House M.D. (TV Series)

Alone (2007)

Lisa Edelstein: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Cameron would never have accepted that this guy knew nothing about the love of his life and as soon as you claimed it was multiple conditions, Foreman would have done anything to prove you wrong, and then Chase would have done anything to prove you right. Any one of them would have solved this days ago.

  [pause] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Hire a team. I don't care how you do it. ... Just do it!

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Have you even interviewed anybody?

  Dr. Gregory House : You can test-drive a car before you buy it, you have sex before you get married. I can't hire a team based on a ten-minute interview. What if I don't like having sex with them?

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Where did you come from?

  Dr. Gregory House : Apes, if you believe the Democrats.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You've spent the last two weeks doing absolutely nothing. Concert is over.

  Dr. Gregory House : In what twisted universe does mastering Eddie Van Halen's two-handed arpeggio technique count as absolutely nothing?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Take the case or you will spend the next month helping the collapse team change bandages.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You're wrong.

  Dr. Gregory House : Who are you going to believe: a classic toy or a woman who if she had any confidence in her ideas wouldn't feel the need to distract you with a water bra?

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : 26-year-old female. Gas main exploded under her building, she was pulled out of the rubble after six hours. Two surgeries for multiple fractures and burns.

  Dr. Gregory House : I'm thinking the broken bones are a response to the building falling on her head.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : How'd you know it was me?

  Dr. Gregory House : There's a scent given off by wounded, feral cats.

• Dr. Gregory House : Can't take the case. I don't have a team.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : So hire a team!

  Dr. Gregory House : What for? I don't have a case!

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [walks in on Tech doing test]  Didn't you get my memo?

  Tech : Sure - got both memos.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Both.

  [exasperated] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : And the second memo said to ignore the first memo?

  Tech : Yup - seemed odd.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Well, let's just say your anti-depressant theory does explain the fever. What about the heart? And don't say a building fell on her.

  Dr. Gregory House : Okay.

  [clears his throat] 

  Dr. Gregory House : A structure collapsed.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Shut up!

  Dr. Gregory House : Come on, it fits.

• Dr. Gregory House : Bleeding can start at any time.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : It's bleeding from five different sites! You think they synchronize their watches?