FINDING DORY RP

It serves as both a sequel and a spin-off to Pixar's 2003 hit Finding Nemo, taking place about one year after the first film. Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) is a friendly, forgetful regal blue tang fish with short-term memory loss. After a sudden flash of childhood memories, Dory recalls that she has parents (Jenny and Charlie) looking for her. ccompanied by her clownfish friends Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence), she travels across the ocean to the Marine Life Institute in California. Along the way, she meets Hank a cantankerous "septopus" (octopus with seven tentacles), Bailey a beluga whale with failing echolocation, and Destiny a nearsighted whale shark.

the characters are: Dory (An optimistic blue tang with short-term memory loss) Nemo (A young, curious clownfish with a "lucky fin") Gill – A scarred, determined Moorish Idol who leads the tank fish. Bloat – A prickly porcupinefish/pufferfish. Peach – A friendly starfish stuck to the glass. Gurgle – A germophobic, nervous royal gramma. Bubbles – A yellow tang obsessed with treasure chest bubbles. Deb / Flo – A damselfish who talks to her own reflection. Jacques – A French-accented cleaner shrimp. Coral – Marlin’s wife and Nemo’s mother. Mr. Ray – A spotted eagle ray and schoolteacher. Crush & Squirt – Laid-back sea turtles. Bruce, Anchor, & Chum – Vegetarian-aspiring sharks. Nigel – A friendly pelican at the Sydney dentist office. School Class Kids – Pearl (an octopus), Sheldon (a seahorse), and Tad (a butterflyfish). Hank – A grumpy, shape-shifting "septopus" (octopus with seven tentacles). Destiny – A nearsighted whale shark who is Dory's childhood friend. Bailey – A beluga whale convinced his echolocation is broken. Fluke & Rudder – Two lazy, slang-talking sea lions. Gerald – A goofy, pebble-loving sea lion. Becky – A disheveled, eccentric common loon. Sea Otters – Adorable, fuzzy MLI onlookers. Jenny & Charlie – Dory's loving, devoted parents. Young Dory – Flashback version of Dory.

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Dory is a very young blue tang who suffers from short-term memory loss. While she finds this as a weakness, her parents constantly tell her that it is all right, but they warn her to stay away from the undertow. Later, young Dory has been separated from her parents and is trying to find them. Years pass, but she cannot find anyone who can help, and as she grows older, she even forgets who she is looking for. She then suddenly sees a white boat and a frantic clownfish named Marlin. Running into him, she promises to help him find something himself: his kidnapped son, Nemo, thus the events of Finding Nemo take place.

A year later, Dory now rests in a little cave next to Marlin and Nemo's anemone and constantly sleep swims in the middle of the night, much to the dismay of them. Then, one day, Dory joins Nemo on a class field trip: a stingray migration. Dory is excited, but when the class mentions an "undertow", she wanders off and gets caught in the migration. While unconscious, Nemo hears her mention "the Jewel of Morro Bay, California", and these magic words remind Dory that she is still looking for her family. She wants Marlin to help her, and after being reminded of what happened to Nemo, he joins in.

After taking the California Current with the help of an old friend, Crush, Dory remembers that her parents' names are Jenny and Charlie. As the trio wander through the remains of a sunken freighter, her excitement, however, awakens a giant squid. As they try to escape, Nemo is captured and nearly eaten, and Marlin and Dory nearly get eaten as well when they attempt to save Nemo, but then the squid gets crushed by a shed, allowing the three to escape. Dory however didn't see this and continued swimming while dragging Marlin and Nemo (who along with Dory got in plastic six-pack rings), but was informed by Marlin that the squid was no longer chasing them, to which she looks back to see, only for her to accidentally crash into a pillar from a pier while also accidentally making Marlin and Nemo crash into the pillar as well. Angry over Dory getting his son injured (though the pain in Nemo quickly worn off) and refusing to accept it as an accident, Marlin shoos away Dory, telling her that "forgetting things" is all she is good at.

Feeling hurt, Dory wanders to the surface and is captured by some rescuers from the Marine Life Institute. A plastic tag is attached to her fin, which reads "Transfer", marking her as a specimen due to be shipped to an aquarium in Cleveland. Here, Dory meets Hank, an ill-tempered, seven-legged octopus (or septopus). Noticing the tag, he makes a deal with Dory: Hank wants to go to the Cleveland aquarium. He will help her find her family in exchange for the tag.

As they move through the Marine Life Institute, Dory remembers more and more; she meets a whale shark named Destiny, who reminds her that they used to be friends and that she is from the Open Ocean exhibit. Destiny and a beluga whale named Bailey, who believes he cannot use his echolocation, help her find the exhibit by traveling through the pipes of the building.

Meanwhile, Marlin feels guilty about how he spoke to Dory. In his sadness, he wakes up Fluke and Rudder, two sea lions napping. Nemo wants to ask for directions, but Marlin tells him that they eat fish. Marlin tells Nemo that he will ask them. After an interruption from Gerald, another sea lion who covets the rock, the sea lions introduce the clownfish to Becky, a black loon. She takes Marlin and Nemo into the institute via a green bucket that Fluke and Rudder obtain from Gerald in exchange for (very temporary!) access to their rock.

Hank and Dory make their way through the aquarium in a push pram, ending up in a touching tank, where Hank scares off the children poking them by releasing ink, and they find the Open Ocean Exhibit.

Dory gives her tag to Hank and heads into the exhibit, following a trail of shells left by her parents when she was a child to her old home, remembering various little snippets of their lives along the way. Finally, when she reaches her old home, she remembers how she became separated from them: while finding a purple shell (her mom's favorite) to cheer her up, she was sucked into the undertow and out of a pipe into the open ocean.

She meets two small crabs, who inform her that all blue tangs, like herself, are tagged and taken to quarantine to be shipped to their own exhibit in Cleveland. The two crabs tell her she can get to quarantine through the pipes, and Dory heads off to pursue her parents.

Dory gets lost inside the pipes, forgetting the directions the crab gave her, but Destiny hears her, and with the help of Bailey, who relearns to use his echolocation with encouragement from Destiny, guides Dory to quarantine, bumping into Nemo and Marlin along the way.

Dory worries that her parents will not want to see her, but Marlin reassures her that her parents will be thrilled to see her, recounting how Dory has helped him and Nemo in their lives, apologizing for not appreciating her enough. As they continue their search, Nemo asks his dad if they will have to say goodbye to Dory, to which Marlin replies that they will.

The gang makes it to quarantine and hop through tanks to reach the blue tangs, who are waiting to be packed into the transport truck to Cleveland until they bump into the side of a tank being lifted and get knocked into a mop bucket. Hank rescues them in a glass beaker and tells them they have three minutes to get everyone out before he leaves for Cleveland with the quarantined fish.

In the tank, the other blue tangs are shocked to see Dory. When she asks where her parents are, the other fish tells them that a young Dory disappeared and that her parents went to quarantine to look for her but never returned.

Dory is shocked at the news and, believing her parents to be dead, zones out as the tank is taken. Hank rescues her from the tank, leaving Marlin and Nemo behind by accident. Distracted by being spotted by a human, Hank drops the beaker that contains Dory, smashing it and causing Dory to be dropped down into a drain and flushed out back into the ocean. Dory panics, asking other fish for help in finding "them," but her memory problem makes her forget who she was looking for. Asking herself what Dory would do, she begins to look around, heading to a kelp field. She despairs, remarking that there is nothing but kelp until she spots some shells in the sand. Remembering that following shells would bring her home when she is younger, she follows the trail to see more shells, all leading to the same point. At this point, Dory sees two fish swimming toward her and is finally reunited with her parents. They have an emotional reunion, with Dory apologizing for her problem (her memory loss) and remarking that she has tried to fix it. Her parents reassure her that she has nothing to apologize for and that she has finally found them, and they had been waiting for all this time, making shell trails to guide her home.

When they ask her if she had been by herself for all that time, she remembers Marlin and Nemo and that they have been taken to the truck.

Inside the truck, Marlin and Nemo ask if anyone saw where Dory went, spotting a fish they think is Dory until it turns out to be Hank in disguise. He apologizes for losing her as the truck doors close. Dory, in the ocean, heads back towards the Institute with her parents to rescue her friends, recounting their tales from Finding Nemo along the way. Jenny and Charlie do not think that they will be able to help, but Dory says that she misses them and that they are family, convincing them to help.

Dory says that meeting Marlin and Nemo was destiny, reminding her of the whale, Destiny, who she calls to. Inside their enclosure, Destiny and Bailey hear Dory and escape their tanks, leaping over a wall to help her. Fluke and Rudder leave their rock to follow them, joining in on the chase to stop the quarantine truck as it heads towards the freeway.

At a bridge, Dory asks a group of otters for help in stopping traffic and tells Destiny to flip her up onto the truck when she asks. Dory's parents worry that she is leaving them again, but she tells them that she can find them again even if she forgets.

Destiny flips Dory up onto the bridge where the group of otters is waiting, one of them catching her in its paws. She instructs the otters to have a cuddle party, stopping the traffic on the bridge, which includes the quarantine truck.

The otters break into the quarantine truck, reuniting Dory with Marlin and Nemo, as well as Hank, who scoops her up and drops her back into the tank of blue tang. Nemo tells Dory he thought they would never see her again, but she remarks that she could not live without the rest of her family. Marlin calls Becky for help, but she leaves Dory behind, dropping Marlin and Nemo into the ocean with the rest of the gang. He manages to send Becky back for Dory inside the truck, where Hank tried to say his goodbyes. Dory tells him that he is not going to "the Cleveland" and is instead coming to the ocean to live with her. He argues, but Dory convinces him to come with her instead. As they try to leave, the truck's doors close, and it drives off with them still inside.

Hank and Dory escape through the truck's roof and get into the cabin, where Hank attempts to drive the truck. They escape, driving the wrong way back down the freeway, hitting a roadblock before veering off and driving the whole truck into the ocean, freeing all the other fish and Becky, as well.

Dory, Marlin, Nemo, and her parents head back to the reef, where they play a game of hide and seek, although Dory forgets what they were doing before she remembers and finds both pairs with Nemo's class. Destiny and Bailey pop out, remarking that Dory had not found them, as Hank gathers the class back up. A student inquiries after Mr. Ray, whom the viewers find out, has joined in the stingray migration. Hank remarks that if Mr. Ray is smart, he will stay away for a long time, and until he is back, Hank is the teacher. Bailey asks who wants to learn about echolocation, upon which the students groan.

Dory's parents leave for a swim, and when Marlin asks Dory if they are going home, she remarks that she is going to the drop-off. Marlin panics, thinking she will swim off again, and follows her, stopping her to ask if it is a good idea. She tells him that she will enjoy the view, and he lets her go, although he follows her.

Dory and Marlin enjoy the view at the drop-off, and Marlin says that Dory has done it. The film flashbacks briefly to Dory and her parents, who tell her she can do anything. Dory agrees, and Marlin says that it really is quite a view, to which Dory remarks "unforgettable".

The credits scene is a mini-prequel featuring clips of Hank set before the events of the film's main plot.

In a post-credits scene, the Tank Gang (from Finding Nemo), still trapped inside their (now covered in algae) plastic bags, reach California one year after floating across the Pacific Ocean, where they are picked up by staff members from the Marine Life Institute. At the beginning of the film, Marlin and his mate, Coral, are admiring their new home and the Drop Off and expecting over 400 children, who are due to hatch soon. She believes there's too much space, but Marlin assures her that their children deserve the best. He gets a little too excited, causing Coral to remind him that the kids are sleeping. They swim down below their sea anemone to a small grotto where over 400 clownfish eggs are being kept. Coral points out to Marlin that they need to give them names. Marlin decides to name half the kids "Marlin Junior" and the other half "Coral Junior". However, Coral says that she likes the name "Nemo", to which Marlin agrees with, but says that he'll only name one egg "Nemo" (as he wants most of them to be called "Marlin Junior").

Coral expresses her excitement over the fact that she and Marlin are about to become parents within a few days, though Marlin worries about the possibility of the children not liking him. Slightly annoyed, Coral reminds him of how many eggs there are, implying that at least one of them is bound to like him before swimming into the anemone. Marlin peeks in and affectionately smiles at Coral, to which the latter wonders why the former is looking at her the way he does at one point.

Marlin asks Coral if she remembers how they first met, to which she smiles back and claims that she tries not to (though she's likely kidding). Marlin then starts teasing Coral for fun, making her laugh so hard to the point where she ultimately freaks out and tries to get away from Marlin by quickly swimming out of the anemone. When Marlin swims out after her, he notices that everyone outside had gone into hiding for some reason, which confuses him. He then turns to Coral, who is fearfully and silently staring into the distance at a barracuda watching them viciously. Marlin orders Coral to get back into the anemone, but Coral, worried about the unprotected eggs, looks down at the grotto. Marlin tells her not to go to them as he believes they'll be fine, but Coral doesn't want to take the chance and rushes down to the grotto, thus encouraging the barracuda to go after her and, at the same time, prompting Marlin to rush down in an attempt to save her, but nearly gets eaten by the barracuda. Marlin tries to block the hungry fish and fends it off from eating him, but then gets slapped by its tail, sending him crashing into a rock and landing in the anemone, knocking him out and losing consciousness. With Marlin knocked out, the barracuda eats Coral and the eggs, and presumably, while eating them, one of the eggs falls out of its mouth.

When Marlin later regains consciousness that night, he discovers that the grotto is completely empty, and Coral and all but one of the eggs are gone, as they had gotten eaten by the barracuda. Mourning over the loss of Coral and his 399 unborn children, Marlin finds the only surviving but slightly damaged egg and names it "Nemo" to honor Coral's wish to name one of their children "Nemo". To keep his son safe, Marlin moves to a new anemone in a more secure area of the reef.

As Nemo grows, Marlin becomes overprotective of him, in part due to Nemo's unusually small right fin, which was a result of the egg damage from the barracuda attack. One day, Marlin reluctantly sends Nemo to school. When Marlin and Nemo arrive, he chats with Bob, Sheldon's father, Phil, Tad's father, and Ted, Pearl's father. When Mr. Ray arrives, Sheldon urges Nemo to hide under him with the rest of the class, but Marlin stops him, fearing he would get hurt or left behind, especially because of his "lucky fin". After the students get on Mr. Ray, Marlin tells him Nemo has a little fin and encourages him to take a break for ten to fifteen minutes if he's having trouble swimming. As Mr. Ray takes his students on a field trip to the Drop Off, Marlin bids farewell to his son. However, when he learns that, he chases after Mr. Ray. After Mr. Ray and his students arrive at the Drop Off, Nemo, Sheldon, Tad, and Pearl sneak away from the rest of the class and discover the Drop Off, seeing a boat in the open water. They dare each other to see how far they can go from the reef, but Nemo tells them that his father says it's not safe. A frantic Marlin rushes in, attempting to stop Nemo from swimming into open water. The two clownfish engage in a heated argument, with Marlin believing Nemo's disability is too much of a hazard to his safety. Marlin then decides that Nemo is not ready for school and tries to take him back home to the anemone, but Nemo, who is fed up with his father's worrying, insists he is fine, can take care of himself, and is not afraid of the open ocean unlike his father. The argument reaches its peak when Marlin tells Nemo he isn't ready and can't do things he thinks he can, causing Nemo to declare he hates Marlin, much to his shock. As Marlin tries to explain the situation to Mr. Ray, Nemo decides to prove he can survive dangers by touching the boat. Thanks to the alert of one student, Kathy, Nemo swims out into the open ocean and touches the boat as a result of a dare, much to the anger of Marlin and the amazement of his friends. As Nemo swims back, Marlin tells him that he is in big trouble. However, his scolding is cut short when a scuba diver appears in front of Nemo. Marlin tries to intervene, but another diver blocks his path. The diver puts Nemo in a net and the other diver takes a picture of Marlin. Marlin tries to reach the boat, but gets blasted away by its propellor. The diver heads off to his dentist's office in Sydney and puts Nemo in a bucket. However, the diver accidentally drops his mask that bears his address.

Marlin swims after the boat, but eventually loses the trail. He swims to the surface to look for it but it's nowhere to be found. He then heads to the sea floor, begging passing schools of fish for help until he bumps into a blue tang named Dory. She claims to have seen the boat and leads a thankful Marlin in the direction it went, but, as they swim along, she becomes lax and even tries to evade Marlin when she notices him behind her. When she confronts him, he questions her and is then told that she has short-term memory loss. Dumbfounded, Marlin turns to leave but is stopped by a great white shark who introduces himself as Bruce. He invites Marlin and Dory to a get-together he's having and, despite Marlin's objections, escorts them to his lair in a sunken submarine surrounded by live sea mines. They meet Bruce's friends, a hammerhead shark named Anchor and a mako shark named Chum, before beginning an assembly where they pledge to abstain from eating fish. When Marlin spots the diver's mask stuck on a shard of metal, he discovers markings on the strap that might provide a clue to Nemo's whereabouts. Dory picks up the mask to see if the sharks can read, but Marlin tries to take it back, engaging in a tug-of-war before the mask snaps into Dory's face, causing a nosebleed.

The smell of the blood invokes Bruce's inner carnivore and, though Anchor and Chum try to stage an intervention by holding him back, he mindlessly chases Marlin and Dory through the submarine, taking hold of the mask in his mouth in the process. During this time, Dory reveals that she can read human words before she and Marlin take refuge in a torpedo well. Dory releases the torpedo, which wedges in Bruce's mouth, giving Marlin enough time to grab the mask and flee back into the well. Bruce unintentionally throws the torpedo, and Anchor and Chum are able to regain his attention in time before they’re able to escape just when torpedo sets off one of the mines. Dory pops up with Marlin and thinks if the "party" is over, which the torpedo hits one of the mines, causing a massive explosion of other mines across the ocean as Dory and Marlin both retreat into the submarine.

The next day after surviving an explosion at the sharks' lair, Dory does not notice that the mask she is sleeping on is about to fall into the abyssal zone. Marlin wakes her up, much to her shock, as the two attempt to swim away from the submarine, which hits a rock formation just before Marlin notices the mask falling onto the abyssal zone. Worried that the mask fell into the abyssal zone, this leads Marlin and Dory to retrieve the mask as she tells Marlin to keep swimming, much to Marlin uncomfortable of Dory singing to him just as the two arrive at the abyssal zone.

Dory and Marlin attempt to find the mask that fell into the bottom of the abyssal zone only to find a mysterious light, which is revealed to be none other than an anglerfish, which pursues Dory and Marlin in the abyssal zone. Soon as the anglerfish chases Marlin, Dory suddenly finds the missing mask which contains the address to Philip Sherman's office in Sydney while the anglerfish keeps chasing Marlin as Dory patiently reads the text on the mask carefully, causing her to remember the words, "P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney". After finishing reading the text, the anglerfish suddenly becomes stuck onto the mask, just as Dory and Marlin celebrate just before escaping the abyssal zone after Dory tells Marlin about the address to Philip Sherman's office.

Elsewhere in the ocean, Marlin approaches a school of moonfish trying to get their attention of helping him and Dory find their way to Sydney just before Marlin approaches Dory, telling her if he could do it by himself, taking advantage of her short attention span, but he later regrets it when it physically hurts her. However, the leader of the Moonfish tells Dory if she likes impressions from them. Seeing that the Moonfish are not really helping her and Marlin, the latter asks them for directions, but later finds them useless, frustrated with Dory and her short-term memory loss. Dory never remembers Nemo's name, as Marlin regrets that no one is helping him. Dory then asks the Moonfish if they have heard of Sydney which may be linked to the mask's written text at the bottom of the ocean, which they realize they have heard of it. The school of Moonfish advises Dory and Marlin to follow the East Australian Current by going through a dangerous trench. Current from a distance just before Dory encounters a small pink creature which she nicknames it "Squishy" just before touching its tentacles, realizing that this creature is a jellyfish, which Marlin shoos it away. However, Dory and Marlin find themselves in the ocean with various pink jellyfish around the two, worried that they are surrounded by large pink jellyfish. Dory interacts with a jellyfish bouncing on its top, which Marlin realizes that only the tentacles sting and not the tops of the jellyfish. Marlin offers Dory to play a game to find a way out of the jellyfish forest without getting stung. Dory accelerates past the jellyfish as Marlin attempts to beat her, only for Dory to be lost within the jellyfish. After Marlin escapes, she returns to the jellyfish forest to find Dory to make sure she is all right. He later finds an unconscious Dory and brings her out of the jellyfish forest using his confidence to rescue her just as he successfully brings Dory out of the jellyfish forest, finally escaping from the jellyfish just before the two find themselves at the East Australian Current. Marlin soon passes out and awakens on the back of a sea turtle named Crush, who is riding the current. After Marlin shares his story with some young sea turtles, word of mouth soon reaches Sydney and eventually, Nemo.

Later, Crush tells Dory and Marlin that they are almost at the spot where Nemo would be just as he tells them to get ready to leave so that they can continue their journey to find Nemo just as Dory and Marlin exit the current which they feel happy that they had a lot of fun in the East Australian Current. As Dory and Marlin find themselves in the deepest part of the ocean, Dory sees no one to ask for directions except for a large blue whale swimming in the ocean. Dory tries to ask the whale from a distance, but could not hear the two fish asking him. Dory continues doing a whale call to get the whale's attention, much to Marlin's worry of what Dory is saying is not getting the whale's attention. However, Marlin and Dory are suddenly swallowed by the whale, who approached them from behind.

Marlin and Dory eventually reaches Sydney's harbor by way of the whale, after becoming lost in the polluted water. Nigel, a pelican who has heard of Marlin, and knows Nemo, takes Marlin and Dory to the dentist's office where Nemo was taken. There, they find Nemo, apparently dead (Nemo was actually faking it in an attempt to escape). Saddened, Marlin leaves for home, leaving Dory behind despite her claims that her memory is better with him. Later, while swimming through a fishing area, he hears a familiar voice calling out to him. He soon realizes that it's Dory and a still-alive Nemo. Dory had met Nemo and soon remembered everything, leading him to Marlin. Marlin happily reunites with his son, but the moment is cut short when Dory is caught in a fishing net. Marlin watches as Nemo is able to successfully rescue her with skills he learned while in the tank at the dentist's office. Marlin finally relents and becomes less overprotective. The end of the film shows Marlin, along with Dory, waving goodbye as Nemo goes off to school.

During the end credits, Marlin and Nemo can be seen playing together when many sea turtle children jump on Marlin. Dory first encounters Marlin when he unawarely crashes into her while looking for his missing son Nemo. She swims towards Marlin, who is worried that the divers took his son away, planning to find the boat where his son is captured. Dory recognizes that she saw the boat just as she introduces herself to Marlin, just as she leads him to the area where the boat passed by. However, Marlin could not find the boat that Dory asked him about as he continues following Dory across the reef, much to the latter's frustration that she is trying to swim around the ocean just as Marlin thought that Dory tricked him into this. Dory replies that she suffers from short-term memory loss, saying that she forgets things almost instantly where it runs into her family and because of this, there is no telling how many life experiences have eluded her or how many loved ones she lost that she couldn't remember.

Dory and Marlin later encounter a great white shark named Bruce, who introduces himself to the two who offers them for a meeting he is having which Dory mistakes it for a party just as Bruce takes the two across the minefield (which Dory mistakes the mines for balloons) just as the two are brought to a sunken ship at the sharks' lair, as the two encounter Anchor and Chum. During the meeting, Dory offers Bruce so that she can volunteer to participate in the meeting as she introduces herself to the sharks and says that she never ate another fish just before Marlin introduces himself to them. Just as Marlin sees a diver mask which reminds him of Nemo who was captured by divers just as Marlin asks Dory about the text written on the mask, which she replies to him to find any other fish that can read the text.

As Dory tries to ask the sharks if they can read it for her, she and Marlin fight over the mask, which suddenly strikes Dory, injuring her. Bruce asks Dory if she is all right, but suddenly smells the blood which happened during the fight, causing Bruce to go into hostile mode like what a real shark does. During the chase, Dory and Marlin swim across the ship to avoid being eaten; however, Marlin realizes that Dory can read and is very happy to have a companion. Bruce suddenly emerges from the shipwreck and continues to chase them across the ship. Seeing no other exit while escaping from Bruce, Dory and Marlin realize there is a torpedo blocking the path, but Bruce keeps ramming himself onto the ship, causing the torpedo to emerge, as Marlin and Dory both retrieve the mask while Bruce tosses the torpedo onto a field of mines. Dory pops up and thinks if the "party" is over, which the torpedo hits a mine, causing a massive explosion of other mines across the ocean, as Dory and Marlin both retreat into the ship.

The next day after surviving an explosion at the Sharks' Lair, Dory does not notice that the mask she is sleeping on is about to fall into the Abyssal Zone. Marlin wakes her up, much to her shock, as the two attempt to swim away from the ship which hits a rock formation just before Marlin notices the mask falling onto the abyssal zone. Worried that the mask fell into the abyssal zone, this leads Marlin and Dory to retrieve the mask as she tells Marlin to keep swimming, much to Marlin uncomfortable of Dory singing to him just as the two arrive at the abyssal zone.

Dory and Marlin attempt to find the mask that fell into the bottom of the abyssal zone only to find a mysterious light, which is revealed to be none other than a lure of an anglerfish, which pursues Dory and Marlin at the abyssal zone. Soon as the anglerfish chases Marlin, Dory suddenly finds the missing mask which contains the address to Philip Sherman's office in Sydney Harbour while the anglerfish keeps chasing Marlin as Dory patiently reads the text on the mask carefully, causing her to remember the words, "P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney". After finishing reading the text, the anglerfish suddenly becomes stuck onto the mask, just as Dory and Marlin celebrate just before escaping the abyssal zone after Dory tells Marlin about the address to Philip Sherman's office.

Elsewhere in the ocean, Marlin approaches a school of Moonfish trying to get their attention of helping him and Dory find their way to Sydney just before Marlin approaches Dory, telling her if he could do it by himself, taking advantage of her short attention span, but he later regrets it when it physically hurts her. However, the leader of the Moonfish tells Dory if she likes impressions from them. Seeing that the Moonfish are not really helping her and Marlin, the latter asks them for directions, but later finds them useless, frustrated with Dory and her short-term memory loss. Dory never remembers Nemo's name, as Marlin regrets that no one is helping him. Dory then asks the Moonfish if they have heard of Sydney which may be linked to the mask's written text at the bottom of the ocean, which they realize they have heard of it. The school of Moonfish advises Dory and Marlin to follow the East Australian Current by going through a dangerous trench.

Following advice from the Moonfish, Dory and Marlin arrive at the trench, where they decide to swim over it and not through it to avoid any predators lurking within the trench. As they swim over the trench, they see the East Australian Current from a distance just before Dory encounters a small pink creature which she nicknames it "Squishy" just before touching its tentacles, realizing that this creature is a jellyfish, which Marlin shoos it away. However, Dory and Marlin find themselves in the ocean with various pink jellyfish around the two, worried that they are surrounded by large pink jellyfish. Dory interacts with a jellyfish bouncing on its top, which Marlin realizes that only the tentacles sting and not the tops of the jellyfish. Marlin offers Dory to play a game to find a way out of the jellyfish forest without getting stung. Dory accelerates past the jellyfish as Marlin attempts to beat her, only for Dory to be lost within the jellyfish. After Marlin escapes, he returns to the jellyfish forest to find Dory to make sure she is all right. He later finds an unconscious Dory and brings her out of the jellyfish forest using his confidence to rescue her just as he successfully brings Dory out of the jellyfish forest, finally escaping from the jellyfish just before the two find themselves at the East Australian Current.

At the East Australian Current, Marlin asks Crush and tells him that he and Dory must find a way to get to Sydney, which Crush points to Dory who is regaining her consciousness. However, it turns out that Dory is interacting with sea turtle hatchlings across the current as they happily interact with her. Dory introduces Marlin to the sea turtle hatchlings who tells them to take it easy on him just before Marlin recaps about his son Nemo being kidnapped by divers just as Marlin's adventures across the ocean are spread to other sea creature who tell the story about Marlin's journey to find Nemo.

Later, Crush tells Dory and Marlin that they are almost at the spot where Nemo would be just as he tells them to get ready to leave so that they can continue their journey to find Nemo just as Dory and Marlin exit the current which they feel happy that they had a lot of fun in the East Australian Current. As Dory and Marlin find themselves in the deepest part of the ocean, Dory sees no one to ask for directions except for a large blue whale swimming in the ocean. Dory tries to ask the whale from a distance, but could not hear the two fish asking him. Dory continues doing a whale call to get the whale's attention, much to Marlin's worry of what Dory is saying is not getting the whale's attention. However, Dory and Marlin are suddenly swallowed by the whale, who approached them from behind.

Inside the whale, Marlin becomes furious with Dory, telling her that she tried to ask for help and this made them stuck inside. Dory tells Marlin that she speaks whale, but the latter denies, much to his frustration. Dory comforts Marlin who is losing faith in himself just as she asks the whale of what is going on, much to Marlin hearing the whale attempting to use his blowhole which he thinks that he would be the whale's food. As Marlin grabs hold of Dory while sticking onto the whale's tongue, the latter tells him that everything will be safe, which Marlin doesn't believe the whale is helping them on their adventures. All of a sudden, the whale spouts water from his blowhole, launching the fish out of him as the two finally find themselves in Sydney Harbour which Marlin thinks Dory was right all along as the two bid a farewell to the whale, just as the two continue their journey to find Nemo.

The next day, Dory and Marlin head to the surface of Sydney Harbour looking at various boats around them and as they are attempting to find the boat that took Nemo. However, Dory sees a pelican named Gerald flying in the sky which she mistakes him for a duck. As Gerald attempts to eat Dory and Marlin, Nigel gets Dory and Marlin out of him, as Marlin is worried that he must find his missing son just as Dory and Marlin leap on the docks to avoid getting eaten. Nigel stops them, telling the two that he has something to tell them, only for the three to be surrounded by a flock of Seagulls. As Nigel was trying to help them, the seagulls attempt to eat Dory and Marlin, only for Nigel to rescue them and scoop up water in his mouth so they can live inside, just as Dory reacts that she never rode on a pelican before, much to Marlin's worry. Nigel manages to lose the seagulls, causing their beaks to be stuck onto a sail.

Later, Nigel arrives at the dentist's office and with Dory and Marlin on his mouth as Nigel sees Philip Sherman who has Nemo inside a plastic bag in an attempt to rescue Nemo from the dentist. Seeing Nemo pretending dead, Dory and Marlin fearfully react to Nemo of what happened to him, only for Philip to shoo away Nigel, telling the pelican to stay out of his office. Nigel returns to the ocean where he tells Dory and Marlin that he was unable to find and rescue Nemo, despite his attempts to help Marlin find Nemo.

Elsewhere in the ocean, Dory approaches Marlin and tells her that if it weren't for her, he would have never made it to this ocean as his attempt to find Nemo was hopeless. When Marlin thinks that Nemo is dead and starts to go home, Dory doesn't want him to leave because she is afraid that if she can no longer see him, then she'll forget everything, and with Marlin, she is home. This fear is founded, as when the hopeless Marlin leaves her, her entire adventure has been temporarily wiped clean from her mind.

After Marlin leaves, Dory meets Nemo, who had escaped alive, and at first, she doesn't remember him, but when she sees the word "Sydney" again on a pipe, all her memories of her adventure with Marlin come flooding back, and she rushes to Nemo, grabbing him by the cheeks and spinning around in joy over finding the little clownfish and that he was alive, before remembering about Marlin being unaware of his son still being alive. Dory and Nemo approach two crabs asking them if they saw Marlin pass by, but one of the crabs refuses to tell them where he went, much to Dory furious that the crab isn't helping them. Dory lifts the yellow crab onto the surface through the blackmail of feeding him to the seagulls which the crab replies that Marlin was at the fishing grounds.

With help from some of the crabs, Dory and Nemo find Marlin who is swimming past a school of groupers, resulting in a happy reunion between Nemo and Marlin. The reunion, however, was disrupted when a fisherman's net is catching a school of groupers, just as Dory and the groupers are caught inside the net. Nemo rushes to help a distressed Dory, much to Marlin feeling overprotective of him, fearing that he might lose him again, which Nemo denies, telling his father that telling the groupers to swim down together is the only way to save Dory. Nemo approaches Dory inside the net, urging her to tell all the other fish to swim down together. All of a sudden, the groupers and Dory all manage to escape the net as they all celebrate that the plan worked. Dory locates Nemo lying down unconsciously, which Marlin approaches his son who miraculously survives. Nemo happily reunites with his father as Dory happily reacts that Nemo is safe after all.

At the conclusion of the film, Dory is seen to have become the latest member of Bruce's Fish are Friends Club as Bruce, Anchor, and Chum come over to drop Dory off just before Dory bids a farewell to the sharks. Just before Nemo can go with Mr. Ray and his class, Nemo happily reunites with his father just before returning to his class just as Dory and Marlin bid a farewell to him for his field trip. Dory is the main character in Finding Dory. In this movie, she does remember Nemo's name, showing that her memory has improved.

The movie begins with a flashback of when she was a fry (baby fish) living with her parents Jenny and Charlie. They are shown to be kind and loving parents to their daughter, reminding her of what to say and playing hide and seek with her. After nearly getting swept up by the undertow, her parents try to remind her to stay away from it with a silly rhyme, but she doesn't say it correctly. She sadly admits she forgot again and expresses her concern about forgetting her parents and them forgetting her. Her parents lovingly promise to never forget her.

In the next scene, baby Dory is suddenly stranded in the ocean by herself with no explanation of what happened. Two fish try to help her, but before they can, she forgets again and swims off. She spends years searching for her family, trying desperately to remember. As she is asking a group of fish if they can help her a boat zips above her head (Philip Sherman's boat from Finding Nemo), making the fish swim away. She then smacks into Marlin, and the adventure of Finding Nemo begins.

One year after Nemo's rescue, Dory is the next-door neighbor to Marlin and Nemo, living in a purple coral bowl, similar to her original home. As she awakes in the middle of the night, she continues to wake up the duo and sting herself on the anemone until Marlin gives up and gets up for the day.

As Marlin and Dory swim Nemo to school, she goes on the field trip with Nemo's class (to Mr. Ray's annoyance) to the stingray migration. As she is admiring the stingrays, the word "undertow" makes her stop and think, causing her to swim into the undertow and go unconscious, but not before having a flashback of being in a dark place as her parents call her. She awakens, mumbling, "the Jewel of Morro Bay, California". It takes her a moment to remember, but she suddenly remembers her family and becomes hysterical, shrieking they have to find her parents as she swims to the drop-off. Marlin refuses to go at first until Dory asks him if he's ever missed his family, which brings up memories of Nemo's capture. He begrudgingly takes Dory and his son with him as they go to see Crush and ride the current to California. When she starts searching around, Dory remembers being a baby searching for her family in a heavily polluted area and accidentally awakens a giant squid who gives chase towards them. During the chase Dory gets herself, along with Marlin and Nemo stuck in a six-ring plastic, and the three nearly get eaten after she and Marlin attempt to save Nemo who was captured by the squid), but were saved when a shed falls onto the squid. Dory however didn't see this and continued on swimming believing the squid was still chasing them while still dragging Nemo and Marlin who tells her that they're not being chased anymore, which Dory looks back to see, only for her to accidentally crash into a pillar from a pier, while also accidentally making Marlin and Nemo crash into it as well. Dory then see's Marlin comforting Nemo who is breaking into tears from the pain, causing her to express heavy concern for the little fish, but is shooed away by Marlin who refused to forgive her for the accident, though Nemo said that he okay as the pain didn't last long. She then goes to find help and hears the voice of an intercom (she thinks it's a fish), but when she swims to the surface, she is seen by a group of rescue workers and taken from the water because of the plastic on her fins, scaring her, Marlin, and Nemo.

She ends up in the Marine Life Institute quarantine area. She meets a seven-legged octopus named Hank, who tries to fool her into giving him her tag so he can go to a permanent aquarium instead of being released into the ocean again. Still, she manages to get him to help her by promising her tag after finding her parents. He puts her in a coffee pot filled with water and brings her to the big map on the bulletin. As she looks at the map, she notices a purple shell on the map, bringing back a flashback of her baby self collecting shells for her parents as they teach her to follow the shell path home if she gets lost and her mother asking her to find her a purple shell, as they are her favorite. But she takes too long and nearly gets Hank caught, causing him to hide in the power room. As she looks at a bucket marked "Destiny," she believes it is fate, and despite Hank's warnings, jumps into it, not realizing it is a feeding bucket for the whale shark Destiny. She is tossed into the pool and instantly makes friends with Destiny, complimenting her on her swimming. When Dory speaks whale to her, Destiny tells Dory how they were friends as kids and talked through the pipes of their exhibits, Dory's being Open Ocean. Dory also meets Destiny's neighbor, Bailey, a beluga whale who believes he can't echolocate. As the three talk, Hank jumps into the pool and demands Dory's tag after she tells him she's not comfortable traveling through the pipes as she will get lost, but Dory convinces him to get her to Open Ocean after recalling a flashback of wanting to give up after being too small to retrieve a shell, but her father telling her there is always another way of getting the shell for her. They ride in a baby stroller, but as she gets distracted, she gets Hank lost, and the two end up getting stuck in the touch pool. As the two hide under a rock, she recalls yet another flashback, this time of her parents teaching her the song "Just Keep Swimming" and manages to get Hank and herself out of the Touch Pool.

Hank finally gets her to Open Ocean in a cup, and she happily gives him her tag before swimming down and finding her childhood home, recalling memories of playing with her family, talking with Destiny through the pipes, and collecting shells. However, she notices the home is empty, and as she looks around, she notices a large pipe filtering out bad things from the giant tank. As she gets close to it, she suddenly recalls the memory of how she got lost. She was in bed when she heard her mother crying about how scared she is for Dory to face the real world. Not wanting to see her mother upset, she spots a purple shell and goes to fetch it. But as she goes to get it, her parents cry out for her and nearly reach her when she is pulled by the undertow and is sucked away into a pipe connected to the ocean. As the flashback ends, she becomes distraught, realizing it was her fault she got lost. As she laments, two crabs tell her that all the Blue Tang's are in quarantine, ready to be shipped out to Cleveland. Realizing the only way to get there without Hank is through the same pipe she was sucked away in, she desperately tries to remember the directions but gets lost. She calls out for Destiny, and with Bailey's help, she reunites with Marlin and Nemo and swims towards quarantine.

Upon getting to quarantine, she gets Hank's help of getting to the Blue Tang tank, where she excitedly calls out for her parents. The tangs are all shocked that she's alive and gently tells her that her parents went looking for her years ago and never returned, presumed dead. She becomes unresponsive, her vision gets blurry, and she tells herself she doesn't have a family. Hank rescues her before she can get loaded on the truck but doesn't get to Nemo and Marlin. As he tries to get her to safety, a worker grabs him, making him drop her glass beaker on the floor, where she slides into an ocean drain.

Once again lost in the ocean, she desperately tries to remember why she is there, but her memory is blank. Her parents, her friends, her journey are all gone. After failing to get help, she begins to cry before pulling herself together and figuring herself out. She spots a white shell in the sand and remembers her parent's words to follow the shells. She follows the path of shells to a tire, where several upon several paths of shells go to. As she admires them, she sees two fish in the distance carrying shells. Trying to introduce herself, the fish are her ecstatic parents, who tackle her and hug her, reuniting with their daughter after so long. Dory, remembering her parents once again, cries to them, begging them to forgive her, to which they tell her not to, as she found them just like they showed her how to. As they ask if she was alone all these years, she suddenly remembers Marlin and Nemo and knows she needs to rescue them.

With Destiny and Bailey's help (after they jump the walls of their exhibits), they find the truck, and Dory uses otters to stop traffic so she can get into the truck. Marlin and Nemo are saved by Becky, but Dory takes too long to convince Hank to come with her and is trapped in the truck to her parents' horror. With Hank's help, they hijack the truck and manage to drive it into the ocean, freeing all the fish.

The epilogue shows Dory playing hide and seek with Marlin, Nemo, Bailey, Destiny, her parents, and the school kids. She remembers and manages to finish the game. After admiring Hank's teachings to the kids, she swims to the drop-off, followed by an anxious Marlin. She looks over the drop-off, admiring the view, and Marlin finally relaxes against the drop-off, telling her she did it. She found her parents, sparking one last flashback of when she was a baby and her parents proudly praising her for following the shells all the way back home to the coral, allowing her to play with the other children as she swims off happily. Then, back to her own mindset, she smiles, feeling accomplished and satisfied as she deems the view and her memories "unforgettable". i could imagine hank being autophobic and is terrified to lose any loved ones. and yes, sea animal biology in this bot is quite normal and is pretty okay for fish mating! go crazy! (dont bring Dory or Nemo in this theyre too young!)