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The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8 Recap “Rebellion”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8 “Rebellion.” Now that Shaun has called off the wedding, he is forced to confront Lea about their relationship and determine what he really means to her. Meanwhile, the team debates their opinions on plastic surgery and Dr. Audrey Lim hopes to expose Salen’s cover-up over an infant’s death to take her down before it is too late. Here’s what you missed!

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Previously on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 7, Shaun and Lea happen upon a terrible car accident and discover a young pregnant mother who has been badly injured and needs immediate medical attention. Dr. Glassman is apprehensive when a figure from his past reaches out for help.

Salen’s budget cuts led to the hospital storing expired drugs which led to the death of an infant. Sean had an episode and ultimately decided not to marry Lea…

Warning… Spoilers below!

On The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8… the show returns from a three-month break!

Stay Quiet & Go Away

Salen met with the doctors involved in the infant's death on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8

Salen met with the doctors involved in the infant’s death on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8

Salen wrangled the physicians about the fiasco knowing there would be a lawsuit to follow. Glassman spoke with Lim to cool her anger but she was set on taking Salen down! She sought Lea’s help for a paper trail on the expired meds.

Lea finally spoke with Shaun about calling off the wedding but he couldn’t get past her lying to him several times. Shaun went to work in the ER and caught a trauma case.

Salen visited Alma, the grieving mother who lost her baby. She threw the physicians and her pharmacist under the bus admitting the expired medication mistake. She offered to take care of her medical bills plus $200K for her pain and suffering. She gave her a consent form for payment right away and she signed it.

Then, Salen met with the pharmacist who was livid. He had proof of the expired medicine. Salen redirected him with a huge severance settlement to stay quiet and go away.

Some Women Are Shallow

Dr. Reznick worked on a case of an insecure woman who needed corrective surgery from getting a condition removed as well as fixing botched BBL in Brazil. While in a CT scan, the woman started to mysteriously crash!

Shaun and Park worked together but he was distracted and didn’t want to talk with his friend. Their trauma patient, Phil, claimed he got drunk and crashed into a tree due to being put in the friend zone by a woman.

Doctors Lim, Park, and Murphy in surgery on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8

Doctors Lim, Park, and Murphy in surgery on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8

While in surgery on Phil, Lim got paged by Lea so she charged Shaun to take over for Park. Though Shaun was still distracted. When Lim visited Lea, she dumped 4K pages of paperwork on her. Lea asked what was she looking for, she didn’t know just yet but planned to find some dirt on Salen!

Shaun spoke with Glassman briefly about Lea and he didn’t want to talk about her. Shaun stated, “some women are shallow”. A comment he regurgitated by Park. Glassman was appalled hearing that she pleaded he speak with Lea but Shaun fled.

Shaun spoke with the woman Phil nearly took his life for, asking why, she felt he was a nice guy but she didn’t want to settle.

Meanwhile, Lim found the smoking gun against Salen. She technically didn’t own the hospital yet. It was in transition and the Attorney General hadn’t signed off yet. Lim visited the pharmacist who Salen persuaded to be the scapegoat to convince him to renege on his agreement to help her crusade. With a little pressure… he was in.

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Despite the surgeon’s recommendation, the BBL patient would rather risk her life correcting her butt life rather than her life-saving surgery.

Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Aaron Glassman on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8

Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Aaron Glassman on The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 8

Shaun took the rationale of his relationship with Lea to Glassman, figuring she was settling. He almost got worked up to another episode until Glassman calmed him and told him how much Lea loves him. Suddenly, he got paged to attend to Phil.

Phil vented to Park and Shaun about losing his lady and Shaun bluntly told him the truth. Park pulled Shaun to the side to confront him about his behavior.

Lim took her proof to Glassman and he gave her a reality check. Salen had teams of the best lawyers and to disprove a pharmacist who had taken money to keep quiet then reneged. The case would be bullied in her way. Lim sought Glassman’s support but he wouldn’t commit so she vowed to proceed without his support! Shortly after, the pharmacist pulled his support for Lim’s campaign.

When A Woman’s Fed Up

The entire episode, Doctors Allen and Wolke had been arguing… welp more than normal and disagreed about the woman’s BBL surgery. Dr. Andrews took notice and chastised the two while performing her surgery. Suddenly, the woman started to crash and Andrews had to perform an emergency extraction of fat that had been traveling in her bloodstream.

Ultimately, the woman had a successful surgery and she was happy with him fixing her BBL. Allen and Wolke felt the woman was lucky they saved her life.

Phil’s surgery went well and he asked about Monica. Park tried to console him but he became irate and kicked the surgeons out.

Dr. Lim visited Attorney General Jacqueline Flaunte about her disposition. The pharmacist pulled out but she had a deceased child who was killed as a result of Salen’s takeover and cutbacks. The AG needed more time to decide.

When Lim returned to the hospital, Salen confronted her, already knowing she went to the attorney general.

When Shaun returned home, he took everything into consideration and forgave Lea. He asked her about statements from the past. She rebutted that she was tired of him bringing up the past and thought that shouldn’t get married or live together. She grabbed her things and left! Although, she wept while in her car…

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Air Date: February 28, 222

The Good Doctor Cast

  • Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy
  • Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo
  • Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews
  • Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman
  • Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne
  • Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
  • Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick
  • Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park
  • Elfina Luk as Nurse Dalisay Villanueva
  • Bria Henderson as Dr. Jordan Allen
  • Sheila Kelley as Debbie Wexler
  • Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
  • Noah Galvin as Dr. Asher Wolke
  • Osvaldo Benavides as Dr. Mateo Rendon Osma
  • Rachel Bay Jones as Salen Morrison

Guest Starring

  • Natalee Linez as Alma Garcia
  • Charley Koontz as Phil Hall

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The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
5 18 Sons” The Good Doctor Season 5 Finale May 16, 2022
5 17 The Lea Show May 9, 2022
5 16 The Shaun Show May 2, 2022
5 15 My Way April 18, 2022
5 14 Potluck April 11, 2022
5 13 Growing Pains April 4, 2022
5 12 Dry Spell March 28, 2022
5 11 The Family March 21, 2022
5 10 Cheat Day March 14, 2022
5 9 Yippee Ki-Yay March 7, 2022
5 8 Rebellion February 28, 2022
5 7 Expired November 22, 2021
5 6 One Heart November 15, 2021
5 5 Crazytown November 1, 2021
5 4 Rationality October 25, 2021
5 3 Measure of Intelligence October 11, 2021
5 2 Piece of Cake October 4, 2021
5 1 New Beginnings” The Good Doctor Season 5 Premiere September 27, 2021

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