her heart and reports that it looks fine. What's not looking so fine are Addie's arms, which are covered in goose bumps even though Addie claims not to be cold or frightened.

Foreman and Chase report to House. Foreman's dubious about the importance of Addie's goose bumps, but Chase thinks Addie's body thinks it's cold when it really isn't, which is the symptom of a neurological problem. Foreman can't think of any that would cause bleeding and goose bumps, while House insists that they're looking at an infection. Foreman scoffs at this, saying they ruled that out since Addie has no fever or elevated white cell count. Yeah, well, you said that about Lupe too, and then she got killed by underwear. I mean, her death certificate is going to list "bra" as her cause of death. Do you know how embarrassing that must be? Even more so than the death certificate of one of my teacher's mothers, who was killed by an electric blanket. When she told us that story, I thought she must have been kidding and started laughing. But she wasn't kidding, and that day, we all learned a valuable lesson about not trusting electric blankets to not go up in flames while you're asleep. I also learned a second lesson, which is not to assume that people are joking about their dead moms. Especially if those people have the authority to give you a detention.

House tells them to start treating Addie for bacterial and fungal infections and do a biopsy on her lung so he can "see the little bugger up close." Do Americans really say "bugger?" Why must they torture Hugh Laurie by making him say British things in his American accent? Foreman goes off to do that while Chase pulls a Cameron and asks House why Foreman is quitting. When House responds with "he wants to breed llamas," Chase somehow figures out that House is also ashamed of the reason Foreman is quitting. Wouldn't Chase just assume that it's because of that woman Foreman killed? I would. And that would be something both Foreman and House would be ashamed of. Why is it such a mystery to him? House just smirks and heads into Wilson's office.

Wilson has a coffee just waiting for House when he enters. Damn, if I had a friend who had a cup of coffee waiting for me whenever I saw him, I wouldn't be as much of an asshole to him as House is. I'd try really hard to keep that friendship alive, unless the coffee was gross. House tells Wilson about how Foreman quit and why and tries to act like it doesn't bother him that Foreman said he doesn't want to turn into House. Wilson points out that House doesn't want to end up like House, either, and House asks if he can resign. Aw, that's sad. But Wilson has the audacity to yawn in House's face! House demands to know why, assuming that Wilson isn't bored since he's in the presence of the great and mighty House and he isn't tired since he's drinking coffee. That means it must be a symptom of something. Wilson accuses him of trying to change the subject because he doesn't want to deal with the Foreman issue. Wilson starts trying to psychoanalyze House, and House totally yawns in his face to, as he says, "communicate boredom." The yawn is awesome in its exaggerated glory and must be seen. If you can't catch it on House, try finding anything Rowan Atkinson's in where he yawns, because it looked just like that. Wilson says House could offer Foreman a raise to stay. House asks him how much money it would take for Foreman to want to be like House. It's such a good point, Wilson doesn't have a response.

While Addie laughs and hangs out with her parents in her hospital room, Cameron comments that she seems fine. House says she is, now that they've cured her with the antibiotics. No, Cameron says, Addie has diarrhea now. WHAT?! DUN DUN DUNNNNNN! Surely this is a sign of impending death!!! Shut up, Cameron. House explains the diarrhea away by saying it's just a side effect from the antibiotics, which, by the way, are clearly making Addie all better. Since that's over, he asks the Cottages for a differential diagnosis for frequent yawning. While Foreman and Chase get going with the diagnoses, Cameron asks if this is about Addie. I'm starting to think her nosiness is just a way of getting around the fact that she doesn't know anything and can't offer up any diagnoses of her own. As Chase says that certain anti-depressants and end-stage liver drugs could cause yawning, House makes a quip that, much to everyone's surprise, Foreman laughs at. Chase makes a few leaps of logic and deduces that Foreman does not actually want to leave his job. He's never laughed at anything House has said before. Now he's doing it because he's nervous and uncomfortable. "It wasn't even that good a joke!" Chase blurts out. He quickly recovers and tells House he only meant that it wasn't a good joke in comparison to some of House's other jokes, which are so great and funny love me daddy! House tells him to shut it and go tend to the patient, who is in respiratory distress. They run in and find Addie making squeaking sounds in lieu of breathing.

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House suddenly leaves the exam room and heads for the pharmacy. He asks the pharmacist, who isn't the usual Marco, for three 10 mg tablets of amphetamines as the Cottages run up and tell him the arteriogram was normal. House tries to make that mean something, but Foreman says it only proves there is no infection. Just keep being determined that there's no infection, Foreman. It's served you so well in the past. House thinks Addie has some kind of magical infection that comes and goes. Maybe, he says, Addie's body was able to fight it off for a while, making her seem better, but now her body has given up. Given up like Foreman. Foreman scowls, and House teasingly asks him for a sunny smile. Chase, of course, giggles. His nose is so far up House's ass that he probably knows more about House's bowel movements than House does. House wonders if Addie is missing a protein, and one that you can't get by eating nuts. Chase guesses he's talking about Complement Factor H Deficiency, which is like the perfect disease for this show because it's really rare and there's no way to test for it. It's also fatal, as Addie won't be able to fight off bacteria and will just keep getting infection upon infection. House says if Addie stays on top of things, she'll live for five more crappy years instead of six crappy months. What fun for her! There are no diagnostic tests to confirm CFH deficiency, but House says they can test some of Addie's cells that are "yummiest for it." Those cells are in the eye and the gathering process will include a needle. Of course.

House goes back to the exam room and informs Honey that her boyfriend is cheating on her. "It's okay. I get it," Honey sighs. It's hard to get emotional and worked up about stuff when your body is starved for precious, wonderful, delicious red meat. Honey says she knows what a great catch her boyfriend is, so it's only natural that women would throw themselves at him. Honey needs to start eating whatever animal product makes your eyes see better, because right now she is clearly blind. House interrupts her and says the boyfriend isn't cheating on her with another woman -- he's cheating on her with a hamburger. You see, he says that poop floats when it's full of fat. Cheeseburger fat. I did a quick internet search to see if that's true, and found a site called Poop Report that actually had a detailed response from "Poonurse" about what causes poop to float or sink. She said it might be "conventional medical wisdom" that fat makes poop float, but that's not actually true for someone who isn't suffering from, like, celiac disease. She says poop is like Ivory soap: and the more gas or air it has trapped in it, the more it floats. And, she says, there's no specific diet that will consistently produce floaters or sinkers. I never thought or cared enough about the subject to do any research about it before, but now I know. And so do you. Anyway, Honey is much more upset when her boyfriend admits to eating meat every once in a while than she was when she thought he was eating other women. House takes this opportunity to put himself forth as a potential new boyfriend, saying he has all the qualities Honey claims to love about her current one. Honey smiles. I wonder if her veganism extends to eating honey or not. That would be kind of weird if her name was Honey but she didn't eat honey. Kind of like how House is named House but he lives in an apartment.

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The Cottages enter the meeting room and spy on their boss's conversation (Cameron isn't even trying to hide her over-interest as she stands there in plain sight, staring at House and Wilson with her brow furrowed. She has no shame!), and Wilson asks House if he's talked to Foreman yet. He says if House doesn't talk to Foreman, he'll lose him. Dude, Foreman resigned. In the adult world, you've already lost him. When you quit a job and the dean of medicine gives you a good-bye hug, it's over. House pretends not to be concerned about this, saying that losing Foreman will only make him appreciate the things he does have. Unfortunately for him, coffee laced with fun speed is no longer one of those things. House heads into the meeting room, where Chase says that the ocular biopsy was negative, which means Addie doesn't have CFH deficiency. Foreman thinks they're looking for a brain tumor, and House agrees that his infection theory does not appear to have panned out and they should investigate other possibilities and stop wasting time. No, he doesn't! He says he still thinks they're looking for an infection. If the ocular biopsy had been positive, he says, it would have proven he was right. A negative result, however, does not prove that he was wrong. Foreman wants to do an MRI and look for a tumor in Addie's brain. House says he's welcome to do that, although he'll have to look for an abscess while he's there, since infections cause abscesses and Addie has an infection. I both love and hate how House is determined that Addie has an infection despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Addie is stuck in the MRI of DOOOM ! In the booth, Foreman comments to Cameron that ever since he quit, House has been in a better mood than ever. Maybe it's because House is expecting Foreman to pull a Cameron and demand a date for his return to PPTH and House is really excited about the date? Foreman asks Cameron why she hasn't asked him why he's quitting. She shrugs and says she figured he'd tell her when and if he wanted to. What, Cameron being not at all nosy? Are we in Opposite Land? Is the MRI of DOOOM! going to start healing people ? Or is Cameron just really, really good at getting Foreman to talk, since he tells her that he's leaving because he's afraid of turning into House? Cameron immediately says that Foreman isn't a jerk. Except when he's stealing your articles and trying to kill you, Cameron. I mean, it was just last season! How quickly they forget. "You're a better doctor than when you came through the door," Cameron adds, sounding a lot like one of those women in commercials for job training schools. "Take the good and leave the bad," Cameron continues, sounding a lot like everyone's grandma. Foreman says that's easier for Cameron to do than it is for him. "Why, because you think I need to toughen up?" Cameron asks. No, Cameron, it's because Foreman killed a patient and, by some miracle, you've never killed any of your patients. Cameron asks Foreman if he thinks she's weak. "Yeah," Foreman answers. Ask a silly question...

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Wilson takes a seat, and House asks him for his advice on hiring a nutritionist to replace Foreman. Wilson knows House well enough to know that House is just trying to score a date with said nutritionist, and House reports that he got her phone number while his finger was up her boyfriend's ass. Imagine if that boyfriend was Tritter when that happened. He was so mad about having a thermometer up there, I can't imagine what he would have done to House (and the viewing audience) if House had a finger up there while stealing his girl. It turns out that the phone number is written on the employment application Honey filled out for House, as being a fellow is like working at Blockbuster now. Wilson notes that Honey is twenty-six years old, and House gleefully adds that she has "the wisdom of a much younger woman." Goody!

Despite House's warnings, Chase goes ahead and gives Addie the steroids. Cameron does indeed stand over Addie with the defibrillator paddles charged and ready to go. Addie's parents are, of course, worried, but Addie ridiculously tells them to "relax." "I don't want you to be scared," she says. "Then get better," Mom says. Oh, well, now that you asked nicely, I'm sure Addie's autoimmune disorder/infection/whatever will be sure to obey. Mom tells her daughter that she and Dad love her, and Addie starts to cry and says she's sorry. And right here, I totally called it that whatever Addie had, she did it to herself. Just by the guilty way she said she was sorry. I usually never see this stuff coming, so I was very proud of myself and felt the need to brag. Chase finally gives Addie the steroids, and everyone waits for her heart to give out.

Among those waiting is House, who is seated in the hall just outside. Cuddy appears, and House tells her he's waiting for his patient to have a "massive" heart attack. He's a little too eager for it to happen. Cuddy doesn't really care that her doctors are going around giving patients massive heart attacks and watching it all happen with unabated glee, because she has personal crap to deal with. She asks House if he's spoken to Foreman yet. House responds by handing her some money and asking her to buy him some candy to enjoy while he watches "the best heart attack of all time." Unless he's watching that episode of 7th Heaven when Eric turned gray and had a heart attack in front of his family while heart beating sound effects played, that is a lie. Cuddy takes the money and goes to actually get House some candy, but then he calls her back as he sees Cameron make a move in the room. Cuddy comes running back, apparently just as eager to see a heart attack as the sociopath who works for her, but it's a false alarm. Cameron puts the paddles away while the parents swoop in, looking relieved as hell. House, however, is not so pleased. He was wrong. Cuddy gives him his money back and says she hopes he'll get to see a stupendous heart attack tomorrow. Knowing PPTH, he probably will.

Meanwhile, Wilson is trying to put a label on a medical file while clearly suffering the effects of speed coffee. Foreman comes in, and Wilson starts in with the lecture that Foreman might be pissed at House, but quitting isn't the right thing to do, and it's going to be a pain in the ass to get another job. Except that he says it all five times faster than normal while making up words. It's, like, the best performance I've ever seen out of Robert Sean Leonard. I think someone put speed in his actual coffee, because he seems awake for the first time on this show. Wilson gets a call and start rushing out of the office, saying he's late for a "breast thing." He tells Foreman that he knows House wants him and is a good doctor who can make Foreman good, too. Then he forgets what he's even talking about and runs away, leaving Foreman standing there wondering when Wilson got so cool.

Wonderfully, we follow Wilson to the breast thing. He speedily tells the patient, a hot young thing with what are probably calcium deposits in her boobs, that he's having trouble getting his gloves on. "It's weird!" he says. He manages to get one on, deems this enough, and gets to work feeling the patient up. "You sure talk fast," she says. "You should see me when I'm busy!" Wilson says, winking and clicking his tongue at her. Oh dear. You know Wilson's mind is thinking way too fast, because he normally waits until AFTER the cancer diagnosis is confirmed before trying to sleep with his patients. The woman drops her arms into boob-covering position as Wilson hurriedly apologizes for being so inappropriate, saying he has no idea where that came from. He sits down and says he feels like his heart is about to explode. The woman wishes she had gone to St. Sebastian's instead of this crazy place. Wilson snatches her finger clip heart monitor thing and checks out his own heart rate. It's extremely high. Wilson panics, then realizes that white powder in his coffee wasn't Splenda after all. "Excuse me, I have to go kill someone," he tells the patient.

He no doubt sprints over to House's apartment and accuses House of "dosing" him. House admits that he did, but that's what Wilson gets for not trusting him with why he was really yawning. Wilson screams that House could have killed him. House shrugs that if anything happened to Wilson's heart, he was already in the best place for it. Except for the fact that all the heart attack stuff was stuck in Addie's room. Wilson yawns, and House points at him and says this proves his theory -- with Wilson on uppers, he's clearly not yawning because he's tired. House thinks he is yawning because it's a side effect of whatever anti-depressants Wilson is on. Wilson denies he's on anti-depressants, saying he's on "speeeeeeed," all exaggerated and ridiculous and with jazz hands. House doesn't believe him, though, and says "Mr. Well-Adjusted" is just as messed up as everyone else. Um, yeah, House? Mr. Well-Adjusted also lives in a Best Western and has been divorced three times. Maybe compared to you, he's a paragon of stability, but in the real world? Not so much. Wilson says "it's personal" and tries to blame House for his taking the anti-depressants. House says that being annoyed by someone isn't a reason to take anti-depressants. Well, no, but maybe going through all that Tritter crap because of House is. Wilson says that House has no right to act hurt that Wilson didn't tell him about this, since House seems to think the best way to dealing with depression is to OD on Vicodin and fake brain cancer. House tells Wilson to give him some anti-depressants and he'll prove that he doesn't need them. Wilson chuckles and says he won't do it because giving someone else your medicine is wrong. He will, however, take one of House's Vicodins before his heart explodes. Wilson picks up a mug of something to wash it down, but House recommends against it. He says his leg hurts, and then points to towards the kitchen and the mug as he trails off. I'm not sure what exactly is in the mug, but I guess it's something Wilson doesn't need anymore of crawling through his system.

House is sleeping like a baby when his phone rings. He slowly wakes up as he hears a knocking on his door. He ignores it and goes back to sleep. And then, as creepy music plays, a figure enters his bedroom and glides over to his bedside. It puts a hand on his shoulder and bends over, getting really close to his face, and breathes, "House." He wakes up with a start to find Creepy Cameron hovering over him. She says they've been trying to call him and he wasn't answering the phone, so she broke into his apartment to make sure he was okay. House is all annoyed and says he was sleeping like a normal person. He wakes up real quick, though, when Cameron tells him that Chase was wrong about the autoimmune disorder after all. Addie's kidneys have shut down. That sucks for Addie, but...surely there are other ways of telling House about this? That was just weird.

Hemolytic uremic syndrome is shutting down Addie's kidneys, and it's often related to that CFH deficiency we've heard so much about. House is thrilled that he was right and Chase was wrong, and he demands that Chase admit it. Chase says House isn't necessarily correct, since Addie didn't have that heart attack House was so looking forward to. Cameron says that if House is right, Addie will surely die whenever she gets her infection, thanks to those steroids they gave her. I guess they're ending the third season with blood on everyone's hands. Well, except for Wilson's, which have boobs on them. House is so happy that he called the factor H thing that he doesn't care that a nineteen-year-old girl is going to die. "She was gonna die anyway," he says, when the Cottages call him out for being so happy about it. He says that this way, at least Addie will know what's killing her before it does. Chase doesn't think this will provide much consolation for Addie when they tell her. House says they won't tell her until the diagnosis is confirmed. And the only way to do that is to wait for her to have a stroke or a heart attack. If he gets bored waiting, maybe he can give her some speed coffee to help it along.

Montage of waiting for disaster. Finally, Addie has her heart attack. Goody!

Foreman goes to House's office and tells him that Addie had a heart attack and they "barely" brought her back. House has the confirmation he wanted. House gets up to go tell Addie the great news. On his way out, Foreman asks him if he even knows Addie's first name. "Dead sophomore girl?" House guesses. Close, but not quite. Foreman asks if House knows her parents' names. House says "Dad" and "Mommy." That's usually what I call patient parents in the recaps, so I think it's a very good guess. Foreman is morally superior, so he does know everyone's names. House doesn't think it really matters, saying he doubts that five years from now when the parents are looking at photos of their dead daughter's graduation from high school they'll remember the "nice black doctor" who knew all their names. I think House is wrong about that. Foreman heads out, and House says he doesn't think Foreman wants to quit. He's trying to make House into a "kinder, gentler ass" instead. Maybe if he makes House a good enough guy, Foreman will feel like a good enough guy himself. Foreman points out that they're about to tell a young woman she's dying and all House can think about is himself and how this is all about him. Ooof. Good point.

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He heads back to Addie's room, and Dad stands up, ready to beat House up. House tells the parents to leave the room, dangling the carrot of their daughter living in front of them to get them to do it. I wouldn't leave my dying/possibly not dying daughter alone with him, but they do. House tells Addie that she has a leprechaun in her arse after all. But first, she's depressed. Addie denies this, looking like she doesn't give a shit. When House takes a seat on her bed and accuse her of trying to kill herself by drinking kitchen cleanser, though, her eyes widen so you know he's right. He says Addie did it a special way: she somehow put the cleanser in either gel caps or gum so that the cleanser would leave no trace in her mouth and throat but would burn a hole in her intestines. Except then her body healed itself and scar tissue closed the hole after what I'm sure must have been a lot of pain. That scar tissue then formed a bridge connecting her artery and vein. The blood in her veins that's supposed to flush bacteria in the intestines out of her system was instead being filtered back into her via the artery, causing all the infections. Wow, that is sophisticated. What's wrong with throwing yourself off a bridge, Addie? Geez. Addie asks House if they can fix her, looking like she's dreading whichever answer she gets. House says they can fix the physical damage in a few hours. The mental damage will take a little longer.

Because there's no point to living life without curiosity, House asks Addie why. "I don't know," she says, showing some real emotion for the first time. "I've just...never been happy." She begs House not to tell her parents, because they'll blame themselves and they shouldn't. Oh, well, I'm sure they'll be much less upset to have their daughter die when she tries to kill herself again down the road than to have their daughter live but need some psychiatric care. How can she even think that after seeing how upset they were when they thought she was going to die? Maybe you're not happy, Addie, but isn't it worth living to keep at least two people you love happy? So many people on this show don't have anyone to care about them, and they all want to live. Why can't you, Addie? House says if she promises she'll never kill herself again, then he's legally bound to keep her secret. "I promise," she says, totally unconvincingly. Well, great.

While Addie has her surgery, House has a chat with her parents. They're super-happy to see him now that he saved their daughter's life and stuff. They start trying to express this gratitude, but House interrupts by announcing that their daughter is suicidal. He's breaking the law, like Judas Priest says, by telling them this. "How could she hide this?" Mommy asks. Well, it's because she's both selfish and not selfish. On one hand, she'd rather end her own suffering by killing herself and thereby causing her parents' misery. Selfish. On the other, she didn't want them to know about this because then they'd blame themselves and be upset. Not selfish. But mostly, selfish. Mommy and Dad vow to take care of their daughter now that they actually have the chance to do it. They'll get her into therapy. House recommends anti-depressants, too. I think that's as much of an admission that the medication worked for him as we're going to get. He moves to leave, and Mommy runs up and asks if they can call him with any questions. "No!" he says.

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Montage of waiting for disaster. Finally, Addie has her heart attack. Goody!

And so House heads into Addie's room to tell her what's up. "I'm sorry. Addie, you're dying," he says. Well, at least he didn't call her "Assie." That seems like something he'd do. "Are you sure?" Mom asks, apparently forgetting about the whole heart attacks, kidney failure, and unknown head wound her daughter's already endured. While her parents cry, a strangely stoic Addie asks House how long she has. He tells her two days and starts to tell her that she has CFH deficiency. But she cuts him off, saying it doesn't really matter. House keeps trying to tell her about it, and she keeps telling him she doesn't want to hear about it. Meanwhile, her parents sob in the corner. House can't believe this; his entire being is focused on figuring out what's wrong with people, and here the girl is flying in the face of all that. He won't accept that. While Addie's parents hug their daughter, House asks Addie how she can be uninterested in something that's killing her. Mommy asks House to leave. "What's the point of living without curiosity?" House asks. I don't know. Ask the cat. Dad finally speaks up and orders House to leave, and Addie points out that House is smiling. "No, I'm not," House says. But the corners of his mouth are definitely turned upwards, and when House checks out his reflection, even he has to admit it. "Oh, God. I have to go," he says, cryptically.

By Sara M

Foreman meets Cuddy in the OR balcony. He asks what she wanted to see him about. She points out that they're looking at House's patient, who would have died if not for his stunning brilliance. Um, this was the same patient whose heart attack House was eagerly awaiting, like, yesterday, right, Cuddy? She asks Foreman if he's really scared he'll turn into House. He tells her not to bother trying to make him feel better. Don't worry, Foreman, she won't: "there are worse things to turn into." "It's not worth it," Foreman says. It was to Addie's parents.

And House visits his local dive bar, where he finds Honey waiting for him. She stupidly thinks he asked her out there for a job interview and asks him if he thinks she has "all the necessary qualifications." He steals a look at her cleavage and says he needs a drink. He'll have what she's having. Unfortunately, she's having peppermint tea. How the hell did she order that at that bar and not get thrown out on her vegan ass? Honey asks House if this is a really a job interview. "It's...some kind of interview," he answers. They're both judging each other. Honey says he has the advantage, since she doesn't know anything about him. What does he really know about her besides the fact that she's way too interested in shit? He gives her the run-down: "I'm on anti-depressants because a doctor friend of mine thinks I'm miserable. I don't like them; they make me hazy. I eat meat. I like drugs. And I'm not always faithful to the women I date." "You don't seem depressed," Honey says. Yes, well, that's why they're called ANTI-depressants, Honey. She says he's honest, at least. He says he isn't always. Like when he's not being faithful, probably. She asks him how miserable he can be, saving lives and doing drugs. He asks her if she was on the debate team in high school, all two years ago, and says that he hates tea. But apparently, he likes hot young blondes more, because he smiles and drinks the tea anyway.

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