Mr. Miracle

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I know you're in charge,

and I obviously trust your judgment,

but I'm not going to lie.

I'm worried about this one.

Harry Mills has a reputation

of being rather...

How should I put it?

Eccentric?

And I fear he may stand out

rather than blend in.

I'll do my best to guide him,

but this is a serious situation,

and we don't have much time.

Great to meet you.

I can't tell you how happy I am

to have been selected to come here.

I've been an Angel for a long time

and I have always wanted

to work with humans.

I understand you have

my first human assignment?

Why don't I just give you some change?

Thank you.

Psst.

Psst! Come here.

Yeah. Come here.

Try that.

Thank you.

Yup. Harry Mills.

First time in human form.

Mm, what is this?

Cocoa.

We'll start you off slow,

work our way to coffee.

Take a seat.

Sit on the seat.

Put the seat down, and sit on it.

Sit on it, yeah.

Well, I'm looking for someone.

Oh?

My mentor.

Yay! You found me.

You passed the first test.

Celeste.

You're a mentor?

Just for a few thousand years.

It's a pretty good set-up.

You get your own experienced Angel

to help you succeed here.

Well, for Angels who need that, it is.

Hmm.

Your first human assignment

is Addie Folsom.

You have to get her life back on track.

Addie Folsom.

Born here in Tacoma.

She's very smart.

Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child,

so reading was a challenge,

but she had good teachers,

so she learned to manage it.

Unfortunately, her self-esteem

had already suffered,

so she ended up running away

from her true calling.

What is her true calling?

That's the first thing

you have to find out.

I can't wait to help her.

When do I meet her?

She's in your class.

My class?

You'll be teaching a class as your cover.

When we're done here,

you'll go see your boss, Mr. Conceito.

He's the head of the English department.

I really like what this cocoa is doing.

Um, there are some important ground rules.

For one, stay out of trouble

with Mr. Conceito.

With all due respect, Celeste,

I don't really need a whole bunch of help.

Look, I get it, I do.

I remember my first time on earth,

but experiencing it in the flesh

is much different.

With humans, there's a lot at play.

Thank you, Celeste, really.

You've been great,

and I appreciate the warm welcome,

but there's nothing more necessary.

I'm glad you think so.

One more small thing...

You're here for a trial period.

You have to get Addie's life back on track

by Christmas, or you have to go back,

- for good.

- Whoever this "Mr. Conceito" is

is going to love me when he meets me,

and I'll get Addie back on track early.

So, really, Celeste, no help necessary.

Harry...

The chair has to...

You have to leave the chair here.

Yes, leave that there.

There'll be more.

Like this.

I'll take this.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Massey Hall, room 212.

I have my work cut out for me.

"You are here?"

How does it know I'm here?

Hi, dog.

Dogs do that?

I've never read about that.

Wait. Are you...?

You're also an Angel?

Do you have an assignment, too?

Did I tell you we were getting

a new professor?

No.

What happened to the one you had?

She won the lottery and left.

- What?

- Yeah.

She said she doesn't even

remember buying a ticket.

That's luck.

Yeah, it's strange, right?

So, do you know anything

about the instructor

that's taking her place?

Nope, not yet,

but I do know

we're starting our next book.

It's "A Christmas Carol. "

Ah-hah.

Thanks, Addie.

Well, I'm going to go

pick it up before class

and get started.

I really want to follow through this time.

Addie, your dad would

be really proud of you.

You know, I have got to be the only person

who dropped out of community college

one class short of graduating.

You have always been

really hard on yourself.

At the time, you had reasons.

Yeah. Fear of failure.

Or fear of success.

You sound like dad.

He always loved the holidays.

He used to make those cookies...

Yeah.

Do you remember how he used to put

one extra present in the ornament box

for us to find?

He kept that up every Christmas. Yeah.

Bye.

Don't you knock?

Knocking? Right.

I read about that.

I'll build the habit.

You must be Mr. Mills.

You must be Mr. Conceito.

They just finished Joyce.

Today, they start dickens.

Ah.

Your classic literature class

is at 2:
30 P.M.

In the Hart building, room 107.

You have office hours twice a week.

I love litature.

I taught Shakespeare.

Which plays?

Or was it the sonnets?

The guy.

I taught him how to play gin rummy.

After he got his wings, of course.

Don't get smart with me, Mr. Mills.

I have a lot of power at this school.

We're at a college.

Why wouldn't you want me to get smart?

Good day, Mr. Mills.

Who's Addie Folsom?

- Here?

- Nice to meet you.

I'm looking forward to working with you.

And you, with the dog, your name?

Andrew Fairfax.

This is Tommy.

He's approved by the school to be here.

Tommy...

For the remainder of the semester, you'll be

reading Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol. "

I read it when it first came out.

Who's heard of Scrooge,

The Ghost of Christmas Past,

present, and future?

"Bah, humbug?"

How about each class

I'll assign a different chapter

so that we're all reading

the same thing at the same time?

Then we'll discuss it

in the following class.

So, for the next class,

read the first chapter, "Marley's Ghost. "

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