Touched by an Angel – Redeeming Love

Touched By An Angel – Redeeming Love – This is the ending scene(s) of “Redeeming Love”, from season 4. I only put this part up because I love the song and can’t find it anywhere else. The episode: As Monica and Tess take a walk through the city streets, they stumble across Monica’s next assignment, a young woman sleeping under a pile of garbage. The woman’s name is Lydia and she is a crack addict. As Monica follows Lydia into her apartment building, her beautiful clothes become like Lydia’s, ragged and dirty. Lydia’s landlord, who hasn’t received the rent, resolves to evict her, but Monica pays the rent and becomes Lydia’s new roommate. Meanwhile Lydia grabs Monica’s coat and tries to sell it on the street. Monica tails Lydia to her parents’ home, where Lydia breaks in to steal money. But Lydia’s parents show up, as do the police, and Lydia flees to a crack house. Monica finds Lydia smoking crack and causing a disturbance among the other addicts. Lydia runs into the street and gets hit by a car. When Lydia’s parents arrive at the emergency room the doctor informs them that Lydia is not only an addict, but shes also pregnant. Their disbelief is short-lived when Lydia delivers a crack-addicted baby girl. Tess, acting as a drug counselor, talks to Lydia’s parents about Lydia’s upbringing, reminding them that they are partially to blame for Lydia’s condition. Lydia sneaks out of the hospital and tries to get an old job back; instead she steals some money from her boss and returns to her parents’ home. She asks her …

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