The Shredder Strikes, Part 2

“The Shredder Strikes, Part 2”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode
Season Code:	S01E11
Episode:	11
Original airdate	April 19, 2003
Written by	Michael Ryan
Supervising Producer	Lloyd Goldfine
Producers:	Gary Richardson
	Frederick U. Fierst
	Al Kahn
	Norman Grossfeld
	Thomas Kenney
Supervising Director	Chuck Patton
Story Editor:	Lloyd Goldfine
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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

"The Shredder Strikes, Part 2" is the eleventh episode of the 2003 TV series and is also part 2 of 2 of The Shredder Strikes story arc. It first aired on April 19th, 2003. It had 2.38 million views on the 4kids website as of 2007.

Appearing in The Shredder Strikes, Part 2

Major Characters

• Donatello (Sam Riegel)
• Hun (Greg Carey)
• Leonardo (Michael Sinterniklaas)
• Michelangelo (Wayne Grayson)
• Raphael (Frank Frankson)
• The Shredder (Scottie Ray)
• Splinter (Darren Dunstan)

Minor Characters

• The Guardians (Sam Riegel)
• Foot Ninja
• Child and Mom

Species

• Human
• Mutant rat
• Mutant turtle
• Utrom

Objects and vehicles

• Battle Shell
• Bō
• Katana
• Nunchaku
• Sai

Locations

• Abandoned warehouse
• New York City streets and rooftops
• Sewer tunnels
• Y'Lyntian outpost lair

Episode

Voice-Over Introduction

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Leonardo: Well, it took me a while, but I managed to see Oroku Saki for who he really is: The Shredder. Of course, to get to this point, we had to fight a bunch of Foot Ninja, which wasn't easy. Then, we had to go up against Hun again. Definitely not easy. But the real nightmare is about to begin. Now we have to face the Shredder, and something tells me, this is really not going to be easy.

Plot

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We pick up the action from the previous episode on the roof of an abandoned warehouse, with the Shredder and a mass of Foot Ninja ready to attack the Turtles. The Shredder and his Foot attack and a huge battle on the roof unfolds. During the action, Leonardo swings at a Foot ninja but misses and hits an electric transformer instead. The transformer starts sparking and then erupts into flames, causing the whole roof to catch fire. The Turtles and the Foot battle on in spite of the fire, but suddenly the roof collapses from the fire and the weight of the combatants.

In the meantime, Splinter has emerged from his meditation and has realized that the Turtles must have gone after the Shredder on their own. He high tails it out of the lair to look for them, but on his way out he grabs one of Donatello’s electronic gadgets, the remote for the Battle Shell.

As Splinter heads to the scene of the battle, the Turtles are picking themselves up out of the debris of the burnt warehouse. However, in the collapse they have become separated from each other. Therefore, vastly outnumbered by the Foot that are looking for them, the mutants stick to the shadows and try to find each other. Don finds Michelangelo, who has injured his ankle. The two avoid the Foot ninja and enter an apartment bathroom via an open window, where Donatello wraps Mikey's badly sprained limb - unfortunately, a child opens the door to the bathroom the Turtles are working in and blows their cover. Raphael hides in a dumpster until he has the opportunity to take out some Foot soldiers, and then he's grabbed from behind - by Master Splinter. Raph and Splinter find Donny and Mikey and after a battle where the Sensei gets to kick some shell of his own, they call the Battle Shell remotely and head out to find Leonardo. While searching for his brothers, Leo has an encounter with a mysterious ninja, who calls himself a Guardian. However, before Leo can introduce the Guardian to Splinter and his brothers, the mystery ninja vanishes.

Leo climbs into the Battle Shell and our heroes are reunited. After listening to the Turtles describe what has gone on so far in their battle with the Shredder and the Foot, Splinter concludes they must take care of the Shredder once and for all. The Turtles prepare to charge off and confront the Shredder, but Splinter tells them to let the Shredder come to them. They park the Battle Shell below a fire escape and go to the roof of another building.

It doesn’t take long for the Shredder and the Foot to find the Turtles and Splinter, and another epic rooftop battle begins. This time the Turtles manage to defeat all the Foot ninja, but the Shredder out matches them. However, Splinter steps in and, through a series of tricky moves, manages to have the Shredder contribute to his own demise by causing a water tower to collapse on top of him, washing him right off the roof. As Shredder tries to stand after his long fall, the remains of the tower smash him into the ground.

Thinking they have beaten the Shredder and the Foot, Splinter and the Turtles set off for home. But just at the close, we see the Shredder’s hand emerge from the wreckage of the water tower. It looks like the Turtles assumed too much, and that the Shredder will return at some point.

See also

• The Shredder Strikes, Part 2/Gallery
• The Shredder Strikes, Part 2/Transcript

Quotes

Donatello: Nice landing! Michelangelo: They don't call me "Air Mikey" for nothin'!

Michelangelo: [groans] Raphael: Mikey, you okay?! Michelangelo: I dunno if I can make it. Raph, is that you? The lights, the lights are turning out! It's all going dark! Tell Raph...tell Raph... Raphael: I'm right here, Mikey. I-I-I'm right here next to ya! Michelangelo: You tell Raph, he's always been...a big cheese head! Syc! I can't believe you fell for that! Oh, oh the lights are going out! Ahaha! Raphael: [makes a fist] I'll turn out your lights for real, wise guy!

[Splinter tells his sons that they were foolish for taking on the Shredder alone] Donatello: You're telling me. I've got bruises that have got bruises. Leonardo: And did you see the way the Shredder walked right through that fire? Michelangelo: [In Arnold Schwarzenegger voice] Yeah, he's like the Shreddinator or something!

Trivia

• This episode marks the Turtles' and Splinter's first battle with The Shredder.
• This episode marks the first (assumed) demise of The Shredder.
• This is the only episode to not feature the theme song during the end credits scene. This was done by the producers to pay tribute to Street Fighter II Movie voice actor Hideyo Amamoto, who passed away a month before the episode premiered. The end music is also not present on DVD versions of the episode.
• Veronica Taylor uses her Ash Ketchum voice for the kid who finds Don and Mike in the bathroom.
• Mikey references Arnold Schwarzenegger for the second time.
• This episode is revisited in "Timing is Everything", with Leonardo and Cody arriving just before Shredder emerges from the fallen water tower.
• This episode is based on the first issue of the Mirage comic book, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 The Turtles' Origin is Told.

External Links

• "The Shredder Strikes, Part 2" at The Official TMNT Web Site