Penn's character, Dr. Lawrence Kutner , shot himself to death on Monday's episode of the show. Kutner was one of the three medical interns working under Dr. Gregory House, played by the Emmy-winning Hugh Laurie.
He was assigned "Number 6" in the fellowship application process and in " The Right Stuff " he was assigned to accompany the patient to the hyperbaric chamber but when she started to have a heart attack he, against the advice of Jeffrey Cole , decided to use the defibrillator in the oxygen rich environment, starting a small fire and setting off the sprinkers in the process.
However, this incident merely earned him the attention of House. He nearly lost out when he snitched on another applicant and House fired him, but he turned his card over to become "Number 9" and when House tried to fire him again, he saved himself by coming up with the idea of using alcohol tolerance as a way of testing the patient's liver without having to chart it. As a result, he survived to the next episode. Kutner earned House's disapproval for wasting time when his strategy in the team challenge in " 97 Seconds " was to test the patient for everything they could think of.
Luckily, he and the rest of his team survived when the other team's actions cost the patient his life. When the numbers were removed from the contenders near the end of the process, House began referring to Kutner as "Former Foster Kid". This indicated that House was either aware of Kutner's boyhood tragedy before Kutner revealed it to Thirteen and thus to the audience in " Wilson's Heart ", or merely came to the conclusion through careful observation and deduction.
Kutner had more fun with the defibrillator in " Mirror Mirror ", when he nearly electrocuted himself when he defibrillated a soaking wet patient and the shock travelled through the paddles to knock him out. After attending a magic show with his new friend Cole and seeing the magician nearly drown, he was convinced there was something seriously wrong with him. When the patient got worse in the hospital, he suggested that the blood transfusion may be somehow to blame.
Kutner turned out to be right on both counts - the patient had lupus and the blood was the wrong type. As such, when Cole was given the opportunity to choose two applicants of whom House would fire one and chose Kutner and Amber Volakis , House became suspicious and realized Cole had made a deal with Cuddy to try to get rid of Kutner.
House fired Cole instead. As such, by the episode " Games " when House had to make his final choice of two applicants, he asked Cuddy's advice knowing that she would try to manipulate House.
Instead, he chose the applicants—Taub and Kutner—that Cuddy suggested. Cuddy finally admitted she only chose those two to get House to pick one of the women. She agreed to let House hire Thirteen too. After hiring him permanently, House began referring to him simply as "Kutner", but in " Emancipation " he made reference to the "Former Foster Kid" nickname by calling him "Oliver Twist". Kutner turned out to be an outstanding fellow.
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. Despite his success, Kutner committed suicide in the episode "Simple Explanations".
Stanford, where they actually let you do most of the course work online. The ultimate irony, of course, is that I love being on House. PENN: We had a very long discussion. PENN: Not necessarily. I still have. How did you react when you found out how they were writing Kutner out? Ultimately, it was a really interesting. And as a. The feeling would have been very different if I was not enjoying. But because I loved the job and. The contrast of knowing that. To be part. When did you first learn Kal was thinking of leaving House?
Chris Taub Peter Jacobson. Kutner was smart and passionate about his work, showing no outward signs of depression.
In "Simple Explanation," after he fails to show up for work, Thirteen and Foreman Omar Epps go to his apartment and find him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Kutner's coworkers are stunned by his suicide - none more so than Dr. House , who first lashes out at his consultants and blames them for missing the signs, and then thinks that Kutner must have been murdered.
Ultimately, however, he has to accept that Kutner committed suicide and there may never be a real explanation for it. Off-screen, there actually was a simple explanation for why Penn left the show. At the time Penn had read Obama's book but wasn't interested in getting involved in politics. Attending the event, however, changed his mind:.
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