Episode Guide / Power Rangers Operation Overdrive / Kick Into Overdrive, Part 1
Kick Into Overdrive, Part
1
Airdate: 02/26/07
In a high flying plane, a young
adventurer is tied to it against his will. His foe has
the treasure he wanted and is about to escape.
The man breaks free with a secret laser
and jumps after the enemy. He tangles with him but
unfortuantely falls... back to reality...
where he is Mac
Hartford, who was caught up in an adventurer novel and so
happens to be the son of a millionaire adventurer.
His butler Spencer comes with a drink.
Mac wishes to be with his father and be after the Crown of
the Gods which Spencer doesn't believe exists.
Mac's father Andrew has found the Crown
but the cave he is inside starts shaking. This kicks off an energy wave to two
planets waking up Moltor and Flurious.
The guardian of the crown
warns Andrew that great evil will be after the crown and
it is his fault. Five months have passed.
A young stuntman
Dax feels unappreciated in Hollywood and finds a strange
gold case in his small 'stuntman' chair.
Andrew appears when he opens the case and
offers him something he believes he cannot refuse.
In Italy, a race car driver known as
Ronny has won her race. She finds a similar case inside
her trophy. Then at a bank in Brazil, a hired spy --
Will breaks into a safe only to find a case.
Andrew tells
him he hired him to break into his own bank. Meanwhile in a London
university, a robot runs amok. A young woman comes in and calmly resolves
the problem.
She scolds the professor for
playing with her creation and is the last to receive a
case. The four gather at the Hartford estate
and Mac is gitty to see people seemingly around his age in his home.
Andrew comes in and quickly closes the door on him.
That doesn't stop him and Spencer from listening in. Andrew tells the
four that because he got
the crown, now Flurious and Moltor are on Earth and more
maybe on their way.
Rose has heard of the legend. Many years ago, two rival brothers
touched the crown and were turned
into Flurios and Moltor and sent them to isolated planets
of their element.
The guardian then sent the five jewels to
different parts of the Earth and hid the crown. Andrew asks for their help but they
refuse until urged by the guardian himself.
Saying he
isn't strong enough to fight. In the mean time, Flurious
and Moltor find headquarters on Earth (indentical to
their prison planets).
But Flurious finds an
inhabitant--Norg, a dopey and impressionable abominable snowman
or simply a Yeti. The four recruits go through a machine
that enhances their DNA to give them special abilities.
Andrew is about to do so too until Mac interrupts. Andrew
tells him to go home but he reminds him he is home, just
underground. Mac tells him he wants to help but Andrew
refuses.
The four are outside and are attacked by
the Lava Lizards. They try out their new abilities like Will's super sight and hearing.
They are beaten down but
Ronny plows through them.
While Dax finds out he can jump super high. Rose becomes invisible.
Flurious decides to join in with his troops. Spencer gets them all
to retreat. Dax, Will, and Ronny ride in bikes and an ATV while Andrew, Spencer, Mac, and Rose ride in a truck.
Mac
applauds Rose and the other's fighting skills.
The
lizards follow them. The gang stops when they see the
Chillers. Feeling surrounded, Andrew hands the four he chose their Overdrive Trackers.
Andrew drops his when
Moltor grabs him. The rangers morph and fight
the Chillers with their weapons. Mac takes the chance and
grabs the tracker. Mac morphs into the Red Ranger and
joins in.
Moltor gets the crown. He gives the
Rangers a choice, they can follow him and get the crown
or...
Save the city from a volcano
eruption he provokes. The rangers ask Andrew what they
should do.
Comments:
Mac seems endearing but Andrew doesn't. It would
have helped if he said he promised a loved one that
Mack wouldn't be danger.
Sending the jewels all over the world echoes the
Zeo sub-crystal journey.
Some people were complaining that the guardian is
a re-hash of the Zuuban (a character from the
original Sentai footage that will join the show
mid-way) costume but it would help if the show
linked them together.
