S5 · E24
Both Sides Now
What Happened Last Episode
• A ballerina's lungs collapsed during a performance.
• Treatment caused her skin to fall off, threatening her life.
• The team devised careful methods to test her fragile body.
• House suffered from suspected insomnia and sought desperate remedies.
Key Characters
Gregory House
Realizes his night with Cuddy was a hallucination and voluntarily commits himself to psychiatric care.
Lisa Cuddy
Witnesses House's psychotic break and watches him leave for a psychiatric hospital.
James Wilson
Reconnects with House by kidnapping him to attend his father's funeral together.
Eric Foreman
Takes charge of the patient case as the team reels from Kutner's death.
Robert Chase
Pushes Cameron on their relationship and she agrees to move in together.
Allison Cameron
Postpones vacation with Chase to lead House's case on an environmental activist.
Chris Taub
Discovers Kutner's body and grapples with intense guilt over missing warning signs.
Thirteen
Deeply shaken by Kutner's death, confronting her own mortality and grief.
Lawrence Kutner
Found dead in his apartment from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Nurse
Provides nursing support at Princeton-Plainsboro during the team's new cases.