Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Nowhere to Run - August 10, 1968 (1992)

Dean Stockwell: Al

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Quotes 

• [Al is keeping watch over a suicidal, quadriplegic Vietnam veteran] 

  Al : It's all right to be angry, you know? Things happened to all of us over there that... are hard to live with. But we didn't start this filthy war, we just fought it. That's what soldiers are for, they fight. And I bet you think nobody cares, but that's not true; because I care, and Sam cares and... whatever it is that's jumping us around in time cares. They're gonna build a wall, in Washington. And they're gonna carve all these names in it, of all the victims of this lousy war. Don't add another one to it, huh? There's so many. There's too many.

• Sam : [slightly upset]  By the way. My wife is- Miller's wife is on her way here.

  Al : Julie Miller.

  Sam : Julie. Oh, good. I know her first name. She probably knows mine. I mean, just think of all the things we can talk about now.

• 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?

• Al : I've been doin' some checking. It turns out that Miller went on and had three sons. And the oldest one followed in the old man's footsteps. Eh... Sorry.

• [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.