Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003–2010): Season 5, Episode 3 - Legend of the Five Dragons - full transcript
Legend of the Five Dragons: The Turtles train with the Ninja Tribunal to prevent the resurrection of The Shredder. But when Splinter and the Ancient One nearly come to blows over how far the Tribunal should be followed, it leaves ...
At last, brother mystics,
we have arrived!
The first artifact is ours!
No!
[ groaning ]
Kappa Tengu,
you wretched demon!
Who did this to you?
Tribunal.
New Acolytes.
And the cask?
Where is the cask?
They...they have it.
You had one duty:
to protect the cask!
They fought like demons!
But you are demons.
Demons who failed
in your duty.
The Supreme Master
we have come to revive
accepts no excuses
and neither do we!
[ grunts ]
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Turtles, count it off!
1, 2, 3, 4!
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Mutant chain reaction
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Never let us down
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Ninjutsu action
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ It's a shell of a town
Turtles, count it off!
- One!
- ♪ Leonardo's always
in control ♪
- Two!
- ♪ The wise guy
is Michelangelo ♪
- Three!
- ♪ Donatello, he's
the brains of the bunch ♪
- Four!
- ♪ Count on Raphael
to throw the first punch ♪
- ♪ I love bein'
- ♪ I love bein'
♪ I love bein' a turtle
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Turtles, count it off!
1, 2, 3, 4!
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ There's no one better
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Watch out for Shredder
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ They're like no others
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Those teenage brothers
- 1, 2, 3, 4!
- 1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
[ echoing ]
♪ Turtles, Turtles
[ grunts ]
I can't sleep!
[ yawns ]
Me neither.
Shh! You'll wake the old guys.
They're not sleeping.
They're meditating.
There's a difference, Raph.
Not in my book.
Oh, so much danger.
Never wanted this for them.
Aw, Splinter, I cannot meditate
with you muttering like that!
Besides, my butt
has fallen asleep.
My apologies, Ancient One.
But the Ninja Tribunal
troubles me more each day.
I cannot allow their foolish
judgment to cost me my family!
Not again!
Your sons are capable,
sort of.
Michelangelo:
Um, hello?
We're like five feet away!
How about showing
a little tact?
Master Splinter, when you
say the Ninja Tribunal
cost you your family, what...
what are you talking about?
I am talking about
my beloved Master Yoshi
and of a time in the past.
Yoshi-san was
a Guardian then.
Pledged to protect the Utrom.
He came to enlist
the Ninja Tribunal's aid.
Ancient One:
Yoshi was my prize pupil.
But he insisted
on becoming a Guardian.
My Lords, we must
form an alliance.
The Shredder's threat
is beyond imagining!
This alien bug imposter
you call the Shredder
is nothing to us!
He is not the real Shredder.
Do not underestimate him.
He may even channel
the evil of the one you fear.
A distraction.
We must remain vigilant against
a return of the true Shredder.
Masters, please reconsider!
We have spoken!
Go now and trouble us no more.
Splinter:
The mighty Ninja Tribunal
ignored my Master's warnings
and because of
the Tribunal's
cold indifference,
one of the countless victims
of the Utrom Shredder would be
my Master Yoshi.
And the Tribunal did
nothing.
Oh!
Nothing!
Had the Tribunal heeded Yoshi,
my Master might be alive today.
The Tribunal sees a bigger
picture than we do, Splinter.
At least I hope they do.
Is anybody gonna tell us what
the shell is going on here?
Real Shredder?
True Shredder?
Utrom Shredder?
How many Shredders are there?
My sons, it is time
you know the true story
of how this all began.
Of an evil darker
than all evils.
A primal force of malevolence
that was and is
the original Shredder.
No one really knows
what level of the dark
depths spawned him,
but back in the year
300 A.D. in Yamato...
[ clamoring ]
The Shredder rose
from some foul-stinking pit
in the form of
a terrible Tengu,
a demon that had but one goal:
to subjugate the world
and to turn it into
his own personal empire
full of agony and destruction.
[ cackles ]
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Shredder Tengu spread
his evil everywhere.
He seemed unstoppable.
[ clamoring ]
[ laughs ]
But there were five great
warriors in Japan at that time.
Their courage and their
victories were legendary
Ancient One:
And you young pups
have already had
the honor of meeting them.
There was Hisomi...
[ grunts ]
Chikara...
[ grunting ]
Splinter:
Juto...
Ancient One:
Kon...
And perhaps the most skilled
and ambitious of
them all, Oroku Saki.
Leonardo:
Saki? Shredder's fake
human identity?
He was real?
Ancient One:
Don't interrupt, Leonardo!
Just listen.
So these five great
warriors were summoned
before the Emperor
who informed them they
were the world's last hope.
Michelangelo:
Whoa, no pressure or anything!
Splinter:
The Empire's greatest
craftsmen
had forged armor
for the warriors.
Special armor engraved
with protective spells
and talismans of purity.
Armor they would soon wear
into battle against
the evil Shredder Tengu.
[ laughs ]
[ shouting ]
[ horse neighs ]
Ancient One:
The warriors fought bravely.
[ screams ]
Splinter:
Despite overwhelming odds,
they refused to give up.
[ shouting ]
They had vowed to fight
to the very end.
[ growls ]
[ grunts ]
Ancient One:
Saki's attacks were the most
savage, the most damaging.
[ groans ]
I am Oroku Saki!
Demon, let my name be
the last sound you hear!
It was he who
finished the demon.
[ cheering ]
Splinter:
The Emperor held a great
celebration and decreed
that the warriors would be
known as the Five Dragons.
There could be
no higher honor.
Ancient One:
He awarded them
their own banner.
The three-toed sign
of the dragon.
But the celebration
was premature.
Saki's battle with the Tengu
had been fought on more than
the physical plane.
I am Oroku Saki!
Demon...
There is greatness
in you, warrior.
I can make you a god
among these insects.
Every wish fulfilled,
every dream made real.
You could rule all,
have all.
Just allow me inside your soul
and the world
will be yours!
Splinter:
The demon's words ignited
some dark part of Saki.
He accepted the offer.
Ancient One:
Invisibly, the Shredder's evil
spirit merged with Saki's.
So that even as the warrior
landed the final blow,
the Tengu was only
an empty vessel.
The dark spirit of the Shredder
had filled Oroku Saki
and now he was host
to the greatest evil
the world has ever known.
[ laughs ]
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Splinter:
Oroku Saki's betrayal plunged
Japan into an age of darkness.
The malevolent essence of
the Shredder
swelled within him
and all around him.
There seemed no limit
to the evil of which
he was capable.
Having created an
impenetrable stronghold
and his only true
opposition destroyed,
Saki became the most
feared warlord of all.
His name was spoken
in whispers
Ancient One:
And the name they all
whispered was "the Shredder".
The Dragons vowed to defeat
the Shredder at all costs.
They needed to
increase their power,
so they sought out
mystical knowledge;
the ancient spells and wisdom
that would allow them
to stand against
the Shredder's might.
They studied hard
and learned much.
The Dragons scoured the globe
for masters of the mystic arts
who would be willing
to teach them.
As their knowledge grew
so indeed did their power.
Until finally, they
became more than warriors.
More than merely humans.
The Dragons evolved, becoming
forces of nature themselves.
[ grunts ]
Beings of sheer power,
but tempered by wisdom
and purity of heart.
[ shouts ]
Splinter:
And at last, they were prepared
to confront the Shredder
once more.
My old friends!
Are you in such a hurry
to meet your doom?
It is time to pay for
your crimes, Shredder.
You fools are the only
ones that will pay.
Pay with your pathetic lives!
Ancient One:
This time when
the Shredder attacked,
the Dragons were ready.
[ screams ]
Now you shall taste
the terrible beauty
of true power!
And you shall be destroyed!
[ growls ]
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Splinter:
The Shredder manifested
his dragon avatar.
A foul monstrosity his
decayed spirit made flesh.
But the four heroes were
prepared even for this.
Their training allowed them
to tap into the eternal
energies
of the astral plane
and they too manifested
their dragon avatar.
Dragons of purity
and light and power.
[ roaring ]
Ready to fight evil
in an epic battle of
dragon against dragon.
[ screeches ]
[ growling ]
[ roaring ]
[ shrieks ]
Ancient One:
The four heroes had
defeated the supreme evil.
Splinter:
But though he was defeated,
the Shredder could not
be destroyed.
His dark magic
was too great.
Ancient One:
So the four heroes had
to figure out a way
to keep him and
his evil contained forever.
What? What are you doing?
Ancient One:
The dragon's power
kept him helpless
as they placed him
in what they prayed
would be his
final resting place.
I will return!
This world will be mine!
You will pay for this!
You will...
Splinter:
Since that fateful day,
the Tribunal has kept
a careful vigil over
Shredder's helmet,
gauntlet and body.
For if these three artifacts
ever were to come together,
the Shredder could
very well be revived.
Michelangelo:
Wow! 1700 years!
That's one long vigil!
Ancient One:
They knew the Shredder's
evil would never die.
They began
training others.
Those that could help
them in their fight.
Acolytes chosen for their
potential and purity of heart.
The Tribunal taught an art
of fighting
with the power of
the dragon at its core
which would become
known as Ninjitsu.
And these immortals,
the remaining Dragons,
became known as
the Ninja Tribunal.
So there was a real Shredder...
And the alien Utrom Shredder
we fought was an imposter
who was just using the name
of the original demon Shredder
to gain respect!
And this original
Shredder has all sorts
of butt-kicking magic powers
that almost destroyed
the Ninja Tribunal.
And now someone's trying
to resurrect him.
The greatest evil
the world has ever known
and the only ones who even
know about this...
Are cute, green, and way
the shell out of our league!
Um, any chance
we could still go home?
No, I didn't think so.
we have arrived!
The first artifact is ours!
No!
[ groaning ]
Kappa Tengu,
you wretched demon!
Who did this to you?
Tribunal.
New Acolytes.
And the cask?
Where is the cask?
They...they have it.
You had one duty:
to protect the cask!
They fought like demons!
But you are demons.
Demons who failed
in your duty.
The Supreme Master
we have come to revive
accepts no excuses
and neither do we!
[ grunts ]
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Turtles, count it off!
1, 2, 3, 4!
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Mutant chain reaction
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Never let us down
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Ninjutsu action
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ It's a shell of a town
Turtles, count it off!
- One!
- ♪ Leonardo's always
in control ♪
- Two!
- ♪ The wise guy
is Michelangelo ♪
- Three!
- ♪ Donatello, he's
the brains of the bunch ♪
- Four!
- ♪ Count on Raphael
to throw the first punch ♪
- ♪ I love bein'
- ♪ I love bein'
♪ I love bein' a turtle
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Turtles, count it off!
1, 2, 3, 4!
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ There's no one better
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Watch out for Shredder
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ They're like no others
- ♪ Turtles!
- ♪ Those teenage brothers
- 1, 2, 3, 4!
- 1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
[ echoing ]
♪ Turtles, Turtles
[ grunts ]
I can't sleep!
[ yawns ]
Me neither.
Shh! You'll wake the old guys.
They're not sleeping.
They're meditating.
There's a difference, Raph.
Not in my book.
Oh, so much danger.
Never wanted this for them.
Aw, Splinter, I cannot meditate
with you muttering like that!
Besides, my butt
has fallen asleep.
My apologies, Ancient One.
But the Ninja Tribunal
troubles me more each day.
I cannot allow their foolish
judgment to cost me my family!
Not again!
Your sons are capable,
sort of.
Michelangelo:
Um, hello?
We're like five feet away!
How about showing
a little tact?
Master Splinter, when you
say the Ninja Tribunal
cost you your family, what...
what are you talking about?
I am talking about
my beloved Master Yoshi
and of a time in the past.
Yoshi-san was
a Guardian then.
Pledged to protect the Utrom.
He came to enlist
the Ninja Tribunal's aid.
Ancient One:
Yoshi was my prize pupil.
But he insisted
on becoming a Guardian.
My Lords, we must
form an alliance.
The Shredder's threat
is beyond imagining!
This alien bug imposter
you call the Shredder
is nothing to us!
He is not the real Shredder.
Do not underestimate him.
He may even channel
the evil of the one you fear.
A distraction.
We must remain vigilant against
a return of the true Shredder.
Masters, please reconsider!
We have spoken!
Go now and trouble us no more.
Splinter:
The mighty Ninja Tribunal
ignored my Master's warnings
and because of
the Tribunal's
cold indifference,
one of the countless victims
of the Utrom Shredder would be
my Master Yoshi.
And the Tribunal did
nothing.
Oh!
Nothing!
Had the Tribunal heeded Yoshi,
my Master might be alive today.
The Tribunal sees a bigger
picture than we do, Splinter.
At least I hope they do.
Is anybody gonna tell us what
the shell is going on here?
Real Shredder?
True Shredder?
Utrom Shredder?
How many Shredders are there?
My sons, it is time
you know the true story
of how this all began.
Of an evil darker
than all evils.
A primal force of malevolence
that was and is
the original Shredder.
No one really knows
what level of the dark
depths spawned him,
but back in the year
300 A.D. in Yamato...
[ clamoring ]
The Shredder rose
from some foul-stinking pit
in the form of
a terrible Tengu,
a demon that had but one goal:
to subjugate the world
and to turn it into
his own personal empire
full of agony and destruction.
[ cackles ]
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Shredder Tengu spread
his evil everywhere.
He seemed unstoppable.
[ clamoring ]
[ laughs ]
But there were five great
warriors in Japan at that time.
Their courage and their
victories were legendary
Ancient One:
And you young pups
have already had
the honor of meeting them.
There was Hisomi...
[ grunts ]
Chikara...
[ grunting ]
Splinter:
Juto...
Ancient One:
Kon...
And perhaps the most skilled
and ambitious of
them all, Oroku Saki.
Leonardo:
Saki? Shredder's fake
human identity?
He was real?
Ancient One:
Don't interrupt, Leonardo!
Just listen.
So these five great
warriors were summoned
before the Emperor
who informed them they
were the world's last hope.
Michelangelo:
Whoa, no pressure or anything!
Splinter:
The Empire's greatest
craftsmen
had forged armor
for the warriors.
Special armor engraved
with protective spells
and talismans of purity.
Armor they would soon wear
into battle against
the evil Shredder Tengu.
[ laughs ]
[ shouting ]
[ horse neighs ]
Ancient One:
The warriors fought bravely.
[ screams ]
Splinter:
Despite overwhelming odds,
they refused to give up.
[ shouting ]
They had vowed to fight
to the very end.
[ growls ]
[ grunts ]
Ancient One:
Saki's attacks were the most
savage, the most damaging.
[ groans ]
I am Oroku Saki!
Demon, let my name be
the last sound you hear!
It was he who
finished the demon.
[ cheering ]
Splinter:
The Emperor held a great
celebration and decreed
that the warriors would be
known as the Five Dragons.
There could be
no higher honor.
Ancient One:
He awarded them
their own banner.
The three-toed sign
of the dragon.
But the celebration
was premature.
Saki's battle with the Tengu
had been fought on more than
the physical plane.
I am Oroku Saki!
Demon...
There is greatness
in you, warrior.
I can make you a god
among these insects.
Every wish fulfilled,
every dream made real.
You could rule all,
have all.
Just allow me inside your soul
and the world
will be yours!
Splinter:
The demon's words ignited
some dark part of Saki.
He accepted the offer.
Ancient One:
Invisibly, the Shredder's evil
spirit merged with Saki's.
So that even as the warrior
landed the final blow,
the Tengu was only
an empty vessel.
The dark spirit of the Shredder
had filled Oroku Saki
and now he was host
to the greatest evil
the world has ever known.
[ laughs ]
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Splinter:
Oroku Saki's betrayal plunged
Japan into an age of darkness.
The malevolent essence of
the Shredder
swelled within him
and all around him.
There seemed no limit
to the evil of which
he was capable.
Having created an
impenetrable stronghold
and his only true
opposition destroyed,
Saki became the most
feared warlord of all.
His name was spoken
in whispers
Ancient One:
And the name they all
whispered was "the Shredder".
The Dragons vowed to defeat
the Shredder at all costs.
They needed to
increase their power,
so they sought out
mystical knowledge;
the ancient spells and wisdom
that would allow them
to stand against
the Shredder's might.
They studied hard
and learned much.
The Dragons scoured the globe
for masters of the mystic arts
who would be willing
to teach them.
As their knowledge grew
so indeed did their power.
Until finally, they
became more than warriors.
More than merely humans.
The Dragons evolved, becoming
forces of nature themselves.
[ grunts ]
Beings of sheer power,
but tempered by wisdom
and purity of heart.
[ shouts ]
Splinter:
And at last, they were prepared
to confront the Shredder
once more.
My old friends!
Are you in such a hurry
to meet your doom?
It is time to pay for
your crimes, Shredder.
You fools are the only
ones that will pay.
Pay with your pathetic lives!
Ancient One:
This time when
the Shredder attacked,
the Dragons were ready.
[ screams ]
Now you shall taste
the terrible beauty
of true power!
And you shall be destroyed!
[ growls ]
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Splinter:
The Shredder manifested
his dragon avatar.
A foul monstrosity his
decayed spirit made flesh.
But the four heroes were
prepared even for this.
Their training allowed them
to tap into the eternal
energies
of the astral plane
and they too manifested
their dragon avatar.
Dragons of purity
and light and power.
[ roaring ]
Ready to fight evil
in an epic battle of
dragon against dragon.
[ screeches ]
[ growling ]
[ roaring ]
[ shrieks ]
Ancient One:
The four heroes had
defeated the supreme evil.
Splinter:
But though he was defeated,
the Shredder could not
be destroyed.
His dark magic
was too great.
Ancient One:
So the four heroes had
to figure out a way
to keep him and
his evil contained forever.
What? What are you doing?
Ancient One:
The dragon's power
kept him helpless
as they placed him
in what they prayed
would be his
final resting place.
I will return!
This world will be mine!
You will pay for this!
You will...
Splinter:
Since that fateful day,
the Tribunal has kept
a careful vigil over
Shredder's helmet,
gauntlet and body.
For if these three artifacts
ever were to come together,
the Shredder could
very well be revived.
Michelangelo:
Wow! 1700 years!
That's one long vigil!
Ancient One:
They knew the Shredder's
evil would never die.
They began
training others.
Those that could help
them in their fight.
Acolytes chosen for their
potential and purity of heart.
The Tribunal taught an art
of fighting
with the power of
the dragon at its core
which would become
known as Ninjitsu.
And these immortals,
the remaining Dragons,
became known as
the Ninja Tribunal.
So there was a real Shredder...
And the alien Utrom Shredder
we fought was an imposter
who was just using the name
of the original demon Shredder
to gain respect!
And this original
Shredder has all sorts
of butt-kicking magic powers
that almost destroyed
the Ninja Tribunal.
And now someone's trying
to resurrect him.
The greatest evil
the world has ever known
and the only ones who even
know about this...
Are cute, green, and way
the shell out of our league!
Um, any chance
we could still go home?
No, I didn't think so.