‘Quantum Leap’ Recap Season 1 Finale Episode 18: Did Ben Return Dwelling?

Massive questions loomed heading into Quantum Leap‘s Season 1 finale on Monday as Ben as soon as once more discovered himself leaping into the unknown.

This time, he landed on the L.A. headquarters within the 12 months 2051, which was left in ruins — together with Ziggy — after an apocalyptic occasion. Future Ian defined why precisely Martinez had gone after Addison within the first place.

Martinez was working for the U.S. authorities, who despatched him to kill Addison as a result of they blamed Quantum Leap for society’s collapse and seemed to cease her earlier than she might leap. In Ian’s future, they had been the final survivor of this system — everybody else had died.

Future Ian had been engaged on a fail-safe code, which Ben solely had seconds to memorize earlier than being pulled again into the previous. He landed in 2018… in his personal physique. That was the day that Martinez was presupposed to kill Addison, and it occurred to coincide along with her first date with Ben.

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The explanation Ben contacted Al’s daughter Janice was as a result of he wanted her assist programming the Quantum Leap accelerator to this actual date, permitting the scientist to leap into himself prior to now. He needed to tread fastidiously, although, as a result of if he altered his personal timeline in any method, he risked making a paradox, erasing somebody from historical past and even making it so he and Addison by no means fell in love.

Regardless of all of that, Ben nonetheless instructed Previous Addison that he was a time-traveler to avoid wasting her life now that Martinez, aka Leaper X, had popped up throughout city. There was no telling how this reveal would impression their futures, and Ben braced for a showdown with Martinez at HQ. There, he bumped into Previous Addison, who held him at gunpoint as a result of she suspected him to be the leaper despatched to kill her. Ben escaped, and Previous Jenn ordered a whole lockdown of the constructing, which trapped the group inside with Martinez.

By the point Ben realized Martinez leaped into Magic’s physique, Martinez was already a number of steps forward of him. Ben, nonetheless coping with reminiscence loss, did not reply the group’s questions on issues he ought to know, whereas Martinez rattled off the precise solutions with out breaking a sweat. This satisfied everybody that Ben was mendacity about who he was, and he was detained.

In his cell, Ben tried to warn Martinez that the federal government didn’t care about him and deliberate to depart him stranded prior to now. However Martinez already knew that and had prompt destroying Ziggy to make sure that the Quantum Leap mission was by no means resurrected once more. In addition to, he wasn’t going after simply Addison, he was focusing on the entire group.

As Previous Ian deciphered the code created by their future self, Current Day Jenn had Ben relay a secret code to her previous self — “Turtle Time,” a phrase created by RHONY’s Ramona Singer — which satisfied the others that Ben was telling the reality.

Ben and Martinez’s long-awaited struggle spilled into the accelerator, the pair had been despatched again to the mental asylum within the 12 months 1954 (from Episode 16), their final crossing level. As they exchanged blows, they had been then transported again aboard the U.S.S. Montana in 1989 (featured in Episode 14).

Ben relied on the boxing information he picked up in Episode 3 to fend off Martinez simply as they had been each despatched again to Salvation, the western city featured in Episode 5. After one other scuffle, Ben wound up on his knees with Martinez holding a gun to his head. Earlier than he might end the job, Martinez was shot useless by Frankie, the pleasant saloon proprietor.

Utilizing the concept of Quantum Entanglement — which states that two particles that share the identical expertise can’t be described independently of one another — Previous, Current and Future Ian united to enter the cheat code on the similar time. This code allowed Ben to leap to any level throughout that day, giving him an opportunity at a do-over. With Martinez useless, Ben leapt again to 2018 to get his date with Addison proper. However as a substitute of taking her out, he kissed her in entrance of everybody.

Instantly after that, Ben made his subsequent leap. The group braced for Ben to indicate up within the Quantum Leap accelerator, however the episode reduce off as a result of we might see his anticipated arrival. Did he make it house? That’s a query to be answered in Season 2, which is already filming.

What did you make of Quantum Leap’s Season 1 finale? Grade the episode beneath, after which share your ideas and predictions within the feedback. And don’t neglect to learn our interview with showrunner Martin Gero about that large finale twist.