House M.D. 2x03

Humpty Dumpty

Season 2, Episode 3

* House: Going the dangerous and aggressive route didn't work the last time. It's bound to work this time.


* Wilson: How's Cuddy doing?
   House: She's not acting like Cuddy. It's a pleasure. She has trouble with these situations, feels personally responsible. The technical term is narcissism.
   You can't believe that everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all-powerful.

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* Cuddy: He loses that hand, he loses his job, all of his jobs. He's not like us...
   House: Can't work as a cripple?
   Cuddy: He loses his home. His kid brother drops out.
   House: An American dream destroyed. Very sad, very emotional, not one medical fact in the whole pathetic tale.


* House: Cuddy, your guilt. It's perverse and it makes you a crappy doctor. It also makes you okay at what you do.
   Cuddy: You figure a perverted sense of guilt makes me a good boss. Now, would the world be a better place if people never felt guilty?
   House: Makes sex better. {...}
   Cuddy, you see the world as it is, and you see the world as it could be. And what you don't see is what everybody else sees, the giant gaping chasm in between.
   Cuddy: House, I'm not naive. I realize...
   House: If you did, you never would have hired me. You're not happy unless things are just right, which means two things. That you're a good boss, and you'll never be happy.
   By the way, why does everybody think you and I had sex? You think there could be something to it?


-- Словарик
Humpty Dumpty — (вариант) 2. что-л. разбитое вдребезги
cripple — калека, увечный, инвалид
perverse — порочный, извращённый; испорченный; неправильный, нарушающий нормы; превратный, ошибочный
crappy — дерьмовый; дрянной; паршивый
chasm — бездна, пропасть


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