Sliders “Greatfellas” – Season 2 Episode 10
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As we suspect from the title this is going to be a show about the mob. We get to see what America would have been like had Prohibition never been repealed.
This simple act remaining as law instead of being repealed was the single greatest event that started a chain reaction of other events to get this America where it ended up. The mafia basically runs the whole country.
There’s lots of lawlessness and gambling.
Since taxes are so low the government is underfunded and can’t really prosecute anybody. They don’t have enough money to do any investigations and barely have their police cars running.
The Sliders find themselves smack dab in the middle of the mafia right at the start. The vortex opens right over a pool where a wedding ceremony is going on. We come to find out it’s an arranged marriage like back in the old monarchy days.
The 2 main families in power are coming together in cooperation and sealing it by the marriage.
The daughter is dead set against getting married but her father had killed her fiancee that she loved. So the Sliders become entangled and get involved yet again. The pact they made to just be tourists and stay out of any kind of involvement just isn’t working out at all for them.
It turns out that on this world Rembrandt Brown is the director of the FBI and part of the incorruptibles. He’s basically the Eliot Ness of this world who is going after the mob families and to stop organized crime.
But the Sliders don’t know this at first and end up taking a $100,000 bribe from the mafia.
The plot of these two crime families is revealed. They intend to join the forces of California and Nevada so that they can secede from the union. They have many politicians, police officers and many other government officials on the payroll. And getting the district attorney elected as governor it is going to legitimize the plot to secede.
When the two families are united in cooperation and they have a legitimate face as a politician who’s involved in their scheme there will be few forces left to stop them. Nothing short of civil war will be able to thwart their plot.
This was an exciting episode and the Sliders nearly get killed at the end because they get captured. The head mafia boss does his Goodfellas thing and threatens them with pain of death if they don’t reveal where his daughter is.
And it was all a sting and the Rembrandt Brown from this world calls in the dogs after the head mob boss reveals that the district attorney is on his payroll. The district attorney walks out and confirms that he in fact has been on the payroll for many years.
It’s all over but the crying from there.
They get the thanks and gratitude of this world as they slide off into the next one.