Originally aired March 26, 1999
Teleplay by Chris Black
Story by Jerry O'Connell
Directed by David Peckinpah
On a Wild West world, Colin is wounded and separated from the other Sliders, who search for their missing friend and cross paths with an old enemy.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Kolitar chuckles at Rembrandt's crack about his face.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Colin demonstrates he is quite handy with a gun and isn't afraid to use it.
- Big Damn Heroes: Colin saves Quinn and Rembrandt from hanging by shooting the ropes.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Averted. Kolitar recognizes Colin.
- Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded.Kolitar: You expect me to believe that in an infinite number of worlds, you just happen to end up on the same one I did?
- Cowboy Episode: Complete with Western-like credits.
- Dark Is Evil: Kolitar is a Kromagg that dresses largely in black.Kolitar: My name inspires terror from here to St. Louis.
Rembrandt: You sure it's not your face?
Kolitar: It helps. - Different World, Different Movies: Kolitar refers to the classic Kromagg film The Man Who Shot Kaleeth-Tar.
- Dirty Cop: Sheriff Redfield is secretly working with Kolitar.
- Famous Ancestor: Ben Siegel is the grandson of Bugsy Siegel.
- Fanservice: Maggie dressed up as a saloon showgirl.
- Frame-Up: Kolitar kills a man, but he uses a mental trick to make the witnesses think it was Quinn who did it.
- Genre Savvy: Quinn and Rembrandt attempt to a jailbreak by the former hanging onto the ceiling and the latter claiming he's escaped. It doesn't work on Kolitar, though, who says a Kromagg western he saw once featured the same kind of trick.
- Going Native: Kolitar, to the point where he's speaking like a cowboy.
- Got Me Doing It: Quinn and Rembrandt pick up Western slang pretty quick.
- Heel–Face Turn: Ben Siegel helps Maggie near the end.
- I Choose to Stay: Kolivar thinks the Western world is a Kromagg's dream come true
- It Has Been an Honor: Rembrandt says there's no one else but Quinn that he'd rather hang with.
- Left the Background Music On: While in jail, Quinn and Rembrandt discuss their situation, and their discussion is set to harmonica music. After a while, Rembrandt pokes his head through the window and tells the man sitting outside and playing the harmonica to cut it off.
- Properly Paranoid: Kolitar bumps into Maggie while she's wearing her saloon girl outfit. He finds her familiar but doesn't dwell on it until later confronted by Colin.
- Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Ellie Starr mentions that her father fought with Norman Schwarzkopf at Gettysburg.
- Running Gag: Those not native to this world keep falling into western phrases and terminology. Every time that happens, the given character says, "It's catching."
- Suddenly Shouting: "SLIDERS!"
- Ultimate Authority Mayor: Sheriff Redtield is also an undertaker and a horse merchant.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Kolitar escapes on a horse.
- Villain of the Week: Mr. K, AKA Kolitar from "Slidecage."
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Kolitar thinks the Sliders deliberately followed him instead of landing on this world by chance.
- "You!" Exclamation: Kolitar when confronted by Colin.
