Sliders “Obssession” – Season 2 Episode 9
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This episode is appropriately titled Obsession and it features Wade. It starts out with her having a crazy weird dream of a time long ago and a love she never knew.
She is riding on horseback in the woods with this love and we later see on her nightstand that she was reading Romeo and Juliet. In the woods she declares her love for this guy but says that his dad would never allow him to marry a servant girl. He persists and says that he will protect her to his last breath.
He also vows to protect her family if she will go along with the plan.
The alarm clock awakens her before the dream is done and it is revealed that they are on a world where America is new India. They’re only on this world for a few minutes and it is not divulged exactly how India conquered or came to be in charge of America.
But the dream is very troubling and when they arrive on the next world the man she saw in her dreams is there waiting on a motorcycle for them. He walks right up to her and says that he has been waiting for her for his entire life and that they had a great love in a past life. Wade is a total sucker for the psychic type of stuff and this past life stuff.
He rolls out one red rose and gives it to her. He calls out the skepticism of Arturo and Quinn Mallory almost in the same breath. They are astonished and amazed that he knows all of their names.
This is quite odd to me as well but it is later revealed that he is a psychic and 10% of the people on this world are psychics.
Wade is almost run over by the current prime Oracle. Prime Oracle in this world is the number one power and seer trusted by the president and trusted by the entire country. It’s his or her job to keep them safe to all calamity and manner of evil that could befall them.
The motives of the prime Oracle are later revealed.
The Derrick character from Wade’s dream has an obsessive love for Wade. He believes he is fêted and destined to be with her always and will not let her leave.
She realizes he is manipulating her and refuses his marriage proposal.
The other Sliders attempt to break her out but they must do a Romeo and Juliet style ruse. They send a prescription which is a poison that will knock her out so that he believes she is dead. She will be awakened by the nurse who is behind the plan.
They realize, as the prime Oracle did, that the only way Derek will let her go is if he believes she is dead. And so they set this plan in motion.
But Derek is a great seer and realizes that she is still alive. He rushes to be by her side before the Sliders leave this world. He makes it there just in time but does not do as we expected him to do. He makes no attempt to force her to stay.
He only asks for her forgiveness and hopes that they will meet in another lifetime. He has an ominous look on his face because he says “I’ve just seen where tehy’re going to land.”
I’m not a big fan of this psychic stuff but if you are into this it’s definitely an episode you will enjoy. For everyone else it’s fairly decent but one that you can skip.
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