Quantum Leap/A Portrait for Troian

A Portrait for Troian
Season 2, Episode 11
Airdate	December 13, 1989
Production Number	65019
Teleplay by	Scott Shepherd and Donald P. Bellisario
Story by	John Hill and Scott Shepherd
Directed by	Michael Zinberg
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Quantum Leap — Season Two

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A Portrait for Troian is the eleventh episode of the second season of Quantum Leap, and the twentieth episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Deborah Pratt (Troian Giovanni Claridge), Robert Torti (Jimmy Giovanni), Carolyn Seymour (Miss Stoltz)

with Bill McLaughlin (Coroner), Bette Rae (Mrs. Little)

Uncredited: Paul Brown (Julian Claridge), Donald P. Bellisario (Timothy Mintz)

Plot Overview

Sam is a parapsychologist helping a woman named Troian Claridge contact her dead husband. Sam must instead help prevent her from drowning in two days.

Notes

Leap Date

• February 7, 1971

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Dr Mintz's equipment, designed to pick up a wide spectrum of electrical activity, managed to pick up Sam's leap. It also allows others to hear Al, as Sam speculates that because it picks up brainwaves, but doesn't know if it's via his or Al's directly.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode confirms the supernatural as we see blatantly that Miss Stolz was a ghost.

• This episode with a tag for "Camikazi Kid".

Behind the Scenes

• Mintz is played by creator Donald P. Bellisario with his wife Deborah Pratt playing Troian, a character named after their daughter.

Allusions and References

• After rescuing Troian, Sam alludes to Indiana Jones, a reference lost on her since the character wouldn't first appear until Raiders of the Lost Ark would be released a decade later.

• Sam jokes that Miss Stoltz is hooked on The Twilight Zone.

Quotes

• Al: I'm not into necrophilia.

Sam: At last, something sexual he's not into.