History Recap / QuantumLeapS2E10CatchAFallingStar

-->'''Sam''': How did you know it was me?
-->'''Nicole''': Did you think I could ever forget you, Ray?

-->'''Al''': (as Sam ascends up the stairs) You gonna be all right?
-->'''Sam''': (to Al) What matter wounds to the body of a knight-errant? For each time he falls, he shall rise again and woe to the wicked! Al!
-->'''Al''': (walking with Sam) Here, Your Grace!
-->'''Sam''': My armor, my sword.
-->'''Al''': More misadventures.
-->'''Sam''': Adventures, old friend.

* BrokenWinLossStreak: After Sam catches John, the latter is asked if he can still perform. John then decides (after it first looking like he still will) that "after 763 performances of Don Quixote, [he] shall... not sally forth tonight."

-->'''Sam''': (embarassed) I, uh... I can't believe some of the dumb things I did.
-->'''Nicole''': Aw, she probably thought you were adorable.
-->'''Sam''': I don't know what... she thought. She never embarrassed me by letting on that she knew. ...she was really great.

-->'''Al''': (singing) ''Chicks and dogs and pigs better scurry-''
-->'''Sam''': Ducks.
-->'''Al''': (singing) ''When I-'' (to Sam) Ducks?
-->'''Sam''': It's "ducks and geese", not "pigs and dogs".

-->'''Sam''': You were an actor?
-->'''Al''': Don't say it like it was a disease. Acting is the world's second-oldest profession. ...maybe the first... Yeah, prostitution could be considered kind of a performance. In fact, there's a lot of acting goes into a good...

-->'''Nicole''': What do you want of me?
-->'''Al''': What do you want of her? (holds up his book to Sam)
-->'''Sam''': Nothing.
-->'''Nicole''': Liar!
-->'''Al''': I'm with her.

-->'''Sam''': She was the first woman I ever loved.
-->'''Al''': How old were you?
-->'''Sam''': I was 15 when she left for New York. I wonder what she's doing in Syracuse.
-->'''Al''': [[DeadpanSnarker I bet a lot of people ask themselves that question.]]

-->'''Sam''': (sad; quietly playing piano) ''To right the unrightable wrong...''
-->'''Al''': What are you gonna do, Sam?
-->'''Sam''': ''To love pure and chaste from afar...'' (to Al) I don't know. ''To try...''
-->'''Al''': You're gonna save John from fallin' down the stairway.
-->'''Sam''': (bluntly) [[KickTheDog Let him break his neck.]]
-->'''Al''': Ya know, even if you don't save him, you could still leap.
-->'''Sam''': Who wants to stay?

* ActorAllusion: John O'Malley, the leading man of the theater production of ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'', is played by John Cullum, who actually ''did'' star in productions of the musical in real life.

* {{Mondegreen}}: After Al finds out that the guy Sam leapt into, Ray Hutton, once was in a production of ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'', it causes him to realize that was why he was humming one of the songs from it:

* FatalMethodActing: [[invoked]] Downplayed: In the original history, three days after Sam leapt in, John O'Malley showed up drunk to a benefit performance of ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' and wound up falling off of the stairs at the top of the stage. He broke his leg and hip, and as a result it killed his career.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Sam is tricked into thinking Nicole slept with John, he becomes dour, not particularly interested in preventing John's fall anymore.
-->'''Sam''': (sad; quietly playing piano) ''To right the unrightable wrong...''
-->'''Al''': What are you gonna do, Sam?
-->'''Sam''': ''To love pure and chaste from afar...'' (to Al) I don't know. ''To try...''
-->'''Al''': You're gonna save John from fallin' down the stairway.
-->'''Sam''': (bluntly) [[KickTheDog Let him break his neck.]]
-->'''Al''': Ya know, even if you don't save him, you could still leap.
-->'''Sam''': Who wants to stay?

* {{Mondegreen}}: After finding out that the guy Sam leapt into, Ray Hutton, once was in a production of ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'', it causes him to realize that was why he was humming one of the songs from it:

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nearly defied at the last moment: Michelle, jealous over Nicole beating her out for the part of Dulcinea, she ropes Manny into helping her trick Sam into thinking Nicole is sleeping with John. This breaks Sam's heart, prompting him to decide to let John break his leg the following night. And sure enough, at the start of the show, John arrives drunk and begins his way down the stairs... only to get caught by Sam at the last moment when he falls.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nearly defied at the last moment: Jealous over Nicole beating her out for the part of Dulcinea, she ropes Manny into helping her trick Sam into thinking Nicole is sleeping with John. This breaks Sam's heart, prompting him to decide to let John break his leg the following night. And sure enough, at the start of the show, John arrives drunk and begins his way down the stairs... only to get caught by Sam at the last moment when he falls.

* BrokenWinLossStreak: After Sam catches John, the latter is asked if he can still perform. John then decides (after it first looking like he still will) that "763 performances of Don Quixote, [he] shall... not sally forth tonight."

* ActorAllusion / TheDanza: John O'Malley, the leading man of the theater production of ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'', is played by John Cullum, who actually ''did'' star in productions of the musical in real life.