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406 "Raped" Leap Date: June 20, 1980 Episode
Adopted by: Carol <aka> C_Dean n C_Al
Synopsis: When Sam leaps into Katie, a rape victim, no one wants to believe it really happened because the accused person is the son of an upstanding citizen in the community. Sam, with the help of Al and the real Katie in the Waiting Room, tries to make the charges stick this time.
TV Guide Synopsis
Production # 67312
TV Guide Synopsis:
Leap-in Sequence:
Place:
Leap Date:
Leapee:
Broadcast Date:
Music:
Project Trivia: In
this and another episode, someone is seen with Al in the Imaging
Chamber. Katie appears with Al in
this episode, and Dr Beeks in ‘Shock
Theater’
(ep3.22), but only Katie is heard. They both had to hold Al’s hand to
be seen. The Project team must have upgraded the system to allow Katie
to be heard by Sam. The handlink is the ‘Gummy Bear’. Multi-colored little squares that flash, beep and squawk. Ziggy is called a he in this episode.
Sam Trivia:
Al uses some of his famous words in this episode. ‘NOZZLE’ & ‘BINGO’
1) Light Olive Green long sleeved shirt w/ over sized silver studs on the collar, down the front and on the cuffs. Light Olive Green pants w/Brown belt. A large round gold ring on ring finger of right hand. 2) Wedgwood Blue shirt w/ large Black buttons down the front, Black and Silver leather jacket, Black pants & a silver triangle bolo tie. 3) Peach suit w/ White, Gray & Rust multi-colored floral shirt & gold colored watch w/ brown band on left wrist. 4) Orange Nauru collar silky shirt, Cream colored pants, Brown belt, a White, Brown, Rust & Olive-Green paisley design vest, White tennis shoes w/ black toes and heels & Gold colored watch w/ brown band on left wrist.
Al’s Women:
Al popped in 7 times Al smoked 6 cigars United
States population in 1980 = 225,349,264 The McBain family
has a car with personalized licence plate "STELLA." Who is Stella?
Bloopers:
Regular Cast: Scott
Bakula as Dr Samuel Beckett
Eric
Bruskotter as Glen
Guest Cast Notes: Guests Who Appeared in Other QL Episodes: Eric
Bruskotter as Glen played in two previous episodes:
playing ‘Beau’ in episode: Memphis
Melody
- (episode # 5.21) and playing ‘Red’ in episode: Liberation
- (episode # 5.13). Liz Vassey as Paula Fletcher was also in Goodbye Norma Jean playing ‘Barbara Whitmore’ (episode # 5.18).
Say What? The newspaper article Sam reads ends one column abruptly. The second selection is a repeat of the first. The part Sam reads does not appear in the article. How does Sam know that Kevin and Paula had a fight the night of the rape? He was never given this information. Kevin says he listed to "Lady" by Lionel Richie. Richie produced the song but it was performed by Kenny Rogers. When Kevin testifies, the photo he is shown changes to a different photo after being handed away. The days of the week don't match up according to the Leap date. If taken literally, court was in session on a Sunday.Why was Sam really there? They lost the trial. It seems that helping Katie and perhaps the D.A. regain their confidence may have been the main focus. Also, Kevin will hopefully never commit the crime again after the final scene. It would have made more sense for Sam to have leaped in before the rape and then beat Kevin as he did in the last scene. What would happen after the leap out? At the end, after Sam fights with Kevin, his nose and lip are all bloody. When Katie leaps back in will she have a bloody nose and lip too? … Hummm … I don’t think so, because it is Sam’s actual body that got the bloody nose. It was Katie’s aura that Kevin hit, not Katie’s actual face.
AL: "Sam! Get up and hit this pimple! … Sam do something! ... That’ll work." Nancy Hudson: "You lie to me I’ll
drop your butt so fast you won't know what hit you" [Al almost drops
the cigar out of his mouth] What are you
doing? That's supposed to help. Al: Swoon.
The Courtroom Scene While Sam is being questioned on the witness stand, Katie and Al are standing behind him. Even though Scott only has a few lines in this scene. He delivers his lines with such feeling and emotion. You can see it in his face and in his body language. CJF ;-) Judge Bowers: "You may be seated. Will the state present its next witness." Nancy Hudson: "The state calls Katie McBain." SAM: "Please Al." Bailiff: "Raise your right hand, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" [Just as he finishes his sentence the IC door opens and Al and Katie are there] AL: "We did it Sam! WE DID IT! Of course it took enough power to light up St Louis for a month! But we DID IT!" Judge Bowers: "Ms. McBain, you don’t feel faint again, do you?" SAM: "No sir … Your Honor … I’m … I’m just fine." AL: "Say ‘I do’ …" Katie McBain: "I do." SAM: "I do." AL: "Get ready … Just relax." Nancy Hudson: "Ms McBain, did you go out on a date with Kevin Wentworth, on the 20th of June?" Katie McBain: "Yes … He asked me to go to dinner that night." SAM: "Yes … He asked me to go to dinner that night." Nancy Hudson: "Did you accept?" Katie McBain: "Yes." SAM: "Yes." Nancy Hudson: "Could you please tell the court what happened on that dinner date?" Katie McBain: "Kevin took me to O’ Petit Richard, it was very expensive and very nice. Then after dinner he asked me to go for a drive. I told him that I had to work the next day, that I’d rather go straight home." SAM: "Kevin took me to O’ Petit Richard, it was very expensive and very nice. Then after dinner he asked me to go for a drive. And I told him that I had to work the next day, that I’d rather go straight home." Nancy Hudson: "Did he take you straight home as you requested?" Katie McBain: "No. He took me to Fort Cronkite instead." [The camera moves in on Katie and Al. Sam is no longer repeating everything. Dean’s face shows so much concern and emotion. I’m sure he is thinking if this were Sophia, his daughter, ‘I’d kill the guy!’] Nancy Hudson: "And what happened there?" Katie McBain: "He parked the car and started to kiss me." Nancy Hudson: "Did you kiss him back?" Katie McBain: "At first, but then he started to get carried away and I stopped." Nancy Hudson: "Carried away?" Katie McBain: "He tried to put his hand up my dress." Nancy Hudson: "Go on." Katie McBain: "I told him I wasn’t like that, that I was a nice girl." Nancy Hudson: "What did he say?" Katie McBain: "He said the only difference between nice girls and bad girls is that bad girls help you. Then he started kissing and groping me again and I started to cry." Nancy Hudson: "How did he respond to your tears?" Katie McBain: "He slapped me. I think … I screamed … because then he hit me and pinned my arms behind me." Nancy Hudson: "Did he slap you or hit you? You said both." Katie McBain: "He slapped me first then hit me with his fist." [Dean looks even more disgusted and tightens up his face muscles. He looks down then back up again at the camera] Nancy Hudson: "How many times did he hit you with his fist?" Katie McBain: "Three or four times." Nancy Hudson: "Did he knock you unconscious?" Katie McBain: "I was kinda fuzzy for a while, but I don’t think I lost consciousness." Nancy Hudson: "And then what happened?" Katie McBain: "Then … then he raped me." Nancy Hudson: "Did you resist him?" Katie McBain: "Not after he hit me." Nancy Hudson: "Why not?" Katie McBain: "Because … I … was … afraid he would kill me!" Nancy Hudson: "How did you escape?" Katie McBain: "When he was through he got off me and I opened the door and I ran." Nancy Hudson: "Did you fall … while running?" Katie McBain: "No." Nancy Hudson: "Did you consent to having sexual intercourse with Mr. Wentworth that evening?" Katie McBain: "NO!" Nancy Hudson: "Did you behave in any manner that would make Mr. Wentworth think you wanted to have sexual intercourse with him that evening?" Katie McBain: "NO! Never … He raped me!" Nancy Hudson: "Thank you. No further questions." SAM: "Sighs and sniffles …" [The camera pans around the court room and back to Sam]
Sam is sitting on the gazebo swing and Al is standing next to him smoking a cigar and punching keys on the hand link. AL: "Ziggy’s got nothing! No explanation!" SAM: "If I didn’t leap in here to convict Kevin, then what am I doing here?" AL: "I don’t know. In the original history, Katie left town a week after the rape and she never came back. Not even when her dad died in ’88." SAM: "So that’s what I’m here for … to keep Katie in town?" AL: "I don’t know … that’s a good explanation as any." Kevin: "Talking to your-self, Katie?" AL: "You slime ball!" Kevin: "You shouldn’t have done it! You shouldn’t have put me through it, Katie." SAM: "Put you through it?" Kevin: "You should have known they’d believe me. I take a girl out for dinner and the next thing you know I’m on trial for rape." [Kevin sucker punches Sam and knocks him off the gazebo through the railing] AL: "Sam! Get up and hit this pimple!" Kevin: "You think that was rape? Wait ‘till you feel what I’m gonna do to you now!" AL: "Sam! Do something! ... [Sam is lying on the ground face down and Kevin turns him over. Sam kicks him in the crotch … ouch! … This knocks Kevin half way across the gazebo] "That’ll work." SAM: "I think I know … [Sam gets up and puts Kevin against the railing] "I think I know why I’m here Al." [Sam proceeds to kick some Kevin butt all over the gazebo floor! YAH!!!] "So things got a little out of control …huh? … So you slapped her … but that wasn’t enough … so you had to hit her … and then you hit her again … you son-of-a-bitch! [When Sam is done kickin’ his butt … Al ads his cigar ashes to the trash heaped on the gazebo floor! HeHeHe!!! … Mom and Dad come running outside] Jim: "KATIE! … Call the police!" Libby: "OMG!" Jim: "Sweetie! What happened?" SAM: "He tried to do it again. Only this time I wasn’t pinned inside of a car!" Jim: "You did that … your-self?" SAM: "Don’t act so surprised Dad, I mean after all … I am a McBain."
Katie's parents are horrified and her father Jim (Arthur Rosenberg) angrily demands to know if she tried to get away but her mother and sister calm him down. Libby (Amy Ryan) the goes up to see Sam and tries to talk her out of pressing charges. She says that Katie had always been a bit of a tease and that combined with the fact that she was dating the local hero at the time means that nothing is likely to come out of it. Al finally arrives then and Sam gets rid of Libby by pleading tiredness. Al says he took so long because Katie was completely traumatized and unresponsive and so Verbena is in with her. He says that Sam is there to charge Kevin with rape (something that never happened in the original timeline) and then he will probably leap. Sam is worried about testifying to something that never happened to him but Al can't help him there. Al reveals that ten years in the future Kevin's wife divorces him and charges him with emotional abuse and that his third wife charged him with emotional abuse for singing Volare in his sleep. The next morning Sam goes down to face ADA Nancy Hudson (Penny Peyser) to try to convince her to take the case. Hudson is initially disinterested in the file but then Shumway calls Katie in and Hudson has a harder time saying no to Katie in person. Apparently the DA's office got burned on the last rape case they tried and Hudson is far from optimistic. She warns that if Katie said yes at all, even if she changed her mind then it is not illegal anymore but she agrees to meet with Sam alone after lunch. Sam goes into a restaurant to meet Katie's family for lunch and it goes silent the moment they see him. Katie's parents are hiding in the back and they show Sam how a piece about the rape skewering Katie and not mentioning Kevin at all was published in the paper. Katie's mother reluctantly supports Sam but her father clearly no longer does because of how embarrassing being shunned over this is. Sam excuses himself to the restroom and two boys follow him. They've come on behalf of Kevin trying to get her to drop the charges. They say that everyone knows that Kevin wouldn't rape her and Kevin has been telling people she's claiming this to spite him because of Kevin's new engagement to his ex-girlfriend Paula Fletcher (Liz Vassey). In the bathroom, Al tells Sam that the articles crucifying Katie are only just beginning. He posits that Katie was raped but that it was not by Kevin but by the man that picked her up after she left Kevin and took her to the hospital. Katie never would have seen his face and so therefore could only charge Kevin. Since Katie herself claims that it was Kevin, Sam – though bothered by Al's alternate explanation – sticks with Kevin as the rapist. In Hudson's office, the ADA is hard on Sam because every rape case where the charges don't stick only makes it easier for the next rapist. She eventually agrees to take the case but warns that it will be terrible for Sam and threatens to drop the case if she catches him in a lie. Sam and Al expect Sam to leap then but he doesn't. Back at Katie's house, her father has come around but now her mother wishes she had never gone to the police. The phone rings and everyone tells Sam not to get it but he does and it's something nasty about the rape. The deacon at their church called and said that so many parents complained that they want Katie to stop teaching Sunday School. Sam is frustrated and afraid to testify since he doesn't know what happened but Al said that Katie is still catatonic. However Al manages to get a break when Ziggy discovers that Katie started seeing a therapist a few months later, and goes off to try and get into Katie's therapist's files to get the information that he needs. Kevin comes by the house, still denying that he raped her, and tries to play on the nostalgia of past friendship, sympathy for what he and Paula are going through because of the impending trial, and bribe her with expensive jewelry. At the trial, over many objections by the prosecution Paula testifies that she did have an argument with Kevin the night of the rape, but it did not turn violent. The defence makes wildly inappropriate remarks about how absurd it would be for Kevin to rape plain Katie when he could have consensual sex with attractive Paula. Kevin on the witness stand is charming and affable, playing the confused and simple wronged man to perfection. He claims that he fought with Paula about her continued friendship with an ex and so called Katie to make her jealous. After they had consensual sex, Katie told him she didn't want him seeing anyone else and Kevin told her he wouldn't see her again because he was nearly engaged to Paula. He says that's when Katie ran from the car and she fell. He also says that they had consensual sex on the first two dates, causing an uproar. Hudson asks Sam if it's true, and he is unable to deny it when Al can't find the information. Sam is called to the stand and to stall for time, Sam pretends to faint so court is adjourned until the next morning. Katie's mother tries to comfort her but admits that she never thought she'd be in this position and doesn't know what to say like all those TV moms would. When she leaves, Sam tells Al that he can't testify if he doesn't know what exactly what happened, so he needs Katie to be in the Imaging Chamber testifying. However it would take too long to have Sam repeat after Al as he'd be repeating after Katie for every answer. Therefore, Al and Ziggy have twelve hours to come up with a way for Sam to hear her directly. It's time to testify and Al and Katie are not there. Fortunately, just as Sam is swearing the oath, Katie and Al appear. Katie gives a stirring and teary testimony but ultimately it is not enough and a beaming Kevin leaves the courtroom, congratulated by his lawyer. Katie's mom wants to leave town but Sam refuses to run. Hudson reveals that the reason she was so hard on Sam and only wants to take rape cases she thinks she can win is because twelve years ago she was raped and the man was never convicted so she takes losing especially hard. That night, Sam is sitting on the swing and trying to brainstorm with Al what he is still doing there. Al is just as confused, as in the original history Katie left town soon after the rape and never returned, even for her father's funeral years later. Kevin arrives, very different from the wronged ex-boyfriend he appeared to be in court. He is angry that he had to go through the trial, revealing that he did indeed rape Katie. He punches Sam to the ground and tries to rape 'Katie' again but Sam, now knowing why he's there, beats the living crap out on him on Katie's behalf. Katie's parents, hearing the noise, come outside and then call the police. Having helped Katie regain her self-confidence and knowing that this time that Kevin—now having paid the price for his actions, more severe than any prison sentence—will never again be a danger to her or any other women, Sam leaps. Source Personal Review by Carol <aka> C_Dean n C_Al: This is a very touching episode. Sam and Al are both very emotional regarding the rape of Katie. Donald explored a variety of events and put Scott as Sam in these situations: rape, homosexuality, disability, discrimination / racial prejudice among others. Usually Sam and Al had the same opinions. But sometimes they disagreed. This made for an interesting episode. In this episode you can see the great acting that Scott and Dean did. Even though I believe that they really feel for any rape victim. They both have daughters and as fathers I am sure this was an episode that touched them both and hit close to home.
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