These are scenes from the January 17, 1997 production draft of the script for the episode Sole Survivors written by Steve Kriozere. These scenes did not make it into the final episode due to time and story considerations.
Originally the attack that infects Quinn was supposed to be a bit more violent...
QUINN
Some kind of animal attack.
REMBRANDT
Wolves, maybe.
MAGGIE
It'd have to be werewolves, then...
With gold fillings.
The others look at Maggie, quizzically. She reaches down, off screen, and extracts something from Fenris' body.
Then she straightens herself and holds up a GOLD TIPPED TOOTH with its old, gnarled, bloody roots pointing toward Wade.
WADE
(disgusted)
Enough of the show and tell.
Without warning, the other BODY springs to life, lurching over and attaching its face to Quinn's calf.
WADE
Quinn!
The snarling viciousness of the bite spins Quinn in a circle before he drops down to the ground. On his butt, Quinn strikes the back of the figure's head and neck repeatedly.
REMBRANDT
Quinn, watch it.
Rembrandt moves in with the two-by-four, but just as he's about to use it on the creature, Quinn rips it off his leg.
The thing rolls over on its back. The Sliders freeze, sickened at the site. We PUSH IN on the creature's sallow-cheeked, but human face and its DEAD WHITE EYES.
WADE (O.S.)
Ohmigod.
Off the Sliders' reaction...
FADE OUT
END OF TEASER
Upon entering the abandoned warehouse, Wade was also supposed to try the light switch...
QUINN
Looks like Bennish's room back in
college.
WADE
Maybe drugs are what turned
everyone into monsters here.
Wade sees a light switch and reaches toward it reflexively.
MAGGIE
No!
Wade freezes. She understands, but Maggie keeps going...
MAGGIE
Don't turn on anything.
WADE
(hostile)
Alright.
MAGGIE
The power system's already
overtaxed...
QUINN
She gets it.
MAGGIE
Good.
Quinn moves Maggie away from the now steaming Wade.
QUINN
You know what's going on with her.
MAGGIE
She lost someone. So hold it 'til
downtime, and then deal with it.
QUINN
There is no "downtime" for us.
Everything's treated on the fly.
You could learn from her... start
dealing with your own loss.
And it continues as we saw from there...
We see Debra (the immune woman) spread something on her nose just before they enter the hospital...and she offers it to the Sliders. But the final episode never explained what that was...
QUINN
(to Debra)
If you take me to the hospital,
they can come back and fix the
generator.
Debra reaches over and picks up a small canister.
QUINN
(suspicious)
What's that?
DEBRA
Mentholatum... For the smell.
(then)
We're gonna be knee high in death
at the hospital.
The next shot is of the Sliders in the corridors of the hospital and it plays out as the final version did...
Did you ever wonder if the zombie situation was global and how it could be if it was spread through diet pills (not all people need to lose weight after all)? Well, this one missing line from when Maggie first meets the doctor explains all...
MAGGIE
Listen to me... I was never
exposed.
DR. TASSLER
You had to've been. The bacteria
was airborne for a period before
going dormant.
MAGGIE
Trust me. I can explain. I wasn't
here then.
(silence)
Doctor?
No reply. Quinn closes in on the unsuspecting Maggie.
And the scene finishes out as it did in the final version...with Dr. Tassler opening the door just in time to save Maggie from an attack by Quinn...
Dr. Tassler also had a little additional humorous phrase in his explanation of what the bacteria does to a person...
MAGGIE
This patient... He ate his own
tongue.
DR. TASSLER
Swelling makes you fell like you
don't have a choice. Your friend
could be at that stage already.
Dr. Tassler walks over and shuts the lab's STEEL DOOR. It has a row of big locks runing down its side.
DR. TASSLER
I saw it coming... had this steel
door installed and stocked the
place. Out there... the weak
became the first human Happy Meals.
Then Maggie wonders why there was no military intervention and it continues as we saw it...
The original script also contained some totally out of character and out of line comments by Rembrandt at the second hospital...
WADE
(manic)
No one here, either. We gotta find
another hospital.
REMBRANDT
Wade, I'm thinking Debra's right.
There're no doctors left.
Wade looks furious.
REMBRANDT
Oh, you gonna attack *me* now?
Rembrandt waits for a response.
WADE
You heard what she said to me.
REMBRANDT
I heard. But you acted like trash
back there, Wade. We've been
through hell together, and I've
never been ashamed of you before.
Wade tries to hold back her tears...
WADE
I just felt desperate. Like I was
losing everything to her.
REMBRANDT
Losing everything?
WADE
You and Quinn.
REMBRANDT
To Maggie? C'mon.
The conversation finished out from there as we saw it...
And the episode originally had some more focus on alternate history as well as the character of Debra and her past...
Wade and Rembrandt stop themselves.
WADE
We'll meet you there, first thing
in the morning for the slide.
REMBRANDT
You can do it, Q-ball.
Quinn heads out. As he opens the door, LIGHT floods in for a second, before Debra turns them off.
DEBRA
So you people agree with me after
all?
WADE
(distracted)
About what?
DEBRA
That caffeine should be legal.
Wade and Rembrandt move to the window, and Debra switches the lights back on.
REMBRANDT
(praying)
Run, Q-ball.
WADE
He's gonna make it. I know it.
Debra tries again to distract them.
DEBRA
Not that I don't feel guilty.
Dealing caffeine to weight watchers
wasn't real noble.
WADE
Better than Lipron.
REMBRANDT
People here must've been insane
to take that stuff.
WADE
No more than people on our... back
home.
(then)
Ask me... Liposuction's every bit
as crazy.
REMBRANDT
I guess you're right.
(toward a plate)
Hey... is that bayberry?
(fingers it)
My mother grew this stuff.
DEBRA
Good for your mother.
Rembrandt realizes what this means to Debra.
REMBRANDT
My mom wasn't breaking the law.
DEBRA
Then you weren't in this country.
That's for sure.
WADE
(poignantly)
No. We weren't in this country.
Off Wade and Rembrant's experssion...
We dissolve to Maggie finding Quinn with the syringe of Debra's immune blood to give to the doctor...
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