- Previously on
"Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"--
April's the best, out there in the storm,
heroically doing weather news or something.
The sewers are flooding, and her first thought is,
I have to get to Leo and, uh, my dad,
who got attacked by the leader of the East River Three.
These guys got mutated by Superfly's machine
and have some mysterious plan to get back what's theirs.
Super cryptic, right?
April, with some help from Dad, fought off Gold Fin
and is now out there looking for me.
And Dad still sounds like Batman.
[suspenseful music]
[fog horn blaring]
♪ ♪
[seagulls squawking]
- Salvage efforts continue after Superfly's rampage.
Some rough upcoming weather threatens
to complicate things.
- [spits]
[all panting]
♪ ♪
- [snoring]
Ahh! Ahh!
♪ ♪
- I can't believe they kicked us out of our homes.
They called us freaks, monsters.
- Did you see the shade my wife threw at me?
You don't walk away from that.
- Oh, walk away? Look at me.
What do I even do now? Walk?
Slither?
A combination of both?
[grunts]
Whoa, whoa, falling!
[groans] They're right.
We are monsters.
[radio static]
- Do you love animals like we do?
Then come to Bob's Gently Plucked Chicken Factory.
The most loved chickens are the most delicious.
- [clucks]
- Look, humans seem to be accepting
and totally open-minded.
Maybe we'll be OK up here after all.
- Maybe.
- And even though they did us dirty,
our friends and family are going to be OK.
That's what matters, right?
- Yeah.
The pearl can hide them, protect them.
As long as they have that, they'll be safe.
They'll still have a home.
[water splashing]
- Check out this pearl!
Ha!
We're going to be rich!
Look at the size of this thing!
- ♪ One, two, three, four ♪
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, can we maybe speed things up?
Because we've been doing this for, like,
an hour and four minutes, and I need this
to be social-media length.
- Uh, if I recall correctly, Donatello had gone
to plug things in somewhere.
But then things got even more exciting when Leonardo--
- Wait a minute. What?
Are you seriously gonna skip the part where I
almost got eaten by a monster?
- Fine.
Donatello and Wingnut traveled deep into the sewers
to do some stuff.
- Really?
- Something about internets.
- It's a fiber optic connection.
Usually, it's pretty solid, but the storm is messing with it.
- Do you ever feel like you're being followed?
- Come on, Wingnut.
You're just being paranoid.
Have you been doomscrolling again?
- No. Maybe.
[metal clattering] What was that?
- Probably just the construction Raph
was talking about.
Come on.
- Ahh!
[panting]
How long is this going to take?
- Look, we'll be in and out.
I set us up with a backup generator a few years back.
You want a banana?
I brought a full bushel for the rats.
- No, I can't.
They trigger my gag reflex.
- Um, sure.
We should keep going.
- It's a real thing.
It affects, like, 18% of people in the world.
But it only started happening after the transformation.
I used to love bananas.
[echoing] Bananas, bananas...
- That's fascinating, and, you know, sad, yes.
Maybe mash them up--
- You think I haven't tried that?
- Whoa. It was just a suggestion.
- Sorry. I'm just--
you couldn't have put the generator somewhere
a little more spacious or just siphoned off
power from the outside world like the rest
of the mole people?
- You ever study the vulnerability of power grids?
You couple that with the changes in weather phenomena,
it's a ticking time bomb.
- Can't argue with that logic.
You and me, we're all left-brained.
[chuckles]
- I know.
My brothers are so right-brained
with their emotions and instinct.
Thankfully, I'm all logic.
There ain't a corner logic can't get you out of, you know?
- [groans]
- Whoa. Are you OK?
- Does it look like any part of me is OK?
I need to get out of here!
It's like I can't breathe.
And it's dark.
Why is it so dark?
[whimpering]
- You're in a sewer.
Historically, they're dark.
There's nothing down here to be afraid of.
Come on. We'll do it together.
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
[waves lapping]
- I feel so alone.
We just don't fit in here.
- And I'm not raising any of my hundreds of babies
under this pier.
- You don't have any babies.
- My fertility journey is none of your business.
- Breaking news, treasure from the depths.
- Hey, turn that up.
- Found in the East River, the Jersey Bight
is thought to be one of the biggest pearls in the world.
- No.
- It's on loan to the Natural History Museum
right here in New York City, so don't miss it.
- On loan?
They stole it.
- Well, there's nothing we can do about it unless we
got jobs at the museum.
Yes!
I could work the gift shop.
- No.
We're gonna steal it back.
- Troubles with the law?
Just call-- [gasps]
- Will you stop that?
Learn to talk already.
Think about it.
We return home with the pearl,
we'll be welcomed back as heroes.
- I don't know nothing about stealing, man.
- Yeah, I can't.
Eels already have a bad rap.
Did you see "The Little Mermaid"?
Messed up.
- We need to find us a criminal.
[suspenseful music]
- We found it.
We'll recalibrate the system, feed the rats,
and be finished in no time.
Then we can go outside and jump in some puddles or something,
maybe play some bocce with Leatherhead.
She's getting really good.
- Have you noticed anything different about
Leatherhead lately?
I get the sense she's been really down.
- Really?
Is it all the Aussie jokes?
We thought she was thick-skinned.
[chuckles] Get it? 'Cause she's an alligator?
- [chuckles] Brilliant, yeah.
I think she's just really unsure of herself.
Like-- like, she's not fitting in.
- Hey, I get it.
It takes a real minute to find your niche.
She's an Australian in New York,
not to mention the whole mutant alligator thing.
- I checked out her search history,
and it was all these articles on demutation.
I mean, is that even possible?
[loud crashing, buzzing]
- What was that?
- [gasps] It was a giant monster!
- What, like a kaiju monster?
Or are we talking like a--
- Donnie, wait. Something's wrong.
[shouting]
[suspenseful music]
[both coughing]
- Donnie?
What happened?
- I think we fell into the lower levels of the sewers.
Boy, it sure is dark down here.
- Did you see that?
- Uh, no, because of the whole dark thing I mentioned.
- I have to get out of here. Ah! Ah!
- Wingnut, you have to chill.
You're just making things worse.
- Chill?
There's a giant monster down here with us!
- I think it might have been a mutant.
- It was a monster.
Of course there are monsters.
It's dark.
Monsters thrive in the darkness.
You never hear about monsters hanging out in Cancun,
or Hawaii, or on the sun.
- Will you get ahold of yourself?
There are no monsters.
Whatever that thing was, it's gone.
We're gonna find a way out of here, I promise.
Between your sonar and me having
lived here in these tunnels all my life, there is no problem.
- No problem, huh?
Care to explain the rising water?
- I was trying to ignore that, but thanks for pointing it out.
But hey, things could be--
- Don't say things could be worse.
You know what happens when people say that.
- Oh, good save.
- [screams]
- Will you stop screaming?
We're trying to ask you a serious question, kid.
- How would you, a pirate, break into a museum
and plunder the treasure within?
- I, uh--
I'm not an actual pirate.
You know that, right?
It's-- it's just a hat they make me wear.
Um, so can I go, please?
I'm truly bugging out here, man!
- Just-- just go.
- "Let's hire a pirate.
Pirates are expert criminals."
- You wanna do this?
I will fight you right here, right now.
I will mess you up.
- Guys, guys, guys.
Come look.
- I am an innocent man simply trying to make a living,
not some crime boss running the rackets
on the east side with his vast network
of criminal associates.
- All right!
This interview is over.
- Don't forget to come down to my club,
Bad Bernie's Billiards, for prices
so cheap they're a steal.
- No, they're not.
- Or are they?
- I feel like that guy knows a thing
or two about stealing stuff.
- Yeah.
- No.
This isn't fair.
I didn't even say things could be worse.
Wait a minute.
That's not the same monster.
It's an alligator.
- An alligator.
[gasps] Oh, no!
Leatherhead!
She demutated, but-- but how?
- With TCRI tranquilizers.
It's what we used on Super Duper Fly.
But how could she have gotten one?
- [gasps] The dark web.
Or maybe she broke into their lab?
- Yeah, and she was all like...
"Oy, mate, get me one of those demutanizing blasters,
or I'm going to eat you like a dingo."
- That's a terrible impression.
It's more like, "G'day, bloke."
- [roars]
- Watch out! - Ahh! Leatherhead!
Leatherhead, stop!
It's us, your friend!
- [panting]
- No!
[dramatic music]
- [gagging]
- What happened?
- Bananas.
Triggered her gag reflex.
I guess she falls within the 18%.
[chuckles]
- Huh, you learn something new every day.
- [growling]
- The only chance we have of getting out
is to reason with her.
Our friend is in there somewhere.
I'm sure of it.
- Do you hear yourself?
You're not thinking logically.
Look, eventually my brothers will realize we're missing,
and they'll come.
We just have to hold tight.
After all, we've got the high ground.
- [snarling]
[both screaming]
- No!
I'm stuck!
Donnie, I'm stuck!
Get me out of here!
- Just stop moving!
Wingnut, for real, you have to stop.
You're making it worse.
- How could I be making it worse?
- Like that!
- Oh.
It's wet!
It's dark!
There's monsters!
And we're-- we're-- oh, man.
This is the end!
- Wingnut, stop.
I'm trying to think, and all your neuroses
are stressing me out.
- Maybe Leatherhead was right all along.
I just want to be a tiny bat again and fly away.
- Hey, hey.
It's OK.
I know you're feeling stuff.
I'm sorry.
I'm not good at this whole feelings thing.
- [sobs]
[gentle music]
- [gasps] Look, remember that time Kanata got stuck
inside Tetsuo's blob form?
- What?
Are you talking about Katsuhiro Otomo's
anime masterpiece "Akira"?
- Yes.
- But there wasn't a monster actually in there with him.
- OK, what about when Luke, Han, and Leia got
stuck in the trash compactor with the eyeball monster?
- [chuckles] You mean the Dianoga.
Good pull.
Wait, wait, wait.
OK, and what about when Superfly
had you and your brothers and was squeezing you so hard
that your shells cracked?
- Yeah, good one, I guess.
Wanna know what all of those had in common?
- They were all terrifying?
- Everyone got out alive.
And we will too.
- Hmm.
Technically, Tetsuo didn't, but, heh,
thanks, Donnie.
Wow, I feel a lot better.
Ahh!
- Oh, come on.
Again?
[grunts]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps] Donnie!
[bubbles popping]
- [muffled grunting]
♪ ♪
- [snarling]
♪ ♪
[muffled rumbling]
♪ ♪
- Oh, thank goodness!
I thought you got Dianoga'ed.
- [pants]
[loud crashing]
Look!
Come on.
We need to move.
We can't stay here any longer.
- How are you so calm right now?
- Trust me.
We're gonna get out of this.
- Just like Luke and Leia in the trash compactor.
[loud thudding]
- And here we go, a little open space for you while we
figure out the next move.
- Donnie, I don't know what I would have
done without you down here.
- Don't worry about it.
All we have to do is get up those stairs,
and we'll be home free.
- [screams] She's following us!
How is that even possible?
It doesn't make any sense.
I mean, logically, it doesn't make any sense.
- You're right.
I've been trying to use logic to get us out of this.
But what if my brothers had been right the whole time?
- What are you doing?
- Logic ain't getting us out of this corner.
I need to do it on a reptilian level,
on instinct, right brain-style.
If Leatherhead's in there, I can connect with her.
She won't hurt me.
We're friends.
- I know I said that, but now seeing it in action maybe
it's not such a good idea?
- Leatherhead, it's me, Donnie.
Are you in there?
Remember all those hours we spent
ranking fictitious reptiles?
- What are you even talking about?
It's clearly Godzilla.
- Come on.
Work with me.
You said Loch Ness Monster was underrated, remember?
Uh, Kermit?
Well, I know you're not a fan of Tick-Tock the Croc,
but we gotta add Lyle, Lyle to the list.
Leatherhead.
- [snarling]
- [whimpers]
- [gasps] - Oh!
It's working!
You're a genius!
- Donatello?
- Wait, that didn't come from--
- What are you doing, mate?
- Leatherhead!
- Wait, but if you're there, then--
- [snarling]
- I'm sorry, buddy, but some animals just aren't
cut out for city living.
- This isn't fair.
- [cooing]
- Also, he ate the neighbor's dog,
so we need to hide the evidence.
- [coos]
The others too.
[both cooing]
- Three was probably too many.
- Yeah.
Now, come on, bud.
Let's go get a milkshake and talk
about how your mom was right.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- [grunts] Ahh!
- [muffled grunting]
- [roars]
- Donnie!
Do something!
- Oh, I've got a torn-up hip.
I ain't gonna be any help, mate.
[dramatic music]
- [roaring]
- [gasps]
Ah! Ah!
- [growling]
- Ahh!
- Donnie!
- [panting]
That was terrifying!
My life flashed before my eyes.
And it was just reruns of "Star Trek: Enterprise."
- Oh, this seems like a real dog's breakfast.
- Our only way out is across the water.
We just need a plan.
I tried connecting with it, and that was a terrible idea.
- What happened? What'd I miss?
- We thought you were demutated.
Where have you been?
- [scoffs] I was on walkabout when I ran
into my own kind down here.
I thought maybe it was a sign that I
shouldn't be a mutant anymore.
- What happened?
- Stupid alligator bit me, didn't it?
The whole group of them were really quite unpleasant.
I think I'm ready to accept being a mutant.
- And I need to accept I'm not like my brothers.
I'm me.
I'm left-brained, and I need to have faith in that.
- Eh, sure.
Uh, you got any ideas?
'Cause that thing's circling us again.
- I've got an idea.
You've always had faith in me, and I feel lucky
and just genuinely grateful to have a place here.
Now, lend me your wrench.
- You just carry a wrench with you wherever you go?
- And bananas.
[rock music]
- Look at you two go.
Oh, it's like that show "MacGyver"--
the original one, not the remake.
- Done!
- What in the Glenn McGraw are you gonna do with that?
- We're gonna shut this gator's trap once and for all
by keeping it open.
- Huh.
Yeah, sure.
- I believe in you!
- [muffled grunting]
- [snarling]
- [muffled grunting]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- No!
Just like Akira.
♪ ♪
- [muffled grunting]
♪ ♪
[whirring]
- [snarling]
- [gasps] Ha!
I got it!
- Whoo! - Good on ya, mate.
- That'll hold his jaws open long enough for us to get out.
- [panting]
- Couldn't help but note that you mentioned a group of them
when you were talking about the alligator, as in plural.
- That's right.
But don't worry.
I took care of one of them.
- One of them?
Wait, so how many are there, the alligators?
Donnie!
- Ahh!
[grunts]
- [snarling]
- Ahh!
- [gasps]
- [grunting]
Oh, crikey, my hip!
- [snoring]
- What in the world?
- Ah, just flip her over, mate.
Cuts off the blood supply to the noggin.
She'll have a nice little kip.
- We really could have used that information earlier.
[light uplifting music]
♪ ♪
- At the end of the day, being a mutant has its perks.
And not just the opposable thumbs, but bocce,
walking, tearaway pants.
I mean, it's pretty plush living, mate.
- [chuckles] Yeah, and don't forget anime,
comic books, and Steven Spielberg, and friends--
you guys, not the-- not the sitcom.
- I just wanna flag this quickly, guys.
You know there's another mutant out there, right?
Some kind of snake or eel creature.
- That's what trapped us down here.
- And I assume it did that.
[dramatic music]
[indistinct chatter]
- Hold on.
You hear that?
- Sounds like people!
What if it's that eel?
What do we do?
[loud rumbling]
- Hide!
[loud thudding]
Raph?
- Donnie!
We're in trouble, man.
- Raphael was right, for we were
in trouble, much bigger trouble than we ever suspected.
- I almost got eaten, you know.
- Almost.
- Hey, fellas.
What am I looking at here, an ad for fish and chips?
Ha!
[men snickering]
- Yeah!
- We need your help, Bad Bernie.
[dramatic music]