Final we left ABC’s The Good Physician, Shaun had advised Lea that he may not marry her — and Monday’s midseason premiere did little to guarantee followers that the sequence’ central couple would get their fortunately ever after.
What I discovered most attention-grabbing was the sequence harkening again to a dialog that Shaun and Lea had nearly precisely two years in the past, within the Season 3 episode “Post-mortem.” On the time, Carly had ended her relationship with Dr. Murphy, realizing that her boyfriend was very a lot in love with Lea. However when he confronted Lea and mentioned he wished to be together with her, Lea in flip intimated that his autism hindered any potential romance. After all, it was just a few brief weeks earlier than a catastrophic occasion introduced them collectively, and Lea’s earlier issues had been by no means talked about once more.
That each one modified on Monday. On the tail finish of Season 5’s eighth episode, “Insurrection,” Shaun requested Lea if she thought he was “ok” for her. In any case, “you advised me as soon as that you simply couldn’t be in a relationship with me due to my ASD,” he recalled.
“Is that what you assume?” Lea requested.
“It’s what you mentioned,” Shaun replied.
“A very long time in the past!” she exclaimed. “Are you severely telling me you don’t see a distinction in how I really feel about you? That I haven’t grown in any respect? That our relationship hasn’t grown?”
Lea went on to defend a few of her current actions, together with manipulating Shaun’s affected person satisfaction scores and taking a secret journey to Montana to retrieve Glassman. “All I used to be attempting to do was assist somebody that I like, to be there for you such as you’ve been there for me, however you simply can’t appear to see it that approach irrespective of what number of instances I’ve tried,” she cried. “Is each mistake I make going to be one thing that you simply maintain towards me perpetually?”
In that second, Lea determined that she not wanted Shaun’s forgiveness. What’s extra, she was completed apologizing for serving to him. “What you’re saying is I’m not ok for you,” she argued. “And if that’s what you’re feeling, then perhaps we shouldn’t get married. And perhaps we shouldn’t even be dwelling collectively.”
Because the episode got here to an unsettling shut, Lea was seen crying in her automotive, whereas a teary-eyed Shaun was unfold out on their sofa reflecting on his horrible, horrible, no good, very dangerous day.
Talking of unsettling circumstances, allow us to briefly focus on the result of the autumn finale cliffhanger — and what’s doubtlessly nonetheless to return. As you’ll recall, Ethicure’s penny pinching resulted within the avoidable loss of life of a untimely child. Salen managed to pay the infant’s mom off, then pressured hospital pharmacist Dr. Fremes out the door as quickly as he signed a non-disclosure settlement.
Lim, nonetheless incensed, was decided to take Salen down, however she wanted Fremes’ written proof that EthiCure was guilty for the premie’s demise to state her case earlier than the state’s Lawyer Basic. Fremes was in the end a no-show for the assembly, unwilling to half together with his severance and disavow his NDA for the nice of the hospital. In flip, the AG declined to research Lim’s claims, and presumably knowledgeable Salen that Lim went to see her, establishing an all-out struggle between EthiCure’s CEO and St. Bonaventure’s chief of surgical procedure.
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