Quantum Leap1989

[Sam - as Eddie - describes to Mac the effects of a nuclear winter]

Dr. Sam Beckett:
Everything would die.

Mac Ellroy:
No. Not everything. We'd survive, Eddie. Just like we survived Cimarron County in '35.

Dr. Sam Beckett:
The dust bowl?

Mac Ellroy:
You see, you don't, you weren't even born yet. You don't, you don't remember what it was like. I'll never forget. That afternoon, there was no wind. It was sunny, and still. Er... Me and Pa were walking a team of horses home, when thousands of these birds came flying by from the north. We looked back, and we seein' it comin' - this huge, rollin' tidal wave of earth spread across the sky. It drifted in like, like, like dark snow, blacking out the sun, making day darker than night. It was like the end of the Earth. Pa grabbed me. We held on to his horse's bit. We weren't more than a hundred yards off, we still could not find our way home. It covered the farm in dust. Everything we worked for died. And, I remember seeing the look in Pa's face. Somethin' in him died that day too. You never knew what he was really like. God.

Dr. Sam Beckett:
No, I, I didn't, Mac.

Mac Ellroy:
Well... we survived that. And we're gonna survive this.