Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero

“Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode
Season Code:	03
Episode:	23
Original airdate	October 25, 1989
Written by	David Wise
Producers:
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Season September 25, 1989 - Feburary 9, 1990 List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: "Beneath These Streets" "Turtles on Trial" "Attack of the 50-Foot Irma" "The Maltese Hamster" "Sky Turtles" "The Old Switcheroo" "Burne's Blues" "The Fifth Turtle" "Enter the Rat King" "Turtles at the Earth's Core" "April Fool" "Attack of Big MACC" "The Ninja Sword of Nowhere" "20,000 Leaks Under the City" "Take Me to Your Leader" "Four Musketurtles" "Turtles, Turtles Everywhere" "Cowabunga Shredhead" "Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers" "Camera Bugged" "Green With Jealousy" "Return of the Fly" "Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero" "Mutagen Monster" "Corporate Raiders from Dimension X" "Pizza by the Shred" "Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady" "Beware the Lotus" "Blast from the Past" "Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp" "Michelangelo's Birthday" "Usagi Yojimbo" "Case of the Hot Kimono" "Usagi Come Home" "The Making of Metalhead" "Leatherhead Meets the Rat King" "The Turtle Terminator" "The Great Boldini" "The Missing Map" "The Gang's All Here" "The Grybyx" "Mister Ogg Goes to Town" "Shredderville" "Bye, Bye, Fly" "The Big Rip-Off" "The Big Break In" "The Big Blow Out" 1987 Season – 1988 Season – 1989 Season – 1990 Season - 1991 Season – 1992 Season – 1992-1993 Vacation in Europe sideseason – 1993 Season – 1994 Season – 1995 Season – 1996 Season

"Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero" is an episode of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 cartoon series.

Appearing in Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero

Major characters

• Donatello (Barry Gordon)
• Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
• Michelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
• Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
• April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
• Shredder (James Avery)
• Krang (Pat Fraley)
• Bebop (Barry Gordon)
• Rocksteady (Cam Clarke)
• Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
• Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
• Casey Jones (Pat Fraley) (debut)

Minor characters

• Bakery thief (Barry Gordon)
• First sports store robber (Rob Paulsen)
• Second sports store robber (Pat Fraley)
• Street mugger (Peter Renaday)

Species

• Human
• Mutant rhinoceros
• Mutant turtle
• Mutant warthog

Objects and vehicles

• Channel 6 news motorcycle
• Knucklehead
• Transport Module
• Turtle Van

Locations

• April's apartment
• Channel 6 building
• City park
• City river
• City streets
• Power Plant
• Technodrome
• Turtle Lair

Plot

Crimes are committed - a mugging, a bakery robbery and a nighttime burglary at a sports store - and all are dealt with by a mysterious man named Casey Jones, who wears a hockey mask and vows that "all lawbreakers" will be punished. Afterwards, Burne Thompson wakes April in the middle of the night with news of the vigilante attacks, and demands she cover it.

The Turtles are heading up to the surface to get pepperoni when Jones spots them and attacks. He eventually concludes that they aren't criminals, but that they are Martians (which he finds terrifying, apparently).

In the Technodrome, Krang is showing off his newest invention: a mechanical bug that can control any machinery. He's planning to use them to create the Supersize Knucklehead, so Rocksteady and Bebop let the bugs loose in the street.

The Turtles find Jones harassing a homeless man and stop him, but he gets away. Raphael doesn't see why Jones is their business, but Donatello points out that since he knows kung-fu, comes out of the sewers and fights crime, people will blame his activities on them.

While April is covering the vigilante, a bug causes her motorcycle to come to life and buzz around her. Fortunately the Turtles arrive to drive it off, only for all the cars on the street to start driving themselves around and appliances to chase people down the street. Unfortunately, this is also happening in high-tech labs, where the equipment starts building the supersize Knucklehead.

But just as a fridge is about to crush Michelangelo and Donatello, Jones rushes in and smashes all the runaway appliances. Donatello spots the mechanical bug clinging to one of the machines, and the Turtles follow it in hopes of locating Shredder. Unfortunately, it only crashes the Turtle Van into a lake, since Donatello's equipment had been infiltrated by a bug.

They use the Porta-Tracker to locate the place where Shredder and Krang are, and arrive just in time to see the "giant economy-sized Knucklehead," driven by Krang. Jones chases the Knucklehead down the street, climbs on board and begins attacking it with a hammer, while the Turtles are left to deal with the wild machines.

They manage to make it to Shredder, who has the remote control for the bugs. Donatello summons all the bugs and commands them to infest the Knucklehead. Jones smashes a hole in the side, and throws the remote inside at Donatello's command. The bugs cause the Knucklehead to go berserk and start attacking its pilot, before exploding. The villains escape once again, but the Turtles are satisfied by the outcome. Casey Jones vanishes without another word.

See also

• Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero/Gallery
• Casey Jones - Outlaw Hero/Transcript

Quotes

Leonardo: Alright Shredder, Hand over that control box!! Shredder: "To you?! Never!!! Donatello: Quit stalling, Hand it over!! Raphael: You heard him "chrome-for-brains"!!!

Raphael: Who appointed you judge jury and executioner? Casey Jones: This city's a cesspool of crime. Somebody's gotta clean it up! And that someone is me!

Casey Jones: Not even mutant criminals can stop Casey Jones! Raphael: This guy's seen too many Filthy Harry movies!

Leonardo: Casey, you wanna fight criminals? Well Shredder is the biggest criminal of all! Raphael: Besides which, he also ripped off your costume idea! Casey Jones: Trademark infringement? How low can ya get?

Leonardo: Casey was a strange guy. Reckless, dangerous and totally violent! Raphael: Yeah, I liked him too!

Notes and errors

• Casey used two bats when he smashed up the appliances, but was seen with his sledgehammer in his right hand after he freed the Turtles from the refrigerator. 
• When Krang orders the robots to build the Super Knucklehead, Krang and Shredder start to laugh but strangely enough, no sound is heard from Shredder's laughter. 

Trivia

• Casey Jones' voice is patterned after Clint Eastwood's renegade cop Dirty Harry Callahan. This is reinforced when Jones says words like dirtbag and punk and utters the line "Go ahead, make my night". A play on the famous quote, "Go ahead, make my day." It is also explicitly referenced when Raphael says that Casey has been watching too many "Filthy Harry" movies.
• Splinter does not appear in this episode.
• This episode features one of many fourth wall breaks when, after jumping off a subway car, Bebop and Rocksteady instruct the audience not to try it at home.
• Another fourth wall break occurs when Raphael responds to April's wondering why the turtles aren't doing something about the crazy machines, despite Raphael not being anywhere near April at the time she said that.
• On the back cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Volume 4, the title card has been renamed as "Casey Jones".

Home media releases

DVD

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Volume 4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection