Does Sams whole body leap or is it just his mind/soul/spirit?
This has been the subject of much debate among fans. Different episodes of the show seem to support the different sides. I am of the opinion that the evidence is much stronger for whole body leaping: • In the episode “8 1/2 Months,” Sam leaps into a pregnant woman. Al tells Sam that it is impossible for him to bear the child because he is a man. • In the episode “Nowhere to Run,” Sam leaps into a Vietnam veteran who lost his legs in the war. Yet he is able to get up and walk across the room. • In the episode “The Wrong Stuff,” Sam leaps into a chimpanaut in the Mercury program. The doctors have a discussion about chimps having too little body fat to stay afloat in water, yet Sam is able to rescue a drowning man. He also walks errect. In all fairness to the mind-leaping camp, Sam does say, “I’m in the body of a chimp!” but this could be attributed to careless exaggeration on Sam’s part. • In the pilot episode (among others), we are told that the holographic communication between Sam and
