Tonight on NBC their new medical drama “The Good Doctor” airs with an all-new Monday, October 31, 2022, episode and we have you The Good Doctor recap below. In tonight’s The Good Doctor season 6 episode, 5 called, “Growth Opportunities,” as per the ABC synopsis, “Shaun, Asher and Powell treat a young patient on Halloween with a rare hereditary disease, sending them down an uncharted path. Meanwhile, Glassman and Shaun must overcome their differences to work together to try and find a solution for Lim’s paralysis.”
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Tonight’s episode begins with Shaun, he thinks there is a surgery that can cure Audrey’s paralysis. Aaron doesn’t like it, he thinks it is too risky, and he says the odds are not good enough for him. Marcus says to make the odds better.
Asher is examining a patient, a little girl dressed in a Cinderella costume, she fainted. Shaun walks in and asks Shaun why he is green, he says it is Halloween.
Alex is examining Ollie when he notices that he is brother has back pain and wants to do some tests on him.
Audrey is looking at outfits that she will wear on her date, Morgan looks at them and says they are no good, says she will go over to her place at 8 and help her pick something out.
Jordan is looking at an X-ray, the patient has pancreatic cancer.
Asher does some genetic tests on the little girl and turns out her father, is not her biological father.
Alex tells Ollie’s brother that he has pancreatic cancer, and there is surgery, but only a small chance of success. If it fails, he will have less time and more pain.
Shaun has an idea for a lower-risk surgery for Audrey, he did what Marcus said. Aaron says not good enough.
The little girl gets fitted with a pacemaker and she has a genetic disease called hemochromatosis, excess iron is building up in her body. There is a little bit of damage to her liver. Asher says that she carries the gene but her husband doesn’t. She puts her hands in her face and says “oh God.” She says she had an affair with Jacob’s old college roommate, but she denied it. She and Jacob are good now and Sklyar is his now. Asher asks for her information on her biological child, if he has other children, they could be in danger.
Morgan is at Audrey’s house, she finds a great outfit that is hot and classic.
Daniel tells Jordan that he was an idiot when he almost kissed her, it’s a line he can’t cross. He can’t date anyone right now, he hopes they can still be friends.
Skylar’s wife tells her husband the truth, Asher looks through the glass and sees him hug her.
Shaun has another idea for surgery on Audrey, he tells Aaron and he says still too risky. Shaun doesn’t believe it, he thinks he is mad at him and that is why he doesn’t like his ideas.
Skylar has jaundice, her liver is failing. She needs a donor.
Alex tells Ollie’s brother that they had to stop the surgery, cancer has metastasized.
Shaun goes to speak to Skylar’s biological father, Mick and asks him if he will consider donating part of his liver. He says he has two boys and a wife with whom he is in couple’s therapy and he cannot destroy his family for her.
Aaron goes to see Shaun and says no matter how mad he is at him, he doesn’t stop loving him. Shaun says he loves him too, then they start going over Audrey’s X-rays.
Lea goes to see Mick in a bar where he is singing, she shows him a video of Skylar singing.
Shaun goes over the plan for Audrey, with Marcus and Aaron.
Mick and his wife walk into Skylar’s room with her parents there.
Skylar is out of surgery, her dad tells her that she was really sick, and her mom tells her that this man, Mick, saved her life.
Daniel tells Jordan a secret of his, he is an addict and five years clean. His first priority is to himself, his second is to be a surgeon and he can’t add a relationship in.
Audrey tells Shaun that she has decided not to do the surgery. Shaun is upset. Later, Lea tells him that it was the right thing he did in trying.
THE END
