Basically, Kutner doesn't show up for work, so House sends Foreman and 13 out to collect him. They find him at home on the floor, having shot himself through the temple. (All we see are his feet, and later on the bloodstain on the floor.)
The police rule it a suicide, but House doesn't believe it, because there's no warning, no reason, nothing to indicate he was even considering it and it just doesn't make sense. He thinks it was a murder, possibly engineered by the man who killed Kutner's birth parents, but it turns out he'd died earlier of an aneurysm, I think. Everyone, of course, tries to pull House off this course. (I'd at one point wondered if they were going for Taub-killed-him-over-something, but it doesn't look like they were.) House, of course, does things along the way like tell Kutner's parents it was their fault he died, and get Wilson to go with him to Kutner's apartment to look around (this is when he decided it had to be a murder, not a suicide.)
By the end, House is accepting it's a suicide (or seems to), but is quietly angry about it. It ends with Kutner's funeral/burial.
The previews for next week indicate they're going to discuss the suicide further, but I don't know how much more info we'll get. :/ The Ausiello Files on EW.com are supposed to have interviews with Kal Penn and the producers up in a few hours so maybe we'll get a bit more background there....
Good grief! Now I am left wondering if the writers are PSA-ing, or using it as an extended House-centric metaphor (if it ends with him in Cuddy or Wilson's pants, I can probably live with it, no actual actors were harmed in the making of this story arc :-)
We did get a short PSA after the ep, and to be honest, the whole ep felt more like a PSA than the close of a character's narrative arc to me. Which frustrates me. I'd rather have seen Kutner struggling with his depression than not.
(I am so hoping for the return of Chase if they're going to put us through all this. *g* I want my floppy-haired, blond asshole back, dammit.)
The police rule it a suicide, but House doesn't believe it, because there's no warning, no reason, nothing to indicate he was even considering it and it just doesn't make sense. He thinks it was a murder, possibly engineered by the man who killed Kutner's birth parents, but it turns out he'd died earlier of an aneurysm, I think. Everyone, of course, tries to pull House off this course. (I'd at one point wondered if they were going for Taub-killed-him-over-something, but it doesn't look like they were.) House, of course, does things along the way like tell Kutner's parents it was their fault he died, and get Wilson to go with him to Kutner's apartment to look around (this is when he decided it had to be a murder, not a suicide.)
By the end, House is accepting it's a suicide (or seems to), but is quietly angry about it. It ends with Kutner's funeral/burial.
The previews for next week indicate they're going to discuss the suicide further, but I don't know how much more info we'll get. :/ The Ausiello Files on EW.com are supposed to have interviews with Kal Penn and the producers up in a few hours so maybe we'll get a bit more background there....
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(I am so hoping for the return of Chase if they're going to put us through all this. *g* I want my floppy-haired, blond asshole back, dammit.)
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