All language subtitles for touched_by_an_angel_s09ex2_amazing_grace

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.