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| - Known Unknowns is a 6th season episode of House which first aired on November 9, 2009. After a wild night out, a teenage girl (guest star Annabelle Attanasio) is brought to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital 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 and she starts to lose blood faster than the team can transfuse. Meanwhile, Wilson, Cuddy, 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 Douglas, returns. House confesses his feelings for Cuddy to Wilson who says that she is better off without House. Cha
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| - Known Unknowns is a 6th season episode of House which first aired on November 9, 2009. After a wild night out, a teenage girl (guest star Annabelle Attanasio) is brought to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital 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 and she starts to lose blood faster than the team can transfuse. Meanwhile, Wilson, Cuddy, 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 Douglas, returns. House confesses his feelings for Cuddy to Wilson who says that she is better off without House. Chase’s strange behavior after the death of Dibala leads Cameron to believe that Chase is having an affair. This episode provides a linchpin in the story arcs of Huddy and the relationship between Cameron and Chase. House appears to be ready to admit to both himself and Cuddy that not only is he interested in her, he has always been interested in her. Meanwhile, Cameron is sure her marriage to Chase is coming to a rapid end. She turns out to be right, but not for the reason she thought. Although neither story arc is resolved in this episode, the events of future episodes depend on the events in this one. The theme of the episode, wrapped up in the title, is secrets and knowledge. In both the medical mystery and the soap opera, almost every character is hiding something, and every character has something revealed to them. For once, it appears that the only person who isn't interested in pursuing a policy of obfuscation is House himself. As his dreams come crashing down around him, he still has to find time to stop the self-destructive impulses of both the patient and Wilson. It's nice to see the tables turned in this episode as Wilson takes the dangerous course and it's House who is put in the role of the possible enabler. In Role Model, House is given the chance to redeem himself in public at Wilson's urging, but Wilson turns to enabling House once again, nearly costing himself his career in the process. In Seasons 1 and 3, House was completely uninterested in how his pursuit of his own moral imperative was affecting Wilson's career; but now that the tables are turned, House can seemingly think of nothing else but to save Wilson from himself. On the patient's side, Jordan's lies are balanced by her BFF Phoebe, who, when she can, corrects her friend's unreliable narration of the previous night's events. But when Phoebe finds herself unable to fill in the blanks, Cameron is more than willing to write her own narrative. However, Cameron's narrative is driven less by her native distrust of a comic book artist but more by projecting her belief that Chase is deep into an affair onto the artist. In the end, it's Lucas Douglas, the master detective, who appears to have the right philosophy. He knew the truth would come out eventually and he couldn't understand Cuddy's reluctance to let House in on their relationship. He also turns out to be right about House being able to handle the reality of the situation. He, better than anyone, knows finding the truth is often just a matter of hard work, observation, and leaving one's preconceived notions of the truth behind.
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