That experiment could have just as easily gone very badly. [ Will pointed out. ] It was luck, rather than any deliberate design that turned in our favor.

Your thought to grab the heat suit and try to use it is deliberate careful thinking based on experience and your ability to think through the evidence at hand. This is why that combination, why your combination is unique.

[ It seemed important that Will show he did recognize that House wasn't being blindly reckless in this plan and in turn that Will wasn't flailing his hands simply to flail.

Even if a part of him was flailing simply to flail at the idea of losing his friend. ]

My observations are unreliable because mind is broken, House. [ The ex-profiler continued, fingers threading in and out in a fidgetty manner. ] I see beauty in the dark, temptation in the spill of blood, and I've already quit once.

But you want life, and you will fight down and dirty to exert your will on the world before you'll ever give up.