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Previously on Touched by an Angel. This is very unusual.

Yes, I've never seen this happen before. I mean, not to an angel.

Then why me?

Are you afraid?

Not for myself.

That's a stripy, horsey -looking thing.

A zebra.

Zebra.

Yes.

The light is green.

What am I supposed to do?

Drive forward.

Dad, this is Alzheimer's, and it's progressing this quickly. There may come

time when we... I might need to be put someplace.

Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing to do.

Father, please help me.

I don't know what to do.

I really need to finish your assignment.

I'll go with you and I'll help you.

No.

You'll be fine here, I promise.

And I'll come back later.

I don't want to stay here. I want to go with you.

Not this time, Tess.

I don't want to stay here.

I don't want to stay here.

You are coming back, aren't you, Tess?

Mm -hmm.

Mm -hmm.

She's losing more ground every day.

It's happening so quickly.

Hello, Tess.

You have a visitor.

Hi, Tess.

It's me.

Gloria.

Don't take it personally, Gloria.

She doesn't respond to much anymore.

Well, I still read to her and tell her stories to remind her of things that

she's done, people that she knows, but... So, I'm not even

there.

She still sings.

I think it's her way of holding on.

And then last week, she did respond to me when I asked her a question. She

squeezed my hand.

I believe with all my heart that she's trying to come back to us.

Where's Andrew?

I don't know.

He's on assignment somewhere.

Fire it in there, Mr. Greeley. Let's go.

Let's see what you got.

All right, no junk. I want to see nothing but heat.

Sweet. Uh -oh.

Greeley, coming into home.

Oh, it's under the tag.

You could have been killed.

What did I tell you about running into the street like that, huh?

Where'd he go?

Who?

The man who told me to stop.

Okay, I think that's enough baseball for today, okay?

Sorry. It's all right. Just don't scare me.

When you walk down the road,

heavy burden, heavy load, I

will rise and I will walk with you.

I'll walk with you till the dawn don't even shine.

Walk with you every time.

And church officials announced Tuesday that parishioners had raised a total of

$5 ,680, enough to repair the old organ in time for Christmas.

It must be in here.

Oh, it must get very lonely.

Well, it looks like we have time for one more section.

Any requests?

Tess? Would you like to hear about anything?

Well, let's see.

Here are the scores for yesterday's games.

The Bears beat the Packers 10 -7 on a 50 -yard field goal late in the fourth

quarter. Hello.

I saw a old friend of ours today.

Do you remember Joseph Wells?

My goodness.

I haven't thought about Joseph Wells for years.

Who's Joseph Wells?

It's not a who.

It's a where.

A weekend excursion, Master Kevin?

Actually, I have to find this Joseph Wells guy to get my money.

Master Kevin.

I haven't had the opportunity to truly convey my deepest sympathies and

condolences regarding your late father.

Your parents are dead, aren't they, George?

Long gone, yes.

And you get over it, right?

No, you don't get over it.

You just get on with it.

Bummer.

Time to go.

Fine.

Put the bags in the car.

I don't do bags.

Yeah.

Whatever.

In accordance with your father's wishes, I'm here to guide you and give you some

direction, and the rest is up to you. Uh -huh, fine. Let's just get to the pack

and let's go.

No, no.

I think you're missing the point here. These cars don't belong to you anymore.

You have to take this trip without your father's help or influence.

You have to make it on your own.

On my own?

Well, just how on my own are we talking about?

Completely. With just the clothes on your back and your wits about you.

Oh, man, he must have been losing it.

Okay, a few bad days and then I cash in, right?

I can handle that.

I'm sure it's hard for you to understand right now, but there's a road you need

to travel.

And you don't need to know exactly where you're going yet.

Though I promise you, it will lead you to Joseph Wells.

It's that way.

As far as you can go.

I had an assignment once.

A very rich and in some ways very poor young man named Kevin Greeley.

I took him on a journey to a little town called Joseph Wells.

Hello, Kevin.

Hi.

Why did my father do this to me? Why did he leave me with nothing?

Kevin.

You still see this as a punishment?

You still think he left you nothing?

Well, I have news for you, Kevin Greeley. He left you everything, and

you got it. Come with me.

He didn't understand the truth.

We were blinded by the eyes of you.

Time kept on moving, and a change has come.

You think that I don't know where you're coming from.

Well, what is this?

Or what was this?

Town orphanage.

It burned down, but the children were saved.

The children of Joseph Wells.

Your father's money will restore it. Yeah, well, so what? My father was

doing stuff like that.

Why did I have to come here?

What did this stupid town have to do with me anyway?

Because this is where your father grew up, and this is where you're going to

grow up, too.

In the same town, same street, same block, the same address.

My father didn't live here.

This was an orphanage.

Yes, it was.

My father was an orphan.

No, but he was abandoned at the side of the road with just a blanket and a

Bible.

You loved your father very much, didn't you?

Yes.

He loved you too.

He loved you so much that he wanted you to have everything that he never had.

But he realized too late that he hadn't given you the one thing that really

mattered.

His faith.

Because once you have that, you understand that nothing else is that

And that's why we're here now.

To help you find it before it's too late.

But too late for what?

For him.

Did you see Kevin?

Mm -hmm.

And Nathan?

The baby's almost seven now.

How you doing with those song books, Gloria?

All done.

I'm just going to warm up my fingers.

She plays the piano?

Mm -hmm. She taught herself last night for Tess.

I don't know this one.

Oh, you just listen to Tess. She's got a beautiful voice.

Okay.

Here we go.

Yes.

Why don't you sing?

Don't you remember how to sing?

You know, I sure missed hearing you think today.

I always count on you to help get everybody else into the spirit.

Well, I've got tomorrow off, so that gives you one extra day to get back into

the singing mood for me.

Okay?

Okay. Thank you, Hannah.

Bye, Tess.

Her music meant so much to her.

It meant a lot to me, too.

You know, sometimes things go and they come back again with this disease, at

least with humans.

Do you remember that she perked up a while ago when we were talking about

Wells? Did she?

Yes, look.

She's doing it again.

Now, why would she respond to that?

When she hasn't responded to anything else.

Maybe there's a reason.

Yes.

Maybe there is.

Gabriel. Hello, Monica.

And you must be Gloria.

Yes, sir.

It's wonderful to meet you. The wonder is all mine.

And how is our girl doing?

She's getting worse, Gabriel.

She stopped singing.

Yeah, I know.

We heard the silence all over heaven.

Such a beautiful voice she had.

She's lost everything now.

No, Monica.

Her music left her, but God never will. He speaks to her spirit, and she knows

his voice.

Thank you.

It's so nice of you to take time away from Annunciation to come visit.

I'm glad I came.

But this is an official visit.

I am your new supervisor.

No, Tess is my supervisor.

You don't work for Tess. You work for God.

And he sent me with an assignment for you.

Gabriel, send another angel.

You're to go to Joseph Wells.

Joseph Wells?

But Andrew was just there.

Yes, now it's your turn.

Kevin Greeley needs you. And don't worry about Tess.

She's going to be just fine with us. I brought my trumpet, and there's someone

else who's on his way.

Who? The angel of music.

Jacob?

I haven't seen him since.

If you think. Feeling low.

Feeling low.

Got no money. Ain't got no money. Got nowhere to go.

Got nowhere to go. Just hand it over. Hand it over.

Get on your knees. Get down on your knees and pray.

Just hand it over. Hand it over. Hand it over. Hand it over.

Ain't no mountain you can't climb.

No anthem.

That you can't find.

All you need.

Is a hand to hold.

Here to hear your body.

Feed your soul.

And if the road is dark. And you can't find your way.

Let the spirit.

Light the way.

And just hand it over.

Get on your knees and pray.

It's all connected.

Everything is connected, Monica.

Yes, indeed.

Did you make that crown all by yourself?

Mm -hmm. I made it for you.

Really? Well, let me see that then.

All right.

Am I looking pretty good? No.

I think I look very handsome.

Hello, Kevin.

It's you, Monica.

Do you remember me?

Yeah.

Hey, this is Nathan.

My goodness.

You're all grown up since the last time I saw you.

Who are you?

Nathan, do you remember me telling you about the day I knew I wanted to be your

daddy? Mm -hmm. When the angels came.

That's right.

Monica is one of the angels.

Really? Mm -hmm. Really.

What are you doing here?

Did I do something wrong?

No, but I was told that you might need my help.

Not that I know of.

But maybe you're here to help us celebrate.

Celebrate what?

Well, I've been Nathan's guardian for the past seven years, and in about a

an hour, I officially become this young man's father.

Oh, Kevin, that's wonderful.

Do you remember that place I sang at with Tess and the Angel of Music? We're

going to have a big party there tonight, and I think you ought to come down

there and help us celebrate.

Kevin, I know this may sound strange, but...

I don't think that I'm here to help you.

I think that I'm here to ask you to help test.

What does she need?

She has Alzheimer's disease.

It's hidden, right?

No, it's a mystery to all of us.

I don't know what I could do to help, but after I sign these adoption papers,

I'm all yours, okay?

Okay.

I see here that the adoption agency has approved everything.

So I see no reason to drag this out.

Kevin, I know your father, and I know you.

And you have proved yourself to be a loving and able father to Nathan.

It isn't easy to be a single dad these days, but you are...

Oh,

take the boy into my chambers.

Why? What's happening?

Nathan, want to come with me? No, no, no, wait. Can you please just wait a

second? It's all right, Kevin. I'll take care of it.

Dad! It's okay. Nathan, it's okay.

Kevin, the adoption is being contested.

Contested? By who?

A woman who claims to be Nathan's mother.

She's in the hall.

Your Honor, we're prepared to file a petition for custody of the child.

You can't do that! Stop!

We have a birth certificate to offer as preliminary evidence.

Kevin, I'm going to have to postpone the adoption process until I can make a

decision about the validity of this claim.

No. I'm sorry.

No reflection on you.

And I am ordering DNA tests for Nathan and Miss Kellerman.

No. Who cares about DNA?

She dumped him. She left him in a box on the street, and I found him. Me.

Monica, you were there. Tell him what you saw.

Yeah, I was. Your Honor, we are not ready to stipulate as to the

under which the child and mother became separated.

Well, then I'll stipulate.

She left him in a box, pal, in a pile of garbage on the street.

And I found him.

Look, I mean, I know that this isn't on paper yet, but I'm the one who taught

him his ABCs, okay? I'm the one who put the Band -Aids on.

I'm the one who gets up in the middle of the night when he's all scared.

Me, I know what his favorite toy is. I know what his favorite game is.

That lady abandoned him.

You don't understand. Anna, don't. No, I want to talk. Please.

I was bringing him to the orphanage, but when I got here, the orphanage had

burned down.

I didn't know what else to do. I was in trouble, and I was confused, and I left

him where I knew he would be found.

She left him in the street to die.

No, I left him in the street to live.

I couldn't take care of him then, but I knew somebody would, and I am so

grateful it was you.

You seem like a good man, but this is my child,

and I always knew I would see him again.

So I had a plan. I got my life together.

I got a job.

I have a future, and...

I want him to be a part of that future, too.

I at least deserve a chance to be his mother now. You gave up that chance when

you jeopardized his life.

Your Honor, if I could respond.

Fact is, the child's life was jeopardized only yesterday in the care

Greeley. We have photographs.

Photographs? We've had a detective watching over the boy since we learned

whereabouts. That's enough.

No one is on trial here.

The child will remain in the custody of Mr. Greeley until I can make a

determination as to the parental and custodial rights.

We're adjourned.

Hannah, please wait.

Wait a minute.

You guys know each other?

Yes, she volunteers at the nursing home where Tess is staying.

What? Am I supposed to believe that this is some sort of coincidence?

Kevin, I'm starting to believe that this is all part of a plan.

Kevin, we need you.

What are you doing here, Monica?

I'm a friend of Kevin's.

Oh.

Well, I guess I don't need to ask whose side you're on.

I'm not on any side, Hannah.

I want what's best for Nathan.

Danny.

What?

I named him Danny.

I'm sorry.

I have to go.

What am I going to tell him?

Do you think... Do you think his mother is dead?

I never told him that, but how do you tell a child that his mother just left

in the middle of the street?

I hate her for what she did.

Maybe you are here to help me.

I mean, you can get her to change her mind.

Kevin, you may not want to hear this, but she is not a terrible person. She's

kind and loving and... You know, you're right. I don't want to hear that.

I just love him so much.

He's all I have.

And yesterday when I saw him running out to the street, and I knew that I

couldn't stop him, I thought I had lost him.

And now it is. It's just not fair.

Life is not fair sometimes.

But God always is.

You heard that before.

Do you remember?

Excuse me, Kevin.

God sent me. You get lost, buddy. Well, I was. That's why I got here so late.

What do you want?

Well, I heard that you're angry with God. That's why I'm here. Who are you?

My name is Phil. I'm an angel.

Really? Yes. Well, Fred, why don't you do me a favor? No, Kevin, my name is

Phil. Why don't you head back to heaven, or wherever did you come from, and tell

your boss that I don't care what he's got to say, because he's not fair.

Yeah, okay. Now, just let me help you out right there. See, God is...

Fair. Oh, really?

Then where's my money? Life, however often, is not. Now, God does not promise

life without bad time. But God does promise that if you want to work your

through it, you can.

That is the most pathetic compound I've ever heard.

Pathetic!

Pathetic? Listen to me. I understand it's pathetic.

But look at the good things in life. What good things? Look around.

You got a sunset.

You got babies. You got a three -day weekend.

Oh, the three -day weekend, huh? It's a big one. Big.

See, now, the bad things that you see, that's someone else's world.

We don't talk about him because he's not worth talking about.

None of this is worth talking about.

None of it. Kevin.

I'm an angel.

And I don't believe you are.

I know things you don't, and I've seen pain.

Like mine.

Yeah.

I'm talking about real pain. I'm not talking about the pain my father didn't

give me any money when he died in his will.

Disease.

That is so devastating that not only does it devastate the person with it,

the entire family I'm talking about a mother Seeing her

child her life just snatched away from her that pain

These people hurt and they blame God God

has all this power So God must have okayed it, right?

Right. Wrong. It doesn't work that way.

God doesn't cause pain. God heals.

God doesn't hate. God loves.

God doesn't want to see bad things happen.

But they just, they happen.

I'm telling you now.

I wouldn't blame God for the things that I didn't get.

I would thank God.

For the things that I have.

And Kevin, if I were you, I wouldn't get upset because my father didn't leave me

any money.

I'd get upset because my father died.

I thought I did what I wanted. I thought God wanted me and Nathan to be

together. Now we want to take him away.

Nathan was not God's gift to you.

You were the gift.

To a little boy who needed a father. And you've been a wonderful father for

seven years.

You think that's all I get? I'm just supposed to give him up and walk away?

Now? I don't know yet.

I'm not sure why all of this is happening.

Why we're losing Tess or why Hannah has decided to try and find her child after

all these years.

But I do know there are no coincidences with God.

That all of this is somehow connected.

So please, Kevin, will you come with me to see Tess?

Hannah will be there.

Yes.

Hey, Kevin.

It's the Blues Angel.

Like old home week, huh?

How are you?

Tess?

Look who's here to see you.

Hi, Tess.

Do you remember me?

She's an angel?

Yes, she is.

And she's my friend.

Hello.

I saw you come in.

Hey, Nathan.

Remember how we used to... to talk about your mother?

Yeah.

She's in heaven.

Not exactly.

I just found out yesterday that she's been living here all along.

Where?

Right here.

In the town.

You want to meet her?

Are you really my mom?

Yes.

I knew I'd see you someday.

So did I.

Is God happy now,

Monica?

Where have you been all this time?

I've been here.

In this town.

Thinking about you.

Why did it take so long to find me?

Well, it took me some time to get ready to be your mommy.

But I'm ready now.

You Kevin?

Andrew.

So many angels you got around this place.

As many as you need.

This is Gloria, by the way. Hi. Hi, Kevin. Nice to meet you.

I'm really glad you came.

I can't really say that I am, but Monica seems to think there's a reason for all

this.

We all do.

So do you still play the guitar?

Yeah.

Why?

If your problems won't go away and you're worried night

and day, hand it over.

Get on your knees and pray. Get on your knees and pray.

If you're sick, feeling low, got no money, got nowhere

to go, hand it over.

Get on your knees and pray.

Hand it over.

Hand it over.

Give it up. Give it over.

Hand it over, yeah.

Get on your knees and pray.

Ain't no mountain you can't climb.

No answer.

that you can't find.

All you need is a hand to hold.

It'll heal your body, feed your soul.

The road is dark.

You can't find your way.

Let the spirit light the way.

Well, just hand it over.

Get on your knees and pray.

Wait.

It's...

It's not the music, it's the words.

What?

It's not about the singing.

It's about the message.

Hand it over.

Kevin, sometimes God asks us to do things that seem impossible, that go

everything that we feel is right. But he promises, if we trust him, that it all

will be okay.

What are you saying?

I have to release Tess.

I have to let her go.

And you must let go of Nathan.

I can't.

We both have been so desperate to hold on to what we want that we haven't let

God show us what he wants for us.

Letting go doesn't mean that what we want has been taken away from us. It

that we trust God to do what is best.

If... We can hand it over.

God promises that he will open all the windows in heaven for us and pour out a

blessing so great that there isn't enough room to take it in.

I trusted him before.

And your life was transformed.

What do I do now?

surrounded by angels, unbelievably blessed with the chance to talk to you,

I don't know what to say.

I just don't know how to give up my son.

But if you gave him to me, or me to him, if that was just for seven years,

then thanks for those seven years.

Thanks for letting me love him.

I, um, I can give him to you again.

I do, I just, um, if, you know, if you ever want to give him back to me

sometime, then I want you to know that I'm ready when you are.

I just, I need your help to know what to do next.

Do you know what you gotta do now?

Yeah.

Thanks.

Thank you, Kevin.

Thank you for coming here.

Now it's your turn.

I love Tess so much and it's really hard to let go.

Because I'm afraid I won't get her back.

I'm afraid that I won't hear her sing again or see her smile.

But it's time for this angel to embrace the message.

Fear not.

And I trust you, Father, with all my heart.

So, I give her over to you.

I'll see you later, Tess.

You must hate me. I did.

And now I don't know what to feel.

I want to lose him, Hannah.

But I don't want him to get torn apart having to choose between a mother and

father. I don't want that either.

I don't know. I'm just really confused right now.

Hey.

Come to Joseph Wells with us.

Are you serious?

Yeah, this way you can really get to know him, and then we can figure it out.

You know, he loves you so much.

He talks about you a lot.

Well, that's all I ever let him talk about.

I'm a very vain father.

Daddy!

Daddy! Hey.

Ruthie says I have Mommy's smile.

You sure do, buddy.

Excuse me.

Come on.

Let me see.

I knew this angel one.

Who told me that I had a long journey to make.

That it wouldn't be easy.

But it would be worth it.

And she was right.

Life is a mystery.

Death is a mystery.

God is a mystery.

Personally, I think that an angel who loses her memory is a mystery. But

you taught me that love isn't a mystery.

And when I remember that God loves me, all of a sudden, I don't have to solve

these mysteries anymore.

And what I'm trying to say is that maybe Tess is on a journey too.

And someday, I bet you'll look back like I did and realize that it was all Worth

it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You know, I was doing some research, and did you know that Monica lost her sight

briefly?

Yeah, I was there.

And she lost her memory once, too.

That's right.

And she took the form of an 80 -year -old for a few weeks.

I remember.

So... Empirically speaking, there really is no precedent for a human condition

to become permanent in an angel.

Uh, no.

No, I guess not.

Now that would explain why Tess is over there speaking with Ruth, right?

Now you hold on to this, Ruthie.

And I know you can because I'm not speaking to your brain.

I'm speaking to your spirit.

We all get lost in the darkness.

Sometimes, baby, even angels.

And when you're so lost, nobody can find you, even those who love you the most.

God can.

And he's lighting a candle for you.

And he's preparing a place so that you can be with him.

I know. I've seen it.

And someday, he's going to send another angel who's going to take you to that

place where the light never goes.

If there has been a comfort deep down in your spirit, then it's all been worth

it, baby.

Yes.

Oh, God bless you.

He already has, baby. He already has.

Yes. Well, look who else came to see me and didn't bring me any chocolate.

You look wonderful. I am wonderful.

I

heard

everything

you said.

And I'm so glad you love me so much.

I do love you. I really do.