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Grimlord's Dark Secret is a two-parter encompassing episodes twenty-two and twenty-three of season 2 of VR Troopers.
Synopsis[]
Ancient digs unearth a portal to worlds unknown -- except by Grimlord!
Plot[]
Despite rumors of a curse, archaeologist Nebraska Smith has unearthed an elaborate box, stenciled with hieroglyphics. The Troopers are at Nebraska's side when he opens the box, causing a portal to appear. Nebraska steps through and Ryan goes after him...and finds himself on a deserted island, where Nebraska has been turned to stone. Ryan transforms just as Doom Master attacks him, and they battle it out. Kaitlin moves the stones in the box and opens another portal, and finds herself on Grimlord's ship. Hiding, she overhears him talking to his generals and learns he has a human identity. She is discovered, but manages to escape. Back in Cross World City, JB and Kaitlin have gone to tell Professor Hart about the box. He relays the story of how the box figures prominently in Tyler's early research of virtual reality. They tell Hart that Grimlord has a human form, and Hart replies that he suspected as much, seeing a human form of Grimlord when he and Tyler discovered the box, which was the same day Grimlord mortally wounded Hart which forced Tyler to transfer his intellect into the computer before his body died; Grimlord, of course, would later kidnap Tyler to use for his evil purposes. JB and Kaitlin try to contact Ryan, but all communications are dead; they go into the portal after him, and find themselves on the island...where Doommaster turns them both to stone. Ryan accesses a pyramid on the island, seeking Grimlord's secret identity. Instead he finds Despera and a Hydrabot, who attack him murderously. He escapes, then restores JB and Kaitlin to normal. Back in his lab, Professor Hart discovers Oraclon preparing to move the pyramid and seal off the portal, which will permanently strand the Troopers on the island. Ryan defeats the Hydra-Bot and returns to the pyramid just as it disappears; Kaitlin and JB find him, semiconscious, in a cave. Grimlord's secret identity has eluded them, but they locate Nebraska and reach the portal just before it closes forever. Despite failing to learn the secrets of the pyramid, Ryan is grateful about not losing his friends to boot. That, after all, comes first.
Cast[]
- Brad Hawkins as Ryan Steele
- Farrand Thompson as Young Ryan Steele
- Sarah Brown as Kaitlin Star
- Michael Bacon as JB Reese
- David Carr as Tyler Steele
- Gardner Baldwin as Karl Ziktor/Grimlord (voice)
- Joe Hackett as Grimlord (body suit)
- Richard Rabago as Tao Chong
- Julian Combs as Professor Horatio Hart
- Zeb as Jeb
- Kerrigan Mahan as Jeb (voice)
- Aaron Pruner as Percival Rooney III
- Michael Sorich as Woody Stocker
- Kristin Norton as Despera
- Jun Yoshida as Despera (Japanese footage)
- ??? as Oraclon (voice)
- T.J. Storm as Doom Master
- Kazuhiko Kubo as Doom Master (Japanese footage)
- Corinne Chooey as Black Vixen
- Greg Michaels as Nebraska Smith
- Chuck Kovacic as Hydrabot (voice)
Errors[]
- The faces of Despera and Doom Master's Japanese counterparts can briefly be seen in their battles against VR Ryan.
Trivia[]
- Part One of this episode aired the same day as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 3) episode 21, Changing of the Zords Part III.
- Nebraska Smith appears to be a reference to the title character of the Indiana Jones franchise.
- The origins of how Professor Hart became a virtual being is revealed.
- JB and Kaitlin do not transform in Part 1.
See Also[]
- 12,000 Years of Darkness - counterpart in Uchuu Keiji Shaider. See comparison page.