What "Monroe" 2-th episode about
Gillespie has managed to deal Monroe a tough hand. He can only have one registrar on his team, but trainees Springer and Wilson are both capable of filling the position. He is going to have to find out who is the better surgeon. Shelley Maxwell is a teenage girl whose brain shunt, fitted when she was a newborn, is starting to malfunction. It's time for her to have her brain's third ventricle punctured by Monroe so that her cerebrospinal fluid can drain correctly. Lynn Monkford is resigned to the fact that she'll die of cancer within a year. Monroe builds up a close relationship with her husband and can make that year worth living if he operates to reduce her brain tumour. Monroe is powerless to stop his son's impending marriage.
Episode number: 2
Episode release date: 8 october 2012 at 21:00
Status: aired
Rating: 7.4
