The Sliders arrive on a world just like their own, only time is moving at a rate of twelve years slower than normal. There, Quinn encounters his young double and tries to change an upcoming event in his life, despite the other Sliders' warnings.

In an attempt at earning some money to buy roller blades, Sabrina takes a job babysitting a little boy. However, when she is trying to calm him down, she inadvertently casts a spell which turns him into a man.

Mulder and Scully travel to a bucolic small town where a baby with birth defects is found buried alive in shallow ground. Mulder and Scully follow the trail of evidence to a reclusive family who has a history of inbreeding.

Gloria finds herself made homeless after a fling with her landlord as the team have to save casualties from a swimming pool filled with chemicals.