The police use details published in Michelangelo Hamato's latest book to deal a serious blow to a renegade Foot Clan faction. Their leader, the last surviving Shredder Elite, plots to kill the mutant novelist in retaliation. But it's also Christmas Eve, and Carole Amherst is visited in the hospital both by her mutant brother and her brother's friend Shadow Jones, neither of whom expected to see each other. Davianna and Master Raphael tag along, but then Raph makes a mistake and Davianna realizes the older turtle is not her friend Augustus. Angry at both Raphael and Shadow, Davianna runs off. Shadow follows her, but then both girls are snatched by the Foot, who plan to use them as hostages to draw Michelangelo out.