Once in a Lifetime:
Written by:
Story by : Jaime Paglia & Johanna Stokes
Teleplay by : Jaime Paglia & Andrew Cosby
Directed by: Michael Lange
Original airdate: October 3, 2006
Synopsis:
As Kim and Stark send a robotic rover into the artifact’s chamber, an explosion goes off as they try to extract a sample from it.
Jack wakes up in bed to the voice of SARAH, albeit a somewhat upgraded voice, and chats with his very pregnant wife, Allison. Together they attend the graduation of Zoe and her class of 2010, of which she is the valedictorian. After the speech, as people chat and mingle, a disturbance occurs and everyone is shaken but unsure what happened. Jack and Allison get calls from Fargo and Jo and they head off to GD. Fargo explains that something organic just appeared in a containment area. When they enter it, they discover a dead and decayed body fused into the wall. They try to identify the body but can only see that the body shows signs of exposure to the radiation particles from the artifact that Carl Carlson was also exposed to. Allison suggests using Kim’s research but Henry is seemingly somewhat reluctant but still agrees.
As life goes on, another disturbance happens with Jack finding his car from three years ago appearing in the middle of the street causing an accident. Theorizing that it’s related to Walter Perkins’ machine, he goes to see him where it’s revealed that he has de-aged to a teenager due to his accident, his wife Susan understandably leaving him. Due to him de-aging faster if he leaves his house, he is ruled out as a suspect in the current disturbances, but explains that anyone who knows their quantum mechanics could replicate his experiment. Jo and Jack discover only two people could be possibilities, Nathan Stark who left four years ago, and Henry.
Henry talks to Kim and instructs her to try adjusting some algorithms, trying to help her identify the body. Kim interrupts them to show who the dead body was, herself. They confront Henry who reveals that Kim died four years ago and that he used Walter’s machine to stop the accident.
Fargo goes to Beverly for therapy but she uses a gizmo to hypnotize him to learn about the dead body they found.
After a tornado rips through Eureka and then suddenly disappears, Allison calls Nathan to come back to Eureka to help them since Henry won’t. Allison confesses she doesn’t want Stark to help because she loves her and Jack’s life together but they have little choice given the dangers that keep popping up.
Stark works out the equations but they aren’t giving him the results needed until Henry gives him the fragment that was extracted four years ago and the algorithms finally start working. Henry reveals physical time travel is impossible but he was able to send his mind back in time. Henry leaves to go say goodbye to Kim. Meanwhile, vowing to put right what once went wrong, Sheriff Jack Carter stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself alone, in bed.
At GD, Beverly arrives and hypnotizes Stark with a gizmo and places a small microchip into his neck which embeds itself into his body while she leaves.
Jack rushes off to GD and just as Kim and Stark are beginning their experiment with the roving robot, he finds Henry and confronts him. Henry is incensed and desperately tries to fight Jack and get past him to save Kim but Jack is too strong for him, as the experiment explodes and Kim is killed.
Beverly talks to her holographic boss from the consortium and they are now able to find out everything they need to know about the artifact.
Later, Jack talks with Allison, hoping Henry will recover and forgive him. They then decide to go have coffee together.
In other storylines, Taggart convinces Jo to finally have sex in a public park, and they do, making sure to use protection because skin cancer is real and it’s really important that Taggart protects his nose.
Advanced Research:
A Virgin Margaret Mead-
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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist. Mead's first ethnographic work, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), addressed adolescence and sexuality and catapulted her to national visibility. Her book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), explored gender roles and personality based on fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. She coordinated two comparative studies on modern cultures in the 1950s, while focusing her own work on Russia. She was curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1946 to 1969. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975. Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead's association with cultural relativism and the sexual revolution led to sharp criticism from conservatives.
Again we see pink and yellow over a new couple together, this time Jack and Allison who are revealed as a couple in a future timeline. This time the colours are also split with blue while the tachyon accelerator and Stark are also in frame, symbolizing the things threatening their relationship.
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