Quantum Leap
Mondays 10:00 PM on NBCQuantum Leap Season 1 Episode 9: "Fellow Travelers" Quotes
Ben: I remember knowing that I was doing was the only way I could save you, but I just don’t remember from what.
Addison: And I don’t suppose you remember why you couldn’t tell me?
Ben: I know you’re upset.
Addison: I just feel like of things to say to your fiancée, ‘You’re in danger,’ feels like the top of that list.
Magic: So, what do we know? Just that Addison is going to die?
Jenn: Actually, Ben didn’t say that. He said he leaped to save her.
Magic: The man stepped into a quantum accelerator with no way of coming home. You don’t do that unless the person you love is in real danger.
Magic: We’re a clandestine program, few dozen personnel, access to one jet if we’re lucky. How’re we gonna search forty cities around the world?
Jenn: She’s in Belize. Frequented by tourists so she doesn’t stick out, notoriously flexible Customs, and located next to a new power plant so she can try to reach Ben again. That’s where I’d go.
Magic: Let’s get you that jet.
Carly: God, it’s strange, isn’t it? This life. Always on the road, Traveling from city to city, never going home.
Ben: The longer you’re gone, the harder it gets.
Carly: Yeah. You start thinking less about where you’re going, more about who you left behind to get here.
Ben: She doesn’t seem like a killer, does she?
Addison: Most killers don’t seem like killers, Ben. That’s why they’re successful.
Look, when I was eight years old, I realized that about half of the world just blindly accepted as truth the construct of gender identity which is both artificial and profoundly limiting, so yeah I am pretty suspicious of basically anything that people say is fact.
Ian
It’s bad enough that he kept me in the dark about what he is doing, but then to say it was about me? To deny me the chance to protect myself? I mean, who does that to someone that they love?
Addison
That’s the thing about this job. You only really sleep when it ends.
Ben
We can’t always protect the people we love the way we’d like to.
Ben
We can’t change the past. We can’t change the choices we’ve made, but we can change what we do moving forward. We do this one step at a time. Together from now on.
Ben
You two still have so much time you can share. Don’t waste even one minute being afraid.
Ben
I’ve never been stabbed. It really hurts.
Ben
