6.07 Known Unknowns
HOUSE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) "Known Unknowns" After a wild night out, a teenage girl (guest star Anna Attanasio) is brought to Princeton Plainsboro with severely swollen appendages. The team must work to diagnose the young girl, who is less than honest about what happened the night she fell ill. As her condition worsens, she becomes unable to distinguish fact from fiction. Meanwhile, Cuddy, Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) and House spend a weekend away from the hospital to attend a medical conference, but things don't go as planned when House's private investigator, Lucas (guest star Michael Weston), returns.

Patient" "It's a prequel." Flash to Cameron. Me: Hee! Certainly showing a lot of House's more caring side, the part that's generally hidden. Something of him paying Wilson back, awkward Lucas and backstory on House meeting Cuddy. (And now Doris Egan has given us the story on House and Wilson's meeting and the story of House and Cuddy's meeting.) And lies within lies. Since the show's (and House's) motto is that everybody lies, here we've got a patient who's treatment is both screwed up by lies and by non-lies.

My only question here is: great episode or greatest episode? And that's just on the Prince George impression alone. Actually, this wasn't the "greatest" episode. I can't say that Jen's and Jesse's acting impressed me at the end, even though I'm usually very impressed by them and had been the entire episode. But I am glad that Chase FINALLY told Cameron about Dibala. I'm glad that they went the euthanasia route. I originally thought that there was no way that they could go to a pharmacology conference and not bring up House's drug use, but I was very happy to be proven wrong. I love the House/Cuddy backstory. Very plausible for them. My heart broke for House when he discovered Lucas, and then my heart broke for Cuddy in the diner when we all realized she was dating a most gigantic ball of awkward, but I do like the idea of Cuddy/Lucas and what it could mean for getting House off his ass about Cuddy. Even when it ends only in friendship with them (how could it not), I think it will mean a good maturing for their relationship. I think Annabelle Attanasio did a good job as Jordan. Hopefully she'll get more work soon. RSL should be pantsless at least once an episode.

Cuddy would rather date a lame recurring character than House? It's like she doesn't even want screen time. Was that an Eddie Izzard reference detected in the open? I'm pretty sure I heard something about cake or death in there. Maybe I just want cake. Tights and white wigs should be required attire for HL. He looked dashing. House is a good friend and it's nice the way he saved Wilson's ass...and stole his pants! HA! Good job. Loved the speech. That was cool as hell. Thought this was a 100% solid episode on the House/Wilson/Cuddy front. And Chase, I'm liking Chase a bunch these days. If it was possible to be more than 100%, I would rate it that. The only problem is Cameron. She's an idiot. Talk to your husband! Don't take your inability to be a 3-dimensional character out on the author dude! And maybe try not mumbling sometime. Mumbling isn't being mysterious. Seriously.

Great episode! It was so nice to see Wilson acknowledge that House is a good friend. He is right that Cuddy should know that. My heart broke for House when he saw Lucas. I was telling Lucas to shut up in the diner. He just kept going on and on about House's hallucination and and delusion of Cuddy as his saviour. The look on Cuddy's face during that scene :( Loved the dance scene. So happy we finally got House/Cuddy backstory. House was thinking of having something more with Cuddy way back then as well.

Okay, did they just rewrite House's history AGAIN? So now it's: House went to Hopkins undergrad (One Day, One Room) House went to Michigan med school Cuddy knew House, who was already a legend, at Michigan (Humpty Dumpty) They went to a dance shortly after meeting but House got kicked out of his first med school so he never called her again. (Known Unknowns) House then went to Hopkins where he got kicked out for cheating (Distractions) House graduated from xxxxx. That aside, I thought the POTW was boring (sorry KJ) as was her story. I did like (but not love) the House/Wilson/Cuddy story. I thought it was a good use of Lucas. I loved House being up to his old tricks and drugging Wilson for his own good. I didn't think the paper was very interesting. Plus it didn't matter if anyone recognized House. Obviously he has never had a patient that fit that scenario. I don't care how far the authorities dug, they'd never be able to pin that on him. He was simply talking hypothetically about how such things might happen and why. I think most of this season has been outstanding so far. Combined with the long wait, anything short of spectacular would probably have been a disappointment. This wasn't spectacular -- maybe a B-.

The revisionist Huddy history, which I suppose really isn't revisionist since we haven't heard these details before, is nauseating. But I'm supposed to really believe that the House of Season 1 & 2 has been hung up on Cuddy for the past couple of decades? And I'm not even that anti-Huddy. I'm just anti-being hit over the head with giant anvils in every episode. I thought Lucas was pointless then and I think he's pointless now. Of all characters, why bring him back for an affair with Cuddy? I'm not sure I was supposed to, but I LOL'd when Cameron said she believed Chase wasn't having an affair and he got all serious on her and she said, "You are!" For some reason that just cracked me up. Wilson plays "drugged" well. This wasn't as good as SPEEEED, but it was amusing. I really liked how angry Cameron was when she thought the guy had raped Jordan and how relieved she looked when she realized nothing happened. I enjoyed the connection between Wilson and Chase and I guess they were telling us that Chase really needs to have someone tell him what he did was okay, specifically, he needs to hear Cameron say it. I really enjoyed the last scene with Chase and Cameron and the tension that was between them throughout the episode. I find them very believable as a couple these days.

I will add that pantless Wilson and House in tights were both excellent highlights to the episode.

The back story about how House has always been into Cuddy didn't bother me because I don't believe it. I'm not saying he was lying, but I don't for a minute think that's how things really went down. My guess, he wanted to have been in love with her forever so that it would explain to himself all the torment he's put her thru and why he hallucinated sex with her and not Angelina Jolie or someone he couldn't attain. (Other than the obvious scheduling conflicts with Angie's schedule.)

I just keep thinking how embarrassing House had to have been in the diner scene. I can't believe Cuddy would tell Lucas about his hallucination. She seriously needed to shut him down during that scene.

I don't know that I would buy that House has always been that into Cuddy, but I do believe that House did want to call her again all the way back then, and I do believe that he does want her now. In between? The initial desperate feelings fade, it's natural. I think House has been intrigued by her and has wanted to stay in her orbit and is definitely grateful for all that she's done for him professionally, and only now is that "blossoming" (cheesy, Chippers) into something he identifies as very strong like.

Well, that wasn't DE's best episode, but still a good one. I still hate PI. Can Wilson just be drugged all the time? RSL is hilarious when he plays it. And he lost his pants again. I squeed and lol'd. House's speech made me so happy as did Wilson telling House he's a good friend at the end. Lovely interaction between them. But, it's DE, of course there will be good H/W interaction. I liked the 80s dance if for no other reason than they played "Time After Time" during the scene. That's one of my favorite songs. I'm glad Chase came clean but ugh, Cameron seems so sincere toward him that it's really breaking my heart that he has something this serious to confess to her.

Chipmunk, that makes sense. I can buy that.

I don't think that Cuddy or House were necessarily hung up on each other for 20 years. Instead there was a fond moment of "what might have been" that has only been tapped into recently when they became reaquainted. And out of the past few years, it's been even less time that either one of them was in a position to even consider whether it was worth revisiting what once might have been. In terms of House's timeline, it could be that Johns Hopkins wasn't the first med school is was forced out of -- that Michigan was the first -- or it might be that he only found out at that time that Johns Hopkins had formally axed him (hence we have House working at a bookstore -- I'll claim it's Ullrich's, since that's the typical UM bookstore -- waiting to see what JH is going to do, and House then needs to set up his alternate plans and stop playing around with undergrads and get serious) or the call could have been warning him that he was risking getting kicked out of yet another school. I love the fact that Lucas still does not know when to shut up. I also love that his "not shutting up" reveals how much Cuddy knew about House's condition, the fact that she was really worried about him, the fact that she needed someone to talk to and found one(other than dead Amber). I also love the fact that Lucas knows all of this and yet is cool with it. It's an awkward situation, but his offer to buy House a ginger ale was sweet.

I can't believe Cuddy would tell Lucas about his hallucination. I couldn't believe it either. That's an extremely private, not to mention embarrassing event that House went through and she should have kept it to herself, or if she needed to tell someone, talk to Wilson about it since he already knows.