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He showed an aptitude for science at an early age and his favorite Christmas present was a chemistry set that he received when he was nine. He showed great promise in high school, winning a Westinghouse Science award for an experiment involving dark matter. His adoptive parents mused that he showed a freethinking, inventive streak from a young age.
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Thirteen continues to look around, and then her smile turns into a combination of fright and disbelief as she finds Kutner lying in a pool of blood. She mutters 'Oh God' and rushes to him with Foreman following. They try to revive him, and Foreman calls for an ambulance.
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He is played by Kal Penn.[2] He becomes a member of House's new diagnostic team in "Games", the ninth episode of the fourth season. He commits suicide in season 5, episode 20, "Simple Explanation"; he makes a further appearance as a hallucination at the end of season five and season eight. Fans of the show "House" were left stunned in 2009 when Kal Penn's character, Dr. Lawrence Kutner, was abruptly killed off via suicide. What made the character's death extra jarring was that producers decided to leave Dr. Kutner's reasons for taking his own life a mystery.
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He admitted it was a miserable job, but he wasn't miserable doing it. However, Kutner did have a dark side, bullying a boy named Jonathan, although it appeared to be more in the nature of social ostracism rather than physical violence. He apologized to Jonathan after seeing the results of the bullying of one of his patients in "Joy to the World". Kutner returned as House's hallucination in the Season 8 finale, Everybody Dies.
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There was a disconnect between Penn's life in Hollywood and becoming a White House staffer, as was evidenced when he was filling out paperwork to start the job. One question asked why he had been fired from jobs in the past. "And I wrote, 'Fired for not being funny enough,'" Penn recalled to The New York Times in 2011. Despite the discrepancies in employment history between himself and co-workers, Penn fit in rather seamlessly. "He did a lot of grunt work and did a lot of unglamorous work and basically did the job of a consummate D.C. staffer," Jon Lovett, a speechwriter for the Barack Obama administration told the Times. Indeed, Penn's White House gig was a departure from Hollywood.
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He suggests that the rest of the team are idiots for not seeing something coming. Foreman agrees that they should have seen something, but Thirteen is angry at being held accountable, and reminds them that twenty-five percent of suicidal people show no outward signs of depression. Taub calls Kutner an idiot and says he feels pity, not guilt.
She has a strong desire to learn new things and is a lifelong learner. She likes to write short stories, and articles and listen to music in her spare time. While first feeling like he was losing his “touch” when judging people, House later realized that Kutner had committed suicide. In the episode “Simple Explanations,” Kutner committed suicide despite his accomplishments. Kutner is open-minded about any new experience and wants to join House’s new squad.
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"Kutner wanted to die," Taub says, refusing to leave because he knows Charlotte wouldn't want him to. Chase notices that the liver is scarred, so it's not rheumatoid arthritis, but the surface is rough and bumpy. Thirteen performs a MRI on Charlotte, who admits that although she loves Eddie and believed he loved her, he never really showed affection or spent time with her during their 30-year marriage. Meanwhile, Taub runs the echo on Eddie, who thinks that his cancer might be in spontaneous remission and confesses that he wished he had more time to spend with his wife and make up for the past. Taub is skeptical that Eddie really means what he said about his wife. Taub sees that Eddie's heart chamber walls are barely moving.
In "Emancipation", Kutner was able to identify with the patient when he believed that she had lost her parents. Kutner's kindness was further shown when House cheats in Secret Santa, he states, "I'm still getting him a present," even though other members of the team object to this idea. Kutner is a science fiction fan and seems to be easily distracted by pretty women, having asked out Amber Volakis at the end of the contest. However, at the end of "Wilson's Heart", while other characters are shown to be visibly upset over Amber's death, he spends the night after her death eating cornflakes while watching television.
House never saw Kutner's suicide coming even though he sees everything coming. Taub briefs House that Charlotte's body has become infected all over. They run through possibilities, but House remembers Charlotte was a neglected housewife who always wanted to go to Rio. He rushes to the ICU room, followed by Taub, and asks Charlotte about her trip to Rio. She went to Rio instead of visiting her sister in Hawaii like she told Eddie. They have disease-bearing sand flies on the beaches in Brazil, which means she has visceral leishmaniasis.
He sidelines police investigation and focuses his entire attention on this “supposed” murder rather than diagnosing and treating his patients. House returned to Kutner’s apartment later in the episode and claimed he had been murdered, although this was mainly because House could not accept the notion that he had not anticipated Kutner’s suicide. At his death, Kutner appeared to be the most brilliant of the fellows in diagnostic medicine.
Cameron speaks with Eddie and explains that they can't tell Charlotte what they are planning. He only has a couple of days to live with his weak heart, but at least his liver will help his wife survive. Taub and Thirteen rush to treat Charlotte, who broke into a cart to inject herself with whatever she could grab. Thirteen figured she was trying to make herself worse again so that Eddie might start to improve, but Taub tells a stunned Thirteen that Charlotte was trying to kill herself. Cuddy is surprised that Wilson hasn't come to talk to House yet.
House felt as though he was losing his "touch" about assessing people but later came to the realization that Kutner did commit suicide. The impact of her death on the other characters and Wilson and House's friendship formed a major plot point well into the 5th season. Amber becomes the patient in Wilson's Heart (where, according to her admission bracelet, she was admitted on March 12, 2007), wherein she experiences multiple organ failures as the disease progresses. At the end of the episode, she died in Wilson's arms as the machines were shut down, and her death left him devastated. In House's Head, House is tormented by broken memories after a bus crash where he saw an unknown disease. At the very end of the episode, following a period of cardiac arrest induced by Alzheimer's medication, it is revealed that Amber was the patient he had seen die.
The upheaval at the end of House's third season — which saw the original team of Foreman, Cameron, and Chase coming to an end — can still shock viewers. It's rare for a successful show to wipe out its own winning formula and start over. In "Frozen", his idea that the patient's symptoms were the result of an embolysm led House to the right result. In "No More Mr. Nice Guy", Kutner beat House to the punch, coming up with the final diagnosis based on something House did to mislead the team. Finally, in "Locked In", Kutner beats everyone to the diagnosis.
House had been drunk at a bar and called Wilson to pick him up, but Amber was the one who answered the call and followed him onto the bus. Despite her dominating personality easily overshadowing Wilson's, she seemed to genuinely care for him, telling House that for the first time in her life, she had both love and respect and didn't have to choose. House and Amber quickly developed an adversarial relationship, bickering over 'Wilson's shared custody'. However, Wilson settles into Amber's apartment, and it appears the relationship is going to be permanent. Later that night, House lets Eddie know that he figured out that his heart failure was caused by a fungal infection called cardiac blastomycosis, which is treatable.
Foreman turns the conversation back to the patient, who has been tending to her husband with heart failure for the last six months. Thirteen enters with the news that Charlotte wants to be released so that she can be with her husband who she claims has gotten stronger since she stopped breathing. A nurse tends to Eddie Novack as he lies dying in his bedroom, surrounded by his friends and wife. Eddie sends everyone out of the room except his wife Charlotte. Through strained breath, Eddie apologizes to his wife for not taking her to Rio before he passes. Suddenly, Charlotte can't breathe and starts choking from acute respiratory failure.
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