House: Joy
October 29th 2008 04:12
Huddy (a.k.a. House and Cuddy fans) this episode's for you!
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A single father watches his daughter come home from school and leave and come back, and asks her why she’s there. Shouldn’t she be at school? His daughter reminds him that it’s 4:30 and she just got home, doesn’t he remember that? She asks him what’s wrong, and he doesn’t know.
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Cuddy’s meeting with the mom who is going to let her adopt her baby in a few weeks and House doesn’t think she really wants to have a kid. He starts a poll and Kutner is the only one to take him up on it.
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Taub and Thirteen visit the house of their patient and find the man’s daughter’s room very bleak. A single doll lays in the center of the bed and Thirteen wonders if they just moved in. Nope. Taub thinks that single people shouldn’t be parents, and Thirteen asks if he has a problem with what Cuddy’s doing. She points out that she’s fine, but he reminds her that she is kind of messed up. Good point. They search the room and find mold. Taub thinks the mother would have cleaned better.
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Back at the hospital, Thirteen examines the girl. She seems fine, but comments on how she doesn’t see what the big deal about death is. Later in the hall, Foreman asks how the girl is and Thirteen tells him, “Physically, she’s fine. Mentally? She’s weird.”
They spot her father standing at the elevator and tells them that they’re not done with the tests yet. He insists that he needs to go, he’s late for a meeting. Thirteen and Foreman frown. Does he know where he is? They shine a flashlight in his eyes and suddenly realize that the guy is asleep!
The team get together and when they all point out that the guy doesn’t go anywhere else that he might have gotten sick, House points out that he doesn’t go anywhere…when he’s awake. He tells them to let their patient go wherever he wants next time he’s sleepwalking . Maybe then they’ll figure out where he got sick.
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Cuddy meets with the girl who’s baby she’s going to adopt, and the girl asks what she’s going to call the baby. Cuddy tells her she hasn’t decided, but she kind of likes Joy. At the look on the girl’s face, she reminds her that she hasn’t decided yet. The girl tell her that the reason she picked Cuddy was because she didn’t want her baby being raised by some loser. Both her mother and grandmother married losers. Cuddy suddenly notices a rash on the girl’s arm and takes her in ton get it looked at.
Cameron takes a look at the rash and thinks it’s just a heat rash, but Cuddy wants to admit the girl just to be safe. House shows up telling her he’d be a great dad, and then dumps what he describes as “baby barf, they were giving out free samples” on Cuddy’s shirt. She glares at him. Now she’ll have to change. “My shirt, not my mind,” she tells him. He tells her that if she can’t walk around with that on her shirt, she’s not ready for a baby. Cuddy doesn’t know why he cares so much. It’s not like she’s ever going to ask him to babysit!
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Thirteen and Taub are hanging out in their patient’s daughter’s room surveilling him. When he gets up and starts to walk out, sleepwalking again, they hop in the car and follow him to a drug dealer. They quickly get out of the car when he parks and run over to snatch the cocaine away from him. Later on at the hospital, the guy can’t believe he was taking cocaine in his sleep.
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The team get together and start bouncing ideas off each other. The cocaine explains the narcolepsy, but as Foreman puts it, “it doesn’t explain the rift in the space time continuum.” Thirteen thinks he was just lying about using drugs, but House mutters, maybe “he just forgot.”
Taub gives him a skeptical look. “You’re going with forgot over lying?”
“Cocaine explains the narcolepsy, narcolepsy explains the sleepwalking, whatever’s in the cocaine other than the cocaine explains the memory loss.”
Taub points out that “dealers cut cocaine with all kinds of garbage.”
“Great!” Thirteen says sarcastically. “We’ll start him on immediate treatment for all kinds of garbage.”
House tells them they can narrow it down in the lab. Thirteen argues that they can’t without a sample, and House tells them so go get a sample. Everyone looks at him like he’s crazy.
Taub: You want us to score cocaine…from a drug dealer?
House: It’s exciting.
Thirteen: It’s a felony.
House: It’s necessary.
Unable to find a good argument, Thirteen and Taub get up and leave.
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Cameron takes a look at the baby and notices that the baby’s lungs are underdeveloped. Concerned, Cuddy goes over to look at the monitor as Cameron tells the girl that it’s a “good thing Dr. Cuddy brought you in.”
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Taub and Thirteen catch up to their patient’s drug dealer and jump out of the car.
Taub: Uh, we’re not cops. Cops aren’t allowed to say that right?
Drug Dealer: They can say it.
Taub: Oh…
Drug Dealer: But if you were a cop you’d know that. What do you want?
“Uh—” Taub clears his throat and awkwardly looks around. “I would like to buy some cocaine please.”
Thirteen tries not to laugh as the amused woman answers, “Definitely not a cop.” She hands over the drugs, which Taub drops, picks up and thanks her for it. The drug dealer starts to walk off and Taub heads back to the car, but Thirteen stops him. She opens the cocaine and tries it. Definitely the good stuff.
Thirteen heads after the drug dealer and tells her that she doesn’t want “the good, get the customer hooked stuff. I want the stepped down, keep the old customer coming back for more stuff.” The lady thinks she’s crazy but eventually hands it over.
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House squeezes a toy duck. “Looks like this kid thing is really working out for you.” That’s right, he’s back to annoy Cuddy again, this time as she’s opening boxes for her new nursery in her office. She tells him that it’s not a good time, and he just keeps going. She argues that she’s still wearing the sweater, and he argues that he “didn’t say you weren’t stubborn. I said you weren’t maternal.”
“Thank you, go away.” She continues to open her boxes.
“You’re getting crankier.”
“Baby’s sick. Sorry I’m not finding the fun in that.”
He asks her if this “pursuit of unconditional love” is really worth it, and she points out that only he could see that as a bad thing. He argues that there’s no such thing as unconditional love, just “unconditional need. Don’t make this child the victim of your biological clock.”
“Victim?” Cuddy can’t believe House. Does he really think she’s better off with the girl?
“Yes. Because at least she knows she’s not qualified for the job.”
Cuddy ignores him and rips open another box. House tips over her desk lamp and she glares at him. “Let me guess. I’m going to tell her not to play ball in the house, but she’s not going to listen.”
“No, I was going for she sneaks her boyfriend in while you’re sleeping, and he wants to do it on the desk, and at first she says no, but she has issue with self esteem.”
“You know you’re going to pay for that,” Cuddy says of the lamp.
“I’m paying for it right now. With wisdom!”
“Get out.”
House leaves.
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Taub and Thirteen tell House that they found lactose in the cocaine. It was cut with milk powder. House thinks their patient is lactose intolerant. “Ask him and treat him for an allergic reaction. If he gets better,” he says stepping into the elevator,“we all get to go home early.”
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The baby’s mom asks Cuddy if the baby’s lungs are underdeveloped because of her earlier meth use. Could be. “You must hate me,” she tells Cuddy. Cuddy just tells her that, “If you’d done everything right in your life, I wouldn’t be getting a baby.”
Suddenly the heart monitors start beeping. What’s wrong with the baby? Nothing. It’s the mom. Becka’s bleeding. Cuddy calls for “two units of O- stat!”
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House walks into his office to find Cuddy already there. She tells him that “the mother had a stage two placenta rupture, she’s losing blood. “
House walks over to sit at his desk. “So deliver the baby.”
“Lungs are 10 weeks premature.” She hands over the file.
“So deliver now risk the baby, deliver later risk the mom.” He tells her that it’s not her baby yet, it’s not her call, and Cuddy tells him that “she’ll do whatever I tell her to.”
He tells her she should deliver now, and Cuddy agrees. She gets up and House stops her. “Are you serious?”
“You’re not?” she asks. “You just told me—”
“The wrong answer,” House finishes for her. “We can give the mom more blood, we can’t give the fetus more lungs.”
She argues that the lungs might work, that that was the right decision medically.
“And yet you’re here,” he says.
“To get your medical opinion, not get knocked around.” Cuddy grabs the file and starts to leave.
“See this is what’s screwed up here,” House says. “You’re not sure this is the right call, but you’re sure this is what you want to tell her. And that scares you because your motives aren’t medical.” He gets up face her. “Part of you doesn’t want this baby, and that part wants to tell her to kill it.”
She stares at him in disbelief. “This is an impossible situation. I’m advising her to take the safest route.”
They stare each other down a second, and he says, “Doesn’t explain why you changed your sweater.”
Cuddy walks out.
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House finds Wilson and drops the file from Cuddy on the counter in the hospital lounge/kitchen. “I need your advice.”
Without looking up from the apple he’s shining, Wilson replies, “It’s not cancer.” He knows why House is there and he’s already seen the file. He argues that House is just mad because “she’s moving on to high school and leaving you behind to repeat the eighth grade.”
House thinks Cuddy can’t have a relationship with an adult, so how is she going to have one with a kid? Wilson sighs. He’s with Cuddy on this one. “You’re doing this because we no longer have ink wells and Cuddy doesn’t have pigtails.”
House grabs the apple out of Wilson’s hand and takes a huge bite out of it. He tosses drops it unceremoniously back into Wilson’s hand. “Why do you think I did that?”
House leaves.
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Taub goes back to check on the sleepwalker, who doesn’t think he’s lost any time lately. The machines agree. He still can’t believe he did cocaine. Taub tells him that it was a dream. “You weren’t responsible.”
“Something inside me wanted to do it,” the guy argues. “Something inside of me didn’t think it was wrong.”
“Like a dream,” Taub reiterates. “We all do stuff in our dreams we wouldn’t do while we were awake.”
“I don’t.”
Taub suddenly notices blood on the man’s chest. He’s sweating blood.
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The team gets together.
House: The guy is bleeding out of his pores, what does that tell us? Other than that you don’t want to play basketball with him and that he’s dying.
After ruling out the cocaine, allergies, and Ebola, they decide they need to test him for Leukemia. House tells them to do a bone marrow biopsy since they can’t think of anything else.
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When asked what she would do if she were in the Becka’s position, Cuddy tells her, “I think you should wait.” The girl of course takes this the wrong way, thinking Cuddy’s thinking a mother and not a doctor. Cuddy tells her it is her medical opinion, and that it might only be one week on plasma to help her baby. Becka tells her she’s already “sacrificed nine months for this stupid mistake. I don’t—I don’t want to sacrifice anymore.”
Cuddy tells her that she asked her opinion because she wanted to do the right thing. She tells Becka that she has a chance to break the cycle that her mother and grandmother were in. “You have a chance to do something great for this baby.”
Crying, Becka just answers, “No.”
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Kutner and Taub are in the process of doing the bone marrow biopsy when Taub suddenly notices the guy’s legs. He asks the patient if he’s been testing any sort of tanning cream, and when he answers no, Kutner takes a look. That’s not a tan and this is not Leukemia.
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Taub and Kutner tell House what they found, and they eventually decide that the patient needs a kidney transplant. House tells them to test the daughter. Kutner points out that she’s only 12. The small kidney isn’t the problem, it’s that they’re going to need Cuddy to sign off on this, and she’s...well, she’s kind of busy right now.
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Cuddy stands by in the OR as Chase performs a C-section on the baby that will be her daughter.
“Got a minute?” House suddenly interrupts, opening the door without scrubs on or any protective wear.
Cuddy orders him to get out, and Becka asks who House is. Chase tells her, “Dr. Gregory House. The one you’ll be suing when you develop sepsis.” Okay, but what’s he doing here?
“The better question is why is she here?” House asks, nodding to Cuddy. “You’re an administrator. Administrate.” He tells him about his patient and his daughter, and Cuddy orders him to get out again. He argues that “this doesn’t need you, I do.”
“Head’s out,” Case calls.
“Later,” Cuddy tells House.
“Later’s too late.”
Cuddy gets distracted as Chase pulls the baby out. “Come on cry…Come on…” House watches her as she gets more and more worried. “Joy, cry! Cry Joy!”
“I’m sorry,” Becka tells her. “I’m so sorry.”
Chase taps the baby’s legs and she starts to cry. He gives her a 9 out of 10. Relieved and unbelievably happy, Cuddy picks up the baby. “Hear that? You just got your first A!” She laughs and takes the baby over to show to Becka, who tells her, “She’s yours now.”
Cuddy stares down at the baby, tearfully happy. House tells her “now it’s time to tell her those words you’ll be telling her for the rest of her life. ‘Mommy’s got to go to work.’”
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Cuddy asks House’s patient’s daughter if the risks of the surgery have been explained to her. House scoffs. Of course they have. But she still wants to go through with it? Yes.
“If you don’t do it, Daddy will die,” House tells the girl. Cuddy tells him to stop pressuring her, and House replies, “Sorry. Daddy’s perfectly healthy, but we want you to give him the kidney anyway because it would be cool if he had three.”
The girl simply stares at them as Cuddy turns to glare at House. “Shut up.” She turns back to the girl and asks her if she understands the risks of living with one kidney. Yes she does, but she still wants to go through with it. Well, okay they. Cuddy tells him to go ahead.
House walks up to the girl. “No.”
Cuddy looks at him. “I’m saying you can proceed.”
“And I’m saying I can’t.” House leans down to get a closer look at the girl’s eyes. “Whatever he has she has too. She’s sleepwalking.”
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While sitting on a bench, House, Taub, and Kutner discuss the fact that their patient will die without a new kidney soon, but they can’t give him his daughters. As House puts it, “When your remote has a dead battery you don’t replace it with another dead battery.” Whatever’s killing the father’s kidneys are killing the daughter’s too. Taub argues that it doesn’t necessarily mean they have the same thing just because they’re both sleepwalking, but Thirteen shows up to tell them that House is right. The daughter’s sweating blood too. Must mean it’s genetic.
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Wilson tells House that “Cuddy is positively aglow. What’s your theory? She’s only acting happy to make you miserable?”
House tosses his pill bottle and sits back. “I need a genetic disease.”
“I’m sure you’re carrying a few,” Wilson cuts back.
House tells him the symptoms and Wilson asks if he’s paid off the Cuddy pool yet. House argues that it’s not over yet. He talks about unwrapping presents you’ve wanted only to find something you didn’t ask for, and as Wilson argues that since Cuddy didn’t actually give birth, there will be no letdown or post-partum depression, House gets that breakthrough look on his face. Wilson notices.
“I’ve just given you the answer, haven’t I?” House doesn’t answer but gets up. “And now you’re going to walk out of here without saying a word.”
“Nope.” House leaves.
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“Good news! I know what you have and you’re both going to be fine.”
Father and daughter stare blankly back at House and everyone else is confused. Really? Well, kind of. He knows what’s wrong with them, but he doesn’t know if they’ll be fine or not. Okay, then why did he tell them that they were?
“To make them happy.”
“For two seconds?”
“Technically to see if they can be happy.” House explains that they should have seen some sort of happy relief on their faces, but instead all they got were blank stares. Foreman argues that they’re sick, not to mention tired. No, according to House they’re anhedonic. “Something’s bushwacked their dopamine receptors.”
Thirteen thinks they’re just depressed, “being bummed isn’t necessary have to be a pathology.”
“Being bummed,” House argues. “Doesn’t explain their lack of friends or their indifference to each other.” Foreman and Taub are starting to be convinced. Would explain the lack of music, view, or décor in their apartment too.
Okay, then what’s up with the cocaine? Most people do drugs because they WANT to be happy. “His subconscious craved it, needed it.” Forman points out that the most common cause of anhedonia is schizophrenia.
“Sure, in white folk,” House says.
Kutner looks at the patients confused. “They’re black?”
“They’re liars.” House asks the guy what his name was and he tells him that it’s Jerry Herman. Okay, now what’s his real name? “Hamud,” Jerry replies. “Jamal Hamud. I changed it when we invaded Iraq the first time.” How did House know? Both father and daughter have Familial Mediterranean Fever, a genetic disease only contracted by those of Mediterranean dissent. Symptoms are set off by stress, hence why Jerry’s daughter started sweating blood too when she found out her dad was dying. House tells them what medicine to give and heads out.
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As Thirteen checks on father and daughter, Cuddy paints her new nursery yellow. She looks around happily.
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Thirteen wakes Jerry up. “Feeling better?” Jerry looks around, notices a plant nearby as if for the first time and smiles. He asks how his daughter, Samantha is, and Thirteen tells him that she’s good enough to toss him a kidney. Samantha sits up. “Dad?” They both smile.
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Cuddy checks in on Becka, and tells her the baby is doing great. Becka says that she was stupid and selfish, that Cuddy would have done the right thing. “And I want to be like that. I don’t…I don’t want to be a loser.”
“You’re not a loser.”
“When I saw you hold her and the look on your face, it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” Becka tells her. “And that’s when I realized that I can’t…”
Cuddy’s smile fades. “Becka?”
She tells Cuddy that her life’s always been about anger and pain and disappointment. “Never been about love. And that’s when I realized that it could be.” Becka cries as she finishes, “And I can’t give that away.”
“Becka don’t do this,” Cuddy says, unable to believe what she’s hearing after all she’s gone through. Getting up, she paces the room and tells Becka that she’s filled with hormones right now and she can’t just make such a huge decision like this on the spot. Cuddy thinks she should take some time. Becka tells her she is “so sorry,” and shakes her head.
Cuddy swallows hard. “It’s a decision that changes everything. Changes the rest of your life.”
Becka nods. “I hpe so.”
There’s nothing Cuddy can do.
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Cuddy visits the baby she was going to name Joy one last time…
Jerry and Samantha are laughing and back to normal again…
Cuddy cries, holding the baby’s hand…
Father and daughter laugh, glad to be together…
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Cuddy sits on the floor alone in her finished yet baby-less nursery. There is a knock at the door. She opens it to find House.
“It’s really not the greatest time for gloating.”
House follows her inside anyway. “There’s more than one baby in the sea. The world is full of teenage boys riding bareback.”
“No, I’m done. I can’t go through that again.”
“You’re quitting? Just like you quit IVF.”
“Yeah just like that,” Cuddy answers grimly.
House tells her that, “that’s too bad. You’d make a great mother.”
Cuddy can’t believe it. “When I was getting a baby you told me I’d such as a mother, now that I’ve lost one you tell me I’d be great as a mother.” She steps up to him, furious. “Why do you need to negate EVERYTHING?”
House stares at her a long time. “I don’t know.”
Suddenly House and Cuddy are leaning towards each other…And when they kiss, it’s not a quick and friendly peck on the lips, or an I’m sorry kiss, this is a passionate kiss that lasts a whole 15 seconds!
House backs up. “Goodnight.”
Cuddy stares after him, slightly shell-shocked. “Goodnight.”
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That is really all I can say. Wow. I know everyone was telling us they’d finally get together, but wow! I can’t wait for next week! Looks hilarious! 
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A single father watches his daughter come home from school and leave and come back, and asks her why she’s there. Shouldn’t she be at school? His daughter reminds him that it’s 4:30 and she just got home, doesn’t he remember that? She asks him what’s wrong, and he doesn’t know.
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Cuddy’s meeting with the mom who is going to let her adopt her baby in a few weeks and House doesn’t think she really wants to have a kid. He starts a poll and Kutner is the only one to take him up on it.
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Taub and Thirteen visit the house of their patient and find the man’s daughter’s room very bleak. A single doll lays in the center of the bed and Thirteen wonders if they just moved in. Nope. Taub thinks that single people shouldn’t be parents, and Thirteen asks if he has a problem with what Cuddy’s doing. She points out that she’s fine, but he reminds her that she is kind of messed up. Good point. They search the room and find mold. Taub thinks the mother would have cleaned better.
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Back at the hospital, Thirteen examines the girl. She seems fine, but comments on how she doesn’t see what the big deal about death is. Later in the hall, Foreman asks how the girl is and Thirteen tells him, “Physically, she’s fine. Mentally? She’s weird.”
They spot her father standing at the elevator and tells them that they’re not done with the tests yet. He insists that he needs to go, he’s late for a meeting. Thirteen and Foreman frown. Does he know where he is? They shine a flashlight in his eyes and suddenly realize that the guy is asleep!
The team get together and when they all point out that the guy doesn’t go anywhere else that he might have gotten sick, House points out that he doesn’t go anywhere…when he’s awake. He tells them to let their patient go wherever he wants next time he’s sleepwalking . Maybe then they’ll figure out where he got sick.
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Cuddy meets with the girl who’s baby she’s going to adopt, and the girl asks what she’s going to call the baby. Cuddy tells her she hasn’t decided, but she kind of likes Joy. At the look on the girl’s face, she reminds her that she hasn’t decided yet. The girl tell her that the reason she picked Cuddy was because she didn’t want her baby being raised by some loser. Both her mother and grandmother married losers. Cuddy suddenly notices a rash on the girl’s arm and takes her in ton get it looked at.
Cameron takes a look at the rash and thinks it’s just a heat rash, but Cuddy wants to admit the girl just to be safe. House shows up telling her he’d be a great dad, and then dumps what he describes as “baby barf, they were giving out free samples” on Cuddy’s shirt. She glares at him. Now she’ll have to change. “My shirt, not my mind,” she tells him. He tells her that if she can’t walk around with that on her shirt, she’s not ready for a baby. Cuddy doesn’t know why he cares so much. It’s not like she’s ever going to ask him to babysit!
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Thirteen and Taub are hanging out in their patient’s daughter’s room surveilling him. When he gets up and starts to walk out, sleepwalking again, they hop in the car and follow him to a drug dealer. They quickly get out of the car when he parks and run over to snatch the cocaine away from him. Later on at the hospital, the guy can’t believe he was taking cocaine in his sleep.
~*~*~
The team get together and start bouncing ideas off each other. The cocaine explains the narcolepsy, but as Foreman puts it, “it doesn’t explain the rift in the space time continuum.” Thirteen thinks he was just lying about using drugs, but House mutters, maybe “he just forgot.”
Taub gives him a skeptical look. “You’re going with forgot over lying?”
“Cocaine explains the narcolepsy, narcolepsy explains the sleepwalking, whatever’s in the cocaine other than the cocaine explains the memory loss.”
Taub points out that “dealers cut cocaine with all kinds of garbage.”
“Great!” Thirteen says sarcastically. “We’ll start him on immediate treatment for all kinds of garbage.”
House tells them they can narrow it down in the lab. Thirteen argues that they can’t without a sample, and House tells them so go get a sample. Everyone looks at him like he’s crazy.
Taub: You want us to score cocaine…from a drug dealer?
House: It’s exciting.
Thirteen: It’s a felony.
House: It’s necessary.
Unable to find a good argument, Thirteen and Taub get up and leave.
~*~*~
Cameron takes a look at the baby and notices that the baby’s lungs are underdeveloped. Concerned, Cuddy goes over to look at the monitor as Cameron tells the girl that it’s a “good thing Dr. Cuddy brought you in.”
~*~*~
Taub and Thirteen catch up to their patient’s drug dealer and jump out of the car.
Taub: Uh, we’re not cops. Cops aren’t allowed to say that right?
Drug Dealer: They can say it.
Taub: Oh…
Drug Dealer: But if you were a cop you’d know that. What do you want?
“Uh—” Taub clears his throat and awkwardly looks around. “I would like to buy some cocaine please.”
Thirteen tries not to laugh as the amused woman answers, “Definitely not a cop.” She hands over the drugs, which Taub drops, picks up and thanks her for it. The drug dealer starts to walk off and Taub heads back to the car, but Thirteen stops him. She opens the cocaine and tries it. Definitely the good stuff.
Thirteen heads after the drug dealer and tells her that she doesn’t want “the good, get the customer hooked stuff. I want the stepped down, keep the old customer coming back for more stuff.” The lady thinks she’s crazy but eventually hands it over.
~*~*~
House squeezes a toy duck. “Looks like this kid thing is really working out for you.” That’s right, he’s back to annoy Cuddy again, this time as she’s opening boxes for her new nursery in her office. She tells him that it’s not a good time, and he just keeps going. She argues that she’s still wearing the sweater, and he argues that he “didn’t say you weren’t stubborn. I said you weren’t maternal.”
“Thank you, go away.” She continues to open her boxes.
“You’re getting crankier.”
“Baby’s sick. Sorry I’m not finding the fun in that.”
He asks her if this “pursuit of unconditional love” is really worth it, and she points out that only he could see that as a bad thing. He argues that there’s no such thing as unconditional love, just “unconditional need. Don’t make this child the victim of your biological clock.”
“Victim?” Cuddy can’t believe House. Does he really think she’s better off with the girl?
“Yes. Because at least she knows she’s not qualified for the job.”
Cuddy ignores him and rips open another box. House tips over her desk lamp and she glares at him. “Let me guess. I’m going to tell her not to play ball in the house, but she’s not going to listen.”
“No, I was going for she sneaks her boyfriend in while you’re sleeping, and he wants to do it on the desk, and at first she says no, but she has issue with self esteem.”
“You know you’re going to pay for that,” Cuddy says of the lamp.
“I’m paying for it right now. With wisdom!”
“Get out.”
House leaves.
~*~*~
Taub and Thirteen tell House that they found lactose in the cocaine. It was cut with milk powder. House thinks their patient is lactose intolerant. “Ask him and treat him for an allergic reaction. If he gets better,” he says stepping into the elevator,“we all get to go home early.”
~*~*~
The baby’s mom asks Cuddy if the baby’s lungs are underdeveloped because of her earlier meth use. Could be. “You must hate me,” she tells Cuddy. Cuddy just tells her that, “If you’d done everything right in your life, I wouldn’t be getting a baby.”
Suddenly the heart monitors start beeping. What’s wrong with the baby? Nothing. It’s the mom. Becka’s bleeding. Cuddy calls for “two units of O- stat!”
~*~*~
House walks into his office to find Cuddy already there. She tells him that “the mother had a stage two placenta rupture, she’s losing blood. “
House walks over to sit at his desk. “So deliver the baby.”
“Lungs are 10 weeks premature.” She hands over the file.
“So deliver now risk the baby, deliver later risk the mom.” He tells her that it’s not her baby yet, it’s not her call, and Cuddy tells him that “she’ll do whatever I tell her to.”
He tells her she should deliver now, and Cuddy agrees. She gets up and House stops her. “Are you serious?”
“You’re not?” she asks. “You just told me—”
“The wrong answer,” House finishes for her. “We can give the mom more blood, we can’t give the fetus more lungs.”
She argues that the lungs might work, that that was the right decision medically.
“And yet you’re here,” he says.
“To get your medical opinion, not get knocked around.” Cuddy grabs the file and starts to leave.
“See this is what’s screwed up here,” House says. “You’re not sure this is the right call, but you’re sure this is what you want to tell her. And that scares you because your motives aren’t medical.” He gets up face her. “Part of you doesn’t want this baby, and that part wants to tell her to kill it.”
She stares at him in disbelief. “This is an impossible situation. I’m advising her to take the safest route.”
They stare each other down a second, and he says, “Doesn’t explain why you changed your sweater.”
Cuddy walks out.
~*~*~
House finds Wilson and drops the file from Cuddy on the counter in the hospital lounge/kitchen. “I need your advice.”
Without looking up from the apple he’s shining, Wilson replies, “It’s not cancer.” He knows why House is there and he’s already seen the file. He argues that House is just mad because “she’s moving on to high school and leaving you behind to repeat the eighth grade.”
House thinks Cuddy can’t have a relationship with an adult, so how is she going to have one with a kid? Wilson sighs. He’s with Cuddy on this one. “You’re doing this because we no longer have ink wells and Cuddy doesn’t have pigtails.”
House grabs the apple out of Wilson’s hand and takes a huge bite out of it. He tosses drops it unceremoniously back into Wilson’s hand. “Why do you think I did that?”
House leaves.
~*~*~
Taub goes back to check on the sleepwalker, who doesn’t think he’s lost any time lately. The machines agree. He still can’t believe he did cocaine. Taub tells him that it was a dream. “You weren’t responsible.”
“Something inside me wanted to do it,” the guy argues. “Something inside of me didn’t think it was wrong.”
“Like a dream,” Taub reiterates. “We all do stuff in our dreams we wouldn’t do while we were awake.”
“I don’t.”
Taub suddenly notices blood on the man’s chest. He’s sweating blood.
~*~*~
The team gets together.
House: The guy is bleeding out of his pores, what does that tell us? Other than that you don’t want to play basketball with him and that he’s dying.
After ruling out the cocaine, allergies, and Ebola, they decide they need to test him for Leukemia. House tells them to do a bone marrow biopsy since they can’t think of anything else.
~*~*~
When asked what she would do if she were in the Becka’s position, Cuddy tells her, “I think you should wait.” The girl of course takes this the wrong way, thinking Cuddy’s thinking a mother and not a doctor. Cuddy tells her it is her medical opinion, and that it might only be one week on plasma to help her baby. Becka tells her she’s already “sacrificed nine months for this stupid mistake. I don’t—I don’t want to sacrifice anymore.”
Cuddy tells her that she asked her opinion because she wanted to do the right thing. She tells Becka that she has a chance to break the cycle that her mother and grandmother were in. “You have a chance to do something great for this baby.”
Crying, Becka just answers, “No.”
~*~*~
Kutner and Taub are in the process of doing the bone marrow biopsy when Taub suddenly notices the guy’s legs. He asks the patient if he’s been testing any sort of tanning cream, and when he answers no, Kutner takes a look. That’s not a tan and this is not Leukemia.
~*~*~
Taub and Kutner tell House what they found, and they eventually decide that the patient needs a kidney transplant. House tells them to test the daughter. Kutner points out that she’s only 12. The small kidney isn’t the problem, it’s that they’re going to need Cuddy to sign off on this, and she’s...well, she’s kind of busy right now.
~*~*~
Cuddy stands by in the OR as Chase performs a C-section on the baby that will be her daughter.
“Got a minute?” House suddenly interrupts, opening the door without scrubs on or any protective wear.
Cuddy orders him to get out, and Becka asks who House is. Chase tells her, “Dr. Gregory House. The one you’ll be suing when you develop sepsis.” Okay, but what’s he doing here?
“The better question is why is she here?” House asks, nodding to Cuddy. “You’re an administrator. Administrate.” He tells him about his patient and his daughter, and Cuddy orders him to get out again. He argues that “this doesn’t need you, I do.”
“Head’s out,” Case calls.
“Later,” Cuddy tells House.
“Later’s too late.”
Cuddy gets distracted as Chase pulls the baby out. “Come on cry…Come on…” House watches her as she gets more and more worried. “Joy, cry! Cry Joy!”
“I’m sorry,” Becka tells her. “I’m so sorry.”
Chase taps the baby’s legs and she starts to cry. He gives her a 9 out of 10. Relieved and unbelievably happy, Cuddy picks up the baby. “Hear that? You just got your first A!” She laughs and takes the baby over to show to Becka, who tells her, “She’s yours now.”
Cuddy stares down at the baby, tearfully happy. House tells her “now it’s time to tell her those words you’ll be telling her for the rest of her life. ‘Mommy’s got to go to work.’”
~*~*~
Cuddy asks House’s patient’s daughter if the risks of the surgery have been explained to her. House scoffs. Of course they have. But she still wants to go through with it? Yes.
“If you don’t do it, Daddy will die,” House tells the girl. Cuddy tells him to stop pressuring her, and House replies, “Sorry. Daddy’s perfectly healthy, but we want you to give him the kidney anyway because it would be cool if he had three.”
The girl simply stares at them as Cuddy turns to glare at House. “Shut up.” She turns back to the girl and asks her if she understands the risks of living with one kidney. Yes she does, but she still wants to go through with it. Well, okay they. Cuddy tells him to go ahead.
House walks up to the girl. “No.”
Cuddy looks at him. “I’m saying you can proceed.”
“And I’m saying I can’t.” House leans down to get a closer look at the girl’s eyes. “Whatever he has she has too. She’s sleepwalking.”
~*~*~
While sitting on a bench, House, Taub, and Kutner discuss the fact that their patient will die without a new kidney soon, but they can’t give him his daughters. As House puts it, “When your remote has a dead battery you don’t replace it with another dead battery.” Whatever’s killing the father’s kidneys are killing the daughter’s too. Taub argues that it doesn’t necessarily mean they have the same thing just because they’re both sleepwalking, but Thirteen shows up to tell them that House is right. The daughter’s sweating blood too. Must mean it’s genetic.
~*~*~
Wilson tells House that “Cuddy is positively aglow. What’s your theory? She’s only acting happy to make you miserable?”
House tosses his pill bottle and sits back. “I need a genetic disease.”
“I’m sure you’re carrying a few,” Wilson cuts back.
House tells him the symptoms and Wilson asks if he’s paid off the Cuddy pool yet. House argues that it’s not over yet. He talks about unwrapping presents you’ve wanted only to find something you didn’t ask for, and as Wilson argues that since Cuddy didn’t actually give birth, there will be no letdown or post-partum depression, House gets that breakthrough look on his face. Wilson notices.
“I’ve just given you the answer, haven’t I?” House doesn’t answer but gets up. “And now you’re going to walk out of here without saying a word.”
“Nope.” House leaves.
~*~*~
“Good news! I know what you have and you’re both going to be fine.”
Father and daughter stare blankly back at House and everyone else is confused. Really? Well, kind of. He knows what’s wrong with them, but he doesn’t know if they’ll be fine or not. Okay, then why did he tell them that they were?
“To make them happy.”
“For two seconds?”
“Technically to see if they can be happy.” House explains that they should have seen some sort of happy relief on their faces, but instead all they got were blank stares. Foreman argues that they’re sick, not to mention tired. No, according to House they’re anhedonic. “Something’s bushwacked their dopamine receptors.”
Thirteen thinks they’re just depressed, “being bummed isn’t necessary have to be a pathology.”
“Being bummed,” House argues. “Doesn’t explain their lack of friends or their indifference to each other.” Foreman and Taub are starting to be convinced. Would explain the lack of music, view, or décor in their apartment too.
Okay, then what’s up with the cocaine? Most people do drugs because they WANT to be happy. “His subconscious craved it, needed it.” Forman points out that the most common cause of anhedonia is schizophrenia.
“Sure, in white folk,” House says.
Kutner looks at the patients confused. “They’re black?”
“They’re liars.” House asks the guy what his name was and he tells him that it’s Jerry Herman. Okay, now what’s his real name? “Hamud,” Jerry replies. “Jamal Hamud. I changed it when we invaded Iraq the first time.” How did House know? Both father and daughter have Familial Mediterranean Fever, a genetic disease only contracted by those of Mediterranean dissent. Symptoms are set off by stress, hence why Jerry’s daughter started sweating blood too when she found out her dad was dying. House tells them what medicine to give and heads out.
~*~*~
As Thirteen checks on father and daughter, Cuddy paints her new nursery yellow. She looks around happily.
~*~*~
Thirteen wakes Jerry up. “Feeling better?” Jerry looks around, notices a plant nearby as if for the first time and smiles. He asks how his daughter, Samantha is, and Thirteen tells him that she’s good enough to toss him a kidney. Samantha sits up. “Dad?” They both smile.
~*~*~
Cuddy checks in on Becka, and tells her the baby is doing great. Becka says that she was stupid and selfish, that Cuddy would have done the right thing. “And I want to be like that. I don’t…I don’t want to be a loser.”
“You’re not a loser.”
“When I saw you hold her and the look on your face, it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” Becka tells her. “And that’s when I realized that I can’t…”
Cuddy’s smile fades. “Becka?”
She tells Cuddy that her life’s always been about anger and pain and disappointment. “Never been about love. And that’s when I realized that it could be.” Becka cries as she finishes, “And I can’t give that away.”
“Becka don’t do this,” Cuddy says, unable to believe what she’s hearing after all she’s gone through. Getting up, she paces the room and tells Becka that she’s filled with hormones right now and she can’t just make such a huge decision like this on the spot. Cuddy thinks she should take some time. Becka tells her she is “so sorry,” and shakes her head.
Cuddy swallows hard. “It’s a decision that changes everything. Changes the rest of your life.”
Becka nods. “I hpe so.”
There’s nothing Cuddy can do.
~*~*~
Cuddy visits the baby she was going to name Joy one last time…
Jerry and Samantha are laughing and back to normal again…
Cuddy cries, holding the baby’s hand…
Father and daughter laugh, glad to be together…
~*~*~
Cuddy sits on the floor alone in her finished yet baby-less nursery. There is a knock at the door. She opens it to find House.
“It’s really not the greatest time for gloating.”
House follows her inside anyway. “There’s more than one baby in the sea. The world is full of teenage boys riding bareback.”
“No, I’m done. I can’t go through that again.”
“You’re quitting? Just like you quit IVF.”
“Yeah just like that,” Cuddy answers grimly.
House tells her that, “that’s too bad. You’d make a great mother.”
Cuddy can’t believe it. “When I was getting a baby you told me I’d such as a mother, now that I’ve lost one you tell me I’d be great as a mother.” She steps up to him, furious. “Why do you need to negate EVERYTHING?”
House stares at her a long time. “I don’t know.”
Suddenly House and Cuddy are leaning towards each other…And when they kiss, it’s not a quick and friendly peck on the lips, or an I’m sorry kiss, this is a passionate kiss that lasts a whole 15 seconds!
House backs up. “Goodnight.”
Cuddy stares after him, slightly shell-shocked. “Goodnight.”
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That is really all I can say. Wow. I know everyone was telling us they’d finally get together, but wow! I can’t wait for next week! Looks hilarious! | 46 |
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