Quantum Leap
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Tom: First, Sam Beckett. Now, Ben Song. In both cases, our assumption was that something went wrong. And if we can fix it, one – or both – of them could come home.
Magic: That is the goal.
Tom: But what if the engine of Quantum Leap is sacrifice? What if sacrifice is the price we have to pay for change? For thirty years, we assumed the technology was broken. But what if it has to be a one-way trip?
Magic: But I don’t think that’ll stop people from leaping. I think some will go even if that’s the cost. There’s something deep down inside of us that strives to do better.
Ben: What I needed was for you to wait for me. I jumped through time and space to save you. And you couldn’t wait three years. I would’ve waited forever for you, Addison. I would’ve never stopped looking.
Addison: It is easy to say that you would wait when you are not the one who had to wait. When you are the one who left and not the one that got left behind.
Do not tell me how hard it has been for you because I waited. I grieved. And then I buried you along with the life that we were supposed to have together. A life that you left me in, alone.
Addison
This is a truly historic program. It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Short term, my job is to oversee an audit of the operation. I know, I know, but this is the government. You can’t change the world without some paperwork.
Tom
Tom: How goes the leap?
Addison: Neal Russell. I mean, can you believe that? I’m having a hard time not just staring at him.
Tom: You realize you said that out loud.
Addison: Yeah, well, teenage me would’ve shouted that from the rooftops, so that’s growth.
Jenn: So our choices are we let the chip keep hemorrhaging code or we pull the chip and lose Ben forever?
Ian: Yeah, I am kind of hoping that we can come up with a better third option.
Neal: Can we at least agree that you can’t marry Michael? I mean, he’s a sidekick at best. He’s not a leading man!
Laura: And what did being a leading man get you? A life of loneliness.
I can deal with your savior complex. Some days, it’s even admirable. But I told you I wouldn’t do secrets anymore.
Rachel
Ben: What we perceive as the force of gravity arises from the curvature of space…
Hannah: … and time.
Ben: A-ha, what kind of waitress knows the general theory of relativity?
I have also seen things that are hard to explain and harder to believe.
Ben
Magic: All the agony and loss we went through doesn’t vanish just because Ben’s alive. We still carry all three years of it.
Addison: I, uh, I don’t know how to help him anymore. It’s so strange to look at Ben – my Ben – and not know what to do.
Go live the life you want to live.
Ben
