217.孤星淚 (Dear God)

播出時間：12/15(三)23:10.2011
頻道：GOOD TV (ch15)好消息電視台

感動指數★★★★★
情節指數★★★★★
思索指數★★★★★

角色：
Max：麥斯
Tanya：譚雅
Sandy：珊蒂
Ms. Raphael：拉斐爾女士

蒙妮卡與安德烈受派至一所郵局，認識了服務30年的員工麥斯。麥斯孤僻冷漠，自我封閉，不愛與他人往來，並時常回覆兒童寄給上帝的信件，信中卻否定神的存在。其中一名叫譚雅的小女孩所寫的信，麥斯回覆了一、兩封就不再理會。在好奇心驅使下，三位天使將譚雅的信一一拆閱，才知道她的父親病重將死，她又常受其女友虐待，處境令人同情。幾經蒙妮卡勸說，麥斯堅持不願介入。譚雅的命運會如何？究竟麥斯過去曾有何悲痛的遭遇，以致對神完全失去信心與盼望？且看三位天使們抽絲剝繭…


Note: John Dye became a series lead starting with this episode.

While working at the post office, Monica meets Max, who is responsible for handling "dead" letters addressed to Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and God. A Holocaust survivor, Max answers children's letters to God by telling them there is no God and not to place their faith in a fantasy. One little girl, Tanya Brenner, continues sending God letters, even though Max only answered the first one and ignored the rest. Andrew, who has met the child, and Monica entice Tess to ask God if they can read the letters. After receiving permission, they learn that Tanya's father is very ill and that his girlfriend, Sandy has been abusing the girl. Monica is outraged and wants to help, but Tess reminds her that Max, not Tanya is her assignment. Taking matters into her own hands, Monica arranges for Max to see a drunken Sandy hit the girl. Following this encounter, Max follows her home, where her dying father beseeches the postal worker to find Tanya a new home. Shaken, Max runs away. When he doesn't show up for work the next day, Monica goes to visit him. Tanya has disappeared and Max is wracked with guilt.

The angel reveals herself and gently persuades him to do something. He decides to look for the girl, finding her at her late father's apartment. While treating Tanya to a meal at the diner, Max is spotted by policemen and arrested for suspicion of kidnapping. Monica visits a despondent Max in jail, informing him that men, not God were responsible for the Holocaust. When Andrew emerges on the scene, Max remembers seeing him at the Auschwitz barracks in 1944. The Angel of Death reminds Max of his father's faith, revealing that he died on his feet praising God and asking Him to walk with his son. Overcome by memories, the postal worker weeps. Meanwhile, Tess persuades the diner owner to tell the police Max did not abduct Tanya but was trying to help her. Once that matter is cleared up, Max applies to be her foster father, so the two of them can become a family. As Monica, Tess, and Andrew watch unseen, Max opens a mysterious package that contains a pair of children's shoes--his own--with the carved inscription "Lieber Gott," German for "Dear God."

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