Sliders s02e06 Episode Script

The end of another slide.
We've been stuck here for more than two weeks.
Everybody's unhappy and snapping at each other.
He's an irresponsible, unlettered schoolboy and we are his guinea pigs.
C'mon, Professor, don't talk like that.
I'm tired, Mr.
Brown.
I want my life back.
How much have you had to drink? Not enough.
"In vino, veritas.
" In wine, truth.
Listen, Professor.
It's God's will we got stuck in this mess, it's His will to get us out of it.
We'll get home, you can count on that.
Guys, what are you doing in here? God works in some very peculiar ways.
Come on, we're gonna miss the slide.
Keep the change, sweetheart.
Thanks.
Hurry up, come on.
I assure you, Miss Wells, no one is more anxious to leave this world than I am.
Nag, nag, nag, like a married woman.
You know something? I could almost handle the mustaches, it's the beards that trip me out.
Can you imagine kissing one of them? You'd get whisker burn.
Then you'd know what it was like for a woman.
- Guys! - I found them sitting in a bar.
I'm sorry, man, we were a little caught up in time.
All right, let's go.
Hey, what is your problem?! You ran right into me.
Look what you did to my fender.
Didn't you see me? This isn't even my car.
I don't believe this.
Believe this, you son of a bitch.
Somebody call the police! That's Judge Nassau! Help him, don't just stand there.
Wade, no time.
Save your strength.
Somebody call an ambulance! Elsie the rock.
Here, take this.
Five, four Stay with me.
Elsie the rock.
Wade, come on.
There's nothing more you can do.
Come on.
Where the heck are they? They better get here soon.
I hate it when we cut it this close.
Quinn, Wade, hurry! Three, two, one! Come on! Come on! The train's leaving the station! Run, Wade! Quick as you can! Come on! Come on, Wade! 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 I found the gateway.
Now the problem is finding a way back home.
SLIDERS 2x06 "TIME AGAIN AND WORLD" Mr.
Brown, I swear you aim at me deliberately.
And you manage to target my backside with the regularity of an atomic clock.
Sorry about that, Professor.
Hey, what happened back there? There was a shoot-out.
We barely made the slide.
Are you okay? What's that? He handed it to me before he died.
"Top Hat Night Club.
" Some sort of chip.
At the risk of appearing redundant, Miss Wells, I would point out that the last time we became involved in the affairs of the worlds that we visit, Mr.
Mallory ended up with a bullet in his back.
We're tourists, Miss Wells, we must not become emotionally invested.
"Emotionally invested"? I just saw a man gunned down on the street.
Excuse me if that's a little hard to ignore, all right? Let it go.
How long we got on this place? and counting.
Almost enough time for my back to recover from your splenetic and venomed attack.
Do you have any idea what you weigh? Wow, talk about your déjà vu.
We've landed in a world almost identical to the last.
Yeah, I've seen her before.
No bearded women.
That's a step in the right direction.
Or they just have better razors.
Look! What the hell is your problem? You ran right into me! Look what you did to my fender.
Didn't you see me? I don't believe this.
He's got a gun! Son of a bitch! Judge Nassau shot him! Call an ambulance! Judge Nassau shot someone! Help him! Somebody call an ambulance! Elsie the rock.
Elsie No Is he breathing? Wade.
Oh, God, Quinn.
He's a cop.
What do you got? We've got some witnesses who saw the crime.
Those three over there.
Dixon is interviewing the fourth one.
There's really not a whole lot I can tell you.
Some people thought the officer fired first.
We came from around the corner when we heard the crash.
We weren't really all that close.
Cops in kilts- I don't know.
I understand these folks might have got a look at our bad guy.
Lieutenant, get me an address.
I'm gonna want to follow up with these people.
Okay.
I got confirmation from our street contact.
Says the girl over there may have shouted a warning to Nassau.
Watch her.
See where she goes.
Okay.
All right, I want statements from everybody.
Get everything bagged and tagged.
All right? Yes, sir.
Maybe I should go back.
And tell 'em what? What do you mean, "Tell 'em what?" I can identify this guy Nassau or whatever his name is.
" Oh great- "I got a good look at the guy on the last world we were on"? Who says they have to know that part? Well, we're just about set up here.
As soon as I can get all your fingerprints.
Fingerprints? Um-hmm.
I'm sorry, I overheard.
Where are you folks from? We're from out of town.
Out of town? Good- very good.
Welcome to San Francisco.
Down the corridor and to the left- 103.
Thanks.
Get me Dietrich.
Yeah, it's Calhoun.
We've got a problem.
Damn, "Dragnet; The Next Generation.
" Even the TV cops wear kilts.
What's that mean, everybody's from Scotland? Well, that's quite possible.
The Scots are a notoriously dour and repressive people.
But they did invent Scotch whiskey, which is a definite plus.
You know what I think? The less we know about this place, the better.
I'll go get some ice.
Does anybody want anything? Hey, you can't beat yourself up, sweetheart.
It could've happened to any of us.
I just feel so awful.
He looked like my father.
How could he be a cop killer? Well, maybe this guy's different on this world, Wade.
I mean, things look similar but we've barely seen the tip of the iceberg.
The man's a murderer, dewy or not, he deserves the full rigor of the law.
What are you saying? I'm "emotionally invested"? - Sweetheart- - No, he is! Yes, Miss Wells.
You are emotionally involved.
- Dangerously and criminally so.
- Don't start! All right, inside! Listen up.
Nobody gets hurt.
Oh, perfect.
Just give me an excuse.
Very simple, people.
What you saw this afternoon- you want to stay alive? We're going to pretend it never happened, understood? Police may ask you to view some mug shots, give a statement.
You don't tell them a damn thing.
Excuse me, ma'am, we're relative strangers here and we're a little in the dark.
Listen to me.
The only thing you need to know is we are watching every move you make.
Do as you're told or next time it won't be a threat.
Thank you, madam.
You have made that perfectly clear.
Okay, that did it.
Well, that's marvelous.
That dewy hero of yours was obviously involved with the Mafia.
Rembrandt, what are you doing? We've got 30 hours and some change left on this world.
I'm getting the hell out to the countryside where we've got a chance to get out of here.
Rembrandt is right.
We've had enough guns pointed at us this slide.
No.
- What do you mean? - I'm not going.
When the officer was shot, he mentioned the name "Elsie.
" Don't you get it? That's the same name the other guy whispered.
So they were fighting over a woman on both worlds.
So what? Did you hear those thugs, girl? They're going to hunt us down to kill us.
A man is dead, Rembrandt.
I may be able to help.
Fine.
You coming? Okay, Wade.
Miss Wells, this is emotional blackmail.
Okay, let's back it up to the motel for a minute.
This man and woman who confronted you- Yeah, we can't figure out how they found us.
No one knew where we were except the detective and the check-in guy- "Gomez" something.
He's the day man at the Dominion Hotel.
Check it out.
Lieutenant, when the officer was shot, he whispered something about "8:00" and the name "Elsie.
" "Elsie, The Rock.
" "The Rock"? - Yeah.
- Anything else? Yeah, a number.
"Five-four," I think.
"Elsie, The Rock, five-four, 8:00.
" Agent Taylor got the rendezvous.
We've got him.
- Really? - You've just nailed him for us, Miss Wells.
Oh, that's great.
I just felt so terrible.
I wish we had more good Americans like you.
I'll be surprised if the big boys don't authorize a seat for you in the electrocution.
What's the story with these guys? Are they Mafia or what? You have heard of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, haven't you? Yeah, you mean the A-bomb spies.
"A-bomb spies"? The circus clowns who assassinated President Kennedy.
When the full story on Judge Nassau comes out, it's going to make the Rosenbergs look like jaywalkers.
God bless you, Miss Wells, God bless America.
They called him Judge Nassau.
- Do you think he's a real judge or something? - Beats me.
He must've done something horrible if they're electrocuting him.
Wade- those are the same two who busted into our hotel room.
Let's get out of here.
First they're gangsters, now they're cops? What the hell's going on? I don't know, but I'm not sticking around to find out.
Keep hope alive! God save Judge Nassau.
Hey, my conscience is clear, you bastards! What's he being arrested for? Don't you get it? He knew we were staying here.
He can be arrested for that? I get the feeling they can do anything they want.
Come on.
Unbelievable, Mr.
Mallory.
Why didn't you ask for full police protection? They people they protect us from are cops.
Don't even try and understand.
It'll give you a headache.
Time's a-wasting, girl.
We have to get out of here.
What about this chip? - Wade, it came from another world.
We've got enough trouble.
Ow! - Oh, man.
- Nonchalance, Mr.
Brown.
We're ordinary citizens of this world.
We have nothing to fear.
Oh, yeah? Tell them that.
I think it's okay.
Yeah, for now.
How are we going to make it to the slide? That's the same barmaid.
The similarities with the last world are uncanny.
Residents were treated to a real-life version of "Presidio Vice " this afternoon, when Judge John Nassau escaped capture in a brazen shoot-out with the FBI that left one agent dead.
Judge Nassau, object of a nationwide manhunt, has been a fugitive Won't be long now.
I beg your pardon? Bastard walked right into a bear-trap.
now that Judge Nassau's underground Yes, I suppose he did.
Gave them a run for their money though, I'll say that.
Forgive me, I'm a stranger to these shores.
What exactly was Nassau a judge of? California Supreme Court.
He tried to acquit a guy the FBI wanted guilty.
Last of the fundamental Constitutionalists.
Constitutionalists? Yeah, you know, one of those free thinkers.
He said things were better before they declared martial law and abridged the Constitution.
How long have you been living under martial law? Hey, Marty, how long ago did they declare martial law? I don't know, '62, '63.
Early '60s, right after Hoover got elected.
What, Herbert Hoover? Herbert Hoover? No man, J.
Edgar- "The Stepfather of Our Country.
" Quinn, did you see that? That chip that the judge gave me.
- It's got to be some kind of CD-ROM.
- Let me see.
Judge Nassau is a California judge.
Thanks to me, he's walking right into an ambush.
I just handed him right over to the cops.
We've got to find a computer.
Come on.
This thing's so slow.
Need any help, just ask.
Appreciate it.
If the "Tolson's" too slow, you might consider upgrading.
Your basic clones are gonna be lots faster than the pre-embargo Japanese machines you'd find on the black market.
Uh, excuse me.
Could you help me over here, please? Excuse me.
All clear.
So, you're interested in music? Oh, yeah.
We have some of the latest state-approved sounds.
"Liberace Unplugged," "Jim Morrison Sings Irving Berlin" and Kurt Cobain's "Christmas Album.
" Yeah, I can see that.
Seen the new Donny Osmond video? Oh-ho, it's outrageous.
Can you believe all that plastic surgery? Man, that guy is really out there.
How do we know this is even compatible? We don't.
Looks like some sort of encryption.
Hurry up.
What's it look like I'm doing? I think I got something.
Hey, you're pretty good with this thing.
You're not the only one who knows his way around a hard drive.
- Wait, I could've- - Here we go.
"Right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects" "Against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
" So what are you looking for? "The Spinning Topps.
" Who? The singing group.
Rhythm and Blues.
Rock and Roll? Never heard of it.
Damn.
Hey, you guys won't believe this.
These people have completely suppressed the last 30 years of Rock and Roll.
- If only that was all.
- That chip the judge handed me- it's the US Constitution.
Listen to this, "Both Aristotle and Plato inveigh against the evils of democracy.
Individual liberty is leading us down a path towards anarchy, rampant crime, godless amorality, and the breakdown of the family unit.
" J.
Edgar Hoover, The Second Gettysburg Address.
I see.
Thank you for your time.
I called the public library and the research department at Bolt Law.
Nobody's ever seen an unabridged copy of the Constitution.
They seemed incredibly uncomfortable even talking to me.
It's unbelievable.
Huge portions of the main body and almost all of The Bill of Rights were expunged from the record after the Kennedy assassination.
That's got to be why they're trying to kill Nassau.
He's got the only surviving text.
But if they've already kicked him off the federal bench, what do they care? He's trying to go public with it.
There it is.
There it is.
Pull over.
Come on, Remmy.
This looks like the place.
It looks like it's popular.
How are we going to get in? The "mean green.
" Universal language.
Okay.
People are lining up to get in here? I don't get it.
Looks like my father's high school prom.
Damn, a whole nation of squares.
This reminds me of a solo gig I played in Florida, once.
The average age was "deceased.
" Two beers.
And how old's she? Am I old enough for a cola? So how's it going, man? - Listen, is Elsie working tonight? - Who? We're not really sure of her last name, but we have something that might belong to her.
There's no Elsie here.
No Elsie here? No.
This just doesn't make sense.
Let's get out of here.
There they are.
Man, I'll tell you.
That was one wild goose chase.
Why would he give me that matchbook? I still can't figure this kilt thing out.
No Elsie.
You know, the inebriate in the bar said that J.
Edgar Hoover, who was the ex-head of the FBI in our world, was President on this world for So? Maybe they're not kilts.
Maybe they're skirts.
I read a book once- it seemed quite scurrilous at the time- which suggested that J.
Edgar Hoover and his roommate, Clyde Tolson, were cross-dressers.
What? Well, maybe on this world, President Hoover was.
Maybe it was he that instituted this rather bizarre dress code.
That is unreal.
Guys, we're getting sidetracked and we're running out of time.
I just keep thinking of "Elsie The Rock.
" Maybe they meant Alcatraz Prison.
It's certainly true that on our world, Alcatraz was known as "The Rock," but it's a redundant penal system.
It hasn't been used for years.
Well, not here, necessarily.
Maybe "Elsie's" a prisoner and "five-four's" her jail cell.
So you're trying to imply that Judge Nassau was trying to give a copy of the US Constitution to a prisoner in Alcatraz? It's as coherent a theory as any.
Excuse me.
Excuse me, sir, I wonder if you could settle a bet.
I understand that Alcatraz is open to the public.
It's the second most popular tourist attraction in the nation after Hoover's tomb.
So it is no longer used as a prison? Are you kidding? Martin Luther King, Jr.
, Bobby Kennedy, Sam Kinison- all the famous political prisoners are in there, man.
You wouldn't happen to know who's in cell five-four, would you? - "Five-four"? - "The Rock, five-four"? Is that Martin Luther King, Jr.
or somebody? Skirt boys? I beg your pardon? Secret police? Do we look like secret police? Top Hat Night Club.
We just came from there.
Pirate radio.
Radio Free America.
Ask for Natalie.
Wade, let's go.
We'll meet you guys back at The Lamplighter.
I'm sorry, Wade.
This makes no sense.
How can a "geriatric ward" like this have anything to do with pirate radio or "The Rock "? Everything points to here.
It's got to be here.
Excuse me, I'm looking for someone named Natalie.
Natalie? Yes? Who are you? It's about Judge Nassau.
I've got to get a message to Elsie.
It's a setup.
How do you know this? Elsie, 10:00, The Rock, five-four, the cops know all about it.
I came from the judge.
Put that away.
Okay, come with me.
Come on, we go right through here.
Let's go.
Quinn, I don't like this.
Hi.
I need to talk to Lloyd.
Don't argue with me.
Who's Lloyd? The voice of Radio Free America.
Lloyd Clark.
"LC.
" That's "El-sie.
" You mean he's a DJ? Give me the disk.
All right, Natalie, What's this all about? This disk, you've seen what's on it? Yeah, sure, it's the US Constitution.
Don't ask me to explain.
As far as I knew, my father had the only copy.
- Father? - Who are these guys? Er, special agents.
Here to secure the judge's surrender.
What? Once the unabridged Constitution is read over the airwaves, and people realize what rights Hoover took away, my father's willing to give himself up.
Okay, LC, how soon can we get this on the air? It's a raid! This is a raid.
San Francisco PD! Everybody down! Stay down! Get that guy! - Shoot 'em! - Down, get down! Police! Drop! Stay where you are! They went that way! Get back! Move out! Move out! My car! Over here! I'll drive.
Keys! Key! Give me the keys! Okay, here.
Here.
Stay down! Don't shoot! Hold your fire! Get him out of here.
Move it! Let's go.
Come on, Nassau, move it.
Come on! Let's go! The idea was to broadcast the entire Constitution over pirate radio.
My father believes that once it's out there among the people again, it'll spread like a wildfire.
The nightmare is all of this could've been resolved peacefully.
All my father ever wanted was the reading of his manifesto.
I don't believe this.
They've got my father.
That's Gomez Calhoun.
Oh, my God.
They turned Calhoun.
What's he got to do with this? Double agent.
Quinn, we better get out of here before they see us.
Right.
Come on, please, please.
The arrest of the former justice was the result of intensive interdepartmental cooperation between the FBI and local law enforcement.
Authorities in the nation's capital hailed the arrest as a major victory in the war against subversives.
President LaRouche himself was notified of the judge's capture at 6:47 East Coast Time.
In Washington, law-makers No mention of anyone else being arrested with them.
From your lips to God's ears.
It's 10:30 a.
m.
We slide in eight hours.
Don't even go there, Professor.
I'm not leaving without them.
Certainly not, Mr.
Brown.
That was not my implication.
I resent you having that thought.
We'll just have to wait for the next window of opportunity.
- How you holding up? - I'll be okay.
What about your arm? It hurts, but I'm more worried about my father.
You wait here.
They got the judge.
I know, we saw it on television.
There must have been a million cops.
What'll they do to him? In a world without civil rights? Probably execute him on public TV.
My friends, we must not mourn this event.
That's right.
Because we're going to change it.
How're we going to change it? On the phone, you said you had something to give us.
Yep.
But not yet.
Now, look, Mr.
Brown, or whatever your name is, we took your call.
We're trying to be courteous.
I understand that you've arrested Judge Nassau and that you're in possession of a certain CD-ROM disk.
What if I said there was another copy? "No person in a criminal case shall be compelled to be against himself, nor deprived of life of liberty or the loss of property without due process of law.
" Yeah.
Once upon a time it was called the Fifth Amendment? I represent certain parties who are prepared to trade it and a whole lot more for the judge's release.
You can go to hell.
What exactly are you looking for, Mr.
Brown? A pardoning of Judge Nassau and his co-conspirators.
Complete and total exoneration and immunity from any further prosecutions- signed by President LaRouche himself.
Unacceptable.
Then you lose, friend.
Thanks for your time.
Hey, you un-American- I don't know who you are or where you came from, but you're not leaving here.
Careful- my friends are at a computer terminal at this very moment and if they don't hear from me within 15 minutes, they will launch the unabridged US Constitution over the Internet.
Millions upon millions of computer hackers will wake up to The Bill of Rights over their e-mail.
Now you try putting the genie back in that bottle.
It's a bluff.
Be quiet.
You try me, Detective.
But before you risk the future of this nightmare republic, maybe you ought to call Washington.
You'll take a lie detector that this is the only other copy? I'd insist.
They're late.
You think they're calling our bluff? It's not a bluff.
It is an unenviable choice.
One man's life in exchange for a social contract that could revitalize a democracy.
Ideas are great, Professor, but they're nothing without good people to fight for them.
Mr.
Mallory the idea of freedom is reborn with every generation.
Only one generation ever created the US Constitution.
Someone's coming.
I want the disk.
Not until he's safely away.
Why? No time for explanations, Your Honor.
Come over to the car.
Go on, get out of here.
The disk! Right here.
It'll come out eventually, you know.
You can't suppress the truth forever.
What do you know about the truth, you traitor? You moron.
You're about to destroy the most important document in the history of this country and you don't even know it! - You want a piece of me? - Stow it, Ray.
Anytime.
We'll be meeting again, "big tough guy.
" For your sake, I hope you're wrong.
Well done, my boy.
It's hard to find the words to thank you.
Keep hope alive.
We'll try, my friend.
We have no other choice.
Sir, it has been a privilege to meet you.
Your courage and your integrity are an inspiration to all of us.
We're all united in our struggle for a better future.
I was prepared to die, you know.
I know.
I hope you understand I did what I thought was right.
Things may not be as hopeless here as you think.
Age before beauty.
After you.
Go, girl! Are you okay? Yeah, I think so.
You gotta be strong.
Both of you.
I gotta go.
Will I ever see you again? I wish I understood all this.
Where's there's mystery, there's hope.
Keep hope alive! Hey, what's all this gobble de gook? I don't know.
Some girl was in here playing on it earlier.
What is it, a new video game? Hold on What the hell is this? Oh- oh, my God.
"We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union" Karen! Karen! Come here.
" establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense" "Promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
" - It's the Constitution.
- I'm looking at it.
- Check this out! - This is amazing!