Quantum Leap (TV Series)

The Leap Back - June 15, 1945 (1991)

Dean Stockwell: Al

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Quotes 

• [after switching places with Sam, Al is for once the one leaping into the body of Captain Tom Jarret, a war hero] 

  Mike : You look terrific! Considering.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Considering? Considering what?

  Mike : What? Tom, you just spent three years in a POW camp. They didn't feed you much, did they?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Bowl of rice a day.

  Mike : Germans fed you rice?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : The VC.

  Mike : VC?

  Sam : Al, Al, you're not Admiral Al Calavicci; you're Captain Tom somebody, and you better start acting like him until Ziggy tells us what you're here to change.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Oh. How?

  Sam : How?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : [typing on his dead hand-link]  There's nobody home.

  Sam : Don't look at me, look at him!

  Mike : Everybody's home. They're all still asleep. Is that some new kind of walkie-talkie?

  Sam : Uh, yeah, yeah, yyyou're testing it for the government. It's top secret.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Oh, yes, this is top secret, and I'm evaluating it for the Pentagon.

  Sam : That's good. Now, put it away.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Put it away.

  Mike : Just got liberated from a POW camp, and they've already given you a new duty assignment.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : It's just like the Navy.

  Sam : Army.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Army.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : [notices a sexy woman passing by on the street]  This isn't fair. Sam, a beautiful body like that and I'm just thinking pure thoughts? Damn it!

• Sam : I know how to open the chamber door. I designed Ziggy with a back-door code, so that I could override any command, even one dealing with catastrophic failure. All we have to do is get the code to Gushie.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Oh, well, that should be easy enough. All we have to do is wait half a century.

  Sam : Well, in a sense, yes, but for us, it'll be instantaneous. Now, we've gotta figure out what the date is where I'm at today.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : September 18th, 1999.

  Sam : Your Swiss-cheesed brain remembers today's date?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : My fifth wife is suing me for more alimony, and that's the court date. There's some days you don't forget.

  Sam : Okay. Okay. We deliver a letter to Gushie on September the 18th, nineteen-hundred and ninety-nine.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Who's gonna wait 54 years to deliver a letter?

  Sam : The post office. And my dad's lawyer, Doc Krosnov. We mail Doc Krosnov a letter, right? With, say, a hundred bucks.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : For the stamp.

  Sam : No, no, no, no, no, it's 1945. $100 will do very nicely. We mail him a letter, with $100 and instructions to have the code delivered to Gushie on September the 18th, nineteen-hundred and ninety-nine.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : It could work.

  Sam : It's gotta work.

• [Suzanne has just explained her devotion to the man Al has leapt into, even after she thought he was dead] 

  Admiral Al Calavicci : [thinking]  Take a hike, Mr. Morals. Calavicci is takin' over.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : Do you have any Sweet 'n Low? Or Equal?

  Kelly : Sweet 'n low? Equal?

  Sam : Oh, no, no, no, no. They didn't have any artificial sweetner in 1945. Okay? But...

  [he looks at Kelly] 

  Sam : ...boy, did they have women with big kazooms!

• Sam : The lightning strike could've been misread by Ziggy as a catastrophic collapse of the radium accelerator ring surrounding the imaging chamber. Ziggy would've automatically sealed the chamber to protect the project from radium radiation.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : But when they realize that the ring didn't collapse, then they're gonna open the door!

  Sam : Well, see, once the door has been sealed, it can't be reopened by Ziggy until the radiation half-life of the radium ring has... expired.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Why do I feel this is gonna be a big number?

  Sam : Well, no, no, not in cosmic terms. See, it's, it's, uh... 1,600 years.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : [to his non-functioning hand-link]  Come on, you rotten pile of gummi bears!

• [when Suzanne - after some hanky-panky with Al - goes for a whiz, Sam follows her into the bushes] 

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam!

  Sam : [returns]  What am I doing?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : You dog!

  Sam : Well, it's your filthy mind!

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Yeah, well, I want my mind back! These choir boy thoughts are drivin' me nuts!

  Sam : Well, they didn't seem to stop you a few minutes ago.

• Sam : Oh, my God. Your brain's Swiss-cheesed.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : My brain is fine.

  Sam : No it's not, the leap Swiss-cheesed it.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Stop saying that!

  Sam : It's nothing to be ashamed of! Do you remember the first time I leaped? I couldn't even remember my own name.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Al. My name is Al.

  Sam : [after waiting expectantly for a few seconds]  Al what?

  Admiral Al Calavicci : [laughs awkwardly]  You think I've forgotten my last name?

  Sam : [laughs and smiles]  I'm about to bet on it.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Well, you'd lose. It's Beckett. Al Beckett. Ha!

  Sam : It's Calavicci. Al Calavicci. HA!

  [laughs] 

  Admiral Al Calavicci : [very confused]  Calavicci? It's not Beckett?

  Sam : No!

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Well, then, who the hell is Beckett?

  Sam : Me. I'm Beckett.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : [yells]  GUSHIE!