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"Good Night, Dear Heart"
Quantum Leap episode
Sam Beckett prepares Hilla's body for burial.
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 17
Directed byChristopher T. Welch
Written byPaul Brown
Produced byDeborah Pratt (supervising producer)
Harker Wade (producer)
Paul Brown, Jeff Gourson, Chris Ruppenthal (co-producers)
Featured musicMike Post
Editing byAlec Smight
Original air dateMarch 7, 1990 (1990-03-07)
Running time42 min
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"Good Night, Dear Heart" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series Quantum Leap. Lead character Sam Beckett "leaps" (travels through time) to 1957, into the body of a mortician investigating the death of a young West German immigrant woman. What at first appears to be a suicide by drowning turns out to be foul play. The episode, the 17th of season 2, was written by Paul Brown and directed by Christopher T. Welch. It aired originally on March 7, 1990.

Paul Brown won an

Edgar Award
for Best Episode in a TV Series for writing "Good Night, Dear Heart". The character Stephanie Heywood was later featured in an issue of the Quantum Leap comic book series.

Plot

It is November 9, 1957, and Sam Beckett has "leaped" into the body of Melvin Spooner, a

firebombing of Dresden
. Although it initially appears that she drowned herself, Sam determines that she was in fact murdered. He realizes that he is there to solve her murder, but grows obsessed with her.

Upon learning that Hilla was pregnant, Sam first comes to believe that Greg Truesdale, the young man who loved her, killed her. When he finds out that Greg's father Roger tried to get Hilla to have an abortion, he then tries to convince Lyle, the chief of police, to arrest Roger. Lyle persuades Sam that no prosecutor would take Roger to trial and convinces him to bury Hilla. As Sam prepares Hilla for burial he realizes who the killer is. Hilla was killed by Stephanie Heywood. Stephanie and Hilla were

romantically involved and planned to move to New York together, where Hilla would model and Stephanie would become a photographer. Then Hilla fell in love with Greg and became pregnant. When she tried to break it off with Stephanie, Stephanie struck her in the head with a shoe, causing her death. After the funeral, Sam remains behind and reads the poem Warm Summer Sun by Mark Twain
concluding with the words "Good night, dear heart, good night, good night" before leaping.

Cast

Awards

"Good Night, Dear Heart" won an

Edgar Award for writer Paul Brown for Best Episode in a TV Series.[2]

Comic book sequel

The character Stephanie Heywood was featured in "Up Against a Stonewall", the ninth issue of the Quantum Leap comic book. Sam leaps into Stephanie on June 22, 1969, as she is being released from prison for causing Hilla's death. She has continued to develop her photography skills and has secured a patron and a job as a fashion photographer in New York City. Her first model, Clarice, turns out to be a

gay rights movement
.

Openly gay author

Measure 9) that would have stripped gay and lesbian people of the right even to petition for gay rights legislation in those states. Mangels criticized Quantum Leap for its portrayal of Stephanie as a lesbian killer and for the lack of positive gay portrayals on the series. Noting the series's theme of "setting right what once went wrong", Mangels wrote that "Up Against a Stonewall" was his attempt to do just that.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ [Sam looks in Hilla's passport which is a West German passport and shows that her birthday was November 9, 1938.]
  2. ^ Capsuto, p. 308
  3. ^ Mangels, Andy (w, a). "Up Against a Stonewall" Quantum Leap, vol. 1, no. 9 (February 1993). Innovation Comics.

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