After experiencing a series of odd hallucinations, including a crooning vision of George Michael, successful lawyer Eli Stone turns to his neurologist brother, Nathan, only to be told there's nothing wrong with him.
After a pilgrimage to the Himalayas to scatter his dad's ashes and two weeks without visions, Eli has returned to work reinvigorated. Maggie, a first-year associate at W.
As if Eli didn't have enough to worry about with his upcoming engagement party, his latest visions -- which transport him to a World War II battlefield -- prompt him to take the case of a National Guard Specialist serving in Iraq who is suing her ex-husband over custody of their son.
As if visions of George Michael weren't enough, Eli's latest revelation is of a man who appears in his TV set asking for help. To his surprise, the man turns out to be a patient of Nathan's who's awoken from a five-year coma only to learn he's lost his company to his wife and her new husband - and he asks Eli to sue to get his old life back.
The “new Eli” gets another chance to make right a case the "old Eli" won through questionable tactics on behalf a large motor vehicle manufacturer. Patti brings to light Martin Posner's surprising culpability in the suit -- though not nearly as surprising as how she discovered it.
After a literal song and dance routine in court, Eli is called before the State Bar of California for a hearing to determine whether he's fit to practice law.
Eli adjusts to his new position at the law firm without an office, a secretary, or the ability to try cases himself - all in the same week that he's being chased by a fire-breathing dragon.
Eli is shaken literally -- by his latest vision: The "Big One" hitting San Francisco. With Dr. Chen's help, he realizes that the epicenter of the quake is the neighborhood Eli's client is trying to evict in order to turn the area into a shopping mall, and realizes too that the only way to save these people is to help his client kick them out of their homes.
When a teenaged girl is expelled for playing George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" during an abstinence education assembly at school, the pop superstar retains Eli's legal counsel on the girl's behalf.
Eli's visions send him back in time to the day his father died, the same week his brother, Nathan, is sued for giving a heart transplant to another patient.
A vision of the future prompts Eli to take the case of a prisoner who's been denied parole and happens to be a former client of Keith's. Unfortunately, the timing couldn't be worse because law firm partner Marci Klein is in town to investigate why the firm's Fortune 500 clients are leaving in droves, which could mean the end of Jordan's reign as senior partner. Meanwhile, Matt's efforts to win Taylor over lead to the case of two gay chimpanzees.
Eli has a vision of himself sitting in the back of a taxicab traveling on the Golden Gate Bridge when suddenly the earthquake hits. Unfortunately nobody believes him until Dr.
The case of a man's right to die coincides with Eli's surgery to remove his brain aneurysm -- a procedure that develops complications which could leave him in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.