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Oh. Oh, that's it.

Oh. Lower.
A little lower.

Now a little
to the right.

Oh.

It's a crying shame we're
gonna have to leave this place.

No Kromaggs,
no bad cops.

A world where good tans and
massages are compulsory. Thank you.

All right, this is really just an
inversion of the Lorentz transformation.

You see, X prime equals X minus UT.

I still can't quite grasp
the geometry of space-time.

Be patient, bro. You gotta
give yourself space and time.

Okay, what do you say you
geniuses take a little break

and get the kinks out, huh?

I think you're loose enough
for the rest of us.

Two minutes and thirty, people.
Everybody out of the pool.

Oh, no.
Oh, man!

So what do you think
it's gonna be this time?

Polar ice world?
Talking dog world?

For once, people,
I can tell you.

We are going home.

What?

You're kidding.

I thought you said the data from
the micro-dots your parents gave you

was all scrambled.

You see, I thought
Colin's micro-dot was damaged.

Turns out it was designed
that way to keep other folks

from accessing
the coordinates.

Other folks?
You mean the Kromaggs.

Yeah. But I found a hidden de-encryption
program keyed to our specific DNA.

There she is.

I tell you, finding out
how they beat the Maggs

is gonna be worth the
whole price of admission.

Home to see
the parents, huh?

Our parents. You like
the sound of that, bro?

Yes.

Well, then, you have the honors.

Oh, God.

This isn't quite
what I expected.

Hello! Hey!

Where's the
welcome wagon?

Yeah, let's just
find the exit.

The air's got a metallic
taste, like it's processed.

That still doesn't tell us where we are.

I think we're a long way from home.

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?

Are you sure you got
the coordinates right?

Positive.

Yeah, well, something
must've gone haywire.

It looks like something out of
Star Trek. The lost episodes.

Look, the timer takes us to
alternate Earths, not alien planets.

Yeah, well, it looks
pretty barren out there.

I mean, if this is your home
world, where are all the people?

I do not know,
all right?

Why does everybody always expect
me to have all the answers?

Because you
usually do.

So if this is home sweet
home, we stick around,

if not,
we slide out.

How long do we have on
the universal remote?

Oh, brother.
We got a problem.

The timer's not
counting down.

What's wrong
with it?

You don't know.

Yes, that's right.
I don't know.

Excuse me.
Over here, please.

This way.

There's nothing
to be afraid of.

Colin, it's our...
Father.

I know this may be disorienting for
some of you, as you were no doubt trying

to get to my world.

But instead, you've been shunted
here by the slidecage mechanism.

Slidecage?

You see, following the
recent human-Kromagg war,

we have driven the enemy from our world

and cloaked it so that they may
not return by the same means.

And we therefore cannot return you,
as that would pose a security risk.

If you are a friend rather
than an enemy, I am truly sorry.

All your needs
will be provided for,

food and air and shelter.

You must not tamper with
the dispensing machines.

If you attempt to venture outside,
the toxic atmosphere will kill you.

Aside from these
two strictures,

you're free to live
by the rules that you create.

Please, make
the best of this world.

It is now your world,

for the rest of your lives.

For the rest of our lives?

It's a perfect
protection system.

Keep the Kromaggs
from invading.

Try and slide there, and
you get caught here instead.

They must have some sort of dampening
field to render this inoperable.

Wait a minute.
You're saying that

we've wandered into some kind
of roach motel for sliders?

But why would our parents cloak
their world and not come get us?

They didn't know.

I was hidden from them, and you
were lost, your foster parents dead.

That's just great. We're not
even in this war and we're POWs.

No. No, there's gotta
be a way out of this.

Right, Quinn? There's
always a way out.

Okay, okay. We'll do what we
always do, beat the odds. Okay?

Come on.

Yeah.
Yeah, fine.

Do you guys
hear that?

All right. We need to see
what the rules are first.

Okay,
now we know.

No, come back! Remmy! Remmy!

Remmy!

Remmy!

Remmy!

Hey! Wait for us!

Well, what the hell were they?

They were Kromaggs.

Let's go follow
the humans.

What makes you think
the humans will help us?

I don't know, but at
least they're human.

Hey. Hey!

Hey, hold it!

Hey!

We're friends!

We're friends!

Friends? I know my
friends. You, I don't know.

Hold it, Luther.

Let them go.

Well, no reason to start
off on the wrong foot.

We're all humans,
after all.

Now, we don't have
many rules here,

but the ones that we do have
you're going to have to live by

I'm sorry.
To survive.

If you heard about
that little fight,

then you must have heard that
one of our friends got captured.

He's gone,

or will be before
the night's out.

You're going to
have to forget him.

Well, we're not
about to do that.

I understand your feelings, but
you don't know where you are.

We are all that's left
of over 200.

We were all away from the
home world during the war.

Some didn't hear about
the cage being built,

some took too long to get back.

Whatever the reason,
we're here.

We keep on the run so the
Kromaggs can't find us.

Won't you help us?
Believe me, I'm trying to.

Okay, now, my brother and
I are from the home world.

But we really don't remember
it, because during the war

our parents put us
on other worlds.

And we don't want to make
them... Save your breath, Quinn.

Look, I may be new here,

but I've seen enough bad COs in
my day to recognize the breed.

And you, someone who's helped
you has just been hung out to dry,

how does that
make you feel?

Maybe she
has a point, Janie.

Maybe we should...
Out. Now!

All right.
Airlock.

What the hell's
an airlock?

We'll do what you say!

Quinn! Don't do this!
She's got a temper!

Vent it.
Wait!

No! Let him go!
Maggie!

Maggie!

Lock him down.
Computer room.

I'm not leaving
my brother!

We're not going
to hurt your brother.

Come on.
Come on, now.

That's it.

Maggie? She's probably dead by now.

Don't give me that.
You murdered her.

She wouldn't have made it here, and she
would have taken some of us with her.

You don't even know her.

Turn that hate where it
belongs, on the Kromaggs.

The Kromaggs?
The Kromaggs?

I hope you burn in hell.

This is hell,
or didn't you notice?

The mainframe that runs this
place is sealed up tight.

We can't get into it.

We can't do a damn thing. And
most of all, we can't leave.

No one takes
prisoners here.

We get a Magg, we open him up,
we leave him for the others.

I do what I do to keep
these people alive.

Lock him up
with his brother.

Let go of me, man!
Let go! I can walk!

You humans are so loud,
even when you're not in pain.

I haven't seen you.

Well, I wish
I could say the same,

but everywhere I go,
there you maggots are.

Is he alone?

No, I had
my group with me.

Group?

Yeah, you know.
Bass, drums, keyboards.

I couldn't bring my back-up
singers on this tour, though.

The Brownettes.

You're gonna have to
go the limit with me.

I've already spent time in Kromagg hell.

What about your companions?
The rest of the humans?

Where do they camp now?

Do you know the difference between
a human brain and a Kromagg brain?

A human brain
is blood and tissue.

A Kromagg brain
is a knife.

Your friends.

A woman, two men.

Something special
about the men.

Especially one of them.

You're sure he's going to
find a way out of here.

Something else there, hidden,

buried, deep.

A secret.

A Kromagg secret!

What?

Open to me!

Is he dead, Father?

No, merely unconscious.

There's a wall in his mind,
but I will break it.

I must rest now.

Chain him.

Do you remember I told you
about the snake in the garden

and how the humans despised
it and tried to kill it?

They hate anything
that is not like them.

You're not to
speak with him.

Do you understand me?

I can see why this
is a perfect prison for us.

I can't get any
of this stuff to work.

Beat the odds,
right?

That's what I told her.
Just like always, Quinn.

On my world,

we know death well.

Many families lost a
parent, a child, or both.

The influenza carried off
my foster mother and father.

At first,
I didn't want to live.

Why did it take them
and not me?

I read somewhere that death
is a natural part of life.

You can't change it,
you can't avoid it.

All you can do is
remember those you've lost

and live for the ones
that are still here.

Okay. Okay, man.

I'll see if we can get
some of this crap to work.

Okay, it's all right,
you're not dead!

I mean, it would be a pretty sorry
afterlife if it looked like this.

Where am I?
In the walls.

You're confused.

It's only natural, after
what you've been through.

Pitching you out in
the methane, honestly,

I don't know what
they were thinking.

Thomas. Thomas Beecham.

Maggie Beckett.

Maggie?

I would've figured you for
a Betty, or maybe a Lola,

when I saw you in the
corridor with your friends.

Where are my friends?

Easy.

Easy, easy. Take it easy.
You're not up to anything yet.

That's it. Just relax.

You're a guest.

Matter of fact,
you're the first.

I'm a bit of a stay-at-home, but when
I saw what was happening to you, I...

Well, what's done is done. You rest now.

Thank you.

I'm not allowed
to talk to you.

Everyone's out
foraging, you know.

Except for the guards, and
they're not even watching us.

You wouldn't happen to have keys
to these locks on you, would you?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

You know, I've never been this
close to a human being before.

I mean, not a whole one.

Enjoy the show.

Oh, man, my head.
It's killing me.

Oh, I can fix that.

I mean, I can go
inside your mind.

It took me a long time...
You stay out of my head!

Well, I can, you know.
I had enough of that today.

My father taught me.

Why do you wear that thing
across your face like that?

Because
I'm a mutation.

I'm hideous.

We don't have any looking
glasses, but my father told me.

Yeah, that's nice of him.

Oh, man!

When my mother dressed
me for kindergarten,

I never thought
I'd end up here.

Tell me about
your mother.

Why?

Because I never had
a mother.

So where do I start?

At the beginning.

Made it myself, so I
could explore outside.

Good thing, too, or I wouldn't
have been able to get to you.

You're looking
worlds better.

I'm still a little
unsteady on my pins.

Oh, naturally.
To be expected.

Hey, presto!
I cooked something.

Actually, it comes out
of a hole in the wall,

so it's more accurate
to say I extruded it.

I didn't know what you'd like,
so I ordered up a choice.

Artificial ham,
artificial turkey.

Actually, it all tastes
like artificial chicken.

But it does
grow on you.

So, how did you land here?
I assume you were off-world.

I was traveling
with my friends.

It's a little complicated.

Well, complicated is good.
It makes for a long story.

And time we have
in abundance.

So what about you?

How did you end up here?

Oh, various and sundry this
and thats. Not really important.

How long have you
been here?

In the walls? Oh, not long. Ten years.

Ten years?

Well, it's not as bad
as it sounds. Really.

I always loved tunnels
and corridors.

Remember that TV show,
Beauty and the Beast,

not the Disney one,
the other one?

God, I loved that.

Oh, I see you noticed
my home entertainment center.

I set this up to keep an eye on things.

I must say, the designers built
this place with room to spare.

73 disparate levels,
2,300 tunnels.

It's a wonder a soul
ever finds anyone.

The Kromaggs hunker down here,
while the humans are fairly nomadic.

They're making their digs
in this vicinity nowadays.

Yes, sir, lots
of elbow room.

Generally, from eight to
twelve I watch the humans,

from twelve to four
the Kromaggs.

It's quite diverting.

I have my favorite characters.

We could use these
to find my friends.

Well, yes,
theoretically.

But I wouldn't recommend it.

Some of the things you might see...
You're not up to much excitement yet.

Thomas, it matters.

Please.

Okay, it's just as I hoped.

The same de-encryption string
our father hid in the micro-dots

he planted here.

He surmised we might come this way.

And he gave us a key.

Can we turn off
the Slidecage mechanism?

Not from here.
It's on a separate grid.

So first, we've got to find a way out.

Okay, there's a venting duct
that comes in here.

Over there.

All right, I can override
this locking code.

Only hitch is that there's a stretch of
it that's open to the outside atmosphere.

How long of a stretch?

Just a few hundred feet.

We'll hold our breath.

I can't make it.

Hold on, hold on.
We're almost there.

Come on!

I feel like
I've just been through

the longest car exhaust
in the world.

Let's go find Remmy.

Freaking Kromaggs.

Get away from me.

It hurts!

You are not
speaking of us.

They did something to you
in the camps.

Implanted something
in your mind.

You are to kill someone.

Who? Why?

Twenty minutes, and then
wake him and we start again.

I will have this.

You know, you're gonna
get eyestrain that way.

Here.
I made it myself.

Shh. I'm a positive fiend at checkers.

Please.

Oh.

How about a good book?

I had it in my back
pocket when I arrived.

Or I could
recite it for you.

There they are.
Do you recognize it?

Do you know where
it is, Thomas?

Well, I... It's... Thomas?

It's a corridor nearby.

Show me the way. No, that's
not such a good idea, really.

What are you talking about?

It would be much better if we
just stayed here. Safer, trust me.

They're my friends.
I have to go find them.

Really bad things happen out
there! You only had a taste.

This is
a controlled environment.

No one knows about it,
no one comes here.

We can live
out our lives.

No. No.

Thomas, I appreciate
your kindness,

but I have no intention of staying here.

Now, I'm going to my friends,
whether you come with me or not.

I'd rather you
come with me.

No, no, no, no. No, no, that's
out! I don't talk to people!

You talked to me.

You were different.

So many have died here. I
couldn't let you be another one.

Want to know why I'm here, in the walls?

During the war, I was assigned
off-world. Eighth Armored Division.

It got so bad.
I cracked. Ran off.

When I came back,
they were all dead.

All my friends.

Nothing but blood and meat.

I lost it. Wandered
for months, years.

Finally, I wanted to come
home, but it was too late.

So I landed here.

It only seems right.

I should have
been with them.

Thomas, you couldn't
save your friends.

But you can
save mine.

Please.

The Kromaggs took
Remmy right through there.

I've still got
this funny feeling

that Maggie's
looking down on us.

At the end of our road, they
say that you are reunited...

Shh.

Quinn!

Maggie! There they are! Come on!

In here!

Maggie...
Get in, quick!

Hey, let go of him!

Get off of me!

We're human!

Thomas, I'm so sorry.

If you had brought
the Kromaggs down on us,

I'd have chased you to hell
and gone and killed you all.

Yeah, well, we're not so easy to kill.

Nobody's gonna kill anybody.

That's not up to you.

Now, listen to me.

We've got something you need.

Aren't you a little curious
about how we got out of that room?

Where's the mechanism
that runs the Slidecage?

In Kromagg territory.

I was hoping
you'd say that.

My head feels like a
butcher's gone to work.

There's not gonna be much left
if he keeps it up.

Quickly, while no one's looking. Go!

Why don't you come with me?

No, I can't, because
the humans will kill me.

My father told me so,
all right? Go, go.

All right.

But there's something I'm
gonna have to do first.

No, no!
Oh, no!

My God.

No! I told you
I was hideous!

I'm hideous!

My God,
you are not hideous.

You're beautiful.
You are human.

You understand?

You're human.

Come on.

Come on. Trust me.

Kaldeen, no!

Stop them!

Go ahead.
Go, go, go!

Stop!

Kill him.

Come on, come on!

Kaldeen, cover yourself.

I will think how to deal with you.

Take him to his room.

How could you do it?

He's your own son.

Wait a minute, you got him in
some kind of raid, didn't you?

My own son was killed, and there
was no hope of having another.

Something about this
place prevents it.

So I took this one.

Everyone is
a bit mad here.

Some more than a bit.

And no one ever told him he was human.

They were forbidden.

Enough of this!

I will have your secret
now, and then you die.

Who are you to kill?

Who did they order you
to kill? Tell me.

Tell me.

Quinn.

Quinn.

Why would they want
you to kill your friend?

He's got the key
to the Slidecage.

Go with him to find it.

Soon as he can open it, kill
Quinn before he can close it.

Rest.

Remember none of this.

What happened?

Quinn!

Do you mind? I'd like to keep my hair.

I got to missing those loud
shirts of yours. How you holding?

Tortured, beat up and
starved. Same old same old.

Are you a comrade of this
one? A recent arrival?

My name is Quinn Mallory.

My father built
this prison.

Go on.

I think I can unlock
the Slidecage,

but the equipment
is in your territory.

So I'm suggesting a truce, and
we might all get out of here.

To the home world?

I can't say that.

An alternate Earth, perhaps.

But I won't know until I get
to the guts of the machine.

What do you want?

Safe passage.
For him, too.

Agreed.

If you can do what you say.

The kid comes, too,

or all bets are off.

What's taking him so long?

We should never have
let him go alone.

I've been watching the
Kromagg show for many seasons.

Believe me, it's the only thing
that had a chance of working.

There something
you want to say?

It's a puzzle to me.

You seem to have
a good heart.

You care about
your people.

Yet you commit
such cruelties.

You can't lead
with your heart.

I've only seen a few worlds,
but I can't believe that's true.

Time to move out.

He's probably
dead now anyway.

That's one of your
favorite words, isn't it?

Quinn and Remmy!
Oh, my God! Remmy!

Didn't think you'd get rid
of this face, now, did you?

Oh, thank God!

How the crops hanging, farm boy?

Crops don't hang,
Rembrandt.

Stay as sweet
as you are, huh?

I thought you'd had it.

We keep thinking that
about each other, don't we?

Well, you
keep coming back.

Easy now, easy now,
easy now. We're all friends.

Easy, easy. We're all friends.
It's all good, it's all good.

Well, at least we
share a common interest.

You don't
need the mask.

He's been away at a Kromagg
prison for about 16 years.

Does he look familiar?

You're Jules Konig.

My mother
and father?

Dead. I'm sorry.

I will show you
the Slidecage.

Come.

I need to talk to you.

What is it?

We can't let Kromaggs
back on the home world.

They'll be under guard.

And as soon as they get there, they'll
be sent back to wherever they came from.

Or maybe when we slide
out of here, they don't.

Safe passage
goes both ways.

And once they take us
where we're going,

you're going to have to
leave your war behind.

Better hurry up
to the Slidecage.

You don't want to
get left behind.

You will need this.

Careful!

The force field will
kill all who near it.

Not anymore.

You've gotta learn
to trust me a little more.

Got the Sharks and the Jets
here. Better get a move on.

People, welcome
to the Slidecage.

There.

Blue skies, green trees.
Won't be long now, buddy.

It's rather close in here,
don't you think? So many bodies.

You just keep telling yourself you'll
be back with friends and family.

Actually, that was never my strong
suit. Thanksgivings were a horror.

The Slidecage mechanism
is disabled and wide open.

Do you think maybe
I could go with you guys?

Because I don't really want
to go with the Kromaggs.

The system is damaged.

If I slide everyone to the
home world, it'll stay open.

Rembrandt.

The Kromaggs could just
slide in and invade.

Then there's
no going home.

Sorry, bro.
Not this time.

Quinn!

Incredible.

Grab him! I can't
hold him long!

Remmy?

What did you do to him?

It was the Kromagg
prison camp.

Kaldeen!

My name is Jules.

Remmy!

If it's near the
surface, I can reach it.

Sure you...

Hold it!
Hold it! Hey!

You Kromaggs have crossed
the line for the last time!

Hold it! Now,
the truce is still on.

And nobody's going anywhere! Okay?

Rembrandt, what happened
to you, let it go.

You owe it
no allegiance.

Let it go. Rembrandt, let it go.

Remmy.

Okay, it's gone.

What did I miss?

Absolutely nothing.

Oh.

Come on.

What did I do, slip?

All right, using the slide
signatures in our bodies,

I've managed to rig up
a feedback burst.

It'll ship all of us
to where we just came from,

and anyone else who ever tries
to slide to the home world.

So no more Slidecage.

Yep. And the Kromaggs'll still
be kept out.

Hold on, Q-Ball. What
about Jules? He's from here.

He has no
slide signature.

Well, I can't change the parameters
on this. The whole system'll crash.

It's okay.

No way.
It's not okay.

What are you saying?
We just maroon him here?

Look, we're not
leaving you here alone.

I've always been alone, Rembrandt.

Is there any way you could
let me out of this party?

You want to stay?

I'm really not up to
Times Square.

You mind
a roommate, kid?

No.

Well, then you fellas better
grab a seat on the ramp.

Because this is
a pretty narrow field.

Take care.
You, too.

We're coming
back for you.

That's a promise.

All right.

Anybody who wants a ride...

Kromaggs on the right side of
the cage, humans on the left.

Goodbye, Father.

Goodbye, Jules.

Son.

All right,
everybody.

Bon voyage.

So, you ever
played checkers?

Blue skies, green trees. Thank you.

We're not home yet. But there's
places a whole lot worse.

We'll get there, bro.
You can count on it.

I wonder where
everyone else went.

Well,
wherever they are,

I can't imagine peace between the humans
and the Kromaggs lasting for very long.

I was programmed
to kill you, Q-Ball.

Something I'll
never get over.

It wasn't you who tried
to kill my brother.

It was the Kromaggs.

Gotta admit, though,
it was the perfect plan.

Not so perfect.

They didn't count on you
making a friend who'd stop it.

The Maggs could
get in your head, Remmy,

but they can't
get inside your heart.

Yeah.

To Jules.

And Thomas.

And absent friends.