TMNT2007

April:
[happily] Leo, you came back!

Casey:
[happily] Leo!

Leo:
Sorry the reunion isn't under better circumstances.

Mikey:
[seeing April and Casey's apartment complex] Whoa-ho-ho. Nice pad, kids. [to Raphael] Oh. Hey, Raph.

Donnie:
[taking Raphael's pulse] Well, his vital signs seem to be okay. [opens Raphael's eye] Pupil dilation is normal. [shocked] Whoa! [sees stone star on Raphael's shell]

Leo and Mikey:
[stunned] Whoa.

Donnie:
[pulls stone star out of Raphael's shell] Some sort of stone. Probably obsidian, I think.

Leo:
Well, is he gonna be all right?

Raph:
[waking up; to Leonardo] You're still here? Go back to your jungle.

Leo:
Well, at least his personality's still intact.

Donnie:
And there's an engraving on it. Looks South American. That's your department, April.

Casey:
[holding a sleeping dart] Would it help things if I told you that those statues you collected for that Winters guy were shooting these things at me and Raph?

April:
"The Legend of Yaotl." It can't be. I-I-It was just a myth. A-a scary story the locals told kids around a campfire.

Leo:
Whoa. What are you talking about?

April:
They say 3,000 years ago, some great warrior actually found a portal to another dimension. [camera fades to Yaotl] And when the portal opened, the energy from it gave the warrior eternal life. But it also turned his generals to stone. What if this warrior just kept living forever? He would spend the rest of his days in regret, spending all of his riches and all of his power, trying to find a way to revive his stone generals. Maybe, just maybe, he's built a new empire. [camera pans to Winters' face, and he opens his eyes; fade back to April's apartment] But hey, like I said, it's just a myth.

Donnie:
[examining the dart] Hmmm. If you ask me, you guys, this has Winters' name written all over it.

Leo:
How do you figure that, Donnie?

Casey and Mikey:
Yeah.

Donnie:
[smiling] Because this has Winters' name written all over it.

Raph:
Now I know who to thank for the shot in the arm. [sits down] So, where do we find this guy and his stone jokers?

Leo:
We're not going anywhere until we get Splinter's blessing.

Raph:
[angrily stands up] You're gonna stand here and quote a rule book to me that you ain't been following a year?!

Leo:
Look, Raph, if you got something you want to get off your shell, now's the time. But I'm not gonna stand here and debate Splinter's direct orders with you!

Raph:
[pause; softly yet stern] Fine, then. I quit.

Casey:
Hey, Raph. Don't do it, man. Sometimes just taking a breather is the best thing to do.

Raph:
Whatever.