My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Would the timer not have been confiscated immediately following Quinn Mallory's, Rembrandt Brown's, and Prof. Maximillian Arturo's incarceration? Yet, it is still in Quinn Mallory's possession.
2) The photograph of Quinn Mallory in the newspaper in which it claims him as being Daelin Richards's killer has him in a flannel shirt. Never at one point, though, does Quinn Mallory appear in this flannel shirt during the episode.
3) One would think a noteworthy police investigator would be more than capable of unsheathing a handgun easily. Perhaps Ms. Richards ought to have donned a more accessible trench coat.
Why had the Sliders not arrived in the world in which time progresses in reverse years into the future, such as when they are much older individuals with hair growing out of their ears? Instead, they arrive in the world at a point during which they have already been incarcerated and with a day or two elapsed.
Also, how does Wade slide out....she's not
with them in the prison.
Daelin's brother sure looks alot like Quinn's brother.
Dennis (I think that's his name), at the beginning of this episode, claims the weather reminds him of Vancouver. Gee, I wonder why?
Yeah, the temporal mechanics of this episode are so messed up, I don't even know where to start... but it was a good one, nonetheless. Especially when Quinn sucker-punched the abusive husband... I was hoping he might kick him a couple of times, too. :-)
Why is everyone speaking English on the Spanish world? We hardly hear any Spanish except for a few shouted words.
Right before they slide off the world, we see a shot of Daelin leaning over their friend who got shot, taking off her gloves, and one of the customs agents coming to take a look. Then the shot cuts to Quinn going into the wormhole, then it cuts back to Daelin, and we see exactly the same shot of her taking off her gloves and the customs agent coming over.
If Daelin married this abusive guy on their second world, then why is she still listed in the phonebook as Daelin Richards?
Why had the Sliders not arrived in the world in which time progresses in reverse years into the future, such as when they are much older individuals with hair growing out of their ears?
Why would they? The timer sets a random time between slides which seems to vary between a couple minutes and several weeks. The current time in this world at the time they slid from the last one may have been when Daelin was murdered, and they arrived at whatever time the timer had set after that.
As I understand Professor Hawking's theory about time's arrow, it is based on the direction of increasing entropy in the universe. Most of the laws of physics don't especially care about the direction of time, they will work the same in either direction. An exception to this is the second law of thermodynamics, which says that an isolated system will always move in the direction of increasing entropy and will never have a net decrease. This law is a statistical law derived from other physical laws based on the idea that given a completely random system, it is considerably more likely for it to be in a state of high entropy than a state of lower entropy. The main reason entropy tends to increase in our universe is that at the time we have defined as the beginning of our universe it was at a state of very low entropy. It has been moving toward a state of higher entropy since then. This is extremely unlikely. Still, given that a random system is in a state of very low entropy at one instant, it is just likely that it was in a state of higher entropy the instant before as it will be the instant after. So one might surmise that if the universe were in a state of very low entropy at its end, and not its beginning, then it would have spent its whole existence moving toward a state of lower entropy, so its entropy would have been decreasing. Hawking theorized that if this occurred then our perception of the universe would still go in the direction of increasing entropy, so time would seem to be running in the opposite direction. The point of all this is that other than increasing entropy, all the other laws of physics would be exactly the same, forwards and backwards. Were our sliders to arrive in a universe where entropy was increasing in the other direction, things would still work the same for them, they would likely see things moving backwards, at least for a little while, because once they started interfering with the way the world worked, the results would be unpredictable, but in any case they wouldn't be jumping around through forward-moving timeframes like that, their timer wouldn't start going haywire, and the universe certainly wouldn't collapse in on itself if they started playing around with it. In the words of Captain Picard, the universe is not that badly designed.