Episode
Adopted by:MikeKraken Additional
info provided by: Brian Greene
Synopsis:
Sam
becomes a bounty hunter taking a difficult woman back to justice...or
perhaps her death? He has to decipher her stories to find out if she is
telling the truth or just making up tall-tales to set her free. Al also
gives Sam his five stages of love in this episode.
TV Guide
Synopsis: Sam
may just
mutiny when he's a bounty hunter being broadsided by a rambunctious
woman (Jane Sibbett), who may or may not have stolen $1 million.
Rodney: Ken Marshall. Sheriff Michaels: Cliff Bemis. Jack: Michael
McCarty. Bill: Dale Swann. Sam: Scott Bakula.
Sam
leaps into bountyhunter Gordon O'Reilly, a man in a phone booth
hand-cuffed to a beautiful woman. She cries out that she needs help and
that Sam is her ex-husband who beats her and two good Samaritans come
to her aid. She doesn't want to involve the sheriff Sheriff Michaels
(Cliff Bemis), however, and implores them to get the key to the
handcuffs. They reach in the wrong pocket, however, and discover that
Sam is actually a bounty hunter who's in the process of transporting
three-time escape fugitive Diane Frost (Jane Sibbett) to jail. Al
announces that, according to Ziggy's information gathered of the
original history of events, Diane will kill Sam, as she did Gordon, his
leapee, while escaping from his custody, and then be killed trying to
escape justice herself.
Sam and Diane get on a bus but the driver saw the altercation and warns
Sam that one false move and he'll throw him off the bus. Diane causes
all sorts of trouble and tries to escape repeatedly, ultimately
starting a fight between the hapless Sam and the man sitting across the
aisle and the pair are stranded in the middle of nowhere at night.
Al is being no help because while Ziggy says there is a 99.9% chance
that she is guilty, Diane looks a lot like Al's fifth wife Maxine whom
Al divorced after being 99.9% sure she was cheating on him. He was
wrong then, and he thinks Ziggy is wrong now. After Diane attacks him
some more and they both fall into some manure, Sam ties her up tightly
and they wait out the night and the storm in a barn.
The pair attempt to hitchhike in the morning but do not have much luck.
Diane claims the handcuffs are freaking people out and so Sam takes
them off. A car stops and Diane gets in, quickly telling the driver to
leave Sam behind. Al shows up to diagnose Sam and Diane as having
belligerent sexual tension like he and Maxine used to have. He is more
helpful when he says that Diane was booted from the car just around the
corner for smelling like manure and Sam catches up to her again.
They get a motel room so that the pair can take a shower and they wait
for the Sheriff Michaels to show up. Diane explains that she did steal
a million dollars worth of checks but it was for a good cause. Her
employer, a one Rodney Owens (Ken Marshall), was swindling the elderly
out of their life savings (including Diane's mother) and so she's
trying to return the money. Sam isn't sure that he believes her. He and
Diane make out and then Diane sneaks out the bathroom window. Sam
quickly catches her but she forces him to handcuff himself to the
railing at gunpoint. The gun turns out to be a fake that Diane
shoplifted and just as Diane is secretly paying the owner of the motel
back, Sam catches up to her.
The sheriff then arrives, and Sam is glad to see the back of her. Al
warns him that Diane is still going to die and, so, Sam chases after
the sheriff's car. Al centers on Diane and discovers that the Sheriff
Michaels is corrupt and in the pocket of Diane's former employer Owens.
They make her take them to the train tracks where she hid the money.
Diane tries again to escape but when the sheriff threatens to kill her
mother, she gives them the money. Sam arrives and jumps on Rodney just
as he is about to shoot Diane. A brief fight breaks out and Diane holds
her own.
When it's over, Diane threatens to shoot Sam if he tries to take the
money and he promises he's not after that. She decides to trust him and
they mail all the investors their money back before Diane turns herself
into state jail where the charges are dropped and the corrupt sheriff
is prosecuted. Sam jokes that Diane should become a bounty hunter and
she becomes one of the best in the business..Source
Personal Review by MikeKraken:
When
Sam leaps into a
bounty hunter, he finds himself cuffed to a woman
charged with embezzlement who seems to be quite adept at escaping her
captors. Did she really sign one million dollars worth of cheques to
frame her boss? Ziggy says that's a 99.9% probability of being true,
but Al thinks otherwise.
This is one
of the more humorous episodes, with the serious drama not
presenting itself until toward the end of the show. There's not much to
say about this episode, except that we learn about one of Al's wives.
It's good for a few laughs, but that's about it. I found this one more
aimed at being comedic than the normal mix that Quantum Leap has.
Music:
"Nights on Broadway" by The Beegees plays briefly when Sam switches on
a TV. It is being covered by Donny and Marie Osmond on their show of the same name.
Project Trivia:
Handlink: colored cubes / gummy bear version
Al Trivia:
His fifth wife, Maxine, looks like Diane Frost. He met Maxine in Jersey
City in a tattoo parlor. He divorced her because he was "99.9% sure"
that she was cheating on him with a marine, but found out after the
divorce that she wasn't.
Al's
Outfits
Worn in the Episode:
First, second, and third appearances: Red tie, red vest, darker red on
front, black on back, silver pendant on left breast, lighter red shirt,
black slacks; watch, unlit cigar. (Imaging Chamber Door only used to
leave the third
time)
Fourth and fifth appearances: White dress coat with silver design
lines down the front, blue dress shirt, dark dress pants, unlit cigar,
string tie with silver glittery buckle, white shoes, black belt with
grey buckle. (no Imaging Chamber Door)
Al's
Women: Al talks alot about his
fifth wife, Maxine in this episode.
He also
thinks Diane is a looker.
Miscellaneous
Trivia: "A
Hunting We Will Go"
is the title of a nursery rhyme:
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a fox and put her
in a box. And then we’ll let her go.
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a fish and put him
in a dish. And then we’ll let him go.
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a cat and put her
in a hat. And then we’ll let her go.
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a goat and put him
in a boat. And then we’ll let him go.
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a bear and put him
in a chair. And then we’ll let him go.
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a sheep and put her
in a jeep. And then we’ll let her go.
A hunting we will go, a hunting
we will go. We’ll catch a snake and put him
on a cake. And then we’ll let him go.
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Rubber
handcuffs were made to keep Jane Sibbet's wrists from swelling.
As
originally written, Scott Bakula didn't put his shirt back on for the
remainder of the episode! However, it was cold in the Sierra highlands
where they filmed, so they wrote it back on.
Regular Cast:
Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett
Dean Stockwell as Al Calavicci
Guest Stars:
Jane Sibbett as Diane Frost
Ken Marshall as Rodney Owens
Cliff Bemis as Sheriff Michaels
Michael McCarty as Jack
Dale Swann as Bill
Jeffrey King as Luke Warren Barrington (as Warren
Harrington) as Clive
Maxine Elliott as Edwine
Dorothy Blass as Cashier
Ken Kells as Gordon (Mirror image)
Jane
Sibbett as Diane Frost: The
youngest of five happy children, Jane Sibbett was born in Berkeley,
California to William Ryan Sibbett IV and social butterfly "Sis" Gaines
Sibbett. After a few years in Orinda, California, the Sibbett family
moved to the idyllic island of Alameda where destiny bellowed at her
daily in the form of a gruff neighbor. It was here that her best
friends' father would announce daily upon her always shy, red-cheeked
arrival, "Here is Jane Sibbett -- Star of Stage, Screen, Radio, and
Television!" In the late 70s Jane did become a teenage DJ and station
manager at K-RAT in Sacramento, California, as well as make her
theatrical debut at the Eagle Theater. Though always dreaming of being
a writer, Jane so loved being able to lose her still shy self in
acting, she applied to enter the theater program at UCLA, gaining a
spot on the prestigious Acting Continuum under magnificent Jennifer
Penny Rountree. Upon graduating from UCLA, Jane continued working with
the women of the Continuum, going on to act, write and co-produce
several long running, much lauded plays in Los Angeles. Jane's acting
career continued to keep her busy enough that even her honeymoon with
writer/producer/director Karl Fink had to be squeezed into a hiatus
week before the wedding. She and her husband remain busy and blissful
in ongoing collaboration with one another and their three children on
an animal packed farm in Southern California. (However, they divorced
in 2016.) Jane's best friends remain so after nearly 40 years and their
father, who heralded Jane's destiny, is most gratefully still looking
for his due in her continuing success.
Quantum
Leap Podcast Interview with Jane Sibbett: This is a
supplemental interview with Jane Sibbett. This does not take the place
of our normal show, but is just a little something extra for the QLP
listeners… Enjoy!
Ken Marshall as Rodney Owens: Kenneth
"Ken" Marshall was born on June 27, 1950 in New York City, New York,
USA. He is an actor. He gained international attention for playing the
title role in the Italian-based historical TV-series Marco Polo (1982),
with Burt Lancaster and Leonard Nimoy. Other Italian productions were
Liliana Cavani's The Skin (1981) and Sergio Sollima's Berlin '39
(1993). He is especially known for his roles in science-fictions films
and TV-series such as Krull 1983 and Quantum Leap 1989. In 1997 he
received a nomination (OFTA Television Award) for best male actor as
Lt. Commander Michael Eddington in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Cliff Bemis as
Sheriff Michaels: Born May 21, 1948 in Amherst, Ohio, USA. Cliff
was a 1966 graduate of Clearview High School in Lorain, OH, and has
been inducted into the CHS Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. He has
established the Cliff Bemis Music Theatre Scholarship at
Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH, from which he graduated in 1970.
He is also the recipient of the 1998 Alumni Merit Award. He also
narrated with the Cleveland Orchestra for their Young People's
Concerts. Cliff was one of the original cast members of the musical
"Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living in Paris," which played for
over two years on Playhouse Square in Cleveland. That show is widely
recognized as the show which helped save this historic theatre
district. For seven seasons, he was a regular guest artist at The
Cleveland Play House. He was also a regular singer of the National
Anthem for the Cleveland Indians, Browns, and Cavaliers, as well as the
Cleveland National Air Show. In 1987, while performing on stage
together at Kenley Players, Cliff met and became friends with actor
Robby Benson (star of "One on One," and the voice of the Beast in
"Beauty and the Beast,") and his wife actress/singer Karla DeVito. They
encouraged Cliff to move to LA, which he did, where he continued to
build upon his career. Cliff has appeared in over 70 different TV shows
including "Law and Order, SVU," "White Collar," "Arliss," "Married With
Children," "Dallas," "Newhart," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Cheers,"
"Coach," and "Murder She Wrote" to name a few, and was featured in the
films "Pink Cadillac" with Clint Eastwood, "Distinguished Gentlemen"
with Eddie Murphy, and "Naked Gun 2 1/2." In the early 1990's, Cliff
began his reign as the TV spokesperson for the IHOP restaurant chain.
For ten years "Cliff from IHOP" was recognized all over the country,
appearing in all of the TV ads, as well as making personal appearances
for IHOP all over the USA and Canada, where he autographed over 75,000
"Cliff at IHOP" pictures. For ten years, Cliff was also a volunteer
during the Christmas holidays at The White House, serving on a team
which prepares this historic home for the holidays, and met both
Presidents and First Ladies Bush and Clinton on several different
occasions. Cliff's musical interests have resulted in three recordings,
including a Christmas CD titled "Christmas Eve," featuring his vocal
talents on the traditional music of the season. He has also released
three instrumental CDs of favorite hymns titled "Hear My Prayer, Vol.
I, II and III." To find out more about Cliff and his family,
adventures, and to purchase his CDs, visit his Website at
www.cliffbemis.com.
Michael McCarty
as Jack: Michael
McCarty was born on September 7, 1946 in Evansville, Indiana, USA. He
was an actor, known for Dead Man (1995), The Legend of Bagger Vance
(2000) and Casper (1995). He died on September 26, 2014 in Santa
Barbara, California, USA.
Dale Swann as
Bill: Dale
Swann was born on January 21, 1948 in Harrisburg, Illinois, USA. He was
an actor, known for Tango & Cash (1989), Tales from the Crypt:
Demon Knight (1995) and Drop Zone (1994). He died on April 9, 2009 in
Alton, Illinois, USA.
Jeffrey King as
Luke: Kathleen
Chalfant, K. Todd Freeman, Ron Leibman, Cynthia Mace, Joe Mantello,
Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Spinella and he were awarded the 1992 Drama
Logue Award for Ensemble Performance for "Angels in America" Part One
"Millennium Approaches" and Part Two: "Perestroika" in a Gordon
Davidson/Mark Taper Forum production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in
Los Angeles, California.
Warren Barrington (as Warren
Harrington) as Clive: Warren Barrington is known for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), Quantum Leap (1989) and Phenom (1993).
Maxine Elliott as
Edwine: Born October 5, 1904 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Died on January 10, 2000 in San Clemente, California, USA. Maxine
Elliott Hicks' parents were George W. & Margaret Hicks. They are
listed in the 1910 Colorado census and then show up in 1920, 1930 and
1940 census records in California. On George W. Hicks' death
certificate is shows his mother's maiden name as Joslyn. Maxine was
married several times, one being a Dodge. Adolescent leading lady of
the silent screen, on stage from the age of five. Retired from acting
for four decades following a dispute between her mother and Jack Warner
(of Warner Brothers) in the early 30's. She re-emerged in the 1970's as
a character actress.
Dorothy Blass as
Cashier: Dorothy
Blass is known for Quantum Leap (1989), The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
(1990) and The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe (2013).
Ken Kells as
Gordon (Mirror image): Ken Kells is known for The Rock (1996), The Last Boy Scout (1991) and The Big Lebowski (1998).
Say
What? Al says he is going to do some research, but we hear the relocation sound instead of the Imaging Chamber door sound.
The
Bionic Woman episode that Sam and Diane watch actually aired for the
first time on March 4, 1978 - two years after this episode takes place.
It was called, appropriately, "Out of Body."
The Donnie & Marie episode that Sam watches
did not air until a year after this episode takes place.
The countdown to Diane's death goes from about
two minutes to 20 seconds rapidly.
Al's cigar changes position and even disappears
as Sam and Diane look through the envelopes.
Quotable Quotes:
Watch out for
that bush behind you, it's full off...
AH! THORNS!
-- Al and Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go"
She's innocent ... Sam, I can see it in her eyes.
You do not. You may feel it in your loins, but you definitely
do not see it in her eyes.
Sam!
What?
I feel it in my loins.
-- Al and Sam, about Al's reaction to Diane, "A Hunting We Will Go"
I'm glad I'm a hologram and don't have to smell you - you must really
reek.
-- Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
She looks exactly like Maxine, my fifth wife. Did I ever tell
you how I met her? She was in a tattoo parlor...
-- Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
Her name is Diane, not Maxine!
Yeah, I know that.
-- Sam and Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
I was 99.9 percent sure that she was cheating on me with another guy
... and a Marine!
-- Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
This is great ... I'm stuck out here in the middle of nowhere
handcuffed to a woman that's trying to kill me and my best friend is
trying to work through guilt about his fifth wife.
-- Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go"
I'm only human.
That's a matter of opinion.
-- Diane and Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go"
Sam, what are you doing down there? This is no time to take a
snooze!
-- Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
What is this stuff?
Manure.
-- Diane and Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go"
This is the leap from Hell! When is it going to end?
-- Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go"
There are five stages of love, the first is denial, second is sex, then
there's acceptance, then is divorce, and then there's sex, if you're
lucky. ... it's a theory of mine and a darn good one!
-- Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
Thank God my wife Maxine couldn't kick like that!
-- Al, "A Hunting We Will Go"
If you're a crook it's kind of hard to pursue a career in law
enforcement.
-- Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go"
I'm a bounty hunter?
Did you grow up around a nuclear reactor?
-- Sam and Diane, "A Hunting We Will Go"
Best Line:
Al: "Sam, I can see it in her eyes.
Sam: "You do not. You may feel it in your loins, but you definitely do
not see it in her eyes!"
Al: "Saaam! ... I feel it in my loins."
Best Scene:
The scene at the motel, after they've checked in until Sheriff Michaels
comes to arrest Diane. It demonstrates the humor and seriousness of
the episode.
Production
Credits:
Theme by: Mike Post
Music by: Velton Ray Bunch
Co-Executive Producer: Deborah Pratt Co-Executive Producer:
Michael Zinberg Supervising Producers:
Harker Wade
Co-producers: Paul Brown, Jeff Gourson
Produced by: Chris Ruppenthal
Created by: Donald P. Bellisario Written by: Beverly Bridges
Directed by:Andy Cadiff
Executive Producer: Donald P. Bellisario
Associate Producer:James S. Giritlian
Executive Story Editor: Tommy Thompson Director of Photography: Jud Kehl
Production Designer: Cameron Birnie Edited by: James Coblentz, Jerry U. Frizell, A.C.E..
Unit Production Manager: Ron Grow
First Assistant Director: Kevin Corcoran Second Assistant Director: Kate Yurka Casting by: Ellen Lubin
Sanitsky
Set Director: Robert L. Zilliox
Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Dorleac
Costume Supervisors: David Rawley & Donna Roberts-Orme
Sound Mixer: Barry
D. Thomas Stunt Coordinator: Diamond
Farnsworth
Sound Editor: Paul Clay
Music Editor: Donald Woods
Panaflex ® Camera and
Lenses by: Panavision ®
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countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may
result in civil liability and criminal prosecution.
The
characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any
similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Bellisarius Productions and Universal, an MCA Company
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Get set
for handcuffs and hijinks because it’s A Hunting We Will Go!
On this episode of the Quantum Leap Podcast, hosts Allison Pregler,
Matt Dale and Christopher DeFilippis laugh at Sam’s expense, as he
Leaps into a bounty hunter who must bring a beautiful and beguiling
fugitive to justice.
It’s a whirlwind of slapstick and romance Quantum Leap style!
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