Eli Stone“Should I Stay Or Should I Go?”
Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
It’s been two weeks without any Eli, and enough time to ponder that latest vision: Maggie and Matt working for the enemy. Are those things about to come true? The firm is splitting and most people are running for the hills (they are corporate lawyers, after all). But all of our beloved characters have decisions to make as Posner throws money and power at them like it’s candy. Candy he probably stole from a baby.
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Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
It’s been two weeks without any Eli, and enough time to ponder that latest vision: Maggie and Matt working for the enemy. Are those things about to come true? The firm is splitting and most people are running for the hills (they are corporate lawyers, after all). But all of our beloved characters have decisions to make as Posner throws money and power at them like it’s candy. Candy he probably stole from a baby.
Meanwhile Eli gets a disturbing vision: he’s naked in the shower with Maggie. That’s because he’s actually in the body of Maggie’s fiancee, Scott. This is tremendously awkward, especially given that Eli’s heartbroken over Maggie leaving WPK. But when he hears from her that she has no intent of leaving, he has another vision: still Scott, but that’s not Maggie in the shower. Yep, our favorite junior partner is being cheated on, and Eli now knows it. Now that’s even more awkward.
Elsewhere on Team Wethersby, Posner has offered Matt partnership if he defects. Now note that the signage in Eli’s last vision only said Posner & Klein, so methinks Matt is about to get ripped off. Anyway, that’s enough to make him jump ship, which scares Taylor to no end. See, it turns out she’s kinda in love with the guy. Cute, considering when this show started she couldn’t stand him. She recruits Eli, hoping that maybe working with Eli will change Matt’s mind, kinda like it did with Maggie. Hrm. Tough sell, but Eli gives it a shot.
Eli and Matt end up working the case of a young woman about to be deported back to Pakistan. When her green card ran out, she married her gay best friend in order to stay in the country; now ICE knows about the fake marriage and wants her deported. But if she goes back home, she’ll be killed to preserve her father’s honor, which is really upsetting to her actual boyfriend. Matt is very cold fish about this to begin with, but then it starts to bug him when the girl agrees to be deported if it’ll save her best friend from prison time.
Everything comes to a head at Maggie’s engagement party. We discover Matt actually has a heart, because he figures out how to win the case, and he actually loves Taylor. He’s gone a long way from being the annoying guy from last season. Eli tries to warn Maggie about Scott, but ends up slugging him instead. And that’s not even the best part. The best part is: TAYLOR’S PREGNANT! I so did not see that coming.
Matt wins the case with a compelling argument about how the girl being willing to face death for her fake husband is a display of more love than some actual married couples show (and he’s right). She won’t be deported. However, ICE wants the maximum prison term for her best friend just to be evil. Eli doesn’t know what to do, until Maggie mentions the name of the girl Scott was sleeping with: it happens to be the ICE lawyer’s very much married boss, giving him just enough leverage to get her to reduce the best friend’s punishment from prison to probation.
But that’s not the important part. Maggie’s decided she loves Eli, and finally tells him. Which is why, she says, she can’t work with him anymore. She goes to work for Posner, after giving him a list of demands. Anyone else think there’s more to this? Somehow I don’t buy Maggie as converting to the dark side, visions or no. Meanwhile, Matt is still leaving. And despite my screaming at my TV, Taylor doesn’t say a word to him about their baby. I sense a lot of massively awkward moments in the future.
All in all, it was a good “transition” episode, setting up the things we knew had to happen, without being just a throwaway episode. No Nate in this one, one scene with Chen, and like…five seconds of Keith, though. Darn. What do you think? Do you believe Maggie and Matt will stay out of the picture? And will Posner finally leave? We can only hope.