Post-Trauma 10.1
Things are looking up a bit for House...and down a bit for Luerssen....
Detective Whitley had been parked outside of the nondescript office building for most of the afternoon. She was starting to fear that Luerssen had snuck out the back somehow, when he finally emerged, wearing a long tan-colored overcoat and swinging a briefcase ( Read more... )
“Did Nurse Williams tell you to do up your top button?”
“Yes sir.”
“And did you?”
“I…”
“Did you?”
“No sir.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t know sir.”
“You don’t know?”
“Yes sir.”
“I thought you knew everything?”
“I’m good with puzzles.”
“Oh, you are good with puzzles are you?”
“Yes sir.”
“Did I ask you about puzzles.”
“No sir.”
“Then why did you feel you needed to add that into the conversation?”
“I don’t know sir.”
“Back to that are we?”
“But I am good with puzzles.”
“Don’t make excuses. Did you or did you not do up your top button.”
“No I didn’t sir.”
“Do you think Nurse Williams cared that you are good with puzzles when she asked you to do up your top button?”
“No sir.”
“Do you think your top button cared that you are good with puzzles?”
“No sir.”
“Do you think I care that you are good with puzzles?”
“No sir.”
“Rules.”
“Yes sir.”
“Rules are there for your own good Gregory.”
“Yes sir.”
“We must all follow rules.”
“Yes sir.”
“And when we break them we must be punished.”
“Yes sir.”
“You are not special.”
“No sir. I am not special.”
“Are you sorry?”
“Yes sir.”
“Are you lying Gregory?”
“No sir.”
“You are lying aren’t you? Addicts always lie.”
“No sir. I’m not lying sir. I am sorry sir.”
“You are only sorry because you got caught out. If you hadn’t got caught you would still be wasted 24/7 while practicing medicine wouldn’t you? And your top button would still be undone even though Nurse Williams told you to do it up.”
“No sir, I really am sorry. I am learning sir. I’m sorry sir.”
I think we must the same views about 1950s 'institutions' - and it is so anti House. I think what gets me about this story is that it is just so wrong to see House as pod person House and it almost hurts to see him behaving in this bizarre way.
We love House because he is weird and nutty and totally free and uninhibited. So watching him come out, then go back to pp House is wrenching.
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