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Episode 1: Lightning Strike
- Ollie having been poisoned to work for Lord Zedd and sending Zayto to a distant planet.
- Javi inserting Morphin Master Red's staff into the Altar of Zordnia without hesitation leads to him losing his arm. Not only could this affect his future as a Ranger, but also his day-to-day life and his up-and-coming musical career. There's also a long pause as he stares at what is left of his arm before he goes into a Heroic BSoD.
- The nature of Ollie's brainwashing is equally chilling and heartbreaking. His personality is largely still there: he's smart, calculating, and more than a little overconfident, but all of these traits are being directed towards absolute loyalty to Zedd, to the point that he refuses to stand down and dares his friends to kill him with the Mega Attack.
- Amelia tries to give Ollie an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight, but it doesn't work. He just stares hatefully at her and says he's over her. Unlike with the Sporix-based brainwashing, whatever Zedd has done to Ollie is completely Power of Love-proof.
Episode 2: Beyond Reapair
- Javi's clear depression over the loss of his arm, particularly lamenting the fact that he can't even tie up his own shoes, let alone activate his morpher and fight alongside his friends. He gets a bit better once his prosthetic arm is built, but falls right back into seeing himself as a liability when he is unable to fully control it right away, nearly causing a serious accident.
- Ollie heals in the medical bay, with Amelia and Lani hard at work on creating an antidote for mind control. When he stirs awake, Amelia smiles brightly, certain that they've saved him. Then she takes his hand, her Rafkonian powers take over, and her face falls. The antidote has failed, and Ollie wants nothing more than to toy with her emotions as he destroys her.
- Lani whispers "I'm terrified" to Amelia over how she has to see her son becoming violent and turning evil once more.
- Underrated moment when Amelia confronts the mind-warped Ollie: this is the first time Amelia has told Ollie that she loves him, or at least the first time onscreen. And she's saying it to him while he's under a spell where he literally cannot love her back.
- The Rangers' second plan to free Ollie of Zedd's brainwashing fails. How do they find out? When Ollie not only pledges his loyalty to Zedd, but proves his allegiance by throwing his sword directly at Amelia's head. His girlfriend just barely dodges it, and the devastated expression on her face as she touches the resulting cut on her cheek is painful.
- Over Lani and Aiyon's protests, Amelia makes the hard call to leave the brainwashed Ollie with Zedd. Billy is right; they can't win here. The only way to save Ollie is to keep going.
- Izzy tries to downplay her problems to Fern, hoping to keep her girlfriend safe, but it backfires spectacularly. It culminates in the group getting stranded on the distant planet Erridus, and Fern accidentally stowing away. Izzy is mortified that she has uprooted Fern's life to this extent, just as they were planning to go off to college together and get their happy ending.
Episode 3: Off Grid
- Javi attempting to play his guitar with his new arm, only to break all the strings. Plus the way he snaps at the watching Rangers, telling them that he doesn't need their pity.
- Izzy, still reeling from accidentally dragging Fern into space with her, starts acting aloof and protective from her girlfriend, paranoid that something even worse will happen. She tries to put on a brave face, but Fern doesn't buy it.Fern: Mental gymnastics are not my favorite kind.
- Amelia and Aiyon have a heart-to-heart about losing Ollie and Zayto, respectively.
- Evil!Ollie tracks down his mother and convinces her that their cure attempt did work before tricking her into revealing important information. Then he reveals that he's still Evil All Along, leaving her horrified and heartbroken. Making matters worse, this is the last Lani sees of her son until the series finale. She spends the entire season believing that her worst fear has come true and her little boy is lost to her forever.
Episode 4: Team Work
- The mind control poison and Lord Zedd's grooming of him undo two years of Ollie's character development, reducing him to the same self-important teacher's pet who thinks he can solve any problem without anyone's help. The "team" of monsters Zedd assigned to him seem specifically chosen to break Ollie's faith in the value of teamwork.
- Amelia crosses blades with mind-controlled Ollie. Then the Fridge Horror kicks in: thanks to Amelia's Rafkonian abilities, she can read Ollie's mind every time they make physical contact. She is being bombarded with the sheer loathing that her brainwashed boyfriend now has for her.
- Aiyon finally finds Zayto, but discovers that he isn't quite the same person that he was six months ago. For one thing, Aiyon's ability to read his mind is completely cut off. Then the Forest of Levvina drops this bombshell: "Enjoy the time you have left." Zayto deliberately avoids going into details out of fear of upsetting his friend, but just like with Fern and Izzy, this only heightens Aiyon's fears.
- Mick leaves Team Cosmic Fury at the end of the episode, knowing that his parents in the Lion Galaxy will need his help as Red Ninja Steel Ranger.
Episode 5: Rock Out
- It's played for comedy, but Javi's Genre Shift from indie pop to thrash metal demonstrates the scale of his anger at Zedd.
- In the mines of Akraal, we learn more about life for Zentinels and other evil forces. For no reason other than cruelty, Squid Ink Inc. has programmed their robotic henchmen to be just self-aware enough to feel fear and pain. Moreover, they are the first Ranger villains to use wage slavery
; the minions are paid, but barely enough to afford rent, food, and so on, leaving them entirely dependent on Bajillia's whims. - Evil Ollie has no qualms about hurting innocent civilian Fern, to Izzy's horror. Fern manages to get away with nothing worse than Clothing Damage, but that does little to allay Izzy's feelings.
- Amelia is finally comfortable calling Tarrick "Dad".
Episode 6: Take Off
- We get some insight into Lord Zedd and what makes him the way he is: "No rest for the strongest, only survival." Lord Zedd is a power-hungry Evil Overlord, but at the end of the day, he's also a deeply scared man who lives in fear of the day when his power runs out and someone else does to him what he's done to the universe since 1993. His constant quest for more power comes from a desperate need to protect himself from the consequences of his actions.
- Izzy and Fern's relationship issues are finally put to bed with a sweet speech from Izzy about why she loves Fern:Izzy: Ever since I got you stuck on the other side of the universe, I've had this feeling something awful was going to happen to you. It got in the way, and I forgot one of the main reasons I really like you. You're pretty much unstoppable.Fern: Unless I break my ankle. But then I got you, Garcia.Izzy: I love you.(they share a long, tender hug)
Episode 7: Operation Seasoning
- Operation Seasoning quickly goes awry, and Tarrick is forced to watch from the sidelines as his daughter and her team are taken hostage.
- It's largely played for laughs with Zedd's ridiculously petty evil edicts, but seeing Earth under martial law is pretty chilling. Just like real-world tyrants, Zedd punishes minor offenses with disproportionate cruelty to scare people into submission, cracks down on journalists who try to get the truth out, and even attempts a kids' show-friendly version of cultural genocide by forcing English speakers to take "re-education courses" so they will write, spell, and speak in the way he sees fit.
- Zayto finally explains how his resurrection works: he is living on borrowed time, and once he uses up all of the magic that makes up his life force, he will return to the afterlife. Worse yet, he swears Aiyon and Solon to secrecy about this, not wanting his friends' concern for him to outweigh the importance of saving the world.
- When Carlos and Rina are liberated from Zedd's prison, they notice their son's prosthetic arm. While Javi assures them that he is fine and he has learned to adapt, it's a major change to the Garcia family status quo and a sobering reminder of the price of a Secret Identity: never being able to share the full truth of what you are going through with the people who love you most.
Episode 8: Switching Sides
- Mucus and Slyther have completely reformed since the end of Dino Fury and were enjoying their happy ending as a traveling circus duo until Zedd's invasion destroyed everything they worked so hard to build.
- Mucus feels like a prisoner to her human shape, longing to be her true self again. Zayto is moved by her plight and uses his already limited life force magic to give her back her true form.
- Bajillia only attempts to rescue Squillia from the Rangers because she's afraid of looking weak in front of her stockholders. Later, she has no qualms with using her own daughter as a shield during the alleged "rescue". She never expresses any grief for her daughter afterwards.
Episode 9: Master Plan
- Zedd calls the Rangers to gloat about their failure to save Ollie. We get a few quick shots of Ollie's face and him staring at his Tricera Blaster as he steels himself for what he's about to do next. Ollie knocks out the villains and gets important information to his team, knowing full well that he will suffer as soon as Zedd gets back up and these could easily be his last words to Amelia and his friends.
- Billy explains that the other Ranger teams cannot help Team Cosmic Fury rescue Ollie because Lord Zedd's forces have attacked dozens of other planets that all badly need superheroes right now. According to Billy, some planets are so devastated by the war that the Rangers are moving them to a safe haven in Newtech City. And bear in mind: SPD chose 2025 as its 20 Minutes into the Future date. At the time of airing, that is less than two years away. These frightened refugees get roughly a year of peace to establish new, happy lives for themselves in a thriving multi-species community, only to nearly lose it all again when Emperor Gruumm comes to colonize Earth.
- While chained up in the tower prison, Ollie's regrets about his actions hit him hard. He nearly killed his friends and developed the technology that will make Lord Zedd into the most powerful force of evil in existence. He doubts Amelia will ever forgive him. He can hardly believe it when his friends break his chains and Amelia immediately hugs him.Amelia: The real Ollie is back! We're back.Ollie: We are?Amelia: Of course, babe. I've missed you so much!
- Zayto uses up the last of his magic to protect the Rangers, Mucus, and Slyther from Bajilia Naire's bomb, but the end result leaves him passing on and returning to the Morphin Grid, Aiyon's spirit holding on in the process.
- Consider Bajillia's evil plan from Ollie's point of view: she is going to release a World-Wrecking Wave that will erase all goodness from the universe forever. It's been less than a day since Ollie was saved and became a hero again, and if Bajillia gets her way, he will be right back on the forces of evil while Amelia and all his friends turn to ashes. With love eliminated from the universe, he won't even remember what they meant to him.
Episode 10: The End
- Aiyon's conversation with the mysterious being in the void. Aiyon believes he is talking to Zayto, but the being explains this is just Aiyon's mind latching onto a familiar frame of reference. But the being does confirm that Zayto's soul is at peace (or as close to it as a Power Ranger can ever hope to get), and reunites Aiyon's soul with his body.Being: There's something I used to say in times such as these: May the power protect you.
- Zayto bids his friends and teammates farewell, as he is now a Morphin Master and must leave them.
- Aiyon tells Billy about the being in the void and their very familiar parting words. This awakens a hope that Billy has been harboring since 1998: that his mentor and father figure may still be out there in the universe.
