Sliders, Part Two (episode)
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Template:Infobox Sliders episodes Sliders is the title of the premiere two-part episode (see Part One) of the science fiction television show Sliders. In the second part of this episode, Arturo, Quinn, Rembrandt, and Wade arrive on a parallel Earth where the Soviet Union conquered the world.
Quinn tumbles through the vortex from the last world just before it closes, joining Arturo, Rembrandt, and Wade on the ground of Golden Gate Park. Distraught at the loss of his Cadillac but relieved that he appears to be home, Rembrandt hires a taxicab to take him to the stadium where he's scheduled to sing the national anthem. Rembrandt is arrested after he attempts to pay the cab driver with a dollar bill, and he's sentenced in Judge Wapner's The People's Court to fifteen years in the Alaskan gulag. (Dollar bills in "The Socialist States of America" have Khrushchev's profile, not Washington's.)
Wade's attempts to call home meet with an attempt to trace her call by People's Telephone and Telegraph (the AT&T of this world), and Arturo and Quinn note the statue of Lincoln in the park is instead a statue of Lenin. Arturo, Quinn, and Wade learn from the west coast branch of the Free America Underground that the Soviet Union through its proxy states won the Korean War and gradually enveloped the whole world under communism. With the underground's help, the Sliders stage a raid on NorCal Federal Penitentiary (converted from the University of California, San Francisco) to liberate Rembrandt and Wade's double, a resistance commander.
Posing as his own double, the Citizen-General of West Coast operations, Arturo, the Sliders and the Underground escape with Rembrandt and Wade's double. The latter is killed during the melee. Meanwhile, Arturo and Quinn have repaired the timer and estimate that their best chance to slide home involves returning to Golden Gate Park where they entered this world. Pursued by a mob of citizen-informants, the Sliders barely escape through the vortex. By all appearances, they've arrived home. Quinn arrives with the others at his house for dinner, and their talk about what to do with the timer in interrupted by the unexpected appearance (to Quinn) of his father, who was hit by a car and died twelve years ago. It settles in that the Sliders have a long way to go.