Quantum Leap Episode 3 Recap and Ending, Explained

NBC’s ‘Quantum Leap’ follows the story of Ben Song, who has leaped in time, and his team, who are trying to bring him back home. While the first two episodes set the ground rules for Ben’s leaps and what it means for his future travels, the third episode expands the grounds of the story by revealing a few more things about Ben and his secrets. Its main focus is, still, to solve the mystery of the week and get Ben out of whatever situation he has landed himself in now. But it also drops some important hints about him and his journey, ones that might not only affect his travels to the past but also his relationships in the present. Here’s what that ending means for him and his accomplice, Janice. SPOILERS AHEAD

Quantum Leap Episode 3 Recap

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Ben Song finds himself in 1977 Vegas, this time in the body of Danny Hill, a young boxer who is poised for the fight that will decide his future. As he and Addison try to figure out the problem in Danny’s life and how to solve it, back home, more secrets about Ben come to light. In the hopes of bringing Ben home as soon as possible, Addison overexerts herself and realizes that she needs to take care of herself, but Ben might not be coming home anytime soon. It looks like his code has set him on a path that will take a lot of leaps for Ben to reach his destination. At the moment, however, he needs to become a world-class fighter within a day, if he is to survive the events of this leap. Following the events of the previous episode, we also see the return of Beth and Janice Calavicci, though it looks like Beth doesn’t want Janice to go forward with her plans. The daughter, however, pays no heed to her mother, which makes us more suspicious of her goals. What does Janice really want out of Ben’s time leap?

Quantum Leap Episode 3 Ending: Does Janice Have Al’s Handlink and Imaging Chamber?

The plot of ‘Quantum Leap’ thickens with the third episode as Ben’s team discovers that his time leaps are not random. In the previous episode, from Ben’s USB drive, they discovered that several points in time had been marked by Ben, one of which is his destination. At first, it was believed that Ben’s leaps were random, but now it turns out that even though he has forgotten his purpose, he is actually in control of his leaps. Studying the pattern of his previous travels, Ian discovers that the path is similar to the one that a satellite would take in order to fling itself farther in space.

Image Credit: Ron Batzdorff/NBC

Leaping too far back into the past could have been dangerous, and doing it for the first time might have left Ben entirely unprepared for the task that has led him there. This is why, he mapped out a way to make his way into the past slowly, gaining momentum and then landing himself to his target. Now that the team knows the journey Ben has planned to take, they might be better prepared for his future leaps. In time, perhaps, this will also give them an idea of Ben’s true mission. This gives Addison and the others hope about bringing Ben back home, but there are a couple of other problems that have reared their head.

The most crucial thing that makes Ben’s life easier during the leaps in Ziggy. The supercomputer not only tells Addison where Ben has landed but also figures out what he needs to do to get out of there. It provides all the relevant information that becomes instrumental in getting Ben out of tight spaces. But this time around, Ziggy was not at its best. It was rather slow in processing the information that could make or break Ben’s mission, and he and Addison had to rely on their wit to solve the challenges at hand. While Ziggy’s condition is baffling, Ian soon finds out why the supercomputer is not at its best. It looks like someone else has a back door into Ziggy and they’ve been using it to serve their own purpose. That person is, unsurprisingly, Janice.

It is no secret that Ben and Janice collaborated in secret, following which Ben leaped in the past. Previously, Janice told Magic that it was Ben who came to her for help, but now, it looks like she wasn’t telling the entire truth. Despite knowing that her mother’s house might be under watch, Janice takes the risk to visit Beth and after drugging her, she steals the stuff that Al had been hiding all this time. It looks like he had crafted a machine of his own, without the knowledge of the government.

At the end of the original ‘Quantum Leap’, Sam Beckett was still stuck in time, and it makes sense that Al would have tried to find a way to bring his friend home. Because the project was shut down, Al had to continue it on his own, but clearly, he didn’t succeed. Now, his daughter has taken over the reins. Now that Janice has her father’s handlink as well as an imaging chamber, she has the means to communicate with Ben. She will definitely use it to communicate with him (or with a certain time traveler who’s still lost in time?). Her access to Ben implies that she might jog his memory and put him back on the original plan.

Read More: Will Scott Bakula’s Sam Beckett Appear in Quantum Leap?

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