播出時間：2012.8/16(三)23:10播出(次日下午14:00重播)
頻道：GOOD TV (ch15)好消息電視台
感動指數★★★★★
情節指數★★★★★
思索指數★★★★★
(感謝劇評人劉鴻輝先生提供中文資料)
人物：
Charley Knot：查理諾特
Jorge：霍海
Marisol：瑪莉莎
Bart：巴特
Jasper：傑斯伯
Mel：梅爾
Carl：卡爾
Raphael：拉斐爾
劇情大意：
＜與天使有約＞全九季中，每一季都有一至兩集聖誕故事。繼第一季的『榮光奏鳴曲』、第二季的『妖言惑眾』、第三季的『小提琴課程』、第四季的『聖誕快樂』之後，本季此集透過數名小人物的故事交錯組成，全劇仿照耶穌基督的降生過程，編劇瑪莎威廉遜的巧思顯而易見，使人觀而感動無比。譯者取中文劇名的靈感，則取自近代英國大文豪查爾斯‧狄更斯出版於1843年的社會批判小說『聖誕頌歌』(A Christmas Carol)。
平安夜當晚，蒙妮卡受派至德州納華斯鎮，告訴沙漠之星汽車旅館老闆查理諾特他將得到奇蹟。查理固執又愛喝酒，且有嚴重自殺傾向；在艾爾帕索，一對墨西哥夫婦霍海與瑪莉莎即將迎接新生兒，在天使拉斐爾引導下來到沙漠之星汽車旅館投宿；同時，三位卡車司機梅爾、傑斯伯與巴特載運各自貨物往不同的方向走。半路起了風暴，漫天風沙中三人迷途之際，天上一道明光帶領他們也來到沙漠之星。這些看似彼此毫無關聯的小人物不約而同來到同一地點，將為查理的聖誕節帶來前所未有的溫暖與喜悅，共譜悠揚動人的聖誕頌歌！
Directed by: Stuart Margolin
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen & R.J. Visciglia, Jr.
Guest Cast:
Rafael Alexis Cruz
Marisol Justina Machado
Charley George Grizzard
Bart Jerome Butler
Jasper Tom Hodges
Mel Adrian Sparks
Carl Michael Harney
Jorge Greg Serano
Charley, an aging south Texas motel owner, gets a Christmas Eve visit from Monica, who tells him not to fear, because she brings him tidings of great joy. Charley in a drunken daze, thinks the beautiful glowing angel before him is merely a hallucination, and begins a dialogue with this “vision” as he decorates his Desert Star Inn for the holiday. Monica tells Charley that he will receive a miracle this Christmas Eve, and he, somewhat skeptical, hypothesizes about what this will be. He hopes it will be a new star, something he has been waiting quite a long time to see through his high-powered telescope from the roof of the inn. Meanwhile, Tess serves coffee to three lonely truckers who celebrate the holiday at a truck stop. As they leave, Tess points them to the inn, but the truckers muse at the thought of spending an evening at the dilapidated motel. Elsewhere, Jorge and Marisol, a young Mexican couple, illegally across the border, panic when pregnant Marisol begins to show signs of an early labor. Rafael arrives telling them that they are needed to help someone this evening. When he says he is from their village in Mexico, they go with him. In another part of the state Andrew sits on border patrol with Carl, a cynical deputy, who is anxious to catch some “illegals.” Monica, still glowing atop the motel roof, stirs up a dust storm, which makes driving difficult for the truckers. At Tess’ instruction via CB, they head towards a light in the desert, the light Monica exudes, and the only thing visible on the stormy landscape. Rafael, Jorge, and Marisol, driving through the storm, run out of gas. They, too, see the light and begin to follow it. When the three arrive at the inn, Charley, obviously prejudiced against Mexicans, at first refuses to give them a room, and rather than call a doctor, he calls the border patrol. Carl and Andrew head for the motel.
Charley reveals to Monica the reason why he is so bitter: as a young man he traveled in Mexico and fell in love with a young woman named Estrella, whose parents wouldn’t allow them to marry. Later Estrella’s father told Charley that the heartbroken Estrella killed herself. Charley tells Monica that he intends to do the same as soon as he sees a new star, something no one else has ever seen. Monica pleads with Charley to do something that will “make the angels sing,” and become a man with faith in the God who loves him. Marisol gives birth to the child as the truckers draw near, and Monica and Rafael proclaim this child to be the miracle, something which no man has ever seen. The baby girl is named Estrella, after Marisol’s grandmother, the same woman Charley loved, who is alive and well in Mexico. When Charley hears this news he has a change of heart and when Carl and Andrew arrive to arrest any illegal aliens, Charley hides everyone by working them into his nativity scene, including Tess as a shepherd and the truckers as the three wise men. As Charley makes plans to visit his old love in Mexico, Monica and Tess bid everyone “Peace On Earth and Goodwill to Men.”
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