Ben leaps into a girl wearing a bonnet, surrounded by similarly dressed girls who are chanting, “He loves me. He loves me not,” as Ben’s host picks the petals off a daisy. Ben asks who they’re wondering about and the girls giggle, reminding him that he talks incessantly about the magistrate’s son, William.

Ben’s host’s name is Elizabeth, and when the petals say William loves Elizabeth, the other girls are ecstatic and one begins chanting the sitting in a tree rhyme.

A young woman walks up and greets them. The others ignore her and leave quickly, stating they don’t want to be late for the funeral.

The woman asks Ben if they’re angry with her. He’s unable to answer. She emphatically states that she didn’t do it. A black cat rubs up on her who states it’s a bad omen and shoos the cat away.

She leaves, gesturing and calling for Elizabeth/Ben to follow.

Ben follows, his bonnet blowing off as he hurries.

He looks around as they walk, noting the clothes and lack of technology in the rustic town. A signpost reads they’re in Middle Towne, somewhere between Salem and Boston.

At HQ, Rachel is working as Ian and Jenn enter the Quantum Leap Project’s server. She states the patch she’s installed will block the intel her boss’s chip was leaking.

Rachel prepares to leave and Ian receives information they can’t believe is correct. They rush off with Jenn on their heels, leaving Rachel alone.

Ziggy’s located Ben in 1692. Addison’s shocked at how far back Ben’s leaped. Jenn tries to palm the handset so she can be Ben’s hologram, but Ian calls her on it.

Ian advises Jenn that she’ll have to use the archives in the library since there are very few digital records of the 17th century.

Ben and the young woman enter and sit in the chapel, causing everyone in the congregation to whisper about them. She begins to cry when Ben observes the chatter.

The funeral is for Josiah and the chatter is that Ben’s companion had something to do with his death.

When Ben asks, she is outraged, claiming she loved Josiah and would never hurt him.

Ian gets Ben’s attention from the back of the chapel. Ben excuses himself, using solitary prayer as the reason.

Ian wants to talk about Ben kissing Hannah but Ben’s aware everyone at HQ, including Addison, can hear their conversation and says he doesn’t want to talk about it. Ian fills Ben in on the fact he’s in 1692. His host, Elizabeth, is a serving girl to Bridget Smith, also known as Goody, the woman Ben came in with. Josiah was her husband.

The reverend begins his sermon, recounting how the town was struck by drought and some mysterious illness. He questions whether it is a punishment and if the town harbors the devil in its ranks. Ian informs Ben that Josiah’s the third to die of the illness.

A man sits down next to Ben and Ian identifies him as the magistrate. Ben asks after the magistrate’s son and is told William is running a fever like Josiah had before he died.

The magistrate asks Ben if Goody’s been acting strangely. Ian gets info from Ziggy that the town burned Goody at the stake as a witch. Ben tells the magistrate that Goody is innocent of the accusations.

Just then, William collapses. Goody rushes to his side and calls for someone to bring him water. Ben can’t find a pulse. The magistrate blames Goody. Ian tells Ben William died in the original timeline. Ben begins to administer CPR and resuscitates William to everyone’s shock.

Ben’s happy to have saved William’s life but everyone around him looks frightened. Ian reminds him CPR hadn’t been invented in 1692 so to everyone in the chapel, he’s just performed witchcraft. Sure enough, the magistrate accuses him of being a witch and everyone else joins him.

Ben and Bridget are locked into pillories. The magistrate declares the witches as the reason for the drought and death. A woman in purple steps out of a nearby door, thoughtfully pulling on some lavender growing in a pot near the doorway.

The magistrate decides there should be a trial. Several of Elizabeth’s friends accuse her and Goody of admitting to being witches in a dream. They claim to smell sulfur around the women. The woman in purple steps forward to defend Elizabeth/Ben and Goody. She is also declared a witch and brought to stand trial.

Goody denies being a witch and pleads with the townsfolk she grew up with to remember she’s always been a friend. The woman in purple, Morgan McKenna, is the town’s apothecary. She also denies the accusation.

Ian tells Ben both women still die, executed for witchcraft.

At HQ, Magic walks in, not enthused about Ben’s situation. Addison welcomes him back.

Ian rushes out of the imaging chamber. Jenn returns with a pile of books and takes the handset. She joins Ben in the courtroom and tells him he’s pleading guilty.

The idea is that admitting to witchcraft and repenting will save the women’s lives. Goody and Morgan will lose their property but they’ll live. Ben doesn’t think it’s the right move. He thinks about it and calls William, the magistrate’s son, as a witness.

Although Jenn reports that Ziggy states a high probability that William will help them, William decries Elizabeth as a witch, stating that everything went black and she woke him with hot breath and the smell of sulfur.

The crowd begins chanting, “Witch,” and the magistrate sentences them all to death.

Ben, Bridget, and Morgan are thrown into the town jail. Jenn reports they have until sundown.

Morgan and Bridget get into an argument in the cell while Ben tries to find a way out. He discovers the wall is wet. The cell is underground and Bridget says they’re near the town’s well. It may be leaking into the surrounding earth.

Jenn zaps out as the three in the cell sit down, despondent. Ben asks if the others can smell sulfur. Morgan laughs when Bridget admits she smells it too because that makes three of them. Ben wonders if it’s stress-related. Morgan suggests that they’re all witches and just don’t know it. They all laugh at that.

At HQ, Jenn emerges from the imaging chamber to find Ian conducting a seance to contact their great-great-great-grandmother who was accused of witchcraft.

Ian’s not able to get a message from his ancestor, Dorothy. Jenn zaps back to the cell to warn Ben that someone’s coming. Ben tries to plead with the man, Sam Wilshire, but Morgan doesn’t think he’ll help them. Jenn remembers Sam’s name. Sam claims that his wife is barren but Jenn says he’ll have a daughter, Sabrina, in eight months’ time.

Ben continues to beg Sam to help them and tells him about his daughter. Morgan confirms Sam’s wife stopped by her shop for ginger root because of nausea.

Sam thinks Ben is trying to tempt him to evil and renounces him with a physical altercation and the promise of a daughter.

Ben reveals that he stole the cell’s keys when Sam grabbed him.

They escape and plan to go to Boston on Morgan’s horses. A hooded figure watches them from the shadows. They find Morgan’s shop ransacked. The looters have taken most of her money but she has some hidden in a secret spot. She goes to get it and saddle the horses.

Morgan finds only one of her horses remaining. The mysterious figure sweeps by in the background.

In the shop, Bridget finds some water with a charcoal stick in it. Ben explains the charcoal cleans the water. Bridget questions how Elizabeth seems different.

A horse’s neigh is heard. Jenn draws their attention to Morgan riding off alone. The townsfolk have discovered that they’ve escaped and are on the march with torches.

Ben and Bridget hide as a figure is spotted creeping past the window. William comes into the shop. He tells them he has a way for them to get out of town. He pays a farmer to take them to Boston, hidden in an apple cart. He gives Ben some money.

Ben gives William some advice about standing up to his father. The mob, led by the magistrate, comes by and William’s father spots him. William makes an excuse for being out and tries to lead his father away. An apple falls from the cart, drawing attention, but Ben and Bridget stay undiscovered.

At HQ, Addison goes to see Magic to discuss how helpless and useless she feels now that she’s not Ben’s hologram anymore. He advises that she focus on what she’s able to change and affect.

Riding the apple cart, Ben asks Bridget what she’s going to do in Boston. Bridget tells him she’s never known anything but her hometown and she still loves it. She doesn’t see any way that she can stay but wants to.

Jenn calls to Ben to stop. They’re about to reach the crossroads that branches to Salem or Boston. Ben will leap once Bridget reaches the crossroads. There’s a scream from Middle Towne. Jenn reports that the mob caught Morgan.

Bridget resolves to continue onto Boston. She feels abandoned by everyone and wants to leave it behind. Ben warns her that the hate she carries will eat her up. He tells her he’s been there.

He convinces her and she steps off the cart to return to town with him.

The pyre’s already burning hot when they return to Middle Towne.

At HQ, Ian’s using star charts and a farmer’s almanac to decide on a plan. They mention it’s probably going to rain soon in Middle Towne. Addison has a plan she tries to convey to Jenn who refuses to be the messenger. She sends Addison into the imaging chamber.

Addison tells Ben that the drought’s about to end and the townsfolk don’t know it.

Morgan’s being dragged to the pyre. Ben heads in, trusting in God’s grace that the rain will arrive on cue.

Bridget hisses at the men dragging Morgan and they back away. When the magistrate orders them to seize all three, William intercedes on their behalf. He insists they allow Elizabeth to speak.

Ben points out that fear afflicts the town and that’s understandable. He tries to time a call for rain to prove that God doesn’t want them to burn at the stake. It doesn’t work and the magistrate comes at him to throw Elizabeth on the fire himself. Suddenly, the rain arrives. The town rejoices.

Some of the townspeople want the magistrate punished for misleading them. Ben intercedes and tells them to stop trying to burn people. He encourages them to choose to build up the community instead of tearing it apart.

He asks if he’s the only person who still smells sulfur. He discovers it’s the well water that has been contaminated with sulfur and is making people sick. Bridget brings a charred log from the extinguished pyre to clean the water.

The town works together to clean the well water. William sneaks a kiss on Ben’s cheek before going to help. Addison informs Ben that Middle Towne no longer has a record of killing witches.

Ben asks Addison if she’ll be his hologram again. He leaps and arrives in Egypt.