[Oh, he doesn't need to imagine. He was as close to being there as possible without dying. He's heard. The screaming, the sound of someone being broken. And if he stops asking questions now, he'd not have gotten nearly enough out of it.]

It did the same to my tablet - the audio feed and the screen. White, then red, then nothing. [It doesn't even occur to him that House may not be aware at this point of his and Rydia's little adventure. He's too focused on what he needs. What he needs.]

What makes you think it was a machine? There must be a reason it made that impression.