Quantum Leap (TV Series)
The Leap Home: Part 1 - November 25, 1969 (1990)
Dean Stockwell: Al
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Quotes
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Sam Beckett : John is going to write my favorite song.
Katie Beckett : [skeptical] You favorite song?
Sam Beckett : Um-hmm.
Katie Beckett : In the future?
Sam Beckett : Yeah.
Katie Beckett : Well, sing it to me. Or are you gonna use that swiss-cheese-brain excuse you gave me when I asked you who'd be my first boyfriend?
Sam Beckett : [playing guitar and singing] Imagine there's no heaven / It's easy if you try / No Hell below us / Above us only sky / Imagine all the people living for today / Imagine there's no countries / It isn't hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for.
[Katie's expression changes]
Sam Beckett : And no religion, too / Imagine all the people living life in peace / You-hoo, you might say I'm a dreamer.
Sam Beckett , Admiral Al Calavicci : But I'm not the only one / I hope someday you'll join us / And the world will live as one.
Sam Beckett : Imagine no posses...
[Sam notices Katie has started crying and stops]
Sam Beckett : Katey, what is it?
Katie Beckett : I've never heard that before.
Sam Beckett : Of course not. Lennon's not gonna write it for another couple of years.
Katie Beckett : Noo!
Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam...
Sam Beckett : Katey, what is it?
Katie Beckett : I don't want to believe you!
Sam Beckett : Why?
Katie Beckett : I don't want to believe you know the future... because if you do, Tommy's gonna die.
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Katie Beckett : Oh my God! If you really are from the future, you'd know if he's dead!
Sam Beckett : Chuck?
Katie Beckett : Paul McCartney. The White Album. If you play "Revolution Number Nine" backwards, the Beatles are singing "Paul is dead."
Sam Beckett : No. Paul's not dead. After the Beatles split up...
Katie Beckett : The Beatles split up?
Sam Beckett : Pretty soon, I think.
Katie Beckett : Oh God. Wait 'til I tell Elaine!
Sam Beckett : Paul forms this group called Wings and they come out with some really great tunes.
Katie Beckett : And John? What's John gonna do? He's my favorite.
Sam Beckett : [hesitantly] Uh, Katey... John...
Admiral Al Calavicci : *Don't* tell her.
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Sam Beckett : It's not fair, Al. I mean, c'mon, it's not fair.
Admiral Al Calavicci : Well, I think, uh, I think it's damn fair.
Sam Beckett : What?
Admiral Al Calavicci : I'd give anything to see my father, and my sister, for a few days. Be able to talk with them again... Laugh with them... Tell 'em how much I love them. I'd give anything to have what you have, Sam. Anything.
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Admiral Al Calavicci : I know it hurts, Sam, but you did the right thing.
Sam Beckett : I always do - I always do the right thing Al and where does it get me? I m - Why can I always save strangers, but not the people I love?
Admiral Al Calavicci : I don't know.
Sam Beckett : Well, I'm not gonna do it anymore. I'm not gonna do it.
Sam Beckett : [yelling to the sky] You hear that? Whoever you are, *whatever* you are, I'm not doing it anymore! I *quit*!
Sam Beckett : [to Al] I quit.
[Sam runs away through the cornfield]
Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam!
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Coach Donnelly : Defense! Defense! Not patty cake, defense!
Admiral Al Calavicci : Patty cake? That's high fives! That's called a high five! And what are you yelling "defense"? You should be putting them into a press! I feel like Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers.
