House seeks out wealthy patients who can provide him with funding, but the rest of the hospital staff is also working to push House to return to his bad behavior so that Foreman will have to fire him, resulting in House's return to jail. Park is his only employee, and House must convince Adams and other doctors to donate their services to help him. House is put on a short leash, and the hospital lacks the funding to provide him with a proper team. However, all is not well at the hospital.
He receives a cold welcome from James Wilson, but after a cathartic punch to the nose, the two men reconnect. With one new team member established, he soon meets a bright but timid resident, Chi Park, and adds her to his growing entourage of no-cost doctors as well. House accepts the offer and gets out of prison, eventually reconnecting with a doctor who worked in the infirmary who he's made unemployable, Jessica Adams. With House looking at serving at least another six months, the new Dean of Medicine, Eric Foreman approaches House with an offer to return to work. Although he plans to withdraw from the practice of medicine, it appears the real co-dependent relationship is between House and the hospital. He blows a chance for early parole in order to prove a fellow patient's diagnosis. However, it turns out that he didn't even try to get a lesser sentence and took a one-year term without complaint. House starts the year in prison, serving out a long term for his various misdeeds in Moving On.
Production of Season 8 was somewhat delayed and the season did not begin airing until October 3, 2011. However, Fox was getting ready to announce its fall schedule and any further delay would have meant scheduling difficulties once the fall season started if it did not find a replacement series. NBC Universal had already agreed to extend Fox's option to pick up the series to April 15, 2011, but that date passed without an agreement having been reached. Fox and the show's producers NBC Universal were at an impasse over responsibility for continuing production costs of the series, but those issues were finally settled. would be renewed for its eighth season for 2011-2012. Fox Television announced on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, that House, M.D.