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Eli Stone Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Jan 31, 200844 mins
Lawyer Eli Stone begins to see visions, including George Michael singing in his living room, and street cars in the lobby of his office building. Turns out he has a medical condition (aneurysm) that affects his brain and might be the cause of the visions (as well as those of his late father, whom he considered a deadbeat until finding out his dad may have been similarly afflicted). Eli takes on a case that pits him against his own firm, on the side of a mother and son fighting a drug company.
Episode 2
Freedom
Thu, Feb 7, 200848 mins
Eli's visions include a boys' choir and a biplane. After rejecting a case involving Mexican immigrants who claim the company they work for caused the wife's infertility, Eli finds that the husband flies a biplane -- so he accepts the case. But there's more at stake than the case against the company the pair works for when their status in the United States is questioned.
Episode 3
Father Figure
Thu, Feb 14, 200844 mins
As his prospective father-in-law takes steps at the law firm to shake Eli out of his slump (like taking away his company car), Eli takes on a case in which his opponent is his fiancé Taylor. She expected a slam dunk in this case of child custody, since the mother is on active duty in Iraq and has been denied a hardship discharge during "the war with no end." But Eli finds a way to prolong the hearing right up to their engagement party, during which another vision sends him flying into the cake.
Episode 4
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Thu, Feb 21, 200846 mins
Eli (now rethinking his decision to end his engagement to Taylor) sees visions of a man in a hospital gown. Turns out the man is a patient of Eli's brother, and had been in a coma for five years. While "asleep" the man's wife had their marriage annulled and fell in love with his business partner, who took control of the company. Eli is hired to get the man's company back for him. Meanwhile another case involving Eli's firm is one of defending a black partner against a racial bias charge because he refused to hire a sharp, street-wise black lawyer.
Episode 5
One More Try
Thu, Feb 28, 200847 mins
Eli and Maggie team up to retry a case Eli won five years before involving a roll-over crash of an SUV. Maggie is determined to find the missing car company engineer who might have been able to prove the case for the wheel-chair bound plaintiff. Jessica, an ex-girlfriend of Dowd, seeks his help when her lesbian lover finds Jesus and plans to move out of state taking her unborn child with her -- a child grown from an egg from Jessica -- denying Jessica any parental rights.
Episode 6
Something to Save
Thu, Mar 6, 200848 mins
Eli must make a hard choice at his disbarment hearing, Taylor and Patti clear some air, and Keith gets his first taste of life in a big law firm when he and Matt are assigned a star athlete's case who the district attorney wants to make an example of.
Episode 7
Heal the Pain
Thu, Mar 13, 200850 mins
Dowd and Bennett continue to butt heads over the handling of the Jayson Turk case, and Eli is forced to second chair his malpractice case as his diminished firm status is driven home, and visions of a dragon lead him to an unlikely key to the trial.
Episode 8
Praying for Time
Thu, Mar 20, 200851 mins
Eli's vision of earthquakes leads him to believe that the area in line for development by the man he is defending against the community is at risk. So he redoubles his efforts to have the area residents evicted. Meanwhile the trial of baseball star Turk comes to a conclusion that doesn't satisfy everyone involved.
Episode 9
I Want Your Sex
Thu, Mar 27, 200844 mins
Eli sues a high school at George Michael's request because the principal expelled a girl who played one of his songs at assembly, Taylor and Dowd sue a son for his bone marrow, and Nathan helps Eli find a surgeon.
Episode 10
Heartbeat
Thu, Apr 3, 200844 mins
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.
Episode 11
Patience
Thu, Apr 10, 200855 mins
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.
Episode 12
Waiting for That Day
Sun, Apr 13, 200855 mins
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.
Episode 13
Soul Free
Thu, Apr 17, 200855 mins
Eli tries a right-to-death case around the time of his own surgery.
