"Why didn't you stop her?"
Cuddy couldn't reply to House's irritating question as the strange man poked his head back into the room.
"She didn't by any chance have leather-men with her?"
Cuddy nodded numbly.
"Right, well, here comes one now so… Run!"
They made it to the radiology room, House moving quick but also taking more Vicodin.
The Doctor shoved them into the safety of the control/observation room.
"When I say 'now', push the button."
He then ran to the machinery, shoving the sonic inside and changing some setting before swinging the machinery around to point it at the door.
As soon as the leather-man came through he shouted "Now!" House slammed his hand on the button and the room was bathed in an eerie-flickering light, the intruder stumbled and fell. The Doctor's skeleton became visible on each flicker.
"Wow. What was that?"
The three doctors, still in the safety of the control room were trying to get a good look at what was left of the leather-man.
The Doctor walked over and crouched down beside the fallen intruder and touched his arm, confirming his suspicion that he was actually made out of leather.
"A slab. I increased the radiation by five thousand percent. Killed him dead."
"House, what the hell is going on?"
"You can come out now, it's safe, I've absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it."
The Doctor stood straight then started jumping and hopping on the spot.
"If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It's in my left shot."
The alien lifted up his converse-clad left foot and waved it about, hoping like mad and kicking his left leg about. The other occupants of the room just stare, not quite sure what to say, even House has gone quiet.
"Here we go, here we go, easy is, it is, it is, it is hot."
He starts frantically shaking his left foot about.
"Out, out, out, out. Out, ah, ah, ah. Ah-hold on."
Takes off his left shoe and throws it in the bin.
"You are mad! Absolutely mad!"
Cuddy didn't seem to have the words, House looked impressed.
"Told you he was fun."
Wilson was about to ask questions of 'Mr. Smith' when the man himself took his other shoe off and put it in the bin as well.
"Why did you do that then? More radiation?"
"Nah got rid of it the first time, brilliant, me. Just look daft with one shoe on."
After a few seconds of silence Wilson just shrugged. The man (alien?) might be crazy but he still seems to have some sort of weird logic.
"Well that's one slab down, one to go. Should be easy to avoid they aren't that good unless in pairs."
"What about you, is there back-up coming?"
The Doctor astutely ignores the question put forth by Cuddy and instead turned around to find his sonic all burnt up.
"My sonic screwdriver! I loved my sonic screwdriver!"
"Bit attached are we?"
House couldn't help but snigger at the stranger's distress.
The sniggered stopped when the three medical doctors experienced one of the alien's spectacular mood changes.
Taking the remains of the screwdriver from the machine The Doctor handled it delicately before snapping out of it and throwing the device over his shoulder and letting it smash on the floor.
"Guess that means we're going to have to be more hands-on, just like old times! Pity though, having a sonic screwdriver makes it so much easy. Should have a back-up, must remember that in future."
"What about your back-up? You're here, isn't there anyone with you?"
"Uh. Humans. We're stuck on the moon, running out of air with Judoon and a bloodsucking criminal and you're asking personal questions. Come on."