The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 2

	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 Back,; Part 2”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode
Season Code:	S01E18
Episode:	18
Original airdate	June 14, 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
"The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 1"	"Tales of Leo"

"The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 2" is the eighteenth episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and is also part 2 of the "Shredder Strikes Back" story arc. It first aired on June 14th, 2003. It had 2.79 million views on the 4kids website as of 2007.

Appearing in The Shredder Strikes Back, Part 2[]

Major characters[]

Minor characters[]

Various Foot Clan divisions
Utrom Council Trio (Darren Dunstan)
Guardians (Sam Riegel)
The Police
- Sarge
- Frank (Pete Capella)

Species[]

Objects and vehicles[]

Battle axe
Bō
Ice hockey stick
Katana
Nunchaku
Sai
Spear
Tekkō-kagi
Trident
Twin-Bladed sword

Locations[]

April's apartment and antique shop
New York City streets and rooftops

Episode[]

Voice-over introduction[]

Splinter: The worst has come to pass. My son Leonardo was out on a training exercise when he was ambushed and chased across the city by the dark forces of the Foot. He was returned to us broken and battered, only to deliver a terrible message.

Leonardo: He's back...the Shredder.

Splinter: I had foolishly thought the worst had come to pass, but now I fear it is yet to come.

Plot[]

Continuing from Part 1, everyone is crouched over the seriously injured Leonardo, in utter shock. Michelangelo looks out the window and notices that there are many Foot Ninja assembled on the rooftops of all the buildings surrounding April’s apartment. Before Splinter and the Turtles can even prepare, the Foot come storming into April’s apartment from every side. While the Turtles and Splinter battle the attacking Foot Ninja, April drags Leo to a sheltered spot and tries to tend to his wounds.

It quickly becomes clear that they can’t hold the Foot off for very long, so they decide the best course of action is to go down the stairs and escape through the antique shop. With April assisting Leonardo, they make their way down the stairs. Mikey scouts ahead and discovers that a trap is waiting inside the store in the form of the Foot Elite. Mikey makes a gag—telling the four that they have nice hats; This is also told to them by the other two Turtles that enter the shop. It turns out the Foot attack was designed to tire the Turtles and Splinter out, and herd them right into the grip of the Elite. As Splinter fights the Foot Ninjas storming in from the apartment, the other three Turtles engage the Elite Guard in combat. The resulting battle is ferocious, and the Turtles and Splinter are, at best, delaying an inevitable defeat, due to being severely outnumbered. Just when it

S1E18-SSpt2-346 — Casey attacks Hun after telling him to leave April alone.

seems things can't get any worse, they do! Hun arrives on the scene and menaces both April and an injured Leonardo. However, April and Leo manage to run through the door leading into the shop, and Raphael immediately closes the door on Hun, holding the giant off temporarily. To make matters even worse, however, Shredder shows up and starts to attack Master Splinter, while the Foot Elite continue to square off with the Turtles in an effort to finish them off.

S1E18-SSpt2-298 — Splinter delivers a devastating kick to Shredder's abdomen.

Just when all seems lost, reinforcements arrive in the form of Casey Jones.

S1E18-SSpt2-308 — Casey prepares to help the turtles fight The Shredder and the Foot Ninjas.

Casey crashes through the storefront window on his motorcycle and manages to take care of the Elite Guard with relative ease. Casey’s appearance re-energizes the three Turtles and Splinter, and the giant battle hits a fever pitch. However, the odds are just too great, and it's clear that the good guys will have to find an escape route and soon. Meanwhile, Hun breaks open the door that was holding him off and approaches April, who is inspecting Leo. Hun reveals his plans to April, which are to physically harm her in order to take the fight out of the Turtles, but Casey puts a hockey stick around Hun's wrist and stops him from doing just that before telling the big brute to never threaten April. Hun lunges at Casey, but Casey dodges out of the way and hits Hun in the back with the hockey stick, knocking him into some nearby Foot Ninja. Once again, the battle reaches a fever pitch, just when police begin to arrive on the scene and call for backup.

Raph and Mikey notice Leo trying to stand up against April's will when the Shredder appears and prepares to finish him off. Splinter knocks Shredder away and engages him. Shredder overpowers Splinter and prepares to slay him, but Leo uses his remaining strength to knock down a cabinet between them and falls unconscious. With no choice but to retreat, April points to a door off to one side of the shop. Figuring that retreating is the best option at this point, Mikey yells for everyone to retreat through the door which is a walk-in cooler. April drags Leo inside and once the others run inside, Mikey closes the door tightly.

As the group is stuck inside, many police cars begin to pull up onto the scene. Shredder orders his ninjas to vanish, but rather than simply fleeing from the police and leaving the Turtles alive, the villain has a slightly different plan in mind. Before leaving, Shredder blocks the cooler off, drops a fire bomb, and then uses his gauntlets to puncture an exposed gas line. As the police prepare to enter the building, a massive explosion rocks the neighborhood, and April's antique shop erupts in a gigantic ball of flames, seemingly killing the Turtles and their allies...

On a nearby rooftop, two Guardians survey the scene. They report to the Utrom Council Trio that they've arrived too late to help and that the Turtles have apparently been destroyed. The Council is dismayed at this news, and they note that their enemy is becoming too powerful. They tell the two Guardians to accelerate the plan (which is unknown) immediately. After the Guardian signs off, he tells the other that he once shook hands with Leonardo and called him "ally", before saying that "It is a great, great loss this day. A great, great loss", as the building undergoes a second eruption.

Notes and errors[]

When the Turtles fight the Foot Elite, one of them knocks Don's bō staff near Mikey, however, when the Elite teleport, he has his bo staff in his hands.
When the Turtles and Casey are entering the storage room, Don is not entering the room but in the next shot where Mikey closes the door, he is in the storage room.

Trivia[]

This episode is based on the Mirage original comics Volume 1 issue "Silent Partner".
This is the first episode we hear Casey yell, "Goongala!" This is his battle cry from the Mirage comics.
It is never revealed how Casey knew that the Foot were attacking the Turtles as no one was shown to have called him, too busy fighting off the Foot.
This episode features the only appearance of the Large Foot Ninja in the entire 2003 series.
- They would later be featured as enemies in two of the video games based on the 2003 series.
A few scenes of Splinter fighting Foot Ninja's are recycled from episode 11.

External links[]

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