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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Addison gets with Tom Westfall around the time Ben is declared LegallyDead, reminiscent of way Beth Calavicci got together with Dirk Simon in the orignal timeline after believing Al died in Vietnam.

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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Addison gets got together with Tom Westfall around the time Ben is was declared LegallyDead, reminiscent of way Beth Calavicci got together with Dirk Simon in the orignal original timeline after believing Al died in Vietnam.



* RememberTheNewGuy: Justified with Addison's new love interest Tom Westfall, who everyone at the Project in 2026 welcomes with hugs and handshakes, as he'd gotten close with them some time after contact with Ben was lost in 2023.

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* RememberTheNewGuy: Justified with Addison's new love interest Tom Westfall, who whom everyone at the Project in 2026 welcomes with hugs and handshakes, as he'd gotten close with them some time sometime after contact with Ben was lost in 2023.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Addison gets with Tom Westfall around the time Ben is declared LegallyDead, reminiscent of way Beth Calavicci got together with Dirk Simon in the orignal timeline after believing Al dead in Vietnam.

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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Addison gets with Tom Westfall around the time Ben is declared LegallyDead, reminiscent of way Beth Calavicci got together with Dirk Simon in the orignal timeline after believing Al dead died in Vietnam.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Addison initially balks at returning to the Project after Ben is located, and only wants to enter the Imaging Chamber one final time just to tell Ben that she's moved on. After talking with Tom and Jenn, however, she decides to stick around.


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* BankRobbery: The leap portion of the episode deals with Ben having to save the lives of hostages in a 1986 bank robbery, and facilitate a reconciliation between Rebecca and her bank robber brother Sean.
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* CallBack: Ian says that Ben tumbling into the 2018 accelerator in "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E18JudgmentDay Judgment Day]]" messed up the Project's ability to track his quantum signature, leading to him being lost to them for three years.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Justified with Addison's new love interest Tom Westfall, who everyone at the Project in 2026 welcomes with hugs and handshakes, as he'd gotten close with them some time after contact with Ben was lost in 2023.

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* RememberTheNewGuy: Justified with Addison's new love interest Tom Westfall, who everyone at the Project in 2026 welcomes with hugs and handshakes, as he'd gotten close with them some time after contact with Ben was lost in 2023.2023.
* TakingTheHeat: Sean shoots Ganz to protect Rebecca and Ben/Lorena. Rebecca convinces Sean to give her his gun so she can say she shot Ganz in self-defense.
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* ContinuityNod: Ben tells the bank robbers that it's not his first bank robbery, referencing how he leapt into a bank robber way back in [[QuantumLeap2022S1E1July13th1985 the first episode]].

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* ContinuityNod: Ben tells the bank robbers that it's not his first bank robbery, referencing how he leapt into a bank robber way back in [[QuantumLeap2022S1E1July13th1985 [[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E1July13th1985 the first episode]].
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* ContinuityNod: Ben tells the bank robbers that it's not his first bank robbery, referencing how he leapt into a bank robber in the first episode.

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* ContinuityNod: Ben tells the bank robbers that it's not his first bank robbery, referencing how he leapt into a bank robber way back in [[QuantumLeap2022S1E1July13th1985 the first episode.episode]].
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* ContinuityNod: Ben tells the bank robbers that it's not his first bank robbery, referencing how he leapt into a bank robber in the first episode.
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Still reeling from the realization that it's been [[YearOutsideHourInside three years from the Project's point of view]], Ben leaps into Lorena Sanches, an elderly bank teller in Tucson, Arizona. His mission is to ensure the survival of hostages in a bank robbery.

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Still reeling from the realization news that it's been [[YearOutsideHourInside three years from the Project's point of view]], Ben leaps into Lorena Sanches, an elderly bank teller in Tucson, Arizona. His mission is to ensure the survival of hostages in a bank robbery.
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'''''Series/QuantumLeap2022'''''\\
'''Season 2, Episode 2:'''

!Ben & Teller

Written by Aadrita Mukerji

Directed by Kristin Windell

Original air date: 10/11/2023

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May 9, 1986

Still reeling from the realization that it's been [[YearOutsideHourInside three years from the Project's point of view]], Ben leaps into Lorena Sanches, an elderly bank teller in Tucson, Arizona. His mission is to ensure the survival of hostages in a bank robbery.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Project crew in 2026 deals with the reveal that Ben -- who had been declared LegallyDead the year before -- is still alive. None more so than Addison, who had moved on.

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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Addison gets with Tom Westfall around the time Ben is declared LegallyDead, reminiscent of way Beth Calavicci got together with Dirk Simon in the orignal timeline after believing Al dead in Vietnam.
* GenderBender: Ben leaps into Lorena Chaves, an elderly grandmother.
* LegallyDead: After failing to locate Ben for two years, the Pentagon had him declared dead, and there was a funeral.
* InternalHomage: To "[[{{Recap/QuantumLeapS5E11PromisedLand}} Promised Land]]" from the original series, which was also about a bank robbery that had a sibling element.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Justified with Addison's new love interest Tom Westfall, who everyone at the Project in 2026 welcomes with hugs and handshakes, as he'd gotten close with them some time after contact with Ben was lost in 2023.

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