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“Fever”
	File:Sliders s01e03.png; Workers in biohazard suits
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 3
Written by	Rose Schacht; Ann Powell
Directed by	Mario Azzopardi
Guest stars	Will Sasso; Dean Haglund; Allison Hossack; Yee Jee Tso
Production no.	70402
Original airdate	1995-03-29
Episode chronology
"Sliders"	"Last Days"
	List of Sliders episodes

Revision as of 21:35, 28 July 2012

"Fever" is the third episode of the science fiction television show Sliders. It originally aired on March 29 1995.

Summary

The group slides to a world where an epidemic is ravaging the population, and Quinn's double has been credited as patient zero. Wade contracts the disease after she kisses an infected man.

Plot

We first see the sliders in a world where San Francisco has discovered that Oil is below it, they walk into a street party (where Rembrandt picks up money some throw into the air), they then find a place to slide to the next world. The world they arrive in is a place where the California Health Commission is in control of the city, where the people have an obsession with cleanliness and unfortunately the Quinn Mallory of that world is Patient Zero of a disease. They narrowly escape before Quinn is caught by CHC enforcers. They decide to check into a motel, just as Wade is starting to grow ill, Quinn is captured as he and the Professor try to get some aspirin from a pharmacy (which is more like an alternative pharmacy), the Professor escapes to inform Rembrandt that Wade is infected with the Q (by the man she kissed on the street that saved her from being ran over), a strep like plague that has ravaged that world and that he is infected as well. Wade escapes in a delusional state and the Professor and Rembrandt find her as they are surrounded by the Q infected.

They are escorted to a safehouse where Q infected people can live out their final days in dignity as the "Protection Camps" are described as "worse than a living death" where the local Quinn is in charge of it, when he gets confused why Wade acts like she knows him, Professor Arturo explains where they came from.

Meanwhile, Quinn is subjected to a painful decontamination process, which confuses Dr Morton and Dr Stanley (someone the local Quinn was close to prior to his infection) as he has no Q infection, while Dr Morton orders him to tell him how he cured the Q (threatening him with death), he tells the two he is from a parallel earth (multiple times) to the unbelieving doctors.

Meanwhile Wade is kept in a bed reserved for those who reach terminal cases of the Q (who progressed to that stage of infection because her immunity is different), Rembrandt and Professor Arturo find out the history of that world and realize that Penicillin was never discovered in that world, so while the Professor creates Penicillin, Rembrandt rescues Quinn from the CHC, who was aided by Dr Stanley, who was shot while she was following Quinn. Professor Arturo tests the antibiotic he created and it worked, he was able to provide Wade and the other sliders with it, so they didn't infect the next world with it, just as he finished explaining how to use it, the CHC finds the safe house and searches for Quinn, while the timer reached zero, the local Quinn appears to distract the CHC, he intends to stand against their repressive regime by spreading the cure around (preventing the CHC from controlling it's supply), the next world the Sliders arrive in, they are about to be attacked by Cannibals.

Note: this episode has similar themes to the movie made years later called Ultraviolet about a world where an oppressive government controls society through fear of a virus.

Earths visited

First Earth

A "Black Gold Rush" is happening in San Francisco where Oil is found under many houses.
The Quinn Mallory of this Earth has a gusher of it under his place.

Second Earth

Alexander Fleming never discovered penicillin and antibiotics were never discovered prior to the sliders visit.
The Quinn Mallory of this earth was infected with the "Q" by a government scientist and became Patient Zero
The California Health Commission (CHC) was created to control the spread of infection (where the rich live in sanitary conditions while the poor get sick and die).

Third Earth

This Earth is more tropical and according to the Professor has a tribe of cannibal in the area they're in.

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 == Summary ==
 The group slides to a world where an epidemic is ravaging the population, and Quinn's double has been credited as patient zero. Wade contracts the disease after she kisses an infected man.
 ==Plot==
-We first see the sliders in a world where San Francisco has discovered that Oil is below it, they walk into a street party (where Rembrandt picks up money some throw into the air), they then find a place to slide to the next world. The world they arrive in is a place where the California Health Commision is in control of the city, where the people have an obsession with cleanliness and unfortunately the Quinn Mallory of that world is Patient Zero of a disease. They narrowly escape before Quinn is caught by CHC enforcers. They decide to check into a motel, just as Wade is starting to grow ill, Quinn is captured as he and the Professor try to get some asprin from a pharmacy (which is more like an alternative pharmacy), the Professor escapes to inform Rembrandt that Wade is infected with the Q (by the man she kissed on the street that saved her from being ran over), a strep like plague that has ravaged that world and that he is infected as well. Wade escapes in a delusional state and the Professor and Rembrandt find her as they are surrounded by the Q infected.
+We first see the sliders in a world where San Francisco has discovered that Oil is below it, they walk into a street party (where Rembrandt picks up money some throw into the air), they then find a place to slide to the next world. The world they arrive in is a place where the California Health Commission is in control of the city, where the people have an obsession with cleanliness and unfortunately the Quinn Mallory of that world is Patient Zero of a disease. They narrowly escape before Quinn is caught by CHC enforcers. They decide to check into a motel, just as Wade is starting to grow ill, Quinn is captured as he and the Professor try to get some aspirin from a pharmacy (which is more like an alternative pharmacy), the Professor escapes to inform Rembrandt that Wade is infected with the Q (by the man she kissed on the street that saved her from being ran over), a strep like plague that has ravaged that world and that he is infected as well. Wade escapes in a delusional state and the Professor and Rembrandt find her as they are surrounded by the Q infected.
 They are escorted to a safehouse where Q infected people can live out their final days in dignity as the "Protection Camps" are described as "worse than a living death" where the local Quinn is in charge of it, when he gets confused why Wade acts like she knows him, Professor Arturo explains where they came from.
 Meanwhile, Quinn is subjected to a painful decontamination process, which confuses Dr Morton and Dr Stanley (someone the local Quinn was close to prior to his infection) as he has no Q infection, while Dr Morton orders him to tell him how he cured the Q (threatening him with death), he tells the two he is from a parallel earth (multiple times) to the unbelieving doctors.
+Meanwhile Wade is kept in a bed reserved for those who reach terminal cases of the Q (who progressed to that stage of infection because her immunity is different), Rembrandt and Professor Arturo find out the history of that world and realize that Penicillin was never discovered in that world, so while the Professor creates Penicillin, Rembrandt rescues Quinn from the CHC, who was aided by Dr Stanley, who was shot while she was following Quinn. Professor Arturo tests the antibiotic he created and it worked, he was able to provide Wade and the other sliders with it, so they didn't infect the next world with it, just as he finished explaining how to use it, the CHC finds the safe house and searches for Quinn, while the timer reached zero, the local Quinn appears to distract the CHC, he intends to stand against their repressive regime by spreading the cure around (preventing the CHC from controlling it's supply), the next world the Sliders arrive in, they are about to be attacked by Cannibals.
+Note: this episode has similar themes to the movie made years later called [[Wikipedia:Ultraviolet (film)|Ultraviolet]] about a world where an oppressive government controls society through fear of a virus.
+==Earths visited==
-Meanwhile Wade is kept in a bed reserved for those who reach terminal cases of the Q (who progressed to that stage of infection because her immunity is different), Rembrandt and Professor Arturo find out the history of that world and realise that Penicillin was never discovered in that world, so while the Professor creates Penicillin, Rembrandt rescues Quinn from the CHC, who was aided by Dr Stanley, who was shot while she was following Quinn. Professor Arturo tests the antibiotic he created and it worked, he was able to provide Wade and the other sliders with it, so they didn't infect the next world with it, just as he finished explaining how to use it, the CHC finds the safehouse and searches for Quinn, while the timer reached zero, the local Quinn appears to distract the CHC, he intends to stand against their repressive regime by spreading the cure around (preventing the CHC from controlling it's supply), the next world the Sliders arrive in, they are about to be attacked by Cannibals.
-Note: this episode has similar themes to the movie made years later called [[Ultraviolet]] about a world where an oppressive government controls society through fear of a virus.
-==Earths visted==
 =====First Earth=====
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 *Alexander Fleming never discovered penicillin and antibiotics were never discovered prior to the sliders visit.
 *The Quinn Mallory of this earth was infected with the "Q" by a government scientist and became Patient Zero
-*The California Health Commision (CHC) was created to control the spread of infection (where the rich live in sanitary conditions while the poor get sick and die).
+*The California Health Commission (CHC) was created to control the spread of infection (where the rich live in sanitary conditions while the poor get sick and die).
 =====Third Earth=====