Quantum Leap

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.

I answered you in Russian.

You spoke to me in Russian and-- and I answered you.

It's not a game, Marina.

Marina, am I speaking English or Russian?

I mean, right now I'm speaking English, right?

But now--

I'm sorry.

You talk Russian. You talk English.

- So do you. - No.

Yes, you do. You're speaking English right now.

- One, two words. - That's three.

And " You talk English. You talk Russian." That's four more, seven.

- And "no" is eight. - You funny, Alik.

"You funny"-- eight, nine, ten.

How many more words do you know?

- No, in English. - Yes,

no, hello, goodbye,

capitalists exploit the working class.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second.

- Where did you learn that? - You.

Me?

Oh, of course, me.

I guess your English is a lot better than my Russian.

I am not a child! Don't speak to me like I am!

I'm sorry, Marina.

I don't know why I did that.

Oh, my God.

What's happened to me?

Who have I leaped into?

Funny thing about bullets, huh? You can't call them back.

You don't want to call that one back. It's a V-bull.

Looks like you're gonna qualify expert.

Who would have believed it of an air wing grunt.

Here.

You gonna make love to it or load it?

- Wow. - Wow?

If I caught my thumb in it, that would have really hurt.

Just shoot.

- Now what's the problem? - How far is that?

- How far is that? - Yeah.

You know damn well how far it is. It's 500 yards.

- Are you messin' with me, Private? - No, sir.

And don't call me "sir"! I ain't no frigging officer.

Now... shoot.

Hey, man, I love you too.

Hey, Gunny West told me you were a loudmouthed ass.

But I never thought anyone would be dumb enough to mess with me.

I'm sorry--

I'm sorry, Sergeant, I--

Russian? You speaking to me in Russian?

It's just a little slip of the tongue.

See I'm, uh, I'm studying Russian and-and-and some-sometimes it comes out.

You know what I'm studying? Huh?

The Three Stooges?

You have one more round. Shoot!

I was a pretty good shot on the farm.

Bagged my share of squirrels with a .22 and deer with a .30-06.

But that was long ago and not at 500 yards.

Did you take a deep breath?

What are you trying to do, kill me?

Now what?

You startled me! What are you doing?

I thought you heard the chamber door open and knew I was here.

You blaming me for jerking one off?

No, not you.

I don't see nobody else standing here.

Yeah well, he does.

Maggie's drawers.

Maggie's drawers, that's a euphemism for that rag they're waving there.

- It means you missed the target. - Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.

218. That's too bad.

If you hadn't jerked off that last round, you would have made expert.

Sharpshooter is not bad, Sam.

- Sign at the bottom, Oswald. - Oswald?

That's your name, ain't it?

He's right, Sam. You've leaped into Lee Harvey Oswald.

Just a word of advice, Private.

You wanna ship home with all the body parts you came here with... zip your lip.

Aye, aye, Sergeant Beaner.

See you on liberty, Oswald.

Sam, are you out of your mind?

You can't talk to anybody like that, much less a marine sergeant.

- I know, Al. I know. - Cease fire! Cease fire!

Then why'd you do it? I didn't.

Excuse me. I heard you!

You heard the words came out of my mouth, but I didn't say 'em.

- You're scaring me, Sam. - Well, you're not alone.

Maybe-- Maybe this has something to do with leaping twice into the same person.

- What twice? - I leaped into Oswald in '63.

At least that's what the newspapers I was holding said it was, March of '63.

Well, how'd you know you were Oswald?

Marina was taking my picture.

You know that famous picture with the rifle and the-and the newspapers.

That photograph is a fake.

Yeah. Oswald's face is superimposed on somebody else's body to frame him.

But Marina took it.

How do you know she was Marina?

I called her Marina and- and she called me... Alik.

Well, there you see? You weren't Oswald.

All we have to do is ask Ziggy to trace the name Alik to anyone...

working at the C.I.A. or the F.B...

What?

Alik was the name Oswald used in Russia.

And, uh, that's the name Marina used to call him.

But that doesn't mean she's the one that took the picture,

and it doesn't mean that you were Oswald.

- I was Oswald. - How can you be so sure?

- I can feel him in me. - In you?

You know how there's always a little residual...

of the other person left behind in a leap?

You know, like a little of their knowledge or their personality...

or maybe even a little bit of their soul?

Oswald didn't leave a little anything in you, Sam.

When you leap into someone, you're still Dr. Sam Beckett,

with your personality, your knowledge and you--

Where'd you learn to fieldstrip an M-1?

I didn't.

I'm him, Al. I'm Lee Harvey Oswald.

No, you're not him!

Then how do you explain this, hmm?

All right. So you can fieldstrip an M-1. Big deal.

Thousands of kids learn to do that in boot camp.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

Well, I didn't go to boot camp.

All right. So you got a little Lee Harvey Oswald in you. You can handle that.

What if I got a lot of Lee Harvey Oswald in me? Huh? I mean think about that.

Do you remember the leap when lightning struck us and we switched places?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

And I got some of your libido, right?

Yeah. And you still behaved like a prude.

What else was I supposed to do? I was a hologram.

Well, it never stopped me.

If you could handle my sex drive,

you can certainly handle a few of Lee Harvey Oswald's loose neurons.

Well, what if I can't handle it? Huh? I mean, what--

what if I assassinate the president?

You're not gonna assassinate the president. This is '57.

That doesn't happen for another six years.

Fifteen minutes ago it was six years from now.

And who's to say that's not gonna happen again...

in November with me at the Texas School Book Depository?

Good God, Al.

If that happened, I could stop the assassination.

If Oswald really was the assassin.

What do you mean if Oswald was really the assassin?

Well, there's a lot of people think that he was set up.

Set up?

- By whom? - Could have been anybody.

Could've been the F.B.I., Secret Service, uh, C.I.A.,

the military, the Mafia, defense contractors, John Birchers.

You name it. They all had something to gain from Kennedy's death.

Al, we're talking about murdering the president of the United States.

Don't you remember all the conspiracy books and the movies?

No. But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday.

I was 10, and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor

in the field behind the house.

All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us.

She ran up right to the fence and she was yelling

and we thought it was because what we were doing.

But then she told us that the president had just been shot.

Al, if I leaped into Oswald to uncover a conspiracy, why didn't I stay in '63?

Maybe because it started here at Atsugi.

- Atsugi? - Japan.

This doesn't look like Japan.

Sam, military bases look the same the world over.

But you go out that gate, and you'll see it's Japan.

There's no doubt about it. It's very beautiful. It's serene.

And there's a lot of beautiful geishas.

Okay, Al.

Chip and I, uh, libertied once at a place called The Inn of the Black Pearl.

Uh-huh.

And we would soak in these wood hot tubs with four naked--

You were saying that Atsugi is where the conspiracy started?

Uh, yeah. Well, the K.G.B. probably contacted Oswald somewhere around here.

Wait. You didn't mention the Russians. They were behind the assassination?

That's one theory.

Another one is that Oswald was just pretending to be with the K.G.B.

He was really with the C.I.A. or the F.B.I.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Why was the K.G.B. even interested in Oswald?

Are you kidding? Oswald was a radar operator with Macs-1.

He knew all the frequencies, all the codes, the intercept procedures.

He knew about Race Car.

Race Car, this is Coffee Mill. Squawk Two. Over.

- Uh-oh. - See? See what I'm saying?

That wasn't me, Al. That was Oswald.

D-D-Don't worry about it.

I don't even-- Where did that come from? That was Oswald.

- Don't worry it. - H-H-How did I know that?