Eli Stone Live Blog! I'm back and I'm excited!

After last week's internet debacle and then migraine sucktastic, I'm recovering and I'm back this week for the Eli Stone Live Blog! See you here at 10pm EST and refresh often!


10:12
Starting off, a delivery boy is dropping off food and giving Patti a hard time about paying for it. Looks like she's going to have to take it out of petty cash. And while Patti is taking care of the eats, Eli is addressing the staff; now cut in fourths. Meanwhile P&K is winning the client and staff war and Maggie, who joined with P&K to keep away from Eli due to her now confessed (last week) feelings for Eli, is not impressed with their fratboy-we're-winning party. Matt Dowd is leading the charge.

While Patti and Eli are checking out a client whose business could keep Westhersby and Stone afloat, Eli has a vision and the file spontaneously combusts. Eli then fire extinguishes Jordan.

Both Eli and Jordan go to visit the almost-client-of-the-week, at his son's swim meet. The almost-client is a philanthropist who is trying to grow a Marijuana as a clinical trial for his son's MS.

Next, Eli has a long awaited musical number vision - with Jordan Wethersby singing the lead. There is fire and long-legged women dancing around Jordan. The end of the vision is Eli staring at a building engulfed in flames.

10:22
Back from break, Patti is asking Keith, the firm's best criminal defense attorney, to help her daughter with her DUI case. Keith finds out she's incredibly beautiful; I'm betting she's trouble.

In the next room, Taylor is freaking out about the effects her pop addiction will have on her unborn baby (last week) and Dowd (the unknowing daddy) shows up for lunch. He makes cracks about how's she's glowing and how "the girls look - wow." She laughs it off and asks him to help her find the leak who's helping to steal clients from the new W&S firm. She almost lets slip her baby news - and Matt's too offended and too clueless to notice.

In a client-of-the-week meeting, they're talking drugs. After, Eli has a vision in an elevator. It's a lot scarier than the Dragon one from last season; the elevator is falling and lands in a burning biofirm. And, if that's not scary enough, the building looks like it's going to explode. Post vision, Eli makes a "watch your step here" joke to the client-of-the-week.

10:33
Back from commercial, Eli is conferring with Dr. Chen. Dr. Chen suggests that fire can be a symbol for the Divine - a la burning bush. Eli notes that all his recent visions end in poof! flames! so it's more likely the going-to-hell symbol. It seems God does not want Eli to go through with this case. In the next scene, we're left wondering what evil trait the client-of-the-week is hiding while we watch Eli convincingly trash-talk in court.

At the DA's office Keith gets Patti's daughter off with the serious smooth talking he's known for, and afterwords Keith (in what I assume is Patti's real grand scheme) asks her out. She says yes.

Lunch time is Maggie and Dowd at P&K where they chat about Taylor and the lawyer spy.

Back in Eli's library-office, the client-of-the-week's son visits Eli and we're let into the fact that our swimmer doesn't really want the pot, all he wants is to swim. His dad doesn't get to him while he swimming. He doesn't want to be in the clinical trial. He doesn't want his dad to control his life. As we go to commercial, Eli is trying to understand where the client and the visions are leading him and the audience has more of a hint regarding the evil factor Eli might be facing.

10:44
Turns out, Patti is not happy that Keith asked her daughter out to dinner. She puts the butter knife down - eventually.

In court, the client-of-the-week is lying on the stand and Eli knows it. While Eli tries to "help" his client NOT purger himself Jordan tries to get things on track and the Judge suggests a recess. In recess, the client-of-the-week threatens Eli's brother, Nate's job. Our client-of-the-week is the largest donor at the hospital and the biggest ass.

Next, Keith's date with Patti's daughter, Angela, is going really, really well. I was half expecting Patti to jump out of the bushes during the goodnight kiss.

10:55
In the first scene of the last quarter of the show, Maggie visits Eli. She shows up with the name of the leak. If Maggie doesn't come back to W&S I'm really going to miss the chemistry that these two have; it's what made the show in season one and it's the ONE thing missing in season two.

In court, Eli saves and slam dunks a win. Lawyer smooth talk. When Eli tells the son to confess to the father, he doesn't. My eureka bell went off. In Eli's vision with the elevator, there was a manlike figure sitting on the roof of the facility. My guess is that swimmer-son set the fire and wants to go down with it.

In a shocking twist, Patti tells Keith that Angela had a good time, just before Keith gets a call about Angela's blood work from the DUI having traces of cocaine in it.

10:58
In a sweet moment, Eli gives the leak a second chance and Jordan realizes that you get more when you're sweet about it.

Eli visits Dr. Chen and they're chatting about which way the vision-phone goes.

In the last moments of the show, swimmer-son visits Eli at his flat begging to be emancipated. I'm glad there aren't any burning buildings - IN THIS EPISODE!

Preview Time!
Two weeks from tonight - Eli fights for Swimmer-son's emancipation. If I'm not mistaken, that's the first continuation story we've had with the same clients-of-the-week(s).