- [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.
- Olivia Barrett Covington: Where's the other one?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: The other what?
- Olivia Barrett Covington: Whoever you were talking to.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: I'm right here, Scarlett. Oh, she's lovely. I always had a thing for girls from the Deep South.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: We did confirm your theory.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Really?
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Yeah. Uh, Ziggy says, it's a "genetic, uh, field transference". But the bottom line is that the DNA of John's blood sample does match yours. So, congratulations, you're a great-grandfather!
- Dr. Sam Beckett: This is amazing!
- Admiral Al Calavicci: I'll tell you what's amazing. Your great-grandmother's name just happened to be Olivia Covington... Beckett.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: No!
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Y-es!
- Dr. Sam Beckett: No, no, n...
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Your southern belle there is your sweetie, your bride-to-be, and your great-grandma all rolled in one. Ha-ha-ha!
- 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.
- Olivia Barrett Covington: You and I being so different and all, I... I was wondering whether a man like you could ever love a woman like me.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Well, I think... that a man like me is gonna love a woman like you very, very much.
- [Sam has leapt into Captain John Beckett, a soldier during the American Civil War]
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Al, there was a John Beckett in my family. And he fought in the Civil War. He... he was my great-grandfather. I'm my great-grandfather? My great-grandfather fought with the Union forces in the Civil War. His name was John Beckett. My dad was named after him.
- [he shows Al his written orders]
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Yeah, Captain John Beckett.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: That'd explain this. It's the only reason I can figure out why I could leap outside my own lifetime.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Must've been some kind of genetic transfer or something.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: [of Olivia] Oh. That's a hell of a woman.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Yeah, well, hell is one word I would use.