[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.
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.]
[He can snap all he wants, Beckett refuses to be daunted. If they have little information, they need to squeeze it for all its worth.] I want you to say as much as you can. Anything. Rydia also described what she saw as mechanical, even if the other elements were different. My theory -
[He pauses himself, a little abruptly. He wasn't ready to share his and Angel's theory with anyone who wasn't directly involved, but - well, House is as directly involved at they come now.]
My theory is that the people of this town have discovered something that was beyond them and attempted to use it, only to lose control. I thought it was a supernatural entity. If it is a machine, that changes my entire thinking.
Jesus Christ! Have you been following along with any of the information so far? MN poisoning. It's a medical thing. NIMA. Medical thing. Spiders and Sasquatch. Robots.
Aren't you some sort of urban fantasy vampire? It's a freaking sci-fi show we're trapped in, not fantasy.
I'm ever so sorry to break this to you, doctor, but this is not a show. In the real world - welcome to it - medical and supernatural are not mutually exclusive. A machine might still have some magickal elements. I don't know. I won't know until I know more about what you saw, if you decide to put down your episode guide and tell me.
The real world that's closer to my world than yours. We don't have magic, Beckett. We have science and technology. No magical elements. Drugs? Chemicals? Sure. Monsters from the depths? No.
Frankly, you don't know what you have. Humans in my world - perfectly capable and intelligent humans - have lived for thousands of years with no knowledge of my kind. And either way - [he takes a breath in through the nose. Calm down. Talk sense.]
Either way, I hardly think you know more about robots and whatever it is we have here than you know about the supernatural. So let's both try to get past our biases and look at what's there, not what we're used to seeing.
House has no shame. What is this concept you speak of?
What's there is a giant freaking machine that kills you and brings you back to life. Or at least the kills you part. Maybe he's got buddies that handle the 'back to life' part. It sucks. It hurts. I'm hanging up unless you have something to contribute here. I'll get back to you once I have my meds, R.L. Stein.
[House just grunts noncommittally before shutting off his tablet. It's probably more of an indication of how broken he is than he'd like. He doesn't have the energy to pretend at the moment.]
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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.
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[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.]
NOW WITH THE RIGHT CHARACTER >_<
[He pauses himself, a little abruptly. He wasn't ready to share his and Angel's theory with anyone who wasn't directly involved, but - well, House is as directly involved at they come now.]
My theory is that the people of this town have discovered something that was beyond them and attempted to use it, only to lose control. I thought it was a supernatural entity. If it is a machine, that changes my entire thinking.
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Jesus Christ! Have you been following along with any of the information so far? MN poisoning. It's a medical thing. NIMA. Medical thing. Spiders and Sasquatch. Robots.
Aren't you some sort of urban fantasy vampire? It's a freaking sci-fi show we're trapped in, not fantasy.
omg House are you genreshaming him
He is TOTALLY genreshaming
FOR SHAME
Either way, I hardly think you know more about robots and whatever it is we have here than you know about the supernatural. So let's both try to get past our biases and look at what's there, not what we're used to seeing.
House has no shame. What is this concept you speak of?
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I'm going to speak with Angel about this. She has theories of her own. Would you like to be in the loop? I'm being exceptionally considerate here.
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[He'll even leave out calling Angel by a nasty name. Isn't he considerate?]
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I'll tell her you said so. I'm sure she'll be relieved.
[And after a moment, because hella broken actually:]
Thank you. Try not to die anytime soon.
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