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House M.D. Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Dying Changes Everything
Tue, Sep 16, 200844 mins
House's preoccupation with Wilson leaves his team without direction and endangers the patient, a female whose exhaustive work schedule and demanding boss may have caused her condition.
Episode 2
Not Cancer
Tue, Sep 23, 200844 mins
Years after receiving body parts from an organ donor, five out of six recipients die within a few months, but not from organ rejection. House and the team race against time to figure out why before the final surviving recipient, a young woman who received the donor's cornea, mysteriously dies as well.
Episode 3
Adverse Events
Tue, Sep 30, 200844 mins
House's investigator gets information on everyone, which House uses to stir the pot of their lives while the team tries to cure a portraitist whose artistic view now looks like Picasso.
Episode 4
Birthmarks
Tue, Oct 14, 200843 mins
As the team is about to treat a woman they think suffers from SARS, House gets word that his father has passed away. House would rather stay and treat the patient than attend the funeral and eulogize his father, but Cuddy intervenes, and he finds himself going to the funeral with Wilson. Secrets from House's past are revealed.
Episode 5
Lucky Thirteen
Tue, Oct 21, 200860 mins
Thirteen's one night stand collapses at her apartment, and her symptoms are so misleading that the diagnosis may be terminal. Meanwhile, revelation about Wilson and Thirteen occupy House.
Episode 6
Joy
Tue, Oct 28, 200860 mins
House takes on a case where the patient has unexplained blackouts, and his daughter may hold the key to the diagnosis. Meanwhile, Cuddy prepares for her new arrival until there are complications with the birth mother.
Episode 7
The Itch
Tue, Nov 11, 200844 mins
Cameron's extremely agoraphobic former patient Stewart Nozick needs to be treated for an apparent seizure but refuses hospitalization, being too scared. House finds clever ways to trick him, but Cameron stupidly messes that up, which contributes to his worsening condition, while the diagnose also gets worse. Chase refuses to be used. Meanwhile Wilson tries to help House and Cuddy figure out how to proceed after their romantic evening.
Episode 8
Emancipation
Tue, Nov 18, 200844 mins
The team tries to treat a patient who keeps lying to them, and Foreman exerts some independence.
Episode 9
Last Resort
43 mins
Jason is so tired of doctors failing to find what's wrong with him that he demands a diagnosis from the best by holding House at gun-point, with a bunch of other hostages. Gradually some of those are released in exchange for supplies, such as drugs, which Cuddy must personally deliver. He also insists on testing each drug on a hostage first. House still keeps a keen interest in the problem although his sense of priorities frightens his team.
Episode 10
Let Them Eat Cake
Tue, Dec 2, 200844 mins
The drug trial brings back memories for Thirteen; Kutner and Taub scramble as they try to salvage a scam and save the team's patient whose gastric bypass may not have saved her life.
Episode 11
Joy to the World
Tue, Dec 9, 200860 mins
Natalie Soellner, the school's laughing stock, is brought in after vomiting during a Christmas show while drugged with mushrooms by her classmates. She also has tranquilizers in her locker; even her mother doesn't exclude the possibility of a suicide attempt. However, her heart and liver results fit neither hypothesis and more secrets are unearthed. House sent himself a fake Christmas gift to test his new team, but Wilson thinks he needs to experience both sides of kindness himself but is incapable of being kind to anyone.
Episode 12
Painless
Mon, Jan 19, 200944 mins
Adoring preteen son Zach and his mother find Jeff in his car, attempting suicide. He's been suffering with intolerable pain for three years. Finding the cause proves elusive. House also has a leg pain in addition to some domestic troubles.
Episode 13
Big Baby
Mon, Jan 26, 200945 mins
Cuddy takes some time off to be with her baby. She leaves Cameron in charge of daily operations, including supervising House. How will House react when a former employee is now his boss? After learning the truth of Thirteen's drug treatment program, Foreman seeks advice on how to handle the situation.
Episode 14
The Greater Good
Mon, Feb 2, 200943 mins
A physician who gave up her career comes in for treatment, leading to tense encounters with the team. Meanwhile, Cuddy exacts revenge and Foreman's choice has devastating consequences.
Episode 15
Unfaithful
Mon, Feb 16, 200944 mins
House doesn't want Foreman and Thirteen to be together while they work in the same team and gives them a "split or quit" ultimatum. Until this issue has been settled, House doesn't want a real case. Flipping through some files in the ER, he decides to treat a priest who's lost his faith but nevertheless saw Jesus. Pretty soon however, it turns out to be a real case instead of the no-brainer House thought it would be. Cuddy's throwing her baby a Jewish naming ceremony. She asks House to be there, but it's not clear she actually wants him to come.
Episode 16
The Softer Side
Mon, Feb 23, 200944 mins
An intersexual boy has collapsed on the basketball court. His parents have never told him he has both male and female cells and they (that is, the overprotective mother, who seems to be wearing the trousers) don't want the team to tell him either. For Thirteen, withholding the truth from the kid is easier said than done. To everybody's surprise, House acts kind and actually seems to be... happy, which makes everyone think something fishy is going on.
Episode 17
The Social Contract
Mon, Mar 9, 200944 mins
Publisher Nick Greenwald is diagnosed with a possibly congenital tumor, which suppresses his social lies ability. So he speaks the obnoxious truth as heartlessly as House, to staff and his family, but wants to be cured, at any risk. Taub is caught between Wilson needing a cover story and House's determination to find out what he's hiding. It proves serious and revealing about Wilson's fanatically considerate attitude.
Episode 18
Here Kitty
Mon, Mar 16, 200944 mins
Nurse Morgan West is convinced she's dying because 'prophetic' cat Debby from the senior home where she works came to her. House assumes she's a malingerer, but she soon gets symptoms one can't fake. Even a coma patient who attracted the cat later dies. House taunts Kutter's mild superstitious practices. Taub hopes for a better job with college mate Neil Zane in the medical supplies business.
Episode 19
Locked In
Mon, Mar 30, 200943 mins
While treated for light lesions received in a motorcycle accident in Middletown, House proves ER Dr. Kurtz wrong twice about another ER patient: bike accident victim Lee. He reveals that Lee is neither brain dead nor received his brain injury from the crash but the other way around. Lee anxiously hears everything but loses the ability to communicate with his eyelid movements because of a brain biopsy. Taub hopes to convince House to cancel his ill-considered resignation. Wilson jousts with House about why he was in Middletown, while both fear their secrets may be discovered.
Episode 20
Simple Explanation
Mon, Apr 6, 200945 mins
Incurable bed-ridden kidney patient Eddie's wife and care-taker Charlotte suddenly collapses with respiratory failure. She insists on returning to his bedside without treatment. Kutner is found at home with a bullet through his head. House seeks motives for suicide, or murder, and Wilson worries why. Taub seems to thrive with his sole friend and brighter rival out of the way.
Episode 21
Saviors
Mon, Apr 13, 200944 mins
House worries he's lost his mojo when he can't determine the reason for Cameron and Wilson's changed behaviors or his new patient's diagnosis.
Episode 22
House Divided
Mon, Apr 27, 200944 mins
House's sleep deprivation is beginning to take its toll. He's constantly hallucinating Amber and even needs "her" to come up with ideas to find out what's wrong with a deaf wrestler who during a match started "hearing" loud explosions. Meanwhile, House prepares Chase's bachelor party, complete with strippers and lots of alcohol.
Episode 23
Under My Skin
Mon, May 4, 200943 mins
A ballerina collapses during practice. As the team begins to treat her, her skin starts to fall off. With his hallucination getting worse, House cannot treat her, and asks for help to diagnose him. Cameron reveals a secret to Chase which may affect their wedding plans.
Episode 24
Both Sides Now
Mon, May 11, 200943 mins
House and his team treat a patient who had his brain split in half, now it seems like one side of his brain is causing some health/behavioral issues. House plays games with Cuddy over the night he detoxed, and those events will cause major changes. Cameron and Chase come to a decision.
