Sliders “Applied Physics” – Season 5 Episode 2

29 May 2010
The Season 5 cast. From left to right: Maggie ...
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This episode is the misguided attempt of one of the new Sliders to make things better. Diana Davis’ lack of experience causes a great shift and calamity for the world they slide into.

As it opens our Sliders are still having vast difficulty because Mallory has 2 people in him.

The fragmentation is threatening to tear him apart and make him completely crazy. If it continues to worsen like the trend has been it will tear him apart basically un-anchoring him. This will mean he’s unstuck like Dr. Geiger and Colin Mallory.

There are very high and great steaks here.

To complicate matters they are in the park enjoying a little R&R before they get back to work. This little girl comes up to Diana and calls her mommy. She starts showing her the picture she drew despite the best efforts of Diana to clear up the misunderstanding.

The little girl remains unconvinced. Then her real mom walks up behind so the Sliders conceal Diana in order to avoid any complications or trouble.

The little girl starts talking to her mom and says that the other woman looked just like her.

Diana ends up seeing her double a few more times and overhearing some very nasty conversations. She disagrees with the way this Diana is living her life.

She ends up going to the physics lab in an attempt to solve their Mallory problem.

Back at the hotel Maggie attempts to comfort the new Mallory by using this little travel device they have on this world. This world is quite a bit more technologically advanced than most other worlds and so they have this hologram projector which allows you to instantly travel anywhere.

It’s only an image in your mind but the hologram still feels very real.

So Maggie gets the bright and somewhat selfish idea to allow Mallory to relive their prom night.

She also wants to relive some of the experiences from the bubble world she had with Quinn. She’s obviously having difficulty letting her Quinn go because of the love they shared.

This only causes Mallery emotional and literal pain. One body is only meant to have one person so this is causing a huge strain on him.

Things are spiraling out of control with Mallory and they need to do something.

But Diana Davis runs into her double again and just can’t allow herself to sit idly by doing nothing. She hates the way this Diana is living and wants to make things better for her. In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone she creates this energy field hopefully to cure Mallory’s fragmentation.

Only Dr. Geiger senses this most stable point in the multiverse and is attracted to it like bees to honey.

He does something of a double cross to Diana which changes this world drastically. Nadine her double’s daughter goes away. Many other changes also happen turning the physics lab where she is working into a high-security military base.

She realizes the error of her ways but it’s too late.

Back at the Chandler hotel she meets with the group to tell them what she did. They’re understandably upset but they still have to help out Mallory though they don’t know how to get back into the high-security military base.

One thing working for them is the Diana Davis of this altered world is the head of the lab there. They can use their Diana’s fingerprints and retina scan to get back in.

They do get back in but to no avail. They’re unable to help Mallory and have to slide out of their unresolved. Due to the time constraints she also fails to set this world back the way it was.

So she ends up hurting her double’s life. She leaves knowing that she messed up big-time.


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