From: salley@niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Plot idea
Summary: Also Nitpicking with the FAQL
Date: 22 Nov 92 11:04:40 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

I know the FAQL says Sam won't jump to the future, but I got to thinking
what would it be like if he did...

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                       _ONE LEAP FORWARD, TWO LEAPS BACK_
                           Written by David P. Salley

<Sam Leaps In>

[It's a modern city street, a _very_ modern city street.  Sam looks around,
 sees a newspaper box, walks towards it, pulls coins out of his pocket and
 buys a paper.  The camera zooms in on the dateline, Wednesday June 11, 2003.]

SAM: I've leaped four years into my own future? Oh boyyy...

<Opening Credits>

[FX: Holochamber door opens, Al steps through, door closes.]

AL: Sam, there you are!  This is weird!  The guy in the waiting room is
    John Smith.  Ziggy can locate him, give you his birthdate, where he was
    born, all that, but he can't figure out where in his timeline you are
    or what you're supposed to do.

[Sam has a bemused expression on his face, he turns the paper so Al can read
it.]

AL: Ah, good.  Once we have the date, Ziggy can start figuring out what it
    is you're supposed to do. [Al leans forward to read the paper's dateline.]
    And it's Wednesday, June the eleventh, two...

[Al straightens up and looks at Sam, his eyes are bugging out of his head.
Al starts getting excited, Sam is still in stunned disbelief and has the
calm of a condemned prisoner awaiting execution.]

AL: Sam! You're...you're... Oh, boy!  GOOSHIE!! [He starts tapping the 
comm-link]

[FX: Holochamber door opens]

AL: GOOSHIE!! We've got problems! Big ones! [To Sam:] Just stay calm, we'll
    have Ziggy working on it right away! [He turns to leave and then turns
    his head back to Sam] Uhh, Sam?
SAM: Yes, Al?
AL: Could you open that to the sports page?

<Commercial Break>

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That's about as far as I've worked out the dialogue, but I've got some ideas
where to take it from there.  Al reports back that Ziggy's files all stop
at 1999 and he just can't help.  Sam decides to go to Project Quantum Leap,
2003 and ask that Ziggy for advice.  I could have a lot of fun at PQL; Sam
meets his wife, hologram Al meets flesh-and-blood Al, Roddy McDowell's
character has finally joined PQL, Sam meets the leapee and the waiting
room pool shows them with their reflections switched.  I suppose I could also 
have the 2003 Al enter the holochamber and get advice from the 2003 Sam 
[who's currently in 1999 and ... Naw!] but while that might work well on
paper, it would be confusing on the screen.

I like this idea, I just might finish it off and submit it to a fanzine.

                                                       - David   

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