Tonight on NBC their new medical drama “The Good Doctor” airs with an all-new Monday, February 28, 2022, episode and we have you The Good Doctor recap below. On tonight’s The Good Doctor season 5 episode, 8 called, “Rebellion,” as per the ABC synopsis, “Now that Shaun has called off the wedding, he is forced to confront Lea about their relationship and determine what he really means to her.
Meanwhile, the team debates their opinions on plastic surgery, and Lim hopes to expose Salen’s (Rachel Bay Jones) cover-up over an infant’s death to take her down before it is too late.”
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Tonight’s episode begins with Shaun waking up on the couch. Elsewhere, Audrey wakes up and goes for a run in the rain. Later, in the boardroom, Salen gives a speech that rubs Audrey the wrong way. In the elevator, she tells Aaron that “she” is going to lecture them on professional responsibility and a baby is dead because of her narcissistic need to be a disrupter instead of an administrator. Aaron reminds her that Salen is her employer. Audrey says she is taking her down.
Shaun is with Lea, he tells her that he can’t marry her. She tells him that they can figure out a way to work this out and he gets up and says he has to go to the ER.
A man comes into the ER, his name is Phil, Shaun and Alex do the initial assessment. He says that a woman told him that she only wanted to be friends, so he got drunk and crashed his car. Luckily the only thing that got hurt was him and a tree. Morgan meets with a patient who is 33, who had a Brazilian butt lift, she has severe surgical side infections with multiple abscesses. Morgan brings the case to Marcus, he gets the team on her case.
Audrey goes to see Lea, she asks for some documents – Lea suggests she go to Salen and Audrey doesn’t want to. Lea agrees to do it and will give her paper copies, they can’t be traced.
Salen goes to see Alma, she introduces herself and says she wants to offer her condolences. She tells her that Dr. Lin and Dr. Murphy were truly heroic in trying to save her baby’s life. But there was an error by one of their pharmacists that caused Dr.Murphy to briefly use expired medication. He quickly realized and corrected the mistake that probably had no effect, but it is still a mistake. They will cover all her medical expenses, and they will give her 200k for pain and suffering, plus counseling. She just needs her to sign the consent form so the department responsible can issue payment. Alma signs it.
Salen meets with the pharmacist, he wants his job. She tells him no, he is going to take a settlement, go away, and shut his mouth. He reluctantly signs it.
The woman who had the butt lift is having an MRI when she has chest pains and starts spitting up blood. Once she wakes up, she still wants her butt fixed, she says she didn’t get that surgery for anything and doesn’t care if she risks her life. In surgery, she starts to crash again, it is her heart. In the end, she had the worried, they removed multiple clots. It looks like she will be ok in the end.
Meanwhile, Phil is in surgery, his girl who friend-zoned him showed up at the hospital and feels really bad. After surgery, Shaun goes to Phil’s friend about how he is doing and he asks her why she can only be friends. She says she tried for a while, she tried to get past it, she was being shallow and she shouldn’t settle.
Lea got the information for Audrey, its a box of 4000 pages and she asks what she is looking for, Audrey says she is not sure. One by one, Audrey goes through the papers and finds that the deal is not closed, Salen doesn’t own the place. Audrey goes to see the pharmacist, she tells him that he is a scapegoat, this is Salen’s help and he needs to help her so he can look his kids in the eye one day. She convinces him, he asks her what she needs.
Aaron tells Shaun to give him a break where Lea is concerned, she is not shallow and didn’t mean saying that she never dated anyone like him before.
Later, Shaun meets with Aaron again who tells him that Lea is not settling, she loves him. Shaun gets a text and has to go.
Phil asks Shaun and Alex about Monica, they say she cares and was there. He says she pities him. Alex tells him to backoff and maybe she will come back to him. Shaun being Shaun, tells Phil that Monica will never come back to him, Alex said a woman who looked like that would never be with a man like him. Outside the room, Alex is upset, he tells Shaun to get his straight and focus on the job.
Audrey goes to see Aaron, she tells him that Salen didn’t buy the place yet. They have proof her policies would danger patients but she went ahead with it anyway. He agrees that Salen shouldn’t be running the hospital, but he doesn’t think she has enough. And, in the end, the pharmacist backs out anyway.
Phil is in surgery, Shaun and Alex are there – the surgery is successful. Later, Shaun meets Aaron in the cafeteria.
Audrey is with Jacqueline Plante, Audrey says that Salen consistently reduce the quality of care to boost profits. She is legally obligated to serve the whole community, not just the people with insurance. Audrey says she has a dead baby and that is Salen’s fault. And that will happen again and again unless she steps in to stop it.
Monica didn’t come back, Phil says good, he doesn’t want her feeling sorry for him. Alex tells him that he needs to learn to love himself first before someone else will love him.
Audrey is out running when she gets a call and she doesn’t look happy. Audrey heads to the hospital and Salen is there, she asks how her meeting was. She says she knows she went behind her back and tried to destroy her, she is never going to forget it.
Shaun is leaving the hospital, he looks up at his picture on the wall. Shaun is home, he walks in and tells Lea that he doesn’t want to cancel his wedding, they love each other, and are good for each other. He forgives her for changing his scores, he knows that she is just trying to help him. He asks if she thinks he is not good enough for her. She told him once that she couldn’t be in a relationship with him because of his ASD. She says that was before, she has changed and she only wanted to be there for him. She doesn’t need him to forgive her, she is done apologizing for trying to help him. She says, he is saying that she is not good enough for him, so maybe they shouldn’t get married and she will move out. She leaves. Lea is in the car crying, Shaun is laying on the couch, he has tears in his eyes.
THE END
