Time Enough and World
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Template:Infobox Sliders episodes Time Enough and World is the sixth episode of the second season of the science fiction television show Sliders. Quinn, Arturo, Wade, and Rembrandt travel from one world where they witness a murder to its near-exact replica and become embroiled in a conspiracy to restore the Constitution to the public.
The Sliders have remained in one world for nearly two weeks and are developing short tempers. Minutes before their next slide, one vehicles crashes into another, one driver gets out, and shoots the other. Against her friends' advice, Wade rushes to the side of the dying man whom passersby identify as Judge Nassau. In his final moments, Nassau hands Wade a matchbook from the Top Hat Club that contains a microdot. Before she learns what to do with it from his cryptic clue "L.C. . . . 54 . . . 10 pm", she slides with the others . . .
. . . into a world that's almost identical to the one they left. This time, Wade prevents Nassau's murder by warning him that the other driver has a gun. Nassau kills the other man, who turns out to be a police officer on this world. Wade's given the same warning she received in the last world, and after she and the others have checked into their hotel, they're ordered at gunpoint by two plainclothes police officers to forget what they saw.
Quinn and Wade report to the San Francisco police what happened and are told they may have broken a major case. It seems that Nassau possesses the only copy remaining of the U.S. Constitution; it and the Bill of Rights were expunged from public records after the assassination of President Kennedy by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. J. Edgar Hoover became President shortly thereafter and held power for 22 years -- in this America, Hoover's Tomb and Alcatraz are two major tourist destinations.
When Wade and Quinn realize what they've inadvertently done -- given President Lyndon LaRouche the opportunity to consolidate his power and end civil rights in America -- they travel to the Top Hat Club where they meet Natalie, Judge Nassau's daughter, and L.C., the deejay for Radio Free America and seek to broadcast their copy of the Constitution (the one Wade received in the other world) over the airwaves and the Internet. Rembrandt goes to the police and negotiates for Judge Nassau's release, claiming that he'll trade them the one copy he has (the one from this world). He does so, and shortly after the Sliders leave, the Constitution is distributed over the Internet.
Quotable Quotes:
Ideas are great, Professor, but they're nothing without people willing to fight for them.
-Quinn to Arturo, before they make the exchange with the police