What do you want me to say? [House finally snaps.] I saw the gears turning and the wires sparking? I don't know. It just looked like a machine. Everything here is a goddamn machine.

[There's a brief pause.]

If I didn't see the same thing as the chick, then it was probably a hallucination. I saw a machine - I was expecting to see one. She saw whatever she saw - probably what she was expecting.

[Yeah, he heard from Steve and went to check the archives. And that realization means they both died for extremely minimal real information. Wonderful.]