Idol

                                           Written by: John Tellegen

                                       Directed By: Charlie Haskell

                                 Screen Caps by Chris " PRangerX"  Zunis

    

         Cruger is gone at a conference and the              Bridge picks up somethin on the scanners. 
          Rangers are bored.


    

          Jack ignores him while he goes on a                  The others finally get Jack's attention.
          tangent.

    

          They detect a space ship on a collison               The Rangers quickly morph into action.
           course with Earth.

    

          They  head to their zords.                                 The Zords are activated and head out.

    

          The Rangers are too late to stop the crash.        They put out the resulting fire.

    

          There is a surivor to the crash.                          He takes his helmet off. .


    

          Sky knows the man. He is an old friend from     The two friends have matching Bracelets.
          his early days at the acadmey. Sky is
          surprised since Dru was MIA.  Dru said he
          was chasing a viscous criminal and crashed.

    

          The Team takes Dru back to base.                  Jack seems to not turst Dru. He wonders
                                                                                 why they wear Bracelets.

    

         Dru  and Sky explain that it is a custom on          Sky goes to show Dru to his quarters.
         Dru's home world to share a bracelet with
          your best friend.

    
 
          The two decide to watch Jack target                 Jack gets the job done with three shots.
           practice instead.

    

          Dru does it with one shot.                                Sky is proud of his friend.

    

         Jack is a little miffed about the whole thing.       Jack stands watch in the middle of the night.
                                                                                 Dru shows up looking for Cruger. Jack
                                                                                  says that he is gone.      

    

         Jack asks Dru why he has been missing.            Dru seems to get uncompterable. .


    

          Sky interrupts the two SPD Officers.               Jack orders Sky to remove Dru from the
                                                                                 command center, since he is unproven.

    

          Sky asks Dru why he is really here. Dru            Dru enters his quarters and reverts to an
          tells Sky he is really on a secret mission.            alien form.

    

         The Rangers dine together the next morning.      Jack apoligizes to Sky for his behavior.
                

    

          Sky  doesn't care and tells Jack to mind           Manx alerts the Rangers to a disturbance in
          his own business.                                              engineering

    

         Dru is the cause, in his alien form.                       Dru and Jack fight.

    

          Dru takes the girls's down.                              Sky and Drue do some fighting.

    

         Jack and Dru fight some more.                           The Rangers recover from the attack.

    

         Sky chases after Dru as he runs.                        Jack tells sky that the alien is Dru.

    

         Jack confirms this when Dru is not in his           Cruger retruns from his conference.
         quarters.

    

         Cruger exits his ship to greet the Rangers          He knows of the disturbance. Sky takes
                                                                                 the blame.


    

          Cruger is shot before he can finish.                    The Rangers attend to their fallen leader.

    

         Dru is revealed as the culprit and flees.              Sky tries to stop him from leaving. 

    

          Dru reverts to his human form. He reveals        Dru leaves thinking Sky won't stop him.
           that the alien form is his true form. He tells       Sky orders him to stop.
           Sky that he once dreamed of being a Ranger.
           Broodwing convinced him that money and
           power was more important. Dru works for
           him doing jobs that pay well.

    

          Dru pulls a laser on his old friend and fires.        Sky is sent to the ground.

    

         Dru tells Sky he will spare him this time but        The others are at Cruger's bed side.
         won't if he crosses him again.       
        
    

         Manx says that if he was human he would be     Cruger awakens and seems to be ok.
          already dead/

    

          Broodwing is not happy that Cruger still            The Rangers search for Dru.
           livess. He orders Dru to finish his job.

    

          Sky arrives and thinks he knows how to           Sky askes to be able to take on Dru by
          find him.                                                           himself. Jack says its against regulations
                                                                                  but bends a few rules to give Sky a ten
                                                                                  minute head start. 
                                                                               

    

          Sky comes face to face with his old friend.        The two prepare for a duel.

    

         They both fire on each other.                             Sky wins the duel and sends Dru to the
                                                                                  ground.

    

         Dru is mad at this and grows to massive             Sky and the others call on the zords.
         size.

    

          They form the megazord and fight Drue.           Dru shoots electricity at the megazord.


    

           The Rangers throw him around.                       The prepare to use their blaster on him.



    

          Dru is caught in a massive blast.                       A weakened Dru reverts to his small human
                                                                                  form as Sky takes him  in to custody.

    

         Gruumm is angered that Cruger escaped.           Sky cleans the outside of the acadmy as 
          But vows he will not surive much longer.            his punishment.

    

         Jack checks on Sky.                                         He gives Sky Dru's bracelet.

    

        Jack helps Sky with his punishment. Sky              He is using Jack's toothbrush.
        starts laughing.
 


                                                           Comments

I thought this was an episode with an very well written primise. The whole Sky/Dru relationship made for an interesting story. We learned more about Sky's past and how he wasn't always so up tight. It was nice seeing the Rangers work without Cruger the whole episode, for the most part anyway.  I liked the tension between Sky and Jack continuing to manifest itself. It felt very cold when Sky told Jack to mind his own bussness. I was afraid there were going to go the Shandra  route in this one. That is make Dru to be a monster posing as the real Dru. I am so glad the monster form was really his true alien form. This way Sky really had to face his old friend. This episode shows how people can chance and just becaus thee are old friends doesn't give them the right to do wrong. I loved it when Jack made up excuse to give Sky an head start. Sky's shootout with Drew was well done enough, I liked how they showed Sky over the injured Dru as he arrested him. It really showed how far Dru had fallen from his earlier status as a promising SPD Cadet. I should note that seeing Cruger get shot by Dru earlier was unexpected. The scene with the Rangers at his bed site was most touching.  I thought it was kind of wierd to see Sky get punsiehd at th end. I don't see what he did wrong that the others didn't. I mean they all let Dru in. It wasn't like Jack ordered Sky to not let Dru have access to the base at all.  I just felt the writers could have given a more clear reason for Sky to be punished. But it was funny seeing Jack and Sky interact again. With us learning Sky was using his toothbrush, after Jack was nice enough to help him. The way he threw the toothbrush down was priceless. So overall a very well put together episode that could end up being one of the best in SPD's run, or at least the  better of the early episodes.





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