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"The Social Contract"


House Episode Number: 17

House Season: 5

Original Air Date: March 9, 2009

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Special Guest(s): Jay Karnes (Nick); Susan Egan (Audrey); Darcy Rose Byrnes (Mika); Jodi Harris (Elaine); Devon Michaels (Timothy); Carlos Arellano (Nurse Gonzales); Sheri Foster (Cashier); Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse)



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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibition and starts insulting coworkers at a dinner party one night before falling ill. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe inhibition, which has caused him to lose his filter and vocalize all of his innermost thoughts, resulting in extremely insulting outbursts. As Nick’s free speech lends to some amusing and insightful comments regarding the team, he must deal with the consequences of being unable to lie to his wife and everyone else important in his life. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him when he catches them both in a lie. House is determined to get to the bottom of it.

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  • The song that plays at the end of the episode as House and Wilson leave the hospital is "The Shining" by Badly Drawn Boy



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5x17 The Social Contract

Kutner (Kal Penn, L) consults House (Hugh Laurie, R) and Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard, C) when the team treats a patient who can't stop himself from saying everything he's thinking - no matter who it hurts
5x17 The Social Contract

Foreman (Omar Epps, L) and Kutner (Kal Penn, C) treat a patient
(guest star Jay Karnes, R) who can't stop himself from saying everything he's thinking -
no matter who it hurts
5x17 The Social Contract

Kutner (Kal Penn, R) treats a patient (guest star Jay Karnes, L) who can't stop
himself from saying everything he's thinking, no matter who it hurts
5x17 The Social Contract
House and his team treat a patient (guest star Jay Karnes) who can't
stop himself from saying everything he's thinking - no matter who it hurts
  • 5x17 The Social Contract
Wilson keeps a secret from House


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