Failure Is the Only Option: Sam can't change what happens to his father or sister, but the ending suggests he has a chance with Tom.Al then pointedly reminds him that he wasn't referring to 1969 Elk Ridge, Indiana. Exact Words: When Al reminds Sam that eventually, one his leaps will be his leap home, Sam points out he is home.And sure enough, Sam realizes it's Tom, who confirms by taking the mask off. Sam can't shake the feeling that he knows who "Kong" is. Dramatic Unmask: Sam's coach brings in someone wearing a gorilla mask, who goes by "Kong", to give the team a challenge.Katie: And John? What's John going to do? He's my favorite. And then the topic of John Lennon is brought up. Could Say It, But.: When talking about The Beatles with Katie, Sam brings up how they're going to break up soon, and that Paul's going to form Wings.Conveniently for Al, Sam doesn't remember that Al had basically attempted the same thing in "M.I.A.". This also doubles as Dramatic Irony as Sam, frustrated with Al trying to keep him focused on the leap and not try and change his family's future for the better, asks what he would do if he was in Sam's shoes.Call-Back: When Sam insists he can use this leap to change his family's future, Al reminds him of the previous episode, "M.I.A.", when they tried preventing Beth from leaving him note And noticeably leaves out that that wasn't what Sam was supposed to be doing.Cassandra Truth: Sam tells his brother that he will die in Vietnam, tells his father that he needs to improve his cardiovascular health and tells his sister that she will someday marry and abusive alcoholic, but with no way to prove his claims, they don’t heed his warnings.Big Game: The Elk Ridge-Bentlyville basketball game is Serious Business in Sam's hometown.Admiring the Abomination: All-American Navy SEAL Tom Beckett grudgingly admits that the anti-war chant “hell no, we won’t go” is a catchy slogan.When we come back from commercial, Al catches up to Sam and, after giving his own two cents about Sam's situation, Sam (albeit hesitantly) wins the basketball game the next day. 10-Minute Retirement: Getting fed up and upset that he can't try and fix his family's future, Sam yells to the sky, to whoever is leaping him around, that he quits, before running off deeper into the corn as we cut to commercial.Sam leaps into himself as a teenager, tasked with winning an important basketball game, but Sam turns his attention to his own family, determined to save the lives of his brother and father. Now, if you were in my shoes, what would you do? And it works, despite the sheer effort it took, which isn't small, as the scale of the fracture is universal.Sam: I can save my father and my brother’s live and change my sister’s for the better. After the fight, he and Will then used the Countermeasure to fix the fracture by jumpstarting it with Chronon energy. The fact that Jack Joyce is able to kill Serene's men and beat Serene himself, emphasizing him as a definitive One-Man Army.In the meantime, Jack must dodge his Time Blasts, which is able to engulf the entire Swimming Pool area. Being a Flunky Boss, he would sic some Mooks with Chronon Harness to you. The boss fight against Paul Serene in its entirety.Hell, the Lifeboat Protocol could've worked if it weren't for Hatch's machinations and Jack's intervention as he found out that the centerpiece of the Lifeboat Protocol is the Countermeasure. The fact that Monarch has prepared for the End of Time for 22 years is a CMOA in its entirety, developing Chronon Harnesses that allows Monarch soldiers to move during stutters, cutting edge weaponry that is able to fire in a zero-state environment, Chronon Dampeners to nullify Shifters, whose powers allow them to plow through soldiers during a stutter with ease, and the Lifeboat Protocol that shelters Monarch from being destroyed during the End of Time.
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