Touched by an Angel (1994–2003): Season 3, Episode 20 - Amazing Grace: Part 1 - full transcript

MONICA: Previously on
Touched 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?

Would you mind taking us
with you to Denver?

Man, I don't believe this place.

What does it look like?

I think the word is godforsaken.

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 damn Koreans been
keeping a gun in that box.

People don't like their free
expression whitewashed.

White boy just pulled up
in a red Cadillac.

Notice anybody suspicious out
there when you came in?

(GUN FIRING) Josh, get down!

(SCREAMING)

♫ 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 sun don't even shine

♫ Walk with you, every time



♫ I'll tell you
I'll walk with you

♫ Walk with you

♫ Believe me
I'll walk with you ♫

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(SHOUTING)

(GROANS)

Somebody help us!

Call 911.

The children.

Come here.

Oh, my...

Oh, God.

(GROANING)

Anderson?

Anderson?

Hey, buddy.

Oh, no. Oh, God.

SERENA: Call 911!

I'm so sorry.

Sorry, I didn't know, man.

I didn't know.

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

(AMBULANCE SIREN BLARING)

(SHOUTING) 911!

911!

TESS: Mr. Greene.

Where's Josh?

Get your family together.
Your son needs you.

(ER STAFF CHATTERING)

Did you get a look
at the driver?

No, I barely got a look at the car.
It all happened so fast.

How many shots?

Yeah, I don't know.

Chanice and Calvin
are with us, yeah.

No, she and Josh are still in surgery.
Anderson's out. Yeah, but it's 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.

When's Grandma coming out?

Soon.

Excuse me. We're Mr. and Mrs. Greene.
Our son Josh is here.

We've been trying
to contact you.

We need some information.

How is Josh?

He's in surgery.

Mr. Greene, we need a copy of
your insurance card, please.

Could you tell us about our son, please?
What happened?

Gunshot wounds.

NURSE: Drive-by shooting.

(SOBBING)

Where was he hit?

Please, take a seat
and fill out the form.

NURSE: The attending surgeon
will answer all your questions.

Good luck, man.

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

HATTIE: Did I hear them say
that Josh had been shot?

Yes, ma'am.

(CLAIRE SOBBING)

I thought angels were
supposed to help people.

We are and we do,

but every once in a while
people have to help angels.

Huh?

Come with me.

(TONYA HUMMING)

Go to her. She needs you.

But I'm just a kid.

Tell her what's on your mind,

and when she answers your questions,
she'll answer a few of her own.

Go on, baby. Go on.

Those are the footsteps
of a little boy.

You're the angel
that took away my mum.

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 gonna 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, you're blind all right.

I knew bad things
could happen to people,

but I didn't know bad things
could 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 is sad,

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

God suffers, too.

Well, 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
he 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 headache's spreading.

TESS: That's all right,
Nathaniel.

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

Thank you.

Well, better get back.

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

if I had my sight,
I could've seen who was black

and who was white, and maybe I could've
done something to stop all this.

Miss Wings,

your job is not to observe
differences in skin colour.

It's to make people
blind to them.

(TONYA AND QUEENIE
SINGING HYMN IN HALLWAY)

Tess,

where am I?

Josh's room.

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

Such beautiful voices.

Yes.

There just aren't
enough of them yet.

(HUMMING)

Those ladies know
where they are?

(BOTH SINGING A HYMN)

I can't fault them.

Yeah, well, I can.
This isn't a church,

a theatre, or a park.

(SINGING)

Ladies,

I don't mean to be rude or
anything, but this is a hospital.

There's sick people in here
and they need quiet.

Excuse us.

Well, you know, we all deal with our
grief the best way we know how.

We didn't mean to bother nobody.

Well, you didn't.
It was inspiring.

At least it gave a little
hope to the rest of us,

and anybody else in this hospital
who happened to hear it.

RUSSELL: I am sorry.

Our son is in here, and we're waiting
to see how he is, and I just...

I beg your pardon.

My apologies.

Is anyone in here
for Josh Greene?

Yeah.

I'm his mother.

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

Is he gonna be all right?

We're monitoring his condition.

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

Can I see him?

Soon. Very soon.

Where's my grandma?

Oh, 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 neighbourhood
family clinic.

Okay, Mrs. Harding
didn't survive the surgery.

DOCTOR: I'm very sorry
about your grandmother.

Oh, no.

(QUEENIE GROANS)

Where's Grandma?
Where's my grandma?

Come here, sweetie.

(GROANING)

(SOBBING)

QUEENIE: Oh, no.

Monica?

I'm right here.

Don't talk.
Try and get some rest.

I'm still

alive, right?

Yes, very much alive.

Did you ever find out

why God made you blind?

I'm starting to, more and more.

Find out, okay?

(HEART MONITOR BEEPING)

So you can tell me

why he made me blind.

Thanks for being a donor,
Mr. Greene. Thank you.

No, thank you.
It's the least I can do.

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

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

in that lobby.

ANDERSON: Incoming. Incoming.

We got to evac...

I know that man.

Incoming! Incoming!
We got to evacuate.

Hey, Lieutenant, just calm down now.
We got to evac...

Now, these people
are trying to help you.

You better give me a pos in 10
seconds or I'm out of here.

(GRUNTING)
Negative C1. Negative C1.

We gotta evac! We gotta evac!
Zero, zero, niner, zero.

We gotta evac! We gotta evac!

All right, you're 03.
You're on the ground.

NURSE: There's enough drugs in
here to knock out an elephant.

ANDERSON: Ow, ow, ow.

All right. All right. Easy.

Thanks for helping out
with your friend.

Well, 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.

CLAIRE: You knew him?

25 years ago.

Lieutenant Anderson Walker.

He was a sea wolf. He must've flown
us on half a dozen missions.

We hated each other.

I mean, hated each other.

He had no business
being an officer.

He was one angry man.

So were you.

What are the odds
of this happening?

A million-to-one?
A hundred million-to-one?

Only I've stopped believing in coincidence
ever since those angels came into our lives.

Yeah, me, too.

Where's Mom?
The kids were hungry.

(BANGING)

Oh, you just had 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
this 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
that maybe cleaning the walls

would make this place
a better...

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.

Mr. and Mrs. Greene?

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 gonna have to do
some additional testing.

Take us to him.

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.

(SIGHS)

He's sedated. You'll only
be able to stay a short time.

(HEART MONITOR BEEPING)

I love you.

You're gonna be just fine, son.

Just fine.

Oh, I know you.

Good.

Red Cadillac.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

What's a white boy like you riding around
in that part of town in a red Cadillac?

Same thing I'm doing here.
Checking up on you.

Uh-huh.

The car's not mine, though.

It belongs to a friend of mine.

Nice car, man.

Yeah.

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

Not... not too soon though,
I hope.

Am I hallucinating,
or you are you really there?

I'm here. I don't have to be.

It's up to you.

(GROANS)

I been taking
too many pain killers.

NURSE SPEAKING ON PA: Engineering
unit to third floor nurse's station.

Hey! JOSH: Mama?

JOSH: Daddy?

Yeah, we're all here, son.

Sure gave us a scare.

How you feeling?

Sore, and...

Yeah, we know.

Is everybody else okay?

Anderson Walker was shot.
He's alive.

But an older woman,
Mary, I think,

she didn't make it, honey.

Excuse me. This young man has
a date with the radiologist.

I'll have him back to you
in a couple hours.

No, 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 gonna make it.

JOSH: Dinah?

Miss you, Josh.

Never thought
I'd hear you say that.

Well, I'll take it back as soon
as you're out of the hospital

and making my life
miserable again.

I'm right here.

Daddy? Yeah, son. Yeah?

You've gotta go
to that shopping center.

JOSH: There's a little girl
there named Chanice.

There's something wrong with her.
It's her hearing, I think.

I should've 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.

I'll go over there right now.

(CHATTER ON POLICE RADIO)

(CAR DOOR SLAMS)

I need to understand
what happened here.

Me, too.

There's something else. Something
my son wanted me to take care of.

What?

SERENA: Well,

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

there is some damage.

There's scaring around her ear drum. 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?

SERENA: 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 damn rent that your
family wanted for that sandwich shop.

How dare you waltz in here

and self-righteously ask us, "Oh,
how could they let 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're not the Great White Hope. You're
not the master of a plantation here.

You're right. I'm sorry.

This was a big mistake.

You know, you're only one person.
You can't do everything.

This wasn't your fault.

But I should've
picked up on this.

This baby's here all the time, you know.
I could've done something.

Well, 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.
Oh, God, I'm sorry.

I want my grandma back.

SERENA: Oh, I want her
back, too, honey.

All I wanted to do
was just take back the wall.

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

ANDREW: 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.

He dove on top of him.

And right now, he's lying in a hospital bed
flat on his back, counting those little holes

in the ceiling tiles,
waiting to die.

He's lost his fight.

And in this little corner
of the world,

they can use all the fighters
they can get.

(SIGHING)

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've left me there.

Yeah, I wanted to.

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

Greene,

you're redneck, honky,
white trash.

Everything I hate.

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.
They don't know for how long.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Hey, hey, look, look, I'm feeling a
little tired. I think you should go.

And, what, you got great plans to
leave here in a body bag? Is that it?

Hey, man, it's much more dignified
than the way I been living my life.

We're all supposed to go
sometime. Why not now?

Because God wants you to live.

An angel told me so.

Oh, man.

Why don't you call one of them
pretty nurses in here?

I don't want your face to be
the last thing I remember.

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

Yeah, right. Where's,
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.

(SIGHS)

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

I saw him in Vietnam,

and I saw him just
this morning at that wall,

and wherever he goes,
people die.

I did 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 gonna take care
of those grandchildren?

Nobody knows.

Now, this is your time, Walker.

Now, 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.

NURSE SPEAKING ON PA: Engineering
unit to third floor nurse's station.

Engineering unit to third floor
nurse's station, please.

So, 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 he won't.

I need to be alone, okay?

All right.

NURSE SPEAKING ON PA: Dr. Savage to
Obstetrics. Dr. Savage to Obstetrics.

RUSSELL: Okay, we'll, uh...
We'll come back a little later.

(SIREN BLARING)

I made a 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 this supposed to be
a pep talk or something?

Oh, now, wait a minute. Hold on.

What I'm trying to say is,
music is your real dream.

Have I got that right?

You're 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 gotta do.

And running out there
like that yesterday

to protect you and Josh was
something Anderson had to do.

You couldn't have
talked him out of that.

You can't let anybody talk you out
of 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 spend some
time talking about our dreams,

and it kind of makes us
feel like family.

Sure does.

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

Hell, 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.

MONICA: 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... I don't know why.

Don't be afraid, Michael.

I am an angel sent by God.

He...

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.

MICHAEL: Why?

Why... why would God
send me an angel?

What about them out there?
Those... 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 if 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.

(SIGHS)

College?

That's right. I'm gonna kick your
butt all the way to graduation, too.

That's what Mary would've wanted,
that's what Mary's going to get.

But how am I gonna pay for
college, making sandwiches?

I make a pretty good one.

I got a good name
for a sandwich.

What's that, baby?

The Grandma.

Permission to come aboard?

Denied.

Yeah, right.

You never did give me
an ounce of respect, did you?

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

Don't rub it in.

How's your boy?

Beginning to get up and around.

He wants to come to the funeral.

MICHAEL: So do I.

Now, why don't you sell that
place so you can get...

I have a proposition for you.

Kind of an inspiration, really.

Oh, yeah? You been talking
to them angels?

(HYMNS PLAYING IN CHURCH)

Where's Daddy?

He's gonna meet us here.
He had to run an errand.

We weep today,

for we have lost a good friend.

Yes.

The... the violence of this world

has taken our sister
away from us, and yet

we can still rejoice today.

(ALL MURMURING IN AGREEMENT)
That's right.

REVEREND: We rejoice because

we know

that even though
our beloved Mary

is absent from the body...

REVEREND: Is today, right
now, present with the Lord.

(PARISHIONERS CHEERING)

Afternoon.

Hi.

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

I suppose you're leaving.

No, actually, I came
to give you this.

Goodman Heating and Plumbing.

Everything's fixed. Anything
else, you just let me know.

I'll be here.

Okay.

You get everything?

Yep, got it all.

Good afternoon, sir.

Easy does it.

Thanks.

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

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.

WOMAN: Yes, she was. Yes, she was.
MAN: Yeah.

So sorry.

Good woman.

So sorry.

If you need anything,
come to me.

WOMAN: Bless you.

My grandma was the best woman
who ever lived.

CALVIN: She worked hard,

and yelled at me
to go to school.

(MURMURING IN AGREEMENT)

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

You gotta change it
one life at a time.

All I could say is,
she sure changed mine.

And I just want to say,

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

That's right.

Amen.

Amen.

Is that all?

(HARMONICA PLAYING
AMAZING GRACE)

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

(CHAIR CREAKING)

(COUGHING)

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

And for every

drop of blood that's been
spilled on the street,

a thousand tears have been shed for
the lives that were lost here.

And I'm angry,

because I... I know
who pulled that trigger.

Hopelessness pulled
that trigger.

Shattered our lives.

Took away that boy's sight.

Took away the life of my friend,

because hope
was not there to stop it,

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

Hope is here today.

WOMAN: Yes. Yes.

Hope is here today because...

WOMAN: Preach it, come on!

Tomorrow,

when evil whispers
in the ears of our children,

who's gonna be there to stop it?

We're gonna be there to stop it.
And we're going to do that

by taking our dreams back.

ANDERSON: You know, 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.

Yeah, and sometimes
to take us home.

And I've learned

that God does love us,

and when we tell God our dream, now
he just don't laugh in our faces

and say yeah, good luck.

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

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

We will succeed!

Because, uh...

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

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

We're gonna
have to ask him today.

(SIREN BLARING)

We're gonna have to ask
him for ourselves,

for our families,

for our children,

huh?

And for Mary.

CHOIR: ♫ Amazing

♫ Grace

♫ How sweet

♫ The sound

SOLOIST: ♫ That

♫ Saved

♫ A wretch

♫ Like me ♫

Excuse me.

CHOIR: ♫ I once

♫ Was lost

♫ But now

♫ I'm found ♫

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

(HIP-HOP MUSIC BLARING
FROM CAR STEREO)

♫ He taught me how

♫ To watch, fight, and pray

♫ Good Lord, oh, Lord, yeah.
Fight and pray

CHOIR: ♫ And then rejoice

♫ In every day

♫ Every day

♫ Oh, happy day

CHOIR: ♫ Oh, happy days

TONYA: ♫ Oh, happy days ♫

MONICA: What a beautiful wall.

You can see the wall?

I can see it all now.

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

(CHOIR SINGING O HAPPY DAY)