Huge plot hole in Green with Evil episodes...
Tommy is under an evil spell, bent on destroying the Power Rangers.
The Power Rangers don't know his identity, but he knows theirs.
He tries to kill them in battle, when they're all morphed.
Yet at school, when he has the perfect opportunity to kill them, he doesn't. When Kimberly confronts him about why he didn't show up for a date, he acts like a jerk to her. He could've taken her out right there. So the extent of his evilness is just being rude and distant?
The whole structure of this series made little sense. When in a morphed battle, Tommy's intent is to kill the other Rangers: Cue the fancy weaponry and megazords. But at school, when the Power Rangers are just a few feet in front of him, unmorphed, when they'd least expect any confrontation, Tommy could've offed them one-by-one.
You could say that Tommy wanted his identity to remain a secret, but if he killed them, which was Rita and his ultimate goal, it wouldn't have mattered. Also he would not have been making himself look suspicious by being cold and distant.
The word "evil" is thrown out a lot on this series. But even Tommy was never even fully evil under his spell - after being confronted by Bulk and Skull, the worst he did to them was zap them with his green ranger powers and send them diving into a trashcan played for comic relief. He didn't even give them a serious injury.
Yes I know it's a children's show and it isn't supposed to make structural sense, but it is horribly written.
Make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.