Quantum Leap/Honeymoon Express

Honeymoon Express
Season 2, Episode 1
Airdate	September 20, 1989
Production Number	65411
Written by	Donald P. Bellisario
Directed by	Aaron Lipstadt
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Quantum Leap — Season Two

Honeymoon Express is the first episode of the second season of Quantum Leap, and the tenth episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Alice Adair (Diane Macbride), Mathieu Carriere (Roget), Hank Rolike (Porter), Warren Frost (Senator)

with James Mastrantonio (Henri), Fitzhugh G. Houston (Black Senator), King Moody (Southern Senator), Virginia Paris (Woman Senator), Kirk Scott (Yankee Senator), Donna Hardy (Grey Haired Lady), William McDonald (Conductor), James Clark (Engineer), Stan Garner (Assistant Engineer), Ron Chabidon (Tom Macbride)

Plot Overview

Sam is a cop having his honeymoon on a train and must save his wife from her possessive ex-husband. However, another danger is looming as Project Quantum Leap's funding is threatened if Sam can't change a significant historic event to prove its worth.

Notes

Leap Dates

• 1957

• April 27, 1960

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Al is before a Senate committee deciding to fund Project Quantum Leap. The chairman is about to turn it down when Sam helps Diane Macbride to pass her Bar exam. This results in her replacing the senator in the present. Curiously, Al seems to notice, but no one else does.

Characters

• Al brings up that he's been married at least 5 times.

Referbacks

• The senator recounts how Sam saved the life of a test pilot and his unborn child (Genesis), helped Sisters of Charity build a chapel (The Right Hand of God), and being instrumental in the integration of a small town (The Color of Truth). Another senator brings up Sam helping Buddy Holly coming up with the lyrics to "Peggy Sue" (How the Tess Was Won).

Trivia

The Show

• Only episode in which Sam is not in the teaser.

• Sam first appears in the first act, already as someone else. This is the only time Sam is someone we never see him leap into.

Allusions and References

• Sam mistakes the U-2 plane for the rock band of the same name.

Quotes

• Senator: Admiral, are you trying to tell this committee that God has taken control of Project Quantum Leap?

Al: That is the conclusion that Dr Beckett and I reached after exhausting every other possible scientific explanation.

Southern Senator: Is that "God" with an upper or lowercase "G"? I mean, is G-O-D a military acronym I'm not familiar with?

Al: Uh, no, Senator. I'm referring to... Him.

Woman Senator: Or her.

Al: I hope you're right, Senator.

Senator: And that God with a capital "G," male or female, interfered with Dr Beckett's attempt to travel within his own lifetime and is using him to, uh, "put things right that once went wrong."

Al: Yes, sir.

Senator: And you list some examples. Saving the life of a test pilot and his unborn child. Helping Sisters of Charity build a chapel. Being instrumental in the integration of a small town. All commendable, but not exactly earth-shattering changes.

Al: They were earth-shattering to those that he affected.

Black Senator: Admiral, I believe the point is that Dr Beckett hasn't significantly impacted on the domestic and global conflicts of the recent past. I mean, for $43 billion, he could at least have altered the results of the last presidential election.

Al: Quantum leaping has left Dr Beckett suffering from partial amnesia. He's unable to recall many significant events of his lifetime. And even if he were, he seems only able to impact people and events that he wants changed.

Yankee Senator: You expect us to believe that God leapt Dr Beckett back into '56 just to help Buddy Holly with the lyrics to "Peggy Sue"?

Al: He works in mysterious ways.

• Al: Excuse me, Mr Chairman, but if you kill this project, you will end one of the greatest adventures mankind has ever undertaken. And more important, you will leave a brave man back there alone.

Senator: He's not alone, Admiral. He has God.

• Sam: Al, it's - it's - it's not morally right to sleep with a woman that you don't love.

Al: I agree.

Sam: You agree?

Al: I have loved every woman I ever slept with... at the time I slept with them.