When
the episode re-aired after "Freedom", the updated leap effect was added
to the leap-in sequence!
105 "Double
Identity"
Leap
Dates:
November
8, 1965
November 9, 1965
Episode
adopted by: Albingo Additional
info provided by: Brian Greene
Synopsis:
Sam Beckett leaps
into the life of Frankie LaPalma, a
Mafia hitman in love with with the mob boss's girlfriend, Teresa.
Don
Geno is on to him and no amout of "Volare" can get him out of it.
Meanwhile,
Al and the project are trying again to retrieve him and they speculate
that Sam must duplicate the events of his leap-in for the retrieval
process to work.
Then
in a second leap within the same situation, Sam has to put things right
in an entirely different way.
TV
Guide Synopsis: When
the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. But when
you're a hit man fooling around with a mobster's girl in 1965 like Sam
(Scott Bakula), that's a mess. Teresa: Terri Garber. Geno: Michael
Genovese. Tony: Joe Santos. Observer: Dean Stockwell.
Place:
Brooklyn, New York
Leap Dates: First leap: Monday,
November 8, 1965 Second leap: Tuesday,
November 9, 1965
Name of the
Person Leaped Into: First leap: Frankie LaPalma
Second leap: Don Geno Frascati
"That’s Amoré" by Dean Martin plays by the band at the leap-in sequence.
"Volare"
by Domenico Modugno is performed by Scott Bakula
"Stop in the Name of
Love" by The Supremes is playing in the barbershop.
"Hang On Sloopy" by
the McCoys, a song
about mismatched lovers.
Project
Trivia:
It's very hot in the imaging chamber, as Al uses a fan frequently.
We never see the
imaging chamber door in this episode. Also there are
no 'whooshing noises' to indicate that the imaging door has actually
opened.
Al's
Women:
Al mentions a Hannah Gretz who was one of Al's first lady friends. She
was Al's fourth grade classmate, who he terrorized by dipping her
pigtails into the inkwells. He did this until he figured out that it
was more fun to take her into the schools cloakroom.
Al observes a bridesmaid as well.
Al's
Outfits Worn in the Episode: 1. Green, Orange, & White Hawaiian
shirt 2. Fur Coat, Fur Hat, Red & Black scarf
Miscellaneous
Trivia:
Doctor Zhivago" is playing at the cinema when Sam and Frankie's family
walks down the street. Dr Zhivago was one of the biggest films of 1965,
and is ironically also about a love triangle.
This is the first
time a reversed room was not utilized for the mirror shot.
This is the only time in the series that we see the Leapee after Sam leaps out.
Kiss With History: The northeast
blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in
the supply
of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts
of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
and Vermont in
the United States. Over 30 million
people and 80,000 square miles
(207,000 km2)
were left without electricity for up to 13 hours.
Regular
Cast:
Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett
Dean Stockwell as Al
Guest
Stars: Terri
Garber as
Teresa Pacci
Michael Genovese as Don Geno Frascati
Joe Santos as Tony LaPalma
Tom Silardi as Segundo
LaPalma
Page Mosely as Francesco ‘Frankie’ LaPalma (Mirror image) Nick
Casavettes as Primo LaPalma
Harriet Medin as Nonna
Mark Margolis
as Adriano
Dean Fortunato as Father Sebastian
Ric Mancini as
Al
Joseph Svezia as Student
John Hostetter as Burt Michael
Franco as Charlie
Patricia Veselich as Angela
Terri Garber as Teresa Pacci: Terri
Garber is an American television and film actress, best known for her
role as Ashton Main, Southern Belle vixen, in the three-part
miniseries, North and South (North & South: Book 1, North &
South (1985), North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986), and
North & South: Book 3, Heaven & Hell (1994)).
Garber grew up in Miami, Florida, the youngest of three children. Their
father was a lawyer, and their mother owned a cooking school. Garber
began acting in professional theater at the age of 16 at the Coconut
Grove Playhouse in Miami. She booked a commercial that made her a
member of the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) and decided to move to New
York to pursue television, film, and theater. Once in New York, she
landed her first big role in the 1982 television series Texas (1980),
which launched her career. She moved to Los Angeles to do series
pilots, and booked "North and South". After "North and South", she
worked on many other daytime and nighttime soaps, including Dynasty,
Santa Barbara, General Hospital, and As the World Turns. She also
guest-starred in many drama series and feature films.
Garber married her high school drama teacher, William Roudebush, in
2013. Her daughter Molly Hager, by her first husband Chris Hager, is a
successful Broadway actress. Recently, Garber teamed up with her
sister, Lisa Rubenstein, to create an all-natural, handmade soap
company by the name of SistersAlchemy. Garber lives in New York City
with Roudebush and their maltese-poodle mix, Boo.
Michael Genovese as Don Geno Frascati: Born
and raised in St. Louis, MO, Mike Genovese taught acting at Webster
College from 1969 to 1973. There, he also began his professional acting
career with the Lorreto Hilton Repertory Theatre, now the St. Louis
Repertory Theatre. While performing in Washington, D.C., he met his
future and present wife, TV/film actress Ellen Crawford. His career
continued after he moved to Chicago and later Los Angeles.
A veteran character actor, Genovese has appeared in many films such as
two Richard Pryor billed vehicles: "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling"
(1986) and "Harlem Knights", which also co-starred Eddie Murphy, Redd
Foxx and Della Reese, and guest roles on TV series such as "The Dukes
of Hazzard", "Star Trek:The Next Generation", "Family Matters", "NYPD
Blue", "Quantum Leap", "Arli$$", "ER", Chicago Hope" and "JAG", just to
mention a few. For "ER", the long-running medical drama which airs on
NBC, Genovese appeared in a recurring role as Officer Al Grabarsky,
where he appeared opposite his real life wife, actress Ellen Crawford,
who was as cast regular as Nurse Lydia Wright, his character's
girlfriend. He appeared in twelve episodes of the series from 1994
through 2000.
In 1979, Mike had a notable performance as Philip Marlowe at Chicago's
Organic Theater in Stuart Gordon directed adaptation of Raymond
Chandler's "The Little Sister." In 2005, he appeared as Rev. Tollhouse
in "The Book of Liz" play by Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris at the 2nd
Stage Theatre, Hollywood.
Joe Santos as Tony LaPalma: A
Brooklyn-born "working class" actor of Italian descent, character actor
Joe Santos started out in life as Joseph John Minieri, Jr. on June 9,
1931. Sadly, his father died on the same day as Joe's birth. His mother
Rose (née Sarno) Minieri, who later became a nightclub owner and singer
in New York City and Havana, later became the wife of Puerto Rican-born
Daniel Santos and the young boy took his stepfather's surname. Reared
in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, Santos attended military schools,
served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and became a football
jock at Fordham University. He turned semi-pro at one point before
acting on his urges toward drama.
Santos toiled in a number of blue-collar jobs (railroad worker, tree
trimmer, cabbie, barkeep) while taking acting classes and searching for
work. Debuting with a bit on the TV series "Naked City," the young
hopeful found some work in with bit parts in the films Cross-Country
Romance (1940) and The Detective (1968) and three of his cousin Joseph
W. Sarno's film exploitations -- Flesh and Lace (1965), Moonlighting
Wives (1966) and My Body Hungers (1967) -- in the late 1960s, but they
lead virtually nowhere.
Joe's first real break came with a featured role as a tough urban in
the searing film downer The Panic in Needle Park (1971), brought about
thanks to the prodding of his friend and star of the film, the
up-and-coming Al Pacino, who had played some softball with Santos. This
was followed by a couple of featured roles in the "blaxploitation"
flicks The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972) and Shaft's Big Score!
(1972). A prime role as a sympathetic sergeant in the acclaimed TV
mini-series The Blue Knight (1973) led Santos in the direction of
primarily "good cop" parts on such urban crime shows, including "Toma,"
"Barnaby Jones," The Streets of San Francisco," "Baretta," "Joe
Forrester" and several episodes of the anthology series "Police Story."
The most noteworthy, however, was the long-running role as James
Garner's beleaguered, long-suffering friend and contact, Lt. Dennis
Becker, on the series The Rockford Files (1974) for which he earned an
Emmy nomination in 1979.
Joe also provided strong, atmospheric support in 70's urban crime films
for such stars as Burt Reynolds in Shamus (1973); Robert Mitchum in The
Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); Anthony Quinn in The Don Is Dead (1973);
and John Marley in Blade (1973).
Following the "Rockford" success, the beefy, balding Santos moved into
a lighter 80's vein, first as a divorced dad at odds with raising an
11-year-old daughter in the short-lived (10 episode) sitcom Me and Maxx
(1980) and as comedian Paul Rodriguez's dad in the even briefer (6
episode) comedy series a.k.a. Pablo (1984). In addition, he found guest
parts in "Trapper John," "Hill Street Blues," The 'A' Team," "Remington
Steele," "T.J. Hooker," "The New Twilight Zone," and a recurring role
as Lt. Harper on Hardcastle and McCormick (1983), as well as brief
running part on the daytime soap Santa Barbara (1984) and several
returning "Rockford" TV movies, again with James Garner between
1994-1999.
Into the millennium, Santos received strong, deserved notice in 2004
for his recurring role as "Consigliere Angelo Garepe" in the hit man
hit series The Sopranos (1999). Following roles in the films Beyond
Suspicion (2000), Hammerlock (2000), Proximity (2001) and The Man from
Elysian Fields (2001), he was little seen, but did return for an
isolated film appearance in his final movie Chronic (2015) starring Tim
Roth as a home care nurse for the terminally ill.
Joe also dabbled in play-writing, having penned "Sunset Normandie", in
which he also starred. Married to longtime Cuban wife Maria Montero
until her death in 1988, Santos died in Santa Monica, California, at
the age of 84 on March 18, 2016, a few days after suffering a heart
attack. He was survived by three children: Perry, Joe Jr. and Lili.
Tom Silardi as Segundo LaPalma : Tom Silardi is known for Bull Durham (1988), I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) and The Benchwarmers (2006).
Page Mosely as Francesco ‘Frankie’ LaPalma (Mirror image): Page
Mosely was born on May 6, 1959 in North Carolina, USA. He is an actor,
known for Quantum Leap (1989), The Jigsaw Murders (1989) and What's
Love Got to Do with It (1993).
Nick Casavettes as Primo LaPalma: Nick
Cassavetes was born in New York City, the son of actress Gena Rowlands
and Greek-American actor and film director John Cassavetes. As a child,
he appeared in two of his father's films: Husbands (1970) and A Woman
Under the Influence (1974). After spending so much of his youth
surrounded by the film industry, Cassavetes initially decided he did
not want to go into the field. He instead attended Syracuse University
on a basketball scholarship. His athletic career was effectively ended
by an injury, and he decided to rethink his aspirations, ultimately
deciding to attend his parents' alma mater, the American Academy
of Dramatic Arts in New York. He has appeared in the films, Face/Off
(1997), The Wraith (1986), Life (1999), Class of 1999 II: The
Substitute (1994), Backstreet Dreams (1990) and The Astronaut's Wife
(1999), among others. He has directed several films, including John Q
(2002), Alpha Dog (2006), She's So Lovely (1997), Unhook the Stars
(1996), The Notebook (2004), and My Sister's Keeper (2009). He also
adapted the screenplay for Blow (2001) and wrote the dialogue for the
Justin Timberlake music video, "What Goes Around... Comes Around". In
1985, Cassavetes married Isabelle Rafalovich. They had two daughters
together, Virginia Cassavetes (Virginia Sara Cassavetes) (born in 1986)
and Sasha Cassavetes (born in 1988), before divorcing. He then married
Heather Wahlquist (Heather "Queenie" Wahlquist), who has appeared in
several of his films, including a small role in The Notebook (2004) as
Sara, a secondary character and best friend to the female lead Allie
Hamilton, portrayed by Rachel McAdams. The movie is effectively a
family project, as Cassavetes's own mother, Gena Rowlands, appears as
the older, married Allie Calhoun.
Harriet Medin as Nonna: Born
in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 14, 1914, Harriet White Medin
started out as a dental assistant and cleaned the teeth of young John
and Robert Kennedy. After deciding to pursue work in the theater and
playing a role on Broadway, she joined the USO and this led to her
becoming the first American actress to relocate to post-war Italy and
work in Italian films, beginning with Roberto Rossellini's Paisan
(1946). Her following role was the lead in a dramatic film about the
life of a saint, Genoveffa di Brabante (1947). She never found success
as anything but a character actress and was often typecast as starchy,
prim housewives and housekeepers. Orson Welles wanted her to play the
role of Emilia in his Othello, but Harriet's inability to remain at the
beck and call of Welles' shooting schedule forced him to recast the
role with Fay Compton. When she realized that her acting career was at
a standstill, she began working as a dialogue coach, helping Italian
actors with their English. She became the personal assistant of Gina
Lollobrigida in this respect for many years, and also assisted
directors working in Italy, among them Vittorio De Sica, Joseph Losey,
Raoul Walsh and John Huston. She witnessed some extraordinary things in
film history, including the death of Tyrone Power on the set of Solomon
and Sheba (for which she blamed George Sanders) and the filming of the
famous Trevi fountain scene in La Dolce Vita (1960), in which she
played Edna, Anita Ekberg's personal assistant. In the early 1960s,
Harriet entered the Italian horror boom when they needed actors who
could speak English, the better for the movies to seem British or
American rather than Italian. She played the housekeepers in Riccardo
Freda's _Orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock, L' (1962), played important
red herring parts in Bava's The Whip and the Body (1963) and Blood and
Black Lace (1964), and also appeared in Elio Scardamaglia's The Murder
Clinic (1966).
After assisting John Huston on Reflections in a Golden Eye, Harriet was
persuaded by her friend, director Andrew Marton, to come and live in
his guest house in Hollywood. One day, while doing the dishes, she
decided that her marriage (to art director Gastone Medin) was over, and
she accepted Marton's invitation by walking out on her old life,
leaving the sink full of dirty dishes. After relocating to California,
she did a fair amount of work in television (in addition to playing
Henry Fonda's date in an episode of Family, she appeared on Bonanza,
The A-Team, Northern Exposure and many other shows) and low-budget
films. As a SAG member, she had to play the blind girl's mother in
Schlock (1973) under the pseudonym of "Enrica Blankey." She also played
the President of the United States in Death Race 2000 (1975), one of
Linda Hamilton's diner customers in The Terminator (1984) and a grocery
shopper in The Witches of Eastwick (1987). She narrated the trailer for
George Romero's Hungry Wives (Season of the Witch).
Mark Margolis as Adriano: Mark
Margolis was an American actor who is well-known for his collaborations
with film director Darren Aronofsky, particularly Pi (1998), Requiem
for a Dream (2000), Noah (2014), Black Swan (2010), and The Fountain
(2006). Margolis also gained notoriety for his portrayal of "Tio"
Hector Salamanca in the highly successful crossover series Breaking Bad
(2008) and Better Call Saul (2015). He also acted in the hit films Ace
Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and Scarface (1983). He has been married
to Jacqueline Margolis since 1962 and has one child with her.
Dean Fortunato as Father Sebastian: Dean
Fortunato was born in 1960 in Skokie, Illinois, USA. He is an actor,
known for Bad Boys (1983), Seinfeld (1989) and Quantum Leap (1989). He
is Jewish and has an Italian-Catholic grandfather. He had to beg his
parents who were lackadaisical about religion, to send him to Hebrew
school, not because he loved Judaism but because all his friends went.
He attended DePaul University from 1979-1982. He guest starred in two
unrelated television series featuring a regular character named Sam
Beckett: China Beach (1988) and Quantum Leap (1989).
Ric Mancini as Al: Ric
Mancini was born on April 16, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He
was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Friday the 13th: A New
Beginning (1985) and Ed Wood (1994). He was married to Marilyn Chris.
He died on May 26, 2006 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
Joseph Svezia as Student: Joe Svezia is known for Quantum Leap (1989), Body Count (1995) and Book of Love (1990).
John Hostetter as Burt: John
Hostetter was born on October 6, 1946 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA. He
was an actor, known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Vampire Hunter D:
Bloodlust (2000) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). He was married to Del
Louise Appleby. He died on September 2, 2016 in New Smyrna Beach,
Florida, USA.
Michael Franco as Charlie: Michael Franco is known for Frankenstein General Hospital (1988), Fist of the North Star (1995) and Quantum Leap (1989).
Patricia Veselich as Angela: Patricia Veselich is known for Quantum Leap (1989), Bad Dreams (1988) and Cheers (1982).
Guests Who
Appeared in Other Episodes of Quantum Leap: Michael Genovese also appeared in "Mirror Image" as Mr. Collins.
Say What? In the mirror, a cumberbund appears that
wasn't there a moment before.
Sam states that he was ten years old in
'65, but according to his birthdate, he was actually twelve.
Al
somehow knows what Frankie's father and Don Geno talked about outside,
but Al hadn't arrived yet. Was he hanging out outside and we didn't see?
The movie theater is showing the film "Dr.
Zhivago" but the movie wasn't released until December 1965. This takes place in November.
Maybe I'm here to start the unisex revolution.
-- Sam, "Double Identity"
You'd trust your leap to them?
I trust you and Ziggy ...
-- Al and Sam, "Double Identity"
Did you hear that?
That was my zipper.
-- Sam and Theresa, "Double Identity"
(Oh God he's speaking Italian. What would Frankie say? Frankie would
say something in Italian.) Volare.
Uh..Sam, you just told him to fly away.
-- Sam and Al, "Double Identity"
Sing?
Yeah, you know, make a noise with your voice.
-- Sam and Al, "Double Identity"
Trouble is, as soon as I put you two together, I'm outta here and the
old Gino is back, and you end up like Jimmy Hoffa.
Running the teamsters?
-- Sam and Frankie, "Double Identity"
Ah-ha, so that's what you're supposed to look like in a tux.
-- Sam, "Double Identity"
Hitting Buffalo, I understand. A hair dryer in Buffalo, non capisco.
If Frankie says we do it, we do it.
If Frankie says you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you jump?
No, that would be stupid.
-- Primo and Segundo reacting to Sam's request to go to Buffalo and
plug in a hair dryer, as per Ziggy's instructions, "Double Identity"
A & P has a fraternity?
That's Alpha Rho, you idiot, Primo, it's Greek!
No kiddin'! I didn't know A & P Supermarkets were Greek!
-- Primo and Segundo, "Double Identity"
I'm 10, in the fourth grade. Marsha Greene sits in front of me.
And you used to dip her pigtails into the inkwells.
We didn't have inkwells.
Oh, we did. I used to dip Hanna Gretz's pigtails- until I discovered
that it was a lot more fun to take Hanna into the cloakroom.
In the fourth grade?
I was socially advanced.
-- Sam and Al, "Double Identity"
As Al would say, timing is everything. What did she call me?
Terrific ... no dummy, Frankie was terrific.
-- Sam, "Double Identity"
Whoever heard of one lousy hairdryer blacking out all of the East coast.
-- Al, "Double Identity"
At 22:15 Greenwich Mean Time, you must plug in a thousand-watt
hairdryer in a house located at 111 Erie Drive, Buffalo, New York.
(incredulous) What?
--Al and Sam, "Double Identity" ~Sam: What if I'm supposed to use this [gun]?
Al: Make sure you take the safety off. "Double Identity"
Synopsis
& Review:
Sam
leaps into Frankie after having apparently just copulated with Teresa
Pacci, who's the lover of mafia boss, Don Geno, while in Geno's attic.
The two are attending the wedding of Frankie's brother, Primo, to
Angela, Geno's daughter. After leaving Frankie, Teresa is approached by
Don Geno, with whom she has been having an affair for some time. Teresa
wants to end their relationship, but Geno tells her it will be over
when he says it is. Geno suspects that Teresa is seeing another man
and, while she denies it, he orders one of his henchmen to find
Teresa's lover.
Sam, meanwhile, is wandering among the guests at Primo and Angela's
wedding. The two newlyweds request that Sam sing Volare for them on
stage. Sam is thrust in front of the crowd, and with the guidance of
Al, who is fluent in Italian, is able to sing the entire song.
Afterward, he and Al retreat from the crowd to talk. Al tells Sam that
Ziggy is being uncooperative, which means Al is unable to give Sam any
details about his mission except that Sam is a mafia hitman, a fact
which horrifies Sam. Al also tells Sam that Ziggy has a theory to
retrieve Sam back to his own time, however, it will require Sam to
follow all of Ziggy's instructions.
The next day, while walking along the street with Frankie's two
brothers, Primo and Segundo, Sam spots Teresa working as a hairdresser
in a salon. Sam decides he must talk with Teresa and steps inside to
ask for a trim. Teresa is pleased, though startled with Sam's
appearance and sits him down for a haircut. She tells him that if Geno
were to see them together, Sam's life would be endangered, alerting Sam
that Teresa and Geno are having an affair.
Outside the salon, Frankie's father,Tony La Palma, has joined Primo and
Segundo in waiting for Sam. Geno drives past and stops to approach
them. When he spots Sam receiving a haircut from Teresa, his suspicions
are raised. Frankie's father attempts to convince Geno that he sent Sam
into the salon in order to discover the identity of Teresa's lover from
the hairstylists and female customers inside. Geno is incredulous, but
nonetheless says he will spare Sam's life so long as Sam confirms the
story. Geno steps into the salon and tells Teresa to move aside.
Holding a shaving razor to Sam's throat, he asks Sam why he is sitting
in the salon with Teresa. However, Sam cannot understand him, as Geno
is speaking in Italian. Al shows up, telling Sam he knows what Geno
wants to hear, and gets Sam to repeat his answers. Speaking in Italian,
Sam is able to tell Geno it was his father's idea, and that he believes
he can find out who Teresa's lover is by listening in on the
conversations of the women in the salon. Satisfied with the answer,
Geno smiles and leaves Sam alone.
Meanwhile, Al tells Sam that Ziggy has now put together a theory to
retrieve Sam back to the present: Sam must duplicate the event that
took place just before he leaped in, and at the same time, plug in a
hairdryer at a specified address in Buffalo, New York. Since Sam is in
Brooklyn, he decides he must send Primo and Segundo to Buffalo to plug
the hair dryer in, while he must contact Teresa to meet him in Geno's
attic and make love like they did the day before. Though Teresa is
unsure, Sam convinces her that the meeting is important for their
future.
Primo and Segundo borrow a hairdryer from Teresa's salon and drive to
Buffalo. They pull up at what appears to be a fraternity house and
insert the hairdryer into the house's external power outlet. After
Primo switches the hairdryer on, an electrical surge suddenly causes a
blackout on the entire street. Meanwhile, Geno's henchman informs him
that Sam and Teresa have just ascended the trellis of his home and are
meeting at his attic. Geno is outraged and plans to enact revenge.
The electrical power outage that Primo caused is now spreading across
the East Coast. Sam and Teresa are in Geno's attic, making out. Sam is
unsure whether he can go through with the act. Uncomfortable about
lying, he admits to her that he is not the same Frankie she knows.
Teresa says it doesn't matter if he lies; she is used to men lying to
her. Sam tells her she is special and deserves better. The two begin to
kiss, until Geno arrives and holds them at gunpoint. Sam takes
responsibility for the affair and tells Geno he insisted on bringing
Teresa to the attic, despite her refusal. Geno replies that he respects
a man who faces his death with honesty. Teresa intercedes and tells
Geno she was the one who wanted to come to the attic. Geno is about to
shoot them both when the power outage suddenly reaches his home and
knocks out the lights. Sam uses the distraction to grab Geno's gun, and
the two wrestle for control. As they do so, Sam suddenly leaps out of
Frankie and into Don Geno. The real Frankie now returns, suffering
amnesia. Upon seeing Sam/Geno, he pleads their innocence. However, Sam
now has an idea of what his mission is: to keep Frankie and Teresa
together. He asks the both of them if they love one another, and they
both confess that they do. Sam knows that he must find a way to
announce his acceptance of their union to an audience so that when the
real Geno returns, he cannot continue his revenge.
Sam takes Frankie and Teresa to the local church hall, where Frankie's
grandmother is playing bingo. Sam asks the priest to announce Frankie
and Teresa's engagement with Don Geno's blessing. The priest does so;
and Sam further tells Frankie that he is no longer to continue in the
mafia business. Al appears to explain that Ziggy's theory didn't work
because Ziggy claims Sam did not follow his complete instructions. Sam
is nonetheless confused as to why he hasn't leaped out of Geno's body.
Al tells Sam that he has one final task to do: pick the winning bingo
number, allowing Frankie's grandmother to win a game for the first
time... He does, then leaps! Source
Review
by Albingo:
Double Identity is one of my favorite
episodes of Quantum Leap. My reason for this are that I have always
been a fan of mafia films i.e. The Godfather, Goodfellas etc. I think
that Double Identity replicates the feelings of these films very well,
and of course the second leap near the end.
I was always a fan
of
episodes that were away from the usual Quantum Leap episode, such as
the Evil Leaper trilogy.
Scott
and Dean put in their usually high quality performance, and the
rest of the cast adjusts itself admirably.
Production
Credits:
Music by: Mike Post
Supervising Producer: John Hill
Co-producer: Deborah Pratt
Produced by: Harker Wade
Created by: Donald P. Bellisario
Written by: Donald P. Bellisario Directed by: Aaron Lipstadt
Executive Producer: Donald P. Bellisario
Associate Producers: Jeff Gourson, David Bellisario Director of Photography: Roy H. Wagner a.s.c.
Art Director: Cameron Birnie
Edited by: Alan Shefland
Unit Production Manager: Paul Cajero
First Assistant Director: Bruce A. Humphrey
Second Assistant Director: Roberto Villar
Casting by: Melissa Skoff, c.s.a.
Set Director: Robert L. Zilliox
Executive Story Consultant: Deborah Arakelian
Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Dorleac
Costume Supervisors: David Rawley & Donna Roberts-Orme
Sound Mixer: Ronald L. Collins
Stunt Coordinator: Diamond Farnsworth
Casting Associate: Debi Manwiller
Sound Editor: Sam Gemette
Music Editor: Mark Green
Panaflex ® Camera and Lenses by: Panavision ®
This motion picture is protected under laws of the United States and
other 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
Awards: This
episode won an Emmy for
Hairstyling for a Series in 1989. The prize went to Virginia
Kerns.
Quantum Leap Podcast
In
the fifth installment of The Quantum Leap Podcast, Albie and Heather
discuss Season One episode six "Double Identity". There's first
impressions, an episode recap, thoughts and opinions, listener
feedback, a special announcement about our giveaway and much more.
Quantum Leap Podcast: Revisiting Double Identity
Ay oh! Oh ay! It’s time to revisit Double Identity!
Dance the Tarantella with QLP hosts Allison Pregler, Matt Dale and
Christopher DeFilippis as they travel to 1965 Brooklyn to review Sam’s
Leap as a mafia hitman making it with the Don’s goomah.
Banga-banga-banga!
You’ll have more fun than Nona at bingo. If we’re lyin’, we’re dyin’!
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