Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Promised Land - December 22, 1971 (1992)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, John Beckett, Willie Walters

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Quotes 

• Neil Walters : You did it, didn't you? You saved us again. Pop would be so proud. God, what a disappointment I must have been. I... I never could be what he wanted. I never could be you.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Neil, it's all right.

  Neil Walters : I tried to do the right things. I never wanted to be head of the family. I've ruined... everything he built.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : You did your best.

  Neil Walters : How? By losing a farm?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : No. By being there when he needed you. Don't you see? In the end, it wasn't my face he saw, it was yours. And no matter what happens to me, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, I can never change that. That moment belongs to you.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, I know that look.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : What look?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : What look? That look. The "I'm gonna save the world" look. Ziggy says this leap's over as soon as the brothers surrender.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I can't do that.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : What do you mean you can't? Maybe I'm not making myself clear here. I'm talking life and death here.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : So am I. Don't you get it, Al? It doesn't matter if you kill a man with a gun or with a pen. In the end, he's still dead. I'm home, Al. And I'm gonna stay right here.

• [Sam has leapt into Willie Walters, who, together with his brothers, has taken hostages in a bank] 

  Carrie Young : Why are you doing this?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : If you could just be patient a little bit.

  Neil Walters : Let me tell her.

  [he holds up his hands] 

  Neil Walters : See these? That's what my father left my brothers and me when he died. We get up before the sun, and we don't rest till after dark. Then along comes Gus Vernon. He tells you you ain't gonna make it unless you increase the yield. Modernize, he says. Well, you're afraid of losing the only thing you got. So you go along, and you make the deal. But somehow, no matter how hard you work, you can't keep up.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Pretty soon you're selling off the milk cows to make the next payment.

  Carrie Young : It was just business.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, we'd like to hear Gus Vernon explain that kind of business to us face-to-face.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : I know that you're sympathetic with the situation here because it's your home town and all of that, but Ziggy says there's a 73.9% chance that if you surrender, you'll leap.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Leap? Why would I wanna leap? I'm home.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : But you're here to save the brothers, right? So? You got to turn yourself in. Right? So? Let's go! Right?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I can't.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Eh... How did I know he was gonna say that?

• [last lines] 

  [Sam comes face to face with his real dad] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I'm Willie Walters.

  John Beckett : Bill Walters' boy?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : That's right.

  John Beckett : I haven't seen you since the funeral. Your father was a good man.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : He was the best.

  John Beckett : How's your mother?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : She's good. She wanted me to give you a message though.

  John Beckett : Message?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Yeah, she, uh... she wanted me to wish you a merry Christmas.

  [he hugs John] 

  John Beckett : Well... Merry Christmas to you too, son. Merry Christmas to you.