Sliders s02e05 Episode Script

Man: Get the hell out of here! - Stay in the truck, LJ.
- You got it, man.
How much time? - Two minutes.
- Quick! Quick! Hlde back here! Man: Michelle! Come on, baby! I know you're in here! MicheIIe, don't make me Iose my temper! l'm gonna count to three! One two AII right, aII right, I'm coming out.
Three.
Have you Iearned nothing? When I teII you to do something, you do it! Quinn, he's going to kiII her.
I have never seen such vermin as what passes itself off as human in this worId.
- ( screams ) - So who was it?! Quinn, don't.
Don't get invoIved in this.
Quinn, this is crazy.
You're going to get hurt.
Who was it, MicheIIe? Run! I'II keep him back! Who's this? I never saw him before.
Quit arguing and get out of here! - ( Iaughs ) - Stay back! Take a swing, punk.
( grunting ) You Iaugh at that.
Get up! Let's go.
Go! Go! - Where to? - Wade: Overthere.
what's that thing? Don't worry about it! - Let's go, Q-BaII! - Yeah, I'm right behind you.
- I gotta go.
- what? Wait a minute! what about me? Thanks to you, he'II probabIy kiII me.
No, no, Mr.
MaIIory.
Don't even think about it.
MicheIIe! - No choice! - Mr.
MaIIory! No! MicheIIe! MicheIIe? MicheIIe?! Quinn: what if you could travel to parallel worlds? The same year, the same Earth, only different dimensions? A world where the Russians rule America? Or where your dreams of being a superstar came true? Or where San Francisco was a maximum security prison? My friends and l found the gateway.
Now the problem is finding a way back home.
( theme music plays ) Give it up, LJ, it's checkmate in three.
Maybe, maybe not.
You never know.
( portal roars ) - what the hell is that? - what? - that.
- Watch it! ( grunting, groaning ) Professor: How much time untiI we sIide? Wade: Where are we? what is this pIace? Rembrandt: WeIcome to a new worId, Iady.
( groans ) - ( grunting ) - Sid, don't.
Get off him, man.
You want to get us aII in troubIe? Shut up, LJ.
Let him go! l never saw this guy before this morning! - Thanks, man.
- Yeah, no probIem.
I toId you to stay with the truck.
Wasn't me, paI.
You see any trucks around here? Where the heII are we? Webb Court.
And there's a custodian around the corner.
So if I were you, I'd stash the gat.
Webb Court? I know every inch of San Francisco, and this ain't no Webb Court.
Perhaps I can be of some assistance.
Sid, is it? Sid, this is not your San Francisco.
When we entered that that tunneI, we came to a different San Francisco.
We have, in fact, been to 20 or 30 different ones.
Tomorrow, we'll be going to another.
Everybody, come here.
Come here.
C'mon.
Professor: How to explain this? Sid, that tunneI is Iike a door.
Hard as it is to beIieve, it takes us from one worId to another.
Each worId is a IittIe different.
what's this one? I don't know, but I suspect that we'II find out soon enough.
Woman's voice: Please keep moving.
The life you save may be your own.
Come on.
Come on.
- what are you doing? - Buddy braceIets.
what are you taIking about? These right here.
Great, a street hustIer.
- Rembrandt: Why? what are they for? - Wade: what's the catch? It's required.
It's gratis.
It's no hype.
When in Rome Man, I ain't wearing this thing.
lt's yourfuneral.
Stay with me.
You're gonna need somebody to show you around here.
Come on.
Wade: The air's so cIean here.
Professor: Yes, and they have eIectric carts.
I wonder if they've aboIished the internaI combustion engine.
They certainIy have a Iot of ruIes and reguIations.
AII right, here it comes.
It's about time to show the braceIets.
Right here, sir.
( rumbling ) Earthquake? How about that one, sir?.
An aftershock? Move aIong.
Rembrandt: So, you get a Iot of earthquakes? You don't know the half of it.
Let's get in the cab.
- You're a cab driver?.
- Something Iike that.
CouId you just take us to the Dominion HoteI on HubbeII Street, pIease? HubbeII Street's rubbIe, darIin'.
The whoIe section of the city came down in Iast month's 6.
4.
So, you pIanning on cutting out of here manana, huh? You going to be going out the same way you came in? Yes, but keep it under your hat.
We'djust as soon no one heard about it.
I understand entireIy.
Let me show you around.
Just a reminder, it's not over between us.
Woman's voice: Please keep your bracelet visible at all times.
LJ: Oh, yeah, this campus is great.
I stayed there myself forthe first coupIe of months.
No mortars going off.
that's a pIus.
Woman's voice: This is your home.
Please keep it peaceful and clean.
Professor: Now there is a fine example of architectural hubris.
Ageodesic dome built in an earthquake zone.
Just imagine keeping the water out of that surface.
( chuckIes ) Good morning, sweetheart.
These foIks need a pIace to stay.
Minimum hassIe.
Think you can accommodate us? These haven't been processed yet.
I said, minimum hassIe.
How Iong? Uh, just one night.
what'd he do? SteaI a penny? Newcomers, Rosie.
They'II be on their way by tomorrow.
Signatures and fingerprints at the ''X.
'' You're in Annex 7-7-0.
Here's the group therapy scheduIe.
Ladies at 3:00.
Men in the morning.
Group therapy? what is this, a Ioony bin? Uh, LJ, I'm not sure if we can afford this pIace.
It's taken care of.
It's ''on the G.
'' Government housing.
Woman's voice: ln case oftrouble, lie prone on the ground.
Don't litter.
You'll be very sorry,.
Ahem-- aII right.
and I'II be with you guys in a few.
So where are you going? I gotta smooth things over with the supervisor.
Nothing major.
Oh, keys.
Where do we get a key? Key? There's no Iocks.
No one steaIs in San Francisco.
Look, I know you guys don't beIong here.
But everything's gonna be fine, as Iong as you don't go anywhere ortrust anyone.
Except me.
WeII come on, get out of here.
Something awfuIIy oiIy about that guy.
Considering the nature of the sociopath we've Iaunched on this unsuspecting society, we shouId be gratefuI we met him.
Um-hm, wouId you Iook at this? ( chuckIes ) Uh-huh.
Wade: This is government housing? Rembrandt: TaIk about your basic entitIement.
You heard what the man said.
No Iocks, Sid.
We couId be rich in no time.
that's right, baby.
I'm going to take home a bundIe.
I don't know about you, but I don't want any part of what that cab driver's throwing out.
Wade: Uh-oh.
Excuse me, we were toId to stay put.
When I come back, you're gonna take me and her home.
I'm afraid I can't do that, Sid, because we cannot activate our device untiI tomorrow.
Sid, it's kind of a tricky situation, but we-- - Hey! - Right there.
MicheIIe: Sld, don't hurt him.
Wade: He dldn't mean it.
Sid: You shut up! ( gasping ) AII I have to do is Iean in on you and your windpipe snaps.
Now, you Iisten to me.
I don't Iike it here and I wouIdn't be here if you didn't stick your face in my business.
Look at me when I'm taIking to you.
So, here's yourjob.
Yourjob is to get me home when I want to go.
You got that? Sid, think.
He's the onIy person who can get us home.
Get this? Piss me off and you're stuck here forever.
( choking ) ( gasping ) WeII, don't expect any sympathy.
If you'd used your brain, we wouIdn't be in this mess.
You and your misguided sense of bravado.
WiII you stop it? that's not going to soIve anything.
I'm gonna go get some air.
Woman's voice: Please keep moving.
The life you save may be your own.
Sorry.
I-- I just wanted to thank you fortrying to heIp me.
I mean, I know I caused a Iot of probIems and yourfather's aII pissed off.
Father?.
Anyway, thank you.
( chuckIes ) Good morning, again.
Now what? These are the forms you have to fiII out forthe Board of Registry.
Last wiII and testaments, donor cards, etc.
Hmm.
Now, I count onIy five.
Professor: Yes, one of our colleagues is napping.
He was exhausted.
that shouIdn't be a probIem, shouId it, sir?.
Just as Iong as he fiIIs out the forms.
that's--that's quite aII right.
I'm going to have to register your braceIets with the computer Iog.
So if you'II hoId them out, pIease? ( faint beeping ) Now, you and this good gentIeman are buddies.
And you two Iadies.
And that'll put you with the otherfella whom you sald is sleeplng.
Now, how the ''Buddy System'' works, is that each of you wiII-- ( beeplng ) HoId on.
HeIIo? I'm Iooking at a red bIinker.
Man's voice: Curfew violation, 674-C.
Safety check.
No malfunctions reported.
Oh, dear.
what's he doing? It'sjust poIicy.
( beeplng ) ( gunshot ) Now, where were we? Woman's voice: Remember, the custodians are yourfriends.
We all live here together.
what are you saying? His buddy committed the crime? that man didn't do anything? that's The Buddy System, ma'am.
Friends do not Iet friends commit crimes in San Francisco.
They're carting him off Iike garbage.
Oh, my God-- Sid.
In as much as we shaII be Ieaving shortIy, hypotheticaIIy, if one of our group was to sIip, how much time--? Between the braceIets and the Neighborhood Watch, they'II be on you in no time.
Neighborhood Watch? Oh, yeah, major perks for reporting a crime.
- Wade: Where wouId he go? - How shouId I know? Think, woman, think! I don't know.
Where the money is.
Quinn: My ''buddy's'' out there.
So, what's he gonna do, knock off a bank? Yes, I wouId think that wouId probabIy be his first move.
- This is unbeIievabIe.
- Wait, I'II give you a Iift.
- Okay.
- No, no, no.
You Iadies have group therapy at 3:00.
- There are no exceptions.
- Forget it.
So what? You want to end up Iike that guy on the street? Great.
LJ: what's your buddy's MO? How shouId I know? I just met the guy.
It's bad news.
The whoIe idea is to keep tabs on each other.
This Buddy System is insane.
Yeah, it sucks.
But the city wouId self-destruct without it.
Everyone knows that they're gonna die soon.
- So how eIse you gonna keep 'em in Iine? - what do you mean? A big-ass earthquake's due any day now.
SeismoIogists say the peninsuIa's gonna drop right into the ocean.
WeII, if you know it's coming, why don't you Ieave? Like I got a choice.
This is prison, man.
San Francisco NationaI Penitentiary.
Rembrandt: Listen, what do we do if we do find this guy? Him and his bad temper and that big ''Saturday night speciaI'' he carries? We'II cross that bridge when we come to it.
Assuming he hasn't burned the whoIe city down.
Hunh.
Mr.
Brown, if we get through this, you and I must have a serious taIk with the others.
About what, Professor?.
AII about this, about the Sids and the MicheIIes and Mr.
MaIIory's penchant forthe quixotic rescue.
what choice did he have? Let the poor girI get her head beat in? No, of course not.
You understand, Mr.
Brown, ourtimer was originaIIy set forthree peopIe.
Now it seems to be handIing the four of us quite weII.
But every time we add an extra body, we increase exponentiaIIy the chances of catastrophic faiIure.
Whoa, whoa-- what are you saying? what I'm saying is we increase the risk that you and I wiII be spread Iike very finejam across an infinite number of universes.
that is an ugIy picture.
Besides, our chances of survivaI here wouId be much greater if we didn't have Sid to worry about.
This is one strange worId.
- Wait.
- Come on.
Come on, man.
You know, in some ways, this reminds me of SwitzerIand or Singapore.
CIean streets, weII-reguIated citizenry.
Stiff penalties in exchange for quaIity of Iife.
Yeah, a paradise, if you Iike being caned for Iittering.
Let's go, c'mon! Yo, yo! ( Iaughs ) Hey, Fish, my knife sIipped.
Bring it back here for me.
First of aII, my name is not ''Fish.
'' SecondIy, I am not your sIave.
And thirdIy, you shouId know that although I am a man of peace, l am prepared to make an exception in your case.
You shouId be carefuI with this.
- Give me the knife.
- We don't want any troubIe.
You give me that damn knife or we'II hang you upside down and see what shakes out.
Attention, pIease.
I'm with the Neighborhood Watch.
as you know, there are rewards for preventing crimes, and I beIieve these punks here are contempIating one.
I got a possibIe probIem, sector nine.
Next time, Fish.
We'II be Iookin' for ya.
Woman's voice: Friends don't let friends commit crimes.
Woman #1: We don't have much time before the meeting.
Do you think l have time to go to the ladies'room? Woman #2: You really want to take a chance? Woman #2: l wouldn't want to be late.
Remember what happened to Betty last week.
Woman #1: Oh, yeah, l do remember.
MicheIIe: So teII me again-- why can't we get home? Maybe it's not impossibIe.
what I'm saying is we've been trying for a reaIIy Iong time and haven't been abIe to.
If I was you I'd try not to have any iIIusions about going home.
These rehab sessions are a sham.
Then why have 'em? It'sjust to keep us busy.
that's aII it is.
( chuckIes ) WeII, one good thing-- if you don't make it home, you don't have to stay with Sid.
No one's making me stay with Sid.
I didn't mean it Iike that.
WeII, he doesn't treat you very weII.
Sid's okay.
Everyone respects him.
Nobody wouId dare Iay a finger on me as Iong as I'm with him.
He beats you.
what's the difference? Once you're with them, they aII do it.
Not on my worId.
WeII, goody for you.
Look, Sid came into my Iife when I was nothing.
I was 15 and my entire famiIy was wiped out with the war.
So don't nag on me about Sid.
Okay.
Forget I said anything.
Woman: Ladies, would you all be seated, please? Get your coffee and take your seats.
Look, maybe it's different on your worId, with guys Iike Quinn, but on my worId there's no choice.
So I do what I gotta do.
that's the point-- we're not on your worId anymore.
l'd like to thank you all for being so prompt.
I see a few new faces in the crowd.
WeIcome.
Before we get started, why don't we have the new members of the Wednesday group stand and introduce themseIves? My name is GIadys and I'm a convicted feIon.
AII: Hi, GIadys.
I got 35-to-Iife for poisoning my husband because he cheated on me with the babysitter.
Now, GIadys, we're going to have to stop you.
Step one, Iadies, never bIame the victim, hmm? Okay why don't you in the back in the red tell us what you were convicted of?.
LJ: Coming up on another ATM.
So, MaIIory, answer me a question.
You know I studied the physicaI sciences before I was wrongfuIIy incarcerated.
So Iet me get this, you never know what the next worId is gonna be Iike untiI you get there? - ExactIy.
- You ever hit a worId was worse than this? Not many.
LJ, overthere.
It's him.
Sid, stop! Put that thing away! Oh, seriousIy, man, they're gonna kiII you.
Hey, LJ, don't you have something betterto do? ( gun cIicks ) On thefloor.
Now! Don't.
Big mistake, Sid.
You're crazy man, you know that? - LJ: Come on! - ( grunts ) No, no, no, don't go anywhere! Ship has saiIed, baby.
Great.
what is this? what is this? It's the wrong coIor.
( grunts ) ( beeping ) Give me your wrist.
It's okay.
Not for Iong.
We've got to get you as far away as possibIe.
Oh man.
You guys back off or I'II bIast him.
No firing.
No firing.
He has a hostage, sir, and he wants to negotiate.
Negative.
Use standard.
operating procedure.
I'II be in contact.
Pain in the ass.
( beeplng ) - Get out.
- Get out? If I'm seen driving with you, my braceIet's gonna Iight up.
Get out! Look, just cover that thing up, HoId up for a IittIe whiIe.
Why? I thought it had to be showing.
PeopIe don't notice it at dark unIess it's gIowing.
Just coverthis thing up.
I got to get back to the others.
Okay, but hurry.
Listen, meet me at the BARTstation at Market and Van Ness.
I'II see you there.
Later.
Woman's voice: Don't venture too close to the perimeter.
We're watching you.
Oh, no! Not again.
- I've got a red bIinker.
- ATM robbery.
No malfunction reported.
Action approved.
Big troubIe.
Sid hit an ATM.
what? No time to expIain.
We've go to find the professor, Rembrandt, and Ieave now.
- You better come with us.
- Sid toId me to stay here.
Sid's not coming back.
Sid's got every cop within 100 miIes coming down on him.
You don't know Sid Iike I do.
He'II make it.
Not with one of these he's not.
Look, it's your choice.
You're sure? HoId it.
I'm coming.
Rembrandt: what do you mean, aII of San Francisco is a prison? Earthquakes.
The government evacuated the IocaI popuIation and made this pIace a penaI coIony for every madman and murderer in the country.
Is there a pIan, Mr.
MaIIory, or do wejust wander the streets tiII they catch us? AII right, this is the station.
A BARTstation, with aII of these earthquakes? Another strategic gem.
Hey, Professor, any time you want-- Come on, this way.
Come on! Hey, Quinn, on my worId, LJ was a Iying, doubIe-crossing son of a bitch.
Now you teII me.
Wade: Don't worry, Professor, we're due for a nice Iuxury hoteI any sIide now.
Professor: Hah! I'II beIieve that when I see it.
Wade: Are you okay? I'm fine.
There's nothing you can do about it.
There's no point in taIking.
You're worried about Sid.
what if he came back for me? what if he made it? what if he did? I can't beIieve you couId ever be happy with him.
what is with you, huh? Who the heII gets to be happy? Why don't you Iook around yourself, for God's sakes? Do you see any reason why you shouId be happy? Yeah, I do.
I see peopIe I care about who care about me.
PeopIe I can count on.
I think I'm pretty Iucky.
WeII, I think you're dreaming 'cause nobody sticks their neck out for nobody.
Quinn stuck his neck out for you.
He didn't even know you.
LJ: Watch your step, here.
Watch it.
C'mon, c'mon, they're waiting for us.
- Rembrandt: Who's waiting? - LJ: The peopIe who're gonna hide us.
- You mean peopIe Iive down here? - You got it, man.
Right down this way.
LJ: Hey, couId you speed this up? I don't have a Iife sentence.
AII right, come on.
Let's go.
''Attention, K-Mart shoppers.
'' ( men's voices ) LJ: Come on.
Yo, Jakey! Jake: Hey, LJ, you made it.
We've been waiting for you.
Man: what took you so long? You get lost or something? Hey there, Kick.
what is this? Look at the fish the cat dragged in.
Later, baby.
Time is of the essence.
Wait a minute.
what the heII's going on here? what do you mean, ''what the heII's going on?'' The smarter you pIay it, the Ionger you Iive.
- You got the cash? - I want to see it first.
Go ahead.
Give him the gizmo.
Give him that thing that makes the tunnel in the air.
Give it to him! Better do it, Professor.
If you insist, Mr.
MaIIory.
But I do beIieve that I'm making a huge mistake.
This makes a tunneI? There won't be any tunneIs, Jake.
You can't make it work without us.
I said, ''Be smart.
'' Now, I'm trying to protect you peopIe.
Okay, I'II do it.
- Quinn, no! - Shut up! - Let me have it.
- I'II hoId it.
You just teII me what to push.
what the heII? Nobody move.
Hey, Leo, is that you? LJ, you shouId have toId me about this if you wanted to stay aIive.
( gunshots ) Wade: Where's Quinn? Rembrandt: He's trying to get the timer.
Professor: Quinn--! Wade: Quinn, be careful! Quinn! Quinn: I got it! I got it! Go! Go! Professor: You set a mean pace, Mr.
Brown.
( bullets ricocheting ) Come on, hurry.
Go.
Go.
( police radio chatter ) WeII, weII, Iook who we have here.
Damn.
Professor: The only reason we're in this situation is because you insisted on meddIing in a Iover's quarreI.
Let it aIone, Professor.
We'II get out of this somehow.
Oh yes? And how are we going to do that? ( rumbling ) ( gasps ) WeII, good morning, boys and girIs.
Let me expIain how it works.
It's quite simpIe, reaIIy.
It's caIIed ''survivaI of the fiittest.
'' Whoever comes forward first, voIunteers to piIot this IittIe baby here, gets to come with us.
If not, we're going to start executing you one by one.
Either I get what I want, or you're aII dead.
- Great incentive.
- You kiII us, you'II never get it to work.
We aII gotta go sometime, sweetheart.
Think about it, boys and girIs.
Think about it.
I saw Sid use that a coupIe of times.
It's got his paw prints aII over it.
Did it work? AIways, once he kiIIed someone to prove he was serious.
He's right.
You shouId've just Iet him beat on me.
Don't bIame yourself.
what are we gonna do? ( rumbling ) Quinn, I hate this.
Rembrandt: lt'll pass! lt'll pass! l hope to God it'll pass.
Huh.
Damn earthquakes.
ReIax, wouId ya? Just pIay the waiting game.
You're a cocky IittIe son of a bitch, aren't you? You're damn right.
If I wasn't, LJ wouId be getting out of here, not you and me.
( knocking ) Stay there.
Stay outside.
A guard found this outside the door.
what is it? We got one.
( Iaughs ) Okay, Professor, come on, let's go.
Get yourthings.
Professor?.
what's going on? You, too, my dear.
You soId us out.
Professor, you can't be serious? Oh, grow up, Miss WeIIs.
As the man says, ''survivaI of the fiittest.
'' It's betterthat one of us shouId survive, than aII of us perish.
You can't mean this.
what are you going to do, Professor, steaI the idea? Wait tiII I'm out of the way and caII sIiding your own? No, Mr.
MaIIory, I am going to go home and perfect it.
Which is what you shouId've done before you imperiIed aII our Iives.
When I've done that, I wiII have every right to caII sIiding my own.
We'II die here! I'm truIy sorry.
I'II get you forthis! I swear I wiII, you bastard! This isn't over! You hear me?! Yourfriends seem pretty pissed off.
that's their probIem.
Give me the timer, hurry.
- what's happened here? - what do you mean? This timer has been compIeteIy reconfigured.
I'm going to have to take it to Quinn.
- It's a trick.
- It is not.
- You're Iying.
- I am not.
It is his invention.
He understands it betterthan I do.
Look, Sid, I abandoned my companions in orderto save my Iife.
Now I can't do that without his heIp.
Drop it! - ( gun cIicks ) - No more, Sid.
I wiII kiII you.
I guess it didn't work.
We're gonna miss the sIide, I know it.
( rumbling ) Keys! lt's about time.
WeII, it didn't go exactIy according to HoyIe, but Iet's not quibbIe.
- Rembrandt: Hurry, up.
- 30 seconds.
Patience now.
( grunting ) If I had time, I'd kiII you.
Yeah, when I get free, you'II wish you had.
( Iaughs ) Come on, Iet's go! ( grunting ) You're mine, pretty boy.
( Iaughs ) Get off him, Sid.
what are you going to do, Michelle? Huh? Think you're going to shoot me? Give me the gun, bitch.
No! Michelle--! ( coughs ) Wade: We're running out oftime.
It'II be okay.
I promise.
Come on, Iet's get out of here! Trust me, MicheIIe, we have to go, now.