5x22 Mirror Image - August 8, 1953 - Quantum Leap Episode Guide

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- Episode 05x22

Episode: 05x22
Title: Mirror Image - August 8, 1953
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 68126
First Aired: May. 05, 1993

Season 5 » Episode #22 - Mirror Image - August 8, 1953

Quantum Leap - 05x22 Mirror Image - August 8, 1953

Summary: August 8, 1953: Sam Beckett leaps into the not so ordinary town of Cokeburg, Pennsylvania. Sam has to save the lives two miners, Tonchi and Pete, and right a major wrong in Al's life all while puzzled about how he has leaped into himself at the exact moment he was born and is faced by many familar looking people.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Al the Bartender	played by Bruce McGill
Tonchi	played by John D'Aquino
Ziggy Ziganovich	played by Richard Herd
the Miner	played by William Morgan Sheppard
Gooshie	played by William Morgan Sheppard
Stawpah	played by Stephen McHattie
Mr. Collins	played by Mike Genovese
Beth Calavicci	played by Susan Diol
Mutta	played by Dan Butler

Season 5 / Episode 22: - Mirror Image - August 8, 1953

Al, the Bartender: You're not here to save them.
Sam: How did you know what I was thinking?
Al, the Bartender: A good bartender has to be part philosopher, part psychiatrist, part psycic.
Sam: Al, I'd like to talk to the philosopher part.
Al, the Bartender: I just stick to the basics.
Sam: Okay, okay. "To be or not to be," "I think therefore I am," That sort of thing?
Al, the Bartender: Uh-huh.
Sam: Uh-Huh. Why am I here?
Al, the Bartender: Why do you think you're?
Sam: No, no, no, no. That's answering a question with a question. That's psychiatrist stuff, all right? We're talking philosophy. Now why am I here?
Al, the Bartender: You're beginning to think you're here to save Tonchi and Pete.
Sam: But I'm not.
Al, the Bartender: Not directly.
Sam: What about indirectly?
Al, the Bartender: Who knows what Don Quixote can accomplish?
Sam: Who are you?
Al, the Bartender: Bartender.
Sam: Who knows everything?
Al, the Bartender: Only God knows everything.

Al, the Bartender: You don't really think I'm god, do you?
Sam: You're more than just a bartender.
Al, the Bartender: Well that's true. I own the place too.

Season 5 / Episode 22: - Mirror Image - August 8, 1953

Ziggy Ziganovich: Empty cabbages fly everywhere.
Sam: You mean empty cartridges.
Ziggy Ziganovich: Yeah, that too.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: A subtitle misspells Sam Beckett's name as "Becket".
DATE: Sam sees part of "Captain Z-Ro" (1955) on the TV. It is August 8, 1953 and "Captain Z-Ro" (1955) didn't start on TV until 1955.
CONT: Al tells Sam he doesn't know what it looks like when Sam Leaps, because every time it happens Al returns to the Imaging Chamber. This directly conflicts with several of the series' episodes where Al can clearly be seen reacting to Sam's Leaps, even waving goodbye in a couple of shows. The most notorious of these conflicts is from "Good Morning, Peoria" where Al stands too close to a radio antenna, glows blue, and thinks he's Quantum Leaping.
CONT: When Sam asks if he glows blue when he leaps Al tells him he does not know - He says the imaging chamber fades out and he does not see Sam leap, but in the episode "Good Morning Peoria" Al starts to glow blue when he is too close to the gutter that Sam has wired up and says "Hey look, I'm going to leap!"

TRIVIA

Some details about Sam, as revealed on his driver license: State of issue: New Mexico License number: 5738457 Date of issue: 08/02/95 Expires: 1998 Date of birth: 08/08/53 Sex: Male Hair: Brown Eyes: Green Height: 6' Weight: 175 Name and address: Sam Beckett P.O. Box 555 Stallion Springs, NM 87501-4893
Aside from series regulars, the only actor to be in both the first and last episodes was Bruce McGill. In the first episode he played "Weird Ernie" and in the final episode he played the unique bartender named "Al"
Leaps in on his actual day of birth (August 8th, 1953) as well as leaping in with his own body instead of leaping into someone else's life.
"Al the Bartender" was modeled after Donald P. Bellisario's father Albert Bellisario. The photographs in the bar are of Al Bellisario, and the photograph under the end credits is of Al Bellisario holding a young Donald Bellisario at an air show in Pittsburg PA.
The bar in the final episode is modeled after the bar that series creator Donald P. Bellisario's father had owned.

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