Quantum Leap (TV Series)
Nowhere to Run - August 10, 1968 (1992)
Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Ronald Miller
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Quotes
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[Billy is at the side of the pool, about to commit suicide]
Billy : I should have died in that stinking jungle.
Sam : The war's over, Sergeant.
Billy : Over? Does this look like it's over to you? I was an all-state halfback in high school. I scored fifteen touchdowns my senior year. My body was perfect. Yet now, I can't even feel it.
Sam : Well, you still got your mind.
Billy : Do I?
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Sam : You know, y-you're not the only one hurtin' around here. My wife just told me that she wants a divorce. She said she met someone else, and that things aren't the same anymore. She's right. They're not. We're not. Things won't ever be the same again. Nobody could go through what we... did, and ever be the same. But that doesn't mean that we don't count.
Billy : You don't get it, do you? This war don't mean nothin'. It never did. They gave us the... the prettiest guns and the biggest bombs; but they didn't give us a chance. I lost everything! And in a few years, nobody'll even remember Vietnam.
Sam : Then we have to remind them. We won't let them forget, because every time they see us, they'll have to remember.
Billy : You know, at night, I close my eyes and, and I, and I'm back there. I see it all. I-it's like a song that plays over and over again, and you can't get it out of your head. Sometimes, it gets so loud, I think my brain is gonna explode. I just want it to be quiet. How can I make it quiet?
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Kiki Wilson : [reading Sam's palm] This isn't an accident that you're here. You're on a mission. Someone needs you.
Sam : Who?
Kiki Wilson : Well, I can't really tell. But they're close. You've seen a lot of pain. But you're not bitter. You're a searcher, a seeker of truth.
Sam : You see all that in my palm?
Kiki Wilson : Not all of it.
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Sam : [to Billy] Maybe you're right. Maybe your way is the best way of doin' things.
Al : What?
Sam : And I'm gonna help you.
Al : Sam, this isn't funny.
Sam : You got nothing to live for, right? You got rid of Carol; you've gone out of your way to make sure that nobody else around here gives a damn about you. What's one more body bag?
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Sam : It's easy to die, Billy.
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[Sam is Captain Miller, a Vietnam veteran who has lost both his legs]
Commander James Hartig : You're a lucky man, Ron.
Sam : Lucky?
Commander James Hartig : Statistically speaking. Do you know what the combat survival rate was in World War II? 71 percent. In Korea, 74. You wanna know what it is now? 85 percent, Ron. American technology - that's the key to victory.
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[Sam has encouraged Billy to take a plunge in the pool - successfully]
Al : Have you completely lost your mind? He's gonna drown!
Sam : If I had stopped him, who's to say he wouldn't've tried again tomorrow?
Al : Tomorrow? If you don't save him, there isn't gonna be any tomorrow for either one of you!
Sam : Al, don't you get it? The only person who can save Billy is Billy.
Al : Sam, what the hell are you talkin' about?
Sam : I'm talkin' about death. He's never gonna be able to face life until he faces death.
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Kiki Wilson : I wanted to help, so I became a volunteer. It helps pass the time.
Sam : You don't strike me as a person who just passes the time.
Kiki Wilson : Hmm, waiting is more like it.
Sam : Boyfriend?
Kiki Wilson : Little brother.
Sam : What's his name?
Kiki Wilson : Robert Allen. Bobby.
Sam : How long has Bobby been gone?
Kiki Wilson : It'll be two years in December.
Sam : I'm sorry.
Kiki Wilson : Hm. Not as sorry as he's gonna be when I see him.
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[Kiki is studying Sam's palm]
Sam : Wait a second. You read palms?
Kiki Wilson : A hundred-year-old Gypsy king taught me. Maybe he was closer to 80. But he was definitely a king.
Sam : How could you tell?
Kiki Wilson : He had a crown.
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Sam : Destiny's a funny thing. It seems like the harder you try to stop it, the more determined it is to be fulfilled.
