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First Aired: Sep. 21, 2009 on FOX

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Season 6 » Episode #01 - Broken

Summary: House awakens in the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital after suffering through the painful effects of Vicodin withdrawal. Feeling better, he wants to leave. Dr. Nolan refuses to sign a recommendation to the board of medicine saying he is able to return to work. House resigns to stay at the hospital and get his clearance.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Lydia	played by Franka Potente
Juan 'Alvie' Alvarez	played by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Dr. Beasley	played by Megan Dodds
Steve	played by Derek Richardson
Freedom Master	played by Derek Richardson
Richter	played by Curtis Armstrong
Dr. Medina	played by Andrew Leeds
Susan	played by Angela Bettis

Episode Quotes

Dr. Darryl Nolan: [to House] You need to stop fight the system. You need to let me do my job.

Dr. Beasley: Ready to play nice?
Dr. Gregory House: Would you believe me if I said "yes."
Dr. Beasley: No.
Dr. Gregory House: Then yes.

Dr. Gregory House: I want to get better. Whatever the hell that means. Sick of being miserable.
Dr. Darryl Nolan: So you'd like to be happy.
Dr. Gregory House: Again with the reflecting. Yes! I'd like to be happy.
Dr. Darryl Nolan: Being happy is an excellent goal. Not many patients can crystallize exactly what they're hoping to get out of this.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (factual errors): House and Alvie stage a fight in order to get a pill of Haldol to trade with Hal for a phone call. In an emergency situation (such as a fight) Haldol would be administered by injection, as a pill would take minutes to absorb.

Trivia

The "M.D." is removed from the title as House doesn't have his license in this double episode.
Ana Lenchantin, who plays the mute cellist patient, is actually a professional cellist.
SPOILER: The music box plays "Das klinget so herrlich" from Act One of "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the opera, a band of men are about to seize Papageno, who then plays the tune on his glockenspiel (in some productions a hand-cranked music box is used). The music enchants the men and they sing happily and exit. This is a parallel to the music box beginning the healing of the mute cellist.
Main titles are not used in this episode. House (Hugh Laurie) and Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), are the only regulars to appear in the episode.