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Year: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

16 November 2004
Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after uncontrolled gibberish slips out of her mouth while she is about to teach students.

Season 1, Episode 2: Paternity

23 November 2004
The team help a high school boy (16) who has double vision and night terrors. (Clinic Cases: Unvaccinated baby, man with boil on leg.)

Season 1, Episode 3: Occam's Razor

30 November 2004
A college boy whose low blood pressure does not respond with IV fluids piques House's curiosity. Clinic Cases: A woman who had a cold last week, man with a sore throat, woman whose leg hurts after running 6 miles, a boy and his MP3 Player.

Season 1, Episode 4: Maternity

7 December 2004
A nightmare scenario hits Princeton Plainsboro when babies in the maternity ward are hit by a potentially fatal epidemic. Clinic Cases: Woman with a parasite!

Season 1, Episode 5: Damned If You Do

14 December 2004
A nun suffering from acute dermatitis and asthma treated by House with possibly the wrong medication comes dangerously close to death.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Socratic Method

21 December 2004
A 38 year-old mother apparently suffering from thrombosis, alcoholism, and schizophrenia has only her underage 15 year-old son as caregiver.

Season 1, Episode 7: Fidelity

28 December 2004
A woman comes down with symptoms of African sleeping sickness, but there seems to be no way she could have contracted it. House and his aides must ask a few tough questions and make some tough decisions in order to try to save her.

Season 1, Episode 8: Poison

25 January 2005
A high school boy has hallucinations and collapses during an exam. When he does not respond to treatments, and the normal tests are negative Foreman presents the case to House. Clinic Cases: A happy old lady.

Season 1, Episode 9: DNR

1 February 2005
A famous jazz trumpeter, diagnosed with ALS, signs a DNR form, but because House believes the diagnosis wrong, he breaks the law by resuscitating him.

Season 1, Episode 10: Histories

8 February 2005
A delusional homeless woman is found unconscious in an acid house exhibiting a variety of symptoms which Foreman thinks she's faking.

Season 1, Episode 11: Detox

15 February 2005
A girl crashes a Porsche after her boyfriend starts coughing up blood and continues to have unexplained bleeds. Clinic Cases: Cuddy give House a month off clinic duties if he can spend a week off his pain meds.

Season 1, Episode 12: Sports Medicine

22 February 2005
A detoxed sports star about to make his comeback breaks his arm due to brittle bones. Clinic Cases: Woman with leg pain; man trying to remove his contact lenses; a dentist with various issues and a hung over teenager; all in 70 seconds.

Season 1, Episode 13: Cursed

1 March 2005
A young boy has a fever for over a week after a Ouija board predicts he will die. Clinic Cases: Chase's case of a man with numb fingers.

Season 1, Episode 14: Control

15 March 2005
Can House save a high powered female executive from the same problem that has left him in constant pain? A new head of the hospital board could cause problems. Clinic cases: A boy and his mute dad.

Season 1, Episode 15: Mob Rules

22 March 2005
A Mob informer collapses before trial. Is he faking or is he really in a coma? Clinic Cases: A pair of brothers come in when the youngster gets toys stuck up his nose.

Season 1, Episode 16: Heavy

29 March 2005
A morbidly obese ten-year-old girl has a heart attack, and her mother insists that House and his team look past her weight to find the diagnosis. Meanwhile, Vogler pressures House to fire a member of his staff. Clinic Patients: Unidentified man with an infected pierced scrotum; overweight woman with a 30-pound tumor on her ovaries who refuses to have it removed, because she worries she will be unattractive.

Season 1, Episode 17: Role Model

12 April 2005
An ambitious, charismatic black senator becomes ill while campaigning for the Presidency suffering from a mysterious malady, possibly AIDS.

Season 1, Episode 18: Babies & Bathwater

19 April 2005
While House and his team scramble to discover what's causing brain and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is on the warpath to get House fired.

Season 1, Episode 19: Kids

3 May 2005
During a meningitis outbreak which overwhelms the clinic, House is drawn to a single patient: a 12-year-old competitive diver whose symptoms don't quite match everyone else's.

Season 1, Episode 20: Love Hurts

10 May 2005
House has to deal with his promised dinner date with Cameron, a mysterious stroke in a clinic patient and a libidinous senior citizen.

Season 1, Episode 21: Three Stories

17 May 2005
House's ex Stacy Warner asks him to treat her husband. House takes over a diagnostics class for a day and presents the class with three case studies of leg pain. As House tells his story and the class gradually fills up with listeners, the class learns a lot about how to be better doctors, and Chase, Foreman and Cameron learn some important details of House's past.

Season 1, Episode 22: Honeymoon

24 May 2005
House doses his ex-girlfriend's husband in order to get him into hospital after she begs House to treat him. Is House treating Mark differently in order to get back at Stacy for his leg?

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Acceptance

13 September 2005
House treats a patient on death row while Dr. Cameron avoids telling a patient she has a terminal illness.

Season 2, Episode 2: Autopsy

20 September 2005
A very brave and mature 9-year-old girl has terminal cancer, but that is not what the problem seems to be.

Season 2, Episode 3: Humpty Dumpty

27 September 2005
Cuddy joins the team after her handyman falls off of her roof and begins to develop bizarre symptoms. Clinic Cases: African American man who objects to "minority meds."

Season 2, Episode 4: TB or Not TB

1 November 2005
A doctor champions against the epidemic of TB in Africa, possibly at the risk of his own life.

Season 2, Episode 5: Daddy's Boy

8 November 2005
The team takes care of a student with inexplicable electrical shocks, and House's parents visit.

Season 2, Episode 6: Spin

15 November 2005
Star bicycle racer collapses, and the team must come up with a diagnosis after the patient admits to blood doping. House and Stacy continue sparring with each other. Clinic Case: Flight attendant poisons himself with gum.

Season 2, Episode 7: Hunting

22 November 2005
After being accused of assaulting a sick man, House is forced to take on his case. However, despite the fact that he has AIDS, it's clearly not what's killing him.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Mistake

29 November 2005
Chaos ensues after Chase's negligence leads to the death of a female patient. Now, after an inquiry from the hospital board, and a subpoena from the patient's brother, it's up to Stacey to protect Chase's career, as well as House's.

Season 2, Episode 9: Deception

13 December 2005
A woman collapses at an off-track betting parlor in front of House, and he must battle his new boss to find her diagnosis.

Season 2, Episode 10: Failure to Communicate

10 January 2006
When a famous writer is brought in with language difficulties, House must assist via phone while waiting for a delayed plane.

Season 2, Episode 11: Need to Know

7 February 2006
House and the team must determine what is causing an increasingly deceitful patient's muscle flailing. Stacy makes a decision, and Cameron avoids a test.

Season 2, Episode 12: Distractions

14 February 2006
A patient with 40% body burns and inexplicable cardiac and neurological signs is treated by the team, while House pursues disproving an old enemy's medical study.

Season 2, Episode 13: Skin Deep

20 February 2006
The search for the cause of a supermodel's symptoms causes intense feelings among the team, as new facts are revealed. Meanwhile, House experiences increasing pain in his leg.

Season 2, Episode 14: Sex Kills

7 March 2006
House and the team struggle to diagnose one patient in order to save another. Clinic Case: College student claims he has the hots for heifers.

Season 2, Episode 15: Clueless

28 March 2006
House must diagnose a man who became sick and experienced difficulty breathing during sex-play but all tests keep returning normal. Wilson experiences close-up what living with House is like. Clinic case: Herpes

Season 2, Episode 16: Safe

4 April 2006
6 months after a teenage girl crushes her chest in a car accident and receives a heart transplant she goes into anaphylactic shock in her clean room bedroom after her boyfriend almost kisses her and discovers something on her arm.

Season 2, Episode 17: All In

11 April 2006
On a class field trip, a teacher discovers that her six-year-old student, Ian, is bleeding profusely. Dr. House thinks Ian has the same unknown disease that killed an elderly patient of his years ago.

Season 2, Episode 18: Sleeping Dogs Lie

18 April 2006
A young woman swallows a bottle of sleeping pills - not to kill herself but to go to sleep, something she says she hasn't done in 10 days. Then her case deteriorates, but her partner is in a perfect position to help her. Meanwhile, House keeps falling asleep because living with Wilson has disrupted his sleep pattern. Cameron's mad at Foreman for swiping her ideas for a medical-journal article, and at House for letting him do it.

Season 2, Episode 19: House vs. God

25 April 2006
House takes on a teenage faith healer, Wilson desperately wants into a poker game, and tensions escalate between Cameron and Foreman.

Season 2, Episode 20: Euphoria: Part 1

2 May 2006
A police officer in critical condition has bizarre symptoms, and Dr. Foreman finds himself in an unpleasant situation.

Season 2, Episode 21: Euphoria: Part 2

3 May 2006
House tries radical procedures to save Foreman's life. Foreman's father visits.

Season 2, Episode 22: Forever

9 May 2006
A young mother suffers a seizure in the bathtub with her newborn son, nearly drowning him, and although the baby survives the near-drowning, his problems are far from over. Foreman returns to work with some minor brain dysfunction, and a personality change that drives House up the wall.

Season 2, Episode 23: Who's Your Daddy?

16 May 2006
A Katrina survivor, presumably the granddaughter of a famous blues singer, convinces House's friend Dylan Crandall that he is her father. When the girl is brought in with a deadly illness, House is sure the girl is faking, but Crandall wants her as his daughter and Crandall won't agree to a paternity test. As House and team try to save the girl's life, House and his conscience fight over the truth vs. his friend's real desire to take the girl in.

Season 2, Episode 24: No Reason

23 May 2006
An old patient of House comes back and seeks revenge upon him in the form of gunshot.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Meaning

5 September 2006
Richard, a husband and father living with brain cancer, drives his wheelchair into a pool at a family BBQ. Everyone but his son think that it was suicide from the pain but House will stop at nothing to figure out his true ailment.

Season 3, Episode 2: Cane and Able

12 September 2006
House is affected by the fact that he thinks he didn't solve the last case while a young boy, who believes aliens tortured him, is brought in.

Season 3, Episode 3: Informed Consent

19 September 2006
House and his team face a lot of moral dilemmas when a patient wants them to help him end his life.

Season 3, Episode 4: Lines in the Sand

26 September 2006
A ten-year-old boy begins screaming in pain, but nobody knows why, because he is autistic and cannot explain. House refuses to use his office because it has new carpet.

Season 3, Episode 5: Fools for Love

31 October 2006
A husband and wife being treated cause Foreman to ponder the strength of true love, and House abuses one too many patients with potentially devastating repercussions.

Season 3, Episode 6: Que Será Será

7 November 2006
A "suicidally" obese man in a coma presents treatment challenges, but finding out what's wrong with him may be the most challenging test of all. Elsewhere, Tritter ramps up his vendetta against House.

Season 3, Episode 7: Son of Coma Guy

14 November 2006
When the son of a man in a vegetative state starts going into a coma, the vegetative man is reawakened chemically by House, who hopes to get some clues to the son's problems.

Season 3, Episode 8: Whac-A-Mole

21 November 2006
A young man collapses at his job, and House makes a game of establishing the diagnosis until things turn critical, and Tritter increases the pressure on Wilson.

Season 3, Episode 9: Finding Judas

28 November 2006
While a little girl's life and limbs are in jeopardy, Tritter becomes more manipulative and House suffers withdrawal.

Season 3, Episode 10: Merry Little Christmas

12 December 2006
Wilson presents the deal to House and then convinces Cuddy to back him up, meanwhile the team is flummoxed by a patient's condition and various members keep seeking out House for his opinion even though he may not be prepared to assist.

Season 3, Episode 11: Words and Deeds

9 January 2007
House checks himself into rehab just before his trial, but a different game entirely may be afoot. Elsewhere, the team attempts to treat a firefighter who can't stop shivering.

Season 3, Episode 12: One Day, One Room

30 January 2007
Stuck with clinic duty, House almost wishes he had the boring patients back after he encounters a young woman with an STD and the need to talk.

Season 3, Episode 13: Needle in a Haystack

6 February 2007
A young man is stricken during sex with his girlfriend, and House must determine why his organs are suddenly shutting down. Finding the cause is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Season 3, Episode 14: Insensitive

13 February 2007
On Valentine's Day, House meddles in relationships as he works to diagnose a teenager who has a genetic inability to feel pain.

Season 3, Episode 15: Half-Wit

6 March 2007
House struggles to find out why a pianist savant is losing his ability to play. Ultimately, a decision must be made as to how much brain is necessary for a normal quality of life.

Season 3, Episode 16: Top Secret

27 March 2007
A patient whose relative has called in a favor with Cuddy presents with nonspecific minor symptoms that turn life-threatening, but House is distracted by a dream and an inability to urinate.

Season 3, Episode 17: Fetal Position

3 April 2007
When a pregnant woman has a stroke, the team is at a loss after all tests reveal nothing, but when her organs start shutting down Cuddy takes over the case.

Season 3, Episode 18: Airborne

10 April 2007
House and Cuddy are flying back to the US from an international conference in Singapore. While en route a mysterious disease strikes one passenger and an epidemic unfolds, causing House to diagnose in midair since they have missed the halfway mark by passing the north pole. Back in Princeton, Wilson and House's lackeys have a confusing case of what is ailing a woman who came into the clinic and proceeded to have a seizure.

Season 3, Episode 19: Act Your Age

17 April 2007
A young girl is ailed with diseases that usually strike people much older than her 6 years of age. But before House can diagnose her, her brother starts exhibiting the same symptoms she was admitted with. During all of this House gives Wilson tickets that a patient had given to him for a play. Ensuing a discussion on why men take women to plays. Wilson decides to take Cuddy and the tug of war with House for her affections begins, although Cuddy insists that she only went with Wilson as a friend.

Season 3, Episode 20: House Training

24 April 2007
The cause of a woman's TIA stumps the team, and Foreman's family visits.

Season 3, Episode 21: Family

1 May 2007
Wilson is preparing his 14-year-old patient, Nick, for a bone marrow transplant when the donor, Nick's younger brother Matty, suddenly starts sneezing. Since Nick's immune system has been destroyed by the chemotherapy for his cancer, he cannot risk a marrow donation from Matty while Matty is ill. House decides that the fastest way to find out what's wrong with Matty is to make him worse. As the boys get sicker and sicker, House and his team race to cure Matty before both brothers die. Meanwhile, House battles Hector (his newly adopted dog) for supremacy and Foreman can't stop thinking about last week's mistake.

Season 3, Episode 22: Resignation

8 May 2007
A 19-year-old college student, Addie, starts coughing up blood during karate class and ends up one of House's cases. Foreman hands in his resignation before treating the woman and refuses to explain why. Although her symptoms show no signs of it, House is convinced that an infection is causing Addie's bleeding. Her lungs start filling with fluid and House's team believes a toxin or cancer is to blame for Addie's illness but are unable to change House's mind. Addie continues to get worse and House wants to do an extremely risky life-or-death treatment in order to confirm his diagnosis; the team starts to ask whether House cares about making a diagnosis more than Addie's own life. Meanwhile, House becomes interested in Honey, a young, attractive nutritionist who brought her boyfriend to the clinic for treatment. He gets her to fill out an employment application (for Foreman's soon-to-be vacated position) and arranges to meet her again in a more casual situation.

Season 3, Episode 23: The Jerk

15 May 2007
When a teenage chess-player assaults his opponent, the team struggles to determine whether the problem is organic or psychological. Clinic Cases: Spotted sunburn.

Season 3, Episode 24: Human Error

29 May 2007
A couple risk their lives getting from Cuba to see House, but his preoccupation with staff issues may cost the woman her life.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Alone

25 September 2007
House is off his game without the team, and Wilson uses an extreme tactic to force him into interviews.

Season 4, Episode 2: The Right Stuff

2 October 2007
House is forced to choose a new staff... and gathers 40 applicants to start narrowing down the field. Meanwhile, an Air Force pilot wants House to treat her secretly so she doesn't ruin her chances of becoming an astronaut.

Season 4, Episode 3: 97 Seconds

9 October 2007
Down to 10 candidates for his team, House splits them into 2 groups to diagnose a patient whose short lifespan has been made even shorter. Foreman leads his own team to diagnose a patient at his new workplace.

Season 4, Episode 4: Guardian Angels

23 October 2007
A woman seeing her dead mother stumps the recruits, especially once she begins seeing a recent victim.

Season 4, Episode 5: Mirror Mirror

30 October 2007
A victim of a mugging presents with neurological symptoms and begins to mirror the behaviors of his doctors. Foreman joins the new fellows in seeking a diagnosis; Cameron and Chase takes bets on whom House will fire next.

Season 4, Episode 6: Whatever It Takes

6 November 2007
House is taken by black helicopter to help diagnose a dying CIA agent, leaving Foreman in charge of the team trying to find out why a young woman passed out after a drag car race.

Season 4, Episode 7: Ugly

13 November 2007
House and his team are hampered by a reality television crew whilst battling over possible diagnoses for a craniofacial surgery patient.

Season 4, Episode 8: You Don't Want to Know

20 November 2007
A magician's heart stops during a performance. At first House dismisses the case, but later changes his mind when complications arise. House has a contest to determine the next one to leave the team.

Season 4, Episode 9: Games

27 November 2007
House treats a rock musician, and some of the candidates have to get past their personal biases, Wilson misdiagnoses a patient, and the winners are named.

Season 4, Episode 10: It's a Wonderful Lie

29 January 2008
House is equally obsessed with a mother and daughter who don't lie, and using Christmas to create discord among the team members.

Season 4, Episode 11: Frozen

3 February 2008
When a researcher at a South Pole base becomes ill, House must diagnose the case at a distance. Meanwhile, House tries to find out who Wilson is dating, and his new staff tries to get him cable.

Season 4, Episode 12: Don't Ever Change

5 February 2008
A woman collapses at her wedding. She led a different life style before her marriage, House insists she hasn't changed. Wilson starts dating Amber.

Season 4, Episode 13: No More Mr. Nice Guy

28 April 2008
House encounters a patient who is too nice for his own good, which is a bigger problem than his emergency room diagnosis; and House competes with Amber for Wilson's attention.

Season 4, Episode 14: Living the Dream

5 May 2008
House finds himself at odds with his team when he becomes convinced that an actor on his favorite soap, "Prescription Passion," has a serious medical condition.

Season 4, Episode 15: House's Head

12 May 2008
A bus that House was riding crashes. House claims there's a victim on the bus that's dying, but not from the bus accident. He stops at nothing to figure out who the patient is and what is ailing them.

Season 4, Episode 16: Wilson's Heart

19 May 2008
The team works to save someone close to a central character's heart. The key is inside House's head, but he is in a bad way himself.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Dying Changes Everything

16 September 2008
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.

Season 5, Episode 2: Not Cancer

23 September 2008
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. House retains a comical private investigator to investigate patients, doctors, and his estranged friend, Wilson.

Season 5, Episode 3: Adverse Events

30 September 2008
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.

Season 5, Episode 4: Birthmarks

14 October 2008
House tries every delaying tactic available when Wilson forces him to attend his father's funeral. Meanwhile, the team tries to find the cause of a young woman's abdominal pain and hemorrhage that occurred in China.

Season 5, Episode 5: Lucky Thirteen

21 October 2008
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.

Season 5, Episode 6: Joy

28 October 2008
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.

Season 5, Episode 7: The Itch

11 November 2008
House takes time to dabble in Cameron and Chase's love life while he treats an agoraphobic patient she's brought to the team.

Season 5, Episode 8: Emancipation

18 November 2008
The team tries to treat a patient who keeps lying to them, and Foreman exerts some independence.

Season 5, Episode 9: Last Resort

25 November 2008
A person takes House, Thirteen and others as hostages. He's seen several doctors but none have found what ails him. As they work towards finding a solution, Thirteen makes decisions which leads her to think about her own condition.

Season 5, Episode 10: Let Them Eat Cake

2 December 2008
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.

Season 5, Episode 11: Joy to the World

9 December 2008
An obese teenager collapses on stage, and the outcome will lead to a surprise for Cuddy. Wilson convinces House to be nice to his patients during the holidays. Foreman and Thirteen have issues when a trial patient drops from the program.

Season 5, Episode 12: Painless

19 January 2009
House treats a patient who's worn out by chronic pain. Cuddy tries to do her job and take care of her new child. Foreman and Thirteen's relationship stalls.

Season 5, Episode 13: Big Baby

26 January 2009
House maneuvers against a measured Cameron when she takes over Cuddy's duties, Foreman faces an ethical dilemma, and Cuddy has trouble bonding with the baby.

Season 5, Episode 14: The Greater Good

2 February 2009
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.

Season 5, Episode 15: Unfaithful

16 February 2009
House treats a priest who's lost his faith, issues an ultimatum to Foreman and Thirteen, and plays with Cuddy's desire to have him attend - or is it not attend? - her baby's naming ceremony.

Season 5, Episode 16: The Softer Side

23 February 2009
House's team resents being made complicit in a web of lies parents have told their son when he's brought in for treatment that may be related to his intersexuality. Meanwhile, no one's content that House is happy.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Social Contract

9 March 2009
The team tries to diagnose a condition that leaves the patient saying anything that he thinks, no matter whom it hurts, and Wilson raises House's antennae when he passes up a monster truck rally.

Season 5, Episode 18: Here Kitty

16 March 2009
House treats a patient who is convinced she's dying because of a death predicting cat. Meanwhile Taub catches up with an old High School classmate and contemplates leaving the team.

Season 5, Episode 19: Locked In

30 March 2009
House is injured in a motorcycle accident. While recovering, he finds an accident victim suffering from a brain injury. House tries to prove the brain damage caused the accident, not vice versa, so he can treat the patient.

Season 5, Episode 20: Simple Explanation

6 April 2009
Taub treats a patient whose dying husband gets better as she becomes sicker, while the rest of the team deals with a devastating loss.

Season 5, Episode 21: Saviors

13 April 2009
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.

Season 5, Episode 22: House Divided

27 April 2009
House's Amber hallucination becomes more aggressive as sleep deprivation takes its toll endangering a patient, and Chase's bachelor party ends in the emergency room.

Season 5, Episode 23: Under My Skin

4 May 2009
When all of House's efforts to rid himself of Amber fail, he turns to someone unexpected for assistance. Meanwhile, the team is left to fend for itself as they try to save a ballerina's life and career.

Season 5, Episode 24: Both Sides Now

11 May 2009
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.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Broken

21 September 2009
House fights his doctors, the staff and his fellow patients when he's forced to stay in the psychiatric hospital under threat of permanently losing his medical license.

Season 6, Episode 2: Epic Fail

28 September 2009
House returns home to Princeton where he continues to focus on his recovery, but surprises Cuddy with the news that he's making a big change in his life. Meanwhile, the team is unable to diagnose a loud-mouthed video game creator who posts each new symptom on the Internet and opts for treatments suggested by the online community rather than by the doctors, and Foreman angles for House's job, but the pressure to solve the case creates tension in his relationship with Thirteen.

Season 6, Episode 3: The Tyrant

5 October 2009
When a controversial African politician falls ill, he is brought to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. The team struggles with whether to help a merciless dictator being subpoenaed for crimes against humanity in his country. Meanwhile, Wilson tries to make peace with a feuding neighbor, but House's prying exacerbates the problem.

Season 6, Episode 4: Instant Karma

12 October 2009
A wealthy businessman brings his teenage son, who is suffering from inexplicable stomach pains, to Princeton Plainsboro and insists on having Dr. House handle the case. The father of the patient believes the karmic penalty of his financial success is that he is victim to personal tragedy, and that the answer to his son's medical mystery lies in a reverse of fate rather than medical treatment. Meanwhile, Foreman and Chase prepare to present information on the Dibala case.

Season 6, Episode 5: Brave Heart

19 October 2009
The team takes on the case of a reckless police detective who has a family history of sudden heart failure that killed his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all at age 40. Though House is not keen on diagnosing the patient without any detectable symptoms, the team, urged by Cameron, attempts to identify his condition so the detective can live without fear of dying young. Meanwhile, Chase is haunted by his actions in the Dibala case, and House confronts some ghosts of his own.

Season 6, Episode 6: Known Unknowns

9 November 2009
A teenage girl is brought to the hospital with severely swollen appendages after a wild night out.

Season 6, Episode 7: Teamwork

16 November 2009
After House's medical license is reinstated, he reclaims his role as Head of Diagnostics in time to treat Hank Hardwick, an adult film star admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for pulsating eye pain. Meanwhile, Cuddy is reminded that the hospial is not conducive to healthy personal relationships, and House angles to form a dream team.

Season 6, Episode 8: Ignorance Is Bliss

23 November 2009
House and the team take on the case of James Sidas, an exceptionally brilliant physicist and author who traded his successful career for a job as a courier. For the ailing patient, intelligence is a miserable burden that has prompted depression and addiction, and this, coupled with his myriad unusual symptoms, nearly stumps the team. Meanwhile, the doctors at Princeton Plainboro wrestle with strained personal relationships.