"Hey!" "Come on." "Come on!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "What an idiot." "Jerk!" "Don't" "Maybe we can go to counseling or something." "You just don't get it, do you?" "I don't want to be your wife anymore." "I I want to be me for a while." "I'm not stopping you from being you." "Yeah, as long as being we means being Mrs. Hank Miller." "Not anymore." "It'll be a fresh start for the both of us." "I don't want a fresh start." "[male voice) Pick her up." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "You're not picking her up." "Hey!" "What's wrong with you people?" "Should have picked her up." "[male voice) Pick her up." "Hey, get in." "Where are you going?" "It doesn't matter." "Just get in." "This storm's getting crazy." "So how long have you been out there?" "So how long have you been out there?" "All day." "That's terrible." "I'm sorry." "My name's Melissa." "I'm Kayla." "You're not from around here, are you?" "Not really." "Running away?" "So that either means yes or mind your own business." "Which is it?" "I'm just passing through." "Well, there's a lot to pass through here." "I noticed." "Where are you headed?" "Winnemucca." "Where's that?" "Up north." "My boyfriend is a mining engineer." "I'm paying him a surprise visit" "Cool." "Where are you headed?" "Winnemucca." "Good one, Kayla." "Huh, now there's a guy with a sense of humor." "What do you say we stop and get you a bite to eat?" "Let's just keep going, If you don't mind." "No, you've got to be kidding me." "This is just great" "I'm afraid you're going to have to turn back, sir." "The road's out until further notice." "The detour told meto go this way." "It's not like we plan these things." "Any idea how long it'll be before they open the road?" "Not until some bureaucrat in the state highway administration gives it the all clear." "Okay." "What's the problem, officer?" "Road's out, sir." "It's out?" "We've got a flash flood warning." "It's dangerous at the moment" "Okay." "Thanks for bringing we out here." "It's not my fault" "(Melissa) What's going on?" "That's the guy that almost ran medown." "Huh." "You know what this means?" "I've got to go all the way back to the interstate, all the way up to Silverton, backdown again," "140 extra miles to get someplace that's just 20 miles from here." "Sorry for the inconvenience." "Hey, aren't you Crusher Cruchetti?" "If I say yes, will you lotwe through?" "Does anyone have a working cell?" "No, mine broke when you almost ran meover." "That was an accident" "Sorry about not picking you up," "Oh, no problem." "I had hours before I would have died from exposure." "I think they have a phone back at that diner." "What diner?" "That diner a couple miles back." "There hasn't been a building on this road for the last 50 miles." "It was called Last Chance Diner." "Last Chance Diner." "Now that's rich." "Do you remember seeing a diner?" "Sorry to contradict, but I do believe that diner's closed." "It looked open to me." "So there isa diner." "There was a diner." "Hey, you guys can do whatever you want, but I'm goingto go back and check it out, okay?" "Let's go." "Tell that guy at the diner Officer DeVille sent you." "Hello?" "Anybody home?" "Hello?" "Hello." "Please, have a seat anywhere." "The state trooper down the road said you guys were closed." "Yeah, he's been tryingto keep people away from mefor years." "It's a personal thing." "Would you like some water?" "Yeah." "You got a phone?" "Do you have any coffee?" "I'm sorry." "All I serve here iswater." "You have got to be kidding me." "This tastes great." "It's my own recipe." "Two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen." "Your phone's dead." "Yeah, the storm probably knocked down the phone lines." "It's a miracle the electricity's working." "Isn't it,Crusher?" "Crusher Cruchetti." "I thought I recognized you." "Can't say I rooted for you though." "I'm a Rams fan." "But I can't lie." "I do love your burgers." "Here, good for two Crusher burger meals." "Oh, thanks Mr. Cruchetti." "Can we get some menus?" "Sure, but I'll tell you what" "Since you'll probably be my only customers tonight" "I'll just make whatever you want" "I prefer a menu." "Yes, ma'am." "Jesus." "Most people pronounce it Jesus." "Nice name." "Religious." "Doesn't really have anything to do with religion." "It was my father's idea." "I don't know that I'd want to have the name Jesus." "I'dbe expected to know everything." "Try me." "Ma'am." "Would you like a menu?" "Hank?" "Oh, sure." "Thanks." "How did he know my name?" "What?" "He calledwe Hank." "Well, that's your name,Isn't it?" "Yeah, but how'd be know?" "Just stop." "Ladies, what would you like?" "What would you recommend?" "Excellent question." "You know, I have a special knack for knowing exactly whatpeople want" "Of course, what they need is an entirely different matter." "Well, don't people want what they need?" "Not necessarily." "In fact, most at the time people don't" "Your recommendation then, sir." "(Jesus) Okay." "I think you wouldlike sirloin tips smothered infravy on a bed of mashed potatoes with a green salad on the side." "Thousand Island dressing." "That's whatmy mother always made we for my birthday." "Your mother loves you very much." "She did." "She died last year." "Doesn't mean she's stopped loving you." "What about me?" "What do I want?" "You want many things, young lady, all of wich you don't necessarily need." "But as far as dinner is concerned," "I think you'd like a gigantic beef burrito with black beans and rice and sour cream and pico do gallo on the side." "Hmm?" "Huh?" "I thought so." "Let we get you some bread." "Hey!" "How much is it gonna cost?" "Don't worry, I'll take care of it" "(Kayla) No." "I don't want to be dependent on anyone anymore." "I pay my own way." "Okay." "Okay." "But how's this?" "All special orders are free." "My personal gift to you." "Well, If It's free,it must notbe worth having." "I guarantee you, Nick, this is an offer you don't want to pass up." "Well, I'dlike to ask how you're able to do it, one business man to another, but I see what you lose infood you save elsewhere, like this newspaper." "It's 50 years old." "Yeah, itbelonged to the previous owner." "And you just left it sitting here." "It reminds we at the original owner." "Stan Kostic was his name." "Very sweet guy." "He was sitting In your very seat, reading the newspaper after the morning rush." "Tell me, what's the mostpopular section at the newspaper?" "Hank?" "Sports?" "The obituaries." "Right, the obituaries." "He was sittinghere, reading the obituaries, not knowing that the very next day be wouldbe" "In the obituaries himself." "If only be had known." "I don't get it" "Maybe he's telling us we're going to be" "In the newspapertomorrow." "Perhaps." "You're the one with the decision to make." "What will It be?" "Menu or special order?" "Well, I think I'll take the special order, if only to hear what you think that I want" "Well, I think you've had enough burgers to last you a lifetime." "So what do you think about a thick porterhouse steak and a baked potato and some summer squash?" "And don't forget a nice slice of cherry pie, fresh from the windowsill." "It's a good choice, Jesus." "Only makethe steak a little rare." "I am here to serve." "What would you like?" "I'll have a chicken Caesar salad and a diet coke." "I'm sorry, all I serve here is water." "You don't have diet coke?" "Fine." "I'll have water." "I'll have water." "And I'll have a bacon cheeseburger and diet coke." "All I serve here iswater." "Oaky, I'll have water." "Would you like fries with your cheeseburger?" "You know, there's something a little disconcerting about a man named jesus asking meIf I want fries." "It's a simple question, sir." "No thanks." "Go ahead." "I don't care what you do anymore." "Yeah, I'll have French fries." "Excellent choice, Hank." "How did you know my name?" "Well, It's Hank." "Isn't it,Catherine?" "Hey, how did you know our names?" "I'm Jesus." "I know everything." "I know all of you." "I've known you since before you were born and I've got a plan for each of you." "A perfect plan." "All you have to do is believe In me." "Well folks, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm due back on planet Earth now." "So if you don't mind, we'll he leaving." "Hank?" "Fine." "Catherine, wait." "Where are you going?" "I got the keys to the car." "Catherine, wait." "You can go with me." "I've had enough of this freakshow myself." "It's awfully good of you." "You can't leave with my wife." "It's obvious she doesen't want to stay with you." "Sorry, pal." "Enjoy the food." "Thanks.a lot, Jesus." "My wife just left me." "She was going to leave you anyway, Hank." "Yeah, but" "Don't worry." "She'll be back" "(Catherine) What a bunch of craziness." "(Nick) You got that right." "Where am I talking you, by the way?" "Away from here." "Seriously, if the road's closed," "I've got to go to Silverton." "Silverton's fine." "I can take a bus from there." "[engine not starting]" "No." "I can not believe this." "We have just entered into the "Twilight Zone."" "Who are you really?" "Who do you say I am, Kayla?" "Well, you could be jesus and I could be Britney Spears." "Yeah, aren't you supposed to be inheaven or something?" "What's it going to take to convince you?" "How's this?" "Funny." "You know, anyone can get a take ID these days." "That's right, Kayla." "Even you." "How did you know that?" "I'm Jesus." "I know everything." "to visit her boyfriend, Paul." "She thinks he's going to propose to her." "Is be?" "Mm-hmm." "Yes!" "I wouldn't he so excited If I were you." "400 miles just to propose to you?" "You're a woman." "You're precious." "I've gotbetter for you than that" "What about me, Jesus?" "What do you know about we besides my name?" "I know your wife no longer wants to be Mrs. Hank Miller." "Is that true?" "It is true." "Look, I don't know who you are, but you have no right to interfere In my marriage." "I'm notinterfering with your marriage, Hank." "I can save your marriage." "How can you save my marriage?" "All you have to do is askme." "Jesus." "Jesus." "Save my marriage." "Save my marriage." "Please, Lord Jesus." "Jesus, save my marriage." "[engine not starting]" "I can't believe it" "We've got to go back In there." "I will walk to Silverton before I go back In there." "He way be crazy, but he's probably harmless." "Probably?" "Back so soon?" "Car didn't start" "Aren't you worried about your meeting?" "Your franchisee's meeting." "You've got what 1100 restaurants now?" "He more like 3,000 by the and of next year." "It's impressive." "Nick,I can offer you greater riches." "Riches that can never he lost or stolen or sunk by the stock market" "That's real good, Jesus." "Catherine." "Hank, please." "I meant what I said." "Is there somebofy else?" "Don't be ridiculous." "We can save our marriage." "It's too late." "Jesus can save our marriage." "Oh, you mean your friend over there?" "Yes, he knows we're headed for divorce." "Does be?" "That puts him one up on you." "Hey, did you eat all the bread?" "Oh, sorry, I was hungry." "Hey, can we get some more bread over here?" "(Jesus) There's plenty of bread there." "No, there isn't It's empty." "How did you do that?" "I'm Jesus." "Will you come with we please?" "Sure." "Well, as long as you're going to perform miracles, why don't you turn my water into wine?" "why don't you turn my water into wine?" "Am I losing my mind?" "That bread basket was empty, wans't it?" "I thought it was." "And than suddenly it wasn't empty." "Doesn't that freak you out?" "You haven't been some at the places I've been." "Plus it was your idea to come here." "Suppose." "Suppose It really ishim." "Jesus?" "Yeah." "Please." "Well, how did be know that stuff about my boyfriend?" "He probably just overheard ustalking." "No." "We didn't talk about that In there." "Look, I don't know what the explanation is, but I'm sure there is one." "It's not so had here." "There's free food and a warm place, so you can leave, but I'm staying." "You shall see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven." "Your good book forgot to mention there'd he a chance of scattered showers." "I'm glad to see that you remembersome of what you road inthe Bible, Nick." "Especially that part" "That's like one of my gavorite parts." "You can thank Gideons for that" "There's no telling what a man will do at 3 a.m." "ina Days Inn outside of Fargo." "You were searching, Nick." "I was bored." "Bored peopleturn on the TV." "You opened the Bible." "What were you looking for?" "You tell me!" "You know everything." "(Jesus) It was after the death of your father." "as you are of your fame and your millions." "I loved your parents, real, authentic, hard-working people." "More people went to your father's fruit stand for his smile than for his fruit" "And you know who was great?" "Your grandmother, Sadie." "I never know her." "She died when I was little." "Of course you rememberher." "In fact, you could say that she's the reason" "In fact, you could say that she's the reason we're here like this tonight" "What do you menu?" "(Jesus) Your grandmother was a delight to my heart, a humble woman filled with love and zeal, a real prayer warrior." "In her last years, her most passionate prayers, Nick, were for you." "She was praying that you would come to meas your Lord and Saviour, that you'd come to eternal life." "I'm honoringher faithfulness by coming to you and making this personal appeal." "Well, there's no need to go to all the trouble, Jesus." "Because I'm doing just gine on my own." "If I hadn't intervened tonightyou'd he dead." "You'd all he dead." "What?" "The flooding left the roadunstable." "Nick would have hit the curve too hard and each of you would have followed him." "(Nick) No, up,no." "Wait, wait, wait a minute." "Let meget this straight" "You're trying to take credit for saving our lives by keeping usoff the road." "But if you are indeed God, than you created the storm that caused the damage on the road." "So if we kept driving, you'd be responsible for our deaths." "(Jesus) You live In a fractured creation." "That's what's resposible for the storm." "here tonight so that I could makethis personal appeal." "Okay, Jesus." "If you really are the Christ, why don't you tell we something amazing about myself, somethingthat only I'dknow?" "You don't really want to leave your husband." "Wrong." "Our marriage is over." "(Jesus) No." "You're only looking for somethingbe can't provide and you're not going to find it on your own either." "I'll take that chance." "You've got to expect him to believe inme." "He's beenlistening to my voice since be was 15." "In fact, be heard it earlier today." "I did?" "(Jesus) Yes." "I was that still, small voice In your head that told you to pick Kayla up." "But you didn't, did you?" "I wanted to, but" "But Catherine wouldn't let you." "Am I right?" "I'm not ashamed to admit it" "For all I know, she was gonna kill us." "Well, What's the way you feel, I probably should have." "Do you see whatI menu?" "(Jesus) I can't fault you, Catherine." "But I can fault you, Hank." "(Hank) Why?" "She's here, isn't she?" "(Jesus) Of course." "I know you wouldn't pick her up, so I asked another one of my servants to do it, didn't I?" "(Jesus) Pick her up." "That was you?" "That's not the first time you heardmy voice, nor will itbe the last" "You just keep listening and I guarantee you'll find what you seek." "Hank, do you really think that you're going to save, let alone restore your marriage by putting your wife's wishes above mine?" "She wants to break up your marriage, Hank." "I want to save it" "You've go to be listeningto me." "You know, maybe the two of you should get married and just leavewe out of it" "It's time that youand I met" "Are you saying I'm not a Christian?" "I'm sorry, you're not" "How dare you." "I go to church every Sunday." "I even teach Sunday school." "I know." "if you had half the faith of some of those kids inyour class." "Catherine." "She's only going to the ladies room, Hank." "So Jesus, if you're everywhere, aren't you inthe ladies room as well?" "Nick,you've got quite a sense of humor, but eventually you're going to findout that you can't make a joke about everything." "Come on." "Come on." "Great" "Go away, Hank." "(Melissa) It's notHank." "It's Melissa." "You're awfully quiet down here." "I haven't had much to say." "I've given you a lot to think about, haven't I?" "Yeah." "I'll be right back." "(Catherine) I'm sorry for being rude earlier." "Everything is such a mess." "Hank and I have been drifting apart for months now." "I don't even know who I am anymore." "Why am I telling you this?" "sometimes It's just easier to talk to a stranger about these things,you know?" "And that- that man out there." "That man who thinks he's Jesus, be thinks be knows me?" "(Melissa) Do you think he's Jesus?" "Do you?" "(Melissa) Well, isit true?" "I mean, that youdon't want to leave your husband?" "I don't know whatI want" "I just" " I want things to be different." "Well, than does itmatter If be really isJesus?" "I mean, be obviously knows a lot about you." "Why, don't you just listen to whatbe has to say?" "Like be can fix what's wrong with my marriage?" "Like you can?" "Thank you for picking up Kayla." "Yeah, it was no problem." "I feel terrible about that" "I'm a believer, yes." "But do you believe In that guy?" "He either iswho be says he is or" "Or what?" "(Hank) Or he's a lunatic." "And I've seen no evidence of him being crazy." "Hank, you don't get out to the big city too much, do you, pal?" "So tell me, Hank, what do you do for a living?" "I'm a head of accounts receivable for a home improvement company." "What do you pull down there, 90?" "Come on, you're among friends." "And besides, he already knows." "Less than that" "Doesn't seem like God's been too particularly generous to you." "You know, there's more to life than money." "There's family too." "And be hasn't done you any favors in that department either." "You know, that's not nice." "(Nick) Am I lying?" "Am I?" "I mean, if that's your way of rewarding the faithful," "I'm glad I went out and got what I got on my own." "You wouldn't have anything if I hadn't put a stone" "In your path." "July 4th, 1974, Eldorquin Quarry." "You and your buddies were racing up the hill to dive in." "You took a shortcut through the bushes and you hit your foot on a stone just before you dove." "Yeah." "Yeah." "It threw my footing off." "Ruined my dive." "Caused we to hit an underwater rock that broke my hand In twoplaces." "I could have been a receiver." "If you hadn't tripped over that stone, Nick, you would have hit your head on that rock." "You would have died at 14years old." "But your grandmother's prayers were ringing inmy ear." "I put that stone In your path." "(Kayla) But if you really are God, you could have figured out a way to save him without breaking his hand." "True." "But Kayla, if nothing had happened, be wouldn't have remembered it and be clearly does." "And If be believed inme, he would see It for what it truly is." "My grace." "So you hurt him so he'd thankyou later?" "(Jesus) In a way." "Kayla,you've go to remember I'm not the one that put himon that path." "I'm not the one who made himdive." "I'm the one who saved him." "Just like I saved you 2 days.ago inL.A." "before you left" "You remember, Kayla." "What?" "What happened?" "Nothing." "I don't know what you did to that poor girl, but If you really are God,the least you could do istake care of my friend Hank here." "At least be believes In you." "Hank's going through a rough spot right now, Nick." "But the difference between you and himisthat be knows inthe deep of his heart that all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called to his purposes." "So I guess when that drunk driver killed my father, that was your way of putting himon the back." "(Jesus) Nick,your father enjoyed his life, but he's enjoying his eternal life a whole lot more right now." "And I want you to see him." "(Nick) Well, excuse we If I don't take you up on that offer." "But many do, don't they?" "In the Middle East?" "In my name?" "None." "What about the people that blow up abortion clinics?" "I've never once asked anyone to blow up an abortion clinic." "But you do remembertelling the Israelites to kill the Canaanites before they entered the Promised Land." "Men, women, and children." "Even the livestock." "Today, we have a word for that" "Genocide." "For a non-believer, you know your Bible very well, Nick." "Answer the question." "Perfect timing." "No, no, no, no." "I'm not gonna lot him off that easy." "I want an answer." "Yes, I asked the Israelites to kill the Canaanites." "Women and children included." "(Jesus) Yes." "Is that any way for a Godof loveto behave?" "I am love." "But I'm also holy and I cannot allow sin to go unpunished and that's not just for my sake." "It's for yours." "I don't want you to wallow In sin and rebellion and guilt" "I want you to thrive inunending peace and joy." "There isn't one human being on this planet that's an accident" "I handformed you In your mother's womb and I formed you for a purpose." "I put before you a path of love and worship." "And the degree with wich you'll experience love and joy and the good things of life isthe degree to wich you'll bend to my will." "And if we don't seek your will, you kill uslike you did the Canaanites." "Everyone dies, Nick,but not everyone needs to fear death." "If you abide inme, you'll be stepping turn from this fallen world and into glory." "Is that what heaven's like?" "Glory?" "It's more than glory, Melissa." "It's peace and loveand joy." "Can you imagine living In the fullnessat the warmth of God's light?" "There are no words in the human vocabulary that can describe it." "It's a place where there is no suffering." "It's a place where every tear iswiped from your eyes." "There's no sadness." "There's no pain." "And you know, Melissa, one day you and I will walk on the streets of gold and we'll talk about this night together." "What about me, Jesus?" "Will I walk the streets of gold?" "Nick,that's completely up to you." "Melissa made her decision on the 232nd day of her 17th your ." "That was her birthday into my kingdom." "Why, don't you tell Nick all about it?" "Tell himwhy you sought me." "I'dlike to hear it" "I'dlike to hear it" "So would I." "Well, I was depressed." "The guythat I had been dating broke up with me, so I - - it was all I could do." "So I wouldcome home and just sleep and cry and sleep and cry and eat." "It got so had that I was thinking about taking my own life." "I stole a bottle of painkillers from my mom's house" "and never waking up." "And the phone rang." "For whatever reason, I picked itup." "And It was a friend from work and she was a Christian." "And she would always talk about Godand the Bible." "And she said she was going to come pick meup and take we to a movie." "And I thought, "Why not?"" "So half an hour later, I was sittingIn a movie theatre and It was packed." "It turned out it was like a Christian film festival." "And this movie was unlike anything I'dever seen before." "It was as it the message was directed at me." "And I remembertearing up." "Yeah, I couldn'thelp myself." "At the end at the movie, a man want up to the front and began to speak and it felt like be was talkingto me." "You know, personally." "He talked about God's forgiveness, eternal life, and how this place we called planet Earth was only temporary." "And that how our real home was In the kingdom of heaven." "And that I would livethere eternally if I would surrender my life to him." "You know, I can't quite explain it, but something was happening to meright then, right there inthe theatre." "He than said whoever would like to commit their lives to Christ to get out of their seats and go to the front" "And the must important decision you ever make inyour whole life stands before you rightnow." "(Melissa) So I did." "I felt like a whole now person that very second." "I felt like a whole now person that very second." "Come unto me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" "Did you findthat rest?" "(Melissa) Yes." "Looking back, I can't believe I was, you know," "if you trust me." "Could be times when I askyou to do things you way not want to do." "I don't understand." "You can't many Paul." "But I love him." "Well, I shouldn't say you can't because you can, but you shouldn't" "It's just not my desire for you, Melissa." "But I love him." "Melissa,you have a very tender heart" "But he loves metoo." "Melissa,It's just not my willfor a couple to be unequally matched." "Paul doesen'tbelieve inme." "What if we gotmarried and I made It my mission to save him?" "I could do that" "Melissa,do you love him?" "Do you really love him?" "Yes, I do." "Who do you think loves him more, you or me?" "You do, obviously, but" "Melissa,Paul doesn't feel about you the some way you feel abouthim." "He hates his assignment up inWinnemucca." "He's lonely." "But two years from now, when you're back In L.A., he's gonna want something more, somethingyou can't give him." "He's gonna grow to resent you." "And you know whathe's going to resent most about you?" "Your faith inme." "That will still be the biggest difference between the twoof you." "So instead of being the instrument that draws him to me, you'll actually cause him to turn the other way." "Aw Melissa,Isn't itmore important that he loves me than lovesyou?" "Will be believe inyou?" "In time, yeah, be will." "Well, then maybe then we could" "Melissa,I promise you by than you won't even want to entertain the possibility." "Remember, I have many wonderful things instore for you." "(Nick) This is beginning to sound like "Deal or No Deal."" "And If I were you, I'd say no deal." "You know, Nick,your cynicism is beginning to wear" "You know, Nick,your cynicism is beginning to wear on all of us." "(Nick) That's awfully presumptuos of you to speak for everyone." "Starting to get on my nerves as well." "I was against you the minute you tried to run meover." "(Nick) Well, hey, I tried to leave, remember?" "It's notmy fault the car wouldn't start." "Nick,you're here for one reason." "Because It's notmy will that anyone should perish, but that everyone would turn around and curveto me." "The wordyou remember from your Bible is repent" "I don't have anything to repent of." "of your grandmother." "I wish I had knwon her." "You still have that chance." "But only on your terms." "Sounds like blackmail to me." "It's notblackmail, Nick." "I want you to be where your grandmother is." "It's a place of everlasting love." "And suppose I don't want that" "I'm a gentleman, Nick." "I'll never force myself on you or anyone." "Ha!" "That's the worst kind of blackmail." "Do things my way or face the and brimstone forever." "Nick,you don't want to follow me, do you?" "Not particularly." "And you certainly don't want to obey me." "Correct again." "For we to steal you at the moment of your deathand force you to liveinmy presence and inmy will for all eternity?" "Hell, on the other hand, is a place, Nick, where you'll be completely free from all of my" ""thou shalt nots" forever." "Hell never sounded so appealing to me." "about this world, all the greed and selfishness, of poverty and the starvation, the wars, the murders, of poverty and the starvation, the wars, the murders, the abuse of children." "I hardly recognize this place anymore." "It bears so little resemblance to the garden that I created for you." "But It's nothell, Nick." "Even now, there's sunshine on a sping day." "There's starry night and desert sky." "There's a gentle breeze and a summer afternoon and the smell of flowers and the song of birds." "Not to mention the horrible storms and floods." "And there's even people who are willing to lend a helping handto the helpless." "And there's love." "Nick,there's still love." "How could we forget love?" "(Jesus) Nick,there's one thing for sure." "There's no love In hell." "There's no beauty, no hope." "There's just torment" "The kind of torment that comes from within." "But surely no one would choose that if they really believed you existed." "(Jesus) Not so." "Nobody goes into hell blindfolded." "In one way or another, I've revealed myself to everyone." "But if they could just see you." "Not even that would be enough." "Look at Satan." "He stood before me inthe very throne room of God, but be thought the beauty and the power bestowed was somehow earned." "Gave himself over to pride." "Scratch any sin and just below the surface you'll findpride." "have worked hard for." "They hop from bed to bed because they feel entitled to just satisfy themselves no matter whoithurts, no matter what pain that it costs." "Here we go." "Can I get you anything else?" "No, I'm great." "Thanks." "Enjoy your meals." "It's the best burger I've ever tasted." "Guess I should take my coupons back." "(Christine) I have to give you credit" "This isthe best salad I've ever tasted." "I'll give you a bite of my salad if you lotwe have a bite of your burger" "This is the first salad I ever wanted to taste." "Here you go." "Sirbin tips smothered infravy on a bed of mashed potatoes with a green salad on the side and Thousand Island dressing." "Thank you." "Aren't you going to eat?" "No, my food is to serve my father." "It tastes just like my mom's." "Kayla,would you like to join usor do you want me to serve you over there?" "I promise not to mentionthat L.A.thing again unless you want to talk aboutit" "Okay." "Wow, this is great." "Is it?" "It's not too but or mild." "It's" "Perfect?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "I get that a lot" "ON second thought, I'm nothungry." "Nick,I guarantee you this is the best deal you'll overget" "And It's absolutely free." "You don't have to do anything but accept it" "Thanks, but no thanks." "I'm liable to end up brainwashed like the rest of these people." "You wasted your time." "(Jesus) No, It's not wasted." "The meal be rejected willbecome food for others." "Well, if be doesen't want it,can I have it?" "Absolutely." "Kayla,I am willing to give you many good things." "All you have to do is askme." "I have asked." "Have I answered?" "(Kayla) Do you have any idea how we lived?" "One week we'd be at my grandmother's." "And than the next we'd be In a shelter." "And the week after, we'd be In child services or a foster home." "And than my mom would get usback, promising us that it'd be different this time." "But itnever was." "She's a junkie." "Junkies never change." "Your motherloves you." "(Kayla) Yeah, when she was drunk and crying abouthow she could have been this or that" "She could have been?" "What about me?" "What chance did I ever have with a mother like her?" "Do you think she cared if I brushed my teeth or if I combed my hair?" "Or if I was hungry?" "Or even if I went to school?" "She'd never even lotme leave her side when I was little and cute." "She'd get twice the handouts." "When I got just as dirty as her, people looked away." "The way you did." "I never turned away," "So you were watching when I'dhave to flag down a police officer after my momOD'd?" "I'm glad you were watching." "Hope we puton a pretty good show for you." "I used to pray when I was little." "Pastor Jim down at the mission taught we how." "He's a good man." "Yeah." "At least be cared." "What did you do for us?" "I took all of those hard things,Kayla," "you are,so strong and enduring, such a wonderful role model for your little sister." "But right now, she's with him." "Him?" "My stepfather, Jake." "Funny things is, at first I thought be was an answerto prayer" "He had a house and a job and it finally looked like we were gonna have a normal homelife." "But when be got to drinking, my mother and him got to fighting." "It was worse than the streets." "And than she'd lock him out of the bedroom and he'd look for a now place to sleep." "And not just to sleep." "Where were you then?" "I was shouting into his mind and his conscience to stopand stop." "I was there inthe bathroom." "Oh God,please." "(Jesus) And I heard you." "Kayla, your prayer before you pulled that trigger," "It wasn't for death" "It was to go to a better place." "Kayla, if you had died that night, you wouldn't have gone to a better place." "So the nightbefore, I caused your stepfather to stumble." "That made himreconsider the prospect of keeping a loaded gun In his pocket" "So he removed the clip and unknowingly saved your life." "It's not the fist time I saved your life and it won't be the last either." "Kayla, what do you want?" "I just want to stop hurting." "I can't promise you that all your problems will disappear overnight" "You have a hard road ahead of you." "But I can tell you that you'll have a peace and a purpose that will not only survive, but it'llthrive and grow" "If you trust me." "Will you follow me?" "Yes." "Will you forgive all those peoplewho hurt you, even as I forgive you?" "Yes." "Even Jake?" "How can you askmeto do that?" "You saw what be did to me." "Yeah." "But Kayla, look what he's done to me..." "I paid a heavy price for your stepfather's sins." "It's the some price I paid for your sins." "to tell the police what your stepfather did." "I want him to go to jail." "He needs to understand that there's a price that has to be paid for sin, even inthis fallen world." "But Kayla, I don't want him to go to hell." "I want him to come to we so I can forgive him, so I can give him now life." "And you know, there's another reason that I want you to forgive him." "If you don't all the anger and resentment will just poison every relationship you have." "Even ours." "If you want to love, you have to abandon hate." "Don't let anger steal your joy." "I forgive him." "And I forgive you." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, talkingadvantage of an emotionally distraught little girl." "Nick,why are you fighting me?" "What have I done to makeyou hate me?" "Hate you?" "You think I've given you enough thought to hate you?" "I hate federal regulators." "I hate taxes." "I hate sitting In coach." "You don't warrant hate." "You warrat exactly what I've been givinf you all this time." "Indifference." "I don't want you." "I don't used you." "I'm notlike these losers." "You don't used anything else In your life, Nick?" "I'm livin' the American dream." "Eleven years inthe NFL?" "Nine Pro Bowls?" "Two Superbowl rings?" "A such record that no one's curveclose to touching yet." "A restaurant chain that I'll take public In a coupleyears for hundreds of millions of dollars." "I've got everything I want and lose his soul?" "(Jesus) It's not love of money that keeps him away from me, Melissa." "Thank you." "It's pride." "Here we go with pride again." "Give pride a break" "You showwe someone without pride and I'll show you a bum, someone who's talkingmore from society than whathe's giving." "So that's what motivates you?" "Giving?" "No, but when I succeed, other people do too." "When I sacked a quarterback, I helped my whole team." "And look at my restaurants." "Each one of'em employs 25 to 40people." "That doesn't include my vendors." "It doesn't include corporate." "It doesn't include my suppliers." "Everyone of those families is doing betterthan mine did when I was growing up." "Funny how it always comes back to your dad's fruit stand, Nick." "Did you not feel loved as a child?" "Of course I felt loved." "Did you feel secure?" "I felt secure." "Why were you so embarrased?" "I wasn't embarrassed." "Nick,Nick,I'm gonna call you on that one." "As a child, you were happy." "You spent all your summers working with your father at the fruit stand, listening to his stories, marveling at the way people curvejust to talk to him." "Everybody liked your father." "You have to admit you got your work ethic from him,Nick." "I got a lot of things from him." "But not what be wanted you to have the most" "When you were a child, everybody was prettymuch the same." "Working class, lower-middle class." "Nobody was rich or unduly privileged." "But when you got into high school, suddenlyyou were with the sons of doctors and lawyers and businessmen, people that the rest of the world thought were very successful." "And it all comes down to the summer before your sophomore year." "You're working the fruit stand like you always did." "and they thought that was the funniest thing In the world." "And your dad's accent" "You used to have an accent, Nick." "You gotrid of it, didn't you?" "You think you're so smart" "But you had football." "Coach didn't care whether you were rich or poor." "All be cared about was your performance on the field." "And you excelled." "Sports was your ticket" "And suddenlyyou were no longer little Nicky Cruchetti" "In a white apron, the son at the fruit vendor." "You were Crusher Cruchetti." "And Godhelp the man who would laugh at you." "You really want to mess with me?" "Relax, Nick." "Have a piece of pie." "(Jesus) It's your grandmother's recipe." "(Hank) I'll give her this." "She was a great cook." "That's because she sprinkled a generous helping of love on everything didn't she, Nick?" "I don't remember her." "memory is a funny thing, Nick." "It can remain perfectly hidden for years, even decades, and then come flooding back because of a picture or hearing a song, smelling a scent, or even a taste." "(Nick as a child) Grandma ismy pie ready?" "What do we say?" "Thank you, God." "Would you like to pray?" "Oaky, Grandma." "Go ahead." "Dear Jesus, thank you for this food." "Thank you, Lord, for my family and thankyou for my grandma." "In Jesus name,amen." "(Jesus) She never graduated from high school." "She was never rich." "She never even learned to drive a car." "But your grandmother, Nick, was a very special lady." "You rememberher, don't you?" "Your grandmother had true faith inmy ability to intervene and fulfill my promises." "And I promised her that I would move heaven and earth to reach you." "So here I am, Nick." "You put this ancient memory inmy head and you expectme to throw away the life that I built for myself?" "What kind of weak-willed man do you think I am?" "(Jesus) The kind of man who hasn't opened himself up to uncodnitional love since be was a child." "You put up a wall." "You turned your back on the old fashioned blue collar values, blasted off to your future." "But with Sadie, ah, there was never a wall between you and Sadie." "She died before you could shut down completely and so there's still just a fragment, Nick, of unconditional love that remains inyour heart" "Nick,when is the last time that you toldyour parents that you loved them?" "(Nick) I took care of'em." "I bought'em a house." "I bought'em cars." "This isridiculous." "I'm not gonna sit here and lot you makewe feel guilty for somethingI didn't do." "(Jesus) Nick,some peoplefeel guilty for things that they did and others feel guilty for what they didn't do." "The question is,what are you going to do about it?" "I don't have to do anything aboutit" "Oh yesyou do, Nick." "This is your time." "All at the seemingly random moments and incidents of your life, they've all come together to bring you here and now to this point of making a decision for your life for all eternity." "Kayla stepped out of death and into life." "I want you to join her." "I want you to join your momand dad." "I want you to join Sadie." "Sadie awauts you inheaven." "Nick,what are you afraid of?" "You think I'm gonna ask you to give all your money away to the poor and become a missionary inAfrica?" "Or are you more afraid that I'm gonna ask you to proclaim my name to your friends and colleagues?" "Is that whatIt is,Nick?" "You're afraid your business parterns and your former teammates will laugh at you because of this?" "They'll say you're weak?" "They'll say you've lost your edge and you've gone soft?" "Is that it,Nick?" "You think I care what they think?" "You think I care what anybody thinks?" "I'm my own man." "You think you're a self-made man, but you're not" "I made you, Nick." "You existed In my heart before the creation at the world." "I have plans for your life." "Think of what you can accomplish with meinyour corner." "Nick,please open your heart" "Nick,please open your heart" "I'm doing just fine on my own." "Well, well, well." "You are still In business." "After all these years, you'd think nobody'd be interested inwhat you're selling." "I don't sell anything." "Oh, that's right" "You give it all away," "Any takers?" "Not me." "He couldn't get we to bite." "That's a smart man." "I come bearing good news." "The roadis finally clear and you're all turn to leave." "Well, hallelujah." "That's the best news I've heardall day." "It isn't true." "The roadisn't clear." "Like you would know." "This man's beenout there." "He obviously knows." "Does he?" "Apparently, I do." "You comnig?" "Don't, Nick." "Nick,I don't think you should go." "Can I get an escort?" "Absolutely." "Just follow me." "It's you and me, baby." "That's one for me." "Four set free." "Don't worry, Jesus." "We'll meet again." "(Jesus) That was his last chance." "If there's a downside to being God," "It's knowing." "I reach out to them with everything I have, but I know." "I just know." "And I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd wholays down his life for the sheep." "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy." "I am the good shepherd and I know my own." "(Jesus) And my own know me." "My sheep hear my voice and I know them." "And they follow me." "No one shall snatch them from my hand." "(Jesus) Melissa?" "Yes?" "Will you do we a favor?" "Drive Kayla back to Los Angeles." "Bring her to child protection servicesfor me." "Yes, of course." "Kayla, you're gonna have some hard times ahead of you and you'll have some doubts, but this will ultimately be the first step towards saving your family." "Really?" "Yeah." "And you have such a wonderful life ahead of you." "Will I ever see you again?" "Yeah." "Yeah, but notlike this." "I mean, not for a long while anyway," "Can I talk to you?" "Mmm, all the time." "And I'll he listening." "Will I hear you?" "Mm-hmm, yeah." "In my word, mostly." "That's the Bible." "That bookhas all the wisdom you need for your life." "And than sometimes just In the quiet of your spirit, you'll hear mesay, "This is the way you should go." "This is the way you shouldn't go."" "Melissa, Paul's going to be very upset" "You're gonna have to be very strong, okay?" "Okay." "(Hank) What about us, Lord?" "Hank, I want you to love your wife." "I want you to prayfor her and praylike you'll never stop praying." "Where you have followed, you will now lead." "Many willbe blessed because of your faith." "I think I understand." "Catherine, won't you join us?" "No, I don't mean just here and now." "I mean forever." "If you really were who you say you am, you'd know that I already answered the call." "Yeah, I remember when you walked up the aisle, but Catherine, there's a lot more to it than just walking up an aisle or sayinga few words." "You have to really, truly repent, a change of heart" "If you don't believe me, believe your handsome husband there." "He's a good man and be loves you very much." "Ofcourse, not as much as I do." "I loveyou." "And I love you." "I loveyou." "Hank." "Thank you." "Sorry for the inconvenience, folks." "Is the roadstill closed?" "No sir, the road's open, but there's been a terribleaccident" "An accident?" "Yes sir, the driver was caught inthe fog and smashed into the guard rail around the curve." "What kind of car was it?" "Was it a BMW?" "Yes sir, as a matter of fact it was." "And the driver, did be makeit?" "No, ma'am." "I'm sorry, be was killed instantly." "Did you know him?" "No, notreally." "We were all having dinner back together at the diner." "Which one?" "The one inThompsonville?" "No, the one a couplemiles back." "I'm sorry to contradict you, ma'am, but there's no diner a couple miles back." "No, there was." "We were just there." "I've beenpatrolling this country for more than 10 years and I can assure you there's no dineron this road." "But what about Officer DeVille?" "He walked In the dinerhimself." "Officer who?" "DeVille." "D-E-V-I-L-L-E." "I haven't heardof anybody working around here named DeVille." "If you folks will escuse me." "(Melissa) I'm not going crazy, right?" "There was a diner." "This has beenquite a day." "Got that right" "Yeah." "I guess we better get going." "Be careful." "(Melissa) We'll be just fine." "We're ingood hands." "Come on." "Please forgive me." "I'm not a had person." "I'm just confused." "It's okay." "We all get like that sometimes." "So?" "Shall me?" "Yeah, but first let's go back." "ON back?" "Where?" "Am you sure this isit?" "This isit" "This is the vut at the parking lot" "Over there was the foundation." "No." "No, this is the wrong place." "It must he further back." "No, this is right." "This is it" "Come unto we all you whoare weary and burdened and I willgive you rest" "This is it" "It was true." "It was all true and It really was him." "You know it was him." "How did you know?" "How can you save my marriage?" "All you have to do isaskme." "Save my marriage." "Save my marriage." "Please, Lord Jesus." "Jesus,save my marriage." "I didn't at first, but It was something In my heart that told we it was." "Nothing inmy heart told me." "Not until he said be loved me." "I love you." "Then I felt something." "We've all sinned and fallen short of his glory." "But you know, It's all abouthis grace, his sacrifice on the cross." "I don't know what to say." "Just imagine he's right there 'cause be is." "Talk to him." "Tell him what you're feeling." "Tell him what's inyour heart" "Catherine, won't you join us?" "No, I don't mean just here and now." "I mean forever." "(Jesus) Good afternoon, sir." "What will It be today?" "Menu or special order?"