Quantum Leap (TV Series)

The Leap Between the States - September 20, 1862 (1993)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Captain John Beckett

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• [last lines] 

  Isaac King : I've been thinking. Once I'm a free man, I'm gonna need a last name like everybody else.

  Olivia Barrett Covington : Got any ideas?

  Isaac King : Well, I considered Lincoln. Considered Covington, since I've been with y'all since I was a boy. I considered Beckett, to thank you for takin' me with you, sir.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, you don't have to thank me, Isaac, but I'm flattered.

  Isaac King : Most of all, I like the way I feels about bein' a free man. Makes a man feel like a king. So, if it ain't too uppity, I'd like to be called Isaac King.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, you're not gonna believe this. Isaac here goes on to have a son named Emmanuel, and Emmanuel goes on to have a son...

  Dr. Sam Beckett : King?

  Isaac King : Something wrong with it?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : No, no, no, i-it's fine.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : And that son has a son - a very famous son: Martin Luther King.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I think that's a fine name, Isaac.

• Olivia Barrett Covington : Where's the other one?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : The other what?

  Olivia Barrett Covington : Whoever you were talking to.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : I'm right here, Scarlett. Oh, she's lovely. I always had a thing for girls from the Deep South.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : We did confirm your theory.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Really?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Yeah. Uh, Ziggy says, it's a "genetic, uh, field transference". But the bottom line is that the DNA of John's blood sample does match yours. So, congratulations, you're a great-grandfather!

• Dr. Sam Beckett : This is amazing!

  Admiral Al Calavicci : I'll tell you what's amazing. Your great-grandmother's name just happened to be Olivia Covington... Beckett.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : No!

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Y-es!

  Dr. Sam Beckett : No, no, n...

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Your southern belle there is your sweetie, your bride-to-be, and your great-grandma all rolled in one. Ha-ha-ha!

• Dr. Sam Beckett : [telling Isaac about future prospects]  In about two years, the North is gonna win this war. Things are gonna be bad for a while, but everything's gonna change. Blacks... Negroes are gonna get to vote. They're gonna get jobs, good jobs.

  Isaac : That's crazy talk.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : It's truth. I swear it, Isaac. It's gonna be a long, hard fight for schooling, and other equality. But believe me. There will come a time when everyone will have the same rights. Everyone will be free.

  Isaac : That ain't nothin' but a dream.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Believe in it, Isaac.

• Olivia Barrett Covington : You and I being so different and all, I... I was wondering whether a man like you could ever love a woman like me.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, I think... that a man like me is gonna love a woman like you very, very much.

• [Sam has leapt into Captain John Beckett, a soldier during the American Civil War] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Al, there was a John Beckett in my family. And he fought in the Civil War. He... he was my great-grandfather. I'm my great-grandfather? My great-grandfather fought with the Union forces in the Civil War. His name was John Beckett. My dad was named after him.

  [he shows Al his written orders] 

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Yeah, Captain John Beckett.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : That'd explain this. It's the only reason I can figure out why I could leap outside my own lifetime.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Must've been some kind of genetic transfer or something.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : [of Olivia]  Oh. That's a hell of a woman.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Yeah, well, hell is one word I would use.