Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Star Light, Star Bright - May 21, 1966 (1992)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Max Stoddard

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• Dr. Sam Beckett : [as Max]  You know, uh... I really would like to talk to you, but I've... I've-I've had a very busy day.

  Dr. Hardy : I'm surprised. Our sources told us you'd be... more than willing to cooperate.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Sources, what... what sources? You've been checking up on me?

  Major Irwin Meadows : We just want your cooperation.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : You do?

  Major Irwin Meadows : Yes, sir.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, that's what I want, your cooperation. I'd like to know a little something about Project Blue Book.

  Dr. Hardy : That's classified information, Mr. Stoddard. But if your testimony turns out the way we expect it will, we might be able to influence our superiors to share a summary with you.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : Your name is Maxwell Stoddard, you're 79 years old and you're convinced that you've been seeing U.F.O.s.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I did see one.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Uh, yeah. But see, that's what happens to you, Sam. Ziggy says your memory is Swiss-cheesed with the real Mr. Stoddard, who, by the way right now, is in the waiting room, and he thinks he's on his way to Venus.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Guy must be terrified.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Au contraire. He's in heaven. He keeps fingering our clothes. He wants to know what we eat. You know what he says to me? He says, he says, "Take me to your leader." So I turned him over to Gushie. Told him he was the king of the planet Halitosis.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : You ever hear of Jimi Hendrix?

  Tim Stoddard : Who's he? Some old big-band guy?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [laughs]  No, not actually. If you ever get a chance to hear him play, you c... Wait. You will actually - within the year.

  Tim Stoddard : Yeah? Where's he playing?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Woodstock.

  Tim Stoddard : [laughs]  Oh, right. There's nothing up there but farms, Pop. Who's gonna listen, the cows?

• [Sam is playing on Tim's guitar Jimi Hendrix-style] 

  John Stoddard : What the hell is this?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Uh... Uh, just a little, uh, dem-demonstration.

  John Stoddard : Of what? A cat in a garbage disposal?

• [Sam has told Tim about the future drug-related demise of musicians like Hendrix, Joplin etc] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I know this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But... if you run off to New York City, whatever you're gonna do, a-and I'm not around to help you, I want you to remember this conversation. Okay? And remember those people's names. And if you start gettin' into drugs, okay, not just grass, but into heavy drugs and stuff like that, you look at those people, you look what happened in their lives; and you remember that we had this talk.

• Tim Stoddard : Pop? You are the original space cadet.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [chuckles]  If you only knew.

• Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, you're not being objective.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I'm a scientist.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Scientists are objective. You're not being objective.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Are you kidding? If all scientists were objective, we wouldn't have the lightbulb. I mean, we never would have even landed on the moon.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : This is '66. You got three years before you go to the moon.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : And I would not be traveling around in time. You gotta have the dream first, Al. Great scientists are never objective, and that's why people always think that they're loony. Which is exactly what they think about Max.