Hela hallucinationen kan tolkas som House argumenterar i sig själv om man ska ta ketamin med tanke på risken att hans sinne påverkas.
Skytten sa:
You think that the only truth that matters is the truth that can be measured. Good intentions don’t count. What’s in your heart doesn’t count. Caring doesn’t count. A man’s life can’t be measured by how many tears are shed when he dies. Just because you can’t measure them, just because you don’t want to measure them, doesn’t mean it’s not real. And even if I’m wrong, you’re still miserable. Did you really think that your life’s purpose was to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? No. You believe there’s no purpose to anything. Even the lives you save, you dismiss. You turn the one decent thing in your life and you taint it, you strip it of all meaning. You’re miserable for nothing. I don’t know why you’d want to live.
Då House eventuell ursäkt till skytten och hans kasta en tår visade "ödmjukhet" sidan i honom som gjorde det sista valet.
S03E01 förklarade, när Wilson sa:
I heard you were watching surgery with a patient's family, talking to a patient's family. It's because of your hallucination, isn't it? After you were shot. You chose life. You decided you wanted meaning, so you took a case with no mystery, something any doctor could do, a case with no upside except the satisfaction of helping another human being.
och House nekade inte det.