Enter The Fly
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Enter The Fly is episode 12 in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. It is the seventh episode of season 2 (1988). This episode was written by Michael Reaves and Brynee Stephens. It originally aired on October 20, 1988, in syndication. It is available on the DVD box set released on April 26, 2005.
The TMNT are flying in their blimp over New York City, searching for Shredder. April O'Neil said that Shredder was seen on the roof on one of the two World Trade Center buildings, where the TMNT find Shredder and Baxter Stockman attempting unsuccessfully to operate some unnamed energy weapon. Upon spotting the Turtles' arial approach, Shredder and Baxter make a hasty escape.
Failing once again to destroy the Turtles, Shredder blames Baxter Stockman. When they both are on barge where a lot of flies are swarming, Shredder contacts Krang and asks him to send Bebop and Rocksteady back to Earth. Krang declares that there is an imbalance that requires someone to travel back to Dimension X in exchange--naturally, Shredder throws Baxter Stockman through the dimensional portal. A fly also enters the dimensional portal and arrives in Dimension X. Krang decides to kill Baxter Stockman by having him thrown by two Foot robots into a sealed chamber called the Disintegrator Unit. However, the chamber's machinery malfunctions and fuses Baxter Stockman with a fly that followed him from the barge through the portal. Shortly after accident the disintegrator exlodes, freeing the newly-formed genetic-hybrid who proceeds to reopen the dimensional portal and return to Earth.
Meanwhile Shredder forces a man to deliver a strange bouquet of flowers to April O'Neil at Channel 6. There is no card on the flowers. Irma asks April if the turtles sent it and even if April believes that, she doesn't say it to Irma. April goes to the TMNT:s sewer lair. Splinter throws the flower in a dustbin and asks April if she has inhaled the fragrance. April says yes, and then she faints. When the turtles arrive, Splinter explains that April has been sent a rare Far Eastern Doku plant and that its fragrance causes death. The only antidote needs the leaf of a Gazai plant and April needs it directly to survive the coming night. The Turtles go up to a local nursery, specializing in rare and exotic plants. On their, the turtles are attacked by Baxter Stockman. The turtles escape and head back into the sewers to continue their hunt for a Gazai plant.
Baxter Stockman tries to find Shredder and seek his revenge against him, but when he does, Shredder takes advantage of his confused state of mind, and convinces Baxter that the turtles are responsible for his transformation.
Meanwhile, the turtles locate a nursery there they buy the only Gazai plant in the Western Hemisphere, but lose it after a fighter with Shredder, Baxter Stockman, Bebop and Rocksteady, who use the robot Knucklehead. The turtles head home to the sewers without thee Gazai.
Shredder uses his communicator to call the turtles and invites them to meet and fight to the death for the Gazai plant. Even though the turtles believe Shredder will use some tricks, they agree.
A short time later, the turtles arrive at a deserted Wrecking yard. Shredder and Baxter Stockman have prepared a trap. The plan is to herd the turtles between two electrode posts that are designed to send anyone who passes through them a microsecond into the future, causing them to be out of sync with the rest of the world. But plan fails when Splinter arrives in the Turtle Van and uses the laser guns on the Turtle Van to shoot the Gazai plant out of the hands of Shredder. In the confusion, Baxter Stockman flies through the elecrodeand disappears. Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady escape.
Back at the turtles' sewer lair, Splinter mixes the antidote and gives it April. Within moments, she recovers. The remaining unused Gazai leaves ultimately are used by Michaelangelo as the base for a pizza sauce.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode was heavily influenced by the 1986 film The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum.