Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Justice - May 11, 1965 (1991)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Clyde

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• Dr. Sam Beckett : [as Clyde]  I want to talk to you about what happened this morning.

  Ada Simpson : Didn't nothin' happen this morning.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Yes, it did. I'm talkin' about what Cody said. I'm sorry about that. It was wrong and...

  Ada Simpson : It's not about wrong or right, Mr. Clyde. It's just the way things is.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, I don't believe that.

  Ada Simpson : I know you don't, Mr. Clyde, you never did. But yours is just one voice speakin' in a hurricane.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Yeah, well... sometimes one voice is all you need.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : Look, son, you know what it means to be in the Klan?

  Cody : It means we're gonna stop the coloreds from taking over.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Taking over what?

  Cody : I don't know.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : You like Ada, don't you?

  Cody : Yeah, she's nice.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Would you ever hurt her?

  Cody : No. Why would I wanna hurt Ada?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Maybe because her skin's a different color. Some people are afraid of things that are different. It's not just skin color. It could be religion or...

  Cody : But then, why didn't God just make everybody the same? Then it wouldn't matter.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Yeah, see now, that's exactly the point, Cody. It doesn't matter unless we make it matter.

  Cody : But Grandpa says it matters.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : His papa told him, and his papa before him told him, and... nobody thought to say 'stop'. See, it's up to you and me to say, 'Stop. This is wrong.'

• [Sam has set himself up to get hanged with Nathaniel] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Because I don't want to live in a world where fear and hate... hide behind a call for justice. Where men, women and children, born as free as you and me, are denied, among other things, the right to vote. And if they try to do anything about it, you hang 'em. Or you blow 'em up in a church. They're so proud of what they're doin', these dispensers of justice, that they have to hide behind masks to do it. Cody. Cody, you look at me, son. This is not justice. This is merely a desperate attempt to hang on to the past, a shameful past, that can never and should never be restored. So go ahead. You hang us now. But you cannot stop the future. Because you cannot kill everyone who was here tonight. And they will never forget what they saw.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : Terror, like the night, knows no boundaries.

• Gene : You know how I've always liked you, and respected you. Maybe some time I didn't show it. My daughter and my grandson, they love you a great deal. Damn it, I just tried to show you what I was doin' to protect my part of the world and my family! That's all I did.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : If you love your family, don't do this to them.

  Gene : I'm not doing it to them.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : You bomb the church, they'll put you away for that. And if you kill me, who's gonna take care of your daughter, raise your grandson?

  Gene : I'm not gonna kill you. You don't know me at all, do you?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I don't know any man who'd dynamite a church.

  Gene : I'm not just any man.