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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Throughout the series, we have known Sam as the scrupulously moral women’s rights advocate. Watching abuse Marina and the prostitute shows us how deeply he is loosing control.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Throughout the series, we have known Sam as the '''the''' scrupulously moral women’s rights advocate. Watching abuse Marina and the prostitute shows us how deeply he is loosing losing control.
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->'''Al''': Don’t you remember all the conspiracy books and the movies?
-> '''Sam''': No. [[ChekhovsClassroom But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday.]] I was ten and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house. All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us. She ran up right to the fence and she was yelling and we thought it was because of what we were doing. But then she told us that the president had just been shot.
-> '''Sam''': No. [[ChekhovsClassroom But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday.]] I was ten and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house. All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us. She ran up right to the fence and she was yelling and we thought it was because of what we were doing. But then she told us that the president had just been shot.
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->'''Al''': Don’t you remember all the conspiracy books and the movies?
->movies?\\
'''Sam''': No. [[ChekhovsClassroom But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday.]] I was ten and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house. All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us. She ran up right to the fence and she was yelling and we thought it was because of what we were doing. But then she told us that the president had just been shot.
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'''Sam''': No. [[ChekhovsClassroom But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday.]] I was ten and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house. All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us. She ran up right to the fence and she was yelling and we thought it was because of what we were doing. But then she told us that the president had just been shot.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Are you really surprised Sam can't save JFK in the end?
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Are you really surprised Sam can't save JFK in the end?
* ForegoneConclusion: You should already know that Sam isn't going to save JFK. He saves Jackie instead.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: It isn't shown (due to the fact that the episode doesn't show Sam leap into said event), but Al mentions how Marina locked Oswald in the bathroom when Nixon visited Dallas shortly after he tried killing General Walker.
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-->'''Gooshie''': What, one guy?
-->'''Al''': Yeah, one guy. And we tell ourselves it was a conspiracy because it's easier! Because if one lone nutcase can knock off the most powerful man in the world, how safe are any of us?
-->'''Al''': Yeah, one guy. And we tell ourselves it was a conspiracy because it's easier! Because if one lone nutcase can knock off the most powerful man in the world, how safe are any of us?
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-->'''Gooshie''': What, one guy?
-->'''Al''':guy?\\
'''Al''': Yeah, one guy. And we tell ourselves it was a conspiracy because it's easier! Because if one lone nutcase can knock off the most powerful man in the world, how safe are any ofus?us?
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: It isn't shown (due to the fact that the episode doesn't show Sam leap into said event), but Al mentions how Marina locked Oswald in the bathroom when Nixon visited Dallas shortly after he tried killing General Walker.
-->'''Al''':
'''Al''': Yeah, one guy. And we tell ourselves it was a conspiracy because it's easier! Because if one lone nutcase can knock off the most powerful man in the world, how safe are any of
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: It isn't shown (due to the fact that the episode doesn't show Sam leap into said event), but Al mentions how Marina locked Oswald in the bathroom when Nixon visited Dallas shortly after he tried killing General Walker.
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--->'''Oswald''': I'm not gonna shoot the president. But... I know who is.
--->'''Al''': Who?
--->'''Oswald''': Hidell. The guy who ordered the guns through the mail. He's the one who- [[FightingFromTheInside (in Sam's voice) I'm lying, Al.]]
--->'''Al''': Who?
--->'''Oswald''': Hidell. The guy who ordered the guns through the mail. He's the one who- [[FightingFromTheInside (in Sam's voice) I'm lying, Al.]]
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--->'''Oswald''': I'm not gonna shoot the president. But... I know who is.
--->'''Al''': Who?
--->'''Oswald''':is.\\
'''Al''': Who?\\
'''Oswald''': Hidell. The guy who ordered the guns through the mail. He's the one who- [[FightingFromTheInside (in Sam's voice) I'm lying, Al.]]
--->'''Al''': Who?
--->'''Oswald''':
'''Al''': Who?\\
'''Oswald''': Hidell. The guy who ordered the guns through the mail. He's the one who- [[FightingFromTheInside (in Sam's voice) I'm lying, Al.]]
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->'''Al''': You’re going to shoot the president from the sixth floor window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository.
-> '''Oswald''': You’re crazy!
->'''Al''': You’re damn right I’m crazy. (pulls out a gun) I’m crazy enough to blow your brains out through your ear if I don’t get the truth!
-> '''Oswald''': You’re crazy!
->'''Al''': You’re damn right I’m crazy. (pulls out a gun) I’m crazy enough to blow your brains out through your ear if I don’t get the truth!
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->'''Al''': You’re going to shoot the president from the sixth floor window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository.
->Depository.\\
'''Oswald''': You’recrazy!
->'''Al''':crazy!\\
'''Al''': You’re damn right I’m crazy. (pulls out a gun) I’m crazy enough to blow your brains out through your ear if I don’t get the truth!
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'''Al''': You’re damn right I’m crazy. (pulls out a gun) I’m crazy enough to blow your brains out through your ear if I don’t get the truth!
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[CaptainObvious If you couldn't tell,]] [[ForegoneConclusion JFK dies.]] And because the episode doesn't cover Oswald's ''own'' death at the hands of Jack Ruby, the only saving grace we have is that [[ProphecyTwist Jackie was spared.]]
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That's a really severe stretch, one I can't find in myself to justify keeping.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: It's not immediately obvious from the leap-in segment what's so "Oh boy..." about this particular situation - standing in a garden, posing for an only mildly sinister photo - but on the second run-through, it's apparent that this leap ''feels'' different and wrong for Sam right away, hence his reaction. By the time we see him [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness slap]] Marina [[DisproportionateRetribution over the mildest of slights]], we know who the leapee is and that [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Sam can't possibly be in the driving seat.]]
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Note: This double episode dispensed with the "leap out" scenes that tease the upcoming next episode.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Throughout the series, we have known Sam as the scrupulously moral women’s rights advocate. Watching abuse Marina and the prostitute shows us how deeply he is loosing control.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: This is the only episode of ''Quantum Leap'' to contain an opening disclaimer, which is Bellisario's way of saying what happened in Lee Harvey Oswald's life was very real, and he's simply using ''Quantum Leap'' as a way to tell that story.
-->''The following story is based upon the known evidence and established facts collected in the three decades since the JFK assassination.''
-->''The following story is based upon the known evidence and established facts collected in the three decades since the JFK assassination.''
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** Al starts into a story about when he and Chip were on liberty in Japan. We met Chip in [[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E22ALeapForLisa the previous episode]].
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* CreatorCameo: The Marine who questions Lee Harvey Oswald about ''why'' Oswald is intentionally reading Communist propaganda is the producer Donald Bellisario (played by an actor). [[http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-22/entertainment/ca-1147_1_lone-gunman-theory He served on the same overseas base with Oswald and remembered getting into an argument with Oswald]].
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* CreatorCameo: The Marine who questions Lee Harvey Oswald about ''why'' Oswald is intentionally reading Communist propaganda is the producer Donald Bellisario (played by an actor). [[http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-22/entertainment/ca-1147_1_lone-gunman-theory He served on the same overseas California base with Oswald and remembered getting into an argument with Oswald]].
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* FemmeFataleSpy: Al assumes this of Mariska, the Russian hooker Oswald has been seeing in Japan in 1957, positing that she could be Oswald's connection to the KGB. [[SubvertedTrope She's not]], though -- she's simply a hooker who has been sleeping with Oswald and teaching him how to speak Russian.
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** When in Russia, worried about how much information about [=U2=] he gave to the Russians as Oswald, Sam becomes convinced that he had leapt into this point to [[https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Honeymoon_Express_(episode) (once again)]] prevent the [=U2=] incident.
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** When in Russia, worried about how much information about [=U2=] he gave to the Russians as Oswald, Sam becomes convinced that he had leapt into this point to [[https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Honeymoon_Express_(episode) [[Recap/QuantumLeapS2E01HoneymoonExpress (once again)]] prevent the [=U2=] incident.
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* CreatorCameo: The Marine who questions Lee Harvey Oswald about ''why'' Oswald is intentionally reading Communist propaganda is the producer Donald Bellisario. [[http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-22/entertainment/ca-1147_1_lone-gunman-theory He served on the same overseas base with Oswald and remembered getting into an argument with Oswald]].
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* CreatorCameo: The Marine who questions Lee Harvey Oswald about ''why'' Oswald is intentionally reading Communist propaganda is the producer Donald Bellisario.Bellisario (played by an actor). [[http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-22/entertainment/ca-1147_1_lone-gunman-theory He served on the same overseas base with Oswald and remembered getting into an argument with Oswald]].
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* {{Futureshadowing}}: A variation; during a discussion in the Waiting Room with 1957 Oswald, Al makes reference to his time as a POW in Vietnam. Oswald, who has no idea what he's talking about -- and thanks to Jack Ruby, ultimately never would -- is confused.
-->'''Oswald:''' You don't know your [[Creator/KarlMarx Marx]], do you?\\
'''Al:''' ''[seething]'' After six years in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Hilton Hanoi Hilton]], I tend to repress it.\\
'''Oswald:''' Where?\\
'''Al:''' That's where I was held as a prisoner of war. And where they didn't give a damn about the Geneva Convention.
-->'''Oswald:''' You don't know your [[Creator/KarlMarx Marx]], do you?\\
'''Al:''' ''[seething]'' After six years in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Hilton Hanoi Hilton]], I tend to repress it.\\
'''Oswald:''' Where?\\
'''Al:''' That's where I was held as a prisoner of war. And where they didn't give a damn about the Geneva Convention.
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* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Sam's actions gets progressively worse with Oswald's mind psycho-synergizing with his, not helped by the Project shoving Oswald into the accelerator in a misguided attempt to untangle their neurons and mesons. It's just ''very narrowly'' averted when Sam is in the book depository squaring up the shot, and Al breaks through to him, causing him to snap out of it long enough to leap into Special Agent Clint Hill.
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* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Sam's actions gets get progressively worse with Oswald's mind psycho-synergizing with his, not helped by the Project shoving Oswald into the accelerator in a misguided attempt to untangle their neurons and mesons. It's just ''very narrowly'' averted when Sam is in the book depository squaring up the shot, and Al breaks through to him, causing him to snap out of it long enough to leap into Special Agent Clint Hill.
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* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Sam's actions gets progressively worse with Oswald's mind psycho-synergizing with his, not helped by the Project shoving Oswald into the accelerator in a misguided attempt to untangle their neurons and mesons. It's just ''very narrowly'' averted when Sam is in the book depository squaring up the shot, and Al breaks through to him, causing him to snap out of it long enough to leap into Special Agent Clint Hill.
-->'''Sam:''' If you hadn't reached me...I would've shot--\\
'''Al:''' It wouldn't have been you pulling that trigger, Sam. Not really.
-->'''Sam:''' If you hadn't reached me...I would've shot--\\
'''Al:''' It wouldn't have been you pulling that trigger, Sam. Not really.
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* ControllableHelplessness: The second Oswald leaps back in and starts taking his shots, Al tries in vain to stop him ''somehow'', despite being a hologram.
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* TragicIntangibility: The second Oswald leaps back in and starts taking his shots, Al tries in vain to stop him ''somehow'', despite being a hologram.
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* CelebrityCasualty: In the original history, Jackie Kennedy was also assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The episode was made two years prior to her real death.
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* ContinuityNod: When in Russia, worried about how much information about [=U2=] he gave to the Russians as Oswald, Sam becomes convinced that he had leapt into this point to [[https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Honeymoon_Express_(episode) (once again)]] prevent the [=U2=] incident.
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** When in Russia, worried about how much information about [=U2=] he gave to the Russians as Oswald, Sam becomes convinced that he had leapt into this point to [[https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Honeymoon_Express_(episode) (once again)]] prevent the [=U2=]incident.incident.
** As in [[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E22ALeapForLisa the previous episode]], the leapee is put in the accelerator; this time, to untangle Oswald's and Sam's minds. But Sam points out that individual mesons and neurons can't be leapt without drawing surrounding particles, so this actually [[NiceJobBreakingItHero merged their minds even more]].
** When in Russia, worried about how much information about [=U2=] he gave to the Russians as Oswald, Sam becomes convinced that he had leapt into this point to [[https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Honeymoon_Express_(episode) (once again)]] prevent the [=U2=]
** As in [[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E22ALeapForLisa the previous episode]], the leapee is put in the accelerator; this time, to untangle Oswald's and Sam's minds. But Sam points out that individual mesons and neurons can't be leapt without drawing surrounding particles, so this actually [[NiceJobBreakingItHero merged their minds even more]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Throughout the two-parter, neither Sam, Al, or Gooshie say who Oswald killed in Dallas[[note]]only referring to "stopping Oswald" and "the assassination"[[/note]], to preserve the TwistEnding.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Al when he tries to convince Sam that he and Oswald are not merging.
--> '''Al:''' Oswald didn't leave a little anything in you, Sam. When you leap into someone, you're still Dr. Sam Beckett, with your personality, and your knowledge, and you... [[ExplainExplainOhCrap where'd you learn to field strip an M1]]?\\
'''Sam:''' I didn't.
--> '''Al:''' Oswald didn't leave a little anything in you, Sam. When you leap into someone, you're still Dr. Sam Beckett, with your personality, and your knowledge, and you... [[ExplainExplainOhCrap where'd you learn to field strip an M1]]?\\
'''Sam:''' I didn't.
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* CallBack: During Sam's very first leaps, he was preoccupied by the thought that his father was still alive at these points in time.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Almost. Under orders from Ziggy not to mess up this bit of the timeline, Al tries to persuade Sam to replicate Oswald's suicide attempt, but Sam [[FightingFromTheInside can't bring himself to do it]]. As the last moment approaches and he's wavering, [[JustInTime he leaps]] further on in time.
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* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: With a twist. Al reminds Sam that his long dead father is still alive in 1963 and spending time with his ten-year-old self.
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* ManlyTears: Sam in the hospital, once it's all over.
* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: With a twist. Al reminds Sam that hislong dead long-dead father is still alive in 1963 and spending time with his ten-year-old self.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: It's not immediately obvious from the leap-in segment what's so "Oh boy..." about this particular situation - standing in a garden, posing for an only mildly sinister photo - but on the second run-through, it's apparent that this leap ''feels'' different and wrong for Sam right away, hence his reaction. By the time we see him [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness slap]] Marina [[DisproportionateRetribution over the mildest of slights]], we know who the leapee is and that [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Sam can't possibly be in the driving seat.]]
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Sam leaps into a real historical figure for the first time in the series. And while this won't be the last, this is also the ''only'' time he leaps into the same person throughout multiple points in their life in the same (albeit two-part) episode.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Sam leaps into a real historical figure for the first time in the series. And while this won't be the last, this is also the ''only'' time he leaps into the same person throughout multiple points in their life in the same (albeit two-part) episode.
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** Extremely downplayed: it is extremely apparently watching both back to back that they had to reshoot the leap-in segment from the end of "A Leap for Lisa"; not only is Oswald's wife played by a different actress, but she's wearing a completely different outfit (along with the absence of a head scarf). Also, Sam had leapt in ''prior'' to the rifle photo being taken in the "A Leap for Lisa" segment, but the episode proper has him leap in ''after''.
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* AlternateHistory: Variation: By the end of the two-parter, it's revealed that (in the original timeline of the show) Oswald had killed ''both'' Kennedys that day in Dallas, not just JFK.
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: With minutes to go before Sam shoots Kennedy, Al goes into the Waiting Room to interrogate Oswald one last time about if he's acting alone, before pulling a pistol out of his pocket and threatening to blow his brains out. He actually ''does'' fire at one point, but past his ear to get him to talk.
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* ChekhovsGun: Sam mentioning that his father was teaching him to drive a tractor when he learned of the assassination.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Not only is it revealed that Al thinks there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy (a notion he grows to abandon as the two-parter progresses), but it's suggested that both Gooshie and Ziggy did as well.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: It isn't shown (due to the fact that the episode doesn't show Sam leap into said event), but Al mentions how Marina locked Oswald in the bathroom when Nixon visited Dallas shortly after he tried killing General Walker.
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--->'''Al''': Your Swiss-cheese mind probably doesn’t remember, but the first time, Oswald killed Jackie, too.
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--->'''Al''': Your Swiss-cheese mind probably doesn’t remember, [[CloseEnoughTimeline but the first time, Oswald killed Jackie, too.]]
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* JustInTime: Zig-zagged: it appears that Al managed to ''finally'' get through to Sam to prevent him from shooting JFK... and then Sam abruptly leaps out, causing Oswald to take the shot. ''However'', Sam instantly finds himself in a Secret Service agent, and the second the shot rings out, he jumps onto JFK's car and winds up protecting ''Jackie'' Kennedy, [[BittersweetEnding the person he was meant to save]].
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* JustInTime: Zig-zagged: it appears that Al managed to ''finally'' get through to Sam to prevent him from shooting JFK... and then Sam abruptly leaps out, causing Oswald to take the shot. ''However'', Sam instantly finds himself in a Secret Service agent, agent Clint Hill, and the second the shot rings out, he jumps onto JFK's car and winds up protecting ''Jackie'' Kennedy, [[BittersweetEnding the person he was meant to save]].
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** Extremely downplayed: it is extremely apparently watching both back to back that they had to reshoot the leap-in segment from the end of "A Leap for Lisa"; not only is Oswald's wife played by a different actress, but she's wearing a completely different outfit (along with the absence of a head scarf).
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* BittersweetEnding: Sam can't stop Oswald from shooting UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, but he is able to prevent Oswald from shooting Jackie. It's implied her death alongside Jack's would have sent the entire nation past a DespairEventHorizon, and that ''she'' is who Sam was meant to save in Dallas. Instead, the episode ends with a montage of Jackie leading the nation through mourning.
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* BittersweetEnding: Sam can't stop Oswald from shooting UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, but he is able to prevent Oswald from shooting Jackie. It's implied her death alongside Jack's would have sent the entire nation past a DespairEventHorizon, and that ''she'' is who Sam was meant to save in Dallas. Instead, As such, the episode ends with a montage of Jackie leading the nation through mourning.
