The Best Episodes Written By Margarita Matthews

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Fools Rush In

   S2:E93/3/2026

   As the team discovers Gibbs’ drunken Vegas elopement with Diane, the newlyweds contemplate their future. Also, the team investigates a fatal movie theater bombing with a connection to the Pruitt compound where Mason is staying.

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #2 - One Flew Over

   S1:E711/25/2024

   NIS investigates the murder of a dementia-afflicted Jane Doe. Also, flashbacks reveal the first time Gibbs met Franks

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   7.3/10(6 votes)

   #3 - Leap. Die. Repeat.

   S1:E111/30/2023

   When Ben leaps into one of five people in an elevator at a 1962 nuclear reactor, he must figure which one triggers a bomb that kills them all. Each time the bomb goes off, he leaps into another one of them an hour earlier, resetting the scene.

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   7.3/10(6 votes)

   #4 - Judgement Day

   S1:E184/3/2023

   Ben’s next leap takes him closer to home than he ever expected. The team faces the ultimate showdown with Leaper X as they battle for the future of the Quantum Leap project and their lives.

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   7.3/10(7 votes)

   #5 - The Outsider

   S2:E112/13/2024

   An anonymous source sends Ben and an experienced local Denver TV journalist on the trail of a dangerous conspiracy as they pursue the scoop of a lifetime in the early '80s. There's trouble at HQ when Ian's past decisions come back to haunt the team.

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   7.3/10(6 votes)

   #6 - Last Rites

   S1:E511/4/2024

   With the countdown on to an execution, Franks races to extricate the location of a missing body from a death row inmate and honor a promise he made to the victim's sister before time runs out.

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   6.6/10(7 votes)

   #7 - O Ye of Little Faith

   S1:E710/31/2022

   Ben leaps into a priest who has been called to assist a family in crisis on Halloween night; as he delves into mysterious and inexplicable events, he's forced to muster all his resources as a scientist before time runs out.

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   6.0/10(7 votes)

   #8 - A Kind of Magic

   S2:E712/6/2023

   Ben leaps back to 1692 -- the farthest he's ever been -- where he finds himself on trial for practicing witchcraft. With limited records online, the team must race to save him before he's put to death.

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