Quantum Leap
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Officer: Mister McCoy?
Ben: You can address me as Sergeant. I earned that distinction after serving in Normandy. Where did you serve?
Jenn: Dairy Queen. Apparently.
Lawrence was my friend, and Einstein has been my obsession. If that formula is here, I’ll find it.
Ben: This is my life. I can’t get home. I just keep leaping. And I meet all these amazing people through time, but I never see them again.
Hannah: Except me. You don’t really think this is the last time you’re going to see me, do you?
Hannah: Woah. A guardian angel sent from the future? That’s gotta be the most, the most romantic bit of physics I’ve ever heard.
Ben: That’s it? You’re on board with the time traveler thing?
Ben: Agent Robert Cook! He’s the one that told you to come here. You met him in a diner and you talked about Einstein and angular momentum and yoyos. And you helped him save a young girl. And you told him not to say goodbye just see you later.
Hannah: How do you know all that?
Ben: I know it the same way I know what will happen to you if you leave here with that formula. I’m a time traveler.
Tom: You all right?
Ben: Yeah. Never punched a Nazi before. Felt pretty good.
NAS fellow: You can’t do that. Fellows only.
Hannah: Relax, I just saved you a day’s work.
Ben: What was that about?
Hannah: NAS Fellowships. It’s a total boys’ club. They sit around all day, pretending to be brilliant and collect fat research grants.
Hannah: Read me something from the journal.
Ben: Okay. Well, Al was wrestling with some premonitions. ‘Mankind’s innovation, absent of conscience, only brings us closer to catastrophe.’
Our future is just someone else’s past, isn’t it?
Tom
Sonny: The kid’s a real visionary. Just sucks that Dad refuses to see any of that.
Ben: Yeah, yeah, I know. And it’s ridiculous, but I think it’s because he’s afraid. This store is his family’s legacy. Only now, he’s got one son who’s planning to go off on his own and another who’s about to join the military and a mob who’s threatening to tear it all down. It’s like he’s about to lose everything.
You didn’t lose me, Magic. I made a choice to leap and the consequences of that are my burden to bear, not yours.
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.
