(The episode opens with a recap of Part 1: Jon looking for his pets, Garfield, Odie, and Nermal on their way to China, Voldo telling his boss about the Golden Cat, Jon’s pets getting it, Bella getting stuck with Nermal, and the cat and dog duo wanting to sell the statue with the help of Dingbang, the nephew of a restaurant owner)
(Part 2 opens at nighttime above a Chinese neighborhood. The trio of Garfield, Odie, and Dingbang have taken it to an antique shop to strike a deal The owner examines it)
Antique Store Owner: I cannot believe my eye! Where did you say you found it? (Odie pants and steps a bit closer, avoiding a random guy on a bike)
Dingbang: I know it sounds crazy, but this cat and this dog gave it to me. (Garfield grins and chuckles to the man)
Antique Store Owner: I know this nutty opera singer from Europe who would pay well for this statue. (The cat and boy wink at each other) How about I give you 10,000? (He pulls out a stack of money from behind him, much to their surprise)
Garfield: 10,000?! Whoo, that sounds like serious dim sum money to me! (He rubs his hands together greedily)
Antique Store Owner: This statue is at least 1,000 years old. (Hearing this, Dingbang suddenly has a change of heart. Garfield, however, eyes the money)
Dingbang: Sorry, but it is not for sale. (He takes the statue back while Garfield was wiggling his fingers and grabbing for the money. The owner unknowingly pulls it away, a bit taken aback at the boy’s abrupt change of mind) Sorry for wasting your time. (He leaves, much to the pets’ surprise)
Odie: Huh?
Antique Store Owner: Wait! Come back! (Garfield sighs sadly) How about 20,000? (The pets look at each other) Come back! (Garfield shrugs at Odie, who just trots after his new friend. The frustrated cat moans quietly to himself and sulks after the pup) 30,000! (Irritated that he couldn’t make a sale, he whips out his cell phone and presses some buttons)
(Meanwhile, at Bella’s apartment, the villains watch as they stand over Nermal, who sits on a chair rocking it back and forth)
Nermal: (While laughing) Oh please! (He laughs) Please! (The camera takes a closer look and turns to face Nermal’s front. The kitten is tied to a chair getting his feet tickled by Siam and Tyham, who each use a large purple feather to tickle him) I don’t know anything! (He kicks his feet back and forth, wiggles his toes and the Siamese cats grin. The phone starts ringing, and the twins terminate their tickling. Bella taps a button and answers it)
Bella: Hello? (a voice mutters incoherently on the other end) Yes, it is I, Bella Bellissima!
(On the other end of the line is the Antique Store Owner)
Antique Store Owner: I know who has your Golden Cat, but the info will cost you.
Bella: You shall have your money. Speak!
(Back in the States, Jon is asking the mailman about his pets)
Herman Post: Nope, haven’t seen either Garfield or Odie.
Jon: They’ve been gone for 24 hours, that’s 18 meals! And Nermal’s missing, too. (The phone in his hand rings. He answers, and a voice mumbles from the other end) Hello? Cats and a dog? You’ve seen them? Where exactly are you? Shanghai... where’s that? Oh, right, China. I knew that. Well, I’ll come there and look around for them. Thanks! (He hangs up)
Herman Post: I shipped an overnight package from here to China yesterday.
Jon: Well, that explains it, I guess. I’d better go get my car keys. (He walks back inside. Herman tries to stop him, but simply shrugs and leaves. Inside, the news finally sinks into Jon’s brain) CHINA?!
(Back on the streets of Shanghai, Garfield is understandably upset. Odie mutters quietly and Dingbang walks ahead of both of them, glancing around nervously while he carries the precious cargo)
Garfield: Do you know how much dim sum we could’ve bought with that CASH?! Enough to feed me for a month… a week!
Dingbang: (turning to face the cat and dog duo) Do you know what my name Dingbang means in China? “Protect the country”. This statue is at least 1,000 years old. It is a national treasure and belongs in a Chinese museum where my people can enjoy it, (The camera focuses on Garfield and Odie, who stare up at Dingabng) not in the private collection of some greedy foreign art collector. C’mon, you can spend the night in my uncle’s restaurant, (He continues walking) and I am sure I can smuggle you another bowl of noo- (he is interrupted by a car screeching to a halt on the street next to him)
Voldo: (exiting the car) Get in!
Garfield and Odie: Gasp! (Voldo grabs the boy and shoves him in the car)
Dingbang: Hey! Let go of me! (Odie starts barking angrily)
Garfield: Grr! You heard the pup! Take your paws off him or else! (He bares his claws. Siam and Tyham approach the cat and dog, hissing ferociously and with their long claws ready to slash. Behind them, Voldo grabs a sack from the car)
Voldo: You’re coming too!
Garfield: AAAHHHH! (He and Odie are petrified with fear as the henchman grabs them)
(Later on, in Bella’s skyscraper…)
Bella: (offscreen) AAH! The Golden Cat! After yearning for it for so many years, (now onscreen and inside the skyscraper) it is finally mine! (The Siamese cats keep watch of Garfield and Odie, while Voldo stands behind Dingbang. Garfield and Dingbang have their hands behind their backs, presumably tied)
Dingbang: It belongs to the heritage of China! You will not get away with this!
Bella: Hmph! Don’t be ridiculous! I’ve been dealing in stolen art artifacts and objects for years! That is how I made my fortune!
Dingbang: But why do you have to have THIS one?
Bella: Because this one is the key to the treasure of… of… Ugh! Voldo, what is the name I can never remember, again?
Voldo: Futcanglong. (He pulls out a remote from behind his back) Here, let me remind you for the 10th time. (He presses a button, and a slide show begins to play from a projector in front of everyone. The first slide shows a giant dragon attacking villagers) According to the ancient Chinese lore, Futcanglong is the guardian of the hidden treasures. (The next slide shows the dragon grinning as he stands on a pile of gold coins) The Golden Cat statue can lead to the underground cave where Futcanglong keeps his most valuable treasure: the biggest (The camera shifts to Garfield and Odie, who stare at the projected image) diamond of all times!
Dingbang: The Treasure of Futcanglong is just a legend. (He turns from the slideshow to Bella) My uncle used to tell it to me as a bedtime story.
Bella: It is real! And when I get my hands on it, I will at last be rich enough to fulfill my greatest project! Voldo, the slides. (The next slide shows a building shaped like her head. The door resembles a mouth with too many rows of teeth) Behold, the Bella Bellissima concert hall, with a giant statue of myself and 500,000 seats so that millions of people can listen to my unforgettable arias! Ahem… (She sings a very high operatic note. Everyone covers their ears, except for Dingbang–who still has his hands tied–and the Siamese cat twins)
Voldo: They wouldn’t let us sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Garfield: I wouldn’t let her sing in a horror movie. (Siam and Tyham approach Bella, clapping their paws, and then turn around to face the apprehended trio, smirking sinisterly)
Bella: Voldo, put them in the storage room with our other guest. Siam and Tyham, (they turn to their owner. Tyham puts a paw to her ear to listen better) keep an eye on them while I decide what to do with them.
Siamese Cats: Purr and meow (Tyham nods, ready and willing)
(Later, down a hallway, Voldo leads Dingbang down to their makeshift jail. Siam and Tyham do the same to Garfield and Odie)
Garfiled: Man, my luck is running so bad, the other guest will probably turn out to be Nermal.
(Voldo and the Siamese cats shove the protagonists into the closet. Nermal is in the other side, still tied to the chair)
Nermal: Garfield!
Garfield: Told ya. (Unlike Garfield, Odie is happy to see the kitten. He runs forward to him)
Odie: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! (Behind them, Voldo slams the door. Siam and Tyham remain inside, keeping watch over the quartet’s quagmire. Garfield unties Nermal’s knots)
Dingbang: Cat, is that cute little kitten a friend of yours? (Garfield and Nermal wince at the thought. They start sputtering before finally speaking English)
Garfield and Nermal: Friend?! (Dingbang turns and tries to escape, but the Siamese securities bare their claws at the boy and slash at him. He decides to keep his distance)
Dingbang: We need to stop that crazy woman before she finds the treasure of Futcanglong!
Nermal: The treasure of WHAT?! Who’s that?
Garfield: I’ll explain later. Right now, we have to figure out how to get past those two Siamese sentries. (He takes a few steps toward Dingbang and looks down. He spots a carpet under his foot, and sees that Siam and Tyham are standing on the same rug) Hmm… I have an idea. (The confident, cocky cats stand closer together) OK, guys, huddle! (He claps his paws together and whispers his plan to Odie and Nermal, waving his tail back and forth as he does)
Odie: Gasp!
Garfield: Alright, Odie, it starts with you distracting them. Got it?
Odie: Right! (A random spotlight shines on the pooch as he starts doing ballet in front of everyone. Siam and Tyham look at each other. Odie just dances)
Siam: I never cared for BALLET.
Tyham: Especially by DOGS.
Garfield: (quietly to Nermal) On the count of three. One…two…THREE! (On three, the courageous cats lift their end of the carpet and whip it up and down, causing Bella’s pets to fly into the air. They meow in protest as Odie catches them in a treasure chest of sorts. Nermal slams the lid shut, and Odie celebrates behind it)
Dingbang: You guys are amazing! (Nermal and Garfield give each other a celebratory fist bump. With the cats out of the way and the storage room door unlocked, all four of them escape to Bella’s penthouse. There, the villains stare at a screen, which is analyzing the statue for a hidden map)
Voldo: Legend says that the statue will lead one to the treasure! (Voldo clacks on a keyboard)
Bella: Yes! Have you found the map inside it? (The screen focuses on the computer, which shows the Golden Cat, and a few other things)
Voldo: (offscreen) There’s nothing in the statue. No map of any kind.
Bella: Ugh! Look again! It has to be there! (With the adults distracted, Dingbang sneaks up to the statue and silently swipes it. The screen instantly goes black, as if it got unplugged, and Dingbang bolts for the door. Bella and Voldo turn to see what happened. They see the boy trying to escape) My statue! Give it back!
(Meanwhile, Garfield had been trying to open the door–Nermal and Odie standing next to him– but since the handle was so high, the fat cat was standing on the door he was trying to open. Even if he wasn’t, however, he makes a distressing discovery)
Garfield: Gasp! The door is locked! (Dingbang runs up to the cats and dog, who see the dastardly duo running to to them)
Bella: I want my statue! (Voldo tries to steal it back, but Dingbang evades it)
Dingbang: Catch! (he tosses the artifact. Garfield, who was running with Odie and Nermal, catches it cleanly)
Garfield: Got it! (Voldo makes a quick recovery and chases them down) Nermal, make yourself useful! (He tosses it behind him and Nermal catches it, despite the fact that Voldo was closer to the kitten than the Flabby Tabby. Nevertheless, Nermal slides on his knees on the smooth floor underneath the desk. Voldo dives for him, but crashes into the wall)
Nermal: Ha ha! Sorry, pal! (He jumps up on the desk and looks at the henchman, who is still on the floor)
Bella: Give me my statue! (Garfield grabs it from Nermal’s paws and sticks it in a desk drawer. Bella runs over and opens the drawer, but as cartoon logic suggests, the state wasn’t in there, much to her surprise. Garfield just hops backwards to the other side of the desk, opens the drawer–which reveals the antique–and grabs the statue. However, Voldo pulls himself together and swats the artifact out of Garfield’s paws and into the air. They all look up at it nervously before Dingbang jumps on the desk and grabs it as it falls. He runs to a window and opens it)
Dingbang: This way guys! Follow me!
Odie: Bark! Bark! (The loyal pup Odie leaps out of the window without a second thought–or a first thought, or any thought at all–blindly trusting his new friend. Dingbang is quick to follow. Garfield, understandably, is not)
Garfield: Out the window?! But we’re on the 50th floor! (He imagines how high the skyscraper is. Meanwhile, Voldo uses the desk to pull himself up, still a bit woozy)
Bella: I want my statue! (Voldo turns to the cats with an angry look)
Garfield: I guess we really don’t have a choice! (He runs in place for a moment, grabs Nermal’s tail and takes off for the window)
Nermal: I’m not jumping out of any 50-story window (Garfield leaps out, still dragging the kitten with him) AAAAAAHHHH! (Garfield runs on air for a few seconds before he and Nermal both look down. They look at each other) Uh-oh… (and then start falling)
Garfield and Nermal: YAAAAHHHHH! (They land with a thud on a scaffolding that Dingbang is operating. Odie stands next to the boy)
Garfield: Huh?
Odie: Right! (Garfield chuckles as they all head down. Above them, Bella and Voldo look down from the penthouse window. The fat cat grins as he waves good-bye to the villains)
Bella: Give me my statue!
(Once on solid ground, Dingbang notices a rickshaw-type vehicle)
Dingbang: Over there! (He points at it. The animals run) Hang on tight! (He drives as the cats and dog pile into the cart in the back. Bella gets in a similar vehicle and chases after them. Her cats sit in the back)
Bella: Stop them and give me back my statue!
Nermal: They’re after us! (Dingbang makes a couple of sharp turns. Bella remains on their tail)
Garfield: Where’s that weird smell coming from? (He glances at Odie and glares at Nermal)
Nermal: Why are you even looking at me?
Odie: Bark! (He points under their seat, where a bunch of fruit lies. Garfield snatches one and examines it)
Garfield: What is that? A dead hedgehog?
Dingbang: That is a durian! In China we call it the “King of Fruits”! A lot of people think that it smells funny, but they are really good for your skin! (He continues riding through a marketplace and makes a quick left turn)
Garfield: Really? What do they do for fur? (He glares behind him, the wheels turning in his brain) Good for your skin, huh? I think Bella could do with a beauty mask! (He tosses it at her)
Bella: Whoa! (She avoids it) Ha ha ha ha! You missed me!
Garfield: The first one who hits the terrible singer wins! (He, Odie, and Nermal, each toss a durian at her. One hits her in the face, and the other two hit her cats, who meow in protest)
Bella: OH! Help! I can’t see! (She loses control and crashes into something, turning her rickshaw on its side)
Nermal: (jumping in celebration) Ha ha! We got her!
Odie: Bark! Bark!
Dingbang: Well done, guys! (they speed away from her)
(Meanwhile, Siam and Tyham have removed their durians from their heads and hop over the edge of the rickshaw. Bella struggles to pull the fruit off her face, but when she does, she gives her cats an order)
Bella: Oh! (the camera focuses on the cats, who flinch at her order) What are you waiting for? Go after them!
Cats: Meow! (They stand at ten-hut, saluting her like a soldier does to a commanding officer, and resume the chase. As they leave, she brushes herself off and a man approaches her, video camera in hand)
Bella: What do you want?
Man: Just shooting a video. I’m gonna put it up on the internet! I'll bet ya millions of people see this!
Bella: I am the greatest opera star Bella Bellissima! Listen to the magnificence of my voice! (She sings in a voice that makes the man wince. Her voice gets higher and higher as she goes, causing glass to shatter and changing from singing to screaming)
(Meanwhile, with Bella at least temporarily out of the way, Dingbang takes the pets to his uncle’s restaurant)
Dingbang: I will come back in the morning and we will figure out what to do with the statue, (The animals line up in front of him, the statue between them) and with the three of you. (Nermal and Odie look toward Garfield) Good dreams, my friends. (At that moment, a cloud uncovers the moon, and the moonlight shines into the artifacts eyes, taking everyone by surprise)
Odie, Garfield, and Nermal: Huh? (The camera pans and shows a picture being reflected on the wall)
Dingbang: Did you see that? The moonlight reflected into the eyes of a statue (Garfield and Odie are shown staring at it) projects an image!
Nermal: A tiger head? What does that mean?
(The camera shifts to the image)
Dingbang: (offscreen) And there is some writing, too. (Return back to the boy, who reads excitedly) “The first half of the key to the treasure of Futcanglong (Garfield chuckles, Odie smiles and nods at the tubby tabby) is hidden in the ancient Gardens of Sujo”
Garfield: A treasure map? Oh, that’s kind of exciting. (A cloud covers the moon, and the image fades, much to everyone’s disappointment)
Dingbang: Sujo is only 50 kilometers away. First thing in the morning we need to find that key. (The animals nod. Unbeknownst to them, Siam and Tyham are listening outside) Get a good night’s sleep.
Tyham: Purr (Siam nods at her)
(Meanwhile, Jon has boarded a plane and is now headed to Shanghai to find his pets. He explains his situation to the flight attendant)
Jon: All I know is that they’re somewhere in Shanghai.
Flight Attendant: Shanghai is the largest city in China. It has over 23,000,000 people.
Jon: Sigh I know. How am I ever gonna find two cats and a dog in that- (The TV in the front of the plane interrupts him)
TV: Two cats and a dog involved in a wild chase last night through the streets of Shanghai. (A video of the events from earlier plays on the TV screen. It clearly shows the pets Jon’s looking for) This video hit the internet just hours ago… (Jon talks over the TV)
Jon: That’s them! That’s my two cats and a dog!
Bella: (on the video the news station is playing) I am the greatest opera star Bella Bellissima! Listen to the magnificence of my voice!
News Anchor: Those of you who are easily sickened may not want to hear this next part. (She sings, and just like before, everyone cringes and covers their ears. It’s so bad, the entire plane shakes, but steadies itself and no one is harmed)
Jon: Bella Bellissima? (He taps his fingers on the seat) Maybe she knows where I can find Garfield, Odie, and Nermal. (He jots her name down on a notepad)
(The next morning, in Shanghai, Dingbang leads Garfield, Nermal, and Odie through the gardens)
Dingbang: The Gardens of Sujo were built to celebrate harmony between art, nature, and ideas.
Garfield: That’s great. Where’s the key to this treasure of… who, whatever it is? (Secretly, Siam and Tyham sniff around the entryway. They soon find the scent of their prey, and enter the gardens. Dingbang continues leading the pets through the gardens when Garfield freezes for a second, spotting something) Hey, don’t these two cats look familiar?
(The quartet draws near to the “two cats” Garfield saw. It wasn’t Siam and Tyham, but instead duplicates of the Golden Cat statue. They stand in arched holes in the wall, with an empty space between them)
Dingbang: They look just like our statue. (he sees the empty space) There’s a gap here. It looks like our statue belongs between them. (He runs up and sets their statue in the vacant spot. All of them–except for Odie, who just pants–wait excitedly for something exciting to happen, except that nothing does) Nothing is happening. (They look disappointed)
Garfield: Sure looks that way. (Odie, however, is enthralled by a butterfly that floats overhead. He chases it as it lands on the center cat. He slurps the statue)
Odie: Bark! (He pushes the Golden Cat’s arm down, and it reveals a secret door below the statue with something inside) Mutters
Dingbang: Dog, you opened a secret compartment! (He runs toward Odie’s new discovery. Garfield and Nermal just stand awestruck. The boy grabs half of a medallion shaped like the yin and yang symbol) It says, “This is half of the medallion that serves as the key to the treasures of Futcanglong”.
Garfield: Chuckles (He looks at Nermal and rubs his paws together greedily)
Odie: (hopping up to Garfield) Mutters (He glares at the fat cat)
Dingbang: (reading) “The other half of the medallion is guarded by the old master of the temple on Mount Qingshan.” Mount Qingshan, that is kind of far.
Garfield: “Miles and miles away” far? (He points to the distance)
Dingbang: No, do not worry. We are not going there on that tricycle. We will use something a little faster.
(The scene changes to a plane flying in the sky. Dingbang, Garfield, and Odie sit in the window, the latter two smiling, and Nermal laughs excitedly)
Dingbang: Thanks for the ride! (Garfield waves to the audience)
Pilot: (offscreen) You’re welcome, cousin Dingbang. (The camera shifts to the tail of the plane. Siam and Tyham cling to the tail with their huge claws, struggling against the wind, but keeping their grip)
Cats: Meow! (The plane takes off, with our heroes and a couple of stowaway villains, as Part 2 comes to an end)
TO BE CONTINUED…