...wherein everyone is waiting for a surprise gathering. Eli asks what's going on, and by way of answering, Jordan tells the room, "I present to you the junior partner in charge of pro bono initiatives, Mr. Eli Stone." There it is: Awwwwwwwww. We get a bunch of shots of the show's principals congratulating him, with Matt even hugging him and everyone being waaaaaaay too enthusiastic, which was, along with the kind-of-creepy closeups as they talked to him, the first substantive clue to me that this wasn't real. Eli looks at the cake on the table and tells Jordan that while being partner means the world to him, if Jordan's doing this just because he thinks he's going to die, you know, that's okay. More Creepy Close-Up Cam as Jordan tells him that he made Eli partner because Eli's compassion changed Jordan...

...and then we flash forward again, as an emotional Jordan is begging Eli to wake up. Eli's unconscious in his hospital bed and looking kind of like a Conehead, though, so that might not be happening for a few more acts.

On the stand, Rebecca tells the court that David was born Jewish but never believed in God, and when he first told her about God speaking to him, she thought he was joking, but now she's of the mind that it was a symptom of the severe depression he fell into after the last round of chemo didn't work. Her lawyer points out that David claims to have found new faith and hope, but she counters that if that were the case, he wouldn't be giving up, but fighting to stay with his kids as long as he can. "That's what God wants." I automatically distrust anyone who says with that much certainty what God wants, even a woman of the cloth. But we gays tend to be a touchy lot, which is probably why Leviticus hated us so much. When Eli stands, he allows Rebecca (oh, she was totally Hannah's mom on Everwood, I just realized) to go on a lengthy discourse about how Judaism teaches that God gave people the gift of learning in order to expand their horizons, and one way in which they do that is to create treatments for disease, which, no matter how brutal, help prolong life. Glad this chick wasn't around in the era of leeches and skull-drilling. Then again, I suppose we at least know where she stands on stem-cell research. She concludes by saying that God intended for Green to have a chance to survive, and she only wants him to take that chance.