Yes, House fans, that really happened.

In reaction to the shocking events on last night's season finale, creator David Shore makes it clear in a new interview: House really did drive a car through Cuddy''s living room. Why?

"I’ve always thought House was capable of killing people close to him," Shore laughed to TV Line. "That’s not to say he was ever going to do it, and I don’t think he would. And even in that moment, I don’t think he wanted to kill anybody. But who knows? Probably part of his mind did. It was a lashing out - a very extreme lashing out. I don’t think it was a murderous lashing out."

Read the full interview with Shore - in which he says nothing in the finale was written with Lisa Edelstein's possible exit in mind - at TV Line now.

And continue to react to the cliffhanger below: It was...

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