House M.D. (TV Series)

Dying Changes Everything (2008)

Robert Sean Leonard: Dr. James Wilson

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• Dr. Gregory House : [to Wilson]  I'm sorry. I know I didn't try to kill her. I know I didn't want her hurt. I know it was a freak accident, but I feel like crap and she's dead because of me.

  Dr. James Wilson : I don't blame you. I wanted to. I tried to. I must have reviewed Amber's case file 100 times to find a way. But it wasn't your fault.

  Dr. Gregory House : Then we're okay? I mean, I know you're not, but... maybe I can help.

  Dr. James Wilson : We're not okay. Amber was never the reason I was leaving. I didn't want to tell you because... because I was trying, like I always do, to protect you which is the problem. You spread misery because you can't feel anything else. You manipulate people because you can't handle any kind of real relationship and I've enabled it for years. The games, the binges, the middle-of-the-night phone calls. I should have been the one on the bus, not... you should have been alone on the bus. If I've learned anything from Amber, it's that I have to take care of myself. We're not friends anymore, House. I'm not sure we ever were.

  [picks up his box and leaves his office] 

• Dr. James Wilson : I just need a change of scenery.

  Dr. Gregory House : Buy a plant!

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Talk to each other.

  Dr. Gregory House : How are you doing? Good?

  Dr. James Wilson : Fine, thanks.

  [they both get up to leave] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Eh, eh, eh, eh, sit!

  [they both sit back] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : See? The two of you are friends. Look how you both...

  Dr. Gregory House : ...think you're an idiot. We both also eat with forks. That doesn't really prove...

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Talk to him! Tell him how you feel about what he's doing.

  Dr. Gregory House : I told him he's an idiot.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Tell him what you think about him leaving.

  Dr. Gregory House : I think he's an idiot.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You're an idiot. He's in pain, and your response is just to emotionally blackmail him!

  Dr. Gregory House : You told me what your position is on that one. You're against it, right?

  Dr. James Wilson : She hasn't told you in front of me. She needs to prove she's on my side.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Wilson]  Go to hell!

  Dr. Gregory House : So much for that theory.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [to Wilson]  You think you're making a rational choice. You think the worst is over, and then six months later, you look back and you realize you didn't know what you were doing.

  Dr. James Wilson : Are you saying the pain doesn't go away?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : It gets easier. Not in two months. Not in two years. But, no, it never really goes away.

  Dr. James Wilson : Being here, this building... I was just in the lounge, I kept staring at Amber's locker...

  Dr. Allison Cameron : I saw a guy wearing a scarf this morning. The color reminded me of his eyes. We lived 500 miles from here.

  Dr. James Wilson : I have to do something.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Then do it, but don't think it's the right choice because there isn't one.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Wilson]  You're being an idiot. You're gonna blow up your career. And six months from now, when you've moved on from Amber to burnt sienna, you're gonna be stuck in a mobile oncology truck in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.

  Dr. James Wilson : I'd need a flow chart to explain all the ways in which that was ridiculously insensitive.

  Dr. Gregory House : You can't hide from misery.

  Dr. James Wilson : This isn't your business.

  Dr. Gregory House : My skull was cracked open trying to save her!

  Dr. James Wilson : Then we all need a little tea and sympathy. I'm through discussing it.