Quantum Leap (TV Series)
Lee Harvey Oswald - October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: Part 1 (1992)
Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Lee Harvey Oswald
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Quotes
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[Sam is worried about his mind merging with Lee Harvey Oswald]
Sam : What if I assassinate the President?
Al : You're not gonna assassinate the President. This is '57, that doesn't happen for another six years!
Sam : Fifteen minutes ago, it was six years from now. And who's to say that's not gonna happen again, in November, with me at the Texas School Book Depository? Good God, Al. If that happened, I could stop the assassination.
Al : If Oswald really was the assassin.
Sam : What do you mean if Oswald was really the assassin?
Al : Well, there's a lot of people think that he was set up.
Sam : Set up? By whom?
Al : Could have been anybody. Could've been the FBI, Secret Service, uh, CIA, the military, the Mafia, defense contractors, John Birchers, you name it. They all had something to gain from Kennedy's death.
Sam : Al, we're talking about murdering the President of the United States.
Al : Don't you remember all the conspiracy books and the movies?
Sam : No. But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday. I was ten and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house. All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us. She ran up right to the fence and she was yellin' and we thought it was because of what we were doing. But then she told us that the President had just been shot.
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[Sam's mind has been taken over by Oswald and he is about to murder Sgt. Lopez in cold blood]
Al : Gushie, I can't get through to him! Tell Ziggy I've got to have a way to get through to him!
[info comes over the handlink]
Al : You're kidding. Uh, Sam... Sam, what are the four fundamental forces of interactions in quantum physics? What are the four fundamental forces of interactions in quantum physics, Sam?
[Sam seems to hear Al]
Al : Yeah, yeah, Sam. The four fundamental forces of interactions in-in quantum physics.
Sam : Gravitation, electroma-magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces.
Al : What's the Pauli exclusion principle?
Sam : [starts to lower his gun] No two fermions can occupy a given quantum state at the same time?
Al : Neither can two human souls.
[Sam leaps]
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Sgt. Lopez : Just a word of advice, Private. You wanna ship home with all the body parts you came here with, zip your lip.
Sam : [in Oswald's voice] Aye-aye, Sergeant Beaner.
Sgt. Lopez : See you on liberty, Oswald.
Al : Sam, are you outta your mind? You can't talk to *anybody* like that, much less a marine sergeant!
Sam : I know, Al. I know.
Al : Then why'd you do it?
Sam : I didn't.
Al : Excuse me, I heard you!
Sam : You heard the words come out of my mouth, but I didn't say 'em.
Al : You're scaring me, Sam.
Sam : Well, you're not alone. Maybe... maybe this has something to do with... leaping twice into the same person.
Al : What twice?
Sam : I leaped into Oswald in '63. At least that's what the newspapers I was holding said it was: March of '63.
Al : Well, how'd you know you were Oswald?
Sam : Marina was taking my picture. You know that famous picture with the rifle and, and the newspaper?
Al : That photograph is a fake. Yeah, Oswald's face is superimposed on somebody else's body to frame him.
Sam : But, Marina took it.
Al : How do you know she was Marina?
Sam : I called her Marina, and-and she called me... Alik.
Al : Well, there you see? You weren't Oswald.
[consults the handlink]
Al : All we have to do is ask Ziggy to trace the name Alik to anyone working at the CIA or the FB...
[groans]
Sam : What?
Al : Alik was the name Oswald used in Russia. And, uh, that's the name Marina used to call him.
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[Sam is confused about his sudden fluency in Russian]
Marina : You talk Russian, you talk English.
Sam : So do you.
Marina : No.
Sam : Yes, you do, you- you're speaking English right now.
Marina : One, two words.
Sam : That's three. And "You talk English. You talk Russian", that's four more - seven. And "no" is eight.
Marina : You funny, Alik.
Sam : "You funny" - eight, nine, ten. How many more words do you know?
[Marina responds in Russian]
Sam : No, in English.
Marina : Yes, no, hello, good-bye, capitalists exploit the working class.
Sam : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. Where did you learn that?
Marina : You.
Sam : Me?
[looks at the newspaper he is holding: the socialist periodical The Daily Worker]
Sam : Oh, of course me.
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[Sam is on a Marine target range, taking his marksmanship test]
Sam : [narrating] I was a pretty good shot on the farm. Bagged my share of squirrels with a .22 and deer with a .30-06. But that was long ago and not at five hundred yards.
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Sgt. Bellisario : Do you often read The Daily Worker?
Sam : [in Oswald's voice] It's the only newspaper that tells the truth.
Sgt. Bellisario : The truth?
Sam : [in Oswald's voice] How the United States oppresses the proletariat of the world with its military might.
Al : He's back.
Sgt. Bellisario : You sound like a communist.
Sam : I know, I know.
Sgt. Bellisario : But you're not.
Sam : I'm not what I sometimes sound like.
Al : Oh good. That's better, Sam.
Sam : [in Oswald's voice] But if I were, I'd be a Marxist.
Sgt. Bellisario : If you're a Marxist, what the hell are you doing in the Marine Corps?
Sam : I don't know.
[Sam leaps again]
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[Sam, as Oswald, is trying to defect to the Soviet Union, but he has no information to give them. The KGB director simply thinks he is hesitant]
Maj. Kosenko : Once, my father, as a punishment for a menial infraction which I can't remember, made me stand naked on the boat dock behind our house. I was, uh, ten - old enough to be embarrassed had anyone witnessed my nakedness. But there was no one, because only my father was crazy enough to winter with his family on a lake inside the Arctic Circle. Yes, it was winter, the water was frozen two meters deep, and the snow came up to the nipples on my chest. The frostbite took two toes on my right foot, one on my left, and I missed most of the spring recuperating from pneumonia. Despite that, and other punishments I received at his hand as a child, I still loved the bastard. After all, he was my father. Our native lands are like that. No matter how abusive, how oppressive, how unjust their treatment, we have this patriotic, almost biological need to love them. It is only when we attain our political maturity, we realize that no matter how traitorous our actions may seem in our native country, the betrayal is theirs. It's not ours.
Sam : [in Oswald's voice] My name... is Lee Harvey Oswald. In the Marine Corps, my serial number was 1653230. My MOS: 6741, aviation electronics operator. My first duty assignment was with Macs-1 in Atsugi, Japan. I arrived there on September the 12th, 1957...
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Sgt. Lopez : Russian? You speaking to me in Russian?
Sam : It's just a little slip of the tongue. See, I'm, uh, I'm studying Russian and-and-and some-, sometimes it comes out.
Sgt. Lopez : [taking and twisting Sam's nose between his fingers] You know what I'm studying? Huh?
Sam : The... Three Stooges?
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Sam : Al, if I leaped into Oswald to uncover a conspiracy, why didn't I stay in '63?
Al : Maybe because it started here in Atsugi.
Sam : Atsugi?
Al : Japan.
Sam : [looks around the rifle range] This doesn't look like Japan.
Al : Sam, military bases look the same the world over. But you go out that gate and you'll see it's, it's Japan, there's no doubt about it. It's very beautiful, it's serene... and there's a lot of... beautiful geishas.
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[Sam is being kissed by a Russian girl]
Sam : How do you say "Oh, boy" in Russian?
