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Always a Chance is the twenty-fifth episode of Power Rangers in Space. It features the return of Adam Park as the Mighty Morphin Black Ranger.

Synopsis[]

The Rangers encounter Lizwizard, who has the ability to change places with another person. During a battle, he changes places with Cassie just as Carlos is about to attack. Carlos ends up injuring his friend. Cassie recovers, but Carlos begins to doubt his abilities as a ranger. He leaves the team for a while and encounters Adam, the person who chose him to be a Ranger. Adam trains Carlos to try and get his confidence back. Later, Adam performs the most risky of actions to save Carlos from his second fight with Lizwizard.

Plot[]

The Rangers track down a monster known as Lizwizard who’s in the process of stealing knowledge from scientists in a top-secret facility. During the ensuing confrontation, the monster grapples Cassie and trades places with her just before Carlos performs a mid-air strike, accidentally hitting Cassie. Lizwizard and the Quantrons teleport out and Carlos is left feeling guilty when he realizes that Cassie’s shoulder was injured from his attack.

Carlos goes to apologize to Cassie as she is being treated for her injuries. He expresses his guilt and although she understands it was an accident, he continues to wrestle with his remorse and leaves.

Lizwards is transferring his knowledge to the Dark Fortress’ computer and Astronema reveals her plan for a grand weapon but is told by Lizwizard that a key piece of information is missing. Annoyed, she orders the monster to find said information and he goes to Earth to find Dr. Phenomenus, Bulk, and Skull.

Carlos stands upon a roof top reflecting on the incident from earlier when he sees Lizwizard attacking the trio of “scientists”. Feeling deeply conflicted, Carlos can’t bring himself to morph but overcomes his dithering and leaps into action. During the fight, Lizwizard overwhelms the Black Ranger several times by disappearing, but is then attacked by Carlos’ predecessor, Adam Park, who helps to deter Lizwizard.

After the battle, Carlos bravely admits to being troubled and needing help. Adam unsuccessfully explains the inherent danger of being a Ranger and decides to put Carlos through various forms of training. Though this seems to be working for a time, Carlos begins to doubt himself again and storms off leaving Adam and Alpha 6 concerned. Adam shows the automaton his heavily damaged Power Morpher and original Power Coin. Alpha tells Adam he shouldn’t use the Morpher, exposing that using it could destroy him.

Back on the Astro Megaship, Carlos gives up his Morpher and Communicator in an attempt to quit the team. The team explains that this is unnecessary and Carlos insists that he must leave before he hurts someone else.

Abord the Dark Fortress, Astronema threatens punishment on Lizwizard for his failure but affords him one last chance to succeed based on Ecliptor’s advice.  

Having returned to the park, Carlos is telling Adam and Alpha 6 that he’s no longer a Ranger when Lizwizard attacks with a gang of Quantrons. The two former Rangers are overwhelmed by the attack and Adam decides to use is old Morpher to the dismay of Carlos and Alpha 6. He engages Lizwizard giving Carlos an opportunity to escape, however, Adam’s powers begin to fluctuate and has trouble fighting. Carlos overhears Adam’s struggle and heads back to help. The rest of the Power Rangers arrive giving Carlos his Morpher back and he resumes the fight as a Ranger. Just as before, Adam sees that the monster has grappled his friend – only this time, it’s Adam.  Both Carlos and Lizwizard perform their same attacks/tricks from earlier, but Carlos redirects his jump off of the veteran Ranger’s shoulder and successfully strikes his foe.

The monster grows via the Satellasers while Adam’s powers fade away entirely. The team calls on the Astro Megazord and defeat Lizwizard with the Astro Megazord Saber.

After the battle, the team return to the park relieved to see that Adam is ok. He tells Carlos that he knew morphing was safe with him around.

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Errors[]

  • It’s unknown why Carlos could’ve just contacted the others that Lizwizard was back. Though it’s possible that he either didn’t want to risk the same mistake earlier, or he thought he could just handle it himself, no problem.
  • When Carlos fights Lizwizard alone, the scenery doesn’t quite match up between American and Sentai footages.
  • At the start of the scene when Astronema is threatening Lizwizard, Melody Perkins stumbles over the verbiage and has dubbed over her voice with the correct line.
  • When Adam tells Carlos to run, the stunt actor can be seen through the visor.

Notes[]

  • Using a damaged Morpher not only morphs a user into an unstable Ranger form and empowers them with damaged powers, but also threatens the user's life from the backlash.
  • First appearance of:
    • Adam since Turbo's power transfer episode "Passing the Torch".
    • the Black Mighty Morphin' powers since Mighty Morphin's "Rangers in Reverse" and the first appearance of the original Mastodon Dino Power Coin which, along with Adam's Morpher, is cracked and charred following the Morphing Grid overload by Rito Revolto in Mighty Morphin's "Ninja Quest"; Adam would later return as the Black Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger with the Mastodon Coin in Operation Overdrive's "Once a Ranger" once more. This episode is also the first onscreen appearance of the Power Morpher itself in general since "Rangers in Reverse".
  • This is the only time Adam and Andros appear together. Andros would later team up with Adam's old teammates Jason and Tommy in Wild Force's "Forever Red".
  • Throughout the episode, Adam is seen wearing both black and green clothing, signifying the Ranger colors he wore during his time as an active Power Ranger.
  • Adam's morphing sequence is a previously unused version of his Mighty Morphin second season morphing sequence where, instead of just standing there shouting "Mastodon!", he actually does the hand gestures with his Power Morpher; because it was filmed for Season 2, Adam's Power Coin & Morpher are undamaged and his hair is shorter - it is unknown if similar morphing sequences exist for the other Rangers, although a prototype morphing sequence for Tommy appeared in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Karate Club: Green Ranger Kata VHS.
  • The insert song "Strike" from VR Troopers is featured in this episode.
  • In Megaranger, it was Andros' counterpart who injured a little boy because of an illusion making him believe he was an enemy, rather than Black injuring Pink due to the monster switching places with her.
  • Bulk and Skull, along with Professor Phenomenus make their first appearance in the season since "The Great Evilyzer". They appear again in "Dark Specter's Revenge".
  • The monster's name was "Wizlizard" originally during filming. It was changed in post-production, though in some instances, the viewers can see mouth movements that match the pronouncing of his original name. This name was also used in several TV listings for the episode.

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Power nav icon List of Power Rangers In Space episodes Icon-megaranger

1 & 2: From Out of Nowhere • 3: Save Our Ship • 4: Shell Shocked • 5: Never Stop Searching • 6: Satellite Search • 7: A Ranger Among Thieves • 8: When Push Comes to Shove • 9: The Craterite Invasion • 10: The Wasp with a Heart • 11: The Delta Discovery • 12: The Great Evilyzer • 13: Grandma Matchmaker • 14: The Barillian Sting • 15: T.J.'s Identity Crisis • 16: Flashes of Darkonda • 17: The Rangers' Mega Voyage • 18: True Blue to the Rescue • 19: Invasion of the Body Switcher • 20: Survival of the Silver • 21: Red with Envy • 22: The Silver Secret • 23: A Date with Danger • 24: Zhane's Destiny • 25: Always a Chance • 26: The Secret of the Locket • 27: Astronema Thinks Twice • 28: The Rangers' Leap of Faith • 29 & 30: Dark Specter's Revenge • 31: Rangers Gone Psycho • 32: Carlos on Call • 33: A Rift in the Rangers • 34: Five of a Kind • 35: Silence is Golden • 36: The Enemy Within • 37: Andros and the Stowaway • 38: Mission to Secret City • 39: Ghosts in the Machine • 40: The Impenetrable Web • 41: A Line in the Sand • 42 & 43: Countdown to Destruction

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