By Sabrina Cognata

Here’s Eli (Johnny Lee Miller).  He’s an attorney in San Francisco and a complete yuppie asshole.  We meet him as he’s climbing a mountain in Tibet and telling us he might be a prophet.  Next, we join Eli in a flash forward to his boring life where he keeps hearing the music of George Michael.  He keeps hearing the music and stopping everyone around him to ask what the hell the song is.  First he does this in a work meeting and then later, when he’s having sex and he has to stop it because he hears the music again.  He wanders into his living room where he sees George Michael singing his hit Faith.  Then he passes out.

Eli goes to visit his brother, Nathan, a doctor.  Nathan says nothing is wrong with Eli and blames the problems on stress.  While back at work, his assistant tells him to visit her acupuncturist, which he scoffs at.  Then the woman from the meeting the day before, Elizabeth, shows up and asks Eli to represent her.  He explains to her that he cannot sue his own client and offers to get her another ten thousand.  She says there is more to it than that and she says it was worth a shot then leaves his office.  When she leaves the auditory hallucinations begin again and Eli sees George Michael performing in his lobby.  When he wakes up from his delusion everyone around him is staring. 

After that, Eli decides to go to the acupuncturist, where something is triggered in his memory and he realizes that the client, Elizabeth, is the woman he lost his virginity to while listening to Faith by George Michael.  He goes to Elizabeth’s house and confronts her with this and then tells her to go to his office in the morning cause he’s going to get fired for asking to represent her case.  Is Eli Stone turning a new leaf?



At the meeting with his bosses at work he continues with his auditory apparitions while talking his bosses into allowing him to representing Elizabeth.  He keeps hearing a bell.  It’s the bell of a San Francisco trolley followed by the voice asking him to jump aboard.  Eli tells Dr. Chen, the acupuncturist that it was the voice of his dead alcoholic father and we flashback to when Eli won a debate award and his father missed it because he was drunk, but as his consolation prize his father hands him a postcard of the Tibetan mountain then his father hops off the trolley and into a bar.

Eli goes to court, representing Elizabeth and doing all that he can to win the case.  Elizabeth says she’s afraid they will lose the case as she leaves his office and his secretary walks in and hands him some document that says there is a link between the vaccine and autism.  A confidential document that he isn’t supposed to have and could lead to him being disbarred.  Here is where things get screwy; the person hiding this document is his fiancée’s (Natasha Henstridge) father, Jordan (Victor Garber), who happens to be his boss.  When Eli confronts his future father-in-law and boss with this he is basically told that if he blows the whistle it will kill his career and his life.  Eli Stone is in a pickle and immediately begins having another vision where he is climbing the Tibetan mountain again.  In the middle of it he hears the voice of his brother and fiancée as they plea with him not to jump off his balcony.  When he snaps out of it he’s looking at the street from downtown San Francisco and one wrong move will result in him splattered all over the city.  Now his brother is finally worried. 

Eli ends up back in his brother’s office and they link Eli’s episodes to a brain aneurysm that is pressing up against certain parts of the brain causing his delusions of grandeur.  Because it is so deep they cannot operate on it, but Eli is going to have to learn to cope with seeing George Michael or his dead father or the mountains in Tibet.  Now Eli has nothing to lose cause he’s probably going to die.  When he gets to court he calls the executive of the company responsible for the vaccine to the stand.  He asks him if he allowed his daughter to get the vaccine.  The executive eventually says he did not allow his daughter to receive the vaccine and Eli should feel triumphant because he’s offered $360,000.  Elizabeth turns it down and tells Eli that he’s pathetic for thinking she should accept it.


Eli goes to visit Dr. Chen.  Dr. Chen tells him that there are two explanations for everything, the scientific and the divine.   He tells Eli that he can choose to believe in whatever he wants, but the things that are happening to him, the connections that are being made put him in a position of heightened awareness and puts him in the position of being a prophet.  Eli goes back to court and gives a speech about faith for his closing argument.  While waiting for the result of the hearing his mother shows up and tells him his brother told her about the aneurysm and hands him the coffee can he was holding in one of his delusions.  Eli starts making connections and his mother says she moved his father’s ashes from the urn into the coffee can, and while they’re talking Eli’s interrupted by an announcement made saying the jury has reached their verdict. 

Eli wins his client 10 million dollars.  Eli makes a deal with the corporation saying 2 million goes to Elizabeth while the remaining 8 million goes into a trust fund for children that suffer from autism triggered from the vaccine.  Eli then decides to go to India to spread his father’s ashes where he promised his father years ago and has decided to change his life to reflect the person his father thought he would be.  Honestly, I think this show is awesome as hell.  I love the character of Eli and I love Johnny Lee Miller even more.  I’m really excited to see where writers will take things with this character and storyline.  What do you think?  Did you like it or you do think the character is too full of it and unrealistic?  Let us know in the comments!