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Who are those guys?

We don't want to know.

How much longer?

Ninety seconds.

Why did you tell them
you were a believer?

Because I am.

I guess they believe
something else.

Come on.

Unit three, hold your position.

We are approaching now.

Whoa!

Kill the believers!
Kill them all!

Now!

- Fire!
- Go!

Oh!

Looks like the same place.

Mallory?

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.

Come on, Mallory.

Come on.

Hey. You took a
pretty bad hit there.

I feel fine.

I can't move my legs.

I can't move my legs!

All right, well, don't panic.

It could only be temporary.

And what if it isn't?

I'm not going back
to this. I'm not.

We'll get you a doctor.

Do we have enough time?

We've got 38 hours.

Maggie and I will go.

You stay right here
until we get back.

Sorry.

We'll wait for you right
here. We won't go anywhere!

I'm not going back
to a wheelchair.

We found a doctor.

Dr. Krislov.

This better be good.

I don't like being dragged from
my bed for a common drunk.

Ow!

Come on.

I know this looks
a lot like the BIR-world,

but there's no Bureau of
Internal Reconstruction here.

We're moving through
a cluster of similar worlds,

all branching off the
same set of choice points.

On the last one,
the BIR-men were in power.

Here, the BIR was overthrown.

People are still trying
to recover from the war.

Krislov here barely
made it out with his life.

So I have to depend on the
guy who wanted to kill us in the last world

to save my life in this one.

Let me see.

Where did you say you came from?

- South.
- East.

Uh, sort of southeast, actually.

Mmm.

Well, I ask because I haven't
seen a wound like this in a long time.

Those weapons were
supposed to have been destroyed.

We were attacked
by bandits on the road.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Here.

These ought to fit you.

Please, put this on.

Young man, I'm afraid
I don't have good news.

Your spinal cord
has been scorched.

But it'll heal, right?

Well, I...

I'll be able
to walk again, right?

I'm sorry, I don't have
the technology to help you.

But with physical therapy, you should
be able to regain some of the movement.

If you don't have the
technology, who does?

Please.

Don't do anything stupid.

Doctor, you don't
understand. He...

Diana.

I understand all too well.

You don't think I've seen
a wound like this before.

The war left thousands
maimed with it,

like me.

Do you think that if there
were a real chance for recovery

would still be hobbling
around on a stick?

But at least you can get around.

This isn't your decision
to make, it's mine!

Who are you to play God?

You came to me
for help, not them.

Now that you've found out that I
can't help you you'll go out this door,

up the street, and straight
to the believers, hmm?

And they will promise
your friend a blessing.

Oh, they promise everyone.

And you are so desperate,
you'll take it.

Can they make me walk again?

Yes.

That's all I wanted
to hear. Let's go.

At a terrible cost!

Wait a minute.

What cost?

Young man,

do you know who you are?

Yeah.

If you go up there,
do you know who'll you be?

- I'll be me.
- No. You won't.

Well, that's all right, too.

Being me isn't
that much fun anymore.

Do what you will.

Get him out of here.

I can't help a man
who won't listen.

He just wants his legs back.

Oh, so you're going to help
your friend be stupid, are you?

Huh? Well, I have
no patience for stupidity.

I'm guessing you
mean well, Doctor.

But he's our friend.

We're gonna do whatever
we can to help.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

Looks like the '60s.

My mother showed me pictures.

And these people are
supposed to fix my legs?

Hello. Uh,
is this the place...

- Welcome...
- To our colony.

You've been injured.

But your legs are fine.

It's my spinal cord.

It's been scorched.

And you're here to
ask for the blessing.

I don't know about that.

I am.

If it means healing.

I think we should
take it slow here.

We? Are you
in a wheelchair, too?

You don't know what it's
like to be frustrated all the time

because everything requires ten
times the amount of effort as it should.

Can you help me walk again?

We'll teach you to fly.

- All of you.
- If you want.

I'm not sure about this.

One thing I learned
in The Haight.

Beware of flower
children bearing gifts.

This won't hurt, will it?

Does it hurt the caterpillar
to become a butterfly?

Transformation always hurts.

But you'll be laughing
too hard to notice.

Please.

You are welcome to join us.

Uh, no, thanks.
Not this time.

The invitation is always open.

Diana!

I just want to take
some of this. Analyze it.

It's all right.
We don't mind.

We have no secrets here.

Transformation is free.

I offer you water.

May you never thirst.

Drink.

Wait.

Why?

Doesn't all this seem
a little weird to you?

Everything seems weird to me
since I started sliding with you.

Diana has a sample of the stuff.

We'll take it back to
Krislov let him check it out.

Do these people seem
dangerous to you?

That's not the point.

You already know
what he thinks about this.

Look, I'll analyze it myself.
But Krislov has the equipment.

Once again, I'm
waiting for other people

to make decisions about my life.

You won't do anything
till we get back, right?

Right?

All right.

You guys go on ahead
I'll stay here with him.

You didn't drink
any of this, did you?

Here.

You see this?

Billions of biological
nanotech engines.

They can reproduce
themselves like blood cells.

And yes, they can
rebuild his spinal cord,

cell by cell.

Yeah, but you said
there was a cost.

How do you think they
get their instructions, hmm?

They link up and
combine processing power.

Like a network.

The network programs
the individual machines.

They communicate
by tiny pulses of light

and that's why they glow.

Billions of them?

That's a lot of
processing power.

Oh!

Oh, what?

The network, it's not limited
to one single person, is it?

It broadcasts through the skin
from one person to another, right?

And above a certain
threshold, it becomes self-aware.

Self-aware?

The glow is one big mind.

It lives in all of them at once.

It uses their bodies,
and eventually their brains.

That's why they all
talk like one person.

They aren't individuals
any longer.

Merely cells
in the larger community.

So if Mallory drinks any of this
stuff, then he becomes one of them.

That's the cost.

I'm sorry I was
so eager to try this.

You and Remmy were right.

No harm in Diana making
sure this stuff won't hurt me.

I have to learn
to trust you more.

I'm glad you see it that way.

It's just...

You don't know what it's like
to be dead in half your body.

Not to be able to walk or run.

You're right.

But in a way, I do know.

My husband was in a
wheelchair the last year of his life.

I lived every day with his pain.

His loss.

I'm sorry.

I wonder what's keeping
Remmy and Diana.

I'll go check.

Mallory!

Look, is there
any way to cure this?

It was supposed to be
a medical breakthrough.

An end to human suffering.

Yes, of course
there's an off switch.

A shutdown code
you beam into the network

with a modulated light operating
at certain key frequencies.

It's called Dead Man's Light.

Do you know of anyone that...

Look at me.

If I did know someone, I would
have healed myself along time ago.

The lights of the BIR-men.

They worked like that,
didn't they?

They were destroyed.

Forget about it.

Tell me something.

When you were with the believers,
did you meet a girl named Jill?

Was she all right?

Uh...

They didn't mention any names.

But everyone that was
there seemed happy.

Jill is my daughter.

She's one of them.

If I knew how to make that
light, I could have her back.

Don't let your friend do this.

I couldn't stop him.

- What?
- He didn't...

So, uh, how are you feeling?

The process isn't very painful.

Mostly you have dreams.

Nice dreams.

I feel fine.

My coordination
is a little shaky.

But in a little while, the
recovery should be complete.

This is such a
blessing. I feel...

Transformed in the most
spiritual sense of the word.

It's like being able to see for a
thousand years in all directions.

I've been such a jerk.

So angry at everyone
and everything.

And you two have been
so wonderful to me.

Can you forgive me?

You don't have to apologize.

It's, uh, just the way you get,
when you get the way you get.

But it hurt you.
I was wrong.

So how are you feeling now?

Transformation is a feeling
of incredible joy and ecstasy.

He asked Mallory.

What do you feel?

Joy and ecstasy.

Mallory!

I feel blurry. Like I'm
bigger than before.

Like I'm living in a lot of
different places at once,

and this body is only
a momentary focus.

You should feel this, Remmy.

It's so spiritual.

Come, drink the
water of life with me.

Oh, yes, drink with us,
all of you.

It's a whole other way to be.

Oh, do join us.

Please, join us.

I offer you life.

We need to talk.

No, no, no.
We need to talk.

I'll wait for you in the tent.

How much time do we have?

Just a few minutes.

If I didn't know any better,
I'd actually envy him.

Health, happiness.

A true spiritual
connection to others.

A real sense of community.

Peace. Real peace.

We gotta get him
the hell out of there.

Right.

Mallory.

Can we talk to you alone?

What were you doing?

Communing with God.

Rembrandt, the connection
is eternal and unbreakable.

I felt the hand
of God right here.

You don't know
what that feels like.

Yes, I do, friend.

But I don't need this...

this stuff to do it.

This glow, it's not real,
Mallory. Can't you see that?

Man, all you've got here
is a slow, happy death.

You want comfort?

A grave is comfortable, and
nobody ever climbs out of one.

Mallory, life, real life,

is about being uncomfortable.

Remmy, here, in this place,

we've linked a myriad of separate
souls together into one greater being

thereby to obtain a far greater
and clearer communication with God

than any one individual
among us can achieve alone.

Is that what you feel?

Is that what you believe?

I know it.

It's time for the slide.
We have to get going.

If I slide,
I'll break the linkage.

I don't want to do that.

Stay. Join me.

Let me show you the joy.

Mallory, we can't.

Mallory, please come.

You go on without me.

See us off?

I sense you are going to a world
where you can rest and take your ease.

But I'd rather you stay.

Won't you reconsider?

You know we can't stay.

It's your choice.

But I wish you could know
what you're giving up.

And I wish you could know
how much I love you all.

Mallory, we've told you
before, but it bears repeating...

We're not going without you.

No!

Ah, this place is so pretty,
and it smells so good.

A very restful place.

Thank you. We like to
keep things pleasant.

Pleasant?
This place is paradise.

What about the BIR-men?

Oh, those silly people and their
miracle cures, that didn't work.

Oh, hush, Jill.
That was a long time ago.

And they had some good
ideas, but no one listened.

Thank you.

So nothing happened.

Will your friend be all right?

Yeah, he just is a little
tired. He needs some rest.

Well, if you need anything else,

just jingle this little bell.

Oh, he is nothing
like his duplicate.

I think I liked him
better with the scars.

Well, this one didn't
have to live through a war.

On this world, the
glow was never invented,

so the BIR
never happened either.

Poor Jill. She wasn't
so lucky on this world, huh?

Oh, but she's got a good spirit.

Well, what we are is very much
determined by what we're challenged by.

It's just that sometimes it's
nice not to be challenged.

Mmm.

I smell coffee.

Uh, how you doing, Mallory?

You really want to know?

I feel like I've been amputated.

I suppose you want me
to feel grateful.

I don't.

All right.

Go ahead, say it.

You have no idea.

Words can't contain it.

What's possible in the
universe is so profound,

so extraordinary.

Most people never even
get a chance to know this.

Well, don't think I didn't
want to join you. I did.

You should have.

I was learning to look out through
the eyes of everyone in the group.

I was going to achieve a congruence
between the little self and the big self.

But we had to go.

You know, we're all just a
bunch of whirling fragments

pretending to be a whole person.

I was getting unified.

There were pieces of your
Quinn Mallory and parts of me

still unnamed all starting to come
together, blending into a whole person.

I was getting to know
who that person really was.

We had to do
what we did, Mallory.

No, you didn't.

And I feel betrayed.

I'm not gonna apologize.

Me neither.

Somebody had to look out
for us. You certainly weren't.

Maybe we shouldn't
slide anymore.

What?

If that's what you want.

Rembrandt.

We have to trust each other.

If we don't, we
shouldn't be together.

Don't you agree?

It's your call, Mallory.

I need to dry off.

I don't know what you
two are talking about,

but we have got
to stay together.

Some of us do.

We're here by choice.
We go the same way.

Here.
I offer you water.

May you never thirst.

You know, you're right, Remmy.

We have to trust each other.

I shouldn't be angry with you.

I should be grateful
for your friendship.

And we have to find a way
to keep on, don't we?

You're still infected.

Not infected. Blessed.

It's a gift.
Don't you understand?

This is... This is
immortality for everyone.

It's world peace.

The cure for cancer.

It's a battery
that never runs down.

If it's not a free choice, it's
not a blessing, it's a curse.

Did you give me a choice?

Look, it was for your own good.

And so is this.

Somebody has to think about us.

You're not.

- Mallory...
- Wait...

Let me talk to him.

He still has those
things in his blood.

Opens a vein,
drips a little blood into the water,

a little sugar for food,

the nano-bugs start to multiply.

And his cut heals
like magic. How convenient.

Remmy, he doesn't
need us anymore.

If he can infect us,
he can infect anyone.

My God, what have
we turned on this world?

Immortality and peace.

And God.

It would be so easy
to join him, wouldn't it?

Don't even go there,
Maggie. It's a mistake.

I know.

We have stop him.

Fine. All we need
is Dead Man's Light.

The shut-off code that the
other Krislov told us about.

The BIR-men, they knew.

Krislov told us about it.

The one that was scarred.

Do you think this Krislov
would know anything?

We're gonna have to find out.

Hi.

Hello.

I'm glad to see you're
feeling better.

Where are your friends?

They're back at the hotel.

I was just taking a walk.

I'm thinking of staying here.

Really?

Well, there are a
lot of nice people here.

And I have a gift I can share.

What is it?

Would you believe me if I
told you it was a little miracle?

I did believe in the BIR
for a long time,

because we all worked so hard.

It could have been the
greatest medical advance ever.

All I wanted to do was fix
my daughter's twisted spine,

but we couldn't get
the nanotech working.

So, after a while,
people just faded away.

Let me see.
What have you got?

What is it?

Look at it under the scope.

Oh, well.

Is this for real?

Does it work?

Too well.

Believe me, over the years

the doctors have
tried everything.

We heard about some
alternative medicine in Mexico,

but my father
couldn't afford that.

This contains power
no doctor has.

And it's free.

If I drink this,
what will happen?

You'll laugh.

I'm already laughing.

You'll know why
it's all so funny.

Would you like to walk
upright like everyone else?

You can't do that.

No one can do that.

I dare you to trust me.

We designed a specific
command sequence

that had to be repeated
three times in a row,

with specific modulation of
light in two key frequencies.

Now, let me see here.

Why would you want
to shut it off?

Does it hurt anybody?

Well, when we
first encountered this...

Well, we were told about
this kind of light.

This, uh, Dead Man's Light.

Well, here's a design for one.

Jill! No!

No. No.

Leave us alone, Diana.

You, Remmy and Maggie
are sliding out tonight.

I'm staying here.

Do you remember the BIR-world?

Do you remember the tanks
and the secret police?

That will happen here
if you go on with this.

I don't need you to tell me
how to live my life anymore.

If you won't share this blessing

then leave the rest of us alone.

It will heal you.

This won't work, you know.

This had better work.

Oh, it will.

It better, or we'll be
wearing happy smiley faces forever.

Hey, it killed
the stuff in the glass.

Doctor, are you sure
this light's strong enough?

Don't worry.

The shutdown signal is contagious
through the whole system.

Even a partial
exposure will cure.

Hello. Would you like to
take a free personality test?

Jill? Jill!

It works.

Oh, Daddy, I'm sorry I ever
made fun of your old research.

Look at me!

It's a miracle!

Oh, darling. Oh.

What are you testing for?

It's about how open you are
to spirituality in your daily lives.

Wouldn't you like to
transform your being?

Have some water.

Cheers.

Ah! Thank you.

What was that?

You mean this?

What did you just do?

- It works.
- What works?

Now do Jill.

No, please, no!
She's so happy!

Jill has fallen out of the glow!

And George.

What are you doing?

We're our worst nightmare.
We're BIR-men.

I should never have built
this terrible light.

You did this?

Daddy, how could you?

But, honey, you can still walk.

But you've taken
away the blessing.

I hate you.

We have to tell Mallory.

He knows.

I offer you water.

May you never thirst.

- Welcome!
- Welcome!

- Welcome!
- Welcome!

This is very clever,
Remmy. Very good.

But are you really
helping anyone this way?

You saw what happened to these
people when you turned this light on them.

They were separated from
their linkage to God.

They died spiritually.

That's why this is called
the Dead Man's Light.

It kills people.

No matter.
We'll renew them.

The blessing is infinite.

What about us?

Yeah, are you going
to force us to drink?

No.

I won't force you to drink.

The blessing is freely given.

Like this morning?

What I did was wrong.

I'm sorry.

But you'll see. When
you are linked with others,

your freedom is expanded.

But you can't know that,
can you?

Join me, or go on without me.

There is a third option,
Mallory.

An unacceptable one.

This is your chance
to meet God face to face.

No, it isn't.

You're arguing against
your own transformation.

I'm arguing for
my own transformation.

What I'm arguing
against is that.

Mallory, transformation comes
from the heart, not some...

not some glass pitcher.

This is not the answer.

It's a crutch.

You wanted
your legs back, didn't you?

You said you'd do
anything to walk again.

You said you'd even
take this risk.

And I was right to do it.

Yes, you were.

And you know what? I would
have done exactly the same thing.

But you also said
something else.

You said that you wanted
to walk without help.

So who's
really walking, Mallory? Hmm?

You? The glow?

Who's really talking?

You.

You don't understand.

The glow?
Maybe we don't.

But I do understand you.

And if you are still in there,

you know what we're
saying is the truth.

Step out of the glow, Mallory,
and see how you feel about it then.

And if you still
feel like we're wrong,

and if you think the glow
is a better place to live,

then by all means,
drink it again.

And I'll drink it with you.

And you?

- Don't do it!
- No! Mallory, no!

Please, please.
Be calm.

I leave you only
for a little while.

I make this sacrifice willingly.

To prove that there
is nothing to fear.

Transformation is always
available to all of us.

What one feels, they all feel.

How you feeling?

Empty.

You don't know what
I just gave up.

I can imagine.

No, you can't.

Are you going to drink
the water again, Mallory?

I don't know.

When I was transformed,
I was everybody.

I was Mallory, and I was Quinn,

and I was everybody else.

Now I can't feel anybody.

I had a...
a strength inside of me.

Is that gone, too?

No.

I can still feel it.

Just not as clear.

That's normal, Mallory.
Can't you see that?

We all feel that.

None of us really
knows who we are

except by who
we're connected with.

Who we care about is who we are.

Who do you care about, Mallory?

You're telling me
I have to choose?

That's what life is, too.

It's about choices
and possibilities.

The choices are never easy.

Otherwise, we wouldn't
know how powerful we are.

This is a choice.

And so is this.

The water of life gives us
the knowledge of our blessing.

And the light
gives us responsibility.

Once you've been given the
knowledge of the blessing

and the blessing
of the knowledge,

it can never be taken
away from you.

Mallory, you can't leave us.

- The real question is this...
- No, please, no.

- Stay, Mallory.
- What do you do with it?

I'm not going to stand up here
and tell you which choice to make.

That's what other people do
when they don't trust your ability

to be responsible
for yourselves.

No, no, please.

No. I'm not a savior.

I'm not.

I'm just an ordinary guy

who just learned that blessings
aren't found in what you're given.

They're found in what you
create for the people around you.

What's important
is making a difference.

The real transformation
comes from choosing it.

What are we going to do now?

We choose as individuals.

Quinn is gone, for good.

I know.

I'm beginning to like Mallory.

You believe that?

Yeah.

I feel it.

I don't.

And I won't.

I, uh... I just didn't
want to lose you.

Thank you.

So, who are you now?

I'm still finding out.

But isn't that true
for all of us?