House Season 6 Episode 14: Five to Nine
Five to Nine covers a day in the life of Health Administrator Lisa Cuddy. Cuddy faces multiple obstacles and problems throughout her day, some may say even more than a typical day. Cuddy gets called a bitch many times in the episode, some jokingly by Lucas but others by staff and patients angry with her. Its not an easy day for Cuddy.
Cuddy wakes at 5:00 a.m. to find her daughter is ill with a temperature. Marina, the nanny, arrives to take care of baby Rachel. Lucas arrives home from a stakeout of a client having asked House to stakeout with him for advice on the case. Cuddy has an important meeting today with the board and with the hospital’s insurance carrier, and needs to work on her proposal before the meetings begin. Lucas gets amorous with Cuddy, her blackberry rings with an emergency call from House and she ignores it. After a disappointing quickie session which doesn’t go well, Lucas apologizes and Cuddy heads to the hospital, late for work.
Cuddy arrives at the hospital only to be bombarded with requests from employees, no doubt a typical senario for her work day. House walks with Cuddy, telling her about his stakeout with Lucas. Cuddy discovers Lucas told House they have sex every morning. House bet Lucas that a phone call that morning from House would stop their quickie. House tells Cuddy about needing the O.R. for his patient soon. Cuddy brushes House off.
A college football star hits all the right marks during a game and is set to compete in NFL tryouts the next week. Suddenly lineman Daryl Bartlett becomes aggressive with other players then hits himself in the forehead with his own helmet, injuring himself. Daryl’s strange behavior and injuries land him in the hospital.
TV viewers who watched Bryan Cranston as the father on Malcolm In The Middle know Cranston for his great comic acting. Proving with two best actor emmys that great comics also make the best dramatic actors, Cranston stars in Breaking Bad on AMC. If you haven’t seen the series yet you are missing great television. 
A porn movie is being filmed and the lead actor Hank Hardwick suddenly starts screaming in pain from the movie lights and 911 is called. Cameron and Chase talk about Dibala. Cameron tells Chase she doesn’t agree with what he did ethically but will stand by him. Cameron suggests she and Chase leave their jobs at the hospital. Cuddy presents House with his reinstated medical license, meaning House is back in charge. Just then Cameron and Chase walk in to tell Foreman and House they are resigning. House decides to contact Thirteen and Taub hoping to convince them to rejoin the team. 
The popular NBC TV series Southland has been picked up by TNT. NBC renewed then canceled Southland’s second season abruptly even after a good showing in the series first year. Southland is a fast moving gritty action drama following a police unit in Los Angeles. The show stars Benjamin McKenzie, (”The O.C.”) as new police officer Ben Sherman and Michael Cudlitz (”A River Runs Through It”) as John Cooper, the seasoned professional assigned to train the rookie cop. Warner Bros. owns and produces Southland and the same corporation owns TNT, making this deal easier to make for the sake of saving the new series. 
Police detective Donny Comson and his partner are chasing a suspect when Donny jumps from the rooftop to catch the suspect, misses and falls to the ground. Taken to Princeton Plainsboro’s ER with broken bones, Comson’s partner tells Cameron and the hospital staff his partner takes extreme chances because he believes he is going to die at 40 like his father and grandfather. Cameron believes House can help Comson.
When billionaire Roy Randall touches any business deal its golden, but all his money can’t fix his son Jack who is slowly dying of a disease seventeen doctors have not been able to diagnose. Randall goes to Princeton-Plainsboro to beg Cuddy to let House treat his son. House is still not licensed so Foreman heads the team to treat Randall’s son. Foreman still feels uncomfortable being the head of the team when House continues to influence medical decisions. Cuddy informs Foreman he must speak at the Morbidity and Mortality conference about the errors in Dibala’s case, which concerns Chase and Foreman.
This week’s episode finds Dr. Gregory House back from the asylum and returning to his normal life, at least his “new” normal life after therapy. House has moved in with Wilson and is having run-ins with Wilson’s disagreeable neighbor, a Vietnam vet who lost his arm during the war and threatens to sue House for trespassing in his apartment. Thirteen and Foreman try hashing out their differences after Thirteen’s firing, with Foreman trying to hire her back, all leading to problems in their relationship. While Cuddy assigns Foreman to head up the medical team in House’s absense, House decides he will sit in as an observer on their newest case, an African dictator named Dibala who may have been poisoned during his trip to the United Nations.
NBC announced today that Southland has been pulled from the schedule, two weeks before the second season premiere. Citing a “lack of available time slots” because it was too “dark and gritty” for 9PM, the show and its distributors are left hanging with six completed episodes and nowhere to go.
