Jean-Baptiste Cutting

"One day Mama took me aside and said, "Boy, you're never going to go very far, but you're gonna make a whole lot of people come up short.""

 is a man living in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281.

Background
Half-brother to Frieda Van Graff and one of the escaped Tibbets prisoners, Jean-Baptiste was to play a fairly major role in the first act of Van Buren, but was only ever mentioned in Frieda's biography.

Interactions with the player character
Jean-Baptiste Cutting has extremely high health, more than most companions. The only reason for this seems to be to make him a "boss" character.

Quests

 * Birds of a Feather: Jean-Baptiste is one of the people that knows where Rose of Sharon Cassidy has disappeared to. You'll have an opportunity to pump him for information during this quest.
 * Tend to Your Business: You will have to kill Jean-Baptiste, Gloria and the other Van Graff thugs for the Brotherhood of Steel.

Appearances
only appears in Fallout: New Vegas. He was also going to appear in Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios.

Bugs

 * If Jean-Baptiste is killed, his body sometimes cannot be looted. On PC, you can access his inventory by entering "prid 10d8e5", then "OpenTeammateContainer 1".
 * If ammo is looted from him and you talk to him with Cassidy and allow him to kill her, he'll walk up to her with his gun drawn but will never shoot, forcing you to reload the game because you will be stuck in place.
 * In some cases Jean-Baptiste will not be at the window nor in the bathroom, he is upstairs through the hard-locked door. You can either pick the lock, leave and come back, wait, do some quest or in some cases he won't appear.

Behind the scenes

 * He seems to be a reference to the character Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, from the movie The Fifth Element. In the movie, Zorg is a ruthless industrialist who made his fortune selling energy weapons.
 * May also be a reference to artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, who draw Roman Charity, a reference to Rose of Sharon in Grapes of Wrath