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Are you ready?

As I'll ever be.

Good.

Big day, huh?

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Stand back. Ready to proceed.

Just stay alert and enjoy the ride.

Thanks.

Hold the countdown.

I don't understand.

Is there something wrong with my calculations?

No. Not at all.

I've just made some adjustments in the dimensional synchronicity.

Only hold for a few more seconds.

Resume countdown, now!

Beckett, come on!

- On your right! - No!

Q-Ball, call it! We got 20 seconds.

This is getting personal.

Move! On the left!

Damn it. I'm out.

Come on, guys, shake it!

Go! Go!

Here they come. Let's go.

They made it!

Another rough one!

Ohh!

Wow!

Never had one like that.

Are you all right?

Yeah. What was that explosion?

Where are they?

Wow! That was really something!

Who are you?

Who are we? Who the hell are you?

I'm Quinn.

Quinn Mallory.

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?

Sliders.

I didn't see you in the lab.

How did you get out here?

How did I get out here?

What lab?

- What are you talkin' about? - And where's Quinn?

What happened to Colin?

Hold on! Give me a chance.

I told you, I'm Quinn

and I don't know anybody named Colin.

I saw some guy in that...

What was that... tunnel?

He got hit by some kind of lightning and...

well, suddenly there were thousands of him

and then he was gone.

I've never seen anything like it.

Is he with you?

Yeah. Yeah, he was with us.

Well, what were you doin' in there?

Are you with Fremont Labs?

Thermodyne Propulsion?

We're not with anybody.

Okay, I've had enough of this.

What have you done with our friends?

I haven't done anything with your friends.

I don't even know you people.

I was part of this experiment for this weird guy I work for.

What guy? See? I knew it.

- Who you workin' for? - Kromaggs?

Take it easy with the gun, fella.

Maggie, stop him.

If he kills me, little Thomas will grow up without a father.

What?

What did you mean by that?

I don't know. It just came out.

We got married...

had a son, named him after your father, the General.

And you're Rembrandt.

Rembrandt Brown. We've been together since the beginning.

You're like a brother to me.

A brother... I got a brother.

I had a brother.

Don't move.

I wish I had a clue, but I don't.

That place that... that world, whatever it was,

where Quinn and I got married and we had a son.

That existed only for us, and only for a few hours.

There's no way that the Kromaggs, or anybody else,

could have known about it.

You tellin' me that this guy's Quinn? That's nuts.

I don't know who he is.

But he knows something that only Quinn knows.

Maybe he's just some kind of alternate we haven't seen before.

What? Like a fraternal twin?

We've seen stranger things.

Not much.

Got about six hours here.

Not long.

We know they made the slide, there's no point going back.

Look, maybe they landed some place else on this Earth.

Now that's happened before.

Well, if Colin split up into 1,000 different directions

I don't know where to begin looking for him.

I'm scared, Remmy.

Yeah. Me too.

And another thing, it was night when we slid out.

Now it's day.

The wormhole must have distorted time.

Q-Ball would know.

Well, if they made it, they'd meet us back at the hotel.

We should go there.

Okay, we're going into town.

Maybe there's somebody there who might know

who you are and what happened.

Fine with me. Lots of people know me.

Just hope somebody knows you.

- Hey! - It was empty.

What's their hurry?

Over here!

Leave it! Hurry!

I looked and there was a pale green horse

and its rider's name was Death, and hell followed with him!

I promise you, the end of days is nigh.

Look to the skies!

There'll be hurricanes and tornados and earthquakes,

and fire without end!

The heathen will be ground into the dust,

consigned to an eternity of pain!

Looks like let's-get-outta-dodge day.

What's goin' on here, anyway?

Why do you two always expect me to know everything?

Look, I'm gonna check for Quinn and Colin at the desk.

Why don't you check out the bar?

We've had more of those weird magnetic storms

in the Santa Clarita valley.

It's been raining in the desert for 17 straight days now,

with no sign of stopping.

The temperatures will be in the mid-70s this afternoon,

so there is some good news to report.

Now back to Tawny for tonight's missing persons report.

This is Paul Leonard.

I guess we're experiencing some technical difficulties...

Hey, folks, what'll it be?

Uh, draft. You?

All right, make it three. I've got another friend coming.

I have to get back to the lab.

Uh, Dr. Geiger'll want a report.

Geiger?

He's my boss.

Well, he's more than that. He cured me.

Well, wait, wait, wait. What... What are you talking about?

This lab? It's a hospital?

No.

I don't know.

Okay.

They haven't checked in yet.

Yeah, well they're not in here either.

So how's fog boy doin'?

Babblin' about some guy named Geiger.

Thanks.

Uh, listen, barkeep...

Oh no, call me Hal.

Okay, Hal. Look, folks around here seem pretty worked up.

Yeah, what can I say? It's the end of the world.

At least that's what some of these bozos think.

And you don't?

Hey, now. My mamma didn't raise no mouth breather.

Things these people buy into...

You guys wanna know what I think?

It's all a government plot. Yeah.

Part of a big experiment goin' on at a secret lab outside of town.

Had a cousin used to work out there 'til he got a little too curious,

if you know what I mean.

Yeah. They, uh... They got a machine out there.

Call it the Combine, yeah.

You turn that puppy on,

whole world's gonna get squashed like a bad melon.

That's a... That's a pretty interesting theory there, Hal.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Ain't no theory, Jack.

You remember when everybody got all worked up

about that elephant clonin' over in England?

Well, let me tell you, that was just a side show.

They've been clonin' people at Quantico for the last five years.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, and here's another thing.

How come everybody's got all these black helicopters flyin' around?

Uh...

Hey, I think that's for you there, fog boy.

Yes?

Intact? Am I intact?

Yeah.

What do you mean by anomalies in the vortex?

Well, there were two people in there with me.

No, I... I don't know them.

Yeah, they're here with me right now at the Chandler Hotel.

Okay...

They're sending a van.

Dr. Wright, report to stasis generator.

Dr. Wright...

I'm sure Dr. Davis will be able to answer all your questions.

Quinn! I'm so glad you're okay.

We were worried about you.

I'm Diana Davis. Welcome to Geiger Applied Research.

Thank you for helping Quinn.

He's a very important part of our work here.

Dr. Geiger is anxious to talk to you.

Could you take him to the lab right away?

Don't worry about a thing, Quinn.

Your new friends will be with me in my office.

You can join us as soon as you're de-briefed.

Well, this must all be very confusing to you.

Matter of fact.

If you'll come with me, I think I'll be able to explain it all.

Quinn, I'm glad to see you're well.

I couldn't be sure of the result of the added mass

in the exotic matter of the wormhole...

but things seem to have gone well.

So, then, did it work?

Are you two people?

Well, I don't understand how you happened to be

in the same vortex with our test subject.

Well, it's the least of what we don't understand.

Why don't you explain to us what your test subject was doing in there?

Considering the circumstances,

I think it would be best if we laid all our cards on the table.

I'm certainly willing to do that.

As assistant director of this lab,

I want to help you if I can.

Look, we're not scientists,

but one of our friends who's missing, is.

His name is Quinn Mallory

and obviously your Quinn Mallory is some kind of alternate.

Then there's Colin, who's Quinn's brother...

It's a long story, but basically,

I guess you could say Remmy and I here,

are just along for the ride.

Where to?

I'm just tryin' to get home.

Yeah, well, there's been complications.

We've, uh, made a few enemies along the way.

Quinn Mallory invented the sliding machine, and that timer.

This is counting down from 4:38.

Yeah. It means we've got four hours and 38 minutes until our next slide.

And if we don't make it...

You're stuck here for the next 29 years.

How'd you know that?

It's one of the predicted algorithms in the EPR Paradox.

Yeah, whatever.

It's been one of the rules since the get-go.

All right, now you know what we're doing here.

Ball's in your court.

We've been working with a new piece of equipment

that Dr. Geiger calls the Combine.

It's complicated, but in lay terms,

we use it to extract healthy DNA from trans-dimensional alternates.

Quinn Mallory was our first test subject.

He was suffering a previously incurable strain of muscular dystrophy.

By selectively combining new DNA,

we were able to cure him.

Completely.

I want to know what happened to me in there.

What happened to you in there

is exactly what I wanted to happen to you in there.

We'll need to monitor you for the next few hours

to make certain you're stable,

but I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.

Have I ever let you down before?

- No. - Good.

Then let's review the data from the traverse.

The, uh, initial entry phase seems normal.

Did you feel anything strange at this point?

You mean aside from the fact that I was flying out of control

through some hole in the universe?

Look...

the quanta has reached a state of maximum agitation.

I don't remember a lot about it.

I remember seeing two men, though.

The collision produced more energy

than the exotic matter could contain.

That man came unanchored.

Is he alive?

I don't know.

He's now what we call "unstuck" in space-time.

Unstuck?

He's in an unstable state of flux.

He will spend the rest of his life

involuntarily jumping from one dimension to another.

The rest of his life?

Unless we can stabilize him and anchor him in one universe.

Well, please say you can do that.

It has been done, but only once that I know of.

So then you do it twice.

All right, what about Quinn? Is he unstuck too?

That's a different matter.

When our Quinn entered the wormhole,

it must have caused some kind of a dimensional nexus.

The physical appearance of the man who came out of the vortex with you

is that of our Quinn...

but he seems to have absorbed some or...

or maybe all of the sub-atomic structure of your Quinn.

I don't get it.

You made this collision happen on purpose?

Of course.

My calculations anticipated the opening of the vortex in a parallel dimension.

The slight hold in the countdown

was to coordinate the traverse on our side

with the initiation of the vortex in the target world.

But those other guys, they weren't part of the deal.

They had no idea that this was gonna happen.

They are now participants

in one of the greatest adventures in the history of science.

This was a very unfortunate side effect of the experiment.

Unfortunate?

One of our friends is unstuck

and the other is tangled up inside another man.

I'm terribly sorry.

Yeah, well, sorry doesn't cut it, lady.

Now it was your equipment that caused all of this...

this unstuck business.

So now it can just un-unstick it.

Those guys never had a chance.

What kind of science is that?

The most advanced science in the history of the cosmos!

Who are you to question my work?

You came to me in a wheelchair!

You walk now because of what I did for you!

One of those men may be missing. It's unfortunate.

But the other is still with us, in a way.

He's inside you.

I promise you we will put this entire lab to work on this problem.

Will that solve it?

I wish I could tell you for certain, but I can't.

I can only promise you we'll do our best.

So what can we do to help?

You said you weren't scientists.

However, you are trans-dimensional travelers,

which is of great interest to us.

I'm sure Dr. Geiger would be eager to study you.

No ma'am. No way.

No. We're not interested in your studies. Thank you.

Running out of time there. You'd better get busy.

I assure you, that if this problem can be solved,

this is the only place in this world where it can be done.

You've gotta trust me.

I promise I will do everything to get your friends back.

I want to trust you, as always. But...

I am having thoughts and memories that I just don't understand.

According to my calculations,

this is only a temporary condition.

The persona of the other man

will eventually be entirely subsumed in your own.

You have to look at the big picture.

You are now a key component

in the creation of a whole new way of life.

A new universe.

The way is now clear to combine entire cities,

even worlds.

The dimensional compression that could lead to a recombinant universe...

would cause some form of elemental collapse on a cosmic scale.

For one thing, you'd have to account

for the allocation of an almost infinite mass.

Welcome to my lab, Mr. Mallory.

I think you'll find plenty here to occupy that...

excellent mind of yours.

You know, I'm not sure if this is the end of this world for real,

but it sure feels like it to me.

And no matter what she said,

I don't think findin' Quinn and Colin

is at the top of anybody's list here.

Well, she said this was the only lab in the world that could handle this.

What's the alternative?

I keep askin' myself that.

Keep tryin' to think what would Quinn do?

But I keep comin' up short because I'm not Quinn.

Nobody is.

Well I... I decided one thing.

If these people can't put things back together by the time we slide,

I'm not goin'.

What? Just like that? I mean, shouldn't we talk about this?

What's the point of going on?

I don't have a world left to go to.

Quinn, well...

Quinn was my world.

And if we're gonna find him and Colin, it's gonna be here.

If here stays here.

Look, whatever we do,

we do together.

You stay. I stay.

Oh, yeah. Then in 29 years,

we'll just hobble off into the next dimension on our walkers.

You speak for yourself, girl. I'll still be in my prime.

I bet you will.

Guys, we've gotta stop it.

- Stop what? - Oberon Geiger.

He's the head of this lab.

He's collapsing universes into one another.

I... I was just a guinea pig to see if the Combine works.

I mean, their Quinn was the guinea pig.

I just got pulled inside him.

It's so clear to me now.

By creating a single universe,

Geiger is creating a quantum vibrational rate

that his body can align with.

He'll no longer be unstuck.

Why didn't I see it before?

'Cause you didn't have our friend in your head before.

Like Colin, Geiger is unstuck in space-time.

He can only exist inside that force field at the lab.

If he has his way,

and he can combine universes,

he'll destroy all those worlds and kill billions of people.

He has to be stopped.

Who's gonna do it?

We are.

There's nobody else.

Diana, this is an exciting day.

Yes, I suppose it is.

You suppose?

You know how long I've waited for this.

The Combine has achieved a dimensional nexus.

We have a recombinant life form.

The way to more advanced experimentation is now clear.

I'm concerned about what this has done to Quinn.

Oh no. I've spoken with the boy.

He understands he's part of an exciting new wave of exploration.

I don't think he was intellectually or psychologically

prepared for what has happened to him.

As a matter of fact, neither was I.

Diana, you were my best student.

You will, no doubt, succeed me in this work.

Today was one of those fortuitous moments in research

that make the journey so exciting.

It's the moment...

The moment the Curies turned off the light

and saw radium glowing in the dark for the first time.

As scientists, we have to be prepared

to exploit breakthroughs when they come.

Exploiting breakthroughs is one thing.

Exploiting people is something else.

When he first came to us, Quinn Mallory couldn't walk,

and the doctors had given him no hope whatsoever.

Look at him now.

And then imagine

a world without hunger or disease.

Through the Combine we can achieve such a place.

This amalgamate Quinn is just a... a temporary distortion.

It proves that my calculations

for combining dimensions work.

But what about the other Quinn? And his brother?

I promised their companions

that we would do everything we could

to re-constitute their friends.

Well then, I'm sure you'll want to head up that project yourself.

Dr. Geiger, there is a limited amount of time.

They have no control over a timer

which governs their dimensional travel.

And have you considered that they might be valuable to our own research?

Of course.

But they are understandably reluctant to cooperate.

Still, they, uh, they may have something to teach us.

Keep me informed of your progress on their little problem.

Diana, as soon as you've helped your new friends,

I need your full attention back here.

I'm initiating a new countdown on the Combine.

The next traverse will be on a much larger scale.

I have been adrift between worlds

for what seems like centuries.

Through the work that we're about to do,

not only will this Earth be a better place,

but it will finally be a place where I can live.

Have a normal life again.

I need you. Now more than ever.

I haven't pieced it all together,

but what I know from working there, and what I know from...

from, well, being this other person that I am,

this Geiger is definitely your textbook megalomaniac.

He has to stay in some kind of a special room

protected by a magnetic force field.

It may be what keeps him anchored in this dimension.

And what if he loses that anchor?

Probably the same thing that happened to Colin.

He'll come apart.

That he is able to anchor himself

is our only hope we have to get Colin back.

But you said we have to stop him.

We do.

And then we make him put our lives back together.

An hour and 10 minutes.

We gotta go get Diana.

Yeah.

I have to talk to you. We need your help.

I'm trying to help.

There may not be time for that.

Your boss is up to no good.

And we need your help to stop him.

Why would I want to do that?

And you're just a lab assistant.

How could you possibly understand what we're trying to do here?

Because of what Dr. Geiger did,

I am no longer just a lab assistant.

You asked for me?

Young Mr. Mallory and our visitors

seem to be interrupting Dr. Davis's work.

Experiments have already disrupted life on this Earth.

Now, if Geiger gets his way,

he'll do the same thing on parallel universes as well.

You don't understand what we're doing here.

You know, maybe you're the one who doesn't understand.

Please bring our guests in here to see me.

And young Mr. Mallory with them.

You're the only one that can help us.

But, before you try to reconstitute our friends,

you have to stop this experiment.

If you don't, we may not have a chance to do anything.

And from what I hear, if Geiger succeeds, we may not even be here.

Dr. Geiger'd like to speak with you.

If you'd come with me please. You too, Mr. Mallory.

Not you, Dr. Davis.

Just these three.

Welcome to my laboratory.

My name is Oberon Geiger.

Forgive me for not welcoming you sooner,

but I've been rather involved.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences

in the different dimensions you have been visiting.

Some other time.

We have only about an hour left before

we have to make the next slide.

Yes, I've heard about the difficulty with your timer.

Your assistant said she was gonna help re-constitute our friends.

I know Diana has been giving her full attention to that matter,

but unfortunately,

I don't think an hour will be enough time.

But I might be able to help.

Give her a little extra time to complete the work.

And how could you do that?

Well, as you were told,

we're involved in advanced dimensional research here.

And I have what you might call a stasis generator

that could stop your timer.

That would give us plenty of time to reconstitute your friends,

and then you could go on your way.

You, uh, only need to put the timer on the platform.

The timer doesn't leave my hands.

Nor mine.

Well, fair enough.

Then you can both step up there and hold it.

I can assure you,

it will do you absolutely no harm.

Of course, if, uh, you have another way to solve the problem,

I would be happy to hear it.

Now then, Mr. Mallory,

would you care to explain what you were doing with these people?

What happened? Where are we?

It's just a guess, but I'd have to say we're nowhere.

Has the timer stopped?

No.

I knew those people were important,

or dangerous or something.

I didn't trust them from the beginning.

Then why didn't you tell me about this? Or security?

I haven't been able to think straight

since I went into the wormhole.

I'm tryin' to be me,

but this other guy...

You're returning to your old self ahead of schedule.

Not soon enough for me.

Now, I have a lot of work to do.

We'll talk again when the experiment is complete.

Keep an eye on him.

When he opened up the sixth seal,

the sun became as black as sackcloth,

the full moon became like blood,

and the stars of the sky fell to the Earth.

And the sky vanished like a scroll.

Oh, hide us from the wrath of the lamb,

for the great day of wrath has come and who is able to stand?

Who is able to stand?

The radar shows this unusual cloud cover

extending all the way from Catalina to Palm Springs.

There are reports of lightning caused brush fires in the Inland Empire

and the San Gabriel Valley is reporting wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour.

I have never seen anything quite like this, have you, Tawny?

I'm having trouble with this reconfiguration formula.

I'm not sure I can make it before the timer runs out.

Where are Rembrandt and Maggie?

Geiger zapped them with that laser projector.

I don't know where they went.

What? Don't be ridiculous.

I saw it. It was the same thing you used on me this morning.

They could be trapped in some weird tunnel like I was.

I think you're still a little disoriented from the traverse this morning.

Listen to me, this is Quinn Mallory speaking now.

Not the one you know.

Geiger has imprisoned my friends because they were trying to get

you to help them stop him.

He's about to put a terrible force into operation.

It could well destroy this entire planet and everyone on it.

I am going to find out exactly what is going on here.

You stay right here until I get back.

Ah, good. I was just about to call you.

So far, so good. All the readings are normal.

I think you had better tell me exactly what we're doing here.

Of course.

You're absolutely correct, my dear.

Until our recent success with young Mr. Mallory,

our work here has been almost entirely theoretical.

The nature of our ultimate goal has been such

that I couldn't trust anyone with it.

Until now.

I have entered the final calculations

to bring the dimensional nexus force up to the macro level.

These are the coordinates for Los Angeles.

But not this one.

A city that exists in a parallel universe.

Buildings, roads,

homes, automobiles...

And people?

According to my best calculations,

the people in this city may well not even be

aware of the change in their surroundings,

their lives or themselves.

Quinn Mallory is quite aware of what has happened to him.

Yes and that knowledge has seemed to have faded away

in a matter of hours.

Our dim, but faithful lab assistant

seems to be himself again.

Diana, you have trusted me every step of the way of this project.

You know me! You know my motives.

Now that we are so close to success,

you have to trust me more than ever.

The city that will result from this recombination

will almost certainly be better than the one that we have.

Cleaner, safer.

But what if it isn't? And even if it is better,

you are imposing your will on unsuspecting people,

changing who they are.

Who are you to make such a decision?

Time is short, the experiment is underway.

We will have our little ethics debate

after we view the results.

Security, this is Geiger.

Proceed to Dr. Davis's lab.

Secure Mr. Mallory and bring him to me here.

It appears our lab assistant is not as dim as you thought.

This alternate Quinn is a very arrogant young man.

And apparently a very talented one.

Please show Mr. Mallory to the platform.

What are you doing?

Putting Mr. Mallory in a place

where he cannot interfere with our work.

Activate.

No!

Stop her!

Diana!

Whoa, slow down, big guy.

Drop the gun and kick it to me.

No!

Argh!

Then another portent appeared in heaven,

a great red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns.

His tail swept a third of the stars of heaven

and threw them to the Earth!

What's happening? Oh, my gosh.

Or not.

Thank you.

The latest computer printout from our weather satellite

shows the cloud cover has completely dissipated.

Winds have dropped to normal...

So, Tawny, it looks like we're going to have

a typical southern California day.

How much time, Remmy?

Under two minutes.

I'm goin' with you.

It's the only chance I got.

Who's doin' the talkin'?

Let's do it for Colin, Wade, the Professor,

and I think I owe you a 70 Deville.

All right. Let's just continue being gentlemen here, shall we?

What about you?

I don't know.

Look, you got about 30 seconds to make up your mind.

You're the only hope we have of getting our friends back.

And since he's coming with us,

it's the only chance you're gonna have to get your Quinn back too.

What you're doing here is just theory.

We're giving you the chance to do it for real.

I'll need a few things.

Diana, let's go!

He saved us again, and he wasn't even here.

After you!

Oh, come on. The first step is easy.

It's the last one you have to look out for.