[s7e3] | Unwritten

Alice Tanner, a reclusive author of a popular teen detective series.

House realizes Alice is paralyzed by the guilt of a past trauma (her son's death), which she has been subconsciously writing into her books. He manipulates her into forgiving herself so she can continue her work. [S7E3] Unwritten

But that’s the trick, isn't it? Every life is an unfinished manuscript. We spend our time trying to find a diagnosis—a reason—for why the ink is running dry. We call it "destiny" or "medical science" or "just plain bad luck." Alice Tanner, a reclusive author of a popular

She suffers from syringomyelia , a fluid-filled cyst within her spinal cord that caused her sudden paralysis and symptoms she mistook for a sign to end her life. But that’s the trick, isn't it

Alice Tanner spent her life building a fortress of logic out of paper and binding, only to find that her own biology was the one mystery she couldn’t plot her way out of. She wanted to end the story on her own terms because the "unwritten" is terrifying. An unwritten ending isn't a mystery; it’s an admission that you’ve lost control.

House sees himself in her. Not because he’s a novelist, but because he’s a technician of the human machine who hates it when the machine stops making sense. He didn't save her because he cared about her life; he saved her because he couldn't stand the idea of a book ending with a blank page. He needed the answer to the "why" more than he needed her to have a "tomorrow."

We’re all just ink on a page that hasn’t been blotted yet.