This week’s Quantum Leap took it again to the ‘80s once more.
After serving to a boxer change his household’s tragic destiny, Ben this time round discovered himself within the physique of a bounty hunter named Eva in 1981. His mission appeared trivial: discovering the bounty hunter’s goal, Carla, who disappeared after skipping a court docket date over unpaid parking tickets.
However there was a lot extra to the story. Carla was the top of an area drug cartel and was planning to flee to Mexico. Teaming up with Eva’s boyfriend and companion Jake (visitor star Justin Hartley), Ben and Addison captured the mob boss, and stopped 1000’s of tons of cocaine from being smuggled into the nation. Ben even tried to assist patch issues up between Eva and Jake following the proposal Ben rejected, in the end leaving it as much as Eva to resolve her future.
In the meantime, extra particulars surrounding Ben’s unauthorized bounce got here to mild. Ben had lied about being at a convention for 3 days, as a substitute going to Pasadena probably to write down his new code with Janice.
Within the current, Janice had been attempting to make use of Ziggy to foretell the group’s actions and already dug into their closely encrypted personnel information. Her total plan remained unknown, however this newest information prompted Magic to speak in confidence to Ian about his personal expertise with the unique Quantum Leap undertaking.
Magic recalled the time Sam Beckett (performed within the authentic collection by Scott Bakula) leapt into him, which occurred within the Season 3 episode “The Leap House, Half 2 (Vietnam),” with Christopher Kirby enjoying a younger Magic.
He described it as feeling like a nudge, like he was “standing on one facet of a door and on the opposite facet, somebody had gently pushed towards it.” Magic mentioned sure to the nudge and let that particular person in. Then the whole lot went black, and he got here to a day later, not remembering what occurred. Throughout that point, he had by some means saved everybody in his platoon, together with his commander Tom Beckett (who was Sam’s brother).
Afterward, Magic had vivid desires of Sam. When he grew to become admiral, he discovered that his identify was in a top-secret file and pulled some strings to entry it. That’s when he came upon in regards to the Quantum Leap undertaking, piecing collectively what occurred to him after seeing a photograph of Sam. Figuring out that he was initially imagined to die earlier than Sam stepped in, and that Sam was nonetheless on the market someplace, he felt compelled to restart this system.
“I don’t know if it should ever be attainable to get Sam Beckett again,” Magic advised Ian, “however after what he did for me — what he did for therefore many others — I needed to attempt.”
Elsewhere, Ben remembered extra of his dream, realizing that Addison was the girl he liked. And as they tried to carry palms — which was inconceivable since she was a hologram — he made his subsequent leap… right into a western.
