3x05 "The Boogiem*n"

Leap Date:

October 31, 1964

Episode adopted by: Carol <aka> C_DEAN n C_AL
Additional info provided by: Brian Greene

Synopsis:

Sam leaps into a horror novelist surrounded by death and mystery. Al and Ziggy don't seem to be able to predict what will happen and Sam is running out of suspects. Is this part of someone's book... or someone's nightmare?

Audio from this episode

*An added note by Al's Place Bartender: During the original recording of this episode the screen went fuzzy a couple of times messing up the feed. When I was making the guide file for this episode, my computer crashed 3 times. This is typical of the mysterious things that happen when dealing with this episode. In turn, I have not spelled out the name of this episode in any page filename, sound file or image file to prevent further incidents. View this episode at your own risk! See the FAQ for more info. 

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Leap Date
Name of the Person Leaped Into
Broadcast Date
Synopsis & Review
Music
Project Trivia
Sam Trivia
Al's Outfits Worn in the Episode
Miscellaneous Trivia
Kiss with History
Guest Stars
Guest Cast Notes
Guests who appeared in other Quantum Leap episodes
Say What?
Quotable Quotes
Best Scene
Awards
Production Credits
Podcasts

Production # 65410

TV Guide Synopsis (TVGuide.com):
Sam creeps into a horror novelist on Halloween, and finds he has only a ghost of a chance to save the life of his fiancée. Mary: Valerie Mahaffey. Sheriff: Paul Linke. Stevie: David Kriegel. Tully: Donald Hotton. Dorothy: Fran Ryan. Sam: Scott Bakula. Al: Dean Stockwell. 

TV Guide Synopsis (Original):
Sam (Scott Bakula) is cast into a horror novelist on Halloween, when otherworldly incidents seem to give him a ghost of a chance to save his
fiancée before the stroke of midnight.

Place:
Coventry, Maine

Leap Date:
October 31, 1964 - Saturday

Leapee:
Joshua Rey

Broadcast Date:
October 26, 1990 - Friday

Synopsis & Review:

As Sam gets his bearings as he leaps in, he finds a book in front of him published in 1879, Witchcraft in America, by the Reverend John T. Immendorfs. As he 'knows' leaping outside of his lifetime is impossible, he starts to wander the creepy house to see if anyone is at home. When he is frightened at the top of the stairs by people in masks, he falls back down them and knocks his head, losing consciousness briefly.

As he comes to, he meets the people in the masks: his fiancée Mary Greely (played by Valerie Mahaffey) and his young assistant, Stevie King (David Kriegel), who apologizes for scaring him; both are dressed up because they are making the creepy house into the Church Spook House for Halloween. Stevie has to go peel grapes and prepare gopher guts for the upcoming party, as Sam regards a scarecrow on the front lawn and thinks they're in the same boat: "With my head all full of stuffing and no idea why I was really there." Joshua's fiancé Mary, assures Sam they'll be ready for the party. and says she can't wait until they're married. As he leaves, Stevie boasts that some day he'll write the scariest book in the world.

Once Stevie leaves in his old car, Mary figures that Sam is having a problem killing someone, and says he'll have to rewrite the entire book otherwise. She suggests he burn the character like Alice McHorner, the woman who lived in the house in 1692 and is supposed to haunt the place.

Then he meets Tully Maltin (Donald Hotton), the handyman, who is working on a ladder outside a second story window, as Mary tells Tully to keep the noise down. As Tully rambles on about the devil, saying to him "You know what they say, don't you? Them that dance with The Devil are bound to get scrorched!" and tells him about the story of Alice and how she "tempted evil" and was burned at the stake. and how Sam should stop writing about him, a goat mysteriously appears, pulls on a rag under the ladder, as Tully falls to his death.

The local sheriff, Sheriff Ben Masters (Paul Linke) and Mary don't know anything about a goat, and even Al, who appears wearing a sharp white and silver-blue suit, seem to suspect Sam of pushing the man off the ladder. As the others leave, Sam rages at Al that he could have saved the man had he had a bit more warning, but Al tells him that he and Ziggy had no knowledge of it. Al then informs Sam that his fiancée is found later that night, strangled.

Al points out that Joshua has a Black Mamba snake, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world, in a tank on the stairs. Mary comes out to see Sam talking to himself, and as she heads down the stairs she steps between Sam and Al. She seems to feel a presence as she passes Al.

Sam retires to his office to speak with Al privately, and notices that the typewriter—on which he'd seen two paragraphs written earlier—now has a third paragraph, describing Tully's fall from the ladder, that he of course did not write.

The town gossip, Dorothy Jaeger (Fran Ryan), soon shows up with some candlesticks, and while they're talking, Al again shows up to explain that they've run all the probability matrices, and Sam is definitely there to help Mary. Of course right after he says this, there's a scream from the kitchen and they run in to find Dorothy dead on the floor, and they find the Black Mamba as well.

Al insists that Mary is the only logical suspect in both deaths. She had been in the kitchen earlier, and she "could have pushed the ladder from a lower window" without Sam seeing her. Then Sam finds that yet another paragraph has appeared on the typewriter, describing Dorothy's death. Of course, Mary walks into the office as Sam is arguing with Al, and is upset that Sam has just appeared to call her a "demented psychopath."

As Mary and Sam argue, a skull sitting on a ledge behind Mary begins to shake, as if Mary's anger is manifesting as telekenisis. Al vehemently believes she's the killer, Sam is trying to explain that there have been weird things happening, and Mary is getting more upset by the moment. When the argument comes to a head, the skull behind Mary flies off the shelf and Sam barely gets out of the way before it crashes into the wall where his head had been. Al gets creeped out, but then Mary begins to have an epileptic seizure, and Sam rushes her to the hospital.

Sam decides to visit Mary's house, at 966 Salem Avenue. As they arrive, Sam gestures for Al to proceed him through the open door, and as he does so, the house number flips to become 666. They find a few strange items, and a church bulletin that shows that Mary, Tully, and Dorothy are on the board of deacons of the church.

The sheriff shows up, wondering why Sam is there, and they talk. When Al tells Sam he's going to go back to check the sheriff again, the sheriff seems to look around, almost like he hears something strange. Al then disappears again, and Sam goes back to the hospital to visit with Mary for a bit.

Sam drives back to the Spook House, and notices he's being followed by a pickup truck that suddenly bumps him. Then the black cat from the house jumps up from the back seat and the pickup veers off the road. Now a bit spooked, Sam suddenly sees the goat in the middle of the road and then Stevie, in a pumpkin-head costume, so he over steers and falls off the road.

While they discuss that Stevie didn't see the goat, and how Joshua doesn't have any cats, Sam mentions that the car seemed to have a mind of its own, "like in Christine," which Stevie doesn't understand but Sam shrugs off with a "never mind."

Back in his office, Sam is checking out a book on the devil when Al appears suddenly behind him, startling him. As Sam decides that the only suspect has to be the sheriff, Al says "Maybe it's the Boogieman."

Sam discovers that the sheriff is on his way to pick up Mary from the hospital and jumps in his car, but finds the sheriff's car part way there—he's crashed, and he's dead as well. In an overdramatic moment, our favorite time traveler yells "Noooo!" to the stars. The goat reappears briefly and then is gone, so Sam gets in his car and drives back to the Spook House. Reminicsing that Halloween had been his favorite holiday growing up, he sighs. "Tonight there were no treats. There were no tricks. There was only death."

Sam arrives back at the house, and the sheriff's pickup is there. Stevie is outside, and Sam asks the kid if Mary and the sheriff are inside. He sends Stevie home, and when Mary meets him in the foyer, he tells her that the sheriff is dead. She says, "No he's not, he's in the kitchen."

As the sheriff comes out of the kitchen, Sam approaches him warily. They stare each other down a moment, then Sam grabs the sheriff's arm, and then, in a quick flash of a strange red light, he morphs into Al, in his white and silver-blue suit, with a strange reddish glow in his face.

Sam explains the strange things he's noticed about Al all during this leap: he managed to quote one of Tully's lines despite not knowing about it, he's never walked through anything or used the Imaging Chamber door, he has disappeared without using the handlink, and he's been the only other person around when the murders happened.

As they're talking, the real Al emerges from the Imaging Chamber door apologizing because something was messing with Ziggy, and falls silent when he sees the other Al. Sam begs the real Al to tell him there's nothing in front of him, but the real Al says "Oh, there's definitely something there..." Then the Devil-Al turns to the real Al and says, "That's more than I can say for you..."

Then The Devil/Evil Al grabs Sam around neck, choking him, and as Sam tries to fight back, they start spinning. The clock strikes midnight, the piano starts playing, and things fly around the room as real Al and Mary look on helplessly. Then the Devil-Al lets Sam go, flinging Sam to the floor.

As he falls, things spin, and then we see Sam falling down the stairs, just as he did at the beginning of the episode.

Sam comes to, just as he did at the beginning of the episode, and again Mary and Stevie are there asking if he's all right, as is Al, dressed in his loud shirt. Shaken, Sam reaches a hand out to make sure Al is intangible, and he's relieved to find that he is. "...there were two of you," Sam tells Al, "and you were trying to kill me!"

"I was trying to kill you?" Al and Mary ask at the same time. Al shrugs it off, and begins to tell Sam who he is, where he is, when he is, and that he's there to save a "Tully..."

At this Sam jumps to his feet and rushes up the stairs, getting to the old handyman just as he's falling off the ladder, saving him. Al appears (with the normal sound effects) and tells Sam how amazing it was, that Sam knew what he was there to do before Al even had the chance to explain it to him.

As the episode wraps up, Stevie's mom arrives to pick him up and Mary greets her as "Mrs. King." Sam and Al exchange a look, putting it together: Stevie... King? Sam realizes he gave him a bunch of ideas for his upcoming novels with the references to Christine and flying kitchen knives, and Stevie calls the big St. Bernard in the back seat of the car Cujo... and then Sam Leaps. Source

Personal Review by Carol <aka> C_DEAN n C_AL:

I especially like this episode because Stephen King is so "IN YOUR FACE"!!! … And next to QL … King is one of my favorites … you get: Writing a scary book - Carrie – Christine – Cujo … but my favorite King movie is The Langoliers, which Dean was in.  I love how when Sam and Al enter the house at 966 Salem Ave and the nine flips over. Al says, "Well … what are you waiting for?" Sam says, "Ah … Women and Holograms first …" LOL … I have to admit the ending was a total surprise the first time I watched it.

Music:
"Toccata in D Minor" by Johann Bach was used in the leap-out after "One Strobe Over the Line", but was ommitted in the leap-in to this episode.

Project Trivia:
The Imaging Chamber door is not seen or heard until the real Al finally arrives near the end of the episode.

The hand link is the "Gummy Bear" one … multi-colored flashing cubes of light ... this version is seen before the actual first introduction of it in "The Great Spontini."

Sam and Al call Ziggy a he in this episode.

Sam Trivia:
Sam remembers Halloween as a kid, while walking from the car and to the front door, you hear him narrating this thought: "When I was growing up Halloween was always one of my favorite holidays. Trick or treat we use to say. Of course back then we always expected a treat and if we did play a trick, it was always funny and harmless. But tonight there were no treats … there were no tricks … there was only death."

Sam believes in telekinesis.

Al’s Outfits:
Devil Al wears a powder-blue suit w/ White silk shirt w/button up collar, Silver pin on left lapel and White tennis shoes.

Real Al wears a green multi-print shirt w/thin Silver tie, Black pants and Black belt w/silver tip. [the ‘Yucky Green shirt’ from "Another Mother" as described by young Teresa Bruckner.]

Miscellaneous Trivia:

So what’s the story with that episode titled "The B**giem*n" and why do Leapers refuse to mention it by name?

This episode first aired near Halloween 1990, and from the first time it aired, weird events have been associated with this episode. As an example, this episode seems to have the highest incidence of VCR / cable / local station failure than any other episode aired. There have been numerous reports of VCR’s cutting out during the taping of this episode, local station and cable companies dropping their signal. Even mentioning it by name is hazardous, as one net. Leaper can attest. He lost his job AND his net. access. Its mention has been known to cause power failures and auto breakdowns, so it’s best to just refer to it as "The Halloween Episode" (episode #3.5). Leapers everywhere will know of what you speak. By the way, cameras and recording equipment also tend to act strangely around Chris Ruppenthal, the writer of this episode. Since it aired, his nickname has been "Ruppenboogie". He_is_ kind enough not to say the title of the episode around the fans, though director Joe Napolitano does. Mention of all this merely causes Chris to laugh evilly. (This was a question that was asked at: http://www.finifter.com/quantum-leap/information/faql.html#mark33)

Stephen King granted permission for the production to use his persona.

An Emmy award from the show can be seen on a shelf in Joshua's office when Sam is talking to Dorothy. It's just to the left of her in the frame as she sits on the sofa.

Devil Al popped in 5 times and smoked 3 cigars.

This is the first time we are introduced to the colored cube "gummy bear" handlink.

Kiss With History (and Stephen King Trivia):
Stephen King Movies that were made reference to:

"Carrie" w/ the flying (knives) things through the air 1976

"Christine" w/ the Red Plymouth Fury 1983 which Sam drove

"Cujo" w/ St Bernard 1983 that was in the car as Stevie drove away

"The Langoliers" 1995 not made reference to but written by Stephen King, Dean Stockwell was in this movie as well.

King is called the "Master of Horror". His books have been translated into 33 different languages, published in over 35 different countries. There are over 300 million copies of his novels in publication.

Regular Cast:
Scott Bakula as Dr Samuel Beckett
Dean Stockwell as Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci

Guest Cast:
Donald Hotton as Tully Maltin
David Kriegel as Stevie King
Paul Linke as Sheriff Ben Masters
Valerie Mahaffey as Mary Greely
Fran Ryan as Dorothy Jaeger
Chris Rupenthal as Joshua Rey (Mirror image)
Dean Stockwell as The Devil

Guest Cast Notes:

Donald Hotton as Tully Maltin: Donald Hotton was born on March 29, 1933. He was an actor, known for The China Syndrome (1979), Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Bodyguard (1992). He died on April 14, 1999.

Paul Linke as Sheriff Ben Masters: Paul Linke was born on May 6, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Parenthood (1989), Motel Hell (1980) and K-PAX (2001). He has been married to Christine Healy since 1991. They have one child. He was previously married to Francesca Cagiati Draper.

David Kriegel as Stevie King: David Kriegel was born in 1969 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a former retired US actor and director, known for Speed (1994), Leaving Las Vegas (1995) and Alive (1993). David Kriegel has had an impressive career that has traversed the spectrum of performing arts. A native of New Jersey, David began studying and working in the theater at the age of twelve. Upon graduation from high school he went on to study at The Julliard School.  David began his acting career in 1990 when he starred as Kevin Ness is an episode of the TV series called 21 Jump Street in the episode Change of Heart. He would later move on and star as a character named Terry in the hit 1994 film Speed. Besides acting, he has also directed the TV Series titled VIP Passport in 2006. He is known in Italy especially for the participation in the film The Accidental Detective with Vanna Paoli. He is married with a wife and has four children. He is no longer active as an actor, director and producer in film or television since 2005 and 2006, having retired at the age of 37. As of June 2014, he now owns a unique children's dance studio with his wife Amy Kriegel in Studio City, Los Angeles.
For two decades David has used his talent and skills, growing and adapting, maneuvering between the creative ideals of the artist and the practical necessities of business. It is his proudest role as husband and father, that drive his desire to continue to build the successful, nurturing, child-focused creative center that is Creation Station Studio City.

Chris Rupenthal as Joshua Rey (Mirror image): Chris Ruppenthal is known for writing and producing many episodes of Quantum Leap (including this one), The Outer Limits (1995) and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).

Valerie Mahaffey as Mary Greely: Valerie Mahaffey is an American character actress and producer. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979-81), for which in 1980 she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.In 1992, Mahaffey won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the CBS drama series Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids and Big Sky. Mahaffey also appeared in a number of movies, including Senior Trip (1995), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), Jack and Jill (2011), Sully (2016), and most notably French Exit (2020), for which she received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

Fran Ryan as Dorothy Jaeger: As an American character actress, Fran Ryan was a familiar face on stage, screen and television from her theatrical stage debut in the 1950s and continuing for nearly three decades. Ryan's similarity to actress Marjorie Main was soon noticed in the late 1960s, and she frequently played tough, mean-lipped, earthy and gruff-but-lovable female characters. One of Ryan's first major television roles was playing Aggie Thompson, the housekeeper on The Doris Day Show (1968) and quickly found her place as a last-minute replacement on several television shows. She replaced the late Barbara Pepper in playing Doris Ziffel on the final season of Green Acres (1965). She also successfully succeeded Amanda Blake to play Miss Hannah on the final season of Gunsmoke (1955). Ryan's best-known TV credits include General Hospital (1963) and No Soap, Radio (1982). Ryan also had supporting roles in major motion pictures including Big Wednesday (1978), The Long Riders (1980), Stripes (1981), Savannah Smiles (1982), Private School (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983) and Pale Rider (1985). Although she was never far from television, she returned to play Hannah the Barbarian in the short lived animated series Little Dracula (1991).Fran Ryan passed away at her home in Burbank, California on January 15, 2000 of natural causes.

and Dean Stockwell as The Devil

Guests who appeared in other Quantum Leap episodes:
Paul Linke appeared in "Play it Again, Seymour" as Lionel.

Chris Ruppenthal as the Joshua Rey's mirror image wrote and produced many episodes of Quantum Leap.

Say What?
Why is Tully on a ladder when he could probably have done the repair from inside the house?

When Sam reads the titles of Joshua Rey's books, his name doesn't actually appear to be on any of the book spines.

Mary talks about being burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials in 1692. However, these were all hangings (and one pressed to death). This is also a glaring error in the 2022 revival series episode, "A Kind Of Magic."

A Black Mamba snake is actually gray. The snake used in the episode is not a true Mamba.

There are candles lit in various rooms before anyone enters them.

You can see the wire used to make the skull float across the room.

At this point in time, Stephen King's mother went by her maiden name, "Pillsbury", not "Mrs. King."

And speaking of say what? watch this video:

Quotable Quotes:
Unbelievable, I've leaped into the Addams family.
-- Sam, "The b**gieman"

Them that dance with the devil are bound to get scorched.
-- Tulley, "The b**gieman"

What's time to old Scratch?  Yesterday's tomorrow for him.
-- Tulley, "The b**gieman"

Sam, I don't like things that fly around without wings.
-- 'Al', "The b**gieman"

Why are you doing this?
To put an end to your meddling.  Who gave you the right to go bungling around in time, putting right what I made wrong?
I'm just trying to get home.
Well you're not going to make it!
-- Sam and the devil, "The b**gieman"

Hey, Mr. Ray, I got this idea for my book!
-- Stevie, "The b**gieman"

Sam, uh, Ziggy says that there's definitely something there.
That's more than I can say for you.
-- Al and 'Al', "The b**gieman"

Who are you?
Ying and Yang, Good and Evil, God ...
The Devil.
In the flesh, so to speak.
-- Mary, 'Al' and Sam, "The b**gieman"

Nobody else could have done it!
Maybe the b**gieman.
-- Sam & 'Al', "The b**gieman"

Cross my heart and hope to.... limbo.
-- Sam, "The b**gieman"

Hi, Cujo!
-- Stevie, "b**gieman"

Them that dance with the devil are bound to get scorched.
-- Al, "The b**gieman"

When I was growing up Halloween was always one of my favourite holidays. 'Trick or treat' we used to say, course back then we always expected a treat and if we did play a trick it was always funny and harmless.  But tonight there were no treats, there were no tricks, there was only death.
-- Sam, "The b**gieman"

Al’s Best Lines:
Devil Al appears behind Sam and startles him and says, "Them that dance with the devil are bound to get scorched."

Sam says, "AL!"

Devil Al says, "Well next time I’ll knock!"

Sam says, "I found this match stick on the floor of the kitchen

Devil Al says, "Maybe the B**giem*m?" Then just stands there and he does that thing with his cigar standing with his weight on one leg.

Best Scene:

Sam has just come back home from another accident and walks into the house,

Sam whispers, "Mary?"

Mary says, "Josh?"

Sam says, "Mary, Ben is dead."

Mary says, "No he isn’t, he’s in the kitchen."

Ben says, "Well, it’s about time."

Sam walks over to Ben and he raises his arm and Sam grabs it. Ben emits a red light and turns into the Al we have been seeing.

Devil Al says, "Bahhh …"

Sam says, "Mary run!" All the locks on the door bolt themselves and you hear all the windows shut and lock. "Advanced psycho kinesis?"

Devil Al says, "Maybe … maybe not."

Sam says, "Mary … she was never in danger?"

Devil Al says, "She is now."

Sam says, "And Tully and the others?"

Devil Al says, "The fun part was that it was a pattern … that seemed to add up but it didn’t."

Sam says, "But it did …you quoted Tully’s line to me about … ‘Them that dance with the devil …’ I never told you that. And you never walked through anything in this leap or used the imaging chamber door. And when we were upstairs, and you left to find Mary, you disappeared with out using your hand link to Ziggy. But most important, you were the only other person around when Dorothy and Tully died."

Devil Al says, "Personally my favorite part was watching your face when you read the messages in the typewriter!" Laughs evilly. "That was priceless! You know how this story’s going to end … don’t you?"

Sam says, "I know how you want it to."

Devil Al says, "Yes, I believe you do."

At that moment the real Al appears from the imaging chamber door and says, "Gee Sam … I’m sorry I’m late. But somethin’ was goofin’ Ziggy all up and …" As he looks around he sees the other Al, "Oh Sam … This is not good!"

Sam says, "No it isn’t"

Al says, " Oh Sam … Ahhh … you … Ahhh … better get outta here! QUICK! QUICK!"

Sam says, "I can’t Al. He’s locked us in. He’s already killed 3 people and he intends to kill us."

Devil Al says, "Something long overdue."

Al says, " Ahhh, Sam Ahhh … Ziggy … says that there’s … defiantly something there."

Devil Al says, "That’s more than I can say for you!" As he looks at the real Al and he raises his eyebrows and bugs out his eyes, looking at the other Al.

Mary says, "Who are you?" As she stands behind the curtain watching and listening to everything.

Devil Al says, "Ying and Yang … Good and Bad … God …"

Sam says, "And the Devil …"

Devil Al says, "In the flesh so to speak." Laughs evilly.

Mary says, "This isn’t possible!"

Sam says, "Come on Al … tell me he’s not real!"

Devil Al says, "Ahhh … oh … Ahhh … He’s real Sam. Oh Sam he’s very real!"

Mary says, "What is happening?"

Sam says, "Why are you doing this?"

Devil Al says, "To put an end to your meddling. WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO GO BONGLING AROUND IN TIME … PUTTING RIGH WHAT I MADE WRONG?"

Sam says, "Just trying to get home."

Devil Al says, "Well your not going to make it!" Laughs evilly and grabs Sam at the throat and starts to choke him.

Al yells, " SAM! If you can touch him you can hurt him! SAM! SAM!"

The clock strikes midnight, the candlesticks rattle on the table, the piano starts playing and they start turning around in a circle as Sam grabs his neck

Al yells, " Hang in there Sam! Hang in there!"

They each have a hold of each others neck and the spinning is faster, things are breaking, drawers are flying out of the cabinet and the faces are changing. Tully to Dorothy to the sheriff, with a bloody face, to the goat to Mary, with a ‘Don’t do this’ look on her face.

Al yells, " SAAAAAMMM! … SAAAAAMMM!"

The clock strikes one minute past 12 and the face is the other Al and they both let go and Sam falls to the floor.

Mary says, "JOSH! … Josh, are you okay?"

Sam says, "OHHHHH!" As he comes to and crawls away from Mary and Stevie, looking at them in horror.

Mary says, "Josh! What’s the matter?"

Sam says, "Nothing … I’m … I’m fine. Sort of …"

Mary says, "Thank God! You scared me for a minute!"

Al says, " You had me scared too, Sam. We completely lost you there for a couple of minutes! What happened?"

Sam reaches out his hand and puts it through Al’s chest. Al looks down and gives him a quizzical look. You hear chimes as Sam puts his hand through Al.

Sam takes a breath and says, "For a while … [Scott says they instead of there] were … two of you and one of you was trying to kill me."

Al & Mary say in unison, "TRYING TO KILL YOU?"

Stevie says, "Cool! What a neat idea!"

Al says, "You musta been dreamin’. You’re name is ahhh … Joshua Rey, you’re a second rate horror novelist and you’re here to save a person named … Tully Ma … Tully Ma …"

You hear hammering upstairs and Sam jumps up to his feet and runs up the stairs.

Mary says, "Josh!"

Everyone follows him up the stairs.

Sam yells, "TULLY!" He lunges his arms out the window just in time to catch him from falling.

Al says, "SAM! Sam this is incredible! You knew what to do before I even told you!"

Tully says, "Thank you Mr. Rey! You really saved my neck."

Sam says, "Yah … I guess I did didn’t I."

Stevie says, "Glad you’re okay! Oh God, look at the time, its almost 12:15! I gotta scram! I still gotta peel those bowl grapes for the eyeballs!"

Sam says, "Al! It was the goat!"

Al says, "I don’t see any goat."

Outside on the front steps everyone comes out the door as Al punches the keys on the hand link. Stevie comes out first and looks right at Dean. Next Mary comes out and then Sam.

Mary says, "What else did I do while you were unconscious?"

Sam says, "Ahhh … well … you got angry at me and made a skull fly across the room."

Mary Giggles

Sam says, "Course it could have been worse could’ve been kitchen knives."

Stevie says, "Boy! What a neat idea!"

You hear a car pull up, honk and a dog bark.

Mary says, "Hi Mrs. King!"

Stevie says, "Hi Mom!"

Sam says, "Stevie?"

Sam looks at Al and Al looks at the hand link.

Al says, "King."

They both look at each other as Dean gives Scott that ‘I told you so look’.

Stevie says, "Hey Cujo!"

Sam says, "Kitchen knives, Christine … OMG I just him …"

Mary says, "What?"

Al says, "Bye-Bye Sam."

Sam begins his new leap.

Awards:
Cameron Birnie and Robert L. Zilliox received the Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Art Direction for a Series in 1991.

Production Credits:

Theme by: Mike Post
Music by: Velton Ray Bunch
Co-Executive Producer: Deborah Pratt
Co-Executive Producer: Michael Zinberg
Supervising Producers: Harker Wade, Robert Wolterstorff
Co-producers: Paul  Brown, Jeff Gourson
Produced by: Chris Ruppenthal
Created by: Donald P. Bellisario
Written by: Chris Ruppenthal
Directed by: Joe Napolitano

Executive Producer: Donald P. Bellisario
Associate Producer: James S. Giritlian
Executive Story Editor: Tommy Thompson
Director of Photography: Michael Watkins
Production Designer: Cameron Birnie
Edited by: Jon Koslowsky, A.C.E.
Unit Production Manager: Ron Grow
First Assistant Director: Paul Sirmons
Second Assistant Director: Rob Mendel
Casting by: Ellen Lubin Sanitsky
Set Director: Robert L. Zilliox
Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Dorleac
Costume Supervisors: David Rawley & Donna Roberts-Orme
Sound Mixer: Mark Hopkins McNabb
Stunt Coordinator: Diamond Farnsworth
Sound Editor: Paul Clay
Music Editor: Donald Woods

Panaflex ®  Camera and Lenses by: Panavision ®

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