Quantum Leap/Jimmy

Jimmy
Season 2, Episode 8
Airdate	November 22, 1989
Production Number	65407
Written by	Paul M. Belous & Robert Wolterstorff
Directed by	James Whitmore, Jr.
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Quantum Leap — Season Two

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Jimmy is the eighth episode of the second season of Quantum Leap, and the seventeenth episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: John DiAquino (Frank LaMotta), Laura Harrington (Connie LaMotta), Michael Alldredge (Charlie Samuels), Ryan McWhorter (Corey LaMotta)

and Michael Madsen (Blue)

with Elaine Hausman (Mrs. Kirksey), Josh Peden (Peter Kirksey), Brad Silverman (Jimmy)

Plot Overview

Sam has leapt into a mentally challenged young man named Jimmy. When his older brother gets him a job, Sam must prove Jimmy can keep it and be seen as an equal.

Notes

Leap Date

• October 14, 1964

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Al reveals that he had a sister with Down's Syndrome. The constant ridicule and Al getting in fights to protect her is what he believes drove his mother to run off with an encyclopedia salesman. Then his father, a construction worker, got a job in the Middle East, which is how he wound up in an orphanage. His sister was put in an institution, but by the time Al was able to get her out she allegedly died of pneumonia in 1953 at the age of 16.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Sam begins to tell Corey a story set "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." This is a the opening of Star Wars (later known as Episode IV: A New Hope), released in 1977. Afterwards, Sam continues to recite the text from the opening crawl.