The Best Episodes Written By Doris Egan
Every TV Episode Written by Doris Egan Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Doris Egan Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Doris Egan is "Wilson's Heart (2)", rated 9/10 from 39 user votes. It was "directed by Katie Jacobs". "Wilson's Heart (2)" aired on 5/19/2008 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "House's Head (1)".
9.0/10 39 votes#1 - Wilson's Heart (2)
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/19/2008
In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head injuries and short-term memory loss, and must deal with a concerned Wilson who believes his friend's health may be in danger.
Director: Katie Jacobs
Writer: Doris Egan
8.8/10 46 votes#2 - House's Head (1)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 5/12/2008
A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a life-threatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they had.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Doris Egan
8.6/10 31 votes#3 - Both Sides Now
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/2009
House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. As the two sides of Scott’s brain struggle for dominance, his warring personalities make it increasingly difficult for the team to figure out what is causing the unique problem. The team is forced to use some unusual methods to get him to cooperate with their necessary testing. Meanwhile, when House refuses to make an appearance in the clinic, Cuddy takes an unconventional approach to force House to make up the time with a particular patient.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Doris Egan
8.6/10 25 votes#4 - Baggage
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/10/2010
During a session with Dr. Nolan, House recounts the case of a woman who arrives at the Princeton Plainsboro emergency room with an unexplained illness and no recollection of who she is. While trying to solve the mystery of the woman's illness, House must also help her piece together her identity.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Doris Egan
8.5/10 2 votes#5 - Fatal Edition (2)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1999
When Gary's own investigation leads him to one of Scanlon's informants, he learns that at the time of Scanlon's death, the reporter was about to break a story on a murder-for-hire ring. With the help of Sun Times photographer Miguel Diaz, Gary obtains a printout of Scanlon's notes for his story that identifies six murders that were made to look like accidents. Meanwhile, Detective Brigatti uncovers some evidence of her own, which proves Gary's innocence and implicates someone with whom she works closely in the department. When Brigatti is subsequently taken hostage and about to be murdered, Gary must save her before the real killer sets him up a second time.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Doris Egan
8.5/10 2 votes#6 - Performance Anxiety
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/11/2000
The former recipient of the New York paper decides to relinquish his duties by turning over the next day's news to his friend Clams, but the paper suddenly stops coming after Clams meets with a mysterious man asking questions about his satisfaction with his special subscription. When Gary is involved in a similar meeting, Clams warns him that he too could lose his paper if he makes any wrong decisions. Desperate to get his own paper back, Clams steals Gary's edition so he can convince the powers-that-be to give him another chance. But even as he tries to make amends, Clams continues to abuse the paper and winds up putting the life of a down on-his-luck computer genius in jeopardy. When Gary reads that Clams and the computer wiz will perish in a dangerous explosion, he must race to save their lives before it's too late.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Doris Egan
8.2/10 12 votes#7 - Hug
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2002
A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's talks an EPA investigator into commiting suicide, then arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. After shaking hands with the man, Jonathan Kent inexplicably agrees to sell. Lex offers to have his lawyers help. Meanwhile, Clark befriends a local recluse. It turns out that the recluse and Lex's rival were both salesmen who were caught in a car accident and exposed to kryptonite. They both gained the same power of "persuasion" on anyone they touched, as the recluse graphically demonstrates to Clark by having Chloe kiss him! Lex's rival finally manages to shake hands with Lex, and convince him to try and gun down Clark. Clark manages to knock out Lex and the recluse takes out his former partner, "convincing" him to shoot himself. The recluse decides to go back into the world, but not before telling Clark that he shouldn't hide from his powers either.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Doris Egan
8.2/10 4 votes#8 - Two Pair
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/8/2004
Tru faces a new dilemma when her day fails to restart after a body asks for help. Fearful that her gift has deserted her, Tru is shocked later that day when a different body's plea forces the day to restart. Now, she must race against the clock to save two people on the same day in different parts of the city. Jack reveals a bit about his sinister intentions.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Doris Egan
8.2/10 4 votes#9 - Grace
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/2005
When a psychiatrist is gunned down, Tru tries to identify the killer… but Jacks meddling implicates her in the murder.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: Doris Egan
8.1/10 11 votes#10 - Sex and Death
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2020
A terminal cancer patient is determined to live the last few months of his life without inhibition; Dr. Reznik must confront her relationship with her mother when she comes in for a third opinion from Dr. Glassman.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Doris Egan
8.1/10 13 votes#11 - Hourglass
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2001
An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Doris Egan
8.0/10 6 votes#12 - Rendition
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2011
As the Torchwood team is reunited, Jack realizes he's the most vulnerable man on Earth. A flight to the United States turns into a desperate battle for survival.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Doris Egan
8.0/10 25 votes#13 - The Social Contract
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/2009
House 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 causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: Doris Egan
8.0/10 8 votes#14 - The Uncertainty Principle
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/18/2021
Dr. Morgan Reznick discovers her patient’s wealth and obsession with extending his life is a dangerous mix that could end up costing more than he can afford.
Director: Gary Hawes
Writer: Doris Egan
7.9/10 29 votes#15 - Birthmarks
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2008
While 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 mysterious circumstances.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Doris Egan
7.8/10 33 votes#16 - Son of Coma Guy
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2006
House decides to awaken a comatose patient so he can question the man regarding the family history of his son, who may have a genetic condition and the father is the only living relative. Meanwhile, Wilson confronts House about the stolen prescription pad as Tritter approaches Cameron, Chase, and Foreman in an attempt to divide the team and reveal their loyalties.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Doris Egan
7.8/10 12 votes#17 - Take My Hand
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2019
As a conspiracy theorist questions Dr. Neil Melendez’s diagnosis, Dr. Claire Brown treats a woman whose inability to feel pain is threatening both her marriage and her life. Meanwhile, Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Aaron Glassman each face crises in their romantic relationships.
Director: Tara Nicole Weyr
Writer: Doris Egan
7.7/10 29 votes#18 - The Right Stuff
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2007
House is secretly trying to treat a fighter pilot who is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. Her diagnosis will be the test to choose which ones of the 40 applicants are going to take the empty spots in his team.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Doris Egan
7.7/10 6 votes#19 - Kissed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/2013
A Portuguese prince offers much-needed aid to Scotland if Mary accepts his marriage proposal and break things off with Francis. Elsewhere, Francis' feelings for Mary lead him to put Bash in a risky situation.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Doris Egan
7.7/10 24 votes#20 - Known Unknowns
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2009
After a wild night out, a teenage girl is brought to Princeton Plainsborough with severely swollen appendages. The team must work to diagnose the young girl, who is less than honest about what happened the night she fell ill. As her condition worsens, she becomes unable to distinguish fact from fiction. Meanwhile, Cuddy, Wilson and House spend a weekend away from the hospital to attend a medical conference, but things don’t go as planned when House’s private investigator, Lucas returns.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Doris Egan
7.7/10 23 votes#21 - V.
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/2014
Bonny confesses. Rackham makes a life-altering decision. Richard forces Eleanor's hand. A chess match is organized for Flint and the Walrus crew.
Director: Marc Munden
Writer: Doris Egan
7.6/10 30 votes#22 - Now What?
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2010
House and Cuddy are exploring the ramifications of those feelings and attempting to make a real relationship work. Meanwhile, due to a colleague's illness, Princeton Plainsboro is left without a neurosurgeon on site, threatening the hospital's accreditation as a Level 1 Trauma Center. As the team attempts treatment to get their sick colleague back to work, they discover there is more to the illness than they originally suspected and turn to House for direction. Instead, House remains elusive, leaving the team on its own.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Doris Egan
7.5/10 15 votes#23 - Long Walk Home
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/19/2019
After a harrowing journey of survival through the swamp, Avery comes face to face with Swamp Thing, who rescues the injured man and helps his recovery.
Director: E.L. Katz
Writer: Doris Egan
7.5/10 28 votes#24 - 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
7.5/10 4 votes#25 - Pollo Loco
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/24/2001
Logan is tipped off by a friend at the morgue to a murder victim with a bar code tattoo on his neck. He tells Max who then investigates. Max reads the bar code to be that of fellow X5 escapee, Ben. However, the murder victim is not Ben. While she is viewing the body, Lydecker shows up to confiscate the body and close the investigation. Max hides. After another body with the same bar code shows up, Max investigates the crime scene. While at the scene, Max has several flashbacks that make it clear to her that the real Ben is re-enacting a traumatic Manticore training exercise where a prisoner was hunted down and savagely murdered. Max herself participated in the exercise. Max remembers Ben had an obsession with a religious icon after a Manticore janitor gave him a card with her image. It looks to be an image of the Virgin Mary, but the young Manticore soldiers call her the blue lady. Max goes to a local church and a priest befriends her. Later, the priest is abducted by Ben, who tatt
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Doris Egan