Sliders

The wormhole opens onboard a plane in midair, as the Sliders leap in from Eskimo world. They find a party going on, but when turbulence forces the plane into a nose-dive, the Sliders find no crew in the cockpit. They are doomed. The Sliders discover it is a simulation, and the passengers -- all strong, young types -- disembark into a warehouse. A video screen announces the beginning of "the game," as the passengers choose from a selection of weapons. The Sliders elect not to join the game, but overbearing heat from panels built into the ceiling forces them out!

While the Sliders explore an Earth nearly depleted of natural resources, a beautiful woman, Monique (Mari Morrow), mistakes Rembrandt for his double and flies him to Los Angeles, agreeing to return him before the next Slide. Later, the remaining three are chased by a group of motorcycles, and one motorcyclist, Logan St. Clair (Zoe McLellan), knows they are Sliders.

A peaceful desert is shattered as the wormhole opens and a bobsled shoots out, bearing the Sliders. When they come to a stop, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) notices the timer is malfunctioning. A short distance away, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) sees a small boy jump into a tornado, "surfing" it. When he slips, Quinn jumps in to save the boy, who runs off and vanishes. The group crosses the desert and spots another twister, which disappears in a flash of lightning. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) theorizes the planet is electrically charged, creating these tornadoes and causing the timer to malfunction.

After an examination at a hospital, Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) tells Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) that he has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Quinn convinces him to continue sliding with the group, and they land in a San Francisco of the mid-1980's. They have not gone back in time; this Earth rotates faster, causing a slowing of time. Quinn sees a funeral in progress, and realizes it is his father's. Then he recognizes a boy as a younger version of himself.

The Sliders slide from a Mardi Gras dimension into an amusement park and witness an accident between a skater and a bicyclist. The biker, Gerald (Zach Ward), touches the skater and tells him to drop dead. Moments later the skater dies. The Sliders rush to help him, but when a policewoman sees who the biker is, she cancels the ambulance. When the Sliders complain, the policewoman tells them to leave, that they are only causing problems. As they go, the biker, Gerald, stops Wade (Sabrina Lloyd), telling her that he will see her "in your dreams."

As the Sliders cross a desert, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) asks Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) about his failing health, and is told to keep quiet. They enter a small town, looking for water, and see a girl, Devin (Gina Phillips), being abducted. As Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) watches this, the girl sends her a telepathic message: "help me."

Skuldar (Max Grodenchik), a gnome-like man, chases the beautiful Melinda (Michelle Rene Thomas) through a forest. Just as he knocks her unconscious, the vortex opens and Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) smashes into him. When Skuldar hears that Quinn's last name is Mallory, he turns into a hawk and flies away. Skuldar reports to Gareth (Gregory Martin), a powerful Druid. Thinking there were no Mallorys left, Gareth supposes Quinn must be a wizard.

Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is in a batting cage trying to win a wager when the other Sliders enter, telling him it is time. They jump into the wormhole, and end up, for a few seconds, in a world of fire. Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) sees a small flame moving toward them, then they slide. Landing near an oil refinery, they head toward town in search of money, since Rembrandt had bet all their money on the aborted game. The small flame follows them...

While waiting at a hospital, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derrick) is mistaken for the Duke (Clinton Derricks-Carroll) by the pregnant Duchess Danielle (Victoria Mahoney). Thinking she needs a transfusion, he goes into surgery with her. Only later do Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) and Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) find out that it's not a transfusion, but a transference of the fetus.

The Sliders arrive on Hollywood Boulevard, and while walking along, come across a wallet on the sidewalk. Everyone seems wary of approaching it, but when Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) reaches for it, a woman, Taryn Miller (Perrey Reeves), fires a dart at him, but misses. The Sliders run, evading Taryn. At a bar, they discover that in this world, crime is almost nonexistent, due to a game show that has replaced lawyers and courts to determine criminals' fates. Taryn shows up, arrests Quinn and takes him to the studios, turning him over to "The Show's" sleazy producer, Phil (Fredric Lane).

The Sliders land in city devoid of people, with a purple sky. Coming across a wrecked robot, they see a truck chasing two men, firing laser bolts at them. The Sliders run, also, and just after the men are gunned down, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) is shot. The truck driver, Paul (Jerry Rector), scans the runners and Quinn. No signs of life...

The Sliders slide onto a church yard from a world ruled by pygmies. In the church, a woman asks Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) to hold her baby as she prays. She then runs off, and as the Sliders give chase, they see her board an employee bus to the Sky High Plaza. Before the priest turns the child over to welfare, Arturo asks for two days to search for the mother. The Sliders ride an escalator up to the Sky High Plaza, a city-within-a-mall that floats in the sky, where shoppers are urged to spend, spend, spend.

In a world governed by the corporate world, the Sliders find themselves standing out in the business suit crowd by their casual dress. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), enraged when someone spills coffee on him, is quickly accosted by several people in suits, who sedate him and take him away. Arturo is placed under the care of Dr. Bolivar (David Purdham), who brainwashes him into thinking he is Reginald Doyle, a Sherlock Holmes-type detective.

In the shadows of the Los Angeles pyramids, the Sliders find a world where Egyptian dynasties never ended. A procession of guards escorting a large crate approaches the group, when something in the crate bursts free, attacking a young woman. Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) and Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) rescue Sheila (Claudette Mink) from a giant insect's claw, but they are arrested for touching the sacred scarab. Quinn, injured in the attack, is sent to a hospital, and Wade and Sheila are sent to the pyramid...

On the coast, a seismologist phones his supervisor with news about some strange readings. That evening, he is abducted by three men and taken to a deserted cove. They strand him down there and something tunneling underground pulls him down beneath the sand. The Sliders land on a beach outside the town of Paradise. While walking to town, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) intervenes when he sees a man about to attack a young woman, and scares him away. The woman, Laurie (Lara Steinick), is looking for her assistant, Michael (Todd Babcock). She sent him there to conduct geological surveys of the area and he hasn't checked in since last night...

The Sliders land in a city besieged by looters, as defense sirens wail. They come across a vagrant, who blames the Russians. Apparently, the Cold War has not ended in this dimension. Suddenly, a car races around the corner, flipping and exploding. The Sliders try to rescue the driver, who mumbles something about a trajectory being wrong. As he dies, the Sliders notice blood seeping from a gunshot wound. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) recognizes the man as Dr. Jariabek, a noted cosmologist.

As Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) listens to radio broadcasts from the dying world, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) slides into the military base's lab with an unconscious Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) in his arms -- and the Slider's home coordinates recorded in the timer. The other Sliders show up, excited about the news that they can go home, but Quinn tells them that they must wait until they have finished the sliding device he promised in order to save some of these people.

The Sliders land in an eerie, dark alley, stumbling across dead bodies. Examining the corpses, they find a half-eaten body and determine it was devoured by other humans. Suddenly, one of the dead comes to life and bites Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) on the leg...

As the Sliders escape from a jungle world where flying parasites are swarming over them, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is attacked by one. Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) rips it away, and they slide to the next world, where Maggie collapses with green foam bubbling from her mouth. Paramedics soon arrive on the scene, blasting Maggie's body with frozen nitrogen. Now in suspended animation, they take her away to a hospital where Dr. Sylvius (Dawnn Lewis) is put in charge of the frozen Maggie.

In an idyllic but dying land, the Sliders encounter a technologically--deficient people and the creatures who live beneath them.

A man wearing a gas mask picks flowering plants from a foggy forest, when he is set upon by a group of the natives. They cut the hose, and watch him die, gasping. Shortly, the Sliders land in the forest and all but Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) start coughing and gasping. She leads them out of the fog, while the natives, accompanied by Colonel Rickman (Neil Dickson), watch their struggle...

On a world where California is part of Mexico, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) and Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) take a "vacation" to Zamora. When they are bumped from their flight back, they luck onto a plane chartered by Kyra (Julie St. Claire). As they takeoff, a military Jeep chases them, shooting at the plane. In flight to Los Angeles (now called Delgado), Kyra tells them the crates she's transporting contain two poisonous tri-adders, whose venom will be used to cure diseases.

The Sliders land in a gypsy village, to find several comatose or dead victims. Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) realizes Rickman is acting desperately, and they follow him to a world they've visited before -- the world Maggie's people arrived in to escape the destruction of their world. Upon arrival, they encounter huge, plant-eating dinosaurs. Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is excited about the dinosaurs, but Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is more excited that he will once again see Malcolm, the boy whose life he saved.

As a packed crowd waits for the Gothic band Stoker to take the stage, a stagehand introduces a lovely girl, Mina (Leslie Monique Soule), to the band. The lead singer, Morgan (Ryan Alosio), takes her to the side and buries his fangs in her neck. Later, out in the crowd gathered for the performance, Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) watches the band. In the morning, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) suggests that they split up to find Rickman (Neil Dickson); Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) agrees, though he's curious about all the missing girls in this city.

The Sliders land in the ocean, and swim to the nearby beach, where they realize California has become a chain of islands. They enter the dense undergrowth, feeling that something is watching them. They're right: something chases them....