Did ‘Quantum Leap’ Just Set Up a Way to Bring Sam Beckett Home?
Spoiler Alert
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Quantum Leap Season 2 finale “Against Time.”]
The team on Quantum Leap now has a code that leads to so many questions about these trips through time to right wrongs and the people making them and the different ways it could be used, which, of course, leads us to wonder: Could it bring Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula, in the original series) home?
The DARPA code that Ian (Mason Alexander Park) was working on in the present turned out to be created by Hannah (Eliza Taylor), Ben’s (Raymond Lee) love interest he kept running into on leaps, to bring him home. But, as the team learned, someone would have to swap places with him. Addison (Caitlin Bassett), Ben’s ex-fiancée and the one who was supposed to leap in the first place before he did to save her life, volunteered to do so. Only, in the final moments, instead, Ben and Addison were reunited in the past, now both leapers.
Did Hannah know her code would do that? “In my mind, I think Hannah knew what she was doing and obviously the code worked in that it did bring someone into leap space again. I think the question will become, does her code function to pull people out? And if it does, when might that happen and who might we pull out and do we need to swap someone else in? I think it opens the door for a lot of exciting possibilities,” executive producer Dean Georgaris told TV Insider.
So, of course, we had to ask: Does that mean that it could pull Sam out? “Look, Sam as a character always looms large in Quantum Leap and so we never want to shut the door for that possibility,” Georgaris said. “But I think for now we want to focus on telling stories so that if we run into Sam it will be more of a surprise than, say, something that we’ve planned.”
Of course, first the NBC drama needs to be renewed in order to tell any more stories. We’ll be sitting here crossing our fingers that it is, especially after that finale ending!
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They need to bring Sam back...in some way, he HAS to finally get back.
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Only way it works is finding out Sam had the power to return had he wanted to but instead chose to keep leaping.
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Bottom line, we need the series to continue. Wake up NBC, you have a hit in Quantum Leap!
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Hannah told us she wrote her program to do this. She said at the end of the episode, for a Nomad, home isn't a place, it a person.
Presumably she couldn't figure out a way to get Ben back to Allison. She did figure out how to reunite him with his one true love Allison by bring her to him. Her code was never design to get Ben home, it was design to bring allison to ben and presumably to ensure they leap together from now on.
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Ok I must have missed something somewhere how do Addison and Ben see each other as each other and not as the people they took the place of?
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“Ben was supposed to come out.”
“Somebody did come out”
“Who???”
As the screen fades to black, all you hear is “oh boy.”
I would lose my mind, and probably cry.
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That would have been an amazing ending to the season (or series if it wasn't renewed). 👍
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I love this idea!!!! ☺️ Wish Scott bakila would get on board! Even if only for one moment!! Or invoice use lol I really hope there is a season 3! Such a great show and refreshing change from everything else on TV! Cast is diverse and great chemistry. I do love Hannah tho!
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Ben and Addison should find Sam and also a 3rd Leaper from way back in Einsteins time that has also been stuck leaping like Sam!
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Problem is that you can’t bring Sam back into existence. He’s not among the living anymore. When he kept his best friend from going MIA it changed everything. He even knew that he wouldn’t be able to return to the life he had.
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Nothing Sam Beckett did in the final episode of the original Quantum Leap kept Al from being a POW or being declared MIA. We know that Al did make it back, just that by the time Beth was remarried. We also know that in the new reality spun from Al coming back and still being married to Beth he was still involved in project Quantum Leap, and they know all about Sam Beckett. Given that and the fact that Sam still hasn't shown up it is more likely that he just hasn't wanted to. They don't know that, because privy to Sam's conversations with the "bartender". Given his knowledge of the control of his leaps he didn't need Al, Gushy, or Ziggy to guide him so he let them live their lives.
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