Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Lee Harvey Oswald - October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: Part 2 (1992)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Lee Harvey Oswald

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• [last lines] 

  Sam : If you hadn't reached me... I would have sh...

  Admiral Al Calavicci : No, it wouldn't have been you pulling that trigger, Sam, not really.

  Sam : And then when I... I-I had a chance to save him, I leaped. Why, Al? Why?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Oswald's mind finally reconnected, and when it did, he leaped back. And you leaped into the nearest person that could accomplish your mission.

  Sam : But I didn't accomplish it.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Well - maybe you did.

  Sam : I didn't save him.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : No. But it doesn't look like that's what you were here to do. Ziggy thinks you were here to save her. Your Swiss-cheese mind probably doesn't remember, but the first time, Oswald killed Jackie, too.

• [Sam is talking to Al while being shadowed by guards] 

  Guard : [in Russian]  Are you talking to us?

  Sam : Uh, I was just thinking out loud.

  [the guard nods benignly, without clearly indicating that he has understood Sam] 

  Sam : [in Russian]  I talk to myself.

  Guard : [in Russian]  My grandmother talks to herself, too, but she is eighty-three.

• Sam : How bad is it?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : It depends on how much you told them.

  Sam : I think I told them everything Oswald knew about the U-2. Gary Powers.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : The Russians shoot him down next May, and that incident extends the Cold War for years.

  Sam : That must be why I leaped in here, Al. To stop the Soviets from getting U-2 data from Oswald.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : [consults the handlink]  Oh, no, Ziggy doesn't think so. There's a 96% probability that you didn't give the Soviets anything on the U-2 that they didn't already have. That's good.

  Sam : But they shoot Powers down, right?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Yeah. It was just a lucky shot with a SAM-2, a hundred-to-one shot.

• [Oswald has taken over Sam's mind, who is in the book depository with his rifle, waiting for the presidential motorcade] 

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam! Sam! Listen to me! Sam! I got to reach you, Sam! Sam, what are the four fundamental forces of interactions in quantum physics? Sam. Sam, explain the Pauli exclusion principle. Sam, what is supersymmetry, and how does it apply...? This is never gonna work. It's all happening again. It's November 22, 1963 and it's all happening again! Sam! Sam! It's November 22, 1963! Sam, and your dad is still alive! He's teaching you to drive a tractor, Sam. It's-, it's Elkridge, Indiana. You're ten years old and your dad is teaching you to drive a tractor. At this very moment, your dad is still alive, and he's teaching you to drive a tractor, Sam! On the farm in Indiana! He's still alive!

  Sam : Dad.

  [Sam leaps]