These are scenes from the January 19, 1995 second draft of the script for the episode Fever written by Ann Powell and Rose Schacht. These scenes did not make it into the final episode due to time and story considerations.
The beginning of Act One originally had all 4 Sliders in the bathroom to see Rembrandt's discovery and Wade had an observation...
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
INT. BUSTER'S RESTAURANT - EVENING - REMBRANDT
is standing just outside the men's room, covertly ushering the other Sliders in. Wade can't help but giggle a little.
WADE
You know, I've always wanted to do
this.
She and her fellow Sliders step into the bathroom.
INT. RESTAURANT BATHROOM - THE WANTED POSTERS
tacked on the wall.
ARTURO
It *is* him.
WADE
He's got the grunge look *down*!
Maybe your doppleganger's
originally from Seattle.
Quinn fails to see the humor.
REMBRANDT
What is a "Patient Zero"?
ARTURO
(grim)
THe first known carrier of a
disease. The origin of an
epidemic.
From there it is like the broadcast version...
And did you notice the "Sally Struthers" ad in the Apothecary?
INT. "FEEL-RITE" APOTHECARY - NIGHT
Quinn and Arturo enter the twenty-four hour drugstore together. The place is empty.
ANGLE - POSTER
of a cheery SALLY STRUTHERS-TYPE CELEBRITY wearing a gold Lurex moonsuit: "When I'm at home I'm in Chanel. When I'm in a crowd, I'm in my Raclar - the puncture proof germ free habitat from Tyco." Behind the counter,
THE PHARMACIST
looks up, scans the late arrivals and frowns. Quinn buries his face deeper into his jacket.
Then the scene progresses as we saw it...
And Wade's hallucinations were originally meant to be more humorous...
ARTURO
All I can think is she got the
disease from that man on the
street.
REMBRANDT
She's burning up. I'm gonna get
some ice.
Rembrandt snatches up the plastic motel ice bucket and exits the room.
ARTURO
moves closer to Wade - as he reaches out to adjust the cloth, her eyes snap open. The Professor is startled by the wild look on her face.
WADE
Professor... your brain...
WADE'S POV - HALLUCINATION - ARTURO'S HEAD
is mis-shapen, the top of his cranium stretches a full foot higher than normal (as if seen through a fish-eye lens.)
WADE
... it's so big!
ARTURO
Well that's uh... quite a
compliment.
Now --
POV - REMBRANDT - WADE'S HALLUCINATION
re-enters the room, with pre-sealed packets of ice. Tears are literally streaming out of his eyes, pouring down his cheeks as if someone had turned on a faucet.
WADE
Don't cry Rembrandt. It's gonna be
okay - Quinn will be taking us home
soon, you'll see.
RESUME - REMBRANDT AND ARTURO
the non crying Rembrandt and normal-headed Arturo exchange worried glances. Wade is semi-delirious, sitting up in the bed, face flushed, eyes wickedly wild.
Once Wade escapes the hotel room, the script gives us a glimpse of what she was supposed to be seeing on the street...
Empty. The door is open. Wade is gone.
EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT - WADE
looking disoriented as she stumbles down the block. The streets are again dark and eerily empty.
WADE'S POV - HALLUCINATION - THE STREETS, THE BUILDINGS
past wanted posters of this world's Quinn... past street graffiti featuring BIG RED EYES.
Suddenly, the streets are full of reveling people, firecrackers, sparklers, etc. A wild celebration is taking place, involving hundreds of crazed celebrants.
Just as suddenly, the streets are empty and dark again.
WADE
closes her eyes, opens them, squinting into the darkness, wondering where everyone went.
RESUME POV HALLUCINATION - THE PARTY
is back. A fire-snorting paper dragon weaves its way through the throngs as a Chinese man smashes cymbals together. And now --
EMPTY STREET
again.
Flaming dragon - empty street - screaming Chinese - empty street - moving mass of screaming people - empty street.
WADE
staggers along, spinning in slow circles, seeing things that are not there.. and then seeing things as they are. The neighborhood deteriorates, becoming slum. Up ahead. Before it
A BARRICADE OF JUNK
and a red-line, spray-painted on the street, demarcating --
THE RED ZONE
Off limits. Red-eyes, something feral and human -- we don't know what they are.
WADE
stumbles over some refuse and falls across the barricade. She's oblivious, lies down in the street, now racked with chills.
Suddenly --
A PAIR OF HANDS
enter frame, startling her and helping her to her feet.
WADE
Who're you?
ARTURO
An old friend. From back home.
And the rest is as we saw it...
And Dr. Stanley took a bit more precaution in the script when she freed Quinn...they still got caught though...
INT. BLACK CUBE - QUINN
dressed, asleep on the examining table.
A DOOR
opens, a crack of light.
A MOONSUIT
enters, quickly shuts the door.
ANGLE TO INCLUDE A SECURITY CAMERA MOUNTED HIGH ON THE WALL
The moonsuit has an aerosol can of some kind, aims it at the security camera and sprays -- BLACKENING THE LENS. Quinn wakes up with a start.
QUINN
What're you doing?
MOONSUIT
Be quiet. This room is monitored.
And that's all the missing portions there are in this version of the script...
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