God Friended Me (TV Series)

17 Years (2018)

Joe Morton: Arthur Finer

Quotes 

• Miles Finer : We need to talk.

  Arthur Finer : Miles, what's wrong?

  Miles Finer : I know what you did for Charles Cole.

  Arthur Finer : Miles...

  Miles Finer : No, no! How can you help the man that killed your wife?

  Arthur Finer : About... a year after your mother died, I went to see him in prison. I needed to look into his eyes and have him do the same, and what I saw was a man full of regret, full of sorrow, a man who made a mistake and paid for it, and when he was released, he wanted to volunteer his services to give back, and so I supported him, because it was the right thing to do.

  Miles Finer : If it was the right thing to do, why lie to me about it?

  Arthur Finer : Because you weren't ready to hear the truth. You were so angry, and whether you know it or not, you still are.

  Miles Finer : Yeah. Yeah, I still am, but the real question is why aren't you?

  Arthur Finer : When your mother first got sick, we had to prepare for the worst as we were praying for the best, which meant having conversations about the end. What we would say to you and your sister. The one comfort I had was knowing that we would be able to say our goodbyes.

  Miles Finer : But you never got to. None of us did.

  Arthur Finer : You asked why I am not angry. I was. For a very long time. I was the one in the car the night she died. I held her in my arms when she took her last breath, when she closed her eyes for the last time, so you're damn right I was angry, until one morning I woke up and realized "I want to remember my wife with love, with a... with a smile", and I couldn't do that if I was carrying around all that anger. I had to let it go, and the only way to do that was to forgive Charles Cole.

  Miles Finer : No, dad, you forgave him because your faith told you to.

  Arthur Finer : No, I forgave him because that's what your mother would have done. I forgave him because that's what I needed to do. Look... your sister said that the God account sent you his name. I think that's for a reason. It's time for you to let go, son, because if you don't, you will never be able to move forward.