Secret Origins, Part 3

"Secret Origins" is the third part of the three-part "Secret Origins" episode (thirty-fourth) of the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), which originally aired on January 31, 2003.

Major Characters

 * Donatello (Sam Regal)
 * Leonardo (Michael Sinterniklaas)
 * Michelangelo (Wayne Grayson)
 * Raphael (Frank Frankson)
 * Splinter (Darren Dunstan)
 * The Shredder (Scottie Ray)
 * Baxter Stockman (spider-robot form) (Scott Williams)
 * Hun (Greg Carey)
 * April O'Neil (Veronica Taylor)
 * Casey Jones (Marc Thompson)

Secondary Characters

 * Mr. Mortu (in Exo-suit and as Utrom) (Dan Green)
 * Fugitoid (Pete Zarustica)
 * Utroms Council of Three
 * Utroms
 * Krang (Wayne Grayson)
 * Guardians
 * Leatherhead

Voice-Over Introduction
 Splinter : A wise man once said, "The more one learns, the less one knows". My sons and I have learned many things of late. Much of what we learned, we experience through a remarkable window to the past. A history of an alien race, known as the Utroms. In a virtual reality, we witnessed as the Utroms transported their most dangerous criminal back to their home world to stand trial, only to crash land here on Earth, several hundred years. And in that past, we encountered one who resembled Shredder. Perhaps an ancestor or merely a phantasm. But even a phantasm can be defeated. My sons and I escaped that dangerous illusion, only to return to. ..a reality that promised to be more deadly!

Plot Synopsis
The Turtles and Splinter activate the internal fail safe of the oracle pod chamber only to find the TCRI building besieged by multiple enemies. The National Guard stands outside the building trying to get in while the Shredder leads an attack with the Foot at the heart of the Utrom's base. The Turtles and Splinter help the Utroms evacuate and escape the Shredder's wrath, and they soon learn of the Shredder's true form.

Quotes

 * Michelangelo : Get it off, or there's gonna be a tiny little Shredder alien busting out of Raph's chest. (Somebody hits Mikey in the forehead) Michelangelo : Oww.

Trivia

 * Part of these episodes comes from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7 of the original series.
 * The episode has two references to the old 1987 TMNT series. April O'Neil dresses up in a yellow jumpsuit and poses as a TV reporter for Channel Six, and Krang, makes a cameo as an Utrom complaining about how he hates walking on his tentacles.
 * Leatherhead makes a shadowed cameo escaping from the TCRI building during the raid.
 * Shredder is revealed to be the evil Utrom from "Secret Origins, Part 1".