[Opening sequence and theme song.]
[Episode opens on the Technodrome.]
Shredder "Within minutes Earth's bakeries will be wiped out. Not a single cheese danish will remain. They'll all be ours!"
Rocksteady "Cheese danish?"
Shredder "We are a thousand miles below the surface of the earth. Do you realize how hard it is to get a decent snack down here?"
Leonardo "Not so fast, Shredder."
Donatello "Yeah, there are people up there who need those cheese danishes."
Shredder "The teenage mutant ninja wimps."
Raphael "Let's take them!"
Michelangelo "Like, what's the plan, Leonardo?"
Leonardo "Well, uh, we could cut to the left, or-- or maybe to the right. Oh, I can't decide."
Raphael "Thanks. You've been a huge help. Come on, Donatello."
[Donatello runs towards Bebop, who is eating spaghetti at a checkered cloth covered table.]
Donatello "All right, Bebop, it's time to tangle with turtles."
Bebop "Interrupt my dinner, will you?"
[Bebop picks up spaghetti with his fork and throws it. The noodles wrap completely around Donatello.]
Donatello "Now I know how a meatball feels."
Raphael "Say your prayers, hog breath."
[Rocksteady blows a huge bubble, which traps Raphael.]
Rocksteady "Do me a favor and blow."
[Michelangelo runs forward but then skids to a stop when he encounters a gigantic pizza lying on the floor.]
Michelangelo "Fantabuloso! A monster killer pizza!"
[He jumps into the pizza but a hatch opens and he plummets into nothingness.]
Michelangelo "Hold the anchovies!"
Shredder "There's only you now, Leonardo. Get him!"
Leonardo "Yeow!"
Shredder "Set loose the vicious dogs. Well, Leonardo, what a disastrous leader you turned out to be. You're in the soup now-- turtle soup, that is."
[Just as Shredder approaches Leonardo, who has fallen into a boiling kettle, the turtle wakes up.]
Leonardo "Oh! What a nightmare. What could it mean? Is it some sort of omen?"
[Later in the lair, Donatello approaches a brooding Leonardo.]
Donatello "I just need someone to practice with. What's wrong, Leonardo?"
Leonardo "Oh, it's that dream. I feel it was a warning that my judgment is beginning to fail."
Donatello "You'll be just fine. Now come on. Haiee! That's it. Now you attack me."
Leonardo "Yeow! Ooh! Aw, you see? It's happening. My instincts are -- are shot. My judgment is gone. Oh, I'm no longer fit to lead anyone."
Michelangelo "Hey, lighten up, dude. Everybody goofs up once in a while."
Raphael "After all, turtles are only human."
Leonardo "Forget it, guys. I'll only get you into trouble. I've thought about it, and I must leave."
Donatello "Master Splinter, you've got to talk Leonardo out of leaving."
Splinter "There is an ancient Japanese saying, ‘he who would be a boulder on the path of life must first be a pebble’."
Raphael "I don't get it."
Splinter "Perhaps it loses something in translation."
Shredder "That's far enough. You will see that no one in uniform and definitely no turtles enter the building."
Mile High Tower Robot Guard "No one in uniform. No turtles. Instructions assimilated."
Krang "This had better work, Shredder!"
Shredder "Trust me, Krang. It cannot fail."
First Policeman "There it is, the Mile High Towers. I wonder what's up?"
Second Policeman "I don't know. Something about a robot barricading the entrance."
First Policeman "There's the robot now!"
Robot "Uniforms! Uniforms! Entrance denied."
[One by one the three responding police officers are defeated.]
Robot "And what have we learned from this lesson?"
Policemen "Never mess with a robot."
Krang "What's taking so long, Shredder?"
Shredder "Patience, Krang. In a short time, the citizens will be too cold to resist us. The solar siphon will soon drain all the energy from the sun, and store it in these solar batteries, while the entire planet is turned into a deep freeze that will make the ice age seem like a Turkish bath!"
Krang "Whoo, you have a way with words, Shredder!"
Shredder "Well, actually, I always wanted to be a writer. Being a ruthless conqueror was my second choice."
[Shift to the turtles, who have gone above ground.]
Donatello "Where could Leonardo have gone to?"
Michelangelo "The dude's acting mondo bizarro."
Raphael "We never should've let him go."
Michelangelo "Brr! It is righteously cold."
Raphael "I can't believe it's the middle of July."
Michelangelo "Scope that out, dudes."
Raphael "Is my eyesight going, or is the sun actually getting smaller?"
Donatello "It's scientifically impossible. Now come on. Let's keep looking for Leonardo."
Michelangelo "This is totally nutsoid. Now it's snowing."
Raphael "I've got a feeling our old friend Shredder's behind this."
Donatello "What makes you say that?"
Raphael "Well, isn't he always?"
[The turtles have returned to the lair to consult with their master.]
Donatello "You have to tell us what to do, Master! Leonardo's gone."
Michelangelo "And there seems to be something radically wrong with the sun."
Splinter "This is a life experience, my students. Each of you must learn from it."
Michelangelo "So, like, who's gonna be the leader?"
Donatello "Maybe we could flip for it."
Raphael "Better yet, we'll play spin the pizza."
Michelangelo "All right, mondo notion!"
Raphael "Here goes."
Donatello "Looks like you're it, Raphael."
Raphael "How about two out of three?"
Michelangelo "Oh, no way, dude. You're the big cheese now."
Donatello "Tell us, fearless leader. What do we do now?"
Raphael "Uh, I don't know. Go up top and look around?"
Donatello "See? That wasn't so hard, was it?"
[At the top of a ladder, Raphael struggles to remove a manhole cover.]
Raphael "Argh! It's stuck."
Donatello "Allow me."
[He uses his bō to lift the manhole cover. A cascade of snow falls through and covers the three turtles.]
Michelangelo "What now, leader dude?"
Raphael "When in doubt, climb on out."
Michelangelo "Whoa, dig all this snow."
Raphael "Let's hope we don't have to."
Donatello "It looks exactly like the north pole."
Michelangelo "You're just saying that because of the polar bear."
All "Polar bear?"
Donatello "Nice leading, leader."
Raphael "Guys, I don't think I want to be leader anymore. Your former leader says run!"
Donatello "Oh, no, you can't resign that easily."
[While running from the bear, they hit a patch of ice and start sliding towards a group of penguins.]
All "Whoa! Aah! Whoa! Aah! Aah!"
Michelangelo "Cowabunga! Whoa!"
Donatello "This is impossible. It's like we really are in the arctic."
Raphael "I, uh, never fought a polar bear before. What do I do?"
Donatello "Hey, why are you asking me? You're the leader."
Michelangelo "Hey, lookie, polar dude, a troutsicle. Come on, amigos, let's make turtle tracks."
Donatello "I told you this wasn't the arctic. Look. Raphael, you brought us up right in the middle of the zoo."
Raphael "Well, it's free, isn't it?"
Michelangelo "Chill, dudes. We gotta figure out what's making the sun shrink."
Donatello "Something is draining its solar energy and its substance."
Raphael "Great. Now what do we do?"
Donatello "Simple. We use this energy tracker I invented to lead us to the source of the solar drain."
Raphael "That does it. You have all the answers. You be the leader."
Donatello "All right. Now, the source of the solar drain is due east of here."
Michelangelo "Well, let's boogie."
Donatello "Hey, let's not rush into this, gentlemen. First, we have to calculate the vector coordinates in order to triangulate the correct route."
Raphael "You said it's east, so let's go east!"
Donatello "Look, I'm the leader and we're gonna do it my way."
Raphael "Why do I get the feeling that I made a big mistake?"
[Shift to the Channel 6 news station.]
Burne Thompson "Irma, I t-told you to turn up the h-heat."
Irma "What h-heat? There's ice in the furnace."
Thompson "What's going on with this freak weather? And why isn't anyone covering this story?"
Irma "Because we're all t-t-too busy covering ourselves."
Thompson "April, g-get in here."
April O'Neil "Yes, Mr. Thompson?"
Thompson "I want you to get hot on this cold story."
April "No can do, boss. The city's under six feet of snow and we can't even get the front doors open!"
Thompson "But we can't just sit here. We gotta do something."
April "I'd call the turtles, but my turtlecom's frozen."
[Cut to Leonardo, walking by himself.]
Leonardo "The weather's turning colder. I should've picked a warmer disguise, but then it's just like me to make the wrong decision. Oh, I hope the others are doing okay. What am I saying? Without me holding them back, I'll bet they're right on top of things."
[Meanwhile, Raphael and Michelangelo are engaged in a snowball fight.]
Raphael "I guess you realize this means war."
Michelangelo "Oh, yeah? I'll roll over you like a pizza cutter through hot mozzarella, dude!"
Donatello "If the angle of refraction equals cosine of the cube root—"
Raphael "Oh, yeah? Take that."
Michelangelo "Oh, sure. If you'll take these."
Donatello "And bisect the hypotenuse's obtuse angle of the hypotenuse—"
Raphael "Donatello, while you're doodling, the entire planet is turning into a giant snow cone. East is that way."
Donatello "Then calculate the denominator. I've got it! East is that way."
Raphael "Oh!"
Krang "The solar batteries are nearly full, while the sun is draining rapidly."
Shredder "Excellent! Soon every living being on this planet will be cryogenically frozen. We'll thaw them out as we need them. Everyone on Earth will be our willing slaves."
Rocksteady "Did you hear that, Bebop? We get our own slaves."
Bebop "Yeah, a couple of stupid wimps we can push around."
Shredder "Rocksteady, Bebop, get over here."
Rocksteady "Hey, we ain't your slaves, you know."
Shredder "Oh, you're not, huh?"
Bebop "Yii! No fair!"
Rocksteady "Yii! No fair! Where's that Abe Lincoln guy when you need him?"
Donatello "Aha! This is the place."
Michelangelo "You're kidding, right?"
Raphael "Donatello, that's a schoolhouse."
Donatello "You can't argue with scientific data."
Raphael "Okay, you're the leader."
Michelangelo "Holy guacamole! Now this is what I'd call a cool school!"
Donatello "Come on, we've got to find that solar drain."
Raphael "Uh-oh! Sounds like trouble in shiver city."
Donatello "Oh, great. Now we're trapped in here."
Michelangelo "Whoa, how weird! We're being kept in after school and without a teacher."
Donatello "No problem, guys. Once we put that solar device out of commission, all the snow will thaw. According to the energy tracker, it's up in the bell tower."
[Donatello slips on the snow-covered stairs and falls, sliding into the others.]
All "Whoa! Whoa! Aah! Look out! Whoa!"
Michelangelo "Now I know why they call it breakdancing. I think I broke something."
Donatello "Fellas, we're going to need our ninja climbing gear."
Raphael "These foot cleats sure come in handy."
Michelangelo "Yeah, even though we had to look all over town for turtle widths."
[Donatello’s tracker starts beeping.]
Donatello "We found it."
Raphael "That's what's shrinking the sun?"
Donatello "Uh, no, actually it's something that's designed to trick my energy tracker into thinking it's what's shrinking the sun. In other words, we've been snookered. Well, that's not all. Besides being a transmitter, it's also a bomb."
Raphael "Stupid question time-- when does the bomb go off?"
Donatello "Exactly ten seconds from now! This thing is gonna explode in ten seconds!"
Raphael "Some leader you turned out to be! Leading us right into a trap."
Donatello "Michelangelo, cut that bell down."
Michelangelo "Way ahead of you, bud!"
Donatello "Bombs away!"
All "Whoa! Aah! Look out below! Coming in!"
Michelangelo "Well, dudes, I'd say school's out."
Raphael "Did I miss daylight savings time? Isn't it getting dark kind of early?"
Michelangelo "Definitely bizarro."
Donatello "According to that big office clock, it's only three o’clock in the afternoon. Look, the sun has shrunk so much, it's the same size as the other stars."
Raphael "Swell. Now what do we do?"
Donatello "Uh, no problem. My energy tracker should lead us straight to the draining device. Well, that is, it would have, if it hadn't been damaged. But don't worry. I've got a spare."
Raphael "Hey, where is your spare?"
Donatello "Back at the lair. Where else?"
Raphael "I hate to say this, but I guess this makes you the leader now."
Michelangelo "All right! I always wanted to be the big kahuna. Uh, what do you think we ought to do?"
Raphael "How did I know he was gonna say that?"
Bridge Attendant "Don't go near the bridge, Sonny! The snow's got it overweighted. See what I mean?"
Leonardo "Wow."
Bridge Attendant "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody's doing anything about it."
Leonardo "He's right. The whole world's in danger. And all I've thought about is myself. Well, I'm going back."
Irma "Ooh! Ooh! We're all going to freeze to death. I just know it."
April "No, we won't, Irma. If I can build a fire, we can defrost my turtlecom and get help! There. It's burning. Quick, Irma, throw some fuel on it!"
Irma "Here, use this."
April "I didn't mean the turtlecom."
Irma "Oops."
Michelangelo "Uh, Raphael, I think we're lost."
Raphael "You're just saying that because we don't know where we are."
Michelangelo "Face it. We're never going to find Leonardo."
Raphael "Or this mysterious device that's draining the sun's energy."
Michelangelo "Oh, that part's cinchy. It's right there. It's the Mile High Towers!"
Raphael "Michelangelo, you found it."
Michelangelo "Hey, like, that's why I'm the leader."
Raphael "The gizmo must be right up there."
Michelangelo "Okay, now, let me do the talking, all right? Remember, I'm the leader."
Raphael "Hit the slush!"
Michelangelo "It's some little robot dude."
Robot "Turtles! Turtles! You will not pass."
Raphael "Well, leader, what's the strategy now?"
Michelangelo "Oh, simple. We surround the enemy dude with a two-pronged attack. I saw it in a movie once."
Raphael "I can't argue with logic like that. Uh-oh. Who programmed this robot, King Kong?"
Michelangelo "Aah! Oh, hostile little guy."
[Leonardo arrives just as his brothers are grappling with the robot. He throws a sword into the robot’s back and shorts it out.]
Michelangelo "Leonardo! Great timing, compadre."
Leonardo "I knew you guys would get into trouble without me."
Raphael "You couldn't let a guy down easy, could you?"
Donatello "Hi, guys. Sorry I'm late."
Michelangelo "All right! Donatello's back, too. The awesome foursome together again. How did you find us, dude?"
Donatello "Oh, simple. I determined the coefficient of energy measured in ergs, I triangulated the approximate location, then coordinated it with the grid. And then I looked up and saw the fireworks."
Raphael "All this chit-chat is really keen, but if we don't get up there quick, this is gonna turn into a two-part episode!"
Leonardo "Let's go, turtles."
Donatello "Look at this place. It's frozen solid."
Leonardo "We'll never get to the roof on that staircase."
Michelangelo "Forget it. The elevator's frozen solid."
Leonardo "That's never stopped us turtles before."
Shredder "In a matter of minutes, the solar batteries will be full, and we will be absolute rulers of the Earth!"
Raphael "You want to double-check that timetable?"
Shredder "The turtles!"
Michelangelo "Time to boogie, dudes!"
Shredder "Get them!"
Raphael "Easier said than done, lead head."
[Rocksteady and Bebop charge him, but Raphael tosses them into some shelving.]
Rocksteady "Hey, who turned on the lights?"
Both "Whoa! Aah!"
Krang "You wretched reptiles, I'll stop you."
Raphael "Why not take home a few souvenirs from your visit?"
Shredder "I'll fix you!"
Leonardo "Would you care to tangle with this turtle?"
Shredder "Aah!"
Donatello "Let's turn the heat back on."
Shredder "We're surrounded. Emergency escape!"
Raphael "What the heck?"
Rocksteady "Parachutes!"
Shredder "Have a nice day."
Michelangelo "We gotta follow them. Cowabunga! Whee-ha!"
Raphael "Welp, they got away from us again."
Michelangelo "They're probably halfway to the Technodrome by now."
Leonardo "Don't worry, fellas. One of these days, we'll catch that Shredder."
Donatello "There. Now all that energy is flowing back into the sun. There. All back to normal. Now to shut this thing down permanently."
[Later, they are all back at the lair.]
Splinter "I hope this has taught you all a valuable lesson."
Leonardo "It certainly has, Master. I've learned not to let doubts get in the way of my duty."
Donatello "And I learned that I need to trust my instincts as much as my inventions."
Raphael "And I learned that it's easier to make wisecracks than decisions."
Splinter "Excellent, my students, and what did you learn, Michelangelo?"
Michelangelo "Oh, that you got to stick to what you do best. And in this dude's case, that's scarfing down pizzas!"
[End Credits]