# The Down Low > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Down_Low > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Down_Low.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Down_Low > Source revision: 1324098283 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article is about the television episode. For other uses, see [Down-low](/source/Down-low_(disambiguation)). 11th episode of the 6th season of House "The Down Low" House episode Episode no. Season 6 Episode 11 Directed by Nick Gomez Written by Sara Hess & Liz Friedman Original air date January 11, 2010 (2010-01-11) Guest appearances Ethan Embry as Mickey Sasha Alexander as Nora Nick Chinlund as Eddie Episode chronology ← Previous "Wilson" Next → "Remorse" House season 6 List of episodes "**The Down Low**" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of *[House](/source/House_(TV_series))*. It aired on [Fox](/source/Fox_Broadcasting_Company) on January 11, 2010. ## Plot When drug dealer Mickey ([Ethan Embry](/source/Ethan_Embry)) mysteriously collapses while negotiating a sale, his partner-in-crime, Eddie ([Nick Chinlund](/source/Nick_Chinlund)), accompanies him to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. But with a major deal pending, Mickey is not forthcoming with the necessary personal information the team needs to treat him. As Mickey's condition worsens, the team resorts to old-fashioned detective work to solve the case. Eddie takes [Thirteen](/source/Thirteen_(House)) to a warehouse to inspect the drugs for clues; they are nearly caught, but Thirteen pretends to be a prostitute and they get away with it. Thirteen, [Chase](/source/Robert_Chase_(House)), and [Taub](/source/Chris_Taub) attempt to play a practical joke on [Foreman](/source/Eric_Foreman). Thirteen leaves a phony paystub showing she earns more than Foreman on the floor where he finds it. When Foreman complains to Chase and Taub, they confirm that they earn as much as Thirteen. Thirteen also borrows an expensive watch to reinforce the joke. Foreman protests the apparent disparity in pay to [Cuddy](/source/Lisa_Cuddy), but she refuses to negotiate, noting that Foreman does not have another offer to bargain with. Foreman later tells his coworkers that he is going to leave after this case and the three of them confess the joke to Cuddy and ask her to pay him extra out of their pay checks to keep him from resigning. She agrees, then tells them that Foreman has said nothing to her about leaving. As they leave Cuddy's office Foreman laughs at their gullibility. Meanwhile, [House](/source/Gregory_House) and [Wilson](/source/James_Wilson_(House)) compete for the affection of a new neighbor, Nora ([Sasha Alexander](/source/Sasha_Alexander)). House makes her think that they are a [gay](/source/Homosexual) couple. When Wilson tries to explain that it's one of House's schemes, Nora misinterprets the situation and thinks that Wilson is jealous that she is spending time with House. Finally, at a restaurant, Wilson announces his "marriage proposal" to House. The plan works and she ends up resenting both of them. House [bugs](/source/Covert_listening_device) Mickey's room to find out any useful secrets. When he is unable to, he realizes the signal is jammed because Mickey has a bug of his own in the room. Mickey is in fact an undercover cop terrified of being caught. He has been spying for 16 months. He is uncooperative because he fears blowing his cover and losing the case on a big cocaine dealer. House eventually realizes Mickey's disease is [Hughes–Stovin syndrome](/source/Hughes%E2%80%93Stovin_syndrome), an untreatable [autoimmune disease](/source/Autoimmune_disease) that creates multiple [aneurysms](/source/Aneurysms). Thirteen comforts him saying he did the right thing not blowing the case because there was nothing they could have done, no matter what he said. As Mickey dies in his wife's (Bonnie Kathleen Ryan) arms, Eddie and the drug dealers are arrested. As they're caught, Eddie realizes the truth about Mickey, and is visibly hurt. Earlier in the episode, Mickey had the choice of letting Eddie stay at his bedside and not get caught, or of sending him to the drug deal and get caught. Mickey chose to do his duty as a cop, but before Eddie left, Mickey apologized to him, knowing what was coming. In the apartment, Wilson tells House that Nora regards them as "dirtbags". Wilson expresses a grudge for the sofa and begins singing "One", causing House to tell him he'll punch him in the face. Wilson tells him he'll stop if House brings it back. "No chance", House says. Wilson then continues singing much to House's dismay. ## Music - "[Maggot Brain](/source/Maggot_Brain_(song))" by [Funkadelic](/source/Funkadelic) - "Sway" by [Dean Martin](/source/Dean_Martin) - "One" by the cast of *[A Chorus Line](/source/A_Chorus_Line)* (Wilson sings this in the last few seconds of the episode).[1] ## Reception Zack Handlen of *[The A.V. Club](/source/The_A.V._Club)* graded "The Down Low" a B+.[2] *[IGN](/source/IGN)* called some of the storylines very entertaining.[3] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Beck, Melinda (January 12, 2010). ["House Season 6, Episode 10 The Down Low: TV Recap"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-19900). *Wall Street Journal*. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0099-9660](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0099-9660). Retrieved April 29, 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Handlen, Zack (January 11, 2010). ["House: "The Down Low""](https://www.avclub.com/house-the-down-low-1798164121). *[The A.V. Club](/source/The_A.V._Club)*. Retrieved October 15, 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Krakow, Jonah (January 12, 2010). ["House: "The Down Low" Review"](https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/01/12/house-the-down-low-review). *IGN*. Retrieved April 29, 2022. ## External links - ["The Down Low"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564666/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e House Characters Gregory House Lisa Cuddy James Wilson Allison Cameron Remy "Thirteen" Hadley Lawrence Kutner Stacy Warner Michael Tritter Episodes Season 1 "Pilot" "Paternity" "Three Stories" Season 2 "Autopsy" "Spin" "Hunting" "The Mistake" "Deception" "Failure to Communicate" "Need to Know" "Clueless" "All In" "House vs. God" "Who's Your Daddy?" Season 3 "Informed Consent" "Lines in the Sand" "Finding Judas" "Half-Wit" Season 4 "Mirror Mirror" "Whatever It Takes" "Ugly" "You Don't Want to Know" "Frozen" "No More Mr. Nice Guy" "Living the Dream" "House's Head" "Wilson's Heart" Season 5 "Not Cancer" "Lucky Thirteen" "Last Resort" "Here Kitty" "Locked In" "Simple Explanation" "Both Sides Now" Season 6 "Broken" "Known Unknowns" "Ignorance Is Bliss" "Wilson" "The Down Low" "Remorse" "5 to 9" "The Choice" "Baggage" "Help Me" Season 7 "Selfish" "Unwritten" "Unplanned Parenthood" "Office Politics" "A Pox on Our House" "Small Sacrifices" "Larger than Life" "Carrot or Stick" "Bombshells" "Out of the Chute" "Fall from Grace" "The Dig" "Changes" "The Fix" "Moving On" Season 8 "Twenty Vicodin" "Transplant" "Charity Case" "Risky Business" "The Confession" "Parents" "Dead & Buried" "Perils of Paranoia" "Runaways" "Nobody's Fault" "Chase" "Man of the House" "Love Is Blind" "Blowing the Whistle" "Gut Check" "We Need the Eggs" "Body & Soul" "The C-Word" "Post Mortem" "Holding On" "Everybody Dies" Related Cast list Accolades Soundtrack Nurse Jeffrey Doctor Richter Hekimoğlu Category --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Down Low](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Down_Low) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Down_Low?action=history)). 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