And So the Pages Turn.../Transcript

## Page 2

 **Davianna** “...I said, there are ninjas attacking innocent people! Please believe me!”
 **Eva** “O...Okay! We’ll be right over, miss. Please try to hid somewhere safe for the time being!”
 **Tony** “The place is Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, huh?”
 **Eva** “Yeah... First mutants, now ninjas... On Christmas Eve, no less. What is New York coming to?”
 **Tony** “I know. At this rate, next thing we know there’ll be “mutant ninjas”.”
 **Tony** “Man, if such things exist, I swear I’ll go to the chief’s office and...”
 **Renoir** “...Shit. Don’t tell me... You just dialed 911 Davianna?”
 **Davianna** “I... I... I shouldn’t have???”
 **Renoir** “It’s just that us mutants don’t get much “love” from authorities...”

## Page 3

 **Mikey** (Raph. It’s my turn to protect you.)
 **Mikey** (Because letting you suffer on your own all the time... That’s just not cool!)

## Page 5

 **Raph** “...!”
 **Mikey** “Quick... Run...”
 **Eikichi** “Die!”
 **Casey, Donnie & Raph** “!!”

## Page 6

 **Raph** “You...”
 **Raph** “...Are...”
 **Raph** “...Fuckin’ dead, scumbag!!”

## Page 7

 **Eikichi** “S...Shit!”
 **Raph** “Oh no, ya don’t!!”
 **Raph** “Ya think ya could get away, huh? Huh?”
 **Raph** “Uwoooh!”

## Page 8

 **Eikichi** “Urgh!”
 **Eikichi** “Augh!”
 **Raph** “Shut the fuck up, dickhead!”

## Page 9

 “...Too many losses and the boss is done for...”
 “...I know, let's go...”
 “Everyone, retreat!”
 **Casey** “Come back here, ya cowards! I ain’t done smashin’ yer face in!”
 **Donnie** “Just like always...”
 **Donnie** “When the brains of their operation is put out of commission, they retreat as quickly as they came. Some people never change...”
 **Casey** “...More importantly, Mikey’s hurt real bad! We gotta help him!”
 **Donnie** “Casey, don’t! Don’t get anywhere near Raph right now!”
 **Donnie** “I recognize that face of his... He’s gone berserk!”
 **Donnie** “Stay clear from him or you might get wasted like that Elite Foot!”

## Page 10

 **Raph** “Hah... Hah... Hah...”
 **Raph** “Not... Enough...”
 **Raph** “What you did... To Mikeeeyy...”
 **Raph** “It... It ain’t gonna be enough ...!!”
 **Raph** “...‘Til I make ya choke on yer own blood!!”
 **Casey** “!!”

## Page 11

 **Mikey** “R... Raph!”
 **Mikey** “Don’t!!”
 **Mikey** “Y...You’re just gonna stoop down to their level!”
 **Raph** “G...Gah... Hah...Hah...”
 **Mikey** “Remember...? The Sensei... He... Taught us better than that...”
 **Mikey** “T... That’s why... That’s why we're not like them Foot Ninjas, Raph! We have a conscience! We don’t kill unless it’s our last resort!”
 **Mikey** “L... Look around you, Raph... We won. It’s alright now...”

## Page 12

 **Eikichi** “H... Hehehe! Wha... What? You scared?”
 **Eikichi** “W... Wimp!”
 **Casey** “Humpf.”
 **Casey** “Heavenly punishment!”
 **Casey** “In the name of justice!”
 **Eikichi** “Gaaah!”
 **Casey** “I’ve always thought that only guys who “hit on” my daughter deserve a beatin’.”
 **Casey** “But this bastard made me realize that sometimes people who “hit” her also need to be taught a lesson.”
 **Donnie** “Normal fathers would think the other way around...”

## Page 13

 **Raph** “...Mikey...!!”
 **Raph** “Oy, Mikey!!”
 **Raph** “Mikey!!”
 **Mikey** “...”
 **Mikey** “Y... You actually controlled your anger... F...For the first time in so many years...”
 **Mikey** “W...Wow... Now it really seems like... Like we're back in... Time...”

## Page 14

 **Renoir** “Everyone! The police are coming! Let’s get out of here, fast!”
 **Casey** “Th...The cops?”
 **Donnie** “Who called them?”
 **Renoir** “We... We don’t know.”
 **Casey** “Drats...”
 **Casey** “I’m gonna have to let go of the Humvee... They got it...”
 **Tony** “I’ll get the license plate number and call for backup... We never know!”
 **Casey** “After so many years... This is goodbye, my dead Humvee. Daddy loved you too.”
 **Eva** “Tony... This costumed man is still breathing...!”
 **Renoir** “Oh no... What if the police were to find out that this Humvee is Mrs. Jones’?”
 **Donnie** “Casey and April can handle it.”
 **Donnie** “Let’s leave this place before more cops arrive.”

## Page 15

 **Donnie** “As long as we remain discrete, we should have no problem at all.”
 **Davianna & Renoir** “...”
 **Donnie** “?”
 **Donnie** “D...Discrete... Raph...?”
 **Raph** (Mikey... I’ll protect you...)

## Page 16

 **Renoir** “They’re going to be okay, right?”
 **Donnie** “No. In fact, they’re in deep trouble.”
 **Donnie** “Check out those tracks in the snow.”
 **Renoir** “!”
 **Donnie** “Because of Mikey’s wounds, they’re going to leave a trail of blood as well, making it easier for the authorities to trace them.”
 **Donnie** “If it was still snowing, it wouldn’t have been a concern, but...”
 **Renoir** “Oh no...! So they’re going to be sitting duck for the police?”
 **Renoir** “I...Isn’t there anything we can do to help?”
 **Casey** “Yeah, there is! Donnie, you’ll go after Raph and Mikey, yeah?”
 **Casey** “Leave Renoir and Davianna to me!”
 **Casey** “Don’t worry, I’ll carry you!”
 **Renoir** “Th...Thanks, Mr. Jones!”
 **Donnie** “(Why does everyone try to keep me away from that specimen?)”
 **Casey** “Hold on tight!”
 **Tony** “Ah!! It’s the mutants again!!”
 **Tony** “Hey, you! Freeze!!”

## Page 17

 **Raph** (Shit! I can hear the cops!)
 **Klunk** “Maw?”
 **Raph** “K...Klunk?”

## Page 19

 “You traitors! Why didn’t you stand up for me? I know I was bad, but I didn’t deserve this!”

## Page 20

 **Raph** “I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you all die die die die die die die die!”
 **Raph** “And never eat ice cream again!”
 **Donnie** “...But Raph, I agreed with Master Splinter. You should’ve stopped hitting Mikey on the head the first time he warned you.”
 **Mikey** “Yeah, just like Donnie said! Bad, bad Raphie! Master Splinter said no icey for Raphie!”
 **Raph** “You bozo! I can get my own ice cream!”
 **Raph** “I hate you too, you old fart!”
 **Splinter** “Gwaaah!”
 **Splinter** “Raphael! Come back here!”
 **Raph** “No! You stink anyways!”
 **Donnie** “He'll be back.”
 **Mikey** “Yeah.”

## Page 21

 **Raph** “Stop following me! I didn’t ask for your help!”
 **Raph** “Stop it, I said! I don’t need you! I don’t need anybody!!”
 **Raph** “(Slurp) (Slurp)”
 **Raph** “I didn't know melted ice cream tasted this good... The best, really.”
 **Raph** “‘Tis weird... I’m really happy you didn’t leave me alone, even if that’s what I wanted...”
 **Raph** “Then... Then... It’s okay if I say this? You know, like just between us...”
 **Raph** “You know me better than the others, so... When I say I don’t need help... You’ll know what I really mean by that, right?”

## Page 22

 “I’ll never wait for you. I’ll never ask for your help either.”
 “But... Just come and help me anyways, okay? Do that and remind me that it’s always better this way.”
 “I swear I’ll thank you later.”

## Page 25

 “Calling all units, there is a mutant loose in Brooklyn! His passage is marked by motorcycle tracks with traces of fresh blood!”
 “I repeat: Calling all units, mutant sighted in Brooklyn, follow bloody motorcycle tracks...”

## Page 26

 **Mikey** “!”
 **Mikey** “K...Klunk... You lil’ trickster...”
 **Mikey** “Just what do you want from me...?”
 **Raph** “What the hell was that...?”
 **Raph** “That couldn’t be...”
 **Raph** “Ahh! Mikey!!”
 **Raph** “Mikey! You okay, bro?”
 **Mikey** “...”

## Page 27

 **Mikey** “Ha... Haha... I... I g...get it now...”
 **Mikey** “The answer... It... It was right there... All along...”
 **Mikey** “The... answer...”
 **Raph** “Mikey!”
 **Raph** “...Good to see you’re still in one piece...”

## Page 28

 **Raph** “Stay here.”
 **Raph** “It doesn’t look like this piece of junk’s gonna bring us anywhere now...”
 **Raph** “B... Blood?”
 **Raph** (No way... He was bleedin’ all this time?)
 **Raph** (He was dyin’... And I didn't do anythin’ ‘bout it!!)
 **Raph** (...Shit.)

## Page 29

 **Mikey** “...Ouch...”
 **Mikey** “...Thanks.”

## Page 30

 **Mikey** “Raph...”
 **Mikey** “I’ve always thought that my past self was a separate entity that I isolated seventeen years ago.”
 **Mikey** “However, in the midst of battle, I realized that I am the extension of my past. Everything I was - I am. Everything it felt - I’ll eventually feel.”

## Page 31

 **Mikey** “You know why, Raph?”
 **Mikey** “I was able to reclaim something from my past that I thought was lost forever.”
 **Mikey** “It came to me as a distant feeling so intense and nostalgic... It was like... Like a shard of happiness from my past. It filled me with confidence and courage...”
 **Mikey** “And then I remembered it... This one thing that made me feel complete once again.”

## Page 32

 **Mikey** “The foundation of our brotherhood: The power of our bonds.”
 **Mikey** “Together, we were unstoppable.”

## Page 33

 **Mikey** “Remember, Raph? We used to always train, spar, talk, patrol, fight, cry, smile and laugh... Together... As brothers...”
 **Mikey** “Then I look at things that way... The hardships we’ve gone through were merely a small price to pay for those invaluable memories.”
 **Mikey** “I... I’ve decided, Raph: I’ll reclaim everything from my past. Good and bad. I’m no longer afraid of anything.”
 **Mikey** “I just want to be able to be happy again...the way I was back then.”

## Page 34

 **Mikey** “R...Raph...”
 **Mikey** “Everything’s... Okay...”

## Page 35

 **Raph** “Don’t say that!”
 **Raph** “It’s not okay!!”
 **Raph** “I screwed up again!!”
 **Raph** “I fucked up big time!!”
 **Raph** “I... I...”

## Page 37

 **Raph** “I... I never do things right... I ain’t got it in me to even protect someone...”
 **Raph** “I... I couldn’t even help ya when ya needed me the most... I wanted so bad to save ya... Yet I didn’t even see ya bleedin’ all over the place...”

## Page 38

 **Raph** “All these years... I never did a damn thing to help ya...”
 **Raph** “And just when I found out how much ya meant to me... I... I failed ya... My own brother...”
 On the Tails of Purple Dragons
 **Mikey** “R... Raph... You... You did so much for me... That wound on your sh... Shell... That’s the proof...”

## Page 39

 **Mikey** “You... Cared for me.”
 **Mikey** “D...Despite our conflicts... Despite our different lives... You... You still think of me as your bro...”
 **Mikey** “I... I’m glad... You reminded me... That... We’re bros... Together... Forever...”
 **Mikey** “T... That feeling... I... I longed for it... And... You... Gave it back to me...”
 **Mikey** “...T...Thank you... For everything...”
 **Mikey** “Th... Thank you... Raph...”

## Page 41

 **Raph** “Oy, Mikey!!”
 **Raph** “Mikey!!!”
 “Brothers...”
 “Together...”
 “Forever...”

## Page 44

 **Raph** “Urgh!..”
 **Mikey** “I can’t believe you fell for it, Raph.”
 **Mikey** “Hey...Y..You OK Raph?”
 **Raph** “He he”
 **Mikey** “Ha!”
 **Raph** “Ha Ha Ha!!”
 **Mikey** “Ha Ha Ha!!”

## Page 45

 **Raph** “Don’ cha fuckin’ “hahaha” me!! That was a lame-ass joke!!”
 **Mikey** “Hyaaa!! Please be gentle dear bro! ♡”
 **Mikey** “Argh!! My arm! The pain! The pain!!”
 **Raph** “Wakey wakey.”
 **Mikey** “O... Okay. I confess. I’m not dead.”
 **Raph** “Don ‘cha ever pull off this kind of prank again...”
 **Raph** “...Especially not to people who actually c... Care ‘bout ya... Alright?”

## Page 46

 **Mikey** “Raph...”
 **Mikey** “...Sorry. I didn’t mean to...”
 **Raph** “Bah! Cut it out...”
 **Raph** “I’ve had it with apologies. Let’s skip ‘em all, eh?”

## Page 47

 **Raph** “Welcome back, Mikey.”
 **Mikey** ““Cowabunga” forever, Raph.”

## Page 48

 **Raph** “...Heh, all of this was just damn cheesy...”
 **Raph** “Let’s keep it for ourselves... ‘Aight?”
 **Mikey** “Yah. I won’t tell a soul, Raph.”
 **Donnie** “Me neither. And you’re right about your confession being cheesy.”
 **Donnie** “Just watching the both of you made me feel embarrassed.”
 **Donnie** ““Welcome back”? “Cowabunga forever”? What next? Hugs and tears?”
 **Raph** “Oh shuddap, Donnie. At least if we cried, we’d be shedding manly tears.”
 **Mikey** “H...Huh?? Whut?”
 **Donnie** “Anyways, think before you act next time, Raph.”
 **Donnie** “You’re lucky someone was looking out for you tonight.”
 **Raph** “S... Someone?”

## Page 49

 **Donnie** “The tracks you left as you escaped could’ve led the police to you, however...”
 **Donnie** “...Someone erased your tracks and acted as a decoy to lure your pursuers away from here.”
 **Donnie** “Do you know who that was?”
 **Raph** “If yer fishin’ for compliments, just say it straight out that it was you who saved us, Donnie.”
 **Donnie** “Indeed, you owe me your lives...”
 **Donnie** “...Not!! It wasn’ me! That’s why I’m asking in the first place!”
 **Raph** “Hey. Frankly, who cares? We’re safe and that’s all that counts.”
 **Raph** “What? Ya thought it coulda been “him”?”
 **Raph** “A... Anyways...”
 **Raph** “Where are we headin’ to, now?”
 **Donnie** “Let’s go to April’s apartment. Remember what she told us? She expects us to be back for Christmas.”
 **Mikey** “Yeah! The night’s still young! Let’s er... “par-tay”!! Hehehe! Come, my loyal subject! Carry me to my banquet!”
 **Raph** “I'm glad you’re back, but don’t push it, Mikey.”

## Page 50

 **Casey** “(Sigh) So it was you...”
 **Casey** “You’re the one who called the cops.”
 **Casey** “They tracked your cellphone ID to your home... That’s why they’re right over there, huh?”
 **Casey** “I know it ain’t yer folks who called the cops. I asked April to contact ‘em to cover up yer absence until we came back with ya.”
 **Davianna** “I’m really sorry, Mr. Jones. I’ll try to make up for an excuse that will keep you and all the others safe...”
 **Casey** “Now, that ain’t the issue here, girl. April and I can work our way through this situation. We’ve been much worse than this.”
 **Casey** “Also, any sane person woulda called the cops in yer place. I mean, ninjas in New York tryin’ to harm people... That’s just screamin’ for some public order, eh?”
 **Casey** “But see this guy here? He made up a lie to cover up yer mistaken while ya stood there sayin’ nothin’. If ya ain’t gonna ‘fess up, ya could’ve at least tried to cover up yer own mistakes instead of lettin’ him do the dirty work!”
 **Casey** “Don’ cha know it’s thanks to him that yer still alive right now?”
 **Renoir** “Mr.Jones! Can you please leave us alone for two seconds?”
 **Renoir** “It won’t be long, I promise.”
 **Casey** “‘Guess I just ain’t good with ‘em young ‘uns...”

## Page 51

 **Renoir** “I hope you’re no longer mad at Shadow, Davianna...”
 **Davianna** “H...Huh? Oh, no, no! Of course not!”
 **Davianna** “I said mean things to her tonight.”
 **Davianna** “I’m just glad I’m given a chance to apologize to her...”
 **Davianna** “I’m such a selfish, useless person.”
 **Renoir** “Don’t say that. Remember when Shadow used to bully you in kindergarten?”
 **Renoir** “One day, during a field trip, she fell in a lake and almost drowned. Despite everything she did to you, you went out of your way to help her.”
 **Renoir** “You only knew Japanese... But you did your best to get help from people, running around, shouting weird words like "tasukete" or "abunai"...”
 **Renoir** “...So don’t worry too much about it. I think you’re a very altruistic person!”
 **Renoir** “So? Feel better, Davianna?”
 **Davianna** “Renoir...”
 **Davianna** “Why do you know so many details about my childhood? Even things Shadow doesn’t know?”

## Page 52

 **Davianna** “Oh, dropped my wallet.”
 **Renoir** “I got it.”
 ♡
 **Davianna** “Oh my God you perv”
 **Davianna** “Hah.... Hah...”
 **Casey** “Youngsters... I don’t get ‘em.”
 **Davianna** “You... You... It was just like him...”
 **Davianna** “...No...! Renoir, tell me...”
 **Davianna** “Tell me the truth! Who are you, really?”

## Page 53

 **Renoir** “I... I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long, Davianna... But, but now that you’re here, with me... I can get the answer...”
 **Davianna** “Answer...? You mean that...”
 **Davianna** “...You don’t know who you are?”
 **Renoir** “Davianna... I’m... I’m Augustus, right?”
 **Renoir** “Come on... Say it...”
 **Davianna** “What? But... I mean... I think so, but to me, you are also a mutant that I met a few months ago...”
 **Renoir** “Give me a straight answer, Davianna! Everyone’s been giving me all kinds of identities up till now! Raph’s student, wild mutant, monster, “Renoir”...”
 **Renoir** “...But I don’t care about them! What you think is all that matters to me! Decide who I am for me... And that’s all the truth I need!”
 **Renoir** “Tell me what I wanted to hear all that time!”
 **Davianna** “Why rely so much on how others see you?”
 **Davianna** “Your definitive identity... That’s something that is yours alone to decide. Not others.”
 **Davianna** “Don’t look too far for your answer...”
 **Renoir** “But... But Davianna. I...”

## Page 54

 **Davianna** “This is where your final answer lies... It’s always there waiting for you to reach out for it.”
 **Davianna** “Your heart is your guide to find your true self. Follow it no matter what and eventually, it will open up and give you your answer.”
 **Davianna** “Don’t worry about it. Everyone goes through that. Even I haven’t found my true self yet!”
 **Davianna** “But until then... I stick to the one identity I’m sure of. I’m Davianna. What about you?”
 **Renoir** “...Renoir.”
 **Davianna** “Then Renoir, it is!”
 **Davianna** “Turn around for a sec, Renoir! I have something for you!”

## Page 55

 **Davianna** “Here's a Christmas present for you, Renoir.”
 **Davianna** “I was going to give it to “Augustus” who turned out to be Raphael... But I want you to have it.”
 **Renoir** “Davianna, what is this pendant?”
 **Davianna** ““Magatama”.”
 **Renoir** “What?”
 **Davianna** “Amulet. This protects you from evil.”
 **Renoir** “Hmmm... Thanks.”
 **Davianna** “Well, I’d better go and let my parents know that I’m safe...”
 **Renoir** “Davianna, please...”
 **Renoir** “Please just give me an answer. Who am I?”
 **Davianna** “Renoir...”
 **Davianna** “Only you have the right to decide who you are.”

## Page 56

 **Davianna** “Thank you for everything, Mr. Jones...”
 **Casey** “Don’t worry about it.”
 **Casey** “Well, our work here’s done. Let’s go home, ‘kay?”
 **Casey** “Hey, now. It’s okay... Whatever she told ya, give it some time and everything’s gonna be alright.”