Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Nowhere to Run - August 10, 1968 (1992)

Michael Boatman: Sergeant Billy Johnson

Quotes 

• [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?

  [...] 

  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?