| Mousers Attack! | |
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| Original broadcast | December 8, 2012 |
| Season | One |
| Episode number | Eleven |
| Written by | Kenny Byerly |
| Directed by | Michael Chang |
| Previous episode | Panic in the Sewers |
| Next episode | It Came from the Depths |
Mousers Attack! is the eleventh episode of the first season.
Premise[]
When the Turtles try to recover April's stolen cell phone, they discover simultaneous threats from the Purple Dragons and Baxter Stockman's mechanical Mousers. The Turtles are forced to split into two groups, and Donnie and Mikey must prove that their "B Team" is just as valuable as Leo and Raph's "A Team."
Synopsis[]
This episode opens with the Turtles in the middle of one of their training sessions. As per usual, Raph initiates an arguement between Leo and himself. Master Splinter, having had enough of this bickering, strikes the pressure points in their throats and tells the two of them that, while competition is an excellent motivator, it should not turn them against each other. He then orders them to fight side by side in a spar against Mikey and Donnie. Leo and Raph sneer that that would be unfair, believing to be better than their brothers. Mikey and Donnie respond by immediately taking offensive poses, as do Raph and Leo, who become the victors of the ensuing duel.
Meanwhile, Dogpound informs the Shredder that he has intimidated the Purple Dragons into increasing the Foot Clan's cut of their take. This indicates to the Shredder that Dogpound's mutant form has its advantages, in stark contrast to Xever Montes, who has no way of leaving his aquarium 'imprisonment'. Dogpound revels in his rival's predicament, torturing him by tapping loudly on the glass, which creates a sound effect that gives Montes a headache. Montes then dares Bradford to come into the water so that he can harm him, but the Shredder tells Montes to stop and that, right now, he is in no position to be a fighter. This causes Montes to back down. The Shredder then orders Dogpound to find him the information about Splinter that he could use...or else Dogpound will receive another small punishment.
Back at the lair, Leo and Raph are still giving Mikey and Donnie a hard time about everything (even using the show Space Heroes to reflect on the ranks that Donnie and Mikey bear within the group) and label them "The B team". April then interrupts and comes in, informing the Turtles that the Purple Dragons had just mugged her and stole her phone as well. The boys then decide to set out and get the phone back, but Splinter cautions that a simple phone is surely not worth the risk of a prodigious fight and April chooses to agree. However, the boys see no potential danger from the little gang whatsoever and leave anyway, leaving Splinter and April alone to continue her training.
The Turtles soon break into the Purple Dragons' hideout and they easily defeat the three gang members, with Leo and Raph primarily carrying the fight, much to Donnie and Mikey's utter annoyance. They then all demand to see the gang's stash of stolen goods, mentioning that they want back an item stolen from a friend of their's. They walk a very short distance and just as they manage to find the phone, dozens of small, bipedal robots then burst through the floor and begin stealing a variety of things from the gang's huge stash. The Turtles take out all of the robots that remain, but, amidst the confusion, the gang leader (Fong) bids everyone adieu, climbs up a stairwell, and manages to escape with April's phone. Thus, Leo orders the "B team" to go after him at all costs, while he and Raph easily take care of the robots and try to possibly find out where they're coming from. Donnie and Mikey comply, still stung and nearly overwhelmed by all of the "B team" comments.
Leo and Raph soon follow the tunnel dug by the robots, as do the two remaining Purple Dragons, Tsoi and Sid (who conveniently hid themselves). The heroes then emerge in an old warehouse and discover that the sleazy Baxter Stockman is none other than the creator of these NOT rudimentary "Mousers" so that they can steal for him, as well as to eliminate the Turtles and practically anyone else who dares to try and stand in his way (or long him).Just when the scientist begins to gloat about just how rich and famous he will be after everything truly comes to order, Raph and Leo then lunge at him, but he then sprays the both of them with an obscure red mist that seems to be practically harmless at first, but it somehow causes the Mousers to home in on them relentlessly. The two Turtles easily destroy the first few Mousers around Stockman, but he then quickly reveals that he has hundreds and hundreds more. The boys then retreat with an army of robots on their heels. Stockman begins to brag once again about how their belated demise is at hand, but he is hit hard in the back of the head/knocked unconscious and abducted by both Tsoi and Sid before he can even finish his sentence.
The Turtles bust into the Purple Dragons' hideout and easily defeat the gang, with Leo and Raph being the predominant aggressors, much to Donnie and Mikey's annoyance. They demand to see the gang's stash of stolen goods, with Leo mentioning that they want a phone stolen from a friend of their's. Just after they walk a short distance to the gang's stash and locate April's phone, the building begins to shutter and dozens of small, bipedal robots with big, fang-filled mouths burst through the floor and proceed to escape with the gang's valuables in their mouths. The Turtles destroy the remaining robots, but, during the confusion, the gang leader, Fong, is able to escape the building with April's phone in his hand. Leo orders the "B team" to go after the phone at all costs, while he puts himself and Raph in charge of destroying the robots. Donnie and Mikey comply, still stung by all of the "B team" comments. Leo and Raph follow the tunnel created by the robots, as do the two remaining Purple Dragons, in secret. Leo and Raph soon emerge in an old warehouse and discover that Baxter Stockman is the person behind the creation of these robots. He created these "Mousers" (Mobile Offensive Underground Search Excavation (and) Retrieval Sentries) to not only steal for him and to make him extremely rich, but also to annihilate the Turtles and those who wrong him. Suddenly, he sprays Leo and Raph with a red mist that seems to be harmless at first, but somehow causes the Mousers to home in on them. The two Turtles easily destroy the few Mousers that are around Stockman, who then reveals that he has hundreds more hidden in a secret compartment. The boys retreat with an army of robots on their heels. As Stockman begins to gloat, he is hit in the back of the head and abducted by the Purple Dragon members Tsoi and Sid. Leo and Raph are chased all across the city, fighting as they go. They try to use every tactic that they know of to fool the robots, but they can't. They try to use a nearby water pipe to rinse the spray off, but to no avail. They know in the back of their heads that their most ideal option would be to call Donnie and Mikey for help, but Leo and Raph want to avoid being exposed as 'weak' in front of their brothers. They keep on fighting, but the supply of Mousers seems to be too much and the two turtle brothers are beginning to tire out. Leo finally has to step up and call Donnie for help.
Meanwhile, Mikey and Donnie have trailed Fong to a defunct futon factory, where the Purple Dragon member hands April's phone over to Dogpound, telling him that it belongs to a close friend of the Turtles. Not long after, the two other gang members show up with Stockman. Dogpound, after being told the things that Stockman has done, wants Baxter disposed of, but the scientist mentions that his Mousers are destroying two of the Turtles at the very moment. Realizing that he and Stockman have a mutual hatred for the Turtles, Dogpound orders the meek scientist to hack into April's phone, as he is good with electronics. With its built in GPS system, the Foot should be able to see every place that the phone has been, including The Sewer Lair, which means that they could know Splinter's exact coordinates. Meanwhile, Donnie answers Leo's call for help, but Leonardo ultimately denies that he needs any help and is somewhat shocked when he hears that Mikey and Donnie are actually getting somewhere in retrieving the phone. Leo then hangs up on him. Donnie has come up with several (possible) maneuvers to retrieve April's phone, one of which includes making the villains think that the police have arrived, while Mikey has humorously named every one of them. Finally, however, the two turtles settle on cutting the power to the building and snatching the phone in the darkness while Dogpound's senses are (hopefully) briefly impaired. The two almost succeed in achieving their goal, but are caught by Dogpound, who hears their movements and chains them to a wall.
Meanwhile, Raph and Leo have chosen to run away from the Mousers again. The two do end up making light work of the robots, especially when they collapse a street light that comes into contact with water from a fire hydrant, electrocuting the Mousers in the vicinity. However, Leo and Raph are confronted by even more, forcing Leo to call his brothers for a second time. Dogpound finds Mikey and Donnie's T-Phones when they start ringing, and takes them away. Before they can be hacked into, however, Donnie commands the phones to self-destruct and both of them blow up in Dogpound's hands. Just as Baxter is about to finish uploading a decryption program onto April's phone, Raph and Leo burst in. Stockman demands to know how they escaped from his Mousers and Leo simply replies "We didn't." As the robot horde bursts into the building through its skylights, Leonardo frees his brothers with his Katana blades, while the three Purple Dragons flee in panic. Mikey gets his hands on April's phone, automatically drawing the attention of Dogpound. Donnie figures out how the Mousers have been tracking Raph and Leo. The red spray is some sort of radio-isotope that the Mousers were programmed to detect with a device on top of their heads. The chemical cannot simply be washed off and must be worn off over a gradual period of time, but if someone were to be sprayed they would give off a much stronger signal. Thus, Raph hits Stockman's spray can with two Shuriken, causing the isotope spray to backfire and blast Dogpound and Stockman. The Mousers suddenly home in on those two. Dogpound finally gets his hands on April's ringing phone, but it gets knocked away and obliterated by a Tanto thrown by Donnie. Dogpound flees, grabbing Stockman along the way and bursting through a brick wall with a few dozen Mousers in pursuit. Leo and Raph congratulate Donnie and Mikey, and Raph resolutely dubs them the "A minus team", because of their efforts. Donnie muses that this is probably the best that they will get out of him.
Back at the lair, all of the team members relax casually. Mikey break-dances, while Raph feeds Spike as he frequently does, and Leo and Donnie play some pinball. Splinter then notifies to them that, by choosing their battles poorly, they ultimately create their very own crisis. The four then go up to April and show her what has become of her most prized phone, which was now broken due to the Tanto. However, Donnie then offers to replace it with one of his recently custom-built "T-Phones", which fascinates her. Unfortunately, Mikey accidentally causes it to self-destruct right in her hands, leaving her staring in confused shock at the now smoldering T-Phone.
Meanwhile, Dogpound is just arriving back at The Foot Headquarters with Baxter Stockman (after narrowly managing to escape from the robots) and he drops him onto the walkway that is there. The Shredder then appears and claims that he is disappointed because he has heard of the controversy currently being caused by Stockman's sudden interference, along with his very impertinent behavior. He then goes on to say that this is what ended up costing him a countless number of opportunities that he never had in his clutches before. He then picks up Stockman with extreme ease and then holds one of his own, extendable gauntlet blades up to his face, telling the panic-stricken scientist that he should indeed pay with what is the ultimate price. For once, however, Saki is actually able to identify some magnanimity within himself and decides on letting Stockman live only in exchange for just several of his skills and services. This episode than concludes with Dogpound growling and moving his right hand in what seems to be in the slightest bit menacing of a manner.
Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
Other characters:
- Captain Ryan (TV screen)
- Rodriguez (only appearance; dies; TV screen)
- Other guy (only appearance; dies; TV screen)
- Mr. Crankshaw (TV screen)
- Irma (first appearance; video phone photo; cameo)
- Spike (no lines)
Locations[]
- New York City
- Turtles' lair
- Killer Cookie Fortune Cookie Co.
Objects[]
- Atomic Robo-X arcade game
- The Corps Cadavres
- Skateboard
- TV
- Pizza
- April's cell phone (destroyed)
- M.O.U.S.E.R.S. (first appearance)
- T-Phones
- Boombox
- Space-Heroes pinball machine
Vehicles[]
- Captain Ryan's ship (TV screen)
Cast[]
| Sean Astin | Raphael |
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| Jason Biggs | Leonardo |
| Rob Paulsen | Donatello Other guy |
| Greg Cipes | Michelangelo Rodriguez |
| Hoon Lee | Splinter |
| Mae Whitman | April O'Neil |
| Kevin Michael Richardson | Shredder |
| Clancy Brown | Dogpound |
| Christian Lanz | Fishface |
| Phil LaMarr | Baxter Stockman |
| Andrew Kishino | Fong Sid |
| James Sie | Tsoi |
| Brian Bloom | Captain Ryan |
| Scott Menville | Mr. Crankshaw |
Notes and trivia[]
- This episode was originally titled Mouserthon.
- The name Irma appears on the caller ID of April's cell phone before it breaks.
External links[]
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