House M.D. (TV Series)

The Mistake (2005)

Jesse Spencer: Dr. Robert Chase

Quotes 

• Dr. Gregory House : [after Chase's patient, Kayla shows up in the ER with a bleeding ulcer]  This woman could die because you were too lazy to ask one simple question!

  Dr. Robert Chase : No, she might die because I had the bad luck to spill your damn vicodin pills!

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Just been served with papers. Actually paper; one page.

  [while reading the paper] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Defendants: Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital and Dr. Robert Chase. Blah, blah, blah. Medical malpractice, negligence. Blah, blah.

  Dr. Gregory House : You're surprised they're suing? You think people love Chase so much they're gonna just forego...

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Punitive damages in the amount of 10 million dollars.

  [passes the paper to Stacy] 

  Stacy Warner : Punitives? That means they're alleging gross negligence.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Well, he's obviously out of his mind.

  Stacy Warner : Larry Wusekus. He's not crazy.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [after Chase learns that Kayla is planning on getting a black market transplant]  This is not what she wants!

  Dr. Eric Foreman : She's being manipulated by a morally guilty brother and a legally guiltier doctor.

  Dr. Robert Chase : You think she wants to die?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : She's dying either way.

• Dr. Robert Chase : [to Kayla]  We need to talk.

  Sam McGinley : No, no time.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Two minutes. Kayla, I made a mistake. I wasn't as blunt as I should have been about your odds. I... probably didn't want to face it myself.

  Sam McGinley : Dr. Chase, please don't do this.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Stress of the travel, the operation. Even then, the cancer.

  Sam McGinley : Kayla, we are going!

  Dr. Robert Chase : My dad died. Lung cancer. I saw him a couple of months before it happened. We never talked about it.

  Sam McGinley : I'm sorry your father died, but it has nothing...

  Dr. Robert Chase : [ignores Sam]  He never even told me he was sick. I wish he had. It wou... You're gonna die. Alone. Thousand of miles from your children. You don't want to do that to them.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Chase]  I ordered black coffee this morning and got cream. Everybody screws up.

  Dr. Robert Chase : They didn't put poison in your coffee.

  Dr. Gregory House : I've seen you hungover. You weren't the day you blew his sister's diagnosis.

  Dr. Robert Chase : What does it matter why? Is she less dead if I have a good excuse?

  Dr. Gregory House : If I thought you'd screwed up because you were drunk, I would have fired you.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Chase]  Look, you got a choice. You can either tell the truth, hospital settles, family gets some money, they get to keep their house. Or you can keep up this lie, family gets punitive damages, they buy a jet, they move to Park Avenue and you have to find another career.

  Dr. Robert Chase : You're not going to say anything?

  Dr. Gregory House : I'm going to keep my mouth shut. Legally, it's better for me if you go down in flames.