In this weeks episode of The Quantum Leap Revival, Cory and Tom have to work for the money as they discuss season 2 episode 10, The Family Treasure.
The Family Treasure:
Written by: Shakina
Directed by: Jude Weng
Airdate: February 6, 2024
Synopsis:
Ben leaps into Nadia Malik, one of three sisters attending the reading of their late father’s will. The inheritance amounts to little more than some small trinkets, surprising one sister Sarah, but when Ben drops her gift of a small ship in a bottle, a paper scroll is revealed. Indeed, Sarah and their other sister Dina, who reminds her sister Sarah that she goes by Dean, find scrolls in their gifts as well, that when placed together, form a map. Dean realizes that the map is to the lost treasure of San Patricio, something their father had searched for extensively after his wife passed away. Dean resolves to finish her father’s quest but Addison arrives to say that she ends up going missing and is never found, leading Ben to agree to go with her, while Sarah joins in as well after Dean reveals that the treasure is reportedly worth 40 million dollars.
Back at the project Addison and Tom announce their decision to elope right away and begin their married life together with everyone cheering them on, though Ian and Jenn discuss it privately, with Jenn saying that Addison deserves to be happy. Rachel calls Ian and tells them she is fearing being fired because her boss Gideon Rydge has discovered that someone has been helping The Project and are searching all employees. Jenn checks with hackers on the dark web but no one wants to take on Gideon, suggesting Ian go to Magic and tell him everything.
Back in the past, the sisters travel to Dos Estrellas, Sarah bringing along a large assortment of non essentials in her luggage, causing more of a rift between her and Dean, who Sarah continually refers to as Dina. They find a cantina owner, Ricardo, who Sarah flirts with despite being married with kids, and who tells them more about the treasure and previous treasure hunters. As the girls look over the pictures, eventually finding one of their dad, they find out Ricardo has stolen their bag with the map in it and disappeared. Luckily with Ben’s photographic memory, he can redraw the map and the girls continue on their way, heading to the well their father had found, realizing he made a pun on the map that indicated the well was the way to the treasure.
Another pun on the map reveals that they need to go underground, coming down the well and searching while they discuss the legend of the treasure. The story goes that after the town’s water supply dried up, a priest stole the treasure and buried them as a tribute to the God Quetzalcoatl in hopes that he would return water to the town. The girls eventually reach a part of the tunnel that caved in, stopping their progress, but yet another pun reveals that the key they’ve been looking for is hidden behind a fake rock, a sham rock. No sooner do they retrieve it than Ricardo shows up with the man who read their will, Mr Wells, who tells the girls that he wants the key, mentioning the treasure’s worth. Ricardo is shocked by the amount because he was told his cut off the treasure would be a smaller fraction and voices his displeasure but Wells shoots him.
Dean tells Wells that there is a trap and that he needs their group to find the treasure and the man believes her. She takes that moment to attack Wells who shoots the gun off and causes a cave-in to happen, knocking them all to the ground, but Dean gets up and shows that she managed to grab the key before Wells was hit by the rocks. With Addison’s help, they find a way out of the underground tunnels, making their way to an older part of the town where they find the church mentioned in the legend. As they take a break, Sarah notices bandages around Dean’s chest and Dean removes their shirt, revealing they have bandaged their breasts tight against their chest, explaining they feel more themselves this way. Ben explains how the concept of binary/non binary works and Dean loves the explanation, adopting it for themselves with Sarah understanding. Sarah then reveals she is leaving her husband due to his treatment of her, something Dean alluded to earlier to Ben.
The three of them head into the church and find a keyhole but nothing happens when they put the key inside. After another pun/clue is understood, they turn the key more and a compartment opens, enabling them to pull out a chest. As they do, a bell rings above the church and a great rumbling starts. They rush outside to see water starting to rush down into the town as Ben realizes they must have opened up one of the nearby dam’s spillways. They manage to survive the rushing water and open the chest to discover it’s empty, but Been discovers a false bottom and inside a letter from their dad that had him apologizing for not being there when their mother died and for escaping into his adventures instead of being there for family. In deep thought, Addison tells Ben she’s not going anywhere. Dean, Sarah, and Ben return home with Ben writing a letter to Hannah, telling her about her husband’s medical issue, and then giving it to Sarah, making her promise to mail it off after May 1970. When Sarah mentions that Nadia is just like their dad, and that the real treasure is family, Ben realizes the actual words their father wrote was “the real treasure is AT home with family.” They remove the family picture from the wall and behind it they find a treasure trove of jewels, as Ben leaps.
Back at the project, Addison talks to Tom and tells him that she needs time, not wanting to get married right away. He suggests that she needs space as well, saying he will return to Washington, chiding himself for rushing her. Addison says that the decision isn’t about Ben, but Tom tells her to take her time and she’ll come to a different conclusion.
Elsewhere at the project, Rachel shows up, visibly shaken, as Gideon Rydge enters, looking over the facilities, and very menacingly, tells Ian it’s nice to see them again.
Ziggy’s Data Retrieval:
Who is Ben?
Nadia Malek
Where is Ben?
Dos Estrellas, Mexico
When is Ben?
1953 (17 year leap back)
Closest Previous Leaps-
S01E16 "Ben, Interrupted" 1954
S01E11 "Leap Die Repeat" Fort Worth, Texas
Closet location to Sam Beckett-
S01E01 “Genesis” Waco, Texas
S01E05 “How The Tess Was Won” Texas
S02E20 “Maybe Baby” Texas
S04E02 “Play Ball” Galveston, Texas
S04E09 “A Single Drop of Rain” Clover Bend, Texas
S05E01-02 “Lee Harvey Oswald Parts 1-2” Dallas, Texas
Closet time to Sam Beckett-
S01E09 "Play It Again, Seymour" April 14, 1953
S02E03 "The Americanization of Machiko" August 4, 1953
S04E09 “A Single Drop of Rain” September 7, 1953
S05E22 “Mirror Image” August 8, 1953
Hollie Bahar played Sarah. Most recently, she was in Wolfpack (a teenage boy and girl get their lives changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. As the full moon rises, all teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them), Secrets in the Snow (six students are left locked alone inside their High School during a winter storm. As conditions worsen, wills are tested, friendships are created, and secrets are revealed), and was a main supporting cast member in the movie Actor For Hire (a bald, out of work actor finds immediate and overwhelming success when he discovers the power of persona in the form of a cheap wig). Her other credits consist of smaller one off appearances and lower cast list roles. She was in an episode of This Is Us with Justin Hartley, another QL alum.
Wilder Yari played Dean. They identify as non-binary and transgender. One of the shows they have done the most on is The 4400 (4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them). They’ve done a number of shorts, one of which is Keep/Delete which is a future story where memories are swapped like computer discs and two lovers decide to remove all traces of their relationship from their mind. They were one of the main cast in the movie The Canyonlands (after 5 people win a rafting trip down the Colorado in Utah, their adventure takes a deadly turn when they camp off the river for the night, and find out they aren't the only ones out in the remote rugged canyon lands). Most recently they were in four episodes of Grown-ish.
Dan Bakkedahl played Mr. Wells, a notable “that guy.” He’s had a recurring role in The Goldbergs as a teacher. He’s been in everything from playing “Gas Man,” the third highest credit in the movie One Man’s Ceiling, to The Office, 30 Rock, Grimm, Californication, and the recent History of the World Part II. He had a recurring role in Veep, and was in a handful of episodes of American Crime Story, The Mindy Project, and Space Force. He was a lead in the series Legit (Jim and his put upon friends try to learn what it means to be a good person), and Made For Love (a young woman, on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to a tech billionaire, suddenly realizes that her husband has implanted a revolutionary monitoring device in her brain that allows him to track her every move, with Ray Romano and Christin Milioti). He also played an air conditioning repairman in Community. For movie roles, he was the second lead in Not Safe For Work (an office worker is trapped inside the building where a killer is on the loose), and the lead in Buddy Games: Spring Awakening (after the death of one of their own, Bobfather and the boys steal the urn and go on a trip to commemorate his life at the place where the Buddy Games began, but everything goes wrong when they find themselves in the middle of spring break).
Keon Alexander Played Ricardo. His biggest role was in The Expanse. He was a main cast member in Eugenia and John (a young couple are figuring out love and loyalty as they organize a rally in support of immigrant rights), and Rewind (a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack). He was also in 10 episodes of the 32 episode series Tyrant (an unassuming American family is drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation).
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