Finding Marlin: Part 2

**Finding Marlin: Part 2**  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

Meanwhile, a stream of phytoplankton leaves the pipes and enters the ocean. It eventually passes by a volcano, where it is found by a moray eel named Paul, who then tells his boss about this.

While in the pipes, the heroes are still trying to get through them, and Dory is trying to guess directions for the heroes to go through. Eventually, Nemo and Dory discover a barely opened drain gate and look through it as they find out that they're nearby an aquarium, but Gill and the Tank Gang get stuck in a drain, and the pelicans show up, help lift the drain grate, and scoop the fish out of the storm-water drain and carry them in their beaks to the NZ Aquarium. Back at the Coral Reef exhibit, Marlin and Spike are planning a way to escape this aquarium. As they notice another pipe entrance with a lock on it, they ask a crab named Jake if there is a way to get out of the aquarium. He twists the lock from the inside, opening it. The two fish and Jake enter the pipeline, which unintentionally leads them to a water facility connected to the aquarium.

As Nemo and friends make it into the aquarium and go into the tropical fish exhibit, they learn that two fish and a crab unlocked a pipe entrance which would lead them to a water facility. They figure out that the two fish are Marlin and his new friend Spike, so they leave the aquarium and try to locate the nearest water facility. Meanwhile, Marlin and Spike, along with Jake, have to avoid all the obstacles in order to get out. As the heroes make it to the water facility, they spot the three fish in one of the sections and successfully rescue them. Marlin, after being rescued, explains to Nemo, Dory, and the Tank Gang that he wasn't able to find Coral. The pelicans eventually make it to the shore, where they drop off the heroes and tell them that they will see them again on the holidays. Marlin and his friends then head off to the ocean.

Having returned to the ocean, the heroes travel from Hawke's Bay up to a cave near a volcano in the Bay of Plenty, where Spike, feeling remorse for betraying Marlin's trust, confesses that he was forced to bring food to Fang, revealing that he sent a secret message to him about bringing him food while he was in the pipes, before Marlin turns hostile towards him. Marlin and Spike end up in an argument, but Spike agrees to help Marlin escape from Fang. Spike reveals that he knows where Coral was the entire time, and that Fang forced him to keep it a secret. Spike then tells Marlin and the others that he has a plan to rescue Coral and escape from Fang.

As they head to the volcano, Spike brings Marlin, Nemo, Dory, Antonio, and the Tank Gang to Paul, as he tells him that "he is going to bring Fang the food that he promised". As they all go to the volcano, Paul reveals to Fang that Spike is here with food, as he leaves the cave. Fang, recognizing Marlin, reveals to him that he has Coral, who explains to Marlin that Fang spared and imprisoned her after the attack on their anemone. Fang then asks Spike to help him bring the heroes down; Spike refuses and sides with Marlin at his own expense, making Fang furious, as the heroes fight Fang and Paul. During their fight, Fang knocks a sea column on Spike's head, thus hurting him and physically sending him into a rock wall. Marlin, horrified because of what he just saw, escapes with Nemo from Fang as he begins chasing them. Then, the two clownfish spot an underwater volcanic crater, part of the White Island volcano, then Nemo remembers the Ring of Fire from the first film as they enter it, and swim together in the bubbles safely with while trying to escape. Fang runs into the bubbles and gets burned. Angry and in pain, he blindly crosses the crater just as the eruption starts. Meanwhile, Spike gets up and heads to the crater as Dory, Coral, and the Tank Gang follow him there. Nemo and Marlin sympathetically shout at Fang to look out and get out of the crater, but he continues chasing them and nearly devours them before Spike arrives with Dory, Coral, and the Tank Gang. Spike fights against Fang, before Gill warns everyone that the volcano erupts, and Marlin tells Spike to leave or else he will die. Spike tells Marlin that "it's the only way" as he rams into Fang as they both get caught by the full blast of the eruption and get burned to death as Marlin, Nemo, Dory, Coral, Antonio, and the Tank Gang escape the volcano.

Everyone, having made it out of the volcano alive, mourn Spike's death. Paul, realizing that Fang is dead, escapes. Everyone then begins to head home to the Great Barrier Reef.

Marlin and the others go back to the reef by riding the East Australian Current, and they tell Crush, Squirt, and the other sea turtles about their adventures, as well as Spike's sacrifice. Marlin is still crying about Spike's death, but Crush comforts him, then everyone exits the current and they return to the reef. There, as everyone goes back to their regular lives, Nemo and Dory tell their friends about their adventures and Spike's heroic sacrifice. Two years later, Marlin and Coral watch the coral reef as everyone tells the story of how Marlin traveled hundreds of miles to find Nemo, as well as the story of how Spike sacrificed himself against Fang. Coral tells Marlin that she's thinking of restarting having kids, with Nemo being the oldest sibling. Marlin and Coral then head out into the reef and spend time with everyone as the episode ends.

## Production

### Music

* War Blowers - The Blue Hawaiians *[title card]*
* Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland *[phytoplankton]*
* Menace from the Deep - Robert Cornford *[Paul's introduction]*
* Seaweed - Steve Belfer *[the pipes'**]***
* Unpreventable - Gregor F. Narholz *[tank gang stuck in drain]*

## Characters

### Major

* Marlin
* Coral (debut)
* Nemo
* Dory
* Antonio

### Suppourting

* Tank Gang
* Fang
* Spike

### Minor

* Phytoplankton
* Other Characters