Eli Stone

Where the heck are they...

The tomatoes, the lox, that herb cream cheese i love?

This is the bargain plate. Deluxe is $18.75 extra.

Charge it to the company account. This is c.O.D., lady.

Mr. Stone said some woman named patti della-Something

Would be here to pay for it. Oh, i bet he did. Come on.

Is there a problem, mr. Stone?

It's just... i was just waiting for everyone to get here, so...

This is everyone, eli.

Right, okay.

So... client retention. Taylor, keith, any updates?

You've been pursuing latham.

Good news on latham, people. I'm happy to report

They're now part of the posner-Klein family. All right!

What's the score, woo?

Wethersby, stone & associates 5, posner-Klein... 86.

Yeah! This isn't a numbers game.

All we need to keep us afloat is one big fish.

I think jim cooper is that fish. Just got a call from jim cooper.

Rns out our donations to his m.S. Foundation

And the local arts council blew him away.

He'sveryinterested in making the move. It's not fair.

It's like they know what we're gonna do before we do it. He's right. They win every time.

Yeah. Posner-Klein is comprised of our former colleagues.

Some cross-Pollination in terms of strategy

Is bound to occur. Let's not overreact.

It is a little suspicious

How p&k keep beating us to the punch.

I pitched latham on tuesday.

An hour later, they signed with p&k... exact same terms.

Same thing happened after my meetings with fuller and valdez.

Let's not be paranoid. No one's trying to sabotage us. , because they're actually doing it.

As you pointed out, sir, some of our people

Are in contact with their people,

So some cross-Pollination is bound to occur. I'm not pollinating anything with matt.

I didn't say you were. I was just trying to imply

That you were pillow-Talking our business plan with him. I am not the leak, eli, and to prove it,

I'm gonna find out who is. Happy? Ecstatic.

Your management skills are as deft as ever.

Speaking of which, i'm not sure it's good for office morale

Or your own, for that matter,

To pin all our hopes on a single ient. He's the greatest humanitarian of his generation.

We land cooper, everyone's morale is gonna skyrocket.

Cooper is trying to grow his own marijuana

For a clinical trial which might cure his son's m.S.

I mean, it's signature wethersby-Stone. We're a new firm, eli. We don't yet have a signature,

Which is why i think we should aim

To diversify our client base. We win the cooper case, those other guys still on the fence

Are gonna be ling up outside our door. That's a very big "if."

Maybe so, but it's one of the few plays

We have left in our deck.

Oh. Oh, goodness.

What took you so long? Was the records room backed up? Iamthe records room.

Oh, where are you going? No, no. I need your help

To go through all these files. I gotta figure out a way

To get access to this jim cooper

Before posner & klein close in on him. You mean stalk.

Yes, and your brimming optimism is duly noted.

Well, optimism was maggie's department. Well, she's gone, so...

Look at this picture of him in the paper with his son.

What's it say? Well, apparently, last month jim jr. Set a new state record

For the 200 freestyle. I thought you said he had m.S.

It's in remission.

Find out where and when his next swim meet is

And then get jordan. Okay.

Whoa.

Whoa! What?

Oh!

You are just a vision,

'Cause things do not spontaneously burst into flames.

Okay, i am 99.9% sure that you are a vision.

But just in case...

What are you doing?

Just... just...

I'm sorry. I was just...

All right!

Yes! Way to go, j.! Whoo!

That's what i'm talkin' about! Whoo!

Mr. Cooper, i don't know if you rember me.

My name's eli stone.

Jordan. I didn't peg you for a swim junkie.

Jim, i know showing up like this is unorthodox, but, uh...

We think that we can help you with your clinical trial

If you'll just hear us out. Well, j.'S swimming his next event in ten minutes.

I'll give you three. Okay. Well, we know that you applied to the d.E.A

For a license to grow your own marijuana,

And we know that your application was rejected. So you know my case.

What i'm more interested in is a strategy for winning. Right.

Hey, kiddo, you looked great out there.

We caught your race on the way in. You got a real gift. Thanks.

Hoping i qualify for olympic pretrials if i can keep it up.

I know that we look like two suits

Trying to schmooze your dad, and to be fair, we are.

But we're also here to help him give you

The best shot at a cure. I better not monopolize your time then.

Just make sure he doesn't miss me smashing my best time

In the 100 free. Oh, are you kidding? I don't want to miss that.

He's a smart kid. "Monopolize" is a good s.A.T. Word.

It's also, ironically, our strategy.

The federal government controls the entire supply

Of medical marijuana used for f.D.A. Trials.

That's a de facto illegal monopoly.

We argue to the d.E.A. That denying you a license

To grow pot is anticapitalist, stifles competition

And isn't in the public interest.

Well, i'll be damned.

Yes!

Posner & klein can kiss my $100-Grand-A-Week retainedass!

Whoa! That's how we do things downtown! Sorry.

Quite all right. If i were more prone to outbursts of emotion,

I'd probably be doing a little jig.

That i would pay real money to see.

Uptown got its hustlers

Uptown's got its hustlers

The bowery got its bums

The bowery's got s bums

42nd street got big jim walker

He's a pool-Shootin' son of a gun

Ooh

Ooh, ooh

42nd street's got big jim walker

Big jim walker

Yeah, he's big and dumb as a man can come

But stronger than a country horse country horse

And when the bad folks all get together at night

You know they all call him big jim "boss"

Just because

They say you don't tug on superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger

And you don't mess around with jim

Ooh, h

Yeah

You don't tug on superman's cape

Tug on it you don't spit into the wind

Into the wind you don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger

And you don't mess around with jim

Savor this moment, eli.

Catching your first big fish... nothing quite like it.

Where do you think you're going? Um, to my office.

Why not to the conference room?

Is there something going on in the conference room? I need your help. It's my daughter angela.

She got pulled over for a d.U.I. Two days ago.

What... what happened?

Nothing, really. She was at a bachelorette party.

She hadaglass of wine. That's it.

She didn't do anything wrong. Did they give her a breathalyzer?

What did she blow? How should i know? That's your job.

Is eli busy or somethin'? I thoughtyouwere the hotshot criminal defense lawyer.

Well, that's flattering, but i think it's best

If we go with someone outside the office with this.

So, uh, i'll give my old colleague danny meyer a call. And this danny character... where does he live?

I don't know. What's the matter? I need to know i can track him down

And kick him in the cojones if he messes this up. And that's why i'm not the guy to help you with this.

What's worse... you going to your grave knowing that

You let my daughter... a woman who's never gotten so much

As a parking ticket... lose her financial aid

And drop out of medical school for something that she

Didn't even do, or the threat of me knockin' your block off?

Which conference room was it again? Thank you.

How did my mom sucker you...

Massive guilt trip or outright threat?

Hmm. I'm gonna go with outright threat.

I - It was both, actually.

Jeez.

Well, you know if you help me out here,

It's only gonna get worse, right?

I think i can manage that.

Um...

So, uh...

Shall we get started?

Oh, my god. "Sugar substitutes and caffeine can cause

A variety of prenatal..." i am so screwed.

"Screwed."

As usual, the dowd's timing is impeccable.

You look so hot. I'm not kidding.

The girls are like...

Wow!

Cute.

Sorry. I just... you, lunch. This is great.

We see each other every night. No, i see you. You see piles of work.

I'm sorry, but you know how it is... starting a new firm,

Going to court, making sure your sleazy new firm

Doesn't steal all our clients. We're not stealing anyone.

These guys are c.E.O.S. They make up their own minds.

And how did you guys know the exact hour i was gonna meet

With latham's c.E.O.? If you want to play interrogator/detainee,

I am game, but we should probably close the blinds,

Don't you think? Look, someone on your team is stealing our plays.

I need you to find out for me who it is.

Well, i know i seem like the perfect guy for the job...

Young, hot, ethically challenged.

Thing is, i don't actually work here anymore. God, i ask you

To do one simple thing, and you can't handle that? Uh, i wouldn't call this simple.

Well, it's not like things are gonna get any easier from here.

From here? Where exactly are we going, taylor?

Nowhere.

I'm sorry. I-I just... forget i said anything, okay?

No, you know what? Uh, lunch was a bad idea.

Uh, i'll, uh, see you tonight.