[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Good Doctor Season 5 premiere “New Beginnings.”]
The fantastic information: Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) and Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara) are acquiring married (and it with any luck , gained’t close like her desires). The negative information: There’s a major improve coming to the healthcare facility in The Very good Health care provider Year five.
But to start with, the pleasure: Lea will take a nightmare — a thunderstorm interrupting the ceremony — to kick off the premiere in stride, selecting they just gained’t have an out of doors marriage ceremony. She’s getting treatment of all the preparing, for the engagement celebration and the marriage ceremony. She would like to make it great, he tells Dr. Lim (Christina Chang) and Dr. Park (Will Yun Lee), though all he cares about is marrying her. That’s sweet, but as they alert him, preparing a marriage ceremony is a major enterprise.
Lea insists to Shaun that she can deal with anything, but she also cuts him off when he starts telling her about a client. Then factors get started likely mistaken — like the florist striving to again out of conference a deadline (till Lea threatens to phone her fiancé, a attorney) — and immediately after yet another nightmare, she declares the engagement celebration off. (The marriage ceremony’s nonetheless on, although.)
Jordan’s (Bria Samoné Henderson) the one particular to encourage Lea to improve her brain. As the bride-to-be describes, the to start with time she received married, it was a catastrophe, as was the relationship, so she wants to get this one particular suitable. But as the medical doctor details out, if she’s not eager to threat the small factors likely mistaken, she’ll in no way have the likelihood to have the major factors go suitable.
The celebration’s again on, with Park convincing Shaun to enable a professional medical secret sit right away to head more than to the celebration quicker somewhat than afterwards. And by the close of the episode, Shaun tells Lea he’s likely to support her prepare the marriage ceremony so it’ll be on the two of them if factors go suitable or mistaken.

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As for what’s most likely about to grow to be a dilemma for the staff members, it all starts with a client who asks a large amount of concerns, Salen Morrison (Rachel Bay Jones), who Morgan (Fiona Gubelmann) and Jordan see in the clinic. Salen them finds her way into Dr. Glassman’s (Richard Schiff) business office and asks if he identifies far more as a medical doctor or the healthcare facility president, and that’s not the very last time she wanders off.
Soon after Jordan informs her she can’t consume everything in advance of a biopsy, she finds Salen in the server area … and she’s by now eaten fifty percent a sandwich. Then immediately after inquiring who the main of medical procedures is, Salen goes to discover Lim to talk to her viewpoint on her procedure in advance of collapsing. Morgan, Jordan, Asher (Noah Galvin), and Andrews (Hill Harper) are remaining to ponder her indications — kidney lesions, shortness of breath, swollen ankles, and coronary heart irregularities — and question if she’s messing with them. She didn’t end getting her meds, they comprehend.
It turns out that Salen has been hiding that she’s by now been identified, 7 many years in the past, immediately after getting indications for a few: scleroderma. She went off her meds to see if they ended up like the negative medical professionals she’s experienced in the earlier simply because she was curious.

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But wait around, that’s not all: Salen is buying the healthcare facility, Glassman tells Lim in the last scene. “I’m on the lookout ahead to performing with the two of you,” Salen tells them.
In other places close to St. Bonaventure:
- How’s Andrews dealing with his break up from his spouse? By courting a large amount, to the level that he unintentionally invitations two ladies to the engagement celebration. (They close up leaving alongside one another.) He does go residence with the bartender, who presents him the similar early morning immediately after procedure he gave an individual else before: She leaves.
- Dr. Glassman reveals Debbie remaining him a pair months in the past in the course of his toast to Shaun and Lea at the celebration.
- Morgan and Park are nonetheless alongside one another.
- Mateo’s (Osvaldo Benavides) no more time a desired gentleman, keeping with Lim … and possibly acquiring a occupation at the healthcare facility, pending how Salen’s major shift could have an impact on the prepare. Lim experienced been preparing to pitch him to the board when she realized that information.
The Very good Health care provider, Mondays, 10/9c, ABC