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Following orders from Above, Tess (Della Reese) takes her driver's-license examination, only to end up as accessory to a crime! Tess' driving instructor Doris (Lainie Kazan) interrupts the lesson long enough to stop at the funeral of her married lover--and to steal the man's ashes. Commanding Tess to drive off at breakneck speed in the direction of Pismo Beach, Doris is hotly pursued by the dead man's outraged widow Stella (Polly Bergen), who shares a ride with a patrol-car driver who looks a lot like Tess' fellow angel Andrew (John Dye). It is up to Tess, Andrew and Monica (Roma Downey)--posing as the proprietor of a beachside hamburger stand--to persuade Doris to let go of her obsession with her philandering sweetheart, and to help Stella to find forgiveness in her heart. Guest star Lainie Kazan sings "We Live On Borrowed Time".