All language subtitles for Sliders.s04e02.Prophets.and.Loss

Where's Remmy?

Still at the ATM.

Again?

That was
way too close.

So, did you
get any money?

No. That thing
almost ate my card!

You know,
one of these slides

you are gonna get trapped on a
world you do not want to stay in.

But I'll have money.

Where are we?

Looks like some
kind of monastery.

Oh, fun.

How much time we got?

Seventy-two hours.

Seems fairly normal.

It's too clean.

No Kromaggs, which is just fine with me.

Well, if we're gonna
be here for three days,

I've gotta get into a
library and into a lab.

There's got to be
a way I can program

the coordinates to
my brother's world.

All we can do is
hope that he's got

the coordinates
for our home world.

What?

My brother's world.

I just can't get my mind around
the idea that I have a brother.

A brother. A new father and a mother.

A whole new world where
someone may have slammed

the devil out of
the Kromaggots.

That's a lot to get your mind around, Q
- Ball.

"Uprising in
Detroit ended.

"Master Oracle declares
Michigan rat-free. "

What? Look, I've
been to Detroit.

Trust me,
they've got rats.

Master Oracle? That guy
looks like Newt Gingrich.

He's a politician
back home.

"Welcomers' ceremony draws
100,000 to the Rose Bowl. "

Well, it sure doesn't
sound like a football team.

"Jason Five, RadRat,
sentenced to reconfig. "

What does that mean?

I guess Charles Darwin on this
world did something really terrible.

This is Cadmus.

Three intruders have
transported themselves

into the cloister by
some unknown method.

They're headed
toward central.

It's two men and a woman.

Alert central enforcement,
and mark them for surveillance.

They could be useful
to us, or...

They could be dangerous.

What if you found a
portal to a parallel universe?

What if you could slide into
a thousand different worlds

where it's the same year
and you're the same person,

but everything else
is different?

And what if you can't
find your way home?

What do you suppose
the Oracle is?

Some kind of church.

Noon assembly in five minutes.

Five minutes until the noon
assembly. The Oracle wants us all.

Aren't you coming
to assembly?

We're kind of
new in town.

Why don't you join me?

Newcomers are always
welcome at our assemblies.

My name is Jane. I'm
soon to become a welcomer.

I'm Maggie. And this
is Quinn and Rembrandt.

Nice to meet a welcomer.

Always liked getting welcomed
better than not getting welcomed.

Our Chief Oracle
is Gareth.

He's a truly gifted man.

The other man is the
Chief Counselor, Cadmus.

They are both
sighted leaders.

Welcome to this assembly
of the Oracle,

followers of the Way.

Today is a very
special assembly

because today,
a group of welcomers

will pass through the portal
to the other side,

to the next world,

to make it ready for us.

You're in for
a special treat.

My friends.

There is a beautiful new world

waiting for us
beyond the portal.

A beautiful place

you might think of
as this Earth,

so alike it will be.

But there we will find
true peace and contentment,

leaving behind all of
our cares and concerns.

We must be in constant
readiness to go,

to cross over
when we are called.

Witness now the traverse
of the welcomers.

Thank you.

I hope you'll join
our assembly.

Thank you.

Actually, we're just
passing through.

I see. Well, stop by any
time. The center's always open.

Thank you.
Bye.

I gotta get a look at
that portal mechanism.

Just ask 'em. They
seem awfully friendly.

There's something not
right about these people.

If they hate somebody
like Darwin,

what are they
gonna think of me?

Jane said this place
is always open.

We'll wait till nobody's around
and I'll get a better look.

They believe that
life here is just to

prepare you for life
on the next world.

Yeah, that's pretty much
what I was taught in church.

"The faithful will be gathered
up on the Day of Accounting. "

Same again. Day of
Judgment. Day of Accounting.

So what do they say
about the unfaithful?

I don't see any. It seems they all agree

that the Way of the
Oracle is the way to go.

You mean, the whole country
follows one set of rules?

No denominations?
No political parties?

No crazy guy holed up in
Idaho with automatic weapons?

Well, there
are the rats.

It's what they call
the Rationalist Party.

The Oracle apparently tolerates
disagreement with their way

as long as the rats
keep it on a low flame.

Even have debates
on television.

Naturally, the Oracle
always wins.

So, is it a religion,
is it a lifestyle, what?

Near as I can figure, it's
pretty much all of those.

On Earth Prime we had a
right wing political movement

that wanted to establish a
system based on family values.

Yeah. Their family values.

Obviously, on this world,
those people won that argument.

According to this,
they've got a lot of rules.

No real freedom of speech
without Oracle approval.

No abortion. No sex
without Oracle license.

Right dress and behavior at all times.

Sounds like a weekend
at my Aunt Miranda's.

Come on. Let's
just keep moving.

...455B of the Oracle rules.

So I don't
understand.

How did the people
let this happen?

Must not have been paying attention
when they should have been.

If you don't vote, you
get what you deserve.

Yeah, well, at least they have
technology, cars, airplanes, CD players.

Schools must be
pretty good.

It's all controlled
by the Oracle.

No social sciences. They
call that stuff humanism.

And they teach nothing
but creation science.

That explains Demon Darwin.

No big bang,
no relativity,

no black holes,
no chaos theory.

But if that portal
is a sliding machine,

they're going against
all their own rules.

How's that?

Quantum physics predicted
parallel universes.

If you do what we do, you
have to have an understanding

of subatomic particles moving
from one place within an atom

to another without going
through the space in between.

I have no idea what the
hell you're talking about,

and I seem to
slide just fine.

Me, too!

Your new deck will
add style and value to your home.

Dealer prep, redwood tax,
import fees not included.

Tax-deductible gifts
to the Oracle accepted.

Nothing but preachers
and shows

about how to add a
redwood deck to your house.

I thought the celebrity pro-am
golf tournament was pretty good.

Who'd have thought Regis Philbin
had such a powerful swing?

You gonna eat the rest
of your green stuff?

You may have the rest
of my green stuff

and the rest of my
brown stuff if you want.

What is it with the kitchen
in this hotel?

On most of the worlds,
the food here is good.

The Oracle probably has
approval of all menus, too.

Polyunsaturated everything,
no salt, no fat.

No chocolate.
That's what I hate.

Well, we won't have
to be here long.

Why do we have to go
back to that Oracle place?

All that gives me
the creeps.

Can't we just lay low here
until it's time for the slide?

Yeah. The guys who were
handing out the brochures,

those bulges
underneath their coats

didn't look like
Bibles to me.

Well, you guys don't have
to go if you don't want to.

But I've got to get a look at
the mechanics of that machine.

I'm getting nowhere
adjusting the timer.

If they have
sliding technology,

they might have something
I could borrow or copy.

Or steal.

Well, if you're going,
we're going. You know that.

I can't stop thinking
about that woman, Jane.

Something about
her eyes.

She's a true believer.

Is that so bad? I mean, you've
got to believe in something.

I believe in myself.

I would never surrender my
will to some self-righteous guy

who says he's got the
answers to everything.

Does that mean we have
no future together?

Those guys must
make regular rounds.

Maggie, watch the door.
Signal if anybody comes.

With what, a flare?

How about
just a sneeze?

Hmm.

This thing doesn't
have sliding capabilities.

It looks like it generates
too much heat.

That thing's not a sliding
machine. These are ashes.

Tell me about it.

What's wrong?

That thing's
an incinerator.

What?

Those people are
being burned to death.

Freeze! Nobody move!

Now, everyone stand
very still.

Why were you in the
assembly hall tonight?

The doors were open. People
were coming and going.

Yes.

The assembly room is always
open for meditation, renewal,

but you were
up on the stage.

You were looking at the
controls of the portal.

I was curious.
I'm kind of a scientist.

You've just answered
your first question.

"What have we done?"

And that would be...

You say you're a scientist.

That's a very dangerous
thing to admit.

For whatever it's worth,
I'm not a scientist.

What are you?

I'm an entertainer.

You know, uh, concerts,
records, weddings,

bar mitzvahs.

And you?

Tourist.

A scientist, an
entertainer and a tourist.

Very little money,
and very unusual.

There's someone named
Lincoln on this five.

No identification, no travel
permits, no locater documentation,

no party cards.

And this.

What is this?

That is a kind
of a... communicator.

Really?

Well, the numbers are
counting down to something.

What?

Uh, it's a power indicator.

Tells me how much
time I have left

before I have to
change the batteries.

If it's a communicator, it
communicates with something.

Where's the other one?

We don't have it.
Lost it.

They're both right. We lost
it, so we don't have it.

Have our technical staff
take a look at that.

Forgive my rudeness.

My name is Gareth, and I am the
Chief Oracle for the Los Angeles area

and this is my counselor,
Cadmus.

Your sudden appearance has
caused us to forget our manners.

So, I've told you my name.

Don't you want
to tell me yours?

Hi, I'm Quinn Mallory.

This is Rembrandt Brown,
and this is Maggie Beckett.

Hi.

We're from
out of town.

Right.

So it would seem.

The real question is,
how far out of town?

Oregon, actually.
The interior.

You know, where... This
is our first trip to LA.

Vacation?

You could say that.

Have you been
to Oracle World?

Not yet.

But it's on the list.

Right.

The World in Six Days is
playing at the IMAX theater.

It is really something. And
the Dark Age Dungeon Ride...

There's new music this year
by John Tesh.

I love him!

So, if, uh...

If we could just get our
little communicator back, uh,

we'll mosey on over to
Oracle World and, uh,

enjoy ourselves.

I... I'm sorry, but, um...

We're gonna have to detain
you for a little while.

Why are we
being arrested?

What charges?

Charges?

I am so sorry. I thought
you were paying attention.

You're completely unknown
to the authorities.

You have no identification.
You're vagrants.

And you're in the possession
of a scientific device.

First three are misdemeanors.

The last is a felony.

Take them.

Hey!

Whoa, whoa... Whoa, whoa, wait
a minute! What have we done?

Ow!

Man, what is that thing?
Get in there!

You know, Q-Ball, before
I started hanging with you,

I hardly ever
went to jail.

Now, everywhere I go.

Oh, I wonder what
he's in for.

Thinking.

What do they do
to you for that?

Reconfig.

Reconfig.

I read something about
that in the paper.

How does that work?

Chemical
reconfiguration.

Intravenous feed
of a drug soup.

Wipes every cell
in your brain clean.

Then they feed you what
they want you to know.

So then you just
forget everything?

Everything.

After chemical reconfig,
you're a mindless robot.

No cares.

No fears.

No anger.

No ideas.

No challenges,

no love.

Paper never mentioned
chemicals.

They don't want you to know.

I estimate we've got about
50 hours left till the slide.

Well, we better
do something soon.

I'm not staying
here 29 years

with nothing but white
noise between my ears.

I brought you some things
to make you more comfortable.

You shouldn't have.

I do it with joy,

as I do all my works
for the Oracle.

Tell me about
the Oracle.

My friends and I, we, uh...
Well, we have a lot to learn.

The Oracle is a way of life
that removes care and doubt.

It's a system of belief

and behavior based on
obedience to the Master Oracle.

The Rationalists
that I've heard about,

they think it's a system of
repression and thought control.

I think that's sad.

Through love and care, I've
seen even the most militant

come around to
our way of thinking.

Yeah, I was just getting
to the love and care part.

It's all part
of our training.

You told me
you were a welcomer.

When do you expect to
go to the other side?

No welcomer knows
the day or the hour.

I've already settled
all my earthly affairs,

ceded all my assets
to the Oracle.

Wait a minute.

You've given the Oracle all
your assets, all your money?

It will do me no good
where I'm going.

But the Oracle can use it
for many good works here.

I know you believe that
you're going to a better place.

We all would like
to believe that.

But this portal to
the other side, it's...

Maggie, I understand
your doubts.

I had them myself in the
beginning. But the more I learned,

the more I gave myself
to the Oracle,

the more I realized
it had to be true.

I have nothing here.

But on the other side, there
will be no pain and confusion.

Everything will
be love and light.

Jane,

if you knew this traverse
to the other side

might bring you death,

would you still go?

Of course.

The technical unit cannot make
out what the communicator is.

How do we know
it's not a bomb?

That thing could
be the detonator.

No, we've had it scanned, we've had
it x-rayed with the magnetic imager.

There's not a trace of
explosive material in it.

Then what is it?

Best guess?

It's some kind of switch.

It turns something off or...

On.

But what?

These people worry me.

They could be part
of a Rationalist infiltration.

I've been getting increased
reports of RadRat activity

all along the Pacific coast.

So what do we do
with these three?

Chemical reconfig.

First thing tomorrow.

What do you think
will happen now?

Breakfast, I hope.

Just as long as they don't
do that chemical thing.

Where do you think
the timer is?

No idea, and no idea
what to do about it.

Yeah, not what
I wanted to hear.

Quinn! Quinn!

Hey!

Remmy!

Maggie!

My name is Samson.

Welcome to the underground.

So we're not
prisoners here?

You're guests
of the RadRats.

This is all we could save
from the Oracle book burners,

but it's a start.

And there are more
like us every day.

We've got hidden labs and
libraries all up and down the coast.

The big O thinks he's
got everything on rails,

but one morning he's gonna
wake up and smell the napalm.

What about the Rationalist
Party, you with them?

No. Their minds are
in the right place,

but their hearts could
use a little help.

The only real change will
come through revolution.

Lot of that
going around.

Now, then.
What about you?

What about us?

Well, as a great philosopher
once said, "First things first. "

Who are you?
Where do you come from?

And don't give me that Oregon
business you laid on the big O.

How'd you know
about that?

Sources.

We know how you came into this
world. You were seen doing it.

We were?

At first, some of us thought
you might be welcomers

coming back from
the other side.

That the Oracle's portal
really does work.

The portal's
an incinerator.

And the welcomers
are being robbed.

I met one. She's given
everything she owns to the Oracle.

We know what the portal is,
and we suspected the rest.

As far as the other
side goes,

I don't think
there is one.

Who can say? You came
from somewhere, didn't you?

We came from Earth.
Not this Earth,

but a parallel Earth.

This is Maggie Beckett,
that's Rembrandt Brown.

I invented
a device that

allows us to pass through a
vortex into parallel worlds.

And you came here
to help us?

Not exactly.

Well, what else
could it be?

As the poet said, "God gives,
but man must open his hand. "

And what's your job
on the team?

We're not really
a team,

but in my world,
I was a marine captain.

Great. We can always
use another fighter.

Whoa, wait a minute. We
are not here for your fight.

We have no control over how
long we stay or where we go.

And the Oracle has the only
device that does control that.

The timer, and if we don't get
it back before the time runs out,

we're gonna be here
for a very long time.

Then you'll have no choice
but to join us.

Okay, let's
make a deal.

You and your raiders
help us get our timer back,

and we will help you
for as long as we're here.

When you were
showing us around,

I saw one of your men working
on focused laser parameters.

Yes?

He was doing it wrong.

You've got a deal.

Good. Well, we'll
have to move fast,

'cause if you guys can
get our timer back,

we won't have
much time left.

Then we gotta
get started.

As Norm Crosby once said,
"Waste not, want not. "

I thought
that was Ben Franklin.

Different worlds,
different quotes.

We need to make up a plan for
a move on the Oracle compound.

Okay.

Care to join us,
Captain?

All right.

I'm sure our technicians will have a
lot of questions for you, Professor.

It's just Quinn.

And what's your job
on the team?

I'm a singer.

Interesting.

We found a tunnel
underneath the compound.

We're closing it up.

I'd imagine the RadRats have taken
the intruders far away by now.

Perhaps even
out of the state.

No, I don't think so.

I think that communicator is much more
important to them than they let on,

and I think
they'll be back for it.

We'll be ready for them.

The tunnels we used
will be closed,

and the guards will be doubled at
the cloister and the assembly hall.

I think it would be
better to make

a surgical strike
with a small force,

not a big raid
like this morning.

And if you can get
intelligence on just the spot

where the timer
is being held,

we can concentrate
on that sector.

Come up with
a plan and fast.

I'm not too sure
about these RadRats.

Compared to the Oracle,
they seem like the good guys.

Well, maybe. But did you see the
way the head guy's eyes lit up

when he thought
we'd have to stay here?

He's fighting
for a cause.

Oh, it's all politics.

And that stuff gets
all up in your head

and starts
twisting it around.

Power, that's what
it's all about.

The guys in the suits have
got it. The RadRats want it.

It's the folks in the middle,
like us, who always get hurt.

We've got a plan.

Dr. Mallory, your Captain
Beckett is so warlike.

I like that
in a woman.

Hey!
What the...

Call security!

What's going on?

Neutralizer agent engaged.
You can take your masks off.

We've got to lay low
for six more hours.

No, we've got
that covered.

You seem very determined
to get yourselves killed.

I'm certain my pack is already
planning a rescue mission.

When we didn't return at the appointed
time, they're trained to move.

How are they gonna get by all the
security the Oracle has piled on us?

Trust me.
They wont give us up.

There's some stuff here
I don't understand.

Ever since we got here,
everyone seems to know

what we're doing
before we do it.

You say we were
seen sliding in.

Then, Big O's heat is on us
right away at the assembly hall.

Your people come in
here to get us out.

We come back in for the timer,
there's Big O again.

It's as if they're
in on the plan.

Bit of a coincidence.
Who's running this show?

We have undercover agents
very high up in the Oracle.

I don't know who they are or
when they'll move, but they will.

"The biggest campaign is
built on the smallest detail. "

Julius Caesar II.

And I'm getting enough
of this quoting.

Mr. Mallory.

Like a word with you,
in private.

Sit down.

I want to ask you a few
questions about your communicator.

You can ask.

Listen, this will go
a lot easier with you

if I know what it is,
what it does.

I don't think
you'll understand it.

Try me.

I'm not going to defy my
friends to cut myself a deal.

It's a timer.
I know that much.

What's it
counting down to?

What happens when
it gets to zero?

Look, let me put it
to you this way.

I think it controls, somehow, your
passage in and out of this dimension.

You're the one
who saw us slide in.

Never mind that.

What happens when
it runs out of time?

Let's just put it this way.

You'll have three more RadRats
on your hands for a long time.

Not necessarily,
Mr. Mallory.

Not necessarily.

The Master Oracle himself
is very pleased.

Samson is the highest ranking
RadRat yet taken on the west coast.

His reconfig will be a
major coup for the Oracle.

Listen, I'm sure
you're right,

but I think we ought to consider
making a harsher example of Samson.

And of the others,
as well.

What are you
suggesting?

Oh, as dangerous as Samson is,
the others are much more so.

We don't know
where they came from,

we don't know if there are any
more like them, and they possess

some kind of advanced
scientific knowledge

they may have passed on
while they were underground.

I think we need to
be rid of them all.

Are you saying
we should execute them?

Well...

The intruders
I can understand,

but I don't want to give the
RadRats a martyr with Samson's death.

As far as
the people know,

he won't die.

Let's just say for
the sake of argument

your friends do get us
out of here. Then what?

If we don't get
our timer back,

we're stuck here
for 29 years.

Would that be so bad?
I'm gonna say yes.

We're gonna win. What makes you so sure?

Because we're right.

Okay, let's just say
you do get what you want.

Then what happens to the Oracle
and the people who believe in it?

Nothing. They're free to
believe whatever they like.

They just won't be free to impose those
beliefs on others against their will.

After all,
God created our minds.

He must have
wanted us to use them.

Who are you
quoting now?

Me.

I have wonderful news.
I'm here to set you free.

That's great! How?

We're all going to traverse
to the next world together.

What?

The Chief Oracle
has proclaimed it.

Samson and the three of you
will be joining us as welcomers.

You mean we're going
through that portal?

It's more than
I could have hoped for.

Jane, that portal
is not what you think.

It's a killing
machine!

The Oracle has lied to you,
taken everything you own,

and now they're going
to take your life.

I expected as much from you.

You can't listen to him.
You must trust the Oracle.

My friends and coworkers
in the way of the Oracle,

the signs of the end times
are all around us.

The confusion that you
may be feeling today

as you see the
unrest increase

has been foreseen
by the Master Oracle.

Change is painful,

but we know the rewards that come
of endurance and of steadfast faith.

Today, we are sending two very
special groups of welcomers

to that reward.

I'll see you
on the other side.

Jane, you gotta
listen to us.

No. You must
trust the Oracle.

Well, maybe
she's right.

We'll certainly
find out soon enough.

We will all now witness the
traverse of the welcomers.

My friends,

many of you know that the
Radical Rationalist Samson

was apprehended
this morning

with some of his followers
in the compound.

We have decided that our
methods of reconfiguration

are inadequate here.

Consequently, we are sending them
with the welcomers to the other side

in the hopes that
the wisdom

provided there will help them
to their salvation.

This is a fraud! That thing is an oven!

Your friends aren't on the
other side. They're dead!

Your Oracle has robbed
them and murdered them!

It's a RadRat lie!

You see how perverted
the RadRats have become?

Sending them to the other side
to reconfig is the only solution.

Amen!

The final solution!

Yeah! Send 'em away!

Mr. Mallory...

I wish you well
on the other side.

It was one of the head guys, after all.

Hey.

Wow! It was Cadmus.

I knew it would
be somebody.

Can that thing
get me back?

Yeah.

But we'd have to go with him. We
miss the vortex, we're stuck here.

But we gotta make
this a quick powwow,

because we got two minutes
to make up our minds.

I don't think I want to give those
guys another shot at cooking me.

No, no. You don't understand,
I started something.

Millions of people
saw me on television.

I agree with Samson.

We have to go back and
help them finish the fight.

People over there think the portal
brings them to a better world,

and no one's
ever come back.

But if somebody did, that somebody
will bring such a powerful message,

nothing the Oracle said
could stop it.

You gotta go back. And
we've gotta go with him.

We've gotta do
the right thing.

You know, you sound just like my mother.

You know I'm with you,
okay?

And I was wrong
about you.

You didn't expect to
find Jane here, did you?

Not expect,
but I was hoping.

We're taking over!
Don't resist!

Put down your gun!

All right, now.
Take it easy.

Listen to me!
Please! Please!

Be calm. Listen to me.

Be calm and hear me out.

Yeah. Come on!

You

have been misled.

And I myself cannot
escape responsibility,

for I have stood by
and watched my friends

and my neighbors

have been sacrificed
to the greed of the Oracle.

And I have said nothing!

I've said nothing because I
thought the time was not right.

But I tell you today,

the time is right.

Yeah!

The time is now.

The Rationalist cause
will be heard!

Down with Samson!
Down with Samson!

You traitor!

Listen to him!

I have returned to
continue the fight!

Listen!

The rational. The right.

Samson is wrong.
The Oracle is right!

No!
Don't listen to him!

The Oracle is not right.

You lie!

Yeah, that's a lie!

Rationalists may not
be right, either.

They're wrong!
We want the Oracle!

For a change, we are going to have
a free and open forum to find out.

I am not a welcomer come
back from the other side.

What you just saw
was not a miracle,

but the result
of pure science.

A science that is
not to be feared,

but to be embraced for what
it can teach us about our world

and ourselves.

As Charles Darwin said,

"Accurate knowledge

"is the true wealth
of the world. "

All right.

There is room
in this world...

We only got two minutes left
here this time.

Let's take this outside.

I don't think these people
can handle any more shocks.

How are they gonna handle
what they've got?

I think we started
some kind of revolution.

It was bound to happen.
We just nudged it along.

It's their world. They're
gonna have to deal with it.

Thomas Jefferson once said that
politics is like the weather.

Every so often you need a
good storm to clear things out.

You're not gonna start
quoting now, are you?

Who's Thomas Jefferson?

Big man in my world.

Got his face on
some of the money.