Leapee / Mirror Image :
Sam Beckett : Adam Affonso

Kiss With History : None.

Awards :
Emmy Winner: Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series : Jeremy Swan, Douglas D. Kelly, Gerald Quist &
Michael Mills
Writers Guild of America Nomination: Donald P. Bellsario

Quote :
Sam: "You're not old Dad, you look just the way I remember you."
John Beckett: "What, since you left for school this morning?"

Quantum Leaping's Rating : *****

As Sam leaps in, he is standing in the middle of a cornfield. He turns and sees a farm house. He runs to it as fast as he can. As Sam looks in the window on the door he sees the reflection of a 16-year-old boy. The door opens and Sam's mother is standing there. Sam is home as himself when he was 16 years old.

Sam is delighted to be again. He can now change his family's history, to right their wrongs. He can get his family to quit smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee, for in the original history his family died in 1974. He can lift his sister Katie's self esteem, before she marries an abusive alcoholic. Sam can also try to save his brother's Tom life before he heads back to Vietnam and is killed the following April.

This would all be brilliant except when Al turns up, he tells that this is not why he is here. He is here to win a basketball game that he lost in the original history. Sam refuses to believe this is why he is here and does his best to alter the Beckett Family history whilst he has a chance. No matter what Sam does, fate is always against him. Instead of bringing the family together, he is making them all miserable with the talk of their future and leaving them with a bad memory of Tom's final visit home. Sam is even thinking of throwing the basketball game so that he can stay with his family. Can Al help Sam see sense before he totally drives a wedge between his family and himself?

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