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The teams wake up in the middle of the lake, where a returnee starts mutating due to toxic exposure, and seeks help from a fellow teammate. Meanwhile, another member tries to help a friend keep his secret under control. Someone is revealed to have found the idol, and asks someone else to keep it a secret. The finder is eliminated, but uses his discovery and his new friend to eliminate a mutant instead.

Plot

The episode begins with the camera panning at both teams sleeping on rafts out in the lake. Scott doesn't seem to remember anything after dinner. Cameron goes into a flashback when being served the "Turkey Buttolini," where he remembers Chef telling Cameron to enjoy his nap, before correcting himself and saying dinner, theorizing that eating mutant turkey knocked them out. Mike then finds a fedora hat and puts it on, commenting that he has always wanted one. Putting it on causes him to turn into Manitoba Smith and starts talking to Zoey. Cameron pushes her in the water and takes off the hat for Mike, in order to save their relationship.

TDRI Cameron
Cameron
Mike and I have a deal. I help him stay Mike so he can win Zoey over and he helps me to convince her to turf Scott. I've already decoded Mike's personality triggers. Whenever he loses his shirt, Vito comes out. In an acrobatically challenging environment, he becomes Svetlana. When he gets frustrated, Chester appears. And we just saw Manitoba Smith in his fedora. But I still don't know how to consistently bring Mike back. This would be so much easier if I could just dissect his brain.

After Mike helps her out of the water, Zoey says out of his "characters" she likes Mike the best, but it makes it hard to get to know him, and she feels like he’s hiding from her. Mike assures her he isn’t. As Cameron watches the two, Dakota taps on his shoulder and asks if he has sunblock as she points to her newly bald head.

TDRI Dakota 2
Dakota
This is so not how I wanted to get back on the show! Now that my looks are on hold, I need an ally. If only Sam were here. He was so dedicated! *sighs* Zoey's the only person I'd be seen with in public, post make-over. So I guess it's time to start the 'friend-ing' process? Is that what it's called?


The Treasure Island of Dr

A mutant squid attacks the Toxic Rats.

Chris then arrives to start the next challenge, but Dakota interrupts him and starts revealing embarrassing things she learned about Chris while being an intern. However, no one pays attention as Dakota grows larger and her hair starts to grow back, only now spiky and in a neon green color.

TDRI Cameron
Cameron
Remarkable! All the toxic waste in the mine has caused some kind of evolving mutation. Hello, cover story for Bubble Theory magazine!

Chris then gets on with the challenge saying first that the Chris immunity statue has been found, and that the teams have to first race back to shore to earn a reward to use for the second part of the challenge. After Dakota further sarcastically insults him, he tosses her a compact mirror, making her find out to her horror she’s turning into a monster, and furiously vows to tear Chris apart. The Maggots attempt to remove their raft's post as a paddle, but an enraged Dakota ends up breaking it off herself and throwing it. She apologizes, saying mutating is stressing her out, and asks Zoey to hold her, which she reluctantly complies to.

TDRI Zoey
Zoey
It’s really nice that Dakota wants me to help her. I just hope she doesn’t crush me to death in the process

While rowing, Lightning runs into a mutated squid, slowing down the Rats. Meanwhile, Fang has found the Maggots, but Dakota punches it with her new strength into the squid's eye, freeing the Rats from its tentacles. After the Maggots reach the location of the squid, it starts attacking them. Cameron then comes up with a plan to hit the front of the board launching everyone on the back to shore.

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Dakota mutates multiple times throughout the episode, usually when angered.

Once ashore, Dakota, who has grown further in size and now has red and yellow eyes with shoulder and elbow spikes, starts to look for Chris. She tries to jump and grab Chris in the helicopter. He dumps rewards on the ground, that the Maggots had won, which include a compass and a map of the island. Lightning and Jo are seen washed up on shore as Chris continues to explain that the teams have to find the chest in which Gwen and Sam are buried alive in, the latter who was knocked out by the meal from the previous night. Once seeing Sam knocked out, Dakota becomes angry and mutates further with an increase in height, orange skin, shoulder and elbow spikes, and even grows a tail. Chris whispers saying that they need some elephant tranquilizers and then, he allows the Maggots to head out, but stops the Rats. He gives them the "Penalty Belt" and gives them a metal detector. Jo states how that would be of any use to them as the chest is made of wood. Chris replies that it isn't and sets them off.

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A furious Gwen contacts Chris through her cell phone while she is buried alive.

Back in the chest, Gwen calls Chris with her cell phone. He answers and makes fun of the farting noise in the background from Sam, which knocks her out. The Maggots get to a swamp that blocks their way. Mike finds a path out of the swamp and Cameron and him start to swim. Scott tries to make his team lose by showing the way through the swamp for the Rats. Dakota grabs Zoey and starts going to the water, but Scott reminds Dakota that Sam is losing air in the chest, which makes Dakota drop Zoey and race for Sam, leaving Scott and Zoey alone. Scott says he trusts Zoey enough to show that he has the immunity idol. Zoey is flattered by the fact he trusts her that much. He then tells her at least he doesn't hide things from her like Mike, and tries to make it seem like he is the only trustworthy person on her team, then they both go into the water. Later on, the Rats finally make it to the swamp. Jo sees the arrow Scott made and follows it through the water.

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Scott secures Zoey's trust by showing her that he has the McLean-Brand Chris Head.

Back on the Maggots' team, Mike and Cameron try to tell Zoey not to trust Scott, but Zoey ignores them, still believes that Scott is a nice person.

TDRI Mike
Mike
I don't know what's worse — the giant mutants or the fact that Zoey trusts Scott more than me.

Zoey doesn't notice when she walks onto the back of a giant mutant alligator, which startles her and her team, making them run in order to find a nearby tree. Scott and Cameron climb up, while Mike turns into Svetlana to get up, leaving Zoey by herself. She screams for Mike, which results in him turning back into himself, because of which Cameron figures out how Mike reverts back into himself and grabs Zoey.

TDRI Cameron
Cameron
Of course! Whenever Zoey's in danger, Mike returns! Not that I would put her in peril just to make the happen. Except maybe as a last resort. Heh heh heh.

Dakota then fights with the alligator to save her team. While trying to find a way out of the swamp, Zoey asks for the compass after realizing that they had dropped the map back in the swamp but Mike tells her that he doesn't have it. Scott admits to having the compass in the confessional and attempts to hide it.

TDRI Scott
Scott
Gotcha! Now to find out the deal with Mike and Bubble Boy. Zoey's right. Those two are hiding something.

Lightning sees Dakota fighting and brags about how he could do the same, which Jo mocks as more alligators show up and start attacking him. Cameron tries to find an alternative to help the team to get out of the situation, which ends up being a thorn forest, and Dakota clears a path while fighting. Mike's shirt is caught on one of the thorns, turning him into Vito, and calls out for Anne Maria. Zoey stops and seems upset of hearing Vito again, but Cameron tries to pull his shirt back down. Jo and Lightning both get out as well and find a key under a rock with the metal detector, one for the belt lock, and one for the chest. Jo then hears Gwen underground and starts digging, while Scott tries to make his team dig away from the actual location of them, but Jo had already found Gwen, making the Rats have their second win of the season. Dakota then reaches for Sam in the chest, after tossing Gwen aside, and Sam wakes up to her cuddling him.

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Sam
Whoa, the girl of my dreams just got a thousand times more awesome!

Later that night, at the campgrounds, Dakota and Sam are seen spending time away from the rest of the Maggots, while Mike pulls Zoey over to say that they need to get rid of Scott, but Zoey is still unsure know who to vote for. Scott tries to get the secret about Mike by saying to Cameron that he appreciates that he helps him. Cameron didn't know it was a trick and tells him that Mike has Multiple Personality Disorder.

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Dakota and Sam take the Hurl of Shame together for the last time.

At the elimination ceremony, Dakota asks if Sam still likes her. Sam says he's always liked her, and now she’s even cooler than before, nicknaming her "The Dakotazoid". They make out, disgusting the other campers. Chris then tells that the camper voted off was Scott. He then pulls out the Chris idol, making Chris go to the next highest voted person, which happened to be Dakota with one vote, from Zoey, who didn't like her friendship that could potentially hurt her health. Dakota doesn't seem to care anymore about the show because of being too occupied with Sam and takes the Hurl of Shame.

Exclusive clip

Sam and Dakotazoid

Dakota prepares for her wrestling match, with Sam complimenting her.

At a locker room (which resemble the Aftermath show's green room), Sam is seen complimenting Dakota's mutation as the latter prepares for her wrestling match. She then kisses Sam on the cheek and runs through the door once they called her name.

Cast

Voice actor Role(s)
Christian Potenza Chris
Kevin Duhaney Cameron
Clé Bennett Chef Hatchet
Carleigh Beverly Dakota
Megan Fahlenbock Gwen
Laurie Elliott Jo
Tyrone Savage Lightning
Cory Doran Mike
Brian Froud Sam
James Wallis Scott
Barbara Mamabolo Zoey

Elimination Ceremony

Scott used the McLean-Brand Chris Head, avoiding elimination.

Elimination Ceremony 8:
Mutant Maggots
Status Contestant
IN TDRI CameronTDRI MikeTDRI Zoey
Cameron, Mike, Zoey
LOW TDRI Scott
Scott
OUT TDRI Dakotazoid
Dakota

Still in the running

 Staci
13th
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 B
12th
TDRI B bw
 Dawn
11th
TDRI Dawn bw
 Sam
10th
TDRI Sam bw
 Brick
9th
TDRI Brick bw
TDRI Anne Maria bw
 Dakota
7th
TDRI Dakotazoid bw
 Jo
TDRI Toxic Rats
TDRI Jo
TDRI Mike
TDRI Scott
TDRI Zoey

Trivia

General

Continuity

  • This is the second episode this season in which the Toxic Rats win a challenge.
  • This is the second episode in which the contestants wake up in the middle of the lake.
  • This episode marks the only episode of the season in which a bonfire ceremony that results in a contestant's elimination occurs where Lightning is not present.
  • Gwen's exclamation about being "buried alive again" is a callback to her challenge in "Phobia Factor."
    • This is the second episode in which Gwen has to face her worst fear.
    • This also shows that, like Owen in Total Drama World Tour, Gwen hasn't fully conquered her fear from the first season.
  • With this episode, Dakota has taken the Hurl of Shame three times, and Sam has taken it twice.
  • This episode marks the first time a contestant is eliminated through an invincibility statue.

References

  • The title of this episode is a reference to the classic adventure novel Treasure Island and the 1896 sci-fi novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.
  • When Mike was showering as well as changing into Vito, he said "Put your hands up! Put your, put your hands up!" while pumping his fist in the air which is a reference to the show Jersey Shore, as "fist-pumping" is shown many times throughout the series.
  • Each time Dakota gets angrier, she mutates further, referencing Marvel's The Incredible Hulk who gets stronger the angrier he gets.
    • This is the second time a contestant's actions is a reference to the Hulk, as the first is Owen in "Ocean's Eight—or Nine" (Action).
    • Additionally, Dakota's mutation is due to radiation exposure similar how Bruce Banner was exposed to gamma radiation that turns him into the Hulk.
    • Like the Hulk, Dakota refers herself in third-person and speaks in broken English.

Goofs

  • When Dakota punches Fang into the squid's eye, it gains a black eye. However, it later disappears.
  • When Chris reveals that the McLean-Brand Chris Head has already been found, his hair glitches.
  • On iTunes, this episode's title is incorrectly spelled "The Treasure Island of Dr. MacLean."
  • The iTunes description for this episode says that Dakota's hair grows back bright orange. It is actually her skin that turns orange, while her hair is bright green.
  • When the Maggots discovered they lost, Mike says "What?" in Cameron's voice.
  • When Cameron is asking why Chris didn't hand out the marshmallows, Dakota's top is the same color as her pants. In the next scene, when she admits she ate them, it changes to its usual light pink.
  • When Dakota throws the Maggots's sign off their raft, she has small, singular spikes on her shoulder and elbows, but in the next scene they have disappeared.

Gallery

See also

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island Episodes
Team Phase "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!" | "Truth or Laser Shark" | "Ice Ice Baby" | "Finders Creepers" | "Backstabbers Ahoy!" | "Runaway Model" | "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" | "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean"
Individual Phase "Grand Chef Auto" | "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon" | "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary" | "The Enchanted Franken-Forest" | "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown"
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