History Recap / QuantumLeap2022S1E4ADecentProposal

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Throughout the episode, televisions show the royal wedding between then-Prince Charles and Diana. In the bar, we see footage of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen Elizabeth]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Philip]]; the episode aired just three weeks after Elizabeth's funeral.

* InternalReveal: Magic reveals to Ian that Sam had leapt into him, and it turns out that he had previously told Jenn.

** To "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS2E13AnotherMother Another Mother]]", which was Sam Beckett's only leap into 1981 (and occurred two months and a day after Ben's leap), was also into a woman, and which also prominently featured a Music/{{Blondie}} song.

* TheVietnamVet: When Ian tells Magic that they're going to have to go through all the Project's personnel files to try to figure out what Janis is using Ziggy to predict about them, Magic takes Ian to get a cup of coffee. Ian is ''clearly'' thinking that they're about to hear a tragic war story, and tells Magic that they won't judge him, but Magic instead tells them the story of when [[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E02TheLeapHomePart2Vietnam Sam Beckett leaped into him in Vietnam in 1970]] and saved the entire squad's lives.

'''Original air date:''' 10/10/2022

Ben experiences his first leap into a woman, as he leaps into Eva Sandoval, a Los Angeles bounty hunter, in the early morning of July 29, 1981.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Carla is arrested, and the drugs she had trafficked in the original timeline aren't present in the new timeline. Eva and Jake also end up together with BabiesEverAfter. But as soon as Ben remembers his relationship with Addison, he finds that he can't touch her holographic hand, and then leaps out before they can talk.]]

** We finally get Magic's perspective on having been [[spoiler:one of Sam Beckett's leapees in "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E02TheLeapHomePart2Vietnam The Leap Home Part 2: Vietnam]]". His dreams about Sam for years after, combined with reading his top secret file in the old Project Quantum Leap's archives, and his gratefulness to Sam for saving his and his squad's lives, is what spurred him to get Project Quantum Leap restarted.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Tammy Jean isn't in danger; she's actually a murderous cartel boss.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: Almost the ArcWords of the episode. Eva's dad explains to Ben that one of the first rules of bounty hunting is that the answer is right in front of you. This is relevant when [[spoiler:"Tammy Jean" isn't who she says she is, her parking tickets were all given in one place, and Ben realizes the truth about him and Addison.]]

** To "[[{{Recap/QuantumLeapS3E18AHuntingWeWillGo}} A Hunting We Will Go]]", which was also into a leap into a bounty hunter, and also involved being handcuffed to a woman who wants to escape. Unlike in that episode, however, [[spoiler:the woman in this episode is actually a dangerous criminal without any altruistic motives.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Tammy Jean, a ditsy young woman with too many parking tickets, is actually the cover for Carla, a ''very'' dangerous drug cartel boss.]]

* RejectedMarriageProposal: Played straight in the original timeline, but subverted by Ben. In the original timeline, Eva turns down Jake and they go their separate ways, never marrying anyone else. After Ben leaps in, when Jake proposes to "Eva," Ben doesn't say ''no'', but instead says that he needs more time, mostly because he doesn't want to answer as his leapee's proxy. Jake spends the rest of the episode angsting about it, and the conclusions he comes to [[spoiler:allow the couple to end up together]].
* TragicIntangibility: [[spoiler:When Ben remembers his relationship with Addison, they reach out to touch hands...which they can't do because she's a hologram from 2022 and he's in the past. And then he leaps.]]

* TheVietnamVet: When Ian tells Magic that they're going to have to go through all the Project's personnel files to try to figure out what Janis is using Ziggy to predict about them, Magic takes Ian to get a cup of coffee. Ian is ''clearly'' thinking that they're about to hear a tragic war story, and tells Magic that they won't judge him, but Magic instead tells them the story of [[spoiler:when [[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E02TheLeapHomePart2Vietnam Sam Beckett leaped into him in Vietnam in 1970]] and saved the entire squad's lives.]]

* VillainBall: Carla lets Jake and Eva tell each other an PublicSecretMessage to fight back, but she does nothing to stop them.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Throughout the episode televisions show the royal wedding between then-Prince Charles and Diana; in the bar, we see [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen Elizabeth]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Philip]]; the episode aired just three weeks after Elizabeth's funeral.

* CallBack: We finally get Magic's perspective on having been [[spoiler:one of Sam Beckett's leapees in "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E02TheLeapHomePart2Vietnam The Leap Home Part 2: Vietnam]]". His dreams about Sam for years after, combined with reading his top secret file in the old Project Quantum Leap's archives, and his gratefulness to Sam for saving his and his squad's lives, is what spurred him to get Project Quantum Leap restarted.]]

* InternalHomage: To two classic ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episodes:

* RejectedMarriageProposal: Played straight in the original timeline, but subverted by Ben. In the original timeline, Eva turns down Jake and they go their separate ways, never marrying anyone else. After Ben leaps in, when Jake proposes to "Eva," Ben doesn't say ''no'', but instead says that he needs more time, mostly because he doesn't want to answer as his leapee's proxy. Jake spends the rest of the episode angsting about it, and the conclusions he comes to [[spoiler:allows the couple to end up together]].

Original air date: 10/10/2022

* TragicIntangibility: [[spoiler:When Ben remembers his relationship with Addison, they reach out to touch hands...which they can't do because she's a hologram from 2022 and he's in the past. And then he leaps.]]