- Previously on
"Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"...
Raph's version of this story is nuts.
You think me and Genghis Frog on a snack run during a storm
would be exciting enough.
Just you wait.
The store is being robbed by the Purple Dragons,
and a mutant eel named Lee shows up to eat us.
Insane, right?
Lee thought I was messing with some plan of hers,
which I totally wasn't.
I had to use my improv skills to save everyone
and keep Genghis from eating a cat.
Improv for the win!
But now Dad's in trouble--
and not just because Raph dubbed his voice
to make him sound like Batman.
- Now, listen carefully,
because this is the most important part.
- Let me guess, because it's got you in it?
- That's just a coincidence. [record scratches]
- Dude, you're literally talking to yourself.
- No, Dad is talking to me as Batman.
- Do you realize how insane that is?
- You're just jealous because this is so good.
- Keep playing. - But yes.
- Wait, this is the part where you saved him
from Goldfin, right, April?
- Uh, people remember things differently.
And really, who saved who, you know what I mean?
- Yeah, that makes it sound like you adopted
our dad from a shelter. - Enough.
It is not important just because
I saved April and defeated our enemies single-handedly.
- [whispering] I believe you, April.
- But it is here we truly learned
what we were up against and why.
It was a dark and stormy night.
- It was daytime. - Yep, I'm leaving.
- Man, Dad, you are thirsty for attention.
- Fine, but it was dark and stormy.
- Continues with torrential rain and winds
buffeting the city, calling it the storm of the century.
Unconfirmed reports of sinkholes and cracks
in the streets throughout Midtown.
[radio crackles] Wise to stay inside.
- Ah, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
[unsettling music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ One, two, three, four ♪
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
[rats squeaking]
[angry squeaking]
[loud boom]
[rock music]
[rats squeaking]
[water whooshing]
[thunder rumbling]
- [hoots]
- It's been raining nonstop for four days.
This may be the storm of the cen--ugh!
OK, you know what?
Storm of the century or not, I'm done reporting the weather.
- It's raining.
- Yeah, I know.
What are you even doing outside?
It's not safe. Go home.
[road cracking]
[car alarms blaring]
What the heck was that?
- A crack, in the street.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[rat squeaking] - Ah!
- Oh, sweetie, you've never seen a rat before?
[loud boom] [squeaking]
[screams] I've never seen that many rats!
[screams] Help!
- The sewers must be flooding.
[gasps] Oh, no, the turtles.
Splinter.
- [humming]
♪ ♪
Hmm? Ah!
[rats squeaking]
You nearly gave me a heart attack.
[rats squeaking]
[groans] I told you not to do this.
You can't come here. My boys don't know about this.
[phone ringing]
Ugh, someone is calling.
You have to go.
Uh, um,
uh, maybe this.
That?
[groans] Aha!
- Splinter?
- April O'Neil, did you see?
I made Donatello's computer work.
It's much more complicated than my tablet, you know.
- Can you hear me?
The signal is terrible right now because of the storm.
Are you OK down there? Where are the turtles?
- I sent the boys out with their cousins.
- Wait, you sent them out into the storm?
- Not all of them.
Some of them went deeper into the sewers.
- That's even worse!
- It's good for them.
See, I'm no longer a helicopter dad.
I'm a carefree modern father now.
Is there something else you need?
I have stew on the stove.
- The sewers are flooding. I don't think it's safe.
- To think I'd live to see the day
when a human was concerned for me.
But it's fine.
The sewers have flooded many times before.
- I saw, like, actual rats legit evacuating.
Not that you're not an actual rat.
You know what I mean.
- The sewers are my home.
I would never leave them.
- [sighs] Look, the storm's only going to get worse.
I'm coming to get you. - Do not worry about me.
I am fine. Go home and stay dry.
I have to get--
- Splinter? Great.
Guys, I think you should get Splinter out of the lair.
[groans] Stupid storm.
Someone has to go down there and get him.
- [whistling] Whoa.
Boys, are you back already?
Ray--Ray Fillet, is that you?
[chuckles nervously] Ah, an old man and his imagination.
Oof!
[rock music]
- I ain't your imagination, old man.
- Hi-ya! - [groans]
[rock music]
- Yaah!
- What is happening?
[groans]
A mutant. [both grunting]
Enough.
Stop that.
Who are you?
- Hmph.
- [grunts]
[panting]
[unsettling music]
♪ ♪
Fish?
Angry Goldfish?
Phew.
- Splinter! - [shouts]
You scared me half to death.
What are you doing down here?
- Me? What about you?
The water is up to your tail.
I came to get you out.
- You don't understand.
There's a goldfish in here.
- Oh, I get it.
You know, I had a pet guinea pig once.
You can bring him with us, but we got to go.
You need to, like, pack a bag or something,
grab a toothbrush?
- The goldfish is real.
It's not safe in here for you.
- You know, my Guinea pig was real, too.
Listen, this place is going to flood.
- It could still be in the lair.
- I'm not going without you.
- I am not leaving my home!
- Splinter, everybody loves you guys now.
You--you don't have to be down here.
- Go back up to the city with the boys,
where it's fun and exciting, with your parties and friends,
if that's the lingo these days.
- Yeah, the words "parties" and "friends"
remain pretty universal.
- Everything good that has ever happened to me
has happened here in the sewers.
I will not leave.
- Is this about your goldfish?
- No, I think he's gone.
Ah! - [cackles]
- What is that?
[rock music]
♪ ♪
What the heck?
[shouts]
- Stay out of the water.
- You think?
- Ha!
- [grunts]
- [groans]
- Splinter, watch out!
- Yah!
Bah!
- [shouts]
Oh, we did it.
Even though I don't know what we actually did.
What is this thing? - I have no idea.
- Dude, let's--let me out!
Hey, that's really loud.
There's a mean echo in here.
Ah!
- I think we're good there.
[dramatic music]
Hmm, you just had an aquarium lying around.
- It was the boys' when they were little.
And I was right to keep it.
See how useful it is?
- OK, hoarder. [clears throat]
Hey, excuse me, talking goldfish,
what--like, what's your deal?
Where'd you come from?
Are you one of Superfly's mutants?
- The name's Goldfin, not "talking goldfish."
- Goldfin.
Wait, do you watch a lot of James Bond movies or something?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, those--those are good movies.
Now tell us who you are.
Why did you attack us?
What do you want?
- Fine. You want me to talk?
I'll talk.
I got all the time in the world.
And our world was a magical place,
a world you call the East River.
It was beautiful, filled with wonder.
All of us were safe there around the pearl.
For me and my partners, this was our home.
[loud boom]
Until the sky fell.
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- [gurgling]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- But our nightmare was just beginning.
Whatever that thing was,
it did something to us.
It changed us.
And we became the East River 3.
- This is incredible.
Could you say that all again just so I can record it?
It's fine. Sorry. Um...
So wait, the machine that turned
Superfly into Superduperfly transformed you into mutants?
- We've been like this for a few months,
trying to make a life for ourselves.
But now we've come to take back what's ours.
- You're like our second cousins, maybe once removed.
But we are family.
- Except you got yourself a home here.
My friends and I need a place to call home.
We deserve one.
- I don't think Splinter is going
to give you his lair, bud.
- We got something else in mind.
That's why I've come to deliver a warning.
- OK, you do realize you're the one that's captured, right?
- My friends will come for me soon enough.
We've already dealt with one of your hero turtles.
If you don't stay out of our way,
we'll take out the rest of them.
- [gasps] What have you done?
- What we had to.
[loud thud]
- Do you hear that?
It's coming from the tunnels.
It could be the guys.
- April, wait.
Have you never seen a horror movie?
- Yeah, she's probably right.
You should definitely go check it out.
- I'll be back for you.
[scraping]
- Wait, what is that?
- I've heard it before, the last time the tunnels flooded.
It's water. - What, like a drippy faucet?
[loud bang]
[water rushing]
Oh. [shouts]
- Ah! - Splinter!
Ah!
[coughs]
Splinter.
Whoa.
- Act now!
Deals won't last long. - What the?
- Do you or a loved one have irritable bowel syndrome?
- What? No.
What are you talking about?
- If I had to guess, they're saying you're in deep doo doo.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- [groaning]
Um, do you think you guys could just maybe
tie me up with rope or something?
You guys are really kind of gross.
- As seen on TV.
- Yeah, we saw her on TV.
Get over it.
- Why do they sound like they learned
to talk from commercials?
- Because they did.
We all did.
But Lee and Sally and me, you know,
we're not, uh, dumb like them.
- Travel the world.
- 15 years they've been mutants
and this dump is the best they could do?
- Look, just let me go, OK?
You gave your warning. I'm no threat to you.
- I'm not so sure about that.
I let you go, you tell everyone about us,
you tell them about flooding the city.
- No, no, stop. There's no need to tell me.
And about the Natural History Museum.
- For real? You can just shut it, OK?
- You tell them about our meeting with Bad Bernie
tonight at Pier 21.
- Are you messing with me on purpose?
I just said I didn't need to hear that.
I'm not telling anybody anything, OK?
You don't have to worry about us, me or Splinter.
- Oh, I'm not worried about the rat.
He'll be sleeping with the fishes by now.
- What? Get out of here.
He did not say that.
- You're just making this up now.
- No, I am not. I heard him.
- Didn't you just say you got swept away?
- Uh, April told me.
- Uh, no comment.
- OK, fine. What happened next?
- [snoring]
[sniffing]
[coughs]
What?
Where am I?
[thunder rumbling]
Huh.
[rats squeaking]
I told you to stop doing this, OK?
I'm not your king.
[rats squeaking]
I do not need your food, OK?
You do not have to present me with offerings.
[sniffs] That does smell pretty good.
No, no, I have to get back home.
[rats squeaking]
Look, I don't have time for this, OK?
My family is--a gift?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Ah.
No, please.
That is just embarrassing.
I'm not your king.
I'm a rat, same as you,
except I can talk and stand upright and use utensils.
You don't need to worship me.
Look, my friend April, she's in trouble.
[rat squeaking]
What? No, not from an alligator.
What alligator?
[rat squeaking]
She was taken by pink blobs?
[squeaking]
- Ah!
Whoa. Whoa.
- We didn't want to hurt anyone.
- Kind of seems like you do, though.
- But we just can't have you telling people about us
when we're this close to getting what we want.
- [laughs nervously] No.
Let's talk some more. [laughs nervously]
- All done.
- Ah!
Wait.
- Uh, why?
- Um, what's with the raincoat?
I mean, you're a fish.
Shouldn't you like rain?
- It's a fisherman's outfit.
I saw it on TV.
- That's even worse.
You're a fish dressed up like someone who catches fish.
I think you've got some serious issues here,
and we should talk about it.
- You're stalling, just like in "Moonraker."
I get it.
You're trying to buy some time so one of your mutant friends
can come and rescue you.
[rats squeaking]
Don't give me that look.
I'm here to tell you, no one's coming to save you.
- Troubled by pests?
- What?
What is this?
[rats squeaking]
Ah!
- Side effects may include full-body rash.
- Ah!
- Act now!
- [shouts]
- Member FDIC.
- [groans] Freddy?
Selena?
Where are you?
[rats squeaking]
- No one's coming to save me, huh?
Thanks, little man.
[rat squeaking]
- Hi-ya! - Ah!
- [groans]
- [yelping]
- [echoing] Goldfin.
You threaten my family, you hurt my children.
I don't think I want to be your second cousin.
I'll handle the fish, my friends.
- Look around.
Your family is gone.
And soon this place will be too.
You're in my territory now, rat.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- What you fail to realize is that this rat,
he's the deadliest rat there's ever been.
[both grunting]
♪ ♪
- Being a ninja lair, you'd think
there'd be more weapons here.
[plates breaking]
- Ho!
Ha! - Whoa.
- Ya! - Ah!
- [grunting]
Ah!
[laughter]
- Whoa.
- Ah!
- Ugh. - You say you want a home?
Yah!
A home is not just a place.
- [grunts]
[laughter]
- It is not things.
A home is made of memories.
- [grunts]
- Memories you create and share.
[rousing music]
The people that matter the most to you.
♪ ♪
Ugh.
[gasping]
- Ha!
- Ah!
- [grunts]
[breathing heavily]
- And that can never be taken away.
- I feel like I was saying the exact same thing earlier.
- Probably not a good time.
- Ah!
- [gasps] April!
[grunts]
[both coughing]
- Thanks.
- I would do anything for my family, which you're a part of.
- That's really nice.
I--where's Goldfin?
- No, we have to find him.
My boys are still in danger.
- Well, we know where he's going to be.
- Uh, we do?
- Yeah, he wouldn't shut up about it.
Something about the Natural History Museum and the pier.
- Then that is where we must go.
- What about the lair?
All this water?
- It'll be fine.
There are drains. It just gets clogged up.
I have a lot of hair.
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