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Previously, untouched by an angel.

God wants Josh to come with me.

What? This is Monica.

She's an angel in need of help. A funny thing happened on the way to my

assignment. You got a problem?

Agent 9, they're taking us with you to Denver.

Man, I don't believe it, by the way. What does it look like? I think the word

God forsaken.

Beverly Hills, Tonya. That white boy might as well be from another planet.

You the new landlord?

You're not going to be lord of this land very long, are you?

Those Koreans have been keeping a gun in that box.

People don't like their free expression whitewashed.

White boy just pulled up in a red Cadillac.

You notice anybody suspicious out there when you came in?

Joe, get out!

When you walk

down the road, heavy burden...

I will rise and I will walk with you.

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

Walk with you every time I tell you I'll walk

with you.

Believe me, I'll...

I didn't know.

Looks like you had a 45 in there after all, huh?

Where's Josh?

Get your family together.

Your son needs you.

Get a look at the driver.

How many shots?

Yeah, I don't know.

No,

she and Josh are still in surgery.

Anderson's out. Yeah, but it's a touch and go.

Look, I'll be there as soon as I know everybody's out of danger, okay? Just

handle it for me.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Thanks, Grandma.

Coming up.

Soon.

Excuse me. We're Mr. and Mrs. Green. Our son, Josh, is here. We've been trying

to contact you. We need some information.

How is Josh?

He's in surgery.

Mr. Green, we need a copy of your insurance card, please. Could you tell

about her son, please?

What happened?

Gunshot wounds.

Drive -by shooting.

Where was he hit? Please, take a seat and fill out the form.

The attending surgeon will answer all your questions.

Good luck, man.

You've been here for six hours and they still won't tell us nothing about my

grandma.

Did I hear them say...

That Josh had been shot?

Yes, ma 'am.

Thought angels were supposed to help people.

We are.

And we do.

But every once in a while, people have to help angels.

Come with me.

or she needs you.

I'm just a kid.

Tell her what's on your mind, and when she answers your questions, she'll

a few of them.

Go on, baby, go on.

Those are the footsteps of a little boy.

You're the angel that took away my mom.

Are you going to take away Josh, too?

I'm not sure what's going to happen to Josh.

How can you be an angel and not know what's going to happen?

You can be an angel and not know a lot of things.

Something's wrong with you, huh?

I can't see.

I'm blind.

Angels can't go blind.

Yep. Well, I know, right?

I knew bad things could happen to people, but I didn't know bad things

happen to angels.

Bad things can even happen to God.

Every time one of his children gets hurt, or every time one of his children

sad, or every time one of his children turns their back on him, God suffers

Why does he let that stuff happen?

Because he loves us so much he gives us freedom.

For humans and for angels too.

Is this making any sense to you at all?

I think.

I'm getting a headache. That's usually a good sign.

I still don't get why I made you go blind.

I don't know that either.

But God knows what he's doing. He always does.

Sometimes that's the hardest thing to see of all.

My head aches spreading.

That's all right, Nathaniel.

I think Monica's is finally starting to go away.

Thank you.

Better get back.

Tess, before Nathaniel came along, I was sitting here thinking that if I had my

sight, I could have seen who was black and who was white, and maybe I could

done something to stop all this. Miss Wings, your job is not to observe

differences in skin color.

It's to make people blind to them.

Tess, where am I?

Josh's room.

You needed to be here, honey, when he came back from surgery.

Such beautiful voices.

Yeah.

There just aren't enough of them yet.

Is anyone in here for Josh Green?

Yeah.

I'm his mother.

Okay, Josh is out of surgery and we're trying to keep him stable.

Is he going to be all right?

monitoring his condition. We'll keep you informed if there's any change.

Can I see him?

Soon. Very soon.

Where's my grandma?

That's Miss Harding.

She's my grandmother, too.

Are your parents here?

They live with their grandmother. I'm the family doctor, Dr. Hall. I run the

neighborhood family clinic.

Okay.

Mrs. Harding didn't survive the surgery.

I'm very sorry about your grandmother.

No!

Where's grandma? Where's my grandma?

Come here, sweetie.

right here.

Don't talk. Try and get some rest.

I'm still alive, right?

Yes, very much alive.

Did you ever find out what God made you blind?

I'm starting to, more and more.

Find out, okay?

Thanks for being a donor, Mr. Green. Thank you. No, thank you.

It's the least I can do.

Now take it easy for a few minutes, then go back up to the lobby when you're

ready. Listen, my son just got out of surgery, and they are still holding us

there in that lobby.

I know that man.

Thanks for helping out with your friend.

We were in the service together, but we weren't exactly friends.

What happened to him?

He was in the shooting.

The one your son was in.

Well, you can set to be the big man, huh?

Michael's the landlord, Serena.

And when did you slither in, Pacheco? All I'm saying is that any improvements

done on the property were within his rights.

People are dying here, and the lawyer's talking about rights.

What is with you, lady?

I'm the bad guy for trying to clean graffiti off the walls, trying to make

place better? Or doesn't it count because I'm white?

You don't make things better by whitewashing them, Michael.

You make changes the way Mary did with her life. What were you thinking?

I just took it for granted. It may be cleaning the walls. That's the problem.

It's not that you're white and we're black.

You take everything for granted and we can't because we get everything taken

away too easily.

Sir, Mrs. Green?

Yes? You can see your son now, but I have to warn you, there's been a

complication.

Josh is experiencing blindness.

We're not sure if it's permanent or temporary. We're going to have to do

additional testing.

Take her to it.

Why did God let this happen?

God did not send Josh here to lose his sight.

Then why didn't he stop it?

The shooting, the blindness, the death, he could have stopped it.

But he can heal it, baby.

He can make the darkness go away.

And he will.

He will in his own time.

Just trust him.

That's all you got to do. Just trust him.

He's sedated. You won't be able to stay a short time.

I'll be just fine, sir.

Just fine.

I don't know you.

Good.

Red Cadillac.

Yeah.

What's a white boy like you riding around that part of town on a red

Same thing I'm doing here.

Checking up on you.

The car's not mine, though.

Belongs to a friend of mine.

Nice car, man.

Yeah.

Yeah, I gotta take you for a ride in it someday.

Not too soon, though, I hope.

Am I hallucinating while you be there?

I'm here.

I don't have to be.

It's up to you.

I gotta take too many painkillers.

Mama?

Daddy? Yeah, we're all here, son.

Sure gave us a scare.

How are you feeling?

Sore?

Yeah,

we know.

Is everybody else okay?

Anderson Walker was shot. He's alive.

But an older woman, Mary, I think.

She's been making, honey.

Excuse me.

This young man has a date with the radiologist.

I'll have him back to you in a couple hours. I'd like to come with him.

How's Anderson doing now?

Well, there's no reason why he shouldn't be doing just fine, but some people

want to live and some people don't. If he doesn't get some fight in him, he's

not going to make it.

Mr. Josh.

I never thought I'd hear you say that.

Well, I'll take it back if you need a job at the hospital.

I'm making my life miserable again.

Daddy?

Yeah, son, yeah.

You've got to go to that shopping center.

There's a little girl there named Shanice.

There's something wrong with her.

It's her hearing, I think.

I should have said something earlier, but I didn't. That's okay, son.

No, it's not.

Promise me you'll help her.

Take her to the doctor there, Dr. Hall.

Go over there right now.

to understand what happened here.

Me too.

There's something else.

Something my son wanted me to take care of.

What?

Well, we'll have to have her hearing tested to confirm it, but

there was some damage.

Scarring around your eardrum.

Please thank your son for picking up on that.

Any idea what caused it?

Chronic infections to the inner ear, usually caused by colds or fever.

If the infection goes untreated, it can eat away at the bones in the middle ear.

How could they let something like this happen?

They?

There is no they.

There used to be a she, but she got shot down in your parking lot yesterday.

I know that may be a rarity in the white world, but it's a very popular way of

dying out here, Michael.

Mary worked hard every day to take care of her grandkids and to pay the rent

that your family wanted for that sandwich shop.

How dare you waltz in here and self -righteously ask us, oh, how could they

that happen?

We don't need you to solve our problems.

We are doing the best we can down here, Michael. How about you?

You are not the great white hope. You are not the master of a plantation here.

You're right.

I'm sorry.

one person who can't do everything.

This wasn't your fault.

But I should have picked up on this.

This baby's here all the time. I could have done something.

No, I think you are doing something.

Both of you.

I just wonder if you could do it without scaring this little girl to death.

Oh, I'm sorry.

My job was to sell this place. That's it. Just fix it up

and sell it.

That's where Josh fell.

What are we doing here, Andrew?

And why was my son shot alongside a man I hoped I'd never see again? That man

that you hoped you'd never see again saved your son's life, Russell.

Dope on top of him.

Right now he's lying in the hospital bed.

Light of his back.

Count those little holes in the ceiling tiles waiting to die.

Lost his fight And this little corner of the world

they can use all the fighters they can get

I was hoping it was a bad dream.

I keep hoping this whole thing's a bad dream.

How you doing?

I've had a bullet in my gut before.

Yeah.

I was there for that one.

Bleeding from a wound of my own.

You could have left me there.

Yeah.

I wanted to.

Didn't believe you then, don't believe you now.

I mean...

You're ridden in clunky white trash.

Everything right.

Well, that boy you saved yesterday.

I didn't save anyone.

My son.

Your son?

Josh?

How's he doing?

He's lost his sight. I don't know for how long.

I'm sorry.

I hate that look. I'm feeling a little tired.

I think you should go.

Do what? You got great plans to leave here in body bags, is that it? There

much more dignified than the way I've been living my life.

I'm supposed to go sometimes.

Why not now?

Because God wants you to live.

An angel told me so.

Why don't you call one of them pretty nurses in here? I want your face to be

last thing I remember.

No. I'm going to say this, and you're going to hear me out.

Yeah, right. Where's that cord?

Ow.

There are angels. Now, I know it sounds crazy, but there's two of them right

here in this hospital, and they are all around us.

Man, come on.

And there's another one that they don't want you to meet.

Young fella, blonde -haired, real good -looking.

I saw him in Vietnam, and I saw him just this morning at that wall.

Wherever he goes, people die.

I didn't see him.

He was there.

The angel of death.

He took Mary Harding home.

Took her back to God.

Mary, she didn't get hit. It was just me and Josh.

Oh, my God. Who's going to take care of those grandchildren?

Nobody knows.

This is your time, Walker.

The best quality you ever had was being a mean son of a gun.

So why don't you get angry, huh?

Come on, get angry. I know you can get angry. I've seen you do it.

Get up off this bed and fight.

What are they saying?

Am I going to see again or not?

Only time will tell, honey.

The doctor said a full recovery is possible.

I believe that. But the important thing is that you believe it too.

I'll try.

Have faith.

God has taken you this far down the road. He won't abandon you now. I know

Bet with Tonya you wouldn't last a week.

Thank you. Well, I cheated.

My sister's husband's got a cousin who fixes those copy machines out in Beverly

Hills, California.

Your grandfather's office copier breaks down all the time.

I've heard all about Mr.

Landlord and his wayward grandson.

So I got the inside track on you.

Never bet on a horse you ain't seen run.

Famous words from my ex -husband.

Well, I sure ran, didn't I? Honey, when the bullets start flying, everybody

runs.

If I had a rich granddaddy, I suppose I'd hurry back to him, too.

You know, I don't like your music too much.

What, is there supposed to be a pep talk or something?

No, wait a minute, hold on.

What I'm trying to say is...

Music is your real dream.

Have I got that right?

You're just pretending to be this big businessman to keep your family out of

your hair. But music is your thing, right?

I got a dream.

I'm saving money to open up a spa.

Put green mud on ladies' faces and charge them 50 bucks.

Now, sometimes...

Just when I think I'm getting ahead, something happens.

Say, my rent gets raised.

But I press on, Michael, because it's something I just got to do.

And running out there like that yesterday to protect you and Josh was

Anderson had to do.

You couldn't have talked him out of that. You can't let anybody talk you out

anything that's inside of you.

The point is, Mary would still be alive today if I wasn't so naive.

I don't belong here.

Nobody belongs here.

But since all of us are still here, well, we spent some time talking about

dreams.

And it kind of makes us feel like family.

It sure does.

Now, you know if I lose this bet, I got to go to church for six Sundays.

I guess it's not that bad.

Anyway, I'm giving up all that astrology stuff.

You can bet that.

Last Friday it said a stranger would be showing up here.

But you know, all week long, I never saw a stranger, Michael.

Maybe the stars do control our lives, but you know what I want to know?

I want to know who controls those stars.

Maybe that's who we all need to be talking to now.

She's right, you know, Michael.

Monica?

The one who controls the stars, it's God.

And he controls the sun and the moon and the heavens.

But he doesn't control our lives.

And he doesn't control our hearts.

They belong to us.

And he will speak to them only if we ask him.

If we wait and watch and listen.

I'm really kind of frightened right now. I don't know why.

Don't be afraid, Michael.

I am an angel sent by God.

He's taken away my sight for a while so that my heart can

become a better listener.

So that I may teach you and Josh to become better listeners.

And do you know what I hear, Michael?

I hear how beautiful you are.

And how much you want to belong to a family, any family. And I hear how you

finally have found one.

Why?

Why would God send me an angel?

What about them out there, those people?

God, they deserve angels. They're the people getting shot, people trying to

survive, not me.

Not me.

No one is ever without an angel when they need one most.

This is your time.

Michael, listen to me.

God loves you.

And he knows how lost you have felt. And he knows how alone you have been. And

he knows that if you walk out of here today, you will be alone once more. But

you stay, Michael, you can ask him for direction right here, right now.

And he will put you on a new road.

And it may not be easy.

But it will be a worthy journey that matters.

And it will last for the rest of your life.

Will you ask him, Michael?

Will you?

Do you think he'll answer me?

I promise.

College?

That's right.

I'm going to kick your butt all the way to graduation, too. That's what Mary

would have wanted.

That's what Mary's going to get.

But how am I going to pay for college? Making sandwiches?

I make a pretty good one.

I got a good name for a sandwich.

What's that be?

The Grandma.

Permission to come aboard?

Good night.

Yeah, right.

You know, it didn't give me an ounce of respect.

Boy, you know, Walker, you look very nearly alive.

Don't rub it down.

How's your boy?

Beginning to get up and around.

He wants to come to the funeral.

So do I.

Well, why don't you sell that thing so he can get... I have a proposition for

you. Kind of an inspiration, really.

You know, you've been talking to them angels.

week today for we have lost a good

friend the violence of this world

has taken our sister away from us and yet

we can still rejoice today

we

Rejoice, because we know that even though our beloved

Mary is absent from the body, she is here today,

right now, present to the Lord.

Good afternoon.

I know you probably don't feel like talking to me right now, but... I

you're leaving.

Well, actually, I'll give you this.

Goodman Heating and Plumbing.

Everything's set.

Anything else, you just let me know.

I'll be here.

But the thing I'm going to remember most about Mary is her dignity.

It didn't matter what she was doing, whether she was talking politics or

throwing out the garbage.

She did it with dignity.

That's right.

so sorry

if

you

need anything

My grandma was the best woman who ever lived.

She worked hard and yelled at me to go to school.

She always told me that you can't change the world all at once.

You got to change it one life at a time.

Well, I could say she sure changed mine.

And I just want to say,

I'm going to try my best to make sure it was worth it.

That's right.

Amen.

Is that all?

Blood's been spilled in the house, y 'all.

It's the blood of her parents and the blood of her children.

And for every drop of blood that's been spilled on the street, a thousand tears

have been shed for the lives of the lost.

And I'm angry.

Because I know who pulled that trigger.

Who pushed this, pulled that trigger.

Shattered our lives.

Look where that boy's sight.

Look where the life of my friend.

We're not there to stop it.

But I want to tell you something, y 'all.

Hope is here today.

Hope is here today because tomorrow, when evil

whispers in the ears of our children, we're going to be there to stop.

We're going to be there to stop.

And we're going to do that.

I've learned a great lesson in this week of sorrow.

I've learned that God is watching us and that he sends his angels down to

protect us and to advise us.

dream. Now you just don't laugh in our face and say, yeah, good luck.

In fact, God asked more of us than we'll ever ask of ourselves.

That's why this time, y 'all, we're going to succeed.

We will succeed.

Because God will return more to us than we'll ever expect of ourselves.

So we're going to have to ask him, though.

We're going to have to ask him today.

Yourselves? For families?

Beautiful wall.

You can see the wall.

I can see it all now.

Come on, angel babies, let's go home.