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Power Rangers Season 9 Episode 4

Ransik Lives

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AIRED: 2/24/01

Wes gives the four Time Force officers from the future a place to stay, at a Clock Tower owned by his father. It turns out to also be part of an old business, which they revive, taking on various odd jobs for money. Their first job is painting a TV studio, which ends up being hijacked by Ransik to broadcast a terror threat to the city of Silver Hills! Wes is captured by the mutant mastermind, and learns his tragic origin, involving the dark side effects of the future utopia. Will this change his feelings about the criminal, or will the mutant Fearog finish him off?moreless

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Wes Learns About the True Nature of Ransik's Evil! :idea:

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By 4EverGreen, Aug 19, 2012

Recently, I got into watching "Power Rangers" episodes again as every single episode of every single show is now available either on Netflix or as a re-run on Nickelodeon Nicktoons channel. However, a marathon of "Time Force" episodes was too good to pass up, so I decided to find out for myself what this season was all about. As it turns out, the fight between good and evil in the future (and/or the past, depending on the standpoint), isn't as black and white as previously thought of by the new Time Force Red Ranger Wes. The dangerous mutant named Ransik reveals to Wes that there's a dark side to the utopian future laid out in the time of Time Force. :shock: Through decades of research, scientists finally found a way to give all newborn children the exact traits and features that their parents would pick out for them. But one day, an accident inevitably happened. A can of DNA fell into the sewers, meaning that one less person would be born. Or so it would seem. But organisms have a tendency of wanting to survive, and Ransik was created! Mutated by the toxic effects of the underground sewers, Ransik was deformed from the moment he rose out of the filth. :( Shunned, victimized, and humiliated just because he did not fit in, Ransik found other mutants with defects, and organized them to get revenge on the world who treated them like outcasts! :!: Wes tries to tell Ransik that yes, it was wrong for the future world to shun him just based on how he looks, but revenge is never the answer! However, Ransik has not traveled back a 1,000 years in the future to listen to a lecture by a Ranger. So Wes and the other Rangers are stuck with the task of capturing all of Ransik's mutant cohorts, and trying to catch Ransik himself, in order to return Ransik to his normal place and time! :D This is a very philosophical episode, with moral questions to make even older viewers think about what direction they want to see the future go towards. 8) This is a great episode and season for this series, and I can't wait to see what else this season has in store! :idea: Enough said, true believers! ;)moreless
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Deborah Estelle Philips	Katie Walker, Yellow Time Force Ranger
Erin Cahill	Jen Scotts, Pink Time Force Ranger
Kate Sheldon	Nadira
Kevin Kleinberg	Trip Regis, Green Time Force Ranger
Michael Copon	Lucas Kendall, Blue Time Force Ranger
Vernon Wells	Ransik

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Joe Medalis	Ivan	Guest Star
Jonathan Richter	Anchorman	Guest Star
Colin Bain	Delivery Boy	Guest Star
Eddie Frierson	Frax (voice)	Recurring Role
Brianne Siddall	Circuit (voice)	Recurring Role

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- In one shot, the Trans-warp Megazord's T-shaped visor is over its face. However, in the next shot, the Megazord is shown lowering its visor over its face.
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- The anchorman credited for the episode appears nowhere in the show!
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- Two recognizable future mutants seen in the mutant group in Ransik's flashback are Red Eye and Contemptra. Also there are two unused Timeranger monsters (a pointy-headed samurai, and a three-eyed mutant) whom are not seen in future episode.
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- Debut of the Clock Tower, the base of operations and home for the Rangers, and its downstairs business, Nick of Time Odd Jobs.
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- The laser weapons the Time Force Officers use are called "Time Blasters" here by Wes, though they'll later be properly called (as they are in the toyline) "Chrono-Blasters".
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- What lies beneath Ransik's face mask is revealed here to be pink mutilated flesh. He appears to have been born that way.
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- The mutant's name, Fearog, was the same name of a monster in the Power Rangers In Space episode "The Great Evilyzer". That creature was never named onscreen, though.
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