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"One Little
Heart" Trilogy
Part I
Leap
Date:
August
8, 1955
Episode
Adopted by: M. J. Cogburn
Additional info provided
by: Deborah Hendryx
Synopsis:
In
the first of a three-part saga, Sam leaps into the father of young
Abagail Fuller, a girl accused by a local townswoman, Leta Aider, of
killing her husband and daughter. Leta is the only survivor of her
family and believes Abagail to be cursed.
Audio
from this episode
Place
Leap Date
Project Date
Name of the Person
Leaped Into
Songs
Music Artists
Project Trivia
Sam Trivia
Al Trivia
Al's Women
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
Cast members who have passed away
Personal Review
Best
Lines
Best Scenes
Say what? (things in the episode that make no sense)
Quotable Quotes
Awards
AIRING DATE:
November 17, 1992 (Tuesday)
PLACE:
Potterville, Louisiana
DATE:
August 8, 1955
LEAPEE: Sheriff
Clayton Fuller
GUEST CAST:
James
Whitmore Jr. – Clayton Fuller / Mirror
Stephen
Lee – Bo Loman
Kimberly
Cullum – Abagail Fuller
Fran
Bennett – Marie Beth Billings
Travis
Fine – Will Kinman
Max
Wright – Doctor Kinman
Mary
Gordon Murry – Leta Aider
Heather
Lauren Olsen – Violet Aider
SPECIAL GUEST:
Meg Foster – Laura Fuller
GUESTS
WHO APPEARED IN OTHER QUANTUM LEAP EPISODES
W.K. Stratton also appeared in the episodes "Genesis", "Good Night, Dear Heart,"
and the trilogy episodes "For
Your Love," and "The Last
Door."
SONGS
Mockingbird (A lullaby) – depending on the time in the show, it can be
anywhere from sweet and calming to eerie and odd.
MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA
OF OTHER CHARACTERS:
Bart Aider:
Abagail Fuller was the last person to see him alive. When Sam Leaped
in, he found Bart dead of what appeared to be a blow to the head, but
the local doctor pronounced it to have been a heart attack. The
question was did the blow happen before or after?
Leta Aider:
Her daughter, Violet was presumed dead in 1953 and her husband was
killed two years later, and Leta believed Abagail Fuller was
responsible for both deaths.
Violet Aider:
Next to Abagail fuller, she was the prettiest girl in the parish in
1953, but she vanished after the two girls had an argument over a
locket. The entire parish searched for her until they found hre bloody
sweater and decided a pack of wild dogs roaming in the area must have
killed her. They destroyed the dogs and Sheriff Clayton Fuller closed
the case.
Abagail Fuller:
The whole town believed this little girl was cursed crazy because her
mother and grandmother were "touched". When Sam leaped into her father
Clayton, Abagail had just found the body of Bart Aider, father of
Violet, a girl Abagail had been accused of murdering two years before.
The girls had gotten into a fight over a locket, and Abagail said
Violet had run off and that was the last she had seen of her. Violet’s
body was never found, but her bloody sweater was. Clayton was the
sheriff, and he closed the case, saying a pack of wild dogs must have
killed the girl. Violet’s mother Leta never stopped haranguing Abagail,
insisting she killed Violet. And when her husband Bart died under
mysterious circumstances, she believed Abagail killed him, too. Leta
tried to get Abagail to admit she killed Violet, and then set the
Fuller house on fire, hoping to kill Abagail. Sam rescued Abagail and
Leaped just before Clayton was killed.
Clayton Fuller:
Sam found himself as this Louisiana sheriff with a murder investigation
on his hands. He and his daughter Abagail were going to die in a house
fire on August 9, 1955, unless Sam changed history. The fire was
started by Leta Aider, who had lured Abagail to the house in hopes of
getting the child to confess the murder of her daughter. Sam rescued
Abagail and leaped seconds before Clayton died.
Laura Blanchette Fuller:
Clayton Fuller’s wife. After Sam leaped into Clayton, he was under the
impression that Laura was dead., but saw a "vision" of her when a gust
of wind blew closed his bedroom door. He found out from Abagail that
the night Violet Aider died, Laura and Clayton had a terrible argument
and she left. Sam found out that she had been committed to Peach Hill
Home fore the Mentally Ill that night. He visited and found her
uncommunicative, rocking in a chair and staring into space, though she
did seem to notice Al.
Reta Blanchette:
Laura Fuller’s mother killed all of her children except Laura after she
lost her husband and her money. Then she cut her own throat. The local
story was that she preferred to kill her babies than to see them
starve. Mr. Devareaux, who found the carnage, said she’d lost her mind.
The local legend had it that the family had one cursed child every
generation. First Reta, then Laura, now Abagail. Later it came out the
reason Laura wasn’t killed was that she had slipped down between the
beds and was not seen by her mother.
Marie Beth Billings: She worked as the
housekeeper for the Fuller family for thirty years.
Willis Gunerson Kinman:
Will Kinman was the son of a local doctor, and spoke with a stutter.
Doc Kinman:
Doctor in a small Louisiana town where Sam found himself as sheriff. He
couldn’t determine the cause of death of Bart Aider, and had to have
the coroner from Shreveport come in. His son is Will Kinman.
Bo Loman:
Clayton Fuller’s deputy who also helped to take Bart Aider’s body to
Doc Kinman.
Lawrence (Larry) Stanton III:
A small town Louisiana lawyer.
MOST INTERESTING PIECE OF TRIVIA:
The director James Whitmore, Jr. is actually the person in the mirror
that Sam leaps into! That’s one way to become a star!
SAM TRIVIA:
Leaping over a dead body holding an oar that could have caused the
damage is disconcerting.
Throughout most of the episode, Sam is afraid that a little girl who is
gentle and calm could have killed a man, namely, Bart Aider.
AL TRIVIA:
Al doesn’t like dead people – it is just re-iterated in this episode as
he comes into the room where Bart Aider’s body is placed for doing an
autopsy.
AL'S OUTFITS
1) Light blue shirt
Pink neon shiny tie
Multicolored (pink, red and blue) vest
Blue suit pants
Black belt.
2)
White suit
Black string tie
Talisman on lapel.
SAM'S ATTIRE
1) Light gray sheriff’s attire.
PERSONAL
REVIEW:
I love the Trilogy. I always have. It’s one of the
best stories that is out there involving so many people in a leap! It’s
great and I don’t care how many times I see it… I always see something
new… and this time was no different! Small nuisances always make the
show even better!
SAM’S
FIRST THOUGHTS OF THE LEAP:
Leaping in Time has brought me into many strange new
encounters but coming face to face with a dead man is probably my least
favorite. It happened if I remember correctly, twice before and each
time the same words echo through my brain. ‘I’m late. I’m too late.’
SAM'S
BEST LINES/AL'S BEST LINES:
Al’s Best Line:
Ohhhhhh… noo… dead people. I don’t like dead people.
Sam’s Best Line:
It’s okay to talk to people who have gone away. It helps to keep them
in your hearts.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
Bo: So what are you gonna tell Leta?
Sam: That he’s dead.
Bo: Yeah, she damn near
ripped your ears off the last time you brought Bart home when he was
alive.
Sam: Well, maybe we should
get the autopsy started before we call her.
Bo: Not an ice cube chance
in hell. The boys don’t got a phone and Doc Kinman and Daisy are out in
the boonies delivering that baby. Do you think that woman can drop that
baby after delivering sixteen?
Sam: Sixteen?
Bo: Sixteen – seventeen?
(Talk about a strong
woman! WOW!)
***
Abagail: Daddy?
Sam: Yeah?
Abagail: Tell me all the ways
that you love me.
Sam: Well… I love you like
the stars love the sky… like the sea loves the sand… like the flowers
love the bees.
Abagail: I love you
daddy.
***
Al: Sweet kid. That’s such a great age around
9 or 10.
Sam: Shhhh!
Al: So who’s gonna hear me?
When is the last time a hologram woke someone up?
***
Al: You’re a male, of the
Caucasian persuasion, fortyish, and you’re a … what is this… er…
Sheriff… you’re a Sheriff of a small town.
Sam: Al… Al… I know that
okay? My last name is Fuller, I’ve got a daughter named Abagail. Now
tell me something I don’t know.
***
Al: How do you know that
someone pushed him?
Sam: I don’t know anything
and I won’t know anything until the town doctor comes back and does an
autopsy OR you and Ziggy get me some data!
Al: Hey… hey… take it easy
will ya!
Sam: I can’t take it easy. I’m too frustrated
ok? I’ve been trying to get answer all day and I can’t get any from
anybody today – especially you!
Al: Ok. Just a sec. I’m
doing the best I can, you know.
BEST SCENE(S):
#
1: When Sam sees the vision of Laura Blanchette Fuller standing in the
hallway beyond his bedroom door! AWESOME effects!
#
2: When Sam tells Al about the Blanchette family… it’s interesting to
see the reactions!
Al: Clayton’s wife isn’t
dead.
Sam: What?
Al: She’s in a private
aslym just off Parish Road called Peach Hill for the mentally ill.
Sam: That’s great Al. She’ll
be able to give us some answers.
Al: Yeah, if she’s not too
mentally ill.
Sam: Listen Al, I need you
to have Ziggy find out what happened to Laura’s family. The Blanchette
family. Blanchette.
Al: Whaddaya mean, what
happened to them?
Sam: Well… except for
Abagail’s mother, Laura, they were all murdered.
Al: By who?
Sam: Laura’s mother -- Reta
Blanchette and then killed herself.
Al: Get outta here! She
killed her own kids?
Sam: Yeah, she… she slit
their throat then she… slit her own throat.
Al: This is too weird.
Well, we know that Laura’s still alive. No wonder she’s in the nut
house. Where you going?
Sam: To meet my wife.
# 3: Sam leaping into the arms of a beautiful woman making love to her.
CREW:
Executive
Producer:
Donald P. Bellisario
Written By:
Deborah Pratt
Directed By:
James Whitmore, Jr.
Theme by:
Mike Post
Music
By:
Velton Ray Bunch
Co-Executive
Producers:
Deborah Pratt
Chas. Floyd Johnson
Supervising Producer:
Richard C. Okie
Harker
Wade
Tommy
Thompson
Produced By:
Robin Jill Bernheim
Production
Designer:
Cameron Birnie
Set Decorator:
Robert L. Zilliox
Art Director:
Ellen Dambros-Williams
Costume Designers:
Jean-Pierre Dorleac
Jacqueline Saint Anne
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