Something to Fight For

Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 3

Original Airdate: 2-17-2001

Last Time: Jen led the Rangers into the past, but her womanly nature almost caused the destruction of the team. Fortunately, Wes showed up and saved them all with his virility.

In Ransik's Playhouse, Ransik is suffering from some sort of skin-bubbling ailment. Fortunately, he drinks some potion and immediately returns to normal. He decides to plan another attack.

Elsewhere, the Rangers are trying to salvage what they can from their wrecked time ship. Jen receives a message from Captain Logan, who informs them that the Rangers, fuck-ups that they are, destroyed the only time ship Time force had. On the plus side, that means that the Rangers won't be court-martialed for their crimes. So, it's up to them to stop Ransik. Well, that just about does it for the future, then. Credits!

Wes is being chaffeured through town when he sees Nadira robbing a bank. Wes decides to take her on because he wants to blow off a meeting he was supposed to go to. He gets his ass kicked in short order. Jen saves Wes....which would seem to even out the gender issue of last time, but she saves him by breaking one of Nadira's nails...so...it's a wash. Jen tells Wes off because she's basically a bitch, she insults Wes some more by claiming that he's never had to "fight for anything in his life." Wes is taken aback, and Jen decides to pile on a bit more. Wes doesn't have an answer, so Jen smugly walks away.

Back at the Playhouse, Ransik decides to release one of the monsters on Silver Hills. Meanwhile, as Wes Manor, Mr. Collins introduces Wes to some businessmen. Wes goes out to his elegant balcony and broods on Jen's numerous insults. His angst is cut short by Trip, who has realized that, given that the other Rangers have no homes or supplies, that it might not be a great idea to burn their bridge with a wealthy heir. Trip explains that he can read minds, and then explains that Wes looks exactly the same as Alex, which is the reason that Jen seems to hate him. Wes also decides to take this opportunity to ditch another meeting.

Later, Wes goes to the time ship ruins and offers to help the Rangers. But, before we see the back half of this thirlling conversation, Frax thaws a monster and Ransik sends him in out in as melodramatic way as possible. The Rangers go after the monster and Jen gives Wes his morpher back. Trip realizes that it's never to early to merchandize, and introduces the Time Jet, a device that can fly the Rangers to the scene of a monster attack and is much more marketable than the Rangers teleporting around.

The fight doesn't last long as Wes accidentally hits a panel on the monster's chest that, once broken, plays a mildly unpleasant animation of something mutating, and thus makes the monster grow to skyscraper size. The monster starts wrecking the city, so Circuit calls for the Time Force Megazord, which takes a buttload of time to actually arrive, because first a giant robot has to transform part of himself into a time gate, then he has to launch the individual zords into the portal, and then the zords have to merge. For the sake of saving time, the zords immediately go into the Mode Blue Megazord. Oddly enough, the control room has no controls other than pendulums the Rangers can swing to move the giant robot. Anyway, this megazord fight is notable for the megazord somehow literally bouncing off a cloud, and the first use of Matrix-type effects during a battle. Neither are particulary promising developments, actually.

Anyway, the Rangers then decide to go into Mode Red, or, as I call it, the mode that actually accomplishes shit. This mode features the Time Sword finisher, which freezes time and causes a giant clock to appear that eventually hits midnight and kills the monster. It's kind of hard to describe, especially since clocks don't really work that way. Jen recaptures the monster, and that's one for the prison camps.

Jen allows Wes to keep his morpher and Katie celebrates by nearly caving in his chest cavity. Show Over!

Next Time: The Rangers learn only too late that Wes is an eccentric millionaire.