Quantum Leap: Genesis Season One
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Episode One: The Retrieval Program Part One
By: Sherlock's Sparrow
1995
Theorizing that one could travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project known as Quantum Leap.
Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project accelerator…and vanished.
He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett could see and hear.
Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett found himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap would be the leap home…
1999
After four and a half years, the Board of Directors decided to pull the plug on Project Quantum Leap and the Stallions Gate Complex was shut and locked down, leaving Dr. Beckett trapped in the past, this time, without any guidance on what to do.
2006
Seven years after the termination of Project Quantum Leap, Stallions Gate will open again, in the hopes of finally retrieving Dr. Beckett…
May 17, 2006
University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Hello, Admiral," murmured twenty six year old Nix Manarolla.
"Did you get the phone number, Nix?" asked her twin sister, Genna.
"Just did," replied Nix, "copy it down quick so I can look for Dr. Fuller."
"Okay."
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"Hello? Is this Albert Calavicci? My name is Genna Manarolla. My twin and I have found a way to bring Dr. Beckett home."
"Project Quantum Leap is closed," said the voice at the other end of the phone.
No duh, Smart Guy, thought Nix, still at the computer, hacking her way through medical databases to find one Verbena Beeks.
"Well, I'm aware of that," replied Genna, "but I think you can reinstate it if you'll just listen. We can bring Dr. Beckett to the present, and if we have ac-"
She was cut off by the old man at the other end of the line.
"Look, kid," he interrupted, "if Sam wouldn't get the Retrieval Program to work, I don't think you can, either."
Nix couldn't take it any longer.
She grabbed the phone from her twin's hand and said, "Listen here, Noodles-for-Brains, Genna and I have made a real Retrieval Program, because Sammy-boy's was more full of holes than a piece of Swiss cheese at the shooting range. So, you find a way to get the Project running again, and we'll get the good doctor home for real. Call us in twenty four hours with your decision."
Nix handed the phone back to Genna and she gave their number out.
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May 17, 2006
Trinidad, Colorado
Home of (retired) Rear Admiral Albert and Beth Calavicci
After Genna Manarolla hung up, Al Calavicci sat in his living room, holding the phone.
"Who was that?" asked Beth, Al's wife.
"Someone trying to get the Quantum Leap Project running again," said Al.
"Are you going to help?" asked Beth.
"I'm not sure."
"What do you mean, you're not sure?"
"They said they can bring Sam back, but I don't think that's possible," said Al.
"I think if there's a chance they can bring him back, I think it's worth it," said Beth.
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May 18, 2006
UNLV
Nix answered the phone before she left for Advanced Theoretical Quantum Mechanics.
"Nix Manarolla," she said.
"This is Al. I'll talk to the Project Board Directors and see if they'll let us restart the Project."
Nix sent Genna a text message.
Al will talk to the Project Board.
Genna texted Nix.
Cool.
"Miss Manarolla, I trust you are not text messaging in my class," said Professor Winchester.
"Of course not, Professor," said Genna, "I love Advanced Music Theory!"
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May 25, 2006
UNLV
The next week, Al called Nix and Genna.
"Hello, Nikola and Genna Manarolla. Genna speaking," she said.
"Genna, this is Al. The Board wants you and your sister down here on Wednesday."
"Okay. I'll see what we can do," she said.
"Great, thanks," he said.
"You're welcome."
Genna hung up the phone.
"Who was that, Jen?" asked Nix, returning from Geometry I.
"Al. He said the Board wants us to come out on Wednesday."
"I'm so there, its insane!" said Nix, excitedly.
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May 27, 2006
On Wednesday morning, Nix and Genna arrived at Double Eagle II Airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Pretty soon, a woman arrived in a red car.
"Genna and Nix Manarolla?" she asked.
"Yes?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm Beth Calavicci. I'm to take you to Project headquarters."
Nix and Genna got in the car and they drove to the Stallions Gate Complex. Beth took the Manarolla twins to the Board Room.
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Nix and Genna gave a presentation to the Board of Directors and showed off their Retrieval Device and explained how it was supposed to work.
"You strap it to your wrist and you type in a code on the Device," said Genna, demonstrating.
"And it will bring you back here," finished Nix.
"Are you certain this will work?" asked a silver haired old man.
"We're almost one hundred percent certain," said Genna.
"Almost one hundred percent certain? You mean you're not completely certain?" asked another man, with a big bushy moustache.
"We won't be completely completely certain until we can test it in the Acceleration Chamber," said Nix.
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After their presentation, Genna and Nix went down to the cafeteria for lunch.
"This food is better than the food at school," said Nix.
"Yeah," said Genna.
"May we sit here?" asked Al, Beth right behind him.
"Sure," said Nix.
The Calaviccis sat down at the table with the Manarolla twins.
"I think it went well," commented Al, "you two did good."
"Thank you," said Genna.
"You think they'll reinstate the Project?" asked Nix.
"I think there's a good chance that they'll give the go ahead," said Al.
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After lunch, the Manarollas and Calaviccis went back to the Board Room to hear the Board's decision.
"We will reinstate Project Quantum Leap for the retrieval of Dr. Beckett. Once that is completed, we will return to discuss the matter further," said the Chairman of the Board.
"Thank you so much, sirs," said Genna.
"Thanks," said Nix.
"Thank you," said Al.
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