The aide breaks the big news: The Mayor is closing the bridge despite the judge's ruling, as for one thing, he actually finds Foote quite persuasive. But really, he says, it was Eli who convinced him (not exactly sure how, there, but we'll go with it), and he adds that they felt like they couldn't really risk doing nothing, which is not the worst point I've ever heard made. Eli and Foote laugh as Eli notes that the one person who believes them in the whole city is the Mayor. "Talk about dumb luck!" The fact that we cut out of the scene right there makes me want to meet this Mayor and see if dumb luck actually had anything to do with it. For now, though, I'm guessing "no."

Patti comes in to see Matt, who's already got Eli and Taylor in his office. Eli tells the women that before going in for his surgery, he wanted to make sure he didn't get "Terri Schiavoed." Matt somberly tells them that he drafted the living will, and Eli offers that he would have asked Taylor, but he needed someone "without conscience or sympathy." Taylor wonders if there's any need, as she's sure "these surgeries" usually work out fine, and am I the only one that remembers that exactly ONE DOCTOR out of everyone Nate approached didn't think surgery was a bad option for Eli's condition? I mean, I know it's not like Taylor's been following the ins and outs of his condition since they broke up, but she definitely heard the word "inoperable" at one point or another. Anyway, Patti chimes in that she's been reading up, and the operation has a fifty percent chance of leaving Eli a vegetable. And really, I have to say, especially with the way the episode ends, I do not get Eli doing this, nor do I get everyone not trying to talk him out of it. He's got every reason to believe that the aneurysm is part of a grand plan, which makes it seem a lot more likely that his life will be a long and meaningful one. Why take the risk of throwing it all away? Does he want to do that to his family? To Jordan, Taylor, Patti, and even Maggie? Things have built in a satisfying direction on almost every single other front this season, and there have been developments that have been wonderfully unpredictable and resonant, but I just really can't buy this coming to pass with almost no discussion, and I think I'm going to have a real problem with the season finale. Anyway, Eli needs two witnesses for his living will, which does not thrill Taylor at all, but she signs. Patti asks if he drafted his actual will, and he tells her he left her his George Michael CDs. "It seemed appropriate." Aw. Taylor turns to Matt and smiles that since he was Eli's attorney in this matter, privilege would... "...prevent me from bringing it up on a date," Matt finishes. Eli then gets up and asks them to go to Golden Gate Park, as it'll be the safest place during the imminent quake. Taylor starts to voice her skepticism, but Eli asks her just to please do it for him. "Consider it a last request if you have to." I should probably make a last request myself, considering how you all are KILLING ME HERE. Eli rushes out...