Monica learns to overcome her fear of water when she moves next door to Angela Evans, an avid boater with a secretive past. Years ago during college, she supportive as a call girl. Now that her husband Carter is running for the U.S. Senate, she is being blackmailed by Marshall, her former pimp. Monica convinces Angela to stand up to him, but learns that he had taken photos of her in compromising positions. Rather than tell Carter the truth, she attempt suicide by intentionally sinking her boat in the middle of the lake. Adam, cautions Monica not to violate Angela's free will by rescuing her. the resourceful angel shows the woman how her suicide would affect her loved ones, and she chooses to live. Revealing herself after the rescue, Monica admits overcoming her own fear of water when she saw Angela about to drown and encourages her to return home and confide in Carter. Together, the Evans decide to hold a press conference regarding Angela's past, freeing them from the threat of
A young man who has a history of delinquency is accused of killing a girl. His mother backs his claim that he’s innocent. When he is released due to lack of evidence, the girl’s father wants him gone and tells his mother. Later she discovers that her son has in his possession something that belongs to the girl which makes her doubt his innocence.
Monica, Tess and Andrew arrange for Nathaniel to reunite with his estranged mother. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S01E09.
Josh is blinded due to a drive-by shooting. His family visits and they all must find their faith. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S01E17.
Joe refuses to take responsibility for the car wreck and drives off, unaware that his son is in the car. Russell is duty-bound to tell the police the truth about the accident. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S02E01.
A distraught farmer in a drought-stricken community files suit against God. Tess arrives to defend, and Monica to testify. The trial teaches the farmer and everyone else in town the value of being good neighbors, and also drives home a stern lesson about the inherent folly of theodicy – an attempt to judge God by human standards.
Nathaniel is kidnapped by the woman whose family was killed in a car accident involving Joe, Nathaniel's father, who selfishly and recklessly drove drunk. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S03E01.
Tess becomes a teacher at a school in Washington D.C. with young children. One child turns in an essay about wanting to be a hit man when he grows up. Tess tells a story about Abraham Lincoln to the students, giving them insight into life.
Robert wants to visit his mother, and his wife reluctantly agrees even though she does not like the old neighborhood. As days pass, the mother calls Robert to help her, and he is killed in transit. The two women are angry at each other.
At a holiday party Nick proposes to Angela but she fears commitment. Angela talks to Andrew about her father, the reason for her fear, and the time capsule they built. She agrees to open the capsule and then finds the truth about her father
A construction worker is fired because he spoke out about the shortcuts being taken on a building being built. Desperate for a job, he becomes a chauffeur and finds the clients are gangsters. That’s when his whole world turns upside down.
A boy’s parents are divorced and bickering. The boy feels torn and he wants to divorce his parents.
A successful business man has time for his work but not for his wife. When he is unavailable for their 20th wedding anniversary, the wife connects with a former boyfriend.
Monica works with a group of teenagers from Ireland for a missionary program in the United States. They are to restore an old home and must work in harmony. Two teens are Catholic; two are Protestants.
When thought to have been rejected by him, a woman sets up a perfect bowling game so she can have the satisfaction of shattering his joy.
A Vietnam veteran, an artist, and a dying mother all come together for the security guard’s final day at an art museum. Haunted by a painting and his past, the veteran must come to terms with a tragic Christmas day.
An elderly man no longer believes in God. When he finds out his devout son is dying from a brain tumor, he must find his own faith again.
Monica and Tess enter a woman’s prison to help a woman who thinks she was wrongly convicted of killing a man. Monica helps stage a play in prison to get the women to open up. Andrew must help the father of that man come to forgive the woman.
The angels must help a teenager whose family lives on a time-line for every activity. The teen is diagnosed with diabetes and it interrupts her athletic schedule and the parents’ life as they try to open a new restaurant.
A grown man is too attached to his mother to let her live her own life and have her own money. Monica and Tess comes to see Abby for a clothing donation and gets her to visit the senior home. Abby moves there, and her son tries to get her to come back home.
Ricky is a gas station attendant who just lost his job since the station is closing. Monica goes to help with the closing inventory of items, and to convince him that a door closing opens another door and that he needs to pursue his poetry.
While learning to parallel park, Monica bumps into a man who walks in front of the car. While not hurt, he is rude to her. Monica is upset and it seems to affect her whole day regardless of how she tries to make it up to him.
Monica, Tess, and Andrew attend a circus to help a young boy who has been in the circus all his life. His father is a dwarf who is the circus clown. Both have trouble accepting the father’s height.
Monica, Tess and Andrew return to see Audrey Carmichael, now an alcoholic and still angry over her son’s death. Emma, another angel, shows up to assist, and Andrew later gets in touch with a woman who may have a connection to Audrey.
With a new computer in the house, a young daughter accidentally clicks a link to a porn site. When the father takes control to change the site, he becomes interested in online porn and it starts to affect his home and work life.
The angels must help a father who wants to disinherit his son since the son is only interested in the social life.
A father pressures his college-bound son to join the same fraternity he joined when he was in college. The fraternity practices dangerous hazing. The angels must show the son that he has to follow his own life.
It’s Halloween, and a young couple is having a party. There are spooks around, and Satan comes to the party. The angels must protect the man and his pregnant wife.
A young film student has trouble interviewing a 102-year-old film director who is ready to die. Andrew tells him he must stay on earth a little longer to help the student.
A storm chaser is excited when there are storms and tornadoes predicted in the area because he hopes it will save his job.
A TV couple find their lives and relationship deteriorating, leading them to face a wrong decision in their past.
A teen is about to throw away her ambitions of music and education by starting to use drugs. The angels use her love of music to tell her the story of Billie Holiday’s tragic life in hopes of helping the teen follow her dream without drugs.
Monica serves on jury duty and is the lone person who thinks the accused is not guilty.
Andrew is a judge, Monica and Tess are sentenced to community service. They work with two arguing people who once were in love years ago, but forbidden to marry. Can the angels heal their feud and help them find their love again?
The family of a convicted murderer face a bleak Christmas in a town which blames them.
Two teenagers want to marry since they’ve had a child, but the girl’s father forbids it because the boy is a gang member. He has to choose whether to remain in the gang or start taking a direct role in the family. And when he tries to prove himself with one last job for the gang, it endangers them all.
Tess is late to her own party because she stops to help a snobby woman who lost her father as a child. A quirky angel reveals a secret.
An officer’s accidental shot at a young African-American boy is taken as prejudice.
Andrew is a teacher who shows his students the stars and the mighty universe. A teenager believes in God and the universe and wants her mother who is dying of cancer to believe.
Alice is a bitter woman who owns a small store in the lobby of a building. A young boy, Cory, steals a special locket from the store. The angels must help find the homeless boy and locket, and find a way to make Alice and Cory a family.
A father struggles with the choice he must make between his job and his son with Downs Syndrome.
A conceited actor who plays an angel on television resists a very young, obsessed fan who is coping with his mother’s death.
Jason is a teenager who looks up to his ophthalmologist father. Since Jason wants to be a photojournalist, the angels give him a chance to do a photo story on his father. In his photo quest, Jason finds out his father is having an affair.
A rich teenager whose life is laid out for him, is set up when his father has to declare bankruptcy. His plans for Harvard and hockey seem lost when he has to go to a local school with a mediocre hockey team.
After killing his elderly friend, a troubled teen is imprisoned and eventually starts a group of singers that also just happen to be delinquents like himself.
Andrew rebels when another angel of death is assigned to a descendant of a long line of people that has previously been his responsibility. Includes many flashbacks to the deaths of people that Andrew has been assigned to.
Monica must try to convince a scientist that creating life from a test tube is not what God intends. The woman is trying to create a child for a Nobel prize, and then realizes she is trying to create someone to love.
Monica’s faith is challenged by Satan himself after she witnesses a tragic incident.
Monica is assigned to help a former member of a gospel choir, who has retreated from reality following a tragedy.
Monica has found J.D. Winslow, but he’s not the Jed that Diana desperately wants to come to her planned family reunion. Will Diana’s faith give her the strength to face the truth?
Monica, Tess and Andrew help train their newest angel, Gloria. Their assignment is to help a college professor in his quest for the Ark of the Covenant.
A father tries to control his son’s life and is obsessed with his baseball performance. The angels must help heal the father and son relationship by showing the father that he must first heal the relationship he has with his own father.
Young children are beaten and abused by their drunken father. The angels must help a mailman who wants to help the children.
Tess and the other angels return to a small town to help a woman who is lonely after her boyfriend leaves her. The bartenders in the town remember Tess and decide to help the angels play matchmaker with the woman and a delivery man.
With memories of her Jewish father’s discrimination against women, Rachel releases her fury by publishing comic strips which make fun of her father and his religion.
After discovering a heartbreaking secret about his mother, a man discovers his last chance to repent before being executed for killing his abusive stepfather.
After a long life of hatred towards the football player who stole the girl he loved, Dennis decides to get his revenge at their high school reunion.
A rebellious teen convinces Gloria to go to a rave with him where they both end up getting high.
The angels attempt to change the lives of the individuals in a long-lost group of friends. Their influences on these people cause them all to end up unexpectedly at the same Polynesian restaurant, where they are surprised to see one another after all of the years that have passed.
A man who died on 9-11-2001 in the twin towers was a music teacher. His death affects one of his students and his family. The student is depressed, his older brother wants to join the army, and their mayor mother has to help the town.
A mortally ill journalist resists finishing her autobiography because, to be honest, she will have to record her own encounter with an angel.
A widowed father with two children has to deal with one daughter having sickle cell anemia. When the daughter gets seriously sick and the local doctor is not available, his daughter dies while he tries to find help.
Max and Elmer are long-time friends. Max is slowly dying due to smoking cigarettes for many years. Elmer tries to get him to stop, but he will not listen. After Monica, Tess, and Andrew fail to get him to stop, Gloria offers to help.
A father whose daughter has leukemia must ask his ex-mistress to allow their son to be a bone marrow daughter. Since his ex-mistress refuses, the angels must find a way to help.
Liz’s fiancée Jonas runs away after having a fight with her, causing Liz to reach out to the less fortunate instead of crying for her own loss.
A young girl in search of the father she has never known is guided to several possibilities.
A nun with a dark past tries to stop two boys from blowing up a high school.
Maggie and Brian are busy doctors. Maggie finds it hard to stop working, while Brian wants time off together. Maggie’s mother Rose wants to go to Rome but cannot go alone due to health. Can she convince Maggie and Brian to go with her?
A man with a beautiful voice is encouraged to sing for the first time in twenty-five years.
An old British woman is forced to reveal the secrets of her painful past after undergoing a failed background check in order for her grandson to adopt a baby from China.
A motivational speaker helps other to move forward and achieve, but he and his wife have their own problems of moving forward since their daughter’s murder.