...but then snaps out of it to find he's flailing his arms in front of Taylor like a moron. She ignores that and asks, "Do I feel what?" He tries to say how great their working together is going to be, and her response is literally "..." before she walks away. You can always count on a lawyer to find just the right words.
Eli's complaining about his latest vision to Chen, and Chen gets a little too Jeff Spicoli about the idea of two hot women singing to Eli. Eli says it's a problem since he works with both of them, "although I must say that their singing was surprisingly good." Heh, except of all the people who have sung so far, they're pretty far down the list. Patti, Jordan, and even Matt (when is he going to sing again?) made far more of an impression. Chen tells Eli that in Norse mythology, earthquakes were the result of Loki's punishment. He doesn't clarify that the earthquakes were caused by Loki's shaking from the venom a snake dripped on his face for all eternity, but I suppose there's only so far he wants to push this parallel. He asks if there's anything Eli's done recently that merits punishment, and Eli admits that he's "back on the side of evil" this week. Chen has Eli lie down, and Eli happily enthuses, "I love needle time!" Does Eli live near the Mission? Chen says he should be able to help Eli relive his earthquake vision, "like under hypnosis, so you can notice some additional details." Needle gets tapped...
...and then Eli's cutting himself shaving again. He saves the TV this time, which seems like a big Why Bother?, except that the newscaster says that the earthquake measured 6.5, and the epicenter was located in Silver Terrace. Back in the present, Eli tells Chen that Silver Terrace got destroyed in his vision, and Chen wonders what happens if Eli loses the case. Eli: "Those people could die." This...seems a little odd to me. I know that it appears that if Eli doesn't get the people out of the neighborhood, the earthquake could kill them, but...wouldn't it occur to them that winning a case for Salinsky isn't exactly consistent with his being on the side of social justice? Anyway: Title card.













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