‘The Good Doctor’ Boss on Shaun’s Future With Carly in Season 3

Ileane Rudolph September 16, 2019, 10:00 am

FREDDIE HIGHMORE, JASIKA NICOLE — ABC/David Bukach

Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) has been reinstated at San Jose St. Bonaventure, and Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff) is cancer-free.

Are things finally good for these good docs? Executive producer David Shore previews The Good Doctor Season 3.

Is there a future for Shaun and pathologist Carly (Jasika Nicole)?

Shaun, a savant on the autism spectrum, has his first grown-up relationship with Carly, Shore confirms: “There will be communication challenges but also great moments.” (We hear Shaun’s first sexual experience could be one of them.)

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Plus, Shaun and Carly go on their first date.

Will the breakdown Shaun had last season still spook the administration?

“Audrey Lim [Christina Chang] is the new surgical chief, and she’s a fan of Shaun’s,” Shore notes — but don’t expect everyone to agree with her. Lim’s other struggle: Can she make her romance with Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) work now that she’s his boss?

Aaron proposed to hospital barista Debbie (Sheila Kelley, Schiff’s real-life wife). Will they wed?

“He got engaged to someone he barely knows,” reminds Shore. “[We’ll see if] it’s in his character to go through with it.”