All the intrigue to come
As you can guess, the questions we’ll be bringing with us into the rest of the season mostly involve Janis and Leaper X. But also, given that reveal at the very end of episode eight: what happens to Addison that makes Ben want to leap into the future—something the old Quantum Leap never did—to save her? (And how does he know what’s going to happen to her?) After that nosy congresswoman, who’ll be the next government heavy to tap on Magic’s door and ask what’s up with all those energy spikes coming out of the Quantum Leap lab? Will we ever see the fabled “waiting room” where people whose lives are being inhabited by Ben (and Sam before him) hang out while he’s on each mission? And—yeah, yeah, we know Scott Bakula said he wasn’t going to be on this Quantum Leap, but the character of Sam Beckett has to appear or at least have a presence somehow, right?
We’ll be wondering awhile, but fortunately not too much longer: Quantum Leap returns January 2 to NBC, streaming the next day on Peacock.
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