The place do the Leap Hosts go when Quantum Leap’s Ben Tune jumps into them? That’s a query many have been asking since NBC’s continuation premiered again in September.
Within the authentic sequence starring Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett, these being leapt into would enter an empty ready room that featured a white desk and a single door to exit. They had been then interrogated for info that would assist Sam throughout his leaps.
The revival doesn’t embrace the ready room in any of its Season 1 episodes up to now, and the workforce depends on Ziggy’s algorithm for important updates throughout Ben’s leaps.
“I believe the ready room is useless,” author, actor and director Shakina Nayfack tells TVLine. “I believe the ready room is Quantum Leap of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, and we now have a unique means of expressing the place the Leap Host goes through the leap.”
The topic was briefly addressed earlier this season when Magic opened up about his expertise of being leapt into by Sam through the OG present’s Season 3 episode “The Leap Dwelling, Half 2 (Vietnam),” with Christopher Kirby taking part in a younger Magic.
In Episode 4, the military vet described it as feeling like a nudge, like he was “standing on one facet of a door and on the opposite facet, somebody had gently pushed towards it.” Magic stated sure to the nudge and let that individual in. Then all the pieces went black, and he got here to a day later, not remembering what occurred. He stored having vivid desires of Sam, and that led to him restarting the Quantum Leap challenge.
Monday’s episode additionally touched on what occurs to a Leap Host with the reveal that — SPOILER ALERT — Ian leapt into a brand new character named Dottie, who didn’t recall assembly Ben proper earlier than Ben’s unauthorized leap. She stored having related vivid desires of Ian and sketched his face on paper.
“Let’s say you probably did lose time for per week,” Magic stated within the episode. “To everybody, you had been nonetheless Dottie doing all the pieces Dottie does. However did you ever cease to consider who was behind the wheel? Who was driving you want a bus the entire time?”
So don’t count on to see a ready room within the present anytime quickly, if ever.
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