To Catch a Slider
- Teleplay // Bill Dial
- Story // Chris Black & Bill Dial
- Director // Peter Ellis
- Music // Danny Lux
Reviews
// Earth Prime
// Think of a Roulette Wheel
// External Reviews
Worlds Visited
Boots World
Are we visiting the unseen world from Double Cross where Rembrandt got his new boots?
Glimpse World
Why Glimpse World? Because you only get a glimpse before the vortex opens and sucks the Sliders back in!
Chapare World
Similar to Boots World from the outset, this world has an overabundance of huge, vibrating crystals from the Chapare region in South America.
Timer Status
Man, oh man, what is wrong with this thing? Quinn’s original timer may not have had sophisticated stuff like inputting coordinates and tracking wormholes, but it never split in three, created bubble universes, opened up on a pane of glass, threw people on a hyperspatial asteroid, betrayed the laws of the show or threw the Sliders into the middle of the ocean when its geographic spectrum stabilizer and power source crap out on them. Now it stops the Sliders in mid-slide? Has troubles locking onto a quantum vibrational rate? In any case, despite the fact that Diana just recharged the damn thing, it’s fouling up again. The only thing that can fix it? A crystal so big it vibrates in the Hertz scale.
Details
- A crystal of Chapare vibrating in the range of 9 Hz is worth $81,000. Each crystal is $9,000 a Hz.
- The Star of La Paz has a $100,000 insurance policy on it.
- The jewelry store is named Altobelli’s.
- Monique Mansfield is the Goddess of Sex and Queen of the Festival.
- Diana’s PDL doubles as a densitometer to measure frequency rates in living gems. Handy…
- No one questions Altobelli’s integrity.
- Monique is staying in Suite 243 of the Chandler.
- The Chandler of Chapare World has a pool.
- The fire escape doesn’t reach to Suite 243.
- The opening ceremonies of the Film Festival end at 11:00 p.m.
- The Chandler of Chapare World has a high tech safe-locking system that uses a digital push-pad for entering a personalized combination for the individual patron. It’s also run by Windows 95, which means it’s also very easy to crack.
- Sandra is still wearing Bob Mackie, believe it or not.
- The new James Bond movie, Midnight Never Cries, stars Steven Seagal.
Character Information
- Quinn and the Professor discussed scarabs extensively when they analyzed the structure of the new timer. (This discussion must have taken place off-screen shortly after Slide Like an Egyptian.)
- Mallory has seen—and enjoyed — Sneakers. Combine World isn’t terribly dissimilar to Earth Prime.
- Mallory infers that he has broken into a jewelry store before.
- Diana drinks tea.
- Mallory drinks lemonade.
- Monique’s insurance company won’t let her wear the Star of La Paz.
- Diana read up on the process of wine fermentation a lot when she was younger.
Notable Quotes
- “I think it’s genetic. Do you know any men who obsessively try on shoes?”—Mallory, to Rembrandt, while they wait for Maggie and Diana on Shoe World.
- “Well, there was this drummer in Portland…”—Rembrandt’s reply.
- “That’s all we need.”—Rembrandt, when Diana tells them that the time has yet another problem.
- “Oh, here’s something. Quentin Tarantino just checked out. You can have his suite once we clear out the wreckage.”—Gomez Calhoun.
- “You ever call me sweet cakes again, I’ll pull your heart right through your rib cage.”—Maggie, to Mallory.
- “I loved ‘Sneakers.’ It didn’t get good reviews, but I loved it.”—Mallory, plugging the fine Universal property.
- “The way I see it we might as well forget about sliding because jail time is gonna add up to a lot more than 29 years.”—Rembrandt, off the others’ discussion to steal a gem.
- “[Your dress] needs to say ‘I’m an adult, on my own, love a good time, and have a healthy attitude about sex.’”
“But without saying ‘Welcome aboard.’”—Maggie and Diana. - “Too many classes, not enough glasses.”—Grant Curtis.
- “I swear to God we just talked about movies.”—Mallory, to Rembrandt and Maggie, after learning the Goddess of Sex’s true identity.
Money Matters
- The Sliders pay for a room at the Chandler for two nights.
- Maggie and Diana purchase a dresse for Diana for her date with Grant.
- The Sliders buy enough professional sneaking equipment to break into someone’s room without being identified.
Nitpicks and Errors
- The Sliders do a dead stop in the middle of the vortex. Hello? Are we forgetting the laws of inertia like the shuttlecraft in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?!
- Isn’t it a tad coincidental that these living gems, which no one has ever heard of before, power a timer created with Egyptian technology?
Guest Starring
- Lisa Stahl Sullivan as Monique Mansfield
- Todd Kimsey as Grant Curtis
- Israel Juarbe1 as Gomez Calhoun
- Judith McConnell2 as Clerk
- Israel Juarbe previously appeared as Gomez Calhoun in Lipschitz Live and Roads Taken.
- Judith McConnell previously appeared in My Brother’s Keeper as Sylvia.
Script Archive
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March 18, 1999
1st Green Revisions