Season 5
🎬 24 Episodes 📅 2008 ⏱ 44 min
A seemingly healthy teenager collapses during a school presentation, her body betraying mysteries that baffle every department at Princeton–Plainsboro. House sees what others miss—a pattern hidden in the smallest details, a diagnosis that rewrites everything the family thought they knew. As the clock ticks and complications spiral, the genius doctor risks everything to save a patient he'll never truly understand, proving that sometimes the most dangerous diseases wear the face of secrets we keep closest.
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📊 Season Stats
24
Episodes
2008
Year
44
min / ep
17.6
Watch Hours
5/8
Season No.
⭐ 8.8
Best Episode
Ep. 24 · Both Sides Now
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1
⭐ 7.9
Dying Changes Everything
In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Wilson resigns from the hospital... and from his friendship with House. Meanwhile, Thirteen struggles with her personal medical problems while helping treat an executive assistant with a similar situation to her own.
🎬 Deran Sarafian ✍️ Eli Attie
2
⭐ 7.7
Not Cancer
The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wilson, but hears a few things about himself that he'd rather not.
🎬 David Straiton ✍️ David Shore
3
⭐ 7.8
Adverse Events
A painter's undiagnosed illness affects his work, and House and his team must look at the man's paintings to determine what's wrong with him.
🎬 Andrew Bernstein ✍️ Dustin Paddock
4
⭐ 8.2
Birthmarks
While en route to his father's funeral, House must help the team with a differential diagnosis on a young Chinese girl who has collapsed under mysterious circumstances.
🎬 David Platt ✍️ Doris Egan
5
⭐ 7.5
Lucky Thirteen
Thirteen brings her one-night stand to the hospital after the woman has a seizure. However, the woman admits she slept with Thirteen just so she could get to House and have him diagnose her condition. Meanwhile, House continues to pay Lucas to spy on Wilson.
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Liz Friedman
6
⭐ 7.6
Joy
An ailing man suffers from blackouts and sleepwalks, leading the team to wonder if his sleepwalking is a symptom, or how the man is becoming exposed to something else. When the man's daughter grows ill as well, the team must provide a diagnosis before both die. Meanwhile, Cuddy adopts a newborn but …
🎬 Deran Sarafian ✍️ David Hoselton
7
⭐ 7.8
The Itch
The team must treat an agoraphobic who refuses to leave his house, and have to work around Cuddy, who is less than thrilled at having hospital equipment relocated. Meanwhile, House is plagued by an itch, and Cameron and Chase have relationship issues.
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Peter Blake
8
⭐ 7.6
Emancipation
While Foreman takes on a pediatric case on his own, the rest of the team deals with a 16-year-old factory manager and emancipated minor who collapses at work. When Foreman's patient takes a turn for the worse, he's forced to question whether he can deal with the situation on his own, or if he needs …
🎬 James Hayman ✍️ Pam Davis
9
⭐ 8.1
Last Resort
A gun-wielding man from the waiting room at the Princeton-Plainsboro clinic takes House, Thirteen and several patients from the waiting room hostage in Cuddy's office. The man claims to be sick with a long undiagnosed illness and demands medical attention from the best doctor in the hospital, threat…
🎬 Katie Jacobs
10
⭐ 7.8
Let Them Eat Cake
The team takes on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet who collapsed while filming a video. Meanwhile, Foreman conducts Huntington's Disease drug trials and Thirteen signs on as a subject, Cuddy is forced to move into House's office, and Kutner uses House's name to run an online medical…
🎬 Deran Sarafian ✍️ Russel Friend
11
⭐ 7.9
Joy to the World
House and his team deal with a bullied girl who collapses during her school's Christmas program. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen grow closer during the Huntington's disease drug trials, House gives a patient a gift, the staff wonder who gave House a special gift, and Cuddy gets an unexpected gift.
🎬 David Straiton ✍️ Peter Blake
12
⭐ 7.7
Painless
House and the team try to diagnose a man living with severe, chronic pain; Thirteen and Foreman explore their complicated relationship; Cuddy discovers that caring for her baby leaves her with little time to run the hospital.
🎬 Andrew Bernstein ✍️ Thomas L. Moran
13
⭐ 7.6
Big Baby
Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her newly adopted baby and passes some of her day-to-day responsibilities off to Cameron, including supervising House. Cameron is forced to play House’s games and becomes involved in a power struggle as he and the team take on the case of a Sp…
🎬 Deran Sarafian ✍️ Lawrence Kaplow
14
⭐ 7.7
The Greater Good
House and the team take on the case of a woman who collapsed in the middle of a cooking class, and they soon learn she is a highly-renowned cancer researcher who recently gave up her entire career in order to pursue her own personal happiness. Though the team struggles to understand how the woman co…
🎬 Lesli Linka Glatter ✍️ Sara Hess
15
⭐ 7.9
Unfaithful
When a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep, he is admitted to the ER. House takes on the case as a distraction for the team while he confronts Foreman and Thirteen about their relationship. The team soon learns the priest had been involved in a molestati…
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ David Hoselton
16
⭐ 7.8
The Softer Side
A patient with both male and female DNA has the team stumped. Meanwhile, House starts acting nicely, raising Cuddy's and Wilson's suspicions that something is terribly wrong.
🎬 Deran Sarafian ✍️ Liz Friedman
17
⭐ 8.3
The Social Contract
House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe disinhibition, which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping so…
🎬 Andrew Bernstein ✍️ Doris Egan
18
⭐ 7.8
Here Kitty
Morgan 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 be…
🎬 Juan José Campanella ✍️ Peter Blake
19
⭐ 8.5
Locked In
A man awakens in New York after a bicycle accident unable to move or communicate in any way. House, himself injured in a motorcycle mishap, occupies the hospital bed next to Lee and quickly annoys the doctors treating them both by insisting that Lee has “locked-in” syndrome.
🎬 Dan Attias ✍️ Russel Friend
20
⭐ 7.8
Simple Explanation
Charlotte, an older woman who has spent the last six months taking care of her dying husband Eddie, is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro after collapsing from respiratory failure. The couple becomes a double mystery for the team when Eddie begins to improve as Charlotte’s condition worsens. The previou…
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Leonard Dick
21
⭐ 7.8
Saviors
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…
🎬 Matthew Penn ✍️ Thomas L. Moran
22
⭐ 8.5
House Divided
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 cond…
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Liz Friedman
23
⭐ 8.5
Under My Skin
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 carefull…
🎬 David Straiton ✍️ Pam Davis
24
⭐ 8.8
Both Sides Now
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 diffi…
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Doris Egan