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Season 5  "The Social Contract"  5x17

Aired 15 years ago - Mar 09, 2009

House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe disinhibition, which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him.

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three feet of plastic up my nose.
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without feeling the urge to go see "La Boheme".
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The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin based on his nature.
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Starting baseline activation.
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Wrong.
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Do you think my nose is too big?
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You know, it's amazing the way people cling onto insults.
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I didn't.
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It's like the better you do,
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What does that mean? Is she sick too?
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And I've never done anything to hurt her. I've never cheated.
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I need you to update me on the patient's condition
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So the glucose was normal.
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She gets below-average marks in school because she's below average.
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And your lungs are full of fluid.
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Among others, a big Rottweiler who's taken over the house.
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Excellent. Information he wants us to have.
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you'll have to live with.
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But your boss is. You could assist.
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He says awful things. Hardly a medical condition.
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it's amazing how much stuff you can learn on the phone.
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- Could be the surgery. - Do you respect me,
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I can't reach House. It just goes to voicemail.
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He was gone by the time I got outside.
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a cyclone in the floral of his lungs.
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He called me every day.
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because he'd be so detached from reality.
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Of course, he overreacted too, but...
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It doesn't explain the organ failure or the brain damage.
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I have a...
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