House M.D. (TV Series)

Emancipation (2008)

Hugh Laurie: Dr. Gregory House

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• Dr. Eric Foreman : Three days ago, you said "no."

  Dr. Gregory House : Three days ago, you asked me. Now you told me. Can't say "no" if it's not a question.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : You're a hypocrite! If our job is to find out what's killing patients, you'd help this kid. But you'd rather play mind games to prove you're the only one with magical powers.

  Dr. Gregory House : You wanted something all your own. Now you've got it.

• Dr. Gregory House : Well, since she's still dying, the arsenic obviously wasn't killing her. Since she's now getting worse, the arsenic was obviously fighting the killer. It's a hero. We should be organizing a parade.

• Dr. Gregory House : That makes sense. How long did it take her to come up with that?

  Dr. Chris Taub : It was her immediate reaction.

  Dr. Gregory House : That doesn't make sense.

  Dr. Lawrence Kutner : The fact that it makes sense doesn't make sense?

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Sophia]  Hi, I'm Dr. House. What did you do?

  Sophia : I don't...

  Dr. Gregory House : Something happened, but it wasn't rape.

  Sophia : Believe whatever you want.

  Dr. Gregory House : You're scared, and stubborn, and you don't like people feeling sorry for you. Why not?

  Sophia : I don't want pity. I just wanna be normal.

  Dr. Gregory House : But you know you're not. You need people to see how independent you are, how well you're coping, so they won't see the lost, hurt little girl. Because that's not what you see. You see someone who did something terrible, who deserves to suffer, who doesn't deserve to live. What did you do?

  [Sophia doesn't answer him] 

  Dr. Gregory House : Eventually, we'll find your parents... If only to deliver the body.

  Sophia : Then they won't care.

  Dr. Gregory House : You're an idiot. You'd rather die than face your parents because, what, you broke their Faberge egg?

  Sophia : I killed their son.

  [House looks stunned at what she just said] 

  Sophia : I killed my brother. I was supposed to watch him. He was in the bath. I could hear him laughing. Every time they look at me, it's like I kill him again.

  Dr. Gregory House : If you don't take your parents' bone marrow, you'll be killing their other child. If they don't hate you now, they will then.

  Sophia : I don't care.

  Dr. Gregory House : Sure you do. You want someone to tell you it was just an accident. That it's not that bad. Well, it is that bad and you know it. There's nothing you can do to change that, but there is one thing you can do: to not make it worse.

  [takes out his cell phone, flips it open and gives it to Sophia] 

• Dr. Chris Taub : [to House]  You wanna treat a patient nearly poisoned to death by giving her more poison?

  Dr. Gregory House : Just because we call something a poison doesn't mean it's bad for you.

• Dr. Lawrence Kutner : [about the patient]  She's an emancipated minor.

  Dr. Gregory House : In a factory? Either an Olympic gymnast who busted her leg, a child star who blew all her sequel money on drugs or she's just a lying runaway.