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Last week on Sliders.

Who the hell are you?

Quinn Mallory.

He seems to have absorbed some or...

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

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

Are you two people?

Oberon Geiger, he is collapsing universes into one another.

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

He has to be stopped.

Geiger is unstuck in space-time.

I'm goin' with you.

It's the only chance I got.

What about you?

I'll need a few things.

Heads up!

Nice hands, chief.

Good game, guys! Catch you tomorrow.

- Ah! - Make some friends?

Oh, frat guys.

Yeah, it's good to be up and around.

I never thought I'd be running a post pattern.

You know, I'm glad you all are enjoying our stay here,

but your Quinn and mine are still wrapped up in this body

and I can't get them apart with dead lithium cells.

Easy, sister. We all know why we're here.

Okay, we got 56 hours left to go.

If this world's as close to yours as you say it is,

then the Chandler Hotel should be that way.

Okay. Well, that's a guarantee,

'cause there's only minor fluctuations in the quantum matrix, right?

Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!

I'd call that a major fluctuation.

Mommy, look what I did at school today.

I, um...

It's, it's very nice but I think you've made a mistake, little girl.

I'm not your mom.

Aw, come on, Mom.

No, really. I'm, I'm not your mom.

But you are my mother!

- You are my mother! - Some mother you are.

Okay, come on. We'll find your mom. It's okay.

It's okay, sweetie. Let me see.

Don't get upset.

- This is a beautiful picture. - Nadine!

Did you do this all by yourself? Wow.

Nadine!

Listen, I think you oughta make yourself scarce.

- Why? - Nadine!

That's why.

Nadine!

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'm guessing she belongs to you?

Thank you.

Honey, I told you never to leave playcare until I came for you.

But I saw you!

She normally listens so well.

Must be her father's side coming through.

Oh, she's no trouble at all. She's adorable.

Oh, thank you.

- Don't forget this. - Oh. Thank you.

Honey, did you do this for me?

It's beautiful!

Come on. Let's go. Let's leave these people alone.

Come on. Here we go.

But that lady looks just like you.

Trippin'.

That was me.

That was your alternate on this world.

Something you have to get used to.

Does that mean there's another one of you on this world?

Yeah and you're not her type either, Mallory.

What's with the attitude, Beckett?

My name's Quinn.

Why don't you get used to it?

I knew a Quinn once and there's no resemblance.

To me you're a Mallory.

Ouch.

We're gonna have so much fun tonight.

Watch your step! Oh, fun!

Here we go.

Ready? Okay.

You know, I think we ought to get something straight, too.

I think you need to sit.

I don't know what is going on.

More pesky quantum fluctuations.

Remmy, this is just like the world we were at, with the thing.

Yeah, I know, and the guy with all the stuff.

- And the monkey... - And the monkey!

You guys are gonna love this place! Come on!

As long as they've got 110 volt power.

Quinn, come on. You're going to miss it.

Quinn!

- Miss what? - What?

What did you call me?

I didn't call you anything. Are you all right?

- Yeah. Sure. - Let's play.

I don't know how he did it,

but Quinn always had a knack for hitting lucky numbers.

Come on, Quinn!

Lucky seven, Q-Ball!

Hey, hey!

What is it? Ah!

No!

What happened to him?

Why don't you ask me?

Okay. What happened down there?

Some kind of a killer déjà vu.

One minute I was standing there next to you guys and then I was...

standing there next to you guys.

It was the same hotel.

I was playing roulette with Remmy and Maggie.

But I don't play roulette, it's a sucker's game.

It was like having this

incredibly vivid memory of something that never happened.

Take off your shirt.

Oh!

What the devil?

That couldn't have happened when he fell down.

That looks like a burn.

Someone shot me.

What?

I was at the roulette table and this guy...

Big, ugly, I...

He thought I had cheated him at cards.

So he pulls out a gun and shoots me.

What is it?

That happened to Quinn.

Our Quinn.

All right, I understand how Mallory might remember something

that happened to Quinn, but...

that scar...

How is that possible?

The fluctuations in Mallory's quantum matrix, they're increasing.

Again with the fluctuations.

After Mallory and your Quinn were merged in the Combine,

there were wild spikes in the boson emissions from the phased matrices.

Okay.

Quinn and Mallory were fighting

for control over a single dimensional reality.

One body.

- And Mallory won. - Well, sort of.

His pattern clearly became the dominant one

and Quinn's became dormant.

There's something waking him up.

That scar.

Quinn's body is remembering who he is.

He's trying to come back.

That's what you want, isn't it?

To get your Quinn back.

That's the only reason you brought me along, right?

If there's a chance that we can separate you from Quinn, we can...

And what if there's not?

What if you only get one Quinn per customer?

Which one do you want?

That's what I thought.

The Feynman high energy particle reactor, ladies and gentlemen,

is the most advanced fusion generator on the planet.

We're trying to generate energies equivalent to the big bang, people.

So, please, please,

read the instructions, before you use it.

What's the maximum Planck energy this reactor can sustain?

10 to the 19th giga electron volts.

At that level, however, we can...

Have you tried modulating the size

of the 11th dimension to reduce the Planck length?

Excuse me, miss, are you in this class?

Uh...

Hey.

You mind if I...

How do you feel?

Tired.

It's hard to sleep when I can't tell which dreams are mine and which are his.

Well, it's this place.

Quinn remembers it or some place like it.

That your theory or Diana's?

It just makes sense.

Uh, so...

where is the good doctor?

She went to the university to see if she could use their equipment to...

um, restabilize you.

Do you want me restabilized, Maggie?

I...

I don't know. I just miss Quinn.

Come on. I want to show you something.

Come on.

I don't like surprises.

Well, now I know that's not Quinn talking. He lived for them.

Hey, welcome to the Chandler Travel Agency.

The world in one room.

One of the quantum fluctuations Diana discovered about

this world is that its technology is a bit more advanced than yours.

So?

So, we're gonna take a little trip.

Now, I want you to put your hands on this gizmo.

- Why? - It's a surprise.

Nice place.

A little Wonder Bread for my tastes.

No, this is... This isn't real, this isn't real. I'm at the hotel.

I'm at the hotel. I'm...

Hey, hey, hey! Take it easy, fella.

You're right, you're at the hotel.

This is a hologram.

It scans your thoughts and shows you where you want to go.

This is my street.

That's our house. I lived here.

Those are my parents.

Before they...

They look so young.

Why are we here?

You were having some trouble adjusting to the sliding.

We thought familiar surroundings might help.

I'm not sure what to say.

Thanks, I guess.

We're going to fix this problem, Mallory. Okay?

You can't... What? No! Don't you get it?

Doug, we've been through this.

No, you cannot have Nadine this weekend.

Because the judge said so.

Look, don't threaten me, okay?

You can't make my life any worse than you already have.

Doug, Doug, you cannot withhold that check!

That is blackmail!

Doug, I'm gonna... Doug? Dou...

Oh!

Congratulations, you just made it worse.

We were thinking without the hotel to jar his memory,

Mallory might stop having the visions.

Hello?

Sorry, um... That's a good idea.

The stimulus is probably exacerbating the fragmentation effect.

So any luck at the university?

Maybe, they have a fusion reaction chamber

that's beyond state of the art.

But I had to audit the class to use it.

So it's back to school for you, huh?

Let's see how the young man is doing.

Oh, my God!

Mallory!

Out of the way!

Hologram.

Yeah, but what is it?

It's a Kromagg.

Why in the devil would you conjure up a Kromagg?

You think I did it? I've never even seen one of those things before!

Then how?

How do you think?

I was using the travel agency and these visions started again.

Nightmares. I saw some place.

My home being overrun by these things.

My mother was taken away.

They were torturing you.

And this thing made it real.

I saw a man, a friend, shot dead in front of me.

Professor...

I don't know who he was.

But he meant so much to me I can't stop hurting.

I feel like I'm losing my mind.

Both of 'em.

Don't worry. I'll head back to the university right away.

What are you looking at?

Oh, excuse me!

Oh, my Lord!

Oh my...

Who are you?

Can you believe this?

I mean, I've never...

We could be sisters.

What's your name? Are you a student here?

Wait... Sorry.

I'm Diana Davis.

My friends call me Didi.

Wow!

How do you do it?

What do you mean?

The things I've seen.

I mean, the things Quinn's seen.

These Kromaggs invading worlds.

People you care about dying.

Not having a home to go to.

Well, it's not just a job, it's an adventure.

When I first started sliding,

I thought I knew everything that was important in life.

You know?

My father always taught me

it's more important making political contacts,

than it is making friends.

Well, Rembrandt, Colin,

Quinn.

They're friends I thought I'd never have.

And, uh...

I... I don't think I would change that.

Even if I could.

Come here.

Take my hand.

Close your eyes.

Trust me.

Don't be afraid.

Open your eyes.

What's this?

Well, you said that you've only seen bad things through Quinn's eyes.

I thought maybe I'd show you something good.

And a ruffled shirt is supposed to make me feel better?

This is where we went the night of our prom.

Your prom?

It's hard to explain, but...

Well, Quinn and I were trapped in this bubble universe and...

We spent a whole lifetime there.

Well, you don't look that old.

Thanks.

I lost my home

and this slide gave me a chance to

have a home again, at least for a while.

You know, I lost my virginity the night of my prom.

Whoa! Sorry, stud.

But you don't get drunk off of holographic hooch.

Damn. And I got holographic condoms.

Hmm.

Well, I know I'm not adopted.

My mother always whined about how much pain I caused her coming out.

Big head.

Um, I better get back to the lab.

You know, it's funny. They say everybody in the world has a double,

but the odds against meeting them are astronomical.

I guess we just lucked out.

I suppose so.

So, are you a student here?

Hmm, I wish!

When Nadine was born, I had to drop out.

I work in the student activities office.

What about your husband, doesn't he...

I don't have a husband.

I just have bad taste in men.

Doug, well, he loves everything about being a father

except paying for it.

What about your parents?

Rich. But I don't take money from them.

They didn't want me to keep Nadine, so...

we don't speak.

Hey, I was a physics major too.

Before I dropped out.

Whoa, it got pretty intense.

Professor Dillon's class nearly killed me.

Yeah! Me, too!

"You people are trying to grasp infinite concepts

"with finite minds."

So, I switched to American literature.

And then I met Doug, the poet.

But, uh, you toughed it out with Dillon.

Well, barely.

Yeah, I was thinking about switching majors too, and, uh...

then I met someone who changed my mind.

A man?

No, a mentor, I guess you could say.

Dr. Geiger, he took me under his wing and

he inspired me.

I wish I'd met someone like that.

I had better get going.

- See you around? - Oh, hey, um...

what's your name?

Um...

Maggie.

- Quinn. - Hmm.

Do you remember it?

- What? - Think.

Do you remember being here?

Do you remember what the next song is on the radio?

Oh, that's what this is.

You take me for a little romantic drive down memory lane

and your Quinn wakes up.

No, I just...

You get your Quinn back and I go away like I never existed, right?

That's not it! I just need to know if he's there!

What if I don't want him to be there?

I can't live like this.

I can't be two people.

Quinn!

Quinn.

I'm not this Quinn.

The fragmentation effect is getting worse.

Something is causing them to move even further out of phase.

It's my fault.

I thought I had a chance to get my Quinn back. I pushed him...

It's okay.

All right. How about it?

Any chance you can get our guys apart?

Well, I got into the physics lab today

and I may be able to use their fusion reactor to

generate a stable dimensional bubble.

Like the one Geiger lived in?

And if you can't?

Well, eventually the phase differential will grow so large,

he won't be able to exist as either Quinn or Mallory.

He, or actually they, could become unstuck like Geiger.

In any case, he can't live as two people.

That's what he told me.

We may have to choose which one to save.

Okay, get on with it. You got 21 hours.

Hey, Diana.

Is there something else?

Gosh, I don't know.

Isn't keeping Mallory from ripping himself apart at a subatomic level enough?

Come on. You know what I mean.

Look, did something happen today?

Would it have anything to do with you seeing your alternate?

I ran into her at campus.

And what happened?

She thinks I'm groovy.

She figures it's some kind of cool cosmic coincidence

that she met someone who looks just like her.

She says we're destined to be friends.

Well, now, that's a relief.

- Well, isn't it? - She's not me.

She's not supposed to be.

She dropped out of school

because some deadbeat poetry major knocked her up.

She's got a minimum wage job and a car that runs about 30% of the time.

Look.

I've been to a lot of different worlds since I started this game,

and I've seen different versions of myself, too, and it's freaky.

I mean, seeing how your life could have gone.

But you can't judge this other Diana

by the standards that you set for yourself.

Why do you assume that she would want your life

any more than you would want hers?

I just...

She just has such a hard life.

What if Dr. Geiger was right?

What if I had a chance to make this universe a better place and I passed it up?

Okay, come on!

125% percent, it's not too much to ask.

Okay.

Okay.

Stay stable.

Come on, stay stable.

Oh!

Come on, stabilize!

Damn it!

Diana?

Diana!

Oh, my God.

Dr. Geiger?

Dr. Geiger?

- Can you hear me? - No need to shout.

I'm right here.

Could you try reducing the electromagnetic confinement

of the particle stream?

Yes.

Much better.

It's good to see you again, Diana.

I've had quite an adventure since we saw each other last.

Since you betrayed my trust.

- Doctor... - But never mind that.

All is forgiven.

Very clever, creating this dimensional bubble.

You must have realized that

I would be naturally drawn to the most stable region of the multiverse.

But this isn't my lab.

You brought me here by accident.

After your containment field broke down...

After you destroyed it!

I went through the dimensional wormhole with Mallory and the others.

I slid with them.

Why?

I don't know, uh, time was running out.

I hadn't been able to decompile the two Quinns we combined.

I couldn't just let him go like that.

- I promised that we were... - You promised!

What about your promise to me?

I offered you the mysteries of creation.

You obviously weren't feeling very loyal to me,

when you decided to unanchor me.

Years of my work ruined.

My quantum essence sent spinning off like a leaf caught in the wind.

Diana!

Look what you've done to me.

What about the lies that you told me?

That we were using the Combine to composite a better world.

We were.

A better world for you and to hell with everyone else!

No. There was a place for you there.

What makes you think I would have wanted a place in your world?

And why not?

What would you be leaving behind, hmm?

Estranged from your family. No relationship.

All you had was your work. All you had was me.

Good morning!

Stan at the security desk told me you'd been here all night.

He thought I was you.

We could pull some serious mischief with this.

Brought you some coffee.

Were you talking to someone?

No, uh...

I... I guess I'm just getting a little punchy.

- Thanks. - No problem.

Well, uh, don't work too hard.

Fascinating.

An alternate version of yourself.

You're actually getting quite chummy, too.

She's, uh...

nice.

Oh, I'm sure she is.

Hardworking, a good mother,

a real trouper.

What are you talking about?

I do a lot of traveling, Diana, remember?

I've seen other versions of you. Many, many.

What?

Well, let's see if I can guess what this Diana Davis is like. Hmm.

Dropped out of school because she couldn't handle the pressure. Hmm?

Menial, low-paying job and, oh!

Does this one have twins or just the one?

How?

How do I know?

Because she's you, Diana.

They're all you.

The person you would have been if you hadn't met me.

If I didn't give you a reason to exist,

you would be living the same meaningless life

as a billion other Dianas.

Now, don't you feel special?

Hey.

Doug, you cannot do this!

Talk to your lawyer.

- Doug, wait... - I'll drop her off, Monday.

Damn you!

Not in front of the kid.

- Out, get out. - What?

Out, out, move it.

Come on. Out.

- Hey. - Yeah, get out.

Okay.

Okay, come on.

Come on.

That was unpleasant.

I downloaded nearly all of your data before I slid off of our world.

With the facilities in this lab, we could pick up our research

right where we left off.

Yes, but?

But this time, we stick with the original experiment.

The experiment you told me

was to create a better world so people like Mallory could walk again.

And so this world's Diana Davis can have the advantages that you had.

That's the deal.

Plus, you have to help me undo what we did to Quinn.

To Mallory.

Put them back the way we found them.

And if I refuse?

When do we get started?

Yeah. I miss him too.

I never really thought about how much responsibility Q-Ball took.

We were always looking to him for the answers,

assuming he would figure something out.

- He usually did. - Yeah.

A lot for a young man to deal with.

Looking after us and his brother, Colin.

Crazy farm boy.

I know, I just keep expecting to look over at that bar

and see 'em both sitting there.

Mallory!

Hey, man, you feeling okay?

Better.

The hallucinations are gone.

For the moment anyway.

Mallory, I'm sorry, I was being selfish.

- Forget it. - No.

It's just...

the time that Quinn and I spent in that universe,

that life that we had.

Well, it was like being home again.

And if I give up on trying to get Quinn back,

I'll be giving up on a chance at that life

and I'll never go home.

Hey, it's cool.

I never went in for that school dance crap anyway.

But if I had gone to your prom with you,

oh, I think I could have gotten all the way to second base.

Increase the boson emissions by 0.0061 percent.

Are you sure? I double checked...

Stop trusting the data!

I am in the eye of the storm.

I can feel the particle stream.

You don't have enough power to extend the bubble beyond five dimensions.

Yes! Yes!

Yes!

Now!

Mallory!

Something's wrong. The field strength is off the scale.

The field strength was just right, Diana.

How did you...

The increase in the boson emissions

was just what the doctor ordered.

It expanded the stable dimensional bubble beyond the reaction chamber.

I'm now free to move about the cabin.

At least for a while.

You tricked me.

Thank you for your help, Diana.

I can take it from here.

What did we do to this world?

What did you want to do?

My God.

Didi?

Who the hell are you?

Arrest her.

Wait. Didi, it's me.

That is not my name.

- How did you get in here? - It's okay, uh...

I'm a student here.

Don't you remember me?

Students aren't allowed in this area.

This is a high-security area contracted for military use only.

Now I will ask you again, who are you?

I'm, uh... Maggie.

It's me, Maggie, remember?

Why are you impersonating me? Who do you work for?

I don't work for anybody. Think, you know me.

I know your daughter, Nadine.

I don't have a daughter.

What?

Take her.

Use the other door. Go get her!

I don't understand you.

I mean, what in the devil... What were you thinking?

I had him contained in the reaction chamber.

I thought I could control him.

Well, you thought wrong.

He changed my equations! He expanded the bubble.

Look, I know you're new to this

and you're gonna make mistakes.

But there's one thing you have to understand

and that's we are a team, okay?

Now, why didn't you call us?

I just...

I saw the way my double was living and I couldn't take it.

I mean, he ruined her academic career.

He made her life miserable.

And so you thought you could fix it.

On our world, Geiger and I...

We made Mallory walk again by combining healthy genetic fragments

from dimensional alternates into his quantum matrix.

I thought I could apply the same principle to Nadine's father.

Gene splicing Mr. Right.

Yeah, but it didn't work out that way.

I should have run a probability profile on all the possible outcomes.

You know, by making him more responsible

maybe she would have never gotten pregnant in the first place.

Well, without her daughter in her life

maybe there was nothing to distract her from her career.

It's more than that. She's different, she's hard, suspicious.

She's not the woman I met.

Her child is gone.

Oh, I had no right.

I can't control my own life.

What makes me think I can control someone else's?

You can't try to make someone into something they're not.

What about Mallory?

I'm not sure.

When Geiger increased the field strength,

it sent quantum ripples through this entire universe.

It may have upset the phase balance within his recombinant matrix.

It messed him up.

Okay, look, we've got 32 minutes to undo this mess.

Geiger expanded the bubble to include a large part of the lab.

If we can get Mallory over there,

we may be able to restabilize him.

How are we supposed to get in?

Thanks to you, that lab is now

a high-security military research center.

I should have the same fingerprints and retina scan as my double, right?

Let's go.

You got three minutes, do your stuff.

The bubble's still stable.

So is he.

How do you feel?

Okay. A little nausea,

but that's probably the Monte Cristo I had for lunch.

He's fine.

For how long?

Well, the quantum ripples that destabilized him were limited to this dimension.

Once we slide, he'll be no worse than he was before.

Sounds good to me.

Let's roll.

Okay, I've got to straighten a few things out here.

If I can realign the quantum matrix to the initial settings,

we're out of here.

Get away from that console.

What are you doing?

Please, in just a minute, you won't remember this ever happened.

I'm calling security.

Hold it.

Just give us two minutes and then we'll be out of your hair.

Oh, no.

"Oh, no," what?

I'm locked out. I can't change the settings.

And why would you want to change the settings?

We expecting anyone else?

This is the world you created, Diana.

Isn't this what you wanted?

I was wrong. You are wrong.

We have got to put this place back the way it was.

I've rather grown to like it here.

It seems like a good place to continue my work.

You unlock that computer.

Or what?

I could make this place rather unpleasant for Mr. Mallory.

Likewise!

The stable field's collapsing.

No!

What did you do?

I have the security code.

I overrode the lockout.

The reactor chamber's breaking down!

Diana, let me stay here.

Let me back into the system.

What happened to him?

I'm calling security.

Don't!

Look, I know this is crazy,

but you have got to trust me.

The work that I've been doing, this equipment,

it can alter your reality.

I tried to use it to make this world a better place and I screwed up.

I changed who you are.

- What? - Listen.

You have a daughter. Her name is Nadine and she is beautiful.

You pick her up from playcare every day at 2:00.

I've taken a piece of your life away.

And I want to give it back.

You're insane.

What do you think just happened to Geiger?

Look at me.

I'm not some spy Diana Davis in disguise! I'm you.

10 seconds.

No!

It's time!

Go!

Come on!

You have no idea what you've done!

Diana, we have to go now.

I can't leave this world like this.

You have no choice!

Come on.

Ah!

Well, you must feel like you screwed up pretty big.

Maybe you did.

I mean, you're human, it happens.

When you make a mistake in the lab,

people don't vanish off the face of the earth.

This isn't a lab.

Nope.

I don't know if I can go on.

You can. Your work isn't finished.

And we need you.

I need you.

I mean, don't forget, we're a team.

I won't forget.

Not ever.

Go ahead and drink up. We slide in an hour.