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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 3804 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".

  • Acceptance
    8.3/103,804 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

  • Autopsy
    9.1/105,568 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

  • Humpty Dumpty
    7.8/103,472 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

  • TB or Not TB
    7.9/103,486 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

  • Daddy's Boy
    8.0/103,417 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

  • Spin
    7.7/103,307 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

  • Hunting
    8.2/103,402 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

  • The Mistake
    8.8/103,938 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

  • Deception
    8.3/103,348 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

  • Failure to Communicate
    8.4/103,419 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

  • Need to Know
    8.0/103,255 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

  • Distractions
    8.4/103,382 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

  • Skin Deep
    8.5/103,791 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

  • Sex Kills
    8.3/103,326 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

  • Clueless
    8.4/103,328 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

  • Safe
    8.7/103,646 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

  • All In
    8.9/104,150 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

  • Sleeping Dogs Lie
    8.1/103,229 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

  • House vs. God
    8.5/103,592 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

  • Euphoria (1)
    9.1/104,506 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

  • Euphoria (2)
    9.2/104,973 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

  • Forever
    8.0/103,145 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

  • Who's Your Daddy?
    7.6/103,162 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

  • No Reason
    9.4/106,392 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