Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 29
Original Airdate: 11-6-2000
Last Time: Chad declared his undying love for a woman who was half-fish.
On Mirinoi, a place I never wanted to see again, Leo grabs his Quasar Saber and the nightmare begins again. He fights some cloaked dudes and it becomes clear that though they got the guy playing Leo for the first unit work, he was unavailable to do any ADR work. The cloaked guys eventually head towards Earth and notLeo screams at them. Credits!
At the park, a little girl is playing hide and seek with her mother. She sees the Rangers drive by in their Humvee. The Rangers help fight a fire, because, well, the Mariner Bay Fire Department can't be trusted in these matters. Joel drops some "water bombs" and some glossy 8x10s of himself.
Elsewhere, the little girl from before goes with her mother to her dad's office. Um...this is a crossover episode with last season's team of Rangers, so I must question whether or not this is an economical use of time. I mean, I wasn't a huge fan of Leo and the rest, but I'd rather follow them than watch the misadventures of a little girl. Anyway, it's a trap or something, and the little girl's mother gets captured by the guys in cloaks.
The mother gets taken down to an evil lab, where she finds her husband has been shrunk down to miniature size. Some monster does the same to the wife and instructs the cloaked guys to start draining her life force. An unfamiliar voice is pleased with the progress. The monster disguises himself as office security and finds the little girl trying to convince the receptionist that a monster took her mother. The little girl is so unpersuasive that she actually manages to convince the receptionist that there's no such thing as monsters despite them both living in a city where giant monster battles are a weekly occurrence. The monster then lures her into a trap, but the little girl manages to fight off the cloaked guys with a red ball. Well, that certainly sets a new standard in villain incompetence, then.
Later, Olympius is negotiating with the monster from before for some of the life force that's being harvested. He leaves and Trakeena walks out, and it's rather clearly a new actress playing her. Then again, I wasn't super-fond of the last actress, so I can't say it really bothers me. It turns out that this whole plan is an elaborate scheme for revenge against the Galaxy Rangers for foiling her plans. Trakeena orders the monster to kill the little girl, as she could single-handedly wreck Trakeena's plans.
Carter finds the little girl crying in the park, and the girl explains about the monsters and such. Carter also doesn't believe her, despite the fact that his job mainly consists of fighting monsters. The monster shows up, once more disguised as a security guard and brings the girl her red ball. Carter, being the guy he is, decides to patronize the girl by stalking the security guard.
The other Rangers are still driving around in the Humvee when the run into Leo. Not literally, tragically. Kelsey instantly recognizes him despite never have met him, and the Galaxy Rangers' deeds never being known on Earth. But hey, the writers needed to make time for more scenes with the little girl, so what choice did they have by skipping some important exposition. Leo explains that Trakeena has come to Earth, and the Rangers are attacked by more cloaked guys.
Later, Carter and the little girl are still stalking the monster and run into some more cloaked dudes. He gets his ass bailed out by Maya and Kai who have come to Earth by means of undefined plot device in order to save the day. The scene is only noticeable for the moment when Carter stands next to the Galaxy Rangers in costume and appears to be about three feet taller than them. Anyway, the little girl has passed out due to stress and they decide to take her back the aquabase.
The eight assembled Rangers discuss what's happening. Apparently Leo fucked up when he killed Trakeena and now she's back and draining people's life force to regain her lost power. Then, in lieu of Kai getting his first line of the crossover, Carter goes over to check on how the little girl is doing. There's another monster attack and the little girl wants to come along. Of course Carter says "no" but-wait, he takes her with them? Was this episode written by the actress who plays the little girl? Christ almighty!
The Rangers head down to the beach to fight the monster and everyone morphs. The Galaxy Rangers have a new morphing animation for some reason. Leo attacks and they probably should have found someone to voice over Leo who sounded at least a tiny bit like the original actor. Anyway, the fight goes poorly and the Rangers lose. Er, I think this is the break point for the two-parter. To Be Continued!
Next Time: The Amazing Adventures of the Little Girl continue! Also the remaining Galaxy Rangers make cameo appearances.
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