The Pig and The Rhino

"The Pig and The Rhino" is the 63rd episode of the 2012 Series.

Synopsis
Donnie finishes a new batch of Retro-Mutagen in hopes of saving Karai; the Turtles are hunted by Shredder's new henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady.

Major Characters

 * (Mae Whitman)
 * (J.B. Smoove)
 * (Josh Peck)
 * (Rob Paulsen)
 * Karai (Kelly Hu)
 * (Seth Green)
 * (Greg Cipes)
 * (Sean Astin)
 * (Fred Tatasciore)

Minor Characters

 * Crognard The Barbarian
 * Crognard (Brian Bloom)
 * Graah
 * Grom (Fred Tatasciore)
 * Grum (J.B. Smoove)
 * Spooch
 * Wizardess (Mae Whitman)
 * Fishface
 * Tiger Claw
 * (Kevin Michael Richardson)
 * Tiger Claw
 * (Kevin Michael Richardson)

Plot
The episode begins where the last episode left off. At Shredder’s Lair, Anton Zeck and Ivan Steranko are enraged of being turned into freaks, they try to get revenge on Shredder by attacking him, but Shredder easily dodges their attacks and defeats them. Shredder then offers a deal that they serve him or fall at his hand. While Zeck takes the first option since being a warthog has limited employment issues, Steranko states that they will work for him....for now. Shredder wants them to capture Karai as they have done it before and threatens to have them experience more pain if they fail.

Meanwhile at their hideout after watching an episode of Crognard The Barbarian, Mikey was watching Crognard until Leo turns it off for a meeting on searching for Karai. Leo stated that the clue she gave him was “comet.” Casey suspects it being a meteor heading towards earth, while April suggests a name for her hideout, Donnie uses his computer and comes up with 3 possible locations: a dry cleaner, a movie theater, and a roller coaster at Coney Island. They decided to spilt divide into 2 to look. Donnie and April will investigate the dry cleaner. Ralph and Casey will check the movie theater. Leo and Mikey will head over to Coney Island. Donnie hands everyone Retromutagen containers just in case they see Karai.

Meanwhile, Zeck and Steranko are searching for Karai, Steranko now suggest forgetting about Karai and getting on the turtles for interfering with their attempt to escape the city. Zeck agrees with this idea. Steranko suggest splitting up to capture more ground. Zeck senses April and Donnie not too far and uses his cloaking ability to creep up on them. Over at the dry cleaners Donnie and April discovered to Karai isntt there. Zeck, still being invisible, manages to catch Donnie off gaud, but April managed to score a hit on him effectively turning it off, however, Zeck manages to trap April and stun Donnie. He then finds the Retro Mutagen and Donnie's T-phone, and discovers where the others are. Zeck tells Steranko to check out the movie theater while he heads to Coney Island with Donnie and April in a towtruckk. At the movie theater, Raph and Casey were bumbed out cause there's no sign of Karai. But Steranko, who was waiting outside, jumps out and surprised them. Both Raph and Casey tried to fend him off but Steranko's tough skin was resistant to their hits. Steranko knocked out Raph, and when Casey tried to wake him up the Rhino creeped behind him before the scene turned to black.

At Coney Island Leo and Mikey are searching for Karai, when they have no avail finding her she is hiding from them before giving her position away. Karai rushes to the spook house. The stuff that pops out freaks out Mikey and even Leo. They spot her and chase her to the hall of mirrors. Leo managed to convince Karai to calm down, she complies until Zeck and Steranko arrive where she is scared off. Zeck managed to spot them. He and Steranko and they threaten to kill the others if they don't comply. Leo tells Mikey to stall them so he can pick the lock. Mikey suggest giving them Mutant names, and after 3 tries he finally comes up with "Bebop and Rocksteady". Steranko liked the name “Rocksteady” while Zeck doesn’t like the name “Bebop”. Zeck then catches Leo trying to pick the lock but Mikey intercepts him. Steranko then declares that no-one can stand against Bebob and Rocksteady, which angers Zeck. Mikey blurts out about the retro mutagen Bebop is holding and he then aims it at Mikey, preparing to un-mutate him.

Just then, Rocksteady tells Bebop to stop because they can uses it to go back to normal, but then they start fighting on who gets to use it. Leo suggests they need a distraction, and Karai comes to their aid, but makes Rocksteady crush the vile. They split up and fight the mutants. Rocksteady managed to hold his own while Bebop used his cloaking device to cloak himself. Zeck was defeated when Donnie throws a smoke bomb at him, revealing himself and allowing Donnie and Casey to score a hit. Rocksteady was defeated when a roller coaster hit him sending him in the air... and landing on Bebop. With the villains defeated Leo calls out for Karai. Leo tries to change her back but it doesn't work with Donnie reminding him of how special Karai is. Leo asks her to come with them but Karai says no because she is losing her mind and is becoming more dangerous. Leo ask why did she want them to find her, she explains that she wants to say goodbye to all of them and she jumps into the sea much to Leo's despair. The gang heads back home, feeling sad because of their loss, but Leo promises to find a way to help Karai.

Unknown to everyone else, Karai had secretly gone back to the city. While trying to eat a rat, a cage falls on her. The scene switches over to Shredder’s lair where it was revealed that Bebop and Rocksteady have actually captured Karai. Shredder is pleased and promises to cure her mutation, and soon they will have their revenge, but Karai hisses in anger at him.

Trivia

 * Crognard raises his sword shouting "For the powers of Lognard, I have the energy!" as an homage to He-Man's famous "By the powers of Grayskull, I have the power!", even Crognard's movements were based on He-Man's.
 * Shredder fights Bebop and Rocksteady to make them respect him, the same way Shredder said he would do to Tokka and Rahzar in the 1991 film.
 * When threatening Leo and Mikey with the retro-mutagen gun, Bebop says. "It time for the Next Mutation." A clear reference to the live action series with the same name.
 * When taunting Leonardo and Michelangelo to reveal themselves in Coney Island Bebop says "Turtles come out to play!", this is a reference to the film "The Warriors".

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