This is the best episode of the series. There are many puzzling, mind-blowing episodes of House. We all love them. But never before or after an episode hits you this hard.
The main theme of this season was "Do everything right and things still go bad." And the main theme of the episode was exactly that. The patient even says something like that. Doing everything right, treating everyone nice yet a building collapses on you.
I like this show because underneath the brainy surface there is an emotional core. Chase is usually at the center of the emotional scenes and parts. Sometimes it's House and sometimes the others.
The best one is this episode. We buy that Hugh Laurie certainly can play a brilliant doctor but he can also play a guy who just lost his mind brilliantly.
Overall, I know there are more experimental, more sophisticated episodes but this one hit me the most, so I declare that, for me, this is the best episode of House.
You can't always get what you wanted.
The one sentence core of the show.