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* ABirthdayNotABreak: Variation: After Al informs him of the date, Sam pulls Hilla's information out of her purse and (bitterly) notes it was her 19th birthday.
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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: In "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS2E17GoodNightDearHeart Good Night, Dear Heart]]" Sam must discover the truth about the death of a beautiful young woman and determine whether she died by suicide or if she was murdered. After Al informs him of the date, Sam pulls the victim's ID out of her purse and realizes its her 19th birthday.
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* BlatantLies: Variation: Stephanie isn't lying when she says she doesn't believe Hilla committed suicide, but she ''is'' when she claims she doesn't know who could've murdered her.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After showing that the heel he found was capable of killing Hilla, Sam tries to get Stephanie to put it on (to show it matched ''her'' shoe size instead of Hilla's). Instead, Stephanie comes clean then and there about what happened.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: After Stephanie tries to claim that her heel ''couldn't'' have been used to kill Hilla, Sam promptly embeds the heel into the closet door, showing that it made a similar hole to the one in Hilla's head.
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* ExactWords: Towards the end of the episode, while showing the film of Hilla to everyone, Sam states the person who shot it killed Hilla. Greg, the guy who shot it, argues against it... until Sam mentions that he's referring to the part currently playing, the portion of the film that ''Stephanie'' shot.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed: This is a mystery episode where Sam is the town mortician, and the culprit turns out to be [[IfICantHaveYou a girl who had a massive crush on her]].
* DownerBeginning: When Sam leaps in, he's helping a police officer translate the German writing on the back of a gold locket. Then the cop mentions that the girl in the locket's photo must be "her"... prompting Sam to turn around and see a corpse on the table behind him, which is how he learns he leapt into a mortician.
* DownerBeginning: When Sam leaps in, he's helping a police officer translate the German writing on the back of a gold locket. Then the cop mentions that the girl in the locket's photo must be "her"... prompting Sam to turn around and see a corpse on the table behind him, which is how he learns he leapt into a mortician.
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Previous: Recap/QuantumLeapS2E16Freedom\\
Next: Recap/QuantumLeapS2E07PoolHallBlues]
'''''Series/QuantumLeap'''''\\
'''Season 2, Episode 17:'''
!Good Night, Dear Heart
->'''Al''': She could have shot herself.
->'''Sam''': Where's the gun?
->'''Al''': Maybe it fell into the lake.
->'''Sam''': No, I don't think so.
->'''Al''': Why not?
->'''Sam''': If Hilla committed suicide, I wouldn't be here. The only thing that makes sense is that I'm here to find out who murdered her.
Written by Paul Brown
Directed by Christopher T. Welch
Airdate: March 7, 1990.
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November 9, 1957
Sam leaps into a small-town medical examiner and must discover the truth about the death of a beautiful young woman. Did she commit suicide or was she murdered?
!Tropes:
* ArcWords: Hilla - “That’s what’s missing from my life: someone to love.”
* TheBabyTrap: Stephanie accuses Greg of inverting this trope to keep Hilla from leaving him.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Hilla went to the local hairdresser who performs illegal abortions on the sly. In the end, Hilla [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion didn’t go through with it]].
* CelebCrush: Discussed – Al asserts that since she’s a teenager in the 1950s, Hilla had to have a crush on either William Holden or James Dean. Al’s money is on William Holden. [[note]]Turns out Al’s right. ''Picnic'' is Hilla’s favorite movie, mostly because of Bill. [[/note]]
* EurekaMoment: When Sam is putting shoes on Hilla’s body, he suddenly realizes how she died and who killed her. (see ImprovisedWeapon below)
* ImprovisedWeapon: The fatal wound in Hilla’s temple was not caused by a bullet or an arrow. It was a high-heeled shoe.
* OrphansOrdeal and WarRefugees: Hilla had a rough childhood and just when things were starting to turn around, she was murdered.
* PsychoLesbian: When Hilla told Stephanie that she was leaving her, Stephanie snapped.
* RapeAsBackStory: Hilla
-->'''Greg''': Some of the things that Hillie tried to tell me make sense now. All that time she spent growing up in the displaced person camps after the war... she had to fight off men all the time, I even think she was raped. She said it was so bad that the only people she could let get close to her were women... and even ''that'' got confusing.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Hilla saw her and Stephanie’s relationship as this. Stephanie had a different view.
* TitleDrop: When Sam quotes from a Mark Twain book (see WrongfullyAttributed below)
* WrongfullyAttributed: The couplet Sam quotes was not actually written by Twain. He adapted it from an 1893 poem by Robert Richardson. [[note]] Twain had this engraved on his daughter’s tombstone and later had Richardson’s named added at the bottom when people kept crediting him and not the original author. [[/note]]
* YouLookFamiliar: W.K. Stratton (Sheriff Roundtree) previously appeared in the series pilot, '''Genesis'''.
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->'''Sam''': I found this book of Mark Twain in her room, I think it was her favorite. Twain wrote this when his daughter died: "Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. [[TitleDrop Good night, dear heart]], good night, good night."
Previous: Recap/QuantumLeapS2E16Freedom\\
Next: Recap/QuantumLeapS2E07PoolHallBlues]
'''''Series/QuantumLeap'''''\\
'''Season 2, Episode 17:'''
!Good Night, Dear Heart
->'''Al''': She could have shot herself.
->'''Sam''': Where's the gun?
->'''Al''': Maybe it fell into the lake.
->'''Sam''': No, I don't think so.
->'''Al''': Why not?
->'''Sam''': If Hilla committed suicide, I wouldn't be here. The only thing that makes sense is that I'm here to find out who murdered her.
Written by Paul Brown
Directed by Christopher T. Welch
Airdate: March 7, 1990.
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November 9, 1957
Sam leaps into a small-town medical examiner and must discover the truth about the death of a beautiful young woman. Did she commit suicide or was she murdered?
!Tropes:
* ArcWords: Hilla - “That’s what’s missing from my life: someone to love.”
* TheBabyTrap: Stephanie accuses Greg of inverting this trope to keep Hilla from leaving him.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Hilla went to the local hairdresser who performs illegal abortions on the sly. In the end, Hilla [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion didn’t go through with it]].
* CelebCrush: Discussed – Al asserts that since she’s a teenager in the 1950s, Hilla had to have a crush on either William Holden or James Dean. Al’s money is on William Holden. [[note]]Turns out Al’s right. ''Picnic'' is Hilla’s favorite movie, mostly because of Bill. [[/note]]
* EurekaMoment: When Sam is putting shoes on Hilla’s body, he suddenly realizes how she died and who killed her. (see ImprovisedWeapon below)
* ImprovisedWeapon: The fatal wound in Hilla’s temple was not caused by a bullet or an arrow. It was a high-heeled shoe.
* OrphansOrdeal and WarRefugees: Hilla had a rough childhood and just when things were starting to turn around, she was murdered.
* PsychoLesbian: When Hilla told Stephanie that she was leaving her, Stephanie snapped.
* RapeAsBackStory: Hilla
-->'''Greg''': Some of the things that Hillie tried to tell me make sense now. All that time she spent growing up in the displaced person camps after the war... she had to fight off men all the time, I even think she was raped. She said it was so bad that the only people she could let get close to her were women... and even ''that'' got confusing.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Hilla saw her and Stephanie’s relationship as this. Stephanie had a different view.
* TitleDrop: When Sam quotes from a Mark Twain book (see WrongfullyAttributed below)
* WrongfullyAttributed: The couplet Sam quotes was not actually written by Twain. He adapted it from an 1893 poem by Robert Richardson. [[note]] Twain had this engraved on his daughter’s tombstone and later had Richardson’s named added at the bottom when people kept crediting him and not the original author. [[/note]]
* YouLookFamiliar: W.K. Stratton (Sheriff Roundtree) previously appeared in the series pilot, '''Genesis'''.
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->'''Sam''': I found this book of Mark Twain in her room, I think it was her favorite. Twain wrote this when his daughter died: "Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. [[TitleDrop Good night, dear heart]], good night, good night."
