Excerpt from "The Family Treasure"
NBC Quantum Leap (2024) 2x10
Transcript:
Sarah Malek: Oh my god, are you okay? Are those bandages? Are you hurt?
Dean Malek: Not exactly. *takes off shirt to reveal chest bindings* It is a bandage, but that’s not why I wear it.
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Ian Wright: Wow. Transmasculine in the ‘50s. I mean, I had a hunch. But this is …
Jenn Chu: Isn’t that dangerous though, binding with elastic bandages?
Ian: Good eye. Look at you. But there weren’t exactly a lot of options back then. Dean must feel so alone.
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Sarah: I don’t understand.
Dean: When I wear this, I feel more like myself.
Sarah: So do you want to be a man?
Dean: No. That’s not it.
Sarah: Do you think it’s shameful to be a woman?
Dean: No! Being a woman is great … for some people. But I’m not really one or the other. I’m just Dean.
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Ben Song as Nadia Malek: You look badass.
Dean: You two like the whole “miss” and “ma’am” thing, but that’s not me. And I’m … I don’t want to be “sir,” necessarily. I wish I had better words for it.
Ben: You know, my best friend b-back at, um, finishing school-
Ian: *laughs*
Ben: They also feel the same way. So they ask us to use “they” and “them” instead of “he” or “she,” which is really binary.
Dean: Binary like spy code?
Ben: Yes, and also, a binary is anything with only two possibilities. A light switch is either on or off. A person is either good or bad.
Sarah: But I don’t think that’s true.
Ben: Exactly. So we need more possibilities than binary, right?
Ian: *tears up*
Ben: My friend identifies as nonbinary.
Dean: I like that.
Sarah: So that’s what you are, nonbinary?
Dean: I mean, I’m not ONLY that. But yeah. Feels like me.
Sarah: But you’re still my sister?
Dean: I’m your sibling.
Sarah: Okay. I can live with that. Come here *hugs them* I love you, Dean.
Dean: I love you, too. Thank you for listening to me when I tell you who I am.
Ian: Well done, Ben Song
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QUANTUM LEAP (2022) — Secret History (S02E06)
››› Peter Gadiot as Tom Westfall
››› Mason Alexander Park as Ian Wright
››› Nanrisa Lee as Jenn Chou
››› Caitlin Bassett as Addison Augustine
No, she did not radiate beauty. Instead, her aura was fear. She took the superstitious dread most people felt for the idea of a witch and wore it like a crown. No one who saw her doubted her profession, or that she could curse—would curse—any man who crossed her.