House M.D. (TV Series)

Simple Explanation (2009)

Olivia Wilde: Thirteen

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• Thirteen : [after she and Foreman find Kutner lying on his bedroom floor]  Oh, God.

  [runs in the room, kneels by Kutner's body and starts to perform CPR as Foreman makes a phone call] 

  Dr. Eric Foreman : [on the phone]  I need an ambulance at 410 Willis. Apartment 5-C. 28-year-old male. Single gunshot wound to the right temple.

  Thirteen : No pulse!

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Alert Princeton Plainsboro. Have a trauma unit ready. His pupil's dilated. His head's swollen.

  Thirteen : Still no pulse! Come on, Kutner!

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Let me try.

  [takes over doing CPR on Kutner] 

  Thirteen : He's cold. Eric!

• 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 : [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. 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 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.

• 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.