Saturday, August 5, Hainerberg, Germany. Wednesday, November 8, Portland, Oregon. In one week, the Berlin Wall will be built. How does this affect the six-year-old girl, Missy Robicheaux, into whom Sam has leaped? In this book, Sam leaps into Missy Robicheaux, a six-year-old American girl who is living in Germany at the time the Berlin Wall is erected. Not long after Sam leaps in is he faced with a stressing situation. Missy's mother regularly screams and hits her along with Missy's brother Tom.
Sam is being hit now and as he is a child the pain is more that what he usually would feel and he is too small to defend himself. Sam is never felt so scared him his life. What right has any parent to abuse a child in this way? This isn't another Lee Harvey Oswald situation not going into detail for people who have not seen the episode.
Sam has not left the kitchen since he first leaped in. Unfortunately it isn't as clear-cut as they would like. In both cases, the end result is preventing a death. Whose death will Sam prevent, Jane Robicheaux, Missy's mother who takes an over dose of prescription drugs and alcohol?
Or is it Tom Robicheaux, Missy's brother who dies in a fire after he runs away from home when his mother beats and insults him? Meanwhile back at Project Quantum Leap, Dr. Beeks has taken on a maternal to Missy.
She tries her best to shield Missy from the truth, that she is no longer in her own body, but in the body of a something man forty years in the future. For the first time in Project Quantum Leap's history, she is preventing Al from visiting the person who is occupying Sam's body. Beeks is worried that all this will have a bad effect on Missy. She feels in a roundabout way, this could be viewed as child abuse by Dr.
