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Alright, here we are, in week 2. Let’s get started with…

Case File 2: The Future Beyond Sight, 15/02/2000.

We begin with Dolnero smoking mad over last time. Literally, since he has a cigar as part of his suit in this scene.



Specifically, he’s annoyed at being defeated by Timerangers, but not letting that get him down. Meanwhile, we cut to a cave where the Timerangers have made their hideout, where Tatsuya is finally told that they came from the future.



Yuri reveals that they had to tell him because he’d already seen too much for them to lie to him. She then takes away his Chrono Changer without any violence.



Tock explains that they only needed him to get past the “5 people required” lock, and they can’t let him keep hold of future technology that could alter the year 3000. Meanwhile, Gien has seized on a plan to increase Dolnero’s flow of money.



To do this, he’s rejigged the freeze-compressor to work in reverse, testing the process by releasing a man who was imprisoned on a 120 year sentence for blowing up an “aerial city” (whatever that is).



A grateful Jecker agrees to join the Don Dolnero Family, but its namesake decides they could do with a rebrand to symbolise their fresh start. And thus, at a suggestion from Gien, the Londarz Family are born. Jecker is then sent out for two tasks: gathering money and causing destruction. Meanwhile, the Timerangers explain their mission statement to Tatsuya, who decides to head home.



Nobody’s particularly sad to see him go, but they still have a problem on their hands beyond Dolnero.



As the Timerangers try to call for help, night falls with Jecker flying into the city to plant explosive crystals on skyscrapers. Meanwhile, at Tatsuya’s family manor, we see that his attitude stems from a reaction to his overly controlling father, the head of the Asami Group. Namely, 4 years ago, Tatsuya entered a karate tournament where the prize was a scholarship to a prestigious college, and Tatsuya and his old man bet on whether he’d win it. Tatsuya lost, so Asami Sr. forced him to attend a college the latter had picked out, and is now expecting him to take a job at his business, the Asami Group, specifically an affiliate company.



The next morning, Tatsuya wakes up to find that Jecker has blown up a few buildings, and the richest people in the city (including his dad) are being ransomed to prevent their buildings from being destroyed.



And it turns out that while he’s a lousy father, President Asami is a good boss, since he decides to pay the psycho to prevent his employees from dying. He prepares to deliver the money as Jecker engages in a gunfight with outmatched police officers. But then Tatsuya makes him an offer.



If Tatsuya can return the briefcase, and prevent the buildings from blowing up, then his father has to let him go to live his own life. But if he doesn’t do it in one hour, then Asami Sr will send out more money and take full control of his life, with Tatsuya shutting up about it. Tatsuya thus runs off to find the Timerangers.



It turns out that they’ve made contact with the future… but to prevent further damage to their era, the Time Protection Bureau won?t be sending anyone else back, nor will they let the first 4 return home until they’ve recaptured Dolnero’s entire prison’s worth of criminals.



Tatsuya has overheard this and then begins his offer.



He suggests that if they can’t change the future, they can alter their individual tomorrows. And to do that, they can make him their fifth member and help arrest the criminal. Some time later, Tatsuya delivers his briefcase.



It turns out that Jecker lied when he said he wouldn’t blow up the buildings, and he prepares to do so. But then Tatsuya reveals a coincidence: he lied too, and if Jecker tries to detonate his bombs, he’ll only kill himself. Which makes him check the briefcase.



The others appear, with Yuri revealing they figured out his identity and MO by looking him up in Tock’s prisoner files, allowing them to find all of his explosives and make the switch. We then get our first group change, but I’m gonna cut it down to just Yuri’s to avoid taking up space.



And Yuri gets a different line to last episode.



Jecker initially gets the upper hand, but Tatsuya uses Chrono Access to equip himself with the Double Vector (the Vector Harley as two separate swords), and attacks Jecker with his own variation of Yuri’s Vector End: Beat 6; Vector End: Beat 3.



Doing this knocks a sticker off Jecker similar to the one they tried putting on Dolnero in the last episode… and it causes the former to enlarge, as a side effect of the freeze-compression process known as “Rebound”, which Tock explains the seal is meant to shield against. Jecker on the other hand sees it as an opportunity.



With the Timerangers even more ill-equipped to deal with a giant monster, Tock tries calling Provider Base to request the use of the Emergency System.



Despite getting no response earlier, Captain Ryuya actually authorises Tock to invoke the Emergency System, allowing him to call for 5 TimeJets.



And thus, Providus prepares to launch them back in time.

After a protracted sequence of the TimeJets being launched and travelling from prehistory up to the present (the effects director noted it made no sense, but was cooler looking than going backwards through different historical eras), they arrive in the present through a portal opened in a Ferris Wheel (Bridan’s gonna be annoyed).



The Timerangers board their respective TimeJets using the Time Flier, whereupon the data is downloaded into their brains via their helmets.



Using the images downloaded, they combine the 5 TimeJets into one Time Robo.

Tatsuya: 3-D Formation! Time Robo Beta!



The combination is completed by having the Time Flier turn into a gun for the robot.



Time Robo and Jecker thus engage in an epic 3D aerial battle, which the heroes ultimately win by knocking their opponent out of the sky.



At Tock’s command, now that the battle’s on the ground, they use the robot?s other mode to finish the fight.

Tatsuya: Change Formation: Time Robo Alpha!

The mecha recombines and summons a sword from its chest.

Tatsuya then synchronises the Ziku Sword with his Control Stick to finish the fight with Time Robo’s Press Blizzard.





Defeated, Jecker explodes and shrinks back into a doll, which Yuri contains within a freeze-compression capsule.

A few minutes later, Asami’s executives discover the briefcase with the money they sent out… along with a note.



Thus Tatsuya invites everyone to live with him in a condo he picked out as his personal castle.



Unfortunately for him, Yuri, Ayase and Domon all hate it. Fortunately, Sion loves the place. As Tatsuya and Shion celebrate, Tock ends the episode with a pertinent question (Which I already answered because, if you’re able to see the pictures, it should be obvious who it is).



Final thoughts: I am starting to get more of a feel for these guys. We get a bit of a look at who Tatsuya is, and why he’s like that through the lens of his overbearing dad. And we also get our theme for the series of changing our tomorrows, in addition to introducing the Sentai formula elements that weren’t in the first episode (beyond the roll call). All in all, things are going well so far.

Come back tomorrow or Wednesday, where we’ll be looking at Time Force episode 2.