Brooke shows up alone to meet with Jake, Maggie, and Eli, and Brooke tells Jake that Adam didn't want to be there. Some best friend he turned out to be! Eli tells Brooke that Jake has agreed to the settlement terms, and she and Adam will retain control of the company. Jake, still not thrilled with the arrangement, gets up to go, having signed the papers already, but he turns back to tell Brooke that he's glad she and Adam found each other (odd choice of phrase, given that they must have known each other well already) and he hopes they have a good life. "I want you to." He turns again, but Brooke calls his name, and they exchange a fond smile. When he's gone, she unnecessarily tells Eli and Maggie, "That's the man I fell in love with." I know Eli's been trying to warn Nate, but I still blame the imminent cardiac event on the cheese contained in that line. We hear a commotion outside...

...and Jake is lying at the bottom of the stairs, apparently having collapsed on his way down. He breathes, "Help me, Stone." At this point, I think the best he can do for you is to sue his brother, and he kind of owes him too big for that.

Eli's back in Nate's office, gingerly asking what happened. Nate is taking this awfully hard, and says that he had an "acute MI" -- a heart attack. While his heart could have been compromised by the coma, Nate says that there weren't any signs. "It was like it just stopped." This plotline wasn't bad, but it kind of falls apart here. It doesn't sound like Nate is saying, even now, that there were tests he could have run that would have caught the problem in time. And if, as seems overwhelmingly likely, they're implying the whole "he died of a broken heart" idea (speaking of cheese, by the way), I'm not sure what Nate could have done -- he said earlier that they'd run every test in the book, so if anything, it's Eli's fault for pushing Jake to accept the settlement, not that that would have changed Brooke's mind. It doesn't seem like Eli (or Nate) really could have done anything different, so the only reason I can think of for this mission is so that Nate will henceforth believe that his brother is a prophet. But we'll get to that -- for right now, Nate kicks Eli out, unable to deal with the fact that his brother warned him and he didn't listen. Eli looks heartbreakingly sad and sympathetic as he gets up to go.