House M.D. 3x07

Son of Coma Guy

Season 3, Episode 7

* House: Of course there's always the simple explanation. Maybe he just doesn't like his son.
   Wilson: Only in your world would that be simple.
   House: The delusion that fathering a child installs a permanent geyser of unconditional love...
   Wilson: Maybe your father's feelings were conditional, not everyone's.
   House: Well, of course, that would play into your romantic vision of human...
   Wilson: In terms you would understand, we have an evolutionary incentive to sacrifice for our offspring. Our tribe, our friends. Keep them safe.
   House: Except for all the people who don't. Everything is conditional. You just can't always anticipate the conditions.


* House: What's the kid's status?
  (silent)
   House: See, if that were rhetorical, it would mean that I can just turn around and leave now, which I'm not doing, from which you should deduce...


* Wilson: You might be able to have a few minutes with him before you lapse.
   Patient: Why are you so concerned about me?
   House: Deep inside Wilson believes that if he cares enough he'll never have to die.


* Patient: If you could hear one thing from your father, what would it be?
   House: It wouldn't help you.
   Patient: Try me.
   House: I'd want him to say, "You were right. You did the right thing."

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* Detective Tritter 2 Forman: I've been a cop for 20 years. And not a day goes by that someone doesn't try to sell me some self-serving story. If you had my job, you'd know. Everybody lies.


* Patient: You like to figure things out, why not go into research? Why work with people when you obviously hate people?
   House: ... When I was 14, my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock-climbing with this kid from school. He fell and got injured and I had to bring him to the hospital. And we came in through the wrong entrance and passed this guy in the hall.
   He was a janitor.
   My friend came down with an infection and the doctors didn't know what to do. So they brought in the janitor. He was a doctor. And a buraku. One of Japan's untouchables. His ancestors had been slaughterers, gravediggers.
   And this guy, he knew that he wasn't accepted by the staff, didn't even try. He didn't dress well, he didn't pretend to be one of them. The people around that place, they didn't think he had anything they wanted, except when they needed him.
   Because he was right. Which meant that nothing else mattered. And they had to listen to him.



--- Словарик:
delusion — заблуждение; иллюзия, призрачная, несбыточная мечта
incentive — побудительная причина, стимул, побуждение
lapse — впадать (в какое-л. состояние); прекращаться, кончаться
janitor — (амер.) уборщик; сторож; дворник
slaughterers — мясник (на бойне); живодёр


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