The Turtles take April to meet their father, the former lab rat Splinter, and the Foot Clan track down the Turtles into their Sewer lair. He begins to formulate a plan with Shredder to capture the Turtles and extract the Mutagen from their blood. Remembering Sacks as her father's kindly boss and seeing his open philanthropy and will to extinguish the Foot Clan, she opens up to him about the Turtles, alerting him of their survival. She ends up encountering now anthropomorphic Turtles. April, now a lifestyle reporter for Channel 6, attempting to break through to a higher position, begins chasing leads on the Foot. In the meantime, Sacks and Shredder had started the Foot Clan, a paramilitary organization, to steal components for the Mutagen and generally spread fear throughout New York City. O'Neil's daughter, April, rescued the test subjects, but the good doctor was killed by Sacks.įor fifteen years, Sacks attempted to recreate the Mutagen, but it proved difficult without the project's notes and one of its chief scientists. O'Neil uncovered Sacks' true plan, he torched the lab to destroy the research. The mutagen was tested on a rat and four Turtles, but when Dr. Sacks wished to use the antidote to pretend to be a hero.
O'Neil in creating a "Mutagen", which he had intended to use as an antidote to a plague he and Saki, the Shredder, would unleash on New York. There, he worked alongside a scientist by the name of Dr. In 1999, Sacks moved to New York City at some point, becoming a wealthy businessman and scientist thanks for founding his successful giant corporation "Sacks Industries". He was particularly enthralled by a story in which an evil warlord who had poisoned the town's water supply was defeated due to a powerful alchemist. He was taken in by Oroku Saki, a sensei who instilled Sacks with a love of Japanese culture and honor. His father went to fight in the Vietnam War and was killed, and Sacks grew up as an outsider. Eric Sacks was born on an American military base in Okinawa, Japan.