House M.D. (TV Series)

Skin Deep (2006)

Jennifer Morrison: Dr. Allison Cameron

Quotes 

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [to House]  Since when do you voluntarily go and see patients?

  Dr. Gregory House : [points toward the room]  Have you seen her?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : She's fifteen.

  Dr. Gregory House : [while he and Cameron start walking]  Yeah, but there is something about her. Something in her eyes. A kind of maturity.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Yeah, yeah. She's an old soul. This is creepy, even for you.

  Dr. Gregory House : She's a fashion model on the cover of magazines. They hold her up as the sexual ideal, but the law says we can't touch her for three more years. How hypocritical is that?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Did the history reveal anything, oh, I don't know, medically relevant?

  Dr. Gregory House : History, right. I knew I was forgetting something. You should do one of those while you're running the labs and the tox screen.

  [hands her a small packet of charts] 

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [during a team meeting in room to discuss the patient]  Labs show valium and heroin in her urine.

  Dr. Robert Chase : A supermodel on smack. Shocker.

  [gets up] 

  Dr. Gregory House : [looks away]  Oh, Alex. I expected so much more from you. Heroin chic is so five years ago.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Okay. Let's start crossing out withdrawal symptoms.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : A positive test means she tried it once. Doesn't mean she's an addict. She's only 15.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : There's no age limit on addiction.

  Dr. Gregory House : He's right.

  [dramatically swallows some Vicodin pills] 

  Dr. Robert Chase : She's never menstruated. Sounds like a symptom of drug addiction to me.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Or bulimia or her age. Some girls don't start 'til their mid to late teens.

  Dr. Gregory House : Evidence to the contrary: The rounded hips. The perfectly sculpted, bountiful breasts...

  Dr. Robert Chase : Implants. I've seen some of her photos. They've grown dramatically since last summer.

  Dr. Gregory House : Symptomatic of turning 14. Two clinic hours says that those love apples are handcrafted by God.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : [looks incredulous, walks over to House]  Whoa! I thought that you didn't believe in God.

  Dr. Gregory House : I do now.

  Dr. Robert Chase : You're on.

  [comes over to House and the two of them bump fists] 

  Dr. Allison Cameron : [looks disgusted]  Could we talk about her health instead of her breasts?

  Dr. Gregory House : It could be relevant. Come on, Cameron. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Many women develop breasts...

  [House slips due to pain and catches himself on a table, disrupting the table's contents while the team looks on. He regains his composure; looks back to team] 

  Dr. Gregory House : No, I'm fine.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Even if she is an addict, a lot of her symptoms - the cataplexy, the violence - they could be neurological. We chalk this up to drugs, we could be releasing her with Juvenile M.S. or Parkinson's or...

  Dr. Gregory House : [interrupts]  So detox her.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Fine. We'll set her up on a program that'll wean her onto the methadone.

  Dr. Gregory House : And in four weeks, we'll know you're right. Or, we'll know that Cameron's right and the pretty girl will do Milan next fall in a wheelchair. Put her in a coma, pump her full of naltrexone. Cut the four weeks in one night.

  [House exits; Cameron and Chase look to Foreman] 

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [after Alex's dad admits to having sex with her]  We have to call child protective services.

  Dr. Gregory House : Doctor-patient confidentiality.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Doesn't apply in abuse cases. You know that. We're mandated to report sexual abuse.

  Dr. Gregory House : Is it okay if I save her life first or do you want to make sure Daddy doesn't get visitation rights to the grave site?

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [to House]  If you're too distracted to deal with this because your leg hurts, then...

  Dr. Gregory House : Yeah, I'm distracted! I'm all hung up on this 15-year-old patient who's cataplectic, can't remember what she had for lunch and is rapidly losing control of her body. And I want her father here in case they've got any more secrets that I need to know about. Now, if you're not too distracted, go take out a piece of her brain and stick it under a microscope.

• Alexandria 'Alex' Robinson : [to Cameron]  He's my dad.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : He's abusing you.

  Alexandria 'Alex' Robinson : He's not a bad person. I seduced him.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : You're the child, He's the adult. He has the responsibility...

  Alexandria 'Alex' Robinson : I got him drunk. I had to get him drunk. I wanted to have sex with him.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : You're sexually attracted to your father?

  Alexandria 'Alex' Robinson : No, but - by sleeping with him, now he lets me do whatever I want. I also slept with my photographer, my financial manager and my tutor. If I hadn't, I'd be getting C's and posing for newspaper ads back in Detroit. Come on. We all do it.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : No, we don't. After your father slept with you, you were traumatized.

  Alexandria 'Alex' Robinson : My dad was last. You've never taken a run at your boss or professor or somebody else you needed?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : You're 15. You're smart. You don't have...

  Alexandria 'Alex' Robinson : I am not that smart. I am that beautiful.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : So we're just gonna leave a child molester in the same room as his victim?

  Dr. Gregory House : It's got windows!

• Dr. Robert Chase : [after Cameron reports that Martin had sex with Alex]  What do you think House is gonna do to you?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : No idea.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Well, you did the right thing. If you hadn't gone to Cuddy, I would have.

  Dr. Robert Chase : If this guy'd known we'd have to report him, he'd never have told House the truth.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : She's a child. She needs to be protected.

  Dr. Robert Chase : She dropped out of high school to make millions of dollars. Why does she need more protection than some crack whore shivering in the clinic waiting room?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I think you're just afraid to piss House off.

  Dr. Robert Chase : There's that too.