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Eli Stone

Eli Stone Praying for Time

Season 1,  Episode 8 | Original Airdate: March 20, 2008

Jordan steps in on the Turk case, because Turk still won"t give up his Hall of Fame eligibility by admitting to steroid use. Matt, however, convinces him that it"s his only option, so the insanity plea goes forth. The trial gets ugly, and the judge ends up talking privately to Turk"s wife -- and the wife tells her that the A.D.A. coached her to blurt out a privileged conversation between her and her husband, causing the judge to declare a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct, which counts as double jeopardy and kills the possibility of a retrial. Bennett, however, figures out that Turk and his wife conspired to create this outcome, and Matt is the saddest little boy in the frat as a result. But he forcefully pitches Jordan on dropping Turk as a client, and Jordan is so impressed that he names Matt his new heir apparent. Patti"s upset that Eli"s representing Salinsky, a developer who"s apparently tearing down Patti"s old neighborhood of Silver Terrace. Eli has a vision of an earthquake, which Chen thinks is Eli"s punishment for representing a scumbag like Salinsky, but when Chen induces a replay of the vision, it seems like more is at stake -- the earthquake might actually come to pass and destroy Silver Terrace if Eli doesn"t resolve the case successfully. Taylor and Eli try to get Salinsky (who"s totally Richard from Sex And The City, by the way) to settle, and he does agree to pay $20 million, but Jeffrey Powell (Rob Nagle from Dawson"s Creek, in case you don"t remember) rejects that offer. Eli tries to get more money from Salinsky, and in the process confesses to Taylor that his visions are guiding his life. Powell subpoenas Patti to testify that her neighborhood is worth saving, but Taylor shuts her up good, as if I didn"t like her enough. The judge tries to bribe Eli into greasing a relationship between his son and Salinsky; meanwhile, Eli has another vision, and in desperation, he tells Patti the truth about his prophetic powers and tries to get her to convince the Silver Terrace people to accept the settlement. Eli"s gambit works -- except Taylor gets in his way, saying that now that they"re already at trial, it makes no sense to settle. Maggie apparently has a boyfriend, which somewhat explains her total freakout about having kissed Eli, but she ends up having a chat with him, and he tells her about his visions too, although not quite as explicitly as he did with Patti and Taylor. She, however, of course believes him where no one else did, prompting him to try to kiss her, but she thankfully rebuffs him. The judge rules for Salinsky and orders the residents of Silver Terrace to vacate their neighborhood. All is not good, however, as first Taylor figures out that Eli acceded to the judge"s slimy request, and then Eli, having a crisis of faith, yells at Chen that he"s going to have surgery to fix his aneurysm. DUN!

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