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 parents for money and they refuse,
choosing to take Tess' advice and allow Lydia to become so desperate
that she must help herself. Lydia returns to the hospital, steals the
baby, and takes her to the crack house.
Andrew tells Monica that if
they don't find the baby it will die. Monica and Tess search for the
child. Monica finds Lydia, who is too high to realize that she has lost
the baby. Monica reveals herself to Lydia, and tells Lydia that God has
a better plan for her life, but she must choose His help. Lydia does.
Monica and a choir of angels gather around Lydia to sing and comfort
her as she goes through withdrawal. Meanwhile Tess finds and rescues
the baby. Emerging triumphant but shaken from a seven-day struggle,
Lydia, accompanied by Monica, checks into a drug rehab program.
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