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| ~ Elijah's catchphrase. |
Elijah Stone is a major antagonist in The Rookie, serving as the main antagonist of the first half of season 4 and the majority of season 5. He is a Los Angeles Cartel leader who tried to have Wesley Evers as his reluctant dirty lawyer but when that ultimately failed and he got arrested he tried to sue and eventually kill Wesley and his wife, Angela.
He was portrayed by Brandon Jay McLaren.
Biography[]
Stone first appears when Wesley Evers asks Stone to help him find his wife Angela Lopez, who has been abducted by cartel leader Sandra de La Cruz and taken to Guatemala. Stone agrees to help him as long as Evers agrees to serve as a dirty lawyer for him, which Evers agrees to. Lopez is eventually rescued by Evers and her LAPD colleagues and returned safely to Los Angeles.
Stone later show up at Wesley's office and reminds him of his promise to serve as his "personal lawyer" and makes it clear that Wesley's family will be targeted if Wesley doesn't come through. When one of Stone's henchmen gets arrested, Wesley tries to stay within the limits of the law while trying to appease Stone and get Stone's henchman released - but he discovers that Stone had the henchman murdered in his cell to keep the man from making a deal.
Stone returns again when he has Wesley discredit a witness to a murder that Stone's cousin committed. He also threatens to harm Wesley's family again because he feels his demands are not being met, and he and his henchman also physically try to intimidate Evers as well. At this point, Wesley has finally had enough, and comes clean to Lopez and Sgt Grey about his deal with Stone.
The LAPD then has Evers wearing a wire to implicate Stone in a meeting, but Stone realizes that he is being manipulated. He then proceeds to taunt Lopez, mockingly referring to her as "Angie" and correctly guessing that she is listening in to the meeting. At the end of the episode, Stone is arrested after most of his crew is ambushed by Abril Rodas, de La Cruz's former second in command who has taken leadership of the cartel and returned to LA to seek vengeance on Stone for revealing Lopez's location to Evers, which caused de La Cruz's death. During her attack, Stone hid in a locker and was visibly scared, the most emotion he ever showed.
Stone returns again to tell Evers that the case they are building against him is destined to fail. Stone is proven right when Sean Del Monte admits to Stone's lawyer, Evers's ex-fiancée Monica Stevens, that they don't have a good enough case. Stone shows up after this, and gloats to Evers that he always wins in the end. Stone later meets with Evers to tell him that he ruined his life ever since the La Fiera incident, and wants Wesley to publicly apologize to him in a press conference. Evers reluctantly agrees to this and does so in front of the assembled media while Lopez looks on.
In a later episode, Stone tries to eliminate some of his competition by having rival cartel leaders Quinlan Wright and Moses Warden go after each other. A witness later admits to Lopez and Nyla Harper that Stone had orchestrated the gang war. Later, when Lopez and Harper do a surveillance detail on a suspect, Harper discovers he's an associate of Stone's. Harper is furious at Lopez for interfering with the investigation into Stone and leaves while a man working for Monica warns Lopez to stay away from Stone. Lopez goes to Stone's house and reveals to him that she is pregnant again and offers to give Stone intel on Abril Rodas's movements. An elaborate plan to take down Stone and Abril is then placed into motion, but is thwarted when Aaron Thorsen inadvertently tips off Stone that the LAPD was about to ambush him and his crew. Eventually, Stone's lawyer, Monica, is found to have bribed a federal judge, influencing him to favor her cases in relation to Elijah Stone, and the potential cause of the judge's own death. Monica's home and office are seized and searched, along with her current case files. The end of the episode shows that Stone and Abril have agreed to become partners and to stop going after one another. Stone then kidnaps Monica and threatens to throw her into a woodchipper if she does not tell him what he wants to hear from her. Monica then convinces Elijah to follow her plan, which is to show up to the district attorney office injured, where she claims that she was attacked by Elijah. Monica then offers the LAPD an opportunity to finally arrest Elijah, which they do not trust her to follow through with. Sure enough, Monica does not go through with the LAPD's plan, lying to them about where Elijah is meeting with associates of Abril Rodas. At the last minute, Monica tells them where they are now meeting, but the LAPD is already at the new location. A gunfight ensues, in wich Monica is shot but survives. Lopez and Harper then go after Stone, but he gets the upper hand on Harper and is about to kill her before Lopez intervenes. The two engage in a fight before Harper recovers and joins the fight. The outmanned Stone eventually loses and is arrested by Lopez once again. However, Stone reveals that he has one more trick up his sleeve: he has sent a hitman to kill Evers. Fortunately, Evers is able to fight off his attacker with the help of his bodyguard Charlie Bristow. Stone, who suffered a black eye and a broken arm during his fight with Lopez and Harper, is then sent to prison. He is escorted to his prison cell, and his neighbor across the hall is none other than Oscar Hutchinson. Stone then asks Oscar if he has any good revenge stories as the episode ends.
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