310.歸鄉 (The Homecoming 1)

播出時間:2012.2/15(三)23:10.2012(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★★★★★

角色:
Julia:茱莉亞
Chuck:查克
Erasmus:艾拉瑪

大意:
茱莉亞為一染有毒癮,生活墮落的阻街女郎,終日行屍走肉地與其他女郎們在身著豔麗的行頭在陋巷中討生活。為使她們重回正軌,黛絲與蒙妮卡設立了「新春中途 之家」,讓這群花樣年華的女子們能有正常生活,學習一技之長。起初極為排斥的茱莉亞,在黛絲恩威並施的管理之下,漸漸有所改變,願意揮別過去,重新做人。 茱莉亞有著什麼不堪回首的過去?棄暗投明後,她的生命會有何改變?

Guest Cast:
Julia Fitzgerald Delta Burke
Erasmus Jones Ossie Davis
Fran Katherine LaNasa
Chuck Taylor Negron
Jimmy Roy Fegan

Working from different vantage points, the angels help rehabilitate Julia Fitzgerald, a drug addict who is down and out. Monica, posing as a street walker, persuades the police to round up the disheveled Julia with the other ladies. In jail, she is encouraged by the angel to enter the New Spring Halfway House administered by Tess. Though Julia wants to leave the program, her parole officer, Andrew advises her doing so will land her back behind bars since her arrest was a parole violation. Plagued by a past action she committed, the woman deserts the halfway house to rejoin her friend, Fran on the streets. But when she misses the rendezvous, Monica persuades Julia to return to New Spring. As she makes steady progress in rehab, the woman decides to make amends with people she has offended. First on the list is Chuck, the bartender and former employer she stole from. He wants to have Julia arrested, but Andrew convinces the man to let her pay him back. She returns to the alley where she has jewelry hidden in a secret place. But after pawning it, Julia encounters Fran, who is being confronted by her pimp, Jimmy. Returning to the halfway house, she admits giving Jimmy most of the money to help Fran but saving enough for herself to get high. Tess leaves to confront the unscrupulous man. Afterwards, Julia panics because she has lost a necklace with great sentimental value--a memento of the son she gave up to his father for fifty dollars. A fatigued Tess returns after recovering the money, teaching Jimmy a lesson, paying back Chuck, and finding Julia's locket. Revealing that she and Tess are angels, Monica encourages Julia to press on despite setbacks because God will always be there to pick her up. Days later, after Fran has entered rehabilitation herself, the angels send Julia to Chicory Creek, Kentucky where she is to find a man with a 1949 burgundy Cadillac. That man turns out to be Erasmus Jones, and Julia is astonished to learn his extended family is Promised Land's Greene family. When they return to town for Thanksgiving, the prodigal mother will be reunited with her son... Nathaniel Greene.

309.迎向光明 (Into the Light)

播出時間:2/9(四)23:10.2012(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★★★★★


角色:
James:詹姆士
Rachel:瑞秋
Amy Ann:艾咪安
Louise:露易絲
大意:
前科累累的騙徒詹姆士在與追求八年的女友瑞秋結婚當日心臟病發,並時時看見自己身處光明與黑暗之間,爾後被大片黑暗吞踫的異象,而決定改過向善。在醫院中,他開始勤行善事,彷彿判若兩人。在此同時,詹姆士認識了醫院中一名正值豆蔻年華卻來日無多的少女病患艾咪安,她對神的信心助她走到今天。詹姆士是否真心悔改?那似幻猶實的異象對他帶來何種衝擊?艾咪安的病情能否好轉?詹姆士的心態又會有何轉變?

短評/(劉鴻輝)
「你們得救是本乎恩,也因著信。這並不是出於自己,乃是神所賜的。也不是出於行為,免得有人自誇。」(以弗所書2:8~9)憂傷痛悔的心,神必不輕看。劇中詹姆士意欲透過善行進天國,在天使們的開導下明瞭謬誤,正與上述經節吻合。劇中似幼猶實的異象,也恰恰符合今日許多人們的光景。徘徊在明與暗間,不知該踏向何方。有些人行上帝真光中,有些人則飛蛾撲火地深入黑暗。然而,神就是光,在祂毫無黑暗。(約翰一書1:5)光明與黑暗本為兩人極瑞,一由上帝主宰,充滿愛與生命,神的同在直到永遠;一由魔鬼掌權,瀰漫恐怖與死亡,與神永遠隔絕。感謝神,耶穌說:「我是世界的光,跟從我的就不在黑暗裡走,必要得著生命的光。」(約翰福音8:12)人得救不在多少善行,全然在於是否接受早已為眾人償清罪債的耶穌!

劇中詹姆士在悔改後的轉變,與女友和艾吻女的重修舊好,大大顯示神的大能與慈愛能翻轉生命,去除過去一切污濁,更帶所有願意接受祂的人出黑暗入光明!劇末艾咪安臨終的場景,背景音樂真是基督徒耳熟能詳的聖詩『親愛主,牽我手』,歌詞與情境完美吻合。尤其在「經風暴,過黑夜,求領我,進光明。親愛主,牽我手,到天庭!」更將全劇主旨表達得淋漓盡致!

願你我都行在真神光中,讓祂牽著咱們的手,經風暴,過黑夜,進光明,入天庭!

※ 值得一提的是,全球賣座的<蜘蛛人>系列電影中飾演女主角Mary Jane的好萊塢女演員克莉絲汀鄧斯特(Kirsten Dunst)在劇中詮釋艾咪安一角。當年的她甫入影壇,本劇中的演出真切而動人。


Written by: R.J. Colleary
Directed by:Victor Lobl
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen & R.J. Visciglia, Jr.

Guest Cast:
Amy Ann McCoy Kirsten Dunst
James Block David Marciano
Rachel Carson Block Lori Alan

James Block, a man with a heart condition--and a criminal past--gets a second chance after a near-death experience. He suffers a heart attack after marrying his girlfriend, Rachel to prevent her from testifying against him. While "dead," James sees Andrew walking toward the "light," though he himself moves in the opposite direction. Realizing he must change his ways, James initiates a campaign of good works. Tess and Monica are assigned as nurses at the hospital where he is fulfilling community-service he received for a crime. Neither angel is impressed, however, with his apparent change of heart--especially when they realize he records his good deeds in a notebook. James finds a kindred spirit in Amy Ann McCoy, a teenage Elvis Presley fan with cystic fibrosis. A bit of a con artist herself, the girl is unaware how serious her illness is. Meanwhile, James is haunted by a recurring nightmare of his near-death experience, finally realizing he was headed toward a roiling chasm of unending darkness. He again encounters Andrew, who admonishes, "Even if every one of your good deeds was a step to heaven, it would never reach high enough." Unnerved, James destroys his notebook and plans to skip Amy Ann's birthday party. Tess confronts him, telling him the teenager will soon die, and only her faith has sustained her all these years. James rails at God, but Tess tells him not to blame God for the mess he has made of his life. As Rachel starts to apologize to Amy Ann for James' absence, he arrives. But he puts a damper on the proceedings by telling the birthday girl how serious her illness is and that God doesn't care. A furious Tess orders him to leave the room, and Rachel tells her husband she hopes never to see him again. Seeing Andrew in the corridor, James realizes he is the Angel of Death and attacks him. But Andrew avoids the human's assaults, until Monica appears holding the notebook he had earlier destroyed. She tells him that hell is separation from God, and if he was on his way there, he was sending himself. Andrew then clarifies his earlier statement to James: no one can earn their way to heaven because only God's mercy can lift a soul up and take him there. Repenting of his misdeeds, James prays and turns his life over to God. Overhearing her husband, Rachel realizes her own prayers have been answered. James returns to a dying Amy Ann, reassuring her that God exists and to take His hand and walk toward the light. The teenager dies as Elvis' song, "Precious Lord" plays on a turntable.

308.神祕的信封 (Something Blue)

播出時間:2/08(三)23:10.2012(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★★★★★

角色:
Allison:愛莉森
Kevin:凱文
Stan:史坦
Harriette:哈麗葉

大意:
恩愛的情侶凱文與愛莉森即將完成終身大事,籌備了一場別開生面的婚禮。然而,就在一切進行順遂的同時,愛莉森失聯已久的父親史坦突然前來,希望參與愛女婚禮。由於怨恨父親自幼離家而去又自此從不聯繫,多年來愛莉森視同父親已死。而父親的來到與母親哈麗葉坦承關於過去的事實,也令她對凱文的愛產生質疑,害怕自己無法履行愛的誓言。愛莉森的父親真的如此絕情?這場婚禮又是否能繼續,使這對有情人終成眷屬?

短評/(劉鴻輝)

<與天使有約>九季中有多集以婚姻為主旨。如第五季的<此情可問天>中超越病痛的堅貞愛情、<破鏡重圓>中原本失和,因愛子之死而盡釋前嫌的夫妻,與第八季的<好事多磨>中婚前爭吵負氣取消婚禮,爾後依舊結為連理的情侶…等。婚姻乃神所設立,是祂給人最美麗的祝福之一。然而,正如聖經所云,兩人若不同心,怎能同行?遵照神的原則建立的婚姻,建立在聖經根基上的愛情,才是蒙福、完美,永存的。如天使們在劇末對新人們的鼓勵,邀請神進入婚姻,讓祂引導、以祂的話語灌溉婚姻,是何等美好!也唯有這樣,才能如咱們唐代詩人白居易所云:在天願做比翼鳥,在地願為連理枝。天長地久有時盡,此情綿綿無絕期!(長恨歌)

Written by: Susan Cridland Wick & Jennifer Wharton
Directed by:Terrence O'Hara
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen & R.J. Visciglia, Jr.
Guest Cast:
Augusta Abernathy Sally Kellerman
Stan Miller Richard Gilliland
Harriet Miller Linda Kelsey
Alison Miller Brigid Brannagh
Kevin Abernathy Ed Kerr
Diana Abernathy Janet Carroll
Mark Abernathy James Karen
Peggy Abernathy Holly Fields


Tess, Monica, and Andrew observe unseen as Kevin Abernathy proposes to Alison Miller in a forest glade. Six months later, the angels are wedding coordinators for the couple. Although preparations have proceeded apace, Monica feels she has forgotten something, and Tess admonishes her to remember because Kevin and Alison's future depends on it. Wedding day jitters are compounded by Kevin's eccentric Aunt Augusta and his klutzy sister, Peggy. But the arrival of Alison's estranged father, Stan causes her to have second doubts about the nuptials. Kevin is especially taken aback because his bride-to- be had told him her father was dead. To prove his love, he reads the wedding vows he wrote but is dismayed to learn that Alison hasn't written her own vows yet. While Tess tries to keep the wedding guests entertained, it becomes evident the wedding may not occur. Amidst the chaos, a mysterious blue envelope goes unnoticed in the bridal prep room. Monica wonders why Stan showed up until Tess reveals she invited him. Kevin's parents comfort him, while Tess urges Alison's mother, Harriet to tell the truth--Stan wrote to Alison all these years like he promised. Harriet withheld the letters, initially out of spite for her ex-husband, then to cover her own deception. Confused, but knowing the truth, the bride and groom decide to proceed with the wedding. Monica then realizes she has forgotten to ask God's blessing on the event. After praying, she discovers the blue envelope and halts the ceremony. A distraught Alison runs off, but Kevin chases after her. Returning to the glade where they got engaged, the couple receives a revelation from Monica, Tess, and Andrew. Informed that marriage is a sacred institution, of which God should be made a part, the couple also learn the envelope contains the results of their blood tests. One of them has leukemia. Realizing true love can endure a life-threatening illness, Kevin and Alison are married by the three angels in the sight of God.

307(The Sky Is Falling)

頻道:GOOD TV (ch15)好消息電視台
感動指數★★★★★
情節指數★★★★★
思索指數★★★★★

Written by: Glenn Berenbeim
Directed by: Victor Lobl
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen, and Robert J. Visciglia, Jr.

Guest Cast:
Dottie Estelle Getty
Leonard Pound Brian Keith
Allan Pound Ray Buktenica
Kate Pound Allyce Beasley
Tom Pound Gary Hudson
Young Leonard Sam Gifaldi
Penny
Scarlett Pomers
On Halloween, renowned author Leonard Pound is grief stricken regarding his wife, Grace's recent death. His son, Allan has hired Monica to attend to the widower, who has lost the will to live. To help him, the angel prompts Leonard to revisit a pivotal event in his life, October 30, 1938--the night of Orson Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds... and the night Monica and Tess met.
Dressed in his Buck Rogers costume, young Leonard gathered with his family around the radio. His father, Tom, a state trooper, left the house to investigate the flaming object that reportedly fell in nearby Grovers Mill. As the broadcast continued, listeners began to fret, thinking it was the end of the world. Panic spread into the streets and the Pound family, along with others, sought shelter in a church. There Leonard literally bumped into Penny, a girl in an angel costume. Concerned about his father, he snuck outside and started searching. Back inside the church, Tess tried to calm the people, but a glowing Monica appeared, announcing "Fear not!" and panic ensued. Tess read Monica the "riot act" and told her to find some animals she could help. As the people scattered in the moonlight, Leonard again encountered Penny, who had a flashlight. The two of them set off to explore. Tess then received a visit from Dottie, the angel of etiquette, and learned God had big plans for Monica and herself. Meanwhile, after getting lost, Leonard and Penny spotted a police car. Unfortunately, the state trooper inside, Andrew, had bad news for the boy: his father had died in a car accident. Distraught, Leonard ran off into the night. Tess encouraged Monica to reveal herself to the lad, but he rejected her message. Penny, however, found and comforted her friend.

Back in the present, Monica realizes Grace was actually Penny grown up. The angel tells Leonard her inability to help him grieve back then prompted his relationship with his future wife. Now Monica can help console him after Grace's death because "sometimes, all an angel can do is cry with you."

306.真實與謊言 (Groundrush)

播出時間:2/2(四)23:10.2012(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★★★★★

角色
Scott:史考特
Jcelyn:喬瑟琳
Jeremy:傑若米

大意:
航運公司老闆史考特事業成功,計畫親自駕駛飛機載未婚妻喬瑟琳至墨西哥結婚。出發當日,竟莫名其妙遭調查局人員逮捕。原來史考特少年時誤殺強暴妹妹的人,自此潛逃並隱姓埋各。蒙妮卡相信史考特無罪,從旁助其脫逃,知道他有罪後大為錯愕。史考特的命運將會如何?犯下大錯的蒙妮卡該如何面對神?史考特與喬瑟琳又是否能如願共結連理?
(中文節目內容感謝翻譯好手劉鴻輝先生提供)

Teleplay by: Burt Pearl
Story by: Glenn Berenbeim
Directed by: Peter Hunt
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen, and Robert J. Visciglia, Jr.
Guest Cast:
Sam Paul Winfield
Scott Walden Robert Hays
Jocelyn Ashley Crow
Tony Portino Yul Vasquez
Jeremy Justin Garms
Agent Bradford Jeff Olson

To Monica, Scott Walden seems like a perfect assignment. The charming owner of a small aviation company, he performs numerous charitable deeds and has been a wonderful surrogate father to his fiancee's pre-teen son. What Monica doesn't know is "Mr. Wonderful"has a secretive past, which comes to light after an employee borrows a plane to make a humanitarian, albeit illegal smuggling mission. FBI agents arrive and apprehend Scott, charging him with an eighteen- year-old murder committed by one William Grunwald. Insisting the man is innocent, Monica defends him to his fiancee, Jocelyn and his lawyer, Andrew. Unsure what to make of these events, Scott's future stepson, Jeremy is comforted by Tess. Monica decides, though, to take matters into her own hands and uses her angelic powers to help Scott escape. Andrew is confounded by her actions, especially since he has discovered Scott Walden is William Grunwald. Despite this knowledge, Monica continues to insist the man is innocent. Tess, however, is irate and directly orders Monica not to help Scott escape justice in any way, shape, or form. The willful angel disobeys that order by concealing his whereabouts from Agent Bradford, then is taken aback when Scott admits he did commit murder. Sam (the special agent angel) arrives and tells Monica her lie of omission has threatened her very existence as an angel. He sends her to "God's Country"to reflect upon her mistake--not as a punishment but as a lesson. In the meantime, Andrew starts a revelation to Scott, who bails out of the airplane after an engine fire. Surprised to be alive despite his parachute's apparent failure, he finds himself in the same nether-region as Monica. She helps him understand that although he killed the man who raped his sister, he should have faced the consequences rather than losing himself in lies. Both angel and human pray for forgiveness, which they receive. Scott's parachute opens and when he lands, the FBI agents take him into custody. Prior to his extradition, Scott and Jocelyn marry, and he is reunited with his sister, who has since come forward with the truth.

305.特勤任務 (Secret Service)

播出時間:2/1(三)23:10.2012(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★★★★★

角色:
Marty:瑪提
Ulysses:尤里西斯
Senator Guy Hammond:蓋依漢蒙參議員

全力投入工作的特勤幹員瑪提被指派為保護總統候選人的隨扈,個人生活中認識了同樣愛好釣魚的尤里西斯,成了好朋友。一次集會中,群眾中有人持槍意圖謀剌總統候選人,現場一片混亂,尤里西斯不幸中傷受傷,必須接受腎臟移植否則將無法存活。面對工作與友情,瑪提該如何取捨?化身為她同學的蒙妮卡與安德烈在其中又扮演什麼關鍵性的角色?
(中文節目內容感謝翻譯好手劉鴻輝先生提供)

Written by: Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Directed by: Bethany Rooney
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen, and Robert J. Visciglia, Jr.

Marty Dillard, an overachieving Secret Service agent, is at odds with Monica, assigned as an agent to protect a Presidential candidate. While off duty, Marty enjoys fishing and befriends Ulysses Dodd, an older gentleman who teaches her to enjoy the sport for its own sake rather than for sheer competitiveness. Baffled by a series of death threats to Senator Hammond, Marty begrudgingly accepts help from Monica and Andrew, who's posing as a forensics specialist. Working together, they manage to apprehend the
would-be assassin and save the senator's life. However, the assailant's wayward bullet strikes Ulysses, whom Marty had invited to the campaign rally. She visits him in the hospital and begins to suspect his diabetes may be more serious than he let on. Hammond, impressed with Marty's savvy, asks her to head up his presidential detail. Yet she doesn't feel like celebrating when she returns to the riverbank and finds that Ulysses is still in the hospital. There Tess, the attending nurse, tells Marty the trauma of the bullet wound has caused one of Ulysses' kidneys to shut down. If he doesn't have a transplant soon, he will die. Commenting on the situation, Tess tells Monica it's ironic that so many people are willing to sacrifice their lives for Senator Hammond but only one can save Ulysses. The next day Marty learns she is a viable donor to save her friend but would no longer qualify to be a field agent. Torn, she asks his advice. Ulysses encourages her to accept the position and be thankful for the time together God gave them. Later that night, despite another campaign victory for Hammond, Marty is still preoccupied with her ailing friend. Revealing herself to the secret service agent, Monica tells her all humans are created in God's image, and they are all the same in His eyes. Furthermore, His love is given freely and need not be earned. Realizing she has spent her life always trying to prove herself, Marty anonymously donates her kidney to Ulysses. She rejects Hammond's offer to find another position for her on his detail, telling him she's not sure what's next for her--except that she plans to go fishing.



304.聖地之謎 (Written in Dust)

播出時間:1/26(四)23:10.2012(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★★★★★

角色:
Henry:亨利
Sam:山姆
Rosemary: 蘿珊
Dylan: 狄倫

大意:
考古學家亨利與篤信猶太教的祖父山姆,長期因為傳統及信仰祖孫意見不合。而亨利所挖掘的地點,是過去納瓦荷族人被屠殺的地點,因此受到納瓦荷族人的抗議。山姆愛孫心切,不知該如何溝通,亨利則不肯改變態度。面對這般複雜的情況,三位天使們會如何協助?袓孫兩關係能否好轉?這趟聖地之行至終會有何結果?
(中文節目內容感謝翻譯好手劉鴻輝先生提供)


Henry Moskowitz, a proud archaeologist on a dig at a Navajo excavation site, receives a surprise visit from his zayda (grandfather). Sam hopes to reconcile his grandson to himself and his Jewish faith by asking him to say kaddish--the Hebrew prayer for the dead--for him. Henry resists the reconciliation effort, still angry that his late parents disapproved of his marriage to a Catholic woman. Refusing to get in the middle of the strife, his wife leaves the dig site. Monica and Tess, posing as a research assistant and as a photographer, soon find themselves embroiled in a greater conflict. A group of Navajo elders led by Edison disrupt the dig, stating the site is on sacred ground. Although Henry quickly dismisses their claim, Sam and Edison discover common ground in the similarities of their respective cultures. Even Henry's student intern, Dillon New Eagle, begins to doubt the appropriateness of the excavation. After a dream about his own grandfather--in which Andrew enigmatically appears--Dillon joins Sam, Monica, and the others in a boycott of the dig. Furious, Henry stalks off. Later that night while exploring the excavation site by himself, he falls into a hidden cave. Gathered around a campfire with the others, Dillon recalls the story his grandfather told him years before: the excavation site was the location of a massacre against the Navajo by Kit Carson. Simultaneously, Henry finds archaeological evidence of that atrocity. While looking for him Sam encounters Tess, who reveals herself and tells him only Henry can reconcile himself to God. Sam finds his grandson and attempts a rescue, but the elderly man falls into the cave and
succumbs to a heart attack. Henry rails at God for his zayda's death. Monica then appears and tells the archaeologist the peace Sam wanted for Henry was with God, not with him. Tess subsequently leads the others to his location, and he is rescued. Buoyed by Monica's revelation, Henry apologizes to Edison and destroys the dig permit. Monica then explains the kaddish is not just a prayer for the dead but is a prayer praising God by saying God is above all praise--a gift of peace to help the living carry on.

 
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