Lucas Douglas
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Lucas Douglas is a private investigator hired by House in Season 5 to keep track of Wilson. In Season 6, he became Lisa Cuddy's boyfriend. He is portrayed by actor Michael Weston.
At first glance, Lucas seems ill suited to be a private investigator. He cannot effectively disguise himself and can easily be spotted as an impostor in many situations. He cannot follow people without being spotted. He cannot pick appropriate places for carrying out surveillance.
However, it was soon obvious that these weaknesses often made people underestimate him. He is capable of great feats of deduction, very little escapes his attention, he can gather information quickly when given a chance, he finds out the most interesting facts about everyone, and he is almost always right about his conclusions about people. He correctly surmised that House wanted him to keep an eye on Wilson before House even mentioned his name.
In the next episode, Adverse Events he found out that Taub had had an affair that everyone at the place where he had worked as a plastic surgeon knew about and he quit so that his wife wouldn't find out.
He soon took a liking to Cuddy and has attempted to start a relationship with her. However, he also quickly surmised that, despite House's protests and denials to the contrary, that House was also romantically interested in Cuddy. He had challenged House to see "who gets there first".
When Cuddy suspected someone was stealing from Accounting, she hired the only detective that she knew and that was Lucas. Cuddy liked him because he was dependable so she started a relationship with him.
He returns in the Season 6 episode Known Unknowns where it is revealed that Cuddy is dating him. House who has just realized his feelings for Cuddy follows her to a medical conference to try and get closer to her and that is when he learns about her relationship with Lucas Douglas.
House came to Cuddy's apartment to offer to babysit Cuddy's baby Rachel, when Cuddy answered the door, House noticed that Rachel was quiet, Cuddy told him that she had taken her downstairs to daycare, then House heard Rachel and he entered the apartment. There, he found Rachel in the arms of Lucas. Lucas noted that it was awkward, House agreed so he left the room.
Cuddy, Lucas, House and Wilson went to lunch together. House asked how the two of them met, so Cuddy told them the story. Lucas said that they would have announced their relationship earlier, but Cuddy had told Lucas about House's hallucination about sleeping with her and how he had entered rehab.
Wilson confronted Cuddy about her relationship with Lucas, saying that she should have told him before he gave House advice on how to get close to her. Lucas thought that House and Wilson were getting in the way of their relationship. Cuddy realized that he was right and she apologized.
Chase found Lucas in the doctors lounge. He asked why he was there and Lucas told him that it seemed like a good place to read doctors charts. Lucas had noticed that Chase charts were much more precise than any of the other doctors charts, but sometime over the past four weeks, they had stopped being so exact about patients. Lucas knew that Chase was planning on leaving the hospital and told him that it was wrong to run away from his problems. As Chase left the room, Lucas asked for dirt on the other members of Houses team.
He went to Cuddy's sister Julia Cuddy's house for Thanksgiving dinner and served the turkey. Cuddy had invited House but had sent him to a fake address. When Lucas returned home, he found a drunk House on his sofa, Lucas offered to let him sleep on his couch-bed that night. As he was carrying House over to the couch, House said that he loved Cuddy. Lucas and Cuddy decided that Cuddy should lie to House and say that Lucas broke up with her because after what House told him he didn't want to get caught in the middle of House and Cuddy, however they stayed together. When Cuddy rejected Houses tickets to the zoo for her and Rachel, House figured out that Lucas had never really left her. Cuddy returned home to Lucas and Rachel and she told him that House knew they had never broken up, she said it was because he had a look that made her realize that.
Cuddy decided that she wanted to move in with Lucas, she contacted Wilson's ex-wife Bonnie Wilson and found a loft that she liked. But House and Wilson moved in instead because Wilson wanted revenge on Cuddy for hurting House.
