Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Episode 1 - Turtle Tracks Episode Title:Turtle Tracks.Episode Description:New York City is on a crime wave; as reporter April O'Neil discovers, the thieves are ninja. As a street gang attacks April, she falls into the sewers, where four big talking turtles defeat the thugs, and take April to their lair. There April meets their mentor, the rat Splinter, who tells her his backstory as the Japanese ninja Hamato Yoshi. As the Turtles and April investigate the streets for the thieves' origins, they discover a group of robot ninjas, whose uniform Splinter recognizes as belonging to the Foot Clan.