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 courtroom 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 associate Jake (visitor star Justin Hartley), Ben and Addison captured the mob boss, and stopped hundreds 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, finally leaving it as much as Eva to determine her future.
In the meantime, extra particulars surrounding Ben’s unauthorized bounce got here to gentle. Ben had lied about being at a convention for 3 days, as a substitute going to Pasadena almost certainly to put in writing his new code with Janice.
Within the current, Janice had been making an attempt to make use of Ziggy to foretell the crew’s actions and already dug into their closely encrypted personnel information. Her general plan remained unknown, however this newest information prompted Magic to confide in Ian about his personal expertise with the unique Quantum Leap undertaking.
Magic recalled the time Sam Beckett (performed within the unique sequence by Scott Bakula) leapt into him, which occurred within the Season 3 episode “The Leap Residence, Half 2 (Vietnam),” with Christopher Kirby taking part in a younger Magic.
He described it as feeling like a nudge, like he was “standing on one aspect of a door and on the opposite aspect, somebody had gently pushed in opposition to it.” Magic stated sure to the nudge and let that individual in. Then all the things went black, and he got here to a day later, not remembering what occurred. Throughout that point, he had in some way 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. Understanding that he was initially alleged 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’s going to 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 lady he beloved. And as they tried to carry palms — which was not possible since she was a hologram — he made his subsequent leap… right into a western.
