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Bree's mother-in-law, Phyllis (guest star Shirley Knight), gets her in trouble with the law, Susan tries bravely to accept Edie's new role in Julie's life, Lynette's demanding boss (guest star Joely Fisher) makes her miss Parker's first day of kindergarten, and Gabrielle and John meet again.

After Picard loses his life in a surprise attack, Q gives him the chance to change his destiny.

George suspects the attorney for the Susan Ross Foundation believes he murdered Susan; Jerry likes his date.

When a new witness to the 1984 shooting of a respected emergency room physician comes forward, Rush reopens the case. The original suspect was a mentally ill homeless man who was convicted of the crime based on circumstantial evidence and who eventually died in prison.

Quinn calculates the coordinates to his and Colin's home world; now they will finally meet their birth parents -- and find out how to defeat the Kromaggs. When they leap into the vortex, however, they land in a labyrinth on a barren, alien world. They discover that the timer has stopped counting down and has frozen at 00:00. The Sliders soon come across a video presentation by Michael Mallory, Quinn and Colin's father. He explains that they have been deposited here by the "Slidecage" mechanism, which cloaks the homeworld from further invasion by the Kromaggs. Unfortunately, it also keeps them from ever leaving.