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Adopted by: Eleiece <aka> Sherdran (2002) & Stacie Wilcox (2024) Additional info provided by: Brian Greene & Dave Korman |
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Teaser: As Hurricane Camille hits the Gulf Coast in 1969, Sam is faced with the difficult choice of either saving the members of a hurricane party or his girlfriend. Or can he do both without losing his own life? |
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TV Guide Synopsis Place Leap Date Name of the Person Leaped Into Broadcast Date Synopsis & Review Music Project Trivia Sam Trivia Al Trivia Al's Women Al's Outfits Worn in the Episode Miscellaneous Trivia Bloopers Kiss with History Guest Stars Guest Cast Notes Guests Who Appeared In Other Episodes of Quantum Leap Say What? Quotable Quotes Best Scene Awards Synopsis & Review Production Credits Podcasts |
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Production # 67306 |
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TV Guide
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Place: Jackson Point, Mississippi |
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Leap Date: August 17, 1969 |
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Name
of the Person Leaped Into: Deputy Sheriff Archie Necaise |
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Broadcast Date: October 2, 1991 - Wednesday |
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We open with Sam leaping into the deputy sheriff holding a cat. We meet Cissy, in a Red Cross jacket, and Lisa, who they are helping evacuate. Sam learns that a hurricane is coming!
Dispatcher calls and tells Sam to get to the Gulf View apartments, as the manager says some are refusing to evacuate. Then he is to report to Unibelle’s. We see lots of stock hurricane footage, and Sam tells us that growing up in Indiana did not prepare him for a hurricane. Sam and Cissy go to the apartments to find a party going on. They talk to Mark LeJeune, who’s biggest concern today is he had to start grilling indoors. He also can sense Sam, seeing him with one eye and his host with the other. LeJeune tells them it's private property, and they can’t make him go. More stock hurricane footage, and they head to Unibelle’s. Cissy tells him she gets a thrill out of the hurricane. They go inside, and Unibelle puts them to work helping with prep. Al arrives. He’s had a fight with Tina and is bummed out. He tells Sam that he is Archie Necaise, deputy sheriff, and there is a 96.2% chance that he’s here to save Cissy from getting killed. Sam doesn’t remember Camille. Al fills him in, saying more than 360 people were killed. Cissy sees Sam talking to himself. At 10:30 a 3 story wall of water will flatten everything in its path. In the original history Archie evacuated the hurricane party, but meanwhile Cissy died across town at her house when an object smashed through her window. Sam tells Cissy if there is anything at her house that she needs she should go back and get it now, but she doesn’t know of anything. Al says she still gets killed. Enter Lisa. She came back for Archie. She asks him out to dinner. She’s been playing a game of What If. He rejects her. She asks Sam about the dog. (Where is the cat?) She goes again to leave. Sam thinks he should have tried harder to get her to stay. Enter the Deever family. Lots of commotion. Grandparents, Joe & wife, two kids. The grandparents got married after only 2 weeks. Cissy asks Sam if he would marry someone after 2 weeks, and he tells her that if it was the right someone he’d marry them after a couple of hours. They kiss and Al has to get Sam’s attention. Joe watches. Al tell’s Sam that the family isn’t Joe’s wife and kids - it’s his sister and her kids. Al tells Sam that Joe is sissy’s ex and he’s violent and insanely jealous. Cissy is last seen leaving Unibelle’s with Joe. Sam goes and asks for Cissy, but Unibelle says she just left with Joe. However, shortly thereafter they come back, with boxes that Joe brought of things to protect from the hurricane. Sam asks her again about getting anything from her house, and Cissy asks if he’s been acting weird because he saw “her” again today, and Al wants to know about “her.” Sam asks her about Joe. Cissy says that is ancient history. She tells him that he is projecting his fears. We learn she used to dream about being a doctor, and Sam tells her it's never too late. Al reminds him that first he has to save her life before he tries changing it. Sam is called to the phone to talk to the Sheriff. Joe talks to Cissy and reminisces. He tells her the three worst words in the English language are “let’s be friends.” Al points Sam towards Cissy and Joe because he is getting a little handsy. He tells Sissy they have to go back to the hurricane party. She tells him that she likes seeing him jealous. They kiss some more and sneak off to the pantry. Joe feeds Bofus and lures him away. Al tells Sam he’ll meet him at the hurricane party. Cissy looks for the dog, and Joe says he let him out. Cissy says she is going home since that’s where Bofus is headed. He tells Cissy he’ll get the dog then go to the apartments and wants Cissy to stay here. In the car, Sam speculates that Joe let the dog out to lure Cissy back to her house. (How does Sam even know where Cissy lives??) He looks for the dog and there he is, right by her front door. He puts the dog in the car. Al comes and tells Sam that now Cissy dies at Unibelle’s, when a hunk of debris hits her in the head. It’s 10:15. He doesn’t have enough time to save Cissy then have Archie save the party. He asks dispatch to send a car to the party, but they say that he’s it. Sam tells him that he is headed to the party. Ziggy says that a bank 2 blocks from the apartments is the safest place to send the party. Sam gets to the party, and LeJeune resists, but everyone else listens and heads to the bank. Eventually LeJeune leaves too. Back at Unibelle’s, Al paces and watches over Cissy. A window blows out. Lisa arrives again, the road was washed out and she didn’t know where else to go. Al says the road isn’t washed out - she’s lying. Al watches Lisa suspiciously. She picks up a knife. She talks about Archie taking her fishing. She tells Cissy that she stole Archie. Al relocates and updates Sam. Lisa and Cissy struggle in the kitchen. Sam comes in and tackles Lisa just before she swings a piece of firewood at Cissy’s head. He ends up having to pull a gun on Lisa. She tells him that she will kill him, and he’ll have to kill her, and then they can be together. She is about to stab herself, when Sam tackles her again. Morning comes. The storm has passed and Joe’s family leaves. Al and Sam don’t understand why he hasn’t leapt yet, he saved everybody. We learn that Lisa gets intensive therapy and turns out “pretty much ok.” Sam talks to Cissy about becoming a psychologist. She says she’d be too scared to go back to school. They kiss again. Al says she goes back to school and becomes a psycho-therapist. Sam leaps… *We never see the cat again. Synopsis by Stacie Wilcox
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Personal
Review by Eleiece <aka> Sherdran: I've always liked 'Hurricane'; it's so much like life. Storms, hurricanes, if you will, are going to blow up in our lives, often times stirred up by things or situations beyond our control. But in life, as in this episode, there is one constant that not even a hurricane or storm of life can destroy or wash away. Love. I'm not talking about hearts and flowers, or romantic music and dancing in the moonlight, though I enjoy all of that. No, I'm talking about real love, love that has its roots put down deep in trust and faith in the one you love. And believe me, I know from personal experience, that real love doesn't need years and years to grow. For Joe Deever's grandparents love blossomed and began to grow in the space of two weeks. But no matter when it first blooms, whether it's hours, weeks, months or years, real love will grow into something strong enough to anchor you through the little squalls as well as the storms and hurricanes that life is going to bring your way, and they will come. Your storms may not be anything like the ones I have weathered, nor be anything like the ones waiting yet for me to get through. But real love will get you through those storms. And when you have survived the storm and it's passed over, and the sun has come out again, that love will still be there. Even when you're left standing in the middle of total destruction and ruination, it's that love, that belief and trust in that man or woman standing beside you, that will help you start over again and go forward to face whatever the future may hold. |
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Music: "It's A Beautiful Morning" by The Rascals |
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Sam
Trivia: He didn't remember Hurricane Camille, but he did remember experiencing tornadoes while growing up in Indiana, none of which prepared him for an encounter with a hurricane. |
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Sam's Outfits Worn in the Episode: Deputy sheriff's uniform: A light-tan, short-sleeved shirt with Sheriff's Department emblems on each sleeve; white tee shirt, dark-brown trousers. He also wore a badge pinned over the left breast pocket and a name plate pinned to the right breast pocket; a black belt with a square, silver belt buckle, an expandable-banded silver watch on his left wrist, and a gun belt, complete with side arm. After the storm hit, Sam also wore a below-knee length rain slicker. |
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Al
Trivia: Al remembers and recounts to Sam a bit about the destruction and deaths caused by Hurricane Camille. |
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Al's
Women: |
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Al's
Outfits Worn in the Episode: Red trousers, dark-brown shirt, black leather jacket with dark yellow sleeves and what appears to be a silvery coins lapel on left front shoulder of jacket. He also wore dark shoes, a black-banded watch on his left wrist, and he carried a cigar. |
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Miscellaneous
Trivia: Al told Sam that, "...a three story high wall of water came over the sea wall and flattened everything in its path."... That 3-story wall of water would have been approximately 30 feet high. In the scene where Al tells Sam that in the original history Cissy was last seen leaving Unabelle's with Joe Deever, on the wall behind him is a large brass compass rose. The compass rose has appeared on (sea) charts and maps since the 1300's. The term "rose" comes from the figure's compass points resembling the petals of the well-known flower. Originally, this device was used to indicate the directions of the winds. For that reason alone, I'd say that made that compass rose on the wall one of the most, if not the most, apropos props in this particular episode. The voice of the sheriff's office dispatcher was that of W. K. Stratton who made more appearances (actual or voice only) than any other guest star during the entire run of Quantum Leap. In this episode Al carried a cigar most of the time, and he used the multi-colored 'candy-cube' handlink. The episode was written by Chris Ruppenthal. He last wrote Glitter Rock. The episode was directed by Michael K. Watkins, last responsible for “Last Dance The clarity of the on-screen credits at the end of the episode was poor. For whatever reason, when the credits are put over stock footage, the quality diminishes. |
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Kiss with
History: The
hurricane party depicted in "Hurricane" was a near mirror image of
an actual hurricane party that took place in the Richelieu Apartments,
in Pass Christian, Mississippi during Hurricane Camille. |
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Regular Cast: Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett Dean Stockwell as Al Calavicci Deborah Pratt as Narrator |
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Guest
Stars: Marilyn Jones as Cissy Davis Tracy Kolis as Lisa James Morrison as Joe Deever Bill Erwin as Mr. Deever Barbara Townsend as Ma Maw Richard Grove as Mark LeJeune Marjorie Lovett as Unabelle Stephanie Shroyer as Sitter Bob Hamilton as Archie Necaise W.K. Stratton as Radio Dispatcher Cynthia Windham as Sister |
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Marilyn Jones as Cissy Davis: The
oldest of four siblings born to a surgeon father, Marilyn Jones was
raised in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. After
graduating from high school in Michigan, she attended Miami University
(Ohio) and eventually graduated from the University of Colorado with a
humanities degree. James
Morrison as Joe Deever: A
filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher,
James Morrison was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He served
his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre in the
late '70s and spent a year studying in New York before settling on the
West Coast in 1980. Since then, he has appeared at some of America's
foremost theatres including the McCarter Theatre, the La Jolla
Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, LA TheatreWorks and The Old Globe with
such renowned directors as Robert Egan, Emily Mann, Des McAnuff, Jack
O'Brien, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jose Quintero, Martin Jarvis, Don
Amendolia, and Harry Mastrogeorge, his acting teacher since 1982.
Morrison's short film, Parking (1996), which he wrote and directed, was
produced by his wife, Riad Galayini. Parking screened at twenty film
festivals world wide including New York's New Directors/New Films
presented by Lincoln Center at the Museum of Modern Art, Slamdance
(audience choice award for best short), Austin's South By Southwest
Festival, the Central Florida Film Festival (third place narrative film
award), the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, the Montreal World
Festival, The Festival of U.S. Shorts in Brisbane, Australia, Ireland's
Cork International Film Festival, and the Northampton Film Festival
where it received the Best Short of the Festival Award. Parking also
ran on Sundance Channel for 18 months. Most recently, James developed
and performed his one-man play, Leave Your Fears Here at the Ojai
Playwrights Conference. The play went on to premiere at the Great
Barrington Public Theatre in Massachusetts. Morrison's plays have also
been produced and/or developed at the Sundance Institute, Ensemble
Studio Theatre, The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, L.A.
TheatreWorks, The MET Theatre, Two Parts Theatre Company, The Classical
Theatre Lab, City Theatre in Miami, The Road Theatre, The Mojo
Ensemble, The Wooden O, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the Salt
Lake Acting Company where he has directed several plays including those
by Sam Shepard, John Robinson, Larry Shue and Beth Henley. As a
singer/songwriter his albums, Son to the Boy and I Broke Free are
available on iTunes CD Baby, Amazon and all digital outlets. |
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Guests Who
Appeared In Other Episodes of Quantum Leap: W.K. Stratton (Radio Dispatcher) has
played Dr. Berger in "Genesis", Sheriff
Rowntree in "Good Night, Dear Heart",
another radio dispatcher in "Black on
White on Fire", and Larry Stanton in "Trilogy
Part I", "Trilogy Part II" and "Trilogy Part III." |
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Say What? Al told Sam that over 360 people were killed in Hurricane Camille. Most accounts actually report 259. Al mistakenly calls the Bait Shop “Annabelle’s” instead of “Unabelle’s.” |
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Quotable
Quotes:
Sam (monologue): |
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Best
Line: Cissy: "Do you marry someone after only a couple of weeks?" Sam: "If it's the right someone, I'd marry them after a couple of hours." |
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Awards: |
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Theme by: Mike Post Panaflex ® Camera and Lenses
by: Panavision ® |
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