As the final episode of Quantum Leap indicates, Janice probably isn’t the season 1 villain

Attention! The following contains spoilers for the breakthrough Season 1 episode “Jump. To die. Repeat.” Read at your own risk!

breakthrough keep submitting Janice Calavicci as a mysterious character in the first season and could also be the puppeteer who pulls the strings in all future events leading up to it Doctor Ben’s songthe jump. While the team may still suspect Janice and think she’s the villain in all of this, the latest episode of the NBC series has plenty of hints that maybe she wasn’t the villain after all.

“Jump. Die. Repeat” was a great episode for Janice, even though she didn’t get as much screen time as some of the other cast members. This is what breakthrough revealed that this could signal that Janice is a great ally to the team and could encourage fans to rewatch their previous scenes with a Peacock Premium membership.

Magic said Janice wanted to work on the Quantum Leap program.

Magic dropped a bomb near the end of breakthroughepisode where she revealed that Janice Calavicci originally wanted to be on the show. trust magic Jenny that even though Janice wants to carry on her father’s legacy (aka Al Calavicci himself), he considered it as a favor to his mother:

Magic and Jenn then asked if they would still consider Janice an enemy if she joined the Quantum Leap program. Jenn added that she might have considered her a friend too if she wasn’t suspected of being a threat. Personally, I was wondering if this was a hint of a possible friendship between Jenn and Janice, but so far I still disagree.

Janice’s plan to get Ben out of the loop worked.

I have to admit that Janice’s plan to “let Ben continue the time loop” despite the possibility of him dying for good wasn’t exactly a genius plan, but as Magic pointed out, it worked. while the breakthrough The characters worried about Ben’s fate and wondered if there was a way to prevent his ultimate death once he had no more people to jump to, Janice seemed sure she would figure it out.

My theory is that Janice knew enough about Ben’s jump to realize that he would successfully exit the time loop situation to impact future events. If so, this is proof that you’re not getting into Ben’s current path, which doesn’t seem harmful. Okay, I trust Janice to be a force for good simply because she let Ben live. Based on the previous point that she wanted to be on the show all the time, I’m willing to say that she had pure intentions to help the team through the time loop crisis.

Janice told Addison that someone else was involved in Ben’s jump plan.

The most convincing proof that Janice Calavicci is not the villain breakthrough Season 1 came right at the end of the episode. Janice briefly decided to break her chain of cryptic answers and silence, and gave Addison some information that could convince Ben’s fiancée to trust her. Janice revealed that Ben talked to someone who convinced him to jump before he contacted her, and she knew her name.

breakthrough revealed that this mystery is at least one person deeper, which certainly detracts from the idea that Janice was a string-pulling puppeteer all this time. I’m still sure she knows more than she wants to reveal to the team, although it may have something to do with her general theory that there is a traitor at work on the team. breakthrough squad.

Also, remember that the first rule of thumb for time travel shows is not to reveal future events because they can alter the timeline. Everything Janice knows could disrupt the current plan if she reveals it too soon, so she’s right to keep quiet sometimes. In short, we don’t know for sure that she isn’t a villain, even if all signs in this episode point to someone else.

breakthrough airs Mondays on NBC at 10 p.m. ET. We’re getting closer to the real story behind season 1’s big mystery, and I just hope the payoff is another reason for sci-fi fans to check out this series.