Eli Stone: Eli Makes Junior Partner
So this isn’t the way I pictured Eli Stone getting “rid” of his brain aneurysm but that’s why someone else gets paid to write the show while I just watch it. Religiously.
This past week’s show (April 17) begins with everyone at Stone’s law office treating him gingerly. Being that he’s about to get a dangerous surgery to remove a brain aneurysm, he thinks he’s being given special treatment. Especially when the main partner, Jordan Weathersby, surprises Stone by naming him junior partner, in charge of the firm’s new pro bono division.
Of course, Eli accuses Weathersby of giving him preferential treatment, and Jordan just blows it off, as does everyone else. That’s when I knew something was up with this episode.
You see, Eli has already had the surgery, only he doesn’t know it as we come to find out later. Meanwhile, a client, played by the brilliant Richard Schiff, known best as “Toby” from the West Wing, hires Eli to defend him in a trial in which his wife is trying to get him declared incompetent. Schiff’s character, David Green, has cancer for the third time after beating it twice and wants to forgo chemotherapy treatments while his wife wants him to fight for his life.
Green tells Eli that the reason he is giving up on chemo is because God told him to die in peace. This, of course, interests Eli, who has been having prophet-like visions himself.
Throughout the trial, Eli changes his mind on whether or not Green should die a couple of times, in the end, seeing his clients point of view. The case ends with the judge ruling in Green’s favor and Green dying in the hospital.
Meanwhile, we find out that Eli has already undergone the surgery and is in a coma.
This presents a serious problem because in the prior episode, Eli had a colleague draft a document stating that he does not wish to remain in a vegetative state should something happen in the surgery.
And that’s when Dr. Chen, Eli’s guide throughout this whole season, wakes up in the middle of the night and realizes Eli doesn’t know he’s in a coma and needs time to fight to live. He makes this plea to Nathan Stone, Eli’s brother, who is set to carry out Eli’s legal wishes.
Nathan gives Eli 48 hours and Eli fights to live. But not before having a “white light at the end of the tunnel” moment featuring … George Michael? Relax, George Michael *isn’t* God. It’s just another Eli Stone musical number.
And in the end, Eli wakes up.
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