Lone Raph and Cub

	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 1; February 8, 2003 - November 1, 2003; List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes
	Episodes: Things Change; A Better Mousetrap; Attack of the Mousers; Meet Casey Jones; Nano; Darkness on the Edge of Town; The Way of Invisibility; Fallen Angel; Garbageman; The Shredder Strikes, Part 1; The Shredder Strikes, Part 2; The Unconvincing Turtle Titan; Notes from the Underground, Part 1; Notes from the Underground, Part 2; Notes from the Underground, Part 3; The King; The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 1; The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 2; Tales of Leo; The Monster Hunter; Return to New York, Part 1; Return to New York, Part 2; Return to New York, Part 3; Lone Raph and Cub; The Search for Splinter, Part 1; The Search for Splinter, Part 2; Season 1 – Season 2 – Season 3 – Season 4 – Ninja Tribunal – Fast Forward - Back to the Sewer

“Lone Raph and Cub”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode
Season Code:	S01E24
Episode:	24
Original airdate	October 18, 2003
Written by	Eric Luke
Supervising Producer	Lloyd Goldfine
Producers:	Gary Richardson
	Frederick U. Fierst
	Al Kahn
	Norman Grossfeld
	Thomas Kenney
Supervising Director	Chuck Patton
Story Editor:	Lloyd Goldfine
Episode chronology
"Return to New York, Part 3"	"The Search for Splinter, Part 1"

"Lone Raph and Cub" is the twenty-fourth episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It first aired on October 18th, 2003. It had 2.03 million views on the 4Kids website as of 2007.

Appearing in Lone Raph and Cub[]

Major characters[]

Mob Boss (David Brimmer) (debut)
- Weasel (Michael Sinterniklaas) (debut)
- Various mob members (debut)
Raphael (Frank Frankson)
Tyler (Tara Jayne) (debut)

Minor characters[]

April O'Neil (Veronica Taylor)
Donatello (Sam Riegel)
Leonardo (Michael Sinterniklaas)
Michelangelo (Wayne Grayson)
Tyler's mother (Tara Jayne) (debut)

Species[]

Objects and vehicles[]

Baseball bat
Limousine
Sai

Locations[]

Mob headquarters
New York City streets and rooftops
Police station
Y'Lyntian outpost lair

Episode[]

Voice-over Introduction[]

Raphael: Man is this gonna be a long night. Two major problems: the first, is these guys, your basic criminal-type thugs, which normally wouldn't be a problem at all.

Weasel: Hand him over, now.

Raphael: Except for the second problem...

Tyler: Come and get me, creepo!

Raphael: Some old guy once said, "Anybody who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad." Like I said, it's gonna be a long night.

Plot[]

Raphael is vigorously training and is obviously frustrated. Leonardo asks what's bothering him. Raph says he can't stand sitting around waiting for news when Master Splinter is missing, maybe harmed. Leo says they have to organize the search and what they know. Michelangelo explains Splinter risked himself, for him while Donatello says when they tried to look for Splinter, he wasn't there. April explains that she's been monitoring news and police reports for sightings of a giant rat, but her search has come up empty. Raph suggests they can search for Splinter. Mikey tells Raph to cool it, but Leo suggests to Raph to go topside and blow off some steam- perhaps he'll find some clues. Raph gladly leaves the lair and heads for the rooftops.

After running on the rooftops a bit, Raph hops onto a passing truck and bus to make better time. The ninja spots a shadowy form that looks like Master Splinter, but when he touches it, it falls to the ground in a heap. It turns out to be a pile of trash that had resembled Splinter in the poor lighting. Raph yells where his master is. He continues his search on the rooftops, until he sees some suspicious activity in the alley below. A group of mob thugs appear to be looking for something or someone. Raph goes closer to the scene to investigate. He spots a young boy in the dumpster. Just when it appears the thugs will leave, the boy knocks some trash off of the dumpster that breaks on the ground, alerting the thugs to his whereabouts.

The gangsters close in on the dumpster and yell to the boy to come out of hiding. Raphael can’t just let the thugs grab the kid, so he drops down to provide assistance. The mobsters are surprised by the appearance of the turtle, but they decide to beat him - or so they think! Raph manages to beat and send the mobsters running. Weasel calls his boss on a cell phone and informs him the boy has escaped - with the help of a lone costumed freak. The Mob Boss orders his minions to capture the boy, as a gang war is about to erupt now that the Shredder has been taken out of the picture.

Raphael manages to get the boy out of the dumpster and begins to talk to him. The boy punches Raph in the snout a few times. By the third punch, Raph grabs the boy's hand and tells him to keep his hands to himself or else he will get even. Then Raphael continues to ask the boy what is going on. The ninja learns the boy's name is Tyler and the boy is going after the mobsters by himself. Nonetheless, Raphael is willing to make sure the kid is safe.

Tyler tries to sneak away but Raph catches him red handed. Raph tells Tyler it is dangerous to go after the mobsters on his own. Tyler tries to argue but the ninja then carries the boy to the local police station and orders him to go inside and seek help. Tyler reluctantly enters the building and Raph returns to the shadowed alleyway. Seconds later, the kid emerges from the building and runs off. He doesn't get too far when a green hand grabs him by the collar. Raphael commands the boy to tell him what's going on or else he will keep taking him back to the police station every time he escapes. Tyler relents and Raph puts the kid down.

The boy explains the whole ordeal started after school and that his mother is an investigative reporter who had a tape containing some damaging info about a local crime boss. However, mobsters broke into the Tyler's house grabbed him and his mom, hauling them off in a limousine. The gangsters were planning to rub out the reporter and her son. The woman snuck the tape to the boy and told him to run away. As they were being removed from the car, Tyler kicked Weasel in the shin and escaped with the incriminating cassette. Since then he's been running from the mobsters but he's determined to save his mom.

Raph is willing to help the kid get his mom. At first Raph wants to take Tyler to safe place because the mission is dangerous, but Tyler is not having it and puts an argument. Once, Raph sees the young boy in tears as he was telling him off, he softens. Raph tells Tyler he understands his situation. The ninja tells Tyler about Splinter missing and he was looking for him when he found the young boy. Before they set off for the warehouse, Weasel makes fun of Raphael before fight ensues. Tyler wants to help but Raph has him watch as mobsters go after them. Raph manages to beat the mobsters once again. However, during the fight, Weasel throws a flash grenade and Raphael is blinded. The ninja turns to Tyler for help and the two run for cover, with Tyler shouting directions to the blinded Turtle. They manage to elude the gangsters, but our heroes still need to rescue Tyler’s mom.

Tyler manages to show Raph where the mobsters are holding his mom captive. When Tyler tells Raph he also sees a few mobsters and is planning to beat them, the ninja advises Tyler to think before he acts as he can't storm off like that. As Raphael was giving this advice, he realized he was also talking about himself. Then Tyler and Raphael plan to defeat the mobsters together. Raph develops a system whereby Tyler uses the positions of the hands on a clock to tell Raph where to attack. Feeling they now have at least some chance of defeating the mobsters, Raph and Tyler break into the warehouse and confront the mobsters.

Raph agrees to help the kid and they set off for the warehouse where the mobsters are holding Tyler’s mom. Before they get to the warehouse, Raph and Tyler are jumped by a group of mobsters lead by a mob lieutenant named Weasel. During the fight, Weasel throws a flash grenade and Raphael is blinded. The ninja turns to Tyler for help and the two run for cover, with Tyler shouting directions to the blinded Turtle. They manage to elude the gangsters, but our heroes still need to rescue Tyler’s mom. Raph develops a system whereby Tyler uses the positions of the hands on a clock to tell Raph where to attack. Feeling they now have at least some chance of defeating the mobsters, Raph and Tyler break into the warehouse and confront the mobsters.

No sooner do Raph and Tyler enter the building than they're meet by Weasel and his cronies. The gangster, knowing Raph has been blinded, thanks the Turtle for bringing Tyler right into their arms. Soon, the huge mob boss arrives, removes his coat and attacks Raphael. As the thug move in, Tyler starts shouting directions to Raph. “One o-clock, eleven o-clock, nine o-clock!” the boy yells, and Raph punches accordingly, sending the mobster flying. The boss orders the boy to be silenced, and Weasel grabs Tyler and covers his mouth - without directions, Raphael is an easy target for the villain, and he begins to lose the fight. Fortunately Tyler is able to bite Weasel's hand and free himself, quickly shouting out instructions that allow Raphael to win the fight against the criminal leader.

Tyler then grabs Raph's hand and leads him behind some crates. The child tells the ninja to push over the boxes, which Raphael does - creating a huge roadblock that gives the pair time to complete their mission. Raph and Tyler track down the cell holding the boy’s Mom. Raphael tells Tyler that his mom probably shouldn't see a big green turtle and tells the kid that he'll have to lead his Mom to safety and take the tape to the police. Tyler worries about Raph in his blinded condition, but does as he’s told. Before Tyler goes to get his mom, Raph comments to Tyler that they did good for a couple of hotheads. Tyler smiles. Raph opens the cell and disappears. Tyler runs into the cell, hugs his mother, unties her and then the two make their escape.

The mobsters continue to dig through the rubble. Raph rubs his eyes and discovers that his sight has returned. The ninja moves around the fallen debris and sneaks up behind Weasel, tapping the annoying crook on the shoulder. The gangster turns and taunts the ninja, unaware that he can now see. Raph comments on the thug's ugly tie - and the villain realizes - too late - that his enemy is no longer blinded. Raphael grabs Weasel by the coat lapels and tosses him into the fallen crates and then departs.

At the police station, Tyler hands his mother the tape. The woman looks at it wistfully. Tyler looks up to the rooftop next door and sees Raphael, who gives him a thumbs up. Tyler's mom tries to see what her son was looking at, but Raphael has disappeared. The boy then pushes his mother into the police station. With his good deed for the day finished, Raph runs off into the night.

Trivia[]

Raphael teaching Tyler how to control his temper is similar to his movie counterpart in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, where he is telling Yoshi to control his temper and then learning how to control his own, showing Raphael's soft side.
The title is a play on the title Lone Wolf and Cub classic 1970 manga by Kazuo Koike.
The movie Lone Wolf and Cub is shown to be Tyler's favorite movie as well.
This episode is Raphael's first individually-focused episode in this series.

External links[]

"Lone Raph and Cub" at The Official TMNT Web Site