To Touch The Moon

Plot
Jonathan and Mark pick up a young hitchhiker, Tony, who is headed into the next town. To be kind, they offer the boy food as they pull into a roadside diner. The boy refuses, saying that he will just stay in the car. Mark, feeling he understands the boy having too much pride to accept charity, orders a burger and fries to take out to him while pretending it was food he ordered for himself and was just too full to eat. Before the food can arrive, however, the boy jumps into the front seat and steals Mark's car. Jonathan leaves Mark (who insists on calling the police) to go to the address of his next assignment. That assignment is a young boy with terminal cancer named Arthur. Mark finally finds his car, but he doesn't turn Tony in, despite Tony's grandmother telling him to do just that. Instead, Mark brings Tony to find Jonathan who is pretending to be a friend of Arthur's deceased astronaut father. Arthur begs his mother to allow everyone to stay for barbecue and they all eat a meal together and have light conversation. After dinner, Arthur takes Mark and Tony up to his room to look through the telescope. Jonathan tries comforting Arthur's mother because she is having a difficult time with Arthur's grim prognosis and her husband not being there for support.

Tony isn't interested in viewing the moon through the telescope and excuses himself to the bathroom. Instead, he goes downstairs and starts robbing the house of incidental items. As he is making his escape, he runs into Jonathan, who, of course, knows exactly what Tony is doing. Jonathan tells Tony that Arthur and his mother have a far from perfect life. Tony scoffs at this until Jonathan reveals that Arthur is dying. Tony then takes an interest in the younger boy and spends time with him. The entire group spend several days with Arthur letting him do all sorts of fun things. Then one night Arthur collapses and is returned to the hospital. Tony will now be there for Arthur's mother and help her get through their time of grief together while Jonathan takes Arthur on his final journey to the moon and beyond.