Yeah, Andre did a great job. I really felt for him at his father's bedside. Although we never did find out who that woman was that HOuse saw him with ... I'm going for a daughter or other female relative.

This episode felt like a standalone movie to me, in a lot of ways. I really love how they kept House's obnoxious personality traits in full view of the everyone, at least in the first part, before he got real and started to get better.