Quantum Leap: The special one.
Five years ago a man named Sam Beckett used his string theory to create the quantum leap accelerator.
Sam races through the dark.
He used it too early to continue funding. Because of this he is now lost in time.
Sam fires a gun at a target.
As he leaps from life to life, he changes on life at a time.
Sam holds a limp body in his hands as rain is pouring.
Hoping that each time that the next leap.
Sam is listening to parents talk.
Is the leap home?
Sam leaps in and finds himself in the middle of a yelling match.
"I don't care what this quack says. My son is stupid." The man yells.
"No. They are saying there is something special about him. Something they don't know about yet." The
woman says crying.
"That's just a nice way of saying he's stupid. Look you can stay here all you want and listen to this
quack's bull crap. I am out of here." The man yells.
The man storms out of the office and the woman just cries.
"Oh boy." Sam says.
Finally the woman starts crying and looks up at Sam.
"What am I gonna do about him?" The woman asks.
"Uh. There isn't really anything you can do as long as he is that angry. I would talk to him when he has
calmed down." Sam says seeing a psychology degree on his wall.
"What am I gonna do about my son?" The woman asks.
Sam is stumped at what to say since he has no idea what is going on.
"Uh. It is difficult for people to understand differences. Could I see him alone?" Sam asks.
"Maybe." The mother responds.
Sam relaxes knowing that his gamble paid off.
"Can I set an appointment up right now?" Sam asks.
"No. I better talk to my son and hopefully his dad first." The mother responds.
"Okay just call me when you are ready." Sam says.
She stands up.
"Don't worry. I know we will resolve this somehow." Sam says.
The mother smiles then leaves the office. Sam exhales finally, glad that it's over. His phone beeps and he
goes over and pushes the flashing button.
"Sir. Your 4 o'clock is here." A woman's voice says.
"Oh boy." Sam says.
Two hours and two patients later, Sam is glad to see that his office is closing. Sam walks out to the parking
lot with the bad feeling that he has no idea which car is his. Meanwhile at the house of the parents, a loud
fight is happening. The son who looks to be about 10 years old is watching on the stairwell.
"You what?" The man yells.
"He asked me if I wanted to have him see John by himself." The mother responds.
"You really want to waste my money don't you. I told you that guy is a quack." The husband screams.
"Please don't yell. You know it scares John." The mother says.
"I will give him something to be scared about." The husband yells.
He backhands the mother and she falls to the floor crying.
"And you better tell that quack that he will never see any of us again." The husband yells.
The husband storms off and the mother doesn't get up right away. She just sits and cries. John watches the
whole thing. After it's all over and he goes in his room and just sits on his bed, rocking back and forth.
The mother sleeps on the couch. A common thing the night after a fight. It seems to happen a lot lately.
The next morning Sam returns to his office. The phone rings and Sam picks it up.
"Hello?" Sam asks.
"It's me Julia." A voice responds.
Sam strains to think. He thinks he recognizes the voice as the woman with the violent husband.
"How is it going?" Sam asks.
"I'm sorry. I am afraid that it won't work out for my son to meet you again." Julia says meekly.
Something about her voice sets off an alarm in Sam's head.
"Did something happen since yesterday? You seemed hopeful then." Sam asks.
"No nothing did. I tried to get John into the idea but he wouldn't do it." Julia lies.
"I wish there was something I could do." Sam says.
"You better do something or that boy will be in trouble." A voice says.
Sam spins around to see Al.
"Jeez you scared me. I must have been so wrapped in this call that I didn't hear the door open." Sam says.
"Ziggy says there is a 90% that their son takes the house gun and shoots his father after he sees him beating
his mom." Al says.
Sam just sits stunned. He hears the voice over the phone and realizes that he still has the mother on the
phone.
"I need to see you and John. Can you sneak in an appointment somehow?" Sam asks worried.
"I don't know." Julia responds.
"Please. I feel it's very important that I talk to you and your son." Sam says.
Al shakes his head.
"It's gone down a bit but there is still an 80% chance." Al says.
"Look. Please call me back when you decide." Sam says.
"Okay." Julia says meekly.
Sam hangs up.
"Okay what is going on?" Sam asks.
"The son John watches every time there is a fight and the husband hits his mom. One time when the
husband is just beating on her over and over and doesn't seem to ever stop, John gets the house gun and
shoots him." Al says.
Sam shakes his head.
"They said that he was special in some way. Does Ziggy have any idea what makes him that way?" Sam
asks.
"Ziggy says there is a 95% chance that John is Autistic." Al responds.
"She said that the doctors didn't know what was wrong with him. That would probably place me in the
60's or earlier." Sam says.
"1968 to be exact." Al says.
"So when does the death occur?" Sam asks.
"They aren't sure. His body is found in 6 months. But they think it happened a lot longer than that.
Before that the wife was saying that he left her and she didn't know how to find him." Al says.
"She was covering for John. She was afraid of what they would do to him. Afraid that they would just put
him in an institution." Sam says.
"No. According to history, she takes the blame ultimately and she is given a jail sentence that wasn't very
long. Unfortunately by the time she gets out, John is in an institution and they never allowed her to take
back custody." Al says shaking his head.
"So my leap is to help stop one event that ruins many lives." Sam says.
"This isn't gonna be easy Sam. You may of leaped now cause either the murder will happen soon, or it
won't happen for awhile but doing something different now will cause a good chain reaction." Al says.
"What do you expect me to do? Tell them that their son has Autism. Something that doesn't even exist in
medical books yet?" Sam asks throwing his hands up.
"Ziggy thinks all you have to do is show that he needs special help." Al responds.
The phone rings and Sam picks it up.
"Hello?" Sam says.
"It's me again, Julia." Julia says quietly over the phone.
"Have you thought about what I said?" Sam asks hopeful.
"Yes. But you must come here. I can set it up so you come when my husband is at his ball games." Julia
says.
"Okay. I don't like that very much but whatever it takes to talk to you alone about your son." Sam says.
"Julia, where the hell are you." A loud voice yells.
"I have to go. Come tomorrow at 6 p.m." Julia says than hangs up.
"Looks like you have a house call to make." Al says.
"Yeah. And god help me through this." Sam says.
"Sir. Your 1 o'clock is here." A voice over the intercom says.
"Oh boy. Here I go again." Sam says.
"I am out of here. But I will come to that meeting for sure." Al says.
Al opens the door and steps inside. Al mouths good luck before the door slides shut. That night at the
dinner table, the husband is looking at Julia weird.
"Who were you talking to earlier?" The husband asks.
"What do you mean?" Julia asks.
"Don't you lie to me. I know you were on the phone. Is it him again?" The husband screams.
"No I swear I haven't seen Matt in months." Julia responds.
"You're lying. You are gone from this house too much." The husband yells.
"No!" Julia yells.
She backs away from the table and the husband follows. John is once again on the stairwell watching. He
hears several sounds of beating before it stops once again with Julia on the floor crying. John walks up the
stairs but instead of going in his room, he enters his parents' room and opens up the closet. He sees a gun
in there. The next day Sam goes through his usual appointments.
"My husband never makes love to me anymore." One woman says.
"He wants to make love too much." Another woman says.
"No women want to make love to me." One man says.
Finally it's time to quit and Sam gets the address that he got from an earlier session. He gets in his car and
drives towards the house. He stops for a bit until it's almost six then pulls to the curb in front. He doesn't
see a car there so he assumes that the husband is indeed gone. He walks up to the front door and knocks on
it. The door opens up and the same woman he saw in that session greets Sam.
"Please come in. My husband shouldn't be back for at least 2 hours." Julia says.
Julia calls John down and they all sit in the living room.
"I know what your son has. I think he may need more help than you can give him. I know places that you
can send him that can help him." Sam says.
"You mean those damn institutions? No. Never." Julia says strongly.
"There are also places to help you." Sam says.
He nearly slaps himself for letting that get out.
"What are you talking about?" Julia asks threatened.
Sam realizes that he will have to roll with it.
"Look. I know your husband is a violent man and that he beats you." Sam says.
"Is this the real reason why you are here? To pry into my personal life? If you are than I will have to ask
you to leave now." Julia says angrily.
"I am here to help your son. It is not good for him to see his mom being beaten by his dad. Specially with
his condition." Sam says hating to use the C word.
"Get out now." Julia yells.
Suddenly the front door slams open and the husband comes crashing in.
"YOU! What the hell are you doing here?" The husband yells.
Sam can tell that he is drunk.
"He came over here to try to help us. I told him not to." Julia lies.
"Get the hell out of my house." The husband yells.
Sam has no choice but to do as he says. He leaves but stands on the porch listening.
"Is that the reason why you are gone a lot? Is he the man you are cheating on me with?" The husband
yells.
"No. I swear that I didn't ask him to come over here." Julia yells crying.
"I don't believe you." The husband yells.
He throws her against the wall and begins beating on her. John goes upstairs and once again opens the
drawer with the gun but this time he takes it out. He walks down the stairs with the gun.
Sam sees the boy with the gun and runs inside.
"Sam wait. Ziggy now says that there is a 100% chance that if you just stop the boy from shooting his dad,
then the dad will kill Julia." Al says.
"Oh boy." Sam says quietly.
Sam steps in front of the boy. Julia and the husband have not noticed that Sam is back inside yet.
"Listen to me John. Your mom is in danger but doing what you are thinking of doing will make the
situation worse." Sam says.
John just stands there. The husband spins around after hearing Sam's voice.
"What the hell are you doing in this house again?" The husband yells.
Julia sees John with the gun.
"Oh my god. He has your shotgun." Julia yells.
"Why you little… I told you to stay out of that cabinet." The husband says too drunk to realize how much
danger he is in.
John raises the gun and points it at his dad.
"No John. Don't" Sam yells.
John pulls back on the trigger.
"Give me that gun now or I will give you the beating of your lifetime." The husband growls.
Everything seems to go in slow motion as Sam shoves the husband aside and the gun goes off. The bullet
grazes Sam's shoulder and embeds itself in the wall. John drops the gun and gets into a fetal position.
"Sam!" Al yells.
Sam is gritting in pain.
"You little bitch. I am not done with you." The husband yells.
Suddenly a couple of police cars pull up and witness the severe beating that the wife is getting. They
quickly cuff the man and take him to the car. They do not use any gentleness.
"So you like to beat on women huh?" A police officer yells.
Julia is watching in tears.
"It's gonna be okay." Sam says then faints.
Sam wakes up in the hospital with a bandage on his shoulder.
"You were right. It is gonna be okay. She presses charges and he ends up in jail for along time. John gets
help eventually when autism is classified. Until then Julia and him live a fairly happy life." Al says
smiling.
Julia enters the room with a smile on her face. Sam realizes just how beautiful she is when she isn't afraid
or upset.
"Thank you for your help." Julia says.
John steps forward and gives Sam a picture. It shows a figure that looks sort of like Sam standing in
between a monster and his mother. Sam just smiles. Sam then feels the familiar leaping sensation and is
on his way. He quickly leaps back in. He looks around and finds himself in an office.
"It was just another day as a gumshoe. It was hot as heck outside. A dog day is what some call it." A voice
like Sam's says.
Sam looks around in confusion.
"Where is that voice coming from?" Sam asks.
The door to his office opens and a woman rushes in.
"Oh please save me from him." The woman says.
A man rushes in and points a gun at them both.
"Oh boy." Sam says.
The end.
Next time Sam leaps into a famous gumshoe who helps a woman in extreme danger. My first comedy
quantum leap story.
Five years ago a man named Sam Beckett used his string theory to create the quantum leap accelerator.
Sam races through the dark.
He used it too early to continue funding. Because of this he is now lost in time.
Sam fires a gun at a target.
As he leaps from life to life, he changes on life at a time.
Sam holds a limp body in his hands as rain is pouring.
Hoping that each time that the next leap.
Sam is listening to parents talk.
Is the leap home?
Sam leaps in and finds himself in the middle of a yelling match.
"I don't care what this quack says. My son is stupid." The man yells.
"No. They are saying there is something special about him. Something they don't know about yet." The
woman says crying.
"That's just a nice way of saying he's stupid. Look you can stay here all you want and listen to this
quack's bull crap. I am out of here." The man yells.
The man storms out of the office and the woman just cries.
"Oh boy." Sam says.
Finally the woman starts crying and looks up at Sam.
"What am I gonna do about him?" The woman asks.
"Uh. There isn't really anything you can do as long as he is that angry. I would talk to him when he has
calmed down." Sam says seeing a psychology degree on his wall.
"What am I gonna do about my son?" The woman asks.
Sam is stumped at what to say since he has no idea what is going on.
"Uh. It is difficult for people to understand differences. Could I see him alone?" Sam asks.
"Maybe." The mother responds.
Sam relaxes knowing that his gamble paid off.
"Can I set an appointment up right now?" Sam asks.
"No. I better talk to my son and hopefully his dad first." The mother responds.
"Okay just call me when you are ready." Sam says.
She stands up.
"Don't worry. I know we will resolve this somehow." Sam says.
The mother smiles then leaves the office. Sam exhales finally, glad that it's over. His phone beeps and he
goes over and pushes the flashing button.
"Sir. Your 4 o'clock is here." A woman's voice says.
"Oh boy." Sam says.
Two hours and two patients later, Sam is glad to see that his office is closing. Sam walks out to the parking
lot with the bad feeling that he has no idea which car is his. Meanwhile at the house of the parents, a loud
fight is happening. The son who looks to be about 10 years old is watching on the stairwell.
"You what?" The man yells.
"He asked me if I wanted to have him see John by himself." The mother responds.
"You really want to waste my money don't you. I told you that guy is a quack." The husband screams.
"Please don't yell. You know it scares John." The mother says.
"I will give him something to be scared about." The husband yells.
He backhands the mother and she falls to the floor crying.
"And you better tell that quack that he will never see any of us again." The husband yells.
The husband storms off and the mother doesn't get up right away. She just sits and cries. John watches the
whole thing. After it's all over and he goes in his room and just sits on his bed, rocking back and forth.
The mother sleeps on the couch. A common thing the night after a fight. It seems to happen a lot lately.
The next morning Sam returns to his office. The phone rings and Sam picks it up.
"Hello?" Sam asks.
"It's me Julia." A voice responds.
Sam strains to think. He thinks he recognizes the voice as the woman with the violent husband.
"How is it going?" Sam asks.
"I'm sorry. I am afraid that it won't work out for my son to meet you again." Julia says meekly.
Something about her voice sets off an alarm in Sam's head.
"Did something happen since yesterday? You seemed hopeful then." Sam asks.
"No nothing did. I tried to get John into the idea but he wouldn't do it." Julia lies.
"I wish there was something I could do." Sam says.
"You better do something or that boy will be in trouble." A voice says.
Sam spins around to see Al.
"Jeez you scared me. I must have been so wrapped in this call that I didn't hear the door open." Sam says.
"Ziggy says there is a 90% that their son takes the house gun and shoots his father after he sees him beating
his mom." Al says.
Sam just sits stunned. He hears the voice over the phone and realizes that he still has the mother on the
phone.
"I need to see you and John. Can you sneak in an appointment somehow?" Sam asks worried.
"I don't know." Julia responds.
"Please. I feel it's very important that I talk to you and your son." Sam says.
Al shakes his head.
"It's gone down a bit but there is still an 80% chance." Al says.
"Look. Please call me back when you decide." Sam says.
"Okay." Julia says meekly.
Sam hangs up.
"Okay what is going on?" Sam asks.
"The son John watches every time there is a fight and the husband hits his mom. One time when the
husband is just beating on her over and over and doesn't seem to ever stop, John gets the house gun and
shoots him." Al says.
Sam shakes his head.
"They said that he was special in some way. Does Ziggy have any idea what makes him that way?" Sam
asks.
"Ziggy says there is a 95% chance that John is Autistic." Al responds.
"She said that the doctors didn't know what was wrong with him. That would probably place me in the
60's or earlier." Sam says.
"1968 to be exact." Al says.
"So when does the death occur?" Sam asks.
"They aren't sure. His body is found in 6 months. But they think it happened a lot longer than that.
Before that the wife was saying that he left her and she didn't know how to find him." Al says.
"She was covering for John. She was afraid of what they would do to him. Afraid that they would just put
him in an institution." Sam says.
"No. According to history, she takes the blame ultimately and she is given a jail sentence that wasn't very
long. Unfortunately by the time she gets out, John is in an institution and they never allowed her to take
back custody." Al says shaking his head.
"So my leap is to help stop one event that ruins many lives." Sam says.
"This isn't gonna be easy Sam. You may of leaped now cause either the murder will happen soon, or it
won't happen for awhile but doing something different now will cause a good chain reaction." Al says.
"What do you expect me to do? Tell them that their son has Autism. Something that doesn't even exist in
medical books yet?" Sam asks throwing his hands up.
"Ziggy thinks all you have to do is show that he needs special help." Al responds.
The phone rings and Sam picks it up.
"Hello?" Sam says.
"It's me again, Julia." Julia says quietly over the phone.
"Have you thought about what I said?" Sam asks hopeful.
"Yes. But you must come here. I can set it up so you come when my husband is at his ball games." Julia
says.
"Okay. I don't like that very much but whatever it takes to talk to you alone about your son." Sam says.
"Julia, where the hell are you." A loud voice yells.
"I have to go. Come tomorrow at 6 p.m." Julia says than hangs up.
"Looks like you have a house call to make." Al says.
"Yeah. And god help me through this." Sam says.
"Sir. Your 1 o'clock is here." A voice over the intercom says.
"Oh boy. Here I go again." Sam says.
"I am out of here. But I will come to that meeting for sure." Al says.
Al opens the door and steps inside. Al mouths good luck before the door slides shut. That night at the
dinner table, the husband is looking at Julia weird.
"Who were you talking to earlier?" The husband asks.
"What do you mean?" Julia asks.
"Don't you lie to me. I know you were on the phone. Is it him again?" The husband screams.
"No I swear I haven't seen Matt in months." Julia responds.
"You're lying. You are gone from this house too much." The husband yells.
"No!" Julia yells.
She backs away from the table and the husband follows. John is once again on the stairwell watching. He
hears several sounds of beating before it stops once again with Julia on the floor crying. John walks up the
stairs but instead of going in his room, he enters his parents' room and opens up the closet. He sees a gun
in there. The next day Sam goes through his usual appointments.
"My husband never makes love to me anymore." One woman says.
"He wants to make love too much." Another woman says.
"No women want to make love to me." One man says.
Finally it's time to quit and Sam gets the address that he got from an earlier session. He gets in his car and
drives towards the house. He stops for a bit until it's almost six then pulls to the curb in front. He doesn't
see a car there so he assumes that the husband is indeed gone. He walks up to the front door and knocks on
it. The door opens up and the same woman he saw in that session greets Sam.
"Please come in. My husband shouldn't be back for at least 2 hours." Julia says.
Julia calls John down and they all sit in the living room.
"I know what your son has. I think he may need more help than you can give him. I know places that you
can send him that can help him." Sam says.
"You mean those damn institutions? No. Never." Julia says strongly.
"There are also places to help you." Sam says.
He nearly slaps himself for letting that get out.
"What are you talking about?" Julia asks threatened.
Sam realizes that he will have to roll with it.
"Look. I know your husband is a violent man and that he beats you." Sam says.
"Is this the real reason why you are here? To pry into my personal life? If you are than I will have to ask
you to leave now." Julia says angrily.
"I am here to help your son. It is not good for him to see his mom being beaten by his dad. Specially with
his condition." Sam says hating to use the C word.
"Get out now." Julia yells.
Suddenly the front door slams open and the husband comes crashing in.
"YOU! What the hell are you doing here?" The husband yells.
Sam can tell that he is drunk.
"He came over here to try to help us. I told him not to." Julia lies.
"Get the hell out of my house." The husband yells.
Sam has no choice but to do as he says. He leaves but stands on the porch listening.
"Is that the reason why you are gone a lot? Is he the man you are cheating on me with?" The husband
yells.
"No. I swear that I didn't ask him to come over here." Julia yells crying.
"I don't believe you." The husband yells.
He throws her against the wall and begins beating on her. John goes upstairs and once again opens the
drawer with the gun but this time he takes it out. He walks down the stairs with the gun.
Sam sees the boy with the gun and runs inside.
"Sam wait. Ziggy now says that there is a 100% chance that if you just stop the boy from shooting his dad,
then the dad will kill Julia." Al says.
"Oh boy." Sam says quietly.
Sam steps in front of the boy. Julia and the husband have not noticed that Sam is back inside yet.
"Listen to me John. Your mom is in danger but doing what you are thinking of doing will make the
situation worse." Sam says.
John just stands there. The husband spins around after hearing Sam's voice.
"What the hell are you doing in this house again?" The husband yells.
Julia sees John with the gun.
"Oh my god. He has your shotgun." Julia yells.
"Why you little… I told you to stay out of that cabinet." The husband says too drunk to realize how much
danger he is in.
John raises the gun and points it at his dad.
"No John. Don't" Sam yells.
John pulls back on the trigger.
"Give me that gun now or I will give you the beating of your lifetime." The husband growls.
Everything seems to go in slow motion as Sam shoves the husband aside and the gun goes off. The bullet
grazes Sam's shoulder and embeds itself in the wall. John drops the gun and gets into a fetal position.
"Sam!" Al yells.
Sam is gritting in pain.
"You little bitch. I am not done with you." The husband yells.
Suddenly a couple of police cars pull up and witness the severe beating that the wife is getting. They
quickly cuff the man and take him to the car. They do not use any gentleness.
"So you like to beat on women huh?" A police officer yells.
Julia is watching in tears.
"It's gonna be okay." Sam says then faints.
Sam wakes up in the hospital with a bandage on his shoulder.
"You were right. It is gonna be okay. She presses charges and he ends up in jail for along time. John gets
help eventually when autism is classified. Until then Julia and him live a fairly happy life." Al says
smiling.
Julia enters the room with a smile on her face. Sam realizes just how beautiful she is when she isn't afraid
or upset.
"Thank you for your help." Julia says.
John steps forward and gives Sam a picture. It shows a figure that looks sort of like Sam standing in
between a monster and his mother. Sam just smiles. Sam then feels the familiar leaping sensation and is
on his way. He quickly leaps back in. He looks around and finds himself in an office.
"It was just another day as a gumshoe. It was hot as heck outside. A dog day is what some call it." A voice
like Sam's says.
Sam looks around in confusion.
"Where is that voice coming from?" Sam asks.
The door to his office opens and a woman rushes in.
"Oh please save me from him." The woman says.
A man rushes in and points a gun at them both.
"Oh boy." Sam says.
The end.
Next time Sam leaps into a famous gumshoe who helps a woman in extreme danger. My first comedy
quantum leap story.