Plot-bunny: Lie to Me / House MD

[marbleglove]

I've now watched all of season one of Lie to Me and had my internet browser freeze a couple of times attempting to watch season two. Already going through withdrawal, then, I thought some more about fanfiction, and thought about House.

House says: "Everybody lies." He's always saying this. Surely, surely, he should come in contact with the lie experts at some point.

Possibly Loker gets sick and needs his help. House gets a bit offended by Loker, because:

House: "Everybody lies."

Loker: "I don't." 

It's all very frustrating for House because apparently Loker is telling the truth that he doesn't lie about anything. And as funny as it is to see Cameron and even Chase and Foreman blush from some of the things the patient has said, the patient should be lying about something and it's very annoying that he's not.

Wilson laughs at House. "See, not everybody lies."

"Nope," Cal Lightman appears. "He's right. Everybody lies. Even Loker. Not often and he's appallingly bad at it,but it does happen."

...

Alternately:

Maybe there's some law suit against House (because, really, given House's behavior, the show could easily become a legal drama rather than a medical one, dealing with all the law suits that House gets. Cuddy probably has an attorney especially for those cases.) The Lightman Group is brought in to see what really happened.

Cal Lightman vs. Gregory House

Let the games begin. Where can I place my bets? 

Comments

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

you can probablt place your bets with Chase, but chances are that House is working with him to rig it

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Good point. But the Lightman Group knows that House is trying to rig it, so it's a huge "they know that I know that they know" thing. Chase is finally driven over the edge of insanity trying to figure out the bets.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

but not before roping Wilson, Foreman and Taub into it

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Good point. So the question becomes: would any of the Lightman group actually get sucked into it or would they know better?

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

ohhh I havent seen enough to make an educated guess but I think they would get sucked into it one way or another, they have their professional pride afteral... and might be running side bets one everything that is going on...

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

They might be running side bets but they would know absolutely that Lightman knew about them. House's ducklings might think they can get away with it.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

they would be wrong... House probably knows it... i wonder though how hey might handle the brutal honesty he uses with patients and their families... it is always better to be the one who is honest than to be the one who has that directed at them

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Although Lightman isn't really brutally honest. He catches the other person in all their lies, but he certainly lies a lot himself, and when confronted shrugs it off.

House may say, "Everybody lies," but Lightman explains that that's actually a good thing. Lies are valuable and useful things. So that could definitely be a very interesting confrontation between opposing ideologies as well as between abrasive characters.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

true... the argument would have been interesting

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

true... the argument would have been interesting especially from a moral pov