Riding the Edge


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This article is about an episode in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.

Riding the Edge

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 8x04

Air Date(s)

March 4, 2000

Production Information

Written by

Judd Lynn

Directed by

Koichi Sakamoto

Episode Guide

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Riding the Edge is the fourth episode of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.

Synopsis[]

Diabolico unleashes Whirlin, the tornado monster who can produce tornadoes among his abilities, as his attempt for this episode to destroy Mariner Bay. The Rangers rescue a shuttle that is piloted by a young woman named Nancy (who Kelsey helped at the beginning of this episode) caught in the tornado's path from crash landing and destroy the monster with the Lightspeed Megazord at the time of the monster's reanimation after his first defeat.

Plot[]

Kelsey rescues a dog from being hit by a car, and she meets the owner, Nancy, who thanks her for that "crazy" rescue.

Meanwhile, 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 shuttle's 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 to successfully stop the disaster. A scan by Carter reveals a monster is 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 Rescue Bird to assemble the Unilaser and fire at the tornado, destroying the monster.

The team gets news that Nancy's shuttle was damaged by the tornado and is about to crash - Kelsey has a plan for the rescue, summoning the Zords in order for the plan to work. First, Joel flies to the shuttle in Aero Rescue 3 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 Haz Rescue 4 - the landing is successful. Kelsey manages to stop just as the freeway is about to end. Carter lifts the shuttle to safety with Pyro Rescue 1.

The trouble isn't over yet: Whirlin has been recreated by Jinxer, and enlarged - the Rangers form the Lightspeed Megazord for this battle and destroy the monster with a Lightspeed Megazord Saber slash.

The Rangers meet up with Nancy, who thanks them, Kelsey especially, for rescuing her.

Cast[]

Sean Cw Johnson as Carter Grayson (Red Lightspeed Ranger)
Michael Chaturantabut as Chad Lee (Blue Lightspeed Ranger)
Keith Robinson as Joel Rawlings (Green Lightspeed Ranger)
Sasha Williams as Kelsey Winslow (Yellow Lightspeed Ranger)
Alison MacInnis as Dana Mitchell (Pink Lightspeed Ranger)
Monica Louwerens as Ms. Fairweather (credit only)
Ron Rogge as Captain William Mitchell
Neil Kaplan as Diabolico (voice)
David Lodge as Loki (voice)
Kim Strauss as Jinxer (voice)
Jennifer L. Yen as Vypra
Brianne Siddall as Impus (voice)
John C. Hyke as Whirlin (voice)
Rachel Koda as Nancy Cooper
Gillian Holt as Reporter

Zords[]

Lightspeed Megazord

Errors[]

In the real world, it's not likely possible for a space shuttle to return to the city it took off from due to the rotation of the Earth and the pull of gravity.
After defeating Whirlin, the Rangers were seen placing their Rescue Blasters back into their holsters when they had actually used the Unilaser against him: the Unilaser is formed as its trigger section being a single Rescue Blaster Grip detached from its firing port which means at least one of the Rangers would have needed to keep his or her own Rescue Blaster's trigger section unholstered for this purpose and store the holster away only when its service was not needed for a time.
The freeway used by Kelsey to land the shuttle (that has been seen to have cars driving down it earlier) was seemingly unfinished and ended in a sheer drop.
Despite clearly overhearing the Rangers' conversation, which includes Kelsey being called by name several times, Nancy doesn't realize it's Kelsey until she gives the familiar response: "Crazy is my middle name." It's possible she didn't know it was the same Kelsey she knew.

Notes[]

Some of the shuttle footage was from Power Rangers in Space's Sentai counterpart Denji Sentai Megaranger.

This episode marks the first appearance of a helmetless Ranger this series (although only Kelsey appears this way).
This is the first time that the alternate transformation sequence for the Lightspeed Megazord is shown: typically when the Megazord is formed, Aero Rescue 3 lifts Pyro Rescue 1 into the air using its magnetic cables, and Pyro Rescue 1 transforms into the upper body and arms of the Megazord while being carried over to the lower half which is formed by Aqua Rescue 2, Haz Rescue 4 and Med Rescue 5, after Aqua Rescue 2 is also lifted by the same magnetic cables and then lowered onto Haz Rescue 4 and Med Rescue 5, but in this instance however, the latter three Zords that are mentioned go about their transformation like normal, while Pyro Rescue 1 transforms into the Megazord's torso and arms on the ground, and then raises itself up and over the lower body, gradually lowering itself down with the ladder arms into connection with Aqua Rescue 2.