13-04: Walls

This is the main page for episode 13-04; credits, a synopsis, and a full episode transcription are below. Transcript by kikos.

Production Credits
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Greg Aronowitz
TELEPLAY BY - John Tellegen
DIRECTED BY - Andrew Merrifield

Episode-Specific Cast Credits
Security Guard 1 - Patrick Khutze
Security Guard 2 - Patrick Wilson
Voice of Ringbah - Bruce Hopkins
Voice of Broodwing - Jim McLarty

Sky's jealousy of Jack has isolated him from the rest of the team, and this leads him to make a blunder that allows Gruumm to start gaining a foothold on Earth.

• Episode opens in the S.P.D. cadet rec room. Four of the Rangers are playing a game of “lightball”, while Sky sits off to the side reading a book and eating popcorn. Lightball consists of a CGI ball of light being tossed between players in an attempt to tag opponents out in a manner similar to dodgeball. The teams are Jack and Z versus Bridge and Syd. The lightball soon comes careening towards Bridge, backing him into a corner where he is tagged out.

Bridge: Alright. Mental note. Walls are not always your friend.

Jack: Sorry, Bridge. Nothing personal.

• Bridge gives Jack a thumbs up. Jack and Z share a devious grin before they double team to eventually tag Syd out. She looks back at them, incredulous.

Jack: Nice job, Z.

Z: Thanks.

Syd: And to add insult to injury, I broke a nail.

Jack and Z: Aww! *they take a look*

Syd: Come on Sky, play with us!

Sky: Lightball? You’re kidding? D-level game.

Syd: You used to love this game!

Sky: No time for games anymore. If you remember, we have an enemy sitting out in space. Gruumm’s not playing games; neither am I.

• Alarm sounds. The Rangers run off. Scene change: Downtown Newtech, nighttime. A robot is blasting buildings.

Monster: That should get their attention!

• Gruumm appears on a monitor in the Robot’s interior

Gruumm: Ringbah! Stop playing around and get to work on the city!

Ringbah: What’s the point of doing this if you can’t have any fun?

Gruumm: You’re a member of my army. Your job is to wreck havoc on the city! We’ll see how much fun you have, when I stuff you in the airlock!

Ringbah: Understood. Ringbah out.

• Scene change: Command Center

Cruger: Rangers! Suit up!

Jack: Ready!

All: S.P.D., Emergency!

• Morph sequence

All: Space Patrol Delta!

Kat: Opening Zord Bay Tubes.

• Rangers tube it to the Zords

Jack: Lock them in, Rangers! *Jack locks his morpher into the Zord to start the ignition*

Sky: Affirmative.

Bridge: You got it!

Z: I’m ready!

Syd: Ok, let's go!

• The Zords head downtown.

Syd: There it is!

Jack: I’m going in for a closer look.

Sky: You’re breaking protocol.

Jack: Who asked you?

Sky: We should form the Megazord, now!

Jack: Oh, give me a break!

Bridge: Maybe you guys should wait to fight until after the fight?

Jack: Fine. Form the Megazord!

• Megazord sequence

Sky: Analyzing perpetrator.

Other four: Analyzing.

Syd: I think I found a weakness.

Ringbah: You’re mine!

Sky: We got him now! I’ll take it from here.

Jack: What are you doing?

Sky: Watch and learn.

• The Megazord strikes a blow to the robot

Ringbah: Now it's my turn, losers!

Mora(on comm.): Hi. Whatcha doing?

Ringbah: Battling the Rangers’ Zords.

Mora: Sounds like fun. Even more fun, if your energy levels weren’t so down. *singsong voice* You’re going to get vaporized, if you don’t get back here. NOW!

Ringbah: Argh. Another time, Rangers.

• He vanishes.

Jack: We lost him!

• Scene change: S.P.D. Academy, random hallway. Sky and Jack are walking.

Sky: You should have listened to me. We could have caught that guy if we formed the Megazord right away.

Jack: You don’t know that, Sky.

Sky: Actually, I believe I do.

Jack: Really? Well maybe if you spent more time with the team…

• Jack and Sky enter Kat’s lab, where the rest of the team is standing with Kat.

Jack: …you could enlighten us.

Sky: This coming from a guy who used to order us around like he was our boss?

Jack: What?! Hey, I was just trying—

Kat: That’s enough! Fight the enemy, not each other.

• Jack and Sky give each other uneasy looks

Kat: Good. Now, the Commander and I have decided to add to your arsenal.

• A side door opens in the lab to reveal two new motorcycles, colored red and green.

Bridge: Alright!

Jack: Check it out! Woah, looks like Christmas came early this year.

Bridge: Well actually, Jack, I’m Jewish. But I suppose you could say Hanukkah came early.

Jack: Ok.

Sky: This is so unfair. How come they get new bikes?

Kat: Something wrong with your bike, Sky?

• Cruger enters the lab

Cruger: Cadets, I have something to show you.

• The cadets gather by Cruger

Syd: What is it, Commander?

• Cruger activates a holographic image of the A-Squad Power Rangers under attack

A-Squad Ranger: …S.P.D.! We’ve been overrun! It’s a trap! We’re receiving enemy fire—what? Oh our coordinates are—ahh!

• The transmission is killed

Cruger: That was the last communication with A-Squad. And we were not able to establish their location. I fear that they may have been… eliminated.

• The Rangers are somber into the scene change.

• Scene change: Gruumm’s ship

Gruumm: You have failed me… therefore it's implosion.

• Ringbah is being suspended in midair by Gruumm

Ringbah: Please, have mercy!

Mora: Gruumm! Stop!

• Gruumm puts Ringbah down

Gruumm: What now? Are you going to try and talk me out of this?

Mora: Of course not. I like seeing someone shot into space as much as the next person.

Gruumm: Good. Do you want to push the button?

Mora: You betcha. It's not every day you get to rid the galaxy of a great bounty hunter. I’m just saying, Ringbah failed cause his robot ran out of energy, right? What if we powered the robot, with the same Elarian crystals that power our ship.

Gruumm: It's possible.

Broodwing: Elarian crystals don’t exist in this galaxy.

Mora: I know where we can something just as good.

Broodwing: Do not.

Mora: Do too!

Broodwing: Prove it.

• Scene change: A downtown warehouse. A white van pulls up and a pair of arms are seen carrying crates labeled Terranova Mining Company.

Worker #1: You really think these crates are full of diamonds?

Worker #2: Ain't any of our business if they're full of diamonds or dirt. We're getting paid to put these boxes into this van and not ask any questions.

Worker #1: Even a question about some guys standing over there in leotards?

• The camera pans to reveal a group of Krybots advancing into the commercial break

—-

• Scene change: S.P.D. Academy, Sky/Bridge quarters. Sky is beating up a punching bag as Kat passes by the open doorway.

Kat: Hey. Everyone else is training on the simulator, and you’re here?

Sky: I was thinking about A-Squad. And anyways, I wasn’t invited and I don’t care.

Kat: Sure you don’t.

• An alarm sounds. Sky throws off his boxing gloves and rushes off.

• Scene cut: Transportation Bay. Morphed Jack and Bridge hop on their new motorcycles while unmorphed Sky, Z and Syd mount their usual motorcycle and Jeep.

Dispatch voice: Rangers, Krybots are trying to steal diamonds in a downtown warehouse. Proceed to Sector…

Syd: Diamonds?

• Scene cut: “Downtown warehouse”. Krybots are shoving the two workers into the white van and attaching a huge countdown clock to a crate of diamonds. Its starts at 00.02.59.

• Scene cut: The Rangers racing through downtown. Jack and Bridge pull ahead of Sky.

Sky: They get new bikes. So not fair.

• Scene cut: Nearby the downtown warehouse, where Jack and Bridge arrive on the scene to their own fanfare

Jack: Woohoo!

Bridge: Yeah!

• Our heroes note the huge crowd of Krybots blocking their path

Jack: Oh man, Krybots.

Bridge: Uh oh. How are we gonna get to the warehouse?

Jack: I say we bust up this little roadblock!

Bridge: Jack, that was a good answer.

Jack: Hit it!

• Jack tests out his new toy

Jack: Lasers! Yeah!

• Bridge dodges some shots

Bridge: Woah! Woah, that was close! Ah, look out! *dodges* Lasers! Alright!

• The green bike does a jump

Bridge: Coming through!

• Bridge pulls off some physically impossible, gravity defying, slow motion moves

Bridge: Bye now!

Jack: Fire!

• Z, Syd and Sky finally come barreling by

Syd: Save some fun for us!

• Jack pulls out his morpher/comm.

Jack: Get to the warehouse. We’ll keep them occupied here.

Syd: Got it.

Z: Hang on, Syd!

• Z pulls moves that are more impressive than Jack and Bridge due to the fact that its in a Jeep and they’re unmorphed. Meanwhile, Jack pulls off some more physically impossible moves by pulling out his guns in midair on his bike.

Jack: Delta Blasters!

• Krybots go boom

Syd: All clear. Thanks, Jack!

• Scene cut: To the countdown clock, now at 00.01:58.

• Scene cut: Back to the motorcycle fight.

Bridge: Gotta get through!

• Bridge makes things explode

• Scene cuts: to the counter (now at 00.01.13), to the Rangers racing to it, and back to Jack blowing up stuff

Jack: My turn!

• Even more gravity defying moves with Jack

Jack: Look no hands!

• Explosion

Jack: You want more? You can’t hide from me!

• …boom.

Jack: Alright!

• Scene cut: The other Rangers finally make it to the area

Syd: Diamonds!

• They inspect the countdown clock

Sky: And it looks like some sort of teleportation device.

Syd: Turn it off!

Sky: I’m trying! Bridge is the mechanical genius.

• A muffled yelling is suddenly heard from off screen

Z: You two keep working, I’ll check up on the noise.

• Z runs to the white van, opening it to reveal the two workers tied up and gagged

Z: *ungags them* Either of you know how to turn off that teleporter?

Workers: No.

Z: If I were you, I’d run.

• The workers scram, and Z runs back to the others

Z: How’s it coming?

• Sky gives her a look

Z: Don’t answer that.

Sky: There’s got to be some way to stop the timer!

• Motorcycle reving is heard as Jack and Bridge arrive

Jack: Look out!

• Jack fires his lasers at his fellow Rangers… missing them and hitting the countdown clock. Syd, Z and Sky are thrown to the ground.

Sky: *to himself* That’s one way.

• Jack and Bridge walk over, unmorphed, to the group

Z: Nice, Jack, you zapped the teleporter.

Syd: Not to mention saved the diamonds.

• Sky reacts to a noise off screen

Sky: Excuse me guys, but the diamonds aren’t safe yet. Look!

• Sky points to a group of Krybots standing on a high platform and pointing their blasters at the team

Jack: Run!

• The Rangers run as the Krybots blow up the diamond crate behind them. They create a huge explosion. Sky stops and turns around as the other Rangers run in front of him

Sky: Take cover!

• Sky throws up a forcefield to block the backdraft of the blast. The explosion causes diamonds to rain down upon the Rangers.

Syd: Wow! I had dream like this once, only I was a princess—

Z: *interrupting* Can it, Syd! Before I lose my breakfast.

• The Krybots from before come down to menace the Rangers

Syd: *taking a diamond in hand* You guys could use some sun. Let’s shed a little light on the situation. I summon the stone!

• Syd uses her genetic powers to create a diamond hand which reflects sunlight into the Krybots’… eyes? Ocular receptors? The Rangers strike fighting poses and launch into… another fight. While the Rangers fight a Krybot makes off with a large diamond. After the fight the Rangers regroup in front of the diamonds.

Sky: We have a ground full of diamonds, and we can’t just leave them here. I suggest someone stay here and guard them while the rest of us report back to Cruger.

Bridge: Oh, me!

Jack: *ignoring Bridge* Thanks for volunteering.

Sky: Me? I didn’t volunteer.

Jack: Ok, Sky, then I order you to stay here.

• Jack walks away

Sky: Perfect. Watching the diamonds.

Syd: One man to guard all these diamonds?

Jack: Alright. Keep him company.

Syd: Yes! Thank you, thank you!

• Syd delightedly scoops of handfuls of diamonds into the commercial break

—-

• Scene change: Gruumm’s ship. A Krybot hands his boss a diamond.

Gruumm: All you managed was one diamond?!

• Krybot goes boom

Mora: At least it’s a big one. I’ll prep it for the conversion.

Gruumm: No. Use it to power Ringbah’s machine and send him into the city. It will create a diversion that will keep the Power Rangers away from the warehouse. I need more diamonds.

• Scene change: Downtown warehouse. Sky and Syd have collected all the diamonds into a huge pile. Sky reaches into his motorcycle’s saddlebag to retrieve a water bottle.

Sky: *sour* This is ridiculous. I should be debriefing Cruger, not babysitting a bunch of reflective rocks.

Syd: Try millions of dollars' worth of reflective rocks.

Sky: Whatever. It's obvious that Jack wants to keep me as far away from the action as possible. He feels threatened by me and knows I should have been the Red Ranger.

Syd: Come on, Sky, Jack had nothing to do with that.

Sky: Whatever, Syd.

Syd: *tosses a diamond at Sky, mocking him* Whatever, Syd.

Sky: Knock it off!

Syd: Or what? You’re gonna call my parents? *Syd tosses another diamond*

Sky: Seriously. Don’t test me or you’ll be sorry.

• Syd throws another diamond. Sky gets up and opens his water bottle over Syd’s head.

Syd: Hey!

• Sky laughs

Syd: It took me looking like this to get a smile out of you?

*Sky abruptly stops laughing

Sky: Very funny.

Syd: No, it looks good on you! You know, if you spent a little more time with the team, and not be such a loner—

• Sky throws up a forcefield to either tell Syd off or block her voice. It's anyone’s guess. Syd looks shocked. She touches the forcefield, winces, and then walks off

• Scene change: S.P.D. Academy, Command Center

Z: So, what would Gruumm want with diamonds?

Bridge: Engagement ring?

Kat: Not likely. Diamonds, if properly converted, can mimic Elarian crystals.

Cruger: So Gruumm’s looking for energy.

• Battle Alarm

Jack: Looks like he’s found it!

• Scene cut: To the Red, Yellow and Green Delta Runners moving into battle. Ringbah is attacking the downtown area

Jack: Activating transformation Delta!

Z: Right with ya!

• Jack’s Runner extends two hooks which attach the top turbine of Z’s Runner with the Megazord’s Sword that is hidden in Bridge’s green truck. He attaches the sword and turbine together.

Jack: Hope this works.

• Scene cut: warehouse of Syd/Skydom. Syd is holding a giant diamond to her ring finger.

Syd: Think 100 karats is a bit much?

• Sky shakes his head in disbelief

Syd: Me either.

• Sky gets out his communicator.

Sky: Break for Jack. It's all clear at the warehouse, ready to join you.

Jack: *on comm* Negative, Sky. We’re engaged in battle. Maintain positions. The Troobians are up to something. Send Syd as backup.

Syd: That’s my cue. Later gator.

Sky: I’m coming with you.

Syd: Disobeying an order?

Sky: I’m not sitting on the sidelines.

• They leave. Predictably enough, Krybots slink up to the diamonds.

• Scene cut: Zord Battle. Jack’s “Transformation Delta” is revealed to be the Megazord sword strapped horizontally on his Red Runner. Jack maneuvers his runner to slice at the robot’s knees.

Bridge: Nice shot, Jack.

Z: I think that got him good!

• Ringbah fires at the Red Ranger

Jack: Or maybe not.

• Jack’s Zord rises up to ride on two wheels

Jack: Punch it!

• Jack manages to slice the robot enough that it explodes

Jack: Alright!

• Jack, Bridge and Z leap out of their Zords, into the streets

Ringbah: That was uncalled for!

• Sky and Syd join them

Syd: Your backup’s arrived.

Jack: Great. Sky, I told you to maintain your position! What about the diamonds?

Sky: They’ll be fine. Look, I’m better suited for battle.

Jack: That’s not the point!

Ringbah: You can’t battle me when you’re battling yourselves!

Jack: He’s right about that.

Sky: Ok. Thanks. Now surrender.

Ringbah: Who’s gonna make me?

• Cue the rollcall

Jack: 1! S.P.D. Red!

Sky: 2! S.P.D. Blue!

Bridge: 3! S.P.D. Green!

Z: 4! S.P.D. Yellow!

Syd: 5! S.P.D. Pink!

All: Rangers ready! Space Patrol Delta!

Ringbah: Oh yeah?

• Ringbah brings out more Krybots.

Ringbah: Get them!

• They go at it. Lots of Hiyas and fancy moves

Jack: Delta Blasters!

• And guns.

Ringbah: Hey don’t forget me!

• Ringbah attacks, Rangers counter.

Sky: Got him! Time for you to be judged for your crimes. Judgment mode!

Ringbah: I’m innocent! I was framed!

• Judgement says: X

Sky: Guilty as charged.

• Sky uses his Deltamax Striker to blast Ringbah

Sky: Deltamax Blaster!

• Excuse me. His Deltamax “Blaster”. Ringbah goes boom.

Sky: We’re taking you in.

Ringbah: Never!

Sky: Wanna bet? Confine criminal!

• Sky uses his morpher to turn Ringbah into a collectable trading card

Ringbah: *from card* Ahh not fair!

Sky: That’s how it's done, Blue Ranger style.

• Scene change: Gruumm’s ship, now loaded with millions of dollars' worth of diamonds.

Gruumm: Excellent! This is going to be easier than I thought. Store the remaining gems in the energy field.

Mora: Work work work. Don’t you ever just want to play?

Gruumm: Hmm… no. Hahaha!

• Gruumm cackles at himself into the break

—-

• Scene change: S.P.D. Academy, Command Center. Cruger and Sky are alone.

Cruger: Your decision to disobey Jack and to leave your post has net the enemy a great prize.

• A monitor shows Sky the Krybots stealing the diamonds.

Cruger: With the disappearance of the A-Squad, this was the worst possible time for your selfishness.

Sky: *quietly* Yes, Sir.

Cruger: We cannot win every battle. But when we allow our emotions to control our actions, we give the enemy an added advantage. Dismissed.

Sky: Sir.

• He salutes and leaves

• Scene Change: S.P.D. Academy, Sky/Bridge quarters. Jack knocks at the open doorway to the room. Sky is alone, lying on his bunk and holding a picture frame.

Jack: How’d it go?

Sky: Brutal.

• The frame is revealed to hold a picture of a Red Ranger and a little boy; Sky and his father.

Sky: Two weeks on night watch.

Jack: Mind if I come in?

Sky: Suit yourself.

• Jack sits on Bridge’s bunk

Jack: Look, Sky, the reason why I left you at the warehouse was because I was pretty sure those Krybots were coming back and you’re our strongest fighter.

Sky: Yeah, right.

Jack: I’m serious.

• Sky sits up and places the photo on his nightstand

Jack: I know you don’t trust me— and hey hey, I don’t blame you, ok? I still don’t trust myself. But I’m willing to work with you, if you’re willing to work with me. What do you say?

• Jack stands and extends his knuckle to Sky

Sky: Well, it's not working bumping heads.

• Sky extends his hand as well

Jack: Alright.

• Jack moves to leave, then turns around

Jack: Hey, we’re gonna go play some lightball.

Sky: I gotta… *he stops, then grabs a glove from his nightstand* Yeah. I’m not only gonna play, I’ll win.

• Jack scoffs. Sky and Jack walk out together.

• Series continuity error: Sky mistakenly refers to his Deltamax Striker as his Deltamax Blaster in this episode.
• Continuity error: Sky's popcorn is scattered around on the floor differently between shots.
• Continuity error: The Rangers are called away to fight Ringbah for the first time when it's clearly night outside. However, it's suddenly either early morning or dusk when the Megazord transforms, then when the battle begins, it's nighttime again. Then, when the Rangers are back at the base and Jack and Sky are arguing, the outside shot of the base shows that it's the middle of the day.
• Continuity error: The “downtown warehouse” is in a remote location, nowhere near downtown Newtech City.
• Continuity error: Far more Krybots attack the Rangers than the number of them seen in the long shot when Jack and Bridge first approach.
• Continuity error: Close to two minutes elapse from the time the Krybots set the timer to when the next shot of it is shown, but the timer has only gone down by one minute. Then, it counts down 45 seconds when only around 30 have elapsed by the next shot. Then, when Sky and the girls approach, almost a minute has elapsed, but the timer has only gone down by about 30 seconds.
• Continuity error: When Jack leaps off his bike to do his fancy midair firefighting, the shot of his approach shows that his bike was on course to crash into a wall when he leapt off of it. At the very least, it would have kept on going away from him on its own, yet he is somehow able to land on top of it and drive it away as though it automatically came back around to him.
• Continuity error: When Sky pours his water on top of Syd, some of it splashes onto the seat of his pants. The next time the two appear, Syd is still wet, but Sky's pants are now dry. In addition, Syd didn't have that much water poured on her, and most of it got in her hair, but when the scene goes back to the two for the second time, she looks as though she's been sprayed down by a hose- both her hair and her uniform are sopping wet.
• Continuity error: The scenery around the Rangers changes when Sky goes to confine Ringbah. This is, of course, because the confinement is American footage whereas the fight was Japanese- in Japan, criminals were deleted, not confined.
• Oddity: Why do the Krybots act as though they are blinded when Syd flashes sunlight on them with the diamonds? They're robots, and thus don't have eyes to be affected by the sunlight. In addition, why was Syd herself unaffected by the brightness, when she was holding her fist right up to her face?
• Oddity: When Jack, Bridge and Z leave the “warehouse”, they all seem to take the Delta Cruiser, instead of Jack and Bridge riding their bikes back. Also, they leave poor Syd with no way to get around if she has to (Sky's bike is still there).
• Oddity: When Sky is complaining about having to watch the diamonds, he sits down on top of a crate with the S.P.D. police badge on it. This crate was not seen being carried to the scene by any of them, so where did it come from? If it is S.P.D. property, why not put the diamonds into it and attempt to hide them instead of just leaving them in the open like that?
• Several shots reveal that Bridge’s shelf contains a small plastic T-Rex dinosaur, several books and a solved Rubik's cube. He also has a poster with several personal pictures. Sky’s shelf contains a CD Player (from the year 2000 or so) and a blue/white plastic binder. Their nightstand holds a plant, a light and random books.
• It is revealed in this episode that Bridge is Jewish.
• The picture frame containing the photograph of Sky and his father changes into a picture of the first Sentai team Himitsu Sentai Goranger twice- first when Sky is hitting the punching bag, and second at the end of the episode.
• Not really a mistake: As in Beginnings pt. I, A-Squad Red has a very masculine voice, even though it's revealed in Resurrection that she is in fact a woman. Producer Greg Aronowitz has since revealed that it was Red's actual actress doing the voice, but it was modified in postproduction to sound male.

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