 Although Tommy Oliver (Jason David Frank (qv)) was made the leader  of the team once he became the White Ranger in season two, Jason Lee  Scott (Austin St. John (qv)) was actually supposed to remain the  leader even after Tommys return. Some of this original idea is  shown in the season 2 episode "Opposites Attract" when Jason orders  the team to return to the Command Center during a disturbance, and  he signals and leads the team, including Tommy as the White Ranger,  in the morphed Power Rangers sequence. However, those plans were  scrapped due to the rumored pay dispute involving Austin St. John  that would lead to Jason being written off the series and the line  that Zordon (Robert L. Manahan) says in the second part of the  "White Light" storyline was changed and re