The Crapparatus

Requiem [early draft script]

Written by Michael Reaves

MSTed by SL4ever

Script courtesy earth62.net


 Requiem - Part VII

Diana: "Uh-oh. Whatever it is, it looks like another one is coming up quick."

SL4: They're called "orgasms" Diana. And women are lucky enough to have multiple ones, yes. I'm surprised you didn't know about all this.

Remmy <to Mallory> : "Better decide."

TBH: <mimicking Mallory> : Is there ANY other way to weasel out of this without looking like a wineless spimp?

Mallory: "I think I've already made this decision."

HTWD: Yeah, we could tell, punk. The way you've been trying to talk all of us out of going.

<Suddenly there is a bright light and a hologram appears in the theater. The face is grayed out but a massive tuft is visible above the face.>

SL4: It's Blinker! Can't miss that tuft.

Blinker: Greedings. My battle cruiser is far away right now but I'm in the holodeck so I can take part in this magnificent rending of this horrid ep. WOO HOO!!!

HTWD: <rises> : I'm the only one who hasn't taken a break yet. So I'm going out to play 'fetch the head.' Handle things while I'm gone, Blinker.

<The vortex curtain opens again. The Sliders assemble in front of it.>

Remmy: "New World, new chance."

SL4: ... to die in various horrible ways.

<The Sliders leap into the vortex.>

TBH: <mimicking Maggie> : Oh no! A fly went in at the exact moment I did! Help me! Please help me!

<The Sliders tumble out of a vortex curtain on another world. They stand and look around.>

Mallory: "We're still alive. I like that part."

BLK: He's still alive. I hate that part. 7>:-# AND continuing to sound like a bigger coward than Shaggy and Scooby combined.

Remmy: "I've seen this place."

SL4: So have I. They've shot a dozen movies and TV eps on this set.

Remmy: "This was the world where I saw Wade. This was in one of the images."

TBH: Oh yes. 'The images.' We keep hearing about 'the images.' I didn't see any images! I say that anything they don't have the budget to actually show us doesn't exist!

Maggie: "Whatever it is we're here to do, it had better take less then two hours and six minutes."

BLK: WHATEVER it is, eh? Boy I hope you get captured by them! The rest would be like 'oh darn! Time's up! 7>:-# rescuing her. Time to Slide. <mimicking an airline stewardess> Bye-bye! Bye-bye!

Remmy: "We'll be okay. Come on."

SL4: <sticking another pin in his Peckinballs voodoo doll> : Sure, you'll be okay. Just because it was said in "Invasion" that you have to be on the world you Slid in on to Slide out when the time comes, never mind all that. 'We'll be okay.'

Diana <to Remmy> : "I wish I'd known Wade."

TBH: Why? She obviously wasn't important enough to have been mentioned even once to you all these months.

Diana: "From what you guys have told me ..."

BLK: ... in the past ten minutes ...

Diana: "... she sounds like someone I would like."

SL4: Oh, Jesus God. Could she be ANY more of a transparent phony? How could you make a statement like this after just hearing about her a couple minutes ago? You don't have to suck up to them, Diana! They stopped scheming to leave you behind months ago!

Diana: "A techie. Like me."

TBH: There are two things wrong with that additional suck up comment. 1, you're not a techie, you're a gibberish talking buffoon who had her "no sentient life on this planet" theory denounced by the abject moron of the group. C, Wade wasn't a techie either. She knew two lines of HTML and she could type fast and that was about it. And 4, you'll never be like Wade unless you go shopping for a matching water cooler.

Remmy: "She was something. I've watched her face down dinosaurs..."

BLK: Of course, it was hard to watch her and run at the same time so I didn't watch her for long.

Remmy: "flesh eating zombies..."

SL4: ...because it stops the PAINS!!

BLK: Wrong zombies.

Remmy: "Vampires..."

HTWD: <trotting back in> : So I take it the writer of this ep only saw the worst episodes of Sliders. >:-# What about mouth aliens? We haven't mentioned that! How about snakes???? Better yet, how about mentioning the ep where you left me stranded on a world not my own with the mutant cat creatures! Mention that one! The horror!

SL4: <petting> : It's okay boy.

HTWD: Pet me again and I'll rip your arm off.

BLK: Well, I'm outta here. If I watch any more of this I'll- ... well you don't want to see a hologram blow chunks, believe me. <Blinker touches his watch and vanishes>

Diana: "Okay, maybe she's not so much like me."

TBH: <mimicking Diana> : You didn't have to get snotty and bring up all these great things she's done! I was just trying to get you to like me by relating myself to your lost friend!

Diana: "I can't face down a sales clerk over a return item."

SL4: Then you're not much like Arturo either. They'd have to call the police and have him dragged out because he'd be in their face so much.

Remmy: "It wasn't always bad times."

TBH: Yeah, there were some good eps. But you're only bringing up the bad ones!

Projectionist: HOLD IT! How do I deal with this next bit, fellows? I don't have an actual tape of the ep, I'm showing a pre production script.

SL4: What does it say?

We push in on Remmy's face and ...

DISSOLVE TO:

22. Memory Sequence

A scene between Rembrandt and Wade lifted from an earlier episode (to be chosen later).

HTWD: Jesus. What the smeg do we do with THAT?

TBH: Riff it!

We push in on Remmy's face and ...

HTWD: ...pass out from his breath, still reminiscent of his lunch menu of fried hot dogs, a kelp salad, and mustard gravy soup.

DISSOLVE TO:

TBH: <mimicking Peckinballs> : An episode of "7 Days." No one will know the difference.

22. Memory Sequence

SL4: I always hated this game! I could never remember which card the fox was!

A scene between Rembrandt and Wade lifted from an earlier episode (to be chosen later).

SL4: I have no clue which one they eventually used. >:-# How about a scene from the pilot where he was wearing that outrageous suit?

TBH: How about the scene where he and Wade started making mad passionate love on the kitchen table, throwing all the plates and place mats on the floor in a loud clatter-...

HTWD: You're thinking of a HTZ fan fic. By the way, this line proves they were just picking moments from the past eps at random. They didn't select the scene they put here for anything it added to this ep but just to show newcomers who Wade was.

<scene change to Diana and Remmy standing on a loading dock>

Remmy: "The hell she got dumped in ..."

SL4: I agree, "Sports Night" sucked the big fat nasty one.

Remmy: "That breeder camp..."

TBH: I don't remember them camping out in "Breeder." Of course, it's also been a long time since I've forced myself to watch that ep.

Remmy: "It's gnawed at my guts for two years."

HTWD: Oh yeah, you've had it really tough. SHE'S the one actually IN the place!

Remmy: "I feel like such a damned coward!"

SL4: If the shoe fits ... you've been the only surviving original Slider for a REASON.

Diana: "I'm sure you would have saved her if you could."

TBH: You sure are making a lot of assumptions today. How do you know????

Remmy: "Don't be too sure."

HTWD: Don't worry, we aren't.

<scene change to the Sliders moving along a space between crates and barrels.>

Diana: "Could be the reason for your mind link. Kromaggs."

SL4: Well, yeah, Wade is in the hands of the Kromaggs. So it doesn't take a PHD to guess they're involved somehow.

Mallory: "You think it's some kind of trap?"

TBH: Mallory! Welcome back! I'd forgotten for a couple minutes that you're the REAL coward of this bunch!

Maggie: "Well, we've fallen into their traps before."

HTWD: Wait a minute! Projectionist! Roll those last two lines again!

Mallory: "You think it's some kind of trap?"

Maggie: "Well, we've fallen into their traps before."

HTWD: Are these two in the same room? He asked if they thought this could be some kind of trap and Maggie replies that they've fallen into Kromagg traps before! What does her answer have to do with whether this time is a trap? It's a "yes, maybe, or no" question!

Remmy: "Maggs didn't lure us here."

SL4: <mimicking Remmy> : I DID! MWA-HA-HA-HA!!! I never broke my brainwashing! Guards!!!!!

TBH: That was awful. Let me do the impersonations please. I don't want you to hurt yourself.

Remmy: "And I know what you're thinking."

TBH: You KNOW we think you're a delirious fruitcake?

Remmy: "That brainwashing they did to me on Earth Prime, that's done with."

HTWD: Because it's not convenient to the current plot.

Remmy: "You were there. The time I went after Quinn."

SL4: OKAY!! We give up! We BELIEVE that the scriptwriter watches Sliders! Christ Almighty. Can we go two minutes without a past ep reference?

HTWD: They went all of season 4 and half of season five pretending nothing happened before "Genesis" and now they're forcing half of the episode list down our throats in the first twenty minutes!

<Mallory pulls Diana to one side as Remmy and Maggie move on>

TBH: <mimicking Mallory> : Hey baby. Danger makes me hot. What do you say we freak in this barrel for a couple minutes?

Mallory: "When Remmy got separated from us on that Utopian World, how long was he gone?"

HTWD: Wait a minute, they were convinced he had never gone anywhere! They made a big deal about the fact that he was there with them the whole time!

TBH: How about before you go making miles of past ep references you at least get the continuity in THIS ep right?

Diana: "What are you saying?"

HTWD: A question is NOT a statement! It is a request for information. My wife is like this, she keeps saying I'm making statements when I ask questions.

Julie the Wonder Dog: <from the hallway> : Don't make me break out the muzzle, smart >:-#.

Mallory: "What I'm saying is, how can we even be sure this IS our Remmy?"

SL4: We've reached our Riff It Yourself Contest! Namely because I have nothing for this line. So how could they tell this IS their Remmy? Or how else can you spin this comment into something amusing or interesting?

TBH: Include your riff and win fabulous prizes.

HTWD: Or at least a chance to join us in the Theater Wing of the Story Game Cave and riff on this hideous ep. If you've already appeared with us, riff anyway, you know you want to! :-P~~~~~~~~~