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5	'''''Series/QuantumLeap'''''\
6	'''Season 4, Episode 8:'''
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8	! Dreams
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10	Written by Donald P. Bellisario & Deborah Pratt
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12	Directed by Anita W. Addison
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14	Airdate: November 13, 1991
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18	February 28, 1979
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20	Sam leaps into Detective Jack Stone, who is investigating a woman’s murder. He prevents the dead woman’s husband, Peter Decaro, from committing suicide. He then seeks information from her temporarily mute son and her therapist.
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22	!Tropes:
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24	* AloneWithThePsycho: Sam’s situation in the episode’s climax.
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26	* BeneathTheMask: Dr. Mason Crane, TheShrink, pretends to be a responsible and ethical professional, but his true self is far more disturbing.
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28	* CallBack: Sam mentions that previously he had mixed some of his personality with Al’s. He believes that on this leap, some of Detective Stone’s mind has mixed with his.
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30	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Seeing a dead body triggers the detective’s childhood memory.
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32	* EmotionControl: It’s implied that the therapist has worsened Peter Decaro’s depression and suicidal tendencies.
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34	* {{Flashback}}: We see Jack Stone as a young boy.
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36	* FreudianCouch: Dr. Crane insists Sam lie down for his therapy session.
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38	* LivingLieDetector: Dr. Crane instantly realizes that Sam isn’t fully telling the truth. He claims he can always tell.
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40	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Dr. Crane fell in “love” with his patient, then killed and mutilated her.
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42	* ManipulativeBastard: Dr. Mason Crane is manipulating his patients.
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44	* PastExperienceNightmare: Sam has nightmares from Det. Stone’s boyhood.
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46	* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Crane turns out to be an AxCrazy murderer.
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48	* SanitySlippage: Sam worries this is happening to him.
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