These are scenes in the production draft of the Steve Brown In Dino Veritas script which was completed 2-22-96. These scenes did not make it into the final episode due to numerous factors.
To those who read the contents section of Expert's site, you already know the surprise cut from this one. Originally the newsman at the beginning of the episode was to supposed to be a cameo by Geraldo Rivera but for various reasons it did not work out. The episode is amazingly still much like it was scripted, except for the fact that it was not supposed to be Hard Copy taping the slide as in the final version, but in fact, Geraldo! And Geraldo just wasn't for the teaser like the newsman of the final version as you can see in the outtakes below:
Arturo has just opened the vortex and Quinn is about to slide when...
GERALDO
(to Quinn)
Anything to say to the people of
America before you go?
QUINN
No comment.
And he slides. Arturo's next --
WADE
You have no shame at all, do you?
GERALDO
(cheerfully)
None whatsoever.
Wade jumps --
REMBRANDT
So long, man. I hope in this world...
there really was something in Al Capone's
vault.
Chuckling gleefully, Rembrandt slides.
GERALDO
(to camera man)
I'm going in!
Off camera man's astonishment --
GERALDO
(grabs the mini-cam)
This is my ticket back to prime time, Eddie.
(then)
Call the station -- I'm bringing back the
mother of all exclusives!
He takes a deep breath, psyches himself up. Leaps into the roaring void and the gate closes behind him.
FADE IN:
EXT. FOREST - NEW WORLD - THE SLIDERS
tumble one by one down onto -- an enormous crater in the earth. At first you'd think a meteor'd hit, but now we see --
AN EGG
about the size of a beachball --
ARTURO
Good God!
GERALDO (O.S.)
Look out -- !
And as the intrepid news gatherer comes blasting out of the worm hole, fliailing his arms and legs as he lands almost on top of Wade, sending her sprawling --
GERALDO
Whoa! What a ride.
(then to Wade)
You okay, sweetheart?
Wade is pulling herself up. And now we see a vicious ichor dribbling all down her fingers. Geraldo's mometum shoved her into the enormous egg, and shes left a little hole the size of her fist in the shell.
WADE
OhmiGod -- Look what you did.
REMBRANDT
(to Geraldo)
What the hell are you doing
here, man? Are you crazy?
GERALDO
I may host talk shows but my
roots are still in investigative
jounalism. I plan to cover the story
of the slide, then tell the world about
it on pay-per-view.
QUINN
Oh yeah? And how do you plan
to do that?
GERALDO
What are you talking about?
WADE
We can't control the slide. We have
no way of knowing where we're going,
so there's no way of sending you back.
GERALDO
(to Wade)
You never told me that.
WADE
Well, who thought you were coming
with us for a world exclusive?
QUINN
(reacts)
Guys --
All stop. Something from a distance (though not a great distance) --
AN OTHERWORLDLY ROAR (O.S.)
It's a sound we've never heard in nature --
REMBRANDT
What the hell is that?
Quinn clambers up the bank of the nest to see --
REVERSE ANGLE:
ALLOSAURUS POV - QUINN
as seen from a tree-top height. The image may be stylized (perhaps black and white, perhaps fish eye). The other Sliders move into range -- and now we see the broken egg -- and as the Allosaurus roars in anguish --
EXT. NEST - SLIDERS
react, panicked --
WADE
OhmiGod! It thinks we broke its egg!
QUINN
Take off!
WADE
Where?!?
The scene then plays out as we saw it with the Sliders running for cover and the timer falling out of Arturo's pocket and Arturo subsequently hurting his leg while running through the forest.
INT. CAVE MOUTH - QUINN, REMBRANDT
assisting Arturo to safety. The adit is only three or four feet high, meaning an adult has to stoop to get inside.
REMBRANDT
Almost there.
POV - THE MINICAM
Geraldo's videotaping the rescue --
GERALDO
This is incredible.
(then)
An extraordinary display of heroism that
make this particular reporter proud to
be an American --
REMBRANDT
Put that damn thing down and help us!
Geraldo does so --
WADE
You all right, Professor?
ARTURO
Ow ow ow...
Quinn helps him to a sitting position --
QUINN
I think he really did something to
himself here.
WADE
He's bleeding!
ARTURO
I'm fine.
Wince. The collar goes off.
REMBRANDT
Well, this world's one for the annals,
that's for sure.
GERALDO
(as he tapes)
-- following a hair's breadth escape --
and apparently safe for the moment --
the Sliders take refuge in what appears
to be a small outcropping of rock --
QUINN
Shut down the video recorder off, man.
(then)
Now.
Geraldo does so --
REMBRANDT
Damn. Geraldo Rivera is the fifth Slider.
(close eyes)
When will the nightmare ever end.
QUINN
How much time before we slide out
of here Professor?
Arturo feels his pockets. The expression on his face tell them the bad news wven before he says --
ARTURO
It's not here.
WADE
That's not funny, Professor.
ARTURO
I'm not joking: Who has the timer?
Blank faces --
QUINN
You must have dropped it when you fell.
REMBRANDT
Out there? With that...thing?
QUINN
Guys. Cool heads.
(then)
Someone's got to go get it -- No way
I'm spending the rest of my life in this
place --
GERALDO
(to Wade)
What's he talking about?
WADE
Without the timer we won't be able to
slide out of here.
(then)
And we have no idea how long we have
before the next slide.
GERALDO
(as it registers)
Seriously?
QUINN
I'm going out there.
WADE
Quinn -- you can't.
QUINN
No choice. There might only be minutes
until the next slide. We have to have that
timer.
No one has an alternative --
ARTURO
Good luck, my boy.
(then)
I wwish I could be of some
assistance.
Wince. The collar zaps him --
ARTURO
Dammit, I didn't say I wanted to be
killed!
QUINN
It's okay. I know what you're trying
to say.
As he goes --
ARTURO
(to Wade)
Damn these blasted truth collars!
Man was never meant to be deprived
of the right to little white lies.
WADE
Don't look at me -- You were the one
who said not to remove them.
ARTURO
Only because it was a felony on that
world!
ANGLE - CAVE MOUTH - QUINN, GERALDO, REMBRANDT
like paratroopers about to take the plunge --
REMBRANDT
I don't see him.
QUINN
Here goes nothing.
REMBRANDT
Be careful.
QUINN
exits the cave, heads off down the hill. Geraldo's replacing his battery pack.
REMBRANDT
Are you crazy?
GERALDO
I'm a journalist.
(then)
Go tend to your friend.
And off he goes, out after Quinn.
EXT. FOREST - QUINN
dogged by the newsman --
GERALDO
With Quinn Mallory, the brilliant young
inventor, as we make out way downhill
in search of the missing timer.
Quinn turns to him, facing the camera and making a "you've gotta be kidding" face.
GERALDO
No, this is not Disneyland. This, my friends,
is the real thing. A primeval jungle forest
where even the insects are the size of a
clenched fist!
QUINN
Boy, you really know how to lay it on
thick, don't you.
Geraldo turns off the camera and talks to Quinn as the younger man scours the jungle floor for the timer...
GERALDO
Give it to me straight - if you find this
device of yours, you can send me
home, right?
(knowing smile)
You were just trying to scare me with
that line in the cave --
QUINN
(reacts)
-- Shut up for a second!
(tense pause)
Did you hear that?
The two men hold perfectly still - the ground is trembling now, the nearby jungle being thrown into chaos by a rapidly approaching animal.
ALLOSAURUS'S POV - THROUGH DENSE FOLIAGE
breaks through the trees --
TWO MEN
The one with the mustache is holding a metal device. As the men start to run --
GERALDO
trips and his camera goes flying.
GERALDO
No!
ANGLE - QUINN
horrified --
QUINN
Geraldo!
The newsman's screams penetrate the jungle and --
CUT TO:
INT. CAVE - THE SLIDERS REMBRANDT, WADE, ARTURO
The rest of the script is exactly what we saw in the final episode...except for the ending. This scenes picks up just as Wade has broken all the containers in front of the Allosaurus and is running for the closing vortex...
QUINN
is aware that the vortex is starting to sputter.
QUINN
Wade! Now!
THE RANGER
It's closing!
QUINN
Hurry!
WADE
begins her last fifty yard dash, directly in front of the confused beast.
ALLOSAURUS'S POV - WADE
A blur streaking directly in front of her. She has one last chance to avenge herself. And she stoops to take it...
WADE
reaches the decaying vortex...
QUINN
Go! Go!
...and leaps directly into the vortex.
QUINN
turns to follow her, just as --
THE ALLOSAURUS' ARM
comes sweeping down, smacking him on the back so hard it sends him flying into the wormhole --
QUINN
hurtling through the brilliant kaleidoscopic colors from dimension to dimension until --
GOLDEN GATE PARK - DAWN
is just beginning to peak over the horizon and through the bordering trees when...
QUINN
is unceremoniously deposited onto the rolling green lawn of a much-more-recognizable San Francisco.
WADE
(overjoyed)
We made it!
REMBRANDT
Thank you, Lord..
ARTURO
Mr. Mallory! Are you alright?
Wade and Rembrandt help Quinn stagger to his feet, obviously still woozy from the blow he received in the last world.
QUINN
I... I think so.
(then)
Unbelievable!
But the vortex has one last surprise. Just as it sputters its last gasp of existence...
It vomits out one last souvenir of their adventure...
THE SEVERED ARM OF THE ALLOSAURUS
still steaming from where it was cut off when the wormhole at the other end closed down about it.
It lands... KA-CHUNK... on the lawn of Golden Gate Park, directly in front of our four Sliders. And off their reactions we --
FADE OUT.
THE END.
 
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