Sancho

Dr. Sam Beckett :

  If I'm Don Quixote, 

then Al is my Sancho. 

There isn't anything he wouldn't do for me. 

Al, The Bartender :

Or you for him. 

Dr. Sam Beckett :

Or me for him. 

Dr. Sam Beckett :

That's Not True though. 

There was a time once when he wanted me to do something for him, and I didn't. 

Al, The Bartender :

Could you have done it?

Dr. Sam Beckett :

I could have tried.

Al, The Bartender :

Why didn't you try? 

Dr. Sam Beckett :

I wasn't there to save his marriage... to Beth. 

I was there to save an undercover cop from being killed. 

I know you can't see me, Beth. 

But don't give up on me... 'cause I'm alive out there. 

And someday, I'm gonna come back home to you. 

Al, The Bartender :

So Beth thought Al was dead, 

and married someone else, because -- 

Dr. Sam Beckett :

'Cause I always play by the rules. 

Don Quixote :

I don't want to do more.

I want to go home.

Al, The Bartender :

Then why haven't you?

Don Quixote :

Because I don't control My Future.

You do!

Al, The Bartender :

Sam, you will only do this as long as you want to.

Don Quixote :

Are you saying I can leap home anytime I want?

Al, The Bartender :

Technically, yes.

Don Quixote :

What's the catch?

Al, The Bartender :

The catch...

is that you have to accept that 

You Control Your Own Destiny.

We're getting a lock.

Al, The Observer :

Thank God! 

Sam! Quick!

Come on outside! Outside.

Don Quixote :

Al!

Al, The Observer :

Come on. Outside, Sam.

Whew.

Come here. Hey!

Ah, it's so good to see you.

Don Quixote :

I can't believe you finally got here.

Al, The Observer :

I never thought I was gonna find you.

Don Quixote :

You're here. 

Al, The Observer :

I'm here.

But where is here?

Don Quixote :

Al's Place.

Al, The Observer :

...?

....I always wanted my own bar.

Don Quixote :

Yeah. This is more than a bar, Al.

Al, The Observer :

Uh-huh.

Don Quixote :

This is where it all started.

Al, The Observer :

Eh, what started?

Don Quixote :

Quantum Leap.

Al, The Observer :

Ah, but, no-- but this isn't-- 

This isn't New Mexico.

Don Quixote :

No. No, no.

Not The Project.

You remember the first time I leaped,

and we all felt that someone

or something grabbed me?

Al, The Observer :

Yeah?

Don Quixote :

He's the Someone or Something that grabbed me.

Al, The Observer :

...who, the bartender..?

Don Quixote :

Yeah.

That bartender's been leaping me around.

He wants me to believe that I'm the one leaping me, 

but I-I, uh--

I think it's him.

Al, one of the miners in there is Moe Stein.

Captain Galaxy.

Remember Captain Galaxy?

Only here his-his name's Ziggy.

And Frank and Jimmy LaMotta

are in there, only here their names

are Tonchi and Pete.

And there's a guy named Gooshie

in there with a long beard.

Al, The Observer :

Sam.

Don Quixote :

But he doesn't look anything like our Gooshie, right?

Al, The Observer :

Sam?

Don Quixote :

But he's got the same bad breath.

Al, The Observer :

Sam, uh, I think we'd better get you out of here.

Don Quixote :

No, Al. Please. Please.

Everything I'm telling you is The Truth.

Al, The Observer :

Uh, yeah. Uh, you haven't been

leaped around by God or Fate or Time,

but, no, you've been leaped by a bartender.

Al, The Observer :

He's not just a bartender.

That's what I'm trying to tell you, Al.

I think he is God...

or Time or-or Fate...

or maybe even something

that we've never even thought of.

Al, The Observer :

Gooshie..!!

Don Quixote :

Al?

When I leap, do I turn all blue

and tingle with electrical energy?

Al, The Observer :

?....I don't know. 

When you leap, I go back into the imaging chamber.

Don Quixote :

I bet I do. I bet I turn all blue

and tingle with electrical energy,

the same way that he did when he leaped.

Only nobody leaped back in,

but that's probably because he was dead.

Al, The Observer :

Oh, that's it. I'm outta here.

Don Quixote :

Al!

All those stories of Dead Souls...

coming back to warn The Living?

What if they're all leapers like Stawpah?

Al, The Observer :

Stawpah?

Don Quixote :

Yeah. Stawpah, this guy who was here, 

and he leaped. He--

Stawpah is "Steve" in Russian.

Al, The Observer :

I know what it means -- 

I've got an uncle named Stawpah.

Don Quixote :

Does he have, um--

uh, rheumatoid arthritis, Al?

Al, The Observer :

Yeah. It's got--

It's got him all twisted up like a pretzel.

(Sam starts laughing)

Al, The Observer :

It's not funny.

Don Quixote :

Ah, but it is.

Al, The Observer :

Why?

Don Quixote :

I don't know, Al.

It just is.

Al, The Observer :

Uh, just take it easy.

I'm gonna go back and figure this out with Ziggy.

But...

I'm gonna get you out of this.

Whatever it takes, I'll--

I'll get you out of this.

Don Quixote :

Al's uncle.....

Al, The Bartender :

I've always found coincidence amusing.

Don Quixote :

Uh-huh.