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Previously on Sliders.

Another rough one!

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.

But the other is still with us in a way. He's inside you.

Oberon Geiger.

He's 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 spacetime.

Who are you to question my work?

You came to me in a wheelchair!

You walk now because of what I did for you!

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.

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

To get your Quinn back.

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.

Quinn is gone,

for good.

You believe that?

Yeah. I feel it.

I don't.

And I won't.

Oh, Cajero,

mighty and powerful spirits of the heavens,

hear my plea.

Stop that, already.

Would you chill? I'm appeasin' the gods.

Looks to me like you pissing 'em off.

I'm telling you, you cannot affect the weather

by smearing yourself with bear scat

and prancing around a campfire in your underpants.

It was a good look for him, though.

By the power of Cajero,

I command the elemental spirits to stop!

That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Oh, crap.

Whoa!

Cajero, why have you forsaken me?

Take that mess off your head!

Next time I decide to convert to pagan idol worship

somebody please slap me silly...

I guess I deserved that.

You want this?

Two more minutes.

Anyone giving odds on what the next world will be like?

Safe or deadly?

I'll give you three to five on deadly.

Well, sorry I can't be more specific,

but ever since I used the living gems to recalibrate the timer,

all the old coordinates have been erased.

We are sliding blind, people.

Well, what else is new?

Just cross your fingers and jump,

hope the next slide will take you where you want to go.

If you even know where that is.

You okay, Remmy?

Yeah, Maggie. I'm just tired. Want to go home.

God, I hope the sun is shining on the next world.

All right, let's get it over with.

- Whoa! - Whoa!

I hope they have a chiropractor on this world.

Can you do anything about this, weather god?

Find me a chicken to sacrifice,

I'll see what I can do.

Looks deserted.

Maybe everyone took cover.

Well, that's a plan.

Over there. Is that somebody?

- Hey! - Hey!

Wait a minute. We want to talk to you.

Wait!

Please, have mercy.

- Have mercy. - Good God!

Okay. Flight reflex ready to kick in.

Have mercy.

Have mercy.

Have mercy.

It's all right.

Look, we just want to talk to you.

It's Doctor Geiger.

What's he doing here?

Have mercy.

- Have mercy. - Doctor Geiger.

Doctor Geiger, what is that?

Mercy.

Mercy?

How did you get here?

I sinned.

Is there another way out?

There's no way across the river.

Not once you've crossed over.

Did you bring us here?

Only death can bring you here.

But death can't get you out.

What a surprise.

Deadly wins again.

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.

Doesn't look like anyone's been in here for a while.

Yeah, well, somebody barricaded that door.

Geiger?

What happened to him? I mean, he didn't even recognize us.

Maybe he became unstuck in more ways than one.

Whatever.

The sooner we're away from here the happier I'll be.

Well, it seems to be counting down normally.

Eighteen hours.

Well, let's get some rest,

maybe try to find some food, huh?

The kitchen's closed.

I wouldn't expect clean sheets or a mint on my pillow, either.

What happened here?

Staff disappeared.

Actually,

the whole world disappeared.

Yeah, one day I'm humpin' luggage like always, and the next day

my entire universe shrinks down to three square blocks of Wilshire Boulevard.

What's the barrier out there?

Why don't you tell me?

See, for the past six months nothing's come into this place.

No people, no food, no water.

That is until you showed up.

You found a way in.

That must mean you know the way out.

We don't know anymore about this place than you do.

Hey, don't feed me that line.

Nothing gets through that thing out there. We tried.

What is that?

Hey.

All right.

Cheap shot, babe.

I'd like to see you try that again.

It's your face, babe!

Okay, time out.

We got sucked in here. We don't know how.

We're stuck here like you are.

Now this woman is a scientist.

I can't make you any promises.

But we're gonna do our best to get everybody out of here, all right?

Oh, she's a scientist, huh?

Well, gee, why didn't you say so?

You know, while she's at it

maybe she can build a lie detector out of coconuts, huh?

You know, we're better off puttin' our faith in the man upstairs.

Now that's a fairly cranky bunch.

Can't really blame them. This place is a nightmare.

Well, no water, no food.

If they're stuck here much longer they're gonna start

to look at each other mighty strange.

Well, thanks for telling them I was gonna save them.

That's cause you're our go-to-girl.

Oh, who asked you, anyway?

You know, the only other time I've gotten readings like this

was in the stasis field around Doctor Geiger's lab.

Is this ever gonna stop?

So, you think Geiger made this place?

He was here. Coincidence?

Yeah, right.

But we did slide in. We can slide out, correct?

Well, I hope so.

As long as this energy barrier doesn't interfere with the wormhole.

Off course, we won't know until we try.

What's going on up there?

You want me to call the front desk and complain?

And another thing, Remmy.

There's no way we can take all these people with us in the wormhole.

I can't keep the vortex open that long.

Well, we might have a riot on our hands when we slide out of here.

Yeah, well, we got a bigger problem.

I mean, if Geiger did make this place,

how do we feel about walking away and leaving these people here?

This kind of weather always makes my hair frizz out.

Yeah, well, my hair's standing on end but it's not because of the weather.

Meaning?

Remember what Geiger said before he checked out?

I don't know. He was babbling something about mercy, right?

Yeah, when we asked him how did he get here he said, "I have sinned."

And then he said even death won't be able to get you out of this place.

Yeah, but he was crazy.

Mmm.

What if this place weren't just hellish?

What if it were,

you know, the bad place?

You think we slid into hell?

Fire and brimstone,

guys in red suits poking us with pitchforks hell?

No, not literally.

We've seen worse places before.

But what if hell as we know it were a real place?

Another dimension.

I mean, imagine spending forever in this rat hole.

No room service. No mini bar. That is hell.

Maybe it's like the bellhop said,

we should talk to the man upstairs.

Damn it.

I'm going upstairs to talk to that guy.

We know you're in there.

Hello?

Anybody here?

Who's there?

Doctor Geiger?

Welcome.

I'm glad to see you made it safely.

No way. We just saw you die.

I thought you'd never get here.

Can I offer you something? Tea?

Who are you?

I realize I don't quite look myself these days,

but you can't have forgotten me already, Diana.

But we saw you jump into the energy barrier.

He killed himself?

Oh, no.

I never thought it would come to that.

Who was he?

He was me. My doppelgänger.

My alternate in this world.

Uh, you said that wasn't possible.

You told me that the experiment that unstuck you

destroyed all your alternate selves.

So I thought.

Until I met Oberon.

He really threw a monkey wrench into my calculations, I have to say.

Although apparently,

he dealt with the shock our chance encounter

somewhat less effectively than I did.

Please, sit.

You said you were expecting us.

You bring us here?

Yes, but let me explain.

You are still playing with people's lives.

You're using these people here like lab rats.

You're using us again. How dare you.

Please, Diana, it's not what you think.

How embarrassing.

Doctor Geiger, what happened to you?

Being unstuck happened to me.

It's like being trapped in the surf,

pounded by wave after wave of spacetime.

As soon as you manage to pull yourself to the shore,

the tide sucks you back under again.

What, so we're supposed to feel sorry for you?

Let you just collapse an infinite number of parallel universes into one

so you'll feel better?

You don't have to worry about that.

Why? Because you turned over a new leaf?

No.

Because it won't work.

I tried to change the fundamental structure of the universe

to suit my needs.

How arrogant.

Have a good look, Diana.

My life's work.

A joke.

Have a good laugh at my expense.

Your recombination theorems.

Worthless.

A tiny error compounded,

multiplied millions of times.

Our experiment never would have worked.

Your experiment.

So what do you want from us?

I just want it all to stop.

I've focused my energies on this haven.

This little safe harbor

in the ocean of space and time.

So I could live out my life in peace.

What about the people trapped here?

Another mistake in my calculations.

They weren't supposed to be drawn here.

That's why I directed your wormhole here.

I need your help, Diana.

To set things right.

I don't believe you.

Use my equipment. See for yourself.

This field I'm generating

to stabilize this area of spacetime,

is collapsing.

In a few days, weeks at most,

this world and everyone on it

will be crushed

into a quantum singularity.

This is your mess.

You clean it up.

Now you, you've been talking to that man upstairs, haven't you?

Yeah.

He says he's gonna get us out of here, but you know what?

I don't trust him.

Hey, neither do I.

Oh, I heard you and your friends talking.

You were planning on leaving without us, weren't you?

- No. - Whatever.

You know what?

I don't blame you.

Personally, honey, I don't care about the others,

but I'm gonna make sure I'm out of here before I disappear, too.

Disappear?

Who's disappearing?

Is this how you got through the barrier?

Look, my friends and I wanna help you but you've gotta try...

Shut up!

We started out, we had almost 50.

Now we have less than 20.

- Where'd they go? - Oh! Where did they go?

I don't know where they went!

They got taken, that's where they went.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm gonna get out of here before they get to me.

And you, you're gonna help me. Let's move.

Oh, man, you all right?

Yeah.

You told me to take another shot. You wanna make it three out of five?

Yeah, you laugh it up.

I won't be crying when they get you, too.

What's he talking about? Who's gonna get us?

I don't know.

Okay, Remmy and I are gonna go outside and do a little recon.

We're gonna check out that energy barrier.

Maybe try to find some food.

Mallory will stay here and keep you company.

Fine, um, I've some data to analyze before we slide.

All right.

You gonna be okay?

Sure. You guys be careful out there.

Okay.

The bellhop was right.

There's no way through this thing.

Look at that!

We gotta get the devil out of here.

Geiger wasn't lying, either.

This place is imploding. In there.

Oh, that was close.

Yeah, I'm thinking that Doctor Geiger's estimate

of how long we've got was a tad generous.

Yeah.

Ooh, smell that.

I don't wanna smell that.

Whoo!

- Remmy? - Yeah?

Before we slid you said something about wanting to go home.

Yeah, what about you?

Where am I gonna go, huh?

Ha.

I'm not ready to settle down yet, anyway.

Getting pretty used to the sliding lifestyle.

Either way, though,

it's good to have a little traveling money.

Why Miss Beckett, I am shocked.

Don't move!

You're slippin', Doc.

What is it?

Well, Geiger's calculations are a little off.

My best guess,

this little slice of heaven he's created won't last more than 16 hours.

That's bad.

The good news is,

I don't think the field Geiger's creating

will interfere with the wormhole.

We should still be able to slide.

Well, what about your pal, the bellhop?

And the others?

I'm still working on it.

And Geiger?

What about him?

Are we just gonna leave him here to wait for the big crunch?

Maybe that's what he wants.

Maybe.

Look, we don't owe him anything.

Especially after what he did to both of us.

He got me out of a wheelchair.

You think he did that out of the goodness of his heart?

He used you as a guinea pig.

So the guy's no Mother Theresa.

All I know is I'm walking around now.

And you'll probably win a Nobel Prize because of him when we get home.

If we ever get back home.

And that'll never happen unless I can get back to work.

Keep those hands where I can see them.

This isn't what it looks like.

Actually, it's exactly what it looks like.

We're sorry, we didn't know anyone would care.

You're not taking any more of us.

Look, we'll, we'll put it back.

You're looters?

Gotta be kidding me.

Yeah, go ahead.

Take it all. It's federally insured.

Hey, wait.

You thought we were taking someone. Taking who?

Forget it.

The bellhop told Diana something about someone taking us.

Coming to get us or...

Who's comin' to get us?

Look, we may have a way out of here, but we need to know what's going on.

This way.

My name is Sharon Fletcher.

I'm Rembrandt Brown. This is Maggie Beckett.

So, do you have any idea what's going on, Mr. Brown?

Yeah.

Some kind of scientific experiment gone nuts.

That's a relief.

Thought I'd died and gone to hell.

You said people are disappearing.

Yeah.

They disappear.

Then they come back

like this.

A couple of weeks ago I moved them all down here.

At least try to make it harder for them to find us, right?

It doesn't seem to matter, though.

One minute you're talking to somebody,

you turn your back for a second and they're gone.

How? Who takes them?

Are you listening?

We don't know.

A couple of days later we find them.

Wandering the streets,

huddled in a closet.

Some of them are already dead.

Others wish they were.

You said you could get us out of here.

Now would be as good a time as any.

Mallory, we're never gonna get out of here if you don't stop interrupting.

Sorry to disturb you.

What are you doing here?

I...

I understand your reluctance to help me.

Well, there's that genius IQ at work.

I hurt you.

- I'm sorry. - You're sorry?

Do you even know what that means?

Or did you just run a causal analysis of our relationship?

Let's see,

Doctor Geiger's betrayal interferes with Diana Davis's trust

to create bitterness and anger.

An adequate mass of apology should return the system to equilibrium

and everything should be just peachy.

Diana.

Get out.

All right.

There's one more thing, before I go.

There's one lie I told you that you haven't discovered yet.

After our first experiment with the Combine,

when our Quinn Mallory and his alternate were fused into one person,

I told you that it was impossible to separate them.

It isn't.

I could've separated them back then.

And I can separate them now.

How do we know he's not lying now?

We don't.

He'd say anything to get us to help him.

Or maybe he's telling the truth.

How many times are we gonna let this man burn us?

Don't you mean burn you?

What?

You're so angry at this man

that you wouldn't even believe him if he told you the Earth was round.

And what if he can really, really do this and we just walk away?

I'm more qualified than anyone here to know

if he can separate Mallory from Quinn.

Okay, then you tell us.

Can he do it?

In theory, maybe.

But it would take months, maybe years,

of rechecking his calculations to be sure.

Yeah.

Anything you can do in eight hours?

A real chance here

of getting Quinn back safely

and tracking Colin down, too.

If Geiger's telling the truth.

Look, we know that there's something here that's hurting people.

How do we know we're not gonna disappear before we slide out of here?

Well, how do we know Geiger's not behind that, too?

I say we do it.

I'm the patient, right?

It's my choice.

Mallory.

That's why we came, isn't it?

Why we keep sliding?

You promised Remmy and Maggie

you would do what you could to set things right.

Well, now's your chance.

You do this

and it's over.

And we go home.

I'll help.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

I am not doing this for you.

I'm doing it for my friends.

I will never forgive you for the damage you have done to me,

to the people here,

and God knows how many others that I don't even know about.

I don't care if you stay unstuck forever.

I understand.

Then let's get started.

Good.

Let me show you what I've been thinking.

To start...

Well, there are a lot of ifs.

We're gonna do our best to get everyone out of here.

It's not much, but...

It's more than we had yesterday.

At least I think it was yesterday.

And they're all like that?

Well, sometimes it's not so bad.

Missing arm, extra nose.

Sometimes it looks like they've been through a meat grinder.

Can't even tell they're human.

I, uh...

I had to shoot one of them.

Mr. Morris.

He would have died anyway, but not fast enough.

What would cause this?

Diana's not sure.

Radiation maybe.

Some kind of spontaneous merging with people from other dimensions.

What's the matter?

He's gone.

It's like I said, we're gonna do our best.

Yeah.

It's just that, before all this happened, this was my beat.

I knew all these people.

I saw them every day.

Helped them with their problems.

Finding their lost dogs,

breaking up their fights.

Eight years on the force and I never drew my weapon.

Until I put that bullet into Mr. Morris's head.

I feel like I'm betraying a trust here.

I'm supposed to take care of these people.

I understand how you feel.

What the hell was that?

The rate of collapse is increasing.

By what factor?

We got about an hour here, maybe less.

Then we better shake a leg.

Ready?

As I'll ever be.

Okay. Just, uh, sit back

and enjoy the ride.

I'm having an intense feeling of déjà vu here.

Well, we have come a long way together since then.

I trust you now more than ever.

Great, no pressure there.

We'll generate a hyper-quantum vibration in the membrane

that maintains this spacetime.

Once the rate of vibration precisely matches that of the frequency

that bonds our two Mr. Mallorys together,

they should split.

Like a singer shattering a wine glass with a high note.

Okay, bad analogy.

Diana,

I need you on the mode synchronizer, now.

Generating the hyper-quantum vibration.

And go.

Remmy, we've gotta get these people out of here now.

Why?

That energy barrier, or whatever it is, is on the move.

How long?

Well, if it doesn't speed up,

I'd say it's gonna eat this building in about 20 minutes.

We can't get all these people out of here in 20 minutes.

I'm gonna go get us some help.

- Come on. - Okay.

- Front. - What?

Have you received any psychiatric care, honey? Hmm?

You know I'll bet I could rustle you up some Prozac.

Why don't you rustle up all the people in this hotel, right now?

Excuse me.

You see this jacket?

Wearing it imbues me with a certain authority.

Part of which is not having to take orders from you.

Look, we have people we have to move

and we wanna set them up here.

Whoa, whoa. We're full up here, baby.

Gee, maybe I forgot to turn on that 'no vacancy' sign, huh?

All right. All right. Enough with the hitting. Enough with the hitting.

Thank you.

You know, it wouldn't hurt to show your softer side once in a while.

Assuming you have one.

I'm not showing any dissolution.

Increase the Q-frequency by 0.001 percent.

Something's happening to him.

Increase the frequency!

I know what I'm doing.

You'd better.

It's working.

Is that everyone?

There's one more.

But I need your help.

Where are you going?

I couldn't keep him with the others. He was far too gone.

He got violent and started scaring people.

Where is he?

We're running out of time here.

In here.

Mr. Saunders?

It's Officer Fletcher.

It's Sharon.

Remember?

My God.

It... It's Geiger.

Isn't it?

No, I don't think so. Not yet, anyway.

Who's Geiger?

He's not bringing these people here by accident.

He needed more lab rats.

That man that went into the barrier,

that was not Geiger's alternate.

No, he's trying to merge himself with these people.

The same way he combined Quinn and Mallory.

And these people are all his failed experiments.

Who's Geiger?

He's the resident devil in this little corner of hell.

And we made a deal with him.

I'm getting two distinct quantum frequencies.

It's working.

Something's happening.

I'm getting a third quantum signal.

It's overriding the other two.

Doctor Geiger?

What the hell is going on out here?

Out of the way.

Now look, I'm a professional. Okay?

But I have taken all I'm gonna take from you people.

You know the way out of here and we want to know what it is. Now!

Sorry you feel that way, Stu.

I know your moves now, baby.

Everybody be cool.

Doctor Geiger!

What's going on?

I'm shutting down.

No! It's working.

Diana, shut it down. Now!

He's not trying to separate Mallory,

he's trying to merge with him.

No!

So close.

Why did you do this?

It was the only way.

I couldn't remake the world for myself,

so I decided to remake myself for the world.

What happened?

It almost got even more crowded in that head of yours, Fog Boy.

I felt it.

Someone else's thoughts.

It was you.

I had to find someone whose quantum frequency

wouldn't reject the second pattern.

None of the others worked.

So we saw.

Mallory was the only one.

That's why I hired him at the lab

in the first place.

So I was always just an experiment to you?

You were more than an experiment.

You were my last hope.

I can only hold this region of spacetime stable for a short period.

The power expenditure is too great.

Then what?

You go floating off to another dimension,

leaving these people here to be crushed into nothing along with their world?

No, not this time.

I'm too tired.

When this world ends,

I end with it.

How long until then?

Not long. At this rate, 10 minutes tops.

Oh, it's gonna be real close.

You said you could separate Quinn from Mallory.

Now was that just another lie?

No. It can be done.

What about Colin?

I'm sorry.

What do you mean you're sorry?

He's beyond my reach.

He may have been destroyed in the initial encounter.

I don't know.

He may be out there somewhere,

on some other world.

You may find him someday.

But I can't help you.

You son of a bitch.

We're running out of time.

If you can really do this, let's do it.

You keep a real close eye on him.

If you try and merge with me again I'll make your life miserable.

You got me?

You okay?

I'm not exactly having a cavity filled here.

What do you think?

Three minutes.

Hey, whose side are you on anyway, lady, huh?

You know they could be leaving without us.

Don't worry. Nobody's gonna check out of here without you knowing about it.

Adjusting vibrational frequency.

Quinn?

I'm getting two distinct frequencies.

Come on, Q-Ball.

I can't get phase lock.

No, they've been merged too long.

Their patterns have bonded together.

You can't separate them?

They're like conjoined twins sharing a heart.

I can bring your Quinn back,

but it'll take too much away from Mallory.

He won't survive it.

Q-Ball wouldn't want that.

Shut it down.

Hey, look, they've been up there long enough.

What the hell do you know? You're a bellhop.

Did it work?

Do you see anybody else here?

- How much time? - One minute.

Wait a minute.

We're not just gonna leave those people downstairs to die, are we?

Go. They won't die.

Why is that?

I didn't just create this place out of nothing.

I stole it.

Carved it out of another universe.

And the people along with it.

I can just send them back.

Open up, damn it!

Trust me.

I can't.

I'll make it easy on you then.

You don't have any choice.

Good luck, Diana.

Goodbye, Doctor Geiger.

You're not leaving without us!

Go!

Doctor Geiger!

I am sorry.

I believe you.

What's this?

Finally.

How do I send these people home?

Where is she?

She was right behind us.

Everything okay?

Yeah. Everybody's back where they belong.

And Geiger?

He's gone.

For good this time.

Can I have the P.D.L.?

What's that?

I don't know.

Oh, my God!

What is it?

The way home.