Janis
Equal parts intriguing (she’s the daughter of original Quantum Leap character Al, who passed away recently in the show—as actor Dean Stockwell did in real life) and menacing (she drugged her own mother to get her hands on some of Al’s vintage Quantum Leap tech!), Janis (Georgina Reilly) is one of the show’s biggest question marks at this point. Magic prevented her from joining Quantum Leap proper, so she and Ben worked together in secret, writing special code that would allow him to leap beyond his own lifespan, something even Sam Beckett could never do. Then she went into hiding, but made her chaotic presence felt by hacking her way into Ziggy—and at one point even appearing as a hologram, trying to deliver a garbled warning to Ben on one of his leaps. Where is all this going? We don’t know!
