Quantum Leap
Wednesdays 10:00 PM on NBCQuantum Leap Season 1 Episode 12: "Let Them Play" Quotes
Janay: It is a little weird though, isn’t it? Coach waits this long to put his own kid in the game?
Shruti: She’s an alternate. That’s how alternates work.
Janay: She’s been on the team all season.
Shruti: You never had an issue before.
Janay: And I don’t have an issue now. Just sayin’ it’s a little weird.
Amanda: Well, I have an issue. I don’t think it’s fair.
Janay: Why? Cause she’s trans or because she took your shot?
Amanda: I don’t know. Both.
Shruti: Way to be a team player.
Addison: Ian, Gia only played because Ben put her in right now. As soon as she was on the court, Ziggy started updating.
Ian: I’ve been bested by my own technology.
Ian: What Gia needs now, more than anything, is an accomplice.
Addison: Like an ally?
Ian: No, no. Allies sit in the bleachers, they wave a flag. An accomplice actually has skin in the game.
Addison: Was that a sports metaphor?
Ian: Yeah, I know, I’m really trying.
It wouldn’t have changed the decisions, but maybe if I had fought harder, then I could’ve changed the lives of the people that were in my command. And at the end of the day, maybe that’s the point. And just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing.
Addison
You hear all these things, y’know. And you look at your kid. You just want to keep them safe and see them happy and some of these people want to make that impossible. And I tell you, I bet none of them have met an actual trans kid. They make up this boogeyman, y’know, like they’re some danger that has to be stopped when the only real danger is us losing our children. But if they would just pause for a second and get to know some of these kids, maybe they would see what we see. Our babies, growing up and changing, telling us who they are and who they want to be in the world. Isn’t that what we all want for our kids? Doesn’t every single child deserve the right to become their own person? To shine their own light? Because I don’t see the harm in that. But I do see the harm in trying to block it.
Parent
Trans kids are absolute magic. Once you give them permission, they’ll shine, they’ll light up a room. The inverse is also true of course when you try to force them to be something that they’re not.
Ian
I was alone, floating in this gray space while everybody else was in black and white. And when the entire world just keeps telling you over and over again that people like you are not worthy, eventually you start to believe it.
Ian
I gaze into the mirror / But my face doesn’t know who I am / I stare into the reflection of a future me I could never be and I realize / I am the Other / And the other is Me / I am another / And the other is We.
Dottie
Okay, real talk. If you think that running around in these streets is the same thing as independence, you might want to look again at that definition.
Kate
You just get through the hard times with the family that you’ve got. Or the family that you make along the way.
Kate
I know you’re scared. And I’m sorry it’s so scary being parents of a trans kid. But you gotta get over it because your fear is not my responsibility. Thank you for letting me be myself. But now, you just have to let me be a kid.
Gia
Basketball’s no different from the rest of your life. You define the game by how you choose to play it. So show up, put your whole heart into it. Try to work hard as a team but do not back down. Especially when you know what’s right.
Ben
