In this episode of The Rewatch Podcast, Cory and Eoghan are once again taking Manhattan as they discuss Scream VI.
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Neve Campbell stated on June 6, 2022, that she would not be reprising her role of Sidney Prescott, after starring in the five previous entries, due a salary dispute with Paramount. Campbell's statement read, "As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream. I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise. It's been a very difficult decision to move on. To all my Scream fans, I love you. You've always been so incredibly supportive to me. I'm forever grateful to you and to what this franchise has given me over the past 25 years." After Campbell announced that she wouldn't be reprising her role as Sidney, her former Scream co-star Matthew Lillard offered his support for her decision. "Did Tom Cruise take less money for Maverick 5?" he asked, insisting that a woman should not be expected to take a smaller paycheck. He noted that Scream (2022) was a "smash hit," and that Campbell should be paid accordingly.
Courteney Cox was the first cast member to sign up to return as Gale Weathers. She states that she did not hesitate to return because she loves playing Gale, and jokingly said that she'd even play her for free. Although Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers) and Roger Jackson (phone voice of Ghostface) are the only actors who have had roles in all six films, this film marks the first time they have directly interacted via telephone.
Kirby, one of the survivors from Scream 4 (2011), returns, making this Hayden Panettiere's first acting credit in 5 years. There were already plans to involve Panettiere in Scream (2022), but she couldn't be located in time, so her presence was limited to her picture on a YouTube thumbnail, and a voice cameo.
The first Scream film to be shot outside of the United States, as shooting takes place in Montreal, Canada.
On the subway one of the passengers is dressed as Grace from Ready or Not which was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett who directed this film and starred Samara Weaving. There is also a Mojo Jojo costume, from Powerpuff Girls, who was voiced by Roger L. Jackson. Costume designer Avery Plewes estimated she made 200 costumes, with 140 extras on set for the subway shoot. About 45 of those extras would change clothing after getting off the recreated train car then reappear in different costumes on the subway platform. "It was a 25/75 rule, where 25% of the costumes were creepy at the beginning, and then it just progressively got worse," Plewes explained. Other costumes include Pinhead, The Babadook, Peachfuzz, Jason Voorhees, Samara from The Ring (2002), Michael Myers, Grace from Ready or Not (2019), The Creep, Chucky, Pennywise, American artist Andy Warhol, The Grady Twins from The Shining (1980), Freddy Krueger, The wolf mask from Creep, Sherrie from Stab 6, and Italian-American actress and model Julia Fox. Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, with their executive producer Chad Villella, even put themselves in the subway scene, albeit very briefly. Bettinelli-Olpin dressed as Kurt Cobain and Gillett put a fake butcher knife through his head.
The bodega in the film was called Abe's Snake, a reference to the pseudonym Abe Snake, which Wes Craven used when he directed adult films in the 1970s.
The film teases a popular fan theory that someday we might see the return of Matthew Lillard's character Stu. Since the first film, fans have been trying to figure out how to bring back the popular character. Even up to this film's release, fans were speculating on if this would be the one to bring him back. In the Stab Museum, we see the TV that fell onto Stu's head. One of the characters mentions it, and another replies, "Yeah, if he's actually dead." Then begins to explain the rumors on the internet of his death being faked.
Body Count: 13 - Laura Crane, Jason Carvey, unseen character Greg, two customers at the convenience store, the store cashier, Dr. Christopher Stone, Quinn's bedroom pal, Anika Kayoko, Brooks, Detective Bailey, Quinn Bailey, and Ethan Landry, This makes the highest body count of all Scream entries.
The movie Jason watches, at the beginning of the movie, is Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason takes Manhattan (1989).
The film made $22.6M internationally in its opening weekend, the biggest-ever overseas opening for the Scream franchise. It also broke records for the franchise in 29 markets, including the UK ($3.6M), France ($2.5M), Australia ($2M), Mexico ($2M) and Brazil ($1.8M).
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In this weeks episode of The Quantum Leap Revival, Cory and Tom go toe to toe with tasers and trackers as they discuss season 1 episodes 3 & 4, Somebody Up There Likes Ben and A Decent Proposal.
Somebody Up There Likes Ben:
Episode Title: Somebody Up There Likes Ben
Written by: Drew Lindo
Directed by: Marcus Stokes
Airdate: October 3, 2022
Synopsis:
Ben leaps into young and upcoming boxer Danny Hill, in 1977 Las Vegas, the day before the boxer’s big title shot. Addison reports that Danny lost the fight, getting knocked out in the second round, seeming distracted, and resulting in his career never recovering. Before discussing it further, a woman named Angela enters the locker room and begins kissing Ben passionately. Daryl Hill, Danny’s brother, catches the two of them and admonishes the woman. Addison discovers that Daryl raised Danny after their parents died in a fire, and that he was a prize fighter himself until he got drafted into Vietnam.
At the weigh in for the fight, Daryl reacts negatively to all the flashing cameras, while they find out that the reason Danny was distracted during the fight; he is in love with Angela, who is actually dating his opponent, Roy Gordon.
Back in the future, Addison is starting to lose it, with Ian calming her down. Magic reports that the Pentagon is still asking questions, given their continued power drain. Ian reveals that Ben had unlocked all safety protocols and is now able to leap beyond his own lifetime. Ian later talks to Magic and reveals that Ben is likely trying to use the leaps to gather enough power to leap even farther than he ever should have been able to. Meanwhile, Jenn finds out that Ben had been working on his new code for the last 6 months, even going so far as to lie about where he was on trips away from the project.
Ben tries to get Daryl to delay the fight, but discovers that if they do, the promoter will pull out and they’ll lose their family business, a gym Daryl secretly leveraged with loan sharks. Outside, Roy appears and lets Ben know that he saw Angela with him. Daryl shows up to get him away, but Roy calls him a baby killer, referring to his role in Vietnam. Daryl starts to attack him but Ben gets him away safe. Addison reveals that in the original timeline, after Danny lost the fight and Daryl lost the gym, he then committed suicide.
Addison comes up with the idea to use the hand link to show Ben the fight as it actually went down, allowing Ben to use his photographic memory to work out a strategy to win. She helps him train but keeps pushing herself, and she eventually collapses.
As Addison recovers, Ian finds out that the reason Ziggy has been running slowly is because someone has hacked into the system from a remote location, reasoning that it’s Janis. Rather than lock her out with a system reboot, which also endangers their connection to the past with Ben, they leave her connection intact to try and figure out what she’s doing.
Elsewhere, Janis talks with Beth about why she was the one responsible for blocking her from joining the Quantum Leap Project.Beth says she didn’t want her daughter to get caught up in it the same way her father did, and fail at retrieving Sam from the past. Janis asks her if she ever considered that she wouldn’t have failed, and asks for all of Al’s items related to the project, but Beth refuses. Unfortunately, Beth passes out during the conversation, having had her tea drugged.
Back in the past, Daryl starts to exhibit symptoms of PTSD as he talks about his wife being worried about him. He’s further triggered when the police show up to arrest him for assaulting Roy and his friends earlier. Ben manages to calm him down with Addison’s help, given her experience with this sort of thing in her tour in Afghanistan. Ben gets himself arrested as well, reasoning that this arrest is likely the real reason Danny was distracted in the original timeline. Ben talks with Daryl in jail, and makes him promise to get help. After they are bailed out, Daryl reunites with his wife and Ben reunites with Angela, their secret love affair now no longer a secret.
As the fight begins, Ben manages to keep everything going exactly the way the original fight went until he finally sees an opening and knocks the champ down, but he gets back up on count nine, surprising everyone. Ben goes back into the fight and is knocked down himself, starting to recover some memories in the process. Addison advises him to fight righty, since Danny is a southpaw. The strategy works and Roy is knocked out, with Danny being crowned the new champion. Addison tells Ben that Daryl also gets help, and starts a PTSD support group. Ben asks Addison to stay with him, and then reveals that he remembers someone being with him, but before he can finish his sentence, he leaps.
Addison is later surprised by her coworkers showing up to watch TV with her, a ritual that she and Ben had. Magic takes a phone call from Beth who tells him that Janis stole Al’s project files, but more notably, the original handlink.
Elsewhere, Ben finds himself being hit on by a drunk man in a bar, before seeing a woman’s visage in the mirror staring back at him.
Ziggy’s Data Retrieval:
Who is Ben?
Danny "Youngblood" Hill
Where is Ben?
Las Vegas, Nevada
When is Ben?
October 2, 1977 (21 year leap back)
Closest Previous leaps-
S01E01 "July 13th, 1985"
Closet location to Sam Beckett-
S02E16 "Freedom" in Nevada 1970, helping a Native American grandfather get home to the reservation
Closet time to Sam Beckett-
S02E02 "Disco Inferno" April 1, 1976
S03E18 "A Hunting We Will Go" June 18, 1976
S05E10 "Trilogy: Part 3 (The Last Door)" July 28, 1978
Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt are the creators and developers of the new series, and are credited writers and executive producers. As mentioned in episode zero, Martin Gero is now the showrunner, having replaced Lilien and Wynbrandt after the filming of the first 2 episodes.
Unsung Hero: Jermain Alvarez Martin. Aside from a few handfuls of minor roles, he doesn’t have a whole lot going on, like the rest of the supporting cast in this episode.
A Decent Proposal:
Written by: Moira Kirland
Directed by: Rachel Talalay
Airdate: October 10, 2022
Synopsis:
Ben leaps in as a woman at a bar and soon finds himself being hit on by a drunk man he quickly rebuffs. Addison informs him that he is Eva Sandoval, a bounty hunter. She and her partner Jake work for Eva’s father, a bail bondsman named Alberto. Jake shows Ben their suspect’s photo again, and the suspect happens to be the same man that tried to hit on him earlier. Together they pursue the man as he tries an escape, eventually catching him.
Addison finds out that Ben is likely there to help Tammy Jean Jessup, who is in trouble for unpaid traffic tickets, however the details of her case don’t seem to be all that major. Before they can discuss it further, they find the door to Eva’s father’s shop left open. Jake goes in alone but Ben follows soon after, only to find Jake on one knee, proposing to him. Ben says he needs more time, which puts Jake off. Alberto comes in to celebrate, but is disappointed as well. Ben tries to make things right by redirecting Jake into helping him with the Tammy Jean case, and he goes along with it.
Back in the future, Ian discovers that Janis is trying to access different parts of their systems, most notably the prediction systems, focusing them on the actions of Ian, Magic, Jenn and Addison. In order to find out what she’s trying to do, Ian needs access to all of their files, even Magic’s classified ones. Magic takes Ian out to talk to them about his past in Vietnam, and his experience there when Sam Beckett leaped into him. Years later, he learned about Project Quantum Leap, finally seeing the man in his dreams since his time in the war. Being a Navy Seal, he lived by the credo to leave no man behind, and started the project back up in the hopes that maybe someday he could bring Sam home. Ian later talks with Jenn and says that they are not going to let the same thing that happened to Sam, happen to Ben.
As Ben and Jake plan to find Tammy Jean, Addison questions why Ben seems to really want to save Eva and Jake’s love life, and he admits that it’s because he remembers having a girlfriend. Before more can be said, Jake signals that things are clear, and Ben fools Tammy Jean into coming with them to her court date. She tries to bribe him, and when that doesn’t work, she tries crying and a cover story, but he doesn’t buy it. Suddenly, two men with guns show up, but Jake finds an escape out the window for them as they drive away.
Jake loses his patience with Tammy Jean and she admits that the guys might be working for La Serpiente, a drug cartel that took over the cocaine market in San Francisco, and are possibly after Tammy’s boyfriend Zack because he deals in cocaine as well. Tammy’s story reveals that the cartel believes that she and Zack are helping the DEA with their investigations, thus their interest in trying to get Tammy.
Jake tries to get Ben to open up about what the problem is with the proposal. Ben stalls, eventually getting fed up with Tammy trying to butt in, and handcuffs her farther away from them. Unfortunately, she manages to slip away and Ben reasons that she may be going to her boyfriends club, with Jake understandably upset that he and Eva aren’t happy and celebrating instead.
Upon arriving at the club, they witness Tammy Jean threatening her boyfriend Zack. He calls her Carla, and after accusing him of talking to the feds, she shoots him. A bump into the furniture reveals Jake and Ben’s presence and they take off running as Carla’s goons follow. Addison reveals that there were rumors that La Serpiente was actually run by a woman.
They escape but Jake is frustrated with the lack of an answer from his girlfriend, and decides to leave, heartbroken. Ben laments the loss of their relationship and asks Addison if the woman he left behind is mad, but she responds that she is just confused, as they all are.
Alberto enters and is disappointed to hear about her and Jake. When Ben says he’s determined to bring Carla in, Alberto reminds him that all of the parking tickets were at Union Station, giving Ben a solid lead, and Addison reasons that train travel would be an easy way for Carla to avoid being tracked. Surprisingly, Jake shows up after Eva’s dad called him, convincing him to not give up. Jake reasons that a scary life with Eva is better than a life without her.
As they search for Carla, using the local deputies to take care of her goons, she manages to find Jake and holds him at gunpoint. Jake starts talking about how he was thinking about proposing to Eva again, at Christmas, prompting Addison to recall that he gave Eva a taser for Christmas and that Ben could shoot the metal lined suitcase Carla holds. He does, shocking her and enabling Jake to apprehend her safely. Addison reports that Carla goes to prison, and teases Ben about not wanting to find out what happens with Eva and Jake. Ben recovers more of his memory and realizes that the girlfriend he left behind is actually Addison, but as he reaches out to touch her, he leaps. Ben is now a man in a poncho and cowboy hat, being reprimanded by a young girl. Ben walks outside and finds himself in an old western town.
Ziggy’s Data Retrieval:
Who is Ben?
Eva Sandoval
Where is Ben?
Los Angeles, California
When is Ben?
July 29, 1981 (4 year leap forward)
Closest Previous leaps-
S01E01 July 13th, 1985
Closet location to Sam Beckett-
S01E08 "Camikazi Kid" 1961
S02E07 "Thou Shalt Not" 1974
S02E11 "A Portrait for Troian" 1971
S03E07 "Black on White on Fire" 1965
S04E19 "Moment to Live" 1985
Closest time to Sam Beckett-
S02E13 "Another Mother" September 30, 1981 Scottsdale, Arizona
Director Rachel Talalay came up through her production work on the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, and was given her first directing gig on Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. She also directed the cult classic film Tank Girl, starring Lori Petty and Naomi Watts. She’s been directing television for a long time since then, with more recent notable episodes of (of course) the DC slate of shows, Sherlock, and Riverdale. She directed 7 episodes of Doctor Who over the Capaldi run, coming on for episode 11-12 for season 8-10, and only episode 11 for season 11. She’s also the director of the upcoming 60th Anniversary Special.
Justin Hartley played Jake. He’s probably most well known for playing Kevin Pearson in six seasons of This Is Us. He has done a number of Netflix original projects lately, such as Rebel Wilson’s Senior Year, and a Hallmark style Christmas movie called The Noel Diary. He continues to capture leading roles in films, such as A Lot Of Nothing (a husband and wife plot revenge on a neighbor they saw kill someone) and The Exchange (an awkward teenager attempts to befriend a sophisticated and cultured French exchange student that is not really all that cultured and sophisticated). He had a run of 185 episodes on The Young and The Restless, and 437 episodes of Passions. In superhero circles he is known as the original Green Arrow from the Smallville series (72 episodes), and most recently he voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in a Spotify original podcast called Harley Quinn and the Joker: Sound Mind, and then Superman in the DC animated movie Injustice. Before winning the role of Green Arrow, he starred in the failed pilot for an Aquaman series.
Carla/Tammy was played by Sofia Pernas. She starred with Danny Trejo in Green Ghost and The Masters of the Stone (a car salesman, Charlie, moonlights as masked Lucha Libre Wrestler "Green Ghost” and discovers that he has superpowers that he must harness to save humanity when men arrive seeking an ancient stone). She also starred with Bruce Campbell in the recent comedy Adopted (when a Green Beret returns home to Texas from military service, he and his family struggle with the challenges of adopting his new brother, a 12-year-old Russian boy). Most recently, she starred in the two season show Blood and Treasure (an Indiana Jones/Lara Croft/National Treasure style series with an art thief and antiques expert teaming up to catch a terrorist).
Unsung Hero: Anastasia Antonia. Aside from a handful of one off roles in movies and series, she is also a successful model.
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In this weeks episode of The Quantum Leap Revival, Cory and Tom try to remember why they leaped and launched as they discuss season 1 episodes 1 & 2, July 13th, 1985 and Atlantis.
Ben leaps in to find himself behind the wheel of a car as the man in the passenger seat asks him if this is worth it, before putting on a mask, grabbing a gun, and entering a bank. Ben looks into a mirror to see not his own reflection, but that of a stranger. As he looks around at the world outside, he sees telltale signs that he appears to be in the 80’s. As he looks at his driver's license, identifying him as Nick Rounder, he turns to see Addison, but he doesn’t recognize her. Before she can explain, the man from the car rushes out of the bank with two others in tow as an alarm blares behind them. Addison tells him she’s a hologram from the future, that he traveled to the past, and he has to drive away right now, as she instructs him quickly on how to drive a stick shift and helping to lose the cop cars behind them. Ben finds a minute to talk with Addison but before she can explain more, she disappears.
Back in 2022, Ian explains that Ziggy, the supercomputer that controls Quantum Leap, is offline due to some new code uploaded by Ben. Apparently, he wrote and installed an entirely new operating system before leaping, years before they were ready for human testing. Meanwhile, Magic is heading off questions from the government about the sudden power surges, and Addison convinces him to not tell them what happened, fearing they will shut the program down. Ian manages to get the imaging chamber back online, allowing Addison to return to Ben in the past.
Addison calls Ben out on leaving without telling anyone and he admits he probably deserved that, and says he’s ready to return home. Addison explains that he isn't in control of that, and explains how the project was started by Sam Beckett who ended up leaping around in time, helping others, in the hope that one day, his next leap, would be the leap home. Ben tells her to ask Beckett what he did to get back home and she reveals that he never did return home. She tells Ben of his work on the project over the last five years, trying to fix the project and the leaping mechanism, but also the new code he installed. He’ll need to now figure out how to help the person he leaped into.
As Addison heads back to the future for more info, Ben is called in to hear about the next step in the criminals’ plans. The leader, Cole, is wary of Nick’s odd behavior, but the man from the car, Ryan, has his back and steps up for him. He then learns that Ryan is with Cole in order to get money to pay for his wife’s medical issues, having been dropped from their insurance after she got sick, and going into debt after mortgaging his restaurant and being shut down by the bank. Addison then shows up to let him know that later that night, Ryan is supposed to be shot dead.
Ryan and Ben go to talk with Horace, a man who has made a replica of the Hope Diamond, but he wants to raise the price and has his men hold them at gunpoint. Ben learns he speaks Romanian, and lightly threatens Horace, getting info from Addison about his life, and bluffing their way out.
Back in the future, Jenn reveals that they found some security footage and a shot of a ring, recognized as military by Magic. Jenn asks to be fired for allowing a breach of this size, but he refuses, commending her on finding their first good lead.
Ben meanwhile tries to get Ryan to not go through with the plan, promising to help him find a different way to help his wife. He agrees and they go to confront Cole, but Cole turns the tables on them, revealing that they have learned that Nick Rounder is actually an undercover cop named Matt Shaw. Cole secures Ben in the back of the restaurant while they go to continue their heist, with Ryan in tow.
Back in the future, Ian is trying to pull themself together from an anxiety attack. Magic lets them all know that the Hope Diamond on display at the Smithsonian is actually a fake, something he learned from his years working in Washington. They reason that if they can stop the theft, it would save Ryan’s life and possibly allow them to retrieve Ben.
Addison tells Ben that in the original history, Matt was given the slip but Ryan was found shot later that night, resulting in Matt resigning. As the two argue about how to get Ben out of his restraints, she reveals that she was supposed to be the leaper and that Ben was supposed to be the hologram. Once out of his restraints, Addison prompts him to call the cops for backup but he realizes that if he does, Ryan will also be arrested, his wife will die, and his daughter will grow up without both parents. Addison pleads with him to call so they can get him back home, but he knows a way to save Ryan, and can’t put that aside to save himself.
At the big event showcasing the Hope Diamond, Addison explains what the original plan was for the heist. Ben goes into action, stopping one of the members from completing his part of the mission. He tries to convince Ryan to stop, but is interrupted in order to delay another member from completing her mission. He tries to negotiate with her but she fires a gun off, causing people to panic and run outside towards some planted explosives. Ryan decides to help Ben, worried about killing hundreds of innocent people, and together they manage to get the explosives down a manhole cover where it explodes without injury to anyone.
Ryan heads home as Addison tells Ben that Cole’s crew was arrested, and after Ryan cuts a deal with the police and tells his story, the community helps them all out, with the hospital paying for his wife’s treatments, and eventually regaining his restaurant back. Ben and Addison share a moment as she recalls what he said at the engagement party, and he begins to leap.
Addison rushes back out of the imaging chamber as her and the crew anxiously watch Ziggy crunch numbers to retrieve Ben, but an error appears, indicating that they lost him. Magic begins to head off to Washington to brief The General in person but Jenn stops him. She tells him that the ring seen in scrambled security footage has been traced back to Al Calavicci, someone who was involved in the original Quantum Leap project. Magic realizes the mystery woman is Al’s daughter, Janis, who wanted to follow in her fathers footsteps and become involved with the project, but the Department of Defense had concerns about her ties to Al and Sam.
Addison returns to her and Ben’s apartment, and finds a message to her from Ben, saying that he can’t explain why he decided to leap, but that it has to be done now, and that it’s bigger than both of them.
Meanwhile in the past, Ben leaps in to find himself in the body of an astronaut, about to launch into space.
Ziggy’s Data Retrieval:
Who is Ben?
Nick Rounder / Matt Shaw Where is Ben?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania When is Ben?
July 13th, 1985
Closest Previous leaps-
NA
Closet location to Sam Beckett-
S03E03 "Leap of Faith" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1963
Closet time to Sam Beckett-
S03E15 “Piano Man” November 10, 1985, Tularosa, New Mexico
S04E13 "Temptation Eyes" February 1, 1985, San Francisco
S04E19 "Moments to Live" May 4, 1985, Los Angeles (closest)
S05E14 "Dr. Ruth" April 25, 1985, Manhattan
Michael Malarkey played Cole. His largest was in Project Blue Book as Captain Quinn (a tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist Alan Hyneck, Close Encounters terminology guy, investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads, mixing the UFO reports with historical events). He was also in the Vampire Diaries as main character Enzo in the later seasons.
Michael Welch played Ryan. He has been the lead in a number of lesser known movies on Lifetime, and what appears to be direct to video or direct to free streaming sites like Tubi. The Final Wish is a horror movie about a young man returning home to help his mother after her husband passes away and he discovers a mysterious object there. Other movies include, I’ll Be Watching, Who’s Stalking Me, Before Someone Gets Hurt, and Home By Spring (guest starring Mary Margaret Humes, lifetime movie). He also played Hansel in Hansel and Gretel Get Baked (a brother and sister battle a witch who lures teenagers into her suburban home with her special blend of marijuana where she then proceeds to kill and eat them to maintain her youth and beauty).
Unsung Hero: Dax Campbell was Nick Rounder. Only 7 credits to his name. He is at the top of the cast list for Detective Knight: Independence. The poster shows Bruce Willis but in the cast list, Bruce is shown as playing Detective James Knight and is listed last. (Detective James Knight's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home).
Detective Knight: Independence serves as the last film in the Detective Knight trilogy as well as one of the last movies Bruce Willis worked on before retiring from acting. Two other detective knight movies came out in 2022.
Ben leaps in to find himself as an astronaut just seconds away from a launch into space and panics. The shuttle safely makes it into orbit with his three fellow crew mates, Samantha Stratton, Max, and Commander Jim Reynolds.
Meanwhile, Addison confides in Ian that she got a message from Ben and just found a flash drive, but before they can check it out, Magic calls them to the office. Magic reveals that they discovered Janis Calavicci’s involvement in what happened with Ben, and Addison says she will ask Ben what he knows, but Magic and Jenn tell her not to, fearing that Janis could be the one manipulating Ben, and that the reasons could be malicious. Ben, not remembering why he leapt, may be the best safety guard they have at the moment.
Back in the past, Ben uses the shuttle bathroom to talk with Addison who tells him he is David Temura. Ben remembers that he idolized David, having similar childhoods and career plans. Jenn commands Addison to not continue this line of questioning, but Addison presses on. The only thing that Ben can remember, however, is that David died on this very mission. Addison starts to help him perform David’s duties, when suddenly alarms start blaring and Max realizes that the payload doors are jammed, which causes the shuttle to go into a deadly spin. Samantha manages to get the ship under control, but not before Commander Reynolds is hurt and unconscious.
Samantha talks with Ben about how this is her first flight and Reynolds last, and as her mentor, he wanted to be here for her on this mission. Max tells them that Reynolds is stable and they discover that when the payload shifted, it jammed the doors, which triggered the thrusters to fire, inadvertently rupturing an oxygen tank, and leaving them with just 6 hours of oxygen. Despite saving David from the explosion, Addison reports that Ziggy says something’s changed.
In 2022, Magic seeks out Beth, Al’s wife, for information about Janis, but she tells him that she hasn’t heard from her in over a year since Al died.
Jenn meanwhile notices some suspicious behavior concerning Ian and another fellow worker who they enlisted to help with Addison’s flash drive, and she laments that Ben isn’t around to pull them all together seeing as how Magic and Addison are at odds. She adds that she knows about the flash drive and wants them to convince Addison to turn it over.
Ben asks Addison why she isn’t showing him more things from his life in an attempt to get his memory back and she admits that the rest of the team doesn’t want her to do that. Ben understands why and turns the conversation to her, noticing her engagement ring but they then get the classified information about how David dies now: on a spacewalk. Samantha calls Ben up to the bridge and lets him know that she is making the call to return home but first he is going to need to manually eject the damaged module by doing an emergency spacewalk. With Addison’s help, Ben successfully completes the mission but the debris that was supposed to originally kill David appears earlier than expected. Ben narrowly dodges it and is safe, but Addison suddenly panics as she reports that since the debris missed him, it ended up damaging the shuttle’s heat shields and that all of the crew will now die on re-entry to earth.
Ian tells Addison that they think the reason she kept the drive secret from Magic is not because she doesn’t trust him, but rather that she is worried about what she might find out about Ben after the drive is decrypted.
Magic reprimands Jen for not cutting off Addison when she tried to help Ben remember things, but they are interrupted when they get a report that Beth just called Janis and they have their address and phone number now. They go to her house, with Jenn telling Magic to be more gentle with Addison, especially given what she is going through, that they’re a team and she needs to be a part of decisions. As they enter her house, they discover that she was recently here and find a trap door, leading them to Janis’s computer hideaway. They discover notes written in Ben’s handwriting and that Janis knows they are there, while Jenn begins working on removing the hard drives from the computers. Janis contacts Magic and tells him that Ben came to her for help and tells him to stay out of their way, telling he should leave now. Suddenly computers begin sparking as Magic realizes she is going to burn up the basement as they get away, just narrowly extracting a drive.
Back in the past, Max is adamant that the tiles don’t matter, but Addison confirms that a shuttle with this exact type of damage burned up on re-entry in the future. Samantha comes up with the idea to try and navigate to the Mir space station and ask the Russians there for their help, which gets Ben and Addison’s full support, however Reynolds has awakened and makes the decision to attempt re-entry. He and Samantha argue about it and she calls him out in treating her like a rookie rather than the professional she has become but he refuses to listen, with Samantha storming off. Ben follows her and finds out she is going to open the payload doors and force Reynolds from starting their re-entry. Ben reports this to Reynolds, hoping that he will see that Samantha is willing to risk her life and career because she understands what is going on while Reynolds himself was unconscious up until a few minutes ago and that she is here because he trained her to be the best. Reynolds takes it all under consideration and ultimately decides to abort and follow Samantha’s lead. With their comma down however, Ben is nominated to do another spacewalk in order to manually adjust an antenna to communicate with the Russian astronauts.
However, the Russian astronauts aren’t responding to the hails and Ben realizes that the astronauts are likely sleeping at this time of the night. He decides to unclip his safety tether and makes a jump for the space station, almost missing it but manages to knock on the walls and wakes up the Russians who help save the crew. Addison reports that everyone returns home safe, with Stratton becoming a shuttle commander and David becoming one of the first astronauts to live on the international space station.
Ben asks what are the chances of leaping home and Addison admits it’s 50/50 but that she will be with him every step of the way as he leaps.
Back in the future, Addison reports to Magic that Ben is still out there and he apologizes for how he had excluded her. Together they go to see what Ian and Jenn recovered from Janis’s hard drive but it was encrypted. In need of a key to get into the drive, Addison reveals the flash drive she found, reasoning that it is likely the key, and is no longer scared of what she might find out because she knows who Ben is even if he doesn’t right now. Looking at the newly unlocked files Ian realizes that Ben’s code is trying to leap him to a very specific time and place.
Elsewhen, Ben leaps in to find himself about to be hit by a very aggressive boxer.
Ziggy’s Data Retrieval:
Who is Ben?
David Tamora Where is Ben? Space Shuttle Atlantis When is Ben? March 7, 1998 (just under 13 year leap forward)
Closest Previous leaps-
NA
Closet location to Sam Beckett-
S04E07 "The Wrong Stuff" 1961 Cape Canaveral, Florida (Space Program)
Closest time to Sam Beckett-
S04E01 “The Leap Home” September 18, 1999, Stallions Gate, New Mexico
Georgina Reilly plays Janis Calavicci. Before QL, she had a main cast recurring role in 67 of 250+ episodes of The Murdoch Mysteries (in the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders), and the series The Baker and the Beauty. She was the lead in Goalie (biopic of the life of legendary NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk), Paradise Pictures (follows an ambitious group of people in 1940’s Hollywood), This Movie Is Broken (in Toronto in 2009, a man tries to come to terms with his feelings for his childhood crush as they attend a concert by the band Broken Social Scene), and Pontypool (a radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in).
Commander Reynolds was played by Jose Zuniga. Most recently he was in the movie Sound of Freedom (the story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers) and Reefa (Israel spray paints a wall which would command immediate respect from his peers, but a fatal encounter with a police officer leaves his family and friends devastated, the Miami community outraged, and the country reeling from another case of police brutality). He had a recurring role in season 5 of The Expanse, as well as in Agents of Shield and Narcos.
Samantha Stratton was played by Carly Pope. Her most famous role is likely that of Sam McPherson in Popular (two girls who despise each other, due to being on opposite sides of the "popularity fence", are forced together upon learning that their parents are getting married). She did some Hallmark movies as a lead, and had a recurring role in one season of Arrow and one season of Suits, as well as a number of one off guest spots and lead roles in Canadian based shows and movies. The Collector is one such show which focuses on a man who makes a deal with the Devil to spend more time with his true love but then to avoid going to hell himself becomes a collector of souls for the devil, albeit with the additional clause of having 48 hours to redeem each person’s soul before they are sent to hell forever. She was also in the movie The Nemesis Game (an introspective university student with an unhealthy interest in riddles and puzzles becomes involved in a sinister mind game that results in murder).
Stratton is likely Captain Tom Stratton’s daughter from the Quantum Leap series premier, “Genesis.”
Unsung Hero: Tadamori Yaga was David, and he’s had a couple dozen roles, but all are mostly on shorts, one off guest spots, a featured extra, or lower down on the cast list.
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