The Crapparatus

Requiem [early draft script]

Written by Michael Reaves

MSTed by SL4ever

Script courtesy earth62.net


 Requiem - Part XII

<The Sliders walk among some crates.>

SL4: You know, it's very nice of the Maggs to provide all this concealment clutter.

Wade: "Can you still feel the connection to Wade?"

TBH: Of course! Nothing Peckinballs could ever conceive could hurt our connection with her! :-P

Remmy: "Yeah, it's there. But it's cloudy, she's still weak."

HTWD: I'd say! She can't even pick up a feather! That's pretty weak.

Diana: "We don't know how long it'll take for the Kromaggs to discover she's off the tranquilizer."

QBall79: Judging from the intelligence they've displayed in this ep so far, I'm betting they'll discover she's off it AFTER she blows them all up.

SL4: QBall! Mychand! Come on in! Riff awhile!

Remmy: "And then what?"

Mychand: And then we throw a blanket party for Michael Reaves.

Remmy: "Somebody help me out, because I'm running out of ideas."

SL4: This wasn't a line meant for the camera, it was something Michael Reaves wrote at the bottom of a page after an all night rewrite.

Mallory: "That's easy..."

TBH: ... because you didn't qualify it by saying you needed "good ideas."

Mallory: "We find a way in and ..."

HTWD: ... throw PIEs at them.

Maggie: "A way in? Look at that place."

Q79: And look at the size of it.

Diana: "Clear your mind Remmy."

My: <mimicking Diana> : So you can be as emptyheaded as me.

Diana: "Concentrate on nothing but Wade."

SL4: That'll be the first time this ep. So far it's been all about Remmy and HIS pain.

<Close up of Remmy concentrating hard.>

TBH: <mimicking Peckinballs> : I'm not convinced! Have him sit on this porcupine on the next closeup take.

Diana: "Easy, relax, focus on Wade. Send her a message."

HTWD: Now she's a psychic counselor. Is there anything this woman can't do?

<Remmy stiffens. He seems to zone out as if he were someplace else.>

Q79: He'll do anything to get out of this horrid ep.

SL4: I'd have been in Hannibal's "memory palace" twenty minutes ago.

<A vortex curtain appears>

Maggie: "You've done it. Let's move it, people."

TBH: <mimicking Remmy mimicking Keith Famie> : I didn't come here to be pushed around by a bartender wannabe actress.

<The Sliders dive into the vortex curtain.>

HTWD: Oh my god! It's full of stars!

<The Sliders appear from an off screen vortex.>

Q79: Apparently the head effects blew their budget.

Maggie: "Which way?"

My: What is he, a bloodhound? <whistles> Which way, boy?

Remmy <pointing> : "We want launch control. That way!"

SL4: Woo Hoo!!! Lunch control! I'll have a Big Mac, a superduper size order of fries, a McChickenhead nugget...

Diana: "Wait! Do we have a plan?"

TBH: You haven't had a plan or a clue all ep, why start now?

My: Yeah, her last plan was to stick Remmy in his >:-# with a dart.

Maggie: "I think this act is strictly improv."

HTWD: So is her singing.

TBH: And this script.

Diana: "Just checking, because no sane person would actually plan something like this."

Q79: Is this scene an outtake of the actors talking before they knew the cameras were on?

<The Sliders reach an intersection and turn the corner. Suddenly a hatch opens up to reveal a grinning Karnaaj, his blaster aimed at Remmy's face.>

My: Now you die for making fun of the fact that all Kromaggs have names beginning with "K."

<The Sliders slowly back away as Karnaaj and several soldiers emerge from the room.>

SL4: Let's see some more of that nasty Rem Fu! :-P

TBH: If you're looking for action, you're watching the wrong ep.

<QBall79 and Mychand start to get up.>

Q79: Look! The theater is full! It looks like every board member is here for the finale!

SL4: This ep is so horrible that everyone wants at least one crack at it. This ep has been running long enough! Let's finish it off right here and right now! Everyone gets one riff, so make the most of it. We're going to roll right through to the end. Take it away, Sliders board members!

<The Sliders are under guard in the launch control room. Wade's fish tank is in the room. Her head bobs up and down slightly in the water.>

Kesh: "How refreshing to actually underestimate a human mind for once."

SL4: The Jerry Springer Show had me convinced you were a race of morons.

Kesh: "It's a mistake I have no intention of making twice."

TBH: Which mistake? Not shooting them when you had the chance before? Hiring guards so lame that two heavily armed ones were subdued by one ancient, out-of-shape lounge singer? Letting the guards transporting the prisoners have on their person their most crucial possession, the timer?

Kesh <goes over and turning a dial on Wade's tank. A hatch above her head obediently opens and dumps one serving of fish food into the water. Kesh looks at Mallory.> : "Clever human, indeed."

HTWD: That's proves it. If she thinks Mallory is clever then she's an abject nincompoop.

<Mallory opens his mouth to respond.>

SL4: HANDS AT EARS!! HE'S GONNA MAKE A "WITTY REJOINDER"!!!!

<The crowded theater room rustles as everyone covers their ears.>

Mallory: "To know us is to love us."

<retching sounds of the few who did not cover their ears in time.>

TIP: <wiping his mouth> : To know you is to be ill if we don't cover our ears in time!

Kesh: "But to no avail. You are just in time to witness the greatest triumph in the history of the Kromagg race."

Callie21V: We have learned to make ... toast. It ROCKS.

SL4: Mmmmmmm, toast. :-P

Kesh: "The liberation of our homeworld."

FogBoy: We must bring toast to the masses.

Kesh: "Bridge, this is Kesh."

SpaceTime: As if anyone could mistake that shrill, annoying voice. "Really? I thought you were Bob Barker!"

Kesh: "Stand by for launch countdown."

sliderules: To give our prisoners time to escape.

Kesh: "Initiate Transdimensional fold."

Informant: Awww, at least they're neat with the universe and they fold the dimensions before they put them away.

Kesh <turning to Sliders> : "Once our ship is past the Slidecage, we will bombard the planet with an anti-human plague."

Wrong_Arturo: Wouldn't something as powerful as an "anti-human" plague be top secret? Can you imagine MacArthur bragging to four Japanese prisoners about the Atom Bomb?

Kesh: "And we owe all this to your friend and her colleagues."

Slider120: Does she get the rest of the lines in the show? I'm tired of hearing Miss Wildebeest here talk.

Kesh: "Sad to say, but the prolonged psionic effort of this mission will probably burn their brains down to cinders."

Gregslider: Why not? That's the only part of Wade that Peckinbitch hasn't violated yet. >:-#

Kesh: "Fortunes of war ..."

ElectricPeterTork: Ooooo, I love those collectibles! :-P

Maggie: "They've doped her again. Can you still get through to her?"

TBH: <mimicking Remmy> : Ummm, yes ... but all I'm getting are thoughts about how bad she has the munchies.

Remmy: "I don't know."

RMScream: Schwarzenegger! "I'll be back." Willis! "Yippy ki-yay, mother>:-#-er." Remmy! "I don't know."

Diana: "There's got to be a way for her to shut this drive system down."

Alternity_Orange: There was a way. Actually have a plan before you stumbled in here and immediately got captured! Why don't you just wait for Wade to do something, like you have been all ep?

Remmy <voiceover> : "Wade. It's showtime."

MissingSliderRyan: <mimicking Wade>: Already? I haven't even done my hair yet!

Remmy <VO> : "We don't do something now, the stinking maggs get it all, girl. Come on, talk to me."

TBH: <mimicking Wade> : Oh reaaaaaaly? NOW who's begging WHO to talk to them! The shoe's on the other foot ... well, if I had feet.

Wade <VO> : "R-Remmy? Are you there?"

Chaser9: Duh. If he wasn't there he wouldn't be talking to you!

Remmy <VO> : "I'm here, Wade. You've got to help us."

CoolSlider: I mean, other than the other 20 times you've helped us so far. Aw, man, we're screwups! Forgetaboutit.

Wade <VO>: "Where are we?"

Vigeant: <mimicking Wade> : Are we at the beach? I hear water.

Wade <VO>: "How did I get here, Remmy? I'm confused..."

Yeontoo: It all started when this bitch named Kari Wuhrer was hired because she was >:-#-ing this producer...

Kesh: "55 seconds and counting..."

Jenneration_X: Aw, man, these toasters take so LONG! I want toast NOW!

Remmy <VO>: "Wade, remember what you did with the doors and the alarm?"

Tigs: I wouldn't walk down memory lane with her, bucko, considering what you let happen!

Remmy <VO> : "There's got to be a way for you to interface with this control panel."

TemporalFlux: There HAS to be a way, we've only got five minutes of script left!

Wade <VO>: "Can't get in ... systems protected."

Slidemania: They were tired of the Chinese hacking in and stealing their toast secrets.

Remmy <VO>: "Wade, you ARE the system! There must be a way in!"

sliderseth: I'm not a scientist so I'm just talking out of my >:-#, but there MUST be a way in!

Wade <VO> : "Can't focus ... drugged..."

HunterD_Raven: Only ... wanna ... listen to ... Pink Floyd...

Remmy <VO>: "Come on, Wade! Try!"

Slider_Quinn21: Or at least pass the bong! Damn!

<A section of the command panel erupts in sparks. The Sliders take advantage of this distraction to subdue the closest guards, take their weapons, and gun down the remaining guards in the room.>

Slider_Sarah: Kromagg guards provided by Keystone Cop Security, a subsidiary of ImmaIncompetent Inc.

Maggie: "Lock the door!"

DieselMickeyDolenz: I got something extra freaky I wanna try! :-P

<Mallory complies, Diana goes to the control panel, and the other to go to Wade's fishbowl.>

Remmy: "I don't think she really understands what they've done to her."

Brand_S: Join the crowd! No one else does either!

Diana: "I can increase the electric current, should make her more coherent."

sliderlynn: Or it might fry her brain, since it IS electricity! Who knows, I slept during that lecture.

Maggie: "It's okay Wade, we're gonna get you outta this."

eZeSlider: And then I can go back to being bitchy with you! I'm about to be sick from having to be so nice to you.

Diana: "I've engaged voice com."

Dreiling2001: Voice.com! The only website you need to visit when shopping for a new voice!

<Diana types, then reacts to what she sees.>

OzSlider: Oh no! My ex husband IMed me! How did he get my new handle?

Maggie: "Can't you do it?"

zyzzybalubah: Don't sound so shocked. She couldn't fix a hung zipper if her life depended upon it.

Diana: "Yes, but there's a fail-safe mechanism."

Grizzlor: Because the Kromaggs are getting used to failing.

Diana: "If I disconnect her, she'll flatline."

phoenix77: She's a >:-#-ing SEVERED HEAD!! What did you expect? That you could fish her out and put her in a bowling bag and carry her away?

<The Sliders look at each other in frustration. Behind them the door starts to glow as the Kromaggs try to gain entrance with blasters.>

stuslide: Dear? I think someone is knocking on the door!

Wade: "Remmy, I have to see myself. I have to know what they've done to me."

SweetOne: Well, I don't know. You might be really pissed off. Well, okay ... but only if you promise to keep your head.

Wade: "Let me look through your eyes. Please..."

ColinMallory: This is a Kromagg trick to get my eyes, isn't it???

Mallory: "We don't have time! They're be through that door in seconds!"

SlidersRocks: And how will I maintain my job as the Show Coward if I'm dead???? How, I ask you!!!

Remmy: "I can't deny her this. She deserves to know. Go ahead Wade, but you're not going to like what you see."

EustiSlider: That's the biggest understatement since Clinton admitted to "misleading people."

<scene change as Wade looks out through Remmy's eyes and sees herself for the first time.>

Remmy and Wade together: "NOOOOO!!!"

CoolSlider: What did they do to my hair??? Those bastards!

<An alarm begins to sound. The water in Wade's fishtank begins to bubble.>

Mallory: "What's happening?"

HurriKain: You're confused as usual. That's what's happening, cha-cha.

Diana: "The shock has caused an adrenaline rush! She's flushing the effects of the tranquilizer!"

ThomasMalthus: I love how she always has an immediate answer for whatever is happening. Not even Hawking could have figured out what was going on in just two seconds!

Remmy: "She's awake. She's finally completely awake!"

sleepingtiger: I know the feeling.

Wade: "Listen to me, all of you."

Julie the Wonder Dog: <from hallway> : Elvis Presley is alive! He was two heads over from me in the head room.