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* In "Deliver Us from Evil", it is viscerally upsetting to watch Frank [=LaMotta=] beat Sam, especially given Sam's previous experience with the [=LaMotta=] family, his earlier narration about loving them like his own family, and the fact that Frank is doing this to someone who he believes is his own mentally-handicapped brother.
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--->'''Al:''' ''[pointing to his head]'' Up here, I was always free.
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--->'''Sam''' (anguished)" You could have been FREE!"
--->'''Al:''' ''[pointing to his head]'' I WAS free. Up here, I was always free.
--->'''Al:''' ''[pointing to his head]'' I WAS free. Up here, I was always free.
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* In "Shock Theater," an electroshock treatment in 1954 causes Sam to shift through the personalities of former leapees like Samantha Stormer, Jesse Tyler, Herbert "Magic" Williams, Tom Stratton, "Kid" Cody, and Jimmy [=LaMotta=] -- all of which have panic attacks whenever electroshock is mentioned. It's the closest we come to meeting all of these leapees[[note]]That is, until we properly meet an older Magic in [[Series/QuantumLeap2022 the sequel series]][[/note]], but Sam-as-Jimmy is easily the most heartbreaking -- mentally he is a childlike, kind-hearted young man with Down Syndrome stuck in a 1954 mental institution, and he ends the episode extremely frightened as he tearfully begs the nurse to shock him again so that Sam can recover and leap.
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* In "Shock Theater," an electroshock treatment in 1954 causes Sam to shift through the personalities of former leapees like Samantha Stormer, Jesse Tyler, Herbert "Magic" Williams, Tom Stratton, "Kid" Cody, and Jimmy [=LaMotta=] -- all of which have panic attacks whenever electroshock is mentioned. It's the closest we come to meeting all of these leapees[[note]]That is, until we properly meet an older Magic in [[Series/QuantumLeap2022 the sequel series]][[/note]], but Sam-as-Jimmy is easily the most heartbreaking -- mentally he is a childlike, kind-hearted young man with Down Syndrome stuck in a 1954 mental institution, and he ends the episode extremely frightened as he tearfully begs Al not to leave him, and begs the nurse to shock him again so that Sam can recover and leap.
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** Retroactively, if you have watched [[Series/QuantumLeap2022 the sequel series]], it's very gut-wrenching to see Sam-as-Magic freaking out when he thinks he's been captured by the Viet Cong, given how kindhearted and level-headed Magic is in 2022. Al, who spent much of the war as a POW, instinctively and grimly recognizes the cries of "VC, SIR! VC!" and knows to tell Sam-as-Magic to provide his name, rank, and serial number to get him to calm down.
** Speaking of Al, he spends the episode [[TragicIntangibility helplessly]] watching Sam cycle through these personalities while the holographic connection fizzles in and out. By the end, as he is fading out, he is ''screaming'' through tears at the nurse to shock Sam.
** Speaking of Al, he spends the episode [[TragicIntangibility helplessly]] watching Sam cycle through these personalities while the holographic connection fizzles in and out. By the end, as he is fading out, he is ''screaming'' through tears at the nurse to shock Sam.
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* In "A Leap for Lisa," Al realizes which night it is, and frantically asks Gushie to center him on Lisa, who he helplessly watches die in the car accident she'd been fated to die in. Even when Sam apologizes for having asked Lisa not to be his alibi since he'd thought the affair might ruin both Lisa and Bingo's careers, Al is more relieved that no one is going to gossip over Lisa's grave this time.
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** For extra resonance, Sam's beloved little sister [[NamesTheSame is also named Katie]]. He's already tried and failed to protect her from an abusive future husband .
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** For extra resonance, Sam's beloved little sister [[NamesTheSame is also named Katie]]. Katie. He's already tried and failed to protect her from an abusive future husband .husband.
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* In "Shock Theater," an electroshock treatment in 1954 causes Sam to shift through the personalities of former leapees like Samantha Stormer, Jesse Tyler, Herbert "Magic" Johnson, Tom Stratton, "Kid" Cody, and Jimmy [=LaMotta=] -- all of which have panic attacks whenever electroshock is mentioned. It's the closest we come to meeting all of these leapees[[note]]That is, until we properly meet an older Magic in [[Series/QuantumLeap2022 the sequel series]][[/note]], but Sam-as-Jimmy is easily the most heartbreaking -- mentally he is a childlike, kind-hearted young man with Down Syndrome stuck in a 1954 mental institution, and he ends the episode extremely frightened as he tearfully begs the nurse to shock him again so that Sam can recover and leap.
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* In "Shock Theater," an electroshock treatment in 1954 causes Sam to shift through the personalities of former leapees like Samantha Stormer, Jesse Tyler, Herbert "Magic" Johnson, Williams, Tom Stratton, "Kid" Cody, and Jimmy [=LaMotta=] -- all of which have panic attacks whenever electroshock is mentioned. It's the closest we come to meeting all of these leapees[[note]]That is, until we properly meet an older Magic in [[Series/QuantumLeap2022 the sequel series]][[/note]], but Sam-as-Jimmy is easily the most heartbreaking -- mentally he is a childlike, kind-hearted young man with Down Syndrome stuck in a 1954 mental institution, and he ends the episode extremely frightened as he tearfully begs the nurse to shock him again so that Sam can recover and leap.
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* During "Animal Frat", after getting into a fight with Elizabeth and Duck in the library over their methods of stopping the war in Vietnam, Sam shoots down the accusations that he doesn't actually care by letting it slip that he lost his brother due to the war. [[{{Jerkass}} Duck then promptly states]] [[KickTheDog "Well, maybe you should've cared just a little more about him before he went!"]], causing Sam to almost breakdown then and there.
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* During "Animal Frat", after getting into a fight with Elizabeth and Duck in the library over their methods of stopping the war in Vietnam, Sam shoots down the accusations that he doesn't actually care by letting it slip that he lost his brother due to the war. [[{{Jerkass}} Duck then promptly states]] [[KickTheDog "Well, maybe you should've cared just a little more about him before he went!"]], causing Sam to almost breakdown break down then and there.
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** Al then (reluctantly) reveals that Tom died in Vietnam, and admits "[[AwfulTruth That's one part of [Sam's] memory [he] was hoping [he] wouldn't get back.]]"
