Genesis: Part 2 - September 13, 1956

Episode aired Mar 26, 1989
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45m

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As Tom Stratton, Sam comforts his (Tom's) wife and prevents her from having a premature birth. This is what he was sent to do, allowing him to leap home (he hopes). But instead of leaping ho... Read allAs Tom Stratton, Sam comforts his (Tom's) wife and prevents her from having a premature birth. This is what he was sent to do, allowing him to leap home (he hopes). But instead of leaping home, he leaps into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 ... Read allAs Tom Stratton, Sam comforts his (Tom's) wife and prevents her from having a premature birth. This is what he was sent to do, allowing him to leap home (he hopes). But instead of leaping home, he leaps into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap furt... Read all

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Genesis: Part 2 - September 13, 1956

In the second part of this story. Al reckons he can get Sam safely back home.

Tom Stratton just needs to survive his record breaking test flight and he will leap.

Luckily for Sam. Al was an astronaut so he can give tips.

When Sam has bailed out from the plane. He is still in 1956.

What Sam was really here for was to make sure that his pregnant wife successfully gives birth. Luckily Sam Beckett has medical knowledge to assist in this.

When he does leap, it is into a body of a minor league baseball player.

Part 2 allows Al to give Sam more information about his life. Sam Beckett was touted as the new Einstein with six doctorates. He was a medical doctor but quantum physics is what he excelled at.

There is a nice emotional moment when Sam talks on the phone to his dad. It made Sam acknowledge that there might be some positives to the leaping.

It did seem that the story of the test pilot ran out of steam early on. Sam leaps into a baseball player but it was a minor story. Almost an afterthought to pad out the length.

Trivia
Adam Logan (credited as Adam Affonso) would later reprise his role as the teenage Sam Beckett in The Leap Home: Part 1 - November 25, 1969 (1990).

Goofs
The debris of the Bell X-2 falls down vertically in a straight line. If it had been destroyed at Mach 3, no matter how high, it would still have considerable forward momentum when it reached the ground, resulting in an elongated debris field rather than a 'heap'. It was probably dropped from a crane instead.

Quotes
[Al has just told Sam that he has to fly an experimental aircraft in order to leap]
Sam: There's got to be another way.
Al: The next one's only got a 52% chance of working.
Sam: I'll take it!
Al: It requires you to be at ground zero during an atomic detonation.
[Sam frowns]
Al: You asked.
Sam: What else have you got?
Al: This isn't a shopping list, you know.
[consults handlink]
Al: The odds drop into the low teens after that. Your best shot is freezing the brain until all electrical activity has ceased.
Sam: That's called *death*.
Al: I never said it would be easy. You want a sure thing? I got it for you. You don't do anything, you just live. Barring accidental death or a fatal disease, you'll be back in forty years. That's your safest option.
Sam: And Tom Stratton?
Al: He'll go on living forward from where he's at now. Technically, he could end up the oldest man alive.
Sam: Well, what about Peg and Mikey? I don't want to hurt them, but I can't go on pretending I'm Tom.
Al: Hey, they were going to lose him on Monday anyway. Of course, if you bust Mach 3 and survive, they could have him around for another thirty or forty years.
Sam: I can't fly!
Al: I'll be your co-pilot.
Sam: You're a hologram.
Al: I'm also an ex-astronaut. The hardest part about flying is taking off and landing. The B-50 does the first part of that for you. After that, you just fire a couple of rockets, hang onto the stick and ka-za-zoom! Mach 3.
Sam: And the second part?
Al: Landing?
[shakes head]
Al: You could *never* land the X-2, not even with my help. So, you don't.
Sam: I eject.
Al: [nods] X-2 does a crash and burn. You float back to earth on a pillow silk. The moment you touch down, you leap forward, Tom leaps back and the broad and I are gone to Las Vegas!
Sam: It could work.
Al: Of course it will work.
Sam: A minute ago, you said it was crap.
Al: That was before I thought it out.