Quantum Leap Season 2 Episode 4 Review: The Lonely Hearts Club

In Quantum Leap Season 2 Episode 4: The Lonely Hearts Club, Ben leaps into the body of a Hollywood agent named Summer Walsh and tries to prevent the death of a washed-up Hollywood actor named Neal Russell.

Team Ben goes to Hollywood

in Quantum Leap Season 2 Episode 4, Ben has lept into the body of a rising star in Hollywood her name is Summer Walsh and the main client is named Neal Russell. Russell was part of one of the biggest sitcoms in the history of television. It was named Awful Good Together.

But years after the show ended, Russell saw his star fade slowly. He has had a few flops and while people still recognize him on the streets, he is no longer the star he was during the airing of the show.

When Ben and Russell are sitting down for a coffee and go through the mail. Ben notices that Russell has letters sent back to him. All of them are initialed with C.L. Russell says that the person has most likely moved house and that is why the letters are sent back.

There is another one and it is a wedding invitation for the wedding of Laura and Michael. Russell runs off in a fit of rage.

Addison and Ben are huge fans of Neal Russell

Addison has joined Ben in the meantime and both are in awe because they are huge fans of Russell. Ben and Addison even had a weekend marathon with Russell’s movies. That is up until Addison got so sick she spent half the time in the bathroom.

It is another memory that has been unlocked that commemorates Ben and Addison’s life together before Ben leaped. Quantum Leap Season 2 Episode 4 shows that Ben is able to handle the memories he shares with Addison before he jumps into the Quantum Accelerator.

Ben and Addison go after Russell who has run off. They eventually find him at the house of Laura and Michael. Russell and Laura are fighting. Russell is trying to win her back and tells her that she should marry him at all but marry him instead. Laura in a fit of rage puts him in his place.

Russell doesn’t want to give up and asks Ben for help to get Laura back. Ben’s mission however is to get Russell on The Today Show. According to Ziggy, Summer Walsh failed to do so, and after that, Russell went missing leaving his fans behind. The Today Show was hosted by Jay Leno back in 2000.

Russell drives to an abandoned warehouse where movie props and costumes are stored. Russell thinks he needs THE tuxedo in order to win back Laura.

Ben wonders what Tuxedo can be THAT special but when he arrives, he sees the Tuxedo that Russell wore during the sitcom.

Quantum Leap 2x04: The Lonely Hearts Club

Addison tries to stop Ben from bringing him back to Laura but Ben insists that he gets them back together. Meanwhile, at Quantum Leap HQ, Tom points out that Ben usually knows what he is doing and asks Addison to give him the benefit of the doubt.

The two have a flirt at HQ and the episode expands on their relationship while Ben is still in the background leaping from body to body.

C.L.’s identity has been revealed

While Ben helps Russell, Addison goes back to the present and asks for information on C.L.

Team Quantum Leap supports Ben by reading Neal Russell’s memoir. According to Magic, when it comes to memoirs, you need to read between the lines. They find out that CL is Caroline Lambert, the illegitimate daughter of Russell. Russell had a fling back in the 1970s but Russell was told that she did not want to meet her father at all.

After Laura rejects Russell, Ben makes a U-turn and instead of driving to The Tonight Show, they visit Caroline Lambert, who sees her father for the very first time in her life.

With the two back together, it is time for Ben to leap to his next adventure. This single episode sure shook up a lot of things in the show.

Ziggy has been hacked

While at Team Quantum Leap headquarters, Tom asks Ian if he can go over some of the data spikes he has found. There were significant spikes at some moments while there was no reason to.

Once Ian checks the data he makes a huge discovery: Ziggy got hacked and the hack is in the hardware, not the software. Ian takes the data to his friend Rachel and he tells her that the data is submitted after Ben jumps. It goes outside of Team Quantum Leap HQ and the question is where does the data go?

However, Rachel slowly begins to suspect that Ian is holding back in sharing information and she soon deduces that Ian has found Ben. She calls Ian out for not sharing the information about Ben.

Ian goes back to Team Quantum Leap HQ after that. We are made to think that Rachel is Ian’s girlfriend. This would mean Ian is no longer a member of The Lonely Hearts Club.

Closing Notes and Thoughts

Ben and Addison have a fight about Addison moving on with her life by burying Ben and dating someone new. Ben kept himself alive with the hope of being reunited at some point with Addison.

His finding out that she has moved on was a big blow to his confidence and while he still works on that leap home, he tells Addison that he finds it very hard to work with her. So he just tells her that he would rather not have her around anymore and wants someone else to be his guidance hologram.

It is a major decision and I really hope that the two will be reunited as a team again but to me, the decision came out of thin air. There were no indications at all that Ben would do something drastic like replacing Addison with someone else.

And better yet, who is that someone else who will guide Ben through his leaps? So far, Ian has been great as a replacement for Addison but it did lack the empathy and the strength that you can have as a couple to get the best out of each other and last time I checked, Ian isn’t a couple with Ben.

Who would be the perfect fit? My pick would be Magic because he knows what it is like to be lept into and also, he’s the more pragmatic member of Team Quantum Leap. He could complement Ben’s empathy.

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