God Friended Me (TV Series)

17 Years (2018)

Violett Beane: Cara Bloom

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• Miles Finer : This is the intersection where my mom was killed in the car accident. Tomorrow, it'll be seventeen years.

  Cara Bloom : Miles, I'm so sorry.

  Rakesh : You know, this... this intersection is within the ten-block radius of the Fibonacci spiral. Can't be a coincidence.

  Miles Finer : [his phone buzzes, and he shows them the friend suggestion]  It's not.

  Cara Bloom : Who's Charles Cole?

  Miles Finer : He's the drunk driver that killed my mom. I mean, why would the God account send me his name? Why would it ever think that I would want to help him?

  Cara Bloom : You know how the God account works. He obviously was sent to you for a reason.

  Miles Finer : I don't care! There is no way in hell I'm gonna help the guy that killed my mom!

• Rakesh : Miles, if we don't help him, we can't complete the spiral.

  Miles Finer : Then we find another way.

  Cara Bloom : Okay, look, maybe we should just give you a second. Take a break.

  Miles Finer : I'm fine, okay? Charles Cole is off-limits. We're not helping him. Understood?

• Cara Bloom : So, I know you said Charles Cole was off-limits, but I think I know why the God account sent you his name.

  Miles Finer : I've already told you, I don't care.

  Cara Bloom : Okay, well, this isn't just about you. I mean, we're all in this together. We've all been helping these friend suggestions. You can't just expect Rakesh and I to walk away.

  Rakesh : Just for the record, I told her to respect your decision, but please go ahead.

• Cara Bloom : Look, Miles, the night of the accident, Charles had just graduated from the Fire Academy, top of his class. He was gonna be a firefighter, and he still wants to be.

  Miles Finer : Well, no one's stopping him.

  Cara Bloom : Yeah, but no one's helping him, either.

  Miles Finer : Good. He does not deserve my help.

  Cara Bloom : Well, how do you know that? Okay, you don't know anything else about him.

  Miles Finer : I don't need to know anything else about him. That's the point.

  Cara Bloom : No. No, the point is that you don't *want* to know anything else about him, because if you did, if you knew who he was before that night or who's become since then, he'd become a real person, and not just some ghost that you can be angry at and never have to face.

  Rakesh : She's right, Miles. I've known you for a long time, man, and I think you owe it to yourself to talk to this man.

• Cara Bloom : I'm glad you decided to do this.

  Miles Finer : No matter what he says, I'm not helping him.

  Cara Bloom : I'm not asking you to, all right? I'm just asking you to talk to him.

  [seeing he's still a little reluctant] 

  Cara Bloom : Hey. It's been seventeen years for him, as well. My guess is you're not the only one who's thought about this.

  Miles Finer : And if he hasn't?

  Cara Bloom : Well, then, we leave. We never come back.

• Miles Finer : Look, I'm not apologizing, okay? He doesn't get to ignore the past as if it never happened.

  Cara Bloom : I'm not saying he does, and I'm not defending him, but he didn't strike me as the kind of guy who wants to ignore the past.

  Miles Finer : Then why did he lie to his fiancée?

  Cara Bloom : I don't know, okay? But walking away now is not gonna fix anything.

  Miles Finer : You think I care about making his life better? He does not deserve a second chance.

  Cara Bloom : I'm not talking about him, Miles. I was talking about you. Look, I know how hard this must be, but this isn't you, Miles. You see the good in people even when others can't. If you don't face this now, you are gonna be running forever.

  Miles Finer : You wanted me to come down here. I came. I'm done.

• Miles Finer : My father thinks I'm still holding on to my anger over losing my mom, that... if I don't let go, I'll never be able to move on. I'll never be able to remember her without feeling this way.

  Cara Bloom : What do you think?

  Miles Finer : That even if he's right... I don't know how to let it go, or if I can.

  Cara Bloom : You know what scared me the most about reconnecting with my mom? It was knowing that if I forgave her, I would have to let go of all that anger that I carried around with me. And if I did... I might not know who I was anymore. Wouldn't know what to replace it with. And for a long time, that scared me more than holding onto it.

  Miles Finer : How'd you get through it?

  Cara Bloom : You. Miles, you helped me through it. Everything we've been doing with the God account, that replaced all of it.

  Miles Finer : Well, thank you for always being honest with me.

  Cara Bloom : Uh... about that. Um... I got that promotion.

  Miles Finer : You did? Well, hey, why didn't you tell me?

  Cara Bloom : Well, uh... 'cause it would take me away from these stories and all the people we've been helping.

  Miles Finer : So... you think you've got one more story in you?

  Cara Bloom : Are you saying you want to help Charles Cole?

  Miles Finer : I think it's time that I stopped running away from the past. But... I can't do that without you.

  Cara Bloom : Well, you don't have to.

• Miles Finer : Bro, is everything okay?

  Rakesh : Uh, it's better than okay. Um, I found Falken.

  Miles Finer : Wait, you did? How?

  Rakesh : So, the address of the fire was 55 144th Street, and the next number in the Fibonacci sequence is 89. So I looked up 89 144th Street, and guess who owns the place?

  Cara Bloom : Who?

  Rakesh : Bill and Lila Chase, Henry's parents. It was his childhood home.