#K2821

SLIDERS

"Way Out West"

 

CAST

QUINN MALLORY
REMBRANDT BROWN
MAGGIE BECKETT
COLIN MALLORY

BEN SIEGEL
SHERIFF REDFIELD
AMANDA STARR
ELLIE STARR
MR. K
KOLITAR (FROM EPISODE #K2815, "SLIDECAGE")
STAGE DRIVER

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SLIDERS

"Way Out West"

 

SETS

INTERIORS:

STAGECOACH
SHERIFF'S OFFICE
SALOON

STARR RANCH

 

JAIL

EXTERIORS:

PRAIRIE
STAGECOACH
  TOP
WESTERN TOWN
  STREET
    ALLEY
  SHERIFF'S OFFICE
  LIVERY STABLE


SALOON
STARR RANCH
WAGON
  BACK

#K2821

SLIDERS

"Way Out West"

CHRONOLOGY PAGE

SCENES  1 - 54 DAY #1
SCENES 55 - 64 NIGHT #1
SCENES 65 - 95 DAY #2

#K2821 - "Way Out West" - 1st Blue Revs. 2/26/98         1.

SLIDERS

"Way Out West"

TEASER

FADE IN

1 EXT. PRAIRIE - DAY (D1)

Endless rolling hills and fields. No one in sight until....

The VORTEX OPENS and out tumble Quinn, Colin, Rembrandt and
Maggie, all bundled up in winter coats, hats and gloves.

QUINN
Well. That was brisk.

MAGGIE
I hate cold.

COLIN
It must have been eighty below back
there.

REMBRANDT
You wanna talk cold? I remember
going to start my car in the
morning in Detroit. If your coat
bunched up a little in the back,
leaving some skin showing when you
hit that vinyl seat? Yow.

Remmy spreads his arms to the sun.

REMBRANDT
Oh, yeah. This is more like it.

2 OMITTED

3 EXT. PRAIRIE -DAY (LATER)

The Sliders trudge along glumly. They've stripped off their
winter coats and are showing signs of exhaustion.

QUINN
Anybody see a water fountain?

REMBRANDT
Or a Pizza Hut? My blood sugar's
getting a little low.

MAGGIE
We better find something. We've
got five more days till we slide.

REMBRANDT
Five days. We're gonna die out
here.

CONTINUED

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3 CONTINUED

COLIN
Maybe not.

REMBRANDT
I knew you'd come through, farm
boy. You know how to make an
animal snare out of your shoelaces
or something?

COLIN
No.
     (pointing)
Someone's coming.

4 IN THE DISTANCE

a cloud of dust is rapidly approaching them in the distance.

CUT TO

5 A STAGECOACH

A genuine western stagecoach pulls to a stop beside the
bedraggled Sliders.

QUINN
Hello. Um, howdy. Sir. Could you
give us a lift to the nearest town?

The DRIVER stares at them.

REMBRANDT
Maybe it's a mirage.

STAGE DRIVER
What in the name of Samuel T. Colt
are you doing out here? It's hot
enough to bake the blueberries off
a brahma bull.

MAGGIE
     (deadpan)
A very colorful mirage.

COLIN
We were separated from our wagon
train. One of our horses got snake
bit and the others run off cause my
friend here...
     (a quick head nod at
      Remmy)
forgot to hobble 'em last night.

STAGE DRIVER
Why didn't you say so? Git in
before you fry your frijoles. Two
a ya's gotta git up on top. Not
enough room inside.

CONTINUED

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5 CONTINUED

As Colin climbs up....

QUINN
     (aside)
Very smooth, bro. How'd you come
up with that story?

COLIN
     (shrugs)
Happened to me once. Prom night.

STAGE DRIVER
Shake your bootstraps, folks.
We're in Mr. K's territory now.

MAGGIE
Mr. K?

Quinn shrugs as they climb aboard....

6 INT. STAGECOACH - DAY (MOMENTS LATER) - MOVING

Quinn and Maggie squeeze into the coach with three other
passengers, including a hanasome, well-dressed dandy named
BEN.

MAGGIE
How ya'll doing?

The dandy tips his hat and gives her a charming smile.

BEN
just fine, ma'am, now that I'm
graced with such a beautiful
traveling companion.

Quinn rolls his eyes.

7 EXT. ON TOP OF STAGE - DAY - MOVING

Colin and Rembrandt ride on top with the Stage Driver.

COLIN
     (to Driver)
So who's this Mr. K?

STAGE DRIVER
Only the low downdest varmint this
side of the Big Muddy. An' ugly?
When he was whelped, the doc
horsewhipped his mama.

Colin and Remmy exchange a look.

REMBRANDT
     (aside)
Did he say 'varmint'?

CONTINUED

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7 CONTINUED

STAGE DRIVER
He and his boys been raisin' hell
round these parts. Rustlin'
cattle, burnin' out homesteaders.
Got the whole territory spooked.

REMBRANDT
     (dry)
So mean he once shot a man just for
snorin'?

STAGE DRIVER
     (nods)
You heard of him. Word is he's got
a face that'll scare the ugly off a
two dollar whore. I don't wanna
find out.

The Driver offers Colin and Remmy a flask.

STAGE DRIVER
Hooch?

They exchange a look, and we go....

8 INT. STAGECOACH - DAY - MOVING

Ben leans forward toward Maggie.

BEN
And what brings you out west,
Miss... ah?

MAGGIE
Beckett. Maggie Beckett.

Ben takes her hand and holds it lightly.

BEN
Maggie.

MAGGIE
Just passing through. And what
brings you this way, Mr...?

BEN
Call me, Ben. I'm traveling on
business --

BLAM! A bullet explodes off the window frame.

QUINN
Get down!

The passengers duck as more GUNFIRE erupts around them.

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9
THRU OMITTED
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11 EXT. ON TOP OF STAGE - DAY - MOVING

From this vantage point, we now see a band of four
desperadoes on horseback pursuing the speeding stage guns
blazing.

STAGE DRIVER
It's Mr. K!

12 ANGLE ON THE LEAD OUTLAW

The rider at the head of the pack cuts a menacing figure,
black hat, long coat whipping in the wind, his face obscured
by a bandanna.

13 BACK TO THE STAGE

Slapping the reins with one hand, the Driver flips a
double-barreled shotgun to Colin with the other.

STAGE DRIVER
Give us some cover.

Colin raises the gun to his shoulder.

14 ON MR. K

riding hard. He aims his six-gun at the stage and FIRES.

15 BACK ON TOP OF THE STAGE

Colin is hit in the upper arm. The shotgun goes flying and
he tumbles off the side of the stagecoach.

REMBRANDT
Colin!

16 INT. STAGECOACH - MOVING - CONTINUOUS

Quinn and Maggie look out the window in horror.

MAGGIE
We lost Colin!

Quinn bangs on the roof on the stage.

QUINN
Stop! Stop the stage!

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17 EXT. ON TOP OF STAGE - MOVING - CONTINUOUS

Remmy grabs the Driver.

REMBRANDT
We gotta go back!

The Driver shakes him off.

STAGE DRIVER
You loco? That's Mr. K.

REMBRANDT
We lost Colin.

Remmy tries to grab the reins from the Driver, but the
Driver draws his own gun and aims it at Remmy.

STAGE DRIVER
     (hard)
Wanna join him? Throw that
strongbox!

Remmy is forced to back off. He turns to the luggage piled
behind him and shoves a metal strongbox off the stage.

18 OMITTED

19 EXT. PRAIRIE

The strongbox crashes to the ground. The desperadoes
immediately call off the chase and draw up their horses at
the strongbox. As they whoop and celebrate, we go....

20 TIGHT ON MR. K

watching the stage disappear in a cloud of dust. We HOLD
on Mr. K's squinting eyes and....

FADE OUT

END OF TEASER