House M.D. (TV Series)

Simple Explanation (2009)

Hugh Laurie: Dr. Gregory House

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I'm sorry for your loss.

  Dr. Gregory House : It's not my loss.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Then I'm sorry you don't think it is.

• Katherine : [to House]  The pageant starts in an hour. You have to do something. There's something wrong inside her head. It's like she has no idea what's going on around her.

  [waves her hand in front of Rosabel who doesn't react to what she's doing] 

  Dr. Gregory House : I thought she was just flirting with me.

  [Katherine gives him a look and Rosabel stares blankly at him] 

  Dr. Gregory House : I can fix it, but it's gonna cost you... $3.75. I'm not just gonna give you my coffee.

  [He hands his cup of coffee to Rosabel] 

  Dr. Gregory House : Think of it as Costa Rican sober juice.

  Katherine : She's drunk?

  Dr. Gregory House : That little minty scent hiding beneath the rose petal perfume and the cherry blossom moisturizer and the morning dew hair spray.

  [to Rosabel] 

  Dr. Gregory House : You sneak into Mommy's bathroom and gulp some of her mouthwash?

  Rosabel : [slurring her words]  Gotta be perfect.

  Dr. Gregory House : You spit it out?

  Rosabel : Mommy doesn't.

• Dr. James Wilson : [to House about Kutner]  You worked with him every day for two years and you never saw this coming.

  Dr. Gregory House : No one saw it coming.

  Dr. James Wilson : But you see everything coming. This has never been about what you missed. This is about why you missed it. You're terrified that you're losing your gift, losing who you are. And I'm terrified of what you'd do then.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : Maybe we should pass this file off to another doctor.

  Dr. Gregory House : And the next one too? The one after that? How many files till it's okay that Kutner's dead?

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Cuddy]  Did you let me hire a pervert?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Well, it would be hypocritical of me not to.

  Dr. Gregory House : Kutner's police background check from when he started. He was charged with indecent exposure.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Kutner streaked at the Penn-Dartmouth football game. Precisely the kind of thing you'd expect him to do. It's okay. You should be upset. He thought like you. Pushed boundaries like you. He...

  Dr. Gregory House : If he thought like me, he would have known that living in misery sucks marginally less than dying in it.

• Dr. Gregory House : [about Eddie, played by Meat Loaf]  If he's gonna do anything for love...

• Dr. Eric Foreman : Taub went to run the treatment. We'd... like to go see Kutner's parents.

  Dr. Gregory House : I'll join you.

• Dr. Gregory House : It was his name. He was conflicted, didn't know where he fit in, being ripped out of his world and stuck into yours.

  Julia : We encouraged him to hold onto his heritage.

  Dr. Gregory House : It's hard to still be Lawrence Choudhary when everyone sees you as Lawrence Kutner.

  Julia : It was his idea to take our name.

  Dr. Gregory House : Then you should have said no.

  Thirteen : House.

  Dr. Gregory House : All his Anglo name gave him was the illusion that he was someone he wasn't. You were being emotional, not rational. You didn't understand him.

  Richard : We loved that boy, you son of a bitch.

  Dr. Gregory House : You wanted to make him happy by shutting out his pain. When he looked happy, you assumed the pain had gone. It just got buried deeper, leaving him tormented about who he was until finally he put a bullet...

  Dr. Eric Foreman : [interrupts him]  House! Go back to the hospital.

  Dr. Gregory House : [looks around everyone and realizes seeing the impact that his words have had on Kutner's parents]  I'm sorry about your son.

  [leaves the Kutners' house] 

• Dr. Gregory House : Oh, look at the time. It's half past "Taub was lying about Kutner."

  Dr. Chris Taub : He probably went to a comic book fest, spent the night at some Wonder Woman's lair. I'm sure he'll...

  Dr. Gregory House : Find out what or who he's doing. Either way, Cuddy's gonna want me to write it under "reason for termination."

• Dr. Gregory House : [about Kutner's death]  He didn't slit his wrists and... peacefully drift away. He shot himself. Didn't leave a note - means panic, which could have been preempted if the idiots who worked alongside him for 80 hours a week had seen this coming.

  Thirteen : You're blaming us?

  Dr. Gregory House : [shakes his head slightly]  Just trying to figure it out.

  Thirteen : We would have helped him if he had reached out to us. He didn't.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We should have picked up on something.

  Thirteen : This isn't our fault! Something like 25% of suicidal people show no outward signs of depression.

  Dr. Gregory House : No. 25% of suicidal people have friends who didn't notice anything and don't want to feel guilty.

  Dr. Chris Taub : Killing himself also kills all other options. Makes Kutner an idiot. So pity, yes. But guilt, no.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : That's what you wanna tell yourself.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to House]  I.T.'s been trying to close out Kutner's e-mail account. Apparently someone's still logged onto it.

  Dr. Gregory House : It wasn't hard to figure out that his password was "Kutner."

• Dr. Gregory House : [about Charlotte's treatment]  Start her on IV fluids and acyclovir.

  Thirteen : Can't. She's demanding to be released so she can get home to her husband.

  Dr. Gregory House : How sweet. They can die together instead of separately, 40 years apart.

  Thirteen : She claims he got stronger as soon as she stopped breathing.

  Dr. Chris Taub : The mind can heal the body. Seeing his wife in distress might have actually slowed down his death.

  Dr. Gregory House : Or he just had an adrenaline surge when he saw his chance to hit the singles market.

• Dr. Gregory House : [about Charlotte]  So, what can shred an epiglottis and make muscle disappear?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Mr. and Mrs. Kutner. They caused Kutner's death. Why not Charlotte's?

  Dr. Gregory House : Mourning period's over. Foreman's sense of irony is back.

• Dr. Gregory House : Either we have all the clues and we're idiots or we don't have all the clues.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Cameron]  Did you deduce that by removing your sunglasses to the strains of a Who song?

• Dr. Gregory House : [about Kutner's death]  Motives for murder.

  Thirteen : House, it was a suicide. The police have already investigated.

  Dr. Gregory House : They investigated what they saw, not what they didn't saw. Talk to friends, classmates, pizza delivery guy. And draft Foreman. He can make calls through his tears.

  Thirteen : No.

  Dr. Gregory House : Is that "No, I'm not calling my boyfriend, who apparently called my boss instead of me to say he wasn't coming in?" cause it's really not fair to have that much subtext in one syllable.

  Thirteen : We all want to know why Kutner did it, but we're not gonna waste time chasing ghosts.

• Dr. Chris Taub : [about Charlotte after she tries to kill herself]  She's stable, but whatever was left of her liver is definitely shot now. And there's no change in Eddie.

  Dr. Gregory House : So, thanks to her idiotic move, she's dead in 24 hours if she doesn't get a new liver.

  Dr. Chris Taub : It was selfless. She loves him.

  Dr. Gregory House : How does that disagree with what I just said?

  Thirteen : Test was negative for AAT deficiency. Myelofibrosis fits, but testing takes at least 48 hours.

  Dr. Chris Taub : We should try a partial donation from a live donor.

  Thirteen : Damage is too severe. She needs a whole new liver.

  Dr. Chris Taub : No diagnosis, no liver. No liver, no living.

  Dr. Gregory House : [House is looking through the bookshelves. He returns to the table waving a single sheet of paper]  What do you know. It is myelofibrosis.

  [starts writing on the paper] 

  Dr. Gregory House : Says so right here. Who wants to tell Cuddy?

  Thirteen : How many times have you lied to the transplant committee?

  Dr. Gregory House : Just twice.

  Thirteen : How many times has it worked?

  Dr. Gregory House : I don't quite see how that's relevant.

  [His pager goes off and he checks it] 

  Dr. Gregory House : Cheese it. It's the coppers.

  Thirteen : [grabs House's pager]  We're not just going to leave them to die while you fixate on Kutner.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Eddie]  Bad news. Love can't save you. On the other hand, mold can.

• Eddie : [to House]  I don't want the treatment. Do the transplant.

  Dr. Gregory House : But you'd be trading the certainty that you'll live for the uncertainty that she'll live.

  Eddie : I was ready to die anyway.

  Dr. Gregory House : Now you get to be nicer to your next wife.

  Eddie : If you won't do it, release me. And when I get hit by a car and show up in your morgue, you can give her my liver then.

• Thirteen : [When Eddie refuses to undergo treatment]  You're basically asking us to commit murder.

  Dr. Gregory House : I was yesterday too.

  Thirteen : There's a difference when he has 20 years to live instead of 2 days.

  Dr. Gregory House : Not really. Not legally.

  Thirteen : That's your way of convincing us to do this, by saying it's no more immoral?

  Dr. Gregory House : The idiot is gonna do this with or without us. This way, we can protect the organ.

  Thirteen : We should be protecting him.

  Dr. Gregory House : So we strap him to the bed, wait till his wife dies?

  Thirteen : I'm not doing this.

  Dr. Chris Taub : I will. We've already had one pointless death.