Quantum Leap/Trilogy (1)

Trilogy (1)
Season 5, Episode 8
Airdate	November 17, 1992
Production Number	68105
Written by	Deborah Pratt
Directed by	James Whitmore, Jr.
← 5x07 Deliver Us from Evil	5x09 → Trilogy (2)
Quantum Leap — Season Five

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Trilogy (1) (also subtitled One Little Heart) is the eighth episode of the fifth season of Quantum Leap, and the eighty-third episode overall.

Starring: Scott Bakula (Sam Beckett)

Starring: Dean Stockwell (The Observer)

Guest Starring: Mary Gordon Murray (Leta Aider), Max Wright (Doc Kinman), Stephen Lee (Deputy Sheriff Bo Loman), Fran Bennett (Marie Billings), Travis Fine (Will Kinman), Kimberly Cullum (Abigail Fuller)

Special Guest: Meg Foster (Laura Fuller)

Co-Starring: W.K. Stratton (Stanton)

Uncredited: Deborah Pratt (Narrator), James Whitmore, Jr. (Clayton Fuller), Heather Lauren Olson (Violet)

Plot Overview

Sam is the sheriff of a Louisiana town who has just recovered a dead man from the river. He becomes concerned when he discovers his daughter was the last person to see both the man and his daughter alive.

Notes

Leap Date

• August 8, 1955

Location

• Potterville, Louisiana

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Abigail Fuller confesses to Sam that Violet Aider was taunting her about being poor after intentionally buying the lockett she had been saving up for. She then attacked her, bloodying her nose before Violet left to tell her mother. That was the last anyone saw her, but Abigail denies killing her. Violet's sweater was found torn and bloody. Assumed to be killed by wild dogs, Clayton Fuller closed the investigation.

• Abigail's grandmother killed her all her children by slitting their throats before doing the same to herself. Laura, Abigail's mother, was the sole survivor.

• Clayton had Laura committed after Leta Aider accosted her after the disappearance of her daughter Violet, saying that she shouldn't have any more crazy kids. The death of Leta's husband has her believing that Abigail was responsible for the death of both.

• As the Fuller house burns, Leta seems to be confronted by someone we don't see. After Sam rescues Abigail he seems to see Laura in the fire, the second time he seems to see her.

• Sam saves Abigail from the fire she originally died in, but he becomes distracted by the sight of Laura and the roof falls in on him, but he leaps out in time.

Trivia

The Show

• The subtitle "One Little Heart" does not appear on screen, but is still listed on the DVD set as "One Little Heart - Trilogy Part 1".

• August 8, 1955 is also the same date Sam leaped into Jesse in "The Color of Truth" (another episode written by Deborah Pratt). This is the only time Sam has leaped in on the same date.