Lockdown

Season 6, Episode 17, Aired
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Princeton Plainsboro goes on lockdown after a newborn disappears from the nursery. House is trapped with an inquisitive patient, Foreman and Taub are sealed in the records room, Wilson and Thirteen play Truth or Dare, and Chase is locked in with a familiar face.
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  • David Shore must be running out of ideas.

    7.0
    "Good"
    By savvyxboom, Dec 13, 2011
    I will support this episode because Hugh Laurie directed it, but other than that, it was...odd. There was no medical case. All it was was Foreman & Taub getting high (horrible acting), Wilson & Thirteen playing truth or dare (Wilson used the word "breasts" & unnecessary Jewish background music) and House being non-confrontational and egotistical as always. And oh yeah, Chase and Cameron getting it on (random much?) It was a strange episode, not like anything I've seen on this show. Hugh did a fine job directing, but it felt like a waste of time. I'm wondering when this show is going to end.moreless

  • The worst house episode ever.

    4.5
    "Poor"
    By enrazo75, Dec 13, 2011
    I never write reviews but this episode got me so upset. Cameron's replacement was worse than usual and the whole Forman getting high was just stupid. I know House to be a really good show. Th writers must think we will accept anything. I know TV is free and we can just change the channel. Last night I really wanted to. I kept watched because I thought that somehow House would carry the show to greatness as he always does. Istead we got to see the really lame Cuddy be the hero. In 9 to 5 she was great but one Cuddy episode is enough.moreless

  • Episodes for everyone..

    8.0
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    By Parricida, Nov 21, 2011
    So, the hospital goes into lockdown and everyone is where they are and they cannot get out. So we have few "mini-episodes" in this episode, showing what they are doing turning those hours.

    To be honest.. none of those mini episodes were superbly striking. House's one had very deep feeling and that colorschema on that scene even made the depression even intenser. But that mini-episode served it point but there were things I am not sure..

    Chase and Cameron's part of the story wasn't (in some moments) not bad either. I mean.. there were really powerful moments like when Cameron yelled she did not know.. But again, the ending somehow felt weird...

    And I am not even start telling about Wilson vs 13 or Foremand and Taub..moreless

  • Bravo,Hugh

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    By strategic80, Nov 21, 2011
    My first House review ever.. What an episode! Bravo,Hugh! Maybe not a "great" one as we are used to watch! But surely a unique one!
    There were lots of funny parts including Taub and Foreman encounter at the archive department as well as 13 and Willson "game".
    But we watched also some nostalgic and sad scenes: Chase and ex-wife discussion and ...outcome. Same goes also for House and his full of meaning lines between him and the dying patient.. And they managed among all these to tell a story with enough suspence involving the Lockdown..So, for all these, Thank you, Mr. House :-)moreless

  • Don't you just love it when House gets multiple personalities?

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    By noelveiga, May 07, 2011
    I honestly thought House was over. Seriously. Those two soap opera seasons? The high strung drama? I was genuinely ready to move on.

    As it turns out, the reason this show was so good to begin with seems to be that it has clever people in charge. The problem was diagnosed, the treatment provided and we're back to House as it is meant to be.

    And, just to prove the point, here is a treat. Every now and then House likes to break it up with a few different parallel storylines, often with mixed results. This attempt was on the positive side of the balance for the same reason the last few episodes have been so good: it was fun to watch. The drama was engaging (and related to the actual "patient", rather than on the main cast, which is always a plus) and the comedy was, again hilarious. Kudos to Omar Epps, by the way. After six seasons of House we had kind of forgotten that the guy can be funny. Ditto for Olivia Wilde. She's gorgeous at all times, but the playful intelligence she shows in this episode is normally so far outside the range of TV eye candy it almost makes me feel guilty to watch her.

    In short, keep them coming. House is proof that self-conclusive stories and hard hitting narrative are not mutually exclusive on television.moreless
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    • No one checks the security tapes to see who took the infant.

    • Trivia: Personal Data from the file on Gregory House Name: House, Gregory M.D. Address: 519 Morehall St. Home Phone: 609-555-0200 [Male] Dept: Diagnostics Physician's name: James Wilson Person to contact in case of emergency: James Wilson Under medical treatment now?: No

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    • House: No cards, no flowers, not even a phone call. Let me guess, lighthouse keeper? Nash: I was a classics professor at Princeton for 26 years. Mostly research. House: So, your closest colleagues died 2,000 years ago, that must be it. Not that you have no friends because, say, you're a miserable bastard.

    • Nash: You're Dr. House, aren't you? House: Oh, God, don't tell me we used to date.

    • Thirteen: Truth. Dr. Wilson: All right. Have you ever had a threesome? Thirteen: No. Dr. Wilson: You haven't? Thirteen: Wait, just--just because I'm bisexual? Dr. Wilson: Well, yeah. Thirteen: Do you understand what bisexual mean? It doesn't mean you have sex with two people at once.

    • (reading House's confidential files) Taub: Look at this one. Patient lost four liters of blood from a botched... penisectomy. Dr. Foreman: On a patient named Lisa Cuddy? Damn it. They're all named Lisa Cuddy. Taub: He's not even here and he's screwing with us.

    • (Taub slugs Foreman in the face) Dr. Foreman: I wasn't ready. Taub: What were you gonna do? Flex your goatee muscles?

    • House: We're better off alone. We suffer alone, we die alone. Doesn't matter if you're a model husband or father of the year. Tomorrow will be the same for you. Nash: But yesterday would have been different.

    • Dr. Wilson: That woman, the woman I'm not involved with, her name is Sam Carr. But in 1990 and 1991, it was Sam Wilson. Thirteen: Your ex-wife? Dr. Wilson: No, my mother. Yes, my ex-wife.

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    • Music: Volunteered Slavery (Derek Trucks Band), Introitus: Adorate Deum (Alberto Turco and Nova Schola Gregoriana), Tootie Ma is a Big Bad Thing (Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood), Tequila and Chocolate, (Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood), Les Deux Guitares - Tzigane Russe (Les Yeux Noirs), Alison (Elvis Costello), Birds And Ships (Billy Bragg & Wilco featuring Natalie Merchant), Once in a Blue Moon (Mabel Mercer)

    • International Airdates: Canada: April 12, 2010 on Global UK: April 18, 2010 on Sky One Australia: June 6, 2010 on Channel Ten The Netherlands: September 30, 2010 on SBS 6 Israel: October 13, 2010 on HOT3 Czech Republic: November 17, 2010 on TV Nova Germany: November 30, 2010 on RTL Poland: December 30, 2010 on TVP2 Slovakia: January 18, 2011 on STV1 Sweden: May 3, 2011 on TV4

    • Hugh Laurie makes his American television directorial debut in this episode.

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