List of Power Rangers Time Force episodes
Power Rangers Time Force | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 40 |
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Original network | FOX (Fox Kids) |
Original release | February 3 – November 17, 2001 |
Power Rangers Time Force is an American television series created by Haim Saban and the ninth season of the Power Rangers franchise, began airing on February 3, 2001 on Fox Kids. Power Rangers Time Force comprises 40 episodes and concluded its initial airing on November 17, 2001. Time Force uses footage and elements from the Super Sentai series Mirai Sentai Timeranger. Regular cast members during Time Force include Jason Faunt, Erin Cahill, Kevin Kleinberg, Deborah Estelle Phillips, Michael Copon, Daniel Southworth, Vernon Wells, Kate Sheldon and Edward Laurence Albert.
It was the last full season to completely air on Fox Kids following the sale of Fox Family Worldwide, which included Fox Family, Fox Kids and Saban Entertainment being purchased by The Walt Disney Company.
Episode ordering is confused on some DVD releases, placing "The Legend Of The Clock Tower" between "Jen's Revenge" and "The Time Shadow." This list is based off airing order.
Episodes
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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379 | 1 | "Force from the Future, Pt. 1" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | February 3, 2001 |
1000 years in the future, a mutant criminal, Ransik is captured and sentenced to be cryogenically frozen. But he manages to escape as he and his followers make their way to a time ship. Alex, the Red Time Force Ranger tries to stop them, but Ransik kills him, and escapes to the past. Alex dies in his fiance, Jen's arms and she takes the red Chrono Morpher. Jen and a team of 3 others: Katie, Lucas and Trip, grab some equipment and follow him into the past. | |||||
380 | 2 | "Force from the Future, Pt. 2" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | February 10, 2001 |
The 4 land in the city of Silver Hills in the year 2001, and don their Chrono Morphers. When they find Ransik, the future Rangers find they cannot morph. Alex's DNA is the key to unlocking the other 4 morphers. Sadly, the 4 can't find someone who shares Alex's DNA and start to give up, until Trip finds someone who looks identical to Alex. Jen talks to him but he refuses to believe that Jen is from the future and that he needs to take the Red Chrono Morpher. Jen tries to find out his name but he refuses to tell her. Jen disappointed, walks back to the others who comment on her trying. Ransik launches his first attack, but since the rangers can't morph they don't go until they motivate themselves. The boy, whose name turns out to be Wesley Collins, comes to help and takes the Red Chrono Morpher, allowing Jen, Trip, Katie and Lucas to morph into the Red, Pink, Green, Yellow, and Blue Time Force Rangers. At the end, Jen takes the morpher back from Wesley, stating that they don't need his help. | |||||
381 | 3 | "Something to Fight For" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | February 17, 2001 |
Wes witnesses a bank robbery by some mutants and tries to help. The Rangers arrive and Jen tells him that he is not fighting and doubts that Wes has ever did anything to help anyone other than himself. Trip talks to Wes and tells him about Alex and the future. Wes and Jen talk, and a mutant attacks the city. Jen offers Wes another chance to prove himself by giving him Alex's morpher. After the battle, Wes offers the morpher back to Jen, but Jen says he's earned it. | |||||
382 | 4 | "Ransik Lives" | Kaizo Hayashi | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | February 24, 2001 |
Wes offers the Rangers a place to stay; a clock tower that his father owns. They set up the tower as their home and Wes helps them blend in with the people from the present. While Wes and Jen went out to get some food, a business person walks in and notices an old sign on the entrance to the clock tower advertising odd jobs. He hires Wes and Jen for some painting at a news station. Ransik attacks the news station and captures Wes. He tells Wes about how he was treated in the future, causing Wes have some doubts. | |||||
383 | 5 | "A Blue Streak" | Kaizo Hayashi | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | March 3, 2001 |
Wes allows Lucas to drive his sports car, unaware that Lucas is a race car driver. He is cited by the police, and must get a 2001 driver's license. A mutant with a knack for speed leads Lucas on a chase during his driving exam. Trip breaks out the Time Force Cycles. | |||||
384 | 6 | "A Parting of Ways" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | March 10, 2001 |
Ransik sends a mutant to capture a bus load of children and holds them for ransom. While the Rangers try to locate the children and free them. Wes goes to his father to ask for money to pay the ransom of $10 million, but his father refuses. Wes tricks a business client of his father into giving him a check. Wes offers the money to Nadira and the mutants, but they refuse to release the hostages. Thus Wes ends up taking the money back from Nadira and went to help the other Rangers save the kids. The rangers manage to defeat the mutant. When Wes comes home with the money, his father is angry with Wes. The press finds out about the money, and thinks Mr Collins has donated it willingly to free the hostages. Wes tells them it was Mr. Collins' idea that he is going to donate the money to charity before telling his father that he does not want any part of his father's business any more. Wes goes to the Clock tower and asks the Rangers if he can move in with them, they welcome him home. | |||||
385 | 7 | "Short-Circuited" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | March 17, 2001 |
Nadira watches as Circuit helps the Rangers in their battle. Realizing Circuit summons the Megazord, Nadira hatches a plan to keep Circuit from helping them by summoning Medicon. Meanwhike, Trip uses his Gem to read Lucas' mind during a card game with Wes and is forbidden from using his Gem for a day. While taking a walk with Circuit, Trip rescues a woman being chased by cyclobots and the woman turns out to be Nadira. Nadira takes advantage of Trip's good nature and kidnaps Circuit. She then have Medicon rewire Circuit. When the mutant attacks the city and grew, Wes attempted to communicate with Circuit to summon the Megazords, but cannot. Trip then told the other Rangers that Circuit has been kidnapped by Nadira, thus unable to summon their Megazord. Lucas tells Trip it's okay to use his powers and orders him to search for Circuit. Will he find Circuit in time? | |||||
386 | 8 | "Jen's Revenge" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn | March 24, 2001 |
Jen tracks down Fatcatfish she's encountered him before, the mutant offers her a deal, in exchange for some leniency, he'll lead her to Ransik. But Jen also wants Fatcatfish for personal reasons. | |||||
387 | 9 | "The Time Shadow" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn | March 31, 2001 |
Mr. Collins's company develops a new weapon, the Raimei Destroyer, an armored tank to defend itself against Ransik's attacks. But it's no match for the mutant attacks. Even the Rangers Megazord can't stand up to the latest mutant. In the future, a mysterious figure sends them the Time Shadow. | |||||
388 | 10 | "Future Unknown" | Judd Lynn | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | April 7, 2001 |
The Rangers try to find some 21st-century weapons to help them. They discover some technology was developed as a result of Ransik's attacks. Consequently, the future has been altered. This creates doubts for Katie who starts to question their reasons for being in this time. Frax unleashes a mutant on the city. Now each Ranger must find their own motivation for stopping this latest mutant. | |||||
389 | 11 | "Uniquely Trip" | Judd Lynn | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | April 14, 2001 |
Trip begins to feel like he's not contributing to the Rangers. He tries to emulate the others in battle, but ends up causing more problems. As Ransik releases a mutant who feeds off energy, Trip realizes how he helps the team in their battles, and finishes building a new weapon for the team. | |||||
390 | 12 | "Worlds Apart" | Isaac Florentine | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | April 21, 2001 |
While driving to work, Mr. Collins spots Wes and his friends picking up trash. Mr Collins stops the car and tells his son how bitterly disappointed he is in him. The Silver Guardians arrive as Nadira and some cyclobots attack a business. The Rangers, in their civilian guise, watch as the Guardians easily handle the cyclobots. One of the Guardians spots, Wes. Eric Meyers talks to Wes, they went to the same Prep School. Frax unleashes a mutant from the X vault, the Silver Guardians arrive but they can't handle him. The Rangers shows up, and Wes takes a shot that was intended for the Guardian's commander, the shot damages Wes's helmet. Mr Collins and Eric realize that Wes is a Ranger. Mr Collins tries to talk to Wes, to get him to join the Silver Guardians, but Wes refuses, and charges off into battle. Ultimately the Rangers defeat the mutant and Wes rejects an offer to join the Silver Guardians. | |||||
391 | 13 | "The Quantum Quest" | Isaac Florentine | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | April 28, 2001 |
On a dig, some researchers discover a metallic object. As word of the discovery spreads, Ransik recognizes the object as the Quantum Controller, and unleashes a mutant to get it for him. Circuit also recognizes the object, and the Rangers try to recover the object before it falls into the wrong hands. As the Rangers fight the mutant, Eric one ambitious Guardian manages to take the controller, and hides it away. He then tries to become the Guardian's new leader, but is turned down. So he goes back to where the controller is. The mutant attacks. As the Rangers fight the mutant, Wes tries to get the Guardian to give up the Controller, but he ignores Wes and activates the Quantum Controller, and becomes the Quantum Ranger. | |||||
392 | 14 | "Clash for Control, Part 1" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | May 5, 2001 |
Even without the Quantum morpher, Ransik wants to possess the Quantum Rex, the Quantum Ranger's megazord. He sends Commandcom to retrieve it. The Rangers try to talk Eric into giving up the morpher, but he refuses. They all witness a time portal opening, realizing someone is after the Q Rex, Eric summons the Eagle flyer and enters the portal. Wes jumps on to the flyer. | |||||
393 | 15 | "Clash for Control, Part 2" | Isaac Florentine | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | May 12, 2001 |
In the past, they try to locate the Q-Rex. But Commandcom gets to it first, and takes control of the Q-Rex and journeys back to the 21st century. Eric and Wes follow him back through the time portal. The Q-Rex is rampaging in the city. The Rangers need the Quantum Morpher to get control of the Q-Rex. While Wes tries to talk to Eric, Mr Collins makes the other Rangers an offer to join the Silver Guardians, with his company they could defeat Ransik faster. Will they join the Guardians? | |||||
394 | 16 | "Bodyguard in Blue" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | May 19, 2001 |
As Dr Zaskins tries to unlock the secrets of the Quantum morpher, he is kidnapped. His daughter manages to escape, and tries to hire Lucas as her bodyguard. Lucas is hesitant, then finds out who her father is. While the other Rangers rescue Hastings, Lucas protects Holly. | |||||
395 | 17 | "The Legend of the Clock Tower" | Yoshi Hosoya | Judd Lynn | May 19, 2001 |
The Rangers try to fix the clock in the tower. But are having no luck. Wes tells them of a ghost that is supposed to inhabit the tower. That night Katie hears a noise, and she investigates. She finds herself in the past, and meets the people from Wes's story. With her help, there's a different ending to the story, then she wakes up as a mutant attacks. After the battle, she tells her friends about her dream and how the ending had changed, but Wes corrects her and says that's how he had told it. Leaving her wondering if it really was a dream. | |||||
396 | 18 | "Trust and Triumph" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | June 2, 2001 |
Jen tells Wes to guard the back of a bank so the Rangers can cut off Nadira's escape route. But the Guardians show up, and Wes tries to deal with them, giving Nadira a chance to escape. Jen yells at Wes saying she can't trust him. Turtlecon attacks and sends the Rangers to a different dimension after a short battle with duplicate Ranger, Wes and Jen manage to escape. They have to learn to trust each other if they want to rescue their friends. | |||||
397 | 19 | "Trip Takes a Stand" | Isaac Florentine | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | June 9, 2001 |
Frax releases Notacon, only to find he's a gentle mutant. Frax attach's a device to Notacon, to control him but Notacon escapes. In the city, people are afraid of the mutant. Trip finds him and learns he was in the vault for stealing vegetables, he only stole because he was hungry, his only desire is to go back into the vault. Eric shows up wanting to destroy the mutant, and is willing to do almost anything to accomplish his goal. Finally, Notacon is grown to a giant size and Q-Rex attacks him, but the Rangers realize that Eric is merley trying to hold him down, allowing them to destroy the control device and refreeze Notacon. | |||||
398 | 20 | "Quantum Secrets" | Makoto Yokoyama | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | June 16, 2001 |
As researchers work on unlocking the secrets of the Quantum Morpher, Ransik releases Conwing. Conwing captures Eric, takes the morpher, and replicates Eric's voice, which lets him take control of the Q-Rex. Eric finds out where the morpher comes from. The Rangers show up, and try to help out but Eric wants to handle it alone, he does get some help from the future, and uses Mega Battle mode. Will Eric reveal the Rangers secrets? | |||||
399 | 21 | "The Last Race" | Isaac Florentine | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | June 23, 2001 |
Lucas has to attend traffic school after being ticketed for reckless driving (even though the others caused Lucas to be ticketed). Nadira releases Dash, a former racing champion, to be her personal driver. The Rangers arrive, Dash and Lucas recognize each other. Dash had caused a huge accident while street racing, Lucas had to testify against him. Dash challenges him to one last race. If Lucas wins, he promises to accept responsibility for his actions and turn himself in. But Nadira has other plans for him. Ultimately, Dash stops the race when he nearly causes another accident, but Nadira forces him to fight. He is defeated and surrenders, but asks that Lucas be the one to refreeze him, which he does. | |||||
400 | 22 | "Lovestruck Rangers" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | July 7, 2001 |
The male members of Time Force all seem to be attracted to the same girl for different reasons. When it starts to cause friction in the team, Jen orders them to stop seeing her. Hearing Wes missed a job, Jen tracks him down and finds he's still seeing the same girl, who it turns out is a mutant. Now it's up to Jen and Katie to free their team mates from her influence. Jen breaks the mutant's control bracelet and the Rangers capture her. | |||||
401 | 23 | "Full Exposure" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | July 14, 2001 |
A photographer working for a tabloid is given a new assignment, to take pictures of the Rangers in their civilian guise. He needs help carrying his equipment and hires Katie to help him. His first attempt fails, and Katie manages to warn the others. Katie sticks with him so she can keep tabs on him. Artillicon attack again, the Rangers attack backfires on them resulting in them reverting to their civilian identities. As the photographer prepares to sell his pictures, Katie tries to talk him out of it. | |||||
402 | 24 | "Movie Madness, Pt. 1" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | July 21, 2001 |
The Rangers find out a movie is being filmed nearby, Jen refuses to go but then she learns it's starring her favorite movie star, Frankie Chan. The Rangers watch the filming, when a stuntman is injured, Wes volunteers to replace him. As Wes films his fight scene, he soon realizes the action's a little too real. Cinecon reveals his trap, and sends the Rangers to different dimensions where they're trapped inside their favorite genre movie. | |||||
403 | 25 | "Movie Madness, Pt. 2" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | July 28, 2001 |
Circuit tries to get Eric to help, then Cinecon arrives and sends Eric into a Jungle movie. The Rangers are still trapped in the movie dimensions. Wes and Trip figure a way to free everyone from their dimensional movies. They appear on set, and the Cyclobots give chase. Cinecon puts the Rangers in their Megazord, and summons the Q-Rex. He wants to destroy all the Rangers at once, even summons the Transwarp Megazord. Everything has been written for Cinecon's movie "End of the Rangers," can the Rangers find another ending? It is revealed that Trip stole the last page of the script and without it, the Rangers are able to write their own ending, using all the Megazords including the Transwarp Megazord to defeat Cinecon. | |||||
404 | 26 | "Time Force Traitor" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | August 4, 2001 |
A former Time Force officer, Steelix, is released and he's determined to get revenge on his former partner, Jen. | |||||
405 | 27 | "Frax's Fury" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | August 11, 2001 |
Frax unleashes Venomark on the city. Venomark attacks the Rangers, everyone but Wes falls victim to his bite. Ransik finds out Venomark has been freed and goes after him, Venomark attacked Ransik in the future, so Ransik wants revenge. Wes notices Ransik taking serum to fight off the effects of Venomark's poison, and gets a sample to his father, so they can mass produce a cure for everyone affected. The Rangers defeat Venomark and the cure is distributed to everyone. Frax's identity is revealed as he and Ransik are shown in the end. | |||||
406 | 28 | "Dawn of Destiny" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | August 18, 2001 |
Frax has destroyed all of Ransiks medicine, so Ransik tries to hunt him down but fails, and some of is "robot servants" betray him. Since all of his medicine is destroyed he goes to the only place that has more, the company that belongs to Wes's father, almost killing Wes's father in the process. while that is happening the rangers battle Ransiks new mutant assistant. At the very end, Jen mentions that if the dont stop Ransik soon, then the entire future will change. Then Alex appears, saying that it already has. | |||||
407 | 29 | "Fight Against Fate" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | August 25, 2001 |
As Mr. Collins lies injured and dying in the hospital. Wes runs the company. Alex leads the Rangers in a battle against a new powerful robot. But his attitude and leadership style creates friction within the group. | |||||
408 | 30 | "Destiny Defeated" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | September 8, 2001 |
Alex's leadership has created friction, the others don't like his methods. They try to fight Frax's machine, to no avail. Eric contemplates leaving the city. Wes has taken over his father's company, but hates his job. He learns from Dr. Sansik (who was there when his father got hurt, and over heard him saying this) that his father was actually proud of him making his own way and wanted him to remain with the Rangers. He goes back to the clock tower, and thinks of his life as a Ranger. Meanwhile the Time Force Megazord is immobilized, and Alex orders the team to fight on, claiming they don't care about the future. The Rangers start yelling back at Alex, telling him they preferred Wes as the Red Ranger, Alex has lost Jen's support also. Wes arrives and helps his friends. Jen convinces Alex to give up the morpher, so she can give it back to Wes. With Wes in command, the Rangers battle the robot with the Time Force Megazord Mode Red. With help from the Q-Rex, the Rangers enact a crazy plan Wes comes up with and the robot is destroyed. Mr. Collins nearly dies like Alex says he will, but is saved by Alex himself with future technology. Alex returns to the future, finally accepting the Rangers point of view and that Wes is the true Red Ranger. | |||||
409 | 31 | "Undercover Rangers" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | September 15, 2001 |
After Alex leaves, Jen realizes she has feelings for someone else. Katie and Trip witness the owner of a new fitness club give an individual some juice, and are amazed when he displays superhuman strength. Wes and Jen go undercover at the club to see if there's anything going on. Alex contacts Wes, and gives him the Strata Cycle. | |||||
410 | 32 | "Beware the Knight" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | September 22, 2001 |
While returning to the Clock Tower with some pizzas, Trip encounters a knight on a horse. The mysterious knight vanishes into the forest. The knight is after something that is guarded by a dragon. Debut of the Fire Battle Armor. | |||||
411 | 33 | "Time for Lightspeed" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | September 29, 2001 |
Time Force encounters Vypra, she's trying to summon a super demon. Carter Grayson (Red Lightspeed Ranger) shows up and tells them about Vypra, and offers to help them. Vypra asks Ransik for help. As Vypra prepares to summon the super demon, the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers arrive. Timeforce and Lightspeed battle Ransik, Vypra, and the super demon. | |||||
412 | 34 | "Reflections Of Evil" | Jonathan Tzachor | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | October 6, 2001 |
A mutant named Miracon transports the Rangers into a mirror world, where the Rangers must escape by destroying new and old mutant enemies. | |||||
413 | 35 | "Nadira's Dream Date" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | October 13, 2001 |
Lucas writes a romantic poem about his first love, his first racecar, and during a battle against Ransik's forces, he unknowingly drops it. Nadira picked it up and believed that Lucas has romantic feelings for her, leading Ransik to warn him to treat his daughter right or face his wrath. | |||||
414 | 36 | "Circuit Unsure" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | October 20, 2001 |
The Time Force Rangers ask Circuit about historical events. Realizing Circuit has access to events up to their own time, they ask Circuit about up coming events. But someone in the future does not want them to find out, and subsequently prevents Circuit from revealing the information. Thinking he malfunctioned, Circuit loses confidence, just as a mutant attacks the city. Ultimately it comes down to Circuit to summon the Megazord, but he lacks the self-confidence to do so until Alex contacts him and reveals that the Rangers must not know the future and he acted to prevent them from finding out. Afterwards, Circuit is fully repaired, but lies and says the future will be fine. The Rangers Need To Stop The Self Destruct Sequence before the place Explodes. Note: This episode was dedicated to Thuy Trang, who died in a car accident on September 3, 2001. She played Trini Kwan in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from 1993 to 1994. | |||||
415 | 37 | "A Calm Before the Storm" | Worth Keeter | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | October 27, 2001 |
With Ransik's mutants depleted, the Rangers ponder their past and future as Rangers. Frax's new robot terrorizes the city, but is destroyed by Eric and the Q-Rex. | |||||
416 | 38 | "The End of Time, Pt. 1" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | November 3, 2001 |
Ransik prepares to attack the city. Alex orders the Time Force Rangers to return to the future, the crystals are causing disruptions, if they don't leave they might not be able to return to their own time, he tells them Wes has to stay in his own time. The Rangers refuse, and try to prevent the attack. Wes knows his friends can't stay in the present, and has a plan to send them back to their own time. As the episode ends, Wes forces the other Rangers back to their own time with the plan to fight to the death to save the city. | |||||
417 | 39 | "The End of Time, Pt. 2" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | November 10, 2001 |
Wes sends the team back to the future. Now it's up to Wes and Eric to resolve their issues, and defend the city. In the future, the Rangers discover what happened to the city and their friend: the city was ultimately saved, but Wes lost his life fighting for it. They're ordered to have their minds erased of their adventures in the past so they can adjust back to their lives in their own time. They're not willing to give up their memories, and decide to go back to help their friend. Jen gives Alex back her engagement ring. | |||||
418 | 40 | "The End of Time, Pt. 3" | Koichi Sakamoto | Judd Lynn & Jackie Marchand | November 17, 2001 |
After Eric is badly injured, Wes is left alone to fight the Cyclobot army, armed with the Quatum Morpher and Quantum Defender (given to him by Eric). As the battle rages with Ransik's army, the other Rangers arrive in the Megazord and defeat Doomtrom with the Cyclone Defense. After the Rangers defeat the Cyclobot army, Wes, now in control of Q-Rex, upgrades its Trixyrium Crystal with the Quantum Defender, stopping the time disruptions and allowing him to use it on Doomtron and Frax, destroying them both. Nadira Starts Crying over Frax. The Rangers then battle Ransik, but are overpowered. During the fight, Ransik accidentally shoots Nadira, who is protecting a baby after having changed her opinion on humans thanks to Trip and uses the baby to convince Ransik that humans aren't so bad after all. Ransik surrenders to the Rangers without further fight and the Rangers have to return to the future without Wes to their great sadness. Then Wes and Jen confess their feelings that they love each other. With the Rangers gone, Mr. Collins offers Wes command of the Silver Guardians who will protect the city without doing it for profit anymore. Wes agrees as long as Eric is his co-commander, which he agrees to. |