Enter The Fly

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Enter: The Fly is episode 12 in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. It is the seventh episode of season 2 (1988). This episode originally aired on November 12, 1988, in syndication. It is available on the DVD box set released on April 26, 2005.

Plot Summary
The TMNT are flying in their blimp over New York City, searching for Shredder. April O'Neil said that Shredder was seen on the roof on one of the two World Trade Center buildings, where the TMNT find Shredder and Baxter Stockman attempting unsuccessfully to operate some unnamed energy weapon. Upon spotting the Turtles' arial approach, Shredder and Baxter make a hasty escape.

Failing once again to destroy the Turtles, Shredder blames Baxter Stockman. When they both are on barge where a lot of flies are swarming, Shredder contacts Krang and asks him to send Bebop and Rocksteady back to Earth. Krang declares that there is an imbalance that requires someone to travel back to Dimension X in exchange - naturally, Shredder throws Baxter Stockman through the dimensional portal. A fly also enters the dimensional portal and arrives in Dimension X. Krang decides to kill Baxter Stockman by having him thrown by two stone warriors into a sealed chamber called the Disintegrator Unit. However, the chamber's machinery malfunctions and fuses Baxter Stockman with a fly that followed him from the barge through the portal. Shortly after accident the disintegrator exlodes, freeing the newly-formed genetic-hybrid who proceeds to reopen the dimensional portal and return to Earth.

Meanwhile Shredder forces a man to deliver a strange bouquet of flowers to April O'Neil at Channel 6. There is no card on the flowers. Irma asks April if the turtles sent it and April doesn't answer. Later, April goes to the TMNTs sewer lair. Splinter throws the bouquet in a dustbin and asks April if she has inhaled the fragrance. April says yes, and then faints. When the turtles arrive, Splinter explains that April has been sent a rare Far Eastern Doku plant and that its fragrance causes death. The only antidote is the leaf of a Gazai plant which April needs to survive the coming night. The Turtles go up to a local nursery, specializing in rare and exotic plants, where they are attacked by Baxter Stockman. The turtles escape and head back into the sewers to continue their hunt for a Gazai plant.

Baxter Stockman tries to find Shredder and seek his revenge against him, but when he does, Shredder takes advantage of his confused state of mind, and convinces Baxter that the turtles are responsible for his transformation.

Meanwhile, the turtles locate a nursery there they buy the only Gazai plant in the Western Hemisphere, but lose it after a fighter with Shredder, Baxter Stockman, Bebop and Rocksteady, who use the robot Knucklehead. The turtles head home to the sewers without thee Gazai.

Shredder uses his communicator to call the turtles and invites them to meet and fight to the death for the Gazai plant. Even though the turtles believe Shredder will use some tricks, they agree.

A short time later, the turtles arrive at a deserted wrecking yard. Shredder and Baxter Stockman have prepared a trap. The plan is to herd the turtles between two electrode posts that are designed to send anyone who passes through them a microsecond into the future, causing them to be out of sync with the rest of the world. But plan fails when Splinter arrives in the Turtle Van and uses the laser guns on the Turtle Van to shoot the Gazai plant out of Shredder's hand. In the confusion, Baxter Stockman flies through the elecrode and disappears. Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady escape.

Back at the turtles' lair, Splinter mixes the antidote and gives it April. Within moments, she recovers. The remaining unused Gazai leaves are used ultimately by Michelangelo as the base for a pizza sauce.

Animation Errors

 * When Donatello says, "You said a mouthful," his mask is orange.
 * Throughout the episode, Krang's visor, shoulder pads and suspenders are dark grey.

Continuity Errors

 * The Gazai plant inexplicably disappears during the battle against Shredder and the Knucklehead, though it can be explained away as Leo putting it safely aside until the tension wore off.

Trivia

 * This episode was influenced by the 1986 film remake of The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum.
 * When Shredder attacks the Turtles after they obtain the Gazai Plant, Donatello uses a move similar to his special move from the game Turtles in Time to knock him down.
 * Michelangelo uses the rest of the Gazai plant to make pizza. Did it ever occur to him that if Shredder tries something like this again, he just eradicated the only cure from the Western Hemisphere?
 * Baxter's line, where he claims he should have "reversed the polarity of the neutron flow", is a reference to the catchphrase employed by the third incarnation of the title character of the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.
 * Baxter's role is reduced to a recurring guest star from this episode onwards. Bebop and Rocksteady rejoin Shredder as series regulars.
 * The Doku Plant and the Gazai Plant must be related, since they resemble each other.