QUANTUM LEAP - REUNIONS
ACT 3A

4TH REUNION: 
EXT.  CITY STREETS - NIGHT

Sam walks the streets, presenting a lonely, sad figure;
it is drizzling or wet.  Flash-back of scenes from
various episodes intermingled with shots of Sam
walking the streets.

First scenes from "The Leap Back": Sam and Donna on
the terrace after making love, then scene where they
say good-bye in the control room.  That shot melds into
the shot of Sam and Tamlyn saying good-bye; then
other scenes from "Temptation Eyes" episode, recalling
Tamlyn and his love for her, ending with her face.

Music in background "I Wanna Know What Love Is", as
used during the "Temptation Eyes" episode of the
series: Sam leapt into a reporter; Tamlyn was a psychic
that knew it was Sam, and not the reporter.  They fell
in love and had a strong sexual relationship.  Sam
saved her life on Valentine's Day.

Sam suddenly stops.  Then smiles.

                          SAM
             Tamlyn. 


He leaps.  


INT.  CROWDED PIANO BAR - NIGHT - February 15, 1985

Sam materializes as himself on the evening of the day
after he left Tamlyn and walks to the vacant piano, sits
down, and plays and sings a love song: an original
song, "Give Me Your Love".  As Sam begins the song,
Tamlyn hears him - FEELS him; turns; can barely see
him through the crowded room.

                          SAM 
                    (sings)
             Give me your love.
             Don't go away, don't take
                    your heart from me.

                          TAMLYN  
                    (softly out loud, but to
                    herself)
             Sam?  

She weaves her way through the crowded bar toward
Sam as he finishes the first verse.  

A man (RICARDO ADAMS) is shown watching her.  

                          SAM 
                    (finishes first verse)
             Let me hear you say our love was
                    meant to be.
             Give me your love.

Tamlyn stops as soon as she recognizes Sam for certain
as the first verse ends.  Tears form in her eyes.

                          TAMLYN  
                    (said between verses - softly,
                    out loud, but spoken to
                    herself)
             Sam.  

Tamlyn stands for a moment, composing herself, as Sam
starts the second verse.  After he sings the first line,
she begins walking over to the piano.  She arrives at
the piano as Sam sings the last line of the second
verse.

                          SAM 
                    (sings second verse)
             Give me my life.
             Don't take away the feelings that
                    should grow
             With each passing day. 
             Please let the embers glow.
             Give me my life.

Tamlyn stands beside the piano.  Sam looks up at her
as he sings.

                          SAM 
                    (sings)
             Love is meant to be a part of our
                    lives.
             Like good harmony's part of a song.
             Love for you and me, as part of
                    our lives,
             Could make you see denying
                    it would be so very
                    wrong.

Tamlyn sits beside him.

                          SAM 
                    (sings)
             I beg you, Love.
             Don't let the fire die without a chance.
             Don't ask me why I knew with our
                    first glance.
             In that brief sigh our love could
                    but enhance.
             All our living and our being, 
             All our giving and receiving;
             Give me your love.
             I beg you, Love.

When the song is finished, people clap, but Sam and
Tamlyn ignore them.

                          TAMLYN  
                    (earnestly; hungrily)
             Sam.

They kiss; the music swells.

                          TAMLYN  
             I didn't know why I came here,
             tonight.  I had a premonition... but
             I thought it was to drown my
             sorrows in wine.

                          SAM  
             God, you look good.  I understand
             it's been five years.

                          TAMLYN  
             I DON'T understand.  You left
             yesterday...  You left, and I
             thought I'd never see you again. 
             But you're here.  We're here
             together!  

Embrace.

                          SAM  
             Yeah, we're here.  Let's get out of
             HERE.


INT.  TAMLYN'S APARTMENT BUILDING - SAME NIGHT

Begin with shot of exterior of building, cut to Sam and
Tamlyn as they are anxiously unlocking her door. 
They kiss at Tamlyn's front door, enter apartment,
move to bedroom, tenderly undress each other, then to
the bed.  They begin making soft, tender, sensuous
love.  

FADE to black.


INT.  TAMLYN'S APARTMENT - THE NEXT MORNING:

                          TAMLYN  
             I can hardly believe you're really
             here.

                          SAM  
             I told you I could come back.

                          TAMLYN  
             Yes, but I didn't see it.  I didn't
             believe you.

                          SAM  
             There are some things your powers
             just can't see.  When you look into
             the future you see what's going to
             happen as of right then, but that's
             really only one of many
             possibilities.  My work lets me
             change those possibilities.  I use
             Time to change what once was to
             give new and better possibilities to
             the future.


EXT.  A PICNIC IN A PARK - NOON THE SAME DAY

Overview, then moving in to a closer shot.  As they are
talking, Sam is unlacing his shoe.

                          TAMLYN  
             It's called your String Theory?

                          SAM  
             Yeah.  See, our lives...  Well... just
             one more sec...
                    (finishes getting his
                    shoestring unlaced;
                    holds it up)
             Pretend the days of your life are
             continuous, like a piece of string;
             or like my shoelace...

                          TAMLYN  
             Continuous, but with a beginning
             and an end?

                          SAM  
             Right!  When you tie the ends of
             the string together...

                          TAMLYN  
                    (she takes the shoelace. 
                    Spoken with unexpected
                    realization; a little bit of
                    wonder)
             The days of my life form a
             continuous loop, with no beginning
             and no end!

                          SAM  
             You're good at this.  Now put your
             life in my hands.  

Tamlyn places the shoelace in his hands.
             
                          SAM  
             When I ball it up...

                          TAMLYN  
             OH!  It's like the days of my life
             touch each other!

                          SAM  
             Out of sequence.  That's basically
             why a person can leap from one
             point in time to another, within
             their own lifetime.

                          TAMLYN
             So that's what happened to you?

                          SAM  
                    (spoken reflectively)
             Yeah... That's what happened to
             me....  
                    (directly to Tamlyn)
             So, You ready to go?

As they gather their picnic things, the camera fades to
the next scene.


INT.  A RESTAURANT - DINNER THAT NIGHT

A photographer, taking photos of the people dining,
takes a photograph of the two of them, together.  Sam
buys it.

                          TAMLYN  
             Are you married?

                          SAM  
             No; not any more.  I was, in the
             future.  But, when I changed
             something in the past, I changed
             that as well.

                          TAMLYN  
             I'm sorry.

                          SAM  
             No.  It's OK.  I didn't even
             remember I was married until after
             I had changed her life.  It's as if I
             made her life better.  I righted a
             wrong.  I can't imagine her, in the
             future, waiting for a husband that
             doesn't even remember her and
             that will never come home again. 
             And when her life changed,
             ultimately it gave us both peace.  

             I may be involved in picking to
             where I leap myself around in time,
             but the higher authority that gets
             me to where I'm going is watching
             over me; always lending a hand,
             even when I don't know I need it.

                          TAMLYN  
             Thank him for me.


INT.  DANCING AFTER DINNER. - THE SAME NIGHT.

                          SAM  
             What about you.  Are you married?

                          TAMLYN  
             You haven't been able to tell? 

They both laugh.

                          TAMLYN  
             I mean we've spent almost every
             moment of the last two weeks
             together.

                          SAM  
             Sorry...  But, see, technically for
             me that was 5 years ago!  So, have
             you ever been married?

                          TAMLYN  
             No.  I didn't know what love was
             until you.  

They kiss.

                          SAM  
             I mean, before me, was there
             anyone special?

                          TAMLYN  
             I've never really gotten close to
             anyone before.  Not before you. 
             My gift seems to scare guys off.  I
             guess it makes them nervous.

                          SAM  
             No former boyfriends?  No jealous
             ex-lovers I should worry about?

                          TAMLYN  
             No... The last guy I went out with
             was before I went to England. 
             When I got back I met you.  Or I
             met that reporter, Dylan Thomas,
             who you had leapt into.  So
             technically I met you at the same
             time....

             Gracious, even though I
             understand it all, it still seems so
             crazy - like something straight out
             of a sci-fi movie!

                          SAM  
                    (laughs)
             I know what you mean.  So, the
             Guy.  Was he special, or important
             to you?

                          TAMLYN  
             No...  I only went out with him that
             one time.

             You know, it's strange, but... well,
             actually, I don't have any real
             perception of him.  None at all!  I...
             I don't think we ever even held
             hands!  I don't think we even
             touched.  At least, not that I can
             remember.  

             I guess he was OK... polite and all...
             but there was something about
             him...  I'm not sure what it was;
             just something wasn't quite right. 
             At least not for me.  

             At any rate, he was more
             interested in me than I was in him. 
             Besides, he wasn't my type!

                          SAM  
             Who could blame him?  

They kiss.


EXT.  CITY STREETS - THAT SAME EVENING

Interactive voice-overs of Sam telling Tamlyn about
the people and situations he has leaped into, as we
watch them walking back to Tamlyn's apartment.  The
dialogue is partial and intermittent, fading into music
then back to dialogue.

                          SAM  
             My first leap, was into a test
             pilot...

Fade to music...

                          TAMLYN  
             You leaped into a Mafia HIT man?

                          SAM  
             Yeah, but I wasn't there to kill
             anybody, I was there to help him
             get together with the woman he
             loved...  

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...See the guy I leaped into was in
             the Navy and had just come home
             from a tour in Japan.  The surprise
             he had brought home with him for
             his family was his Japanese wife!  

                          TAMLYN  
             Some surprise!...

                          SAM    
             Yeah, but see, I didn't know yet
             that I was there to get them to
             accept her.  I didn't even know she
             was there with me, so I left her at
             the bus station!

                          TAMLYN
             OH, NO!

                          SAM
             Yes!

Fade to music...

                          TAMLYN  
             ...So I guess you really liked
             Jimmy.

                          SAM  
             Yeah, I really did.  And I was there
             to get them to accept him as an
             equal, even though he had down-
             syndrome...

Fade to music...

                          TAMLYN  
             ...But how could Teresa see you? 
             Was she psychic like me?  At least
             I think that's why I could see you
             as you really were.  

             And how could she see Al?  I can't
             see Al.

                          SAM  
             When I leapt into Dylan Powell, I
             think it was our love through your
             psychic powers that allowed you to
             see me as I really am.  Everyone
             usually sees me as the person I
             leap into.  The usual exceptions are
             innocent children under 5, animals,
             and even some crazy people.  They
             can see me as I really am, and they
             can also see Al's hologram.  Teresa
             was only four, so she could see us. 
             You are the first psychic that I
             know about that's been able to see
             me as I really am.

             In their original history, Teresa's
             brother had disappeared, and all
             they ever found was his bloody
             clothes...

Fade to music...

                          SAM
             ...I leaped into a black man again,
             this time to save his
             granddaughter by playing pool!

                          TAMLYN  
             Can you play pool?

                          SAM  
             Not very well!  Not good enough to
             SAVE anyone!  Without Al using the
             hand link to show me where to hit
             the ball, I would have never been
             able to do it.  But when he ran out
             of power...

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...the Watts riots were horrible...

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...everyone thought she had run-
             off and left her family, but she
             hadn't.  She had just gone for a
             walk and fell off a cliff and was
             stuck on a ledge.

                          TAMLYN  
             But you were just a little kid... and
             you had to save her life?...

Fade to music...

                          TAMLYN  
                    (trying to suppress her
                    laughter, but not succeeding)
             ...You actually leaped into a
             chimpanzee?

                          SAM  
             Stop laughing!

                          TAMLYN  
             I'm sorry, Sam....  I can't help it.

                          SAM  
             Yeah.  Well, the worst part was the
             diaper.

                          TAMLYN  
                    (snickers)
             Diaper!...  
                    (explodes in laughter)

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...then I leapt into Jimmy again.  I
             don't think I picked that target.  I
             think whoever watches over me
             sent me there because Jimmy
             needed my help.  That's the first
             time we met the evil leapers - there
             to work for evil, making things go
             wrong.

             And then there's Lothos, the evil
             counter-part of Ziggy.  I think
             that's why they wanted to get me,
             because they didn't like me
             putting right what once went
             wrong.  Undoing all their work.

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...and, while all the coal miners
             were distracted, he disappeared
             from the bar in a blue glow!

                          TAMLYN  
             So Strapa was another leaper?

                          SAM  
             Yes, but not evil....  
             Like me; there to help others.  And
             the bartender is the one that
             helped me to understand that...

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...so, basically, when Teresa chose
             to run for class president, not only
             [Gang Leader's] future changed,
             but the future of others changed
             for the better, as well.

                          TAMLYN  
             Including your wife?

                          SAM  
             Including my wife....  I loved my
             wife.  That's why I married her. 
             But I understand now that she
             wasn't my true soul-mate.  Maybe
             that's why people get married and
             then end up divorced.  After Beth,
             Al loved every one of his wives
             when he married them, but all four
             marriages ended in divorce. 
             That's because Beth was his soul-
             mate, and he knew she was in his
             soul, so his marriages after her
             didn't work.  You're my soul mate,
             Tamlyn.  And I had to travel
             through time to find you.

Fade to music...

                          SAM  
             ...but I feel so bad about Al...

Sam is distraught.  They have arrived at Tamlyn's
door; they enter.

                          TAMLYN  
             I think you were meant to help Al
             exactly when you did!  If you had
             set Al's life right that first time,
             would he have been able to help
             you as much as he did in your
             leaps after that one?  

                          SAM
             What do you mean?

                          TAMLYN
             I mean he wouldn't have had all the
             knowledge he had from all his
             other wives; would he?  Knowledge
             you both needed and used so many
             times in leaps after the one where
             you met Beth!

                          SAM  
             You mean you think I wasn't
             SUPPOSE to help him the first
             time?  I wasn't suppose to tell Beth
             not to remarry?

                          TAMLYN  
             Yes, that's exactly what I mean!  I
             really don't think you were meant
             to help him until you did. 
             Otherwise, you couldn't have
             helped all those other people after
             that; not if Al hadn't married all
             those other women.  He never
             would have known all the stuff you
             both used to help.....  how many
             people?

                          SAM  
             A lot.  I guess you're right.

             But it seems I'm always slow at
             helping the very people I care
             about.  The people in MY life.

                          TAMLYN  
             Not true!  You saved me...  And
             your brother...

                          SAM  
             Yes, but I didn't help Al with Beth
             the first time around.  And I didn't
             help him in Vietnam.  And when I
             saw him right before I leaped here
             I was so wrapped up in my own
             loneliness I forgot to tell him to get
             in touch with Teresa.

                          TAMLYN  
             Sam, I truly believe you helped Al
             when you were meant to.  And you
             don't have to worry about Teresa. 
             I believe her life is exactly how it
             should be.

                          SAM  
             Do you really think so?

                          TAMLYN  
             Yes.  I have a feeling...  

                          SAM  
             A psychic feeling?

They laugh.  They embrace; remain there.

                          SAM  
             Well, I hope you and your psychic
             feelings are right.  But I wish Al
             hadn't had to wait so long for me to
             finally fix things for him.

                          TAMLYN  
             Do you wish Al hadn't had to wait,
             or that you hadn't had to wait?  

                          SAM
             What do you mean.

                          TAMLYN
             I mean, how does that work,
             exactly?  Time-wise, did Al have to
             wait at all?  

                          SAM
             Well...  No, I guess he didn't.  Once
             his life was changed, that became
             his life immediately.

                          TAMLYN
                    (leans back to look at him)
             So does he know about you not
             helping him the first time? 

             Does he even know about you
             helping him this last time?

                          SAM 
                    (looks preoccupied, not
                    completely satisfied)
             He wouldn't know about a change
             in his life unless he had been with
             me when it happened...  When his
             life was changed.  

             And he wasn't with me.

                          TAMLYN
                    (still in the embrace, leaning
                    back)
             So did he get to experience all
             those years with Beth... I mean, is
             that right?  As if his life without
             Beth had never happened?

                          SAM
             No.  I mean Yes!  I mean... 

             Well, once what happened was
             changed, then the time-line where
             Beth remarried and Al was
             miserable in 5 different marriages
             never happened.  So he doesn't
             know I didn't help him. 

             And he wasn't with me when the
             change was made, so yes, he got to
             experience all those happy years
             with Beth.  He doesn't know about
             the other time line, so, yes, he
             doesn't know I helped.

                          TAMLYN
                    (smiles knowingly)
             I'll make tea.

                          SAM
             Hey, who's the time-traveler here!

Tamlyn breaks out of their embrace and goes toward
the kitchen.  

                          SAM
             Know-it-all!  Or maybe smart-ass is
             a better term!

The camera follows Tamlyn as she looks over her
shoulder and flashes a grin at Sam, then leaves the
room.  

The camera remains with Sam in the living room as he
contemplates what he and Tamlyn just said.

                          TAMLYN
                    (calls out from off camera)
             You really care about Al.

Sam sits down, smiles and looks reflective.  

Flashback:  Sam recalls the scene from "Mirror Image"
where he and the Bartender-Al were talking about
Sam's relationship with Al.  During this, Sam said, "if
I'm Don Quixote, then Al is my Sancho.  There isn't
anything he wouldn't do for me."  Bartender-Al, "Nor
you for him."  Sam, "Nor me for him." 

                          SAM  
             Yes, I really care about him.  

             I have a very special relationship
             with Al.  He is my best friend; but
             we're closer than that.  Closer than
             brothers.

                          TAMLYN  
                    (calls out from kitchen)
             You are a nice man, Sam.  

Tamlyn enters the room with a tray of tea cups,
saucers, sugar and cream.  She sets down the tray and
walks over to Sam.

                          TAMLYN  
             I can see you dedicating your life
             to helping others.  I can see it in
             your eyes.  
                    (she kisses his eyes)
             So it's been you?  Picking targets,
             so whoever-your-boss-is can
             bounce you around through time?

                          SAM  
             Yes.  And that's gotta be why I was
             able to come back to you.  I picked
             the target!

They embrace.  Al appears.  Tamlyn senses Al, as she
did during "Temptation Eyes" episode in series; moves
out of their embrace.=1A