Helen Carey

House makes a last ditch effort to avoid jail time and the team takes on the case of a firefighter with a secret so guarded he’s willing to risk his life to keep it from being revealed.

Alicia attempts to obtain Lockhart/Gardner files as she prepares to leave the firm. Meanwhile, the firm hires Elsbeth Tascioni to represent them in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought on by an employee and Eli and Jackie disagree over how much influence she should have in Peter's administration. Carrie Preston Returns as Elsbeth Tascioni, Gary Cole Returns as Kurt McVeigh and Rita Wilson returns as Viola Walsh.

A woman is killed after her SUV is carjacked, and when Briscoe and Green finally locate the vehicle, there's a vial of SARS in the back. They find the killer, a young black man who signs a confession, knowing there's enough evidence against him to make his case almost hopeless. His victim, Anna Hopkins, worked for world-renowned biochemist/virologist Dr. Charles Blanchard, and he claims he knew nothing about the traveling SARS vial. But Anna's friend Kate tells a different story. She reveals to the cops that Anna would do anything Dr. Blanchard asked her to. Coincidentally, a SARS epidemic breaks out and the doctors at St. Mark's Hospital isolate "patient zero," a journalist named Janine Wilson, who just returned from a conference on infectious diseases in Toronto.

A porn star is murdered, and the prime suspect is her hot-headed publisher. However, when she is also murdered, the case become much more complicated.

Defying Freddie’s direct orders, Michael and his old partner, Pete McGonagle, intimidate a local merchant into selling them her store for half its worth. When the merchant goes to Tommy to complain, Tommy passes her off to police detective Declan Giggs, who used to date Tommy’s sister in high school. Declan compromises himself when he makes the complaint go away. Tommy’s efforts to stop the new highway, including a deal with the mysterious power-broker Judd, lead him to bribe and blackmail two of his fellow representatives. The conflict between Eileen’s public demeanor and private pain are thrown into relief when she learns that her sister-in-law is having medical problems.