Theorizing that one could time-travel
within his own lifetime,
Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator
and vanished.
He woke to find himself trapped in the past,
facing mirror images that were not his own,
and driven by an unknown force
to change history for the better.
His only guide on this journey is Al,
an observer from his own time,
who appears in the form of a hologram
that only Sam can see and hear.
And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life,
striving to put right what once went wrong,
and hoping each time that his next leap
will be the leap home.
Eddie! Come on, man, duck and cover!
Get down, put your mask on!
Why?
The Russkies just lobbed the bomb on New York City.
What?
It's World War III.
Get down, right now!
Come on, now.
Oh, boy.
Quantum leaping around in time,
I'm used to getting my atoms smashed
in an explosion of blinding white light.
But not even that could prepare me for this.
This has been a test
of the Colorado Emergency Broadcast System.
This was only a test.
Come, honey, it's a test.
Come on up now, Uncle Eddie.
You okay, buddy?
Yeah, I'm fantastic.
Come on, Sam.
What?
You can come out now. Nobody's gonna hurt you.
Well, I, uh, I...
Oh, that's my boy, Sam.
Come here, Sam, come on.
Did we do okay, Dad?
Oh, you did real good, son.
If those Russkies attack, we're gonna be ready for 'em.
Maybe we should all just go out and get some fresh air, huh?
That's exactly what were gonna do.
Come on, kids. Up, up, up. Let's go.
Eddie, come on.
Enemy aircraft at 12 o'clock!
Wait for me, you pig, or I'll turn you into a frog.
Come on.
I just hate putting 'em through these drills
over and over again, every day. I, uh...
Why's that, honey?
Mac, I don't know why you have to scare 'em like that.
Hey, hey, it's better they know the truth.
We may all have to stay down there a week or two
until the fallout clears.
Fallout?
Don't worry, Eddie. You'll be protected.
Along with all the other folks smart enough to buy
an Ellroy Super Deluxe shelter from us.
See, one thing you gotta remember when you're selling...
Atom bomb shelters?
Yeah. Yeah.
You're selling the best. The best.
Hey, there's Burt the Turtle.
Burt the Turtle?
Yeah. Yeah, some nickname my kids gave him.
His wife, uh, left him for the pool man a couple of years ago.
Hey Burt, you havin' a party?
Khrushchev said he might be dropping in.
Khrushchev. Come on.
Hey, Burt, come on over here.
I want you to meet my kid brother, Eddie.
Eddie's in college. Yeah?
First one in our family. Oklahoma State.
He's just takin' some time off
to make money sellin' shelters for me.
How're you doin'?
Uh, okay, Burt.
Yeah, I guess this whole crisis isn't hurting you guys.
Well, we can't complain, huh?
You know, I heard the Navy's gonna intercept
those Soviet missile ships in 23 hours.
You know what that means?
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
What?
Uh, the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was just saying, that,
you know, it'll probably be over any day now.
Of course, you never know.
No. You never do. That's what I've been tellin' Burt for three years.
But he had to go and get...
A pool is a better investment for when I sell.
Sell? Sell what? There'll be nothin' left.
You'll be back-strokin' in fallout
while we're safe below in our Super Deluxe.
I told you, Homestead's only 200 miles away from Havana.
Hell, they could... they could lob one in here in 40 seconds.
You really think these things work?
Yeah, sure, I mean...
They're guaranteed.
You wouldn't mind giving me a quick look?
Hey, no problem.
Eddie, here, will give you the special VIP tour, right?
Oh, hey, now. Wait a minute, I-I think I need a little more time to...
Come on, you got to do this.
Time is running out.
Welcome to the Ellroy Super Deluxe
Atom Bomb Shelter.
Uh, designed to give you the most modern
space-age... space-age conveniences
to protect you and yours well into the '60s.
Uh, each shelter comes standard
with, uh, two plush bedrooms for your sleeping pleasure.
See, this is one, and... and then this would be two, here.
Oh, uh, yes, the, uh, chemical toilet mark 234 model.
Ahem, yeah. Yes. And this is the other bedroom.
And, since you're on your own, Burt, you could make this
into a lovely rumpus room for billiards or pinball,
or just about anything to keep you amused while the fallout clears.
And... and... and... and each shelter comes equipped with
uh, a second standard emergency exit.
Yeah, that's so if the main hatch is covered up
with dirt and debris after the blast,
why, you can still get out. See? Come on.
Watch... Watch your head, there.
Comes furnished with all the, uh, supplies and equipment
that you'll need to survive in style.
Survive in style?
Here, your battery, portable three-way radio, there,
pre-set to both CONELRAD channels
To keep you informed on your fallout info.
You get your Geiger counter
to tell you how contaminated you are after the blast.
Oh, Burt, Burt, look at this. Look at this.
Your own protective radiation-proof poncho.
Ah, it's got shredded lead sewn inside.
Makes it resistant to atomic rays. Hmm.
Handsome, huh?
It's you.
Thank you.
Hmm.
Now, give him the big finish.
Big finish.
Uh, each shelter, uh, is decorated
with plush carpeting and... and, uh, a special coat of paint
so that w-with the Ellroy Super Deluxe,
uh, there's no reason to sit in a drab shelter
when you can survive...
Survive in style.
Right. Now, normally this would go for $3,000.
But since you're a neighbor and all
I'm gonna give you a 20% VIP discount.
Twenty percent? $2,400? No, l... I don't know.
This whole Cuba thing could just be a scare.
What if it's over in a few days?
What if it's not?
Now, I've got 10 crews working overtime, but I can bulldoze tomorrow
and have your ground water out by Monday
and have the whole damn thing set up by Wednesday.
And that will be before we intercept
those Russkie cargo ships loaded with missiles.
No, I have to think about it.
You know, the longer you wait on this
the longer it takes us to build.
I... I gotta go put my milk away.
Two years, I still haven't sold him.
You better bone up on that brochure,
'cause I'm gonna need someone up there selling for me.
This whole crisis could go on for weeks.
Okay.
See you at topside.
Yeah. Yeah, see you. See you at topside.
Jeez, look at this place.
I can't believe people actually used to build these shelters.
What's wrong with this picture?
That's better.
Al, I'm an atom bomb shelter salesman.
Well, actually, you're a junior at Oklahoma State.
Eddie Ellroy.
Yeah, apparently, uh, you lost your basketball scholarship
when you wrecked your knee.
Yeah, Mac said something about I'm here sellin' bomb shelters
to make money to finish school.
Well, you know, that's a good business to go into.
This October 26, 1962, is right at the height...
Cuban Missile Crisis. I know.
That's... that's right.
I know, look at this place.
I mean, you got gas masks...
Look at this thing. It's a radiation chart.
And they got atomic rumpus rooms, but there's no nuclear war.
Yeah, but people didn't know that then.
We all thought maybe it was the end of the world.
We?
Y-yeah. Well, see, you're Swiss-cheese, or too young to remember
what the Cuban Missile Crisis really was like.
Look, Elk Ridge, Indiana, wasn't exactly ground zero.
I can barely remember what happened.
Except for my mom, 'cause she was like canning food like crazy.
But we didn't live near a big city.
So, you know, it didn't seem so scary.
Plus, I was only eight.
Didn't seem scary. No.
Well, you weren't flying reconnaissance flights over Cuba.
You flew reconnaissance flights?
I was in an F-4 Phantom escort.
One of our U-2s got shot down photographing the missile bases.
And my squadron went in then after that.
And, Sam, I gotta tell you, you don't realize
how close we came to World War III.
I mean total annihilation.
But Kennedy doesn't attack Cuba.
And Khrushchev removes all the missiles, right?
That's right.
But, uh, another kind of bomb goes off in this backyard.
You see that gun?
Someone in the family gets shot?
No, the neighbor. Burt Rosegran.
Ziggy says there's a 99 percent chance
that you're here to keep him from getting blown away.
How does it happen?
Well, Ziggy's still trying to get into the... the court transcripts
but an old newspaper article said that Mac shot Burt
when Burt tried to break into this shelter tomorrow night.
No.
Mac gets 20 years, Kate and the kids lose the business,
the house, the cars, and worst of all, Mac...
It still doesn't make any sense.
I mean, why would somebody go and shoot their neighbor?
It was the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What does that have to do with anything?
Sam, you don't remember, but people then,
normal people, ordinarily normal people,
stocked their shelters with weapons.
They even said they'd shoot their friends to protect their families.
That's insane.
Well, what's gonna happen here tomorrow night is insane.
Unless I can stop Mac, I know.
I'll do it.
Good.
Somehow.
Wow! Look at those fighters. There, they go!
They'll stop those Russkies.
And if they don't, then we'll duck and cover.
Then we'll hide in the bomb shelter.
After that, the Russians are gonna come down
and attack our city.
What's gonna happen to us?
Well, they'll try to kill us. Little girls first.
Stop that, Stevie! You liar.
Don't worry. Me, Dad and Uncle Eddie
will fight 'em off. Right, Uncle Eddie?
Why do they want to kill us?
Well, they don't.
Yes, they do.
No, Stevie, the Russians are just like us.
But they're evil.
No, they're not.
See, they've got families
and... and kids and they got dogs just like you guys do.
All the children go to school.
Yeah, to teach them to kill us.
No, look, the Russian people want peace.
Dad, Uncle Eddie said the Russians aren't evil.
No, I just said that I don't think the Russian people
are that different from us.
Well, how come they're, uh, building a nuclear missile base
not more than 200 miles from our backyard?
Well, l... I got a feeling that Khrushchev's probably gonna dismantle
the whole thing in a couple of days.
You don't know that. Well, I do. I got this feeling.
No, you don't, not even Kennedy or Khrushchev knows that.
Dad, how far is 200 miles?
It's a long, long way, son.
I'm sorry. I just... I was just trying to make the kids feel less afraid.
Well, you're doing a hell of a job, you know?
Hey, come on.
Let's go get some dinner. What do you say?
Good, I'm starving.
Let's go.
Full speed ahead, Dad.
What're you doin'?
Oh, just, uh, just thought I'd drop in, say hello.
That's nice.
You know, I'm very flattered that I'm the only human being
that you picked on to talk to.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program
for this special bulletin.
The Pentagon has just reported that U.S. Naval vessels intercepted
a Russian cargo ship headed for Cuba.
The vessel was later allowed to pass through the blockade
when a visual inspection determined that
no offensive missiles were hidden on board.
However, the clock is ticking down
as the armada of U.S. Destroyers and aircraft carriers
are 18 hours from a showdown with Soviet freighters...
Okay, kids, pigs-in-a-blanket time.
Come on. Come on.
We now return to our regularly scheduled program...
Daddy, I'm too scared to go to bed.
Well, I'll come tuck you in in a minute. Okay, hon'?
Go on.
Don't worry, Dad. I'll protect us.
I know you will, partner. I know you will.
Go on.
Good night, Stevie.
- Good night. - Come on.
You know, I was in the shelter today, I was...
I was kinda wondering about the shotgun and the kids and...
Oh, it's locked. I got the only key.
Well, it's still dangerous having it around 'em.
Well, it's dangerous not to have it around 'em. I've gotta protect my family.
From what?
Russkies, looters.
Neighbors?
Well, if a nuclear war started
and someone tried breaking into my shelter
he might expose my family to radiation.
I wouldn't have much choice now, would I, if I wanted us to survive.
A lot of people think that the world
couldn't survive a nuclear war.
What? Is that what those
pinko eggheads been teachin' you in college, huh?
What else did they tell you?
That a nuclear blast would kick up so much earth and debris
that it would block out the sun entirely, creating a nuclear winter.
Nuclear winter?
And everything would die.
Huh, no, not everything.
We'd survive, Eddie.
Just like we survived Cimarron County in '35.
The Dust Bowl?
See, you... you weren't even born yet, you don't...
you don't remember what it was like. I'll never forget.
That afternoon there was no wind.
It was just sunny and still.
Uh,
me and Pa were walkin' a team of horses home,
when thousands of these birds came flying by from the north.
We looked back
and we seen it comin'.
This huge, rollin', tidal wave of earth
spread across the sky.
It drifted in like... like... like dark snow, blacking out the sun,
makin' day darker than night.
It was like the end of the Earth.
Pa grabbed me, we held on to his horse's bit,
we weren't more than 100 yards off,
and we still could not find our way home.
It covered the farm in dust.
Everything we worked for died.
And I remember seein' the look in Pa's face.
Somethin' in him died that day, too.
You never knew what he was really like.
God. Hmm.
No, l... I didn't, Mac.
We survived that, and we're gonna survive this.
Hey, what are you doing up?
I thought I heard something outside.
Nothing out there, huh?
You ought to get back to bed.
I can't.
I keep wondering how far 200 miles is.
Stevie,
there's not gonna be a war.
The TV said there was.
Have you ever been this scared before?
Yeah, I guess,
when my mom was in the hospital for an operation.
I was afraid she might die.
If you look back on that time now,
you can see that you were worried about
something bad that didn't happen, right?
Yeah.
Well, let's... let's just pretend
that you could travel into the future
and look back on this time right now.
You'll see that the Russians never hurt you or your family.
And you'll see that you were spending a lot of your time and energy
being afraid of something bad that never happened.
So, being afraid is stupid?
No, no. There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
Sometimes it just doesn't do you any good.
So, come on, what do you say?
Let's pretend that we've traveled into the future,
and everything back here is okay,
and then you're not scared anymore.
Okay.
Give me a hug.
I love you, Uncle Eddie.
I love you, too.
Good night, Stevie. See you in the morning.
I have dood it.
I have done dood it.
Ja, I, Professor Grosselschiffer,
have invented the time tunnel. Oh, boy!
We interrupt our program for this special bulletin.
The Pentagon has just revealed the identity of a U-2 pilot
presumed missing after being shot down over Cuba yesterday.
Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr., 35,
from Greenville, South Carolina,
was flying a reconnaissance U-2 mission,
when he was shot down by Cuban anti-aircraft guns. His wife...
All right, you two, go outside and play.
You hear? Go on.
Hey, Dad, why do they keep having
these stupid special bulletin things?
Oh, well, you know, it's just the news.
Go on.
Oh, jeez.
Mac, look who's here.
Oh. Good morning.
Good morning, Mrs. Klingman.
Uh, this is my kid brother, Eddie, from Oklahoma.
How do you do? Nice to meet you.
I thought the kids had their piano lesson on Monday.
Mrs. Klingman wants to talk to you about buyin' a shelter.
Oh, nothing too fancy.
I... I thought with all this craziness in Cuba,
I should look-see, yes. You understand?
Oh, sure, yeah. Uh, I gotta go,
but Eddie, here, can help you.
There you have it, the, uh, Ellroy Super Deluxe.
Designed to let you sit back, relax,
and survive in style.
So, uh, what do you think?
I think your pitch needs work.
Yeah, well, I'm not really much of a salesman.
It's kinda my first day here.
No, we don't need so much space.
It's only me and my husband.
We only have so much from his pension
and what I make teaching piano.
Mrs. Klingman,
you don't have to worry. They're not going to attack us.
What? What is it?
Here, sit down, sit down, what's wrong?
Are you okay?
I'm... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...
It was a long time ago.
Whatever I said to upset you, I'm really sorry.
No, no, no, no. No, it was the words.
"Don't worry. They're not going to attack us."
I heard those words before.
I believed and look at what happened.
Dachau, Buchenwald...
Now it is happening all over again.
This time there will be no survivors.
Then why waste your money on a shelter?
You're right.
You're not much of a salesman.
Watch your step.
I'll, uh, I'll... I'll be right up, Mrs. Klingman.
Oh, jeez, Al.
How long have you been here?
Long enough to see that you're a real mensch.
Mensch?
Mensch means good guy.
It's a word that my fourth wife,
third, fourth, third or fourth wife Ruthie used to use.
She never used it about me, though. Hmm.
Hi.
I... I thought you were going out?
I thought you were gonna sell her a shelter.
Well, you know, I... I showed her around, but...
You told her not to buy one.
Look, Mac, she really doesn't have very much money.
Eddie, I don't know what the hell's gotten into you?
I brought you out here to earn money to finish school.
But you're driving my customers away, you're upsetting my kids.
Mac, it's not...
I'm not doing it on purpose.
Little brother or not, you pull this one more time,
and I'm sending you back to Oklahoma.
The Strategic Air Command's
intercontinental bombers are on alert.
Three Polaris submarines, each carrying 16 nuclear missiles,
leave their Holy Loch, Scotland base,
and disappear into the Atlantic.
1,000 tactical bombers are poised in Florida
minutes from their Soviet missile sights in Cuba.
Hey, Mac, are you down in there?
You know what the hell is happening out there?
What?
It's nuts. The stores are empty.
T-T-T-here's no eggs, milk, light bulbs,
and driving home I got stopped for three hours.
They blocked off the road
for a convoy of armed troops going down the Dixie Highway.
This Cuba thing is really gonna happen.
Burt, now, just take it easy. Everything's gonna be okay.
No, it's not!
There were miles of troops, all armed.
I've gotta get a shelter.
If you just wait a few more days, Burt.
I only hope we have a few more days.
All right, little brother, all right!
Hey, do you know what this means? Huh?
No.
You just made yourself $120.
Hell, I think you might make yourself enough to go to grad school.
Hey, give me a hand here, will you?
Yeah.
I knew you could do it. I did.
Hey, honey, guess who Eddie here sold?
I'm out here on the porch, honey.
Sundays, holidays, vacation time,
we must be ready every day, all the time,
to do the right thing if the atomic bomb explodes.
Duck and cover!
This family knows what to do.
Just as your own family should.
...to do: Duck and cover.
Duck and cover.
Hey, Uncle Eddie.
Hey.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
What are you doing?
Nothing. Wanna join me?
Maybe later.
Oh, Eddie...
Uh-huh?
Congratulations.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
You seen my keys?
You scared me.
Uh, you want me to help you look for 'em?
Yeah.
Yeah, I know... I know l... I left 'em around here.
Maybe over here on the table somewhere.
Okay.
Oh, oh. Wait. There they are.
You passed right by 'em.
Oh, sorry, I-I, poof...
I'll see you at dinner.
Okay.
If you go into the future, the Russians don't attack us.
And you won't be scared anymore.
But, how does the future know it won't happen?
Well, it doesn't for sure, I mean...
Jeez, he explained it better last night.
Hey, Uncle Eddie. Tell her what you told me
about the Russians and the future.
Well, uh, I was just telling Stevie that
things aren't always as bad as they seem at the time.
What about the Russians?
Well, I-it's just that right now
you're hearing a lot about the Russians wanting to hurt us.
But they do, don't they?
Well, no, I don't think so.
But my daddy says they do.
L... I... I know he did, but...
But my daddy's not a liar.
Honey, I'm not saying that he is...
Yes, you are.
My daddy wouldn't lie to me.
Kimberly...
What's the matter?
Uncle Eddie said that daddy's a liar.
What?
Daddy wouldn't do that.
Oh, honey. No, shh, shh.
No, Kate, that's not what I meant.
What on earth did you tell her?
Nothing. I just told her the Russians weren't gonna hurt her.
She felt like I was contradicting Mac...
Yeah, well, have you watched the news lately?
Mommy, stop.
Yes, dear, look. See? I'm almost done.
There.
But If you don't let me finish sewin' on all these sequins,
you're not gonna get to be a fairy princess for Halloween.
So let me finish, okay? Okay.
Now, go on and play. When I'm done, I'll let you try it on.
Look, uh, I just... I just
I was just trying to let 'em know
that everything was gonna be okay, you know.
Well, I wish I knew that.
Uh, I do.
I know that we're not gonna be hiding in bomb shelters forever.
If there wasn't all this talk about fallout and radiation...
I have never been so scared in my whole life.
Not so much for me, but for them.
I mean, I'm making that for her next week.
She may never get to wear it.
You listen to me.
I want you to finish this dress, okay?
Why?
Because you're gonna have a very angry little girl on Halloween if you don't.
I knew there wasn't gonna be a nuclear war,
but I couldn't seem to convince anybody else,
Or stop them from being afraid.
Kimberly was crying at night, Stevie couldn't sleep,
and Kate was frightened for her family's future.
Annuals or perennials?
Do you have to sneak up on me?
Well, what, you expect a hologram to knock?
What are you doin'?
Burying the shotgun shells.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Well, you gotta make sure the kids don't see you.
Oh, don't worry. They're probably still inside watching Duck and Cover.
Yeah, Duck...
Duck and Cover? Oh, Duck and Cover. I remember that.
Isn't that like an air raid drill for kids?
Yeah, it teaches 'em if you hide under a picnic blanket
it works wonders against atom bombs.
Well, it gives 'em something to do.
What? What?
You know, then they can feel they have some control over the uncontrollable.
It gives 'em a feeling that they can survive a nuclear war.
If they carry that feeling with 'em as they grow up...
Sam, we're talking kids, here. They need something to do
so they don't feel so afraid.
Yeah, you're right.
Well, at least I'm gonna leap out of here soon, right?
Eddie!
Wrong.
Get in here.
Burt still gets shot and Mac still goes to prison.
What's up, Mac?
Kate and Stevie say you got Kimberly
all upset by callin' me a liar.
That doesn't sound like the Sam Beckett I know.
That's not exactly how it happened.
Well, what exactly did happen?
Well, l... I can explain that, see, um...
Sam!
Now we're in deep trouble.
Come here, boy. Come here, Sammy. Come here, Sam.
If he bites real hard that shell could explode.
Stay out of the room! Stay out of the room! Get out of the room.
Kate, get the kids outta here.
Sam's got bullets!
Stevie, get back!
Sam's gonna get hurt.
Here, Sam, come here.
Come, g-give it to me.
Sam, do something.
Come on, come here.
Sam, Sam.
Come on, get it, get it.
These are from my shotgun.
You stole my keys, so you could take these, right?
I just didn't want to see anybody get hurt.
Yeah, well, my kids almost did!
Uh, here it comes, Sam. You better say something.
I'm sorry, Mac.
I want you out of my house, now!
Mac and I argued for over an hour.
I wasn't getting anywhere.
But at least it kept me with the family and Mac away from his gun.
All right, that's it, I told you I want you out of my house.
Man, this is brand new territory.
I better get to work.
Come here.
Mac, I can't explain to you how I know this thing, but...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program
for this special bulletin.
One moment, please.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
I have a preliminary statement.
There has been a great deal of talk...
Dad, what happened to the lights?
What's goin' on?
It's just a blackout. Shut up!
My God, it's happening.
Come on, in the shelter. Let's go. Move!
Are they gonna drop the bomb on us?
What's gonna happen?
No, not the bomb shelter.
It's not WW III.
There are no missiles coming.
It's just another drill. It's just another drill.
It's not an air raid.
It it's gonna happen, it's going to be all right.
Get in there, right now.
Listen to me, it's not an air raid.
Come on! Get out of my way!
Don't go down there.
You stay out of my way or I'm leavin' you up here. Now, you get in there. Go on!
Sam! Sam!
Mac, get down here!
Dad, we've gotta find Sam!
He'll be okay.
Don't, Daddy, you gotta find him!
He's gonna die out there.
Listen to me, it's just a false alarm, okay?
You don't have to worry about the dog.
Get the kids in the back bedroom, will you, please?
Get the kids in the back bedroom.
Turn on the radio, see if we can get the emergency broadcast.
You gotta get him! You gotta get Sam!
Stop, stop. It's okay, it's okay. Shh.
Now, just stay right here. I'll be right back.
Tell Dad to get Sam. Please tell him to get Sam.
Listen to me, will you?
What? You I've had enough of, Eddie.
I've had enough of you. No, listen to me.
Mac, Mac!
Thank God you heard me. Let me in.
No!
Please! You gotta let me in.
Mac, let me in.
Burt.
Lock the back hatch now!
Don't worry.
There's not gonna be an attack.
There's not...
Please, I gave you all my money. Let me in.
Burt, just go home.
There comin' over any second!
I swear to you.
Get out of here.
Mac, what are you doin'?
Nothing. Nothing.
Mac, what are you doin'?
Burt's up there. Burt's up there.
Are you gonna shoot Burt?
Relax, will you?
Russians. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
Shh.
Mac, stop it.
Just give me the gun.
Mac, stop it.
Let go!
Give me the gun.
Stevie, where are you going?
Shh, I've gotta stop the Russians.
Let go!
Mac, stop! Please, stop.
What's happening?
It's the war!
No, it's just a power blackout.
Some civil defense yahoo.
He panicked and started a false alarm.
Give me the gun!
Let go!
Mac! Please!
Burt wasn't shot with a shotgun.
I said let go. I'm only trying to scare him.
What?
Ziggy said he was shot by a.38!
Sam, it's Stevie. He's got the.38!
Stevie, it's me, Burt. Oh, God. Don't shoot.
Stevie's up there.
He's up there with your.38.
Stevie.
Stevie, put the gun down.
Stevie, put down the gun.
Look out, Uncle Eddie. It's the Russians!
Burt, put down the shovel really slow.
Burt, put the shovel...
Stevie, come on, now.
It's just Burt, your neighbor Burt, right?
Yeah. Stevie, it's me.
You remember him, look at him.
Burt the Turtle.
Sam, he's gonna shoot again.
It's a bomb! Stevie, quick! Duck and cover! Duck and cover!
I don't want to die! I don't want to die.
Give me the gun. Give me the gun.
It's okay. Everything's okay.
It's all right.
Stevie, boy, Stevie.
Sam, it was Stevie who shot him all along.
Mac must have felt so guilty that he took the blame himself.
The Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled.
Their missiles and related equipment are being crated
and the fixed installations at these sites are being destroyed.
What does that mean, Dad?
Oh, well, uh, it means it's over.
No more bombs, no more Russians.
You two kids don't have anything to be scared of now.
Good. I'm sick of being scared.
You know, you were right, about a lot of things.
That was Burt.
Yeah, he just cancelled his check.
He doesn't want to buy a shelter now.
You know, Sam, you can't really blame him.
I mean, they almost turned him into a colander.
Mac, that makes five cancellations today.
I know. I know.
Uh, make that six.
Make that six.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I have all my crews and bulldozers.
You can always do what Burt did.
What's that?
We'll put in pools.
Swimming pools?
Yeah, I mean, come on, you already got
the crews and all the equipment.
You could sell fun instead of fear.
Sell fun instead of fear. That's great, Sam.
Swimming pools?
Hey, that's good, Sam, you changed history.
Eddie graduates from college and he helps Mac
build the biggest swimming pool company in South Florida.
I'll think about it.
Hey, what's going on here?
Nobody punches me and gets away with it, you hear me? Nobody.
Butch?
What are you doing?
Dr. Masters wanted me to calm him down, so I'm gonna calm him down.
You're not giving him shock treatment?
Shock?
You watch me.
Wait a minute, you know the rules.
Only a doctor's allowed to administer shock.
A doctor told me to do it and that's close enough.
Just wait a second, I want to go get Dr. Masters, okay?
No, you can't do that.
That's too high. You'll kill him!
Oh, boy!