Hurt

## Episode Chronology

"*I always knew I could be a good doctor. But until I met Lea, I never knew I could drive a car. Or enjoy music. Or sing karaoke. Or take tequila shots. Or fall in love. I don’t want to stop being the person I am with her. Lea makes me more. But I don’t make her more. If I did, then Lea would want to be my girlfriend.*"
—Shaun to Vera on why he doesn’t want to move on from Lea
**"Hurt"** is the nineteenth episode of Season 3 of *The Good Doctor*. It is the fifty-fifth episode overall, and aired on March 23, 2020. It is the first part of a two-hour season finale.

## Synopsis

In the first episode of the two-part season finale, the city of San Jose is rocked by a massive earthquake that puts the staff of St. Bonaventure Hospital on high alert as they race to assess the damage and account for the safety of their colleagues and friends. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Aaron Glassman are attending a charity event when their lives are threatened by the earthquake.

## Plot

Dr. Melendez, Dr. Glassman, and Lea are in a cancer fundraiser at a local brewery owned by one of Melendez’s former patients Marta in San Jose, California. Suddenly, while Marta’s wife Noreen was giving them the tour, the ground started shaking badly. The brewery immediately starts falling apart. Brewing tanks fall around Lea trapping her there and to make matters worse, the floorboards underneath her collapse. Simultenously, the ceiling breaks, and ends up falling on Dr. Melendez. When he comes to, he finds Dr. Glassman with a dislocated shoulder. Noreen seems to be fine. Lea, however, is nowhere to be found.

At San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, Dr. Lim immediately assembles the staff, as she sets out with Claire, Shaun, and Alex to help in the rescue of the victims in the brewery. Arriving at the scene, Shaun immediately finds out that Lea was also there and goes rogue to find her. He jumps straight through the floorboards without waiting for the rescue team and crawls through the dirt in search of Lea.

While making his way, Shaun’s subconscious mind sees his brother Steve. He condones the situation saying that though Shaun might save Lea, it wouldn’t get her to fall in love with him. Still, Shaun perseveres and follows the woman’s voice through the rubble. When he reaches the voice, he finds out it isn’t Lea.

Instead, it was a woman named Vera who was impaled on the shoulder and leg. After a consultation over the walkie-talkie, Dr. Lim gives the go signal for Shaun to treat the shoulder. As for the leg, they’d have to wait for the rescuers. Dr. Lim also tells Shaun to keep his line open.
While waiting, Vera and Shaun talk about their love lives. Apparently, Vera was only at the fundraiser in hopes that her ex would get back with her. After hearing Shaun’s own story, Vera makes a promise. “If we get out of this alive, let’s promise to move on,” she tells Shaun. “You can do better than Lea.” After a moment’s hesitance though, Shaun says he’s not ready to move on. Shaun tells Vera that he always knew he was going to be a good doctor, but he never knew he could be the person he is today without Lea.

He goes on to say that until he met Lea, he never knew he could drive a car, enjoy music, sing karaoke, or take tequila shots. But most importantly, he didn’t know he could fall in love. Thus, he doesn’t want to stop being the person he is when he’s with her. He admits that while Lea makes him more, he doesn’t do the same for Lea. If he did, then Lea would ultimately want to be his girlfriend. But she doesn’t.

At that point, Lim has already found Lea and handed over her walkie talkie to her, so Lea hears every word of Shaun and Vera’s conversation.

Suddenly, an aftershock follows after the big earthquake and the pipes near Shaun and Vera burst. Shaun reports to Dr. Lim on this latest predicament and begs them to hurry, as their sub-basement spot is starting to fill with water.

Elsewhere, Dr. Melendez is also in dire condition after Claire found bruises on his body. Melendez insisted on getting them checked later. He was more worried about Marta's condition which he felt was more dire. The brewery owner was revealed to be stuck. However, they couldn’t move her because they risk paralyzing her in the process. With no other choice, Melendez suggests they do an operation right then and there.

Noreen immediately protests but Marta is set on it. While operating though, Marta is losing too much blood. Fortunately, Claire finds an ingenious way to keep pumping her blood back to her. Claire’s little invention allows Melendez to successfully finish the operation. After completing the procedure, Melendez throws up and passes out.

Also in a dire condition is Dr. Park’s patient named Casey. The young man, who was the same age as Park’s son, is stuck under a big steel beam. After some investigating, Dr. Lim finds that the boy’s spinal cord had been severed and there is no femoral pulse. The beam pinning him down is cross-clamping his aorta and if they lift it, he would immediately bleed out.

Despite all that, Alex has bonded with the Casey, and he determinedly tries to convince Audrey to try and save him despite the odds. Dr. Lim accuses him of letting his emotions get the best of him but nevertheless, she agrees. In talking with Casey, Alex realizes his young patient has been having the same issues as Kellan has with him. It is quite the punch to the gut, and as result, Dr. Park chooses to try and comfort the young man despite the certain death situation.

Meanwhile, back at the hospital, surgeons and doctors were running low. So, Morgan who was 48 hours fresh out of surgery for her hands was put in charge of triage. Dr. Andrews was already overseeing the ER and Dr. Glassman was busy with surgeries.

Despite her general attitude, Morgan rises to the occasion. Unfortunately, at one point, she almost misses the correct diagnosis for a patient. At first, she thought the girl was only suffering from back pains due to falling, but Nurse Petringa suspects that the girl might be pregnant. An ultrasound not only confirms just that, but the girl has an ectopic pregnancy. She needs surgery immediately before her fallopian tubes rupture. Unfortunately, given the situation, no surgeon is available. In the end, Morgan decides to do the surgery herself and removes the bandages from her hands. In doing so, Morgan not only risks the future function of her hands but her entire career.

## Cast

* Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez
* Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne
* Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick
* Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park
* Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
* Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo
* Jasika Nicole as Dr. Carly Lever
* Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews
* Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman
* Dylan Kingwell as Steve Murphy (hallucination)
* Elfina Luk as Nurse Dalisay Villanueva
* April Cameron as Nurse Hawks
* Marin Ireland as Vera
* Bentley Green as Casey
* Lesley Boone as Marta
* Kim Hawthorne as Noreen

Co-Starring* Abbie Jenkins as Nurse Lucy Wagner
* Jeremiah Oh as Dan Jackson
* Avery Konrad as Tamara Krantz
* Christina Lewall as Kelly Smith
* Eric Yue as Carl Dell
* Sebastian Cordoba as Man with Pole
* Doron Bell as EMT #2

## Multimedia

### Videos

The Good Doctor 3x19 Promo "Hurt" (HD)Shaun Doesn't Want to Move On from Lea - The Good DoctorMorgan Wants Everyone to Call Her a Bitch - The Good DoctorMelendez Collapses, Shaun May Drown - The Good Doctor
## References

1. ↑ "Ratings for Monday 23rd March 2020" - SpoilerTV
2. ↑ "The Good Doctor - Episode 3.19 - Hurt - Promo, Promotional Photos + Press Release" - SpoilerTV