When Tom ruins Hildie and Beatie’s potions, they get fed up with him and he overhears them wanting a black cat instead of him. He makes and drinks a potion that turns him into a black cat, and they assume he’s another cat.
Little Quacker enlists Jerry’s help in getting his cracked favorite birdbath fixed, but they get distracted by the smell of Tom’s delicious Chinese takeout. After fighting over the food, Tom steals Little Quacker’s fortune cookie and gets the kind of fortune he deserves.
Toodles hires detectives Tom and Jerry to investigate and protect her against a threat to her Tuna can inheritance. They go investigate, and a mysterious and menacing figure keeps trying to hurt them.
While listening to his favorite hip hop music, Jerry gets disrupted by the noise of the city, so he moves out of town to a farm owned by Tom. As a result, his music causes Tom’s pet hen to lay eggs quickly.
An unlucky dog named Dutch goes to Detectives Tom and Jerry, saying that a ruby stone he has been guarding from his great grandfather’s master pirate “Captain Wrongway Weston” is taken from a female dog named Roxy, who is also unlucky.