Episode 50 of "Quantum Leap"
s03e19 Last Dance Before An Execution
Title: Last Dance Before An Execution
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Deborah Pratt
Guest Stars: Harry Fleer (Older Man in Jail), Leonard Lightfoot (Officer Little), Christopher Allport (Alan Ripley), James Sloyan (Theodore Moody), Michael Holden (Herb Stein), Jack Jozefson (Officer Hudson), Julio Oscar Mechoso (Raul Casta), Charles Woolf (Father Raftery), A.J. Freeman (Bart Manners), Wendy Gordon (Reporter), Andrew Amador (Reporter), Neil Barton (Black Man in Jail), Krista Muscare (Maria), Irene Olga López (Tia), Stephen Domingas (Jesus Ortega / Mirror)
Plot Outline:
"Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled