408: You Don't Want to Know

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"YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW"

House Episode Number: 408

House Season: 4

Original Air Date: November 20, 2007

Writer: Sara Hess

Director: Lesli Glatter

Special Guest(s): Steve Valentine as Finn; Noelle Drake as Ilana; Joe Ochman as Surgeon; Mandy McMillian as Nurse #1; Adria Johnson as Nurse #2; Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse

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House treats a magician but comes to believe he's faking illness to cover up his own incompetence. Meanwhile, House pits the fellows against each other in his version of an immunity challenge.

Does Thirteen actually carry the Huntington's gene?

Which fellow will be fired next?

HOUSE EPISODE'S MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident:	At Finn's magic show
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Finn/Magician/Unknown/Male
POTW symptom(s):	Excessive bleeding Unconsciousness
Team mis-diagnoses:	Intestinal infarction Pericarditis Polyarteritis nodosa Amyloidosis
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	Taub and Kutner break into Finn's house.
House's "Aha!" moment:	When House and Wilson discuss each others' blood types.
POTW final diagnosis:	Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in systemic lupus erythematosis.
Other / clinic patient(s):

Best Episode Moments

When House announces that he finally has a case of Lupus!

House Quotes

"I need you to bring me the thong of Lisa Cuddy."

"Ladies and Gentlemen! I have nothing in my hands, nothing up my sleeve. I do have something in my pants but that's not going to help with this particular trick."

"I noticed a trend: if no one does anything, sick people often get sicker."

"You let her greedy fingers right into my cookie jar. Which, sadly, is not as dirty as it sounds."

13: "I might die. So could you, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. The only difference is you don't have to know about it today, so why should I?"

"You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer could change something maybe make you a little less miserable.But you know that when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers you run out of hope. 13 to house.

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