The BEST episodes of House season 2
Every episode of House season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of House season 2!
Dr. Gregory House is a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with his hand-picked team of young medical experts, he’ll do whatever it takes in the race against the clock to solve the case.
#1 - Euphoria (2)
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2006
Foreman continues to experience the same progression of symptoms as the police officer. When he realizes he may be facing imminent death, he calls his father who comes to his son's side. As it comes down to a race against time, House believes the solution to the illness is in the police officer's apartment.
#2 - Autopsy
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2005
Dr. Wilson convinces House to take the case of one of his patients, a young girl with terminal cancer who starts suffering from hallucinations.
#3 - Euphoria (1)
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2006
When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When Foreman begins showing the same symptoms, they race to determine the cause of the illness before Foreman's condition takes the same path.
#4 - No Reason
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/2006
As House and his team are working on the diagnosis of a man with a giant, swollen tongue, the husband of a former patient walks into House's office and shoots him. House continues to treat his patient from his ICU hospital bed with the shooter, who has been shot by hospital security and hand-cuffed to his bed, as his roommate. When the after-effects of the shooting begin to impact House, he starts to question his own ability to diagnose properly. As his patient's body deteriorates, House struggles through his self-doubt and must trust his team to find a way to solve the case.
#5 - Safe
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/4/2006
Melinda, a troubled teenage girl who is immuno-compromised as a result of the medications she must take after a heart transplant, has a severe allergic reaction and goes into shock when her boyfriend visits her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson continue to work out the problems in their new living arrangement.
#6 - All In
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/11/2006
When a six-year-old boy is brought in with the same symptoms as another patient who died years ago under House's care, House believes the cases are identical and he can predict the course of the boy's illness. Meanwhile, the clinic hosts a poker night to benefit the oncology department.
#7 - The Mistake
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2005
House and Chase find themselves in a serious situation after a young mother with stomach pains dies. Months later, Stacy counsels Chase prior to his disciplinary hearing, and must determine whether Chase made a mistake that ultimately led to the patient's death. She soon realizes he is holding something back.
#8 - Sex Kills
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/7/2006
House takes the case of a man who experienced a seizure but wasn't aware it happened. When the man suffers a heart attack and needs a heart transplant, the team races to diagnose a dead woman's illness so they can harvest her heart to save their living patient.
#9 - Clueless
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/28/2006
House believes a woman is trying to kill her husband and tries to find the proof to confirm his suspicions. When Wilson moves in with House after separating from his wife, he learns Wilson is a great cook.
#10 - House vs. God
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/2006
House treats a 15 year old faith healer, while Wilson feels left out when he finds out House has a weekly poker game.
#11 - Distractions
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/2006
While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.
#12 - TB or Not TB
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/2005
While in Africa, a famous doctor becomes inexplicably ill and is sent to Dr. House for treatment.
#13 - Acceptance
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2005
A death row inmate is felled by an unknown disease and House decides to take on the case, over Cuddy and Foreman's objections. House also has to deal with Stacy who is working closely with him, while Cameron has to cope with a dying patient.
#14 - Failure to Communicate
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/2006
While attending his editor's retirement party, a journalist collapses and hits his head on a desk. When he regains consciousness, his sentences are garbled and incoherent, so he is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. With House and Stacy stranded at an airport due to bad weather, the team is forced to solve the case with House helping out over the phone.
#15 - Need to Know
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/2006
While House's staff tries to diagnose a woman whose uncontrollable muscle flailing caused her to crash her car, House and Stacy try to resolve their relationship issues once and for all. Cameron refuses to take her HIV test, wary of the results.
#16 - Humpty Dumpty
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2005
An asthmatic man suddenly becomes unconscious and falls off of Dr. Cuddy's roof while working on her house.
#17 - Sleeping Dogs Lie
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/18/2006
House has to work fast when a woman comes in with a life-threatening case of insomnia. Meanwhile Cameron is angry at Foreman for stealing an article she worked on.
#18 - Who's Your Daddy?
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/2006
A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim suffering from hallucinations as a result of the tragedy is brought to House by his former bandmate who recently found out the girl is his daughter. Although House fears his friend is being scammed, he takes the case. As he works his way through the girl's lies so he can diagnose and treat her, he's forced to tell a few lies of his own.
#19 - Spin
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/2005
A professional bicyclist is brought in after collapsing during a race, but House doesn't want to treat him because he thinks the athlete is taking performance-enhancing drugs. House only becomes interested when the patient admits to taking the drugs.
#20 - Skin Deep
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/2006
House uncovers a startling secret when he treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction. Meanwhile, Wilson hopes the increased leg pain in House's leg is an indication his leg nerves are regenerating.
#21 - Deception
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2005
With Foreman as House's supervisor, the team must figure out if a woman who cried wolf too many times is really ill.
#22 - Daddy's Boy
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/2005
A Princeton student who is graduating suffers a seizure while partying at a frat house. House's parents also drop by to see their son.
#23 - Hunting
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2005
A gay man with full-blown AIDS collapses in front of House's home and goes into shock. When House discovers the man's father is suffering from symptoms of his own, he must determine if they might be connected and save both their lives. Meanwhile, Cameron faces a potentially life-threatening disease of her own.
#24 - Forever
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/9/2006
A young mother has a seizure while bathing her newborn son and nearly drowns him. House and the team have two cases at one time as they try to save the infant and determine the cause of the mother's seizures.