House M.D. (TV Series)

Skin Deep (2006)

Tom Verica: Martin Robinson

Quotes 

• Martin Robinson : [Upon finding out that his teenage daughter is physiologically a male]  This is obviously a joke. This... is impossible.

  Dr. Gregory House : No. A joke would be me calling you a homo.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : [to Martin]  Lab reports show that your daughter had heroin in her system. Were you aware of her drug use?

  Martin Robinson : No.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We think she's suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Detoxing generally takes several weeks. The danger is that if the drugs are masking some other illness, it could worsen before we've weaned her off the heroin.

  Martin Robinson : Well, how much worse?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We don't know because we don't know what's wrong.

  [Martin nods his head in acceptance] 

  Dr. Eric Foreman : There is a rapid detox procedure. We flush her system with an opioid antagonist. It'll end her addiction overnight. But the process is dangerous because we have to induce a coma. It also means that if she ever relapses there's a good chance she'll overdose because her body won't react to the drug.

  Martin Robinson : So, either way I'm... I'm risking her life.

  [pauses to look at Alex for a bit] 

  Martin Robinson : Do you have to tell her how dangerous it is?

• Martin Robinson : [after Alex goes into cardiac arrest during her detox]  You son of a bitch. You killed her.

  Dr. Gregory House : She's not dead.

  Martin Robinson : She had a heart attack!

  Dr. Eric Foreman : She's stable now. The anesthesia...

  Martin Robinson : Get her out of that coma.

  Dr. Gregory House : Don't think so.

  [starts to walk away] 

  Martin Robinson : Stop this. All right. I... I don't consent anymore. I want to do the slow detox.

  Dr. Gregory House : [stops walking and looks at Martin]  Did you ever get a paper cut? A really nasty one, between the fingers? Well, multiply that by about a billion and you just barely approach the kind of suffering she'll experience if we wake her up now. We're committed to this. She's out till morning. Go get a book.

• Martin, Alex's father : [after House accuses Alex's dad of having sex with her]  I should take your head off.

  Dr. Gregory House : [checks Martin's glands]  Your glands are fine. So now you're my patient. You've got doctor-patient confidentiality. No worries. So what did you do to her?

  Martin, Alex's father : How could you possibly think?

  Dr. Gregory House : Hard to imagine anyone not wanting to nail her.

  Martin, Alex's father : You son of a...

  Dr. Gregory House : It's a compliment. The heart shaped ass, those perfect perky all natural breasts...

  Martin, Alex's father : That is my daughter you're talking about.

  Dr. Gregory House : No, that's your daughter you were talking about.

  [opens up his magazine] 

  Dr. Gregory House : "She just instinctively knows how to walk. Designers just love that heart shaped ass, those perfect perky-"

  Martin, Alex's father : I'm her manager. I have to promote her.

  Dr. Gregory House : Oh, that makes sense. So you compartmentalize. When you're dealing with the press, you're her manager. When you're helping with homework, you're her dad. When you're making sweet, sweet love, you're her manager.