House M.d. -

The patient, Claire, is a marathon runner, vegan, non-smoker, no medications. Textbook healthy. But her labs show liver enzymes three times normal, intermittent vision loss, and a heart that occasionally forgets to beat.

“Only to patients. And insurance companies. And you. And myself. But never to the body. The body would know.” Want me to turn this into a full short script or a diagnostic puzzle for you to solve? House M.D.

Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Morning. House limps into the conference room, tosses a tennis ball against the wall, and catches it one-handed. His team sits exhausted — they’ve been up all night on a case that doesn’t fit. The patient, Claire, is a marathon runner, vegan,

“Somebody’s poisoning her. Not to kill — to mimic disease. That’s personal.” “Only to patients

“You could have told the husband it wasn’t his fault sooner. Saved him six hours of thinking he was a murderer.”

“He loved her so much he almost killed her. See? Everybody lies — even the good ones. Especially the good ones.” The Philosophical Core (assembled from monologues across seasons):

“Thirty-seven-year-old woman. Seizures, rash, fever, and a husband who says she’s ‘perfectly healthy except for this.’ Already we know he’s lying. People are only ‘perfectly healthy’ until they aren’t. Question isn’t if she lied — question is what she lied about.”