As a result, Shaun briefly hesitates during surgery as he fears risking her life, but Jordan gets him through it and Shaun goes so far as to take inspiration from Isla for his relationship with Lea. Claire reassures him that she thinks he will be a great father because he cares and will strive to always change for the better. Over the course of the next few episodes, Shaun clearly misses Lea. After some pushing by Glassman and a case that has similarities to Lim's, Shaun finally reaches out to Lim and although he isn't sorry for what he did, Shaun admits that he is sorry for the pain that he caused her. Later, while celebrating with Lea and Jared, Shaun receives the news that he is being sued for malpractice. At the same time, Shaun's relationships with Lim and Glassman have both become strained following Lim's paralysis which may or may not have been as a result of his unauthorized surgery to fix Lim's liver. Shaun, however, isnt ready to let the notion slide and manages to persuade Dr. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shaun even allowed the homeless Park to be his roommate for a time. However, during surgery to fix it, Shaun discovers that the bride has extensive cancer. He has been married to Elaine O'Reilly since June 2016. Lea is afraid that they will especially be judgmental towards Shaun since he is very different and sometimes awkward in social situations. At the same time, Shaun attempts to lose his virginity to Carly, but has trouble going all the way with her, seeking advice from Glassman who distances himself from the issue on Debbie's advice. At first Lea hides her emotional distress from Shaun, but at Claires behest admits to him that she is still overwhelmed with grief and would like to take her parents up on their offer to stay with them in Hershey for a while. Shaun is very happy to hear that and welcomes the decision that they are going to have a child. Some of our favorite Shaun Murphy Band videos from over the years. That night, Shaun visits Carly and successfully asks her out, forgetting to leave his chocolate and flowers with Carly in his excitement. When the bride and her husband hesitate to make a decision, Shaun's blunt honesty causes them to confront their fears and accept the surgery. In "Debts," Shaun works with Andrews and Claire on the case of a Good Samaritan who had half of his face destroyed after saving a total stranger from a groping on the subway. Even more extraordinary is that Shaun's statement that Zack was misdiagnosed before collapsing from his injuries leads Claire to successfully replicate Shaun's thought processes to see through his eyes and save Zack's life. Despite seeing two couples who share such a relationship despite the trials they are facing, Shaun is left with uncertainty about whether or not his relationship is worth pursuing. Shaun says he would definitely listen since he hates the sound it makes. The medical drama The Good Doctor, based on a Korean drama of the same name, exploded onto American television in 2017 to much fanfare. However, Shaun finds it surprisingly difficult when it comes time to personally slaughter the pig, Wilbur, before Jerome interrupts with the news of the arrival of a compatible human donor, much to everyone's relief. However, Kenny also helped Shaun once when Shaun wanted to see what it was like to just float on water after a patient had told him it was a liberating feeling, so Shaun asked Kenny to help him break into a pool at night. Appearances The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 21 Release Date and Time After some deliberation whether they really want their wedding and all the preparations to be accompanied by a TV crew, the two of them finally agree that it would be a great way to advocate for neurodiversity and be an inspiration to others who feel like theyre different and dont fit in. In "SFAD," Carly is away on a business trip and Shaun hesitates to text with her, leading an amusing incident where Shaun tries to figure out Carly's eye roll emoji with Lea's help. Over breakfast that morning, Lea tells Shaun that the road trip was good for her too, because she has decided she will leave San Jose and go back to Hershey for the dream job she always wanted to fix up old cars together with her brother Donnie rather than work in a 9 to 5 tech job thats not fulfilling for her. At the hospital, Shaun consults with Dr. Glassman and tells him that Lea is pregnant, which comes as a big surprise to Glassman, but he also asks Shaun if they want to keep the baby. As a result, after talking about their doubts and getting advice from multiple people, Shaun chose to continue his relationship with Carly by seeking out a more relaxed informal date that wouldn't be so overwhelming to him and had been described by Claire as something she greatly enjoyed when Claire was using her own dating experiences as an example. At the same time, he treats a conspiracy theorist who believes he is being poisoned and who trusts only Shaun out of all the doctors due to his blunt honesty. He enlists the opinion of several hospital colleagues, even sets up a poll to hear thoughts from a larger audience. The wedding is cancelled just before its about to get started. Late Teens Lea frustratedly decides to sleep in the car while Shaun stays in the leaky tent. This hits Shaun hard, although through all of this he holds Lea up and supports her every step of the way. It appears that the source of the pain is harmless since it was initially diagnosed as round ligament pain, but Shaun wants to make sure that nothing is wrong with the baby, so in Dr. Lea is happy and says yes, of course she will still marry him. Even though hes rejected the notion in the past, he knows now that Dr. Glassman is more of a father to him than his biological one ever was, and he finally finds a way to express that to Glassman while the latter tries to help Shaun get dressed up in his tux. They both agree that they have a whole lot of things they need to work through in terms of their individual insecurities. Carly reminds Shaun of their first meeting when he threatened to throw a rock through the pathology lab window to get her to help him immediately and admits that she thought it was cute how much he cared and then she realized Shaun might be the most genuine person she has ever known when they started working together in pathology. Murphy is a surgical resident on the show, and he is on the autism spectrum. She still struggles with the loss of their baby, particularly when a young mother comes to the clinic in hopes of saving her babys life that hangs in the balance. Shaun seeks solace with Lea that night and tells her hes glad shes there with him. Glassman subsequently credits Shaun's keeping Lea in the hospital for saving her life. However, the way Shaun communicates that to her, he sparks an unanticipated reaction in Lea that has her turn the argument around on him, accusing him that he thinks she is not good enough for him because he is now holding her past actions of rejecting him three years ago over her head. As an attending surgeon at St. Bonaventure, he must learn the ropes of hospital work and how to be a good mentor for residents, while facing unique challenges and embracing his strengths due to his diagnoses of autism and savant syndrome. After the state of emergency in California is lifted and life returns to a semblance of normalcy, Shaun allows Lea to visit again in person and invites her for a hug when she comes to his apartment. Shaun and Leas relationship grows and flourishes over the course of the season, which Shaun supporting Leas business endeavors when she partners with Jordan and Glassman on the gut monitoring sensor they want to develop (Growing Pains). Relationships A big turning point comes at the end of the season when Dr. Glassman reveals to Shaun in "More" that he has brain cancer and only 12 to 18 months to live. He's a young, troubled genius, and. After the D&C, Lea is released from the hospital, going home with Shaun with the two of them sitting silently on the couch, grieving for the unborn child they lost. During the ceremony, Shaun and Carly cross wrists as a compromise to Shaun's aversion to holding hands which pleases them both. He also gave Shaun a small toy scalpel, which would be treasured for years to come. However, while Shaun admits that it wasn't terrible to become close to a patient, he still doesn't want to do it moving forward. Shaun's subsequent breakdown in the locker room causes him to break the toy scalpel Steve gave him as a child as Claire helplessly watches, unable to help her friend. Shaun is then forced to treat pregnant mother-to-be Viola who suffers complications requiring a C-section. At the same time, Shaun struggles with his differences of opinion about household habits with Lea, especially after Julianne tells him that he's in the "wet cement year" of marriage when such habits become permanent for the rest of the relationship. In 2014, he landed his first voice role in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as Pip Squeak. During Shaun's first attempt at a lead surgery, it is Park who recognizes that Shaun isn't having a meltdown but rather that he has seen something that he is having trouble expressing to the other doctors. This manifests in strange behavior such as repeatedly moving around his and Park's office furniture and moving out of their shared office into a disused storage closet for privacy. Carly eventually admits that she thought her friends might have trouble accepting Shaun, but realizes that she was wrong and apologizes. In "Friends and Family," Shaun returns to Wyoming to visit his dying father who Shaun has not seen since Steve's funeral when he was fourteen. In "Incomplete," Shaun helps treat Jeanie, a young woman who must lose the ability to have sex to save her life from tumors. In Cheat Day, Shaun stands up for himself when he tells Salen he wants to rescind his decision to quit his job that she grudgingly accepts on the grounds of not wanting the PR disaster that Shaun threatens otherwise. Glassman, temporarily back in San Jose to sell his house, bears witness to Shauns breakdown and an accusation made by Shaun that the baby would not have died if Glassman, in his role as hospital president, had reined Salen in. Jared ultimately approaches Lim about resuming his residency and he is granted a position on Shaun's team, although Jared will have to be a first year resident again. Shaun thinks that Lea should be more patient and give her parents some more time to adjust to the idea, but he later seeks them out to speak to them directly on his own. After figuring out how to perform the surgery, Shaun rushes to Andrews' home to bring him the news and together the two present the surgery to Lim. 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