The Fate of Lightspeed, Part II

Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 40

Original Airdate: 11-18-2000

Last Time: The villains managed to beat the Rangers handily by destroying all of the Rangers' megazords except for two, which they took control of. Captain Mitchell broke down for a while when he realized what that said about his captaining abilities.

The Omega Megazord is still hauling stones, and the Lifeforce Megazord is still smashing up the aquabase. On the bridge, the Rangers are trapped. Only Neptune, God of the Seas, can save them now....but he doesn't like the way Chad looks at his daughter, so that's out. Ms. Fairweather finally agrees to go on a date with Joel, banking heavily on them all dying relatively soon. The Rangers also see the Omega Megazord wrecking the city on the monitors. Final Credits!

Joel finds a maintenance shaft leading to the submarine bay. Well, that's one problem solved. Unfortunately, the shaft is flooded. Chad figures they can probably swim for it...and since they have emergency oxygen tanks, it's not a bad bet.

Bansheera move the ziggurat o' joke over to the center of Mariner Bay as part of her endgame. Under the sea, the Rangers make it to the submarine and start it up, but it gets a bit dicey as Batlings and the Lifeforce Megazord interrupt the process. Joel, having one last insane idea, decides to fire a torpedo into the side of the sub pen to allow the submarine to escape. The team then fires a few more torpedoes at the Lifespeed Megazord, which destroys both the megazord and the aquabase. I guess that counts as a win for the Rangers, even though all they managed to accomplish was blowing up their base of operations and most powerful weapon.

Up in the heavens, the solar eclipse begins, which, as is dramatic tradition requires, means some serious shit is about to go down. Ryan and Carter, recovered from last episode's beating, are trying to destroy the Omega Megazord. The other Rangers make it back to the shore and rush off to help. Carter, asking himself "What would T.J. do?" decides to ram his jet thing into the Omega Megazord, destroying both....and the last stone still gets put into its proper position. So, to recapitulate, so far the only things that the Rangers have managed to succeed at are destroying their own weaponry. Outstanding.

Bansheera begins the ritual and the Rangers bust in to stop her. Some Batlings are called, and we're treated to one last Batling fight for old time's sake. Bansheera then opens the tomb containing all of the demons and Carter moves to intercept, managing to get his helmet blasted off in the process. He does manage to knock Bansheera into the tomb however and give the team a thumbs up...prematurely, as Bansheera is able to grab onto him with some sort of whip and drag him in with her. Carter is able to grab a ledge on the inside of the tomb, but has no way of getting out. He orders the tomb sealed regardless, because, well, there's not much else to do.

The ghost of Diabolico, however, doesn't believe in the no-win scenario, and emerges from the underworld to free Carter and send Bansheera to hell, where she gets ripped apart by demonic spirits. Carter escapes, the tomb is sealed, and that'll about wrap things up. The stones and the ziggurat turn to dust.

Later, the Rangers turn in their morphers and Captain Mitchell realizes that he now has to get a real job. Ms. Fairweather shows up and seems willing to honor the agreement she had made with Joel. Some fire engines rush by, and the Rangers decide to go help because...I don't know, there heroes or some bullshit like that. It doesn't matter, though because....Show Over! Season Over!

Next Time: Saban asks America, "Why can't there be show where genetically perfect humans from the future travel back in time in order to hunt the impure and put them in prison camps?"