Rick and Annie Higuerra are expecting their first child and struggle to keep up with their debts.  Annie, seven months pregnant, is undeterred by her husband’s suggestion to cancel their Halloween party in a few days.  The angels make their own preparations as Tess alerts Monica to Satan’s presence in town.  Monica, unseen, keeps vigil outside the Higuerra’s apartment.  Monica confronts Satan, in the form of a lion, but is resolved to protect Rick and Annie, causing the lion to retreat.

Rick and Annie are awakened the next day by their new neighbor, Tess, singing the hymn “When You Can’t Move The Mountain.”  Monica, working as a manicurist at Annie’s salon, meets two of Annie’s clients Millie and Clara, and a wayward 13 year-old boy, Dennis, who finds a set of tarot cards in an old box of decorations.  Monica fears that Annie’s interest in the cards is part of Satan’s plans.  Meanwhile, Rick tends bar in a scarcely populated lounge, his only regular is Cal, a bookie.  Andrew, working as a plumber, is suspicious of Cal’s presence.  Later that night, Rick is unwilling to entertain Annie’s prediction that “Three” is his lucky number.   Annie’s next prediction apparently comes true when they receive an unexpected check in the mail for $4500.  Annie reports her success to the delight of Clara, who requests a reading.   Despite Monica’s admonitions, Annie obliges Clara.

Distressed over her foreboding reading, Clara rushes outside, too preoccupied to notice an oncoming truck.   She is nearly run over, but is pushed aside at the last moment by Monica.  The truck’s logo, as envisioned in Annie’s reading, seems to validate the tarot cards.  Cal hears of Rick’s newfound fortune and tries to convince him to gamble it.  Encouraged by Dennis’ account of how Annie’s cards can foretell the future, Rick wagers the $4500 on a horse named “Three by Three”, believing it to be the one foretold the night before.   Rick is wreaked with guilt for risking their savings and concealing it from his wife.  Rick blames his restlessness on Tess’ singing and rudely confronts her, leading to Tess’ departure.

It is Halloween and Monica is disheartened by the power the tarot cards hold over these people’s lives.  Millie is despondent, finding out “an old enemy returns with death” and Rick has lost their entire future savings.  Rick entertains Cal’s offer to use a loan shark as a way out, but is reminded by Andrew that Cal’s suggestions and the belief in the cards have led to his problems.  Clara and Millie enter the bar.  Millie later excuses herself to the restroom, intending to commit suicide.  Andrew interrupts Millie, who confides her fear that the “old enemy” is her cancer returning.  Andrew reveals himself as an angel and reassures Millie that her cancer has not returned.   Tess appears and explains to Rick, Millie and Clara that there is a God, but Satan also exists.  And their faith in the tarot cards has allowed Satan to disrupt their lives and mislead them away from Annie.   Annie, ready to deliver her baby, calls out for help after accidentally falling down the stairs in her apartment building.   Dennis arrives and reveals his true identity — morphing into a lion.

Monica rushes to Annie’s side and urges her to involve God against the power of darkness —  “the enemy cannot stand in the presence of God.”  Annie becomes empowered as she recalls the hymn sung by Tess.  Annie is joined in her singing by a united Rick, Millie, Clara, Tess and Andrew.  Satan retreats into the night — the beautiful cries of Rick and Annie’s baby boy are heard.

High atop a New York penthouse, Tess is entertaining at a society party hosted by bon vivant Everett Clay when his octogenarian father Benjamin, who still runs the family business, makes a surprise appearance to chastise his son and grandson about their wasteful ways.  The following morning, Benjamin tells Everett the Bible story of the prodigal son who squanders his fortune.  Benjamin reminds Everett that his great grandfather started this company carving handmade buttons and that he’s being disinherited to learn the importance of self-reliance and hard work, handing him a framed deerskin jacket, with buttons carved by his great grandfather.  Angry and penniless, Jake busts the frame, when Tess appears in her Cadillac, offering Everett a ride to Colorado, where some friends of his had invited him to stay.  Before long, they arrive in Central City, the mining town that was in its heyday at the turn of the century.

They stop at the historic Teller House saloon where Everett notices a portrait of a woman’s face painted on the barroom floor.  Tess tells Everett some of the folklore surrounding the fabled portrait, then goes on to tell him its connection to his great grandfather, Jack Clay.  It turns out that the woman whose likeness appeared on the barroom floor worked at the saloon and was friends with Jack Clay.  Tess recounts the story of how Jack had come to Central City to hawk his miracle elixir, preaching its curative powers with the conviction of an evangelist.  Jack loses a game of poker to a known con man named Barkley Stubbs, who not only left town with Jack’s horse and gun, but a bag full of handcrafted buttons he made for his wife.

With Monica and Andrew as his guides, Jack tracks Barkley to a remote mountaintop and finds him unearthing a treasure.  Jack holds Barkley at gunpoint to hand over the treasure.  Monica tries to talk Jack out of it when Barkley makes a move for the gun.  A struggle ensues and the gun goes off, wounding Barkley.  Physically unable to reach the nearest hospital, Barkley prepares to meet his Maker.  But before he does, he advises Jack to put his button-making skills to use, and gives Jack the map to find his way back to Central City.  Tess explains that Jack left the treasure intact, taking only his due.  Realizing what this means, Everett searches the deerskin jacket, finds the treasure map and returns to the spot to unearth the treasure his great grandfather buried over a hundred years ago.  But when he opens it, he is flabbergasted to find a lone button — the button that came off during the struggle between his great grandfather and Barkley Stubbs.

When Everett realizes he’d come all this way for naught, Everett goes into cardiac arrest.  He’s rushed to the hospital and while the doctors work on reviving his body, Monica goes to work on his soul.  With Monica’s help, Everett finally comes to understand the lesson his father had been trying to impart.  When Everett regains consciousness, he calls his father to apologize and to assure him that he’s coming home a changed man.

Max Rigney shows up for his first day of college with his father, Sam, who is proud to show him the frat house of which he was once president–the PIG House.  Rafael meets them and introduces himself as a student.  Tess and Andrew join Rafael, noting that Sam is paying for Max’s education–but only if he goes to this school, pledges this fraternity, and takes all the right courses.  Walking around campus, Sam is greeted by Monica; he recognizes her voice and has a troubling flashback.  He later discovers that Monica is a visiting philosophy professor, and secretly determines that Max will have to stay away from her–which shouldn’t be a problem since he, Sam, has chosen Max’s coursework.  But that night, Rafael helps Max make a decision of his own and take one class his father hasn’t chosen for him–Monica’s philosophy class.

He tells his mother about it on the phone, and mentions that he might not pledge PIG.  He likes being his own man–but that night, his father drives two hours back to campus to demand Max drop the philosophy class and join the fraternity.  So Max pledges PIG and goes through all of the hazing rituals, but Monica is able to convince him to stay in her class.  That night, Max and Jamie and Greg are locked in the clock tower by two frat brothers.  Security guard Andrew shows up and spends some time talking to Max.  After Greg and Max help Jamie through an asthma attack, the boys become fast friends.  Their last hazing ritual demands that if a pledge fails any of the other challenges, he must drink 21 shots of tequila.  When Jamie fails the PIG history quiz, he decides to take the drinking challenge.  When he can’t finish it, Greg finishes for him–drinks the rest of the shots–and immediately passes out.  The PIG brothers convince Jamie to take the rap for the frat by saying he bought the tequila.  Jamie does so, knowing that if he doesn’t he won’t get in.  Greg is raced off to the hospital, and the next night, just after Jamie and Max have been accepted into the fraternity,  Jamie is arrested.

Max discovers that Greg is in a coma–and that when his father was president of the fraternity, there was another controversy, which Sam won’t say much about (it is the troubling night he remembered in his earlier flashback).  Max visits Greg in the hospital and receives a revelation from Rafael, who explains that just like in the popular movie “The Matrix,” there is more to this world than what we can see.  The other three angels appear, too, and encourage Max to make his own decisions–right decisions, based on truth, not on going along with his dad.  They explain that the controversy Sam lied about involved attempted rape and that his father has been lying ever since.  Max decides to confront his father, speak the truth to get Jamie out of jail, and live in the truth–even if that means paying for college himself.

Monica and Tess are driving through North Carolina in search of their next assignment when they get pulled over by a traffic cop and hauled into court.  The presiding Judge turns out to be Andrew, who shows no special treatment and sentences them to “community service.”  He assigns them to assist two members of the community whose feud (dating back forty years) has become a nuisance to the court, in the hopes that the extra assistance will enable them to work out their differences out of court.  Tess assists Pastor Robert Harrigan who is preparing for the arrival of his twelve-year-old grand-nephew, Brian.

Meanwhile, Monica assists Harrigan’s neighbor and chief nemesis, Dr. Lucy Scribner, who submits a written critique of his weekly sermon.  Monica and Tess ultimately realize the purpose of their assignment has more to do with Brian than the two feuding adults.  Lucy strikes a rapport with Brian and explains the reason she became a doctor had to do with her having polio as a child.  She was told by doctors that she would never walk again.  Tess proceeds to tell Monica the story behind Robert and Lucy’s feud which began as a tale of teen romance.  But when Robert told his parents of his plans to marry Lucy, they objected, fearful that polio was somehow contagious.  Robert’s parents saw to it that their marriage plans were thwarted and sent him away to live with relatives, leaving Lucy with a broken heart.  In time, a vaccine was developed and Lucy went on to medical school.

Meanwhile, back in the present, Lucy and Robert square off on opposite sides of a local issue over the placement of a stop sign at a busy intersection.  Lucy is vehemently opposed to the stop sign which she feels would open the floodgates to developers and would encroach on their city’s small town charm.  Lucy and Robert go at it, using the public forum as a means to vent their personal agenda until Brian finally cries out against these two adults behaving like children.  He then runs off and is struck by a car at the very intersection they’ve been debating.  At the hospital, Robert and Lucy learn that Brian suffered damage to his spinal cord and will be paralyzed from the waist down.  Lucy starts to feel hopeless, but Monica reminds Lucy how she proved the doctors wrong when they told her she would never walk again.  Lucy goes on the internet and locates a new drug that could reverse the effects of paralysis — with the caveat that it be administered within 72 hours of the injury.  Unable to convince Robert and the attending physician that this is Brian’s best option, Lucy goes to Judge Andrew to obtain a court order granting her permission to go over Robert’s head to administer the drug, but Andrew denies the request.

With time running out, Tess finds a way to get through to Robert by showing him how his feud with Lucy flies in the face of the very gospel he preaches, reminding him of the Biblical passage of coming to the altar having been reconciled to those you have wronged.  With moments to spare, Monica and Tess act as referees, showing them how their feud is holding a little boy hostage and how this grudge grew out of silence and lack of communication.  With the key to the past finally unlocked, Robert and Lucy make their peace in time to administer the drug — and begin to heal the wounds of the past.

Calvin Chillcut is a storm-chaser who tracks tornadoes for the National Severe Storms Lab.  But due to the dearth of storm activity, the NSSL has just informed him to cease and desist.  Distraught over the news, Calvin ties one on and sleeps through the first twister in 2 years.  The next day, Calvin shows up at the local watering hole (the Die Hard Diner) with a hangover, and by this point, it’s clear that a major storm is headed their way.  Tess points out that Calvin doesn’t have to turn in his equipment until tomorrow and urges him to stop feeling sorry for himself and get busy.  Calvin takes her advice and starts tracking the storm and along the way stops to pick up a hitchhiker — Monica.  Calvin explains it’s his last day — barring a miracle.  And before long, that’s just what he gets — in the form of a twister.

As the Civil Defense Tornado Warning sirens sound, the Sheriff advises everyone in the diner to take cover.  Some take his advice, but most feel perfectly safe in the diner, which they believe to be storm-proof, having weathered many a storm, unharmed.  Joe, a construction foreman from Atlanta, is concerned for his wife, Laura, who’s heading to the diner with their infant daughter.  While Calvin tracks the storm and gives Monica a dose of his cynical world outlook, Tess chides the locals at the diner for blaming God for natural disasters and placing their emphasis on “luck” and superstition.  Only Joe seems to have any appreciation for Tess’ point of view.  Calvin warns Sheriff Guthrie the twister is headed toward the diner when there’s a sudden crash — Joe’s wife’s car has landed outside the diner inches from the Sheriff’s squad car — its grille impaled into the street.  With nobody in the car, Joe holds onto his faith that his wife and child are safe.  Joe heads out in search of his wife and child — along with two others (Langford T and Willard) from the diner.

Meanwhile, Monica suggests looking for Joe’s family, but Calvin is only thinking of himself, intent on saving his job.  It’s here that we get a glimpse of the source of Calvin’s pain and how a tornado struck without warning, killing both his parents, when he was a teenager.  JJ suddenly remembers something about Joe’s wife from a previous visit — that she loved antiques and that she would’ve gotten off the main highway.  Tess convinces JJ to put aside her fear and join her in the search.  Meanwhile, Monica tries to get Calvin to join in the search for the child, but he’s only thinking of himself.  Monica reveals herself as an Angel of God and explains why Calvin has failed as a storm-chaser.  That he’s allowed his rage to control his life and instead of following his heart’s desire, he turned his vocation into something it was not intended to be.

Once he’s ready to listen, he hears the cry of a child — and looks up to see Joe’s baby girl (still in the car seat) wedged between the branches of a tree.  He radios in the good news, but static obscures the message.  Langford T, Willard, Joe and Laura return to find the diner decimated by the tornado, its “luck” having finally run out.  Calvin pulls up in his truck and returns Joe and Laura’s child to two very grateful parents.