All the while, Sam is touched by the kindness and sadness of Kiki ( Jennifer Aniston), a hospital volunteer whose brother is missing in action. Sam leaps into Ronald Miller (Michael Carpenter), a legless Vietnam vet in a veterans' hospital who must save the life of Billy Johnson ( Michael Boatman), his quadriplegic roommate, while still keeping his host's wife, Julie ( Judith Hoag), from leaving him so that his eldest son can save a tank troop in the Gulf War. Brooke Shields also starred in the somewhat similar The Blue Lagoon (1980). Note: The episode refers to Swept Away (1974). ![]() Sam finds his patience tested when he leaps into Nikos Stathatos (Socrates Alafouzos) in a lifeboat with a bratty, self-obsessed heiress Vanessa Foster ( Brooke Shields) and end up stuck on an island from which they will not be rescued for nine years. Al reveals that Sam has succeeded in his actual mission: saving the life of Jackie Kennedy (Karen Ingram), who was killed along with JFK in the original timeline of the show's universe. Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who climbed on the back of the President's limousine during the assassination. Is Sam supposed to save the President, as Sam believes, or unearth the multiplicity of conspiracies that Al espouses? Oswald is revealed to be the lone assassin of JFK, with Al speculating that people found all the conspiracies easier than believing that one man could kill the President that easily. Fleeing home after the General Walker assassination attempt, and handing out "Hands off Cuba" Pamphlets, and the date of Dallas is getting nearer. Īfter Sam is forced to attempt suicide to maintain history, Ziggy tries a procedure that unintentionally makes Oswald's personality harder for Sam to control. Bellisario, who actually met the real Oswald in 1959 when they both served in the Marine Corps, wrote this episode as a rebuttal to the 1991 film JFK, and believed that there was no assassination conspiracy and that Oswald was perfectly capable of acting alone in killing Kennedy. Note: Originally shown as a two-hour episode. He then attempts to defect to Russia and divulge classified US military information. ![]() During his leaps he lashes out, when Oswald's mind is ascendant, at wife Marina Oswald ( Natasha Pavlovich), girlfriend Mariska (Donna Magnani) and his training leader, Sgt. However, the objective is made more complex by the fact that their minds are merging. Kennedy or find the truth about the events that day. Sam leaps into various points, over a six year period, in the life of Lee Harvey Oswald ( Willie Garson) in an effort to seemingly prevent him from killing President John F. Main article: List of Quantum Leap episodes No.
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