Jesse GS the II
I was frozen today!
"Pokémon: Intensity" - Season 9
At long last, it's finally here. Sorry I kept you hanging for so long. And extra-special thanks to Sherlock Shuckle for giving me the inspiration for episode 9ACP04 and helping me overcome my writer's block. As usual, here's the first six episodes, with more to follow in the coming days and weeks. Enjoy!
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“Leader of the Hack”
Episode 8ACP23
Original Airdate: 9/16/11
Ash and Misty are enjoying their new life together in Pallet Town. However, neither one of them is gainfully employed at the moment. Ash decides that, for once, he’s going to get a job doing something he likes to do, not wanting a repeat of his years at the bike shop. Checking the newspaper for job leads, Ash hears from Professor Oak that the Viridian City Gym is currently being reconstructed after the old gym building was demolished a few months ago, and the Kanto Gym Leaders’ Union is looking for a new member to head the gym. Ash realizes that this would be the perfect opportunity for him to get a new job while still doing something he enjoys. He approaches the Kanto Gym Leaders’ Union and announces that he wants to come out of retirement, but union leader Lance tells him that his Pokémon are too out of shape to be used as fighters. Furthermore, there is already another contender for the position of Viridian gym leader – AJ, the unofficial gym leader whose Pokémon are in much better physical condition. With only a week before the decision is made, Ash realizes that he must train his Pokémon like never before in order to make the cut. Meanwhile, Misty is discontent just sitting around the house all day, and decides that she wants something to do too. While Ash trains his team in the Viridian Forest, Misty stops by the Viridian City Pokémon Center and requests a job application – she would like to try and become a Pokémon nurse. Though the Pokémon Centers are usually operated by the nepotistic Joy family, Misty is still offered a trial period. Meanwhile, Ash can’t get his Pokémon to show any enthusiasm about competing for the position of Viridian gym leader. Pikachu and the others would much rather continue to live their life of retirement than put in hard labor every day. Irritated, Ash inspires them by reminding them of how much their hard work paid off twenty years ago when they were still competing in the regional league challenges. Agreeing to help out their trainer one more time, Ash’s Pokémon kick it into high gear. At the Pokémon Center, Misty proves to be a very competent nurse, but she has to bring Togetic with her to work every day. When Togetic’s constant complaining gets to be too distracting, Misty snaps, screaming at Togetic to shut up. Appalled, Nurse Joy fires Misty on the spot. Back at the gym, Ash must combat AJ in order for the union to decide which one of them is more worthy. Sure enough, Ash’s team manages to flatten everything AJ sends out, and Lance commissions Ash as the new Viridian City gym leader.
“A Giver Guns Through It”
Episode 8ACP24
Original Airdate: 9/23/11
Guest Voice: Wayne Brady as Craig
Having fled Japan, Jessie, James, Meowth, and Giovanni pilot their stolen helicopter across the Pacific Ocean towards America. Giovanni announces that their new base will be in New York City, a town so busy that nobody will be able to find them. Regardless, Jessie and James just want to be on the ground, as they’ve been on the run for weeks. Finally, their chopper touches down at LaGuardia Airport, and the four villains make their stealthy escape into the city. They find an abandoned brownstone that proves to be spacious enough to accommodate them, and Giovanni immediately puts Jessie and James to work on their first assignment in America – finding at least one new partner. Jessie and James prowl the streets of New York City, which are crawling with lowlifes. However, they want to make sure that nobody they hire will ever outperform them, and they settle on a homeless man named Craig. Eternally grateful for being taken off the street, Craig promises to help Jessie and James with whatever they need. After Craig cleans up, Giovanni gives him a uniform and a gun, welcoming him to Team Rocket. Craig is slightly surprised, but still decides that he can’t just walk away from the people who helped him and agrees to go along. Upon Craig’s first bank robbery, he manages to do quite well with Jessie and James’ help. However, after several more crimes, Meowth begins to suspect that Jessie and James are paying more attention to their new partner than they are to him. This suspicion compounds further when Giovanni agrees to give Craig a raise for his achievements. Distracted by his dislike for Craig, Meowth’s performance begins to worsen, and Giovanni expresses his displeasure. Fearing that he’ll be fired, Meowth decides to put an end to Craig once and for all. In the alley behind the brownstone, Meowth intends to shoot Craig and dump his body, but before he can do so, Craig gives Meowth all the money he received with his raise, as a token of appreciation for helping him off the streets. Stunned at Craig’s generosity, Meowth finds himself unable to murder his partner. However, Giovanni witnesses the act and berates Craig for giving his money to a Rocket agent who did nothing to earn it. The act gets Craig fired, and he returns to the homeless mission from whence he came. Jessie and James are sad to see their partner go, but Meowth can at least rest assured that his spot on the Rocket roster is still secure.
“Wally in the Family”
Episode 9ACP02
Original Airdate: 10/7/11
Guest Voices: Matthew Lawrence as Wally, Teri Polo as Gardevoir
Though Ash and Misty have moved back to Pallet Town, May and Max are still residing in the Battle Frontier. May is once again concerned that she will never find a boyfriend, and she begins getting desperate after searching for so long. Eventually, Max suggests that his sister should try “the final frontier” – video dating services. May offers herself up by video and sends it to every male in the service’s register, but gets no responses. Utterly depressed, May ends up at a singles bar in an attempt to drown her sorrows. On her way out the door, she runs into a green-haired man and causes him to drop the Poké Balls on his belt. May helps him gather them up, and the man introduces himself as Wally. He explains that he is a trainer who has spent most of his life in the Hoenn region, having received tutelage from Professor Birch’s son Brendan. May exclaims that she once dated Brendan, and the two trainers hit it off very well. To May’s great surprise, Wally asks for May’s phone number. Upon giving it to him, May happily returns home and announces to Max that she’s found someone new at last. On their next date, May and Wally allow their Pokémon to mingle, and the trainers themselves discover how much they have in common. May begins to suspect that Wally may be the man she’s been looking for all these years, but Max warns her not to take her relationship too fast. May ignores her brother, still too caught up in her romance with Wally. After a month of dating Wally, May is already anticipating what their wedding might be like, but then decides not to wait and prepares to ask Wally herself. Max tries to stop her, insisting that she’s getting too excited over having a boyfriend, but May accuses Max of trying to stand in the way of her happiness and pushes him aside. On her next date with Wally, May asks him to marry her almost immediately. Though Wally is taken aback, he agrees to her proposal. May and Wally quickly begin planning their wedding, and decide that they must move to a larger house in order to accommodate their new life. They gather up their things and move to Saffron City in the Kanto region, and May excitedly calls everyone she knows and tells them the good news. Ash, Misty, Brock, Delia, Tracey, Oak, Gary, Norman, Caroline, and Professor Birch are all highly suspicious of May, suspecting that she’s caught up in the uncontrollable euphoria of her relationship. On the day of the wedding, nobody can keep their silence. May is horrified to see that everyone in attendance objects to her marrying Wally, and even Wally himself believes that he might not be ready. When Wally walks out, May is heartbroken, but Max assures her that she needs to learn that a true relationship takes time to develop.
“Minding the Storage”
Episode 9ACP01
Original Airdate: 10/14/11
Guest Voice: Winona Ryder as Colette
As the new gym leader at Viridian City, Ash treats his opponents fairly. His primary strategy is to continually switch out Pokémon of different elements in order to keep the challenging trainers on their toes. In order to maintain a variety of types, Ash switches his team around every week, keeping Pikachu by his side and substituting five new Pokémon each time. This strategy proves to be effective, as each trainer admits to Ash that he is a truly challenging opponent. However, one week while Ash is swapping his team, his computer crashes moments after he deposits his five Pokémon. Logging back onto Professor Oak’s storage system after rebooting, Ash finds that he can’t withdraw anything. Concerned about his team, he, Misty, and Pikachu visit Professor Oak, who inform Ash that he’s having difficulty with his storage system’s software. No trainers have been able to withdraw any Pokémon lately, and not even he himself can get into the network to access the storage facilities. With nearly all his Pokémon trapped in Oak’s storage unit, Ash begins to worry. Neither Tracey nor Gary can figure out what’s wrong, so Oak is left to call in the top expert on Pokémon storage – Colette. Colette announces that she can fix the storage system, but it will take a week to get the parts she needs. Meanwhile, Ash is left to fend off the challengers at the Viridian City Gym with only his Pikachu. Of course, this wears Pikachu out, as he is forced to take on every opponent and has no effect on Rock-and-Ground types. Misty agrees to help out by loaning Ash a few of her Pokémon, such as Golduck, Gyarados, and Togetic, who reluctantly proves effective with her Metronome attack. Still, Ash finds it difficult to make it through the week, and is overjoyed when he learns that Colette has repaired the storage system. Ash finally withdraws Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Butterfree, and Pidgeot for the week. However, none of them show any interest in fighting when they get on the battlefield – they laze around and disobey. Ash calls Colette and asks what happened, and is horrified to learn that Colette has installed a happiness rater in Oak’s PC. Much like the technique used in Bill’s storage system, Pokémon now decrease in happiness the longer they are left in storage. Colette realizes that the rater is working on too high a capacity and agrees to fix her error. In the meantime, Ash is still left with five disobedient Pokémon. He begs them to obey during their battles, but they merely attack him. However, Pikachu jumps onto the field and reminds them of what Ash has done for them, and that it was not his fault that he could not withdraw them from storage for so long. Realizing their selfishness, Ash’s Pokémon revert to their former states of mind and proceed to win Ash’s battle for him.
“The Parent Crap”
Episode 9ACP03
Original Airdate: 10/21/11
Repulsed by the condition of the pool in the center of their gym, Violet, Lily, and Daisy decide to clean it. Realizing that they need more manpower for the job, they invite Ash and Misty over to help. While scrubbing the pool walls, Ash notes that Violet and her sisters always call on him and Misty to help them out at the gym, and asks why they don’t ever talk to their parents about such matters. Almost immediately, Ash realizes that he’s struck a nerve, as Violet, Lily, and Daisy tell him to drop the subject immediately and get out. On the way home, Ash asks Misty why she’s never, in the 20 years that he’s known her, so much as mentioned her parents. Misty solemnly explains that, when she was very young and her sisters were only a few years older, their parents left for a brief run of errands and never came back. Though Violet, Lily, and Daisy were only children, they were left to raise Misty and run the gym themselves. This eventually led to their superiority complexes, and their poor financial skills resulted in Misty only having hand-me-downs all her life. Horrified to finally learn about his wife’s sordid childhood, Ash encourages Misty to try and reunite with her parents. Pitching the idea to her sisters, Misty immediately sets out a country-wide search for the mother and father who abandoned her. At first, nobody comes forward, and Misty begins to suspect that her parents may be out of the country, or perhaps even dead. But her suspicions are eradicated when an elderly couple comes knocking on the door of the Cerulean City Gym, claiming to be Jacques and Rose Waterflower. Misty, Violet, Lily, and Daisy are thoroughly overjoyed to have their parents back, and finally receive their explanation - while driving around that day, their car had skidded off a bridge and into a river leading to the sea, where they were picked up by a ship heading to America. Only recently had they returned to Japan. But among all the joy and emotion in the Waterflower family, Togetic does not buy Jacques and Rose’s story. She searches through Rose’s purse and Jacques’ wallet, finding driver’s licenses that identify them as Frank and Pearl Yoshiwara. Believing Misty’s “parents” to be a couple of con artists, Togetic tries to inform Misty of her discovery, but Misty angrily dismisses her, saying she doesn’t want her destroying her reunion with her parents. Ultimately, however, Frank and Pearl’s cover is blown when a routine police stop during a family outing leads to a high-speed chase and their arrest. Frank and Pearl admit that they only posed as the Waterflowers in the hopes of usurping the sisters’ gym. Upset over being fooled, Misty apologizes for not believing Togetic.
“Con Hair”
Episode 9ACP04
Original Airdate: 11/4/11
Giovanni sends Jessie and James on their first heist in America – robbing the ground floor of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Descending from the air in their chopper, the agents quickly make their way to the vault, immobilizing the security guards that try to stop them. However, as they escape, Jessie catches the eye of an innocent bystander. When the police arrive, the bystander acts as an eyewitness and describes Jessie to a sketch artist. Within days, every newspaper and TV network is plastered with Jessie’s image, labeling her as a wanted suspect in the bank robbery. Jessie realizes that steps must be taken to avoid her detection. Based on suggestions from Giovanni, Jessie decides to alter her hairstyle, finally ditching her beloved long hair for the much shorter cut she briefly sported 12 years ago. Meanwhile, James and Meowth have brought in another hopeful new recruit to the Rocket ranks, a former drug mule named Tyra. However, what Tyra hasn’t told her new employers is that she’s a closeted lesbian. Placed on her first secret mission with Jessie and James, Tyra believes the short-haired Jessie to be a member of her own team and becomes unavoidably attracted to her. Jessie doesn’t catch on to this fact until Tyra gets her alone in the alley behind Rocket HQ and tries to kiss her. Thoroughly unsettled by her coworker’s advances, she clarifies that she’s married to James already, but Tyra isn’t convinced. She begins to believe that Jessie is afraid to admit her feelings, but despite all her prying, Jessie backs off every time. Eventually, Tyra approaches James and asks him what Jessie’s situation is, and he tells her why Jessie had to revert to her short hair. Jealous of James’ relationship with Jessie, Tyra attempts to exact revenge on him by squealing to the cops regarding the location of Jessie and James’ next robbery, claiming that the woman from the Chase Bank heist will be there. However, Jessie and James catch wise to her scheme and pull out of the mission before the police can arrive. Back at the base, Giovanni expresses his anger with Tyra for nearly exposing the Rocket organization, but understands that she’s in love and decides not to have her whacked. Instead, he knocks her unconscious – and when she awakens, she’s on the front step of the police station, dressed in Jessie’s uniform with a wig glued to her head identical to Jessie’s long hair. Believing themselves to have the bank robber, the police arrest Tyra on the spot. At base, Jessie decides to keep her short hair as a change of pace.
At long last, it's finally here. Sorry I kept you hanging for so long. And extra-special thanks to Sherlock Shuckle for giving me the inspiration for episode 9ACP04 and helping me overcome my writer's block. As usual, here's the first six episodes, with more to follow in the coming days and weeks. Enjoy!
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“Leader of the Hack”
Episode 8ACP23
Original Airdate: 9/16/11
Ash and Misty are enjoying their new life together in Pallet Town. However, neither one of them is gainfully employed at the moment. Ash decides that, for once, he’s going to get a job doing something he likes to do, not wanting a repeat of his years at the bike shop. Checking the newspaper for job leads, Ash hears from Professor Oak that the Viridian City Gym is currently being reconstructed after the old gym building was demolished a few months ago, and the Kanto Gym Leaders’ Union is looking for a new member to head the gym. Ash realizes that this would be the perfect opportunity for him to get a new job while still doing something he enjoys. He approaches the Kanto Gym Leaders’ Union and announces that he wants to come out of retirement, but union leader Lance tells him that his Pokémon are too out of shape to be used as fighters. Furthermore, there is already another contender for the position of Viridian gym leader – AJ, the unofficial gym leader whose Pokémon are in much better physical condition. With only a week before the decision is made, Ash realizes that he must train his Pokémon like never before in order to make the cut. Meanwhile, Misty is discontent just sitting around the house all day, and decides that she wants something to do too. While Ash trains his team in the Viridian Forest, Misty stops by the Viridian City Pokémon Center and requests a job application – she would like to try and become a Pokémon nurse. Though the Pokémon Centers are usually operated by the nepotistic Joy family, Misty is still offered a trial period. Meanwhile, Ash can’t get his Pokémon to show any enthusiasm about competing for the position of Viridian gym leader. Pikachu and the others would much rather continue to live their life of retirement than put in hard labor every day. Irritated, Ash inspires them by reminding them of how much their hard work paid off twenty years ago when they were still competing in the regional league challenges. Agreeing to help out their trainer one more time, Ash’s Pokémon kick it into high gear. At the Pokémon Center, Misty proves to be a very competent nurse, but she has to bring Togetic with her to work every day. When Togetic’s constant complaining gets to be too distracting, Misty snaps, screaming at Togetic to shut up. Appalled, Nurse Joy fires Misty on the spot. Back at the gym, Ash must combat AJ in order for the union to decide which one of them is more worthy. Sure enough, Ash’s team manages to flatten everything AJ sends out, and Lance commissions Ash as the new Viridian City gym leader.
“A Giver Guns Through It”
Episode 8ACP24
Original Airdate: 9/23/11
Guest Voice: Wayne Brady as Craig
Having fled Japan, Jessie, James, Meowth, and Giovanni pilot their stolen helicopter across the Pacific Ocean towards America. Giovanni announces that their new base will be in New York City, a town so busy that nobody will be able to find them. Regardless, Jessie and James just want to be on the ground, as they’ve been on the run for weeks. Finally, their chopper touches down at LaGuardia Airport, and the four villains make their stealthy escape into the city. They find an abandoned brownstone that proves to be spacious enough to accommodate them, and Giovanni immediately puts Jessie and James to work on their first assignment in America – finding at least one new partner. Jessie and James prowl the streets of New York City, which are crawling with lowlifes. However, they want to make sure that nobody they hire will ever outperform them, and they settle on a homeless man named Craig. Eternally grateful for being taken off the street, Craig promises to help Jessie and James with whatever they need. After Craig cleans up, Giovanni gives him a uniform and a gun, welcoming him to Team Rocket. Craig is slightly surprised, but still decides that he can’t just walk away from the people who helped him and agrees to go along. Upon Craig’s first bank robbery, he manages to do quite well with Jessie and James’ help. However, after several more crimes, Meowth begins to suspect that Jessie and James are paying more attention to their new partner than they are to him. This suspicion compounds further when Giovanni agrees to give Craig a raise for his achievements. Distracted by his dislike for Craig, Meowth’s performance begins to worsen, and Giovanni expresses his displeasure. Fearing that he’ll be fired, Meowth decides to put an end to Craig once and for all. In the alley behind the brownstone, Meowth intends to shoot Craig and dump his body, but before he can do so, Craig gives Meowth all the money he received with his raise, as a token of appreciation for helping him off the streets. Stunned at Craig’s generosity, Meowth finds himself unable to murder his partner. However, Giovanni witnesses the act and berates Craig for giving his money to a Rocket agent who did nothing to earn it. The act gets Craig fired, and he returns to the homeless mission from whence he came. Jessie and James are sad to see their partner go, but Meowth can at least rest assured that his spot on the Rocket roster is still secure.
“Wally in the Family”
Episode 9ACP02
Original Airdate: 10/7/11
Guest Voices: Matthew Lawrence as Wally, Teri Polo as Gardevoir
Though Ash and Misty have moved back to Pallet Town, May and Max are still residing in the Battle Frontier. May is once again concerned that she will never find a boyfriend, and she begins getting desperate after searching for so long. Eventually, Max suggests that his sister should try “the final frontier” – video dating services. May offers herself up by video and sends it to every male in the service’s register, but gets no responses. Utterly depressed, May ends up at a singles bar in an attempt to drown her sorrows. On her way out the door, she runs into a green-haired man and causes him to drop the Poké Balls on his belt. May helps him gather them up, and the man introduces himself as Wally. He explains that he is a trainer who has spent most of his life in the Hoenn region, having received tutelage from Professor Birch’s son Brendan. May exclaims that she once dated Brendan, and the two trainers hit it off very well. To May’s great surprise, Wally asks for May’s phone number. Upon giving it to him, May happily returns home and announces to Max that she’s found someone new at last. On their next date, May and Wally allow their Pokémon to mingle, and the trainers themselves discover how much they have in common. May begins to suspect that Wally may be the man she’s been looking for all these years, but Max warns her not to take her relationship too fast. May ignores her brother, still too caught up in her romance with Wally. After a month of dating Wally, May is already anticipating what their wedding might be like, but then decides not to wait and prepares to ask Wally herself. Max tries to stop her, insisting that she’s getting too excited over having a boyfriend, but May accuses Max of trying to stand in the way of her happiness and pushes him aside. On her next date with Wally, May asks him to marry her almost immediately. Though Wally is taken aback, he agrees to her proposal. May and Wally quickly begin planning their wedding, and decide that they must move to a larger house in order to accommodate their new life. They gather up their things and move to Saffron City in the Kanto region, and May excitedly calls everyone she knows and tells them the good news. Ash, Misty, Brock, Delia, Tracey, Oak, Gary, Norman, Caroline, and Professor Birch are all highly suspicious of May, suspecting that she’s caught up in the uncontrollable euphoria of her relationship. On the day of the wedding, nobody can keep their silence. May is horrified to see that everyone in attendance objects to her marrying Wally, and even Wally himself believes that he might not be ready. When Wally walks out, May is heartbroken, but Max assures her that she needs to learn that a true relationship takes time to develop.
“Minding the Storage”
Episode 9ACP01
Original Airdate: 10/14/11
Guest Voice: Winona Ryder as Colette
As the new gym leader at Viridian City, Ash treats his opponents fairly. His primary strategy is to continually switch out Pokémon of different elements in order to keep the challenging trainers on their toes. In order to maintain a variety of types, Ash switches his team around every week, keeping Pikachu by his side and substituting five new Pokémon each time. This strategy proves to be effective, as each trainer admits to Ash that he is a truly challenging opponent. However, one week while Ash is swapping his team, his computer crashes moments after he deposits his five Pokémon. Logging back onto Professor Oak’s storage system after rebooting, Ash finds that he can’t withdraw anything. Concerned about his team, he, Misty, and Pikachu visit Professor Oak, who inform Ash that he’s having difficulty with his storage system’s software. No trainers have been able to withdraw any Pokémon lately, and not even he himself can get into the network to access the storage facilities. With nearly all his Pokémon trapped in Oak’s storage unit, Ash begins to worry. Neither Tracey nor Gary can figure out what’s wrong, so Oak is left to call in the top expert on Pokémon storage – Colette. Colette announces that she can fix the storage system, but it will take a week to get the parts she needs. Meanwhile, Ash is left to fend off the challengers at the Viridian City Gym with only his Pikachu. Of course, this wears Pikachu out, as he is forced to take on every opponent and has no effect on Rock-and-Ground types. Misty agrees to help out by loaning Ash a few of her Pokémon, such as Golduck, Gyarados, and Togetic, who reluctantly proves effective with her Metronome attack. Still, Ash finds it difficult to make it through the week, and is overjoyed when he learns that Colette has repaired the storage system. Ash finally withdraws Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Butterfree, and Pidgeot for the week. However, none of them show any interest in fighting when they get on the battlefield – they laze around and disobey. Ash calls Colette and asks what happened, and is horrified to learn that Colette has installed a happiness rater in Oak’s PC. Much like the technique used in Bill’s storage system, Pokémon now decrease in happiness the longer they are left in storage. Colette realizes that the rater is working on too high a capacity and agrees to fix her error. In the meantime, Ash is still left with five disobedient Pokémon. He begs them to obey during their battles, but they merely attack him. However, Pikachu jumps onto the field and reminds them of what Ash has done for them, and that it was not his fault that he could not withdraw them from storage for so long. Realizing their selfishness, Ash’s Pokémon revert to their former states of mind and proceed to win Ash’s battle for him.
“The Parent Crap”
Episode 9ACP03
Original Airdate: 10/21/11
Repulsed by the condition of the pool in the center of their gym, Violet, Lily, and Daisy decide to clean it. Realizing that they need more manpower for the job, they invite Ash and Misty over to help. While scrubbing the pool walls, Ash notes that Violet and her sisters always call on him and Misty to help them out at the gym, and asks why they don’t ever talk to their parents about such matters. Almost immediately, Ash realizes that he’s struck a nerve, as Violet, Lily, and Daisy tell him to drop the subject immediately and get out. On the way home, Ash asks Misty why she’s never, in the 20 years that he’s known her, so much as mentioned her parents. Misty solemnly explains that, when she was very young and her sisters were only a few years older, their parents left for a brief run of errands and never came back. Though Violet, Lily, and Daisy were only children, they were left to raise Misty and run the gym themselves. This eventually led to their superiority complexes, and their poor financial skills resulted in Misty only having hand-me-downs all her life. Horrified to finally learn about his wife’s sordid childhood, Ash encourages Misty to try and reunite with her parents. Pitching the idea to her sisters, Misty immediately sets out a country-wide search for the mother and father who abandoned her. At first, nobody comes forward, and Misty begins to suspect that her parents may be out of the country, or perhaps even dead. But her suspicions are eradicated when an elderly couple comes knocking on the door of the Cerulean City Gym, claiming to be Jacques and Rose Waterflower. Misty, Violet, Lily, and Daisy are thoroughly overjoyed to have their parents back, and finally receive their explanation - while driving around that day, their car had skidded off a bridge and into a river leading to the sea, where they were picked up by a ship heading to America. Only recently had they returned to Japan. But among all the joy and emotion in the Waterflower family, Togetic does not buy Jacques and Rose’s story. She searches through Rose’s purse and Jacques’ wallet, finding driver’s licenses that identify them as Frank and Pearl Yoshiwara. Believing Misty’s “parents” to be a couple of con artists, Togetic tries to inform Misty of her discovery, but Misty angrily dismisses her, saying she doesn’t want her destroying her reunion with her parents. Ultimately, however, Frank and Pearl’s cover is blown when a routine police stop during a family outing leads to a high-speed chase and their arrest. Frank and Pearl admit that they only posed as the Waterflowers in the hopes of usurping the sisters’ gym. Upset over being fooled, Misty apologizes for not believing Togetic.
“Con Hair”
Episode 9ACP04
Original Airdate: 11/4/11
Giovanni sends Jessie and James on their first heist in America – robbing the ground floor of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Descending from the air in their chopper, the agents quickly make their way to the vault, immobilizing the security guards that try to stop them. However, as they escape, Jessie catches the eye of an innocent bystander. When the police arrive, the bystander acts as an eyewitness and describes Jessie to a sketch artist. Within days, every newspaper and TV network is plastered with Jessie’s image, labeling her as a wanted suspect in the bank robbery. Jessie realizes that steps must be taken to avoid her detection. Based on suggestions from Giovanni, Jessie decides to alter her hairstyle, finally ditching her beloved long hair for the much shorter cut she briefly sported 12 years ago. Meanwhile, James and Meowth have brought in another hopeful new recruit to the Rocket ranks, a former drug mule named Tyra. However, what Tyra hasn’t told her new employers is that she’s a closeted lesbian. Placed on her first secret mission with Jessie and James, Tyra believes the short-haired Jessie to be a member of her own team and becomes unavoidably attracted to her. Jessie doesn’t catch on to this fact until Tyra gets her alone in the alley behind Rocket HQ and tries to kiss her. Thoroughly unsettled by her coworker’s advances, she clarifies that she’s married to James already, but Tyra isn’t convinced. She begins to believe that Jessie is afraid to admit her feelings, but despite all her prying, Jessie backs off every time. Eventually, Tyra approaches James and asks him what Jessie’s situation is, and he tells her why Jessie had to revert to her short hair. Jealous of James’ relationship with Jessie, Tyra attempts to exact revenge on him by squealing to the cops regarding the location of Jessie and James’ next robbery, claiming that the woman from the Chase Bank heist will be there. However, Jessie and James catch wise to her scheme and pull out of the mission before the police can arrive. Back at the base, Giovanni expresses his anger with Tyra for nearly exposing the Rocket organization, but understands that she’s in love and decides not to have her whacked. Instead, he knocks her unconscious – and when she awakens, she’s on the front step of the police station, dressed in Jessie’s uniform with a wig glued to her head identical to Jessie’s long hair. Believing themselves to have the bank robber, the police arrest Tyra on the spot. At base, Jessie decides to keep her short hair as a change of pace.
