In the Season 4 finale, after a massive bus accident left House without recollection of the accident, he and the team put the pieces of his memory together and discover Wilson’s girlfriend Amber was on the bus with him and was fatally injured. Wilson has to face the shocking realization that House was involved in Amber’s death. As Season 5 opens, with his friendship with Wilson shattered, House must determine if he’s responsible for Amber’s death and Wilson must decide if House is a destructive force in his life while Cuddy attempts to advance a reconciliation between the two of them.
| Name | House Season 5 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | September 16th, 2008 |
| Genres | Drama, Comedy, Mystery |
| Network | FOX |
| Production Companies | Universal Television, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Heel & Toe Films, Shore Z Productions |
| Producer | Marcy G. Kaplan |
| Executive Producers | Peter Blake, Thomas L. Moran, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Shore, Paul Attanasio, Bryan Singer, Katie Jacobs |
| Number of Episodes | 24 Episodes |
| Plot Keywords | drug addiction, misanthrophy, hospital, doctor, patient, medical drama |
Episodes List
House Season 5 Episode 1 : Dying Changes Everything
September 16th, 2008In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Wilson resigns from the hospital... and from his friendship with House. Meanwhile, Thirteen struggles with her p...
House Season 5 Episode 2 : Not Cancer
September 23rd, 2008The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wils...
House Season 5 Episode 3 : Adverse Events
September 30th, 2008A 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....
House Season 5 Episode 4 : Birthmarks
October 14th, 2008While 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 mysteri...
House Season 5 Episode 5 : Lucky Thirteen
October 21st, 2008Thirteen 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...
House Season 5 Episode 6 : Joy
October 28th, 2008An 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 t...
House Season 5 Episode 7 : The Itch
November 11th, 2008The 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 equipme...
House Season 5 Episode 8 : Emancipation
November 18th, 2008While 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 ...
House Season 5 Episode 9 : Last Resort
November 25th, 2008A man seeking the right diagnosis for his illness is willing to take on the hospital and the SWAT team to get it. He takes thirteen and several patien...
House Season 5 Episode 10 : Let Them Eat Cake
December 2nd, 2008The 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 Dise...
House Season 5 Episode 11 : Joy to the World
December 9th, 2008House and his team deal with a bullied girl who collapses during her school's Christmas program. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen grow closer during th...
House Season 5 Episode 12 : Painless
January 19th, 2009House and the team try to diagnose a man living with severe, chronic pain; Thirteen and Foreman explore their complicated relationship; Cuddy discover...
House Season 5 Episode 13 : Big Baby
January 26th, 2009Cuddy 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, inc...
House Season 5 Episode 14 : The Greater Good
February 2nd, 2009House 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 res...
House Season 5 Episode 15 : Unfaithful
February 16th, 2009When 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 distr...
House Season 5 Episode 16 : The Softer Side
February 23rd, 2009A patient with both male and female DNA has the team stumped. Meanwhile, House starts acting nicely, raising Cuddy's and Wilson's suspicions that some...
House Season 5 Episode 17 : The Social Contract
March 9th, 2009House 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 cau...
House Season 5 Episode 18 : Here Kitty
March 16th, 2009Morgan 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 ...
House Season 5 Episode 19 : Locked In
March 30th, 2009A 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 t...
House Season 5 Episode 20 : Simple Explanation
April 6th, 2009Charlotte, an older woman who has spent the last six months taking care of her dying husband Eddie, is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro after collapsing...
House Season 5 Episode 21 : Saviors
April 13th, 2009Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase in order to ask House to accept the case of an environmental radical who collapsed at a protest with unexpla...
House Season 5 Episode 22 : House Divided
April 27th, 2009The 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 mat...
House Season 5 Episode 23 : Under My Skin
May 4th, 2009House 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...
House Season 5 Episode 24 : Both Sides Now
May 11th, 2009House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities a...