IX. Episode Summaries

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Episode 1
Force From The Future: Part 1
Aired: 02/03/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
In the year 3000, mutant criminal Ransik is brought to justice by the Red Power Ranger, an officer of Time Force. After escaping from police custody, he makes his way to the prison and commandeers it. Preparing to finish his previous experiments of time travel, Ransik is confronted by the same Time Force Ranger who apprehended him.


Episode 2
Force From The Future: Part 2

Aired: 02/10/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Pursuing Ransik into the past, Jen and her squad find themselves unable to activate the DNA sensitive morphers required to become Power Rangers, they find their answer in the form of Wes Collins, the genetic twin of Jen’s fiancee.


Episode 3
Something To Fight For

Aired: 02/17/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Feeling rejected, Wes attempts to prove that he can be a worthy Red Ranger, but Jen remains firm in her belief he can’t take the mission seriously.


Episode 4
Ransik Lives

Aired: 02/24/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Wes gives his fellow teammate a base of operations in the form of a Clock Tower with an Odd Jobs business. Their first job is painting a TV station where Wes gets taken hostage by Ransik.


Episode 5
A Blue Streak

Aired: 03/03/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Lucas, a champion rally driver in his own time must learn how to drive in our own when he is slapped with a speeding ticket.


Episode 6
A Parting Of Ways

Aired: 03/10/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Nadira holds a bus containing helpless children hostage and demands a ransom for their safety. The Time Force Rangers make an attempt to free the children from Nadira’s monster Tentaclaw.


Episode 7
Short-Circuited

Aired: 02/17/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Nadira kidnaps Circuit so she and Medicon can ensure the mechanical owl can no longer summon the Time Flyers from the future.


Episode 8
Jen’s Revenge

Aired: 03/24/01
Writer: Judd Lynn
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Jen’s quest to avenge Alex is not helped when her old enemy Fatcatfish resurfaces working for Ransik. Seizing an opportunity, Jen risks her life to take down not just Fatcatfish but Ransik himself.


Episode 9
The Time Shadow

Aired: 03/31/01
Writer: Judd Lynn
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Frax begins to develop a powerful energy source that has yet to be invented in the present, and the Time Force Rangers face a colossal threat without the aide of their critically damaged Time Flyers.


Episode 10
Future Unknown

Aired: 04/07/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
The development of weapons to counter Ransik convinces Circuit to check his records, and he confirms that the Time Force Rangers battles are changing history ever slightly. Katie becomes paranoid that her future may be in danger of being wiped entirely and begins to doubt continuing the fight with her fellow teammates.


Episode 11
Uniquely Trip

Aired: 04/14/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Judd Lynn
Trip’s lack of confidence is put to the test when the mutant Electropede seizes a power plant and endangers a group of young children.


Episode 12
Worlds Apart

Aired: 04/21/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Judd Lynn
Mr. Collins latest scheme involves providing Silver Hills with its own line of defense. Amongst them is Eric, an old rival of Wes who is out to prove his superiority now that a rift exists between the Collins.


Episode 13
The Quantum Quest
Aired: 04/28/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Isaac Florentine
An archaeological dig uncovers a startling future discovery, a box with futuristic markings.


Episode 14
Clash For Control: Part 1
Aired: 05/05/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Isaac Florentine
With the Quantum Controller in his grasp, Eric uses his new powers to travel back in time to the Jurassic Period to find the companion piece to the controller, the colossal Q-Rex.


Episode 15
Clash For Control: Part 2
Aired: 05/12/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
With The Q-Rex under Ransik’s control, the nefarious mutant begins to launch an assault in the present.


Episode 16
Bodyguard In Blue

Aired: 05/19/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Isaac Florentine
Lucas gains a position as a bodyguard to the daughter of Doctor Zaskin, Bio-Lab’s top scientist.


Episode 17
The Legend Of The Clock Tower

Aired: 05/19/01
Writer: Judd Lynn
Director: Yoshi Hosoya
Katie stumbles on to a mysterious spirit dwelling within the Clock Tower and falls into a time hole.


Episode 18
Trust And Triumph

Aired: 06/02/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Jen & Wes must learn to rely on one another as teammates when the remaining Time Force Rangers are trapped within a pocket dimension fighting dark distorted versions of themselves.


Episode 19
Trip Takes A Stand

Aired: 06/09/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Isaac Florentine
Frax uses a device to trigger hostile tendencies in a reluctant mutant, forcing a considerate Trip to stand up for him when Eric arrives determined to destroy him.


Episode 20
Quantum Secrets

Aired: 06/16/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Makoto Yokoyama
Conwing uses a voice modulator to imitate Eric’s voice and seize control of the Q-Rex.


Episode 21
Lovestruck Rangers
Aired: 06/23/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Trip, Lucas & Wes fall out over a girl who is secretly a mutant criminal in disguise eager to divide the Time Force Rangers.

Note: This episode marked the 400th Episode of Power Rangers.


Episode 22
The Last Race

Aired: 07/07/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Isaac Florentine
Lucas faces an old friend in Dash, a former champion race driver who turned to crime.


Episode 23
Full Exposure

Aired: 07/14/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
An ambitious news photographer uncovers the identities of the Time Force Rangers.


Episode 24
Movie Madness: Part 1

Aired: 07/21/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Ransik’s latest mutant henchman, Cinecon transports the Time Force Rangers into various movie parodies designed to destroy them.


Episode 25
Movie Madness: Part 2

Aired: 07/28/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
The Time Force Rangers battle their way across a car chase scene and face an ever-changing script in their attempts to defeat Cinecon.


Episode 26
Time Force Traitor

Aired: 08/04/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Jen’s former partner, Steelix returns eager to exact revenge. Using hypnosis, he turns Jen on her teammates.


Episode 27
Frax’s Fury
Aired: 08/11/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Frax unleashes the same terrifying mutant that inflicted Ransik with his disease in the future on the present day populace of Silver Hills.


Episode 28
Dawn Of Destiny

Aired: 08/18/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Ransik left with no antidote to stabilize his degenerate condition, launches an attack on Bio-Lab and severely injures Mr.Collins.


Episode 29
Fight Against Fate

Aired: 08/25/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Wes is relieved of his Red Ranger duties by the returning Alex and immediately tends to Mr. Collins, who is near-death.


Episode 30
Destiny Defeated

Aired: 09/08/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Wes makes a bold decision to oppose his destiny and makes an effort to help the Time Force Rangers with or without his powers.


Episode 31
Undercover Rangers

Aired: 09/15/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Wes & Jen go undercover to prevent Frax from luring hapless civilians eager for a workout into entering a secret robotic conversion center.


Episode 32
Beware The Knight
Aired: 09/22/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
A mysterious Black Knight attacks Trip at night, and later beasts the remaining Time Force Rangers in battle. His intentions are to seize someone whose heart is pure enough to open a box containing the powerful Battle Fire.


Episode 33
Time For Lightspeed

Aired: 09/29/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Returning from the literal grave, Vypra schemes with Ransik to unleash a Super Demon that will destroy the Power Rangers. Facing forces they are not experienced with, the Time Force Rangers are soon assisted by Lightspeed Rescue operative Carter Grayson, who calls on his fellow Lightspeed Rangers to aid their time-hopping successor against Vypra and prevent her scheme from unfolding.


Episode 34
Reflections Of Evil

Aired: 10/06/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Jonathan Tzachor
The Time Force Rangers are trapped within a series of mirror dimensions, and their only way out is to defeat each of the mirror’s guardians, each of them an old adversary.


Episode 35
Nadira’s Dream Date

Aired: 10/13/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
A miscommunication leads to Nadira falling in love with Lucas. Ransik, enraged but supportive, demands that Lucas keep his commitment to her on a date.


Episode 36
Circuit Unsure

Aired: 10/20/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
Circuit’s memory is affected by an outside force but he may be the only means of preventing the Space Center from being destroyed.

This episode is dedicated to the late, Thuy Trang.


Episode 37
A Calm Before The Storm

Aired: 10/27/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Worth Keeter
With all of the mutants recaptured, the Time Force Rangers reflect on their experiences together as they prepare for the inevitable final battle.


Episode 38
The End Of Time: Part 1

Aired: 11/03/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
The Time Force Rangers learn from Alex that they are destined to fall in the final battle against Ransik. Wes, eager to protect his friends, hatches an elaborate scheme to remove them from harm’s way, whilst Ransik locates Frax and brainwashes him to use his ultimate creation Doomtron.


Episode 39
The End Of Time: Part 2

Aired: 11/10/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Back in the future, Jen and the remaining Time Force Rangers are informed Wes’ actions have saved their lives, but he will now perish alone. Meanwhile, Wes & Eric’s crusade against Ransik spreads from day to night.


Episode 40
The End Of Time: Part 3

Aired: 10/17/01
Writer: Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
The Time Force Rangers return to the present to assist Wes as they face off against Ransik once and for all.