One thing we finally know for sure that was not touched by the devil: the malfunctioning imaging chamber. Davenport and sees not the aged, white-haired man in the mirror, but a younger man with dark hair and eyes. Then the demon in Daisy recognizes Ben as a “traveler” and Daisy, in her subdued state, looks at Fr. First, all of the creepy stuff Ben witnesses before he is dosed with the hallucinogen. Elements of homage are given to The Exorcistscribe, William Peter Blatty, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” in this first Halloween episode of a sequel series that has already been greenlit for a full eighteen-episode season.Īccording to Ian’s e-meow-gency evaluation, “something supernatural is not entirely impossible.” The episode tampers down certain aspects of Ben’s exorcist experience with the dosing of Devil’s Snare he and Daisy both receive unknowingly, but many things remain pretty hinky. The Quantum Leap creators peppered in moving wallpaper and all sorts of terrible things. The very science that he is fully immersed in as a time traveler is a grey area, which Addison aptly points out when she says to Ben “…you are literally possessing that guy’s body, right now.”Įverything, in fact, is not as it seems in “O Ye of Little Faith.” Just when we expect the afflicted young woman to start vomiting pea soup, the episode morphs into a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie. He is forced to play against his rational mind…or so he believes. He doesn’t believe in demonic possession…he believes in the scientific method. All Ben learns before Addison disappears completely is that there’s an 89% chance that he is there to perform an exorcism on eighteen-year-old Daisy Grey (Kerri Medders).Īnd Ben is terrified, not about the demon, but about his role as priest and an exorcist in the leap. Ian Wright (Mason Alexander Park) and his tech teams are on the job running diagnostics, but for the better part of this episode, everyone at the Quantum Leap project is left in the dark and Ben must fly solo without Addison’s (Caitlin Bassett) moral support and without Ziggy’s data-based predictions. Our modern fears of sending our kids out into the street–alone–in homemade costumes created out of ill-fitting sheets, paper-mache masks and the old clothes of dead relatives set contemporary sensitivities to bone-chilling.īack at the Quantum Leap project in the present, things are “getting hinky.” Addison’s hologram is glitching and she loses contact with Ben due to an unexplainable and untraceable interference in the imaging chamber. The bleakness of the period is highlighted exquisitely by the trick-or-treat scenery.

James Davenport in 1934 on Halloween night, creepy children stroll the streets in Depression-era costumes. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) leaps into the body of Fr.

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