House M.D. (TV Series)

Simple Explanation (2009)

Omar Epps: Dr. Eric Foreman

Quotes 

• 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?

• 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. 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 : [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]  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.