Reasons
February 12, 1943
Al leaps in and is dressed as a woman. He looks around and sees an encyclopedia salesman. He seems to know who it is.
"Honey. Are you going to say anything to your mother?"
Al recognizes the younger woman who addressed the man.
He replies, "Mom!"
Al is awestruck that he has leaped into the same place as his own mother. He looks in the mirror and sees that he is his own grandmother.
"Ma…are you okay?" she asks.
"Yeah…I think so." Al responds.
At this point all sorts of emotions are coming up, especially anger toward her. Then he asks, "Why did you do it?"
"We've been over this, Ma. I just couldn't take it. All that pressure and that work to maintain our family-it just were too much."
"Too much…how can you say that. Don't you regret leaving your children behind."
"I can't say that I do. They will be better off without me." She says.
"No they won't. Don't you know that-" Al is cut off by the shimmering of the leap out.
He leaps into a white room and sees patients in beds all along the walls. There are bars on the windows, and he is wearing a white coat. He looks around and sees a familiar face. A nurse is treating he pneumonia, as the patient, a young teenage girl with Down's syndrome lays dying.
Al walks over and asks, "Is there any hop?"
"No, Doctor. It's only a matter of hours before she goes."
Trudy can see the real identity of the doctor, "Al? Is…it you…"
"Can you leave us." Al asks the nurse. The nurse obliges.
"Yes it's me, Trudy. I know that you're scared and don't know what is happening, but soon…you'll be free from all of this." As Al tries to hold back tears.
"Go home." She asks.
"Yeah…we'll be going home." As Al goes to hug her he breaks down and knows this is the last time he'll see her. Somehow God or Fate or Time has given him a chance to say goodbye. He mourns his long lost sister as he leaps.
Lighting and electricity flashes as Al leaps in to his next mission. Although he can see what is going on he can't control what is happening. He realizes he only partially leaped in to this person. But what is the reason?
He is walking behind a woman, on a dark street. It is cool outside, maybe near autumn. The person he has leaped into then attacks the women raping her and leaving her for dead. The Al catches his reflection in a store window. He is shocked, but then he leaps out.
The shimmering of the leap subsides as Al looks around. He is in a police station sitting at a desk. A person comes up to him and says, "Hey we have another victim. Let's go."
"Okay." Al responds, still trying to figure out what just happened.
They arrive at the scene and Al is shocked. It's the place from his last leap, if it was a leap. He gets out of the unmarked police car and sees the marking of a body, right where the victim was in the leap before. He sees the window and sees that he is a police detective. He is glad but confused. What is going on with him, he's thinking?
The victim is unwrapped and he sees that it is the women. He then says, "Oh boy!"