Eric Foreman quotes from House

Foreman

You can't give up on life because...

Thirteen

I'm not giving up on life. I'm just giving up on you. I finally feel like I have a grip on things. I can handle this. What I can't handle is dragging anyone else down with me.

Foreman

Are you suggesting I got Thirteen in that trial because of some personal...?

House

I think you got her in because of your usual messiah complex. I think you messed with the appointment schedule because of your I-like-to-have-sex complex.

Thirteen

You really think House took too many Vicodin?

Foreman

The guy pops them like candy, I'm surprised it hasn't happened before.

Cameron

How do you think House is doing?

Foreman

That's why you're here?

Cameron

Yeah.

Foreman

No it isn't. Even if House is messed up by Kutner's suicide, wouldn't matter. He already thinks that life is nasty, brutish and long. And misery helps his diagnostic skills.

House

I quit.

Foreman

[pause] You can't quit.

House

I think you're confusing me with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Cameron

You saw House, how was he?

Foreman

He was... good. He was honest, took responsibility. It was kind of weird.

Foreman

I brought you a donut. [pause] The florist was closed.

Thirteen

I'll get a vase and put it in water.

Foreman

Douglas owes me a favor.

Thirteen

Most people send chocolates.

Foreman

I'd stand outside your apartment all night holding up a boombox, except you told me you hate eighties music.

Foreman

I went down to the morgue to rerun the antibodies test.

Chase

We ran it twice.

Foreman

Turns out I couldn't get in. They had an armed guard. But I saw this. [He holds out a sheet of paper.] It's a sign-in sheet from the morgue. Your signature. [Chase slowly takes the paper from Foreman.] 9:45 this morning. That's right before you guys ran the test. What were you doing there?

Chase

Follow-up on a clinic case.

Foreman

What case?

Chase

You think this is really important...

Foreman

One of the patients in the morgue was a 70-year-old woman who had scleroderma. You and Cameron, if you took that woman's blood, you could have messed up the test results so we treated Dibala for the wrong disease.

Chase

Cameron had nothing to do with it.

Foreman

[loudly] You son of a bitch.

Chase

He was going to kill the Sitibi. Every last one of them.

Foreman

[shouting] I don't care what he was going to do. He came to us and put his life in our hands.

Chase

[quietly] All the good we've done... Every life we've saved... It would have meant nothing... If we just sent him off to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Look at the news. The moderates are taking over. There's hope for peace talks. You tell the world that I faked this test, Dibala becomes a martyr. The massacres begin.

Foreman

I cover this up, I become your accomplice. You think you can guilt me into that?

Chase

If the cops are going to come for me, please warn me... So that I can tell my wife first.

Foreman

Chase... You really think you can kill another human being without any consequences to yourself?

Chase

[his mouth moves for a moment without sound; shakes his head] No.

Foreman

[about House] When is he getting his license back so we can stop playing this game?

House

[looks at the file] Maybe never. This game is fun.

Foreman

[after allegedly dead patient regains consciousness during autopsy] He was briefly conscious, then his systolic dipped below sixty and he was out again.

House

Differential diagnosis for resurrection - go.

House

This envelope is oddly medical-license-shaped.

Cuddy

Congratulations.

Foreman

[Chase and Cameron walk into House's office] House is back in charge. We get to treat a porn star.

House

Taub thinks it's a brain issue. Thirteen thinks it's multi-focal.

Foreman

And neither of them wants to work here.

House

Don't take their words for it. Taub's problem is his wife. Thirteen's problem is you. Chase and Cameron's problem is the dead African dictator. None of them has a problem with the work.

Chase

I've got it under control.

Foreman

That's what you said about the Dibala incident. And obviously you didn't.

Chase

And talking about it obviously made things so much better.

House

[to Foreman and Thirteen] Go have sex.

Thirteen

No, thanks.

House

Fine, I'll cover the Viagra and the lubricants. Just get me a receipt.

Foreman

We have zero feelings for each other.

House

Well, that's too bad, 'cause things worked much better when you did. Would it help if I slept with her?