[s5e22] Mirror Image - August 8, 1953 Review

Sam meets Al the Bartender (Bruce McGill), who seems to possess an omniscient understanding of Sam’s journey.

The episode ends with the famous and bittersweet title card: "Dr. Sam Becket [sic] never returned home" . [S5E22] Mirror Image - August 8, 1953

Watch the emotional opening of the finale where Sam discovers he has leaped into himself: Mirror Image - August 8, 1953 Quantum Leap YouTube• Jan 19, 2015 Sam meets Al the Bartender (Bruce McGill), who

In this surreal and emotional series finale, Dr. Sam Beckett leaps into a tavern in Cokeburg, Pennsylvania—on the exact day and time of his own birth. For the first time in the series, Sam looks in the mirror and sees his own reflection instead of a host. Watch the emotional opening of the finale where

The bartender's name, Alberto Bellisario, is a nod to the show's creator, Donald P. Bellisario, who also wrote this final episode.

The tavern is filled with miners who share the faces of people Sam has helped in the past, though they have different names.