Eli Stone: Grace
By fred | October 22, 2008
(S02E02) After a pretty darn good premiere things are slowly getting back to normal for Eli Stone, now that he has his aneurysm back. But as I was saying last week, one of the things that I enjoy the most about this show is that there is a constant evolution, and you never know where or how far things will go. In all other shows, when the big boss start acting like he might have gone insane, you know he has not and it won’t go anywhere — unless this is the last season before the actor leaves the show.
But here, things are different, because this is Eli Stone. So when Jordan is starting to come up with new ideas and plans of radical changes for the company, as he let Eli know by the end of last week’s episode, it could actually go both ways : he’s crazy and will lose the company, or he’s crazy but very good, smart and lucky enough to get his way. Well, maybe there are other ways, which don’t have him be crazy, I don’t know…
The point is, he sure sounded crazy to me, because there’s no way anyone was going to let him go with his new plan, and only representing clients who take an oath to do no harm, especially after being the kind of company they were before Eli got his aneurysm, which was clearly not the kind of company worried about “doing good.”
I don’t doubt Jordan is a great lawyer, and I have no idea where this is going, but he if goes in to this fight alone, like he seems determined to do, I’m starting to think he might end up having to create a brand new company after all, with Eli, Taylor and whoever is willing to come along, and I got a name for them : Life Brave.
Anyways, with the aneurysm back Eli also had the visions back too, but this week it got a little twisted. Because it used to be that visions were about the future case Eli had to, or was about to get, and it wasn’t always done in the more subtle ways. This week, the vision was quite a mix : there was Grace, of course, right in the middle of it, and there was also a clue about the case Eli was indeed about to have.
I didn’t find the case all that good, except that for a moment I wondered if Eli might be on the wrong side of things. But really, why didn’t the father showed that letter to Eli right from the start ? I can’t imagine how hard it must be for him and how guilty he must feel, but if he really wanted to win the case, he had simply no choice.
Of course, there was another connection between the case and Grace : a heart condition. The biggest surprise of all came from Nate, the one who arranged for Grace and Eli to meet, to tell them both they were not alone. Nate did all this because he knew about the future, and Eli’s future, thanks to their dad. After all those years of resenting him, thinking he was just a drunk, they now find out that he had visions too, and he even knew a lot about Eli’s future, as he wrote down on his journals.
I have to say I didn’t see that one coming, and I wonder what else can be found on those journals, but I also question the visions he had. Eli mostly has visions with an immediate use : the next case he’ll work on, the coming Earth quake, all things for a very near future, and information he can use to help save people. Their father on the other hand seemed to have visions of a far further distant future, and one he couldn’t really have an affect on. I wonder if this will happen to Eli as well somehow, as the only time something like this happened to him was his “Live Brave” vision.
I didn’t really see such a connection between Eli and Grace, so I don’t know whether she’ll come back or not, but I don’t really feel the need to see her again. Besides, during Eli’s vision last year, haven’t we learned already that he will eventually end up with Maggie — who by the way has yet to be pretty stupid or annoying this week, let’s hope she can keep it up that way.
Not an episode as good as last week, and if the whole bit with Grace clearly took over, I didn’t find it all that interesting. Still a good episode, and as always on this show things are moving, evolving, changing, and that’s pretty exiting!
What did you think of this episode ? Did you like Grace so much you want to see her come back ? Was Katie Holmes really singing during the vision, or was that an awful playback ? Has Jordan gone insane ?
