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Sliders:
Season Four:
Slidecage
The Sliders leave a paradise world in which they have been enjoying themselves. Quinn has decoded the second set of coordinates from Colin's microdot and entered it into the timer. They believe that the next slide with send them home. They find themselves in a bizarre maze, on an Earth with noxious gases and two moons outside. The humans living there do not trust the Sliders and try to kill Maggie. She is rescued by a human who has isolated himself from the others. They become friends. Quinn, Colin and Rembrandt try to find Maggie and the computer that controls where they are. The group accesses it and finds it is a "Slidecage". Quinn's father created the place to trap any unwanted visitors, especially Kromaggs, from finding the world again from which the Mallories originate (it makes Quinn and Colin very unpopular). Quinn eventualy reasons with both the humans and Kromaggs that he could break them out of the Slidecage. Rembrandt, who was captured by the Kromaggs, but is now released, befriends the deformed son of the Kromagg leader... but discovers that the boy is human (the child was abducted from his human parents at a young age, but the parents are now dead). Quinn fixes the sliding mechanism, but it will send everyone back to the world from which they were last at. The man that Maggie befriended does not want to leave and the boy who Rembrandt befriended must stay because he was born on the Slidecage world. Everyone else slides out and Quinn sets it so that the machine will automatically send anyone who now trys to enter those coordinates back to the world that they slid from. Everyone else slides and Maggie's friend asks the boy if he knows how to play chess...