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Saving Grace
Katy Gorby (Staff Writer)
Saving Grace is about a police detective with an emotional crisis living in Oklahoma City. A respected officer, Grace Hanadarko can't seem to run her personal life with the same sort of finesse she has in the field. Can an unlikely divine stranger influence her to get her life back on track? Grace meets up with her "last-chance" angle when after one of her drinking binges she runs down and kills a pedestrian with her Porsche. In desperation she calls out for God's help and a scruffy, tobacco-spitting man who calls himself Earl appears. Unfolding his wings to reveal his divine origins, Earl tells her that she's headed for heck, and asks if she's ready to turn her life over to God. When he finally disappears, the person she struck is also gone and it's as if the accident never happened. The only evidence left is a small amount of the victim's blood on her blouse, which she brings to her best friend, forensics expert Rhetta Rodriguez to analyze. With Rhetta's help, Grace discovers that her accident "victim" is actually an inmate on death row, Leon Cooley who is also visited by Earl on a regular basis.
Advantages / Disadvantages of Saving Grace
The advantages are that it helps people realize it’s not that easy to be a cop and see the things that other people go through of a daily basis. It can also help people that are going through the same situation that Grace is going through before she meets this last chance angle.
The disadvantages are it is very graphic and not suitable for young children. It also can make children look up to the main character. In Saving Grace she is not the person that children would want to look up too.
