Sliders “Slide by Wire” – Season 4 Episode 16

May 28, 2010
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Slide by Wire doesn’t really make a lot of sense as a title for this episode. At least I didn’t get it.

It opens with a dark and ominous feel to it. There’s a Humvee driving along behind this chain-link fence on what can only be described as a military base. Maggie is cracking skulls and taking names. She busts up this guard in the bathroom.

So at the start you suspect it’ss Maggie’s double on this world. She goes into this lab and grabs this microchip off the side of this guy’s neck. We still don’t have confirmation that this is a Maggie double but we highly suspect it is.

The Sliders are on the run and the alarm sound is going off on the base. The Maggie who stole the chip runs out and the guys are urging her to come faster.

They all slide out of there and onto this backwards world that is like something out of the Salem witch hunts. Slider Maggie is left behind on that world and doesn’t believe she has anyway off the world. So she assumes the identity of that Capt. Beckett who is also a fighter pilot on that world. Only that world doesn’t have manned aircraft. It has technology which flies unmanned just that the pilots fly it remotely.

The Sliders have landed on a no technology world. The people there are highly religious and they fear any kind of technology. If you are found with anything tech you are put to death in a nuclear reactor.

It’s quite funny because their whole guide to their religion, their Bible if you will, is the operating manual for that nuclear reactor. Apparently the company that built it was from a time long ago. The people now don’t remember it but they just see it as an operating manual that they follow blindly.

The Sliders have some adventures and they notice that Maggie is acting very strangely and differently. She comes on to Quinn and wants to dance with him. She is having all sorts of fun and being very loose. Their Maggie is much more reserved.

Rembrandt catches her in a back alley when she is suffering from a headache. She removes the microchip from her neck and that is when he knows it is not their Maggie with them. He tells her they’ll do whatever they can for her but that she’s going back and they’re going to rescue their own Maggie.

She vows never to go back because they were killing her.

Apparently, the pilot technology was not as good as they would’ve liked and is killing the pilots.

She has some blood dripping out of her chip.

But since she’s decided she’s never going back she accuses Rembrandt of having technology. She makes a big scene and pulls the timer out of his pocket. There is no way he can deny it. The locals know he has tech and his inquisition will be that night.

Sliders have a plan to get him out. Quinn runs in to the midest of the villagers and says that they have the great wizard Remilio. And he is the great wizard Quinntar. He waves the tech around and says that it is of the devil and he will harm them. About that time it is time for the slide.

He opens the vortex to the shock and amazement of all the villagers in attendance.

He wants them to stay back or they will be struck down dead. The Sliders go back to the original Maggie’s world that they just left. They developed a clever ruse with Dr. Stephan Jenssen who slider Maggie lost when Col. Rickman killed him. On this world her double is still married to him.

He fakes her death so the colonel will be convinced.

They slide out of that world and he gets her out of there because he’s the doctor who does the autopsies. The colonel is none the wiser.

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