Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 39
Original Airdate: 11-16-2000
Last Time: House cleaning! Diabolico: Dead! Olympius: Dead! The Supertrain and Lightspeed Megazords: Destroyed!
At the ancient ruins, Ryan finds that key glyph from last episode which turns back into an actual key. Then Ryan reminds us that the key is important to beating the demons for some reason.
In the aquabase, Ms. Fairweather is explaining that the only working megazord is the Lifeforce, because of the unfortunate business last episode. Ryan cuts in to tell the Rangers that Bansheera plans to resurrect all of the monsters they killed this season, but his communication breaks up before he can give the Rangers any helpful details. Ah, yes, sixth Rangers...they're always tricky to deal with once footage of them runs out. Ryan gets captured by Bansheera, as does the all-important MacGuffin Key. Credits!
The Rangers aren't thrilled by Ryan's capture, and Carter proposes going to rescue Ryan by himself. Everyone else thinks it's a suicide mission, but take no steps to stop him. At the ziggurat o' Season Finality, Ryan is locked up and Bansheera orders Jinxer use his Batling card from last episode to take control of the Lifeforce Megazord. Meanwhile, Carter is still preparing to rescue Ryan alone and no one really seems to want to stop him.
In the megazord hangar, the Batlings have taken control of the Lifeforce Megazord and are poised to destroy the aquabase. Captain Mitchell decides to go to red alert, because all of his captaining skills were learned from old episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Some Batlings are also trying to invade the aquabase, and the Rangers try to fight them off with the help of the aquabase's legendarily incomptent security staff, who appear to be armed only with riot shields. No guns, no nightsticks, just riot shields. They fight them off until Dana sees the Batling-controlld Lifeforce Megazord starts taking out entire components of the aquabase with one hit. That...kind of makes fighting off the invasion a moot point, and the Rangers all retreat to the bridge. The Batlings get some battering rams from....I don't know, let's say that the aquabase had a medieval smithy on board, and start pounding on the doors.
All of this has caused Captain Mitchell to have a complete nervous breakdown and he shuts down. Ms. Fairweather takes command and orders an evacuation.
Elsewhere, Carter has once again trekked up to the ziggurat o' good times. The Rangers, meanwhile, are evacuating the aquabase and find Captain Mitchell staring into space on the bridge. Dana talks him down, and he decides to leave just in time for one of the Lifeforce Megazord's attacks to trap them all on the bridge....and then the windows start cracking under the pressure.
Carter has found Bansheera giving a rousing speech to her legions of Batlings, and soon after is able to locate and free Ryan, who explains that Bansheera is about to perform some sort of ritual that will pretty much doom mankind. Bansheera heads to Ryan's cell and Ryan pretends to be locked up, which works for about two seconds until Carter's communicator goes off. Carter and Ryan fight some Batlings, which is as thrilling as ever.
Back in Mariner Bay, Jinxer and some Batlings steal the Omega Megazord. Christ, I mean, I could understand getting one megazord stolen, but Lightspeed has got to have the worst security in the universe. Fuck. Anyway, Carter and Ryan get captured and are forced to watch Jinxer use the Omega Megazord to move some giant stones for Bansheera's ritual. Bansheera celebrates by blasting Ryan and Carter so hard that they fly out of the ziggurat o' excitement. Oh, and water starts rushing into the bridge of the aquabase...good times. To Be Continued!
Next Time: Goodbye Joel, goodbye Chad, goodbye Ryan, the useless cad....
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