9.4/107 votes#1 - Unconditional
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 5/14/2024
Dr. Claire Browne returns from her work in Guatemala for a personal medical examination. Elsewhere, Dr. Glassman struggles to manage Hannah, who remains unresponsive to his attempts to help. Park seeks out the perfect last-minute wedding location.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
9.0/102 votes#2 - Dropping Bombs
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2016
The CIU team tries to exonerate a political activist with suspect views who is serving a life sentence for bombing a mosque and killing an influential Imam and three followers.
Director: Liz Friedlander
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.9/108 votes#3 - Critical Support
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2024
Shaun continues to be tested by Charlie when their newest case prompts her incessant stream of questions – all in pursuit of an answer. Meanwhile, Morgan struggles on who to name as guardian for Baby Eden should anything happen to her.
Director: James Genn
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.8/106 votes#4 - Rebellion
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2022
Now that Shaun has called off the wedding, he is forced to confront Lea about their relationship and determine what he really means to her. Meanwhile, the team debate their opinions on plastic surgery and Dr. Audrey Lim hopes to expose Salen’s cover-up over an infant’s death to take her down before it is too late.
Director: Gary Hawes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.7/106 votes#5 - Shrapnel
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2022
The team operates on a military reenactor whose attempt at authenticity has created an explosive predicament that even Dr. Shaun Murphy couldn’t predict. Meanwhile, Dr. Jordan Allen and Dr. Daniel Perez are on a race against time as they search for a severed foot.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
- 8.4/1011 votes
#6 - Heartbreak
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/2020
Claire and Shaun treat a patient with a rare form of dwarfism. Reznick, Lim and Park treat a young man who had both arms torn off in a previous farming accident. Shaun reacts to an emotional situation.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.2/1029 votes#7 - Out of the Chute
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/2011
The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.2/1026 votes#8 - Two Stories
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/2011
House participates in a school’s Career Day and breaks a few rules by sharing explicit medical stories. Waiting outside the principal’s office, he meets two fifth-grade students who assess House’s relationship woes and try to help him understand how his selfish antics get in the way of showing Cuddy how he really feels.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.2/1018 votes#9 - Breakdown
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2019
Dr. Shaun Murphy is desperate to join the team on a dangerous procedure involving a patient’s tumor removal. However, having been removed from the surgery team by Dr. Jackson Han, Shaun must use his talents to help figure out the cause of an infant’s injuries.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.1/1011 votes#10 - Unsaid
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/2020
Despite everyone else’s doubts, Shaun is hopeful that Carly is truly fine with his friendship with Lea. The team treats a young boy born without a fully formed trachea and unable to speak, and who may be a good candidate for an experimental procedure.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.0/1042 votes#11 - Detox
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/15/2005
Dr. House takes Cuddy's challenge to go off his painkillers for a week, but the effects of his withdrawal symptoms may put his patient in danger.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.0/108 votes#12 - Measure of Intelligence
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2021
Shaun confronts Salen about the many changes she has implemented since coming on at St. Bonaventure. Glassman is forced to accept his new role at the hospital.
Director: Anne Renton
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.9/1027 votes#13 - 5 to 9
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2010
During a day in the life of Princeton Plainsboro's Dean of Medicine, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the inner workings of the hospital are seen through her eyes. This day proves to be especially trying as Cuddy wrestles with myriad hospital issues and staff disputes that test her perseverance and skills as an administrator, all while juggling issues in her personal life.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.9/1021 votes#14 - Islands (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2018
The twins suffer complications from their surgery forcing the team at San Jose Boneventure Hospital to make a life-changing decision. Meanwhile, Dr. Shaun Murphy returns to the hospital after his trip with Lea and decides he needs a more permanent change and gives Dr. Aaron Glassman his two weeks’ notice.
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.9/1018 votes#15 - Aftermath
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2019
In the aftermath of the quarantine, the staff tries to return to their normal routines. Meanwhile, as Dr. Lim recovers from the virus, she and Dr. Melendez navigate their new personal and working relationship, while Dr. Murphy and Dr. Glassman visit Lea.
Director: Dawn Wilkinson
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.9/108 votes#16 - Decrypt
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/2021
When the hospital is hit with a cyberattack threatening to shut down life-saving machines, Lea rises to the challenge and looks to outsmart the hackers to prove herself. Meanwhile, the team treats an inspirational cancer survivor-turned-successful-philanthropist who harbors a dark secret.
Director: Freddie Highmore
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.9/108 votes#17 - 365 Degrees
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 2/6/2023
Shaun invites Aaron to stay with him while he has exterminators at his house and Lea realizes both men have a lot more in common than she realized. Meanwhile, Dr. Morgan Reznick wrestles with a big decision about her career and her personal life.
Director: Rebecca Moline
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.8/1040 votes#18 - Heavy
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/29/2005
Dr. House and his team try to uncover the reason a 10-year-old has a heart attack while House suspects one of his team is selling him out to Vogler.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
- 7.8/108 votes
#19 - Forgive or Forget
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 5/24/2021
Shaun and Lea go on a camping trip to distract themselves from their grief over their miscarriage. Meanwhile, Morgan and Park argue about the best course of treatment for their patient.
Director: Lee Friedlander
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.7/1037 votes#20 - Kids
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/3/2005
House and his team race to diagnose a 12-year-old's illness - an illness with a shocking origin - and House asks Cameron to come back to her job.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.7/1025 votes#21 - Instant Karma
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2009
A wealthy businessman brings his teenage son, who is suffering from inexplicable stomach pains, to Princeton Plainsboro and insists on having Dr. House handle the case. The father of the patient believes the karmic penalty of his financial success is that he is victim to personal tragedy, and that the answer to his son's medical mystery lies in a reverse of fate rather than medical treatment. Meanwhile, Foreman and Chase prepare to present information on the Dibala case.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.7/103 votes#22 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2015
Milt survives a car bombing and enlists Russ to track down his would-be assassin, leading to startling revelations about why Milt is the way he is and what brought him to Battle Creek.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.7/1028 votes#23 - Pipes
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2017
Dr. Neil Melendez and the team have to wade through legal waters when a husband and wife have to make a life-changing decision about their unborn child. Meanwhile, Dr. Shaun Murphy struggles to adjust to his new environment at home and makes a huge step forward with his colleagues.
Director: Stephen DePaul
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.7/1022 votes#24 - 36 Hours
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018
Dr. Melendez, Dr. Brown and Dr. Park have given a young married couple two choices about their future: save the wife’s life or their future ability to start a family. Meanwhile, when Dr. Lim has to take care of some personal business, she leaves oversight of the emergency room to Dr. Murphy and Dr. Reznick; and Dr. Glassman’s post-op recovery leaves him struggling to get the rest he needs for recovery and also confronting his relationship with his daughter.
Director: Larry Teng
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.6/1031 votes#25 - Human Error
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/29/2007
A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft... to see House about the wife's heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.
Director: Katie Jacobs
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
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"Unconditional" is the best rated episode written by Thomas L. Moran. It scored 9.4/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Mike Listo. It aired on 5/14/2024 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Dropping Bombs".