Episode Guide / Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue / Riding the Edge
Riding the Edge
Airdate: 3/4/00
Kelsey rescues a dog from being hit by a
car. She meets the owner, Nancy, who thanks her for that
"crazy" rescue.
Diabolico requests a monster the Rangers
can't touch. Jinxer creates Whirlin, who can summon
tornadoes.
Back at the Aquabase, Dana watches a
shuttle launch on television. Kelsey recognizes the pilot
as Nancy.
Everyone gathers around to watch the
shuttle take off, but they're interrupted by news of
trouble.
A tornado has come out of nowhere and
begun causing destruction throughout Mariner Bay. The
Rangers rush to the scene.
A scan by Carter reveals a monster inside
of the tornado. He blasts it with his Rescue Blaster and
the monster comes falling down.
Whirlin summons some Batlings, and they
fight the Rangers.
He then fights Carter, slamming him into
some drums and boxes.
Whirlin turns back into the tornado,
directly in the flight path of Nancy's shuttle.
The Rangers summon the Rescuebird, and
fire at the tornado, destroying the monster.
The team gets news that Nancy's shuttle
is damaged, and about to crash. Kelsey has a plan - she
summons the Zords.
First, Joel flies to the shuttle in Aero
Rescue Three and stabilizes its course by holding it with
the magnetic locks.
Then, Dana clears the freeway of all cars
for it to be used as a runway to land the shuttle.
Joel drops the shuttle off just over
Hazrescue Four. It successfully lands on the Zord.
Kelsey manages to stop just as the
freeway is about to end. Carter lifts the shuttle to
safety with Pyro Rescue.
The trouble isn't over yet - Whirlin has
been reanimated by Jinxer, and turned into a giant.
The Rangers summon their Zords, and
destroy the monster with a slash from the Lightspeed
Megazord Saber.
The Rangers meet up with Nancy, and she
thanks them for rescuing her, Kelsey especially.
Comments:
They called them Rescue Zords again - this may be
their official name, in spite of the robot being
the Lightspeed Megazord. They need to simplify
these Zord names. You can't go from Rescue Zords
to Lightspeed Megazord, and from Rail Rescues to
Supertrain Megazord.
There need to be more appearances by the show's
two , ahem..breakout characters - Vypra and Ms.
Fairweather.
There seemed to be some .. "chemistry"
between Kelsey and Nancy when they first met.
I'll leave it at that.
I wonder if NASADA knows that Mariner Bay's space
program is stealing their designs for shuttles.
It's good to see the Zords being used
individually for more than just their
introductory episode.
