Kip Pardue credited as playing...
Brent Mason
- Dr. Gregory House: [to Brent] I need your son.
- Brent Mason: Who are you?
- Dr. Gregory House: Your wife's doctor. Your son may have had the same condition she does.
- Brent Mason: My son didn't have a condition. She killed him.
- Dr. Gregory House: If I biopsy her intestines, she'll bleed out. He obviously won't.
- Brent Mason: You're not using my son's body to help her.
- Dr. Gregory House: Okay. How about trading him for a beer? Or maybe you're more of a whiskey guy. You didn't have strep or stomach bug the morning you came in. You puked because you were hungover. If she was a recovering drunk and slipping most of the time, you'd be right.
- Brent Mason: So I drink. You're acting like this is my fault.
- Dr. Gregory House: People are going to feel sorry for you, they'll tell you that you can't anticipate the unthinkable. Well, the fact is you can. It's just not all that pleasant.
- Brent Mason: Look, you don't know anything about how...
- Dr. Gregory House: I know that people don't get crazy enough to kill someone without first being crazy enough for someone to notice. How many times did you go out for a drink because she was crying? How many times did you stay at work because you couldn't listen to her telling you what a bad mother she is? You were relieved. When she shut down, you just sat staring for hours at a time. She held the pillow over his head. You slept while she went nuts. Not exactly a draw, but...
- Brent Mason: What is wrong with you? What kind of a person says those things now?
- Dr. Gregory House: Let me do the test. It'll be one less thing for you to feel crappy about.