House M.D. (TV Series)

It's a Wonderful Lie (2008)

Janel Moloney: Maggie

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• Jane : Are you scared, Mom?

  Maggie : Yeah. Are you?

  Jane : [nods her head]  Yeah.

  Maggie : Are they?

  Jane : [looks at Foreman and Taub]  They don't look scared.

  Maggie : Either they're confident or they just don't care.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We're confident.

• Jane : [to Taub]  Your boss is weird.

  Dr. Chris Taub : Yeah, he is. He thought he'd get information you may not have been telling us by...

  Maggie : Being a jerk?

  Dr. Chris Taub : You'd be surprised how often it works.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Maggie]  A mother who's going to die doesn't refuse a donor test because it might hurt. She refuses when she knows it won't match which tends to happen when mother and daughter aren't mother and daughter. I could do DNA tests, if you'd rather keep lying to me.

  Maggie : I never wanted kids. I love them, but with my genes... I knew this woman, a drug addict. She got pregnant, didn't want to have an abortion, but she also didn't want her daughter to ever know who her real mother was. What she was. I promised never to tell.

  Dr. Gregory House : A promise to an addict is worth more than a promise to your daughter?

  Maggie : It'd be cruel to tell her.

  Dr. Gregory House : Right. She lives a lie, you get to die a hypocrite.

• Maggie : I can't be dying.

  Dr. Gregory House : Sure you can.

  Maggie : You're wrong. You don't even know what I have.

  Dr. Gregory House : What you have, is one last Christmas with your daughter. One last chance to give her a present. The truth. Inexpensive, highly valued, never have to stand in line to return it the day after Christmas.