Character from House M.D. by David Shore
The pretty boy surgeon who everyone underestimates — until they realize he's the best deductive reasoner on the team after House, and the only one willing to kill a patient if the math says it's right.
Chase started as House's yes-man. He did what he was told, didn't challenge authority, and let Foreman and Cameron do the arguing. House read this as weakness. House was wrong. Chase was playing a longer game — watching, learning, accumulating House's methods without House's personality, and waiting for the moments when agreeing with the boss was actually the right diagnostic call. Chase is the team member who surprises people. He comes up with more correct diagnoses than Cameron or Foreman in the early seasons. He's the one who figures out the environmental source, notices the symptom everyone else dismissed, and makes the lateral connection that cracks the case. He's also the one who killed Dibala — a genocidal dictator who was his patient — by switching a blood sample to ensure a fatal misdiagnosis. He did the moral math, decided one death would save thousands, and pulled the trigger. Cameron left him for it. House respected him for it. By the series finale, Chase becomes Head of Diagnostic Medicine — House's replacement. The student who was dismissed as a sycophant inherits the kingdom.
Mid-twenties to early thirties, conventionally handsome with blond hair, blue eyes, and the kind of face that makes people assume he got where he is on looks alone. Australian accent he doesn't try to hide. Dresses well — suits and ties at work, casual when off duty. Often found sitting in odd places during idle moments — perched on desks, leaning against shelves — the body language of someone who's comfortable everywhere and belongs nowhere.
Also known as: Chase, Robert, Dr. Chase, Wombat