I’ll Be Seeing You

America was never discovered by Columbus—Magellan did it nearly a hundred years later. The development of the country took a slightly delayed track. When the Sliders land in San Francisco, it's 1994, but it seems like 1941.

The country has just entered World War Two—the enemy is the Argentine/Brazil axis—and the feeling is much like the days after Pearl Harbor (only in this world, it was Seattle that was sneak attacked). Lots of boys in uniform about to be sent off to war, lots of women with aching hearts, seeing them off.

The Sliders must spend six days here. Wade eventually finds her way to a moody piano bar, where her sister Kelly Welles is performing nightly, singing torch songs to half-full houses. On this world, Wade was never born, but she feels an instinctive bond for her sister, who is almost exactly like the Kelly on our world. Kelly is also drawn to Wade—a complete stranger as far as she knows—and the two women share precious time together as the world around them heads into a tumultuous, uncertain war, complete with South American air raids on the city of San Francisco.

Kelly tells Wade of her upcoming marriage to Richard Henning, a captain in the Army. Wade swallows her tongue, wrestling with a terrible dilemma. On our world, Wade knows Richard Henning all too well—the nice young man whom she once liked very much, who married Kelly and turned into an alcoholic spousal abuser—making Kelly's life a living hell.

With the classic backdrop of a world at war, Wade must decide whether or not to interfere with the coming wedding, for reasons that are based on events that occurred in another dimension.