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This episode starts out featuring Rembrandt in a psychiatrists office recapping the past two weeks. Apparently this was one of the long-term slides. And I’ll give you a little spoiler about the end. Arturo ends up fighting himself and the Sliders are unsure which one makes the slide with them.

They arrive home immediately in front of Quinn’s house. Things look fairly similar to their own world and he does the all famous test on his gate. The gate squeaks just like he always remembered.

They talk to his mom and he has been absent for about 18 months roughly the time that they first slid.

After talking with Wade’s family and Rembrandt getting back in contact with his people the timelines for all of them disappearing match up exactly like they did on their own home world. They feel like they are finally home.

But things aren’t as they seem.

Quinn first discovers that in Super Bowl XIX the headline reads that the 49ers beat the Jets. But on his world the 49ers beat the Dolphins in that Super Bowl. He starts looking through an old yearbook and discovers that one of the nerdy guys he knew doesn’t have braces on in this yearbook photo. But the guy from back home definitely had braces when that yearbook photo was taken on the home world. He also noticed that his Roger Maris baseball card doesn’t have an asterisk next to the home run record like it did back on his home world.

They had agreed at the outset of the episode to keep sliding a secret until Prof. Arturo and Quinn have perfected the timer and the anchor to return back home.

But almost immediately Arturo goes public with it in a news conference to the outrage of his friends. The only one who really isn’t outraged is Quinn.

At that point Rembrandt and Wade go public with their experiences and are starting to see massive success and opportunities like they had never dreamed of. Wade’s Journal has gotten her a one million-dollar advance. Rembrandt is getting all kinds of interview requests and record sales unlike any he had seen on his home world.

But when they’re at the museum opening where Prof. Arturo has been declared “the father of interdimensional travel” she sees a picture of the Golden gate Bridge. Only it is blue instead of the customary color it was on their home world which is that brownish orange.

So she believes Quinn now.

The reason she and Rembrandt had been so disbelieving and felt like Quinn was in a dubious and possibly crazy state is that they wanted to believe it was home. It was so close to home their minds absolutely wanted to believe it actually was.

Soon after Rembrandt discovers that his backup singers were also credited on some of the sheet music. In his home world he was the sole creator and sole owner of all the royalties from writing his own music. So he now knew beyond a shadow of a doubt this was not their home world either.

The episode ends with the two Prof. Arturo’s fighting it out and both making solid cases that they are the real Arturo that is with them.

They end up getting in a fight right in front of the vortex and one of them gets the upper hand and slides through.

Our other three heroes still don’t know whether they have the right Arturo or not.

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