Eli Stone -Episode Guide

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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
Original Air Date: 31 January 2008
Driven by ambition, Eli Stone has built a successful career at a top San Francisco law firm in representing the biggest and richest corporations, where "screwing over the little guy" is common practice. After experiencing a series of odd hallucinations, including a crooning vision of George Michael, Eli turns to his neurologist brother, Nathan, only to be told there's nothing wrong with him. As the visions persist, he's anxious to find the cause of his delirium and seeks the help of Dr. Chen, a Chinese acupuncturist who specializes in holistic medicine. Though skeptical of his practice, Eli finds Dr. Chen can help him recall important memories from his past.
Eli's visions continue to intensify and begin to affect his practice, his relationships and how he's perceived by others. But it's not until Eli puts his own life in peril that Nathan recognizes similar episodes their father shared and reconsiders his brother's case. Upon another review of the symptoms and an MRI, he discovers Eli is suffering from an inoperable brain aneurysm that's causing his illusions.
If Nathan represents science, Dr. Chen represents faith. As Eli struggles to cope with his diagnosis, he looks to Dr. Chen for his take on the relationship of his revelations to his aneurysm. Dr. Chen suggests there could be a divine answer for why he's having delusions of grandeur - Eli may be a prophet. While Eli is skeptical, his visions have helped him recall what his father once impressed upon him — "You're meant to do great things — speak inspired words — you're going to help people." With these words in mind, Eli redefines his outlook on life and his mission as a lawyer, beginning with a case in which he represents an old acquaintance against one of his firm's most important clients.Despite opposition from his imposing boss and future father in law, Jordan Wethersby, and his fiancée, Taylor, Eli chooses to stay the course.



Season 1, Episode 2: Freedom
Original Air Date: 7 February 2008
After a pilgrimage to the Himalayas to scatter his dad's ashes and two weeks without visions, Eli has returned to work reinvigorated. Maggie, a first-year associate at W.P.K., suggests he take the case of a married couple from Mexico -- farmhands seeking compensation against a large produce manufacturer whose pesticide made the wife and her co-workers infertile. Eli resists taking the case until a singing boys' choir and a biplane - his visions, returned - persuade him otherwise. Unfortunately, his clients are keeping two secrets from him, challenging both their marriage and their American citizenship.


Season 1, Episode 3: Father Figure
Original Air Date: 14 February 2008
As if Eli didn't have enough to worry about with his upcoming engagement party, his latest visions — which transport him to a World War II battlefield — prompt him to take the case of a National Guard Specialist serving in Iraq and suing her ex-husband over custody of their son — who is represented by Eli's fiancé, Taylor. With help from his spiritual guru Dr. Chen, Eli recalls a childhood memory of his father that reminds him of the lengths people will go to to protect the ones they love — a valuable clue that uncovers a shocking twist in his case. Meanwhile, as Eli's odd behavior continues, Jordan requires him to provide medical proof that he is fit to work at the firm, so Eli turns to his brother for help in falsifying his medical records.


Season 1, Episode 4: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Original Air Date: 21 February 2008As if visions of George Michael weren't enough, Eli's latest revelation is of a man who appears in his TV set asking for help. To his surprise, the man turns out to be a patient of Nathan's who's awoken from a five-year coma only to learn he's lost his company to his wife and her new husband — and he asks Eli to sue to get his old life back. Eli realizes that the only way to do this is to challenge the annulment of the marriage — which means suing the church.

Season 1, Episode 5: One More Try
Original Air Date: 28 February 2008
The "new Eli" gets another chance to make right a case the "old Eli" won through questionable tactics on behalf a large motor vehicle manufacturer. Patti brings to light Martin Posner's surprising culpability in the suit … though not nearly as surprising as how she discovered it. Meanwhile Jordan introduces two new associates who've joined W.P.K. - his daughter and Eli's ex-fiancée, Taylor, and Keith Bennett, whose self-representation in a trial against the firm made a lasting impression on Jordan. And if Taylor's presence in the office weren't enough for Eli to deal with, a series of untimely visions send him to Hawaii and lead to very odd behavior in court, threatening his case.


Season 1, Episode 6: Something to Save
Original Air Date: 6 March 2008
After a literal song and dance routine in court, Eli is called before the State Bar of California for a hearing to determine whether he's fit to practice law. Unable to find a lawyer to represent him, Taylor pleads with her dad, Jordan, to defend Eli's law license. Jordan agrees to represent Eli, but a new problem presents itself with Eli's brother, Nathan, is forced to choose between helping his brother and lying under oath about his aneurysm, leading to a shocking revelation that will forever alter Eli's life and career,


Season 1, Episode 7: Heal the Pain
Original Air Date: 13 March 2008
Eli adjusts to his new position at the law firm without an office, a secretary or the ability to try cases himself — all in the same week that he's being chased by a fire-breathing dragon. The dragon fly-bys prompt him to take the case of a 15-year-old boy whose mother was killed by the medical malpractice of a Dr Agon. Unfortunately, Agon used to work at the same hospital where Eli's brother, Nathan, is employed — the hospital that Eli must sue. Making matters even worse is the fact that Jordan assigns Maggie as lead counsel and Eli has to follow her instructions. The roll-reversal, ironically, brings them closer together — a fact not lost on Taylor, who tries to reconcile with Eli through a surprisingly live performance by none other than … special guest star George Michael.

Season 1, Episode 8: Praying for Time
Original Air Date: 20 March 2008
It's a race against time when Eli foresees an earthquake. Eli is shaken - literally -- by his latest vision: The "Big One" hitting San Francisco. With Dr. Chen's help, he realizes that the epicenter of the quake is the neighborhood Eli's client is trying to evict in order to turn the area into a shopping mall. Eli realizes that the only way to save these people is to help his client kick them out of their homes. And with the stakes this high, Eli is willing to do whatever it takes -- including bribing a judge.

Season 1, Episode 9: I Want Your Sex
Original Air Date: 27 March 2008
Avec Georgie!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Season 1, Episode 10: Heartbeat
Original Air Date: 3 April 2008
Eli takes on Nate's case when he's accused of malpractice in a U.N.O.S. case, but Nate's secrets jeopardize the case and cause Eli's visions of the day his father died. Taylor's attempt to stave off Dowd involve her father and then Eli.

Season 1, Episode 11: Patience
Original Air Date: 10 April 2008
Eli's practical joke against Dowd results in Taylor taking on a gay chimpanzee case, and Eli enlists Bennett's help when his vision leads him to a prisoner who is the victim of a vindictive warden.

Season 1, Episode 12: Waiting for That Day
Original Air Date: 13 April 2008
Eli sues the City of San Francisco when he has another earthquake vision, giving Marci just the opening she needs to call for a partner vote over Jordan's leadership of the firm.

Season 1, Episode 13: Soul Free
Original Air Date: 17 April 2008
Eli tries a right-to-death case around the time of his own surgery.