Quantum Leap s03e01 Episode Script
The Leap Home Part I - November 25, 1969
[ Woman .]
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr.
Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished.
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.
His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear.
And so, Dr.
Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Sam? Sam, you okay? - Al? - You okay? Huh? You must have leaped with me.
Oh, we did it, Sam.
We- Sam? [ Groaning .]
What the hell am I doing in this uniform? What's going on, Sam? [ Dog Barking .]
I think- Come here.
Sam, what the hell is happening? Huh? [ Dog Barking .]
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Gooshie? What the hell is going on? [ Sam Laughing .]
Whoo-hoo-hoo! Heh-heh-heh-heh! [ Laughing .]
Al.
Al.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba! Stop that! Come on, you rotten pile of Gummi Bears.
[ Maniacal Laughing .]
You know what this means? What? It's my turn to slip into the powder room like the Invisible Man.
It's my turn.
Gooshie! Where the hell are you? In the future, he's- He's in the future, and you're in- Uh, boy, I can't tell what year it is, but from the looks of your uniform, it's as far back in time as I've ever leaped.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
I've been leaping back and forth within my own lifetime, but since we switched places, that means that this leap would be within your lifetime.
When were you born? [ Clears Throat .]
June, uh, 1 5, 1 9- 1 9- Gooshie, if you don't answer, I'm gonna kill you! Oh, my God! Your brain's Swiss-cheesed.
My brain is fine.
No, it's not.
The leap Swiss-cheesed it.
Stop saying that! It's nothing to be ashamed of.
Do you remember the first time I leaped? I couldn't even remember my own name.
Al.
My name is Al.
Al what? [ Laughing .]
Oh, you think I've forgotten my last name? [ Laughing .]
I'm about to bet on it.
[ Coughs .]
Well, you'd lose.
It's Beckett.
Al Beckett.
Ha! It's Calavicci.
Al Calavicci.
Ha! [ Laughing .]
Calavicci? It's not Beckett? No.
Well, then, who the hell is Beckett? Me.
I'm Beckett.
Gooshie! He can't hear you.
Ziggy's not even gonna be a gleam in my eye for another- I don't know- Ziggy? The parallel- The parallel hybrid computer I designed to run Quantum Leap.
Then who the hell is Gooshie? The head programmer.
Oh, the little guy with bad breath.
Yeah.
Yeah, and Ziggy is the computer with the big ego.
That's right.
And installing that ego was a breakthrough.
Yeah.
Without it, Ziggy'd be just another big number cruncher- Al, I'm gettin' my memory back.
Do you hear what I'm saying? Well, you're taking it from me! No, no! The leap did that.
Don't panic.
I'll fill in the gaps.
[ Groans .]
Oh, boy.
Leaping together must have merged our minds.
I wonder which part of yours I got.
Gooshie, why don't you answer me? Because Ziggy doesn't exist in the year you've leaped into.
Because we switched places, in order to communicate with Gooshie, I'd have to have the hand-link, because I'm the one- I'm the one in the imaging chamber.
Imaging chamber? Oh, my God! I'm home.
I'm home, Al.
[ Laughs, Sighs .]
Where's the door? Door? Yeah, where-Where's the- Here, let me just take- Where's the damn door? Where- Gooshie! Where's the door? Gooshie! [ Sam .]
Gooshie.
! [ Al .]
Gooshie.
! Gooshie! Gooshie! - Gooshie, where's the door? - You find the door.
I don't know where the door is.
[ Al .]
Gooshie.
! Tom? Gooshie.
! Your name's Tom.
Tom.
Tom! Huh? [ Laughing .]
I don't believe it.
- Your name's Tom.
- Your telegram said you wouldn't be here till Friday.
I- Oh, I, uh- - He took an earlier flight.
- Why, yeah, I took an earlier flight.
You look terrific considering.
Considering? Considering what? What? Tom, you just spent three years in a P.
O.
W.
camp.
- They didn't feed you much, did they? - Bowl of rice a day.
- The Germans fed you rice? - The V.
C.
V.
C.
? Al, Al.
You're not Admiral Al Calavicci.
You're Captain Tom somebody, and you better start acting like him until Ziggy tells us what you're here to change.
Oh.
How? How? - There's nobody home.
- Don't look at me.
Look at him.
Everybody's home.
They're all still asleep.
Is that some new kind of walkie-talkie? Uh,yeah,yeah.
Y-You're testing it for the government.
It's top secret.
Oh, yes, this is top secret, and I'm evaluating it for the Pentagon.
- That's good.
Now put it away.
- Put it away.
Just got liberated from a P.
O.
W.
camp, and they've already given you a new duty assignment.
- It's just like the navy.
- Army.
- Army.
- You okay, Tom? Uh, ask him how she is.
H-H-How she is? There's always a she.
Ask him how she is.
How she is? Suzanne's, uh, fine, Tom.
Suzanne.
That must be your girlfriend.
I don't see a wedding ring.
Finding out you were alive came as quite a shock.
Oh, my God.
She must've thought you were dead.
She thought I was dead? Hell, the whole country thought you were dead after Ernie Pyle's column.
Your crew told him how you kicked 'em out of the tank and turned back alone to cover the battalion's retreat.
They saw you take out three panzers before your tank got blown up.
[ Whistles .]
President Roosevelt even read Ernie's column in one of his fireside chats.
You can't blame Suzanne for doin' what she did.
What'd she do? Oh, shoot.
Don't tell me she didn't tell you.
She said she told you- told you when you called her from Bethesda.
She didn't have to.
I already knew.
Careful, Al.
Yeah, I-I guess you would.
You two always knew what the other one was up to since you were kids.
When'd she marry him? Oh, she hasn't yet.
The wedding's on the 1 7 th.
Well, today is the- June 1 5.
That's my birthday.
Your birthday's in April, same as mine, Tom.
Are you okay? Uh, well, I'm just a little woozy after the lea- uh, flight.
Good catch.
Hell, what am I thinking? You probably took all night gettin' here.
When'd you chow down last? I don't remember.
Well, you start on this, and I'll get Kelly to whip you up a hero's breakfast.
Tom, Crown Point is so damn proud of you it could bust! Happy milkman.
Why do I have this creepy, crawly, scary feeling? Well, uh, it's déja vu, I think.
You see, Al, you were M.
I.
A.
in Vietnam for six years.
And after you'd been gone for four years, your wife, Beth- See, she was really- She was sure that you were dead, so sh-she, uh- - Well- - She remarried.
I remember.
Well, it's not like it just happened.
But, you know, it's weird that I- I've leaped into a guy that's sharing the same fate.
Well, you see, maybe- maybe that's why you leaped into him.
You mean, to get him and this Suzanne together, maybe? Yeah.
Yeah.
Or to keep 'em apart.
See, without Ziggy, I don't know if Suzanne marries you or- or the guy that she's supposed to marry two days from now.
I can't see a damn thing through this hologram.
What are you talkin'about? You're the hologram.
To you, yeah.
But here in the imaging chamber, you and everything around you is a holo- a hologram to me.
Don't you remember anything? Why doesn't Gooshie just open the door? See, that's what I don't understand.
He should be monitoring the- the situation, and-and- Unless.
Unless? I don't think I'm gonna like this " unless.
'' To leap together we would've had to either been struck by lightning or have been sitting at ground zero during an atomic detonation.
Ooh! It was lightning! Lightning! Ah.
I remember a big bolt just as we leaped.
Okay, well, see, the lightning strike could have been misread by Ziggy as a catastrophic collapse of the radium accelerator ring surrounding the imaging chamber.
Ziggy would've automatically sealed the chamber to protect the project from radium radiation.
But when they realize that the ring didn't collapse, then they're gonna open the door! Well, see, once the door has been sealed, it can't be reopened by Ziggy until the radiation half-life of the radium ring has expired.
Why do I feel this is going to be a big number? Well, no, no.
Not in cosmic terms.
See, it's- it's, uh, 1 ,600 years.
How could you design a system without a fail-safe? Well, I di- I didn't.
I didn't.
If the door is sealed in error, it can be reopened from the inside.
- Oh, well, thank God! - By using the hand-link.
I was beginning-The hand-link.
Which I can't use for another 50 years.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
[ Horn Honking .]
[ Sam Narrating .]
My dream had come true.
I was home, back in my own time.
But it was turning into a nightmare.
I was trapped in the Quantum Leap imaging chamber, and the only way out was through the hand-link in Al's pocket, and Al was back in 1 945.
* [ Big Band .]
Yumola! Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm tellin' you he's here.
Steak and eggs, buckwheat pancakes, home fries, whole wheat toast and black coffee.
How long has it been since you had a breakfast like this, Tom? [ Al's Voice .]
Too long.
Do you have any Sweet 'n Low or Equal? Sweet 'n Low? Equal? Oh, no, no, no, no.
They didn't have any artificial sweetener in 1 945.
Okay? Boy, did they have women with big kazooms! Oh! Uh, oh, Sweet 'n Low is a- Sweet 'n Low- Oh, it's something that Uncle Sam has developed just for the military for rations and- We sure could use some of that on the home front.
Even with the café, I'm rationed a half a pound of sugar a week.
And Mike tries to put all of it into his cup.
[ Giggles .]
Are you forgetting who slips you an extra pound ofbutter every now and then? Oh, I didn't know I was swappin' sugar for it.
Well, if a pound of butter is all it takes, I got me a dairy farm that I- Stop that! Oh, my God! I am so sorry.
That's a horrible thing to say, and I don't know what came over me.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
This is all your fault.
My fault? Yes! When I leaped, I must've gotten part of your lecherous side in during the leap.
Oh, my- Oh, no.
It's tough coming back from war.
Oh, my- You've got a filthy mind.
You're the one saying all the dirty things! I mean, I always- Sorry, Tom.
I guess we all need to wash our minds out with soap after this war.
- Yeah, especially him.
- Did I say the " F'' word again? I'm sorry.
It's a tough habit to break after Guadalcanal.
[ Bells Ringing .]
Oh, Tommy! Oh! [ Moaning .]
Oh, I didn't believe you were alive.
Not even after I talked to you on the phone.
Not until now.
Al? Al, if she keeps this up, I'm gonna have to throw a bucket of cold water on you to separate you.
Hmm? [ Mike .]
I knew bringing the two of you back together would but the kibosh on Suzanne marrying Clifford.
Clifford? Clifford? He's changed a lot since you shipped out, Tommy.
She's been two-timing you.
Yeah.
His feet got flat so he could get classified 4F.
- He's always had flat feet.
- Not till after Pearl Harbor.
Clifford feels terrible about being classified 4F.
He does everything he can to support the war effort.
He organized the biggest scrap metal drive in the state of Indiana.
- The governor gave him a citation.
- Suzanne! The Congressional Medal of Honor.
Now there is a citation! Ah, it doesn't matter now.
Tom's back, and he's the guy she'll marry.
- Right, Suzanne? - [ Sam .]
Aha, Al.
! I think that's why you're here.
You're here to get Suzanne to sleep with you- Marry you.
Marry me? Of course I'll marry you, darling.
[ Sam Laughs .]
Okay, Al, get ready to leap.
Suzanne Elsinger! What are you doing? Suckin' face, pal, with my buddy here.
It's very big in the '60s, '7 0s- - Will you shut up! - No, I will not shut up.
The woman you're ravaging is practically my wife.
- [ Mike .]
Not anymore.
- What do you mean by that? You're about to find out, knuckle nose.
Tom here asked Suzanne to marry him, and she accepted.
- [ Al Stammering .]
- You can't be serious.
We're to be married in two days.
What are my mother and father gonna say about that? - Cancel the church.
Cancel the reception.
Cancel the tux, the cake- - Darling, darling, darling.
Darling, I understand how confusing this must be for you.
A ghost from the past appears, and it's only natural that you have some old yearnings- Boy, I'd like to satisfy 'em.
But see it for what it is, Suzanne.
What am I saying? A connection to the past that you've outgrown, like- like running barefoot through sprinklers.
- I like running barefoot through sprinklers.
- Me too.
You know, you have some nerve coming back two days before our wedding,Jarret.
You flat-footed, egg-sucking chicken turd! [ Thud .]
[ Kelly .]
Oh.
! Oh.
! Why don't you tell him how you really feel, Mike? No.
No, I may not have given a leg for my country or been in a prisoner-of-war camp, but that doesn't make me any less of a man.
Those of us who stayed behind made sacrifices too.
Only we didn't get any of the glory.
- You just got all the women.
- Oh! Boy! Gosh! You know, if you weren't so weak from being a P.
O.
W.
, I'd just like to- - Yeah, you'd like to teach me a lesson, huh? - Al- Well, I'll tell you something.
I just had some of Kelly's breakfast, and I feel I could take on Mike Tyson.
No, this is not the guy who married Beth.
- Who the hell is Mike Tyson? - Never mind! - No! - I don't want you fighting over me.
Al.
Al, I mean this.
Al, listen to me.
Don't do this.
I can't believe you could be thinking about- Why won't you listen to me? Al, what is wrong with you? We don't even know why you're here.
I think I'm here to kick Clifford's butt.
No! I love it! Tommy, don't forget.
He boxed at Princeton.
Yale.
But I beat the best that Princeton could put in the ring with me.
[ Grunts .]
Okay.
You know something? Your feet don't look very flat right now.
Oh, God! - Clifford! Are you all right? - I didn't know you knew how to do that.
I didn't either.
Here you go, Tom.
Oh, oh, we're here? Do you think a one-legged man could do that move? Oh, well, sure, if you could drive this truck.
The worst thing that could happen is you end up on your butt.
[ Chuckles .]
Hey, Tom, I'll break out the old Cherry Buster and, uh, bring it by this afternoon.
Cherry Buster? Yeah, your convertible.
You stored it in the barn before you shipped out.
Remember? Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Who could forget the Cherry Buster? Tom, I would've had this place cleaned up if I'd have known you were coming sooner.
Which place? Your place.
Oh, that one! You sure you're okay? Yeah, no, yeah, I'm fine.
Uh, it's good to be home, and- and thanks.
Take care.
This isn't fair.
Sam? A beautiful body like that, and I'm just thinking pure thoughts? Damn it! Huh.
Small towns.
Hello, baby! [ Gasps .]
Don't do that.
Revenge is mine.
Thus sayeth the hologram.
Wah.
Wah.
Wah.
Wah.
All right, you've made your point.
I know how to open the chamber door.
What? I know how to open the chamber door.
I designed Ziggy with a backdoor code so that I could override any command, even one dealing with catastrophic failure.
All we have to do is get the code to Gooshie.
Oh, well, that should be easy enough.
All we have to do is wait half a century.
Well, in a sense, yes.
But for us it'll be instantaneous.
Now, we've gotta figure out what the date is where I'm at today.
September 1 8, 1 999.
Your Swiss-cheesed brain remembers today's date? My fifth wife is suing me for more alimony, and that's the court date.
There's some days you don't forget.
Okay.
Okay.
We deliver a letter to Gooshie on September 1 8, 1 999.
Who's gonna wait 54 years to deliver a letter? The post office.
And my dad's lawyer, Doc Crosnoff.
We mail Doc Crosnoff a letter, right? With, say, a hundred bucks.
For the stamp.
No, no, no.
It's 1 945.
A hundred dollars will do very nicely.
We mail him a letter with a hundred dollars and instructions to have the code delivered to Gooshie on September 1 8, 1 999.
It could work.
It's gotta work.
Uh, what if it doesn't? Look, we're never gonna find out unless you put the letter into the- What's the matter? Sam, you all right? [ Sighs .]
I don't know.
Oh! Are you running out of air? No, no.
There's enough air in the imaging chamber to sustain me for six months.
I'd die of thirst first.
N- I'm gettin' my memory back, Al.
All of it? Oh, my God! Why didn't you tell me? I couldn't.
What? I- I couldn't.
[ Exhales .]
Drop the letter into the mailbox.
[ Portal Opens .]
Donna! [ Panting .]
Al? Donna? Oh, God.
How could I have forgotten you? It wasn't your fault.
What matters is that you remember me now.
Of course I remember you.
You're the woman I love.
You're my wife.
[ Laughs .]
Well- [ Laughs .]
[ Gooshie Laughing .]
How you doin', Gooshie? Welcome back, Dr.
Beckett.
Welcome back.
This was brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
When did you get it? Post office delivered it today, and six days after it was mailed.
[ Laughs, Sighs .]
Hi, Verbena.
Gee, he sounds just like Al.
Tina! [ Laughing .]
Oh, God! Tina! God, do you feel good.
[ Giggles .]
You even hug like Al.
Al-What's- What's happening with Al? - Uh, Ziggy doesn't know.
- Don't you remember? The data from the memory banks was limited to your lifetime.
It was in my lifetime.
Right.
And Al's in 1 945.
And we didn't know that till we got your letter.
We've been loading Ziggy with data from '45 as fast as we can pull it from the National Archives, but it could be days before Ziggy projects a theory on what Al's there to do.
I'll be right back.
- Hello, Ziggy.
- [ Woman's Voice .]
It's about time you got around to me, Dr.
Beckett.
I'm sorry.
No need to apologize.
I don't expect contact until you need me.
Well, Ziggy, you're looking very user-friendly.
I see that simul-leaping with Admiral Calavicci has had a positive effect on you.
You're in for some pleasant surprises, Dr.
Eleese.
Ziggy- Yes? - Do you have enough- - Data to give you a reasonably accurate projection as to why Admiral Calavicci has leapt into Crown Point, Indiana in the year 1 945? Yes.
No.
Do you have any data on Admiral Calavicci? He'll kiss the girls and make them cry.
Oh, ain't that the truth.
[ Groans .]
Ziggy- Yes, Dr.
Beckett? You've made brilliant theoretical hypotheses with minimal data over the last four years.
That's true.
I'd like you to do one now.
- I don't think so, Doctor.
- Why not? I'm dealing with too many data-limiting factors- the admiral, this Captain Tom Jarret he's leapt into, a year no one had the foresight to preload into my memory banks.
Actually, I was doing quite well absorbing the year until Franklin Delano Roosevelt died.
It depressed me.
Try me in 1 1 .
6 hours.
What if the admiral doesn't have 1 1 .
6 hours? I believe your brain is still slightly magnafluxed, Dr.
Beckett, or you'd remember I never experience guilt.
That's a flaw found only in human computers.
Good night, Doctor.
Have fun,you two.
Ziggy! It won't do any good.
Why did I give him Barbra Streisand's ego? * [ Big Band .]
No.
Wait.
Honey, no.
Just a second.
Just one second.
[ Moaning .]
Tom Jarret, how you've changed.
Yeah, oh, boy.
You don't- You don't know the half of it.
You don't know the half of it.
I remember when it was all I could do to keep you from-you know.
Oh, yes, I do.
I do.
I do.
But, you see, something's happened to my mind.
It's the war.
It happens to all the boys.
- How do you know that? - Clifford told me.
- Oh, Clifford.
What a nozzle.
- He read it in Reader's Digest.
Oh, Reader's Digest? Well, then, it's gotta be true.
Even Mike had problems when he came home, and you know how he and Kelly were before the war.
- Clifford told you that too? - No, silly.
Kelly did.
She said it was a long time before Mike could-you know.
- Oh, uh- - It was months before I saw them up here.
What were you doing up here? Well- Were you parking in Lover's Lane with that draft-dodging nozzle when your boyfriend was risking his life for his country? I thought you died for your country.
Well, that's all the more reason you shouldn't have been up here.
Tom Jarret.
I cried my eyes out for you for two whole years.
And even when everyone, including Mike, told me to get on with my life, I still waited another year.
Three years? You mean you- you didn't- for three years, you didn't-you know? And even then, every time Clifford kissed me, I'd close my eyes, and I'd pretend it was you.
[ Thinking .]
Take a hike, Mr.
Morals.
Calavicci's taking over.
[ Sam .]
Do you remember your stars? [ Donna .]
Try me.
Megrez.
Megrez.
Ursa Major.
The faintest one in the bowl.
You have great eyes.
Are you talking about the way they look or my vision? Yes.
[ Sighs .]
Now, what's so special about Megrez? [ Sam .]
It's 54 light-years from Earth.
That little sparkle was born in 1 945.
Sam, he'll be fine.
Yeah, maybe.
Observing isn't the same as leaping though.
This may be more than Al can handle.
God, I wish he was here.
I know.
So I could kick his butt.
What? How could he not tell me about you after all these years? The woman I love.
The woman I married.
Because I asked him not to.
Why? Could you have acted freely if you knew you were married? I don't know.
Everything that's happened in the last four years is fast becoming a blur.
It's kind of like a reverse Swiss cheese effect.
Was there anything that I did that hurt you? No.
No.
I never once felt that you betrayed our love.
[ Squealing .]
[ Ziggy .]
Dr.
Beckett? Dr.
Beckett? Dr.
Beckett.
! Yeah.
Sorry to interrupt your first night of matrimonial bliss in four years, but I thought you might like to know that I can now project with 8 1.
6% accuracy the reason Admiral Calavicci leapt into Crown Point, Indiana.
Well? It appears that Captain Tom Jarret and Suzanne Elsinger committed suicide on June 1 5, 1 945.
[ Sam Narrating .]
It felt as if I had never leaped.
My pre-leap memory had returned, and the last four years were fading as quickly as a bad dream in the light of a beautiful morning.
Life would be perfect if Al wasn't in such desperate straits.
Gooshie, is the imaging chamber on line? In 3.
4 minutes, Doctor.
Ziggy? - That was a quickie, Dr.
Beckett.
- What do you got on Al? He's 1 75.
26 centimeters tall, weighs 70.
9 1- Ziggy! Yes, Doctor? Give me what I want, baby.
Ooh.
- If you weren't my father.
- Ziggy, what do you know? Only what I read in the paper.
On June 1 6, 1 945, the Crown Point Gazette- Isn't that a parochial name? Reported that returning war hero Captain Tom Jarret and Suzanne Elsinger, the fiancée of Clifford Whiteside, drove his convertible off Lover's Leap.
Why do human beings die for love? Check Shakespeare.
Thank you, Doctor.
Not now! Why not? With a million-gigabyte capacity, I'm quite capable of rubbing my tummy, patting my head and doing a trillion floating point operations at once.
Because I don't have time to get into a philosophical discussion.
I've finished reading Shakespeare.
I see your point.
Where is Al now? I can't project a precise location until you lock on to Admiral Calavicci's neurons and mesons in the imaging chamber.
But I can assume with 96.
5% accuracy that he and Suzanne are either parked at the top of Lover's Leap or dead at the bottom.
Thank you.
Mm.
It's beautiful.
Hmm, it's useless.
[ Coughs, Groans .]
Tommy, are you okay? Oh, yeah.
It's just- [ Coughs .]
I really don't smoke.
[ Laughing .]
Cigarettes.
So it doesn't work? Uh, well, maybe in about 50 years.
Maybe it just needs a little encouragement too.
[ Portal Opens .]
[ Portal Closes .]
- Al, you didn't! - Sam.
! Who? Huh? How could you? And then, of course, how could you not? It wasn't like that.
Like what? Uh- Look, we need to talk alone, okay? Where is a men's room when you need one? Good idea.
Tommy, you're talking to someone who isn't there.
It's frightening me.
Oh, Suzanne, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
This is a- I have some delayed stress syndrome from the war.
No, no, no.
In '45 it's shell shock.
- I mean shell shock.
- Shell shock.
I'm shell-shocked.
I'm sorry.
Oh, you poor baby.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
- Al! Al, come on! Would ya? - Huh? No.
Come on.
I'm okay.
I just- I have to take a-you know.
You mind? Oh.
Oh, sure.
Sure.
Me too.
- Sam! - What am I doing? You dog! Well, it's your filthy mind! Yeah, well, I want my mind back! These choir boy thoughts are drivin' me nuts! Well, they didn't seem to stop you a few minutes ago.
If you'll excuse my saying so, what was that all about? No, wait.
It was a beautiful moment.
Oh.
I've never experienced anything quite like that.
[ Exhales .]
And I guess I owe that to you.
Yeah, well, I guess- I guess I owe you one too.
[ Exhales .]
Just one? Ziggy has figured out why you leaped into Crown Point, okay? Oh, yeah? Why? In the original history, it seems that Tom and Suzanne drive off of this cliff tonight in an apparent double su- double su- What? icide.
Suicide! A double suicide! No, no, no.
It couldn't be suicide.
Suicide is the farthest thing from her mind.
Well, if it wasn't suicide- Could be murder.
[ Suzanne Screams .]
Ohhh.
Suzanne! Suzanne! You got a fix on her? No.
No.
Damn it, Gooshie! What's wrong? Suzanne! Suzanne! There's not enough data for a lock.
Suzanne! I've gotta find her.
! Suzanne! Come on, Gooshie.
Where is she? I gotta get a lock on her.
! I got her, Sam! [ Ziggy .]
Dr.
Beckett, I should warn you that if Clifford- Too late.
You son of a- [ Grunting .]
Al, come on.
! Come on.
! You gotta wake up.
! [ Ziggy .]
He has suffered a blow from a blunt instrument to the right lobe ofhis cranium, which has generated a concussion, which induced an unconscious state, Put her down, please! which will terminate in 8.
7 minutes.
Unfortunately, Admiral Calavicci will terminate in 5.
2 minutes when he drives a 1 94 1 Olds convertible off Lover's Leap.
How can he drive when he's unconscious? Excellent point, Doctor.
Clifford must push the car over.
Brilliant, Ziggy.
Brilliant.
Come on, Al.
You gotta wake up.
[ Ziggy .]
I just explained, Doctor.
Admiral Calavicci cannot regain consciousness for another 8.
7- Damn it, Ziggy! Tell me something I don't know! Tina's having an affair with Gooshie.
A way to save Al and Suzanne.
Stop Clifford from pushing the car over the cliff.
How? He's in 1 945.
I'm in 1 999.
I didn't say it was easy.
I'm sorry, Al.
I should be lying there, not you.
Gooshie! Activate the accelerator chamber.
Set it forJune 1 5, 1 945.
What? Do it.
Tina, get me a fermi suit.
Now, Tina! Ziggy, how much time before Al dies? Set the accelerator chamber- [ Ziggy .]
1.
6 minutes.
Mm, great legs, Doctor.
Sam, what are you doing? Trying to save Al.
How? By leaping into him.
What? Donna, four years ago, my first leap was target-less, subject to a whim of fate.
Since then, I think my subconscious has been working on the problem because I now know how to hit the bull's-eye.
I can leap into Al.
[ Gooshie .]
Let me know when alignment is in phase.
Thank you.
He'll leap back into the imaging chamber where he was when the lightning strike simul-leaped us, and I'll leap into 1 945 where I can stop Clifford.
Forty-five is eight years before you were born.
You can't leap earlier than your own lifetime.
When we simul-leap, some of our neurons and mesons obviously merged.
Part of me is Al.
- One minute and counting.
- How will you get back? Use the retrieval program.
It didn't work the first time you leaped.
I've updated it.
Ziggy, what are the odds of retrieving Dr.
Beckett? Donna.
Donna.
I can't let him die.
And I can't let you go.
Not when you've just come back to me.
How many times has Al saved my life? [ Ziggy .]
Twenty-three.
I don't care! It isn't fair, Sam.
It just isn't fair.
I know.
Please don't leave me again.
I don't think I could stand it if you left me again.
[ Ziggy .]
Thirty seconds.
[ Exhales .]
Twenty-nine, 28, 2 7- Go.
What? Twenty-six- Go.
Twenty-five- I'll be back.
I swear to God I'll be back.
Twenty-four, 23- Sam, I love you.
Twenty-two, 2 1- I love you too.
Twenty seconds.
Nineteen- Eleven.
Ten seconds.
Nine- Synchotron on line.
Affirmative.
[ Gooshie .]
Stand by to fire.
! [ Ziggy .]
Seven- Fire.
! Six- Fire.
! Five, four- [ Grunts .]
[ Clifford Screaming .]
[ Thud .]
[ Groaning .]
Al, honey.
Are you okay? Am I okay? I'll tell you about it later.
When we're in bed.
Oh, Al.
[ Giggles .]
Ready to retrieve.
Ready.
Retrieving.
Gooshie? Gooshie, come on! This is- - He leaped.
- When? Just after that girl Suzanne regained consciousness.
And where is he now? Oh, he's a stand-up comic playing the Catskills in 1 956.
Does he remember me? Oh, no.
No.
He doesn't even remember him and me leaping together.
So he doesn't remember coming home? No.
No.
Why does Ziggy think Sam leaped into this stand-up comic? Oh, um, well, there's a little girl that's being torn apart by a divorce.
So Sam is there to put this comic and his wife back together? No, not exactly.
He's there to put the comic with this waitress so that the two of them could raise the little girl.
Can he do it? Oh, sure.
Yeah.
The waitress is- She's nuts about him.
I mean- Um- I know exactly what you mean.
Sam couldn't do what he has to do if he remembered us.
You'll tell him nothing, Al.
He came back to me once.
He'll come back again.
You're an amazing woman.
Ziggy? Yes, Dr.
Eleese? Locate a star Talitha in Ursa Major.
A white star, 1.
7 in magnitude.
Right ascension: eight hours, 59.
2 minutes.
Declination: 48 degrees, two minutes.
It's there.
I love you, Sam.
[ Sam's Voice .]
I love you, Donna.
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr.
Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished.
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.
His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear.
And so, Dr.
Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Sam? Sam, you okay? - Al? - You okay? Huh? You must have leaped with me.
Oh, we did it, Sam.
We- Sam? [ Groaning .]
What the hell am I doing in this uniform? What's going on, Sam? [ Dog Barking .]
I think- Come here.
Sam, what the hell is happening? Huh? [ Dog Barking .]
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Gooshie? What the hell is going on? [ Sam Laughing .]
Whoo-hoo-hoo! Heh-heh-heh-heh! [ Laughing .]
Al.
Al.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba! Stop that! Come on, you rotten pile of Gummi Bears.
[ Maniacal Laughing .]
You know what this means? What? It's my turn to slip into the powder room like the Invisible Man.
It's my turn.
Gooshie! Where the hell are you? In the future, he's- He's in the future, and you're in- Uh, boy, I can't tell what year it is, but from the looks of your uniform, it's as far back in time as I've ever leaped.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
I've been leaping back and forth within my own lifetime, but since we switched places, that means that this leap would be within your lifetime.
When were you born? [ Clears Throat .]
June, uh, 1 5, 1 9- 1 9- Gooshie, if you don't answer, I'm gonna kill you! Oh, my God! Your brain's Swiss-cheesed.
My brain is fine.
No, it's not.
The leap Swiss-cheesed it.
Stop saying that! It's nothing to be ashamed of.
Do you remember the first time I leaped? I couldn't even remember my own name.
Al.
My name is Al.
Al what? [ Laughing .]
Oh, you think I've forgotten my last name? [ Laughing .]
I'm about to bet on it.
[ Coughs .]
Well, you'd lose.
It's Beckett.
Al Beckett.
Ha! It's Calavicci.
Al Calavicci.
Ha! [ Laughing .]
Calavicci? It's not Beckett? No.
Well, then, who the hell is Beckett? Me.
I'm Beckett.
Gooshie! He can't hear you.
Ziggy's not even gonna be a gleam in my eye for another- I don't know- Ziggy? The parallel- The parallel hybrid computer I designed to run Quantum Leap.
Then who the hell is Gooshie? The head programmer.
Oh, the little guy with bad breath.
Yeah.
Yeah, and Ziggy is the computer with the big ego.
That's right.
And installing that ego was a breakthrough.
Yeah.
Without it, Ziggy'd be just another big number cruncher- Al, I'm gettin' my memory back.
Do you hear what I'm saying? Well, you're taking it from me! No, no! The leap did that.
Don't panic.
I'll fill in the gaps.
[ Groans .]
Oh, boy.
Leaping together must have merged our minds.
I wonder which part of yours I got.
Gooshie, why don't you answer me? Because Ziggy doesn't exist in the year you've leaped into.
Because we switched places, in order to communicate with Gooshie, I'd have to have the hand-link, because I'm the one- I'm the one in the imaging chamber.
Imaging chamber? Oh, my God! I'm home.
I'm home, Al.
[ Laughs, Sighs .]
Where's the door? Door? Yeah, where-Where's the- Here, let me just take- Where's the damn door? Where- Gooshie! Where's the door? Gooshie! [ Sam .]
Gooshie.
! [ Al .]
Gooshie.
! Gooshie! Gooshie! - Gooshie, where's the door? - You find the door.
I don't know where the door is.
[ Al .]
Gooshie.
! Tom? Gooshie.
! Your name's Tom.
Tom.
Tom! Huh? [ Laughing .]
I don't believe it.
- Your name's Tom.
- Your telegram said you wouldn't be here till Friday.
I- Oh, I, uh- - He took an earlier flight.
- Why, yeah, I took an earlier flight.
You look terrific considering.
Considering? Considering what? What? Tom, you just spent three years in a P.
O.
W.
camp.
- They didn't feed you much, did they? - Bowl of rice a day.
- The Germans fed you rice? - The V.
C.
V.
C.
? Al, Al.
You're not Admiral Al Calavicci.
You're Captain Tom somebody, and you better start acting like him until Ziggy tells us what you're here to change.
Oh.
How? How? - There's nobody home.
- Don't look at me.
Look at him.
Everybody's home.
They're all still asleep.
Is that some new kind of walkie-talkie? Uh,yeah,yeah.
Y-You're testing it for the government.
It's top secret.
Oh, yes, this is top secret, and I'm evaluating it for the Pentagon.
- That's good.
Now put it away.
- Put it away.
Just got liberated from a P.
O.
W.
camp, and they've already given you a new duty assignment.
- It's just like the navy.
- Army.
- Army.
- You okay, Tom? Uh, ask him how she is.
H-H-How she is? There's always a she.
Ask him how she is.
How she is? Suzanne's, uh, fine, Tom.
Suzanne.
That must be your girlfriend.
I don't see a wedding ring.
Finding out you were alive came as quite a shock.
Oh, my God.
She must've thought you were dead.
She thought I was dead? Hell, the whole country thought you were dead after Ernie Pyle's column.
Your crew told him how you kicked 'em out of the tank and turned back alone to cover the battalion's retreat.
They saw you take out three panzers before your tank got blown up.
[ Whistles .]
President Roosevelt even read Ernie's column in one of his fireside chats.
You can't blame Suzanne for doin' what she did.
What'd she do? Oh, shoot.
Don't tell me she didn't tell you.
She said she told you- told you when you called her from Bethesda.
She didn't have to.
I already knew.
Careful, Al.
Yeah, I-I guess you would.
You two always knew what the other one was up to since you were kids.
When'd she marry him? Oh, she hasn't yet.
The wedding's on the 1 7 th.
Well, today is the- June 1 5.
That's my birthday.
Your birthday's in April, same as mine, Tom.
Are you okay? Uh, well, I'm just a little woozy after the lea- uh, flight.
Good catch.
Hell, what am I thinking? You probably took all night gettin' here.
When'd you chow down last? I don't remember.
Well, you start on this, and I'll get Kelly to whip you up a hero's breakfast.
Tom, Crown Point is so damn proud of you it could bust! Happy milkman.
Why do I have this creepy, crawly, scary feeling? Well, uh, it's déja vu, I think.
You see, Al, you were M.
I.
A.
in Vietnam for six years.
And after you'd been gone for four years, your wife, Beth- See, she was really- She was sure that you were dead, so sh-she, uh- - Well- - She remarried.
I remember.
Well, it's not like it just happened.
But, you know, it's weird that I- I've leaped into a guy that's sharing the same fate.
Well, you see, maybe- maybe that's why you leaped into him.
You mean, to get him and this Suzanne together, maybe? Yeah.
Yeah.
Or to keep 'em apart.
See, without Ziggy, I don't know if Suzanne marries you or- or the guy that she's supposed to marry two days from now.
I can't see a damn thing through this hologram.
What are you talkin'about? You're the hologram.
To you, yeah.
But here in the imaging chamber, you and everything around you is a holo- a hologram to me.
Don't you remember anything? Why doesn't Gooshie just open the door? See, that's what I don't understand.
He should be monitoring the- the situation, and-and- Unless.
Unless? I don't think I'm gonna like this " unless.
'' To leap together we would've had to either been struck by lightning or have been sitting at ground zero during an atomic detonation.
Ooh! It was lightning! Lightning! Ah.
I remember a big bolt just as we leaped.
Okay, well, see, the lightning strike could have been misread by Ziggy as a catastrophic collapse of the radium accelerator ring surrounding the imaging chamber.
Ziggy would've automatically sealed the chamber to protect the project from radium radiation.
But when they realize that the ring didn't collapse, then they're gonna open the door! Well, see, once the door has been sealed, it can't be reopened by Ziggy until the radiation half-life of the radium ring has expired.
Why do I feel this is going to be a big number? Well, no, no.
Not in cosmic terms.
See, it's- it's, uh, 1 ,600 years.
How could you design a system without a fail-safe? Well, I di- I didn't.
I didn't.
If the door is sealed in error, it can be reopened from the inside.
- Oh, well, thank God! - By using the hand-link.
I was beginning-The hand-link.
Which I can't use for another 50 years.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
[ Horn Honking .]
[ Sam Narrating .]
My dream had come true.
I was home, back in my own time.
But it was turning into a nightmare.
I was trapped in the Quantum Leap imaging chamber, and the only way out was through the hand-link in Al's pocket, and Al was back in 1 945.
* [ Big Band .]
Yumola! Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm tellin' you he's here.
Steak and eggs, buckwheat pancakes, home fries, whole wheat toast and black coffee.
How long has it been since you had a breakfast like this, Tom? [ Al's Voice .]
Too long.
Do you have any Sweet 'n Low or Equal? Sweet 'n Low? Equal? Oh, no, no, no, no.
They didn't have any artificial sweetener in 1 945.
Okay? Boy, did they have women with big kazooms! Oh! Uh, oh, Sweet 'n Low is a- Sweet 'n Low- Oh, it's something that Uncle Sam has developed just for the military for rations and- We sure could use some of that on the home front.
Even with the café, I'm rationed a half a pound of sugar a week.
And Mike tries to put all of it into his cup.
[ Giggles .]
Are you forgetting who slips you an extra pound ofbutter every now and then? Oh, I didn't know I was swappin' sugar for it.
Well, if a pound of butter is all it takes, I got me a dairy farm that I- Stop that! Oh, my God! I am so sorry.
That's a horrible thing to say, and I don't know what came over me.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
This is all your fault.
My fault? Yes! When I leaped, I must've gotten part of your lecherous side in during the leap.
Oh, my- Oh, no.
It's tough coming back from war.
Oh, my- You've got a filthy mind.
You're the one saying all the dirty things! I mean, I always- Sorry, Tom.
I guess we all need to wash our minds out with soap after this war.
- Yeah, especially him.
- Did I say the " F'' word again? I'm sorry.
It's a tough habit to break after Guadalcanal.
[ Bells Ringing .]
Oh, Tommy! Oh! [ Moaning .]
Oh, I didn't believe you were alive.
Not even after I talked to you on the phone.
Not until now.
Al? Al, if she keeps this up, I'm gonna have to throw a bucket of cold water on you to separate you.
Hmm? [ Mike .]
I knew bringing the two of you back together would but the kibosh on Suzanne marrying Clifford.
Clifford? Clifford? He's changed a lot since you shipped out, Tommy.
She's been two-timing you.
Yeah.
His feet got flat so he could get classified 4F.
- He's always had flat feet.
- Not till after Pearl Harbor.
Clifford feels terrible about being classified 4F.
He does everything he can to support the war effort.
He organized the biggest scrap metal drive in the state of Indiana.
- The governor gave him a citation.
- Suzanne! The Congressional Medal of Honor.
Now there is a citation! Ah, it doesn't matter now.
Tom's back, and he's the guy she'll marry.
- Right, Suzanne? - [ Sam .]
Aha, Al.
! I think that's why you're here.
You're here to get Suzanne to sleep with you- Marry you.
Marry me? Of course I'll marry you, darling.
[ Sam Laughs .]
Okay, Al, get ready to leap.
Suzanne Elsinger! What are you doing? Suckin' face, pal, with my buddy here.
It's very big in the '60s, '7 0s- - Will you shut up! - No, I will not shut up.
The woman you're ravaging is practically my wife.
- [ Mike .]
Not anymore.
- What do you mean by that? You're about to find out, knuckle nose.
Tom here asked Suzanne to marry him, and she accepted.
- [ Al Stammering .]
- You can't be serious.
We're to be married in two days.
What are my mother and father gonna say about that? - Cancel the church.
Cancel the reception.
Cancel the tux, the cake- - Darling, darling, darling.
Darling, I understand how confusing this must be for you.
A ghost from the past appears, and it's only natural that you have some old yearnings- Boy, I'd like to satisfy 'em.
But see it for what it is, Suzanne.
What am I saying? A connection to the past that you've outgrown, like- like running barefoot through sprinklers.
- I like running barefoot through sprinklers.
- Me too.
You know, you have some nerve coming back two days before our wedding,Jarret.
You flat-footed, egg-sucking chicken turd! [ Thud .]
[ Kelly .]
Oh.
! Oh.
! Why don't you tell him how you really feel, Mike? No.
No, I may not have given a leg for my country or been in a prisoner-of-war camp, but that doesn't make me any less of a man.
Those of us who stayed behind made sacrifices too.
Only we didn't get any of the glory.
- You just got all the women.
- Oh! Boy! Gosh! You know, if you weren't so weak from being a P.
O.
W.
, I'd just like to- - Yeah, you'd like to teach me a lesson, huh? - Al- Well, I'll tell you something.
I just had some of Kelly's breakfast, and I feel I could take on Mike Tyson.
No, this is not the guy who married Beth.
- Who the hell is Mike Tyson? - Never mind! - No! - I don't want you fighting over me.
Al.
Al, I mean this.
Al, listen to me.
Don't do this.
I can't believe you could be thinking about- Why won't you listen to me? Al, what is wrong with you? We don't even know why you're here.
I think I'm here to kick Clifford's butt.
No! I love it! Tommy, don't forget.
He boxed at Princeton.
Yale.
But I beat the best that Princeton could put in the ring with me.
[ Grunts .]
Okay.
You know something? Your feet don't look very flat right now.
Oh, God! - Clifford! Are you all right? - I didn't know you knew how to do that.
I didn't either.
Here you go, Tom.
Oh, oh, we're here? Do you think a one-legged man could do that move? Oh, well, sure, if you could drive this truck.
The worst thing that could happen is you end up on your butt.
[ Chuckles .]
Hey, Tom, I'll break out the old Cherry Buster and, uh, bring it by this afternoon.
Cherry Buster? Yeah, your convertible.
You stored it in the barn before you shipped out.
Remember? Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Who could forget the Cherry Buster? Tom, I would've had this place cleaned up if I'd have known you were coming sooner.
Which place? Your place.
Oh, that one! You sure you're okay? Yeah, no, yeah, I'm fine.
Uh, it's good to be home, and- and thanks.
Take care.
This isn't fair.
Sam? A beautiful body like that, and I'm just thinking pure thoughts? Damn it! Huh.
Small towns.
Hello, baby! [ Gasps .]
Don't do that.
Revenge is mine.
Thus sayeth the hologram.
Wah.
Wah.
Wah.
Wah.
All right, you've made your point.
I know how to open the chamber door.
What? I know how to open the chamber door.
I designed Ziggy with a backdoor code so that I could override any command, even one dealing with catastrophic failure.
All we have to do is get the code to Gooshie.
Oh, well, that should be easy enough.
All we have to do is wait half a century.
Well, in a sense, yes.
But for us it'll be instantaneous.
Now, we've gotta figure out what the date is where I'm at today.
September 1 8, 1 999.
Your Swiss-cheesed brain remembers today's date? My fifth wife is suing me for more alimony, and that's the court date.
There's some days you don't forget.
Okay.
Okay.
We deliver a letter to Gooshie on September 1 8, 1 999.
Who's gonna wait 54 years to deliver a letter? The post office.
And my dad's lawyer, Doc Crosnoff.
We mail Doc Crosnoff a letter, right? With, say, a hundred bucks.
For the stamp.
No, no, no.
It's 1 945.
A hundred dollars will do very nicely.
We mail him a letter with a hundred dollars and instructions to have the code delivered to Gooshie on September 1 8, 1 999.
It could work.
It's gotta work.
Uh, what if it doesn't? Look, we're never gonna find out unless you put the letter into the- What's the matter? Sam, you all right? [ Sighs .]
I don't know.
Oh! Are you running out of air? No, no.
There's enough air in the imaging chamber to sustain me for six months.
I'd die of thirst first.
N- I'm gettin' my memory back, Al.
All of it? Oh, my God! Why didn't you tell me? I couldn't.
What? I- I couldn't.
[ Exhales .]
Drop the letter into the mailbox.
[ Portal Opens .]
Donna! [ Panting .]
Al? Donna? Oh, God.
How could I have forgotten you? It wasn't your fault.
What matters is that you remember me now.
Of course I remember you.
You're the woman I love.
You're my wife.
[ Laughs .]
Well- [ Laughs .]
[ Gooshie Laughing .]
How you doin', Gooshie? Welcome back, Dr.
Beckett.
Welcome back.
This was brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
When did you get it? Post office delivered it today, and six days after it was mailed.
[ Laughs, Sighs .]
Hi, Verbena.
Gee, he sounds just like Al.
Tina! [ Laughing .]
Oh, God! Tina! God, do you feel good.
[ Giggles .]
You even hug like Al.
Al-What's- What's happening with Al? - Uh, Ziggy doesn't know.
- Don't you remember? The data from the memory banks was limited to your lifetime.
It was in my lifetime.
Right.
And Al's in 1 945.
And we didn't know that till we got your letter.
We've been loading Ziggy with data from '45 as fast as we can pull it from the National Archives, but it could be days before Ziggy projects a theory on what Al's there to do.
I'll be right back.
- Hello, Ziggy.
- [ Woman's Voice .]
It's about time you got around to me, Dr.
Beckett.
I'm sorry.
No need to apologize.
I don't expect contact until you need me.
Well, Ziggy, you're looking very user-friendly.
I see that simul-leaping with Admiral Calavicci has had a positive effect on you.
You're in for some pleasant surprises, Dr.
Eleese.
Ziggy- Yes? - Do you have enough- - Data to give you a reasonably accurate projection as to why Admiral Calavicci has leapt into Crown Point, Indiana in the year 1 945? Yes.
No.
Do you have any data on Admiral Calavicci? He'll kiss the girls and make them cry.
Oh, ain't that the truth.
[ Groans .]
Ziggy- Yes, Dr.
Beckett? You've made brilliant theoretical hypotheses with minimal data over the last four years.
That's true.
I'd like you to do one now.
- I don't think so, Doctor.
- Why not? I'm dealing with too many data-limiting factors- the admiral, this Captain Tom Jarret he's leapt into, a year no one had the foresight to preload into my memory banks.
Actually, I was doing quite well absorbing the year until Franklin Delano Roosevelt died.
It depressed me.
Try me in 1 1 .
6 hours.
What if the admiral doesn't have 1 1 .
6 hours? I believe your brain is still slightly magnafluxed, Dr.
Beckett, or you'd remember I never experience guilt.
That's a flaw found only in human computers.
Good night, Doctor.
Have fun,you two.
Ziggy! It won't do any good.
Why did I give him Barbra Streisand's ego? * [ Big Band .]
No.
Wait.
Honey, no.
Just a second.
Just one second.
[ Moaning .]
Tom Jarret, how you've changed.
Yeah, oh, boy.
You don't- You don't know the half of it.
You don't know the half of it.
I remember when it was all I could do to keep you from-you know.
Oh, yes, I do.
I do.
I do.
But, you see, something's happened to my mind.
It's the war.
It happens to all the boys.
- How do you know that? - Clifford told me.
- Oh, Clifford.
What a nozzle.
- He read it in Reader's Digest.
Oh, Reader's Digest? Well, then, it's gotta be true.
Even Mike had problems when he came home, and you know how he and Kelly were before the war.
- Clifford told you that too? - No, silly.
Kelly did.
She said it was a long time before Mike could-you know.
- Oh, uh- - It was months before I saw them up here.
What were you doing up here? Well- Were you parking in Lover's Lane with that draft-dodging nozzle when your boyfriend was risking his life for his country? I thought you died for your country.
Well, that's all the more reason you shouldn't have been up here.
Tom Jarret.
I cried my eyes out for you for two whole years.
And even when everyone, including Mike, told me to get on with my life, I still waited another year.
Three years? You mean you- you didn't- for three years, you didn't-you know? And even then, every time Clifford kissed me, I'd close my eyes, and I'd pretend it was you.
[ Thinking .]
Take a hike, Mr.
Morals.
Calavicci's taking over.
[ Sam .]
Do you remember your stars? [ Donna .]
Try me.
Megrez.
Megrez.
Ursa Major.
The faintest one in the bowl.
You have great eyes.
Are you talking about the way they look or my vision? Yes.
[ Sighs .]
Now, what's so special about Megrez? [ Sam .]
It's 54 light-years from Earth.
That little sparkle was born in 1 945.
Sam, he'll be fine.
Yeah, maybe.
Observing isn't the same as leaping though.
This may be more than Al can handle.
God, I wish he was here.
I know.
So I could kick his butt.
What? How could he not tell me about you after all these years? The woman I love.
The woman I married.
Because I asked him not to.
Why? Could you have acted freely if you knew you were married? I don't know.
Everything that's happened in the last four years is fast becoming a blur.
It's kind of like a reverse Swiss cheese effect.
Was there anything that I did that hurt you? No.
No.
I never once felt that you betrayed our love.
[ Squealing .]
[ Ziggy .]
Dr.
Beckett? Dr.
Beckett? Dr.
Beckett.
! Yeah.
Sorry to interrupt your first night of matrimonial bliss in four years, but I thought you might like to know that I can now project with 8 1.
6% accuracy the reason Admiral Calavicci leapt into Crown Point, Indiana.
Well? It appears that Captain Tom Jarret and Suzanne Elsinger committed suicide on June 1 5, 1 945.
[ Sam Narrating .]
It felt as if I had never leaped.
My pre-leap memory had returned, and the last four years were fading as quickly as a bad dream in the light of a beautiful morning.
Life would be perfect if Al wasn't in such desperate straits.
Gooshie, is the imaging chamber on line? In 3.
4 minutes, Doctor.
Ziggy? - That was a quickie, Dr.
Beckett.
- What do you got on Al? He's 1 75.
26 centimeters tall, weighs 70.
9 1- Ziggy! Yes, Doctor? Give me what I want, baby.
Ooh.
- If you weren't my father.
- Ziggy, what do you know? Only what I read in the paper.
On June 1 6, 1 945, the Crown Point Gazette- Isn't that a parochial name? Reported that returning war hero Captain Tom Jarret and Suzanne Elsinger, the fiancée of Clifford Whiteside, drove his convertible off Lover's Leap.
Why do human beings die for love? Check Shakespeare.
Thank you, Doctor.
Not now! Why not? With a million-gigabyte capacity, I'm quite capable of rubbing my tummy, patting my head and doing a trillion floating point operations at once.
Because I don't have time to get into a philosophical discussion.
I've finished reading Shakespeare.
I see your point.
Where is Al now? I can't project a precise location until you lock on to Admiral Calavicci's neurons and mesons in the imaging chamber.
But I can assume with 96.
5% accuracy that he and Suzanne are either parked at the top of Lover's Leap or dead at the bottom.
Thank you.
Mm.
It's beautiful.
Hmm, it's useless.
[ Coughs, Groans .]
Tommy, are you okay? Oh, yeah.
It's just- [ Coughs .]
I really don't smoke.
[ Laughing .]
Cigarettes.
So it doesn't work? Uh, well, maybe in about 50 years.
Maybe it just needs a little encouragement too.
[ Portal Opens .]
[ Portal Closes .]
- Al, you didn't! - Sam.
! Who? Huh? How could you? And then, of course, how could you not? It wasn't like that.
Like what? Uh- Look, we need to talk alone, okay? Where is a men's room when you need one? Good idea.
Tommy, you're talking to someone who isn't there.
It's frightening me.
Oh, Suzanne, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
This is a- I have some delayed stress syndrome from the war.
No, no, no.
In '45 it's shell shock.
- I mean shell shock.
- Shell shock.
I'm shell-shocked.
I'm sorry.
Oh, you poor baby.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
- Al! Al, come on! Would ya? - Huh? No.
Come on.
I'm okay.
I just- I have to take a-you know.
You mind? Oh.
Oh, sure.
Sure.
Me too.
- Sam! - What am I doing? You dog! Well, it's your filthy mind! Yeah, well, I want my mind back! These choir boy thoughts are drivin' me nuts! Well, they didn't seem to stop you a few minutes ago.
If you'll excuse my saying so, what was that all about? No, wait.
It was a beautiful moment.
Oh.
I've never experienced anything quite like that.
[ Exhales .]
And I guess I owe that to you.
Yeah, well, I guess- I guess I owe you one too.
[ Exhales .]
Just one? Ziggy has figured out why you leaped into Crown Point, okay? Oh, yeah? Why? In the original history, it seems that Tom and Suzanne drive off of this cliff tonight in an apparent double su- double su- What? icide.
Suicide! A double suicide! No, no, no.
It couldn't be suicide.
Suicide is the farthest thing from her mind.
Well, if it wasn't suicide- Could be murder.
[ Suzanne Screams .]
Ohhh.
Suzanne! Suzanne! You got a fix on her? No.
No.
Damn it, Gooshie! What's wrong? Suzanne! Suzanne! There's not enough data for a lock.
Suzanne! I've gotta find her.
! Suzanne! Come on, Gooshie.
Where is she? I gotta get a lock on her.
! I got her, Sam! [ Ziggy .]
Dr.
Beckett, I should warn you that if Clifford- Too late.
You son of a- [ Grunting .]
Al, come on.
! Come on.
! You gotta wake up.
! [ Ziggy .]
He has suffered a blow from a blunt instrument to the right lobe ofhis cranium, which has generated a concussion, which induced an unconscious state, Put her down, please! which will terminate in 8.
7 minutes.
Unfortunately, Admiral Calavicci will terminate in 5.
2 minutes when he drives a 1 94 1 Olds convertible off Lover's Leap.
How can he drive when he's unconscious? Excellent point, Doctor.
Clifford must push the car over.
Brilliant, Ziggy.
Brilliant.
Come on, Al.
You gotta wake up.
[ Ziggy .]
I just explained, Doctor.
Admiral Calavicci cannot regain consciousness for another 8.
7- Damn it, Ziggy! Tell me something I don't know! Tina's having an affair with Gooshie.
A way to save Al and Suzanne.
Stop Clifford from pushing the car over the cliff.
How? He's in 1 945.
I'm in 1 999.
I didn't say it was easy.
I'm sorry, Al.
I should be lying there, not you.
Gooshie! Activate the accelerator chamber.
Set it forJune 1 5, 1 945.
What? Do it.
Tina, get me a fermi suit.
Now, Tina! Ziggy, how much time before Al dies? Set the accelerator chamber- [ Ziggy .]
1.
6 minutes.
Mm, great legs, Doctor.
Sam, what are you doing? Trying to save Al.
How? By leaping into him.
What? Donna, four years ago, my first leap was target-less, subject to a whim of fate.
Since then, I think my subconscious has been working on the problem because I now know how to hit the bull's-eye.
I can leap into Al.
[ Gooshie .]
Let me know when alignment is in phase.
Thank you.
He'll leap back into the imaging chamber where he was when the lightning strike simul-leaped us, and I'll leap into 1 945 where I can stop Clifford.
Forty-five is eight years before you were born.
You can't leap earlier than your own lifetime.
When we simul-leap, some of our neurons and mesons obviously merged.
Part of me is Al.
- One minute and counting.
- How will you get back? Use the retrieval program.
It didn't work the first time you leaped.
I've updated it.
Ziggy, what are the odds of retrieving Dr.
Beckett? Donna.
Donna.
I can't let him die.
And I can't let you go.
Not when you've just come back to me.
How many times has Al saved my life? [ Ziggy .]
Twenty-three.
I don't care! It isn't fair, Sam.
It just isn't fair.
I know.
Please don't leave me again.
I don't think I could stand it if you left me again.
[ Ziggy .]
Thirty seconds.
[ Exhales .]
Twenty-nine, 28, 2 7- Go.
What? Twenty-six- Go.
Twenty-five- I'll be back.
I swear to God I'll be back.
Twenty-four, 23- Sam, I love you.
Twenty-two, 2 1- I love you too.
Twenty seconds.
Nineteen- Eleven.
Ten seconds.
Nine- Synchotron on line.
Affirmative.
[ Gooshie .]
Stand by to fire.
! [ Ziggy .]
Seven- Fire.
! Six- Fire.
! Five, four- [ Grunts .]
[ Clifford Screaming .]
[ Thud .]
[ Groaning .]
Al, honey.
Are you okay? Am I okay? I'll tell you about it later.
When we're in bed.
Oh, Al.
[ Giggles .]
Ready to retrieve.
Ready.
Retrieving.
Gooshie? Gooshie, come on! This is- - He leaped.
- When? Just after that girl Suzanne regained consciousness.
And where is he now? Oh, he's a stand-up comic playing the Catskills in 1 956.
Does he remember me? Oh, no.
No.
He doesn't even remember him and me leaping together.
So he doesn't remember coming home? No.
No.
Why does Ziggy think Sam leaped into this stand-up comic? Oh, um, well, there's a little girl that's being torn apart by a divorce.
So Sam is there to put this comic and his wife back together? No, not exactly.
He's there to put the comic with this waitress so that the two of them could raise the little girl.
Can he do it? Oh, sure.
Yeah.
The waitress is- She's nuts about him.
I mean- Um- I know exactly what you mean.
Sam couldn't do what he has to do if he remembered us.
You'll tell him nothing, Al.
He came back to me once.
He'll come back again.
You're an amazing woman.
Ziggy? Yes, Dr.
Eleese? Locate a star Talitha in Ursa Major.
A white star, 1.
7 in magnitude.
Right ascension: eight hours, 59.
2 minutes.
Declination: 48 degrees, two minutes.
It's there.
I love you, Sam.
[ Sam's Voice .]
I love you, Donna.