Sliders s03e14 Episode Script

Pyramids where Los Angeles used to be on our world.
Pretty weird, huh? Not any more weird than Hollywood.
(Arturo) Actually, on our world it was Alexander the Great who put an end to the dominance of Egypt.
Presumably, on this one it was Alexander the Not-so-Great.
[Rembrandt laughs.]
Ah, here's a paper.
(woman) Taxi.
(Rembrandt) Hey, this pharaoh's funeral is big stuff.
Even when a president dies, not everybody wears black armbands.
Too bad we won't be here for the procession, huh? I think we missed it.
I think that takes place when they take the body to the pyramid.
Tomorrow is the ceremonial sealing of the tomb.
[Siren wailing.]
"Neither locusts nor sandstorms nor gloom of night" [snarling.]
Come on, guys! Keep it moving! Let's go! [Screams.]
Somebody, somebody help me, please! [Snarling.]
Help me! Somebody help her! (Priest) Nobody help her.
Wade, wait! Help me! I'm trying.
[Sheilah screaming.]
Are you mad? Wait a minute that's it.
She needs help.
She is beyond help.
Now! Go! Get her out! You okay? Yeah.
All right.
All right, it's over now.
(Priest) That's right.
There's nothing for you to do but leave.
The Kheri-Heb himself saw your friends touch the sacred scarab.
Who is he? Till next Pharaoh is in place, he's in charge.
That makes him a god.
Take them to the pyramid.
Hey! Let go of me! We were just trying to help! [Grunts.]
Quinn! That one is an excellent specimen.
Take him to Dr.
Achtbit.
Have him used immediately! (Quinn) What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds where it's the same year, and you're the same person but everything else is different? And what if you can't find your way home? (voice) Sliders.
Q-Ball? Just a minute.
Where are you taking this man? You have to ask? The morgue.
Wait right there.
Hey, hey, stop! Do you have any idea who I am? [Sighing.]
Sheilah? Sheilah, you've got to tell me what's going on.
What was that thing? It's a genetically engineered scarab.
These insects, they're considered sacred by my people.
It's to be sealed inside the tomb along with the pharaoh and all his personal slaves.
Let me guess, it's not a pet.
The scarab guards the pyramid's riches against thieves.
The slaves are its food.
And now we are going to join them.
No! No! Please! No! Listen, there has been a major mistake here.
I don't belong in this place! Oh, thank God.
Thank you, Professor.
Where's Quinn? Mr.
Brown, Mr.
Brown is going to retrieve him from the hospital.
We'll rendezvous back at the hotel.
We have to get Sheilah.
We're running out of time, Miss Wells.
Damn! Little we can do for her.
[Electronic beeping.]
(Dr.
Achtbit) The exsanguination is complete.
He's drained.
(Quinn) What's happening to me? Time of death: 3:15.
What? No! I can't be dead! We must get Dr.
Mubaric in here right away.
Quinn? Q-Ball! Q-Ball, wake.
Remmy, I'm still here.
They're trying to kill me! Make them bring me back.
I need a medic.
Remmy! I need some help in here! Emergency! Q-Ball.
Come on, man.
Come on! Come on! What have you done? Who are you? He's been murdered.
Security! Look, he was fine when he came in here! You killed him! (announcer) necrology ward.
You better talk to me! necrology ward [alarm buzzing.]
(Quinn) Remmy, I'm dying.
Hey! Rembrandt? [Horn honking.]
What's wrong? Where's Quinn? (Arturo) Mr.
Brown? When I got there, he was in an operating room.
He was just lying there.
He was dead.
That's not possible.
I knew he was hurt but the wound was slight, not enough to No.
I don't believe it.
I saw it.
They did something to him.
All his blood was drained.
And they just left him there.
There was nothing I could do.
There was nothing I could do for him.
[Sobbing.]
[Whooshing.]
[Bells chiming.]
[Birds chirping.]
Dad? Hello, son.
Oh, Dad! It's all right, Quinn.
I thought I'd never see you again.
Where are you going? Go long, Quinn.
Come on.
You remember! What did I always tell you? If you can touch it, you can catch it.
Let me see that arm.
This is what I miss the most.
Just us, tossing the football together.
Me, too.
Dad, wait! It's not your time, Quinn.
But I don't want to go back yet.
I wanna be with you.
Have faith, son.
We'll be together someday.
I don't know how to get home.
Please, help me.
Remember, if you can touch it, you can catch it! No.
Don't leave me again.
I love you, son.
I always will.
He told me once he dreamt I was his father.
I never had the courage to tell him that so often I wished he was my son.
[Sighing.]
What a stupid, senseless death.
If anyone should have died on this world, it should've been me.
[Sniffles.]
All of this is my fault.
If I hadn't gone down that alley Hey, don't Don't talk like that.
Q-Ball knew what he was doing.
He wanted to help that girl.
(Wade) L I can't deal with this.
I need to see him.
Wade! I saw him.
It won't make it any easier.
Yeah, it will.
I need to see him for myself.
Wade! He's gone! All there is in that hospital is an empty shell.
Believe me, you don't want to see what I saw.
I know it's hard.
But he's gone.
Seems so wrong sitting here grieving him.
We should do something to give his death some significance.
All right.
You two want to do something for Q-ball? What happened to the girl that he tried to rescue? Huh? They took her inside the pyramid.
He gave his life for her.
I think he would want us to finish what he started.
We'll use what time we have to try and save her.
If necessary, we'll slide from the pyramid.
Come on.
Let's go.
[Whooshing.]
[Machine beeping.]
(Dr.
Achtbit) He's coming back.
Duration of death: Five minutes.
Congratulations, Doctor.
May he be the first of many.
[Beeping continues.]
Welcome back, Mr.
Mallory.
I'm Dr.
Deera Mubaric.
And we're anxious to hear everything you've experienced.
What? What are you doing? Did you see colors, or people? I have to get out of here.
It's vital that you don't lose the images of your death manifestations.
What exactly do you remember? I don't have time.
Untie me.
Please, you must remain calm.
He should be as weak as a puppy.
I've got to go! He's not.
I'll sedate him.
No! He'll lose memory.
I'll take it from here.
But You're dismissed, Doctor.
[Grunts.]
Okay, I get it.
You wanna know what it's like being dead.
You take me to the Chancellor Hotel, I'll tell you everything.
It doesn't work that way.
That's the only way it works.
I've been to the other side.
Nothing you do can scare me.
You want my cooperation, you'll do what I say.
(Wade) Let me go! New Cairo P.
D.
We caught the escaped slave.
Don't worry.
We'll take her in ourselves.
We have 90 seconds.
[Scarab snarling.]
Wait a minute.
I hear that thing again.
[Snarling continues.]
Over there.
(Sheilah) Oh, thank God you came back.
There's no time to explain.
In a few seconds, we'll be leaving this city for good.
And if you want, you can come with us.
No.
There are people here who'll get me to safety.
But thank you.
Where's your friend? The one who saved me? He, uh, he died at the hospital.
(Sheilah) Died? Was he in the necrology ward? Yes, I think so.
Why? I used to work there.
The doctors, they, they run experiments on the patients.
They kill them off and then revive them hoping to learn of their afterlife experiences.
Wha Uh, are you saying that there's a chance he's alive? I don't know, maybe.
They haven't been successful yet, but they were very close.
Hold on now.
He was flatlined.
But he was young and strong.
The others were all much older.
Oh! We have to go back and find out.
Wade, there was no blood left in him.
Now, we go, we miss the slide.
Professor, we can't leave.
Not if there's a chance he's alive.
If we go back, we lose all hope of ever returning home.
We'll spend 29 years here because we gambled on a miraculous breakthrough.
[Scarab snarling.]
[Electronic beeping.]
[Whooshing.]
You go.
I'm staying.
Go on! Go! Go! I'm staying.
Mr.
Brown, go! [Sighs.]
[Alarm wailing.]
[People screaming.]
Let's get out of here.
Yeah.
(man) He's coming this way! (woman) Hurry up! Look out.
(man) Grab my hand! Follow me! What is that alarm? The scarab has broken loose.
The pyramid is automatically sealing itself.
You must stop it! The scarab has no food, he will die, unable to defend the tomb.
There's nothing I can do.
(all) Wait! Wait! (Wade) Hey! [Banging on door.]
Pray that the shame of this can be washed away by Dr.
Mubaric's recent success.
[Sighs.]
We're trapped.
On our earth the architects of pyramids were often buried alive with their dead pharaohs.
It was not unknown for them to create a small, secret passageway to effect their escape.
[Scarab snarling.]
[Crashing.]
This way! Rembrandt? Professor? Wade? Okay, your friends aren't here.
Now tell me about your afterlife experience.
Remmy was wearing this at the hospital.
He thought I was dead.
They slid without me.
What do you mean, "slid"? I'm not from here, Deera.
I come from a parallel world.
Are you royalty? Royalty? On our world, only royalty is allowed to travel to other worlds.
No, I'm not royalty.
I'm just a scientist trying to find his way home.
Quinn, don't do this to yourself.
Whatever time you had left with them was gonna be short anyway.
What are you talking about? Your tumor.
I don't have a tumor.
Quinn, Dr.
Achtbit, he showed me your X-rays.
We only experiment with the afterlife procedure on the terminally ill.
I'm in perfect health.
I was sent to the hospital this morning because one of your leaders ordered it.
(TV announcer) The pyramid cannot be reopened and the ceremonial sealing has been canceled.
There's no official word yet but it's assumed an investigation has already begun and that authorities are interested in questioning the pyramid's architect.
What an honor to have you in our presence.
architect's whereabouts are unknown at present.
The problems at the pyramid, it's all over the news.
three people who activated the vortex.
has released several statements.
This disaster could threaten my pending appointment to the palace in Cairo.
And yours as well.
I'm going to give the media hounds something to chew on.
Besides that.
the secret passageway.
The eyes of the world are on us, Doctor.
Your breakthrough here this morning is going to elevate us to the positions we were rightfully intended to hold.
The afterlife experiments? But we haven't completed our work.
Just get me Quinn Mallory.
I'm calling a press conference and I want him to be there.
Have Deera Mubaric ready another healthy patient for the procedure.
I have camera crews on their way to film it.
But if word gets out that we're experimenting on the healthy It won't matter.
Success covers many evils.
Kheri-Heb, Dr.
Mubaric left earlier today.
We believe she took Quinn Mallory with her.
Contact the RDI.
Tell them to sweep the city.
I want them found before tonight's press conference.
Terminally ill or not, who gave you the right to play god? You must believe me.
I had no idea that the Kheri-Heb and Dr.
Achtbit were doing this behind my back.
That's not the point.
Quinn, for thousands of years, my people have been obsessed with the question of life after death.
Is it as wonderful as I have dreamed? Please tell me.
No.
What you're doing is immoral.
Why don't you put your energy into something worthwhile? Like saving patients, not killing them.
[Pager beeping.]
(TV reporter) It's not known what precipitated the premature sealing of the pyramid, but we have an unconfirmed report that an inter-dimensional transport vortex was activated inside and may be the cause of the scarab going into its rampage.
Damn it! Did Kheri have him sentenced? When was he there? and it's doubtful that we will ever hear their accounts publicly.
Right now, what we do know is that the three people who apparently activated the vortex are believed to be trapped inside the pyramid.
Deera, would royalty slide from the pyramid? Of course not.
It's done from the palace.
Then those three people could be my friends.
It's dangerous out there.
The Kheri-Heb has the entire RDI out looking for us.
on this issue.
And some people out here are already wondering if someone could get to them (Rembrandt) Well, if anybody built a secret passageway in here, they certainly hid it well.
I said it was a possibility, not a probability.
Oh.
[Laughs.]
What's so funny? We came in here thinking Quinn was dead.
Now he's probably alive and we're the ones who are stuck.
[Laughs.]
God.
Shh.
[Footsteps approaching.]
The scarab? Those sound like human feet.
Who are you and what are you doing in here? We're locked in.
Who are you? The architect.
What do you mean locked in? The pyramid's not to be sealed till tomorrow.
Didn't you hear the alarm? I've been in another part of the pyramid, working.
The scarab broke loose.
I think they sealed the building to prevent it from escaping.
Does anybody know you're in here? I was gonna ask you the same question.
It wouldn't matter.
I'm supposed to die in here.
Well, are you saying that there's no way out of here? There is another possibility.
It's a secret passageway.
But we have to get to the computer room.
Quickly, this way.
Well, what's the computer do? It controls the pyramid.
But there's a way to No! [Screaming.]
Wait! It's too late! [Scarab snarling.]
(Deera) Quinn, this is crazy.
(Quinn) I don't have a choice.
My friends are in that pyramid.
But you heard the newscast.
It's sealed.
There's no way in.
You believe everything you hear on TV? I wanna find out for myself.
Even if there was a way in, what about the scarab? I'm handling one problem at a time.
Now, I have got to find the architect who designed that pyramid.
You can either help me, or not.
[Siren wailing.]
Let's take my car.
That looks like the computer room that guy was talking about.
Looks like they were behind schedule.
And it probably cost twice as much as the estimate.
You know how contractors are.
You see anything? Uh, a table, chairs, a generator, and what looks like a computer.
Good.
All right.
Step aside.
(Arturo) Go! You realize if the hospital finds out what I'm helping you to do, it could damage my career? Forgive me if I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone whose job is to experiment with killing people.
Ouch, you're a real sweet talker.
You better let me kiss up to the architect.
I'm handling this.
Not home, not here.
Now what? All right.
This is about to get seriously dicey.
If you want out If I wanted out, you'd be back at the hospital.
[Glass shattering.]
What exactly am I looking for? Blueprints, drawings, anything that might show us a way in.
I found something.
Nice, a copy of the master blueprint.
Yes! This indicates that there's an underground tunnel.
This whole thing was built to rotate.
You hear that? There's a hole in the table that goes right into the model.
The rotation must align the pyramid with the underground tunnel.
What's that? It's a timer.
For sliding.
But only the royals are allowed to travel to parallel worlds.
He must have stolen it to use as an escape from the pyramid.
Why wouldn't he just go through the underground tunnel? How are you doing, Mr.
Brown? Just taking some precautions, Professor.
Think of it as an impromptu phaser.
Good man.
Listen, why do they have the stars up over here? Oh, Mr.
Brown, somewhere here is one of the keys to the great mysteries of ancient Egypt.
What is the significance of the alignment of the pyramids? I'm in.
Good.
You see, I've got a problem.
We had one entryway.
Now, it says if you stand here and look in that direction, you will see these constellations.
These constellations.
But you cannot see these constellations at this time of the year.
Not in that direction.
The only way you could see them would be if you If the pyramid rotated.
How did you know that? This computer controls the rotation.
Is any of this gonna get us out of here? Yes, indeed.
If you can speed up the rotation of this pyramid, it will align us with a secret passageway.
[Computer keys clicking.]
There's a computer room.
Why? Unless the computer has something to do with rotating the pyramid, which lines it up with the underground tunnel.
It must be how they planned to keep feeding slaves to the scarab.
But this indicates a full rotation taking five years.
[Door slamming.]
Hide! I can talk my way out of this.
Don't move! RDI.
Let me see your hands, Doctor.
Where's Quinn Mallory? (Deera) I don't know.
We got a report that both of you entered the building.
He took off.
I don't know where he went.
Cuff her.
[Grunts.]
[Both grunting.]
[Both grunting.]
Grab the timer and the map.
Come on.
The closet.
Let's go.
Deera! Wade figured out the computer.
Come on.
(RDI agent #1) Let me check this floor.
Come on.
(RDI agent #2) Let's go! We can't jump from here.
We're three stories up.
Watch this.
No! Go! Go! That was insane.
We could have died.
Been there, done that.
Let's go.
No sign of them.
[Car alarm beeping.]
Give me the keys.
[Keys rattling.]
[Engine starting.]
[Tires screeching.]
[Gun fires.]
(RDI agent #4) Hold your fire.
We need them alive.
Come on, come on, Mr.
Brown.
Any luck with that computer, Miss Wells? Not that I see.
We're halfway through the entire cycle.
[Scarab snarling.]
Here he comes! (Rembrandt) Open the door! Open it, man! Close it! He's right behind me.
Thanks! Step back! [Snarling.]
[Scarab snarling.]
That's it, buddy! Keep on going! The kitchen's closed! Well done, Mr.
Brown.
[Laughs.]
Now, tell me that that little jaunt was worth it? I didn't see anything like a passageway.
But I did feel the pyramid when it stopped moving.
What was that all about? L I don't know.
Other than that one brief stop, nothing seems to be happening.
I wish Quinn was here.
All right.
Keep rotating the pyramid.
It must be there somewhere.
Okay.
(Deera) Right here.
Pull in.
(Quinn) Give me the map.
That way is north.
The passageway tunnel should be about Come on.
(TV reporter) We have no official word on how or why the pyramid is rotating, or if it's related to the people trapped inside.
And attempts to reach the Kheri-Heb thus far have been futile.
You have any idea why this is happening? No, sir.
What are you doing? Praying, sir.
If you are still to attain your rightful place in Cairo, we will need a miracle.
[Phone ringing.]
What is it? No one does anything till I get there.
They've located Dr.
Mubaric at the pyramid.
Give me a second.
Can you hear that? We must be close.
That's the entrance.
There's no opening.
There will be.
It's like a big roulette wheel.
When the right slot passes over that opening, we should be able to climb inside.
What if your friends don't know where it's supposed to stop? They've stopped the pyramid.
There's no opening.
But that's not cement, it's wood.
That's got to be it.
The opening's just got to be boarded over.
Wade! Professor! [Banging.]
Wade! Don't rotate it! Professor! Wade! [Banging.]
The computer keeps stopping the pyramid in that one spot.
If there is a secret passage, that's got to be where it is.
I'm not going back out there unless I know for sure.
Sorry.
You'll have to settle for an educated guess.
I'm reversing the rotation so I can freeze it at that coordinate.
Miss Wells, perhaps Mr.
Brown and I should go out.
Save it, Professor.
This is a package tour.
We're all going out there together.
That's it.
They did it.
Okay.
It's locked into place.
Whatever it is.
Then let's do it.
[Grunting.]
It's wedged in from the other side.
That thing has been here.
I can smell it.
(Quinn) Wade! Hey.
Did you hear that? Professor! [Banging.]
What was that? Professor! Quinn? It's Quinn! This way.
Quinn, where are you? Mr.
Mallory, where are you? It was him.
I know it.
Mr.
Mallory? Q-Ball! (Quinn) Down here! He's under us.
I'm right beneath you! (Rembrandt) Stand back, Q-Ball! Remmy! Go! Go! It sees us! Quick, Miss Wells! Hurry up! It's right on us! Hurry! Hey, why is she here? I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for Deera.
Quinn, we missed the slide.
I know.
Thanks.
[Siren wailing.]
It's the police.
Can we go back that way? Not unless you want to be tonight's main course.
I guess we better slide from here.
Where'd you get that? It's the architect's escape plan.
Why is it counting down on its own world? I have no idea, Professor.
Maybe the architect hadn't planned on activating it manually.
Just pray that it works.
Come with us.
My work is here.
I can't.
And you were right, I have to put an end to those experiments.
[Scarab snarling.]
That thing is right on top of us.
Thank you for everything.
Good luck.
I'll try and delay the police.
Thank you.
Are we gonna make it to the next world? This thing is still reading 13 hours.
Just have to activate it early.
That means corrupting the data.
That means we'll be back to random sliding.
Who cares? Look, just get us out of here.
[Whooshing.]
Go! Where's Quinn Mallory? He went up into the pyramid.
With the scarab loose? How gullible do you think I am? Forgive me, Kheri-Heb.
I shouldn't have tried to lie to you.
He's hiding at the end of the tunnel.
We will discuss your future when I return.
[Scarab snarling.]
[Screaming.]
[Crunching.]