| “ | It's rare that a resident has what you have: the aggressiveness, the work ethic and the talent to be a leader... I'm not setting you up to fail; I'm setting you up to shine. Or am I wrong about you?
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| ― Dr. Andrews to Dr. Reznick when she tries to quit her first lead surgery |
"Moonshot"[1] is the eighth episode of Season 3 of The Good Doctor. It is the forty-fourth episode overall, and aired on November 18, 2019.
Synopsis[]
Carly's attempts at increasing her intimacy with Shaun are becoming more of a frustration than either of them expected. Meanwhile, Lim and Melendez struggle in their relationship as they work to separate their work from their personal life.[3]
Plot[]
Shaun and Carly's amusement park date culminates at her place. They eventually make their way up to her bedroom, where she begins to unbutton his shirt. Carly asks if Shaun's ready to lie down with her because she's ready. She reveals to Shaun that she's done everything to make sure that he'll be comfortable. Such as having six-hundred thread count sheets, a memory foam pillow and an incandescent light bulb, all to his liking. He turns on her lamp to test the brightness, and his face lights up. He says he's ready, until he sees Carly on her bed. It becomes too overwhelming for him, so he picks up his shirt and leaves.
The following morning, Neil questions why Lim didn’t return his texts over the weekend, to which she tells him that she was having clarity. She’s still thinking about his statement concerning them being both to blame for what happened to Patty. He still won’t stop blaming himself, despite Lim telling him he is fallible despite how gifted he is as a surgeon, and even thinks that he should run his procedures by Glassman. However, Lim affirms that he will continue running them by her.
Andrews has Claire work with him, pairs Shaun and Park together and gives Morgan her first lead surgery; a carotid endarterectomy, which Park and Claire are jealous of. As Neil is working with Wren Braxton, an astronaut who has a tumor on her left lung, Shaun, Park and Andrews tend to Dr. Rosalind Elion, an esteemed researcher whose findings have expanded the medical world's understanding of how to best treat leukemia patients. As they help Rosalind who is having a heart attack, Neil and Claire are at odds ends concerning being an astronaut which Neil thinks is cool. When it appears that they might have to remove Wren’s lung due to the tumor, Neil suggests otherwise and they just remove a lobe.
Wren refuses the surgery if it’s going to mean she won’t be able to become an astronaut. Neil attempts to talk to her about it, but Wren still refuses to listen. Morgan practices her surgery but appears to be dealing with issues with her right hand and takes out some unknown medication, just as Rosalind’s surgery is happening. Her ex-husband Leo has been contacted, but their divorce means that he’s not coming and she’s got a sister in Santa Cruz who isn’t coming either. Shaun thinks that it’s good that they’re not coming, seeing family members as unqualified to make medical decisions. All the same, Andrews sees that she needs a new heart.
Lim suggests a surgical robot to help Wren who came to her for another opinion. Lim questions why Neil didn’t offer it, to which Neil fears that it’s just as risky. Lim tries to reassure him that he can do this, but he just feels that he’s being set up for failure again. When she can’t convince him to take the risk, she instead opts to do it herself. Meanwhile, Shaun and Park explain to Rosalind that finding her a heart is difficult but she’s at the top of the list. She also asks that her lab assistant be contacted so that the work can be carried on without her around, while she only told her husband about her medical issues.
Shaun goes to drop off labs in pathology, where Carly asks if he was embarrassed. He tells her that he does want to have sex with her, even thinking about it when he’s supposed to be focused on more important matters. Carly feels the same way, so she's done her research. She discovered exposure therapy and informs Shaun that psychologists use it to treat phobias, but it also works with people with autism. He then agrees to try it that night.
Morgan claims that the surgery Andrews has her doing is too advanced for a third-year resident. Andrews just sees that Morgan is nervous about her first surgery, having felt the same way with his own, and replies to her claims that he’s setting her up to fail with the fact that he’s setting her up to shine. Concurrently Neil goes to tell Wren about Lim doing her surgery, only for Wren to ask that he do it as she sees that he would understand why she wants the surgery. Neil admits to her about being scared, while asking if she is as well concerning what if she doesn’t come back from the moon. He also states that it’s very likely he could kill her with the surgery.
Later that night, Shaun and Carly reconvene at her place to try the exposure therapy. She arranges everything for them, but it's too much for Shaun to handle and he gets stressed out. Carly follows him downstairs and tries to talk to him, but he can't put how he’s feeling into words and doesn’t think it will work. Upset at this, Carly gets frustrated with how he’s just given up and tells him to leave. The next day, Shaun tells Park about what happened. With that having failed, Park tells Shaun to consider something else. He instead suggests that Shaun should treat intimacy like a surgical problem and do his research. He goes onto state that Carly may have came up with a solution that didn't work, but that doesn’t mean that the next one won't.
Park reports to Andrews that Rosalind has complete right-sided failure, so they should consider having her sign a DNR. Unfortunately, Lim and Neil get into a public argument about their differing views on Wren’s surgery when they get called to Glassman’s office. Rosalind is informed about her state, while Shaun recommends how to help her. She recalls going through a similar ordeal with her mother who had leukemia. At the time, she was just a scared and helpless 10-year-old girl. Park encourages Rosalind to reach out to Leo so she's not alone when she dies, but she says it's too late for those kind of sentimentalities now. She chose her work over her marriage, and to call him now, when she needs him most, would be hypocritical of her. Park disagrees, explaining how he recently reconnected with Mia.
While Glassman tells off Neil and Lim and threatens to fire at least one of them if they can’t stop fighting, Shaun and Park are on E.R. duty when Shaun states his respect for the decision that Rosalind made to prioritize work over her marriage and comments on her successful life as a result. Park argues that success and happiness are not the same thing, and that Shaun needs to decide what will make him happy in the end. He doesn’t have to choose between being a great surgeon and being close to Carly. Park even suggests that Rosalind was always just afraid, including how she might lose Leo just like she lost her mother. He also brings up Shaun losing Steve and sees that Shaun is just afraid. Shaun questions why anyone would choose to be this way, to which Park replies that “the thought of ending up alone is scarier”. He also surmises that he doesn't think Rosalind refuses to call Leo because it's hypocritical, but is afraid he won’t come.
Morgan goes to see Glassman, in need of shots in her hand for wrist in joint pain before her surgery. The previous month, she saw a rheumatologist as it turns out that she has rheumatoid arthritis. Her mother suffered it as well, it having destroyed her hands and wrists. Lim considers possibly leaving St. Bonaventure for a position as Chief of Surgery for another hospital if she and Neil can’t agree, though Neil states that he loves her and they reconcile.
Glassman sees no noticeable erosion in Morgan and states that she caught it relatively early, but she needs to postpone her first lead surgery. She refuses out of fear of Andrews and Lim changing their feelings about her upon also finding out about it and will be looking for her to fail, while stating that she’s talking to him because he wouldn’t and refers to when he fought for the hospital to hire Shaun. She needs to prove that she can do the surgery, but also needs Glassman to believe in her as he did in Shaun.
Park heads down to Leo's construction site and does his best to convince him to visit Rosalind before she dies. Leo also talks about how she didn’t care much for him while they were together and how he isn't willing to put himself through that. Wren’s surgery ends up taking place led by Lim while Neil comes to help out. Morgan also begins her own surgery while Shaun and Park are informed by Petringa that Rosalind is short of breath. Park figures out that it isn’t because of her condition, but because she’s scared as Leo shows up and sits with Rosalind.
Wren has bleeding when Lim finds the base of the tumor. Lim carefully works to make sure she doesn’t cause a bleed, but sees that they should take Wren’s lung until Neil asks for prostatectomy kit to deal with the tumor. As Morgan’s surgery is happening, she and Glassman who is watching above fear of her wrists wrecking the surgery. However, she is able to keep steady and is praised by Andrews. All of the tumor is removed from Wren, for which she thanks Neil and Lim. Leo then stays with Rosalind until her dying breath, while Shaun and Park look on. Shaun offers to pronounce her, but Park says he'll do it. He walks into the patient’s room and Leo thanks him, before leaving.
That night, Lim goes to see Neil. Neil agrees with what Lim thought about the surgery, while she states that he was right too in that she's not objective when it comes to him. She blew off his concerns about the surgery, and they can't know for sure that it won't happen again. She confesses that she doesn't think that she can be both Neil’s partner and treat him the same as everyone else as chief. As a result, she breaks up with him so as to not give up on her dream.
While Glassman also congratulates Morgan and checks on her hand which she tries to treat, Shaun returns to Carly's house. He’s done extensive farther research on intimacy treatment for autism, only to find that exposure therapy is the most effective option. He tells her he’d like to try again and so they eventually end up in bed together, only this time they're not facing each other. The timer goes off and Carly tells Shaun that it's time to take a break. He says that he knows, but he doesn’t make any more effort to get up. He tells her that it “is terrifying… and very nice”.
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- Park reveals that he flies out to Phoenix every other weekend to be with Mia and Kellan.
- Neil is still blaming himself for Patty’s death in 45-Degree Angle, while still seeing that Lim was partially responsible for allowing him to be involved in SFAD.
- Neil kept claiming that Lim was not being objective to him due to how they’re in a relationship, which is similar to her seeing that their relationship made him not refuse to listen to her in Faces. Ironically, they were also involved in a surgery then where their patient (Karin Tindle) died.
- Shaun and Carly lock wrists as they did at Glassman and Debbie’s wedding in Take My Hand.
- Morgan brings up how much Glassman fought for Shaun to work at the hospital against everyone else in Burnt Food.
- Ironically, Morgan was one of the people against Shaun working there.
- Glassman’s questioning Morgan of comparing Shaun’s autism to her rheumatoid arthritis is similar to Andrews questioning Glassman for comparing hiring black people and women to be doctors to hiring Shaun with his autism in the aforementioned episode.
- Neil is a fan of Star Trek.
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