Sliders s03e21 Episode Script

[People shouting.]
[People chanting.]
[Shouting.]
[People continue chanting.]
[Hissing.]
No! Please, no.
[Coughing.]
[Whooshing.]
[Rembrandt exclaiming.]
You know what else I miss about Professor? Soft landings.
Whenever he was around, I always had a cush spot to aim for.
So you were aiming? [Wheezes.]
What does this gizmo tell us? Rickman landed about here and he hasn't slid out yet.
We don't have much time to find him.
Less than two days on the [all coughing.]
World.
What's wrong with you guys? I think it's the fog.
[Coughing.]
I can't breathe.
We have to get you guys out of the fog.
Rembrandt, grab Wade.
Come on! [Wade coughing.]
[All coughing.]
I told you they'd be coming for me.
(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.
I guess now we know how Maggie must've felt when she landed on our world and couldn't breathe.
There's a path over there and I think it leads to a town just below.
Where'd Maggie go? (Quinn) She went back in? I told her not to.
She's gonna get herself killed.
She can breathe in there, Q-Ball.
She should be okay.
And when she can't? I'm going after her.
No way.
Look, you're not risking your life.
Look, I know it sounds cold, okay, but where do we draw the line, huh? We've already lost one of us.
I don't want that to happen again.
Does that "us" include Maggie? So that's how it is.
It's us, then her? Relax, guys.
I wouldn't want you to risk your precious lives.
Nice to know where you stand, though.
Any sign of Rickman? No.
Let's head into town, see if he made a visit there.
I'm going back in, higher up this time.
I'll catch up with you guys in town.
Maggie, we've been through this.
We don't split up unless we have to.
We stick together.
We work as a team.
Team? I got the impression I wasn't officially on the team.
Congratulations.
You've just been drafted.
That's okay, guys.
I was never a very good team player.
Beckett! You go back into that fog, you lose your bus ticket through the inter-dimension.
When Rickman slides, you're stuck here.
No way to track him, no way to avenge your husband's death.
Now, like it or not, you're one of us.
Nice to know where you stand, though.
(man #1) You better watch those over there! [Dog barking.]
(man #2) Y'all don't try nothing strange.
Y'all just, uh, passing through town, right? Actually, you know, we're thinking of buying property in the area.
Maybe you could point us towards the realtor's office? Your woman needs to be taught some manners.
And I bet you're just the person to do that, huh? Billy T, you leave those folks alone.
(boy) Mom! Bye.
Don't mind Billy T, he ain't never been to Miss Porter's.
Hanged man.
Good card.
Wisdom, self-sacrifice, sometimes death.
Hard to tell from just one turn.
Sit down.
I'll do your read.
Oh, please.
I'm with you on this.
She's blind.
In tarot legends, a blind seer is the most powerful of all.
Guys, a clinic.
(Quinn) Nice place to check out blood types.
Yeah.
He needs fresh brain cells to stay alive.
No! You are not what I expected.
Your face is different.
Sorry to disappoint you.
It ain't about me.
Y'all must leave these hills.
Death is waiting on you.
It's your choice.
You're not responsible for him.
Oh, yeah.
She's normal.
She's scared.
(Quinn) Wade? Look, she might be for real, Quinn.
L I think we should hear her out.
I'm gonna ask her what she saw.
Oh, come on! We don't have time for this! Let her go.
Let's see what the clinic can tell us.
(Adra) He's here to save himself.
That's all.
You tell him that.
And he's not to go into the fog.
How do you know Quinn? [Chair creaking.]
Quinn, that his name? Yeah.
That boy's in trouble.
I've seen him at night.
He can't sleep for his fears.
It's been really hard on him lately.
We lost somebody that he cared about very much.
Is that why he beckons death? Why he waits for the ax to strike? No.
Quinn's not like that.
He's looking for death.
He'll find it in the fog.
Adra, we're here looking for a man who brings death with him.
Maybe that's what you see in the fog.
Quinn's death will be by his own hand.
There ain't no other involved.
Beware the Foggins.
They live above the fog line.
They'll steal your life away while you ain't looking.
Don't tempt them.
We won't.
The man you seek wears a uniform.
He's one of them now.
He exists up there, but he's not strong.
He only gets half a life.
That's right.
He leaves his victims in comas.
Look, Adra, please, if you can help us.
We need to stop him.
Hello? Well, either Rickman's been here already, or they are not very big on filing.
Type "A," "A negative," "B," "O.
" "Theodore Lloyd.
" The address has been ripped out.
"Lucy LaCroix.
" Her info sheet's been ripped out, too.
It's like he's making a list of donors for his booster shots.
He needs more info than just blood types for an injection.
Otherwise he'd just be shooting in the dark.
Well, take a look at this place.
Not exactly the hub of modern medicine.
All right.
Let's make a list of the files he took.
We'd better find those people before (Rembrandt) What is it? A burned-out microchip.
His timer fried.
Wade, we've got Rickman.
His timer burned a chip on entry.
He's here somewhere looking for his next victim.
He got her.
Last night.
He attacked a girl named Lucy LaCroix.
(Rembrandt) She's on the list.
He's gonna keep doing this until we stop him.
Look, we've got 17 names of people left on that list that he may go after.
Now, will she help us with addresses? First you see Lucy.
Adra wants us to take a look at Lucy.
See if we can do anything for her.
It's better we warn the others before the Colonel strikes again.
If you want my help, you gotta help Lucy.
I still think it were the Foggins.
Foggins? I'll explain on the way.
If he didn't get his injection on the last world, he might be getting a little desperate.
Yeah, I would be, too, if I had a fungus attacking my brain.
We're here.
[Birds chirping.]
[Door closes.]
How's she doing? No change.
They got her.
They got her good.
Who are they? They say they can help her.
How? If we could see her, we could tell you more.
This has nothing to do with your fog men.
The man we're after did this to your daughter.
I got a shot at him before he disappeared into the fog.
Did you hit him? You bet.
Left a trail of blood out there.
I'm not sure there's much we can do for her.
I'm sorry.
Not your fault, but I appreciate it.
(Quinn) Definitely Rickman.
Not a very neat job, either.
I don't think he got his full injection.
Well, that's good.
That ups the odds she can come out of this.
How do you figure that? Back at the base, they were experimenting with neural stimulation techniques on the coma victims.
It was working.
If they would have lived, they would have made it.
You know what techniques they were using? Yeah, l I think so.
Good.
You stay here and work with Lucy.
We're gonna go back to the fog line.
Bunt shot at Rickman, says he got a piece of him.
Which means maybe he didn't get that far.
That's what I'm thinking.
(Bunt) Come along.
Let's go.
[Door closes.]
[Birds cawing.]
Here's where I got him.
Well, something was hit.
Let's hope it was short, with an English accent.
Let's hope he's up there suffering.
Remember, this is just a recon job.
We don't know how it'll affect you after more than a few minutes.
I was okay the last time.
You weren't in that long.
You start coughing, you get right back here.
Won't do much good, but it might give you a minute.
If she don't make it back, you'll need it to bring her out.
(Bunt) Fog's poison.
Kills you if you breathe too much.
[Maggie coughs.]
[Watch beeping.]
(Rickman) Maggie, is that you? Maggie, you're looking for me, aren't you? Colonel? Col.
Rickman! Oh, yes, it's me! [Chuckling.]
I'm sorry about Steven.
But he wasn't really man enough for you, was he? Maybe I did you a favor.
You bastard! [Gasps.]
[Gasping.]
[Coughing.]
Oh, yes, it's me.
The face has a way of changing with these injections.
We're different, Maggie.
Our lungs are stronger.
It hurts to breathe now.
But in a couple of days, you'll get used to it.
You'll even start to enjoy it.
[Coughing.]
It's not time yet, but soon.
Tell Mallory that.
Soon.
Maggie! Maggie! Maggie! [Grunting.]
Come on, it's me! It's me! Here.
Come on.
I've got you.
Let's go.
[Coughing.]
(Maggie) He told me to tell you: Soon.
L I have no idea what that means.
Are you sure it was him? It was the Colonel.
I know it.
I don't care if you believe me or not.
It doesn't make sense.
It was him, but it didn't look like him? I know.
But you heard her.
Probably just the fog playing tricks.
Has a way of making you see things.
How is that? What's in it? It's got a power of its own.
Don't know why.
It's sulfur.
You can smell it.
Must be a volcano under here.
The fog forms when hot vapors hit the air.
It also explains why it chokes people.
The oxygen is binding with the sulfur.
Your lungs can't break it up when they need to.
You've been hanging out with me way too long.
Don't I know it.
(Adra) Wade, let the girl rest.
She's too far in the fog.
Your methods can't reach her.
I was sure this would work.
We've given your ways a chance.
Now, let's try mine.
In order to beat the haints, you gotta go into their world.
The fog outside is the darkness.
All of us have it inside.
You gotta move past the haze, y'all come to the truth.
This fog, this darkness, it's our creature.
We make it.
We control it.
It'll do our bidding.
A strand of your hair.
If we're to cast off the evil for Lucy, it couldn't hurt to throw in a little spell for you, too.
Thanks.
I'm sure I could use one.
I am, too.
It ain't a game, Wade.
You're in danger, all of you.
If you can't defeat the evil, the evil defeats you.
You gotta be strong if you're ever gonna complete this journey.
No ifs.
I'm getting home or I'm gonna die trying.
Oh, my God.
Lucy? What's happening? She passed out again.
Sweet Jay! She's up.
(Wade) She's burning up.
I don't remember the other victims going through anything like this.
It's the Foggins, struggling to keep her.
Be strong, Luce.
You can beat them.
How's she doing? Well, all they keep saying is, "It's them.
Them.
" There is no "them.
" The girl is sick.
If she doesn't get any medical attention, she's going to die.
There's got to be a hospital here somewhere.
I'll go check it out.
I'll go with you.
No hospitals.
She'll be fine.
Look, no offense, Mr.
LaCroix, but you don't know that.
Now, what you know for sure is that Lucy is getting worse, not better.
It's like Adra says, sometimes it's like that before you come out of the fog.
It has nothing to do with Adra or the fog, sir.
She's fighting some type of an infection.
She needs antibiotics.
Don't you see that you're letting her die by holding onto your superstitions? Look.
Give her a chance.
Let us take her to a hospital.
She's my daughter.
I ain't gonna let her die.
Adra's spell casting worked once.
It'll work again.
He's making a big mistake.
Adra, maybe you can say something to him? It ain't no use.
Bunt lost his wife in a hospital.
He's not about to lose a child, too.
Besides, local hospitals don't much understand the hold the Foggins have.
Oh, you fools.
(Wade) Remmy.
(Rembrandt) Look, they're risking her life.
In my book, that makes them fools.
Maybe you think we're fools.
Maybe we are.
But the craft is our faith.
In my book, faith is all that really matters.
Beware the fog.
You mustn't go in.
If you do, you'll never come out.
I'll be fine.
(Wade) Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's not real.
I would've thought that you, of all people, would get that.
Yeah, well, I don't.
Not in this case.
Is it just me, or is Remmy acting a little touchy today? A little.
We all are.
It might be aftereffects from the fog.
(Maggie) I think he's fine.
He's just not buying into all of Adra's phony powers.
Maggie, you haven't been to the places I've been.
You haven't seen the things I've seen.
So don't judge me or my beliefs.
Found a still, huh? All these jars are labeled "Witches' Butter.
" Maybe that's their moonshine.
I guess.
Remmy, please.
Look, l l I don't know why this whole thing with Adra has you feeling the way that you do.
Yeah.
You're right.
You don't.
So tell me.
Remmy, all I meant was that you, out of all of us, have a faith that guides you, just like Adra and Bunt do.
Wade, there is a difference between faith and superstition.
So don't compare me to them! I'm sorry you're upset.
I'm also sorry that you can't put your anger aside to listen to my apology.
[Crickets chirping.]
(Quinn) There were 17 possible targets on Rickman's hit list.
Six are pretty close.
The rest are spread for miles.
I know the Colonel.
He's going to hone in on the six that are easiest to hit.
All right.
Choose three and grab Remmy.
Wade and I'll take the others.
[Crickets chirping.]
You want to talk about it? What happened to you out there today? I told you.
I saw Rickman.
You told me what you saw.
What you didn't tell me is how you felt.
Must've been pretty scary.
Passing out, almost dying? You don't expect me to get all weepy now, do you? What was I thinking? I have no idea.
Hey, Wade just come in here? We thought she was with you.
(Wade) Help! Rickman.
He'll take her into the fog.
(Quinn) Wade! Wade! [Gasping.]
[Rickman laughing.]
[Gun firing.]
You crazy? You could hit her! (Quinn) Wade? I'm okay.
He didn't get me.
(Wade) There he is.
Quinn, wait! This doesn't feel right.
[Gun cocking.]
He's out there.
I'll head him off.
[Quinn coughing.]
(Rickman) Having trouble breathing, Mallory? Weird in here, isn't it? The fog makes you see things, or does it? Just a little more, Mallory.
Breathe it in.
[Wheezing.]
Watch out.
He's in there.
We gotta get you out of here.
You gonna pull back before the mission's finished? You always were slow on the draw, Beckett.
[Gun firing.]
Damn it, Mallory! I almost had him! [Exclaims.]
[Groans.]
Excellent.
Let's get them up the mountain.
No! [Groans.]
[Rembrandt coughing.]
No sign of them.
Damn it! They should've just let Rickman go.
Quinn thought he had a stab at it.
In there? It's like nothing's real in the fog.
I'll tell you what's real.
Quinn's gone and we've got You know, when I was in the fog, something kept flashing in my mind.
That Witches' Butter.
The shed smelled a lot like the fog.
Yeah.
Figured you'd seen the still.
What's the deal, Bunt? I know it's connected to the fog.
Without the Witches' Butter, you can't make the tea.
Without the tea, you can't go into the fog.
Look, Bunt, we've gotta go back in there.
If your tea makes that possible It's a fresh batch.
Needs time to mellow.
We don't have time.
Even when it's aged, most folks can't keep it down.
Yeah, well, we can stomach it.
Look, we may need a guide.
Oh, hell, no! Risky enough just going in there trying to get quick grabs.
Any more than that, Foggins'll kill you for sure.
[Sighing.]
All right.
Look, how much of it do we have to drink? [Chuckles.]
You'll know when to stop.
It kind of decides for you.
Then wait 20 minutes before starting out.
Canteen's in there, too.
Thanks.
Look, you keep Lucy doing those exercises.
She'll be just fine.
Wouldn't suggest it normally, but Adra took to you.
In your shoes, I'd ask her about the village.
(Maggie) Rickman! Show your face! I know you're behind this! Quinn! Where are you taking her? Fight them, Maggie! Rickman! Let me out of here! Open up this damn cage.
It's not my decision.
I told him he was wasting his time.
You're not like us.
But he wants to help you.
Who? I told him you wouldn't understand.
They've drugged you, Rickman.
Oh, no.
They don't have to.
It's the fog.
All that sulfur builds up on the brain.
He understands, man.
I mean, he really understands why I had to do what I did.
You're a butcher.
That's all.
I wouldn't get too cozy in all that righteousness if I was you, Mallory.
[Snickering.]
Without you, I wouldn't be sliding.
I'm gonna get you, Rickman.
Nothing's gonna keep me from it.
Still worked up about your dead professor? You bastard! [Laughing.]
You know what the funny thing is? They were going to kill me.
Then I told him about you.
How you were following after me.
Then everything changed.
You're my savior, man.
(Adra) I warned you not to let him go.
He's been taken.
We need to get to the village.
Bunt said you could take us.
[Rembrandt snorts.]
(Rembrandt) This is so damn typical.
You sit there smoking, acting like you know everything.
When people come to you with a concrete problem, something you can help them with, all of a sudden, you know nothing.
I was wrong about you.
Thought you really didn't want to know.
Thought that Haiti was in your way.
I just want to know where Quinn's been taken.
That's all.
If you have any idea, the least you could do is tell us.
A village up the mountain way.
Where I was born.
You're one of them? True.
Born and raised.
But even by their gauge, I was wild.
I fell in love with one from here.
I gave him the power of the butter witch so he could come visit me in the fog.
They killed him, and blinded me for crossing the line.
I'm so sorry, Adra.
(Adra) My people see no betweens.
The blind on me is what the eyes of them won't bear.
All they fear, I see now.
Can we use their fear against them to get Quinn back? You won't get Quinn back.
If you make it to the village, burn this.
They'll respect its power.
For your journey up the mountain.
Thanks.
We work better in the dark.
Come on.
All right.
Let me go, damn it! Whatever you're planning, you can forget it.
Oh, no.
Not again.
[Exhales.]
Water.
Please, water.
[Villagers chattering.]
I bet he'd be happy if he knew I was thirsty? Let me out of this cage, or I kill you.
[Croaks.]
Say something.
(Quinn 2) You're not a killer.
Not yet.
You're almost there.
You shouldn't have stopped, though.
To die in the hands of a god, that's what they want.
That's what we all want.
(Rembrandt) The tea is working.
I can breathe, but my mind's acting a little wild.
Mine, too.
Here.
Oh! [Rembrandt exclaims.]
[Coughs.]
You don't look so good.
Oh, it's the tea.
Look, I'm sorry about the way I've been treating you.
I guess, uh, this slide has just gotten to me a little, huh.
It seemed like Adra knew why.
Yeah, well [sighs.]
Something did happen back there in Haiti.
I was stationed there for a while, and, uh, I made a good friend with one of the locals.
He was a lot like Adra.
He had more heart than anybody I've known.
[Chuckles.]
And God, did he have a voice.
What he didn't know was that I had hooked him up with my record label.
And so the day that I told him, he, he just thanked me and said that he was going to die.
You see, he had had his cards read that day.
No wonder you reacted like you did.
I mean, it wasn't that he just gave up on life, Wade.
It was how he made it a crusade.
You know, wanting to prove to me that it would happen the way the cards said.
[Sighs.]
I tell you, that superstitious will, it took him down, right before my eyes.
He believed himself to death.
I'm sorry, Remmy.
Yeah, yeah.
What a freaking waste.
[Coughs.]
Come on.
[Villagers chattering.]
You let these people worship you? Now I know I'm right.
You're exploiting them.
They see you vortex in, of course they're gonna think you're a god.
You can't use it like this.
Being worshipped means nothing to me.
This has to do with our salvation.
Our salvation? Hard to believe, you've been sliding almost as long as I have.
What do you know about me? Three years ago, on your home world, I gave you the final part of the equation.
Without me, you would never be here.
That can't be you.
No one could change that much.
Strip your friends away.
Slide alone like I have, you'd be just like me.
Here I am.
The undeniably horrible.
The unimaginably disgusting proof, that I'm you without your friends.
(Maggie) No! What are you going to do with her? It's a simple equation.
Much more simple than the one I solved for you.
You kill me, the villagers will let you live.
You do nothing, she dies.
You're insane.
And you are weak.
But I'm gonna help you with that.
Clean him up.
Take him to the cave.
You don't have to live like this.
We slide out of here soon.
Slide with us! I'll never slide again.
(Rembrandt) If we don't find that village soon, we'll be drinking tea here for the next 29 years.
(Wade) We've got to be close.
We've been out of the fog over an hour.
If we are close, I can't tell here.
See what you can make out of it.
[People chanting.]
Do you hear that? You can't fix his timer.
You can't let him keep sliding.
A deal's a deal.
Get it now, Mallory? I bring you to him, he fixes my timer and I'm on my merry way.
He's a killer.
Wouldn't be the first time I helped one.
[Electronic beeping.]
No.
Think about what you're doing.
It's done.
[Whooshing.]
Man, what happened to you? The Kromags happened to me.
Don't feel sorry for me.
I'm responsible for the Kromags.
[Whooshing.]
(Quinn 2) Responsible for all the worlds they pillaged.
The populations they enslaved.
They couldn't have done it without me.
You gave them the equation? I gave them the formula and they destroyed my home.
Hate me, like they hate.
Instinctively.
The Kromags act with a crystal-like willful intelligence.
The brilliance of that.
You have to see it.
You don't believe that.
You can't believe that.
[Beeping.]
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
Your friends, they're coming for you, aren't they? Probably.
Must be nice.
Must be nice? They're probably gonna die in that fog trying to get here! Don't worry.
The fog changes everything inside of you.
Shut up! [Whispers.]
I'm trying to open your mind.
You see what I really am.
I want you to hate me.
You have to.
You have to kill me.
I need to know I've done something to turn things around.
Killing you won't change anything.
It will change you.
It will make you strong like them.
Strong enough to get home, to protect it, to protect the ones you love.
Like I couldn't.
This is how it all started.
Just an equation on a wall.
God only knows where it will lead us.
What horrors.
I need you, Quinn.
I need you to stop me.
I can't stop myself.
This is the end.
[People chanting.]
Either me or her? Your choice.
No.
[Quinn 2 grunts.]
[Grunts.]
[People chanting.]
[People continue chanting.]
We're gonna need Adra's power.
You got the bag? Yeah.
So who's gonna run out there and test it out? [People continue chanting.]
You always do paper.
Yeah, and you always do rock.
Look, never mind, I'll do it.
No.
It's okay.
I'll distract them.
You just make sure you get her out alive.
You realize you're asking me to risk my life for her, right? We drafted her.
I will not become like you.
[Both grunting.]
Finish me.
Kill me.
Save her and yourself.
I won't kill you, but they might, when they find out you're not a god but just a man.
[People chanting.]
[People exclaiming.]
You'll be free in a sec.
Where's Q-Ball? In one of the caves.
[Rembrandt grunting.]
[Maggie exclaims.]
[People exclaiming.]
[Quinn screaming.]
Wade! Come on, girl! (Rembrandt) Go! You okay? Yeah.
Go! [Whooshing.]