"The Patient" is the third episode of the television series Miracles

Miracles (TV series)

Miracles is an American drama television program starring Skeet Ulrich and Angus Macfadyen. Created by Richard Hatem and Michael Petroni, the series has sometimes been dubbed a "spiritual version of The X-Files" by its creators...

. It was the seventh episode produced. Its only U.S. airing was on February 10, 2003, and first aired in Canada on October 17, 2003 on VisionTV.

This episode deals with saints and angels, and also with the brain disorder Sakovsky's syndrome.

Plot

Paul becomes attracted to the sharp and beautiful daughter Raina of a brilliant, workaholic scientist. He goes out on his first date in a very long time and struggles with his desire for something resembling a normal life. Raina asks Paul to help her father, who is researching the cure of a rare disease and is experiencing something paranormal with one of his patients. Her father is a man who believes only in the scientific and the "actual" and he can find no explanation for the fact that one of his most unresponsive patients suddenly begins communicating and giving him the exact scientific answers he has been seeking for the past two years. Paul and Keel determine that the patient has in fact been possessed by an evil entity and this mysterious entity somehow knows an awful lot about Paul and Keel. It manipulates the scientist and tries to get him to kill the other patients, but Keel manages to banish the entity before anyone is killed. Just after Paul has said goodbye to Raina, who must return to her home in "California", he finds out that she has actually been dead for two years. She died of the very disease her father has been working so hard to cure. Although he has lost her, meeting Raina has helped Paul to see that there is more than just darkness out there.

Cast

• Father 'Poppi' Calero — Hector Elizondo
  Hector Elizondo
  Héctor Elizondo is an American actor. Elizondo's first major role was that of "God" in the play Steambath, for which he won an Obie Award...
  
  
• Evelyn Santos — Marisa Ramirez
  Marisa Ramirez
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• Paul Callan — Skeet Ulrich
  Skeet Ulrich
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• Alva Keel — Angus Macfadyen
  Angus Macfadyen
  Angus Macfadyen is a Scottish actor.Angus Macfadyen was born in Glasgow and was brought up partly in Africa, France, the Philippines and Singapore. His father was a doctor in the World Health Organisation. He was once engaged to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.Angus attended the University of...
  
  

Guest stars

• Little Boy — Brian Ryan
• Stu — John Cabrera
• Laurel — Alyson Craft
• Nurse Julia — Mary Wickliffe
• Raina Bauer — Gina Ravera
  Gina Ravera
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• Sherwood Nichols/"Mr. Friendly" — Jade Carter
• Dr. Bauer — Clarence Williams III
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External links

• "The Patient" at TV.com
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• "The Patient" at the Internet Movie Database
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