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Okay, move over.

Okay, move over. I'm coming.

Sorry. I should think you would be.

You were making enough noise to raise the dead.

Can we have the ball back?

It's on my property. That makes it my ball.

Then we were sorry.

You're lucky I'm just keeping your ball.

I'd be well within my rights to call the police, and I just might.

Please, just give us the ball.

If you don't get off my property this instant, I will have you arrested for

trespassing. Come on, she's just a mean old lady. Don't be scared.

Old witch.

Get another ball. Try it again.

See what happens.

I can't believe you drive that convertible after what happened to me. I

seatbelt. Hurry up, Aunt Tori. Mom's waiting on us for the final fitting.

She just loves to tell other people what to do with their time, doesn't she?

Now, don't start up, Aunt Tori. I'm in too good a mood, and I'm not going to

you spoil it. Well, what if the wedding is canceled? Will they take back my

dress? You know, that thing costs a fortune. I'll certainly never wear it

This wedding is not going to be canceled.

Jim and I have been spending a whole year planning this wedding.

Nothing's going to happen.

I thought I was getting married, too.

to a man who couldn't face living with a cripple.

Before the accident, he swore he couldn't live without me.

Afterwards, he couldn't get out fast enough.

I'm sorry, but Jim is different.

Trust me, they're all the same.

Men betray you.

Love doesn't last.

You're such a fool, June, just like your mother. Look at her, married twice.

I just don't want you to get your hopes up too high.

They'll only be smashed.

I'm too tired for fitting.

I'm going back inside.

She's been on fire this year with victories in Australia and the French

And this was a great, hard -fought match between two reigning champions.

But to the victor or the spoiled.

Speak of the devil.

Let me ask you.

When you reached this level of... You used to love tennis.

I used to play tennis, or have you forgotten? Of course I haven't

Mom's cheering a benefit for the school athletic program.

She thought maybe you would donate some of your old equipment, some rackets, or

maybe even an old trophy or two. Why should I raise money for other people to

play the game I can't? Because you just might start enjoying your life if you

could be more generous.

You try living in a wheelchair. See how much you enjoy life.

Oh, Aunt Tori, I know how hard your life is for you.

No, you don't. No, you don't. Nobody does. Not until you've walked a mile in

moccasin. Only my moccasins are steel -plated, and I can't walk.

You may be my aunt, but you make me so mad.

All right, so you were once a big tennis star, and now you're in a wheelchair.

So what? Your career would have been over by now anyway, but you act like it

the end of the world.

The accident was the end of the world for me.

The end of everything that mattered. Does that include your family?

Because that's how you act.

Another big victory for a new rising star.

Back with more after this. How come you never age, Randy?

Women must keep you young.

The wedding rehearsal is Friday night. We all hope you'll be there. Why is it

so hard for everyone to understand that all I want is to be left alone?

It's all right, Tori.

There's nothing to fear.

And top -fitted Chris Everett advances to the finals.

Tori Aide. Number 25.

Remember, Tori Aide was unbeatable.

And another eight for Tori Aide.

Tori Aide.

Her car was struck by an oncoming vehicle.

She may never walk again.

Your Honor, may I present Miss Tori Van Dyke, who I believe deserves a second

chance. There are lessons she hasn't learned yet.

I hope you're not arguing for reincarnation. Because if you are,

court to the east.

I'm sorry. I'm having a hard time getting my bearings.

Am I dead?

Your life on Earth has ended.

We're here to determine where you will spend your afterlife.

No, no, it can't be.

I thought I'd have much more time than that. I hadn't even begun to... What?

What, Miss Van Dyke? Begun what?

You seem to have spent the bitter part of your life as a bitter, unhappy,

resentful person who made life miserable for just about everyone she came in

contact with. Me?

I'm the one who had the hard life.

Oh?

Really?

You acted as if anyone else's happiness was a personal insult.

As if there were only so much of it in the world and any of it that went to

anyone else was taken away from you.

Well, it was because of my accident.

My fiancé left because of it and after that... And I do not believe

was a strong point either.

All these years blaming your fiancé for leaving when actually...

Look

at me.

And Randy, so young.

I didn't want to be a burden.

So you kept everyone out of your life.

And you shrunk yourself into a mean old witch, I believe was the lay term.

She forgot how to love, Your Honor.

If only she could have a chance to do it over.

What do you mean, a chance to do it over?

You could return and undo your biggest regret.

Oh, Your Honor, if I could go back, well, I would never have my car wrecked.

wouldn't drive that day.

I could walk again. I would have a career.

And what change of the heart would there be in that, Miss Van Dyke?

Oh.

Right.

I would let Randy love me.

I would love him in return.

I would learn to open my heart.

I hope you mean it.

I do.

Three days.

And three days only.

You will go back with all your memories intact. No one will recognize you.

You are a free agent in the universe with the blessing of God Almighty and

his court.

Looking good.

That's a personal best for you.

What are you doing here?

Marky.

Your next patient's here.

Patient? Yeah, and she's a tough one.

Spinal cord injury. Just got transferred here from general.

Looks stable.

There's just more I can say for her moods. She's a real spitfire, that one.

Could you please tell me what's going on?

You heard her. Your patient is here, Marky.

See? Marky. You shower and change over there.

I'll show you where. Follow me.

Hello, Tori.

This is Marky James. She's going to be your physical therapist.

What for?

Haven't you heard?

I'm a hopeless case.

What are you staring at?

I'm sorry, I'm...

Just shocked to see you like that.

Well, the glory days are over.

I'm just another cripple.

Gimp.

Hag on a slag.

Could you do me a favor?

Sure, what do you mean?

Shut the door behind you when you leave.

back here, let me walk again, only to see myself lying helpless in that bed.

that what you are?

Helpless?

This is cruel.

This is a second chance for you. The only one you'll have.

You've returned as a walking person.

You can look at it as a curse or a gift.

Whatever you choose, it'll change the course of your life forever.

So, what's it gonna be, Miss Van Dyke?

Have you learned to transfer to the chair yet?

I hate that chair.

Well, let's face it. You're not going anywhere without it, so get over it.

isn't anywhere I want to go.

Would you stop complaining and just grab the bar, and I'll help you get into the

chair. Come on.

It's loud.

Come here.

Don't! Ow!

Stop it!

What on earth are you doing?

She's hurting me.

That doesn't hurt, and you know it. Don't you dare act like you know how I

Mrs. Evans, can you spare Miss James?

I can use some help in the next room.

Gladly. I'll take over from here.

But I'm supposed to be working with her. Go on. You've done enough harm here for

today.

Unbelievable.

Jones, I've only got three days. I can't spend them taking care of other

patients.

I saved you in there.

Nurse Ratched was about to take you off the case.

I can handle Chris Everett. I can handle Nurse Ratched.

Come talk to this little girl.

I think she could use a woman's touch.

Is she paralyzed?

She's not eating.

Not maybe with your sensitivity.

Let's just make it quick.

Tina, this is Marky.

She works here and wants to talk to you.

Hi.

Tina, why aren't you eating your lunch?

Look, I'm kind of in a hurry. I've got a patient in the other room, so could you

just tell me what the problem is?

Car accident, functionally incomplete, favorable return of probability.

This isn't bad. According to this, you've got a good chance to walk again.

are you complaining about?

Didn't your mother teach you to answer when you're spoken to?

My mother's dead.

I'm so sorry.

Your mother died in a car accident.

My mother died, too, when I was a little girl.

I know how that feels.

Did your daddy die, too?

No.

Mine did.

Are you sure?

They say he's alive.

But I know they're lying.

Not according to this chart.

Then why hasn't he been in to see me?

He must have died in the car accident, too. And they just don't want to tell

Tell you what.

If I find out what happened to your father, will you make a stab at that

breakfast? Would you?

Only if you eat some of that breakfast.

Deal?

Excuse me. Are you Tina's father?

Yes.

Physically, she's stable.

Emotionally, she's a mess.

Why haven't you been to see her?

You wouldn't understand.

She's worried about you. She thinks you died in the car wreck.

I should have.

Don't ever say something like that.

The car I was driving killed my wife.

My little girl may never walk again.

You tell me, how would you feel?

I wish I could turn back the clock.

If I could just have that one split second back when my eyes left the road.

I know.

What can I say to her?

How can I explain?

Just tell her that you love her and that you'll be there for her.

Daddy's here.

You made the right diagnosis.

All she really needs is love and caring.

Yeah, well, she's not the only one.

Randy? Hi.

Hi.

I'm sorry, have we met?

I'm Markie James, Tori's physical therapist.

You got a minute?

Sure.

I'm here because Tori needs help.

And it's help that only you can give her.

But first I have to ask you a pretty personal question.

Do you love her enough to stick by her even if she can never walk again?

I've asked myself that question a million times since the accident.

And what's the answer?

Yes, I do.

Are you sure? Yes.

Well, please, go to her and tell her that. She's made it pretty clear she

doesn't want to see me, though.

Randy, she desperately needs to hear from you that you love her just the way

is.

Trust me on this.

This is the most important decision of your life and hers.

Her whole future depends on it.

Trust me.

I do trust you.

I don't know why, but I do.

Thank God.

I wasted so much time not believing in you.

I'm so sorry.

Thanks, I think.

Just give me ten minutes to get showered and changed, okay?

Great.

I thought I told you to get lost.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

Really? And why is that?

Because, my dear girl, you have finally met your match.

You may not want to change, but I do.

I told him I don't want to see him.

Wrong. You don't want him to see you. Get over it. You can't do this.

You look great.

You're such a bad liar.

It's one of the things I like best about you.

And your serve.

It's my girl. Always putting me in my place.

Tori, um... I want you to know that nothing between us has changed.

Come on, Randy. Everything has changed.

But our feelings for each other don't have to.

I love you.

You love someone who doesn't exist anymore.

Oh, come on. I didn't love you because you won tennis games.

I'm not talking about playing tennis.

I can't walk.

I can't stand.

I can't have children.

I can't even go to the bathroom.

Is that who you want lying next to you at night?

An inert lump with tubes and bags?

Let's just make this easier on each other and end it now, okay?

No.

I still think we can face this together.

You want to face something, Randy?

Face this.

You want to touch me?

Go ahead.

It's what you used to do.

There's only one difference.

I can't feel you.

I had to go. I knew it would go.

What happened?

They've given up, both of them.

What about you?

I'm one person. I'm alone in this.

You're never alone.

Don't give me that God stuff.

Look around you. This is a hospital.

Tell me where to find God in this.

All around you.

All I see is pain and misery.

Is that all you saw in Tina's smile when she saw her father?

What does that have to do with anything?

The future.

And what's that supposed to mean? Another mystery for me to unravel?

If we didn't have mystery, Tori, we wouldn't need faith.

a new day what are you still doing in bed leave me alone haven't you done

damage come on get in your chair we're going to rehab to go to occupational

therapy and learn to dress myself why not you want someone around you all the

time to dress and feed you i thought you were supposed to be so independent

Cut it out.

I'm not stacking potatoes.

Don't take that.

Come back.

This is going to cost you your license.

You could kiss your job goodbye.

Buy a ticket if you're going to stare like that.

Didn't your mother ever teach you manners?

You're a big tennis star, aren't you?

No, I guess she never did.

What's it to you?

It's just that you are my mother's favorite.

She just loved you. And then what happened? She decided she preferred

Everett?

She died.

Oh.

You're the little girl who lost her mother in the car accident.

I'm sorry.

I wish I could tell her I met you.

She would have been so excited.

Was your mother an athlete?

No. Until she read about you, she never exercised.

Then she started running. You were her inspiration.

What exercises do they want you to do?

Is that your full range of motion?

Or can you do any more?

I know.

My mother died, too, when I was a little girl.

She did?

It was just my sister and me.

But I learned two things that helped me get through it.

What were they?

Even though my mother was gone, I missed her terribly.

There was always someone there for me.

Sometimes it was a teacher or a camp counselor or a coach.

A lot of times it was my sister.

There was always someone there for me when I needed it.

Like you helping me now?

Exactly.

The other thing was, in a way, I felt that my mother was always there for me.

And she was proud of me.

Every time I won or lost, she was there.

So, can you do three more for me?

Make them real strong now.

mom in heaven saying, yay.

Let's try, Jane, but it won't work.

What's that?

Putting me together with little orphan Annie to make me realize others are

off than me.

Did I hear you right?

Did you actually see someone else's pain beyond your own?

Maybe there's hope for you yet.

Tori? Tori Van Dyke?

You. You are the greatest miracle worker of all time. I can't begin to thank you

enough.

Who are you?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm Jerry. I'm Tina's dad.

Nobody's been able to work with Tina until you.

She can't stop talking about you. It's the first time I've seen her laugh since

the accident. It's as if she's come back to life because of you.

I didn't do anything that anyone else couldn't have done.

You did something nobody else has been able to do.

You gave her a reason to go on.

Do you think they could take physical therapy together?

I mean, it would mean so much to her and to me. Listen, I'm barely able to help

myself right now.

I don't think you can count on me.

Sure.

It really hurts, doesn't it, losing Mom?

It was all my fault.

What?

The accident.

I was sitting in the back seat, and my dad had to turn around to deal with me.

And when he did, he took his eyes off the road.

If it weren't for me, my mom would still be alive.

Did you tell your daddy how you were feeling?

When he was here before?

No.

I was afraid to.

I thought he would hate me, too.

You know, I got to be the kind of person your mom admired so much.

Whenever I was really scared to do something, I did it anyway.

You have to tell your daddy how you feel.

Let him love you.

Will you be there when I tell him?

Of course I will, sweetie.

That's what you want.

Thanks for calling.

Uh, she had something to tell you.

The wreck was all my fault.

If I hadn't have been fussing, Mommy would still be alive.

If it's anybody's fault, it's my fault.

But it's nobody's fault.

Well, you don't hate me.

I could never hate you.

I love you.

No matter what.

I'm just so glad you're safe.

You're getting pretty good at that.

The skill I'm going to need.

So is the one you just gave Tina.

Telling people how you really feel.

Don't you think you should take your own advice?

Why don't you call Randy and tell him the truth?

It's different.

Jerry's her father.

Randy's... a guy.

A guy who's crazy about you, who's ready to stick by you for richer or poorer in

sickness and in health.

Don't you think you should give him a chance to do it?

What do I look?

Beautiful. That's better work, Jones.

I've got everything riding on it.

This is the last day, you know. This is all the time you get.

Believe me, I know.

Do you believe in prayer?

Yes, I guess you would.

Would you pray for... Yours might carry more weight than mine.

Nobody scares more weight than yours.

I'm glad you called.

I wanted to talk to you. Me too.

This is really hard for me.

But there's some things I need to tell you.

I was horrible to you the other day on purpose.

I thought you wouldn't want me anymore.

I thought that if I rejected you first, I could bear it.

But if you really meant all those things he said...

About loving me anyway.

I'd like to try.

Tori, I love you.

Not the awards or the achievements or the trophies.

I love who you are inside.

What's this?

My catheter must have slipped.

Can't you do something about it? Randy, it... Just fix it, please.

I'm sorry.

Why didn't you let me handle this my own way?

I'll never forgive you for this.

What happened?

Randy.

Go to her.

She needs you.

I want to be the man she needs me to be.

But I don't think I am.

He didn't really love me after all.

How could you do this to me?

How could you send me back here to open myself up to this man?

Only to have him walk out.

You were sent here to open yourself to love.

But that's Randy.

What am I going to say to her?

How am I going to go on?

But nothing has changed except for the worst.

You still have the rest of today.

Nothing's going to work now.

She's going to have a lonely, miserable life.

And it's all my fault.

God never closes one door without opening another.

I'm stuck in the hallway.

And there are no days left.

If you can't find the door, look for the window.

What matters most is that you seek.

Get your own life and stop meddling in mine.

Tori, I know how disappointing this is for you. No, you don't.

Not until you've walked a mile in my moccasins.

Only mine are... I've walked to the moon and back in those moccasins. I'm trying

to save you the trip.

Please, don't shut down because of this.

You've got so much to give.

Look what you did for Tina.

Tina's got her whole life ahead of her.

Mine is all behind me. No.

No, it's not.

It felt good to work with Tina. Admit it.

You know why?

Because you were teaching her something you already know.

To use your heart and fight back.

That's what champions do, don't they? They fight back against all odds,

the pain to win.

What do I have to say to get through to you?

Tori, Miss James, come quickly. Please, hurry.

You hear that?

It's your mom and Evan. Say, hey.

Excuse me.

Someone here to see you.

I'm afraid it's time to go.

Wait.

Let me just stay long enough to see how this plays out.

I shouldn't have reacted like that.

I want to give it another try.

Somehow we'll make this work.

I mean, it won't be what we'd hoped for, but in time we'll get used to it.

But we'll find you the best doctors.

And we're going to do everything in our power to make sure that you walk again.

Glorious day for tennis.

Don't turn around.

No one can see me but you. If you start talking to air, it could be more

embarrassing than that missed volley at the 78 Open.

That ball was out.

That's between you, God, and Martina Navatello. What an inspiration.

to witness these talented athletes perform in this fine tournament today.

Wow, and he's showing his age overnight.

It's 20 years later, Tony.

You're back. These courageous men and women demonstrate that handicap is only

mental concept, that there are no limits to what the human spirit can achieve.

And now, present the finals trophy, a truly remarkable spirit, a source of

inspiration for not only this competition, but for thousands of

children all over the world, a woman who needs no introduction, the remarkable

Tori Van Dyke.

Goodbye, Tori.

Come on, Jerry, Phoenix, come with me. Come up.

As you know, many of us are referred to as

courageous.

I think of myself as lucky.

lucky enough to have found a source of strength that never fails me.

And that source comes in many guises.

My sister, Emily, my guide, my friend, who I would be so lost

without.

My niece, June, the sunshine to my rain.

And the love of my life, my darling stepdaughter, Tina, who has taught me so

much.

My husband, Jerry.

My champion.

My source.

You know, I used to think of service as just the opening shot of a tennis game.

But now I know it is so much more than that.

Service is giving of yourself.

And it is the only way to be truly happy.

And as you have all exhibited by your generous support, once you start doing

You just want to do more.

Thank you so much for helping me, sir.

Thank you. Come again next year.

Did you hear something, Tori?

What? Your mother. It hasn't been.

Yay.