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In the unique timeline of this modern Quantum Leap challenge, Addison is the leaper. According to Ian and Leaper X/Marine Richard Martinez (Walter Perez), society collapses after Addison begins leaping by way of spacetime and Quantum Leap is blamed for all the pieces dangerous. Martinez then leaps to return in time to kill Addison however not earlier than developing with the concept to nuke HQ. Ian leaps after Martinez to advise Ben and HQ is nuked after Ian leaps again residence from their forewarning mission. Ben is just not the primary leaper since Dr. Sam Beckett went ca-ca within the Quantum Accelerator. By my rely, he’s the fourth particular person to leap within the sequel sequence. And Ian is the primary recognized particular person to leap and return residence, which implies it’s doable that Ben (and Sam?) can do the identical.
Back to Ian and Ben sooner or later wasteland. Ian has spent many years devising a brand new code, a cheat code, that Ben has to memorize earlier than the Accelerator sucks him out of the long run. Ian’s remaining instruction is for Ben to provide past-Ian the code and to do not forget that “we’d like one another…it takes 2” however Ian is cut-off because the Accelerator turns into too highly effective for Ben to withstand its pull—and Ben disappears earlier than Ian can end the instruction. It’s a credit score to the skilled storytelling that each one of this occurs within the first 5 and a half minutes of “Judgment Day.”
Ben’s subsequent leap takes him into his personal previous physique on the day of his first date with Addison in 2018. This blessed day can also be focused by Martinez as his vacation spot level for disposing of Addison. Leaping into one’s personal physique is an enormous danger. If Ben modifications something within the 2018 timeline it may create a paradox that will erase somebody from existence, trigger Ben and Addison to by no means fall in love or rip a gap within the cloth of spacetime killing all the pieces that ever was, in response to Janis Calavicci’s (Georgina Reilly) danger evaluation of Ben’s leap.
Ben doesn’t stick with the unique timeline in any respect, not less than not past ensuring they order egg rolls as a substitute of scallion pancakes on their dinner date. He even tells Addison that he’s a time traveler…himself from 2022. Addison doesn’t consider him, so when Ben tells her to take his automotive residence, lock the doorways, arm herself and inform nobody the place she is, Addison calls Magic (Ernie Hudson). Who wouldn’t? Magic is the boss/buddy everybody turns to in instances of hassle. The downside is that Martinez makes use of Magic’s physique for his leap to 2018. Addison didn’t simply name Magic, she calls her personal murderer.
When Martinez leaps from the long run, his intention is ending Addison, however he has since run possibilities by way of Ziggy and learns that the entire Quantum Leap group should die to actually put a cease to the challenge as soon as and for all. Martinez initiates the Accelerator to implode and wipe out all life inside a three-mile radius simply earlier than he shoots Addison within the arm. Future/previous Ben and future Martinez/previous Magic brawl it out because the Accelerator spins uncontrolled. When they cost at one another, the Accelerator transports them each backwards by way of all of Ben’s and Martinez’s crossing-points. Until they lastly land the place they met, within the Old West ca. 1879, and Martinez is gunned down and falls by way of a rooftop fence to the filth street beneath in good Western style.
We see Martinez die, however what about Magic? It’s his physique that leaps as Martinez’s host, which signifies that when Martinez dies, so does Magic. And how will the material of the universe deal with the leaps of two leapers double-leaping, not simply within the sense that two folks leap, however two folks leaping concurrently because the body-hosts of two leapers? The solely hope is that when future-Ian says “it takes two” and maybe they weren’t simply speaking about two folks getting into the cheat code on the identical time.
