Episode Summary of Prophets and Loss
The three Sliders land on a world that seems very peaceful, ruled by the Master Oracle, a cult-like leader. But they soon discover it's not what it seems. Quinn, Maggie, and Rembrandt are arrested for posession of an 'illegal scientific device'- the timer. The Oracle's Enforcers think they are part of the underground movement in protest of the Oracle, called the Radical Rationalists, or Rad Rats. They are scheduled for chemical reconfiguration, to make them convert to the ways or the Oracle, but instead are given what is considered a high privelege of going to 'another world.' At first, the Sliders think the machine may be a sliding device, but on closer inspection discover it is an incenerator. When the time arrives for them to enter the machine, they have possesion of their timer and slider out before being incenerated. They then decide they should return to the world, to prove they didn't go to a better place, and tell the people the truth about the Oracle's machine.
Written by Bill Dial
Directed by Mark Sobel
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