Karen Glave credited as playing...
Lauren James
- Lauren James: [to Becca] But you keep doing it anyway?
- Becca White: Yeah. And I'm the most popular girl in 9th grade.
- Lauren James: Hello, Dawn, why don't you come with me? I'm with the State Department of Public Health. You're smart to get yourself checked, Dawn, you have syphilis, but you've caught it early on so there's no cause for alarm. At this stage we can cure it with a shot of antibiotics, so you're going to be just fine, okay?
- Dawn Gensler: Are you going to tell my mom?
- Lauren James: I'm not required to tell her, and if you don't want me to, I won't.
- Dawn Gensler: Thank you so much.
- Lauren James: But I will need to ask you some questions. Now syphilis is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease, and if people don't get it checked they become very seriously ill, now the chances are pretty good the people you know already have it, so I'm going to need the names of anyone you've had sex with, okay?
- Dawn Gensler: What exactly do you mean by sex?
- Lauren James: Well that includes oral sex, even though I know you kids think it doesn't. Now no one will know you gave me their name, you will be completely anonymous. Look, I'm not here to judge you, Dawn, but I need to know how many boys you've had sex with.
- [no answer]
- Lauren James: Dawn, are you okay?
- Dawn Gensler: [tearing up] I'm counting.
- Lauren James: It doesn't need to be exact.
- Dawn Gensler: 15... maybe 20.
- Lauren James: You had sex with 20 boys?
- Lauren James: You know, it used to be when a girl refused sex, she had society on her side. Now culture's screaming, "Just do it." They say yes to be part of the crowd.