Quantum Leap/Revenge of the Evil Leaper (2)

Revenge of the Evil Leaper
Season 5, Episode 17
Airdate	February 23, 1993
Production Number	68125
Written by	Deborah Pratt
Directed by	Debbie Allen
← 5x16 Return of the Evil Leaper (1)	5x18 → Goodbye Norma Jean
Quantum Leap — Season Five

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Revenge of the Evil Leaper is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of Quantum Leap, and the ninety-second episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Renée Coleman (Alia), Carolyn Seymour (Zoey), Hinton Battle (Thames), Rosana DeSoto (Fiddler), Katherine Cortez (Sophie), Maggie Roswell (Masterson), Sam Scarber (Warden Myers)

and Barbara Montgomery (Vivian)

Co-Starring: Cynthia Steele (Liz Tate), Laura O'Loughlin (Angel)

Uncredited: Deborah Pratt (Narrator)

Plot Overview

Sam and Alia make the leap together and into a women's prison. In addition to finding out why he's there, Sam must keep Alia safe from Zoey who has leaped in herself to find them.

Notes

Leap Date

• September 16, 1987

Location

• Mallard, Ohio

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Sam hypnotises Alia into believing she's the person she leaped into in order to prevent her project's supercomputer from zeroing in on her as it would alter her brainwaves. This works and Zoey is leaped in with an observer of her own. She finds Sam when she touches him and they both see each other's real self. This leads Zoey to shoot Alia, causing her to leap out and the person she leaped into returns. Sam then shoots Zoey, causing her to leap out (taking her observer with her) and the other to return. Al tells Sam that they don't know where Alia is, but assured him that she's free.

Referbacks

• When Sam suggests hypnosis on Alia, Al is reminded of the events of "Shock Theater" when Sam got lost in past personas, causing Project Quantum Leap to struggle to maintain contact with him.

Trivia

The Show

• This is furthest into the present Sam leaps.

Behind the Scenes

• Originally aired with "Return of the Evil Leaper" as a double-length episode. This is why it replays much of that episode's tag into the first act.

• Thames has a different handlink than the one Zoey had, even though it specified to the same in the script.

Goofs

• Al refers to Ziggy as a "he".

• Just before the shot ends of Sam and Alia moving along the stream, a crew member's hand with something in briefly comes into view in the left hand corner of the screen.