These are scenes from the November 16, 1998 sixth revision draft of the script for the episode The Great Work written by Robert Masello. These scenes did not make it into the final episode due to time and story considerations.
Mallory had a missing quip at the dinner table...
REMBRANDT
We move around a lot. Oh yeah, one
day we're in one place, the next day
somewhere else -- completely.
Abraham looks unsatisfied.
KEEPER ABRAHAM
You must be very lucky... or very
blessed.
REMBRANDT
A little of both, I guess. But we've
seen our share of troubles.
MALLORY
So the women here always eat separate
from the men.
KEEPER ABRAHAM
The women do *everything* separate from
the men.
MALLORY
So, there won't be any new *little*
keepers, will there?
Before Abraham can react to that, a BELL TOLLS again, and all the Keepers silently rise from their benches, and begin to move out.
KEEPER ABRAHAM
We have a time for solitary
contemplation now. Let me show you
to your quarters.
Abraham rises, and as he does the camera moves to the CRYSTAL DISK, SPARKLING on the matel.
And while picking up clams on the beach, Seth originally had a little more to say when Remmy slipped up...
REMBRANDT
(tactfully as possible)
What happened here? Was your world
overrun?
SETH
Yes, most of it. Or at least that's
what I've been told. After the
collapse of the Hemispheric Alliance,
the Volsangs were pretty much in
charge...
(then)
Why did you say 'your world'?
Mallory and Remmy exchange a look, that Seth notices.
SETH
I knew it! You're not even from this
world, are you? You're from
somewhere else. Where? Another
planet? A star?
They still aren't sure what and how much to tell him.
MALLORY
You've got a pretty wild imagination,
kid.
And then the scene shifts to Diana scrubbing the floors...just as we saw.
Lastly is the most important missing portion of this episode. Did you wonder what came of that promise Seth kept reminding Remmy of? Well, these missing lines tell what came of that.
Seth's father has just died, and the Sliders have just made it back down to the secret area...
MAGGIE
There's a tunnel to the outside,
James took me through it from the
infirmary! And he's hidden a boat
there, under some driftwood.
MALLORY
(to Seth)
Could you get there?
SETH
Yes. I could take someone there, but
I'm not leaving the island.
MAGGIE
We don't have time to argue about
this, Seth. You have to go.
SETH
You owe me a favor -- whatever I ask.
Remember?
MALLORY
Yes, but now isn't the --
SETH
I was going to ask to go with you.
To leave this island. But that's not
what I'm asking now. Now I want to
stay right here and fight the
Volsangs!
MALLORY
The only way you can defeat them now
is by protecting the Great Work. By
doing what your father died trying to
do!
MAGGIE
He's right, Seth. If you want to
beat 'em, you've got to get that
crystal out of here.
Then Diana gives the crystal to Sara and tells her to go with Seth...and the rest is history.
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