What is it?
I... I keep having these recurring nightmares
about that underground world.
Those creatures.
You know,
you never told me what happened
with you and the Professor on that world.
Yeah, you never told me
what happened with you and Quinn underground.
Said you didn't want to relive it.
You know, if you talk about this,
it might stop the dreams.
Ah, he went to ground. We'll never find him now.
Let's head back. Come on.
Damn!
You just gonna stand there and laugh, or are you gonna help me?
Sit still. I'll give you a hand.
Laugh. Laugh.
I must confess, you...
you do look like a float in the Rose Parade.
Sharp little devils, aren't they?
Yeah.
Hey, guys, check that out.
Those planets must be in syzygy
with this earth and moon.
Is that good news or bad news?
Well, it depends.
It could mean no more than abnormally high tides.
Then we better look for higher ground, huh?
Well, we've got 3 days here.
You all right?
Yeah. I think the rose bush won.
Did you hear that?
Sounds human.
No guns.
Maybe they haven't discovered gunpowder.
There's plenty for everybody.
But they have discovered barbecue.
I wonder if they could seat a party of four.
Only one way to find out.
Who's this?
Stay back. I'll go.
Maybe we should've made a reservation.
Earthquake.
Haley!
No, no!
Wade!
Wade, I've got you!
Quinn!
Hang on!
Wade, hang on!
Quinn, help!
Wade! Wade! Wade!
Hold on! Hold on!
No, the ground is closing!
Wade!
Hold on!
Get out of here! Go on! Go!
Come back here! Help us!
What if you found a portal to a parallel universe?
What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds
where it's the same year, and you're the same person,
but everything else is different?
And what if you can't find your way home?
Sliders.
Wade!
Tell me exactly what you saw.
I tried, but she slipped through my hand.
It looked like there was an air pocket down below.
We must assume that she's still alive.
This is not gonna cut it. We need tools.
All right, I'll go get some. Keep digging!
I don't think you're going to find much by way of machinery.
But we could use the extra hands!
Okay.
Get out! Go, go, go, go! Hurry!
Hey, I need your help!
I need tools, shovels, whatever you have to dig with.
Who are you?
Where did you come from? Out there?
My friend's been buried alive. Help me dig her out.
Nobody digs the earth!
She'll die down there.
Then that is her fate.
Isn't this the law where you live?
No. It is the law here.
Keegan, maybe we should help him.
No!
The Janeers said don't dig the earth.
Don't go beyond the valley.
You've been warned.
Quinn!
Anybody!
Hello?
Where are you?
Hey! Are you all right?
Answer me!
You think there's any chance?
We keep digging till we find her!
Any luck?
They won't help. What?
They warned me not to dig here.
Look, if she's not down too far, we can find her.
Oh, we will.
Look, we need some rope and something like a shovel.
If they won't give it to us, we'll take it. Let's go.
Had an uncle who worked the coal mines in Tennessee.
He used to tell us about being in a cave-in...
Trying to make me feel better, Remmy?
I'm trying to make myself feel better.
What kind of screwed-up world is this
where they won't help people?
Gentlemen...
Go! Go!
Well, it's not your typical suburb.
Just as long as they've got a hardware store
and some rope.
Do you think the Syzygy is causing the earthquakes?
Most certainly.
Like vast tidal movements inside the earth.
Keegan, you're wrong.
Do not speak.
So, what's the plan?
Let's go talk to him.
Don't!
You help us, or I'm gonna hurt you.
Understand?
If I take my hand off, you won't yell for help?
You don't have to hurt me. I'll help you.
Why will you, when the others won't?
Because that's my sister and her daughter down there,
and I'll do anything to save them.
Let's go.
This way.
I know where we can get some equipment.
Will you return the way you came?
Uh, yeah, I guess we will.
So there is land to the east?
I don't know.
Well, then how did you get here?
Well, the truth is...
Brock.
The truth is, Brock,
my friends and I,
we came from another world.
Did the Janeers make you a world, too?
Somebody did.
Was your world perfect, too?
The longer I'm away, the more it seems that way.
Then why did you ever want to leave?
I wanted to see what was out there.
Me, too.
If we find my sister and her child,
I'm taking them with me when we leave this place.
We go this way.
Whoa, whoa! The meadow's straight ahead.
It'll take too long to dig.
There's another way to get to her.
What's that?
I don't know, but it goes deep into the earth.
What could be down there
that would need a ventilation shaft?
It's not locked down.
Let's remove it.
Wade!
What are those marks on your arm?
And your neck?
Oh, it's, uh, it's hives.
It's some sort of allergic reaction
to the plant that scratched me. It's unimportant.
Professor, tie this around the tree.
You got it.
You'll need these.
What are they?
Sunstalk.
They grow here. The Janeers made them.
All right, I'll go first. You guys got my back?
Oh, yeah. That ground starts shaking, we're bringing you back up.
That's good!
You got another?
It's a long way down.
Here we go.
Stop! That's enough.
Wade!
We don't open the earth. We don't go below.
No, you can't do that!
Keegan! Where is your respect for these old ones?
They wanna help me save Haley and her baby.
Where is your respect for me and the law?
Those who disobey
and travel to the Forbidden Zones will die!
You are not gonna believe what's down here.
We're gonna need more rope. Pull me up!
No!
Wade!
So, what do you think about this place?
Well, it must once have been
a remarkable technological civilization.
What do they call them? Janeers?
Janeers.
Obviously engineers.
The people who built this place
were engineers.
It's just that the word became corrupted with time.
Damn this rash!
It's driving me nuts!
And it's spreading all over the darn place.
How's yours?
It's fine.
What do you suppose happened to them?
What, the Janeers?
Yeah.
I should think probably long dead.
Pity they didn't leave some medicine
behind for me before they went.
Mr. Brown.
What do you make of this?
It's growing out of my skin.
"Seismic Shock Column, Number 6860.
North Quadrant, operational July 7, 1972."
Guess that's what's holdin' this place up.
That is a long way to fall.
Multiple skull fractures.
Guess it wasn't your day, was it, pal?
All right, Wade, you're alive.
You're not walking like you're hurt. Wade!
I'm going this way. Read my tracks.
I'm not wandering, I'm moving with purpose.
Come find me.
Find me before something else does.
Wade!
Hey, out here, help us!
What the hell is the matter with you people? We need help in here!
Save your breath, Mr. Brown.
Oh, man.
It's got me.
Hey! Open up! Open it up!
You hear me?
Where do you think you're goin'?
How can you listen to them and not do anything?
You already have everybody angry with you for what you did.
Maybe they can tell us what to do.
No, the old ones deserted us.
No, they didn't!
They went to the edge of the world to try to stop the shaking.
But they never came back.
I hear you out there!
And now we don' t need them.
We don't?
Then tell me, why does the ground shake more each year?
Why is there not as much to eat as before?
Listen, things will get better.
We just have to wait.
Everyone else in the valley is gone.
If we leave here, we will die!
Why do you believe that everyone who left is dead?
Because 10 years have passed,
and not one person who left came back.
We need help in here!
Now, if they found something good,
don't you think they would've come back for us?
Hey!
We are safe here.
I don't feel safe.
Not anymore.
Not after what happened to my sister and her baby.
Hey, out there. We need help in here! Hey!
I am telling you to leave them alone.
Hey, help us!
Do you hear me?
Will you stop it? You're ripping the skin off!
I don't care, damn it! It's itching!
It's driving me mad!
It's just below the surface of the skin! Leave me alone!
All right, that's it. I'm tying your hands.
No. No. No.
Look, you cannot fight it.
Yes, I can! It's all right. It's all...
You don't have the willpower!
I have the willpower!
Give me your hands.
All right, tight, man, tight.
Yes, still.
Okay.
Professor.
Oh, this is no good! You've got to put me out!
Hit me, man! Knock me out!
Hit you with what?
With your fist, you bonehead!
Ow.
Who's there?
I said, who's there?
Do you have the baby?
Where's the baby?
Hey!
If they find me here, we're all in trouble.
Yeah, well, no more than we are now.
Look, is there something you can do for us?
This will heal you.
The Janeers gave us the water.
We drink it, and we don't get sick.
If we're injured, it makes us better.
Here, put this where it hurts.
Well, I'll be damned.
What is this stuff, and how does it work?
Very well.
You're telling me.
Wade!
Quinn!
Wade!
Quinn!
In here!
You all right?
Yeah.
She's been feeding the baby.
The one that fell below?
Where's the mother?
She's dead.
What a weird world, huh?
I think this has something to do
with the alignment of the planets.
This happened once before.
I guess they saw it coming
and built a second level on those big shock absorbers.
I guess not everyone made it topside.
It seems that the ones that stayed behind
adapted pretty well.
And developed a taste for the upper class.
They've become scavengers.
Do you think we're the first live ones
they've seen this close up?
Except for the baby.
I can't help but noticing that we might be outnumbered.
I can't help noticing that we might be dinner.
What about the baby?
Let's go!
Here, take it!
So who takes care of everything?
Takes care?
Yeah, keeping the place up.
It takes care of itself.
How?
The old ones told us
the Janeers made our world this way.
That they relocated us here
so that we could have a perfect life.
It's not too perfect.
That plant could've killed us.
It never had that effect on any of us.
Maybe because you're not from here.
What happened to the old ones?
The last ones left a few years ago.
They went to the edge of the valley
to see why the world started shaking
but they never came back.
Look, is he gonna be all right?
Yes.
How are your marks?
They're gone.
I don't know why it affected your friend more than you.
Has he been ill lately?
Wade!
You should eat something.
Brock said it would help you heal faster.
Where is he?
I'm anxious to get after Quinn and Wade.
He said he wouldn't be long.
It's good. Tastes like apples.
I really fancy a piece of steak myself.
It is steak.
This is extraordinary.
Anything that you can think of,
it tastes like. Try it.
Cheeseburger.
It does.
How do they do that?
I don't know.
They must have been remarkable engineers.
What?
Brock was wondering why you got such a bad case
so quickly and I didn't.
I'm probably, uh, more prone to allergies than you are.
He said there would have to be something seriously wrong
for it to hit you that hard.
Well, he's wrong.
Nothing wrong with me. I'm as strong as a horse.
Are you?
Been times on other worlds where you were not quite yourself.
In San Francisco, when Quinn met himself as a boy, that was...
that was the first time I noticed that something was wrong.
And then in the desert, when we were helping the girl get home.
And now.
You gotta level with me, man.
If there's something wrong, you owe it to us to tell.
Why? Why should I?
Aren't I allowed any privacy?
Because while we're on this journey together,
we're gonna have to depend on each other.
I thought we were friends.
Friends don't keep secrets.
Well...
Well, the good news is,
I don't think I'm going to die today.
Then you have something?
I went and saw a doctor in San Francisco.
I have a terminal illness
and there is nothing that anyone can do for me.
Who else knows? Quinn? Wade?
Quinn.
Because he could handle it, and I couldn't?
No, not at all.
He found out.
Really nice to know where I stand with you.
We must go quickly so they don't find us.
Yeah.
Let's just go.
Mr. Brown.
One of us should wait here.
All right, I'll stay behind.
I'm not fully over my nettle rash yet.
Take care, Mr. Brown.
Make sure you get out.
All right.
Oh, yeah, this is a great idea.
Going underground while the earth is still shaking.
Okay, hold it.
Man, this is one big freaking basement.
Quinn!
Wade!
Quinn!
Wade!
Haley!
Wade!
Q-Ball!
Haley!
Quinn!
Wade! Remmy.
Where's Q-Ball?
Where's my sister?
She's dead.
What? I-I'm sorry.
She died in the fall. There was nothing I could do.
We got to hurry. There's some creatures after me.
Who?
Those guys.
What the hell are those things?
They live down here.
We hunt them above for food.
Looks like we're the hunted now.
Not if I can help it.
I was gonna say you guys wouldn't believe what I've been doing.
But I think you've got me beat.
Where's the Professor?
He's up top, waiting for us.
May I have the baby?
Thank you for saving her.
How much time we got?
Uh...
Go! Go!
Hey!
Get going!
Shh.
You have got to keep her quiet.
Maybe she's hungry.
I can't do anything about that.
Let me see her.
What do you know about babies?
I happened to be the highest grossing babysitter
in my neighborhood. Let me see her.
You changed diapers?
Nine seconds was my personal record.
Give me the kid.
Careful.
Come on.
That's a girl. Still got it.
So how much did you get?
75 cents for the first kid.
50 cents, each additional head.
I give them a discount if I drop the kid.
Good thing they bounce.
You really like kids.
Yeah. I wanna have a big family.
I missed out on having a brother or a sister to play with.
You need somebody to share things with when you're growing up.
Yeah, I know.
That's why I wanna have at least three.
I wanna have five.
Five?
I hope you like stretch marks.
Why five?
Then I'd have my own basketball squad.
And how's the great procreator gonna pay for college, huh?
I'll just give them a timer when they graduate high school
and tell them to go slide for four years.
They'd learn a lot more.
Hey, guys, no sign of the creatures.
We can go now.
All right. We've got an hour. Let's go.
Easy now, gentlemen, easy.
Don't remember inviting them to join us, do you?
Not me! Go!
Twenty minutes.
What are they doing?
Basic math?
I'll take the big one.
They're all big.
Go! Go!
Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry.
Hurry!
Move it!
Come on.
You wouldn't listen to me, would you?
You came to the Forbidden Place.
But you said this man was dead.
I guess he was wrong.
All of you who disobeyed will die!
And you'll all die if you stay here.
We will not leave this valley.
You must leave this place.
I don't know what's out there, but you can't stay here.
Look, there's another city below you
and one day this will all fall down.
It's true. I saw it with my own eyes.
Those creatures you hunt, they live underground.
I think they were like you once, but got trapped below
when the Janeers relocated everyone.
We must leave.
And who will come with me?
Don't you understand? You will all die.
I'm telling you, there is nothing out there!
Quinn, will you come with us?
We're going in a different direction.
Come with us, Keegan.
We do not go beyond.
We do not open the earth.
Those are the rules.
Not anymore.
Goodbye.
You realize,
your children will die if you stay here.
We can't save everyone.
Then I guess we'll just have to look out for each other.
Mr. Brown, I want you to know
that I count myself very fortunate
having you as a friend.
Oh, man. See, now I'm gonna have to be nice to you.
Oh, we don't have to create a precedent.
Wait here.
You never really dropped a baby, did you?
No.
It's a good thing they bounce.