Quantum Leap (TV Series)
Good Night, Dear Heart - November 9, 1957 (1990)
Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Melvin Spooner
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Quotes
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[after hearing Al's theory that Hilla had a crush on William Holden, Sam finds a poster for "Picnic" in her room]
Sam : You would've made a great Dr. Watson, Al.
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[at Hilla's grave]
Sam : I found this book of Mark Twain in her room, I think it was her favorite. Twain wrote this when his daughter died: "Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear heart, good night, good night."
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Sam : Who was she, Al? Who was she? What songs did she like to sing? Who did she dream about at night?
Al : William Holden.
Sam : What?
Al : William Holden. It's 1957, she's a teenager, she had to have a crush on either William Holden or James Dean. Knowing her background, my money's on Bill. I'll bet "Picnic" is the first movie she saw when she came to the United States.
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Al : If the chief finds the gun in the lake...
Sam : He won't. And even if he does, it just means that the killer threw the gun in the water.
Al : Boy, you won't give up, will you?
Sam : Not when I feel I'm right.
Al : All right, say you're right. We find the gun, even find someone to trace it to. What does that prove? You have no bullet to match it to.
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[Sam is watching Hilla's home movies]
Al : I've had a lot of fixations on women, but this...
Sam : It's not one of your cheap flings.
Al : Whatever. This is an obsession.
Sam : Look at her, Al. She's so young and beautiful and full of life. Is that a girl who could kill herself?
Al : This is 1957, Sam. An unmarried girl that got pregnant was an outcast. Sometimes, they'd end the pregnancy; sometimes, they'd even end their own lives.
Sam : Maybe Greg helped her do both.
Al : You really think he killed her?
Sam : Hilla tried to break up with Greg on the fourth. She said they fought all night. She broke with him, Al, but it was too late, she was pregnant. He's got to be the killer.
Al : But you've got no proof.
Sam : I've got feelings.
Al : Feelings? That's a song. You got no evidence. You got no gun, you got no bullet, you got nothin'.
Sam : I got her.
Al : You got shadow and light flickering on the wall, that's not Hilla. What you're seeing is in your imagination.
Sam : She's trying to tell me something, Al. I don't know that it is, but she's trying to tell me something.
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Greg : I was going to marry her. We were going to elope the night she died.
Roger : I don't believe it.
Sam : Neither do I. Hilla broke it off with you.
Greg : No, she didn't.
Sam : On the 4th of July, she told you she loved someone else. You fought and she ended it between you.
Greg : Who told you that?
Sam : Hilla... in her diary.
Greg : No, it wasn't me, not that weekend. I was at a tournament in Boston.
Lyle : That's right. The kid won. Brought back a real big trophy.
Greg : Whoever she broke it off with, it wasn't me. We just started dating each other around that time.
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Lyle : What do you want me to do, Melvin, arrest Mr. Truesdale for trying to get Hilla an abortion?
Sam : No, I want you to arrest him for murder.
Lyle : I can't do that.
Sam : Why? Because he bought you that badge?
Lyle : Nobody owns me, Melvin. Except maybe my wife.
Sam : Why won't you arrest him?
Lyle : Because, even if what you're saying it true, which I don't believe for a second it is, the D.A. will never prosecute. All you've got is a possible motive. You've got no weapon, not bullet, no witness. Hell, it'll never get past the grand jury. She committed suicide, Melvin. Now, put the poor girl in the ground... before she puts you there, too.
