Double Cross is the first produced, but the second aired, episode for the third season of the science fiction television show Sliders. On a world with dwindling natural resources, Professor Arturo, Quinn, Rembrandt, and Wade are offered the technology needed to send them home, for a price. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The original cast of Sliders. ... Maximilian Arturo is a fictional character on the science fiction television show Sliders. ... Quinn Mallory (born August or September 1973) is a fictional character on the television show Sliders. ... Rembrandt Brown (born March 4, 1955) was a fictional characterplayed by Cleavant Derricks on the science fiction television show Sliders. ... Wade Welles, a fictional character on the show Sliders played by Sabrina Lloyd, is from San Francisco and worked at Doppler Computer Store. ...

The Sliders arrive in a dark tunnel with an express train bearing down on them. Seconds before impact, the train stops and a computer voice announces that Sector 47 will resume power in 30 minutes. Arturo, Quinn, Rembrandt, and Wade come out of the tunnel and find themselves in San Angeles, a megalopolis that stretches from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Frequent power brownouts, gasoline at $410 per gallon, and a nutrient paste called "Geomash" are just three items on this world as a result of dwindling natural resources. Shortly after emerging from the tunnel, a woman named Monique drives up beside Rembrandt and claims to be his biggest fan. He goes off with her, and then Arturo, Rembrandt, and Wade are pursued by security guards on motorcycles. After they're cornered, one of the riders removes her helmet and identifies herself as Logan St. Clair, a researcher at Prototronics who discovered their sliding vortex and wants their help perfecting their own. In return, she's willing to help them get to their home Earth. In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... Megalopolis (Greek: large city, great city) can mean: The city of Megalopolis, Greece. ... Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. ... San Francisco skyline. ... A power outage is the loss of the electricity supply to an area. ... Petrol (gasoline in the United States and Canada) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ... The gallon is a unit of volume used for measuring liquids (as well as dry matter). ... In the United States, a dietary supplement is defined under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 as a product taken by the mouth that contains a dietary ingredient that is intended as a supplement to the diet. ... A security guard is a private person who is employed to protect property and people. ... A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ... Pith helmet of Harry S. Truman A helmet is a form of protective clothing worn on the head and usually made of metal or some other hard substance, typically for protection from falling objects or high-speed collisions. ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

As Arturo, Logan, Quinn, and Wade pass through Prototronics' thermal scan, it's discovered that Quinn and Logan's patterns are identical -- they're doubles of each other. While Quinn, the original developer of sliding technology, works with Logan, Arturo and Wade become suspicious of the time they're spending together and return to the Dominion Hotel, a five-star establishment on this world. When the maître d'hôtel greets Arturo (assuming he's this world version) and asks why his other ladyfriend is not with him, he pieces together that his double was here with Logan St. Clair. Arturo was also married on this world, and he later finds from his (San Angeles' Arturo's) widow that he disappeared a few days ago after opening the first sliding vortex. This is an article on the real vortex phenomena. ...

After an excellent lunch, Monique and Rembrandt go to her mountaintop home to relax. Hours later, Rembrandt finds a shrine to his double, a famous entertainer on this world, and confronts Monique about it. She's wearing a wedding dress and wants to marry Rembrandt in a fulfillment of her celebrity stalking fantasy! At that moment, Monique's fiancé Michael comes inside and threatens to kill Rembrandt, who flees and returns to Sector 47 on top of a bullet train. Lunch is a meal that is taken at noon or in the early afternoon. ... Eastern Orthodox shrine Buddhist shrine just outside Wat Phnom. ... A wedding dress seen at Thornbury Castle, England A wedding dress or wedding gown is clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. ... Stalker is: A term for a person who follows another obsessively; see stalking A film by Andrei Tarkovsky; see Stalker (movie) A protagonist of The Whispering Vault roleplaying game. ... In literature, fantasy is a form of speculative fiction in which physical laws differ from our own through a reason for which no scientific explanation is offered, or which take place a world wholly different from our own. ... An engagement is an agreement by a couple to enter into marriage at some future time, usually accompanied by a formal or informal announcement to friends and family. ... Shinkansen 0 Series at Fukuyama Station, April 2002 Shinkansen 500 Series at Kyoto Station, April 2002 300 (Left) and 700 Series Shinkansen at Tokyo Station The Shinkansen (新幹線) is a network of high speed rail lines in Japan, upon which the famous Bullet Trains run. ...

Logan and Quinn exchange information about the respective technologies they're using, and Quinn uses his own perfected sliding to generate a vortex that pulls them both off their feet. The power's cut before any damage is done, but Quinn comments that he could have sent a convoy through there. The development pleases Logan, and she tries to convince Quinn to stay during an evening walk by the Golden Gate Bridge. View to the northwest, towards the Marin headlands The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. ...

Wade finds out from their security records that Logan shoved Arturo into their unstable vortex after he learned what Prototronics really intended to use sliding for -- to rob other worlds of their natural resources and "hold the world hostage." They attempt to reach Quinn, but Wade is kidnapped by Prototronics guards and Arturo uses the timer to get away and return later. An actress hired to impersonate Wade meets Arturo, but she gives herself away when she says he ought to know about sliding because he invented it. Grudgingly, he admits Quinn did and finds out from the impostor where Wade is. They reunite with Quinn, who discovered Logan's scheme with Arturo earlier. They meet Rembrandt at the Dominion Hotel with Logan on their heels and get through the door just as a brownout is declared for the next fifteen minutes. Arturo gives proof of Prototronics' scheme to the maitre d' to give to his wife; she'll know what to do with it, and they slide out. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Arturo, Quinn, Rembrandt, and Wade arrive in a hotel bar in "Lotusland". After being met by the Jamaican-sounding bartender, Quinn discovers that Logan switched the gyros between their timer and her own. From this point on, they'll land anywhere in a 400 mile range between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Logan St. Clair appears in a vortex behind them, reveals she Quinn'd double because she took her stepfather's last name, and demands at gunpoint that they fix her timer so she can return to San Angeles. Quinn agrees, but he instead erases her home coordinates so she's sliding at random now as well. However, since she had the technology to track wormholes courtesy of Prototronics, it's possible they'll meet her again. A bartender is the person behind a bar in a pub, tavern, inn, bar, or restaurant that serves alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages. ... You may be looking for gyroscopes. ... Technology (Gr. ... 2D analogy to a wormhole. ...

In English

The English expression double cross refers to an action taken by a supposed friend that is actually meant to benefit an enemy (e.g. acts of treason or betrayal). To be the victim of this act is to be double crossed. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... An interpersonal relationship is some relationship or connection between two people. ... An enemy or foe is a relativist term for an entity that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ...