Need to Know

Episode aired Feb 7, 2006
TV-14
44m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

3.4K

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Medical Drama Drama Mystery

House and the team must determine what is causing an increasingly deceitful patient's muscle flailing. Stacy makes a decision, and Cameron avoids a test.House and the team must determine what is causing an increasingly deceitful patient's muscle flailing. Stacy makes a decision, and Cameron avoids a test.House and the team must determine what is causing an increasingly deceitful patient's muscle flailing. Stacy makes a decision, and Cameron avoids a test.

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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
The doctors give Margo vecuronium to stop her flailing; since vecuronium is a paralytic, Margo would need to be on ventilation for the entire time it was in effect, because she would also be unable to breathe.

Goofs
During the seizure at the beginning of the episode, when the husband opens the car door, you can see the reflection of a camera man with a baseball cap on the side of the car, looking through his eyepiece, as well as someone leaning behind him.

Quotes
[last lines]
Dr. James Wilson: You don't like yourself. But you do admire yourself. It's all you've got so you cling to it. You're so afraid if you change, you'll lose what makes you special.
[pause]
Dr. James Wilson: Being miserable doesn't make you better than anybody else, House. It just makes you miserable.
[Wilson and House look at each other. Wilson exits]

Connections
Referenced in House: Everybody Dies (2012)

Soundtracks
Dr. House - Titelsong
(uncredited)

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Featured review

8/10

How deceitful

Julie (DOC Hollywood) Warner adds some real class to an episode that has more than its share of bizarre occurrences. The episode's title NEED TO KNOW fits more than just Warner as a so-called supermom who has built up a wall of lies the team must break through in order to save her from herself. It also refers to Cameron's hesitancy to take her HIV test as the result of a mishap in the AIDS patient episode. House really lets his temper fly with Warner, in a manner we haven't seen pretty much since the pilot episode, when he locked horns with another terrific actress, Robin (THE CRAFT) Tunney. Hugh Laurie, himself a movie actor, often seems to play best against fellow movie performers.