Quantum Leap: Night of the werewolf

Previously on Quantum leap…

Sam finds himself in a bedroom. He sees a woman that looks like Beth. When she sees him she is startled.

"Who are you?" Beth asks in her meek voice.

"I'm a friend of Al's." Sam responds smiling.

"Al? You know Al?" Beth asks gasping.

"Yes. Al's still alive and he's coming home." Sam says.

She gasps and puts her hand to her mouth.


And now the continuation.

Sam leaps back into Nam again.

"Sam. There are a group of POW's nearby. If you hurry you can…" Al starts to say.

But Sam is already taking off towards the POW's.

"Save them." Al finishes surprised.

Sam finds the POW prisoners and takes out the guards around them. He calls his soldier buddies and they
escort them to a safe camp.

"Oh my god Sam. I am brought home less than a year after my rescue. History has changed. Oh god.
Beth." Al says.

Al opens the door and rushes in. Sam smiles and leaps again.

Sam finds himself once again in the blue void that he almost always finds himself in between leaps. A
voice sounds which doesn't surprise him anymore.

"You have been doing great Sam." The female voice says.

"Thanx. Does that mean I get to go home yet?" Sam asks.

"Not yet. Your greatest leap is yet to come. When it's time for you to go home, you will face your most
difficult leap ever." The voice responds.

The blue void slowly disappears and is replaced by darkness.

"Oh man. Am I in a blind person?" Sam asks himself.

"Hey turn your flashlight on before you hurt yourself." A voice says.

Sam finds a flashlight in his hand and turns it on. He points it to the ground and what he sees shocks him.
A dead mutilated body.

"Oh boy."


Sam is still standing over the body when another man rushes up to him.

"What's wrong Tom?" The man asks.

He looks down at where Sam is looking.

"Oh boy. We got a real messy one here." The man says into his radio.

"Where are you now?" A voice asks over the radio.

"We're somewhere in the actic woods. Park near the 30 mile marker and we will signal you to the location
with our flashlights." The man responds.

The man looks at Sam.

"Hey Tom, you okay?" The man asks.

"Yeah." Sam responds.

"I'm gonna go to the road and make sure they stop at the right spot. Those idiots at the coroner's office
always mess up." The man says.

He runs off and Sam just stands there, not being able to take his eyes off the corpse.

"This is why I never became a police officer. Finding dead corpses." Sam says to himself.

He here's rustling in the bushes and pulls his gun out. He beams his flashlight around but sees nothing.

"Calm down Sam. Probably just a wild animal. This body has probably been dead for quite some time
now." Sam says looking at the rotting corpse and the flies.

Meanwhile unknown to Sam, a pair of glowing eyes is watching him. A low growl comes out of the
creature and it slowly walks away. Sam looks in the direction of where the creature was, thinking he heard
something again. After a few minutes the guy returns with two other people and a stretcher.

"Whoa, we've got a live one here." The woman says.

Sam looks at her funny.

"Sorry. Coroner humor. So we will do an autopsy and get back to you as soon as we can." The woman
says.

The man and woman pick up the stretcher and carry the body to the car and take off.

"Well there's no use searching for clues in the dark. We can return tomorrow." The man says.

"Okay." Sam says.

"Man are you shaken up by this. Look I know you are a newbie but you will get used to it somewhat." The
man says putting his arm around Sam.

They return to the car and get in.

"This is Officer Matt. Tom and me are heading back to the station and then home. Unless there is
something else for us to do." Matt says.

"Nope. It's all clear around here. Have a good night fellows." The voice says over the radio.

Sam doesn't say anything during the whole trip.

"Man. You must really be shook up. Usually you are talking my ear off." Matt says looking over at Sam.

"I'll be okay when I get some sleep." Sam says.

They return to the station. Sam gets out and starts the impossible task of looking for his car.

"Hey Tom. What are you doing? You know you don't have a car." Matt says.

"Oh yeah. Can you give me a ride home?" Sam asks.

"Okay. I wanted to make sure you get home okay anyway." Matt responds.

They get in the car and drive a short way down the road.

"Okay you're home. Say hello to the misses." Matt says.

Matt's car pulls away and Sam looks around trying to figure out which house could be his. He wanders
around and just about gives up.

"Hey Tom. What are you doing wandering around like that?" A voice asks.

Sam turns towards the voice and sees a beautiful woman.

"Uh sorry." Sam says.

"It's okay. I got a call from the station telling me what happened tonight. My poor baby. Come inside and
I will make it better." The woman says.

Sam goes into the house that the woman enters. He sits down and she starts to massage his shoulders. He
makes himself not enjoy it too much. He reminds himself that he can't get too involved with someone that
really isn't his.

"Man you must really be bad. Usually after a minute of my massaging, you got as soft as butter in my
hands." The woman says worried.

"Oh well. I am gonna go take a shower. Wanna join me?" The woman says.

"No. I really want to get to bed and rest." Sam says.

"Oh you devil you. We haven't made love in awhile." The woman says.

Her expression changes to angry.

"You're serious about just going to bed aren't you?" The woman asks.

"I'm sorry." Sam says.

"Damn it. That job is ruining our sex life." The woman says running out of the kitchen.

A few minutes later Sam hears the shower start.

"God I hope I don't ruin this marriage before I leap out." Sam thinks.

Sam finds the bedroom that looks like the guy and his wife's. He lies down and stares at the ceiling for a
few minutes before closing his eyes. In his dreams he finds the body like before but instead of his partner
showing up, a big wolf shows up and leaps at him. The wolf tears into his throat and he wakes up with a
start and a yelp. This wakes up his wife.

"Oh my poor baby. Did you have a bad dream?" The wife asks.

Sam just nods his head.

"I know a way to make your dreams good." The wife says.

Sam resists but something inside of him pushes away the resistance. He starts to kiss her passionately.
Eventually they start to make love. Sam doesn't wake up again until the morning. He looks at the woman
he just made love to last night. Her eyes open up and when she sees Sam, she smiles.

"Um baby. That was the best lovemaking I have ever had. It was almost like I was making love to
someone different." The wife says.

"Oh if only you knew just how right you are." Sam thinks.

"Well I guess you have to go to the station pretty soon." The wife says.

Sam nods and gets up. He gets dressed in his uniform. He walks to the door and kisses the wife goodbye.
Sam starts walking in the direction he hopes is the right one. After a few minutes he walks into the station.
He finds his partner.

"Hey Tom. Welcome to the rat race. We are ordered to go back to the place we found the body and look
for clues right now. So let's go." Matt says.

An evidence collector joins them and they all head towards the location. They find the location of where
they body was. They look around for any hair samples or footprints.

"The teeth marks on the body where definitely animal but something seemed strange. Almost like the teeth
were partly human and partly wolf." The evidence guy says.

"Hey maybe it's a werewolf." Matt says jokingly.

"Oh my god." The evidence guy says off to the side.

Sam and Tom rush over and see a huge paw print.

"This is way to big to have been made by a normal wolf. We may have a mutant or something on our
hands. This may be more of a problem than we thought." The evidence guy says worried.

The evidence guy collects hair sample and runs back to the car to make a plaster copy of the print.
Meanwhile Sam and Tom look around for any more evidence but do not find any. The three return to the
car and drive back to the station.

"So far the killings have happened at night. I want you to return tonight and see if something happens
again. Maybe you will catch the killer in the act." The captain says.

"Tonight is a long way off. What shall we do until then?" Matt asks.

"You can go back home if you want. But keep your radios with you so I can call you just in case." The
captain responds.

Sam and Tom nod and leave the station.

"Hey wanna go and play some pool?" Tom asks.

"Okay sure." Sam says.

They both get in Tom's car and take off. That night they return to the place of the last killing.

"Be careful. This is around the time that the killing could have happened. Don't let the next victim be
you." Tom says.

They both enter the forest. But they get separated somehow.

"Matt? Where are you?" Sam asks.

Suddenly the sound of a sliding door sounds.

"What took you so long Al?" Sam says without looking.

"Sorry Sam. The guy in the waiting room was freaking out. It took the doctor a long time to get him
settled down and trust us." Al says tapping on his padd.

"So what am I here for?" Sam asks still looking for Matt.

"Ziggy says there's a 90% chance that you are here to, where a wolf?" Al says.

He pounds on the padd.

"Werewolf. She thinks you are here to stop a werewolf." Al says.

Sam laughs.

"A werewolf? Yeah right. For once I think Ziggy has a transistor loose or something. Whatever is killing
these people is more than likely a mutant wolf. But a werewolf? Ridiculous." Sam says.

"According to history records, no death happens tonight. Something does happen tonight though." Al says.

He slaps the padd a couple of times and it squeals but he shakes his head.

"For some reason the information isn't coming through. All we can get is that something will happen
tonight and it's not a mutilation murder." Al says.

"Then why don't you go back and find a way to get that information while I continue my search?" Sam
asks.

"That's fine with me. Tina was gonna take a shower anyway." Al says with a naughty look on his face.

"Al!" Sam says annoyed.

"Okay okay. I will get the information. God this job will ruin my love life." Al says.

He punches some buttons on the pad and the door opens up. Al steps into the doorway and it closes up.
Meanwhile Tom is looking for Sam himself.

"Sam. Where are you?" Tom yells.

Unknown to him a pair a glowing eyes are watching him. But instead of disappearing, the whole creature
slowly makes its way towards Tom. Just before it can strike, Tom here's something and spins around. His
eyes go big when he sees the creature.

"Arghhh." He screams then runs away.

The creature chases after him.

"Tom. Help." Matt screams.

Sam zeroes in on the sound of his partners voice and runs that way. The wolf knocks down Matt and
begins to bite his leg. Sam rushes into the view of the horrifying scream. He pulls out his gun and points it
at the creature. Suddenly the door opens up again and Al steps through.

"Sam. Your partner will be attacked badly tonight." Al yells.

He looks up and sees Sam aiming at a monster.

"Oh I see. You already know that." Al says.

"Shoot it. Shoot it." Matt screams.

"I've never shot anything before." Sam says in a shaky voice.

"What are you talking about?" Matt asks.

Sam slowly pulls the trigger and fired on the monster. He fires over and over and over until the chamber
clicks empty. The monster twitches and then lies motionless. Suddenly it changes back into a human with
a whole bunch of bloody bullet wounds.

"Oh shit." Sam yells then drops his gun.

"What the hell was that?" Matt asks.

"A werewolf." Al responds.

Soon after Sam calls an ambulance and rushes Tom to the hospital.

"Sam. You did it. In the original history, the killer was never found. Now the killer was found and is
dead." Al says.

Sam waits for the familiar feel of the leap but nothing happens.

"Then why aren't I leaping Al?" Sam asks.

But Al is already frowning and hitting his padd.

"No No!. This wasn't there before." Al says.

"What wasn't there before?" Sam asks.

"Somehow history has changed again. For the worse, the much much worse." Al responds.

"Just tell me what happens now." Sam says.

"Originally there only 10 more murders. Now there will be 30 more murders. All leads up to the present
day when… oh my god. The last victim was…" Al says.

"Who is it?" Sam asks.

"I'm sorry I can't tell you. She told me not to tell you." Al says.

"Okay fine. So now what can I do to stop this?" Sam asks.

"I don't know. According to Ziggy, you have a almost 0% chance of succeeding at all of the possible
scenarios." Al responds.

Suddenly a large commotion sounds inside the room where Matt is. Loud crash sounds and an orderly run
out.

"Sir. The patient just broke from his bonds and knocked down the other doctors and just jumped out the
window." The orderly says.

"Matt." Sam says then rushes out of the hospital.

"Sam wait. Ziggy says there's a 100% chance that you will die if you go out there." Al yells after Sam.

Al throws his hands up in the air.

"Ziggy center me on Sam and keep me there as he is running." Al yells.

Al disappears and floats along with Sam as he is running.

"Please Sam. Let's go back to the hospital. There is nothing you can do." Al pleads.

But Sam isn't listening. Something inside of him is telling him that the future is at stake. Al tries to hit
Sam in the head but of course his fist just passes right through him.

"Oh what I wouldn't give for a way to make myself solid right now." Al says.

Sam stops when he hears growling nearby. He turns on his flashlight and beams it around. The growl
suddenly comes from another direction and Sam spins towards that way. A pair of glowing eyes goes
racing around Sam as if it's teasing him. Sam keeps on changing direction with his gun and flashlight.

"Matt. I know it's you out there. Don't let the evil take you over. We can help you." Sam yells.

"Sam look out." Al screams.

Sam spins around just in time to see a creature jumping for his throat. Suddenly he leaps out and
immediately leaps back in.

"Are you okay Matt?" A voice asks.

Sam shakes his head and looks around.

"Matt?" The voice asks.

Sam realizes that he is Matt and shakes his head.

"Yeah just a little shook up." Sam responds.

"Hey I would be too if I found this." The voice says.

A flashlight beam hits the ground and Sam sees another mutilated body.

"Oh boy." Sam says.

To be continued…