Sam leaps in and is standing in an old room of a building. He looks at Al who is still there. He is confused and asks, "What happened?"
"I don't know. Where are we?"
"I don't know you have the handlink." Sam says as he sees that Al has different clothes on.
Al looks at the handlink but it's dead. Then he realizes what Sam is thinking. Al tries to walk through a chair in the room but fails.
Sam then walks through a couch and walks over to Al. They both look at each other and say, "Not again!"
The leap back home
September 2, 1948
"Gushie..What the hell's going on?"
Al starts hitting buttons on the dead handlink as Sam realizes that he can't remember what happened.
"Al…where are we?"
"What? I don't know Sam don't you remember what happened."
"No. I can remember a room and an explosion…" Sam tries to remember.
Al is stunned that he's the only one who knows what is going on. He looks around and sees a calendar that says September 1948.
"Well it looks like were in my lifetime Sam. Why don't we try to find out what we are here to change."
"Your lifetime? Al what is going on? It's seems as though I have a reverse swiss-cheese effect which is making me forget…"
"Come on buddy, you can't do this now. We have to put right whatever has gone wrong. And we can't do that until we figure out how to get you out of the imaging chamber."
"Imaging chamber?"
"Oh, Boy, Sam."
"As we were stuck in 1948, Sam and I had to figure out what we are here to do. But Sam doesn't have the slightest clue what is going on."
Al Calavicci looks around the room where he and Sam have leapt into and he notices that it's 1948. He tries to figure out why he is here when a women comes through the only door in the room.
"Come on! They're coming! Quickly we have to hide!" she tells Al as she pulls down a ladder to an attic.
"Who's coming?" he asks.
"The patrols. They're here to take us to the camps." She exclaims.
"Patrols?" Al asks as he gets a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. "This is Europe?"
"Al, you'd better hide until we find out what you are here to do." Sam says as he looks for a way out of the imaging chamber.
Al hurries up the ladder a shuts it behind him. The soldiers barge in and look around. They search for the people hiding but fin nothing. They check the attic entrance but can't open it.
"There's no one up there. There isn't anyone here!" Sam yells.
One of the soldiers turns and almost looks Sam in the eye. Sam gets an uneasy feeling, as the soldier almost seems to know that he is there. Then the soldiers leave and block the door behind them.
Al and the woman come down from hiding as Sam is standing there looking startled.
"What is it, Sam?"
"I think that one soldier could see me…or hear me…I don't know if he could." Sam says.
"This leap is getting more bizarre by the second." Al observes.
Just them they both hear the sound of the imaging chamber door open. It's not the typical white door that opens up. It's a light blue door that opens from the side. A women walks out and she is holding a modified version of the handlink in Al's pocket. She is a tall, brunette who seems very familiar to Sam.
Al is shocked because he knows exactly who it is. "Sammie Jo! What are you doing here?"
"Ziggy lost contact with both of you just after you two simoleaped. The program that randomly picks a time came up with this one on the fifth try. It was good of Dr. Beckett to install it before he leaped." She says.
"So where are we?" Al asks, "But more importantly where are you?"
"I'm at what is known as US secret project DOD-5718829Beta."
"5718829. That's Project Quantum Leap's Defense number. Beta? You mean there's another project?" Sam asks.
"Yes, Doctor. We are located in the mountains one hour north of Las Vegas, Nevada. We are near the Valley of Fire state park."
The handlink signals Sammie Jo. "Uh, Admiral, get ready to leap."
"What but we never found-" he is cut off as the blue aura of light surrounds him and he leaps out. Sam sees his friend's fizzles out along with the background and all he sees is the white glow of the empty imaging chamber.
Sam looks around and yells, "Let me out of here!"
Sammie Jo returns to the control room at the second project as Gushie opens the door at New Mexico.
"Are you sure we should let him out. After all if he remembers-" Gushie asks.
"He won't." she says as she leaves the control room.
As the leap effect fades Al finds himself on the ledge of a building. He seems to be wearing a superhero costume and he looks down to the four stories below as fire, police and rescue workers surround the building.
"Don't jump! We want to talk about this." The fire chief asks.
Al looses his grip and almost falls, as he utters, "Oh, Boy!"