Donald Drake and Plato

Donald Drake and Plato are characters who only appeared in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers pilot episode "To the Rescue".
==Appearance==
Donald Drake is a skinny bald man with brown hair and a mustache, and he wears a blue detective uniform. Plato is a beige bulldog with bushy white eyebrows and he wears a blue shirt.
==Role in the episode==
===Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers===
===="To the Rescue"====
When Chip and Dale fly on a paper airplane on a roller skate, they spot Plato and Donald Drake chasing a thief named Percy, who stole the Clutchcoin ruby necklace. They arrive at a lumber warehouse where Percy looks for his boss, Aldrin Klordane with his cat, Fat Cat. Plato invites the chipmunks to join them, but tells them to be very quiet. Officer Kirby and Officer Muldoon also join Drake and Plato to catch and arrest Percy, having arrived at the lumber yard the same time as Drake and Plato after Drake radioed for backup.
Chip and Dale distract Percy and cause him to lose the ruby and Drake, Plato, Kirby, and Muldoon leave with the evidence. Donald returns the ruby necklace to the captain of the police station, but just as the captain puts it in one of his desk drawers, Fat Cat steals it and goes to Donald and Plato's office, removes the ruby from the necklace, and puts the necklace, airline tickets, and gambling debts in Donald's coat pocket to frame Donald for stealing the ruby. While Plato gives Chip and Dale tips of being a cop, Fat Cat enters and confronts Plato, making the dog angry and chase him around the police station.
Everyone sees Fat Cat, who runs away, and finds the planted evidence coming out of Donald's coat pocket. Donald tries to convince everyone that Fat Cat framed him, but no one seems to believe him and the captain reluctantly has the SWAT team arrest him and Plato and put them in jail. Plato now counts on Chip and Dale to steal the ruby back from Aldrin and Fat Cat.
Donald and Plato later get out of prison and Donald gets captured by Aldrin, who brings him to see his master plan unfolding. Fat Cat frames Plato by putting shaving cream on him and puts the chihuahua of Mrs. Clutchcoin (the owner of the ruby necklace which just got returned to her) into his mouth and cops think Plato's has gone mad and they put him in a dog pound. As they do that, Professor Norton Nimnul steals the ruby.
The Rescue Rangers free Plato from his cell and he teams up with the rodents and find the subway entrance they're looking for, and Plato breaks down a wooden door blocking the way in, but it falls apart on them. Aldrin and Percy come by and recognize Drake's dog and capture him.
While Aldrin is explaining to Donald his plan, the Rescue Rangers find Plato chained up on Aldrin's train. He tells them that they must find a way to alert the police of Aldrin's whereabouts, during which he calls them Rescue Rangers for the first time. While an earthquake brings down the whole Gold Reserve building, the cops come running out, but Aldrin escapes with the ruby, some of the gold, and Plato, using dynamite to block the tunnel so the cops can't pursue him.
The Rescue Rangers catch up to the train and Plato tells them that they must stop it. When they do so, Aldrin becomes furious at the rodents for ruining his plans and before he catches them, Plato unchains himself with a blowtorch and runs at him. The train flies out of the subway and Aldrin lands right on the police captain's desk with Plato delivering his patented Crime Bite to Aldrin's backside. While Aldrin gets arrested after returning the ruby and confessing to his crimes, Plato receives his own police medal, which he gives to the Rangers for their good work.
==Trivia==
*The names of Donald Drake and Plato are obvious nods to those of Chip 'n Dale's old co-stars, Donald Duck and Pluto. Interestingly, Plato is a dog, much like Pluto, albeit of different breeds - Plato is a bulldog (not unlike Butch Bulldog, Pluto's nemesis), in contrast to Pluto whom is a common mutt.
**Donald Drake's last name "Drake" is obviously a reference to the fact that drakes are male ducks, and Donald Duck is a male duck.
**Co-incidentally, Donald Drake's outfit is blue, much like Donald Duck's sailor suit.
*Plato was also probably named after Plato, the Greek philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece.
==Gallery==
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vlcsnap-2015-04-21-23h12m55s064.png|Retirement for Donald Drake and Plato
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Category:Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers characters
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