"Decrypt" is the tenth episode of Season 4 of The Good Doctor. It is the sixty-sixth episode overall and aired on February 22, 2021.
Synopsis[]
When the hospital is hit with a cyberattack threatening to shut down life-saving machines, Lea rises to the challenge and looks to outsmart the hackers to prove herself. Meanwhile, the team treats an inspirational cancer survivor-turned-successful-philanthropist who harbors a dark secret.[1]
Plot[]
While Lea is having to deal with her car getting a ticket and a flat tire, Morgan is confirming news to a patient of hers, Jamie, that the woman has end-stage liver disease and needs a transplant (much to Jamie’s dismay). Lea reveals to Glassman that she had to change her tire but gets annoyed when she thinks he is being sexist to her about taking care of her car. Meanwhile, paramedics are bringing in Cort Graham, a cancer survivor, endurance athlete and the head of a big cancer charity who almost drowned while competing in a triathlon. Unfortunately, they appear to have a system failure and Nurse Hawks reveals that their computer systems are down.
Andrews states that they need to temporarily close the clinic, ER and divert new patients, but the ORs are isolated from the network and the radiology and MRI are still functional. It turns out they’ve been hacked and Glassman has called the police, FBI and cyber security insurance carrier while the ransom is two million dollars but they have back-ups of the information. Unfortunately, Lea reports that the hackers have been in their system for over three months and encrypted their servers and all their back-ups. Lea is sure that she can stop the hackers, who have demanded the ransom within 24 hours when Glassman appears intent to negotiate with them.
Morgan discusses Jamie with Lim, who states that Jamie is not of much priority as she has a low life expectancy. She’s also got Down Syndrome but is independent, much to Morgan’s annoyance since it’s used against Jamie whom Morgan has every intent to help. As Graham is being treated, Olivia states her admiration for him but Shaun pokes holes at his statements that cancer made him a better athlete while he, Claire and Olivia work to figure out what’s wrong with him.
The insurance representative has arrived and informs Glassman that the hackers are serious, but Glassman informs him about Lea whom the representative isn’t sure can deal with the hackers. As Morgan, Park, Asher and Jordan are discussing people to get a donor liver from, Asher thinks of someone to choose while Glassman finds that the chemos need to be rescheduled. Unfortunately, Lea is annoyed to find that Glassman is seriously considering negotiating with the hackers; they’ve doubled the ransom and activated malware, leaving the hospital at their mercy.
The representative and Lea argue about what to do, with Lea pointing out that attacks like this are happening so much because insurance companies allow it, but Glassman breaks it up and sends the two on their respective businesses. Meanwhile, Claire, Shaun and Olivia inform Graham that he has a fungal infection causing a bleed in his left lung. However, the surgery is going to be hard due to Graham’s scarring from his chemotherapy (even though he wants it) and he’ll need an anti-fungal drug to help.
Shaun visits Lea in the IT Department to offer her some lunch, but she isn’t hungry and has to focus on dealing with the hackers. Unfortunately, Shaun still joins her and tells her about Graham which annoys Lea as she thinks he is demeaning to her just as every other man she has worked over and under her entire life. As Lea realizes something, Morgan informs Jamie and Rachel - the woman who is Asher’s suggestion as a donor - that Rachel cannot donate her liver which is rather fatty. However, Morgan states that Rachel can donate a kidney and save two lives. Claire is soon called about how Graham's blood oxygen levels are dropping apparently due to the drug used on him but he still tries to ask for the surgery. He admits to not having the drug as he has never had cancer. Unfortunately, this makes Claire apprehensive about treating him though Shaun, Lim and Olivia are focused on helping him.
Morgan, Park, Asher and Jordan get to work finding someone for Rachel to donate her kidney to and get them to donate their liver to Jamie as Lea finds out how the hackers were able to get their information; one of her technicians spilt coffee over a server and didn't tell Lea which led to them being vulnerable, while the information just has a lot of coffee over it. She still has faith in herself, but Glassman regrettably informs her the insurance representative has been able to get the hackers to go back to their original ransom which Glassman hasn't authorized. As Graham is being treated, he sees that Claire is still angry with him when he attempts to assure her that he didn't plan for it to happen but has done what he has to make up for it.
Andrews finds Olivia who states that she needed a break, but then admits that she isn't good at being a doctor which Andrews refuses to believe. The next day, Lea soon informs Glassman that she has fixed the server, but he is reluctant to believe it. Meanwhile, Shaun tries to get Claire to forgive Graham when Lim sees that Claire got what she wanted; it has been leaked to the press that Graham lied and Lim already has her sights on Claire whom, pending an investigation, she is all but ready to fire. Also, Park has had a friend of his find an ex-inmate who can be given the kidney and has a daughter who is a match for Jamie. Unfortunately, Rachel refuses to donate her kidney as the man is a murderer. Jordan sympathetically informs Rachel that the ex-inmate apparently killed someone who abused him as a child but the man was only seen as a thug by the prosecutor (which is supposedly a lie).
Lea comes to Shaun for advice as she isn't completely sure she has fixed the server and asks him about whether she should take the risk or not. Shaun informs her about how he's never completely sure if a surgery will succeed, but he gets somewhat stressed out when he feels Lea is sending him mixed messages about what she wants him to tell her. Lea opts to figure it out herself when Shaun tells Lea that he didn't want to appear as if he was undermining her; he truly does respect her and he states that he knows she can fix anything, which gives her the strength to go through with it. Meanwhile, Claire tries to confront Lim over not believing that she didn't tell the media about Graham and gets annoyed when she feels Lim wants payback for Claire telling Glassman about her PTSD when Olivia states that Graham is crashing.
Rachel's kidney is soon donated and Jamie gets the man's daughter's liver, while Shaun tries to address that Claire is supposed to be Lim's friend. Olivia then claims to be the one who informed the media, not Claire and is fired by Lim in the process. At the same time, Lea is able to stop the hackers and save the hospital's IT systems. Although Glassman yells at her for her recklessness, he admits that she did a good job and offers to have her come over for poker. While Jamie thanks Morgan for not giving up on her, Claire and Shaun say goodbye to Olivia as Claire informs Graham that she definitely didn't tell the media. However, he ultimately feels relieved that the truth is out.
Dr. Andrews goes to say goodbye to Olivia and confesses that he was the whistle-blower as it was the right thing. She in return confesses that she never wanted to be a doctor and claimed it was her so that she wouldn't have a career she didn't want. She sees this as a means to get back her life and figure out who she is without all the ideas other people have for her. As Andrews states that he is routing for Olivia to still do well, a remorseful Lim comes to Claire's apartment to make amends with her friend for her unfounded suspicions and recent distance from each other. Claire accepts Lim's peace offering and invites her in to hang out together again.
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Trivia[]
- When Lea is showing Dr. Glassman her progress on the ransomware attack, the screen of the laptop is shown to be blank despite the fact that something should have been on it because of the laptop being powered on.
- Claire informing Shaun to lie if the truth can't help from Middle Ground and informing Glassman of Lim's PTSD in Parenting are brought up.
- This is the last appearance of Olivia Jackson.
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External Links[]
"Decrypt" at the Internet Movie Database
