Tonight on NBC their new medical drama “The Good Doctor” airs with an all-new Monday, March 11, 2019, episode and we have your The Good Doctor recap below. On tonight’s The Good Doctor season 2 episode 18 Finale called, “Trampoline” as per the ABC synopsis, “The Season 2 finale: A barroom fight sends Dr. Shaun Murphy to seek treatment at St. Bonaventure’s; and Dr. Alex Park and Dr. Audrey Lim disagree over an elderly woman’s post-operative symptoms.
Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Lim make their romance public, and Dr. Aaron Glassman continues to pursue a relationship with a good friend.”
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The Good Doctor begins tonight with Shaun (Freddie Highmore) sitting at a bar, asking one of the patrons why he is sad, considering he is drinking at 10 in the morning. He says that Lea (Paige Spara) is fun, but this man orders Shaun to “shut up”. Shaun stands up and says if he has something to say, he will say it; the man shoves him to the ground and orders him to shut up. Shaun insists he is a surgeon, and when the man hits him again, he collapses on the floor with blood pouring out of his head.
At the hospital, Lim (Christina Chang) and Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) meet with hospital administration about their relationship; but are told they it is okay since one doesn’t work above the other. Meanwhile, Zack Cordell (Greg Calderone), the one who assaulted Shaun is brought into the ED, where Shaun has told them what he believes happened. Claire (Antonia Thomas) tells him to come into the hospital and explain what happened; Shaun comes in once Claire reminds him that he is still a doctor. Dr. Lim comes to tell Melendez about her meeting, revealing they are approved and share a kiss in front of everyone.
Morgan (Fiona Gubelmann) and Alex (Will Yun Lee) meet their new patient, who suggests it is okay for Morgan to be gay and get married but she avoids any further discussion saying Alex is married but his family lives in another state. Morgan wants to do another ultrasound as it looks like their patient has an infection; Park hopes it will only be one more day with them.
Marcus Andrews (Hill Harper) is concerned about how Dr. Han (Daniel Dae Kim) dealt with Shaun, but he feels that Shaun has never been given responsibility; just things to do with someone always behind him and when Han challenged him for the first time, he failed miserably.
Claire sits with Shaun, reminding him that when bad things happen, they have to remember that moment isn’t what defines them. Shaun reiterates that he wants to be a surgeon. Claire admits she wants her life to matter, have fun and fall in love. Shaun feels he would be a good father and she agrees, but he confesses he doesn’t know how to fall in love.
Shaun returns the next morning, bringing Claire chocolates and a stapler which represents flowers. Shaun continues to try to compliment her and they work together on his personal skills. She encourages him to say the words, but he feels noises will be distracting and she could say no if he asked. Claire says that someone will say “yes”; he will fall in love but his heart will be broken and he will fall in love again. He has been hurt, survived and gotten stronger and better. He insists it hasn’t gotten better.
Aaron (Richard Schiff) finds Debbie (Sheila Kelley), refusing a coffee. He says he is having a great day as he is officially cancer free. She gives him a free coffee and presents her with a model car, one like the one they never got to see at the car show they didn’t make it to. Aaron wants to commit when he presents her with an engagement ring. She says this is definitely bold but it is also stupid.
Alex and Morgan do the ultrasound as she continues to give Alex advice about having another child. She suddenly can’t feel her fingers. Meanwhile, Shaun tells Carly he is glad to not be back in Pathology, as Claire feels their patient may have hit his head; but Shaun is caught in a lie, saying he didn’t find the man unconscious. Claire demands to know what the man did to him and why is he lying about this. He says if the patient isn’t intoxicated they need to do more testing.
Alex feels their patient is simply lonely and doesn’t want to go home. Melendez doesn’t think it is fun to release a patient to only find her in the morgue 24 hours later and orders them to do more tests; before Morgan leaves she congratulates Melendez on his relationship with Lim, feeling they are the perfect match!
Shaun is in the bathroom, checking the bruising he has on his upper torso, suddenly coughing. Shaun brings a sample to Carly, asking her to run tests on it, revealing the patient is coughing up blood. He looks terrified as Carly promises to speed up the testing.
Morgan is furious that their patient is faking. She admits she can feel her fingers but they are tingling; Alex says that is just symptoms of old age. She talks about how her daughter had leukemia and that it was pointless and cruel to let her live, but she said it wasn’t the doctor’s little girl that died. She didn’t feel it was a miracle, but her daughter is alive simply because she didn’t listen to what the doctors told her to do. Morgan says they will let her know the test results.
Carly tells Shaun that it could be pneumonia, but he admits it was trauma induced and the bleeding could get worse. She advises him on what medications the “patient” needs to get on immediately. Shaun takes the script.
Morgan and Alex tells Ida that all the testings came back okay; she may not want to listen to her doctors but she needs to be honest with them. Morgan notices something wrong in her bag. Shaun goes to see Zack, who says he is a doctor and wants to know why he is sad. Shaun says he is sad, angry, confused and doesn’t know why he was at the bar as he was supposed to be at a job interview and didn’t want a new job; but people keep telling him to move on but he just wants to feel his own emotions. Shaun suddenly thinks about Zack’s condition and realizes that he needs immediate treatment for Trampoline. Shaun falls unconscious on the floor and help is called.
Shaun is intubated, where Lim finds out from Claire that Zack is the one who beat Shaun up. Lim is worried about Shaun’s condition. Han once again reaffirms his decision to fire Shaun, as he didn’t even report to anyone that he was beaten up. Han says they cannot make decisions based on their personal experiences and he is there for his judgment and commitment; if Andrews fires him now, he will look like a fool to the board.
Alex and Morgan want to try one more test on Ida and he tastes what is in her bile vial. He knows she has been dumping her veggie slushie into the vial to make it seem like she was sick. Morgan tells her she will be discharged that afternoon as she follows Alex out of the room.
Claire comes to see Zack, saying she was busy dealing with Dr. Murphy after someone beat him up. Zack tells her that before he passed out, Shaun told him he knew what was wrong with him. He says Shaun was distracted and looking in the air when he revealed that Zack had Trampoline, but Lim thinks Shaun could have been hallucinating or wrong; but when Zack’s stats drop they rush to help him.
Claire sits with Lim and Melendez, explaining what Shaun said and feels they should wake him up to see if he can save Zack’s life; Melendez says they have two very sick patients and he is not willing to risk Shaun’s life to save Zack. Melendez believes it could be Lyme disease, but Claire disagrees but is overruled. She begins Zack’s treatment with no response. She speaks to Denise, the nurse and stands in the same location Shaun so she can know his exact experience when he was standing there.
Aaron and Lea sit in Shaun’s room, as Lea wants Aaron to fight for him to get his job back, but he feels Shaun should take the hits and move on. Aaron admits to her that Shaun really likes her, but would like to see him rejected by someone who actually cares about him. Claire in the meantime begins to visualize the way Shaun did, finally calling out for the OR immediately.
Shaun wakes up, worried about Zack. Claire is able to tell him about the aneurysm and that he also has Trampolina; he had surgery and is stable now. Aaron tells Shaun to lay down and get some rest. Alex and Morgan stand at the nurses’ station where Morgan reveals Ida’s daughter died three days after the doctors told her and she doesn’t have any grandchildren. Her husband passed away a couple of years ago, but they separated right after their daughter’s death. Morgan feels this doesn’t change anything medically and they prepare her for release; Alex offers his sympathy before she leaves.
Andrews visits Shaun who shares his medical stats, saying he is doing well. Andrews says Shaun missed a job interview and is no longer a surgeon there, something they cannot change. He tells Shaun that they need to face reality but Shaun says his brother told him that if people want him to do something wrong, they say it is the reality.
Aaron sits with the board, talking about something Shaun had done, even after the man did something violent and cruel to him. He made Claire Browne a better doctor because she was able to see things through his eyes. They know Shaun doesn’t communicate like the rest of them, but he does communicate and inspires. Han says he fired Shaun because he was irrational and unprofessional; not able to control himself and he stands by that decision. Han says the question is whether he should work there because if he can’t control his staff, he shouldn’t be there. Andrews stands up with Aaron and feels he doesn’t need the votes, as Han has the position to fire people under him but so does Andrews. He says Shaun isn’t ready to move on and neither is Andrews. Han nods at the decision.
Lim and Melendez worry about one of them being the next chief of surgery; so one of them will have to resign or pass up the opportunity. Melendez says he isn’t crazy enough to pass up the chance and neither is she. Melendez says he spoke to Andrews assistant and they will be calling her at any moment. The phone rings and she kisses Melendez, who walks out as she takes the call.
Lea returns home and finds Shaun with flowers and chocolates in his hands. He is pound that he got his job back. He approaches her and asks her if he looks nice. She says he looks very nice. He walks out the door with the gifts as Lea feels shocked. Aaron knocks on Debbie’s door, saying he knows what he wants and what he loves. He feels he knows he loves her and they can continue going on dates but life is short and he wants to spend whatever time he has left with her. Debbie smiles at him as he explains their dates and how they could simply go forever. He asks her to marry him and she nods her head, saying, “Yes!”
Shaun walks to Carly’s house, saying she has nice hair, giving her flowers and chocolates. He was wondering if she would like to eat dinner. She asks if he is asking her out, and he says yes, on a date. She tells him she would love to. Shaun walks away with the flowers and chocolates, jumping up and down the street.
THE END!
