House M.D.2004

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
[enters Exam Room One, where Cuddy is with a patient] Working

Dr. Gregory House:
We need to talk.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
[turns to face him] Get back to the ICU! Who un-cuffed you?

Dr. Gregory House:
[holding his surgical papers] Why would a surgeon administer Ketamine?

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
[hesitates for a bit] Who showed you your surgical file?

Dr. Gregory House:
How do you know it's mine?

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
Because your patient hasn't had surgery and you don't care about anybody else.

Dr. Gregory House:
My anesthesia was almost nonexistent [raises eyebrows] , and yet I wasn't awake. For some reason, somebody decided to put me in a dissociative coma instead of just putting me out.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
There are plenty of reasons to use...

Dr. Gregory House:
Fine. I'll go beat the truth out of my surgeon. [bitter] Gillick, right? [turns to leave; Cuddy watches him go and observes him walking down the hallway, sans the cane assisting him; sentimental music plays as he walks]

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
[still staring emotionally] It - worked. [House turns shocked and confused] There's a clinic in Germany; they've been treating chronic pain by inducing comas and letting the mind basically reboot itself. There's about a 50% chance your pain will come back, which of course means thee is a 50% chance that it won't.

Dr. Gregory House:
[slowly turns to anger and walks toward her] You had no right...

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
To heal you?

Dr. Gregory House:
You messed with my brain!

Dr. Lisa Cuddy:
[angry] Why are you so upset? Are you experiencing any neurological symptoms? Dizziness? Tremors? Hallucinations?

Dr. Gregory House:
No. [mouth twitches] It's a point of principle. [turns to leave]