Eli Stone“Grace”
Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCentsCorp Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
You just knew the moment Eli told Nate he hadn’t been having any visions, he was going to have one. This one’s not your average ‘how to save someone’ vision either: it’s Katie Holmes warbling Duke Ellington. He has no idea what that means, but he quickly gets his answer when he gets dragged to a baseball game by his brother and who is sitting a few rows behind him? Katie Holmes, who is busy spilling everything over some guy and causing a huge scene at least until Eli directs the crowd’s ire at him by insulting the home team. Some time later, Katie introduces herself: her name is Grace Fuller and she is also a lawyer, for a nonprofit group. Now why would God bring her into Eli’s orbit?
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Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCentsCorp Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
You just knew the moment Eli told Nate he hadn’t been having any visions, he was going to have one. This one’s not your average ‘how to save someone’ vision either: it’s Katie Holmes warbling Duke Ellington. He has no idea what that means, but he quickly gets his answer when he gets dragged to a baseball game by his brother and who is sitting a few rows behind him? Katie Holmes, who is busy spilling everything over some guy and causing a huge scene at least until Eli directs the crowd’s ire at him by insulting the home team. Some time later, Katie introduces herself: her name is Grace Fuller and she is also a lawyer, for a nonprofit group. Now why would God bring her into Eli’s orbit?
Meanwhile, Jordan wants to turn the entirety of Wethersby, Posner and Klein into a pro bono firm of sorts, which doesn’t sit well with the other two names on the stationery. And Eli’s next case is another family squabble, this time with a father arguing with a mother over whether or not their son wanted a military funeral. She wants one, and she’s his next of kin; daddy is suing so he can take over asserting it’s not what junior would have wanted. He keeps saying that a lot but doesn’t have much to prove it. Mama happens to be played by Roxanne Hart, whom I haven’t seen since her days as Camille Shutt on Chicago Hope and who hasn’t aged that well either. Still there’s a flashback to my younger years.
While handling the case Eli is still trying to find Grace, and he does when she calls him and asks if he sent her the ticket to the baseball game. He has no idea what she’s talking about but after much needling, and turning up at her office with a dozen hot dogs instead of roses, he gets her to have lunch with him. Or rather chat with him while she walks to go file her next brief. We find out she used to be a bankruptcy lawyer up until two years ago and that she happens to be leaving for Kenya in two days. Oops. That’ll put a damper on your love life. He manages to convince her to have dinner with him by blurting out that he knows a good jazz club, which he in fact does not; he’s got the phone book out before Patti sets him straight.
Meanwhile the court case is sinking fast especially when opposing counsel pulls out a tape of junior saying how happy he is in the military. Eli sees his client twitch when the kid mentions his commanding officer, who happens to be named Ellington. Coincidence? Not on this show. He pushes dad, who just gets angry and storms out, which is the same as slapping a big ‘guilty’ stamp on your forehead. The day does not improve when he finds out from Matt (in Sam Jaeger’s one scene of the episode) that Posner and Klein have filed a court order to freeze Jordan’s authority at the firm calling him mentally unfit. He storms in to find out Jordan won’t let him take the blame for his new idea and yet Taylor wants to give him all the blame. Is it just me, or has Taylor’s character become a real piece of work this season? I remember her being pretty likeable last season and this season I just want to slap her.
Eli goes to dinner with Grace and fails royally at dating altogether but manages to explain to her that he had seen her in a vision before he met her. She’s still living in denial.
However, the client finally cracks, confiding to Eli that he knew about his son’s heart condition which led to his death. He knew when his son failed his first Army physical, and instead of doing anything about it went to his old military buddy Sergeant Ellington, who got a doctor to look the other way so the son could enlist. In other words: this whole thing was preventable. He then reads an email from his son telling him how miserable he was and how much he hated the army revealing his reasons for not wanting his son to have a military funeral. When Eli turns this email over to the judge, the judge has no choice but to agree, although it also disintegrates things between mama and papa to the point of no return.
Eli’s angry. He’s angry that Jordan is risking his firm for something Eli inspired him to do. He’s angry that a young man died doing something he hated just because of his father. He’s angry that Grace is leaving. Then when his brother calls, he deduces why Nate was so insistent that they go to the game: it was him who sent Grace the ticket. Calling his brother’s bluff, Eli gets another shocker (as if last week wasn’t enough).
Nate calls Eli’s bluff about having the aneurysm back, in a surprising show of belief in something bigger than himself. He says he went looking at their mom’s house and found their father’s journal…which contains plenty of information about Eli…in the present day. As in ten years after their father died. Not all of it makes sense but there was mention of Grace. Including her address. And including why she changed lines of work two years ago: her own heart condition, the same thing that killed the young soldier. I swear I love Matt Letscher more and more with every episode.
Eli goes to see Grace off and tells her he knows about her condition. He’s insistent that they can’t just leave each other forever. She tells him that this was a reminder for the two of them that they’re not alone and that not even he can predict the future. What do you see happening? Will Jordan regain his power at the firm? How much did Eli’s dad really know about what will happen to him? It’s all shaping up to be quite interesting.
I'm so happy the musical numbers are back. Unlike last year's Viva Laughlin, they actually work in this show!
ReplyDeletewell I hope we learn more about his dads diary.I just love this show and am so glad they decided not to cancell it last year. Who knows where the show is heading, but I will be following.
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