Quantum Leap EPs Preview Addison and Ben’s ‘Complicated Dynamic’ Amid That Season 2 Love Triangle

Keisha Hatchett

Ben was supposed to reunite with his fiancé Addison at the end of Quantum Leap’s first season, but we now know that never happened. While no time had passed for Ben between his first leap in Season 2 and his last one in the Season 1 finale, Ian explained that he’d been missing for three years and was believed to be dead.

Co-showrunner Martin Gero tells TVLine that Ben’s strange disappearance will be the “main thrust” of the show this year. “Very quickly, we’re going to explain why it happened,” the EP shares. “For us, the really interesting part is the emotional repercussions for Ben, but also the rest of the team — what [they’ve] been up to and how they’ve been dealing with it.”

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The second episode of the NBC drama’s second season explored how the team broke up after the Quantum Leap project was shut down amid Ben’s perceived death, and how quickly they reassembled when Ben finally reappeared — with the exception of Addison. After grieving Ben and accepting that he was gone for good, she struck up a new relationship with army officer Tom Westfall (played by Yellowjackets’ Peter Gadiot). But with Ben back, she was hesitant to jump into the imaging chamber right away and see her former fiancé again.

This week’s episode, titled “Closure Encounters” and airing Wednesday at 8/7c, finds Ben and Addison working together again, but their dynamic won’t be like it was before.

Co-showrunner Dean Georgaris notes that “if last season was the ultimate long-distance relationship, I think this season is coming to terms with, ‘How do you get along with one another if, perhaps, it feels like destiny is not on your side? How do you continue to work with someone? How do you take the feeling that you have for someone and do something positive with them?’”

Last season for Ben and Addison, “the love that they shared was… tested very specifically by the fact that they were separated by time, which I think is really fun to watch, but not necessarily something a lot of us in real life has experienced,” he continues. “But I think we’ve all experienced that complicated dynamic of when you really care for someone, and you have to figure out maybe you’re going to have to have a relationship with them that’s not necessarily the one you hoped it would be.”

It doesn’t help that the other guy, Tom, is extremely likeable. He’s already shown great care and understanding for Addison’s situation and will continue to be there for her while he heads up the rebooted Quantum Leap project alongside Magic.

“[Addison] believed Ben died, and she actually had to go through the entire process of grieving that relationship,” Georgaris explains. “In the aftermath of that, she found someone who had a similar experience in his own mind and, in a lot of ways, could understand what she was going through. And they did what people do, which is start anew.”

Season 2 will explore Tom and Addison’s relationship “as Addison is trying to figure out how to relate to Ben,” he adds. “In a lot of ways, sacrifice is one of our themes this season. It’s all well and good to just hop through time, but frankly, everyone pays a price for it. In Season 2, we get to explore that, and Tom is now just another way into exploring that.”

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