The Great Boldini
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The Great Boldini is an episode from season 3 (1989) of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. It originally aired on November 20, 1989, in Syndication.
April O'Neil is seen reporting at a place where a magician named the Great Boldini is expected to perform. While there, she meets Zach, the young teenage boy who befriended the turtles in the episode The Fifth Turtle, and his new friend Caitlin. As the Great Boldini is about to perform one of his tricks, the lights suddenly go out, and once they come back on, he is seen bound and gagged, and his diamond is stolen.
Zach and Caitlin are suspicious of this and begin to investigate. Meanwhile, the turtles show up to investigate as well.
Several villains get involved, including The Rat King, and Don Turtelli. Zach and Caitlin are captured and tied up by Don Turtelli, and subjected to foot tickle torture to try to get them to reveal all they know about the diamond.
It is later revealed that the Great Boldini was attempting to steal the diamond in the show, and faked its robbery.
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One odd note is that this episode seems to contradict the information on Zach's age given earlier. While Zach is said to be going on 14 in the episode in which he first appears, here he acts more like a younger child. When one of the villains captures Caitlin and threatens Zach with harm to his "girlfriend", Zach acts disgusted and says "yuck, she's not my girlfriend" - behavior one might expect from a pre-adolescent, but not an adolescent.