Angus Rickman (played by Roger Daltrey in "The Exodus", Neil Dickson in subsequent episodes) is a marine colonel on an alternate earth that was to be destroyed by pulsars. He had a fungus infection in his brain which required him to extract brain tissue from the brains of compatible "donors" and inject the tissue into his brain. Extracting brain tissue from these people caused them to become comatose. He was the commander of Maggie Beckett, who at one point had an affair with him.
Biography[]
Three days before pulsars were going to destroy his earth, the Sliders landed there and helped improve the Sliding technology of local scientist Dr. Stephen Jensen, which allowed Rickman and 150 other people to slide to a safe alternate earth before the pulsars hit. Rickman specifically had Wade Welles select 150 pioneers that had brain tissue compatible with his own. Originally, the sliders were going to slide with Rickman and the 150 people, but Rickman ordered the slide early, and murdered Maximillian Arturo via gun shot when the sliders attempted to slide with him.
Rickman also murdered Dr. Stephen Jensen, the husband of Beckett, when Jensen learned that Rickman was responsible for the coma victims. Rickman lied to Maggie and said a mob had killed him.
Quinn Mallory, Wade, and Rembrandt Brown slid to the earth Rickman, Maggie, and the others had traveled to, and informed Maggie that Rickman murdered her husband. Initially, Quinn and Maggie wanted revenge on Rickman his crimes. However, Rickman still had the Timer. So Rickman used it to slide and escape. The timer Rickman was using also had the coordinates to Earth Prime, which gave Quinn, Wade, and Rembrandt greater incentive to catch him.
The first time the sliders encountered Rickman since "The Exodus" was in "The Other Slide of Darkness". By this time, Rickman's face had dramatically changed from injecting the brain tissue of non-compatible donors and he was now played by another actor, Neil Dickson. In this episode, Rickman's timer broke, leaving him unable to slide. Rickman encountered Quinn's double, the first double of his that Quinn met, and Quinn's double intended to kill Rickman. Then Rickman told Quinn's double about Quinn and the others. Quinn's double then decided to give Rickman a deal: Quinn's double would not kill Rickman and fix his timer, and in exchange Rickman would bring Quinn to his double. Rickman did this, so Quinn's double fixed his timer, and Rickman slid.
The next time the sliders encountered Rickman was in "Dinoslide".
The last episode with Rickman was "This Slide of Paradise". On this earth, the sliders managed to take Rickman's timer away from him, leaving him stranded. Quinn, Wade, and Rembrandt were about to use Rickman's timer to slide home and let Maggie use the other timer to continue sliding. However, right after they oped the vortex to Earth Prime, Rickman showed up. Quinn stayed behind to help Maggie fight Rickman but pushed Wade and Rembrandt through the vortex. Rickman attempted to slide through the vortex that Quinn pushed Wade and Rembrandt through, but the vortex closed just as he jumped towards it, and he fell off the cliff and died.
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