Touched by an Angel: The Third Season, Vol. 1 [4 Discs] [DVD]

The second season of Touched By an Angel finds heavenly caseworker Monica (Roma Downey) and her celestial supervisor Tess (Della Reese) continuing to tool about the earth in their classic Cadillac, seeking out mortal souls to help and rescue, and occasionally assisting in the transition from this world to the next. For this purpose, easygoing Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye), previously only a recurring character, graduates to full regular status during Season Two. Also on hand from time to time is another visitor from Above, Special Agent Angel Sam (Paul Winfield), who first shows up in the episode "In the Name of God" to finish an assignment abruptly abandoned for personal reasons by Tess -- and drives Satan out of a small town in the process. The season opener finds Monica trying to persuade a heart transplant surgeon to operate on the drunk drier who killed his children. In a subsequent installment, she has a run-in with "fallen angel" Kathleen (Jasmine Guy), who is doing the devil's work on earth. Later episodes find Monica and company reforming a caustic and cynical radio personality, providing moral support to an embittered woman who finds she is HIV positive, defusing a hostage situation while simultaneously making certain that a baby is delivered safely, and enabling a grieving rock & roll star overcome the death of his wife -- not to mention a nasty drug habit. And while it is usually the mortals who are weighed down with woe, Monica herself has reason to gripe when she is wrongly arrested for drug possession after going to the wrong house during an assignment.