#K2815 - "Slidecage" - 1st Green Revs. 11/25/97                                                              1.

SLIDERS

"Slidecage"

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2A   INT/EXT. HOTEL DECK - DAY - ON FERNS AND GREENERY (D1)

REMBRANDT
Lower...a little lower..now a
little to the right...that's it...perfect.

2B   ON REMMY AND MAGGIE

Soft music is playing .  Remmy is lying on a massage table under a towel, 
getting worked over by a beautiful masseuse. Maggie is sitting in a 
beach chair next to a table, wearing bikini, holding a reflector under
her chin to concentrate the rays.  Remmy just groans as masseuse works.  
After a moment, a muscular young man in shorts brings Maggie a
drink on a tray.  She takes it, he starts away.

MAGGIE
Thank you.

The waiter leaves.

She sips the drink.

REMBRANDT
A cryin' shame to have to leave a place like
this.

MAGGIE
No Kromaggs. No bad cops. A world where good
tans and massages are compulsory.

Maggie finishes her drink.

QUINN 
This is really just an inversion of the Lorentz
transformation. See: x prime equals x minus UT.

Rembrandt and Maggie look over to see Quinn and Colin at a nearby table,
engrossed in the laptop computer before them.  Its screen shows a diagram
of the two micro-dots, spewing out numbers, which then combine into a complex scroll of equations.

COLIN
I still cannot quite grasp the geometry of 
space-time.

QUINN
Be patient.  Got to give yourself space.  
And time.

MAGGIE
Hey, how about you geniuses take a break, 
get the kinks out?

QUINN
You're loose enough for the rest of us. 
(holds up the timer) Two minutes thirty.  
Everybody out of the pool.

Maggie and Rembrandt grumble.  Rembrandt tips his masseuse, who exits.  He
and Maggie go off behind two changing screens, their heads visible above them
as they change.

REMBRANDT
So what do you think it'll be this time? Polar
ice world? Talking dog world?

QUINN
For once, I can tell you. (excitedly, off Colin)
We're going home.

Rembrandt and Maggie are stunned.

REMBRANDT
You're kidding.

MAGGIE
You said the data from the micro-dots your 
parents left you was all scrambled.

QUINN
I thought Colin's micro-dot was damaged. 
(shakes his head) Turns out it was designed 
that way to keep other folks from accessing 
the coordinates.

Rembrandt and Maggie emerge, fully dressed.

REMBRANDT
'Folks' like the Kromaggs.

QUINN
Yeah.  But I found a hidden de-ecryption 
program keyed to our specific DNA... and 
there she is.

The rows of numbers on the laptop's screen fall away to reveal a simple line of numbers.  Everyone's jazzed.

REMBRANDT
Finding out how they beat the Kromaggs will 
be worth the whole price
of admission.

MAGGIE
Home to meet the parents.....

QUINN
Our parents, bro.  Like the sound of that?

COLIN
Yes.

Quinn hands him the timer, smiles.

QUINN
Then hit it.

Quinn stashes the computer in a knapsack as Colin pushes the button. The timer
SHOOTS OUT A BEAM.  Our guys run, Quinn with the knapsack, and jump through 
the VORTEX.

3  INT. LABYRINTH - MAGNETIC CORRIDOR - NIGHT (N1)

Our guys SLIDE IN, get to their feet, look about.  The place is futuristic in
design, but rundown. They're in a long corridor, lit only in patches, equipment
lying about, wiring hanging from the ceiling. A felling of chaos.

COLIN
This isn't quite what I was expecting.

REMBRANDT
Hello! Hey!  Where's the welcome wagon?

MAGGIE
Let's just find the exit.

They walk along, casting about. Rembrandt moves ahead

QUINN
Air's got a metallic taste. Like it's processed.

MAGGIE
That still doesn't tell us where we are.

REMBRANDT 
I think we're a long way from home.

Rembrandt.  He stands, looking out a window.  The other join him and
gape in surprise.

4  THEIR POINT OF VIEW - OUT THE WINDOW

A barren, alien terrain stretches to the horizon.  The NIGHT SKY is afire with
weirdly colored clouds, a tapestry of unfamiliar stars and TWO MOONS in the sky.

5  THE SLIDERS

peer out worriedly, as we ......

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