Quantum Leap/Awesome

• Sam sees what seemed to be just a crusty prospector help save his friends, then vanish in a blue light. Sam realizes that the old man was a Leaper, and the bartender (God) tells him that that's what guardian angels do.
• In "Animal Frat," Sam has to stop Vietnam student protesters from blowing up a school building, which wasn't going to be as empty as they thought it would be. One is a particular Jerkass that harasses Sam over the war. When Sam lets it slip his brother Tom died in the war, the Jerkass says he deserved to for being over there. Keep that moment in mind for later on when Sam beats that little punk silly.
  • The scene where he thwarts the bombing is itself thrilling, with the normally peaceable Sam pinning the perpetrator to a table to guarantee that they'll all go down if the bomb goes off. But it's hard to fault him for taking this tack.

"Are you ready to die tonight, Duck?"

• In "Revenge of the Evil Leaper," after Alia escapes, Zoe intends to kill Sam as a consolation prize. Sam responds with this threat by shooting her with a shotgun.
• Sam getting up and walking to punch out an abusive orderly in the episode where he's leaped into a double amputee.
• In the episode "Raped", Sam leaps into a rape victim who had previously fled town because she couldn't deal with the humiliation. Sam and Al think he's there to see to the prosecution of her rapist, only to have him acquitted because he's the mayor's son. As Sam is sitting on the porch lamenting the turn of events, the rapist shows up and proceed to attack her/him again. Sam tells Al, "I think I know the reason I'm here", and proceeds to beat the punk within an inch of his life.
  • And we get a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming right afterwards, when the girl's family comes out and sees what happened. The father incredulously asks "You did all this?", to which Sam responds "Well, I am a McBain."
• In "Future Boy", Sam leaps into an actor who plays the co-star of a 1950s sci-fi TV show, and his mission is to prevent the star from dying or being committed to an asylum because of his belief in time travel. Near the end of the episode, the man straps himself into the machine and fires it up...and actually starts to leap, much to Al's shock. The only reason he failed is because he didn't have enough power.
• The Halloween Episode was mostly just Nightmare Fuel, but the climax is, when you think about it, pure awesome. Turns out that the "Al" we saw throughout the episode was actually the Devil, and he's decided that it's time to off The Hero, and sets to strangling Sam. Sam Beckett, however, decides that he's not going to have that, and chokes the devil into oblivion. Repeat, Sam strangles Satan.