The Shadow Ranger owns the Red Ranger in
a sword fight.
Jack tries to insist that Cruger let him
use the Shadow Saber, but Doggie assures him he wouldn't
stand a chance.
Emperor Gruumm reveals that he has opened
a time portal and brought an alien samurai from the past.
Hundreds of years ago, Katana's ship
crash lands in Kyoto Japan, where he is found and nursed
back to health by an ancient samurai.
The samurai trains Katana to become the
greatest samurai in the history of Japan.
Meanwhile, Bridge is using his psychic
abilities to read minds, but the others think he's lost
it.
Jack complains that he could've beaten
Cruger if he had let him use the Shadow Saber, and that's
why he wouldn't let him use it.
The Rangers are alerted Gruumm bringing
Katana to the present, and Doggie sends them to Kyoto,
Japan.
Bridge uses his psychic abilities to
track Katana.
Katana is confused by the changes to
Kyoto and begins attacking cars thinking that they're
armored dragons.
The Power Rangers show up to put an end
to Katana's attack.
Katana says he won't fight an unarmed
opponent and gives Jack his blaster back after he drops
it.
Broodwing sends Krybots to assist Katana
in defeating the Rangers.
Broodwing convinces Katana that the Power
Rangers are trying to take over Kyoto, and asks him to
destroy them.
The Power Rangers show up to fight Katana
on his ancestors' ground.
Doggie and Kat bring Delta Command to
Japan at hyperspeed when they are alerted to a giant
robot attacking.
The Delta Command Megazord defends Kyoto
against the giant robot.
The Red Ranger goes after Katana, but
first insists that Cruger gives him the Shadow Saber. He
gives in.
Meanwhile, Gruumm uses this oppurtunity
to have the Krybots rob the Newtech City Iridium Plant.
The Red Ranger faces off against Katana
to prove that he is honorable.
The Red Ranger uses the Shadow Saber to
defeat Katana honorably.
The Delta Command Megazord destroys the
giant robot.
Just to make sure, the Red Ranger uses
Judgement Mode to find that Katana is innocent.
Kat informs the Jack that the time portal
has reopened and Katana uses it to return home.
Although unknown to Jack, something else
comes out of the time portal and follows him.
Cruger reveals that the Shadow Saber he
gave Jack was a fake, and that it is truely the
swordsman, and not the sword that makes a difference.
Comments:
Jack has never expressed any desire in learning
swordsmanship before. He's the only Ranger that
doesn't even have a sword like weapon. His
motivation in this episode seemed rather odd.
It seems a bit too convenient that an alien named
Katana just happened to end up living in Japan.
Why did Commander Cruger just happen to have a
fake Shadow Saber in his holster when they were
in the Delta Command Megazord?
When the Rangers first arrive in Kyoto, and
Bridge reads Katana's thoughts, they are just the
same words that he said when they were watching
him on the view screen in the Delta Base.
It was a pretty good ploy to have an episode take
place in Japan, given that the show's footage
originates from there. It's also pretty ironic
that an episode that takes place in Japan has so
much original footage.
Okay, so even though Jack couldn't touch Cruger
in a sword fight, or any other fight for that
matter, he still managed to defeat the greatest
samurai in all Japan?
Oh lookie, the Omega Ranger makes his sparkling
debut.
