The Legend of the Clock Tower

Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 17

Original Airdate: 5-19-2001

Last Time: Nothing Important!

Katie and Trip get the gears of the clock tower working, but notice that the pendulum rod is stuck. Katie goes to check it out, but Wes warns her not to go up there. Why? Credits! That's why!

Wes tells Katies a story about a guy named Walter who may or may not be haunting the place. Apparently he was too cowardly to ask a girl out, so he haunts the clock tower waiting to find his true love. Man, that may be the shittiest haunting in history. The other Rangers scoff as such superstitions, but Katie takes it seriously for some reason.

Later that night, Katie hears a sound and goes to check it out, and sure enough, she meets Walter's ghost. The shock of the ghost makes her fall backwards into a time portal, and ends up in the past. She meets alive Walter...and no Ransik? Really? Anyway, Katie wanders through the 19th Century version of Silver Hills and sees Walter be too cowardly to ask out a girl. Walter gets accosted by olde tyme jocks, and this finally makes Katie realize what's going on.

Katie, suddenly feeling rather cavalier about fucking around with the future, decides to help out Walter with her mighty super-strength that never seems to be available when it would be really helpful. Later, she and Walter have a talk about the origin of the clock tower, Walter's dad built it, and Walter's hobby of poetry writing. Fuck, it's history's first emo teen! If Katie kills him she could save us all from so many crappy rock bands! The olde tyme jocks show up and mock Walter, but Katie stands up to the jocks. This somehow leads to an arm-wrestling contest, which Katie wins by virtue of her super-strength, and that somehow gets Walter fired. Ransik, why have you forsaken me?

Later, the olde tyme jocks have decided to beat the shit out of Walter for...well, this whole episode really. Gwen, the girl Walter wants to fuck, overhears and warns Walter, who decides to get the fuck out of Dodge. Hey, did they run out of Sentai footage or something? What the fuck is going on this week? Anyway, Katie tells Walter to stand up against the numerous thugs about to fuck him up. Walter, not having super-strength, runs away. Katie thus decides to commit assault by fighting the bullies, but somehow manages to get captured despite her supposed strength. Walter shows up to defend Gwen or something, and manages to accidentally hit the head jock in the solar plexus and win the fight. So, remember kids, might makes right, now and forever.

Katie wakes up back in the future as Jen informs her that Ransik is attacking. The Rangers go on and kill some monster in a fight that is 80% stock footage.

Later, Katie relates he truly boring tale, but it turns out that her actions somehow affected the past and now Walter married Gwen and died happy. And then the bell goes off on its own, which I suppose leaves open the question of whether or not Walter is a ghost or whatever, but honestly, after watching this episode, I hope he's burning in hell. Show Over!

Next Time: Jen and Wes drama? Oh, damn it all to hell!