House: Season 5
House Season 5 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes. The series features Dr. Gregory House, who is a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius leading a team of diagnosticians. The American medical drama television series, created by David Shore, also features cast members including Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, and Jesse Spencer. The program originally aired on the Fox ne
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Dr. Gregory House is a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius.
- House leads a team of diagnosticians.
- The series was created by David Shore.
- The show features cast members including Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, and Jesse Spencer.
Season overview
House Season 5 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes. The series features Dr. Gregory House, who is a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius leading a team of diagnosticians. The American medical drama television series, created by David Shore, also features cast members including Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, and Jesse Spencer. The program originally aired on the Fox network and was broadcast for eight seasons beginning in 2004.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Dying Changes Everything
Sep 16, 2008 · 44 min
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
Not Cancer
Sep 23, 2008 · 44 min
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 abo
Adverse Events
Sep 30, 2008 · 44 min
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.
Birthmarks
Oct 14, 2008 · 44 min
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.
Lucky Thirteen
Oct 21, 2008 · 44 min
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 dia
Joy
Oct 28, 2008 · 44 min
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
The Itch
Nov 11, 2008 · 44 min
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
Emancipation
Nov 18, 2008 · 44 min
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 patien
Last Resort
Nov 25, 2008 · 43 min
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 clai
Let Them Eat Cake
Dec 2, 2008 · 44 min
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 s
Joy to the World
Dec 9, 2008 · 44 min
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 tr
Painless
Jan 19, 2009 · 44 min
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 lea
Big Baby
Jan 26, 2009 · 44 min
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. Came
The Greater Good
Feb 2, 2009 · 44 min
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 h
Unfaithful
Feb 16, 2009 · 44 min
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 c
The Softer Side
Feb 23, 2009 · 44 min
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.
The Social Contract
Mar 9, 2009 · 44 min
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 havi
Here Kitty
Mar 16, 2009 · 44 min
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 he
Locked In
Mar 30, 2009 · 44 min
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 an
Simple Explanation
Apr 6, 2009 · 44 min
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
Saviors
Apr 13, 2009 · 44 min
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 susp
House Divided
Apr 27, 2009 · 44 min
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 hi
Under My Skin
May 4, 2009 · 44 min
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 th
Both Sides Now
May 11, 2009 · 44 min
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