"The Uncertainty Principle" is the seventh episode of Season 4 of The Good Doctor. It is the sixty-third episode overall and aired on January 18, 2021.
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Dr. Morgan Reznik discovers her patient’s wealth and obsession with extending his life is a dangerous mix that could end up costing more than he can afford.
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Shaun is showering when Lea turns off his alarm, takes off her robe and walks in, asking to shower with him. Shaun thinks she wants to get clean with him, though Lea says it’s to have sex. She starts to walk in, but Shaun stops her, saying it would be inconvenient and possibly dangerous. Lea says it was just a thought, though Shaun replies it was bad and that he's surprised as she is such an intelligent person. Lea leaves saying she will reset his alarm.
Lim informs Claire, Park and Shaun that it is a three day weekend and a full moon. People are going to do stupid things and she wants them to take an extra trauma call in the ER and make themselves available if needed. Claire then notices Lim has a bruise from her motorcycle accident, though she claims that she just smacked her forehead on a cabinet door. Shaun also states that he knows she has driven to work in a car as opposed to riding on her bike, which she claims she sold for practical reasons.
Claire, Olivia and Jordan are working on Hannah, a woman who had a fall on a ski hill; she and her husband Alan were on a trip that he surprised her with while celebrating being cancer-free. As he takes a call outside the room, Morgan is treating a man, Wyatt, who has a perforated valve and needs surgery immediately. Jordan overhears that Alan is a Venture Capitalist, much to her intrigue since she has a new product that she would love to introduce to him.
As Claire gets a text from Enrique asking her out for coffee which she assumes is a date, Wyatt’s surgery happens while Shaun is revealed to have done a poll about shower sex and has mixed results from his colleagues. When Wyatt is found to have Hirschsprung’s disease, he is questioned by Park since only babies and young children get it. He admits that he modified his genetic code, having done a CRISPR procedure under the guidance of some professionals he knows through his work in China. They sent him some cocktails and his wife Sophie injected them into his bone marrow, believing they will stop him from aging so that he can live forever. Despite Shaun and Park’s attempts to tell them otherwise, Wyatt and Sophie still stick to their beliefs.
When Claire bumps into Enrique, she decides to tell him that she doesn’t think a first-year should go for coffee with a fourth-year because it’s bound to get complicated. However, he replies that he just wanted to get to know her as a friend, which Morgan doesn’t believe. When Shaun gets home, Lea states that she heard about the poll at work and had to field some questions while Shaun states that most people agree with her. She is putting together some exercise equipment that she wants to sell online. She admits to having it because she was once married and she got it in the divorce. She explains how they got married right out of high school, not for long, and they both knew it was a big mistake.
Wyatt is questioned about wanting to live forever and he states that he is trying to appreciate life and thinks doing so is humanity growing up. Meanwhile, Jordan offers Olivia some shoe inserts she designed to reduce inflammation. Jordan needs testimonials, to which Olivia gives her the side eye, says they are all busy enough and asks if they should really be focusing on something so trivial. Jordan replies that she grew up with five brothers and has always been taking care of people, which is why she is proud to be a doctor and just wants to be good at more than one thing as the lab results reveal bad news.
After Shaun looks over a sample from Wyatt, it appears that he added 10 years to his life which everyone doesn’t understand. Park suggests that Wyatt has lowered his resistance to infection, though Shaun doubts it and questions the others with him if they would stay with a single person forever if they could be immortal as Wyatt wants to be but Park, Asher and Enrique say they wouldn’t. Enrique suggests Wyatt has neurofibromatosis, but Andrews states that it’s probably autoimmune polyneuropathy and to put Wyatt on steroids. He also states that his commitment to Isabel was based on his lifespan; he loves her now, but everything breaks.
Claire goes to see Hannah, whose cancer is back and she is to have surgery in the next few days. Hannah has a panic attack, which is actually the tumour pressing on her throat. Claire turns to Olivia and tells her that Hannah has to go into surgery right away, then seeks out Alan, telling him that they removed her thyroid and there may be a deeper issue. He then states that he’s afraid of her dying, just as she almost did during her original treatment which Claire is sympathetic over.
Wyatt is informed of the situation as Shaun questions if he will still love Sophie if he does become immortal, but he sticks by his statement that he will. He then goes to see Lea in her office and asks her why she didn’t tell him about her ex-husband, to which she points out that he’s no longer important. Shaun still pushes the issue, even pointing out that she first thought he was important and now doesn’t anymore. She tries to address his aversion to change as he is trying to do so, but he says that his changes are to better himself as a doctor and her boyfriend while changes like this just happen abruptly. After comparing this to how people’s lives got uprooted suddenly before they were adequate warned of storms, Lea tries to calm Shaun with how their relationship won’t end with a natural disaster, only for him to reply about how “it started with one” and goes back to Wyatt.
Claire takes samples from Hannah, who feels that she is a burden on her loved ones including Alan. Claire soon has coffee with Enrique and finds out that he lives in a van right on the hospital parking lot because it is convenient and he’s also trying to appreciate life, while him being polyamorous is he has troubles being tied down. Wyatt goes into cardiac arrest and Shaun realizes something else is killing him. While still unsure what it is considering what Wyatt did to himself, Morgan teases Claire over her “date” with Enrique which Claire still denies was as such as Morgan refers to how Claire’s love life has been.
Olivia and Jordan state that it appears Sophie is sick from toxins in her home and she has a predisposition to developing many cancers, causing her body to be sensitive as Andrews states that he likes Jordan’s inserts. Park tells Wyatt that he is to be treated with targeted drug therapy when his pain shifts; his spleen is about to rupture and a transport team is called. Hannah is informed about her condition which Jordan tries to be sympathetic with her over, but also states that most cancers are treatable if known early enough. While they can deal with it, Hannah is still upset about how this will be on Alan.
Enrique suggests that they reverse the CRISPR, while Shaun remembers something that Glassman once wrote about and leaves as Alan is informed and Claire tries to convince him to change his views on her and be there for her. Shaun is reading about how Glassman was once involved in seeing if CRISPR could help treat Parkinsons, which didn’t work but he likes to learn from his mistakes. He then realizes that they can do it and he and Park tell Wyatt about reversing the CRISPR. Although he is against it, Sophie supports it and states that his obsession is taking over their lives. She asks for time alone with him to try to encourage him to do it, but he refuses and she leaves.
Hannah is ready to leave the hospital when Alan comes to pick her up and he says he is selling his business; he doesn’t want to spend anymore time away from her and they reconcile. Unfortunately for Jordan, this leads to her inserts not being able to be sold but Olivia states that her feet are killing her. Claire tells Enrique that she is willing to be only friends, which he accepts while Shaun makes changes for his and Lea’s shower sex. He also states that he has got a cowbell to ring in emergencies as Claire goes to Lim’s for dinner, only to find her damaged Ducati hiding behind Lim’s car.
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- On December 29, 2020, the episode title was revealed.[2]
- The events of I Love You and Lim are brought up, as well as Claire’s former relationships with Jared and Neil.
- Lim's car's license plate reads CUTTER MD, a reference to her being a surgeon.
- This marks the 50th appearances of Morgan and Lim.
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