| “Portal Jacked!” | |||||||
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| Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode | |||||||
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| Season Code: | 034 | ||||||
| Episode: | 17A | ||||||
| Original airdate | April 6, 2019 | ||||||
| Written by | Russ Carney & Ron Corcillo | ||||||
| Producers: | Vladimir Radev | ||||||
| Directed by | Sebastian Montes | ||||||
| Voice Direction | Rob Paulsen | ||||||
| Supervising Director | Alan Wan | ||||||
| Storyboard Artist: | Max Collins Zane Yarbrough | ||||||
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"Portal Jacked!" is the twenty-ninth episode (Episode 17A) of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It first aired on April 6th, 2019.
Synopsis[]
Leo loses his brothers in a portal and must venture to the mystic Hidden City to save them.
Appearing in Portal Jacked![]
Major characters[]
- Señor Hueso (Eric Bauza)
- Leonardo (Ben Schwartz)
- Capitán Piel (Christian Lanz) (debut)
Minor characters[]
- Donatello (Josh Brener)
- Hidden City Police (debut)
- Hidden City Police #1 (Eric Edelstein) (debut)
- Hidden City Police #2 (Audrey Wasilewski) (debut)
- Hueso, Jr. (image only) (debut)
- Kraken Pirate (Eric Bauza) (debut)
- Mermaid Pirate (Rob Paulsen) (debut)
- Michelangelo (Brandon Mychal Smith)
- Raphael (Omar Benson Miller)
- Sea Serpent Pirate (Maurice LaMarche) (debut)
- Singing Pirates (Andy Suriano and Ant Ward) (debut)
- Todd Capybara (image only)
- Yōkai Granny (Maurice LaMarche) (debut)
- Yōkai Pirate (Eric Bauza) (debut)
Species[]
Objects and vehicles[]
- Mystic Ōdachi
- SS Queen Alexis (debut)
Locations[]
- New York City
- Run of the Mill Pizza
- Hidden City
- Docks (debut)
- Tahiti (debut)
Plot[]
The episode opens in Run of the Mill Pizza, where Hueso in his office, finishing the pirate ship, until a distressed Leo bursts in and tells him that he has a situation.
In the flashback where we can see the turtles are discussing of how to get in the restaurant until Leonardo decides to teleport them there. His brothers beg him not to, but Leo does anyway. As portal sucks four of them up, Leo is the only one, but his brothers are not. That's the reason why Leo came in.
The flashback ends. Hueso remembers it as a portal jacking. The portal jacking caused by the pirates of the Hidden City as they use every portal so they can steal their treasures, including Leo's brothers and the creator of portal is "lame" (Leo).
When Leo asks Hueso to help him, he refuses, saying he never headed to the Hidden City, but after Leo tells Hueso that they can have so many pizzas, so his son Hueso, Jr. will get into the college. Hueso agrees.
Hueso then shows Leo the secret passage to the Hidden City, which is garbage, as he pulls the lever, the trash falls, revealing passage. Excited, Leo asks Hueso to come, but Hueso still refuses, but Leo pulls him in anyway.
As they arrive, Hueso angrily calls him a fool saying that he shouldn't have brought him here. The reason of why Hueso can't go to the hidden city is because he's the self-exiled criminal in the Hidden City. To prove this point, it was seen as Hueso is chased by Hidden City police. Leo and Hueso escape on the bird.
The duo arrive in the docks, where Hueso wants to tell Leo that he wants to get out, but Leo still refuses. Since Leo saved Hueso from being caught by police, Hueso must owe him. Hueso then tricks Leo into believing that Yōkai Granny is the one, who has something to deal with the pirates. Leo believes it and commands granny, until her grandson arrives, enraged by Leo threatening her, causes him to punch Leo away. Leo soon wakes up and notices Hueso running away. Seeing that Hueso tricked him, Leo furiously exclaims that he won't abandon him here. Leo runs after him, he calls Hueso a skinless coward and tells him that he'll help him to find his brothers or not at all as he opens the portal and uses it to pull Hueso in.
The scene cuts to the mountain where we can see the portal opens as Leo and Hueso fall, and Leo pins Hueso to the ground. Angered that Hueso abandoned him, Leo is about to use his ōdachi to open the portal so he can send him to the police as a revenge for tricking him, but he realizes that his sword is gone (which was pointed out by Hueso). Leo exclaims:"Portal Jacking!!! AGAIN!!!". Leo frustratedly laments that not only he lost his brothers but his sword is also gone. Hueso comforts him saying that he's gonna get used to it without brothers, but leaves. Leo tells Hueso of how much he needs his brothers, but realizes that he must leave Hueso alone, he says: "Adiós, Hueso" (in Spanish for "Bye, Hueso"). Feeling remorseful for his mistreatment towards Leo, Hueso sighs and tells Leo to stop, saying that this time he'll help, much to Leo's delight.
Leo and Hueso soon found the black market, where they defeat the pirate thieves and Leo reclaims his ōdachi. Both now soon dressed as a pirate and found a ship known as SS Queen Alexis. Leo is about to enter through portal to the ship, but as Hueso thinks of a plan, Leo's stubbornness still causes him to pull Hueso in.
As they arrive, they have been confronted by the pirates. Leo and Hueso pretend to be the pirate actors, just as the captain arrives. As he reveals himself, he is completely skinned yokai named Capitán Piel. Piel tells Hueso to be careful since they are the most wanted criminals in the Hidden City. Leo thinks that Hueso used to be the pirate and cheers him, until Hueso reveals that he was never a pirate, furiously saying that Piel was the reason that turned him to the self-exiled criminal in the Hidden City (because he brought him in one mission, that leads him to became wanted in the Hidden City). Piel tells him that he was such a coward, saying that he just run away from thievery. Hueso explains that he was a child and tells him that he fears him no more and calls him a hermano (in Spanish for "brother"). Leonardo is surprised that Hueso and Piel are actually brothers.
Hueso tells him that he has a chance, saying that if he abandons his piratical ways, then they can be brothers again, but Piel refuses. The two brothers started to fight, until it ended when Hueso became so angered enough that he rips his outfit, revealing his weapon: appendages that crush Piel. Leo declares that if they can't be brothers, but he's determined to get back his own. Just as Leo's about to open the portal, the pirates confront him and forced him to go to the plank, which causes Leo to decide that he'll open portal so he can transfer them to the police. The pirates are horrified, while Hueso frantically exclaims to Leonardo that no one has ever done it, but Leo opens the portal, and his brothers popped out, with Hawaiian clothes.
The turtles stand up and explain to Leo that he teleported them to Tahiti and they love in there (as Donnie says that the sewers are fabulous). When Leo asks his brothers to help him to fight the pirates, but his brothers stubbornly refuse, saying that they want to go back to Tahiti and demand to Leo to do it. Wanting to go to Tahiti with his brothers too, Leo opens the portal, however it didn't bring them to Tahiti, they are still in the pirate ship, but the pirates are vanished with no trace, including Capitán Piel. Leo believes that they have got rid of pirates.
Suddenly, the Hidden City police arrive and confirm Leonardo, and say that they saw everything and Hueso was there, so they praise him as a hero, they even cut Hueso off of the hook and let him to go to the Hidden City as much as he wants, much to Hueso's joy.
Hueso happily fist-bumps with Leo and asks where his brother is, since Leo was the one who teleported him and his crew. Though Leo don't know where he teleported them, but all what Leo can do is assure his companion that he must have transported him to the most worst place ever, however, it is not. Piel and his crew were actually transported to Tahiti, as the episode ends.
Quotes[]
- Leo: Dude, let me say this in a language you can understand; No!
- Donnie: Oh, is this Tahiti? Well then, allow me to make a sand angel in this lovely, soft, wooden sand. Ouch.
Trivia[]
- This is the first time the Hidden City has appeared since its debut in the series' premiere episode, "Mystic Mayhem".
- "Hachi Machi", a phrase Leo said before opening a portal, is a reference to the 1994 series The Critic.
- This is the first appearance of Piel.
- It was revealed in July 2022 by Rise of the TMNT staff writer Ron Corcillo concerning Leo's line, "Dude, let me say this in a language you can understand: no!" in a Tweet that, "It was based on a joke [Russ Carney] used to make about wanting to write a book called 'No Means No - a Spanish-English Dictionary.'"[1]