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"Apple" is the eighth episode of Season 1 of The Good Doctor. The episode aired on November 20, 2017.

Synopsis[]

During a robbery at the grocery mart Dr. Shaun Murphy is shopping at, his communication limitations puts lives at risk. Meanwhile, after Shaun’s traumatic day, Dr. Aaron Glassman worries that he isn’t doing enough to help Shaun.[2]

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Lea comes over to Shaun’s apartment to complain about Armen while Shaun is preparing for his day, annoyed that he cut off her power for playing her music too loud. She takes a bite of his apple before storming out, offended that Shaun does not support her position in the argument with their landlord. Shaun stops at a market to replace his apple when a robber attacks. A female customer who is there with her date gets shot, while the robber is also hurt and both are taken to the hospital. Shaun, unharmed, accompanies them both and the woman's date, only for the man to spot Shaun at the emergency department and demands to know why he is present, stating, "This is all his fault!"

Neil tries to ascertain what happened and tells Shaun to go home once he has given his statement to the police. Shaun, however, has other ideas and is not planning on going anywhere, which Neil agrees with. Neil returns to his patient with Jared while Claire and Dr. Lim deal with the shooter. Both patients are rushed to surgery with the respective surgeons. Claire finds herself not being in the operating room (OR) for very long though as she makes it clear that she is not comfortable helping the shooter, Nash, after noticing his tattoo advertising that he is a Nazi. Her inability to not take things personally gets her into a fight with Dr. Lim who subsequently asks Claire to leave the OR and send in a replacement.

Shaun, Neil and Jared battle in the OR to save their young gunshot victim, Avery. Shaun begins to suture the wounds and she is stabilized for now, but the next 24 hours will be tough. Glassman is also tries to find out what happened; it turns out that Shaun was unable to follow Nash’s instructions properly and got stressed out, which led to Avery getting shot. Meanwhile, Nash was hit with a baseball bat. He also gets through the surgery and Lim puts Claire on babysitting duties, much to her displeasure. While Glassman is still concerned about what Shaun has just been through, Shaun has a meeting with the hospital psychologist who assesses him but is unable to determine whether his involvement with the gunshot victim's treatment will be soothing or upsetting to him.

Neil is monitoring Avery whose surgery went well and begins telling her boyfriend, Brandon, that the next 24 hours are crucial as the possibility of organ failure is high. While Brandon hopes they can help her, Neil states that he needs consent forms signed and she will need support from her parents. This is much easier said than done as Brandon explains that this was actually their very first date, they had only just met and she had not brought her purse, so he doesn’t even know her last name. Neil tells him that he doesn't need to be there and social services can take over, but Brandon refuses to go and is allowed to stay for as long as he needs.

Claire is treating Nash who is revealed to be an opiate addict and consequently, the hospital pain meds are not managing his discomfort. He complains that his neck hurts and asks that Claire give him fentanyl, but she refuses. He accuses her of punishing him while knowing she saw his tattoo and still tries to demand the drugs, only to get himself restrained by the police. Meanwhile, Dr. Glassman is frustrated by the psychologist’s inability to predict how Shaun will respond to the trauma, but she says that she has had only limited opportunity to observe him, as well as that, "He has a unique mind and an extremely introverted nature." Claire is also annoyed when she thinks that Lim unfairly told her off for her personal feelings concerning Nash, though Neil tells Claire to deal with it.

Claire and Shaun are still working concerning their respective patients when Claire attempts to ask how Shaun is, while advising that he just needed to be Lea’s friend when she came over. Claire then attempts to help reinsert Nash’s IV when it came loose in his struggle, only for him to antagonize her about being “incompetent” all the while also holding racist attitudes. He suggests that she doesn't like addicts, theorizing that this is because her mother might have been one, while she tries to remain professional. Brandon is also antagonistic about how Shaun caused Avery to get shot, even when Shaun realizes her kidneys are failing and is working with Neil while fluid builds up in her chest. Neil orders to get Avery a thoracentesis, all the while chastising Brandon for arguing against Shaun being involved. They’re able to help her, while Neil tells Shaun to watch over Avery and Brandon to go home as he doesn’t even know Avery or Shaun.

Claire attempts to demand that Dr. Lim let her stop babysitting Nash, still arguing that Lim is punishing her for disagreeing. Lim, who is being assisted by two nurses as she works on another patient, points out that this insubordination in front of two nurses is undermining her authority, something she has had male colleagues do to her throughout her career, that they shouldn’t do it to each other and tells Claire to continue monitoring Nash. Meanwhile, Glassman eventually manages to catch up with Shaun and pulls him aside to talk, which Shaun is not very pleased with this as he was in the middle of trying to get an apple.

Glassman tries to talk to him about what happened in the store. Glassman states that he knows Shaun isn’t at fault for what had happened but also that his actions may have resulted in this happening. When Glassman considers partially blaming himself, he remarks that he hasn't been there that much and he needs to be there for him more. Shaun soon returns to Avery and is assessing her vitals when Brandon confides that he had taken her to the market in order to avoid his date with her, therefore blaming himself for her injury. Shaun begins to tell him that he is not at fault when her monitors begin beeping; she is losing heart function. It looks like multi-organ failure and they need to figure out what is going on, fast.

Claire finds that Nash is having respiratory failure and his neck has swollen. Shaun believes that Avery’s heart is failing and they need to take steps to stops this, but Jared notes that her hemoglobin has dropped, which might mean that she is bleeding somewhere which is causing the heart to not work as effectively and states they need to operate. Neil has a tough call to make between Shaun and Jared’s competing theories, but ultimately agrees with Jared and they head back to the OR. The surgeons quickly discover that Jared was right and that Avery is bleeding internally. Neil and Jared are struggling to locate the source of the bleed while Shaun is looking on. They discuss their options, but they have no idea where to begin looking.

Shaun looks thoughtful as Neil and Jared are deciding where to open her up and begin searching. Shaun begins visualizing the path of the bullet in his mind when Neil states that he is going to open up her entire torso in a desperate attempt to find the bleed. Right before they do this, Shaun realizes that it’s between her second and third rib. At the same time, Claire pages for Lim who has not arrived and is left with no choice but to operate on Nash immediately. She grabs a scalpel from the suture tray and prepares to make an emergency incision. The extreme swelling is obscuring Nash's Adam's apple, and Claire is therefore unsure of where to place the incision.  

Claire works out where to cut and makes the call. Just as she finishes up Dr. Lim walks in, taken aback by the events she has walked in on but pleased it all went well. She asks for Nash to be taken to the OR where they can finish up and makes a point of telling Claire that this is why the patient needs to be watched for the first 24 hours. Neil decides to trust Shaun's instincts and listen to him. He makes the cut between the ribs Shaun indicated but doesn't see the bleed on left supreme intercostal artery where Shaun said it would be. Shaun tells him to look a bit higher, near the bifurcation. This is exactly where they find it; they clamp it off.

Avery is stabilized, while Shaun admits that he was wrong and congratulates Jared. Neil also tells Shaun that he made up for his mistake by his miraculous ability to locate the bleed. Claire also admits to Nash that he was right that her mother had problems, which meant that she had to “work her ass off” her whole life to get to where she saved him before leaving. Neil also informs Avery’s parents that she’s on the road to recovery as she awakens. She is greeted by her parents and Brandon takes this as his cue to leave. She turns to him and reveals that she thought he was trying to ditch her, that she even hoped that he was. He looks somewhat relieved at the realization that it was no-one's fault this happened, that only the gunman is to blame. He then tells her that when she is better he would like a second chance at another date.

Claire walks into the OR where Dr. Lim is performing and makes a public apology for her behavior earlier. Dr. Lim accepts Claire’s apology, while congratulating her for saving Nash but also sharing her distain for having to do so. Concurrently, Glassman is at a school field when he is joined by Jessica who tells him about her time running with Maddie; it turns out that Glassman once had a daughter, Maddie, and today is the thirteenth anniversary of her death. Although he feels guilt in not being there enough for Maddie, Jessica points out that she’s there for Shaun.

Shaun is finally home when he gets a knock on the door. It’s Lea, to whom Shaun apologizes and tells her what Claire said. While Lea is still somewhat irritated at him, she tells him to not lie as he’s the only honest guy she knows. She also admits that he shouldn't have to wear headphones in his own apartment and promises that she will try to avoid bothering him again, while also giving Shaun an apple as a peace offering and heads back to her apartment. However, Shaun is not done talking. After thinking for a moment, he heads to her apartment and knocks while telling Lea about the mistake he made. Lea looks at him compassionately and wordlessly embraces him, which he appears comfortable with.

Cast[]

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  • Alvina August as Nurse Alana Paikin
  • Teryl Rothery as J.L.
  • Adil Zaidi as Nurse Jag Dhanoa
  • Elizabeth McCallum as Avery's Mother
  • Terence Hayman as Avery's Father
  • Brendon Zub as Policeman
  • Elfina Luk as Nurse Dalisay Villanueva
  • Juliana Wimbles as Paramedic
  • David Soo as Store Clerk
  • Kathryn Kirkpatrick as Food Services Person

Trivia[]

  • Freddie Highmore (Shaun Murphy) was reunited with his Bates Motel co-star Nestor Carbonell, who directed this episode. Highmore and Carbonell starred together in Bates Motel during all of its five seasons (2013-2017).
    • Carbonell was also an actor on Lost, which also featured Daniel Dae Kim.
  • This episode takes place on Monday, November 20, as shown by Glassman's alarm clock and phone at the beginning of the episode. This is the exact date that this episode originally aired.
  • Dr. Aaron Glassman's daughter, Maddie Glassman is mentioned for the first time. She is mentioned by Jessica Preston to have died 13 years to prior the events of the episode. This dates her death November 20, 2004.
  • There were several differences between the American version and the Turkish version of this episode:
    • Shaun went to the store to buy himself an apple after Lea ate the one he had in the American adaption, while Ali (Shaun’s counterpart) went there running and bought himself a soda to cure his hiccup after Nazli (Claire’s counterpart) caught him in an embarrassing situation. While in the American adaptation, the robbery took place in broad daylight, in the Turkish one it happened during the night.
    • In the American adaptation, Lea was offended that Shaun did not support her position when she complained about Armen (their landlord) cutting off her power and followed Claire's advice to support it even though he knew she was in the wrong. In the Turkish adaptation, Ali ratted Nazli out to Tanju (Andrews’ counterpart) who forced Ali to admit a mistake she made on a deceased patient, which she covered up (from the Turkish version of Not Fake).
    • Unlike the American adaptation, it is Tanju who tells off Nazli when she openly expresses her discomfort over having to operate on the thief instead of Lim, who has no Turkish equivalent of her own.
    • While Brandon (the boyfriend in the American version) left without harboring any hard feelings for Shaun, his Turkish counterpart appeared to feel the same way until his feelings about Ali resurfaced; Tanju manipulated him into filing a complaint against Ali to the Health Ministry, as another scheme to prove Ali is unfit to be a doctor because of his autism and have him fired. Ironically enough, Andrews actually didn't even appear in this episode.
  • I’ll Be Your Mirror by Clem Snide plays during the end.

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