Exellent episode. The Chase/13 thing was already being foreshadowed last season. House/Cuddy was superb, i really don't get those fans that only want House and team solving a case every week and only have it be about that which is just plain boring shit, the cases are meaningless, they don't matter in the long run. For me it's about House as a humanbeing and as a person how he changes,evolves. And in this episode they confront that right off the bat, House will not change, he is who he is, the thing they are trying to figure out now is can they make it work. I think the real problem might be House being a father-figure for Cuddy's kid.
At the end of the episode he finally says it back to Cuddy, i think her response to him saying this wasn't gonna work was perfect. And that was what in the end made him secure enough to tell her. You have to remember that House never had a problem with loving women, the problem came for the betrayel said women do. One is a permanent reminder, his leg, which Cuddy very nicely kissed/healed/accepted this episode. The other was just last season, the woman he met at the rehab centre. Both times he's crazy in love and happy and both times said women cost him something dearly.
I agree, just like last season. The seasons opener were all about House(which i loved) after he got out of rehab we got the usual boring case every week interjected with a little bit of personal development. There is something for everyone.