House’s shocking new episode deals with the difficult issue of suicide. When Dr. Lawrence Kutner (played by Kal Penn) doesn’t show up for work, Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) sends Foreman (Omar Epps) and Hadley (Olivia Wilde) to check on him. They go to Kutner’s apartment only to find him laying in a pool of blood, apparently having committed suicide with a single gunshot.

House being House spends the rest of the episode trying to figure out why Kutner would kill himself, while two of his patients, husband and wife, are desperately trying to save the other by donating their organs to each other therefore committing suicide to save their better half.

Kutner’s death is a mystery! Fox has launched a site in tribute to Dr. Lawrence Kutner (1975 - 2009) with a memorial video, obituary and various notes from House’s characters. You can check them here at fox.com/kutner.