Original subtitles

k? You know what I thin

I think you just did your best work yet.

I was good, wasn't I?

If I could keep those two together, I can do anything.

Well, don't get carried away.

Oh, I'm not getting carried away.

It's just, I think I've learned the tricks of the trade.

There are no tricks to this trade.

Caring and hard work and more caring,

that's what we're here for.

But can't I take pride in what I do?

Remember, my darling, "pride goeth before the fall."

(engine starts)

(car horns honking)

What kind of w ork do you do?

elp I could use some h

laying carpet with a power stretcher.

I don't think so.

My knees are shot.

You think maybe it's that attitude

that got you here in the first place?

(coughs)

MONICA: I'll never understand

how people let that happen to them.

ll. You wi

How?

This man is your next assignment.

He is?

s. He i

er Okay, so am I going to volunteer at a shelt

or counsel the homeless?

None of the above.

Then how am I suppos ed to help him, then?

Well, baby, the only way to share this man's pain

is to share his pain.

Oh, no.

Let me help you with your coat.

♪♪ 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 tell you I'll walk with you ♪♪

♪♪Walk with you♪♪

♪♪ Believe me, I'll walk with you. ♪♪

Yes.

(squish)

Oh, yuck.

Hey!

What are you doing here?

Oh, you startled me.

Hello.

What are you doing here?

Well, I was just looking for something

to keep me warm.

This is my alley.

Your alley?

Yeah, my alley.

This is my van, my dumpster, my alley.

Oh, please, you see, I found one glove and...

Let's see what we got in here.

You've got to pardon the mess.

It's the maid's day off.

Okay.

Lighter.

And... comb.

I don't know what that was.

(grunts)

Here's the glove.

Yes.

Hey, hey.

Oh, man.

My lucky day.

In a manner of speaking.

Are they... are they gonna fit?

Size ten.

Close enough.

Oh, yeah.

These are great.

Haven't seen you around here before.

I'm not from around here.

. Me neither

Where are you from?

. Someplace else

This is where I get off.

et, There's a miss ion on Flower Stre

about two blocks up.

r, You can't sleep ther e except in bad weathe

ou. but they'll feed y

Oh, thanks.

I'll see you there?

. No, no, you won' t. I'm not homeless

d I'm saving up to get my van fixe

so I can go to Colorado.

I'm sorry, I thought...

Yeah, well, my clothing budget isn't what it used to be.

It's all goi ng to the van.

rk. Listen, I got to g o. I got to get to wo

Okay.

Oh, wait.

Your lighter.

No, keep it.

Maybe you can trade it f or something else you need.

ow? You kn

That's how it works on the street.

Thanks.

Tess.

Hello.

Don't you "hello" me.

Your assignment just walked away.

Oh, no he's go ing to be fine.

. He's got a job

He's got a good head on his shoulders.

He's got a pla n to move on.

I think he's goi ng to make it.

Is that Monica, the angel, saying that?

Or is that Monica, I'm-cold-I'm-hungry-give-me back-my-coat, saying that?

What did I do wrong?

You took the easy way out,

just like everybody takes the easy way out.

You found a reason not to get involved.

. He doesn't need me

Wrong.

He doesn't want to need you or anybody else.

His self-esteem may be shot, but he's still got his pride.

And what am I suppos ed to do about that?

Don't you raise your voice to me, Miss Wings.

You've got a little pride thing going on yourself.

I'm sorry.

I don't know what' s happening to me.

I'm cold, I itch.

I think I even feel hungry.

Tess, I don't feel much like an angel anymore.

Your assignment's not to feel like an angel.

It's to feel something else altogether.

This man, Pete, he's a fighter.

But he's been hit too many times,

one blow after the other, too hard and too fast.

And the next blow could put him down

and keep him down.

And then pride is not going to help that...

not his and not yours.

You'd better hang on to that lighter.

You're going to need it.

Lighter.

Where did I put the lighter?

Oh, there it is.

Hey, lady, look out!

Oh, no.

I'll get it.

Thank you.

Thank you. It-It's very important.

t, Yeah, well, if it's so importan

give me a dollar for it.

A dollar?

I don't have a dollar.

I don't have anything.

. You got gloves

Oh, no, not my gloves.

r. No gloves, no lighte

Well, there's just one lighter.

I'll give you one glove.

e? Which on

You choose.

t. Righ

Deal.

u. Pleasure doing business with yo

k? Drin

No, thanks.

You know, this is silly.

Why don't I give you the other one, too?

No, you keep it, sweet lady.

A deal's a deal.

r. Late

Move away.

I don't need that done.

s. So that's what his job i

Don't let them catch you talking to yourself.

That's exactly what they're expecting.

Hello.

My name is Monica.

at? Wh

I'm Monica.

. I'm Sophie

Have you ever been to Dallas (horn honks)

ng! Sorry. Texas? Watch wher e you're goi

ve. No, I never ha

Likely story.

Well, somebody assassinated him,

but nobody's ever been to Dallas.

People lie.

What are all these books?

Research and evidence--

theories and responses to theories,

diagrams and random notes,

witnesses, suspects.

Are we talking about the Kennedy assassination?

What do you know about it all of a sudden?

t. I don't know anythin g, I just heard about i

Do you know what the temperature is?

No, I don't.

43 degrees.

If you don't know how cold it is,

you don't know how cold to be.

Okay, she'll b e all right.

r. I'll take care of he

it. Enjoy

WOMAN: What is it with you?

Are you the good Samaritan?

, Every time I turn my back

ts. you've got some loser here giving him handou

MAN: Come on, leave it alone.

I'm not giving him handouts.

He works for it.

He sweeps.

? What, you think I just got off a turnip truck

I've seen him eyeing the cash register.

Next thing you know,

one of them will bust in here and clean us out.

See, he's not that way.

Hey, I thought we don't eat dinner in this house

ks. until we give than

For all we eat and all we wear,

for daily bread and loving care,

we thank thee, Lord. Amen.

(knock at door)

Hello. What are you doing here?

o. I have no place to g

Well, find one.

I don't want you hanging around me.

I don't want you hanging around here, either.

If you're going to live on the streets,

you got to learn to liveonthe streets.

You can't count on anybody out here, not even me.

I'm going off to Colorado any day now,

so just leave me alone, okay?

But I thought homeless peo ple looked after each other.

I'm not homeless. I told you I'm not a bum!

(metallic clattering)

(horn honks in distance)

(coughing)

(siren wailing in distance)

Do you do this every morning?

day Doesn't everyb ody start off the

with a newspaper and a cup of coffee?

Look, I-I came to say something, and then I'll leave.

You can skip the say something and get righ t to the leaving part.

Pete, I didn't mean to suggest

. you were a bum

I don't know how you could even think that.

Pete, wait.

Pete!

Pete.

So that's his name, huh?

You know, I see that man every day, never knew his name.

I never knew hehada name.

Lots of people out here don't, you know.

I have a name. It's Monica.

Well, hello, Monica. I'm Zack.

That's my glove!

Ah. You're the lighter lady.

(tires screech, horn honks) It's good to meet you.

MAN: Come on, lady!

Get out of the road there!

What are you doing?!

Hey! Hey!

(horn honking) Come on, man!

Come on, move it, will ya?

Hey! Hey, are you crazy?

You want to honk at me?!

No, no. It's all right.

(Sophie mumbling)

SOPHIE: Oh, oh, oh...

(horn honks) Thank you. Thank you.

(horn honks) MAN: Go back to your cardboard box!

You okay? You okay?

Oh, thank you. Thank you.

You ever been to Dallas? Yeah.

You have?!

Yeah. You have?

... Oh

Come on. I'm gonna take you kids for something to eat.

I recognize everyone here.

You know, they're regulars.

We're like one big family.

A big family where no one speaks to each other.

y. Sounds like my famil

Do you sleep here, too?

Can't-- no overnights

es. unless it goes below 35 degre

Then Tom-- he's the manager, nice boy--

Tom gets me a nice, special cot downstairs,

for obvious reasons.

Which obvious reasons are those?

Well, the beds are upstairs. I can't sleep upstairs.

ZACK: Why?

Why? Why?

Do you know how many people

involved in the Kennedy assassinations

ended up pushed out of windows?

No.

Well, let's just say it's disproportionate

to the public as a whole.

That's a really interesting ring.

Mm. USMC.

You're a Marine?

Well, I'm not on active duty, but, uh,

you know, as they say, once a Marine, always a Marine.

I was in Desert Storm.

You're lucky-- you made it back.

Yeah...

I made it back all right.

After we've finished, I'm gonna go and find Pete.

Pete? Mm-hmm.

He's a friend of mine. Well, sort of.

He washes windows.

You know, he always carries

a gray tote bag everywhere he goes.

Well, that narrows it down.

(laughing)

. He keeps the van outside of Gus's place

Yeah.

Oh...

I'd like to debrief him.

(siren wailing in distance)

Oh, no. My van!

Oh, no.

Gus?

Gus! Gus!

Ma'am, what happened to my van?

ed. Gone. Junk

d. Probably flatter than a pancake by now, thank Go

Where's Gus?

Gus went to visit his sisters for the weekend.

And now, what I say goes,

and I say what goes is that van.

Oh, no.

No! There will be

no more dinners, either!

If you get hungry, get a job, you bum!

(panting)

(groans)

te. (echoing): Promise me, Pe

Promise me we'll go to Colorado.

I promise.

His van is gone.

Oh, dear God.

God can't hear you down here.

God can always hear you.

Well, maybe he's just ignoring us, then.

. Well, we need to take him somewhere

All right, I know a place. Come on.

(grunts)

I heard about this place, but I was always afraid to come by myself.

Sounded dangerous. Oh, it is.

on. But it's also dry and almost warm. Come

(man coughs)

All right, we'll be okay

if we just lay low here.

Excuse me, have you ever been to Dallas?

Hey, hey, hey, it's okay, buddy, it's all right.

Sophie, you can' t be doing that do wn here, all right?

Now, I've got to l ive with these people.

. All right, here we are

MONICA: Pete, do you need any help?

No, just leave me alone.

Why don't you lighten up a little bit, man?

? Man, why don't you jus t mind your own business

Well, if I minded my own business,

you'd be sleeping outside.

I mean, you think you're the only person whose feet hurt?

Everybody's feet hurt out here.

SOPHIE: All right, that's not helping anyone.

Zack?

Is this... is this where you...

? is this where you live, stay

Yeah, a couple of my buddies from the cor ps

turned me on to this place.

You know, truth is, when I came back from the Storm,

this really seemed the only place

that felt right to live in.

What do you mean?

Nothing that happens in basic training

prepares you for what war is really like, you know?

We saw some bad stuff,

some really bad stuff.

You know, one day, y-you're eating sand

and breathing gas and...

watching yourself kill people you never even met.

me And then the next da y, you're sitting at ho

reading about yourself inTimemagazine,

eating a Big Mac.

Oh, it's too weird.

You know, life changes, just like that.

(sighs)

You just don't feel like yourself anymore.

MONICA: I know that feeling.

SOPHIE: But of course,

and you talk to yourself, too, dear.

You got to work on that.

Yes.

And what brought you to these parts, Sophie?

Well, that's privilege d information, but...

-- I can tell you this much

after my work he re is finished...

uh... uh...

uh...

th. We'll... we'll all have to make great sacrifices for tru

Do you have a family?

That's privile ged information.

What about you?

(sighs)

Well, actually, one morning I was wearing a beautiful coat

and by nightfall, I was sleeping on the ground.

ah. PE TE: Ye

That happens.

Pete, you have to see a doctor

about your feet.

You know, you really have to leave me alone.

MAN: Police!

Everybody freeze! This is a raid!

(people yelling)

(yelling continues)

(electronic squeak) Ah. Whatcha got there?

at. (sighs): You won't be needing th

up. Arms up. Arms

You got nothing to hide, you got noth ing to worry about.

One at a time.

Okay.

Arms up.

I said, arms up.

He's not well.

f. Yeah, I've h ad a cold mysel

al. Arms up, p

) (sighs

(electronic squeak)

g. All right, let's have the tote ba

No.

Pete, give him the bag. No.

I need some help here. Just give him the bag, Pete.

No!

on! Come on! Come

Please! No!

ZACK: You guys didn't have to do that. Shut up!

I want you to know

I'm taking your badge numbers.

What the h ell is this?

"Julie Taylo r.

"D.O.D.

4." 2-2-9-

(crying): My wife. It's her ashes.

It's Julie.

fe! It's my wi

Five more degree s, and they'll open the shelter.

(mumbles)

You feel those feet yet?

Listen...

it doesn't tak e away the pain,

but, uh, you don't car e about it as much.

No.

Thanks.

Okay.

rn. Let's find something to bu

MAN: Hey!

(gasps): Sorry. I'm so sorry.

MAN: I'm trying to sleep in here!

(chuckling): I just love a good fire.

Still got that lighter?

Oh, yeah.

If you're gonna go for a real fire,

ky. I... I don't know, that's kind of ris

Oh...

Maybe some, uh, paper.

Kindling or somethin g.

Well, I don't...

er There's that file fr om '75 on J. Edgar Hoov

I'd just as soon not be caught in possession of,

under certain circumstances.

n. This could just blow the roof clean off the Warren Commissio

(chuckles) : Look at th at.

t. Well, make good use of i

r? Get those tootsies nice and toasty, hea

3? Where were you in '6

63? PE TE: 19

. September, October

er? Novemb

Uh...

fifth... no, no, sixth grade.

She always used to tease me because

she wore a wedding ring and I didn't.

Truth is, we could only afford one ring.

We were going to get me one someday, but...

now I'm kind of glad we didn't.

I might have had to hock it.

What happened to Julie?

She died last year.

Savings and Loan went down and took my business with it.

We lost our health insurance,

and then a few weeks later,

Julie started feeling sick, but...

by the time anyone knew it was cancer, it was...

it was too late.

So, I-I stayed home to take care of her.

Threw a bunch of medical bills in a drawer,

and by February, I lost the house... and my wife.

She-she got me off booze.

I haven't had a drink

since the day she said, "Yes, I will marry you."

She had enough faith... for the two of us.

Always talking about us going to Colorado,

starting all over again.

She made me...

made me promise that I'd, I would go even if...

even if it was without her.

. She was the only family I had, so..

I, uh, got in the van and... headed west.

And then it-it broke down.

And then... it got...

towed away.

And uh... and then....

There but for the grace of God, why?

(coughing)

PETE: It's 34 degrees.

Hallelujah. The shelter's open.

Put a hot brick in the sheets.

Sophie's coming home.

Yeah.

Now, have you ever spent the night in a shelter?

No.

Well, brace yourself

e. and make sure you stick with Sophi

Pete, are you coming?

I told you, I don' t go to shelters.

If you stay out here, you'll die.

So?

So, you still have to take her to Colorado.

ow. MAN: Come on, n

I got somethin g for you.

hy. Don't be s hy, don't be s

g. I'm selling, you're buyin

I'm selling, you're buying.

I got something for you.

No? Okay.

I got something for you.

hy. Don't be s hy. Don't be s

I got somethin g for everybody.

? Hey, you need anything

Blankets? Cigarettes ? Shampoo?

No.

Listen, it's ten percent cheaper out here.

Once you get insid e and the temperatur e goes higher,

so do my prices.

Get lost, Ox.

ne. Hey, I got somethi ng for you, too, Mari

Don't worry.

How much?

g? How abou t that rin

Not on your life.

e. Just a matter of tim e, just a matter of tim

WOMAN: Uh, I'm sorry, folks.

This is a family-only shelter.

This is a family.

These are my three children.

He's from my second marriage.

! TESS: Sophie

. I haven't se en you for ages

wn. And look how y our family has gro

And isn't she a beauty.

Yes, she is, she is.

It's a wonder how those years of braces paid off.

Mm.

Okay, men to the right,

women upstairs.

t. All righ

Hold on, my man.

s, Deluxe accommodation

just like Desert Sto rm without the sand.

All right, you can go right upstairs.

. Oh, I can't sleep upstairs

Tess, what a relief. Where have you been?

Well, you have togoupstairs.

Whether you sleep or not is up to you.

t. Well, I can'

om? Now, where's T

It's Tom's night off.

de. Now, upstairs or outsi

ce. It's your choi

? SOPHIE: Well, do you have a room with no windows

Outside!

No, oh, I can't. I can't.

Come on upstairs, Sophie. No, I can't!

It'll be okay, really.

It'll be okay. I can't.

No, it'll be fine.

She will think of something.

I can't. Come on, come on.

(man coughing)

MAN (mumbling): Which way?

(panting)

I'm a Marine. I'm a Marine.

I can't go away.

Um, uh...

I ca... I can't... I can't move.

I can't move.

No...

(crying)

Sarge, I can't move!

Listen...

I can't move!

Wake up. Don't...

Wake up. Hey, hey, you're all right.

Oh, damn.

Oh, I hate... I hate those things.

Yeah.

I get nightmares, too.

Oh, no, not like this, you don't.

War stuff?

Yeah.

I'm in the, uh... I'm in the desert

in the middle of a fire fight

and... and everybody knows

there's land mines all over the place,

but nobody knows where the hell they are.

And I know I'm going to die if I move

and I know I'm going

to die if I don't move.

. You're dreamin g the wrong kind of dreams, man

What's that supposed to mean?

t. You can't waste your t ime dreaming about the pas

You've got to stic k to dreaming about the future.

Being a Marine was the one thing I did best.

You know, I belonged to something.

I mean, that's who I was.

And who are you now? (sniffling)

I don't know.

. I know

You're a guy who can't even think about next week,

'cause you're bu sy just trying to g et through today.

, But thinking like that

that's what's going to keep you on the streets.

am You've got to have a dre

bigger than where you're going to sleep tonight.

? You got any family

I've got, I've got a brother, but we don't talk.

I don't talk.

. Next quarter you get, man..

you put it in the phone.

Oh, God.

. Oh, no

No... who the hell got it?

Hey, hey, who took it?

Huh?

Who took my bag?

Hey, wake up! My bag!

Who's got my bag?

Who the hell took my bag?

No, no, no, somebody stole my bag.

Wake up, you bastards!

Come on, give it back to me!

My bag!

de. Go back to bed or you're going outsi

No, no, not until I get my bag!

No, no!

! Please, I've got to get my bag back

Come on. No, no, no, please, stop!

State your business.

What is that?

Whiskey?

First sip free, then you got to pay.

I've got a good pair of boots here.

. They'll last a l ot longer than that

s I'll trade you my boot

for your shoes and that bottle.

Okay, I'll let you out,

but you can't come back in.

el. This isn't a revolving door hot

I know, thank you. Good night.

Oh, Father, why have You forsaken me?

What did I do wrong?

me? Why are you punishing

Why have you taken awa y who I am, what I am?

I-I-I don't even feel like an angel anymore.

TESS: You don't even hav e to be an angel

to give that man what he needs right now.

Oh, Tess.

I-I thought that...

Has God ever forsa ken you, Monica?

He told you He wouldn' t and He never has.

r. Neve

le Just because you feel invisib

re. doesn't me an that you a

Never give up, baby.

Oh, Tess.

en. Maybe now you know how it feels to be forgott

g To be stripp ed of everythin

u. you think makes you yo

Hmm?

Hmm?

What did you ask Him for just now?

Did you ask Hi m for food?

? Did you ask Him to make you warmer

I asked to be remembered.

I needed to know that I still mattered.

. And so does he

er You've been acti ng like a case work

se. and treating h im like he's a ca

. But he's a man, Monica

And he needs to know that he can still make a difference.

And you've g ot to let him.

How?

nt. First, by realizing this is not a punishme

This is your lesso n in pride.

(crying)

I feel so ashamed.

Oh, shame just brings you down,

. but true humility... that lifts you high up

Pete?

Pete.

Hello.

I, uh...

Pete, I need to ask a favor of you.

. Just... leave me alone

I just... I just need you

to listen to me for a moment, please.

Please.

I, uh...

I'm an angel.

(chuckles)

I know that sounds crazy.

No, not around here.

But proving it to you

doesn't really matter to me at the moment.

You see, I...

I must apologize to you.

I, um, I guess I was getting

awfully big for my wings, you see,

and there were a few things that I needed to learn

about being an angel.

Please...

there's something that I need to do.

I want to do.

It's what I need to do to remember who I am.

Please.

(vehicle passing)

(crying)

I don't know why these things have happened to you,

but it's not because of anything that you've done.

And I have to confess that...

you see, there was somewhere, deep inside my heart,

that I thought maybe, you...

well, maybe you had done something to get here.

I'm sorry.

Please forgive me.

It matters.

ou. I... forgive y

Oh, my God.

God loves you...

Peter Jacob Taylor.

I have failed you, but he will not.

He wants you to know that he's going to take you

and Julie to Colorado.

He will walk with you all the way.

But it's up to you to take the first step.

(crying)

I guess that's what I was here for all along.

SOPHIE: Now, where was it exactly

in? we met aga

Do you remember when you lived on Cherry Street?

Well, that's privileged information.

TESS: I know, but I have

a high-level security clearance.

And Sophie,

ou I want to tell you that nobody blames y

p for closing up sho

and high-tailing i t out of there.

In fact, I gav e you the ride.

The cab driver.

ow. I got my own rig n

You ought to see it.

It's a nice, big, red thing.

, But Sophie

r. those years of fear are ove

ow. It's safe to go home n

e Your husband's gon

and he can't ever hurt you again.

I never know what direction it's coming from.

Sometimes from the underpass,

sometimes from the grassy knoll,

sometimes they just push you out the window.

. Oh, I know

I know.

w. But you can relax no

g. Let me show you somethin

This just got put on the board.

Your children

and your grandchildren are looking for you.

They miss you.

. They want to take care of you and protect you

l. Come on, let's g o make a phone cal

Look, I got these scarves,

and I'm going to give them to you cheap,

but you've got to give me cash.

Mr. Ox, I would like a word with you

in private, please.

Oh, yeah, sure, baby.

Step into my office.

Hey, how'd you g et so clean, woman?

I believe you have something

that doesn't belong to you.

. Oh, I got a lot of things like that, baby

t? Which one yo u talking abou

It's metal. A tube-like container.

It was appropriated last night.

Ah. Well, I'm positi ve I never seen it,

but, uh, if I did happen to come across it,

? what's it worth to you

I am afraid I have nothing to offer.

ah? Oh, ye

I always knew you and me, we'd do some business.

The ring for the can, Ox.

r. And a quarte

And a quarter? Sure.

Good morning.

I'd like to us e the showers.

Sure, let me just have you sign in here.

Showers are located to the back

of this room here on my right.

♪♪ When you walk ♪♪

♪♪ Down the road ♪♪

♪♪ Heavy burden ♪♪

♪♪ Heavy load... ♪♪

♪♪ I will rise ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪ And I will walk with you

♪♪ When you walk ♪♪

♪♪ Through the night ♪♪

♪ ♪♪ And you feel like just giving up the fight ♪

♪♪ I will comfort you ♪♪

♪♪ And you will rise ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪ And I will walk with you

♪♪ Walk with you ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪ Till the sun don't shine

♪♪ Walk with you ♪♪

♪♪ Every time ♪♪

♪ ♪♪ I will walk with you. ♪