Quantum Leap
a script by The Almighty Oracle aka Guadalupe del Oceano
Based on the 1980's TV show "Quantum Leap" starring Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett
Rating PG
Summary: Sam once again leaps into another life as before, but due to a power surge in the accelerator, he's leapt into a time much earlier then ever, 1520! That's where the El Dorado part comes in.
Narrator: Theorizing that one could travel through his own time, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past. Facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. Hs only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping that each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Scene 1
(Sam leaps in)
(Sam looks around him. He sees old houses. He looks behind him and sees five men in 16th century armor, armed with muskets and crossbows. Crossbow fires and misses his head. A tall dark-haired man with a long ponytail grabs his arm.)
Tulio: Let's go, They're gaining on us!
Sam: (begins to run with the tall man) Oh, boy.
(Quantum Leap theme begins)
(After theme we see Sam, running with the tall man. Ahead of them is a shorter man with shoulder-length blonde hair. The three duck in to an alley and the armed pursuers run by. Sam is in front of a shop window he looks into a mirror on display. He sees a young Hispanic woman in her early 20's with long black hair staring back at him)
Sam: Hey I'm an Indian.
Tulio: Chel, what are you talking about?
Sam: (looks at Tulio) Uh, nothing I was just muttering to my self.
Tulio: (Looks at Sam strangely) Are you sure you're feeling alright?
Sam: Yeah, yeah. I'm fine.
Miguel: (points to a conjoining alley and speaks out of breath) Tulio why don't you check down there and make sure they didn't turn the block.
(Tulio runs down the other alley cautiously, Miguel turns the corner and looks down the street. Sam stays where he is. Al enters.)
Sam: Al, where the hell have you been? I had people shooting muskets and crossbows at me.
Al: Well that would make sense.
Sam: What do you mean? Where am I ? When am I?
Al: This is the renaissance.
Sam: How could that be? I've never leapt this far back in time before.
Al: Well we never had a power surge before. Somehow the moment you leaped, the accelerator had a power surge and sent you further then usual.
(Tulio and Miguel re-enters)
Tulio: Come on let's go. I think we lost them
Al: Sam I'll meet you later.
(Al exits)
Scene 2
(lights open up to an old house with 2 stories with a blazing fireplace)
Miguel: Boy was that close!
Tulio: You're telling me! (looks to Sam,) Are you alright Chel
Sam: Yeah, Yeah I'm fine
Tulio: Good. Because I swore I saw you talking to yourself back there.
(Miguel begins to cook something over the fireplace. Tulio sits down at a table and takes a large amount of gold out of his pockets and his loaded dice)
Tulio: Well, we got most of it anyway when we made a run for it, I had no idea that those sailors would catch on to our scheme so quickly.
Sam: (picks up a large gold piece) That's a doubloon isn't it?
Tulio: (chuckles) Well it's not candy sweetheart. But I would have never been able to do it without these. (Tulio picks up the dice and rolls them to Sam they land on 7)
Sam: (picks them up and examines them He rolls them a few times each time they land on 7) These dice are loaded.
Miguel: Of course they are Chel, Tulio's had them since before you met him don't you remember?
Tulio: Honey, are you feeling alright? Maybe you should lie down.
Sam: Yeah I think I will. Um good night
(Sam goes upstairs He finds the room with male and female clothes on the floor, he says to himself) This must be the place.
(Sam sits on the bed, Al enters)
Sam: Who are these guys Al?
Al: (types on his handheld keypad hitting it every now and then) These two are con-artists, Miguel is the blonde one with the accent and Tulio has the dark hair. Early last year they disappeared and later came back with a girl named Chel (looks to Sam) That's you. (turns back to keypad) Chel comes from the New World but where exactly I don't know somewhere in Mexico or South America I guess. But I tell you what that Chel is one hot dish! ooh hoo!
Sam: Al stop it! You suppose to be helping me. Now what am I doing here?
Al: (hits keypad) Ziggy doesn't k now
(Sam gives a heavy sigh)
Al: Well I'm sorry Sam but it's hard to trace history back over 500 years. It's going to take Ziggy a little longer.
Sam: Ok you go back and find out more info for me I'll just play along with these guys.
Al: Are you sure you want me to leave? This is a tricky situation?
Sam: Just go! Leave!
(Al exits through quantum accelerator door. Tulio enters)
Tulio: I just got here you want me to leave already?
(Tulio sits next to Sam on bed and puts arm around Sam/Chel)
Tulio: (smiles) you were talking to yourself again weren't you?
Sam: I'm just tired, don't worry about me.
Tulio: (kisses Sam on the cheek) That's my job I have to worry.
(Tulio smiles back at Sam and exits. Sam lays on the bed and falls asleep)
***Author's Note: I really don't know what drug induced me to write this but I think it's pretty funny so far. Please alert me for any errors. I have trouble remebering the details of the show "Quantum Leap"***
Scene 3
(It's early morning, Sam wakes up. Tulio's arm is draped over Sam's shoulders. Sam carefully lifted Tulio's arm and gets off the bed Tulio groans and turns over without waking up)
(Sam gets on one of Chel's dresses and walks downstairs. Miguel is up playing a mandolin quietly.)
Miguel: I'm sorry Chel, did I wake you up?
Sam: No.
Miguel: Well you usually don't get up this early you're like Tulio and wake up late.
Sam: Well, I went to bed early.
(Al enters)
Al: I'll meet you outside.
Sam: (points to door) I'm just going some fresh air.
(Miguel nods. Sam walks out the door Al zaps in outside)
Sam: So, what am I doing here?
Al: (types on keypad) Well it's not good Sam. (Al looks through the window at Miguel and turns back to Sam) Ziggy says that there is an 86% chance that you're here to stop Miguel from getting killed today.
Sam: Why? What happens to him?
Al: (continues to type on handheld keypad) Ziggy says something about...polish brutus?
Sam: What?
Al: (hits keypad and begins to get angry) {sighs in disgust} I'm sorry Sam, Ziggy is still feeling the effects of the power surge I'll have to do more maintenance work. But until then keep your eye on Miguel.
Sam: Fine Al just keep me posted.
(Sam goes back into the house.Al zaps back to the accelorator door)
Miguel: So Chel, feel better?
Sam: Uh yeah much better thanks.
(Tulio groggily comes downstairs with only his pants on.) Miguel are you ready to go?
Miguel: Yep, all set, but don't you think we should get breakfast first?
Tulio: (sighs and grabs his shirt and vest off a chair and puts it on.) We can grab something on the way down, we want to get there early so we can catch all the suckers. ( he gives a sly look to Miguel and laughs)
Miguel: We'll be back Chel.
Sam: (Stammers and tries to think of a reason he should go too) Well...I...uh have to go into town anyway to get some uh....(looks around) Bread. Yeah and some other things.
Tulio: Ok fine, Chel, but be careful. I don't want what happened yesterday to happen today. We were lucky all three of us could get away.
Sam: (smiles) ok I will.
Scene Four
(Spanish marketplace and docks. The time is mid-morning to early afternoon. It's a sunny, bright, and warm day. Sam breaks away from Tulio and Miguel but keeps an eye on the two. Sam non-chalantly goes to the different merchants and looks around. Miguel and Tulio begin to play dice with some sailors on shoreleave.)
(Camra focuses on Sam in foreground with Miguel and Tulio is background. Tulio and Miguel's voices are heard in distance.)
Tulio: Seven!
Miguel: all right!
Sam: (sighs and shakes his head.)
(Al enters)
Sam: Al, did you find anything out?
Al: Well rember that strange phrase that Ziggy kept telling me? It was uh...Polish brutus."
Sam: Yeah but did you find out what it meant?
Al: Just the last word, Ziggy was able to correct. "brutus" was suppose to be "brutality".
Sam: What about the first word? Polish. I don't think any Polish people are going to brutally kill Miguel. It's possible; but I really don't think so.
Al: Me neither, I'm still working on it.
Sam: What about Chel does she have any ideas?
Al: No, She's still taking the technologies of the 20th century.
Sam: Well what am I going to do? No one knows what's going on; not even Ziggy.
a script by The Almighty Oracle aka Guadalupe del Oceano
Based on the 1980's TV show "Quantum Leap" starring Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett
Rating PG
Summary: Sam once again leaps into another life as before, but due to a power surge in the accelerator, he's leapt into a time much earlier then ever, 1520! That's where the El Dorado part comes in.
Narrator: Theorizing that one could travel through his own time, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past. Facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. Hs only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping that each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Scene 1
(Sam leaps in)
(Sam looks around him. He sees old houses. He looks behind him and sees five men in 16th century armor, armed with muskets and crossbows. Crossbow fires and misses his head. A tall dark-haired man with a long ponytail grabs his arm.)
Tulio: Let's go, They're gaining on us!
Sam: (begins to run with the tall man) Oh, boy.
(Quantum Leap theme begins)
(After theme we see Sam, running with the tall man. Ahead of them is a shorter man with shoulder-length blonde hair. The three duck in to an alley and the armed pursuers run by. Sam is in front of a shop window he looks into a mirror on display. He sees a young Hispanic woman in her early 20's with long black hair staring back at him)
Sam: Hey I'm an Indian.
Tulio: Chel, what are you talking about?
Sam: (looks at Tulio) Uh, nothing I was just muttering to my self.
Tulio: (Looks at Sam strangely) Are you sure you're feeling alright?
Sam: Yeah, yeah. I'm fine.
Miguel: (points to a conjoining alley and speaks out of breath) Tulio why don't you check down there and make sure they didn't turn the block.
(Tulio runs down the other alley cautiously, Miguel turns the corner and looks down the street. Sam stays where he is. Al enters.)
Sam: Al, where the hell have you been? I had people shooting muskets and crossbows at me.
Al: Well that would make sense.
Sam: What do you mean? Where am I ? When am I?
Al: This is the renaissance.
Sam: How could that be? I've never leapt this far back in time before.
Al: Well we never had a power surge before. Somehow the moment you leaped, the accelerator had a power surge and sent you further then usual.
(Tulio and Miguel re-enters)
Tulio: Come on let's go. I think we lost them
Al: Sam I'll meet you later.
(Al exits)
Scene 2
(lights open up to an old house with 2 stories with a blazing fireplace)
Miguel: Boy was that close!
Tulio: You're telling me! (looks to Sam,) Are you alright Chel
Sam: Yeah, Yeah I'm fine
Tulio: Good. Because I swore I saw you talking to yourself back there.
(Miguel begins to cook something over the fireplace. Tulio sits down at a table and takes a large amount of gold out of his pockets and his loaded dice)
Tulio: Well, we got most of it anyway when we made a run for it, I had no idea that those sailors would catch on to our scheme so quickly.
Sam: (picks up a large gold piece) That's a doubloon isn't it?
Tulio: (chuckles) Well it's not candy sweetheart. But I would have never been able to do it without these. (Tulio picks up the dice and rolls them to Sam they land on 7)
Sam: (picks them up and examines them He rolls them a few times each time they land on 7) These dice are loaded.
Miguel: Of course they are Chel, Tulio's had them since before you met him don't you remember?
Tulio: Honey, are you feeling alright? Maybe you should lie down.
Sam: Yeah I think I will. Um good night
(Sam goes upstairs He finds the room with male and female clothes on the floor, he says to himself) This must be the place.
(Sam sits on the bed, Al enters)
Sam: Who are these guys Al?
Al: (types on his handheld keypad hitting it every now and then) These two are con-artists, Miguel is the blonde one with the accent and Tulio has the dark hair. Early last year they disappeared and later came back with a girl named Chel (looks to Sam) That's you. (turns back to keypad) Chel comes from the New World but where exactly I don't know somewhere in Mexico or South America I guess. But I tell you what that Chel is one hot dish! ooh hoo!
Sam: Al stop it! You suppose to be helping me. Now what am I doing here?
Al: (hits keypad) Ziggy doesn't k now
(Sam gives a heavy sigh)
Al: Well I'm sorry Sam but it's hard to trace history back over 500 years. It's going to take Ziggy a little longer.
Sam: Ok you go back and find out more info for me I'll just play along with these guys.
Al: Are you sure you want me to leave? This is a tricky situation?
Sam: Just go! Leave!
(Al exits through quantum accelerator door. Tulio enters)
Tulio: I just got here you want me to leave already?
(Tulio sits next to Sam on bed and puts arm around Sam/Chel)
Tulio: (smiles) you were talking to yourself again weren't you?
Sam: I'm just tired, don't worry about me.
Tulio: (kisses Sam on the cheek) That's my job I have to worry.
(Tulio smiles back at Sam and exits. Sam lays on the bed and falls asleep)
***Author's Note: I really don't know what drug induced me to write this but I think it's pretty funny so far. Please alert me for any errors. I have trouble remebering the details of the show "Quantum Leap"***
Scene 3
(It's early morning, Sam wakes up. Tulio's arm is draped over Sam's shoulders. Sam carefully lifted Tulio's arm and gets off the bed Tulio groans and turns over without waking up)
(Sam gets on one of Chel's dresses and walks downstairs. Miguel is up playing a mandolin quietly.)
Miguel: I'm sorry Chel, did I wake you up?
Sam: No.
Miguel: Well you usually don't get up this early you're like Tulio and wake up late.
Sam: Well, I went to bed early.
(Al enters)
Al: I'll meet you outside.
Sam: (points to door) I'm just going some fresh air.
(Miguel nods. Sam walks out the door Al zaps in outside)
Sam: So, what am I doing here?
Al: (types on keypad) Well it's not good Sam. (Al looks through the window at Miguel and turns back to Sam) Ziggy says that there is an 86% chance that you're here to stop Miguel from getting killed today.
Sam: Why? What happens to him?
Al: (continues to type on handheld keypad) Ziggy says something about...polish brutus?
Sam: What?
Al: (hits keypad and begins to get angry) {sighs in disgust} I'm sorry Sam, Ziggy is still feeling the effects of the power surge I'll have to do more maintenance work. But until then keep your eye on Miguel.
Sam: Fine Al just keep me posted.
(Sam goes back into the house.Al zaps back to the accelorator door)
Miguel: So Chel, feel better?
Sam: Uh yeah much better thanks.
(Tulio groggily comes downstairs with only his pants on.) Miguel are you ready to go?
Miguel: Yep, all set, but don't you think we should get breakfast first?
Tulio: (sighs and grabs his shirt and vest off a chair and puts it on.) We can grab something on the way down, we want to get there early so we can catch all the suckers. ( he gives a sly look to Miguel and laughs)
Miguel: We'll be back Chel.
Sam: (Stammers and tries to think of a reason he should go too) Well...I...uh have to go into town anyway to get some uh....(looks around) Bread. Yeah and some other things.
Tulio: Ok fine, Chel, but be careful. I don't want what happened yesterday to happen today. We were lucky all three of us could get away.
Sam: (smiles) ok I will.
Scene Four
(Spanish marketplace and docks. The time is mid-morning to early afternoon. It's a sunny, bright, and warm day. Sam breaks away from Tulio and Miguel but keeps an eye on the two. Sam non-chalantly goes to the different merchants and looks around. Miguel and Tulio begin to play dice with some sailors on shoreleave.)
(Camra focuses on Sam in foreground with Miguel and Tulio is background. Tulio and Miguel's voices are heard in distance.)
Tulio: Seven!
Miguel: all right!
Sam: (sighs and shakes his head.)
(Al enters)
Sam: Al, did you find anything out?
Al: Well rember that strange phrase that Ziggy kept telling me? It was uh...Polish brutus."
Sam: Yeah but did you find out what it meant?
Al: Just the last word, Ziggy was able to correct. "brutus" was suppose to be "brutality".
Sam: What about the first word? Polish. I don't think any Polish people are going to brutally kill Miguel. It's possible; but I really don't think so.
Al: Me neither, I'm still working on it.
Sam: What about Chel does she have any ideas?
Al: No, She's still taking the technologies of the 20th century.
Sam: Well what am I going to do? No one knows what's going on; not even Ziggy.