Quantum Leap - First Season

Dr. Ben Song risked everything

when he used the Quantum Leap Accelerator

to travel back in time.

Now our team's working to find out why.

As he leaps between bodies with no memory of who he is,

he still has one hope...

that his next leap...

takes him back...

to the place and people he calls home.

Trick or treat.

Father Davenport, thank God.

I'm afraid it's gotten worse.

Please, come in.

Thank you for traveling all the way from Baltimore.

We tried a local priest, but...

he didn't have your reputation.

I'm Lola, Daisy's mother.

Our maid, Magda.

Everyone else is in the parlor.

Boo.

Mm.

Happy Halloween.

Nice costume.

This way, please, Father.

OK.

Not a costume.

Welcome.

Charles, Daisy's father.

And this is my brother, Percival.

Percy's fine.

Only Aunt Tessa calls me Percival.

Put that drink down, Percival.

For goodness' sake.

You are in the presence of a man of faith.

Contessa Gray.

Welcome to my home.

I'm sorry you have to visit it under such

unfavorable circumstances. - Mm.

Ziggy says that there is an 89% chance that

you are here to perform an exorcism.

What?

That cannot be right.

Sorry?

What is the condition of the afflicted?

Probably best you see for yourself.

Before I begin, it's been a long journey.

Do you have a restroom...

- Water closet. - Water closet I can use?

Exorcism?

Yes. Hey, keep your voice down.

All right, in the original history,

Father James Davenport attempted

an exorcism on Daisy Gray.

After what "The Covington Gazette"

described as a "holy battle," the priest failed.

Daisy died six minutes after midnight.

That's what you're here to change.

But exorcisms aren't real.

And even if they were, I'm not religious.

I don't believe in possession.

Ben, you are literally possessing

that guy's body right now.

OK.

Fair point.

Look, I don't know if the demon is real or not.

But what I do know is that the machine

sent you here for a reason.

So let's just go through the motions

until we figure out why.

- Fine. - Thank you.

But spoiler alert, the demon's not real.

Mm-mm-mm.

It started three weeks ago.

She began to speak in riddles.

Her strength has doubled, unnaturally.

She can't remember things she's said or done.

What's that smell?

It's the rotting stench of the demon.

Ready?

She won't let Magda clean that off.

We tried restraining her with rope,

but she chewed right through it.

Daisy did this?

No.

It was the demon.

Mother?

It's all right, honey.

Father Davenport is here now.

It's an angel sent here to save me.

How is this gonna go?

Is...

is a question you may have.

Three steps.

Step one...

You command the demon to reveal itself.

I command the demon to reveal itself.

The exorcist and the demon fight

for the soul of the possessed.

The exorcist, that's me, and the demon, she,

fight for the soul of the possessed.

And three...

The demon leaves, if the exorcist wins.

The last priest didn't make it past the first step.

I'll wait downstairs.

Now what?

Step one.

Try the book.

Hey, at least you get to use your high school Latin.

It's bookmarked. How kind.

- Uh... - What just happened?

Not sure.

Some sort of glitch.

Just keep going.

You're doing great.

Wait. No. Um...

What the...

Oh, hell no.

Hey, there is some sort of glitch.

The system just kicked me out.

Uh, Ian?

Over here.

Hey, I...

are you wearing cat ears?

What? I... I keep them in my desk,

in case of e-meow-gencies.

OK.

Well, speaking of emergencies,

Ben is stuck in 1934, mid-exorcism, alone.

Yeah. Something is interfering

with the signal in the imaging chamber.

I mean, we can still track his location and his vitals.

I just can't hear or see him for some reason.

- Why? - I can only speculate,

but maybe it was the demon.

- Ian. - What? What?

Something supernatural is not entirely impossible.

Sam Beckett believed that God was guiding

the Quantum Accelerator.

So maybe a demon really is trying to interfere.

OK. Well, Ben has six hours

until Daisy dies.

How long until we get this thing back online?

I mean, I don't even understand what's happening.

So just let me run some diagnostics

and then we'll go from there.

Addison?

Father, the doctor's here.

It's a great time for the doctor to come in.

You can... he may enter.

Dr. Felix Watts.

I'd like to administer a sedative.

Yes, please.

What have you got for me?

Oh, for her.

Yes. Absolutely.

Good call.

So I take it you're not a believer?

The patient is suffering, and the family's

denying her medical treatment

because of their religious misgivings.

- Yeah. - You're a part of the problem.

No offense.

None taken.

I would love to find a rational explanation

for what's happening here.

- Really? - Yeah.

Well, the rational explanation is that this

is an illness of the mind.

She needs cutting-edge medical intervention,

electroshock therapy, for instance,

or perhaps a lobotomy.

Will you let me undo her bindings,

let her sleep in comfort?

Is that safe?

There's no demon here, father, only a girl of 18.

She couldn't do much even if she wanted to.

Joan of Arc was only 17 when she led

the French army to victory.

There's a Cathedral in France, in Orleans,

where Joan of Arc went to pray before battle.

Auntie Tessa took me there when I was little.

Daisy, Dr. Watts believes there's a logical explanation

to what's happening here.

Don't worry, father.

I know the demon is real.

This is a battle of faith.

When my father lost his job at the motorcar company

on account of the Depression, he stopped going to church.

Then my mother stopped, because we lost our house

and had to move in with Auntie Tessa.

Mother says this house gives her the creeps.

I can't disagree with her there.

Hmm.

That's how it started, about three weeks ago,

just after my 18th birthday.

The wallpaper moved.

I began to see terrible things.

My father said God turned his back on us.

He was wrong.

God sent an angel to help Joan win her battle.