" Ryan replied: "Welcome to the New World, sir."Ryan returned home, sleeping on his trans-Atlantic flight this time, with a large teddy bear next to him - a gift promised to his daughter.A sullen Libby takes Norman safely home to sleep off his drunkenness.In the middle of the night, haunted by the memory of Esther, he awakens and determines to track her down.The slanted credits cryptically move from the top to the bottom of the screen, yet they must be read backwards from bottom to top.He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.