Complete story — includes the ending
Joey stops at an ATM at the eponymous Downtown Crossing shopping district. There, she is held up at gunpoint by a mugger (Sam Ball) who demands her mobile phone and drains her bank account; he explains that he needs to get back into the good graces of his estranged wife. He demands Joey's coat for use as a gift. As he crosses the street he is struck by a moving car. Joey retrieves her possessions and, despite the criminal's protests, calls an ambulance. She faints and is taken to hospital too. Joey takes custody of a lost girl, Sammy (Olivia Milo Pence), and finds her mother, Grace ( Mercedes McNab ). They are at the hospital because Sammy's dad is sick. Grace and Joey bond until Grace realizes that her husband is Joey's assailant; wishing her husband good riddance, she leaves. Later Joey agrees to visit the mugger, knowing the man and her own father turned to drug dealing blue-collar crime despite having a wife and child/ren. She hopes to finds answers to why... The man says he can't help himself and explains how he stole his daughter's day care money. He appears to be dying and asks if Joey still loves her father despite all the ways he disappointed her. Joey admits that she does, and the mugger dies. Joey runs into Grace and Sammy. Sammy asks if her father did a bad thing to Joey, and she lies saying he pushed Joey out of the way of an oncoming vehicle. Absent: James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams, Kerr Smith, Mary Beth Peil
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