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22 parts
Genesis
Prophets and loss
Common ground
Virtual slide
World killer
Oh brother, where
are you?
Just say yes
The alternateville
horror
Slidecage
Asylum
California reich
The dying fields
Lipschitz live
Mother and child
Net worth
Slide by wire
Data world
Way out west
My brother's keeper
The chasm
Roads taken
Revelations
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Genesis
After three months of searching, Quinn and Maggie finally arrive on
Earth Prime! It's a bitter homecoming when Quinn learns that the Kromaggs
have invaded his world and have captured Rembrandt and Wade. Determined
to rescue them, Quinn and Maggie link up with an underground human resistance
cell and break into the Kromagg re-education center. They find Remmy
but learn that Wade has been shipped off world to a 'magg breeding camp.
Their rescue plans are unexpectedly thwarted when Quinn is captured.
While in the Kromagg gulag Quinn uncovers some startling information
about his family and home world that will forever change his notion
of who he really is.
Prophets and loss
Love, peace, and harmony prevail on this world ruled by a man called
the Master Oracle. But the Sliders inadvertently run afoul of the law
by possessing an "illegal scientific device" -- their timer -- which
is confiscated by the Oracle's Enforcers. When the Enforcers conclude
that the Sliders are members of the militant underground called "Radical
Rationalists," Quinn, Maggie, and Rembrandt are earmarked for "chemical
re-configuration" -- personality erasure and brainwashing which will
forcibly convert them to the Way of the Oracle.
Common ground
Arriving on Earth 147, our heroes slide into the middle of a firing
range and live weapons test. Amidst the chaos of blazing cannon, Maggie
manages to rescue an injured soldier who turns out to be a Kromagg named
Kromanus. Our heroes are promptly captured and tortured by second in
command Krolak. But Kromanus, who is actually commander of the Kromagg
garrison, intervenes on their behalf. Grateful for his life, he upgrades
the trio's status to house arrest, giving them full run of the complex.
Our heroes soon find themselves stuck in the middle of a power struggle
between the war-weary commander and his overly-ambitious underling.
Meanwhile, Rembrandt has discovered the terrible truth about the Kromagg
garrison and the heinous tests being conducted on humans -- tests that
could mean the end to humans in all dimensions.
Virtual slide
Quinn, Rembrandt and Maggie slide into the middle of a demolition site
just as an explosive charge is triggered. Maggie wakes up to find that
she and the others are home, back on Earth Prime and the humans have
beaten the Kromaggs! But have they? In truth the sliders are in a hospital
ward, immersed in a virtual reality fantasy designed to accelerate their
healing. To their horror our heroes learn that during their convalescence
they missed the sliding window. They are stuck on this world for twenty-nine
years! Not prepared to accept defeat, the trio set out to build a new
sliding device. But this world uses VR for everything from recreation
to medicine, and Quinn and Rembrandt are easily drawn by its allure.
Maggie must struggle to break them of a virtual reality addiction before
it completely incapacitates them, erasing any chance of escaping this
world.
World killer
Quinn, Rembrandt, and Maggie slide to a San Francisco with deserted
streets, empty buildings, and abandoned cars. Everyone's disappeared
-- everyone except for a ragged, half-crazy Quinn double who's convinced
that his failed antigravity invention has accidentally wiped out every
other human being on this Earth. When our Sliders discover that this
Quinn's misfired experiment actually transported five billion people
to a parallel world -- doubling its population and causing massive hardship
and starvation -- they realize they must slide to that world and somehow
attempt to reverse the process.
Colin Mallory
Oh brother, where are you?
"I have a brother!"
In this episode Colin Mallory (Charlie O'Connell) joins the Sliders
as Quinn's brother...
...and several slides after that revelation, the Sliders finally track
Quinn's newly discovered sibling to an Amish-type Earth. There they
find a technology-free agrarian community and one heretical social outcast,
an inventor named Colin Mallory. Quinn wastes no time in telling Colin
the truth about his family and their alternate dimensional origins.
A microdot hidden in a family heirloom confirms Quinn's assertions and
Colin is forced to accept the truth. Having no real reason to remain,
Colin joins the team and together they head out in search of their parent's
Earth. Arriving on the next world, Colin is introduced to a world of
modern technology. Trouble begins almost immediately when the double
of his former love takes advantage of his glaring naivete, and involves
him in a scam to steal cryogenically frozen bodies.
Just say yes
On this parallel earth, drugs are not only legal, they're mandatory.
Constant doses of government-prescribed "pharmacotherapy" keep the populace
docile and happy. Maggie and Colin are forcibly medicated by tranquilizer-gun
wielding Facilitators, then sent to a Reorientation Compound -- an idyllic
suburban house -- to learn to live in domestic bliss, Ozzie-and-Harriet
style. Meanwhile, a Drug Empowerment Administration agent has mistaken
Quinn for his double -- a long-haired hippie anti-drug activist. When
Quinn and Rembrandt elude capture, the DEA agent opts for lethal force
-- and uses a deadly prescription to transform a young Facilitator into
a berserk, unstoppable assassin.
The alternateville horror
An acid rainstorm forces Quinn, Rembrandt, Maggie, and Colin to stay
in a haunted hotel. Who is the silent, spectral figure that can walk
though walls? Why is the ominous stranger who's registered as "John
Smith" prowling around with spooky and mysterious instruments? What
terrifying creatures lurk in the dark cellar? What horrible object turns
up in the ice machine? What unearthly force makes the Sliders' timer
levitate -- and then disappear? And when Colin is lured over to the
"other side" and becomes lost in a realm of spirits, how will he ever
return?
Slidecage
Quinn and Colin have finally broken the code on the microdot chip.
Next stop: home. They slide to a bleak, barren world and quickly realize
that their journey is not over. A recording from Michael Mallory informs
them that they have been captured by a device called a SLIDECAGE. It
is a mechanism designed to protect their home world from the Kromaggs
by intercepting anyone who attempts to slide there. Once snared by the
slidecage you are trapped on that world for the rest of your life. Our
heroes immediately discover that they are in the middle of a war between
human and Kromagg captives. Can they convince both sides to put down
their differences and work toward a common goal of escape? Or are they
doomed to live out their lives in a caged state of perpetual warfare?
Asylum
When the Sliders are forced to jump from a plummeting airplane, Quinn
and Rembrandt are badly hurt. Worse still, they're on a Kromagg-ravaged
world that's been stripped of resources; hospitals are overloaded, and
medical care is nearly impossible to obtain. After Colin persuades Dr.
Grace Venable to help them, Rembrandt quickly recovers from his injuries,
but Quinn's are more serious; he remains comatose. As Rembrandt and
Grace discover a strong mutual attraction, Maggie discovers that foreign
secret agents are out to capture Grace, dead or alive -- despite her
being Quinn's only chance for survival.
California reich
Our heroes slide into a world run by a Nazi-like organization called
Stompers. Their job is to enforce Racial Repatriation backed by Governor
Schick. Under his edict, all citizens of color are shipped off to detention
camps. Coincidentally, Schick has also introduced an army of free labor
in the form of android workers called "Eddies." As the only person of
color left on the streets of Los Angeles, Rembrandt is immediately spotted
on arrival, apprehended by the Stompers and carted off to detention.
There, he discovers the horrible secret behind Schick's economic recovery
and its true human toll, while his fellow sliders try desperately to
free him and expose Schick's evil organization.
The dying fields
On a deserted Earth, the Sliders are horrified to discover human prey
being hunted down and killed by half-human, half- Kromagg warriors-in-training
called "Hu-Maggs." Quinn, Rembrandt, Maggie, and Colin meet Jenny, one
such human target who's been abducted from her homeworld by the Kromaggs.
Jenny, like the other abductees, has been promised that she'll be returned
home if she can survive the "training exercise" for twenty days. But
the Sliders know this promise is a lie, that the Kromaggs and their
Hu-Magg soldiers will never allow any of them to leave this Earth alive...
Lipschitz live
An unstable vortex deposits the Sliders in different places on a world
that is transfixed by a television show, Lipschitz Live, that is practically
the only show on the air. Our heroes now have only an hour to find each
other and slide away. Rembrandt and Maggie are left dangling from a
skyscrapers' window-washing rig, only later to mistake Colin's double
for the real deal. Meanwhile, Colin is mistaken for his wealthy, spoiled
double and kidnapped by his "father's" thugs. Since Quinn has yet to
see the others, he tries communicating to them via an appearance on
Lipschitz Live. His plan works, and he alerts the others through his
TV interview that the next slide is fast approaching. Will the Sliders
make it across town and to the TV station in time?
Mother and child
The Sliders reach a world where a young woman named Christina has escaped
from a Kromagg breeder camp with her half-human, half-Kromagg baby.
Christina knew their friend Wade Welles, a fellow prisoner. The Sliders
find out the coordinates of Christina's home world, but are forced to
slide there before they can discover where Wade has been sent. On Christina's
world, which has somehow managed to repel the Kromagg invasion, Christina's
father Jonathan coldly maintains that Christina should have left the
baby behind; what he doesn't tell her is that her baby can't survive
on this Earth. And the Sliders soon have another problem as well: a
Kromagg subcommander has slid to this Earth to kill Christina and recapture
her baby.
Net worth
When the Sliders land out of the vortex they find themselves separated
by an impenetrable glass wall. Quinn and Rembrandt are located inside
a high-tech ivory tower. Colin and Maggie land in the grungy surrounding
streets. Neither side can reach the other. In this world the population
is separated into ON-LINERS, those who reside in towered buildings,
living vicariously on the Internet, and OFF-LINERS, who live outdoors
and despise using technology.
Quinn and Rembrandt are about to be apprehended by guards when they
meet Joanne, who at first assumes Quinn is Rick, her email friend and
soulmate. Meanwhile, Maggie and Colin meet Rick, who turns out to be
an Off-liner who has no access to the great white towers of the On-liners.
The Sliders, working from both ends, decide it's time to get these crazy
young lovers together...
Too bad a group of Scavengers, a roaming gang of violent malcontents,
are set on insuring that this union never takes place.
Slide by wire
The Sliders slide off a militaristic Earth where the U.S.A. is battling
the Soviet Union -- only to land upon a world where possession of any
technology is punishable by death. And Quinn, Rembrandt, and Colin don't
realize that the Maggie that slid with them is a double who's fled from
her oppressive Earth. Trapped on that world, "our" Maggie discovers
that her double was a pilot who flew her complex fighter through a direct
(and dangerous) cybernetic link to the brain -- and if her lack of such
a link is discovered, she'll be executed as a spy.
Data world
The Sliders arrive on a desolate, barren, wind-blown street. As they
proceed to the Chandler they are magnetized with a kind of digital energy.
Suddenly, they are in the lobby of a brilliantly lit, bright-colored
luxury hotel. There they meet the owner, the real Archibald Chandler.
The hotel and staff see to our heroes' every need, except for one. They
are not allowed to leave The Chandler.
The Sliders soon realize that they have been transformed into computer-generated
images while their real bodies are "outside" the hotel. The Chandler
environment that seemed so luxurious is actually a computer-scape and
the Sliders have been reduced to programs that reside within. They confront
Archibald and demand to be released. He denies their request and retaliates
by deleting Maggie from the computer.
But, as with all computer programs, a file deleted is not necessarily
irretrievable. Quinn must distract Chandler while the others try to
track down the missing Maggie program. She is still somewhere in the
computer, immersed deep in the system's junk file.
Way out west
On a wild-west-style Earth, Colin is wounded by a bullet from the black-hatted
gunslinger "Mr. K" and nursed back to health by a homesteading widow
whose land Mr. K wants. To raise money to rent horses and find Colin,
Maggie takes a job as a saloon singer, wowing the crowd with her rendition
of "Tight Pants." But when Mr. K frames Quinn for murder, Quinn and
Rembrandt wind up with their necks in hangman's nooses -- and Colin
finds himself in a deadly face-off with Mr. K to see who's quicker on
the draw.
My brother's keeper
Our heroes arrive in a world where it is commonplace for the rich
and affluent to have themselves cloned. The clones are held in repositories
and then harvested when the owner needs spare parts. Quinn stumbles
upon his duplicate who is blinded in a lab accident and is mistaken
for the alternate Quinn's clone. He is immediately apprehended and restrained,
his eyes destined to replace his duplicate's. Performing the surgery
will be Dr. Michael Mallory, the duplicate of Quinn's father!
Meanwhile, Rembrandt, Maggie and Colin attempt to rescue Quinn, only
to mistakenly swipe his clone. Time is running out. Should they return
the clone in exchange for their Quinn? Is the clone in their presence
a thinking feeling individual or just a cache of spare parts? The Sliders
want to do the right thing but the price may be Quinn's (any one of
three) sight.
The chasm
The Sliders arrive in a town that seems like the Happiest Spot in the
World, right down to a main street with popcorn and cotton candy vendors.
But there's one person in this place who isn't happy: a little girl
who has just seen her grandfather leap into the Chasm, a pit seething
with unknown energy. Rembrandt befriends the girl but soon learns that
her misery comes from far more than witnessing her grandfather's fate:
When she in turn hurls herself into the Chasm, Rembrandt is struck by
a bio-energy bolt that transfers her burden -- all the sorrows and fears
of the whole town -- to him, torturing him with depression and paranoid
hallucinations. Meanwhile, the other Sliders are overcome with feelings
of well-being, especially a blissful Quinn who seems ready to stop sliding
and stay on this Earth forever. Can his fellow Sliders snap out of their
reverie in time to help Rembrandt escape his torments before he too
feels compelled to fling himself into the Chasm?
Roads taken
Rembrandt and Colin slide into a war torn world, but without Quinn
and Maggie! The vortex opens again minutes later and Quinn and Maggie
emerge as if nothing had ever happened. To them the slide was perfectly
normal. It isn't until later that weird things start to happen. Quinn
and Maggie fall ill to a strange sickness and are rendered unconscious.
An army doctor examines them and is astonished to discover that every
symptom of their malady suggests that they are dying of old age. A medical
alert is sounded. The Chandler is to be quarantined to prevent any further
spread of this unknown disease.
Meanwhile, a strange ghostly figure appears to Rembrandt and Colin.
He tells them he is a trans-dimensional traveler named Thomas Mallory.
He also claims to be the son of Quinn and Maggie! Thomas proceeds to
explain that during the slide, part of Quinn and Maggie were spun off
and became the focal point of a kind of bubble universe. The parts of
Quinn and Maggie that did split off have lived an entire lifetime in
that universe in a matter of hours and will be dead soon. When they
die, our Quinn and Maggie who are still connected to them will die as
well. That is unless Thomas, along with Rembrandt and Colin, can take
them to the bubble universe to be re-joined with their older selves.
But time is fast running out...
Revelations
The Sliders are stuck in the dullest world they've ever found... until
Rembrandt picks up a science-fiction book that reads like the story
of their lives. It speaks of dimensional travel and a mutant species
called "Gormaks" which sound supiciously like "Kromaggs."
Quinn tracks down the reclusive author, Isaac Clark, who confesses that
his "novel" is in fact the history of his birth-world; he too is a slider.
He knew Michael and Elizabeth Mallory, who helped develop the bio-weapon
that virtually wiped out the Kromaggs of his universe. He agrees to
supply the coordinates that will reunite Colin and Quinn with their
true parents and their home world. But when Clark and his daughter slide
there with our heroes, it becomes clear that Clark had an ulterior motive
for returning: He's an exile with dangerous knowledge about something
hideous that happened there twenty years ago. And just when everything
seems to be going right for a change, the Sliders are forced to face
the fact that nothinger here is what it seems...
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