The Alien Agenda

The Alien Agenda
General Information
Original broadcast	February 8, 2013
Details
Season	One
Episode number	Fifteen
Credits
Written by	Kenny Byerly
Directed by	Juan Meza-Leon
Episode guide
Previous episode	New Girl in Town
Next episode	The Pulverizer (episode)

The Alien Agenda is the fifteenth episode of first season.

Premise

When Leonardo gets fed up with Raphael's criticism, he puts him in charge. While free of leadership, he meets Karai, a teenage girl, who's also a member of the Foot.

Synopsis

Karai and a squad of her Foot Soldiers are jumping from rooftop to rooftop in the vast city. Karai then tells them to stay very alert, for the Turtles have been sighted in the area that they're in a few times before. Coincidentally, they hear the Turtles not that long after down in an alley way below and take note of the fact that they are fighting strange, ubiquitous alien robots. At that moment, Leo happens to look up, and he spots Karai observing him. He smirks at her and then bravely defeats all of the remaining Kraang, showing off his skills to the kunoichi (since he has a secret crush on her, though not as obvious as Donnie to April's), under the notion that he can possibly impress her; even slightly. However, Raphael takes notice of his brother's awkward behavior (and actually spots Karai as well), and mentions it to Leo without actually saying Karai's respectable name; And this leaves Mikey and Donnie to greatly wonder what the two are chatting about.

At The Shredder's lair, Baxter Stockman is nearly finished in creating an apparatus for Xever (we realize that this is exactly what he was enlisted for in "Mousers Attack!") that allows his mutated form to breathe, walk, fight and do many other things on land. However, just when Xever takes on the long-awaited pleasure of standing up, Stockman's creation (and control device) is quick to malfunction, and he is unable to properly get control of Xever's mechanical legs from that point on Dogpound thinks that this is simply too hilarious, and he immediately starts laughing at the likes of Xever. A now impatient Shredder witnesses Stockman's incompetence as well, however, and threatens Stockman with the removal of his legs if the operation of fixing the suit is not quickly renewed and begun. Karai then enters the scene from above, and tells him that she had just witnessed the Turtles fighting a bunch of 'slimy aliens' in robot bodies, and that their could be prudence in investigating the creatures and Xever and Bradford becoming hideous, anthropomorphic monsters, but The Shredder only dismisses this idea of her's, and instead reminds her of his ongoing vendetta against Hamato Yoshi and how they absolutely need to construct and complete their revenge for what the man had done to "them", raising some questions. He then tells her to stay focused on her one, true mission. She puts on her mask and agrees to this with a sinister look.

Back at the lair, Raph confronts Leo about him defeating the rest of The Kraang as just a means of 'impressing' Karai. Leo says that he was just trying to show her how formidable they are, but Raph has little to no credence in this. Raph then tries to convince Leo countless times, that she can't and should never be trusted in any way, shape, or form, describing her as a "black hearted scoundrel". Lovestruck by her, Leo bluntly ignores him. Instead, this ends up escalating into a brawl just when Splinter enters the scene, asking what this is about. Leo and Raph both lie and say that it's nothing really, and Raph angrily walks out, hitting Leo in the shoulder. Elsewhere, in the living room, April tells a curious Mikey and Donnie about a school project that she's doing. It involves sending a sample of each student's DNA to a place called the World Wide Genome Project, and they will send you back a report on a piece of paper that displays tons of info about your ancestors, in turn.

The next night, Leo waits for Karai to show up on a particular rooftop, hoping to talk with her about certain matters. She shows up and immediately tries to ask him about The Kraang, but Leo refuses to tell her anything about the dangerous robots, but only advises her to stay away from them. They then proceed to duel, with Leo still trying to convince Karai that she has somewhat of a good side within her and he also voices his belief that she is simply looking for a convenient way out of the Foot Clan. However, she flatly rebuffs this and responds by only snickering at him and sarcastically calling him 'adorable'. He's briefly caught off guard by this statement of her's, but quickly recovers and continues to fight with her. Finally, as a conclusive statement, he tells her that, if she dares to try to harm his brothers, he will go after her. She verbally acknowledges this and the two part ways. Oblivious to him, she holds ulterior motives.

At April's school during the following day, April walks in, only to find a woman named Ms. Campbell standing above the small stairway there. She repeatedly tells April to come with her so that she may receive her DNA test results. However, April suspects something's wrong due to her rather robotic voice, and she then tries to escape, but Ms. Campbell grabs her arm and pulls her backwards. April runs, manages to elude her attacker and hide in a broom closet, and immediately texts the Turtles for help. The Turtles soon arrive at the school and engage in a big fight with Ms. Campbell (who is actually a robot that can shoot missiles out of her elbows). After cutting off her face and spraying water on her, they quickly find out that she was a Kraang droid. They then think that the Kraang might've already hacked into the Worldwide Genome Project's network, and they decide to go investigate, telling April to head back to the lair where it's much more safe.

That night, they quickly locate the building and break into it, completely unaware that an ever curious Karai is following them once again. While inside, they quickly realize that the Kraang are the ones running the World Wide Genome Project, and have been managing to collect DNA from numerous plants and animals for an unknown purpose. Just then, it is revealed that Raph found Karai when he is then seen grabbing her. She and Raph then begin fighting, mostly for the heck of it. Leo tries to break them up, but he accidentally stumbles backwards in doing so and presses a button that summons The Kraang. They then start fighting all of the robots and Leo yet again tries to convince Raph that Karai does have some virtuous intentions like themselves (when she is shown slicing just a few of the robots in half), but Raph realistically chooses to ignore him. When the Turtles are eventually trapped in a corner because of the Kraang's very high level of Tech, Karai recklessly, yet intentionally presses a button that combines all of the DNA samples (which creates a grotesque monster, despite both the Turtles' and even Kraangs' warnings for her not to do so), she quickly picks up a slightly broken Kraang exo-suit, and rudely abandons our four heroes. Leo is heartbroken to finally see Karai's true colors, he realizes that Raphael was right all along. With all of his brothers and The Kraang utterly defeated by the Mutant, Leo angrily faces it by himself now. He quickly discombobulates it and then uses both of his Katanas to deflect one of the blasts from it's laser eyes and it subsequently blows up into smithereens, causing the entire building to collapse in exchange.

At the lair, Leo finally tells all of his disappointed brothers, April, and Splinter about his true sentiments for Karai. He admits that he had feelings for Karai and he delusions-ally thought that she could team up with them and do something good for a change. Donnie and Mikey are shocked and disappointed, April and Raph tried to warn him all this while, and Splinter tells him that.

In response to this, Splinter tells him that Leo is not the only first one to be foolish after having a crush on a girl, stating that Karai is an expert on deception, and Leo should treat her as an enemy instead of vice versa. He also advises him to not get infatuated with her anymore. Leo thanks him for his understanding, but Splinter injures Leo's foot with his cane as an apparent form of punishment. Before Leo goes into his room to go to bed, Raph comes up to him and says that he's glad that he came to his senses, upon which Leo apologizes for not listening to him very much - and Raph accepts it. Raph actually tells him that he understands why he was partly attracted to her, but now he believes that Leo is totally over it. However, Leo then looks down with a somewhat dejected expression, hinting that he may indeed still have some feelings for Karai.

Back at The Shredder's lair, Karai interrupts the recurring chaos of Xever's malfunctioning legs and delivers the Kraang exo-suit right to Stockman. The Shredder once again continues in his rant and begins to tell her that he has little interest in The Kraang whatsoever, but the villain is then quick to change his mind when a contented Stockman makes a claim. The functionality of this Tech is very similar to if not the exact same type of neural-transmission interface that he has relentlessly been trying to develop for weeks on end (by himself). The Shredder, seeing that this may mark the beginning of a new era, comes right up behind his adoptive daughter, places his two hands on her shoulders and tells her that she has done very well. She bears a conceited evil smirk.

Characters

Main characters:

• The Turtles
  • Leonardo
  • Donatello
  • Raphael
  • Michelangelo

Supporting characters:

• Splinter
• April O'Neil

Villains:

• Foot soldiers (no lines)
• Karai
• The Kraang
  • Ms. Campbell (first appearance; destroyed)
• Baxter Stockman
• Fishface
• Dogpound
• Shredder
• Justin (first appearance; no lines)

Other characters:

• MC Cool Daddy Dee (only appearance; drawing)
• Roosevelt Vikings (first time mentioned)
• Eastside High Panthers (mentioned)

Locations

• New York City
  • Shredder's headquarters
  • Turtles' lair
  • Roosevelt High School (first appearance)
• Worldwide Genome Project (only appearance; destroyed)
• Eastside High (only time mentioned)

Objects

• Kraangdroids
• Fishface's robotic legs (first appearance)
• Kuro Kabuto
• April's laptop
• Viking mascot head
• T-Phones
• Donatello's laptop
• Refrigerator
• Space-Heroes pinball machine

Vehicles

• TBA

Cast

Jason Biggs	Leonardo
Rob Paulsen	Donatello
Sean Astin	Raphael
Greg Cipes	Michelangelo
Hoon Lee	Splinter
Mae Whitman	April O'Neil
Kelly Hu	Karai
Kevin Michael Richardson	Shredder
Nolan North	The Kraang
Phil LaMarr	Baxter Stockman
Christian Lanz	Fishface
Clancy Brown	Dogpound
Cassandra Peterson	Ms. Campbell

Connections to previous episodes

• Karai refers to The Gauntlet, when Dogpound and Fishface were first mutated.
• Shredder reminds Karai about what he did to them, which is in twisted reference to the fact that he's lied to Karai that Splinter killed her mother, when it was actually him, as first alluded in Rise of the Turtles, Part 2.
• Roosevelt High School was mentioned on April's ID she flipped at the shopkeeper in Panic in the Sewers.

Notes/trivia

• Shredder threatened to remove Baxter's legs, which is actually something happened in the 2003 TV series, although not specifically his legs, although he did eventually end up reduced to nothing more than a one-eyed head.
• Justin was named after the production assistant, Justin Nix.
• The Shredder learns about the Kraang's existence in this episode.

Cultural references

• Dogpound references Disney's The Little Mermaid, when he teased Fishface was a mermaid growing legs.

External links

• TBA