PRODUCER EXCLUSIVE
Time After Time
Executive producer Chris Grismer promises a season two full of changes for Quantum Leap
WORDS: TARA BENNETT
WHEN QUANTUM LEAP WAS revived last year, it placed physicist Dr Benjamin Song (Raymond Lee) in the quantum accelerator, following in the footsteps of Dr Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) 30 years earlier. And in the first season finale – much like Sam – Ben ended up not leaping back to his own time, as hoped. In “Judgment Day”, Ben’s fiancée Addison (Caitlin Bassett) and his Leap team are seen anticipating his return with deep concern, and then there’s a cut to black.
Raymond Lee as Ben, Melissa Roxburgh as Lt Ellen Grier.
Series executive producer and finale director Chris Grismer tells Red Alert that he was just as shocked and surprised as anyone when he was handed the script with that ending. “The finale was so huge and I was so excited to figure out how to actually tell that story,” he remembers.