The Mean Machines

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The Mean Machines is a season 2 (1988) episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. This episode was written by Michael Reaves. It originally aired on October 22, 1988.

Plot Summary
After the batteries died in the alien crystal converger, Donatello, using spare circuits from the spaceship that crashed, builds a new tracking device to help locate the second fragment of the "Eye of Sarnath". On the streets of New York City, the tracking device picks up the signal and leads the TMNT to a branch of a bank where a hold-up has just occurred. The TMNT defeat the would-be bank robbers. Meanwhile Shredder and Baxter Stockman, who had followed the TMNT, locate the second fragment of the Eye of Sarnath and return with it to Shredder's secret hideout. Shredder contacts Krang and tells that his plan is to hook up the second fragment to a computer. Krang is doubtful.

Meanwhile, the TMNT's tracking device is malfunctioning, threatening to short-circuit the Turtle Van. Instead, the TMNT contact April O'Neil and ask her to meet them at a nearby construction site. The TMNT believe that April will know about anything weird going on in the city that can help them to locate Shredder.

Meanwhile, Shredder breaks into a Hi-Tech Lab and hooks the second fragment from the Eye of Sarnath up to a computer mainframe called: "O.M.N.S.S. (OMNIPOTENT MULT-PROCESS NEXUS SUBUNIVERSAL SENTIENT)". This computer has artificial intelligence. Shredder uses O.M.N.S.S. to track down the TMNT. O.M.N.S.S. sends energy through telephone/electrical wires across the city and down to the construction site where the TMNT and April are. The energy activates nearby construction machines that attack the TMNT and April. However, the TMNT are able to turn the machines against each other and escape.

O.M.N.S.S. needs more power and begins to drain energy from the power plants in the city. Soon, machines everywhere in the city are going beserk, creating total chaos in the city. Shredder believes that this can destroy the TMNT.

The TMNT discover Shredder's location, but on their way, O.M.N.S.S. takes control of the Turtle Van, locking it's doors and sending the Turtle Van to crash. Just as the Turtle Van is about to crash, Donatello retrieves the tracking device in an attempt to short-circuit the Turtle Van.

Meanwhile, O.M.N.S.S. is developing more power so Shredder can open a dimensional portal to Dimension X and summon his Foot robots without the help of Krang. Before this happens, the TMNT and April storm the Hi-Tech lab and April turns off O.M.N.S.S. Shredder and Baxter Stockman escape.