Sam Gifaldi

Three thugs hold up a convenience store and injure the cashier before a local homeless man fights back, killing all three criminals. The police track the man to a church where Bud is praying. Bud manages to talk to the man and discovers that he isn't a crazed maniac but rather a homeless veteran and Navy SEAL.

The Sliders land in the ocean, and swim to the nearby beach, where they realize California has become a chain of islands. They enter the dense undergrowth, feeling that something is watching them. They're right: something chases them....

Listening to a rebroadcast of the famous 1938 Halloween night radio presentation of "The War of the Worlds" brings back painful memories to both Monica and esteemed author Leonard Pound. Guest stars Estelle Getty and Brian Keith.