Finding Marlin

"**Finding Marlin"** is an Antonio Cool Guy episode from season 2. In this episode, Antonio, Marlin, Nemo, and Dory travel to New Zealand to find Marlin's long lost wife, Coral.

## Plot

The episode begins with Antonio in his bed asleep while Marlin, Nemo, and Dory getting ready for bed. Nemo and Dory ask Marlin what happened to Nemo's mother (Coral), so Marlin tells them what happened. Then, Marlin and Nemo go into their anemone, and Dory goes to her brain coral, then they all fall asleep. Later, at midnight, Marlin has a nightmare about losing Coral and their eggs to the barracuda. He wakes up, screaming in fear, and he wakes up Nemo and Dory in the process. Nemo and Dory ask him what's wrong, and Marlin says nothing, telling them to go back to sleep. Marlin then goes to a rock, thinking about Coral.
The following morning, on the way to bring Nemo to school, Marlin sees that people have families, reminding him of his life with Coral before the barracuda incident. Nemo then asks Marlin to come with him on a field trip, then he responds, then they go to a field trip with Mr. Ray to learn about coral reefs. At the field trip, Nemo's classmates ask Marlin about ever having a wife, but Marlin, nervous, tells everybody that he lost Coral years ago due to the barracuda. Marlin swims offs and finds Nemo, who found small broken pieces of coral - clues that Coral used to leave him when she was alive on the sea bed.

Returning home, Marlin explains to Dory and Antonio about the clues and that he is beginning to think about going on a new adventure to find Coral. Later that night, Marlin goes out to find Coral, while Nemo and Dory catch up and they all leave the reef pool and travel. Antonio, before they all leave, has to tell his friends goodbye as he is about to leave to go to New Zealand for a few days. Antonio ad his friends do one last try not to laugh challenge, Rachel and Antonio do one last making out session, and Antonio tells Joseph and Mr. Bacon that he is going to New Zealand During their quest, Nemo falls asleep, and then the four run into Bruce, Anchor, and Chum, who are now fully vegetarian. Marlin explains to the sharks about his quest to find Coral, so the sharks give Marlin, Nemo, Dory, and Antonio a lift.

Later, the sharks drop off Marlin, Nemo, Dory, and Antonio at a cave, near the ruins of the shipwreck, where the trio sleeps for the night. The four later continues their quest for days and days, until they run into Gill and the Tank Gang, who escaped from the Marine Life Institute and are now stuck in a water bottle. Marlin, Nemo, Dory, and Antonio free the Tank Gang and swim up to the surface, where Gill sees a transport ship. He then tells his plan to Marlin, Dory, Nemo, Antonio, and the Tank Gang about getting on the vessel to use the coordinates to locate Coral. Gill sends Peach and Jacques to the ship, where the two distract the guards and incapacitate them, and get a map to find the location where the boat is going to. The plan succeeds, and the heroes follow the ship until they arrive at the port of Wellington, New Zealand, where Marlin is ambushed by a piranha, whom he tries to fend off. But then, Marlin and the piranha both get rescued by the staff members of an aquarium and get put in a cooler in a truck, as it heads for the New Zealand Public Aquarium, in the city of Napier.

Nemo, Dory, Antonio, and the Tank Gang make a plan to find Marlin as they then travel. They travel too far and end up on the eastern coast of the South Island, where Gill spots some of his old friends, a shoal of flying fish led by a middle-aged flying fish named Lincoln. Nemo asks them if they can help them find Marlin, and they agree. As everyone gets on them, the flying fish then travel across the river.

Meanwhile, Marlin and the piranha are put in a tank in a room of the aquarium, where a group of children are visiting. Marlin and the piranha get in a steaming feud and swim away from each other. The piranha, however, feels bad and decides to help Marlin escape from the tank, as he introduces himself as Spike. The plan succeeds, with the two fish get into the pipes.

In the pipes, Marlin tells Spike that he is trying to find Coral, and Spike tells him that he is a genetically modified piranha who escaped a lab, and later became a minion of the barracuda Fang, who had repeatedly mistreated him in the past to the point where he once injured his torso. He also tells Marlin that he witnessed Fang attacking the home of two clownfish. The two fish notice two pipe pathways and split up, with Marlin going into the right one while Spike goes into the left one. Later, Marlin and Spike eventually run into each other, but a pipe pig shows up and begins chasing Marlin and Spike. They try to escape, but Spike's torso injury stops him from swimming. As the pipe pig nearly hits Spike, Marlin saves his life by pushing him out of the way and both successfully escape. Spike thanks Marlin for saving his life from the pipe pig and joins him on his adventure to find Coral.

At the river at South Island, Nemo and company arrive at the North Island and say farwell to the flying fish. There, they encounter a falcon that snatches Dory. Nemo, worried, but brave enough, discusses his own very first plan to the Tank Gang and Antonio to rescue Dory. Gill and the Tank Gang head out to rescue Dory from the falcon and distract it as it lets go of Dory. Realizing that Dory was hurt in the process, Nemo realizes that he has to keep everyone safe since he is leading the search and tells Dory that everything will be fine.

Meanwhile, Marlin and Spike, having traveled in the aquarium for days, go into an exhibit where they hear that someone is in trouble. They then meet a dolphin named Flipper, who tells them that he is being bothered by a bully named Arnold who is an orca whale. Marlin and Spike come up with a plan and discuss ideas with Flipper to stop Arnold. As Marlin and Spike confront Arnold, he chases them as the two fish work together to take advantage of him as Spike knocks some rocks onto Arnold. Flipper stands up to him as Arnold agrees to never bully someone again and swims away. Having stopped Arnold, Marlin explains to Flipper about his adventure to find Coral, and Flipper, in return, tells him that there are tropical at a large tank on the highest floor. As the two fish say farewell to Flipper, Marlin and Spike enter some pipes which would be a quick way to find the exhibit.

Meanwhile, after a few days of travelling, Gill discovers a drain entrance that is blocked by a pile of rocks, and the heroes try to pick up the rocks, but fail. Dory swims away, only to meet a shy but curious and friendly North Island brown kiwi named George. Nemo, traumatized by the falcon incident, tells Dory that George might attack anyone, but she insists that he is friendly. Nemo talks to George and asks him if he can lift the rocks out of the way, and George agrees to do so, as he lifts the rocks out of the way. As the heroes enter the pipe entrance, except for Antonio who climbs the pipe to keep up with the fish they travel through, the storm-water pipes and fight against the current to get to the aquarium. Nemo, knowing that George is friendly, realizes that he shouldn't be a bit protective and remembers becoming brave the first time when he succeeded in stopping the filter.

Meanwhile, Marlin and Spike eventually make it to a tank in the tropical fish exhibit. There, they ask multiple fish one by one if they know a clownfish named Coral, before Marlin and Spike are told that no clownfish in this tank. Marlin swims off, sad that he'll never get to see his friends and family again and that he will never get to leave the aquarium. Spike then tells Marlin that they'll eventually find a way for them to escape from the aquarium.

*To Be Continued....*

## Production

### Music

* War Blowers - The Blue Hawaiians *[title card]*
* Queen's Aloha Oe B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani *[Marlin, Nemo and Dory get ready for bed]*
* Finding Nemo  - Thomas Newman [Bedtime Story]
* Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz *[Nightmare]*
* Honolulu March - Hans Haider *[Nemo going to school]*
* Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight - Tiny Tim *[Mr. Ray's song.]*
* Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland *[Broken Coral Shards]*
* Queen's Aloha Oe B - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani *[Antonio says goodbye to everyone]*
* Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney *[The sharks arrival]*
* Sunshine in Hawaii - Max Mahlmann *[Shark ride]*
* South Sea Island Lullaby - George Elliott *[that night in the cave.]*
* Seaweed - Steve Belfer *[the tank gang]*
* War Blowers - The Blue Hawaiians *[Gill's hypothesis/successul]*
* You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield *[Flying fish]*
* Seaweed - Steve Belfer *[Marlin and Spike]*
* Menace from the Deep - Robert Cornford *[Spike talks about Fang]*
* Sunshine in Hawaii - Max Mahlmann *[Marlin and Spike split up]*
* Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz *[Pipe Pig]*
* Grass Skirts Blowing - Jan Rap *["Wow, Marlin, you saved me!"]*
* Me for You - George Callert *[Flying fish leave]*
* Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz *[Dory getting snatched up by falcon]*
* War Blowers - The Blue Hawaiians *[Dory's rescue]*
* Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz *[Arnold bullies Flipper]*
* Seaweed - Steve Belfer *[Flipper and Marlin]*
* The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band *[George the Kiwi]*
* Haunted Surf - The Surfdusters *[Going through the pipes]*
* Aloha Oe - Hans Haider, Queen Lili'uokalani *[Tropical Tank Exhibit]*

## Trivia

* This is the second double length episode of the series.
* According to the creator, This (and the second part) is the 3rd installment of the Finding Nemo Franchise.