Episode Guide / Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue / Trial by Fire
Trial by Fire
Airdate: 2/26/00
The Rangers report for rescue training
with Captain Mitchell.
Carter gets the best time, but the lowest
score. He doesn't understand why, but he will later.
There's trouble in Mariner Bay - tremors
are tearing the city apart - and they don't seem to be
natural.
The Rangers rush to the source of the
seismic activity, and find Vypra and the Batlings.
The Rangers fight the Batlings, while
Carter takes off after Vypra.
After a brief battle, he corners her, and
threatens her with his rescue blaster.
Vypra spots some explosives and starts a
fire, just before teleporting away.
Carter notices that falling debris is
endangering nearby innocents.
Carter wants to save the people, but is
ordered by Captain Mitchell to put out the fire first. He
reluctantly complies, and douses the flames.
The debris has injured a child. The
Rangers immediately take him to a hospital. An angry
Carter runs back to the Aquabase.
He storms into Captain Mitchell's office
to argue about his decision. Mitchell tells him it was
still the right choice, but Carter disagrees and walks
out.
Carter visits the boy in the hospital and
apologizes. Carter recalls the time a mysterious
firefighter saved him from a burning building when he was
a child.
Carter goes back to the training camp,
and realizes why he got such a low score on the test.
Although he shot all the baddies, in his haste, he had
also shot cannisters of explosive material.
He then rushes to the scene of the
battle, and finds that if he hadn't put out the fire, it
would have reached flammable liquid, and the whole garage
would have blown up.
After a pep talk from Mitchell, Carter
joins the team as they battle Vypra. They gather all of
the spikes which had been causing the tremors, and
destroy them with their blasters.
With the spikes toast, the tremors have
stopped. With that plan failing, the demons resort to
plan B - Jinxer summons a monster from his deck of Magic
cards.
The Rangers summon their Zords, and
destroy the monster with a slash from the Lightspeed
Megazord Saber.
Carter visits the boy at the hospital to
drop off a gift, and to his surprise, finds the boy up
and about.
Comments:
Oddly, the Rangers called their Zords
"Rescue Zords".
The mystery firefighter who had saved Carter as a
child was clearly Captain Mitchell.
Captain Mitchell made it clear this time that
Carter was indeed the appointed team leader.
The fire theme was consistent throughout the
whole episode, right down to the Lightspeed
Megazord's final attack.
