[Sh Ranger]

I need to give Ikki more credit. He's so deceptive that he immediately expects Kudo to deceive him and then deceives him back by pretending to be deceived! The way he crashed the courtroom and let Kudo monologue before turning and presenting the evidence was very cool as well.

Vice also played an important part. Looks like having a devil can be pretty useful as long as you can control them. He basically functions as a familiar here being able to discreetly scout the room for hidden evidence. Thanks to the Gundephone, Ikki now has proof that he's not crazy and Vice actually exists. Takeru could've used one of those for Yurusen so his clients wouldn't think he's crazy. Not sure how Vice planned to eat that ramune without a physical body (and while wearing a mask), unless he was actually expecting Ikki to henshin just to feed him.

As for a person who can't control their devil, Daiji is being influenced directly by "Kagerou", which we're led to believe is due to George giving him the Driver to become the aptly named Evil. However, since Hiromi noticed that Daiji wasn't getting much sleep, I'm starting to think that maybe this development was something that happened on its own and Kagerou is taking Daiji's body on joyrides without him noticing. George might just be taking advantage of that to test his new technology. At least Daiji is probably safe from that neck-snapping move he was practising before.

I didn't mention Lion Genome's Machine parallel in the last episode, but I'm not sure if it actually has one. Sawtooth is a smilodon, but that's a tiger, not a lion. Megalodon's here as well, with absolutely no explanation given, but the Remix has yet to debut for that.