Oooh, I've missed that whole Will arc (I think - he did have a girlfriend that was leaving for the olympics, then not, in one of the recent eps, maybe it was her?).

And I only caught the later eps where Eli was sorta goofy for the young hispanic woman, but I thought he played that pretty well. He knew he was being ridiculous, but he also had the dignity to try to hide how much he was helping (till he couldn't). That's interesting - I didn't realize he hadn't been with the show from the start, he definitely is Excellent.