[Opening Credits]
Rocky, Adam, Aisha, Billy &
Tommy are at the Angel Grove Museum for a class project. Rocky follows a map to the
exhibit, completely ignoring the huge signs for it, while Aisha proves her worth by
getting them pamphlets to use on their reports. Adam wonders if Kimberly has the same
assignment, Tommy says that she came during the week since she was busy today, the rest of
the Ranger teams sighing in unison "Gymnastics!", her usual excuse for being
away lately. Tommy says they've really got to hand it to her, she's really handling these
Pan-Global games (in their first ever mentioning, a bit of clever foreshadowing) very
seriously. Bulk & Skull are at the museum also, Skull complains about missing all the
Saturday morning cartoons, but Bulk reminds him that if they flunk this report they'll get
kicked off the Junior Police Patrol. He says "We're off the force, no uniforms. No
uniforms, no babes! Are you with me?" Skull simply notes that he hasn't been with him
since the part about flunking the report.
The Ranger teens attend the Ancient History of Kahmala exhibit, featuring artifacts
focusing on the legendary Kahmalan Face Stealer. Azina (Warrior Princess?), cultural
liaison to the nation of Kahmala, greets them there, asking if any of them have read the
story of the Face Stealer. Billy speaks up, mentioning that according to the ancient
scriptures, the Kahmalans were terrorized once a year on the day of the fourth full moon
by a creature called the Face Stealer. Adam seems to know the story too, saying that the
Face Stealer would come down from the sky, and rob the Kahmalans' of their faces, leaving
them without souls. Bulk & Skull drop by, scoffing at the whole thing. Azina takes it
that they're nonbelievers, Bulk tells the lady that they're in to cold hard facts, wanting
evidence before taking the story at (ahem) face value. Skull ponders what lies inside the
golden jar, Billy notes that's where the spirit of the Face Stealer is kept, Azina agrees
that's what the legend claims. A brave team of warriors donned magical masks, and then
defeated & captured the Face Stealer, sealing his spirit in an urn where it will
remain for eternity. Bulk & Skull are still not persuaded. But up on the Moon Palace,
Rita views the story through her Repulsascope, and is inspired by it, claiming if she had
a monster like that she could take care of those pathetic Power Prima Donnas for good.
Lord Zedd sarcastically cause this a brilliant idea, noting to her that the whole thing is
a foolish fairy tale. Rita asks how he knows, he says she'll believe anything and calls
her gullible, joking that he's got a crater on the dark side of the moon he'll sell her
cheap! Zedd laughs heartily while returning to his throne, but Rita remains undeterred,
calling him "edsel face". Today just happens to be the fourth full moon of the
year, so she plans release that wonderful creature, turning every living thing on Earth,
including the Power Rangers, into walking zombies! She screams "then we'll see who's
gullible!".
[commercials]
Rita is scoping the Earth scene with
her Repulsascope, when Rito pops into viewing ("Hey sis, here's looking at you,
kid!"), giving her a heck of an eyeful of an eyesore. She yells at him, asking how
many times she's told him not to do that. Rito points out that she said she wanted to see
him, so he thought he'd get in front of her telescope. Rita tells her brother not to
think, it's how he always gets into trouble. She orders him to go down to the museum with
Baboo & Squatt to retrieve the Face Stealer's urn. Rito salutes, "Yes sir,
ma'am!". Moments later, the Ranger teens just happen to be driving around the Angel
Grove museum (in Rocky's good old red jeep), when they suddenly spot Rito walking with
Baboo & Squatt towards the entrance. Rocky notes "last time I checked, Baboo
& Squatt weren't interested in ancient cultures", before pulling up behind the
trio of evil. Once confronted, Rito first tells the Power Punks to beat it as he's got
business to attend to. Tommy tells him to save it, but Rito thinks that maybe they'd
better save themselves, calling forth a gaggle of Tengas! One quick Ninja Power up, our
heroes spiritivly leap over Rito's head, landing closer to the museum entrance, blocking
it off from the evil space aliens. Rito calls them a broken record, Tommy boasts that he
should learn he can't beat them, but Rito simply keeps the faith by saying there's a first
time for everything! The Ninja Ranger pose and call out their color names (Pink Ninja
still absent, of course), while Rito orders his fine feathered fiends to attack. White
Ninja shouts out "Ninja Attack Bow", apparently referring to their standing
position, before rushing out and bouncing into battle, hopping off flagpoles and taking
down Tengas. While they're busy, Rito and his two sidekicks head into the museum to get
that urn.
Red Ninja utilizes his a few moves we've seen Ninjor pull off, involving his moving faster
than the Tenga can catch by blinking into a superfast blur and appearing a few feet behind
the birdbrain. Rocky even relaxes on the ground waiting for it to catch him, but of
course, it never can. Rito and friends make to the Kahmalan exhibit, though he foolishly
(what else is new) has Baboo & Squatt attempt the retrieval of the urn. They knock
over several items trying to reach it, Rito asks them where they were when brains were
handed out. Blue & Yellow Ninjas tag team a large group of Tengas, managing to send
the birdies down by having Billy spin Aisha around in the air by her waist. Back inside,
Rito notices someone is coming, Squatt asks what to do, but both Squatt & Rito are
left speechless for ideas. A bunch of elementary schoolers show up, wowed by the display
of Rito (holding a sign reading "Do Not Touch"), a Gorilla (with a sign reading
"extinct"!), Baboo (with a sign reading "Rare Specimen") and Squatt
(with a sign reading "Out Of Order"). The trio of evil stand perfectly still,
pretending to be stuffed dummies, one kid notes that they sure had ugly looking monsters
back then. Squatt whispers "who's he calling ugly?!" but is shushed by Baboo.
After the kids soon depart, Rito starts to scold his two living dummies, but figures why
does he even bother. The three monsters teleport out of the museum, Rito carrying the
Kahmalan Urn.
Black Ninja is mid-fight with a few Tengas, and seems to be losing, especially when he
flips over suddenly. But what he dumb dodos find left on the ground is simply his empty
suit left! The Rangers soon regroup and power down (I guess those two Tengas were defeated
offscreen), before heading inside to see what Zedd's goons are up to. Azina is there,
saddened over the wrecking of the exhibit and the theft of the Face Stealer urn. Tommy
tells her they're going to look for clues and for her to stay there to wait to see if
anything turns up, as our heroes rush off to do just that. Rito takes the urn to the moon
(walking into the palace and quipping "Just once, I wish she'd have dinner ready when
I get home"), where Rita is happily surprised to see he succeeded. Rito asks
"You expected anything less?", Rita remarks "You don't really want me to
answer that, do you?", he goes "Uhh... no". Rita then places the urn near
Zedd's throne, aims her charged up Wand at it, and pops the top in a fashion similar to
her own "uncorking" from the past. The top comes off, and from within arises the
Face Stealer, asking who dares awaken him from his slumber! Lord Zedd comes in, wondering
what all the racket is, asking who in the galaxy that strange large eared creature is. He
introduces himself as the Face Stealer, woken from his silence after 5,000 years. Zedd
asks if he calls that a "deep sleep", since it's just a nap where he comes from!
Rita thinks her hubby dear owes her an apology, but Zedd is flabbergasted when he realizes
that the creature really is who he says and Rita was actually right! At the Command
Center, the Ranger teens, now joined by Kimberly, talk with Zordon about if Rita could
really unlock the spirit of the Face Stealer. Zordon says that this is unknown, as it's
never been determined if this Kahmalan legend has any basis in reality (which proves that
the Big Z wasn't aware of everything planetside during his 10,000 years on Earth). Adam
realizes that today is the 4th full moon of the year, and that if the legend is true, the
Face Stealer will appear. Alpha ay-yi-yi's about not wanting to even think about it. But
speak of the devil, the alarms go off, and beheld on the Viewing Globe confirms their
fears, the Face Stealer has been released on Angel Grove!
[commercials]
Turning around from this Viewing of
the Globe, Adam asks Zordon if the Face Stealer can steal faces like he does in the
stories. Zordon says that must assume that it does, as clearly he's a dangerous monster
and they'll need the added power of Titanus to defeat him (this, in show numbers, is
Titanus' first appearance since Season 1 MMPR, but in airing order, he suddenly pops up,
without warning or beforehand knowledge as this episode provides, during "Stop The
Hate Master"). He asks Alpha if he has made all the necessary modifications to
accommodate the Ninja Ultrazord, and the robot says that he's still completing them. The
Ranger teens can't wait, so they must Morph into action and engage the monster in battle
immediately. The six Power Rangers appear on the scene of Face Stealer's rampage through
the outskirts of Angel Grove. Face Stealer tells them to stand aside as he enters their
village to steal faces. Bulk & Skull come a'running from out of nowhere, claiming they
got a report of trouble there, but upon spotting the monster, quickly retreat, figuring
they'll let the Power Rangers handle this one. Face Stealer lives up to his name by
blasting a beam from his mouth, which strikes the bumbling duo and removes their faces,
leaving them with just white voids! The Rangers finally start to duel with the clunky
looking monster, finding he's stronger than he looks. During the fight, Adam ignores
Tommy's caution to 'watch out for that beam' and gets blasted. His helmet remains fine,
but as evident by his muffled groaning, his face is missing! Aisha rushes out to his side,
but winds up also getting her face swiped through her Morphed costume. Face Stealer just
stands there, chuckling and boasting he'll steal all of their faces, while the Rangers
walk around, taking their faceless teammates and teleporting back to the Command Center
(guess he should have done less chatter and more splatter!).
At the CC, our now-helmetless heroes help remove those of Aisha & Adam. Underneath,
they find only blank spaces where their faces once were, not only that, but both of them
remain silently still, like statues (their souls stolen, apparently). Billy seems to be
the only one who cares that Bulk & Skull are in the same condition, but they were left
behind, for obvious reasons. The alarms sound, the Viewing Globe reveal Face Stealer
gleefully hopping around the park. Tommy knows they can't fight him for they'll all lose
face, and after hearing Zordon's heroic words ("every creature has its weakness, it
just has to be found") Billy comes up with a plan to defeat the fascist monster's
spell. Billy tells Alpha to take care of Aisha & Adam, while he and the others head
back to the museum. They go Morphed, hoping to borrow the Kahmalan magical masks from
Azina. Kimberly wonders if the legend is wrong about them, but they figure it's been right
so far. Azina just happens to be there (the only person in the whole museum, of course),
asking what the Power Rangers are doing there. Red Ranger asks to speak with whoever is in
charge of the Kahmalan exhibit (trying to protect his face... err, identity), Azina
mentions she is, White Ranger informs her of Face Stealer's rampage. She calls this
terrible and asks what she can do, they ask to borrow the masks. Red Ranger asks her to
trust them with the ancient artifacts, promising to return them. Our heroes take the masks
and teleport back to the monster (near the lake now). Facey is glad to see them back, but
once they turn around, holding the odd face masks over the front of their helmet, he's
stricken with fright. He asks how dare they show those masks in his presence, firing his
face stealing ray at them in anger. The masks are more than just a bad memory to him, but
are in fact able to deflect his face theft beam! The beam eventually blasts back at him,
causing every face he's stolen to return to it's proper head (Bulk, Skull, Adam, Aisha,
and about seven other unknown people's faces fly out of the monster's lard-noggin). The
Rangers are cheerful, and back at the Command Center, Adam & Aisha regain their lovely
faces, having no memory past getting blasted earlier.
Up on the moon, Zedd curses, and aims to make Face Stealer more powerful by locking his
Z-Staff together with Rita's Wand, and making the monster grow to a Zord fighting height!
He stomps in place, threatening to devour the faces of everyone in the world. At the
Command Center, Alpha informs Zordon that Titanus is now ready for battle. Zordon finds
this excellent, telling Aisha & Adam to rejoin the team and call on the power of the
Ninja Ultrazord if needed, the ultimate in battle weaponry. They 'back to action', and
before you can say "seen it! taped it!", they call upon and form the Ninja
MegaFalconzord. It does its high kick move, knocking Face Stealer down for a second. The
Megafalconzord then barrels in on him, flying into the air and powering up it's double
fist punch, which still doesn't take him out completely. Aisha mentions using the
Ultrazord, which Billy finds a good idea. Back on the moon, Zedd is enraged over yet
another failure on the horizon, claims he knew this monster was a ridiculous idea, and
gives the Urn a mighty heave out the window, causing it to crash down to Earth. The Power
Rangers initiate transformation sequence to Ninja Ultrazord, by calling on Titanus, who
rolls in using the same old Zyuranger footage as we used to see. He growls, shifts into
position, the Ninja MegaFalconzord swoops in, lands inside him, and (using the actual
Bandai toys for the footage) links up to create the Ninja Ultrazord! Face Stealer takes a
hit from the Ultrazord, goes kaboom, and his spirit is sent back into the Urn, the last
place he wanted to go. The Rangers cheer, head down from the Megazord cockpit and quickly
reseal the urn, making sure he won't be back again (it's no wonder Ninjor is nowhere to be
seen, i'm sure he'd be against sealing someone inside a jar, an experience he knows too
well!). Finally, Lord Zedd is glowing red with anger at Rita, pointing out how things
always turn out when she tries to take over the world behind his back. Rita annoyingly
asks him to just spare her, she doesn't see him doing any better, calling him a radiator
face as she walks off. Zedd's totally peeved, exchanging the insult by saying "coming
from a twin-horned witch like you, that's a compliment!" before he walks off as well.
[commercials]
The Power Ranger head to the museum
to return the artifacts to the Kahmala exhibit. Wonder why they aren't just teleporting
in? It's so Bulk & Skull can spot them. Skull wonders if the sight of them with the
urn means the Rangers stole it, but Bulk notes that they probably clobbered that big ugly
Face Stealer creep and took it back. Bulk has an idea, so the two rush over, halt the
Rangers, say this is Junior Police business now, and demand the Warrior Masks and Urn
handed over. The Rangers do so, and teleport away, thinking the job well done. Bulk &
Skull enter the museum with the stolen items in their possession, hoping to take all the
glory for their safe return. Once they get inside the doors, a couple of security guards
harass the duo and take them off someplace to beat them up like real cops stereotypically
do without listening to their story. Later on at the Juice Bar, the Ranger teens are
sitting around being usual stereotypical teenage slackers, when Azina shows up (what the?!
is she following them around town?!) and thanks them for their concern but the Face
Stealer was returned to them safely. Kimberly congratulates the Kahmalan woman, Azina says
they were very lucky and now have extra guards to keep a closer watch. Kim once again gets
a few more lines in to make up for his absence, by saying she thinks learning about other
cultures is great, but thinks reading about it is better than living it! Everyone laughs,
even Azina, who should be offended by the stupid American's ignorance to her noble
culture! Viva La Kahmala!
[End credits]
_END CREDITS SCENE:_
Bulk & Skull's scoffing at the legend of the Face Stealer as seen earlier in the show,
is replayed. This time, after the story of the Brave Warriors using the masks as
protection is over, Bulk & Skull get a good laugh. Bulk mocks the idea of a little guy
inside the urn, speaking in a small voice "help me help me, i'm trapped in an
urn", Skull noting that the rent must suck, before the director yells CUT!
