Quantum Leap - continued

MIA has to be one of the best TV episodes I've ever seen, and a great end to season 2.  It's a pretty hard-hitting episode that deals with regret, loss and yearning, as experienced by Al when Sam finds himself in San Diego at the time that Al's wife re-marries while his younger self is rotting in a Vietcong prison camp.  Al, desperate to change his life so that his wife doesn't remarry, violates his own code of conduct and tries to stop Beth Calivicci from marrying a lawyer, lying about Sam's real mission, which is actually to save a Vietnam vet and top detective from being killed in an ambush in which he freezes up due to similarities to an ambush he experienced in Vietnam.  It's a great episode that's not too heavy on nostalgia, although there are hippies and drugs and Marvin Gaye's Heard it Through The Grapevine.  It's an enjoyable episode, but the final scene is the best in the series so far, in which Al, invisible and unable to communicate with his ex sees her one last time, pleading with her.  It's a great episode and Dean Stockwell is great in it.

So far a great series, I hope it continues to be that way, despite warnings of an infamous white rap from Dean Stockwell.