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The Paradise lost episode. The title should tell you all you need to know about this episode. It’s not actually a place of paradise like a paradise island or a beach or something. Paradise is the name of the town. It’s not a terrible place either it’s just nice.
This seems like a nice quaint little town. It’s almost like a town that is from the 50s or 60s has been transplanted into the 1990s. It’s very small and everybody seems nice to the point of being nauseating. But they’re very tightlipped and don’t give up any information either. So it’s a fake sort of nice.
We first see this guy out in the woods in a tent and he’s made some startling discovery. He calls up his partner to tell her of his info and that she has to see this data. Then there are these three guys who come and grab him and dump him down into this pit that’s on the beach. Then this crazy thing like something out of the movie Tremors starts moving the ground and grabs this guy sucking him under the sand.
We later find out it is a crazy wormlike being that has mutated because this town was located on a uranium mine. It’s never said whether there was some sort of accident or some sort a uranium spill that caused this worm to mutate. But it is absolutely massive. And it feeds on human flesh of course.
The one saving grace and reason this town doesn’t annihilate this creature is because when it feeds on human flesh it leaves behind this goo that is kind of like an oil slick. Only the oil is something that’s consumed by these townspeople which keeps them forever young until the day they die.
It doesn’t give them immortality. It may have a slight effect on keeping them healthier for longer. But they still die pretty close to the regular time they would have died. But instead of looking like a 90-year-old man they stay looking like whatever age they were when they started consuming what they call “the gift”.
It basically retards the aging process of your physical body but apparently not your internal body. So from the outside you look like whatever age you start eating this oil slick gel. But you have to keep consuming it otherwise the effects wear off.
The whole town is in on this gig.
When the Sliders first arrive they see one of the townspeople is about to hit this woman over the head as she is changing a tire. Quinn asks him what he’s doing and it stops in his tracks and he walks away. She now joins with them as the five outsiders who go into town.
Wade finds out just how sinister this is when she sees all the townspeople going into this one building late at night. They’re all moving very secretively and they close the door behind them saying that business is closed. She of course is curious and has to go in.
Obviously, you can tell from the foreshadowing that she is going to get caught after she stumbles onto information she is not supposed to have.
Sure enough, one of the townspeople catches her and says, “you weren’t supposed to see this”.
It’s basically a ceremony where they worship this worm and they all get a dose of the oil jelly to eat.
They feed the professor to the creature and the Sliders start to get suspicious when they haven’t heard from the professor. Rembrandt notices that three people have disappeared over the last two days and he tells the sheriff if he’s not going to do anything about it then maybe the state police will. At this point the sheriff knocks him over the back of the head.
They intend to feed all the Sliders to the worm.
But the Sliders intend to kill the worm and so they take explosives and gasoline into the creature’s lair. They set the dynamite charges and find that there is a brood of these creatures because the original creature is pregnant and has given birth to lots of eggs.
The professor tells Quinn they have to destroy this thing and so they set the charges and they get out of there. There’s a big explosion and the creature is killed.
They never show what happened to the town but we can only assume that they age rapidly and probably died soon after. Quinn invites their new ally to slide with them but she says she enjoys exploring this world too much to leave. So they’re off once again just the four of them.
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