"Justice"


Leap Date:

May 11, 1955


Episode Adopted by: Becky
Additional info provided by: Brian Greene


Synopsis:

When Sam leaps into a newly inducted member of the Ku Klux Klan, he must find a way to prevent the lynching of a black community activist. But due to his moral upbringing, it becomes very difficult to act like the person he has leaped into to avoid his own lynching.

 

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TV Guide Synopsis
Place
Leap Date

Name of the Person Leaped Into
Music

Sam Trivia
Al Trivia

Al's Outfits Worn in the Episode

Miscellaneous Trivia
Kiss with History
Writers
Director
Producers

Crew
Broadcast Date
Guest Stars
Guest Cast Notes
Guests who appeared in other Quantum Leap episodes
Personal Review
Best Lines
Best Scenes
Say What?
Quotable Quotes





Production # : 67309




TV Guide Synopsis:
Sam leaps into a member of the KKK who's struggling against a group of good old boys to save the life of a civil-rights leader. Gene: Noble Willingham. Nathaniel: Michael Beach. Lilly: Lisa Waltz. Tom: Dirk Blocker. Ada: Fran Bennett. Sam: Scott Bakula.




Place:
Alabama





Name of the Person Leaped Into:
Clyde




Leap Date:
May 11, 1965




Broadcast Date:
October 9, 1991 - Wednesday


 


Music:
"
Oh Who Do You Call the Wonderful Counsellor
" plays at church and during the end credits.


 


Sam Trivia:
Sam’s parents taught to fight against people like the Klu Klux Klan when he was a kid.

Sam said this is the most confusing person he has ever leaped into.

Sam’s parents were farmers, simple people that cared about their families and each other.

Sam doesn’t have very good aim with a rifle.

Sam remembers that little kids can see Al.

 



Al Trivia:
In this episode Al blows smoke, from his cigar, into the KKK leader’s face. You can see the smoke, even though Al is not touching it, so supposedly you should not see it.

 



Al’s Outfits Worn in the Episode:
A green hat, with a creamy pin striped blazer and a green dress shirt and a green thin tie with a diamond shaped green tie clip. Also wears a badge with a watch design.

 



Miscellaneous Trivia:
Al only uses the imaging chamber twice in this episode. Al appears ten times, on the other hand.

Cody is the name of Scott Bakula's son.

During the filming of the church explosion, the gas inside built up so much that when the explosion came, it knocked down Diamond Farnsworth (Scott Bakula's stunt double) and burned the hair on the back of his legs!

This episode is the only time we do not learn the last name of the Leapee.




Kiss With History:
Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other began in 1915 and has continued to the present.


 


Crew:


Writer:
Toni Graphia


Director:
Rob Bowman


Producers:
Jeff Gourson
Tommy Thompson
Chris Ruppenthal
Paul Brown

 


Regular Cast:
Scott Bakula
Dean Stockwell


 

Guest Stars:
Dirk Blocker as Tom
Fran Bennett as Ada Simpson
Glenn Morshower as Grady
Lee Weaver as Mr.Thomson
Jacob Gelman as Cody
Lisa Waltz as Lilly
Michael Beach as Nathaniel Simpson
Noble Willingham as Gene/Grand Dragon
Steve Blackwood as Leon
Charlie Holiday as Sheriff Otis
Michael Craig Patterson as Jim
Glenn Edden as Clyde (Mirror image)
Jullian Roy Doster as 1st child
Ashley Woolfolk as 2nd child
Jesshaye Callier as 3rd child




Guest Cast Notes:

Fran Bennett graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an M.A. and subsequently spent twelve years acting and as voice and movement director with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Her Broadway debut was a leading role in the short-lived play Mandingo at the Lyceum Theater in 1961. Thereafter, Bennett concentrated on stage acting and education, serving for many years on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts, latterly as head of acting and director of performance at the CalArts School of Theater (1996-2003). Her credentials included a teaching spell at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and voice production workshops at several American universities. As an ensemble member of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, her dramatis personae tended to be powerful individuals (Othello, King Lear, Oberon, and others). Bennett's screen work has likewise shown a predilection towards sober, resolute authority figures: doctors, judges, head nurses, community leaders and family matriarchs, even a Fleet Admiral on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Her TV debut was as early as 1952 but she did not become prolific in that medium until the late 70s. From then on, she regularly guest-starred in episodes of popular fare, ranging from soapies (The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Dynasty (1981)) to crime drama (Simon & Simon (1981), Crossing Jordan (2001), NCIS (2003)) and science fiction (The Twilight Zone (1985), Quantum Leap (1989)). The Arkansas native was a 2005 inductee into Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. Her honours have included an NAACP Theatre Award and the inaugural AEA/AFTRA/SAG Diversity Award.




Guests who appeared in other Quantum Leap Episodes:
Fran Bennett appeared in Trilogy Part I, Part II, Part III as Marie Billings.




Personal Review: I think this is a very serious episode and educational. It makes you want to learn about the USA's past. It is both disturbing and interesting to see the KKK characters portrayed as normal everyday folks living normal everyday lives while belonging to a hate group. How you are raised definitely shapes your beliefs, right or wrong.

 



Best Line:
"Worms, yeah, worms, I could never stand worms even if I was using them for bait."

 



Best Scene:
When Al goes to the church and all the little kids can see him and can talk to him:

"That’s right, that’s right, that’s right, they’re kids, God bless the children."

"There’s a ghost!

It’s not a ghost, it’s an angel.

No way not with those clothes."

"It’s the Lord,

What???????

No, No, No, No I’m not the Lord.

It’s Abraham Lincoln!

No it’s not he has a beard.

That’s some crazy white man."

"Listen, I may be crazy but you got to tell the big ones that you got to get out of the church, out of the church."

 



Say What?
Lilly is seen in the background before she leaves the house.

When Al talks about the Voting Rights Act in 1965, he says it was August 6th. It was actually August 3rd.





Quotable Quotes:
Yours is just one voice in a hurricane.
Sometimes one is all it takes.
- Aida and Sam, "Justice"

It's an angel!
Not in those clothes!
- Children in choir practice upon seeing Al, "Justice"

I don't want to live in a world where fear and hate hide behind a call for justice.
-- Sam, "Justice"

Yours is just one voice speaking in a hurricane.
Sometimes one voice is all it takes.
-- Aida and Sam, "Justice"

This stands for everything my parents taught me to fight against.
-- Sam, about the KKK, "Justice"

There's a ghost!
It's NOT a ghost, it's an angel.
No way, not with those clothes!
-- little kids at choir practice, about Al, "Justice"

It's the Lord!
No, I'm not the Lord!
It's Abraham Lincoln.
No, he's got a beard, that's some crazy white man.
-- little kids at choir practice and Al, "Justice"

I don't know a man who would dynamite a church.
-- Sam, "Justice"

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