The Prince of Wails is the fourth episode of the first season of Sliders. It originally aired on April 12, 1995.
Plot[]
Maximillian Arturo's double, Sheriff Maximillian Arturo, attempts to assassinate Prince Harold III, the uncrowned king, in order to take control of the region for himself. The Sliders stop the assassination but get captured by revolutionaries calling themselves the Oakland Raiders. Quinn Mallory leads the Raiders in revolution against the crown while the other Sliders and the Prince are held captive. The Prince escapes and Quinn is captured by the police and set to be executed. After seeing Quinn's capture and the squalor on the streets, the Prince returns to the Raiders to help them and they want to storm the prison, but Arturo comes up with a bloodless alternative.
As Quinn is set to be executed, the Raiders take over a TV studio and the Prince makes a broadcast where he exposes Arturo's double's treason and introduces democracy to the nation using a copy of the Bill of Rights that the Sliders wrote up for him. He pardons Quinn and the other Raiders. Quinn and the Sliders reunite and Wade Welles rejects an offer by the Prince to be his Queen and the Sliders leave but not before Arturo and Rembrandt Brown give them the rest of the Bill of Rights, though Rembrandt adds in a part about James Brown being recognized as the Godfather of Soul, leaving the Raiders leader and the Prince wondering "who's James Brown?"
Worlds Visited[]
Trivia[]
- Despite being originally aired before hand, the presence of the Tsunami World suggests the events of this episode begin roughly forty-eight minutes after the events of Summer of Love.
Quotes[]
- Prince Harold III: (reading what Rembrandt had left him for the country's future) "And James Brown is acknowledged as the Godfather of Soul."
- Prince Harold III and Rebecca: (look at each other) Who's James Brown?
Goofs[]
- When Hurley is shown watching the Prince's broadcast its the same thing he'd said minutes earlier.