Meanwhile, an oddly passionate Al insists Sam is here to stop a woman named Beth (Susan Diol) from "making the mistake of a lifetime." She's lost hope in her missing-in-action husband ever returning from Vietnam, and she's due to meet her next husband right about now. Ultimately, even though it still earns a respectable score on IMDb, "A Portrait for Troian" is still considered a bottom-of-the-barrel episode for "Quantum Leap." Perhaps the tiresome arguments between a skeptical Sam and an increasingly disturbed Al over whether ghosts are actually real might be one of the reasons why. Notably, the episode incorporates a real-life historical event: the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake. Throughout the episode, our characters are witnesses to strange and bizarre events, but in the end, no one's quite ready for the truth behind the mystery. Turns out, Julian drowned in the lake by the property three years prior, and Sam must prevent the haunted widow, who is convinced her husband's been calling to her from beyond the grave, from meeting the same horrific fate.
Bellisario), a man out to prove the existence of the supernatural while also trying to help the wealthy Troian Claridge (Deborah Pratt) make contact with her late husband, Julian. In this Season 2 episode, Sam leaps into the body of parapsychologist Timothy Mintz (Donald P.
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