Quantum Leap (TV Series)

A Single Drop of Rain - September 7, 1953 (1991)

Patrick Massett: Ralph Beaumont

Quotes 

• Ralph Beaumont : Let me make it simple for you. Things are damn tough here in Clover Bend. But the folks, well, we're tough too. We can take just about anything the good Lord dishes out, so long as we look it square in the eye. You get my meaning?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [as Billy]  So you don't want me raisin' false hopes with all this rain talk. Is that it?

  Ralph Beaumont : The drought's dried up a lot more than soil around here, Billy. It's dried up a lot of soul, most of 'em, and it ain't gonna take a whole lot of your hot air to blow us all away.

• [Sam has provoked Ralph into a fist fight, to get him to admit his love for Annie] 

  Ralph Beaumont : I loved her in second grade before you ever saw her! I loved her in high school when she was sweet on you because you played quarterback.

  [fighting] 

  Ralph Beaumont : I used to flatten the tires on Daddy's truck so you two couldn't go parking.

  [more fighting] 

  Ralph Beaumont : And still you, you took her away from me.

  [punches Sam] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : And she... was... wonderful.

  Ralph Beaumont : And after, after you left town, I still loved her. I'd hug her and I'd kiss her, and I'd look into her eyes, and they'd be hollow and sad, 'cause I just wasn't you, Billy. Damn it to hell, I still loved her. And after I made love to her, and after I'd asked her to marry me, she still wanted you. And I wished to God that I was you. I still love her.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Don't tell me. Tell her.