The sliders arrive in a place where the California Health Commission is in control of the city, where the people have an obsession with cleanliness and unfortunately the Quinn Mallory of that world is Patient Zero of a disease. They narrowly escape before Quinn is caught by CHC enforcers. They decide to check into a motel, just as Wade is starting to grow ill. Quinn is captured as he and the Professor try to get some aspirin from a pharmacy (which is more like an alternative pharmacy), the Professor escapes to inform Rembrandt that Wade is infected with the Q (by the man she kissed on the street that saved her from being ran over), a strep like plague that has ravaged that world and that he is infected as well. Wade escapes in a delusional state and the Professor and Rembrandt find her as they are surrounded by the Q infected. They are escorted to a safehouse where Q infected people can live out their final days in dignity as the "Protection Camps" are described as "worse than a living death" where that Earth's Quinn is in charge of it, when he gets confused why Wade acts like she knows him, Professor Arturo explains where they came from. Wade is kept in a bed, reaching the terminal level of the Q. Rembrandt and Professor Arturo learn about the history of that world, including that Penicillin had never been discovered.