House M.D. (TV Series)

Emancipation (2008)

Olivia Wilde: Thirteen

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• Dr. Chris Taub : If you're this grown up at 16, what happens at 30?

  Thirteen : You turn back into a kid... like Kutner.

  Dr. Chris Taub : Kutner's not that bad.

  Thirteen : He needs everything to be nice. Wants to see the best in everyone.

• Thirteen : I'm Dr. Remy Hadley from Princeton Plainsboro Hospital. We're treating your daughter, Sophia, for leukemia, and we need to test both you and your wife for bone marrow donation.

• Sophia : I just need a donor with the same blood type or something, right?

  Thirteen : Actually, bone marrow's a little more complex. The best donors are immediate family.

  Sophia : But those donor banks have thousands of names.

  Thirteen : Your parents' similar DNA gives you a much better chance of...

  Sophia : No. If I do this, I'll owe my life to them. It'd mean everything else that happened was somehow okay. They don't deserve that. They're not in my life. If that means I'm dead, then I'm dead.

  Dr. Chris Taub : I have Huntington's disease. I'm dying. I don't know when it'll happen, but it'll be sooner than I ever planned. And I'd do anything to stop it because the only way to make anything right, the only way to make your life matter is to live as long, and as well as you possibly can.

  Sophia : Have you ever been raped?

  Dr. Chris Taub : No.

  Sophia : Don't try to walk in my shoes and I won't try to walk in yours.

• Thirteen : [to Taub]  You had no right.

  Dr. Chris Taub : To try to convince her to do the right thing?

  Thirteen : To lie to her.

  Dr. Chris Taub : It's a true story. Who cares if it's not my story?

  Thirteen : It's my life.

  Dr. Chris Taub : It's her life. Point wasn't I'm dying. Point was she should live. You should have told her. Instead, you tell her to call the cops, give her stats on DNA markers. Everything's by the book. Nothing's ever personal.

• Thirteen : [to Sophia]  It might help to turn him in. File a police report. Get closure.

  Sophia : Won't help.

  Thirteen : Not addressing what happened won't make it go away.

  Sophia : Yeah? What do I have to do to make it go away?

  Thirteen : I didn't mean that. I just mean that you...

  Sophia : I addressed it. I got away from it. Reporting it just labels me. "Girl raped by dad."

  Thirteen : It doesn't have to define you.

  Sophia : It's how you see me.