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House Season 5 Episode Guide

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  • Dying Changes Everything

    Episode 1 Originally aired:  September 16, 2008

    Wilson still mourns two months after the death of Amber. Needing to make a change in his life, Wilson leaves Princeton-Plainsboro and his best friend, House. Wilson is forced to decide if House is a strain on his life, while House struggles with feeling responsible for the death of his best friend's girlfriend. The team’s next case involves an assistant to a high-profile executive. The team suspects that the patient…more

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  • Not Cancer

    Episode 2 Originally aired:  September 23, 2008

    When several people suddenly die without warning, House and the team rush to save others that may have received transplants from the same donor five years prior. With one of two already dying and the other healthy but sure to get sick eventually, the team focuses on the original organ donor. The team sorts through the records on the deceased donor recipients to find the common thread. Meanwhile, House hires Lucas, a priva…more

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    Based on 519 ratings
  • Adverse Events

    Episode 3 Originally aired:  September 30, 2008

    The team takes on the case of a struggling artist who has been painting crazy pictures. His perception has been distorted by his illness, and its threatening to ruin his life. The team finds out the artist has had some bad luck. Not being able to sell any art, the guy has been forced to resort to three separate drug trials in order to pay the bills. House must figure out which of the three drugs is the cause of the illnes…more

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    Based on 458 ratings
  • Birthmarks

    Episode 4 Originally aired:  October 14, 2008

    When House receives word that his father has passed away, he brushes off the news and dismisses the idea of going to the funeral. However, he is soon coerced into going despite his strongest protests. Back at Princeton-Plainsboro, the team encounters the case of a young woman adopted by American parents who collapsed while in China looking for her birth parents. With House en route to his father's funeral, he must wor…more

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    Based on 454 ratings
  • Lucky Thirteen

    Episode 5 Originally aired:  October 21, 2008

    A woman with whom Thirteen had a one-night stand falls ill and has a seizure at Thirteen's apartment. Thirteen takes the woman to Princeton-Plainsboro where House and the team take her case. House can't wait to get in to Thirteen's personal life, and he and Foreman search Thirteen's apartment to find possible causes for the woman's illness. Thirteen thinks the woman's drug use caused her condition,…more

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    Based on 480 ratings
  • Joy

    Episode 6 Originally aired:  October 28, 2008

    A middle-aged man experiencing blackouts is admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro. With diagnoses ranging from stroke, a concussion to toxins from the consumer products he has been testing for work, House and the team soon find that the man has been experiencing sleepwalking spells. While trying to figure out what the cause of the man's illness could be, his daughter develops the same symptoms. Later, House finds out Cuddy…more

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    Based on 442 ratings
  • The Itch

    Episode 7 Originally aired:  November 11, 2008

    An agoraphobic man falls ill for no apparent reason, and refuses to leave his home to get treatment. House and the team go to the man's house to figure out what might be wrong, but Cameron takes charge, as she has treated the patient before. The team figures out ways to bring the hospital to the patient's home, but Cuddy disapproves. As the patient's condition gets worse and their options for treating him at h…more

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    Based on 313 ratings
  • Emancipation

    Episode 8 Originally aired:  November 18, 2008

    The team takes on the case of a 16-year-old who fell ill when her lungs suddenly filled with fluid. The teenager tells House and team that she is an emancipated minor supporting herself, and has, ever since her parents passed away. The team thinks it could be heart problems, but when Kutner chooses not to follow House's directions, the team finds out that the girl may not be telling them the truth. Meanwhile, Foreman…more

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    Based on 260 ratings
  • Last Resort

    Episode 9 Originally aired:  November 25, 2008

    A gun-toting man from the ER waiting room takes House, Thirteen and a few patients from the waiting room hostage in Cuddy's office. The man claims to have a long undiagnosed illness, and demands attention from the best doctor in the hospital. With a room full of patients, House uses them as guinea pigs to assure the gunman that the medications he plans to use are legitimate. The team and Cuddy communicate with House o…more

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    Based on 354 ratings
  • Let Them Eat Cake

    Episode 10 Originally aired:  December 2, 2008

    A high-profile fitness trainer collapses while shooting an infomercial. House and the team test her for exercise-induced asthma, steroid abuse or even a possible vitamin deficiency, but nothing checks out and the instructor's condition continues to worsen. The team soon finds out she had stomach reduction surgery that may be the cause of her condition but the revelation would ruin her career. Meanwhile, Thirteen start…more

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    Based on 221 ratings
  • Joy To The World

    Episode 11 Originally aired:  December 9, 2008

    The team encounters a teenager who fainted during her high school Christmas play. They find the troubled teen dealt with more than her share of bullying and, as her condition gets worse, the team works harder to uncover her mysterious illness. Foreman, still working with Thirteen, learns a valuable lesson from her. House gives a patient an unbelievable gift and keeps the team wondering who may have sent a particularly tho…more

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    Based on 311 ratings
  • Painless

    Episode 12 Originally aired:  January 19, 2009

    House and the team take on the case of a man, living with severe chronic pain, who tries to take his own life after living for years without a diagnosis or any relief from his suffering. Parallels between the patient and House's experiences with prolonged pain become apparent. When the patient attempts suicide again, the search for answers becomes more urgent. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen explore their relationship…more

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    Based on 197 ratings
  • Big Baby

    Episode 13 Originally aired:  January 26, 2009

    Cuddy wants to spend more time at home with her newly adopted baby, so she passes some of her responsibilities off on Cameron, including monitoring House. Cameron must play House's games, which ultimately turns into a power struggle, when he and the team take a new case. The case involves a Special Education teacher who collapses after coughing up blood during class. Meanwhile, Foreman has to make a decision, as to wh…more

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    Based on 184 ratings
  • The Greater Good

    Episode 14 Originally aired:  February 2, 2009

    The team takes on the case of a woman who fainted during a cooking class. House and the team soon realize she is a highly-renowned cancer researcher, who gave up her career to pursue personal happiness. As the patients condition worsens, Thirteen begins to suffer life-threatening reactions to the experimental Huntington's Disease clinical trial. Meanwhile, Cuddy tries to make House's life unbearable for his part i…more

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    Based on 146 ratings
  • Unfaithful

    Episode 15 Originally aired:  February 16, 2009

    House takes on the case of a priest who runs a homeless shelter, who sees a bleeding Jesus over his doorstep and is admitted to the ER. The team learns that the priest was involved in a molestation scandal that took away his faith. As the patient's condition worsens, however, House struggles with his own beliefs.

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    Based on 175 ratings
  • The Softer Side

    Episode 16 Originally aired:  February 23, 2009

    The team encounters a teenage boy who collapsed from severe pelvic pain after playing basketball. Tests reveal the boy has genetic mosaicism, or both male and female DNA, and the boy's parents inform House and the team that the boy is unaware of his condition. They consciously chose a gender for him when he was born and raised him accordingly, never telling him about his unique condition. However, when his condition w…more

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    Based on 211 ratings
  • The Social Contract

    Episode 17 Originally aired:  March 9, 2009

    House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibition and starts insulting co-workers at a dinner party one night before falling ill. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe inhibition, which has caused him to lose his filter and vocalize all of his innermost thoughts, resulting in extremely insulting outbursts. As Nick's free speech lends to some amusing and insightful comments regarding…more

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    Based on 154 ratings
  • Here Kitty

    Episode 18 Originally aired:  March 16, 2009

    House and the team take on the case of Morgan who works in a nursing home with a pet cat who only sleeps next to people if they are about to die and does so with alarmingly accuracy. When it seems the cat has predicted her own death, Morgan, convinced she is about to die, fakes a seizure in order to get to House to have him diagnose her before it's too late. House dismisses her as a nut job, but is intrigued with the …more

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    Based on 103 ratings
  • Locked In

    Episode 19 Originally aired:  March 30, 2009

    Lee awakens after a bicycle accident in New York unable to move or communicate verbally. From his unique perspective, we hear Lee's inner thoughts as House, injured in a motorcycle accident, occupies the hospital bed next to him. House takes notice of Lee as his doctor writes him off as being brain-dead and begins to arrange his organ donations. However, House confirms that Lee is not brain dead at all, but rather has…more

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    Based on 218 ratings
  • Simple Explanation

    Episode 20 Originally aired:  April 6, 2009

    A woman (Colleen Camp) who has spent the past several months caring for her dying husband (Meat Loaf Aday) collapses and her condition deteriorates while her husband s mysteriously improves.

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    Based on 108 ratings
  • Simple Explanation

    Episode 21 Originally aired:  April 6, 2009

    Charlotte, an older woman who has spent the last six months taking care of her husband Eddie, is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro for immediate treatment after collapsing from respiratory failure at Eddie's deathbed. With both in the hospital, the husband and wife team become a double mystery when Eddie's condition sporadically improves while Charlotte's condition deteriorating. The urgency of Charlotte's me…more

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  • Saviors

    Episode 22 Originally aired:  April 13, 2009

    Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase in order to ask House to accept the case of an environmental radical who collapsed at a protest with unexplainable symptoms. Although suspicious of her motives, House agrees. Since she pushed him to take the case so emphatically, House forces Cameron to take the lead and run many of the tests on the patient. Meanwhile, House is unsure of Wilson's new healthy diet.

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    Based on 147 ratings
  • House Divided

    Episode 23 Originally aired:  April 27, 2009

    The team takes on the case of a deaf 14-year-old named Seth who collapsed after he started "hearing" explosions while competing in a wrestling match. When the team tries to test him for seizures, Seth loses vision in one eye, complicating House's bunk theory of "Exploding Head Syndrome." As his condition worsens, the team has an ethical disagreement about the patient and his mother's adamant de…more

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    Based on 153 ratings
  • Under My Skin

    Episode 24 Originally aired:  May 4, 2009

    House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from a sever…more

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    Based on 170 ratings
  • Under My Skin; Both Sides Now

    Episode 25 Originally aired:  May 4, 2009

    House and the team treat a ballerina whose lungs collapse during a performance; House is intrigued by a patient whose left brain and right brain operate independently, creating two distinct personalities.

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    Based on 13 ratings
  • Both Sides Now

    Episode 26 Originally aired:  May 11, 2009

    House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. As the two sides of Scott's brain struggle for dominance, his warring personalities make it increasingly difficult for the team to figure out what is causing the unique problem. The team is forced to use some unusual methods to get…more

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    Based on 236 ratings

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