Well... no one likes their puppet's strings breaking in the middle of an act, I guess. Things get messy. [And he probably should be able to understand that as easily as he does, but manipulation is something House doesn't as well. He'll admit he's not as good as Hannibal, but he's not too far behind him. He can draw that connection himself without Will's input, for better or worse.]

Are you planning to do anything, or let the chips fall where they will? Watson's a big boy and all that.