From: nml@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Newton Loui)
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
	<1992Oct6.171347.4721@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:01:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.171347.4721@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:

 >In article <NML.92Oct5171047@hq.lcs.mit.edu>, nml@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Newton Loui) writes:
 >>
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 >>If my memory serves me correctly (for some episodes):
     [other episodes deleted]

 >>[the Halloween episode (I think)]
 >>At the end, Sam and Al discover that the kid neighbor's name is
 >>Stephen; his mother came to pick him up and Sam's character's love
 >>interest called her Mrs. King.  Said love interest is named Carrie.
 >>Sam's character said something about he thought Carrie was out to get
 >>him, thus inspiring Stephen to write about Carrie the demon car.  When
 >>Stephen got into his mother's car, he called out to his dog Cujo in
 >>the car.
 >>
 >Small correction: I don't remember the lady's name, but the
 >demon car was named "Christine". After the trouble with the car,
 >Sam (slightly dazed) says to Stevie (the name the kid was using),
 >"It was like in _Christine_," meaning the movie which hadn't yet
 >been made.  

Yes, several people have sent me e-mail informing me that the *car*
was indeed named Christine and that Carrie was the telekinetic.  Can
y'all guess which of the two movies I saw - and liked 8-) ?  [Shoot,
I've only read *one* Stephen King book, _The Shining_; before that I
had no idea that I could be scared just by something I read.  I
digress here, sorry, this isn't the proper newsgroup.  Back to QL.]

 >Was the lady really Carrie? That one got by me ;-)
The love interest was Christine.

 >MAJOR PLOT SPOILER below.
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 >Of course the real mystery is "Did Sam really give Stevie the
 >idea for the movie _Christine_." Supposedly, that whole episode was 
 >a dream Sam had while unconcious.

Don't know about "really."  Ask Sally Smith quotes Don Bellisario
"Don't investigate this too closely."  It's just fun.  Don't you mean
the *book* - books are usually better than the movies that follow.

The whole episode wasn't a dream; it was a battle between good and
evil.  Sam was misled throughout most of the episode by an evil
doppelganger of Al, but Sam figured it out at the end, and for the
moment good won out.

Sam and the leap returned to "normal" and Sam did what he was there to
do.  That's when the dialogue and name dropping occurred.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

nml

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