 This article is about an episode in Power Rangers Beast Morphers.
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Target: Tower is the nineteenth and penultimate episode of Power Rangers Beast Morphers. It is the second part of Season 1's three-part endgame, featuring the final appearance of Roxy's Avatar, the reawakening of the real Roxy, Mayor Daniels learning Devon's Ranger identity, and foreshadows the introduction of Evox's Robot Form.
Synopsis[]
Evox and his minions hatch the ultimate plan to take over the Morphin Grid.
Plot[]
At Grid Battleforce, the Rangers, minus Devon who’s with his father on his reelection campaign, review footage of them taking the Mega Transporters for Blaze and Roxy, thanks to the Memory Pulsator. Suddenly, Steel hears something from the other room, and they notice that the real Roxy’s stasis body is blinking. Nate finds the memory stick that evil Roxy placed in it, and realizes that it uploaded a virus into it. The stasis pod’s life support system is too damaged for repairs, and if Roxy doesn’t wake up soon, then it will be too late to save her. Zoey remembers the possibility of destroying Avatar Roxy in order to save the real one, but Commander Shaw says that the Mega Transporters are their main concern, meaning Coral Harbor is in more trouble.
As the Rangers go out to look for the Mega Transporters, Shaw tries calling Devon, but the latter is forced to ignore it due to being in the open at his father’s rally. Meanwhile, Ben and Betty look for the Mega Transporters on their X-Bike, but due to wearing binoculars, they are unable to see properly and run into a van. Fortunately, they discover the Mega Transporters inside the van, but a squad of Tronics are as well and attack them, leading them into Mayor Daniels' campaign rally. Seeing this, Devon is forced to run off to join the others, disappointing Mayor Daniels as it made it look like he ran away like a coward. The Rangers save Ben and Betty from the Tronics, and the two lead them to where the van is. As they head down, they take down some Tronics.
In the Cyber Dimension, Blaze orders Scrozzle to teleport the Morph-X Tower, but the latter says he can’t do it without the Mega Transporters in their proper positions, and informs them that the Rangers are going after them. Blaze orders Scrozzle to send a Gigadrone to distract the Rangers. While the Rangers find the van and the Mega Transporters, Shaw tells Ravi that Roxy’s condition is getting worse. However, she reminds her son that getting the Mega Transporters back to base is their main priority, along with telling the other Rangers about the Gigadrone’s arrival in Sector Echo 1-5. While Ravi drives the van back to base, the others run off to their Zords. Seeing this, Roxy says she has a plan to deal with Ravi.
As Ravi is driving back to base, Roxy teleports in front of the van, leading Ravi to take the risk and confront the Avatar for one last battle. Roxy morphs in response, and they fight. Meanwhile, the other Rangers arrive to the Beta Gigadrone’s location, Devon in the Racer Zord Battle Mode, Zoey in the Chopper Zord, and Nate and Steel in the Striker Megazord and a fight ensues. After getting knocked down, Ravi decides it's time to "go ape" and intentionally overexerts his gorilla strength to the point of overheating, and tosses a massive boulder at Roxy. At Grid Battleforce, Commander Shaw's assistant and Smash notice this, so the Commander tries calling Ravi for an explanation, only to get no response. Ravi rips Roxy’s Morpher off her wrist and crushes it, not only depriving the Avatar of morphing, but to prevent her from teleporting away. Although the Gigadrone’s hand to hand combat makes the fight a little difficult, Devon summons the Cheetah Beast Blaster to use a Cheetah Strike to destroy it. Back to the ground fight, Ravi takes the unmorphed Avatar easily, and when she tries to blast him, it doesn't affect him because of his overheated body temperature and fires at her with the Beast-X Blaster. After a couple of shots, Avatar Roxy destabilizes, and then explodes, finally destroying her. Although an exhausted Ravi, cooled down by sprinklers, is relieved that he saved the real Roxy, he sees Blaze taking the van away with the Mega Transporters still inside, and is unable to catch up to stop him.
Back in the Cyber Dimension, Evox berates Blaze for letting Roxy get destroyed, but the latter reminds him that he’s still around, and that him and Scrozzle calculated the locations of where the Mega Transporters need to be placed, and assures his master that he will get his Morph-X Tower. However, Evox warns Blaze that disappointing him again will be the last thing he does. At Grid Battleforce, Ravi races back to Roxy’s stasis pod, but is heartbroken to see her still asleep even after destroying her Avatar. Commander Shaw berates Ravi for letting his emotions get the better of him, but lets him off the hook when the latter admits to his faults. Afterwards, Ben and Betty call the base, telling them they found a Mega Transporter in Sector Foxtrot 3-7, which is near a Morph-X Tower, so the Commander orders the Rangers to go there at once and prevent Evox from stealing it.
The Rangers go to Ben and Betty’s location, where they find the Mega Transporter hidden in a bush, and directed at the nearby Morph-X tower. Then, Mayor Daniels arrives, and angrily tells off Devon for running away when others were needed, not finding a job like he wanted, being out past curfew, and coming back home battered and bruised, that he is not the man that he raised. Before Devon can explain himself, a morphed Blaze arrives and starts attacking civilians with a squad of Tronics. The Rangers morph into action and take on the Tronics, while Nate tells Ben and Betty to take the nearby Mega Transporter back to the base. Daniels helps by hitting the Tronics with a shovel when they corner the siblings, and they themselves use a nearby shopping bag to knock down the ones chasing after them.
As the Rangers fight the Tronics, Blaze turns on the Mega Transporters, and takes the third one from Ben and Betty’s car, unbeknownst to them. As Blaze places it back in the bush, Devon attacks him before he can activate it. Devon summons the Cheetah Claws for assistance, but despite his best efforts, Blaze traps him in his cables and shocks him. The blast causes Devon to demorph, and unbeknownst to him, his dad discovers his son is the Red Ranger. Blaze activates the third Mega Transporter, transporting the Morph-X Tower, himself, and the captured Devon back to the Cyber Dimension, leaving Mayor Daniels and the Rangers heartbroken overseeing the latter captured.
Nate feels that the only way to rescue Devon is to rebuild Scrozzle’s Cybergate from the wreckage, but the others know that Evox has a lot of Morph-X thanks to the Tower, and they have no idea what they’re planning. Suddenly, Roxy’s stasis pod beeps again, this time, it opens as she is waking up. Roxy reveals that her mind was connected to her evil avatar and knows what Evox’s plan is. Scrozzle learned from Nate who to build a body for Evox, which he starts to transfer his virus into a robot body with the Morph-X from the Tower, as a chained-up Devon can do nothing but watch as the cyber snake succeeds with his plan. Once he finishes uploading himself into his new body, he'll be able to teleport himself out of the Cyber Dimension and back to the real world, where he'll be able to take over the Morphin Grid, worrying the Rangers.
Cast[]
- Rorrie D. Travis as Devon Daniels (Grid Battleforce Red)
- Jazz Baduwalia as Ravi Shaw (Grid Battleforce Blue)
- Jacqueline Scislowski as Zoey Reeves (Grid Battleforce Yellow)
- Abraham Rodriguez as Nate Silva (Grid Battleforce Gold)
- Jamie Linehan as Steel (Grid Battleforce Silver) (voice)
- Kelson Henderson as Cruise (voice)
- Charlie McDermott as Smash (voice)
- Randall Ewing as Evox (voice)
- Colby Strong as Blaze & Blaze (avatar)
- Liana Ramirez as Roxy & Roxy (avatar)
- Campbell Cooley as Scrozzle (voice)
- Kristina Ho as Betty Burke
- Cosme Flores as Ben Burke
- Teuila Blakely as Commander Shaw
- Amber-Rose Henshall as Technician
- Kevin Copeland as Mayor Adam Daniels
- JJ Fong as Mayor's Assistant
Errors[]
- There were some movement errors of evil Roxy before her death, close up camera shots show her moving left and right while further camera shots show her standing completely still.
- Commander Shaw conveniently contacted the Rangers right before the Gigadrone attack just so he would go after Roxy and leave the Mega Transporters open to being stolen by Blaze.
Notes[]
- The first time a Ranger uses two Beast-X Blasters.
- Mayor Daniels discovers his son's secret identity in this episode.
- First time that a Gigadrone is deployed without an apparent Robotron to be modeled after. The reason for this is because the Metaloid its counterpart is based upon, Karateloid, spent almost all of his screen-time possessing a small Japanese boy.
- The Chopper Zord was added in through CGI as the Yellow Ranger did not face off against the Gigadrone in the Go-Busters episode they used footage from.
- In "The Cybergate Opens", Scrozzle mentions that building a robot powerful enough for Evox was beyond his abilities. After witnessing Nate building Steel in said episode, he's figured out how.
- Commander Shaw's scolding Ravi implied an uncharacteristic willingness to sacrifice Roxy for the greater good. It is not a good habit for any Ranger team's mentor to guilt their subordinates for wanting to save other people's lives, even if it requires disobeying orders, as it could cause Rangers and even child viewers to liken the "offender" in question to the bad guys.
- This is the first time a Ranger's identity is revealed since Power Rangers Dino Charge's "Love at First Fight".
See Also[]
- Mission 8: Protect the Machine Blueprints! - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Busters. See comparison page. (Tronics fight footage)
- Mission 39: Finishing Blow! Messiah's Fist - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Busters. See comparison page. (Megazord fight footage)
- Mission 45: Happy New Year! Another Small Formidable Enemy - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Busters. See comparison page. (Tronics fight footage)
- Mission 48: Setting the Trap - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Busters. See comparison page. (Avatar Roxy's death)
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