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Eli Stone: Two Ministers (Episode 209)

Way to leave us hanging, Berlanti.

Jordan's absent this week because Taylor's still not talking to him, but she could probably use some good daddy shoulder-leaning this week. At a routine appointment, Matt and Taylor learn that Taylor's protein levels are elevated, which means that there may be something going on with the baby to concern them. She mentions a potential chromosomal problem, and Matt immediately wonders if she means their baby has Downs Syndrome. She assures them there's no reason to jump to any conclusions or worry prematurely, because more tests are needed before they can know anything else; tests like the ones they ran on Taylor often return false positives, so this may all be a false alarm.








Eli Stone: Owner of a Lonely Heart (Episode 208)

You are the move you makeYou are the move you make People are breaking up this week, it seems. After twenty years of marriage, Jordan and Ellen are officially breaking ties, and Taylor's manipulated her dad into letting her represent him. Ellen wants more than Jordan can afford, given the sheer amount of money the new firm is costing him, but she stands firm. When Matt advises Taylor to try to talk to her stepmom as a friend--given how cordial, if not super-close, their relationship has always been--and try to reason with her. Taylor reminds him that Ellen's not exactly her mom, and Matt reminds her that said mom left her high and dry at the age of fourteen. Taylor relents and meets with Ellen, trying to persuade her. But Ellen says she's protecting herself and preventing Jordan from pulling the same crap he pulled with Taylor's mother when he left her for Ellen. Taylor: "Whu?"





Eli Stone: Help! (Episode 207)

Eli's on a man-date at the movies with Chen when he gets his weekly vision: it's Patti, singing to him from inside the movie, a melancholy version of the Beatles' "Help!" She needs someone, not just anybody, you see. Eli's entranced, and saddened, and sort of confused, especially when Patti reaches out to him and says, "She's innocent."

The next day at work, Patti finds out that her daughter's been hauled away by the police. Turns out that after her "false positive" defense last week, Angie's been arrested for possession and intent to distribute. She's accused of stealing pain medication from the hospital where she works. Eli tells Patti, who's a wreck, that God let him know for sure that Angela's innocent, and Patti clings to that. Eli and Keith take up Angie's cause; Eli tells Keith that Angie's innocence was "revealed to him." Keith's less certain, but he tells Angie that whether she's guilty or not, she gets his A game. She tells the boys that she tried coke once, at a post-exam party. It was given to her by another student, who she tells Eli and Keith to find. But Keith instead finds Angela's dealer. He tells Eli and Keith that Angela was a regular customer until she couldn't pay up anymore. And then she suggested a trade: the drugs she's accused of stealing, which according to the dealer, are gold on the street, to clear her debt.





Eli Stone: Happy Birthday, Nate (Episode 206)

Scarecrow, I think I'll miss you most of allScarecrow, I think I'll miss you most of all Okay, so do you remember before Thanksgiving? Because I don't. At the end of every month, it seems like my memory crashes and reboots with a wiped out hard-drive. So if you had to reach way, way back for some of this episode, you're not alone, and don't worry, I'm here to help.





Eli Stone: The Humanitarian (Episode 205)

Is this the part where I burst into song?Is this the part where I burst into song? So you know my favorite things are musical numbers? Nothing makes me happier than people bursting into song and spontaneously dancing, whether or not anyone else can hear the music. I think that is the genius behind this show. Also, God.

Wethersby and Stone are losing clients to Posner and Klein, and no one's quite sure how it's happening. Jordan's people meet with the big clients, think they've hooked them good, and next thing, they're signing with P&K. They've got a leak, and no one that can be fixed with a tampon. Taylor claims to be all over it, but she and Matt squabble (because he doesn't know she's pregnant and it makes things weird when he says things he doesn't know are offensive and she's saying things she won't explain and offending him). Matt eventually discovers the leak, who only boarded ship with Jordan and Eli because he didn't get an offer with P&K, so now he's trying to finagle his way in. But rather than share the news himself, he points Maggie in the right direction and lets her share the news. She and Eli have an awkward, eighteenth-century-romance-novel meeting of unspoken longing and pining, but they are much more interesting together when they're not in each other's faces for every case. They both agree that they "miss things."








Eli Stone: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Episode 204)

Contemplating how much disaster he should inflict...Contemplating how much disaster he should inflict... The law firm formerly known as Wethersby, Posner, and Klein is splitting into teams and chosing players this week. While it's not entirely surprising who ends up where, it is sort of melancholy and depressing.

Eli's case of the week is that of a Pakistani woman, Sana, who is facing removal back to her home country. She came to the US as a student and, while here, fell in love with Matt, her current boyfriend. But her visa ran out, and when all other options failed as well, Sana's gay BFF, Carter, married her so that she could stay in the country and see through her relationship with Will. Carter has a bitchy ex with a big mouth who has reported Sana and Carter to the authorities. Not only is Carter facing five years for the fraudulent marriage and Sana deportation, Sana's also looking at possible death at the hands of her father. It turns out that Sana's betrothed to someone for an arranged marraige back in Pakistan, and her marriage to Carter and relationship with Will has made her impure in the eyes of her family. She's dishonored her father, and for that, she's going to die.





Eli Stone: Unwritten (Episode 203)

Testify!Testify! Jordan is fed up that Eli and Taylor cannot have a conversation without fighting. She thinks he shouldn’t take the stand to testify that he doesn’t have post-traumatic stress disorder (since the burden of guilt is on Martin and Marci); Eli thinks he should (because it will prove he’s in control of all his faculties). Jordan agrees with Eli, which, after they’ve left, Taylor points out to Eli is the fourth time he’s done that. Eli exposits that she asked for a bench trial to protect her dad from a jury, an expedited hearing to shield him from the press, and now she doesn’t want him on the stand. Jordan needs a litigator, not an overprotective daughter, he says. They both wish an outside firm would take this on, but none will. Eli climbs onto a trolley and into a vision.





Eli Stone: Grace (Episode 202)

Mid-jog, Nate’s trying to negotiate last minute tickets for the final game to be held at Marvel Stadium, despite Eli’s protests that he doesn’t want to go. Nate wants to do something for him, now that the aneurysm’s back; he thinks there’s more to his non-diagnosis and Eli’s returned time bomb than Eli will say. Eli brushes him off and says he hasn’t had a vision since it came back anyway. And he jogs right into a vision. I love TV.





Eli Stone: The Path (Episode 201)

Visionary.Visionary. The teaser is literally a wicked tease this week. Eli tells an unseen person that he was on his way to work that morning like normal—pre-aneurysm removal—when it happened. He walked straight into a dance number. And I was so excited about this dance number, you guys. I saw Johnny Lee Miller dancing in the commercials, and I was so happy. And now Patti’s singing “Dancing in the Streets,” and Eli is working the group choreography as he’s never done, and it is beautiful, but then Sigourney Weaver interrupts to tell us that Eli is totally making this up and lying.





Eli Stone: Soul Free (Episode 113)

Behold, for I am your Creator.Behold, for I am your Creator.Eli's in surgery. Life-altering (potentially life-ending), brain-altering surgery. It's quiet, and things seem okay until Dr. Rajapaksa tries to take out the aneurysm that started this lovely show. Eli's blood pressure starts dropping and he starts hemorrhaging.

And then he wakes up, like an SNL Digital Short without the undead Andy Samberg.





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