Final we left ABC’s The Good Physician, Shaun had informed Lea that he may not marry her — and Monday’s midseason premiere did little to guarantee followers that the collection’ central couple would get their fortunately ever after.
What I discovered most fascinating was the collection 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 stated he wished to be along 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 considerations have 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 “adequate” for her. In spite of everything, “you informed me as soon as that you just 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 stated,” 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 latest 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 making an attempt 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 method regardless of what number of occasions I’ve tried,” she cried. “Is each mistake I make going to be one thing that you just maintain in opposition to me ceaselessly?”
In that second, Lea determined that she not wanted Shaun’s forgiveness. What’s extra, she was executed apologizing for serving to him. “What you’re saying is I’m not adequate for you,” she argued. “And if that’s what you are feeling, then possibly we shouldn’t get married. And possibly we shouldn’t even be residing collectively.”
Because the episode got here to an unsettling shut, Lea was seen crying in her automobile, whereas a teary-eyed Shaun was unfold out on their sofa reflecting on his horrible, horrible, no good, very unhealthy day.
Talking of unsettling circumstances, allow us to briefly talk about the end result of the autumn finale cliffhanger — and what’s doubtlessly nonetheless to come back. As you’ll recall, Ethicure’s penny pinching resulted within the avoidable dying of a untimely child. Salen managed to pay the child’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 accountable for the premie’s demise to state her case earlier than the state’s Lawyer Basic. Fremes was finally a no-show for the assembly, unwilling to half along with his severance and disavow his NDA for the nice of the hospital. In flip, the AG declined to analyze Lim’s claims, and presumably knowledgeable Salen that Lim went to see her, organising an all-out struggle between EthiCure’s CEO and St. Bonaventure’s chief of surgical procedure.
What did you consider The Good Physician‘s first episode again? Grade the midseason premiere by way of the next ballot, then go away a remark together with your full overview.
