The eighth and penultimate season of the American dramatic television series Touched by an Angel aired CBS from September 29, 2001 through May 11, 2002, spanning 22 episodes.
Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series chronicled the cases of two angels, Monica (Roma Downey) and her supervisor Tess (Della Reese), who bring messages from God to various people to help them as they reach a crossroads in their lives.
While the angels begin training their newest member Gloria, a college professor attempts to find the Ark of the Covenant.
When Paul shows this scroll to Thomas, the professor takes it and doesn't tell his student it is valuable.
After their father angrily takes his belt off to beat Robby, he runs downstairs with the package that came earlier --- a gun he bought illegally to protect Sarah and himself.
Andrew tells him he can't undo this action and Robby runs back upstairs and out their door, leaving the box with the gun in the bushes.
The Angels attend Happy Hour at the Monte Carlo, a bar run by one of Tess's former assignments, where she sees Tess and Andrew hang out, while Monica must do a case about a lonely woman struggles to cope with a recent breakup, while a delivery man who secretly pines for her tries to find the courage to approach her.
When the bus leaves, Gloria meets a Jewish sopher (someone who writes the Torah by hand) named Sam who she accidentally insults by repeating what the skinheads told her.
Monica meanwhile works with Rachel an editorial cartoonist, that conflicts with Sam, who happens to be her Jewish father when her popularity soars for writing "edgy" cartoons that portray Jews satirically, until a showdown with anti-Semitic skinheads at their synagogue teaches both the cartoonist and new angel Gloria a powerful lesson in fighting hate with knowledge, as well as helping Rachel and Sam reconcile their differences.
The angels try to help a death row inmate reconcile with his estranged mother before his sentence is carried out---for killing his abusive stepfather.
Monica assigns Gloria to a young, successful billionaire, who also attends his high school reunion seeking revenge on the football player who tormented him.
In the end, Tess crowns the head cheerleader as she and her husband take the stage as King and Queen of the Reunion.
Tess, who herself, looks at the records, then asks Gloria where she saw that name, and remembers also produces an old jazz album featuring Simon K. and the Chattanooga Express.
An aging busboy tempted into an arson scheme finds a way to resist temptation when the angels reunite him with people from his past---his one-time high school history students, each of whom has dilemmas of their own to resolve, and all of whom remember precious lessons he once taught them, where they all attend a restaurant at a run down bar and restaurant.
Tevis Lockwood is a successful widowed father with two young daughters and an obsession over controlling every aspect of his life.
When one daughter---suffering sickle cell anaemia---takes ill, and the doctor in charge of the emergency room can't prioritize her in a room crowded with flu patients, he tries driving her forty miles to a sickle cell specialty clinic---but her death en route causes first rage and then redemption for the stricken father when the angels step in.
Monica visits as part of the transition team of the shipping company, and all thanks to Gloria, tries to protect the girls, while Tevis settles in for his work, who comes to the office, pleased with his new station in life and is anxious to make an impression of the world.
Impressed by her plan, Tevis hires her immediately, not a moment before Joaquin, the real receptionist arrives.
Max has also had 3 angels; Tess, Monica and Andrew speak to him at different stages in his life, but refused to listen to all of them.
When the "Blue angel", a strip show is in jeopardy, due to the usual girl having a cold, Gloria offers to help, not knowing what she is in for.
The angels have a challenge on their hands over a man's affair very early in his otherwise happy marriage coming back to haunt him when his daughter is stricken with leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant to survive .
However, due to the fact that the weather cancels all flight and therefore all guests arriving, as well as Jonas being annoyed that she is so selfish.
Jonas is mugged, his wallet, ring and shoes stolen and is left for dead to freeze to death on the street, who has been broken down by Liz, and refuses to show and tell Monica, Tess and Gloria about the wedding she had requested, and how she'll never deserve it.
Later that evening, the angels show up at Liz’s door to throw the pre-wedding slumber party she wanted to have.
It turns out later that Rose's white blood count is through the roof which means she has leukemia, is the reason for her tiredness, and she needs surgery.
At a Chinese orphanage, Gloria takes care of an orphaned baby in the middle of a freezing winter night.
When the truth is out and accepted, Tess releases the adoption and they head to China to meet the baby, whom Sarah and James have named Rose, and to allow Gladys to come to terms with her past.
The family of motivational speaker Don Costello is breaking apart quietly but severely in the wake of teen daughter/honor student Kimmie's murder by a former boyfriend, unless Monica (assigned to Don), Gloria (assigned to young son Justin, who blames himself for his sister's death), Tess (assigned to wife Stacy, who can't let her daughter go and meets her spirit in the park daily), and Andrew (who took Kimmie to heaven) can convince them to honour more than mourn her.