<P> Orlando proposes to Helen, but before she can respond, she sees the shooting on the news and goes to the hospital with Brian . They run into Brenda . The doctor says Charles might be paralyzed for life and asks if they should resuscitate him if things deteriorate . Brenda chooses to let Charles die, but Helen, still Charles's legal wife, tells the doctor to do everything they can for him . Charles recovers, returns home with Helen, and resumes his verbal abuse of her . But Helen takes the opportunity to retaliate for years of neglect and verbal and emotional abuse . Brenda is revealed to have emptied Charles's bank account during his hospitalization and left with the children . Their maid, Christina, leaves as well because Charles has no money to pay her . In addition, all of Charles's friends and associates have turned their backs on him now that he has been left penniless . </P> <P> Helen and Orlando argue when he learns she has moved back in with Charles to look after him . He leaves in anger . Charles realizes his mistakes and apologizes to Helen, realizing that she was the only one who showed any true care for him . He becomes a kinder man, while she helps him recover . He regains his ability to walk one day in church, where Deborah, now clean and sober, reconciles with Brian . Charles hopes to start over with Helen, but during a family dinner, she gives him her wedding ring and signed divorce papers and tells him she will always be his friend . She finds Orlando, asks him to propose again, and accepts when he does . </P> <Ul> <Li> Kimberly Elise as Helen McCarter </Li> <Li> Steve Harris as Charles McCarter </Li> <Li> Shemar Moore as Orlando </Li> <Li> Cicely Tyson as Myrtle Simmons </Li> <Li> Lisa Marcos as Brenda </Li> <Li> Tamara Taylor as Debrah Simmons </Li> <Li> Tiffany Evans as Tiffany Simmons </Li> <Li> Tyler Perry as Mabel "Madea" Simmons, Uncle Joe Simmons, and Brian Simmons </Li> <Li> Gary Anthony Sturgis as Jamison Milton Jackson </Li> <Li> Tamela Mann as Cora Simmons </Li> <Li> Chandra Currelley as herself (Chandra the club singer) </Li> <Li> Wilbur Fitzgerald as Judge </Li> <Li> Judge Mablean Ephriam as herself </Li> </Ul> <Li> Kimberly Elise as Helen McCarter </Li>

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