Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
“Turtles Forever: the TMNT 25th ANNIVERSARY DTV MOVIE” Part Three
Written By: Robert David
LOGLINE: When the ‘88 cartoon series Turtles arrive in the ‘03 cartoon Turtles‘ dimension it‘s total culture shell shock! Can the two sets of Terrapins get over their differences and save the entire Turtles universe from a bigger and badder than ever Shredder?
CHARACTER LIST + = Speaking Role
+ ‘03 MIKEY + ‘03 RAPH + ‘03 LEO + ‘03 DON + ‘03 SPLINTER
+ ‘88 MIKEY + ‘88 RAPH + ‘88 LEO + ‘88 DON
+ ‘84 MIKEY + ‘84 RAPH + ‘84 LEO + ‘84 DON
+ ‘03 APRIL + ‘03 CASEY
+ UTROM SHREDDER + KARAI + MUTANT TURTLE HUN
+ ‘88 SHREDDER + KRANG + BEBOP + ROCKSTEADY
+ PURPLE DRAGON GOONS + PEDESTRIANS (screaming in terror walla)
1 ACT ONE
FADE IN:
EXT. ‘03 NEW YORK CITY – EXACTLY WHERE PART TWO LEFT OFF
THE ROBOT FOOT SOLDIERS – all power down, their heads drop, their laser cannons fall. SETTLE ON A NATIONAL GUARDSMAN tenta- tively giving a robot a poke with laser rifle.
ADJUST TO REVEAL the PARTY WAGON parked beside the simmering crater nearby. Suddenly, CASEY and ‘03 APRIL rush to it and…
CU: throw their backs against the van -
1. CASEY (PANTING) That giant armored golf ball just… imploded!
2. ‘03 APRIL (WORKING IT OUT) It must have been controlling the robots. No ship, no power! Casey…
3. CASEY Won? April - no ship…
Realization and dread sinks in. April
WIDE SHOT: Casey slides down into the deep, singed, still smoking crater! He stops dead center, looking up to April…
CLOSE: he drops to knees, throwing arms and dirt to heaven!!!
4. CASEY (DISTRAUGHT) They went in that thing and now they‘re nnooooOOOOOOOOO!!
DOWNSHOT ON CASEY – looking skyward (at CAM), when suddenly, his look of anguish becomes one of puzzlement! He cocks the brow…
AND HIS POV: there, in the sky above, a transporter like SPARKLE effect and suddenly EIGHT ninja turtles MATERIALIZE in thin air! BACK ON CASEY: his look of puzzlement becomes one of alarm as… WIDE: all eight turtles fall and crash land on top of him!!!
2 5. CASEY AND TURTLES OOF! UFH! YA! OUCH! YARGH! OWOWOWOW!!
ON APRIL – eyes alighting with surprise and glee!
6. ‘03 APRIL Guys! You‘re ALIVE!!
ON TURTLES – a tangled heap. They rise and part, wobbly! Team ‘88 gathers on screen left, team ‘03 screen right. Both teams dust themselves off, collect their bearings, then face each other. A beat. Then sudden realization.
7. ‘88 MIKEY Uh, dudes? Like, what just happened?
8. ‘03 MIKEY Yeah. shouldn‘t we be like… non- existent right ‗bout now?
9. ‘03 APRIL Mikey! And… Mikey?!
ANGLE TO INCLUDE APRIL: sliding into crater, joining them. She throws ‘88 Mikey a quick, baffled glance… when: a wobbly Casey hops to feet – looking to both team - rubbing his head.
10. CASEY I bump my head… or am I really seein‘ double?
11. ‘03 DON
The ‗88s are only too happy to make new friends
12. ALL ‘88 TURTLES Hiya!/Nice ta meetcha!/Howdy!/Charmed!
13. ‘03 RAPH(SHOVING‗EM AWAY) We ain‘t got time for no meet n‘ greet!
14. ‘03 LEO Raph‘s right. The Shredder‘s back! And he‘s on his way to destroy the source of all Ninja Turtle life.
15. ‘03 APRIL What?
3 16. CASEY Come again?
They all make their way to the PARTY WAGON as Leo explains. Casey wheels his cycle right inside.
17. ‘88 LEO
HARD CUT TO: Wheel‘s of Party Wagon peeling off!
ANGLE ON: the Party Wagon rounding a corner, departing area…
… as CAMERA PANS TO REVEAL: MUTANT HUN – hidden in the shadows. He spots the wagon -
EXT/INT. THE PARTY WAGON – CONTINUOUS
The Party Wagon
18. CASEY (STILL CONFUSED) So… I still don‘t get it. ‗Zactly which Shredder is back? Doin‘ what? To who?
19. ‘88 MIKEY (TO ‘03 RAPH) All I know is we wouldn‘t be in this mess if it wasn‘t for your stupid Shredder!
20. ‘03 RAPH (WAY TOO ANGRY) Our Shredder?! Your Shredder started this whole stupid mess with his stupid Technodrome in the stupid first place!
21. ‘88 RAPH Yeah, but your Shredder is like totally psycho evil!
22. ‘88 DON Ours is just decaf.
23. ‘88 LEO Yeah, he won‘t keep you up at night!
24. ALL ‘88S (CRACKING UP) Hahahahahahaha! Good one, dude!
4 25. CASEY
‘88 RAPH hand juts into frame pointing at ‘03 Mikey‘s chest. Mikey looks down. Raph‘s hand sweeps up – bopping Mikey‘s nose!
26. ‘03 MIKEY (TO CASEY) OW! And they‘re really annoying.
27. ‘03 CASEY
28. ‘03 DON (TROUBLED) What I want to know is: How did we survive the Shredder‘s centrifugal scanning process? We should have been broken down into non-existence! Some- thing didn‘t go according to his plan.
29. ‘03 LEO Then he won‘t be expecting us to go after him. We need to head to the source dimension - to what the Shredder called… TURTLE PRIME!
30. ‘03 MIKEY But Leo, you saw Shredder‘s slideshow. The Turtle-Verse is like… GINORMOUS!
31. ‘03 DON We‘ve no way of knowing which dimension Turtle Prime is! We‘d just be guessing!
A beat. All look gloomy. Hope dashed. But then:
32. ‘88 DON Ooorrrrr…
‘88 Donny holds up the PORTAL STICK – beaming!
33. ‘88 DON When the Technodrome phases thru trans- dimensional barriers it leaves a trail of particle emissions that, with the right equipment, we can recalibrate the Portal Stick to track!
5 All stare – STUNNED. Then smile with rising HOPE - When suddenly: The party wagon
34. TURTLES/CASEY/APRIL
35. ‘03 MIKEY What the shell, Raph?!!
ON RAPH –gripping the wheel, staring in wide-eyed HORROR!
36. ‘03 RAPH (STUNNED) End of the road, bros! Literally!!!
REVERSE TO REVEAL – seen through windshield – the road ahead is… disappearing!!!! And it‘s not just the road…
WIDE TO SHOWCASE: the whole world is starting to VANISH! Cars… fire hydrants… even entire buildings and panicked pedestrians…
(Note: Things will “Vanish” in the following manner: first color will be drained, leaving black inks and outline. Then the blacks will disappear, leaving only outline. When the black outline disappears, it leaves sketchy blue pencil. Finally, the blue pencil fades, leaving nothing. The effect should feel as if the processes of comic or animation art are being undone.)
37. PEDESTRIANS
ANGLE ON TURTLES, CASEY AND APRIL: spilling out of Wagon, eyes wide, as things revert rapidly into FINAL INK DESIGNS…
38. CASEY S‘like the whole world‘s being… ERASED!
… then PENCIL SKETCHES… then BLUE-PENCIL BREAKDOWNS…
39. ‘03 LEO It‘s the Shredder! Has to be! He‘s reached Turtle Prime!
… and VANISH from sight! Our heroes look on – HORRIFIED!
40. ‘03 APRIL (TO ‘88 DON) Then we better recalibrate your… stick! You said you needed some tech..?
6 41. ‘03 DON (STEPPING OVER) All our gear was destroyed along with our lair - - but I think I know a place that just might have the tech we need…
And on everybody‘s interest piqued…
WIPE TO:
EXT. PURPLE DRAGON HEADQUARTERS – SOON AFTER
Establish the high-rise tower, PAN DOWN as the Party Wagon now parked outside, then PUSH IN on the lower levels as…
42. ‘88 DON (V.O.) Nice call, Mr. Wizard!
INT. PURPLE DRAGON HEADQUARTERS – LOWER LAB – CONTINUOUS
Casey and April rummage through the DARK lab with flashlights. All around them – crates overflowing with HIGH-TECH GEAR!
43. ‘03 DON
44. ‘03 RAPH Yeah, wit‘out Hun, the Dragons ain‘t too swift…
CU ON ‘88 RAPH shining a flashlight on… the HUNBUG – now thrashing around inside a SUPER-SIZED GLASS JAR.
45. ‘88 RAPH
We follow the light as it falls on… a mutant turtle chest? Surprised, the beam slowly up chest… to reveal…
46. MUTANT HUN (O.S.) Yes, mutation. It‘s a real…
The SPOOKY, under-lit face of MUTANT HUN glaring down on Raph!!
47. MUTANT HUN … horror show.
ON: ‘88 Raph‘s STARTLED LOOK OF ALARM! HARD CUT TO:
7 CASEY, APRIL AND OTHER TURTLES – as ‘88 Raph comes hurling in toward them, thrown from O.S. into a wall!
48. MUTANT HUN (OS FROM DARK) I don‘t know how you escaped the Shredder – and I don‘t care.
… but Hun is nowhere to be seen. Until:
MUTANT HUN – blocking the exit to the lab - now FLANKED by a troop of
49. MUTANT HUN (WICKED RELISH) You‘re all mine now.
And on the Turtles, Casey and April starting to sweat…!!!!
FADE OUT: END ACT ONE
8 ACT TWO
FADE IN:
INT. PURPLE DRAGON HEADQUARTERS – LOWER LAB – CONTINUOUS
REESTABLISH: The Turtles/Casey/April – facing off against Hun and a troop of Purple Dragons.
50. ‘03 RAPH
51. CASEY AND ‘03 APRIL
52. ‘03 LEO
‘03 Leo draws weapons – ready for battle. All follow his lead.
53. MUTANT HUM Do you know the thing I hate most in all the world?
54. PURPLE DRAGONS
HUN AND DRAGONS – CHARGE!!!!
TURTLES, CASEY AND APRIL – leap O.S. to meet the threat… and AVOID HUN‘s CHARGE!
55. MUTANT HUN (OVER ACTION) Now, I look in the mirror, all I see is YOU!
… HUN – charging in to BACKHAND ‘88 Leo & Raph away!
56. MUTANT HUN The thing I hate most in the world!
CLOSE ON HUN – he is MAD with RAGE
57. MUTANT HUN (BURNING) And I hate you even more!
TRACK ALONG SCENE OF COMBAT: Dragon Goons facing off against Casey, April ‘03 Leo, Raph, Mikey and Mikey, exchanging and parrying blows, clanging weapons… hurling each other around as we continue to track and then settle on…
9
HUN as
58. ‘03 DON Hun, you don‘t understand! The Shredder! He--
59. MUTANT HUN (ENRAGED) Forget the Shredder! You‘re going to pay for what you‘ve done to me!!!
60. 88 RAPH(SHRUGS TO CAMERA) Some people just can‘t handle change.
Hun checks out CAM – then frantically SHAKES Raph!!
61. MUTANT HUN (SHAKING RAPH) WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THAT?! WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?! THERE‘S NO ONE THERE!
ADJUST TO SEE: a goon hurl across screen behind him… smacking into a wall. As he‘s tries to rise his color drains to ink outline… blue pencil… then - nothingness!
ON HUN – not sure what he just witnessed. ‘03 Raph leaps onto Hun‘s back, grappling him, twisting him around…
62. ‘03 RAPH You idiot! There ain‘t gonna be anybody anywhere soon! LOOK!
… to see: his goons are no longer fighting. Why? Because the process of erasure has begun! One by one, they‘re FADING AWAY! Turtles, Casey and April stand among them - looking aghast!!
PAN ALONG DRAGONS – becoming ink drawings, pencil sketches…
63. DRAGON#1 Boss?! What‘s happening to u--?!
… and disappearing! Startled, Hun looks back to the turtles – his look of horror saying it all: what’s going on?!
64. ‘03 MIKEY It‘s the Shredder!
10 65. ‘88 LEO Whatever he‘s doing to get rid of us Turtles - it‘s wiping out everything!
CU HUN – Panicked looking! He drops ‘88 Raph and looks around. His PANNING POV: the final goons vanishing! And that‘s not all! Monitors, consoles, crates of gear… all starting to go…
66. ‘88 MIKEY The whole world is going bye-bye, dude! Pretty soon, you‘ll be going too!
67. MUTANT HUN (UNSURE) No…
68. ‘03 DON We need your gear to track him, Hun. To stop him.
BACK ON HUN – as color begins to drain from him.
69. MUTANT HUN NOOOOO!
The choice is clear! He frantically gives ‘03 Don tech gear-
70. MUTANT HUN Hurry!! Take it! Stop the Shredder before-
CU ON HUN: Suddenly, his eyes go wide with SHOCK as he loses color! Refinement! Reduced to a horrified looking blue pencil sketch! And just like that… he‘s GONE! The TECH starts to fall…
… but ‘03 Leo catches it. His eyes narrow with resolve.
71. ‘03 LEO You heard the man. Let‘s go stop the Shredder.
And they‘re off! And more and more of the lab vanishes before our eyes…
EXT. THE STREET OUTSIDE – MOMENTS LATER
ON THE PARTY WAGON: Suddenly it too… VANISHES just as the Turtles, Casey, April rush in, wide-eyed with shock.
72. ‘88 DON Aaaaaaaww maaaaaan - our wagon is gone!
11 73. ‘03 MIKEY Your wagon?!
FOLLOW HIS GESTURE – AND OPEN UP EXTREMELY WIDE TO REVEAL: half the city really is GONE! Replaced by WHITE, BLANK EMPTY SPACE – not unlike that of a fresh piece of paper! Worse, the blankness is encroaching! More and more elements vanish before our eyes, from the foreground, middle ground all around! Whole city blocks! Clouds! The Sky! The Empire State Building!
PUSH IN ON THE TURTLES/CASEY/APRIL‘S looks of UTTER HORROR!
74. ‘03 LEO RUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!
And… they RUN!! Sprinting from encroaching non-existence!!
EXT. ‘03 NEW YORK CITY – ROOFTOPS – SOON AFTER
TRACK THE TURTLES – on their mad dash across rooftops - bounding, leaping - moving as fast as they can! The city background vanishing as they go. And not just the background… but passing flagpoles, pigeon coops… TV antennas…
75. ‘03 DON Hurry! We need to get back where we started – the exact spot the Technodrome left our dimension!
76. ‘88 RAPH Big smoking crater? Hard ta miss!
… laundry lines… water towers… whole adjacent buildings!
77. ‘88 MIKEY If it‘s still around when we get there!
PICK UP CASEY AND APRIL at the back of the pack. TRACK with them – SIDE SHOT – running full speed! When suddenly, April, still running, begins to VANISH! Within seconds, she‘s a mere, sprinting blue pencil sketch! She notices…
78. ‘03 APRIL
… stops running, falling out of frame. Casey REACTS, stops and pivots to see: APRIL – just as she‘s about to DISAPPEAR.
12 79. ‘03 APRIL Casey?
And she‘s GONE! Casey cries out with ANGUISH…
80. CASEY APRIIIIIIIIIILLLL!!!! Guys! April! I…
… and then he too VANISHES from existence!!!
PAN TO ‘03 RAPH – looking on in SHOCK AND SORROW! ‘03 Leo pivots back and pulls Raph away—
81. ‘03 RAPH No! Leo…!!
82. ‘03 LEO Raph! We‘ll grieve later. We may even find a way to reverse all this. But none of that can happen - if don‘t stop the Shredder!
Leo leads his stunned brothers and allies quickly away.
EXT. ‘03 NEW YORK CITY – SITE OF CRATER – SOON AFTER
ESTABLISH THE CRATER – and PUSH IN as we…
ANGLE INSIDE CRATER: to see the Turtles crest it‘s lip and slide down, dashing to crater‘s center – the Dons at the lead.
‘88 Don sets up the PORTAL STICK. ‘03 Don pulls TECH from BAG and both Don‘s get to work - rewiring, scanning, tweaking the stick! Their brothers crowd around them, looking out to the as the little bit of city that is left disappears around them.
83. ‘03 DON
84. ‘88 DON The rabbit goes up the hole around the tree, and back down the hole…
All around them, the last remaining buildings VANISH. The street upon which the crater rests DISAPPEARS.
85. ‘03 MIKEY Step on it, dudes! We‘re facing total, complete WIPE-OUT here!!!
13 86. ‘03 DON … boost the particle signal gain…!!!
The crater walls VANISH around them; emptiness encroaches…
87. ‘88 MIKEY AND ‘88 RAPH
88. ‘03 DON …and POWER UP!
REVEAL: The world is gone! ‘03 Leo, Raph, Mikey and ‘88 Leo, Raph, Mikey are cramped behind the Dons, on top of each other, frantically trying to maximize the little space left! Only the ground beneath their feet remains! And it‘s going fast!
89. ALL EXCEPT DON AND DON BUT?! BUT?!
90. ‘03 DON It‘s not working!
With a GRIN ‘88 Don holds out a WRENCH to ‘03 Don, who considers, shrugs then
91. ‘03 DON Gotta love science.
The stick lights up and FLASH! They‘re gone… just as ―not- hingness‖ engulfs the screen! All is empty! All is WHITE! As we…
WIPE TO:
EXT. TRANS DIMENSIONAL WORMHOLE – CONTINUOUS
92. ALL TURTLES YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXT. ‘84 TMNT COMIC NEW YORK – STREETS - NIGHT – CONTINUOUS
CU ON:
93. ALL TURTLES
14 ECU ‘03 DON: groggy, consulting stick and looking around.
94. ‘03 DON (CHECKS READINGS) Particle emissions end here…
95. ‘88 DON (UNSURE) …so this must be the place…
96. ‘03 LEO (STUNNED)
PULL OUT WIDE – VERY WIDE – to reveal the stark, pitiless streets of a hard boiled New York! All is grim n‘ gritty, black n‘ white and rendered in the classic two-tone Graphix Duo-Shade effects of comic books past. All save the colorful turtles (seen rising to feet; smack dab in the center of it all)! This is a menacing, dirty, take no prisoner world and our colorful heroes just don‘t fit in. This is straight up TMNT. No chaser! NOTE: Use TMNT Vol. 1; issue 1; page nine splash for reference!
THE TURTLES – look around, wide-eyed, slacked jawed, and… SPOOKED (especially the ‗88s)! Raph cocks a brow.
97. ‘03 RAPH Ain‘t exactly Mr. Roger‘s Neighborhood, is it?
And on that we…
FADE OUT: END ACT TWO
15 ACT THREE
Production Notes: 1) Characters/props from the ‟03 & ‟88 series are in color; everything and everybody else in the ‟84 world is BLACK & WHITE. 2) References to panels/pages in the ‟84 Comic are to Vol. 1, Issue 1. Okay, here we go!
FADE IN:
EXT. ‘84 TMNT COMIC NEW YORK – STREETS - NIGHT
REESTABLISH: Turtles stand in the middle of the street, looking around spooked. The ‘88s more so than the ‗03s; and ‘03 Raph less so than all. In fact, he‘s starting to smile…
From all around, we HEAR the
98. ‘88 MIKEY AND RAPH
A COP CAR
Leo and all turtles jump backwards O.S.!
INT. TRASH STREWN ALLEYWAY – SECONDS LATER
CU ON A BRICK WALL: as the turtles jump backwards into scene, backs flat against wall - hugging it tight! As we…
TRUCK OUT to include a BLACK CAT walking past. It stops center frame, staring directly at the turtles. Long, awkward beat.
99. BLACK CAT
Turtles stop hugging wall – looking around freaked and incredulous. (Use page 40 splash for b.g. reference.)
100. ‘88 RAPH Like, WHAT KINDA WORLD IS THIS?!
101. ‘03 RAPH Grim, gritty – my kinda place! Heh. I‘m thinkin‘ of retirin‘ here!
‘03 Raph
102. ALL 88 TURTLES
16 103. ‘03 LEO (MOVES RAPH ALONG) We‘ll all be retiring here permanently if we don‘t find Shredder and stop him!
Mikey, wide-eyed, taps Leo‘s shoulder pointing up and O.S.
104. ‘03 MIKEY (UH-OH) Uh Leo? I think someone just found us!
All turtles look up. ALL eyes GO WIDE! SLOW TILT UP TO REVEAL - four SCARY NINJA TURTLE SILHOUETTES perched on a rooftop (poses identical to the cover of issue 1).
105. ‘03 DON
Lightning FLASHES - revealing the black and white, grimacing, snarling, take no prisoner, they mean business, they’d just as soon kill ya as meet ya, heroes in full! Yup, THE ORIGINAL TMNT!
ON ‘88 AND ‗03S – sudden SHOCK and HUGE simultaneous:
106. ‘88 AND ‘03 TURTLES
CLOSER ON ‘84S – highlighting each member. All badass mofos.
107. ‘84 LEO What is this? Eight WANNABES?
108. ‘84 DON On our turf?!!
109. ‘84 MIKEY Trying to steal OUR act?!!!
110. ‘84 RAPH
‘84 Raph twirls his dual SAIS. When they stop, the tips GLISTEN!
ON ‘88 & ‘03 TURTLES: looks of awe… becoming looks of WORRY!!!
DRAMATIC ANGLE: the 84s ninja-leap off roof and strike – HARD! Swift, fierce, killer moves; they take no prisoners.
(NOTE: During the NARRATION sections please be sure to keep Leo ‟84 in shadows so we‟re not sure if he speaks the lines or not.)
17 111. ‘84 LEO I strike two on my way down—
‘84 Leo airborne, sweeps out legs WALLOPING ‘03 Don and Raph--
112. ‘03 DON AND RAPH UGH!!!
113. ‘84 LEO --Donatello takes out a third with his staff—
-- ‘84 Don CLOBBERS ‘03 Mikey in chest, then shell with staff--
114. ‘03 MIKEY OOF!! ACK!
115. ‘84 LEO --Already, the pudgy ones are starting to panic –
REVEAL: the ’88 Turtles running in circles, arms flailing!!!!!
116. ALL ‘88 TURTLES
Suddenly, ‘84 Raph flies in tackling them all off - O.S.! ‘84 LEO – watches with pride.
117. ‘84 LEO Raph loves this stuff.
THREE SHOT: ‘03 Don, Mikey, Raph popping up into frame, one after another, covered in trash.
118. ‘03 DON (PUZZLED)
119. ‘03 MIKEY (ALARMED)
120. ‘03 RAPH (BEAMING)
‘84 Mikey drops down from above, twirling chucks, smacking them all down O.S. replacing them in frame,
18 121. ‘03 MIKEY, DON, RAPH UGH!
BACK ON ‘84 LEO: ‘03 Leo leaps in, arms wide trying to reason. ‘84 Leo attacks! ‘03 Leo fights back! Katanas
122. ‘03 LEO (FIGHTING) Stop! We‘re trying to save you from
CU: the sword comes to an ABRUPT STOP – an inch over Leo‘s head!
123. ‘84 LEO The SHREDDER?!
WIDE SHOT: the ‘84 turtles leap back into frame, regrouping! (Use page 1, panel 1 for background and ninja poses, with ‟03 and ‟88 Turtle shadows replacing those of the Purple Dragons.)
124. ‘84 LEO What do you know of the Shredder?
125. ‘84 DON We‘ve sworn to terminate the Shredder to avenge Master Yoshi!
126. ‘84 MIKEY Terminate - with extreme prejudice.
127. ‘84 RAPH And – extra relish. Grrrrr…
REVERSE WIDE SHOT: the ‘88 and ‘03 turtles regrouped (Non-battle stance) behind ‘88 Leo and ‘03 Leo. The ‗88s
128. ‘03 LEO (BIT FLUSTERED) It‘s not your Shredder you need to worry about. Well, not right now. It‘s complicated. It‘s our Shredder. He‘s come here to tear down your world --
129. ‘88 LEO And he‘s a Grade-A meanie!
WIDE SIDE VIEW: to include all three teams. The ‘84 turtles lower their weapons, looking puzzled…
19 130. ‘03 LEO Er… it‘s a long story… but it all started when our brothers here from another dimension accidentally arrived in our dimension, along with their Shredder and…
During Leo‘s dialog Camera CRANES UP to a CAT sitting on a fire escape above, looking down and listening in as we…
MATCH DISSOLVE TO:
LATER – the cat is now curled up ASLEEP. A comic book CAPTION BOX reads: ―LATER…‖ Camera CRANES back DOWN to the three turtle teams below, as ‘03 Leo finishes up the tale…
131. ‘03 LEO … so if he destroys Turtle Prime, he‘ll end up wiping out all life everywhere!
A long pause. All hold their breath for the ‗84s reaction.
132. ‘84 MIKEY So, you‘re supposed to be us - from other worlds?
133. ‘84 DON What‘s with the multi-colored headbands?
134. ‘84 RAPH(TO ‘03 RAPH) Sell-outs.
ON ‘88S AND ‗03S: their smiles fall. ‘03 Raph tries to deflect!
135. ‘03 RAPH Er, well check out the initialized belt buckles on these yahoos.
136. ALL ‘88 TURTLES
‘03 Raph steps to the ‗84s – wide armed, ingratiating.
137. ‘03 RAPH (WORKIN‘ IT) How LAME can a turtle get, am I right?
‘03 RAPH raises his hand for a ―high five‖ from ‘84 Raph. ‘84 Raph grabs his arm, bends it behind him, and SHOVES him a back over to the ‘88s. ‘03 Raph rubs his shoulder.
20 138. ‘03 RAPH (LOW, TO ‗88S) Geez… what a hardcase!
The ‘88s look at ‘03 Raph, look at each other, look at Raph, blink.
139. ‘03 RAPH What?
140. ‘88S Nothing.
‘84 LEO steps to ‘03 Leo and Don and ‘88 Leo and Don.
141. ‘84 LEO All right, let‘s go stop your Shredder. You say he‘s using a… Technodrome?
142. ‘88 DON Yup!
143. ‘84 LEO
The CAMERA cranes up high and EXTREMELY WIDENS to reveal: The TECHNODROME! Parked further down in the city. Sending out spasms of crackling energy - out of its arched eye and up into the sky – tearing through the fabric of this dimension, creating the heart of a spinning vortex high above the city! The sky is churning, as pieces of buildings and bridges tear apart and are sucked into the vortex - only to crumble and vanish! It‘s slowly sucking this world up into – nothingness!
BACK ON THE TURTLES: The ‗88s and ‗03s all stare with HORROR! But the ‗84s all GRIN with relishing anticipation!
144. ‘03 DON Yes.
145. ‘84 LEO It‘s been doing that all night.
ON ALL as they race towards the imposing TECHNODROME!
CUT CU ON THE
21 INT. TECHNODROME – COMMAND CENTER - CONTINUOUS
ANGLE ON AN ENERGY FIELD: where, CHAINED UP by their arms in ENERGY SHACKLES are ‘03 Splinter, ‘88 Shredder & Krang! Bebop & Rocksteady, stand as GUARDS. ‘88 Shredder is haranguing them.
146. ‘88 SHREDDER You traitors! You nincompoops! Ding- dongs, chucklebutts, dip-skulls—
147. ROCKSTEADY Awww, we said we wuz sorry, boss.
148. ‘88 SHREDDER (PISSED) Bah!
149. BEBOP C‘mon. No hard feelins? Our new master finds us
150. KRANG (TO ‘88 SHREDDER) Then may he also find them as useful as we always have!
ON THAT PULL OUT TO REVEAL THE UTROM SHREDDER: standing triumphant; monitoring the devastation outside via screens.
151. UTROM SHREDDER HAHAHAHAHA! Behold, the glorious destruction of a universe! HAHAHAHA!
ANGLE ON SPLINTER struggling with shackles to break free! Then PAN TO REVEAL KARAI, standing on sidelines nearby. As Shredder
CUT TO:
EXT. ‗84 STREETS OF NEW YORK – CONTINUOUS
WIDE ON A TALL BUILDING: as we push in, we can make out four turtle-shaped silhouettes ninja-scaling up the building‘s side, in a single row, slowly making their way up to…
THE ROOF: ANGLE CU ON: the ‘84 Turtles, in shadow, climbing onto roof, starting w/Leo. (Ref: page 24; panel 4). Pull out wide for the fearsome foursome, in silhouette, addressing CAM (Panel 5).
152. ‘84 LEO SHREDDER, we are HERE!!
22 REVERSE to reveal: the roof is on level with the upper half of the TECHNODROME (which dominates b.g.) (Ref: page 25, panel 1)!
153. ‘84 DON SHREDDER… FACE US!!
INT. TECHNODROME – COMMAND CENTER – CONTINUOUS
A MONITOR SCREEN shows the ‘84 Turtles staring at CAM. Pull out to include Utrom Shredder CU: observing…
154. UTROM SHREDDER (SOTTO) Ah, the prototypical turtles. At last. Now, with the flick of a switch…
ON A SWITCH – (turtles seen on monitor behind it with open crosshair overlay). Shredder‘s hand enters frame about to flick the switch, when… (page 26, panel 4):
155. ‘84 RAPH (ON MONITOR)
His hand STOPS… and CLENCHES! ECU: his eyes glow w/RAGE!
EXT. THE ROOFTOP – CONTINUOUS
The ‘84 Turtles strike battle stances - then react as:
156. ‘84 SHREDDER (O.S.) I am here—
ZIP PAN TO: the original ‘84 SHREDDER landing on roof‘s edge-- (Pose and B.G. ref: page 27, panel 1)
157. ‘84 SHREDDER Come and face your – OOF! ACK! AHHHH!
--when he is pelted by a sudden and furious barrage of STICKS SHURIKENS, , BRICKS, BOTTLES, GARBAGE CAN LIDS, ETC.,
ON the 84 Turtles. They look to where the attack came from.
REVEAL the OTHER EIGHT TURTLES holding BRICKS, BOTTLES, GARBAGE CAN LIDS, ETC., half-hiding behind a roof chimney.
ON THE 84 Turtles – they signal the others back.
23 THE OTHER EIGHT sink back behind the chimney, sheepishly.
ON the 84s – they look tough as hell. Leo screams.
158. ‘84 LEO Shredder!!
159. UTROM SHREDDER (OS) You speak my name but you do not know me!
ZIP PAN TO UTROM SHREDDER perched on roof edge, simmering w/rage (pose ref: page 27, panel 2); the Technodrome seen behind him.
160. UTROM SHREDDER I am Ch‘rell, Oroku Saki, Duke Acureds - the one true Shredder. I have butch- ered millions, in galaxies you cannot even imagine. I am a destroyer of worlds! And I… fear… NO ONE!
ON THE ‘84 TURTLES – a beat of them taken aback at his declaration - then resuming scowls and growls.
161. ‘84 LEO (ASIDE TO O.S.) Told you he‘d take the bait.
162. ‘03 LEO (O.S.) If there‘s one constant in the Multiverse--
WIDEN AS: as the ‘03 and ‘88 TURTLES ninja leap onto roof - flanking the ‗84s left and right - all posed to kick some butt!
163. ‘03 LEO (TO SHREDDER) - it‘s the Shredder‘s big fat ego!
164. ‘88 LEO (TO SHREDDER)
165. ‘88 MIKEY Honey, we‘re ho-ome!
UTROM SHREDDER – stands, recoils, shocked, dismayed—
166. UTROM SHREDDER Still alive?! How can this be?! Unless…
24 Karai, dramatically lit by the flash - standing on a gangplank between roof and Technodrome.
167. UTROM SHREDDER KARAI… you?!
168. KARAI Yes, Father! I used the matter transporter to rescue the turtles from your scanner! And that‘s not all!
INT. TECHNODROME – COMMAND CENTER – CONTINUOUS – CU ON:
BEBOP and ROCKSTEADY, struggling, shackled to the energy field!
169. BEBOP We are so gonna get yelled at for this…
170. ROCKSTEADY (RACKED SOBBING)
EXT. THE ROOFTOP – CONTINUOUS – BACK ON KARAI:
… as THREE SHADOWY FIGURES step up behind her, posed for combat. Lighting flashes! It‘s SPLINTER, ‘88 SHREDDER & BIO SUIT KRANG!
171. ‘03 MASTER SPLINTER Today, my sons do not fight alone!
THE ‘88S AND ‘03S – BEAM with happy surprise!
Karai and company step onto roof, joining the turtles, all squaring off against Utrom Shredder, circling, ready for action.
172. KARAI Your unreasoning hatred of the Turtles has blinded you to the truth, Father. Please listen! Your actions could destroy us all!
173. ‘03 DON Karai‘s right! Your actions here have already wiped out our entire world!
174. UTROM SHREDDER Fool! I care nothing for the universe I left behind! I will not stop until…
25 ‘84 Raph turns to face his stunned allies.
175. ‘84 RAPH Less talk. More action.
ON THEIR FACES. They smile, but then – ALL THEIR EYES GO WIDE. BACK ON ‘84 RAPH: to reveal why. Utrom Shredder‘s head, now ten times larger than it was, can been seen rising up behind him… rising… RISING… attached to a GIANT BODY that keeps on GROWING!
176. UTROM SHREDDER Yes, let us finish this once and for all. I came to this dimension to destroy Turtles…
WIDE ON STREET: the Utrom Shredder looms larger than building everyone is one – and he‘s still growing… growing… growing!
177. UTROM SHREDDER … and as the humans are fond of saying: ―the more, the merrier!‖
ANGLE UP ON SHREDDER FROM THE ROOF: he now TOWERS over the building, forty feet tall. At last he stops growing, but…
178. UTROM SHREDDER NOW COME! COME AND FACE YOUR DOOM!
… his hands TRANSORM into weapons! One, a sick, tremendous, SERRATED BLADE; the other a crackling ENERGY SCYTHE!
And on all eight turtles‘ looks of high anxiety… !!!
FADE OUT: END ACT THREE
26 ACT FOUR
FADE IN:
EXT. THE ROOFTOP – CONTINUOUS
We‘re right where we left off… and NOW the Giant Utrom Shredder STRIKES – slicing his energy scythe through the building with tremendous, stone piercing force! There‘s no time to react! No time to flee!
179. ALL EXCEPT UTROM SHREDDER
All fall careening to STREET within a dark cloud of debris!
ON STREET: they land, scattered & devastated; dust & soot fills the air - seen through it, Utrom Shredder towering over it all!
180. UTROM SHREDDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! All too easy. My new body gives me unlimited power!
Close on Utrom Shredder – as suddenly, Krang (in bio suit) rises up behind him. Rising, as in GROWING. He becomes a GIANT of equal size! He throws a PUNCH…
181. KRANG (OVER ACTION)
… but Utrom Shredder SEVERS Krang fist with his SERRATED BLADE!
182. UTROM SHREDDER But mine actually WORKS!
… landing on street right near turtles with a mighty
183. KRANG‘S BIO SUIT
184. ALL TWELVE TURTLES
ANGLE ON: all twelve turtles recovering, regrouping, Leos at the fore. The turtles draw weapons, strike stances, looking up.
27 185. ‘84 LEO You weren‘t kidding! You‘re Shredder‘s some piece of work!
186. ‘03 LEO Maybe so… but twelve Ninja Turtles should be able to take him apart!
187. ‘88 LEO (CHARGE) Let‘s give him shell!
CU UTROM: his scythe and blade transforming into a five fingered hands – each finger a barrel of a laser gun.
188. UTROM SHREDDER Today is the end of days for you, Turtles.
CU: laser barrel fingers – firing a BARRAGE OF BLASTS!
OPEN UP EXTREMELY WIDE… TO SHOWCASE: all out war!!! Twelve turtles and Splinter leaping at and on the Utrom Shredder, clawing at him, slashing at him, as he lumbers like Godzilla, firing at everyone with a bevy of blasts!
KARAI fights with twin katana until she‘s caught in a blast!
ON ‘88 SHREDDER – slashing away at Utrom Shredder, he is forced to duck and sidestep several laser beams—
189. ‘88 SHREDDER Haha! Missed m-
-- when several more BLAST HIM BACK AND O.S.!
ON KARAI recovering; SPLINTER nearby striking battle stance.
190. KARAI (TO SPLINTER) He‘s mad… but please don‘t destroy him!
191. ‘03 MASTER SPLINTER That may not be possible, Karai--
He grabs her, leaping her out of harms way of a series of laser blasts!
HIGHLIGHT AND TRACK WITH ‘03 LEO AND RAPH – as they scramble up a FIRE ESCAPE and launch themselves off the side of building…
28 … to
… and ninja land near ‘03 Mikey, Don and Splinter who are all striking at Shredder‘s moving feet in futility!
192. ‘03 RAPH It‘s no use! He‘s just too strong!
CUT TO ‘88 TURTLES: throwing TRASH CANS at Shredder, unaware as he brings one of his giant feet down to STOMP THEM.…
193. ‘88 MIKEY Even trash cans have no effect!
194. ‘03 RAPH (ROLLING EYES) Oh brother.
Raph runs, leaps, dives, and saves the 88s just before the giant foot SMASHES DOWN
The 88s sit up and check themselves, surprised to be alive. They stare at ‘03 Raph, then at each other, then as one, they RUSH and HUG him tightly.
195. ‘03 RAPH(RELUCTANT CONSOLING) Yeah. Okay. S‘okay. You can leggo now. Leggo.
WIDEN to include the ‘03 Leo, Don and Mikey.
196. ‘03 MIKEY (LOOKING AROUND) Hey, anybody seen the Turtles Classics?
INT. UTROM SHREDDER‘S HELMET – CONTROL CENTER - CONTINUOUS
ON: a normal sized and smug smiling CH‘RELL operating the controls. Suddenly:
THE ‘84 TURTLES outside helmet‘s EYE PIECES! Snarling at him! Banging on ―glass‖ with weapons! Trying to bust in and get ‗im!
197. ALL ‘84 TURTLES
198. CH‘RELL (UTROM SHREDDER)
Startled, Ch‘rell lurches accidentally pushing a lever forward!
29 EXT. GIANT UTROM SHREDDER - CONTINUOUS
We see the ‘84 Turtles outside helmet, as the Utrom Shredder‘s body suddenly lurches forward off balance and…
WIDE: … TOPPLES right onto THE TECHNODROME!
INT. TECHNODROME – COMMAND CENTER – CONTINUOUS
… the energy restraining field!
199. BEBOP/ROCKSTEADY
EXT. TECHNODROME – CONTINUOUS
CU ON EYE: jostled by the impact – it shifts, causing the spasms of streaming, CRACKLING ENERGY to radiate outward (on level with playing field) instead of upward!
WIDEN TO SHOW: ‘84 turtles slipping off Utrom Shredder… as:
CU: Utrom Shredder rises and accidentally brushes against the energy spasms!
200. UTROM SHREDDER ARGGHH!!!!
DOWN ON THE STREET – the TURTLES take notice!
201. ‘88 DON Looks like we just found something he‘s vulnerable to!
202. ‘84 RAPH Yeah. Turtles!
203. ‘03 DON The Technodrome!
204. ‘84 DON Of course! Strong enough to destroy our world! Strong enough to destroy your Shredder!
205. ‘88 SHREDDER (OS) Better him - than everything else in the Multiverse!
30 REVEAL‘88 Shredder – CHARRED and BLACKENED – standing next to them, holding (bodiless) KRANG! He‘s a little too gung-ho.
206. ‘88 SHREDDER Er… I mean, he‘s just too villainous - even for us! Right Krang?
207. KRANG
PULL OUT TO REVEAL: all twelve turtles, Splinter, ‘88 Shredder and Krang now posed & ready to kick butt! They charge!
208. ‘03 LEO GET HIM INTO THAT BEAM!!!
REVERSE TO REVEAL THEIR DESTINATION: UTROM SHREDDER – staggering, body singed from beam, off balance - VULNERABLE!
209. ‘84 MIKEY The bigger they are…
210. ‘03 MIKEY … the harder they fall!
211. ‘88 MIKEY Cowabunga!!
… and back… and back… towards the TECHNODROME‘S ENERGY STREAM! ON STREAM – Shredder staggers back, getting closer… closer…!!!
212. UTROM SHREDDER
INT. TECHNODROME – COMMAND CENTER – CONTINUOUS
Bebop and Rocksteady observe on view screen! They
213. BEBOP/ROCKSTEADY We‘ve gotta save the mastah!!!/ WAAA!
… but TRIP on a GIANT PLUG CORD! CU: plug yanked from socket!
31 214. BEBOP/ROCKSTEADY
EXT. TECHNODROME – CONTINUOUS
CU: the GIANT EYE… deactivates! The energy stream turns off!
Just as Shredder staggers in – directly in its LINE OF FIRE.
OUR HEROES – react! Registering their change in fortune!
BACK ON UTROM SHREDDER – doing the same!
215. UTROM SHREDDER HAHAHAHAHA! You had your chance! Now — I HAVE MINE!!!!
On that: Utrom Shredder‘s arm elongates (think Machine Man, not Mr. Fantastic) extending to the charging ‘84 TURTLES…
216. ALL ‘84 TURTLES
… grabbing all four with giant hand and RETRACTING them O.S.! As the other Turtles stop in their tracks and look up to see: UTROM SHREDDER: holding the ‘84 turtles up high!
217. UTROM SHREDDER To destroy the source! To end you all! Without these turtles you cannot exist!
PAN CU ACROSS ‘03 & ‘88 TURTLES - looking up in GROWING HORROR!
218. UTROM SHREDDER (O.S.) BEHOLD!
CU: he squeezes HARD! Squeezing the ever living life out of the ‘84 TURTLES! They scream out in pain!!!! They‘re dying!!
219. ALL ‘84 TURTLES ARRGHHHH!!!!!!
And suddenly - below, the ‘88 and ‘03 Turtles writhe in agony! They too start to die! The Turtles‘ fates are linked!
220. ALL ‘88 AND ‘03 TURTLES ARRGHHHH!!!!!!
But not just the turtles… PAN TO Splinter, Karai, ‘88 Shredder, Krang: suddenly, they start to flicker and FADE AWAY…
32 CU ON UTROM SHREDDER – squeezing ‘84 turtles in one hand…
221. UTROM SHREDDER Only now, in the end, do you truly understand! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
… while his other hand starts to flicker and fade! He notices!
222. UTROM SHREDDER
223. KARAI (O.S.) GAAAAHH! Father, STOP!! PLEASE!
Utrom Shredder looks to see Karai and company flickering away!
224. KARAI (FLICKERING) Can you not see?! Whatever it is you have done to destroy them –you do it to all of us as well! Our fates are linked to theirs!
UTROM SHREDDER looks to ‘84 turtles – with rising HORROR!
CU: he stops squeezing the ‘84 turtles!
At once – all turtles stop dying, but remain DEEPLY in pain!
At once – all characters stop flickering and fading!
225. UTROM SHREDDER
226. KARAI Father, I don‘t want to lose you again! Destroy them, and you will destroy yourself! I beg you, STOP!
DRAMATIC ANGLE ON UTROM SHREDDER – looking to the helpless ‘84 turtles in his hand, bubbling up with anger… shock… rage…
227. UTROM SHREDDER No! I AM THE SHREDDER! SLAYER OF NINJA TURTLES! AND IF EXISTING MEANS EXISTING WITH THE ACURSED TURTLES--
ON ‘88/‘03 TURTLES: groggy but aware – looks of rising alarm!
ON SPLINTER & KARAI: horrified – knowing where this is going!
33 CU UTROM SHREDDER – RED ENERGY STREAKING FROM HELMET‘S EYES!!!!
228. UTROM SHREDDER -- I CHOSE NOT TO EXIST AT ALL!!!!
ON THAT – HE SQUEEZES THE ‘84 TURTLES WITH ALL HIS STRENGTH!
229. ALL TWELVE TURTLES ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!!!
Everything starts to flicker and fade! Splinter! Karai! Utrom Shredder! The Technodrome! The World!!!!!!!
230. UTROM SHREDDER IF DESTROYING THEM MEANS THE END… OF EVERYTHING… THEN SO BE IT!!!!!!
CAMERA PUSHES IN on the UTROM SHREDDER as the entire Multiverse flickers, then warps. The whole scene starts to undulate – static flits across the screen. Images from all incarnations of TMNT flit in. It‘s hard to know where or when we are in the Multiverse; the images pulse and flicker, varying in prominence on the screen. None are stable. The Multiverse is coming apart!
231. SPLINTER/KARAI/KRANG/SHREDDER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
232. UTROM SHREDDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAAAA!!!!!
PAN DOWN along the
The maelstrom ENDS – as CU: UTROM SHREDDER‘S FIST unclenches… releasing the ‘84 turtles from his grip, letting them slip…
…down to the street right beside the ‗03s who turn to see: the ‘88 TURTLES! Groggy on street, but each holding shurikens!
233. ‘88 DON (TO ‘03 TURTLES)
ON UTROM SHREDDER – foot damaged, but still intact! He rises, standing up tall… directly in the Giant Eye‘s line of fire. The Turtles and company react with alarm!
34 234. UTROM SHREDDER HAHAHAHA! Fools! Exploding shurikens?! That‘s not going to stop me! I‘ll --
But then the GIANT EYE reactivates – OBLITERATING HIM!!!
INT. TECHNODROME – COMMAND CENTER – CONTINUOUS
Bebop & Rocksteady are at the socket, holding the plug. They‘ve just plugged it back in, looking at each other - PROUD.
235. BEBOP (WIPING HANDS) Phew. That was an easy fix.
236. ROCKSTEADY (HAPPY) The mastah will be pleased!
EXT. STREET OUTSIDE – CONTINUOUS
ON UTROM SHREDDER: being broken apart, fried, convulsing from the continuous crackling energy coursing through his body from out the Technodrome‘s eye! He shakes, rattles…
237. UTROM SHREDDER ARRGGHHH!!! NO… NO… NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
… and with a FLASH of SPECTACULAR ENERGY - the Utrom Shredder is… GONE! WIPED CLEAN! As if… he never were.
CRANE DOWN… and PAN ALONG… the stunned looks of all our heroes… which quickly become big, BEAMING smiles as we settle at last…
ON CU ‘84 LEO – big, toothy classic ‘84 turtle grin.
238. ‘84 LEO The Shredder… has been shredded!
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. ‘84 COMIC BOOK NEW YORK - LATER
We PAN along a WIDE ESTABLISHING SHOT of the city… repairing itself! Buildings, bridges, anything and everything that was damaged by the Technodrome‘s prior attack is reforming before our eyes - as if it‘s all being ―magically‖ … REDRAWN (NOTE: This is a reverse of the previously described „Vasnish” effect)! Settle on the TECHNODROME seen from afar, push in and cut into:
35 EXT. STREET WHERE TECHNODROME IS PARKED – CONTINUOUS
The Technodrome‘s giant EYE is off; the gangplank, lowered. In the background Bebop and Rocksteady sit on curb, in shackles, as ‘88 Donny strolls past CAM in foreground, BEAMING…
239. ‘88 DON I‘d say Turtle Prime is healing up rather nicely!
… he stops beside the ‘03 & ‘88 TEAMS - all smiling as they stand on street, gazing up at the self-repairing city in awe.
240. ‘03 DON It seems the dimensional damage was only temporary – so long as Turtle Prime survived! So, in theory…
241. ‘03 LEO (HOPE RISING) Our world… is healing too?
242. ‘88 DON I know a fun way to find out!
‘88 Donny presses a button on the PORTAL STICK.
… a PANNING SHOT of the world mid way through self-repairing! Blue pencil sketches of people and places becoming final, colored designs right before our eyes!
243. ‘03 TURTLES YES!
244. ‘03 RAPH (HOPE RISING) Casey…! April…!
PANNING shot SETTLES ON… two blue pencil people locked in tender embrace, kissing! The designs reform! It‘s CASEY & APRIL!
ON ‘03 RAPH: beaming, a happy moment, interrupted as we: PULL OUT TO SHOW: the ‘88 team watching the kissing couple and:
245. ALL ‘88 TURTLES (WALLA)
246. ‘03 RAPH Alright! Alright! Show‘s over, ya goofballs!
36 He yanks the portal stick from ‘88 Don, and just as Casey and April can be seen realizing they‘re being watched…
247. CASEY (THROUGH WINDOW) Raph? That yo—
… turns it off…
248. ‘03 MIKEY So, this is how you see me? The Ever Lovin‘ Lulu of Annoyingness?
249. ‘03 RAPH In a nutty nutshell… you exactly.
250. ‘03 MIKEY Dude, I‘m finally starting to get you!
251. ‘03 RAPH Oh happy day.
‘03 Raph spins around and finds himself CU: nose to nose with his
252. ‘84 RAPH You ever step foot in our dimension again – I‘ll shish kabob ya.
253. ‘03 RAPH
254. ‘03 MIKEY (NODS) Mm-hm. Captain Grumpy McGrumpalot!
255. ‘03 RAPH (SIGHS) I‘ve got some soul searchin‘ ta do…
WIDEN to include ‘84 Leo speaks with ‘03 Leo.
256. ‘84 LEO Leonardo, seriously, for your own good, you bros should lay off the dimension hopping business. It‘s dangerous.
257. ‘03 LEO
ON TEAM ‘84: small nods and smiles.
ON TEAM ‘88 and ‘03 – touched, exchanging glances - and when
37 they look back to team ‘84…
WIDE REVEAL: they‘re gone! CAMERA WIDENS even further…
258. ‘88 RAPH Now that‘s what I call a Ninja Vanish!
259. ‘88 LEO Guess we should all be vacating…
The two teams all turn and head to the Technodrome…
260. ‘88 DON What about your Shredder? Think he‘s really gone for good this time?
WIDEN TO INCLUDE Splinter, Karai, ‘88 Shredder and Krang.
261. SPLINTER The Shredder is seldom gone for long. And never for good.
262. KARAI (NOT AT ALL HAPPY) I have devoted myself to my father‘s eternal spirit. He shall return.
263. ‘03 RAPH Wunnerful.
264. ‘88 SHREDDER
265. KRANG And rest assured, it‘ll be US who gets the last laugh… er giggle… er… HAHAHAHA -
WIDE: ‘88 Shredder and Krang rush into TECHNODROME via gangplank; Bebop and Rocksteady chase after them.
266. BEBOP/ROCKSTEADY (WALLA) Take us with you!/We said we wuz sorry!
267. ‘88 LEO Well, that‘s our cue! Looks like we‘ve got our adventures and you‘ve got yours!
38 268. ‘03 LEO Take care of yourselves, my brothers.
269. ‘88 LEO See ya round the Multiverse… bros!
The ‗88s rush up plank, but stop at door. They look to each other, sharing a thought - then turn to look back at the ‗03s.
270. ‘88 TURTLES
ON THE ‗03S – touched. They look to each other, sharing a thought - then turn to look up at the ‗88s.
271. ‘03 TURTLES TURTLE POWER!
The ‗88s smile and wave. The gangplank
CUT WIDE TO INCLUDE: Technodrome, ‘03 turtles, Splinter, Karai. The Technodrome begins to RUMBLE. ‘03 Don readies portal stick.
272. ‘03 RAPH I‘m gonna miss those pudge balls.
273. ‘84 DON I‘m gonna miss those wannabes.
274. ‘84 MIKEY Yeah. And I kinda dug the initials on the belt buckles.
275. ‘84 RAPH You would.
276. ‘84 LEO I know a place on Bleeker. Race you!
And they‘re off!
TRACK THEM – roof running, classic TMNT ninja-style; the city their playground, racing toward cam, which rockets back as they
39 race forward; soundtrack swelling as…
277. ‘84 LEO (V.O. OVER ACTION) We are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… We strike hard and fade away…
… they LEAP to overtake Cam, but – CAMERA FREEZE FRAMES! The Turtles are frozen mid-leap - poses identical to the first double-page spread (pages 2 and 3) from the first issue of TMNT!
Holding on that image… PULL OUT and…
MATCH DISSOLVE TO:
INT. ART STUDIO/LIVING ROOM OF EASTMAN AND LAIRD – CONTINUOUS
LIVE ACTION FOOTAGE: we continue our pull out in ONE SEAMLESS CAMERA MOVE to reveal we‘re looking at THE ACTUAL TWO PAGE SPREAD on a real world drawing board. CAMERA keeps pulling out wider to reveal – we‘re in the ―art studio‖/living room of EASTMAN and LAIRD! Camera settles, when from O.S.:
278. PETER LAIRD (O.S.) I think the first issue is coming along rather well! Don‘t you, Kev?
279. KEVIN EASTMAN (O.S.) Sure do, Pete. Let‘s get back to it after lunch!
An O.S. door
280. PETER LAIRD (O.S.) Pizza?
281. KEVIN EASTMAN (O.S.) Pizza!
… and
The End