“Maybe Baby – March 11, 1963” is episode twenty of season two of Quantum Leap.
At the end of the previous episode, “Leaping in Without a Net – November 18, 1958”, Sam leapt into a man taking a basket from a house and taking it to a truck with a woman. The basket turned out to contain a baby.
Sam is worried, but the woman, Bunny, says that he, Buster, promised to help her get her baby back. Otherwise, she and Kristy will get out now. They have a map and are in Texas, heading for Clayton, New Mexico. Though she’s only known Buster for two weeks, she feels like family.
The father, Reed Dalton says that Bunny acts as if his baby is hers. A deputy knows Bunny, who’s a stripper. Dalton says after his wife died giving birth, he dated Bunny for a while. They decide to head after her.
Sam and Bunny are staying in a motel. She’s going to get milk. Sam says he’s never been around babies much. Apparently, Buster had seven brothers and sisters. Bunny heads out and Kristy is crying and Sam is panicking. When Al appears, Kristy can see him. Al gives Bunny’s name, and her real name. Buster is a bouncer where she works. Sam, needs a diaper and Al suggests truing a pillowcase. And there’s a high chance they are here to return the baby to her father. Sam is going through things and realises that Bunny isn’t the mother. Al says no; they’re kidnappers.
Sam is sure Bunny is telling the truth. Bunny returns; it seems there were diapers in the truck. Sam claims he didn’t want to leave Kristy alone. According to Al, Reed got Kristy back and Buster and Bunny spent 20 years in jail. Sam doesn’t think they are there to return the baby, as the baby was returned anyway. Al suggests that they are there to stop them from going to prison. Sam will stick to Bunny’s plan until Al figures it out.
Sam confronts Bunny and demands she tells the truth. She cries and begs him not to hit her. She says if she’d told Buster the truth, he wouldn’t have helped. Bunny says she was working for Reed when a package came from his brother. It was kind of open and full of letters from his wife, Margaret. She’s alive, and the letters were begging for Kristy back. There was an address and phone number and Bunny rang her. Reed caught Bunny and beat her, threatening what he’d do to her. She forgot the phone number but not the address.
Sam thinks that Bunny is telling the truth, but Al isn’t convinced. It doesn’t help matters that Bunny has lied about more than a few things.