Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Private Dancer - October 6, 1979 (1991)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Rod 'Rod the Bod' McCarty

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• [first lines] 

  [Sam is embodying Rod, a Chippendale dancing in front of a mob of crazy women, who are trying to undress him] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [voice-over]  In Ancient Rome, slaves were forced to fight armored gladiators to the death. If the slave survived, he'd be set free. In this crowd, he'd be eaten alive.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : This is horrible!

  Admiral Al Calavicci : What are you complaining about? Most guys would kill to be in a room full of screaming, sex-crazed women, who want nothing more than to...

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Treat me like a piece of meat.

  [he opens the door just a slit and slams it shut again to the still screaming crowd of women] 

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Exactly.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : I had a thing for a deaf girl once. Boy, could she read lips.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Al, this is no time for one of your cheesy kiss-and-tell stories.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : She was my lab partner at MIT. She was one of the brightest women I've ever known.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : And she wouldn't sleep with you.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : No.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Right?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Why does your Swiss-cheese memory remember stuff that I want to forget?

• Otto : Hey, Mario. What's with the new broad? She's been ignoring me all night long.

  Mario : Well, maybe she's got good taste.

  Otto : [humorless]  Ha-ha. Just don't schedule her any more on weekends, OK?

  Mario : Don't worry, Otto, she'll be dancing bachelor parties for me after tonight.

  Otto : She's a stripper, huh?

  Mario : I prefer to call 'em exotic dancers. Right, Rod?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Yeah, yeah, I guess so.

  Otto : I prefer to call my car a Rolls, but it ain't.

• [Diana is angry with Sam - as Rod - and rants at him in sign language] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : What are you saying? I... I... I don't understand you.

  Diana Quinna : Good. Now you know what the world feels like to me!

• Dr. Sam Beckett : Why don't you tell people that you're deaf?

  Diana Quinna : Why should I? When the people know I'm deaf, they feel sorry for me or treat me like I have the plague.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, maybe... maybe that's because they don't want to seem stupid.

  Diana Quinna : Stupid?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Not you. Hearing people, like me. I mean... to tell you the truth, I really don't know how to talk to you.

  Diana Quinna : Just talk. I can read your lips. I may not get everything - maybe half. Unless you cover your mouth, turn away or speak fast.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, that's why you couldn't understand Otto.

  [Diana doesn't know who that is] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Otto, the bartender with the mustache.

  Diana Quinna : You mean, walrus?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [Sam laughs]  Yeah.

  Diana Quinna : How he expects me to know what he's saying with all this hair growing over his lips?

• Dr. Sam Beckett : I can't imagine what it would be like to live without ever hearing music.

  Diana Quinna : I know music in a way that you will never know. When I look around, I see music everywhere. There's the music in the stars. The way they sparkle. I feel them. There's music in the light as they dance on the water at night. And how the leaves chase each other, laughing. Like children that play. When I feel the wind on my face, the wind is my music.