All language subtitles for touched_by_an_angel_s07e09_the_grudge

You're awfully close to the shoulder
here, Mr. Wayne.

It's a narrow road, Tess.

But you got gravel flying every which
way.

Do you know what that does to a paint
job?

Get over to the center.

Yes, ma 'am.

Oh!

Don't take this the wrong way, Tess,
but... But you think I'm testy.

Well... Well, what?

I'm not testy. I wouldn't let you drive
my car if I was testy, would I?

Maybe.

If you had something on your mind that
produced a certain testiness,

you might not want the distraction of
the demands of driving so that you could

ponder the thing that may or may not be
making you testy.

What's the role?

I'm not testing.

I just don't know where we're going.

All I was told was to get in the car and
take a nice ride through North

Carolina. Well, now, it's been a nice
ride. I admit that and all.

But where are we going?

And when do we stop?

And what's the assignment? And besides,
my car is getting dirty out here.

Maybe this would be a good time to stop.

Oh, Harry.

Hello. Welcome to Tulipville.

Tulipville? Yep.

Is there a problem? You see that yellow
line down the middle of the road? You're

supposed to be just to the right of it.
Not right over the top of it.

Driver's license and registration,
please.

Well,

I don't exactly have those.

And how about you?

I don't know. You're stealing my Africa.

Your Honor,

this is not fair. Fair? You wouldn't
know fair if it grabbed you by the

and kissed you in the mouth. What kind
of a crackpot thing to say is that?

It's crack... Sit down, both of you.

When you walk down the road,

heavy burden, heavy load, I

will ride.

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 walk with you.

Now, Dr. Scribner, you are a medical
doctor?

Yes.

A real doctor.

And Dr. Harrigan? A doctor of divinity,
Your Honor.

Doctor, I only allow laughter at
something I think is funny.

All right. Then you're going to think
this is just hysterical.

This is a picture of the suspect
standing next to my tree. I am not a

Doctor, please sit down, and if I need
to see any photographs, I will let you

know.

Thank you.

So, uh, you two, you do this a lot,
don't you?

Now, the first of these court
appearances dates back to... 1961.

62. 61.

A long time.

And all these disputes are centered
around a tree?

The tree is on my property. That's
because you built the fence in the wrong

place. He's holding my tree hostage,
which is, by the way, what he does to

congregation on Sundays.

In light of the fact that this
disagreement has been going on for

years, I'm going to take under
advisement the complexities of your case

the two of you, if you would, to please
just step aside for just a few minutes.

Officer.

Well, what do we have here?

Officer Benjamin Hackett, Your Honor. Be
careful, Your Honor. Don't be fooled by

his friendly country tone.

Please do not address the court unless
instructed to do so.

It was actually the other lady doing the
driving.

No license, no registration.

There are reasons for that, Your Honor.

If you know what I mean.

Which you do. And she's not going to do
it again. Come on, baby, let's go.

Where are you going?

Away. Do you have a problem with that?

You're not finished here. I think we
are. And I think you're in contempt.

At the $100 fine, $75 for the ticket.

But we don't have any money.

Pay the fine or do the time.

You wouldn't.

Too weak.

Community service.

You will help out Dr. Harrigan at the
church, and you will help out Dr.

at the clinic.

What? What?

Maybe receiving a little community
service will inspire the two of you to

community another service and settle
your disputes out of court.

Well, well, things have changed in
Tulipville.

Have you been here before?

Do you know them?

Hey, Irish girl, come on.

Go ahead. It's okay.

Now, let's see. What does that 12 -year
-old boy like to eat?

Everything. Do you have cheese
crunchies?

Oh, last time he was here, he ate six
bags of cheese crutches.

You know what it's like?

Go visit your great -uncle Robert and
stay up late, watch TV, and eat all the

stuff your folks won't let you eat. Your
nephew sounds like an average American

boy. Oh, no, no.

No, there's nothing average about him.
Of course not. Oh, no, no. He's bright,

he's inquisitive, and he's just the
right age when we can...

Really do things together.

I want to teach them to play chess.

Take them fishing.

They grow up so fast.

Who knows?

A year from now, if they'll even be
interested in spending any time with an

codger like me.

Well, children grow and change.

But love doesn't go away.

That's a charming thought, Tess. But
I've lived too long.

If you know what I mean.

Yes, I have.

Look at that.

Every few years they go to Europe and
drop the boy off with the old goat.

Oh, child abuse.

Hey, I'm Brian. Who are you? My name is
Ted.

I'm working with your Uncle Robert.

Oh, doing what?

I'm still trying to figure that out
myself, baby.

Come on. Let me take some of this stuff.
Oh, thank you.

For in the days before the flood, people
were eating and drinking and being

merry up until the day that Noah entered
the ark.

And they knew nothing about what would
happen to them until the flood came and

swept them away.

That's how it is when people have their
heads in the sand.

Now, with Noah, people had their heads
in the sand.

About their unrighteousness.

In Tulipville, if I may be so bold, I
think we have our heads in the sand

about safety in our streets.

We need a stop sign at Butler Street.

The Lord said, let there be light. We
don't need a light. We just need a stop

sign. Is he crazy?

Preparing the end of civilization to
local traffic.

What's he going to give up about that
stop sign?

Now let's have a moment of silence and
then we'll give thanks.

Baby, have I got something to tell you.
Did you see it?

Yes, I did. But what does it mean?

That little boy, Brian, he's not just
here on vacation.

There's a reason he's here. And there's
a reason I'm back in Tulipville after

all these years.

Yes, Tess, but you still haven't told me
what you were doing here in the first

place. Come on. Come on. No fraternizing
with the enemy. We've got work to do.

Whenever I see a room full of things
like this, I always try to imagine the

story they tell of a life so far.

This is the story of your life, Lucy.

Mm -hmm.

Well, just try to imagine this story.

You work all your life to accumulate
stuff that ends up in the garage waiting

for some convict from traffic court to
come along and help you throw it all

Hi. Oh, hello.

I'm Monica.

Hi, Brian.

You got bigger.

But I should have recognized a harrigan
by the way you wrecked my fence.

Are you visiting the pastor?

Yeah, just for a while.

Don't think you can be just coming
through that fence any time you feel

How come you don't like Uncle Robert?

Well, you don't know him as well as I
do.

I know him better. He's really nice.

It's because of him that I want to be a
minister on Uncle Robert. Uncle Robert

teach me how.

Minister, huh?

Uh -huh.

That's a very fine profession, Brian.

It's not that.

Of course, it's not as much fun as being
a doctor.

That's what I am. Oh, yeah?

Mm -hmm.

Why don't you come inside and help me
look for something?

Sure. What? I've got a brain in a
bottle.

A brain?

Being a doctor, I get to experiment with
a lot of wonderful and very gross

things. But you wouldn't be interested
in that.

Yeah, I would.

Good.

Let's see.

It's around here somewhere.

What's this?

Close that up.

Is that why you limp? Who says I limp?

Nobody said.

I could see it.

When I was young, I had polio.

Polio? What's that?

The disease.

It crippled a lot of kids. Killed some
of them, too.

Never heard of it.

Well, that's because a doctor named
Jonas Salk came along and found a cure

it. That way you became a doctor?

Maybe.

Look, you come back tomorrow and I'll
tell you all about it. Okay.

And maybe we can dig up a specimen or
two.

Cool. Bye, Monica. Bye.

That was good of you to use Brian as a
way to build a bridge.

I'm not building anything of the sort.
But if it's Robert Harrigan's dream to

have that kid follow in his footsteps,
then it's my dream to make sure he

doesn't.

I really need you to tell me the story
about Lucy and Robert.

Because he must have done something
terrible to her for her to want to use

sweet little boy to hurt him like that.
It's never that simple, Miss Wings. You

know that.

Monica, where are you?

You look like you're getting dehydrated.

What do you mean?

Thanks. Thirsty?

It's a medical term.

Okay, you better get back to work. I got
to go back inside myself. I got parts

to organize.

You mean like body parts?

You can come and look if you want to,
but you can't touch.

Cool. I'd stunt your growth.

Brian!

Brian?

He went over to Lucy.

Hey, you know you can use that computer
for more stuff than just making bills,

right? Oh, yeah. There's all kinds of
things you can use a computer for. I'm

sure your uncle probably uses one to
write in terms of... Nah, he writes them

a yellow pad. He says computers go too
fast for him.

Everything goes too fast for him.

There's lots of cool stuff on the
Internet.

You can find out about almost anything.

See? Here's medical school.

Medical schools, huh?

What do you know about that?

Brian? How about a game of catch, huh?

Brian! Hey, Uncle Robert!

They're going to surgically reattach
somebody's finger. Live on this website

found in Dr. Lucy's computer.

You want to come watch?

No, no, Brian. You go ahead.

So, that's it?

You're not going to even try to fight
for that little boy?

I'm not much of a fighter, Tess.

That's why I became a minister.

And you made a big mistake, baby.

Because I'm quite sure God did not call
you to the ministry so you'd have an

excuse to give up when things got a
little tough.

He uses all kinds of people to do his
work.

He makes the weak strong and the fearful
bold.

So he would give you...

Whatever you needed.

If you wanted it.

But you don't want it.

And for a minister?

That's very, very sad.

I don't expect you to understand, Tess.
You... You don't know her.

But you do know her, don't you, Tess?

Yes, baby.

This story started a long time ago.

Right there in that tree.

I win. I have to say it my way.

Apricot. Apricot. No, that's wrong.

They spent lots of time up in that tree
over the years.

I thought they hated each other.

Passionate hate often begins with
passionate love, baby.

She could live anywhere on earth. Where
would it be?

Some place they don't grow to laughs
where they grow roses instead

Like Paris there sounds good ooh la la

Listen I've been thinking a lot about a
way to make sure

make sure that we can stay together

I can't afford a ring. Not yet.

But... Someday.

Will you marry me?

You know I will.

There's your dad.

Are you gonna tell him? Are you kidding?

He's gonna be as excited as I am.

You alright?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Lucy went looking for a woman to sew a
wedding dress.

And guess who she found?

You.

Baby, that dress was a thing of beauty.

But Lucy never wore it.

You've got your whole life ahead of you.
I'm not going to let you make a mistake

like this.

I'm not making a mistake.

She has polio.

What if you get it from her?

I'm willing to take that chance.

But I'm not. Look, she's a nice girl,
but if you married her, you would ruin

your future and ruin your life, and I'm
not going to let that happen.

That must have broken Lucy's heart.

Oh, it did.

But Lucy believed that their love was
strong, and Robert was going to stand up

and fight for her.

Except he didn't.

You see, people were terribly afraid of
polio.

They thought it was contagious.

So the next morning, Robert was gone.

Well, Robert's father didn't explain
very much. He just said that Robert had

been sent up north to be with relatives.

And she didn't hear from him until years
later when Robert's father died and he

moved back to Tulipville.

Did you get all of that, Brian?

Yes, ma 'am.

I thought you had a finger to reattach.

This isn't just about some little red
sign stuck in the concrete out front

there. This is about our way of life.

Now, Ben Hackett will tell you that the
traffic through this town has more than

tripled in the last two years. That
means strangers are driving through.

Strangers that don't know that Lily's
little boy Trevor likes to do wheelies

his Stingray bike through that
intersection.

Strangers. They don't know that Mrs.

Garfield would like to take a little
extra time crossing that street with her

groceries. Folks, we can't pretend that
Tulipville is an island anymore.

Hogwash.

In all my years of practicing here, I
have never, and I repeat, never... had a

single patient who suffered an injury at
that intersection.

This is not a small town anymore.

Well, it sure ain't Paris.

I'm not going to sit around waiting for
some developers to get rich at our

expense. Pretty soon a stop sign's not
enough, and you've got to have a traffic

light, and that leads to a gas station.

And then before you know it, you're
going to have a mini -mart open all

serving microwave hot dogs right on Main
Street.

Then there'll be more people for you to
cry about. Give the rest of us a break.

I hope they're open on Sunday, because
anything would be better than listening

to your sermons. Good! Then I won't have
to read any more of your stupid little

notes. You know what? What?

Somebody ought to put that stop sign
right in front of your mouth.

I think you're both stupid.

What kind of a way to talk is that?

You used to be friends. You used to love
each other.

You could figure this out if you really
wanted to.

You could even be friends again.

But you're both too busy being stupid
about stuff that happened a hundred

ago.

Now, where did he hear that?

You beat all, Lucy.

Call 911!

Don't touch him! Don't touch him!

I don't know, but the good news is he's
not here.

Waiting is the hardest part.

Times like these, baby, a lot of hard
part.

I feel

so

badly for that little boy.

Isn't this the part where you're
supposed to say, it's not my fault?

Yeah.

He's going to be all right, isn't he?

Brian is going to live.

But his spinal cord is severed.

Is it complete? What's the level?

C4.

Oh, my God.

C4? What does that mean?

He's paralyzed from the neck down.

You need to get some sleep.

Sleep is the last thing I need.

What's the first?

How about a miracle for that little boy?

With someone else, you need to ask for
that.

That's Harrigan's department, not mine.

Anyone can pray for a miracle, Lucy.

I could pray till the cows come home.

But that wouldn't make Brian walk again.

That's what they told you when you had
polio, didn't they?

But you didn't listen then.

You know who you remind me of?

Pollyanna.

As I recall, they told Pollyanna she
wouldn't walk again either.

There's always a light at the end of the
tunnel that they it should have to look

for it

Would

you turn the lights off on your way out
please

There's lots of cool stuff on the
Internet.

You can find out about almost anything.

No,

I don't know where they are. They're on
a cruise and the ship is moving.

Harrigan, hang up. We need to talk. Get
her away from me.

No, I can't call back later. This is a
medical emergency. I have to get through

now.

Yes, I'll hang on. You have to look at
this. I don't have to do anything for

you.

Oh,

doctor. The Harrigan boy, Brian? Oh,
tragic case.

Well, there is a new drug. It's in early
phase two. I'm familiar with it. Well,

I think it's probably... I know what it
is, Dr. Scribner. It's highly

experimental. It may be his only chance
to walk again. Look, it's too early to

know how effective it is or what the
side effects might be.

and its availability is extremely
limited.

I'm not asking you to give it to every
patient in the hospital. Just one little

boy. We're not an approved site. I'm
sorry.

Well, I can make some phone calls.

I've been a doctor a long time, and I
know people. I'm sorry, but I can't

support this.

Well, you could at least inform the
family that it's an option.

It's not an option.

That drug must be administered within 72
hours. It's already been 24.

So that's 48 hours to locate the drug,
receive special permission from the FDA.

Chip it here.

and to get a signed release to
administer it. Not possible.

That's the trouble with you city
doctors.

You don't have the guts to trust.

I've got the guts.

Robert, you either need some sleep or a
cup of coffee.

And you're not going to get either one
of them in here.

Robert, I need to talk to you. I don't
want to talk to you.

Please, Robert, don't shut me out. Do
you think I don't know what you've been

doing with that boy?

You were using him to hurt me again.
Well, it worked.

You hurt me.

And you hurt that kid.

Will you listen to me? If there had been
a stop sign at that intersection, this

wouldn't have happened. That boy is not
going to walk again, and it's your

fault.

Now leave me and him alone.

My God.

He hates me so much, he's never going to
agree to this.

What am I going to do now?

I know someone who will listen to you.

No one else will listen, Your Honor. So
we need a court order to force

treatment.

It is critical that this drug be
administered within 72 hours of the

It's already hour 70.

And that pig -headed preacher just won't
listen to reason.

The drug arrives by plane in about 10
minutes.

Dr. Scribner, I understand.

How important this is. And for Brian's
sake, I would like to... Well, just sign

this and we'll be on our way out. I
would like to sign this.

But the law is very clear about legal
guardianship. And until the parents

arrive, that belongs to Robert Harrigan.

Andrew, we need an answer on this right
away.

I'm giving you an answer. The answer is
no.

Petition denied.

What do you mean petition denied?

I mean petition denied.

Will you stop that and listen to me?
We're about to run out of time.

Tess, it's not my mind that's made up
and you know it.

God didn't give people free will so
angels can come down in a crisis and

their choice away.

No.

He was very clear about that.

You can show them the way, but you can't
drag them down the road.

This is a choice they have to make for
themselves.

And Tess, if you were sitting here,
you'd say the same thing.

You're right.

Your Honor.

The meds have arrived at the airport.

All this work.

What a waste.

What a terrible, unforgivable waste.

Even if I could convince the parents, by
the time they got here, it'd be too

late.

So, that's it.

We tried, and it's over.

I don't believe that.

Monica, I've been a doctor for too many
years not to know when... when to give

up.

Time's running out.

It's a risky treatment.

And that old fool won't listen to me
anyway.

Now that I think of it, you're right,
yes.

Don't you think so, Tess?

Absolutely.

Absolutely. I would just give up if I
were you.

There's no need of fighting this thing
to the bitter end.

You and Robert have been enemies for so
long. Why give up a perfectly good feud

for a little boy who thinks the world of
you?

And far be it for me to drag you down
that road.

So I'll just be at the hospital
expecting a miracle.

Well, I can say one thing for that,
Judge.

At least he stuck me with you and not
with her.

Tess can be very forceful, especially
when she knows she's right.

And she is right, Lucy.

Miracles do happen.

People can change, bodies can heal, even
at the last moment.

But you have to be in that moment if you
want to be part of it.

All right.

Let's go pick up the medicine.

Give it one more try.

Have you ever considered preaching?

You're a heck of a lot better at it than
Robert, I can tell you that.

He's with the nurse's station.

That's what the nurses down in the ER
found in his pockets.

I keep thinking about all of the Sunday
after church visits I've made to all the

hospitals in my life.

How many beds I've sat beside.

How many prayers I've prayed and how
many have been answered.

They all got answers, Robert. You just
didn't like some of them.

That's true. I didn't.

But I prayed anyway because of the looks
of the people sitting in this chair.

Please, Reverend Harrigan, please.

Pray us a miracle.

Have you noticed in church how Lucy
keeps leaving those little notes in the

offering?

Yes.

What do they say?

Variations on a theme, mostly.

They're simple things, like, uh, stop
preaching, you hypocrite, and get a real

job.

Never could fool Lucy.

Is that why you hate her so much?

Or is that why you love her so much?

I don't hate anyone.

Let me ask you something.

I believe you love God.

And I believe that you were called to
serve your congregation.

But I also believe that you're having
trouble in the prayer department.

And I'm going to tell you what it is.

Do you remember that part in the Bible?

that says, ought against any?

If you were offering your gift at the
altar and there remember that your

has something against you, leave your
gift there in front of the altar.

First go and be reconciled to your
friend, then come and offer your gift.

How can you stand at the altar every
Sunday and preach?

Love and forgiveness when you've
forgotten how to love and forgive

How do you know your Bible so well?

Because... What time is it?

8 .45.

Because I'm an angel and we're going to
have to speed this up.

What?

Because I'm an angel. Now, you've just
got to go along with me on this.

Now, stand up and pick up that little
bag and come on and let's go. I will

and I think perhaps you'd better leave.

Father, I need a little help here.

Excuse us, please. Would you mind
stepping out for a minute while we

sheets?

Come on, and don't forget the little
bag.

Why do I feel like I'm about to lose my
license?

You're not doing anything illegal, Lucy.
Just bold.

Well, bold is feeling very scary right
now.

What happens next? We storm the ICU?

All right, here we are. Let's start
talking.

What's going on? It's 8 .48.

What in blazes is this obsession with
time? And what is this woman doing here?

Robert, there is some hope for Brian. A
chance, a possibility to minimize some

of the effects of the damage to his
spinal cord. There's this new

drug that has worked in some cases like
this.

But it has to be administered within 72
hours of... Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. I

will not risk this boy's life with some
experiment because you want to assuage

your guilt. My guilt?

Yes. You pompous, deluded... Look, I
want you to get out of this hospital

I have you thrown out. Listen to
yourselves.

And look where you are.

Even in a place consecrated to peace,
all you can do is attack and hurt each

other.

You fight over stop signs, you fight
over trees, you fight over anything and

everything except what's really
important.

When you were 16, Lucy, you hired a
seamstress to sew your wedding gown. It

Tess, remember?

I thought you looked familiar to me. I
thought you'd never noticed.

No, that's not possible.

That was 50 years ago, and you...

You haven't changed.

I am an angel sent by God.

And so is Monica.

Well, that's what you said, but I
didn't... I mean... An

angel?

No.

Not for me. I don't deserve an angel.

I don't think I believe in angels.

It's hard to believe in anything when
your heart has been so deeply damaged.

God understands that.

You mean God understands about what Lucy
did to me?

You mean what Robert did to me? No.

God doesn't want to waste one more
minute on this, not when a child is

Robert.

You loved this woman once.

Didn't you?

That was a long time ago.

Water under the bridge.

Lucy, how many nights have you cried
yourself to sleep?

Robert, how many times have you spoken
bitter words instead of kind ones?

You loved each other once.

You might have spent a lifetime
together, living in joy, fulfilling your

But instead you built a fence.

And the first one to reach across that
was a little boy.

He loved you both.

And it hurt him, just as it hurt God, to
see the tragic waste

of two lives and two hearts that were
made for each other.

It's a terrible thing to watch, you
know.

And that's what drove Brian onto the
street the other night.

God forgive me.

It's too late.

Isn't it?

No.

There's time for Brian.

And there's time for you.

But you have to have courage.

And you have to have forgiveness.

If you were offering your gift at the
altar,

And there you remember that your friend
has something against you.

Lucy?

Will you forgive me?

I was a fool.

I should have fought for you, or us.

But I was weak.

I couldn't fight my father and my own
youth and polio all at the same time, so

let them send me away.

I don't blame you anymore for what you
did after that. It hurt, but I... What I

did?

I did nothing but wait for you.

I waited for them time.

A letter, a postcard, anything to
convince me that you didn't leave of

free will.

But nothing.

Nothing.

You just disappeared off the face of the
earth. No.

I wrote you all the time.

You never answered my letters.

That's why I stayed away so long.

Your silence made it perfectly clear.

My silence?

Yours.

I never received a single letter, not
one.

Well, that's impossible.

I must have sent a hundred of them.

No.

Well, how could you not get them? My own
father was the mailman.

Your father was the mailman?

Oh, my God.

Of course.

Your father was the mailman.

All those years of fighting.

But not once did either one of us say
the one word that really mattered.

Why?

Guess what time is it?

How long before we know if it worked?

Oh, it worked, baby, it worked just
fine.

We just gotta wait a little while to
find that out.

So Brian's gonna make a full recovery?

Full recovery?

That's doctor's talk.

This is gonna be a great big run -and
-tell -your -neighbor -type miracle.

Come on, let's go.

Where are we going?

I gotta go find where I put that wedding
dress.

So what do you think?

It was a beautiful wedding. I mean, the
dress, the dress.

Yes, it was a very nice dress.

Isn't it amazing after all these years
what a difference two little words can

make? I do.

No, I'm sorry.