Need to Know (House)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| House episode | |
| "Need to Know" | |
 |
|
| Episode no. | HOU-211 |
|---|---|
| Airdate | February 7, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | Pamela Davis |
| Director(s) | David Semel |
| Guest star(s) | Sela Ward as Stacy Warner Currie Graham as Mark Warner Julie Warner as Margo Dalton Edward Kerr as Ted Dalton Elle Fanning as Stella Dalton |
| All House episodes | |
Need to Know is the eleventh episode of the second season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on January 10, 2006.
[edit] Plot
 |
The plot summary in this section is too long or detailed compared to the rest of the article. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot. |
A woman, Margo Dalton, is preparing for her daughter Stella’s birthday party when she feels a twinge on her arm. Going out to her car, her other arm begins to convulse as well. She begins uncontrollably spasming and drives the car through the garage door.
House shows up early and well dressed, after the events with Stacy in Baltimore. House suspects Margo may be pregnant and give her a paralytic so they can calm her down and run some tests. Wilson confronts Stacy over her kiss with House and warns she can’t toy with him. She admits she doesn’t know what she’s doing.
The tests reveal Margo isn’t pregnant and they check for Huntington's disease, and suspect it may relate to the fertility treatments she’s undergoing. Margo displays irritability which confirms Foreman’s diagnosis of Huntington. They’re interrupted by a report of Margo going berserk and go into her room and manage to calm her down.
House suspects she’s using drugs and sends Cameron and Foreman to check out her house. Then he sneaks into Wilson’s office to confront him over Stacy and Wilson suggests they work things out or at least do something. Cameron finds the daughter Stella’s Ritalin and House suspects they’re the cause and the drug will flush out of her system after 12 hours, and they’re done. When Foreman chooses not to release her until it’s confirmed, House goes to visit the family and does an animal balloon. He interrogates Stella and determines she’s not on her Ritalin, and Margo reveals she never told her husband Ted and never gave them to Stella. House proves she’s lying and Margo fesses up.
House then visits Stacy who reveals she’s leaving now that Mark is better. House points out she loves him more than Mark and he doesn’t want her to leave, and they…stare. Margo is discharged but in the lobby she has a stroke and collapses. Cameron calls House with the news-and he’s in bed with Stacy at his side.
House shows up and then collects on his bet with Foreman that Cameron wouldn’t take her HIV test. They begin to work on diagnosing Margo’s new symptoms and House suspects the Ritalin and the fertility meds conflicted and did something to her uterus causing cancer. As they’re heading out House tricks Cameron into getting him a sample to run the HIV test. On the roof, Stacy meets with House and he wants to know if she is going to tell Mark – she stalls. He warns that she’s going to have to choose.
The tests on Margo come back negative and Foreman is unwilling to do a biopsy…but his four weeks is up and House takes charge, ordering the biopsy for the suspected tumor. House is watching TV when Stella comes in and they have a brief talk. As they do the biopsy of her uterus Margo starts bleeding out before they can do the procedure. Stacy goes to Cuddy for advice but doesn’t get much help. They determine Margo’s bleeding is from her liver and there’s a tumor of some sort there. Then Mark comes to House asking for advice, as he’s concerned he’s shutting Stacy out. House refuses to help him and tries to go up a flight of stairs to avoid him – Mark tries to pull himself up and collapses.
In their differential diagnosis session, House doesn’t think the symptoms make sense and takes another look at her history. House concludes Margo was secretly using birth control pills to negate the fertility treatments, because she didn’t want a child even though her husband did, and she didn’t want to confront him. The combination of Ritalin, birth control pills, and fertility treatments caused the tumor, which House believes is benign. But Margo still claims she’s not taking the pills and insists on undergoing surgery despite the risks, and Cuddy agrees. The surgery turns up the tumor which is benign. The husband, wonders why the benign tumor was causing all the symptoms but he eventually buys it. Margo asks Foreman to lie and claim she can’t take fertility treatments any more – Foreman refuses.
Cameron goes to House who has her HIV test results. House has already read it and gives it to her to read. House confronts Stacy, who reveals she’s going to tell Mark she’s going to House. He tells her it’s Mark who is willing to do what it takes, not him, and he can’t make her happy. He points out it won’t end well and they’ll end up back where they left it.
As the staff wonder how long Margo’s marriage will last, Wilson sees Stacy packing up and he confronts House. Wilson points out that House sent Stacy away so he could keep feeling miserable, and so he won’t have to change and lose what he thinks makes himself special. Wilson storms off as House considers what he said.
[edit] Cultural references
- When House asks Foreman to allow the pregancy test, he says: "What'll it be, Ms. Daisy?", which is likely a reference to the movie Driving Miss Daisy
- When Cameron finds the Ritalin in Margo's car, she remarks "Mama's little helper", which is likely a reference to the Rolling Stones song Mother's Little Helper, even though the song is about Valium abuse
[edit] External links
- FOX.com-House official site
- Television Without Pity-House recaps
- House Episode Guide at epguides.com
- TVGuide's Page: Full list of House Episodes
- House M.D. Guide
- Need to Know at the Internet Movie Database
- Medical Reviews of House: Need to Know
|
|||||||||||
