The Good Doctor (2017–…): Season 3, Episode 5 - First Case, Second Base - full transcript

Dr. Andrews questions whether Shaun is really ready for his first surgery; Dr. Brown and Dr. Reznick have a patient whose diagnosis has them doubting his story.

[TELEVISION PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]

[CELLPHONE CHIMES]

[TELEVISION MUTES]

[CELLPHONE CHIMES]

[TELEVISION RESUMES]

Naughty thought.

How about we don't wait
12 minutes for our next kiss?

We would never see the end of the movie.

[SIGHS]

- [TELEVISION MUTES]
- Oh.

Mm.



It's better if we stick to the schedule.

[TELEVISION RESUMES]

Sure.

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

Didn't hear you come in last night.

So I'm guessing it went well at Carly's.

The end of the movie
was very predictable.

Not the question I was asking,

but you still managed to answer it.

Carly touches me when we kiss.

You don't like her touching you?

- Oh, I... I do.
- Oh.

But I prefer to touch only
one thing at a time.

Have you told her you prefer to
touch only one thing at a time?



In those exact words?

[CELLPHONE VIBRATING]

[SIGHS]

Oh!

Whatever it is, I'm definitely in.

My first lead surgery!

- Oh!
- Oh!

Shaun! That is awesome!

I am going to rock it!

Oh, hells to the yeah you are!

[GIGGLING]

♪♪

Oh!

♪♪

How you doing?

I'm good.

Thank you for helping me
with the sea lions.

I'll never say no to a caper.

But I'd like to keep my mother's
death between the two of us.

I just... I can't deal with
people's platitudes right now.

Okay, but that kinda suggests
you're not good.

This is textbook denial.

It's only going to inhibit
your grief process.

Denial is the first step
in the grief process,

so I'd say I'm right on track.

But thank you for your platitudes.

This is Curtis.

He decided to fix his chimney
without a safety harness.

He has open bilateral tib-fib fractures.

They wanted $1,200 for a two-hour job.

And I can still do a Hurricane Grind.

It's a skateboard move
that builds off a 180 Ollie.

I got great balance.

Pupils are slow to react.

Unfortunately, balance is less
great after a few cocktails.

Not me.

Clean and sober six years, three months,

and... and 24 days.

Get him on IV antibiotics
and to OR Level One.

And run a BAC.

I'm Dr. Shaun Murphy.

Your surgeon.

Esophageal cancer is a serious condition.

However, you don't have any remote

or metastatic disease

and responded well to chemoradiation,

so a resection of the esophagus

should render you cancer-free.

You look awfully young.

I always say, the younger they
are, the smarter they must be.

[LAUGHS]

Oh, oh, yes.

We will pull the stomach up
and attach it to the remains

of your esophagus, keeping your
GI system connected,

so you will not need
a permanent feeding tube.

My oncologist told me all this,

but I refused to believe it...

that it was all gonna be okay...

until I heard it from my surgeon.

[INHALES DEEPLY] Oh!

[VOICE BREAKING] I'm sorry, it's just...

I've been through a divorce
and a career change...

and I finally bought my own cafe...

three days before I got my diagnosis.

And I thought it was a sign
I was making a mistake.

But it was just the opposite.

I wasn't done.

Oh, I'm sorry...

I have to inform you
of the risks of this procedure.

There is a 7% chance
of heart and lung problems,

a 12% chance of infection,
a 0.5% of death, among others.

Bring it, Dr. Murphy.

[LAUGHS]

♪♪

Shaun got very lucky.

Landed the world's most genial
patient for his first case.

- Nice.
- Of you.

You picked that patient for him...

I heard it was Park's chart
before you stepped in.

Shaun's weakness is patient management.

You shouldn't be coddling him.

We challenge him too much, we lose him.

Murphy?

He perseveres. He's annoyingly resilient.

I agree that some failures
don't seem to faze him at all.

But it's his lifelong dream.

So, yes, I think we could lose him.

I'll tough-love his ass next week.

Okay, Curtis, we're good to go.

Curtis, my God. Are you okay?

I'm thinking I should've gone
with the contractor.

His thinking was impaired.

He had a blood alcohol level of .09.

Your test must be wrong.

You were quite inebriated
when you came in.

That's impossible. Curtis doesn't drink.

We'll make a note of it in his chart.

We've got to get him to the O.R.

You play softball?

Uh, my junior year in high school,

I had an ERA of 2.95.

My wife's got an arm.

I can't believe you're my wife.

Till death do us part.

Yeah.

Oh, you found Wally.

You have a name for it?

Yeah, he's my Walther PPK .32;

he and I go way back.

Is it loaded?

I mean, is this a problem?

'Cause I... I just...
I keep it in my bedside table,

in my gun safe... combination 7-3-5-9.

I'm not gonna remember that.

I don't want to remember that.

[SIGHS]

If we're gonna live together,

we're gonna need
to make some compromises.

[SAFE CLOSES]

[SIGHS]

You nervous?

How badly are you freaking out?

I'm not badly freaking out.

I've assisted in six
esophageal resections,

all of which were free of complications.

So you're overdue for a blow-up.

Sorry.

I'm just a bit annoyed

'cause I had my hand on this case first,

and now I'm third out of four, at best.

But I'm happy for you.

Really.

I'm happy for me, too.

She has extensive scar tissue.

And it's plastered her stomach
to her anterior abdominal wall.

I told her she wouldn't need
a permanent feeding tube.

But she will.

We've got to tell a budding chef
she'll never eat again.

How will she react?

Don't know.

Badly. But the specifics...

You should tell her.

She's your patient, it's your job.

I'm bad at patient communication.

If I make her very unhappy,

she may not want me to do the surgery.

If you're not willing to take that risk,

then you should hand
the case over to Park.

No. I don't want to hand
the case over to Dr. Park.

Park will tell Beth.

And, Shaun, it's still your surgery.

♪♪

MELENDEZ: Drill.

[DRILL WHIRRING]

Do you see his heart rhythm?

[WHIRRING STOPS]

Rate controlled A-fib.

Wasn't on his record.

Ask his wife about it post-op.

Probably a symptom of binge drinking.

Which he'll lie to us about and
she'll tell us she believes.

She's in denial?

♪♪

You had surgery as a child.

As a baby. I don't even remember it.

There's considerable scar tissue...

more than we'd typically expect to find.

Which has affected our surgical plan.

How?

Dr. Murphy will field that question.

No, Dr. Lim s-said...

Proceed, Dr. Murphy.

Somebody please tell me.

♪♪

We can't move your stomach up,
so you will need a feeding tube.

♪♪

For the rest of your life.

The good news is that
this surgery is simpler,

so your recovery time will be
shorter by three to five days.

♪♪

Hey.

Do any of you own a gun?

Is there someone you'd like
"taken care of"?

- Ah.
- I still have my service pistol.

I have a Sig P365.

Do any of you have, or have you ever had,

issues about it with
your significant others?

After our son was born,
my wife suddenly hated

having a firearm in the house.

And one night, I came home late to a...

PowerPoint presentation.

90 minutes of horrifying statistics.

Now it's in a locker at my gun range.

Lotta set up but I like that.

I had a boyfriend who felt very
weird about me having a gun.

He wasn't big on logic,

so I took the emotional approach.

Told him it's not for the firepower,

it's for the confidence it gives
me as a woman when I carry it.

CLAIRE: I lived with a guy who had a gun.

Had to use the nuclear option.

It goes or he goes.

It worked... they both went.

Well, that's just wonderful.

I heard your news.

It's pretty exciting.

I jumped seven times.

How's the anxiety level?

Why do people keep asking me that?

Everyone has doubts, Shaun.

I'm excited.

You can be excited. And nervous.

Usually they go together.

Speaking of, uh, I'm sorry if I was a bit

too assertive last night.

Lea said it must be tricky for you.

So now Lea is also privy to the
intimacies of our intimacy?

- Great.
- Yes.

♪♪

Oh.

Lea said to tell you

that I prefer to touch
only thing at a time.

♪♪

Located upper esophageal sphincter.

You have a good tumor margin...
resecting above or below?

- Below.
- Mm-hmm.

Shaun gave the news
to his patient after all.

Shaun did what I expected.

He upset her, but the news is upsetting.

She'll deal with it,
he'll learn how to...

She wants him off the case.

♪♪

- Shaun...
- No...

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

Shaun, I will find you another case.

This is my case.

I prepared for this case.

I don't want another case.

♪♪

Dr. Murphy...

♪♪

- [SIGHS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]

♪♪

You're learning, Shaun.

That's what you do
at a teaching hospital.

I'm learning, too.

Going from attending to Chief of Surgery

is... a big deal.

Every day, every decision,
every mistake...

I learn something.

So do you.

No, I don't.

I have a developmental disorder.

- Come with me.
- I'm waiting for my bus.

You can take a later one.

I'm sure I mentioned I was Chief?

Hi, Beth.

I'm sorry for what you're going through.

And Dr. Murphy's phrasing
was unfortunate.

But there's been no deceit or negligence.

He's an excellent surgeon

who has my full confidence in the O.R.

And if you don't trust him,
you don't trust me.

So, I would recommend

you have your surgery
at a different hospital.

I can make arrangements.

However, if you reconsider,
we can proceed as scheduled

first thing tomorrow morning.

♪♪

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If you don't want people to know
your mother died,

stop acting like someone
whose mother died.

I'm gonna move on to the second
stage of grief... anger.

I'm not acting depressed.

No, you're acting bitchy.

But you're not a bitch,
so that looks weird on you,

and people are gonna know something's up.

So, do you want me happier or sadder?

Let me know, because I'm really
looking for your approval.

Bitchy...

You really think this guy's
still on the wagon?

Just because he's a drunk
doesn't mean he's not sick.

But all you can see is an addict
married to an enabler,

so all roads lead to rum.

C'mon, that was cute.

No IV wall motion abnormalities.

No valvular disease or dysfunction.

Ruling out any structural cause
for the arrhythmia.

You win. Congratulations.

- Hey!
- GLASSMAN: Hey.

How was your day?

Good, good.

Pensive.

I was thinking about your gun
and why you need it...

- Oh, Aaron, I... I don't...
- No, no, no.

I was an idiot and a guy, I get it.

You walking alone
in a garage late at night,

you walking alone on the street
late at night...

Or getting into my own car,
or even my own house.

Exactly.

That's why I got you a surprise.

- Yeah?
- Right outside the back door.

[ALARM BLARING]

We have exactly 10 seconds
to punch in the code

before S.E.A.L. Team Six arrives.

- 7-3-5-9.
- [ALARM STOPS]

Every door, every window,
every vent over 36 inches.

This is your security fob.

Works in all 48 contiguous
states and Canada.

You have no idea how much extra
comfort this is gonna give me.

Actually, I was hoping it would be

your primary source of comfort.

[FOB CLACKS]

[SIGHS] You were thinking
that this would mean

I would give up my gun?

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Well, the first rule of security
systems is redundancy.

By that logic, we should get
a tank for the garage.

Aaron, it shouldn't matter
why I want a gun...

whether it's because it makes me
feel more secure,

or it was a memento of my dad's

or just because it's fun to shoot.

All that matters is I'm a grown-up,

and I'm responsible, and I want it.

♪♪

You're ruining Shaun.

Maybe you got him over the hump
of patient management,

but what about surgical management?

Taking charge of the O.R.,

keeping lines of communication
open, everyone cooperating.

You're throwing him into the deep end,

and that's unfair to him.

Unless you plan to scrub in
as a lifeguard.

He'll be fine.

You handpicked his surgical team?

♪♪

You're ruining him.

The tests prove his arrhythmia
is associated

with excessive ethanol consumption.

But there's no permanent damage

and his rhythm will return to normal

in the absence of any further drinking.

We met when we were 15.

I was first clarinet, he was second.

We were at a band festival
in Anaheim when he found out

his parents died in a plane crash.

We grieved together and fell in love.

Then he started drinking.

It wasn't until I threatened to
leave that he finally woke up.

The day he received
his two-year recovery chip

was the day we got married.

The day he vowed to me,

and a church full
of our family and friends,

that he would never drink again.

Our marriage is built on his sobriety.

♪♪

I believe him.

Teal, we ran the BAC three times,

and the results were consistent.

I believe in my husband.

I have to.

His BP is dropping.

Temp is normal.

Check for causes of shock.

♪♪

Upper GI bleed... need stat
hematocrits and transfuse blood.

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

STEVE: Surgery's the easy-peasy part.

You wanted this, enjoy it.

♪♪

I can't.

If I get distracted, if I get upset...

If you do, Andrews has your back.

If Dr. Andrews has to take over,
then I have failed.

I have failed, and I have
endangered a patient's life,

and if I'm no good
at the easy-peasy part,

then what part am I good at?

What do we do when we get
all nutty like this?

♪♪

Blow out the candles.

How many do you need?

Three.

♪♪

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

♪♪

Hey. I was looking for you.

Big day, huh?

How are your nerves holding up?

I'm not nervous.

Of course you're nervous.
Everybody's nervous.

It just means that you care.

Being nervous means I feel
inadequate and unprepared,

and if I am either of those things,

it doesn't matter whether I care or not.

You are more than adequate,
and you're very prepared.

You remind me of a...
a young surgeon I knew once.

The day he got his first lead,
he was thrilled,

but he was a mess, trying to
remember a million things,

imagining a million things
that could go wrong.

But then he remembered the birth process,

how moms are asked to pick a focal point,

- let everything filter through that.
- Hmm.

So, he chose the color orange
to focus on.

This is the cap that he focused on,

and he got through it with flying colors.

Maybe it'll help.

♪♪

Why do you have the young surgeon's cap?

I was being coy.

The young surgeon was me.

♪♪

[MAN SPEAKING JAPANESE ON TELEVISION]

[DOOR CLOSES]

CARLY: Konnichiwa.

That's Japanese for hello.

Konnichiwa. I have surgery in 42 minutes.

Which is why I'm here, to wish you luck.

- [VIDEO STOPS]
- I don't need luck.

Everyone needs luck.

That was a good luck kiss.

How can a kiss give you...

So was that.

I am feeling a bit lucky.

You know the thing that Lea
told you to tell me?

Yes.

That was actually great advice.

It's important that we tell each other

exactly what we like and what we don't.

I also don't like pickles,
sirens, anything wool...

I was thinking more in the romantic area.

And right now, we are not going
to touch lips anymore.

Because there's something else
I want you to touch.

♪♪

[GASPS]

♪♪

So, what do you think?

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

♪♪

You don't have any lumps.

Win-win.

♪♪

[MONITOR BEEPING]

Lab and imaging tests rule out Crohn's,

gastroenteritis, C-diff colitis,
and even H pylori.

Leaving bleeding ulcers.

Caused by alcohol abuse.

He needs to be on a proton pump inhibitor

and octreotide to prevent
any further blood loss.

♪♪

No.

He loves you.

That's why he hasn't been honest.

Doesn't make it right,
but it's that same love

that kept you together
through everything.

And it'll get you through this, too.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

♪♪

He's telling the truth.

We'll run more tests.

Your faith in your husband is impressive.

But it may have just killed him.

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

♪♪

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♪♪

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[MONITOR BEEPING]

Ten blade, please.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Located lower end of esophageal lesion.

Linear cutting stapler.

Resecting the esophagus
from the stomach...

[STAPLER CLICKS]

I'm now at the upper end of the lesion.

Hemoclips.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

[WHIMPERS]

Dr. Murphy?

No.

No...

What's the matter?

No, no, no...

Shaun, what are you seeing?

Can't... can't do this!

What... what can't you do?

- No!
- Don't... No.

No! No! No! No!

- Dr. Murphy!
- No!!

Dr. Murphy!!

Go, go!

Page Dr. Lim. Keep her stable.

No. No. No.

Yur...

No.

No.

No.

- Yur...
- What happened?

- SHAUN: No, no, no.
- He lost it, walked out mid-procedure.

Yuri... Yu...

- Yuri kucho saiken.
- Shaun?

Yur... Yuri... Yur...

Okay, Park, take over the surgery.

Y... No!

Dr. Park.

Y...

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

- No.
- He obviously can't.

I don't think he lost it.

He was in complete charge of that room.

I don't think this is a meltdown.

He said he can't do it.

He said, "Can't do it."
Maybe he meant we can't do it.

I think he's seeing something...

We have a patient open on the table.

Shaun, you have to tell us
what you're seeing.

It's okay, Shaun.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Breathe.

♪♪

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

That's it. Now slowly.

What are you thinking?

♪♪

When...

Okay. When I examined
the upper portion...

When I examined the upper portion,

there was a much larger area

of tumor-free esophagus
than anticipated...

That's correct, but not nearly
enough to reach the stomach.

But there is enough to accept
a jejunum free flap,

using a portion of the small intestine

to replace the resected esophagus.

We don't do jejunum free flaps.

They do in Japan.

They do in Japan.

I've been studying their technique...

Yuri kucho saiken.

They have had great success.

It would mean Beth
wouldn't need a feeding tube.

[VOICE BREAKING] But...

it is v-very complex.

It's too complex for you to lead.

So you'll lose your case.

Yes...

♪♪

I haven't done a transposition
graft like that before.

♪♪

Think you can walk us through it?

[SIGHS]

Yes.

♪♪

I'll scrub in.

♪♪

[DOOR OPENS]

♪♪

Stomach is perfect.

Check the duodenum.

The only way Teal
will accept the treatment

is if we give her no room for denial.

Did you really believe what you said?

That their love is enough
to get them through this?

Such BS, the belief that love is enough.

Even worse, it's corollary
that a lack of love

is the real problem.

If only they had someone in their life

who had enough faith in them,
had enough love for them,

they could've pulled through.

It's wrong and it's mean.

[SCOFFS]

What's that?

Flush the area.

♪♪

There's our bleed.

But it's not coming from an ulcer...

It's coming from a tumor.

It's obstructing his digestive tract.

I'm paging Melendez to the O.R.

♪♪

- Okay.
- Actually, I'm...

I'm gonna need an extra shot.

Rough day?

Had to help out in the E.R.
with an eight-year-old boy

who was accidentally shot by his sister.

He'll survive, but with brain damage.

That's horrible.

Yes, it is.

And quite coincidental.

Like so many other coincidences.

You know how many kids are shot
every day in this country?

19.

You know you're three times
more likely to be shot

if you have access
to guns than if you don't?

Here's another fact...
one in four women are victims

of violence at the hands
of their intimate partner.

No, no, no. I'm not afraid of you.

This isn't about you.

♪♪

Did something happen?

'Cause if it did,
I want to know about it.

♪♪

You figure something horrible
must have happened to drive me

to such an irrational,
fear-driven choice?

♪♪

I'm sorry. Hi.

♪♪

[MONITOR BEEPING]

The ends of the harvested
jejunum have been matched

for caliber size
for the attachment sites.

You should begin proximal
attachment at the neck incision,

using layer-to-layer technique
on the esophagus

and microvascular anastomosis
of the vessels.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

You wanted to know when Dr. Semler

was heading to O.R. #3.

Dr. Park, scrub out and join Semler.

I-if it's all right,
I'd rather stay here.

You're needed where you're needed.

♪♪

♪♪

Tumor is free.

Bag it, tag it, and get it to Path.

♪♪

Do you smell that?

[SNIFFING]

Smells like a distillery.

But we know he couldn't
have touched a drop

for at least 24 hours.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

Final stitch is yours.

It's completely symbolic,
but symbols can be powerful.

♪♪

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♪♪

Easy-peasy.

♪♪

You had something called
Auto-Brewery Syndrome.

The tumor we found was blocking
your intestinal tract.

So carbs weren't being digested,

they were being trapped and fermented.

Your stomach was actually
creating its own alcohol.

You were drunk, but not from drinking.

With the removal of the tumor...
which was benign...

you're all good.

And the arrhythmia's gone, too.

I never doubted you.

♪♪

Her faith in you saved your life.

♪♪

Thank you.

♪♪

I was so pissed when Lim kicked me out...

until I found Semler had
an appendectomy waiting for me.

Got my first lead after all.

I'm happy for you. Really.

I'm happy for me, too.

You earned it.

And you'll get your chance
again soon, Shaun.

So that's it? All's well that ends well?

Your surgeon walked out on his case.

That's your takeaway? That he failed?

A chef can eat.

Well, as a diagnostician,

he did something wonderful,
but as a surgeon?

Yes, he failed.

We don't work alone, Marcus.

Every time we have a good outcome,

it's because everyone in the
room did something right.

Shaun came up with the idea,
Park got it out of him,

I approved the surgery, and you?

The only reason Shaun is working here

is because you believed in him.

Yay, team.

♪♪

Are you still having a gun fight?

Oh, yeah.

Second day of my marriage
and we are at an impasse.

Tried the logical approach,
I tried the emotional approach,

no compromise.

Only thing left is the nuclear
option, which really sucks.

[CLEARS THROAT]

The thought of having a gun
in my house makes me sick...

Has Debbie let you touch her breast?

What?

Has Debbie let you touch her breast?

Yeah.

♪♪

Then you shouldn't worry
about anything else.

♪♪

I was wrong...

this time.

But 99.9% of cases, I would be right.

If... if someone acts like
an addict, lies like an addict,

smells like an addict,
then they are an addict.

And just because we stumbled across

the one ridiculously fluky exception,

that isn't going to change
my attitude moving forward.

♪♪

I respect you, Claire.

Might even go as far
as to say I like you.

And I know you're angry right now.

At your mother.

The world.

Yourself.

[SIGHS]

Eventually, that'll go away.

Or... at least some of it will.

But until then, giving up on that 0.1%

means giving up on something else.

Hope.

♪♪

Hope...

killed my mother.

♪♪

[SHOWER RUNNING]

[SAFE BEEPING]

[SIGHS]

[WATER STOPS]

[SIGHS]

We need to talk.

About the 800-pound gun in the room.

[SIGHS]

♪♪

I'm working on my compromise skills.

Okay.

♪♪

♪♪

Looks like your first
lead surgery went well.

I didn't have a first lead surgery.

Yes. It went very well.

Can I check your other breast?

♪♪

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