uncle had been dead for some time by now. One of the other miners also asks Sam how he could have known Stawpah. This is followed by the bartender revealing to Sam that he could control his leaping if he so chose; Sam leaps back to Beth and explains that Al was alive and would someday return home. This event changed Al's past as he and Beth would remain together and have four daughters. How the change affected his friendship with Sam, or if Sam and Al ever met or if/how Project Quantum Leap was affected remains unclear. In the revival, Al is mentioned to have died in 2021, in reference to Stockwell's death in real life. When Doctor Ben Song, the new head of Project Quantum Leap, starts time-travelling himself, the remaining staff speculate that his unknown partner is Janis, one of Al's daughters, who was rejected for a position in the project as her emotional ties to Al and Sam made her a potential liability. Alternative Project Quantum Leap In one episode, Sam leaps into Al himself at an earlier period, when Al is on trial for the rape and murder of a commander's wife. Although in the original history, Al was acquitted, Sam's actions cause the case to begin turning against Al when he prevents a key witness from testifying because he believes he is there to stop her from ruining her life (since Al was spending time with his younger self, he failed to inform Sam that it didn't matter what the witness did as she was later killed in a car crash after testifying). Partway through the episode, when Ziggy projects that the odds are 100% that Al will be convicted and executed, Al disappears mid-sentence and is replaced by a man named Edward St. John (with only Sam remembering that Al was the Observer), who reports that "Ensign Calavicci" was convicted and executed for the murder. In this new continuity, the staff at Project Quantum Leap appeared less emotionally involved with Sam's various hosts—it is implied that they have little to no contact with the leaper, and Sam and Edward have no apparent connection beyond a professional relationship; Edward even calls Sam "Samuel," a name that Sam hasn't been called since he last saw his great-aunt. Other differences include Ziggy now being known as "Alpha" and Tina and Gooshie being married. Fortunately, as soon