Episode-5: "The Burden of Truth"
-The scene opens with Wade sitting on the front porch of Quinn's
house. She is writing in her diary and through it we learn that the
sliders have been on this world for almost a month, and that Quinn's
mother's double graciously allowed the sliders to stay at her home.
Quinn has been making adjustment after adjustment to the timer in
hopes to locate Azure Gate Bridge World. Remmy and Bennish are in
the living room watching tv and fighting over who gets control of the
remote. Wade notes how kind Quinn's mother is being to the sliders
and how she hardly ever mentions her own son(who everyone
assumes is also a slider who is lost).
-Later on, After all of the sliders are asleep, Wade hears Quinn's
mother's voice. She creeps out of the room and notices Quinn's
mother talking to someone. She gets a closer look and notices it's
Colin Mallory! She overhears Colin tell Mrs. Mallory that the time is
almost right to strike. And that these sliders will pay for murdering her
son.
-Wade immediately runs to Quinn's room and tells him this. They
decided to get Remmy and Bennish and sneak out. As they reach the
door, Colin and Mrs. Mallory are there to greet them. Wade asks just
how they could have murder Mrs. Mallory's Quinn. Seeing as how
they had never been to this world before. She replies by telling them
that when her Quinn's father died, that a friend of his named "Jim"
showed up and taught Quinn had to defend himself. Shortly after
Quinn's first fight at school, "Jim" disappeared. Without him around,
Quinn had no one else to talk to. He got into fight after fight, and the
older he got, the more of an attitude he developed. Oh, he had his
love of science still, Jim had insured that, but he didn't know when to
just turn around and walk away. When he was nineteen, he was on a
date with Daelinn Richards. Some guy made a remark and Quinn
blew up. He laid the guy out in one punch. But the guy pulled a gun
and gunned Quinn down. For a long time I blamed "Jim" , until I
spoke to one of Quinn's elementary school teachers who told me that
she has seen "Jim" leap into a strange swirling vortex. He had told her
his name wasn't Jim. The vortex made it all fit together. "Jim" had
been a slider. And he was a Quinn Mallory. Colin arrived at my door
one day and told me you where here and I knew I needed my
revenge.
-Remmy spoke up,"That's impossible. That happened years ago for
you, and it happened to us on a world where time moved slower. So
it couldn't have been." Quinn interrupted,"It was." "What are you
talking about Q-Ball?" Bennish interrupted,"Okay, like that world is
connected to this world. Everything that happened on that world
happened on this world, only it's happening at different times." Quinn's
head fell into his lap and Wade grabbed him. A beep was heard
emanating from Colin. HE pulled out his timer and opened a
wormhole. "I hope you all are ready to pay a visit to a Kromagg
prison camp and Wade, I hope you're ready to go back to the
breeding camps, I for one can't wait." With those words Quinn
jumped up and shoved Colin into the wormhole and it collapsed.
-Quinn's mother pulled a gun on him and began screaming at him. She
tried to shoot him but she couldn't. He looked exactly like her son.
She dropped to the ground and began to cry. Quinn wanted to
comfort her, but Wade pulled him away. The four sliders left the
Mallory house and opened a wormhole. On the next world Wade sat
next to Quinn on a park bench. She spoke,"Are you going to be
okay?" "I don't think so. She was right. I murdered her son. I tried to
make sure he didn't go through what I went through and he ended up
dead." "Quinn, listen to me. That's one world out of a thousand where
he died. On another he probably became governor of California. You
did what you thought you had to." "I just don't know, Wade. I just
don't know" Wade grabs Quinn and holds him close. The last thing
we see are the tears trickling down Quinn's face.
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