House M.D. Season 2 Episode 24 "No Reason". An interesting editing example.

Among my peers it is no secret that I am a monumental fan of the hit series House M.D. The show itself may follow its own sense of cliché now and again with the repeating theme of finding a problem, thinking they have fixed the problem, accidentally made it worse, finding out something interesting about the person, House will then have an idea come to him from something random (such as a Taiwanese disease seen from a woman’s thong), and they'll be cured. But it isn’t the repetitive story arc that I would like to talk about.

Editing is something that up to this point the show had been pretty straight forward with, a bit more rapid for tension and smoother for resolutions, but in the Season 2 Finale, there is a fun editing ploy used to tell the story.

Simply put, at the start of the episode Dr House finds himself in a predicament where he has been shot in the neck and the abdomen. He wakes up the next morning fine and dandy in a hospital bed, the only difference being that people won’t question what he says anymore, and he is always correct, House ends up confronting his boss Dr Cuddey to see what’s going on and why on his chart his surgery included the chemical Epinephrine, given its ability to put patients into comas for short periods. She says that it was to help with the pain and will also help to heal his thigh muscles according to a German study. House is adamant that this was a failure on the part of the surgeon. As the episode goes on weird occurrences begin to come into play, such as treating a patient, then talking to his wife, only to find he is in fact a widow, his wife died years ago. Eventually House begins walking around again, helping one particular patient who is literally exploding (Rather Gruesome). It is then that he comes across a great marvel, while talking to Dr Wilson, his conversation moves from his room to a stairwell. House has no recollection of moving to the stairs and it is simply context that causes him to move from place to place. *Spoiler* Because of this House determines that he is in fact in a coma and consequentially dissects a patient with a large machine designed for surgery.

By using the sharp cuts from scene to scene, coupled with the fact that House is literally being thrown scene to scene, we can understand his confusion greatly, His entire existence at this point is based on context and what his mind believes happens next in the "Story" regardless of House being aware of the situation.

*Ultimate Spoiler Warning* House is still in the coma after all. He asked for the Epinephrine but couldn’t remember.