“Her Charm – September 26, 1973” is episode fifteen of season two of Quantum Leap.
At the end of the previous episode, “All-Americans – November 6, 1962”, Sam leaped into someone who was ringing a doorbell. A woman answers; she recognises whoever Sam is and doesn’t seem that pleased. She heads to get her suitcase and tells Sam to put them in the car. Sam pauses, and she asks if he did bring a car before heading to it. Sam doesn’t have the keys and she tells him last time they were under the seat. Both end up ducked down when a car cruises past and a man shoots their car up. Sam is apparently an FBI agent.
The shooter gets out and Sam gets the car going, reversing into the other car and damaging it. The woman, Dana, is complaining about Sam – Peter Langly – and saying she wants to see Richardson. Sam wants to take her to a hospital first. Dana faints when she sees she’s bleeding. A couple of hours at the hospital does allow Sam to find out where the Federal Building is.
Al appears when they are there and explains that Dana was the personal secretary of Nick Kochifos. Sam recognises the name; into shipping. Yes, to smuggle illegal aliens and drugs. And yes, he did get killed by a Colombian drug lord. In about three years. Dana saw too much, enough to put Nick away for life. But he was found not guilty. she’s in WitSec and has had to change her ID twice as she’s been found twice. She dies that afternoon.
Dana is complaining to Richardson, who seems to be insinuating that she knew more than she did when working for Nick and took her time before coming forward. She leaves and Sam is talking to Al when she shows. Al likes how she looks. Richardson shows and says that they will have a new ID in two days; meanwhile, the plan is to take a laundry truck to a safehouse in Baltimore.
Outside, Nick’s driver is saying it isn’t worth it. Even with a man on the inside, they keep missing.
Inside, Richardson is telling Sam that only two people know where Dana is going. Richardson and Langly. When he goes, Sam notices they are in Boston. He remembers spending weekends at a cabin in the Berkshires belonging to an MIT professor and decides to talk Dana there.
Nick and the other man follow the laundry truck as it leaves. Dana doesn’t die at the appointed time.
Dana wakes and starts complaining. Her real issue is that she did what she believed was the right thing, and now will probably die for it, or spend the rest of her life living as someone else and looking over her shoulder.
Dana didn’t die at her appointed time, but the time of death keeps changing. Nick is following them and there’s still whoever the mole is that’s been passing information on to him.