Quantum Leap (TV Series)
Freedom - November 22, 1970 (1990)
Frank Salsedo: Joseph Washakie
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Quotes
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Joseph Washakie : Death is a doorway, and we are like the grasshopper. When we die, we shed one skin, and put on another, and leap to a new life on the other side of the door.
Dr. Sam Beckett : What if there's nothing beyond the door?
Joseph Washakie : Then I would fight to hang on to this skin as hard as I could, because it would be all I had. But it's not. All of life is a series of leaps, for us grasshoppers, eh?
Dr. Sam Beckett : I guess you could say so...
Joseph Washakie : Sometimes we see where we are going, sometimes we don't. Have you ever leaped, and not at least survived?
Dr. Sam Beckett : No.
Joseph Washakie : The next time you leap, remember that.
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[Sam sees his reflection in the mirror]
Dr. Sam Beckett : Oh boy. I'm an Indian!
Joseph Washakie : Could be worse. You could be a white man, eh?
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Joseph Washakie : [dying] Do you like the Redskins?
Dr. Sam Beckett : [crying] Best damn team in America.
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[the Sheriff comes in to discover one of his prisoners has vanished during the night]
Sheriff Taggart : Where is George?
Joseph Washakie : Gone.
Sheriff Taggart : How?
Joseph Washakie : I turned him into a raven. He flew away.
Sheriff Taggart : Why didn't you go with him?
Joseph Washakie : I can only turn into a wolf. I'm too big for the bars.
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Joseph Washakie : When I was in World War I, only the officers had ponies. I could never get over how naked they looked without their markings. How could you tell what they had done? How could you frighten your enemies?
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Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, this is just terrific. It's like the past come to life. You know, he just... he painted the hoof prints on there, and that's to show how many horse raids they went on, or how many horses they stole.
Dr. Sam Beckett : I thought we just borrowed them.
Joseph Washakie : The horses don't know that, eh?
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Dr. Sam Beckett : [to Al, about the hand prints Joseph has put on his horse] What are the hand prints for?
Joseph Washakie : For men killed in battle.
Joseph Washakie : [offering Sam the rock with paint on it] Go on.
Dr. Sam Beckett : Uh, well, I, er...
Joseph Washakie : Go on, Togo. I can see it in your eyes.
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Dr. Sam Beckett : [as George Washakie] But there's so much I don't know, that I can learn from you, that, that others can learn too!
Joseph Washakie : There's only one thing you have to learn: that freedom is the greatest gift we're born with, and the hardest thing to hold on to.
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Joseph Washakie : Damn white men. Can't make anything but more white men.
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Dr. Sam Beckett : I think I should take you back and put you in the nursing home, so you can be with your family and your friends.
Joseph Washakie : What family? There's only you and Suzanne. And you moved away.
Dr. Sam Beckett : What about your friends?
Joseph Washakie : My friends are here. The sun. The sky. The wind. And the earth.
Dr. Sam Beckett : The shape you're in, your friends could kill you.
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Dr. Sam Beckett : Kenu, I'll take you to the reservation. But when we get there, you've got to see a doctor.
Joseph Washakie : Okay. But I don't know if I can help him.
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Joseph Washakie : Did you scalp him?
Dr. Sam Beckett : No. I gave him a haircut instead.
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Joseph Washakie : Lesson number two: don't mess with Indians.
[after Sam has knocked out the Sheriff]
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[Sam is heading back to hold off the Sheriff]
Joseph Washakie : George. Are you going to scalp him?
Dr. Sam Beckett : No.
Joseph Washakie : Oh. Too bad.
