Ben hat zwar seine Erinnerungen zurück, kehrt aber nicht nach Hause zurück. Sein nächster Sprung führt ihn irgendwo in einem Flugzeug über Russland im Jahr 1978.
Während Ben in eine Bankangestellte springt, die mit einer Geiselnahme zu tun hat, bringt Ian die anderen wieder zusammen - und Addison ist nach Bens scheinbarem Tod weitergezogen.
Ben lands in the body of an 18-year-old working for his father's shoe store in Los Angeles' Koreatown at the start of explosive 1992 riots. Facing an emotional connection in the riots to his past, Magic joins Ben on the leap.
Ben reunites and teams up with a familiar friend from a previous leap to search for a missing formula created by Albert Einstein before enemies get a hold of it and use it for evil. Also, Ian does their best to deal with security issues.
When Ben leaps as far as Egypt into an undercover CIA agent caught in a dangerous game of international espionage, he must move quickly to save a woman's life.
When Ben leaps into a bounty hunter named Nick Peterson who is escorting the world's most slippery criminal, a deadly pursuit forces them to go into hiding, but Ben quickly realizes this leap is more than meets the eye.