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 the 2nd in command of the Van Graffs living in Silver Rush in Freeside 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.

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, but upstairs through the hard-locked door. You can either pick the lock, leave and come back, wait, or do some quests. In some cases he won't appear.
 * Sometimes, if the quest including Cassidy is done in conjunction with a Crimson Caravan quest relating to her, you can kill Cassidy for Jean-Baptiste. After doing this, you can return to him, and he will pay you and tell you to see Gloria about another quest. If you talk to Gloria, she will not have any new speech options. You can talk to Jean-Baptiste again, select the "she's dead" speech option, and make another 350 caps. This can be done over and over for unlimited caps.