24. Double Cross

Aired:		Friday, September 27, 1996
Filmed:		???
Production #:	K1801 	
Network #:	SL-301		
Written By:	Tony Blake and Paul Jackson	
Directed By:	Richard Compton
Music By:	Stephen Graziano
Edited By:	Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.

Ratings:			Competition:
	Viewers: 8.6		ABC:	8:30	"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" (17.2/35)
	Rating:	5.6 		ABC: 	8:00 	"Family Matters" (15.1/40)
	Share:	10 		NBC:	8:00 	"Unsolved Mysteries" (13.0/43)
	Rank:	88/116		CBS:	8:00 	"Dave's World" (9.5/70)
				CBS:	8:30	"Everybody Loves Raymond" (8.9/79) 
				Fox:	8 :00 	"Sliders" (8.6/88)

Repeated: 	Not repeated on Fox.
Logline: On a world that is quickly running out of its natural resources, the Sliders discover a secret scientific group that is trying to develop sliding as a cure for its world’s problems.
World From:
Wardrobe World : The only thing known about this world is that Remmy bought new boots and a sniny new suit that looks a lot like the one he wore in the "Pilot."
Duration:
Unknown.
World Into:
Resource World : Where the Earth, or at least America, has run out of usable natural resources. On this world, Rembrandt is touring Europe according to Variety magazine and his favorite food is Frog Sweetbreads; a recluse Arturo, now deceased, was working on developing sliding and won a congressional metal for scientific excellence; Wade is simply a hired, impatient minion for Logan and her agency.
Duration:
32 hours.
Timer Status:
Fine.
World Into:
Reggae World : Somehow, thanks to Logan's meddling, our sliders end up in Los Angeles in a bar (or possibly a world) run by Rastafarians.
Detail, Details:
  • The sliders land in Sector 47 in the city of San Angeles.
  •  Ethyl gas on this world is $409.10 9/10 per gallon.
  • Quinn pulls a paper from a San Angeles News newspaper box.
  • Quinn tells Remmy to meet at the Dominion before the slide, and later tells Arturo and Wade to go to the Dominion and wait for him there.
  • The sliders are given pamphlets for the San Angeles Transit System. In the bottom left-hand corner a title reads "City of San Angeles." One discerable line reads "local shuttles." >
  • The large video screen in Prototronics' lab reads "Vortex Detected" and "Vortex Integrity Stable."
  • When Adrian shows Logan the thermal scanner readouts, the title at the top of the screen reads "Thermal Scan Comparisons" and flashes "averaging" below the two body models. When the two bodies overlap on another, it reads "Identical Match" and the figures on the left of the screen are simply numbers and letters designed to let the viewer know that the computer is working hard.
  • The lithograph inscription on the Crying Man poster reads "Love ya -- The Cryin' Man Rembrandt Brown."
  • Rembrandt gets on train No. 44172 and climbs to the roof above the Coach section.
  • The plaque under Arturo's medal reads "Maximillian Arturo Congressional Metal for Scientific Excellence."
  • According to the video screen readout, the co-ordinates of this world are 1GCKED.
  • At Prototronics, Wade is being held in room 267.
    Personal File:
  • Arturo hates Los Angeles.
    Script Snips:
  • "You know, it seems like every world we go to we have trouble with the food." -- Rembrandt's observations concerning Geomash, and he's right on the money.
  •  "How very male of you." -- Wade's response to the other guy's reactions to Rembrandt's biggest fan.
  • "Good heavens, a union of Los Angeles and San Francisco. It goes against the laws of nature." -- Arturo.
  • "What was all that about an overweight surcharge?" -- Arturo while trying to contemplate the 10-block, $85 cab ride to the Dominion Hotel.
  • "No need to sound so surprised. I may not be your idea of a shower fantasy, but I do have my admirerers." -- Arturo to Wade who acts incrediously that the professor's double was having an affair with Logan St. Clair.
  • "What dark corner of our soul did you crawl out of?" -- Quinn to himself, or herself depending on how you look at the situation.
  • "I'm so sorry." -- Arturo, right before he clocks a Prototronics guard in the mouth.
  • "Don't ever say that to me again." -- Remmy to the hotel manager who claims that he's the Cryin' Man's "biggest fan."
    Rewind That!: Logan kisses Quinn, Quinn kisses Logan and essentially, Quinn is kissing himself. If Arturo had been around, he probably would have whispered something like: "Good heavens, I wonder what Sigmund Freud would have to say about this?"
    Remmy Sings: Yes, because Monique orders him to do so. He sings the first few lines from "Tears In My 'Fro" but because it's not a hit on this world, Monique doesn't recognize it and orders him to sing his hit "I'd Pawn My Gold Crown For You." Though Remmy doesn't even know how it goes, he takes a stab at belting out a few bars. (See Song Lyrics).
    Money Matters: The sliders have enough to order a hot dog from the Geomash vendor, although they don't get it. Quinn pops a coin into the San Angeles News newspaper box. Rembrandt doesn't have enough to purchase a train ticket.
    Nit-picks:
  • After the sliders are given pamphlet maps of San Angeles, we see an over the shoulder shot of what they look like inside and then a head-on shot showing some type of logo on the front of the maps. But if you freeze the frame over Quinn's shoulder, there is nothing on the front of his map when he opens it the first time.
  • As the sliders are looking at Logan's readout screen she says that "the one to the right is your wormhole" and the graphic moves counter clockwise to a 6 o'clock position, but in the close up scene of the screen, the vortex graphic begins at an 8 o'clock position and moves counter-clockwise.
  • As Quinn grabs onto the yellow bar, to stop from being sucked into Logan's vortex, he grabs onto the bar with his right hand, but that hand has a watch on its wrist. In other episodes, Quinn traditionally wears his watch on his left wrist.
  • As the sliders land on Reggae World, Rembrandt calls the bartender, Elston Diggs by name, though neither of them have been introduced to one another. Furthermore, what are the odds that Diggs would be a bartender in San Francisco area and again in the Los Angeles area, just as our heroes meet him again?
  • Wade and Arturo enter the Dominion Hotel, which seems to be a high-faluting, five-star establishment on this world, but metion nothing of the severly changed surroundings.
  • Just when the four are about to slide, an public address system announces that the daily power blackout will begin in 15 seconds and last for 15 minutes, however, twice before the blackout has been said to last for 30 mintues.
    Neat-picks:
  • The beige Rolls Royce that Monique is driving looks like the same one Arturo would later get behind the wheel of in "The Guardian."
  • Quinn makes a reference to Ice World when he says "I opened the vortex early on another dimension before the timer reached zero. The early access corrupted the program and erased our home co-ordinates."
    History Lesson:

    Congress has placed horses on the endangered species list.

    This world is running low of natural resources.

    The city of San Angeles spreads from San Fran to L.A., so San Francisco and L.A. are just neighborhoods here.

    Logan works for Prototronics, which is committed to perfecting sliding in order to use it to strip other dimensions of their natural resources such as water, coal, oil and gas.

    Monique's father invented the paperless toilet on this world, they still have paper toilets here but to use it will cost the user at least five dollars.

    Average cab fare is $85 for ten blocks.

    Five-minute power brownouts are scheduled every three hours and there's a power blackout every day at 4:00 pm.

    To conserve water (when it's available), bathing is limited to two minutes and people are asked to bath together.

    On this world, Logan's mother, Mrs. Mallory, remmarried after her husband, Michael Mallory, died. She married a man named St. Clair and Logan took her step-father's name.

    Guest Stars:
	Zoe McLellan		Logan St. Clair
	Mari Morrow		Monique
	Lester Barrie		Elston Diggs
	Michael Bryan French	Adrian Fayne
	Diana Castle		Mrs. Arturo
Co-Starring:
	Charles Noland		Desk Clerk 1
	Skip Stellrecht		Guard #1
	Michael Marich		Guard #2
	David L. Nelson		Michael
	Warren Sweeney		[Geomash] Vendor
	Michael A. Krawic	[Train] Hobo
	Kris Iyer		Maitre D'
	Gerry del Sol		[Train] Passenger
	Monte Perlin		Motorcycle Guard
Uncredited:
	The actress who plays the disgusted woman in the cab 
	tram as the sliders escape the motorcycle guards; the 
	actress who plays the blonde hotel bell hop.
    1. Charles Noland was featured in numerous episodes of ER as the psychadelic orderly E-Ray.
    The Inside Slide:

  • The recurring character of Elston Diggs was created by Tracy Torme as one of just many ideas he said he had coming into Season Three. The original concept of the character was to have him as a bartender who blended into whatever kind of lifestyle was evident on any given world. "I think his name originally was Elton Diggs and we had to change it because there was somebody actually living in L.A. with that name," he says. "So he became Elston Diggs, and the idea was to create a sort of chameleon character who was going to appear in this bar that we had as a standing set and he was different on every world."

  • Digital Muse's Larry Bowman designed, modeled and animated the futuristic Golden Gate Bridge and the Bullet Train that runs across it.

  • This episode was originally announced as the third season premiere.

  • Rumor has it that the character Logan St. Clair is named after the Sliders production office St. Clare Entertainment.
    Closed Captioning:
  • While looking at the gas prices, Quinn mentions that for the price of $410 a gallon, at least they pump it for you, promping Arturo to remark "That's steep for full service," but in closed captioning, he actually says "At that price they should deliver it to you."
  • As Quinn, Arturo and Wade are getting into the electric tram cab, there is no dialogue but the closed captioning quotes one of them as saying: "It should only be a short ride to the Dominion."
  • In a voice-over, Logan apologizes for her guards drawing their guns on the sliders, on screen, Quinn laments "Ya, you should talk to them about that," but in closed captioning he says "It's okay, forget it."
  • As Monique moves toward Remmy in her wedding gown, just after he's discovered the shrine, the closed captioning dictates that she hum "The Wedding March" while she walks toward Rembrandt for an embrace. In the dialogue, she does not hum.
    Song Lyrics: (partial)

    "I'd Pawn My Gold Crown For You"
By: (Alternate) Rembrandt Brown

I'd pawn my gold crown for you
If our love was true.
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