8.3/103,846 votes#1 - Acceptance
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2005
When a Death Row inmate mysteriously and suddenly collapses after hallucinating, House jumps at the chance to take the case for its difficulty and because it's "cool."
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
9.1/105,618 votes#2 - Autopsy
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2005
A girl's unimaginable bravery toward her terminal illness makes House suspicious as he puts a life-or-death decision about her case in her young hands.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow
7.8/103,508 votes#3 - Humpty Dumpty
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2005
Cuddy struggles with a case of guilt when her handyman is injured while at her place, and House and his team have to work fast to save the young man's pursuit of the American Dream.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Matt Witten
7.9/103,527 votes#4 - TB or Not TB
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/2005
House's patient is willing to die in order to further his social cause.
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Writer: David Foster
8.0/103,452 votes#5 - Daddy's Boy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/2005
Lies between a father and son may prevent House and his team from saving their patient.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.7/103,342 votes#6 - Spin
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/2005
House's wheels start turning when a pro-cyclist admits to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Sara Hess
8.2/103,444 votes#7 - Hunting
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2005
A patient with AIDS stalks House to get him to take his case; House and Stacy stalk a mouse in her attic; and Cameron faces a health scare of her own.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Liz Friedman
8.8/103,986 votes#8 - The Mistake
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2005
A patient's death prompts an investigation into whether Chase or House may have been responsible for her death.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Peter Blake
8.3/103,384 votes#9 - 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.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Michael R. Perry
8.4/103,461 votes#10 - Failure to Communicate
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/2006
A journalist's head injury results in unintelligible speech, leaving House and his team at a loss; and the heat is turned up between House and Stacy when they're out of town.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: Doris Egan
8.0/103,291 votes#11 - 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.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Pam Davis
8.4/103,419 votes#12 - 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.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow
8.5/103,838 votes#13 - 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.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: N/A
8.3/103,367 votes#14 - 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.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Matt Witten
8.4/103,371 votes#15 - 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.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.7/103,690 votes#16 - Safe
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/4/2006
A teenage heart transplant patient is rushed to the hospital when she has an allergic reaction while living in a "clean" room, and House and Wilson work out the kinks of their new living arrangement.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Peter Blake
8.9/104,199 votes#17 - 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.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: David Foster
8.1/103,269 votes#18 - 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.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Sara Hess
8.5/103,633 votes#19 - 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.
Director: John F. Showalter
Writer: Doris Egan
9.0/104,559 votes#20 - 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.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Matthew V. Lewis
9.2/105,033 votes#21 - 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.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: David Shore, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
7.9/103,181 votes#22 - 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.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Liz Friedman
7.6/103,198 votes#23 - 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.
Director: Martha Mitchell
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, John Mankiewicz
9.4/106,457 votes#24 - No Reason
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/2006
House is shot by a former patient and must share a recovery room with the gunman.
Director: David Shore
Writer: David Shore, Lawrence Kaplow
The Best Episodes of House Season 2
Every episode of House Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of House Season 2!
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Genres:DramaMysteryComedy
Network:FOX
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Acceptance" is the best rated episode of "House" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 3846 votes. Directed by Daniel Attias and written by Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, it aired on 9/13/2005. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Autopsy".