Director Greg Yaitanes obtained the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for steering “House’s Head”, the first part of season four’s two-episode finale. The candidates for House’s new diagnostics team are season 4’s main recurring characters. Each of the four departs the show after elimination, except for Volakis, who appears all through the season, having started a relationship with Wilson. In the two-part season finale, Volakis attempts to shepherd a drunken House home when Wilson is unavailable. She reappears late in season 5 and again in the series finale as hallucinations by House. A important plot component is House’s use of Vicodin to manage ache, brought on by an infarction in the quadriceps muscle of his right leg five years earlier than the present’s first season, which also forces him to make use of a cane.
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