Quantum Leap (TV Series)

The Leap Between the States - September 20, 1862 (1993)

Michael D. Roberts: Isaac King

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• [last lines] 

  Isaac King : I've been thinking. Once I'm a free man, I'm gonna need a last name like everybody else.

  Olivia Barrett Covington : Got any ideas?

  Isaac King : Well, I considered Lincoln. Considered Covington, since I've been with y'all since I was a boy. I considered Beckett, to thank you for takin' me with you, sir.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, you don't have to thank me, Isaac, but I'm flattered.

  Isaac King : Most of all, I like the way I feels about bein' a free man. Makes a man feel like a king. So, if it ain't too uppity, I'd like to be called Isaac King.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Sam, you're not gonna believe this. Isaac here goes on to have a son named Emmanuel, and Emmanuel goes on to have a son...

  Dr. Sam Beckett : King?

  Isaac King : Something wrong with it?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : No, no, no, i-it's fine.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : And that son has a son - a very famous son: Martin Luther King.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I think that's a fine name, Isaac.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : [telling Isaac about future prospects]  In about two years, the North is gonna win this war. Things are gonna be bad for a while, but everything's gonna change. Blacks... Negroes are gonna get to vote. They're gonna get jobs, good jobs.

  Isaac : That's crazy talk.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : It's truth. I swear it, Isaac. It's gonna be a long, hard fight for schooling, and other equality. But believe me. There will come a time when everyone will have the same rights. Everyone will be free.

  Isaac : That ain't nothin' but a dream.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Believe in it, Isaac.