4X10 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE
Writer: Pamela Davis
Director: Matt Shakman
Original Airdate: 29 Jan 2008
It's Christmas at Princeton-Plainsboro and House plays his new fellows off each other in the most devious game of Secret Santa ever - even as he tries to prove that there's no way his rapidly declining patient Maggie could have been completely honest with her daughter all their lives.
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I. Cuddy owes House a lapdance
Cuddy: You owe me fifty bucks.
House: And you owe me half a lap dance.
Cuddy: It's for the nurse's holiday bonus, I know you got the memo.
House: I got the memo last year... I want to hire forty more fellows.
Cuddy: You already fired the ones you hired?
House: They work better when they're scared.
[Taub appears]
Taub: You were right, the guy slipped her ecstasy.
House: Does he have any symptoms?
Taub: No. Kutner's starting the patient on haemo-dialysis and 13's in the lab trying to figure out what the guy put in the drugs.
[Taub leaves.]
House: See - clear simple statement of facts describing their cooperation, with absolutely no attitude of fear.
Cuddy: Something's got to be done.
House: Oh yeah.
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I.5. Bondage & the Dean of Medicine
[House is hacking into Maggie's computer and searching through her e-mails.]
Taub: Try 'bondage'.
House: I did once. She just tied me down and whined about how hard it is to be Dean of Medicine.
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