Quantum Leap
Wednesdays 10:00 PM on NBCQuantum Leap Season 2 Episode 1: "This Took Too Long!" Quotes
Ronnie: Just because we pick it up from Germany, doesn’t mean it came from Germany.
Enoch: You’re just going to gloss over the fact that the Nazis ‘collected’ a lot of artifacts?
Ronnie: Stop. It’s not what you think it is.
Enoch: I’m just saying that this could be some sort of deeply supernatural, level ten occult, ultra powerful ancient artifact!
Ronnie: This is not a supernatural relic.
Enoch: Okay, fine. What do you think it is?
Ronnie: I’ll tell you what you think it is.
Enoch: The floor is yours.
Ronnie: Taking into account all the variables that you brought up, I think that the only reasonable explanation is that it’s some sort of alien or extra-dimensional energy device that our government just stumbled upon.
Enoch: You’re thinking like Roswell?
Ronnie: Roswell’s a hoax.
Grier: That thing is a ticket out of running dead-end long-haul supply missions. We land in New Delhi, hand it off, you two [to Abrams brothers] get to go … do whatever, you [to Bailey] get an honorable discharge, and you [to Ben] get to finally go home. Isn’t that what you’ve always wanted?
Ben: Yeah, it is.
Ben: We gotta get out of here! Hey, the wing is on fire. The engine on that wing is on fire. This whole place is gonna blow at any second!
Grier: This crate is my mission. It is the most important thing they’ve ever entrusted me with. I am not going to fail!
Ben: You think when Sam got into the accelerator, he knew he maybe wouldn’t come back?
Magic: It’s hard to say.
Ben: Just keep thinking about his wife and Al and…
Magic: They all knew the risks.
Ben: Doesn’t make it hurt any less.
Magic: No, no, it doesn’t. In some ways, hard as it is to be the time traveler, I think it’s even harder to be the people left behind. For them, there is no adventure, just the longing.
Grier: Can you fix it?
Ben: This looks exactly like one of the old radios I used to take apart and Frankenstein back together again when I was a kid so…
Grier: Uh, that is top-of-the-line Air Force communications tech. It’s brand new.
Ben: No, for sure. Metaphorically similar.
Ronnie: Metaphorically? How is that… how is what you’re saying a metaphor?
Ben: I can fix it. No problem. Uh, we can stop talking about it.
Grier: I was top of my class at the academy and the only thing that I did wrong was not be born a man. They have refused to give me a real mission until now so I’m gonna protect that crate not just for me but for every other woman out there serving this country!
Ronnie: So we’re gonna die because of feminism? No thanks! I’m a big no thanks on that.
Ben: I’ll just find what I need from the wreckage and I’ll just MacGyver it back together.
Bailey: MacGyver? What does that mean?
Ben: He was my uncle. So sometimes when I jerry rig things, I like to say I MacGyver them, sometimes.
Bailey: You’ve got an uncle whose name is MacGyver?
Ben: Yeah, on my mom’s side? We don’t have to dwell on it.
Ben: I’m just praying.
Bailey: Praying? I thought you were an atheist.
Ben: Well, felt like a good day to hedge my bets.
Bailey: I lost someone. Someone I loved very deeply. So I know that, as time goes on, when all you’re left with is the memories, something real – anything real, even a ring – becomes more precious than gold. Take in your hand and you…
Ben: You try and feel them. I get it.
I know a thing or two about disappointment. Feeling like you can never get back home again. Even before the SAM hit us today, I was feeling defeated about being stuck, so I know, I know how frustrating, how humiliating, how scary it is. But my fiancée once told me that when all is lost, the one thing you can do is get back up and put one foot in front of the other.
Ben
If they had just told me the truth, that we were just a decoy… I mean, hell, if they had told us we were a straight-up suicide mission, I woulda said yes. Cause I believe in our country even if it doesn’t believe in me.
Grier
Enoch: So your plan is for us all to take turns standing on the landmine?
Ben: Do you have a better idea?
Enoch: No, no, I don’t. Can’t wait to explode with all of you.
