Quantum Leap (2022) s01e06 Episode Script
What a Disaster!
1
Dr. Ben Song risked everything
when he used the
Quantum Leap Accelerator
to travel back in time.
Now, our team's working to find out why
as he leaps between bodies
with no memory of who he is
[GUNSHOTS] He still has one hope
that his next leap
takes him back to the place
and people he calls home.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PIANO PLAYING JAUNTY TUNE]
Look, it's kinda like our first date.
Totally. It's it's exactly like that.
I may not remember the specifics,
but I remember how I feel,
and how much I care about you, Addison,
and that I'll do anything
to find my way back to you
so we could start over,
build new memories together.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
There's nothing I want
more than that, Ben.
Is it possible to kiss a hologram?
Because I really want to right now.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Whoa.
You made a serious miscalculation
coming here, Ben.
- Did he just call you Ben?
- How did you know my name?
I know everything about you,
Dr. Ben Song from the year 2022.
I know what you're doing.
But if you value your life,
you need to stop following me.
Do you understand?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Did you just see that?
Did someone just recognize Ben?
- How?
- They knew his name.
They literally called him
Dr. Ben Song from 2022.
I was more concerned with the
"stop following me if you know
what's good for you" part.
How is this possible?
May maybe they're
another time traveler.
No.
Another leaper, someone else
traveling through time just like Ben.
Another leaper?
If they're using technology
that's similar to ours,
then they would see Ben as Ben,
the exact same way that we do
in the imaging chamber.
- It's the only explanation.
- Similar technology?
Uh, this is a one-of-a-kind setup.
That we know of.
Okay, is this why Ben leapt?
To follow this person?
Follow them where? A-and why?
And what is going on?
[UPBEAT SYNTHESIZED MUSIC]
When I was a kid
and my parents broke up,
I blamed my mom.
Probably because I barely
saw my dad after that.
And she was the only one
still around to be mad at.
You know, I
I took the job at St. Luke's
because I
I thought it would
make our lives better.
We've been stuck in a rut
for a long time.
I I thought maybe a change of venue,
some more money in our pockets, but
Hey!
But it didn't.
John, are you even listening to me?
Um. [CLEARS THROAT] Sorry.
Uh, yes.
We're in San Francisco, right?
I get it.
You didn't wanna move here.
You've made that very clear.
I tried, John. I went to therapy,
I I changed my hours
to better suit your
I've been killing myself
trying to make this work.
But I I I can't.
I can't do it anymore.
I want a divorce.
Oh.
From me?
Please don't joke
or be dismissive right now.
I'm not [STUTTERS]
The Battle of the Bay continues.
Game Three of the 1989 World Series,
the Oakland Athletics against
the San Francisco Giants.
- I'm Al Michaels
- Wait a minute.
What year is it?
John, did you hear anything I just said?
I don't think I can be married
to you anymore.
They're not gonna play.
This game got canceled.
We need to go. We need to go, now.
No, no. We need to talk.
You can't keep running
Everything is about
to collapse around us.
It already has. I'm done, John.
And if you're not gonna
fight for us any
Please, we need to go, okay?
[GROUND RUMBLING] We need to go.
Everybody, we need
to get out of here, now!
[ALL SCREAMING]
[STATIC BUZZES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GROANS]
- Holy
- I got you!
♪
Look out!
[ALL SCREAMING]
♪
It's over.
- Oh, my God!
- It's okay, ma'am.
Thank God!
[CAR ALARMS BLARING]
Are you okay?
Yeah, I think so.
Are you?
Yeah.
How did you know that was gonna happen?
I don't know.
I just
remembered it.
[SCREAMS] My husband's been hurt bad!
Somebody, my husband!
It's okay, it's okay.
Hey, I'm a doctor. My name's Naomi.
Let me take a look.
I'll try and find help!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAR HORN HONKING]
Stop! Hey, stop!
Please, we have injured down the street.
- You gotta get to them.
- On it.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
- Hey.
- Oh, thank God.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm good.
Are you okay?
Who was that guy at Salvation?
He recognized me. You saw that, right?
Yeah, I we think he's another leaper.
Another leaper? Like another
person leaping through time?
- How is that possible?
- Uh, we don't know yet.
Look, there's a lot of
things we don't understand.
Well, that's comforting.
Look, the entire team is on it.
Is this why I left in the
first place, to follow them?
We're asking the same questions.
But and you're not gonna like this,
but you can't focus on that right now.
How could I possibly
think about anything else?
You have to focus on this leap.
Let us worry about the last one.
- [SIGHS]
- I know, I know.
But if you don't keep
making it through these leaps,
you will get stuck in the past.
Okay?
Please, for me, for you.
Let's just focus on this one.
Okay. All right.
Uh [DEVICE CHIMING]
Hey.
Okay, it looks like Ziggy says
you jumped into John Harvey?
Yeah, from what I can tell,
not the greatest dude.
Any idea why I'm here?
I'm having a hard time
getting a reading.
Well, his his wife
asked me for a divorce,
justifiably it sounds like.
But I can't be here to fix that.
- Uh
- John.
Oh.
- Oh, ambulance got to you?
- Yeah. I got him stabilized.
He's on his way to the hospital.
Come on. We have to get home
and make sure Jason's okay.
Jason?
- Our son?
- Yeah. Oh, our son.
I love Jason so much.
Where's where You lead the way.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay. I gotta switch his handlink out.
I'll meet you at the house.
♪
[DEVICE CHIMING]
[GRUNTS AND HUFFS]
This handlink's messed up.
I'll run diagnostics on it,
but you can use an old version
in the meantime.
Hey. [DEVICE CHIMES]
- I know.
- Nice.
What do you have on the new leaper?
Well, we are calling them Leaper X.
No, we are not.
- It was worth a shot.
- So it's been 12 hours.
What do we think is happening here?
And I want this
in plain English, please.
So we're looking at
three possible scenarios.
Number one, a foreign government
somehow got a hold of the schematics
for the quantum leap machine
and built one of their own.
Unlikely. I feel like the CIA
would've at least picked up chatter
- and let me know.
- Yeah.
And for what it's worth, the other
leaper was using an American accent.
Fair point.
So scenario number two,
a private company is behind this.
Some billionaire or defense contractor
got enough pieces
of this shared with them
and can now travel through time.
Elon Musk or Zuck
being able to control the past?
Ugh. That's terrifying.
We made sure that no single contractor
had the plans for this facility
when we were constructing it.
We took every effort
to make sure no one knew
what we were building down here.
But it is possible.
Scenario number three,
and this is a real mind cuss.
So full warning.
Already don't like it.
Someone's using our facility to leap.
No. That's not possible.
Right? We would've gotten
an alert, like when Ben jumped.
No, we wouldn't, not if
they're using it in the future.
Wait. So you're saying
We don't know
who's controlling the program
five years from now, ten years from now,
50 years from now.
The person you ran into
may not have jumped yet,
but will in the future.
This makes my head hurt.
Yeah. You are not the only one.
I don't want theories.
I don't want scenarios.
You have access to the most powerful
quantum computer in the world.
I want to know what we're
really dealing with here, now.
♪
Jason?
Jason? He's not here.
Let me check Brandon's house.
Well, they look happy.
They are not.
Sounds like this has
been coming for a while,
irreconcilable differences.
I can't imagine I'm here
to save their marriage.
I know.
- Any word from the brain trust?
- [SCOFFS]
Lot of theories, not a lot of answers.
Cool.
Oh, this has me
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Are my parents still together?
♪
Are they alive?
I'm sorry, Ben.
Uh, you didn't really have
a relationship with your dad.
Your mom raised you.
She brought you to the States
when you were nine.
Honestly, you didn't
really talk about her much.
All I know is that she died
when you were in high school.
Ben. [SPEAKING KOREAN]
♪
[SPEAKS KOREAN]
I remember her.
Really?
What do you remember?
Her cooking.
The smell is
so comforting.
♪
Feeling safe.
Feeling so safe.
♪
That's it.
[SNIFFLES]
I never talk about her?
No.
There were a lot of things about you
that were still a mystery to me.
I'm sorry for adding more.
♪
Are you close with your parents?
Um, it's complicated.
Probably would take longer to
catch you up than we have time for.
[CLEARS THROAT]
They're both still alive, though.
♪
Okay. [MUMBLING TO HERSELF]
♪
You think Jason tore this up?
Well, his parents are getting divorced.
I mean, can you blame him?
Yeah, but I get the sense from Naomi
she hadn't told anyone.
Addison, where's this kid?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DEVICE CHIMES]
Oh, no.
Jason Harvey died in the
aftermath of the earthquake.
Ben, that's what you're here to do.
You have to save Jason.
- We have their photo.
- What?
Leaper X.
We're not calling them that.
I know. But we have their photo.
I pulled it from
the imaging chamber feed.
How is that possible?
I thought you might ask.
Can you come downstairs?
I set up some props
to make this less brain hurt-y.
You [SIGHS]
♪
So where'd you get those?
Maduka has got a whole diorama thing
going on in his office.
It started off kinda small and fun,
but it's ballooned into this whole thing
where I think we're all just
kinda worried about him now.
Stay on target, Jen.
Right. Sorry. Okay.
So this represents one of our hosts,
one of the people Ben leaps into.
On his last leap,
he was Diego De La Cruz.
Okay.
So to the world, Ben's walking around,
and he still looks like Diego, right?
Even to Ben. When Ben looks
in the mirror, it's Diego he sees.
Jen, I know all this.
I'm building to a thing, Magic.
Build faster.
Okay.
So we can monitor Ben in the past
through the imaging chamber here
because of the way
the imaging chamber feed works,
when Addison is in there,
she doesn't see Diego.
She sees Ben as Ben.
- Got it?
- Yes, of course.
So is the cowboy, the host
our other leaper jumped into.
To the outside world,
they look like the cowboy.
But if they're using quantum
leap technology like ours,
when we see them
in the imaging chamber
We wouldn't see the cowboy.
We'd see them,
what they actually look like.
I mean, that's my theory at least.
And if we know what they look like
We can run their photo scan
through the NSA databases,
see if we get a hit.
And put a name to the face.
Nice work.
Ian!
Look, I don't wanna scare you,
but basically everyone who's alive
has an image of their face
in one database or another.
I mean, we're practically
doing it to ourselves.
If we're lucky,
we'll get a hit from a DMV
or something that shows up
with a lot of additional info.
But worst case scenario, we get a hit,
we at least know that they're
not far off in the future.
I just can't get my mind
around a private company
running its own quantum leap program.
It would be very, very bad.
[COMPUTER TRILLING]
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
You do realize that this
could take, like, a week, right?
A week?
There are hundreds
of thousands of databases.
I mean, this is trillions of images
that it has to sort through and compare.
- I can't wait that long.
- [SIGHS] God.
Sometimes I wish Ben were here
to explain to you
how amazing what I'm doing is
and how it can't be rushed.
It's gonna take what it's gonna
[COMPUTER CHIMING] Take.
We have a hit. How did you do that?
- Magic.
- Okay.
Whoa. We got a lot here.
Richard Martinez,
he's a Marine, pretty new one.
Did one tour, won a bunch of
medals, stationed in Camp Pendleton.
That's right down the road from here.
Are you sure he is he's
Say it.
You know you wanna say it.
Are you sure he's Leaper X?
Well, unless he swapped faces
with someone in the past,
then, yes, this is 100% him.
Call Pendleton. I want to
know where this guy is right now.
- On it.
- Pull Addison.
I want her to confirm this
is the guy she saw in there.
♪
We got him to say it.
How are we supposed to find him
in the middle of an earthquake?
We don't even know if he's still alive.
Ian, where we are we at with Ziggy?
Ziggy said there's a 93% chance
that Ben is there to save Jason,
so he must still be alive.
And I'll dive into the records
and see if I can find out more.
But Addison, we're gonna
need you to step out.
- We think we have our guy ID'd.
- Okay. Stand by.
♪
Hey, Brandon just told
me he spoke with Jason
two hours ago, and he was really upset,
that he wanted to go home.
But he didn't come back.
- Did he?
- No.
This doesn't make any sense.
Where would he have gone?
I don't know, but look at this.
Is there any way he could've
found out about the divorce?
Oh, my God.
I was on the phone
this morning with a lawyer.
He must've overheard me.
This is my fault.
He's out there alone. He could be hurt.
- He could be
- Hey, hey.
I know you're scared. I am, too.
But we're not gonna let
anything happen to him, okay?
Do you have any idea where he would go?
I don't know.
Come on, Naomi. Think.
He must have a favorite place
in the city.
Well, you would know better
than I would.
Since we've moved,
he's been so distant with me.
We we moved from Oakland.
That's why he's an A's fan.
What are you saying?
Brandon said Jason wanted to go home.
This picture of us,
that was from our old place.
Maybe that's where he's going.
It makes sense.
We were so happy there, and he
always says how much he misses it.
Ben, Ian just forwarded me
public records.
The Harveys' old apartment building
collapsed in the quake.
It went down at 7:34 p.m.
That's an hour and a half from now.
- Oakland's that way.
- We gotta go, now.
But it's across the Bay.
How are we gonna get there?
- Working on it.
- Uh, bridge is down.
Ferries and trains
aren't running either.
But the BART does run under the Bay.
Are you crazy? We can't take the BART.
I didn't say anything about the BART.
But there's an auxiliary tunnel that
runs parallel to the tracks.
- You can walk it.
- We can walk it. Come on.
You just said you didn't want to.
I was convinced otherwise.
All right. Let's just get there.
Ben, I have to check on something.
I'll be back as soon as I can.
Be careful.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Power outages and wire services
are now coming in with other reports.
The entire upper deck,
it just seemed to collapse
during the shaking.
Getting reports now that at
least 50 people are dead tonight.
Whoa. Yeah, that's him.
Who is he?
Sergeant Richard Martinez.
He's a Marine out at Pendleton.
- He's currently on leave.
- That's convenient.
The CO's pretty sure
he's visiting his mom in El Cerrito.
You have an address?
I'm hurt you had to ask.
We're gonna go talk to this guy.
He'd been on mission, he still needs
to leap at the end of this.
Yeah. He's good. He's remembering more.
Good, 'cause whether it's Ben
or this Martinez guy,
someone is gonna tell me what
the hell is going on, today.
♪
It Is 6:30 p.m., dark.
Power, phones, water is out
around San Francisco.
Emergency crews are trying
to look for victims.
We have one report, KRON Television,
saying that 53 people
are dead on the bridge.
Pretty sure it's the same time as it was
when you checked your watch
ten seconds ago.
[SIREN WAILING]
Are we really not gonna talk about this?
About what?
Oakland.
You can say it. We never should've left.
I promise I wasn't gonna say that.
No, but it is what you're thinking.
I'm the one who wanted to move.
I thought the job at St. Luke's
was gonna be great for all of us.
It got us into a better place,
Jason into a better school.
You know how smart he is.
But all he saw was leaving his
His friends, his home, his life.
I don't wanna be here!
[SOBBING] Come back.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
And he resents you for it.
- Maybe I made a mistake.
- No.
You did what you thought
was best for this family.
[SOBS]
You're a good mom. I can see that.
Am I?
I work all the time.
I barely see the two of you.
And and when I do,
Jason's so angry with me.
And now, with this This divorce,
I'm afraid he's gonna hate me forever.
[RUMBLING]
[TIRES SQUEALING AND GLASS SHATTERING]
Somebody, help us!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay, if he's working for a third party,
how do you wanna play this?
I wanna grab him by the
collar and start yelling,
"Are you illegally
leaping through time?"
Magic, rare moment of sarcasm for you.
I dig it.
I think our only play here
is to get him talking,
see what we can find out.
Got it. Good cop, good cop.
Something like that.
- Can I help you?
- Hello. Richard Martinez?
Yes.
Admiral Herbert Williams.
I hope it's okay.
Your CO gave me your home address.
Come in, sir.
In for what?
Whatever.
[CHUCKLES] I I don't understand.
Sir, an admiral just showed
up at my doorstep unannounced
in plain clothes
with a real serious vibe.
This is about some special ops
or secret mission,
you had me at hello.
- I'm in, sir.
- Well, I appreciate that.
But that's not what
May we come in?
Yeah.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Really, Mrs. Martinez,
thank you, but we're not hungry.
Oh, that won't stop her, sir.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Gracias.
Can we ask you some questions?
Of course.
I'm sorry, ma'am.
I didn't catch your name.
I didn't drop it.
You got an impressive folder, Sergeant.
Is there a medal or commendation
they haven't given you yet?
Yes, ma'am. There are many.
That was sarcasm, Martinez.
I detected that. Yes.
We don't pay you enough, do we?
Sir?
Considering the risk you have to take,
constantly putting your life
on the line,
you're not even clearing six figures.
I'm fairly compensated, sir.
Money is not my main motivation.
Then what is?
My parents came here
from Mérida when I was nine.
My brothers were six and seven.
The risk we took just to get here
This country gave us stability,
gave us safety, gave us a good living.
I'm sorry.
I still get emotional
just thinking about it.
That's why you joined?
Ma'am, I joined for the one thing
America didn't give me: citizenship.
I love this country.
I wanna stay, I wanna vote.
I wanna protect it from enemies,
both foreign and domestic.
So if there's a mission
that needs me, I'm in, sir.
No questions asked.
Just point me in the right direction.
It's forbidden to moonlight
during active service.
You're aware of that, right?
Ma'am?
You can't rent yourself out
to private companies,
foreign entities,
even in your spare time.
You do understand that, yes?
[CHUCKLES] Ma'am, no disrespect,
but what free time would that be?
This is the first time that I've
been back home in over a year.
Am I Permission to speak freely?
Go ahead.
Am I in any sort of trouble here, sir?
I don't understand what's going on.
Did I do something wrong or improper?
Because if I did,
I swear it wasn't on purpose.
Look, I can correct that behavior.
Just let me know what I did.
♪
Look, and I never say this,
but I think he's telling the truth.
Yeah. I do too.
But let's do this by the numbers.
Dig into his life, his family.
See if there's any money swirling around
we should know about,
any secrets we don't see.
On it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SHRIEKS] Please, someone help!
Oh, God.
- Help!
- Someone call 911!
Help! The door's stuck! Please help!
Okay. Hold on.
We're gonna get you out.
[GRUNTING]
We need something
to break the windshield.
Maybe we should wait for help.
We need to get them out now.
That transformer's coming down.
And if it hits the car,
it's gonna send a current
through the metal frame
and they're all gonna die.
[SOFTLY] Okay.
- Cover your face!
- Okay!
[BEN GRUNTING] [ONLOOKERS GASPING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- Give me your hand.
- You're okay.
You're all right.
Come on. Okay.
Here you go, here you go.
[TRANSFORMER ZAPPING]
Naomi, move!
You okay? [ONLOOKERS CLAMORING]
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No, no!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Wake up, wake up!
[LIGHTLY TAPPING NAOMI'S FACE]
[SOFTLY] Wake up, wake up.
Wake up, Mom.
Wake up, Mom. I can't live without you.
[GASPS SOFTLY]
♪
- Help!
- Ben, what happened?
She's not breathing.
You need to do CPR.
I don't know how.
Then, you do a precordial thump.
Okay. What the hell is that?
Okay, it's a quick fist strike
to the center of the sternum
designed to get the heart started.
Just trust me. It'll work.
I'll make it simple. Just follow my arc.
[DEVICE CHIMES]
You can do this.
Ben, now!
[GASPING]
Thank God. Look at me, look at me.
You're okay.
Ben, the building's
collapsing in 45 minutes.
If you don't get there, he's gonna die.
You need to find Jason.
I'm gonna bring him back to you.
I promise.
♪
Ben.
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
[SHOUTS]
- [SPEAKING KOREAN]
- No, it doesn't matter!
I don't care! [BEN'S MOTHER SCREAMS]
[SHOUTING IN KOREAN]
[BEN'S MOTHER SOBBING]
♪
Ben!
♪
- How much further?
- Quarter mile.
You look like you're about to pass out.
- I can make it.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
The body you leaped into
hasn't worked out in years.
Walk for a minute. Okay?
- You'll still make it in time.
- [PANTING]
Ben, what's going on?
Nothing!
[PANTING]
I'll walk a minute.
No. You don't get to do that.
You don't get to hide things
from me anymore.
You're upset about me leaping.
I am, but right now,
I am upset because I thought
that you trusted me again.
- And clearly, you don't.
- Are you kidding?
You're the only person I trust!
What?
Okay.
I remember.
Remember what, Ben?
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I remember how my mom died.
I know why I never told you about it.
Ben, you can tell me anything.
The night my mom died,
we got into a huge argument.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I brought home my first
report card from high school.
It was all [CHUCKLES]
Bs.
She was furious.
You have an IQ of 197.
I can see why.
You did it on purpose.
I was tired of her
telling me how special I was,
that moving us to America was
so I could achieve something.
I just wanted to be a normal kid.
And I didn't like living in New York,
so I told her I hated her for it.
And I took off.
[SOBBING] Come back.
♪
When I got home later that night,
I found her on the kitchen floor.
Mom.
Mom!
Wake up! Wake up! Please!
[SOBBING] She had a brain aneurysm.
♪
Ben, I'm
I'm so sorry.
♪
My last moments with my mom
were full of anger.
I never got to tell her I was sorry
or thank her for everything
she did for me.
But that night changed my life.
No wonder I got obsessed
with physics and time travel.
No wonder I wanted to join this program.
You can draw a straight line
from that moment to this.
I need to save Jason
and give him the opportunity
to have a relationship with his mom
like I never could.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DEVICE CHIMES]
[SNIFFLES] The exit's just up there.
Ben, you can do this.
There's still time to save Jason.
The kid's a boy scout.
I went through all his financials,
his family's financials.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
He's right, you know.
He hasn't had a free moment
in a long time.
He's been tied up pretty heavy
in the service since he was 18.
It rules out him working for the
private sector or a foreign power.
Are you sure this is the guy
from the photo?
100%. Unless he has a twin?
- He does not.
- Okay.
So Richard Martinez is Leaper X.
Well, I think more appropriate phrasing
would be Richard Martinez
will become Leaper X
at some point in the future.
We just don't know when or how.
And unfortunately for us,
neither does he, at least not yet.
So what do we do?
- Black site him?
- Jen.
I mean, this country's done it for less.
I'm gonna put him
under tight surveillance.
But if what we're all thinking is right,
it's not gonna do much good.
For now, at least.
Okay, but what if going
and talking to him today
just set the whole thing off?
How do you mean?
Well, like, so you and Magic,
you go and you talk to him
and he doesn't really understand why,
so he starts digging into Magic,
and he finds out all of this
secret stuff, and, eventually
[SNAPS FINGERS] Boom.
Ten years later, he's a part
of the program and he leaps.
Like did did we
just make this happen?
Ian, I can't tie my brain in pretzels
about what's gonna happen in the future.
We need to focus on the present
and get back to Ben and Addison
in the past.
♪
Our lives are so insane.
Yeah, I heard it.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Excuse me. Jason?
Jason? Jason.
Ben, he's over here.
Jason!
- Dad!
- Jason.
What are you doing here?
Jason, thank God you're okay.
I got here before the earthquake hit.
But Mr. Wheeler's still in there.
- We have to help him.
- I'll get him.
- You stay here.
- No. I'm coming with you.
Ben, if you go in that building,
Ziggy says there's only a 30%
chance of you making it out.
Listen to me, no matter what happens,
I need you to promise me you
won't go inside that building.
- Dad!
- Just promise me.
♪
Get out of the way! It's coming down!
♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa!
Ben, over here.
[POUNDS ON DOOR] Mr. Wheeler?
Mr. Wheeler?
Are you sure he's in there?
Right. Hologram.
He's inside.
He's just sitting there in shock.
[STRAINING]
Mr. Wheeler!
- John?
- Look at me.
What are you doing here?
There's no time to explain.
We need to go.
- Ben, we gotta go.
- No, no, it's my home.
I know, but this place is coming down.
No time to explain! I know!
I know, but come on! Okay.
Ben, look out!
Ben!
Ben. [OMINOUS MUSIC]
Ben!
Ben? I need you to wake up now.
John, I'll go for help.
Ian, how much time do we have?
The building's gonna
collapse in two minutes.
Ben, I can't lose you, not like this,
not when you're finally
starting to remember.
You need to wake up.
Ben, I know you can hear me.
Wake up.
Dad!
No, no, no.
You're not supposed to be here!
Dad! Dad, wake up!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Come on, kid.
- [STRAINING]
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Wake up.
[GASPS] Way to go, kid!
[COUGHING] [BUILDING CREAKING]
I told you not to come in here.
Mr. Wheeler said you were trapped.
I can't lift this beam by myself.
It's too heavy.
Ben, this building's coming down.
Okay. We're gonna push on three.
- Okay?
- Okay.
- Ready?
- One, two, three. Push!
[BOTH STRAINING]
♪
Yes.
[BEAM THUDS]
Jason, go, go, go!
Go, go! Keep moving!
Go, go!
Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop!
[ALL CLAMORING]
♪
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's good. You did good.
Yeah. It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
- No, don't be sorry.
- I'm sorry.
- You're safe now. You're safe.
You're okay. You're safe now.
♪
Everything's gonna be okay.
♪
Everything's gonna be okay from now on.
I'm sorry. I just missed this place.
I know. [DEVICE CHIMING]
- But you're all right now.
- This doesn't make any sense.
You you saved him.
You should've leaped.
Dad, what's wrong?
I thought saving you would be enough,
that you and your mom would fix things.
But you never did.
Are you kidding?
She doesn't care about me
or this family!
That's not true.
She's gonna divorce you, Dad.
I know.
And I get that you're angry with her
for moving you away from here
but she did it for you.
I know it's hard for you
to see right now,
but one day you will.
And trust me, when that day comes,
you don't want to look back
at this moment
wishing you had done things differently,
because that regret never goes away.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
Jason?
Hi, Mom.
Oh, I'm so glad you're all right.
♪
Thank you, John,
for bringing him back to me.
Well, he had a lot of help.
♪
I am so sorry how you
found out about your dad and I.
- I never wanted that.
- I know.
Dad told me about how
you helped those people.
Are you hurt?
♪
Nothing that can't be healed.
I love you, Mom.
I love you too, sweetheart.
♪
Ben?
♪
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
♪
[DEVICE CHIMES]
Ben, you did it.
Ziggy says that Jason
and Naomi reconcile,
and he goes on
to become a civil engineer.
He helps change the way buildings
are designed to withstand earthquakes.
His innovations have been credited
with saving thousands of lives.
♪
[PHONES RINGING]
♪
Ben, what are you doing?
The phones are working. It's 1989.
My mother is still alive.
I can call her.
Ben, it is against the rules.
I can't let you do that.
One
Ben.
Damn it. I can't remember the number.
You realize, you're about
to leap at any moment?
Addison, please. I have to call her.
♪
212-177-2350.
Thank you.
♪
[PHONE LINE TRILLING]
Hello?
Mom.
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
- You got a second?
- Of course. What's up?
Um, so you know how I figured out that
Ben was using gravitational navigation,
zig zagging his way through time,
sort of building up speed
from leap to leap
in order to get deep into the past?
Yes.
Well, after everything that
happened today with Leaper X
[CLEARS THROAT]
With Martinez, um,
it got me thinking that
maybe I was looking at the math wrong.
Okay.
I don't think that Ben
was trying to get to the past.
I think that Ben was trying
to leap into the future.
[SIGHS] That shouldn't be possible.
None of this should be possible, Magic.
I mean, everyone thinks
that something is impossible
until somebody comes around
and figures out that it isn't.
And maybe Ben figured it out.
He certainly is smart enough.
Well, if he did,
you're the only one smart enough
to figure out how and why.
- Get on it.
- [CHUCKLES] Okay.
♪
I'm sorry.
Yep.
I know I shouldn't have
given Ben the number, but
You kidding?
I would've done the same thing.
How are you holding up?
I'm okay. Ben is
He's different in there.
Different how?
Okay, Ben, old Ben, he was amazing.
Of course he was. I was gonna marry him.
But the Ben that's in there, he
He's more vulnerable,
more open, more free with his feelings,
in a way that
I'd always hoped we'd get to.
But it feels like I'm falling
even more in love with him.
Despite all of this.
Is that insane?
No.
It's beautiful.
♪
Hey, do you wanna get dinner,
maybe catch up on some "Housewives"?
- Yes and I guess so, for you.
- [CHUCKLES]
Those women have their hooks
in you, don't they?
- Maybe.
- [LAUGHS]
But before anything,
I got to call my mom.
That last leap did a number on me.
[CHUCKLES] Yes.
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
[DOG BARKING]
[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
[MYSTERIOUS ENERGETIC MUSIC]
♪
[EVIL LAUGHTER]
♪
Father Davenport, thank God.
I'm afraid it's gotten worse.
Please, come in.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING ON PHONOGRAPH]
♪
[MYSTERIOUS ENERGETIC MUSIC]
♪
[EVIL LAUGHTER]
Dr. Ben Song risked everything
when he used the
Quantum Leap Accelerator
to travel back in time.
Now, our team's working to find out why
as he leaps between bodies
with no memory of who he is
[GUNSHOTS] He still has one hope
that his next leap
takes him back to the place
and people he calls home.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PIANO PLAYING JAUNTY TUNE]
Look, it's kinda like our first date.
Totally. It's it's exactly like that.
I may not remember the specifics,
but I remember how I feel,
and how much I care about you, Addison,
and that I'll do anything
to find my way back to you
so we could start over,
build new memories together.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
There's nothing I want
more than that, Ben.
Is it possible to kiss a hologram?
Because I really want to right now.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Whoa.
You made a serious miscalculation
coming here, Ben.
- Did he just call you Ben?
- How did you know my name?
I know everything about you,
Dr. Ben Song from the year 2022.
I know what you're doing.
But if you value your life,
you need to stop following me.
Do you understand?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Did you just see that?
Did someone just recognize Ben?
- How?
- They knew his name.
They literally called him
Dr. Ben Song from 2022.
I was more concerned with the
"stop following me if you know
what's good for you" part.
How is this possible?
May maybe they're
another time traveler.
No.
Another leaper, someone else
traveling through time just like Ben.
Another leaper?
If they're using technology
that's similar to ours,
then they would see Ben as Ben,
the exact same way that we do
in the imaging chamber.
- It's the only explanation.
- Similar technology?
Uh, this is a one-of-a-kind setup.
That we know of.
Okay, is this why Ben leapt?
To follow this person?
Follow them where? A-and why?
And what is going on?
[UPBEAT SYNTHESIZED MUSIC]
When I was a kid
and my parents broke up,
I blamed my mom.
Probably because I barely
saw my dad after that.
And she was the only one
still around to be mad at.
You know, I
I took the job at St. Luke's
because I
I thought it would
make our lives better.
We've been stuck in a rut
for a long time.
I I thought maybe a change of venue,
some more money in our pockets, but
Hey!
But it didn't.
John, are you even listening to me?
Um. [CLEARS THROAT] Sorry.
Uh, yes.
We're in San Francisco, right?
I get it.
You didn't wanna move here.
You've made that very clear.
I tried, John. I went to therapy,
I I changed my hours
to better suit your
I've been killing myself
trying to make this work.
But I I I can't.
I can't do it anymore.
I want a divorce.
Oh.
From me?
Please don't joke
or be dismissive right now.
I'm not [STUTTERS]
The Battle of the Bay continues.
Game Three of the 1989 World Series,
the Oakland Athletics against
the San Francisco Giants.
- I'm Al Michaels
- Wait a minute.
What year is it?
John, did you hear anything I just said?
I don't think I can be married
to you anymore.
They're not gonna play.
This game got canceled.
We need to go. We need to go, now.
No, no. We need to talk.
You can't keep running
Everything is about
to collapse around us.
It already has. I'm done, John.
And if you're not gonna
fight for us any
Please, we need to go, okay?
[GROUND RUMBLING] We need to go.
Everybody, we need
to get out of here, now!
[ALL SCREAMING]
[STATIC BUZZES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GROANS]
- Holy
- I got you!
♪
Look out!
[ALL SCREAMING]
♪
It's over.
- Oh, my God!
- It's okay, ma'am.
Thank God!
[CAR ALARMS BLARING]
Are you okay?
Yeah, I think so.
Are you?
Yeah.
How did you know that was gonna happen?
I don't know.
I just
remembered it.
[SCREAMS] My husband's been hurt bad!
Somebody, my husband!
It's okay, it's okay.
Hey, I'm a doctor. My name's Naomi.
Let me take a look.
I'll try and find help!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAR HORN HONKING]
Stop! Hey, stop!
Please, we have injured down the street.
- You gotta get to them.
- On it.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
- Hey.
- Oh, thank God.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm good.
Are you okay?
Who was that guy at Salvation?
He recognized me. You saw that, right?
Yeah, I we think he's another leaper.
Another leaper? Like another
person leaping through time?
- How is that possible?
- Uh, we don't know yet.
Look, there's a lot of
things we don't understand.
Well, that's comforting.
Look, the entire team is on it.
Is this why I left in the
first place, to follow them?
We're asking the same questions.
But and you're not gonna like this,
but you can't focus on that right now.
How could I possibly
think about anything else?
You have to focus on this leap.
Let us worry about the last one.
- [SIGHS]
- I know, I know.
But if you don't keep
making it through these leaps,
you will get stuck in the past.
Okay?
Please, for me, for you.
Let's just focus on this one.
Okay. All right.
Uh [DEVICE CHIMING]
Hey.
Okay, it looks like Ziggy says
you jumped into John Harvey?
Yeah, from what I can tell,
not the greatest dude.
Any idea why I'm here?
I'm having a hard time
getting a reading.
Well, his his wife
asked me for a divorce,
justifiably it sounds like.
But I can't be here to fix that.
- Uh
- John.
Oh.
- Oh, ambulance got to you?
- Yeah. I got him stabilized.
He's on his way to the hospital.
Come on. We have to get home
and make sure Jason's okay.
Jason?
- Our son?
- Yeah. Oh, our son.
I love Jason so much.
Where's where You lead the way.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay. I gotta switch his handlink out.
I'll meet you at the house.
♪
[DEVICE CHIMING]
[GRUNTS AND HUFFS]
This handlink's messed up.
I'll run diagnostics on it,
but you can use an old version
in the meantime.
Hey. [DEVICE CHIMES]
- I know.
- Nice.
What do you have on the new leaper?
Well, we are calling them Leaper X.
No, we are not.
- It was worth a shot.
- So it's been 12 hours.
What do we think is happening here?
And I want this
in plain English, please.
So we're looking at
three possible scenarios.
Number one, a foreign government
somehow got a hold of the schematics
for the quantum leap machine
and built one of their own.
Unlikely. I feel like the CIA
would've at least picked up chatter
- and let me know.
- Yeah.
And for what it's worth, the other
leaper was using an American accent.
Fair point.
So scenario number two,
a private company is behind this.
Some billionaire or defense contractor
got enough pieces
of this shared with them
and can now travel through time.
Elon Musk or Zuck
being able to control the past?
Ugh. That's terrifying.
We made sure that no single contractor
had the plans for this facility
when we were constructing it.
We took every effort
to make sure no one knew
what we were building down here.
But it is possible.
Scenario number three,
and this is a real mind cuss.
So full warning.
Already don't like it.
Someone's using our facility to leap.
No. That's not possible.
Right? We would've gotten
an alert, like when Ben jumped.
No, we wouldn't, not if
they're using it in the future.
Wait. So you're saying
We don't know
who's controlling the program
five years from now, ten years from now,
50 years from now.
The person you ran into
may not have jumped yet,
but will in the future.
This makes my head hurt.
Yeah. You are not the only one.
I don't want theories.
I don't want scenarios.
You have access to the most powerful
quantum computer in the world.
I want to know what we're
really dealing with here, now.
♪
Jason?
Jason? He's not here.
Let me check Brandon's house.
Well, they look happy.
They are not.
Sounds like this has
been coming for a while,
irreconcilable differences.
I can't imagine I'm here
to save their marriage.
I know.
- Any word from the brain trust?
- [SCOFFS]
Lot of theories, not a lot of answers.
Cool.
Oh, this has me
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Are my parents still together?
♪
Are they alive?
I'm sorry, Ben.
Uh, you didn't really have
a relationship with your dad.
Your mom raised you.
She brought you to the States
when you were nine.
Honestly, you didn't
really talk about her much.
All I know is that she died
when you were in high school.
Ben. [SPEAKING KOREAN]
♪
[SPEAKS KOREAN]
I remember her.
Really?
What do you remember?
Her cooking.
The smell is
so comforting.
♪
Feeling safe.
Feeling so safe.
♪
That's it.
[SNIFFLES]
I never talk about her?
No.
There were a lot of things about you
that were still a mystery to me.
I'm sorry for adding more.
♪
Are you close with your parents?
Um, it's complicated.
Probably would take longer to
catch you up than we have time for.
[CLEARS THROAT]
They're both still alive, though.
♪
Okay. [MUMBLING TO HERSELF]
♪
You think Jason tore this up?
Well, his parents are getting divorced.
I mean, can you blame him?
Yeah, but I get the sense from Naomi
she hadn't told anyone.
Addison, where's this kid?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DEVICE CHIMES]
Oh, no.
Jason Harvey died in the
aftermath of the earthquake.
Ben, that's what you're here to do.
You have to save Jason.
- We have their photo.
- What?
Leaper X.
We're not calling them that.
I know. But we have their photo.
I pulled it from
the imaging chamber feed.
How is that possible?
I thought you might ask.
Can you come downstairs?
I set up some props
to make this less brain hurt-y.
You [SIGHS]
♪
So where'd you get those?
Maduka has got a whole diorama thing
going on in his office.
It started off kinda small and fun,
but it's ballooned into this whole thing
where I think we're all just
kinda worried about him now.
Stay on target, Jen.
Right. Sorry. Okay.
So this represents one of our hosts,
one of the people Ben leaps into.
On his last leap,
he was Diego De La Cruz.
Okay.
So to the world, Ben's walking around,
and he still looks like Diego, right?
Even to Ben. When Ben looks
in the mirror, it's Diego he sees.
Jen, I know all this.
I'm building to a thing, Magic.
Build faster.
Okay.
So we can monitor Ben in the past
through the imaging chamber here
because of the way
the imaging chamber feed works,
when Addison is in there,
she doesn't see Diego.
She sees Ben as Ben.
- Got it?
- Yes, of course.
So is the cowboy, the host
our other leaper jumped into.
To the outside world,
they look like the cowboy.
But if they're using quantum
leap technology like ours,
when we see them
in the imaging chamber
We wouldn't see the cowboy.
We'd see them,
what they actually look like.
I mean, that's my theory at least.
And if we know what they look like
We can run their photo scan
through the NSA databases,
see if we get a hit.
And put a name to the face.
Nice work.
Ian!
Look, I don't wanna scare you,
but basically everyone who's alive
has an image of their face
in one database or another.
I mean, we're practically
doing it to ourselves.
If we're lucky,
we'll get a hit from a DMV
or something that shows up
with a lot of additional info.
But worst case scenario, we get a hit,
we at least know that they're
not far off in the future.
I just can't get my mind
around a private company
running its own quantum leap program.
It would be very, very bad.
[COMPUTER TRILLING]
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
You do realize that this
could take, like, a week, right?
A week?
There are hundreds
of thousands of databases.
I mean, this is trillions of images
that it has to sort through and compare.
- I can't wait that long.
- [SIGHS] God.
Sometimes I wish Ben were here
to explain to you
how amazing what I'm doing is
and how it can't be rushed.
It's gonna take what it's gonna
[COMPUTER CHIMING] Take.
We have a hit. How did you do that?
- Magic.
- Okay.
Whoa. We got a lot here.
Richard Martinez,
he's a Marine, pretty new one.
Did one tour, won a bunch of
medals, stationed in Camp Pendleton.
That's right down the road from here.
Are you sure he is he's
Say it.
You know you wanna say it.
Are you sure he's Leaper X?
Well, unless he swapped faces
with someone in the past,
then, yes, this is 100% him.
Call Pendleton. I want to
know where this guy is right now.
- On it.
- Pull Addison.
I want her to confirm this
is the guy she saw in there.
♪
We got him to say it.
How are we supposed to find him
in the middle of an earthquake?
We don't even know if he's still alive.
Ian, where we are we at with Ziggy?
Ziggy said there's a 93% chance
that Ben is there to save Jason,
so he must still be alive.
And I'll dive into the records
and see if I can find out more.
But Addison, we're gonna
need you to step out.
- We think we have our guy ID'd.
- Okay. Stand by.
♪
Hey, Brandon just told
me he spoke with Jason
two hours ago, and he was really upset,
that he wanted to go home.
But he didn't come back.
- Did he?
- No.
This doesn't make any sense.
Where would he have gone?
I don't know, but look at this.
Is there any way he could've
found out about the divorce?
Oh, my God.
I was on the phone
this morning with a lawyer.
He must've overheard me.
This is my fault.
He's out there alone. He could be hurt.
- He could be
- Hey, hey.
I know you're scared. I am, too.
But we're not gonna let
anything happen to him, okay?
Do you have any idea where he would go?
I don't know.
Come on, Naomi. Think.
He must have a favorite place
in the city.
Well, you would know better
than I would.
Since we've moved,
he's been so distant with me.
We we moved from Oakland.
That's why he's an A's fan.
What are you saying?
Brandon said Jason wanted to go home.
This picture of us,
that was from our old place.
Maybe that's where he's going.
It makes sense.
We were so happy there, and he
always says how much he misses it.
Ben, Ian just forwarded me
public records.
The Harveys' old apartment building
collapsed in the quake.
It went down at 7:34 p.m.
That's an hour and a half from now.
- Oakland's that way.
- We gotta go, now.
But it's across the Bay.
How are we gonna get there?
- Working on it.
- Uh, bridge is down.
Ferries and trains
aren't running either.
But the BART does run under the Bay.
Are you crazy? We can't take the BART.
I didn't say anything about the BART.
But there's an auxiliary tunnel that
runs parallel to the tracks.
- You can walk it.
- We can walk it. Come on.
You just said you didn't want to.
I was convinced otherwise.
All right. Let's just get there.
Ben, I have to check on something.
I'll be back as soon as I can.
Be careful.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Power outages and wire services
are now coming in with other reports.
The entire upper deck,
it just seemed to collapse
during the shaking.
Getting reports now that at
least 50 people are dead tonight.
Whoa. Yeah, that's him.
Who is he?
Sergeant Richard Martinez.
He's a Marine out at Pendleton.
- He's currently on leave.
- That's convenient.
The CO's pretty sure
he's visiting his mom in El Cerrito.
You have an address?
I'm hurt you had to ask.
We're gonna go talk to this guy.
He'd been on mission, he still needs
to leap at the end of this.
Yeah. He's good. He's remembering more.
Good, 'cause whether it's Ben
or this Martinez guy,
someone is gonna tell me what
the hell is going on, today.
♪
It Is 6:30 p.m., dark.
Power, phones, water is out
around San Francisco.
Emergency crews are trying
to look for victims.
We have one report, KRON Television,
saying that 53 people
are dead on the bridge.
Pretty sure it's the same time as it was
when you checked your watch
ten seconds ago.
[SIREN WAILING]
Are we really not gonna talk about this?
About what?
Oakland.
You can say it. We never should've left.
I promise I wasn't gonna say that.
No, but it is what you're thinking.
I'm the one who wanted to move.
I thought the job at St. Luke's
was gonna be great for all of us.
It got us into a better place,
Jason into a better school.
You know how smart he is.
But all he saw was leaving his
His friends, his home, his life.
I don't wanna be here!
[SOBBING] Come back.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
And he resents you for it.
- Maybe I made a mistake.
- No.
You did what you thought
was best for this family.
[SOBS]
You're a good mom. I can see that.
Am I?
I work all the time.
I barely see the two of you.
And and when I do,
Jason's so angry with me.
And now, with this This divorce,
I'm afraid he's gonna hate me forever.
[RUMBLING]
[TIRES SQUEALING AND GLASS SHATTERING]
Somebody, help us!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay, if he's working for a third party,
how do you wanna play this?
I wanna grab him by the
collar and start yelling,
"Are you illegally
leaping through time?"
Magic, rare moment of sarcasm for you.
I dig it.
I think our only play here
is to get him talking,
see what we can find out.
Got it. Good cop, good cop.
Something like that.
- Can I help you?
- Hello. Richard Martinez?
Yes.
Admiral Herbert Williams.
I hope it's okay.
Your CO gave me your home address.
Come in, sir.
In for what?
Whatever.
[CHUCKLES] I I don't understand.
Sir, an admiral just showed
up at my doorstep unannounced
in plain clothes
with a real serious vibe.
This is about some special ops
or secret mission,
you had me at hello.
- I'm in, sir.
- Well, I appreciate that.
But that's not what
May we come in?
Yeah.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Really, Mrs. Martinez,
thank you, but we're not hungry.
Oh, that won't stop her, sir.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Gracias.
Can we ask you some questions?
Of course.
I'm sorry, ma'am.
I didn't catch your name.
I didn't drop it.
You got an impressive folder, Sergeant.
Is there a medal or commendation
they haven't given you yet?
Yes, ma'am. There are many.
That was sarcasm, Martinez.
I detected that. Yes.
We don't pay you enough, do we?
Sir?
Considering the risk you have to take,
constantly putting your life
on the line,
you're not even clearing six figures.
I'm fairly compensated, sir.
Money is not my main motivation.
Then what is?
My parents came here
from Mérida when I was nine.
My brothers were six and seven.
The risk we took just to get here
This country gave us stability,
gave us safety, gave us a good living.
I'm sorry.
I still get emotional
just thinking about it.
That's why you joined?
Ma'am, I joined for the one thing
America didn't give me: citizenship.
I love this country.
I wanna stay, I wanna vote.
I wanna protect it from enemies,
both foreign and domestic.
So if there's a mission
that needs me, I'm in, sir.
No questions asked.
Just point me in the right direction.
It's forbidden to moonlight
during active service.
You're aware of that, right?
Ma'am?
You can't rent yourself out
to private companies,
foreign entities,
even in your spare time.
You do understand that, yes?
[CHUCKLES] Ma'am, no disrespect,
but what free time would that be?
This is the first time that I've
been back home in over a year.
Am I Permission to speak freely?
Go ahead.
Am I in any sort of trouble here, sir?
I don't understand what's going on.
Did I do something wrong or improper?
Because if I did,
I swear it wasn't on purpose.
Look, I can correct that behavior.
Just let me know what I did.
♪
Look, and I never say this,
but I think he's telling the truth.
Yeah. I do too.
But let's do this by the numbers.
Dig into his life, his family.
See if there's any money swirling around
we should know about,
any secrets we don't see.
On it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SHRIEKS] Please, someone help!
Oh, God.
- Help!
- Someone call 911!
Help! The door's stuck! Please help!
Okay. Hold on.
We're gonna get you out.
[GRUNTING]
We need something
to break the windshield.
Maybe we should wait for help.
We need to get them out now.
That transformer's coming down.
And if it hits the car,
it's gonna send a current
through the metal frame
and they're all gonna die.
[SOFTLY] Okay.
- Cover your face!
- Okay!
[BEN GRUNTING] [ONLOOKERS GASPING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- Give me your hand.
- You're okay.
You're all right.
Come on. Okay.
Here you go, here you go.
[TRANSFORMER ZAPPING]
Naomi, move!
You okay? [ONLOOKERS CLAMORING]
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No, no!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Wake up, wake up!
[LIGHTLY TAPPING NAOMI'S FACE]
[SOFTLY] Wake up, wake up.
Wake up, Mom.
Wake up, Mom. I can't live without you.
[GASPS SOFTLY]
♪
- Help!
- Ben, what happened?
She's not breathing.
You need to do CPR.
I don't know how.
Then, you do a precordial thump.
Okay. What the hell is that?
Okay, it's a quick fist strike
to the center of the sternum
designed to get the heart started.
Just trust me. It'll work.
I'll make it simple. Just follow my arc.
[DEVICE CHIMES]
You can do this.
Ben, now!
[GASPING]
Thank God. Look at me, look at me.
You're okay.
Ben, the building's
collapsing in 45 minutes.
If you don't get there, he's gonna die.
You need to find Jason.
I'm gonna bring him back to you.
I promise.
♪
Ben.
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
[SHOUTS]
- [SPEAKING KOREAN]
- No, it doesn't matter!
I don't care! [BEN'S MOTHER SCREAMS]
[SHOUTING IN KOREAN]
[BEN'S MOTHER SOBBING]
♪
Ben!
♪
- How much further?
- Quarter mile.
You look like you're about to pass out.
- I can make it.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
The body you leaped into
hasn't worked out in years.
Walk for a minute. Okay?
- You'll still make it in time.
- [PANTING]
Ben, what's going on?
Nothing!
[PANTING]
I'll walk a minute.
No. You don't get to do that.
You don't get to hide things
from me anymore.
You're upset about me leaping.
I am, but right now,
I am upset because I thought
that you trusted me again.
- And clearly, you don't.
- Are you kidding?
You're the only person I trust!
What?
Okay.
I remember.
Remember what, Ben?
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I remember how my mom died.
I know why I never told you about it.
Ben, you can tell me anything.
The night my mom died,
we got into a huge argument.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I brought home my first
report card from high school.
It was all [CHUCKLES]
Bs.
She was furious.
You have an IQ of 197.
I can see why.
You did it on purpose.
I was tired of her
telling me how special I was,
that moving us to America was
so I could achieve something.
I just wanted to be a normal kid.
And I didn't like living in New York,
so I told her I hated her for it.
And I took off.
[SOBBING] Come back.
♪
When I got home later that night,
I found her on the kitchen floor.
Mom.
Mom!
Wake up! Wake up! Please!
[SOBBING] She had a brain aneurysm.
♪
Ben, I'm
I'm so sorry.
♪
My last moments with my mom
were full of anger.
I never got to tell her I was sorry
or thank her for everything
she did for me.
But that night changed my life.
No wonder I got obsessed
with physics and time travel.
No wonder I wanted to join this program.
You can draw a straight line
from that moment to this.
I need to save Jason
and give him the opportunity
to have a relationship with his mom
like I never could.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DEVICE CHIMES]
[SNIFFLES] The exit's just up there.
Ben, you can do this.
There's still time to save Jason.
The kid's a boy scout.
I went through all his financials,
his family's financials.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
He's right, you know.
He hasn't had a free moment
in a long time.
He's been tied up pretty heavy
in the service since he was 18.
It rules out him working for the
private sector or a foreign power.
Are you sure this is the guy
from the photo?
100%. Unless he has a twin?
- He does not.
- Okay.
So Richard Martinez is Leaper X.
Well, I think more appropriate phrasing
would be Richard Martinez
will become Leaper X
at some point in the future.
We just don't know when or how.
And unfortunately for us,
neither does he, at least not yet.
So what do we do?
- Black site him?
- Jen.
I mean, this country's done it for less.
I'm gonna put him
under tight surveillance.
But if what we're all thinking is right,
it's not gonna do much good.
For now, at least.
Okay, but what if going
and talking to him today
just set the whole thing off?
How do you mean?
Well, like, so you and Magic,
you go and you talk to him
and he doesn't really understand why,
so he starts digging into Magic,
and he finds out all of this
secret stuff, and, eventually
[SNAPS FINGERS] Boom.
Ten years later, he's a part
of the program and he leaps.
Like did did we
just make this happen?
Ian, I can't tie my brain in pretzels
about what's gonna happen in the future.
We need to focus on the present
and get back to Ben and Addison
in the past.
♪
Our lives are so insane.
Yeah, I heard it.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Excuse me. Jason?
Jason? Jason.
Ben, he's over here.
Jason!
- Dad!
- Jason.
What are you doing here?
Jason, thank God you're okay.
I got here before the earthquake hit.
But Mr. Wheeler's still in there.
- We have to help him.
- I'll get him.
- You stay here.
- No. I'm coming with you.
Ben, if you go in that building,
Ziggy says there's only a 30%
chance of you making it out.
Listen to me, no matter what happens,
I need you to promise me you
won't go inside that building.
- Dad!
- Just promise me.
♪
Get out of the way! It's coming down!
♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa!
Ben, over here.
[POUNDS ON DOOR] Mr. Wheeler?
Mr. Wheeler?
Are you sure he's in there?
Right. Hologram.
He's inside.
He's just sitting there in shock.
[STRAINING]
Mr. Wheeler!
- John?
- Look at me.
What are you doing here?
There's no time to explain.
We need to go.
- Ben, we gotta go.
- No, no, it's my home.
I know, but this place is coming down.
No time to explain! I know!
I know, but come on! Okay.
Ben, look out!
Ben!
Ben. [OMINOUS MUSIC]
Ben!
Ben? I need you to wake up now.
John, I'll go for help.
Ian, how much time do we have?
The building's gonna
collapse in two minutes.
Ben, I can't lose you, not like this,
not when you're finally
starting to remember.
You need to wake up.
Ben, I know you can hear me.
Wake up.
Dad!
No, no, no.
You're not supposed to be here!
Dad! Dad, wake up!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Come on, kid.
- [STRAINING]
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Wake up.
[GASPS] Way to go, kid!
[COUGHING] [BUILDING CREAKING]
I told you not to come in here.
Mr. Wheeler said you were trapped.
I can't lift this beam by myself.
It's too heavy.
Ben, this building's coming down.
Okay. We're gonna push on three.
- Okay?
- Okay.
- Ready?
- One, two, three. Push!
[BOTH STRAINING]
♪
Yes.
[BEAM THUDS]
Jason, go, go, go!
Go, go! Keep moving!
Go, go!
Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop!
[ALL CLAMORING]
♪
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
It's good. You did good.
Yeah. It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
- No, don't be sorry.
- I'm sorry.
- You're safe now. You're safe.
You're okay. You're safe now.
♪
Everything's gonna be okay.
♪
Everything's gonna be okay from now on.
I'm sorry. I just missed this place.
I know. [DEVICE CHIMING]
- But you're all right now.
- This doesn't make any sense.
You you saved him.
You should've leaped.
Dad, what's wrong?
I thought saving you would be enough,
that you and your mom would fix things.
But you never did.
Are you kidding?
She doesn't care about me
or this family!
That's not true.
She's gonna divorce you, Dad.
I know.
And I get that you're angry with her
for moving you away from here
but she did it for you.
I know it's hard for you
to see right now,
but one day you will.
And trust me, when that day comes,
you don't want to look back
at this moment
wishing you had done things differently,
because that regret never goes away.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
Jason?
Hi, Mom.
Oh, I'm so glad you're all right.
♪
Thank you, John,
for bringing him back to me.
Well, he had a lot of help.
♪
I am so sorry how you
found out about your dad and I.
- I never wanted that.
- I know.
Dad told me about how
you helped those people.
Are you hurt?
♪
Nothing that can't be healed.
I love you, Mom.
I love you too, sweetheart.
♪
Ben?
♪
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
♪
[DEVICE CHIMES]
Ben, you did it.
Ziggy says that Jason
and Naomi reconcile,
and he goes on
to become a civil engineer.
He helps change the way buildings
are designed to withstand earthquakes.
His innovations have been credited
with saving thousands of lives.
♪
[PHONES RINGING]
♪
Ben, what are you doing?
The phones are working. It's 1989.
My mother is still alive.
I can call her.
Ben, it is against the rules.
I can't let you do that.
One
Ben.
Damn it. I can't remember the number.
You realize, you're about
to leap at any moment?
Addison, please. I have to call her.
♪
212-177-2350.
Thank you.
♪
[PHONE LINE TRILLING]
Hello?
Mom.
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
- You got a second?
- Of course. What's up?
Um, so you know how I figured out that
Ben was using gravitational navigation,
zig zagging his way through time,
sort of building up speed
from leap to leap
in order to get deep into the past?
Yes.
Well, after everything that
happened today with Leaper X
[CLEARS THROAT]
With Martinez, um,
it got me thinking that
maybe I was looking at the math wrong.
Okay.
I don't think that Ben
was trying to get to the past.
I think that Ben was trying
to leap into the future.
[SIGHS] That shouldn't be possible.
None of this should be possible, Magic.
I mean, everyone thinks
that something is impossible
until somebody comes around
and figures out that it isn't.
And maybe Ben figured it out.
He certainly is smart enough.
Well, if he did,
you're the only one smart enough
to figure out how and why.
- Get on it.
- [CHUCKLES] Okay.
♪
I'm sorry.
Yep.
I know I shouldn't have
given Ben the number, but
You kidding?
I would've done the same thing.
How are you holding up?
I'm okay. Ben is
He's different in there.
Different how?
Okay, Ben, old Ben, he was amazing.
Of course he was. I was gonna marry him.
But the Ben that's in there, he
He's more vulnerable,
more open, more free with his feelings,
in a way that
I'd always hoped we'd get to.
But it feels like I'm falling
even more in love with him.
Despite all of this.
Is that insane?
No.
It's beautiful.
♪
Hey, do you wanna get dinner,
maybe catch up on some "Housewives"?
- Yes and I guess so, for you.
- [CHUCKLES]
Those women have their hooks
in you, don't they?
- Maybe.
- [LAUGHS]
But before anything,
I got to call my mom.
That last leap did a number on me.
[CHUCKLES] Yes.
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
[DOG BARKING]
[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
[MYSTERIOUS ENERGETIC MUSIC]
♪
[EVIL LAUGHTER]
♪
Father Davenport, thank God.
I'm afraid it's gotten worse.
Please, come in.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING ON PHONOGRAPH]
♪
[MYSTERIOUS ENERGETIC MUSIC]
♪
[EVIL LAUGHTER]