Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Future Boy - October 6, 1957 (1991)

Richard Herd: Moe Stein

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• Moe Stein : [on his theory of time travel]  Time is like a piece of string. One end of the string is birth, the other is death. You put them together, and your life is a loop.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, that's your theory!

  Moe Stein : If I can travel fast enough along the loop, I will eventually end up back at the beginning of my life.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : He-he's almost got it.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Uh, well, what... Let me ask you, what would happen if, um, you would ball the string, right? And then each day of your life... would touch another day. And then... you could travel from one place on the string to another, thus enabling you to move back and forth within your own lifetime, maybe.

  Moe Stein : That's it. That's it! Then I could actually...

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Quantum leap?

  Moe Stein : Quantum leap. I like that. I like that a lot.

• [last lines] 

  Moe Stein : Today's letter is from little Sam Beckett in Elk Ridge, Indiana. Sam writes: "Dear Captain Galaxy. Could you please explain your theory of time travel to us?" Well, Sam. Our lifetimes are like a piece of string. But... if you roll the string up into a ball, all the days of your life...

• Ben Harris : Has the whole world gone crazy? Just because the Russians put a satellite in space doesn't mean you two get to go into orbit too!

  Moe Stein : I just don't want these kids growing up thinking that the future holds nothing but violence.

  Ben Harris : Don't be ridiculous. Kids love violence!

  Moe Stein : Because we tell them to love it. We should be teaching them to dream. To see the future for its possibilities, not its limitations. And you write me a script like that, and I will shout it from the rooftops!

• Dr. Sam Beckett : Irene. Moe was just telling me how much he was looking forward to meeting with Dr. Scanlon.

  Irene Kiner : Sandler.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Sandler. Right.

  Irene Kiner : Is that true?

  Moe Stein : No. I'd rather have a tooth drilled without Novocaine.