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Quantum Leap/The Color of Truth
| The Color of Truth | |
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| Season 1, Episode 7 | |
| Airdate | May 3, 1989 |
| Production Number | 65013 |
| Written by | Deborah Pratt |
| Directed by | Michael Vejar |
| ← 1x06 Double Identity |
1x08 → Camikazi Kid |
| Quantum Leap — Season One | |
The Color of Truth is the seventh episode of the first season of Quantum Leap.
Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)
and Dean Stockwell (The Observer)
Guest Starring: Susan French (Miz Melanie Trafford), Royce D. Applegate (Sheriff), Michael D. Roberts (Willis Trafford), James Ingersoll (Clayton Trafford), Kimberly Bailey (Nell Tyler)
Co-Starring: Michael Kruger (Billy Joe Bob), Jeff Tyler (Toad)
with Jane Abbott (Miz Patty), Elyse Donalson (Nurse Ethel), Howard Johnson (Real Jesse Tyler), Christopher J. Keene (Doctor), J.T. Solomon (Effie)
Contents |
Plot Overview
Sam leaps into a black chauffeur for an influential and respected white woman in 1950s Alabama. His task of trying to prevent her from being hit by a train is endangered by his challenging of segregation laws.
Notes
Leap Date
- August 8, 1955
Location
- Alabama
Arc Advancement
Happenings
- When Al tries to get Miz Melny to stop the car, she winds up hearing him, even though she mistakes him for her late husband. How and why she is able to hear him is unknown.
Characters
Referbacks
Trivia
The Show
Behind the Scenes
Allusions and References
- Al mentions Miz Melny hearing him and likens it to something out of The Twilight Zone. Incidentally, Dean Stockwell appeared in both the original and 1980s revival series.
Memorable Moments
Goofs
- The first act ends with the shot of the train as it passes by a truck that's stopped. Later, as Miss Melny is driving towards it, the footage interspersed in the scene includes the same shot, as evident by the same truck.
Quotes
- Sam: Of all the people I've leaped into, Jesse should have been the strangest. But there was something very comfortable about him, like putting on a pair of your favourite shoes or a jacket you've broken in just right.
- Sam: Well?
- Al: Well, what?
- Sam: What do you think?
- Al: Well, what do I think about what?
- Sam: I'm black.
- Al: You're black. So?
- Sam: So? If I can bounce into a black man, the possibilities are limitless. Don't you find that fascinating?
- Al: Dangerous, yes. Fascinating? Mezzo mezzo.
- Sam: Dangerous? Why dangerous?
- Al: You're a black man in the south in 1955. Trust me. That is dangerous. I've seen things that would curl your hair. No pun intended.
- Miz Melny: What you were talkin' is hogwash. Nobody's gonna change the way things are.
- Sam: But they will. Blacks are gonna unite--
- Miz Melny: "Blacks"?
- Sam: Blacks. That's what they'll - That's what we'll be called instead of "Negroes".
- Miz Melny: What's in God's name's wrong with being called a niggra?
- Sam: Maybe it's just a little too close to "nigger".
- Miz Melny: I've never used that word, Jesse, not to your face or behind your back. When you sat at Miz Patty's counter, I figured you were just gettin' old or somehow slipped your mind. But now I think you've gone just plumb crazy.
- Sam: I've gone crazy? Miz Melny, I'm not the one burning crosses in the front of people's homes.
- Al: The cemetery. Pull off into the cemetery! Pull off into the cemetery, damn it!
- (Melny stops the car just short of the train)
- Miz Melny: Thank you, Charles. You didn't have to swear.
- Al: Sam, she had to have heard me.
- Sam: That's great, Al.
- Al: Just think of the possibilities. I mean, if I reached Miz Melny, then maybe - just maybe - I can reach other women. Younger women.
