Sliders “Roads Taken” – Season 4 Episode 21

29 May 2010
The Season 4 cast. From left to right: Rembran...
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This is a crazy and somewhat difficult to understand episode. The title seems to make some sense and yet leads you off in an unknown direction.

Rembrandt and Collin come into this latest war zone world landing on a couch near a dumpster. They remark about just how difficult the slide was with crazy weird turns and the pain they felt. They don’t see Quinn and Maggie.

They’re starting to hyperventilate wonder what is going on. Then about two minutes later a second vortex appears and Quinn and Maggie come right into the dumpster.

They do their normal Sliders work and start talking with this lieutenant. He says there’s a sniper over there in that tenement and they need to stay down. They say they want to go to the Chandler Hotel and he says that as far as he knows it is still clear over there but stay on the side of the street.

Once they get to the Chandler they get a room. Quinn and Maggie are very tired and so they decide to lie down to sleep. But something overtakes them. They start running a fever and turning a jaundiced yellow color.

Rembrandt was doing some recon and made a connection with this reporter.

He now goes down to see if he can locate a doctor on this world. The Lieut. they talked to earlier is currently moving toward their sector because the sniper has appeared there. Rembrandt comes out of the hotel when the sniper starts shooting at him.

The lieutenant gets the sniper and Rembrandt asks him about getting a doctor.

The lieutenant informs Rembrandt they have no doctors to spare. Rembrandt decides to follow them where their convoy is going to presumably at least see if he can find a doctor. The sniper ends up getting the lieutenant while the rest of them run for cover. Rembrandt goes back out to grab the lieutenant and gets him to safety.

So the Lieut. makes a promise that if Rembrandt will get him to a doctor then he will get a doctor for Rembrandt. So the deal is on and the medic is back in the Chandler Hotel room to take a look at Quinn and Maggie.

He’s quite astonished by their yellow color which indicates liver failure, the cataracts in their eyes, and their overall condition which seems to be congestive heart failure. He says even though they’re young it seems like they’re dying of old age.

Collin and Rembrandt’s see this ghostlike man hovering over them.

They come to discover that there’s this crazy bubble universe which has been created in the memories of Quinn and Maggie. The ghostlike figure is their son Thomas Mallory.

Then Thomas and Collin start working on a solution.

It’s quite a crazy thing and as the MPs are about to bust down the door because they believe chemical warfare is being used Thomas opens the vortex to the bubble world. He warns Rembrandt and Colin that since they are not part of the bubble world it may not be able to hold their mass. They may die but if they stay there it’s likely they’ll die so they decide to go.

They get to the bubble world and do what they need to do. Thomas makes the calculations and re-opens the vortex which sends the Sliders back to their current world they were on. The bubble world has collapsed and no longer exists.

The Sliders are getting a déjà vu though. They have the same 12 hours they had on this world when they landed here before learning of the bubble world. They go out exploring a little bit and have the same conversation with the lieutenant. Quinn surmises that since that bubble world never really existed the space-time there has collapsed.

That means they are back to the original time here on this world and in this reality.

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