Power Rangers: Wild Force, Episode 36
Original Airdate: 10-19-2002
Last Time: Toxica died and Shayla was kidnapped by Mandilok....come to think of it, neither of those things really changes the status quo of the series all that much.
On the beach, Jindrax is depressed that his best friend, Toxica, was betrayed and murdered while he basically just stood there.
Meanwhile, on the Animarium, Merrick is similarly depressed that he let Shayla get captured. Onikage suddenly appears and the Rangers start to spaz out before Merrick points out that it's just an illusion, and the monster isn't really there. Onikage challenges the Rangers to meet him in the quarry, I assume for either a monster fight or for some sort of dragster race. Come on, dragster race!
Nah, it's just a normal fight, and Shayla has been brought in as bait. The trap? Well, Onikage makes some evil duplicates of the Rangers called Shadow Rangers. Well, I suppose this was bound to happen at some point this season. It goes poorly for the Rangers, and Mandilok celebrates until Onikage talks about serving his one true master, and Master Org teleports in. Everyone's surprised by this, even though the Rangers never actually saw him die, and, in fact, explicitly chose to let him live.
Mandilok decides to cut this short by blasting off Master Org's horn, but it turns out to be real this time. Onikage then reveals that kiling Toxica was Master Org's idea, and Jindrax realizes that he might not have the brightest future in villainy, as both potential big bads have either betrayed him or been betrayed by him. Master Org attacks Mandilok with his extra thick Russian accent as well as a giant energy blast, and that does it for Mandilok. The Rangers take a break from fighting their shadows to note that this is probably a bad thing.
Onikage then decides that he might as well kill Jindrax, who takes Shayla and teleport away. The Rangers then also retreat from the battle. Actually, come to think of it, this was one of their more successful fights, as an enemy general was killed off.
In a nearby forest, Jindrax and Shayla teleport in to hear Master Org promising amnesty if Jindrax surrenders to him. He then orders Onikage to kill Jindrax. Shayla thanks Jindrax for rescuing her, and Jindrax reveals that he plans to trade her to someone so that he won't be killed. Shaya then tries to comfort Jindrax about Toxica. Yeah, I'm sure that the woman who gave the weapons to guys who killed his brother and his best friend is just the person for that job.
Elsewhere, the Rangers come to a consensus that they should probably rescue Shayla from the bad guys. Cole blathers something about Master Org having no heart or something, and that gives Master Org just the transitional dialogue he was looking for as he arrives with the Shadow Rangers. Cole finds out that hurting the shadows hurts themselves. Quick, Rangers, kill yourselves, that'll solve the problem!
Time to go back to Jindrax's moral confusion. On the one hand, if he goes back to Master Org, Onikage will kill him, on the other, if he doesn't, Onikage will hunt him down and kill him. It turns out to be a moot point as Onikage shows up to execute poor Jindrax. As Jindrax has not won a fight all season, he loses spectacularly, and Onikage steals Shayla. Amazingly, Jindrax crawls away from the fight alive, and swears revenge on the guy who just almost murdered him effortlessly.
Onikage takes Shayla back to Master Org, who is still overseeing the Rangers/Shadow Rangers fight. Jindrax, deciding to push his luck to the limit, has followed them and angrily resigns from villainy, accusing Master Org of having "no heart." Unsurprisingly, the heartless man promptly orders Onikage to kill Jindrax. I guess the moral of this episode is that you shouldn't piss off people with no compunctions about murdering others when they have a highly trained hitman standing right next to them. Onikage, never one to do things the easy, or even logical, way, elects to create a shadow version of Jindrax to kill its original, but Jindrax accidentally reflects Onikage's powers back at the monster, and thus Shadow Onikage is born. Onikage then unwisely reveals that if anyone kills his shadow, they'll also kill him, and it only takes Cole a moment to kill the Shadow Onikage with his Falcon Bow. This also kills the Shadow Rangers, so Master Org decides him might as well get as good a return on his investment and makes Onikage grow before teleporting out with Shayla.
Onikage begins the megazord fight by declaring "everything is out of your control now, Rangers." Oh, no, a giant determinist! He then sends the Rangers to an evil dimension. Giant versions of dead Orgs show up, and Onikage informs them that they're in Org Hell.
Elsewhere, Master Org locks Shayla in a prison cell....as though that somehow impairs the Rangers' capability.
Back in the dimension of evil and cliche, the Rangers try to call their zords. No dice. Shayla, from her prison cell, despairs, and her tears hit her necklace, which shoots out a ball of light that flies to the Lion Zord and doubles its size. The new Pegasus Megazord is formed and flies into the evil dimension and kills, or re-kills, all of the dead Orgs...and then Onikage. The Rangers get back to Earth, and that's the end of that.
Later, Master Org is still laughing despite the fact that capturing Shayla actually ended up creating a new and more powerful megazord that killed his most powerful lieutenant. The Rangers decide that they have to rescue her regardless, and pledge to "Never Give Up" again. Show Over!
Next Time: Jindrax takes up fishing to help him grieve!
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