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Mutiny in the Bounty!

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EP486

ポケモンハンターJ！
Pokémon Hunter J!

First broadcast

Japan	February 22, 2007
United States	July 9, 2007

English themes

Opening	Diamond and Pearl
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	Together
Ending	君のそばで〜ヒカリのテーマ〜

Credits

Additional credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Assistant director	小山賢 Masaru Koyama
Animation director	船津弘美 Hiromi Funatsu

Screenshots on Filb.de

Mutiny in the Bounty! (Japanese: ポケモンハンターJ！ Pokémon Hunter J!) is the 20th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 486th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 22, 2007 and in the United States on July 9, 2007.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

On the way to Floaroma Town, our heroes see a Salamence-riding woman steal a Gardevoir from a Trainer named Melodi. Ash and Pikachu come to the rescue, but the mystery woman sends out a Drapion and swipes Pikachu! Team Rocket refuses to be outdone by another Pokémon thief and make their big entrance, except the woman steals Meowth as well before making her getaway.

What's going on? It's the latest heist by Pokémon Hunter J, a merciless Pokémon thief for hire! Together with Melodi, Officer Jenny, and even Team Rocket, our heroes set out to stop her. Melodi's Kirlia is able to locate J's next position, and Ash doesn't wait for back-up—he runs off and finds J in the middle of stealing an Absol.

It's hard to stop her when she has a Salamence to back her up, forcing Ash and Team Rocket to take the indirect route instead: they stow away under her vehicle and hitch a ride onto her aircraft. But the Hunter soon realizes there are intruders onboard, so Ash and Team Rocket battle their way through the ship and reach the hangar where Meowth, Pikachu, and Gardevoir are located. Ruthless as always, J decides to solve this problem by jettisoning the entire hangar! Gardevoir's Teleport saves the day, but J has escaped, and our heroes can only hope that one day she'll be brought to justice.

Plot

The story begins with Ash and his friends traveling to Floaroma Town. Along the way, they come across a beautiful flower garden. They notice a Salamence flying by. As the Salamence flies by, Dawn analyzes Salamence in her Pokédex. Someone's riding the Salamence, and that someone is none other than the notorious Pokémon Hunter J, and she's here to steal Melodi's Gardevoir. While Melodi is watering flowers in her garden, J arrives to do the evil deed. J brings out her Ariados and Ariados uses String Shot to bind Melodi to the tree. Melodi orders Gardevoir to use Teleport. Ash, Pikachu, Brock and Dawn notice the danger Melodi is in and rush to help her. J uses her heat-seeking goggles to track Gardevoir. After locating Gardevoir, J uses her Cement Cannon to turn Gardevoir to stone! J informs her minions she has captured the Gardevoir, and the minions arrive to take Gardevoir.

As Brock and Dawn free Melodi, Ash and Pikachu chase the truck, and as they run after the truck, they use the mountain path to head J off. Ash and Pikachu confront J and demand she returns Melodi's Gardevoir. J becomes interested in Ash's Pikachu, and decides to capture it, but first wants to watch Pikachu's other attacks. She calls out her Drapion and Ash analyzes Drapion in his Pokédex. Pikachu responds with a Volt Tackle, and Drapion quickly dodges it. J's Ariados uses String Shot on Ash, binding him to a boulder, and J takes Pikachu! With Pikachu stolen, J recalls her Drapion and leaves. Jessie, James and Meowth notice this and are willing to steal all the Pokémon J stole, thinking maybe J will join forces with them. Ash informs Brock, Melodi and Dawn he wasn't able to rescue Gardevoir, and he got his Pikachu stolen. Dawn's Pachirisu gets Ash untied with its Spark.

Team Rocket is ready to pull off their heist. They stop the truck by fogging the road with smoke. The minion driving the truck wonders why the road is all foggy. Jessie and James recite the Team Rocket motto and prepare to pull off their heist, but their attempts go unsuccessful when J tells them she's going to steal Meowth. As Jessie calls out her Seviper and before James can send out his Carnivine, J's Ariados binds Jessie, James, and Seviper to a rock. J then takes Meowth and makes her leave. Ash and his friends continue to chase the truck, but J escapes in a giant airship.

Officer Jenny and her Arcanine arrive, because they came as soon as they could when they learned that J was here, but they were too late to stop her. Jenny tells everyone about J's evil acts. Ash, Brock and Dawn all grow furious. Ash, on the other hand, is very furious and he vows to rescue his Pikachu from the Pokémon Hunter's evil grasp. The still-stringed Team Rocket are furious too, believing the fact that Pokémon Hunters are total outcasts (the lowest of the low). Jessie tells James she will not be outnastied by J and that they're going to sneak aboard the ship and rescue Meowth. In J's ship, a minion catalogs J's stolen Pokémon. He unfreezes Meowth from his imprisonment jar and tells him that he wants to work for Hunter J, but his true intention is to escape from this dire situation before being sold. He just needs to figure out a way to get his paws on the switch of the jar.

Jenny has no idea where J went, because her identity is a mystery. After J steals others' Pokémon, she makes her leave in her airship. Brock and Dawn say there isn't a way they can chase J. Brock tells Jenny they can't chase J and the only way could catch J in the act is as if they could predict the next place she'll strike next. Melodi calls out her Kirlia so that the group will find out where J will strike next. Using its Future Sight, Kirlia shows the group J's next strike point. The next place J will strike is a small house with a waterwheel, right near the river, down at the end of the woods. Jenny notifies the other officers that she has determined J's next strike point and orders the officers to surround the area.

They spot J stealing an Absol and prepare to confront her. Unfortunately, Jenny didn't get the place surrounded yet. Ash demands Pikachu back and Jenny, like all police officers, puts J under arrest. J thinks she should commend Ash for discovering her base, but orders Salamence to use Hyper Beam. Arcanine counters with Flamethrower. Arcanine is knocked out. J takes the Absol and makes her leave. Ash grabs onto one of J's vehicles. He notices Jessie and James onboard. Jessie and James fill Ash in on Meowth being stolen as they grip tightly on the truck. Dawn and Brock try to stop J, but the truck takes off for J's base.

Ash and the Rockets infiltrate J's base. Ash, Jessie, James and Aipom split up to find the stolen Pokémon. In the room where J has all the Pokémon she stole, as one of her minions catalog them, Meowth tells J he wants to work for her, because since he speaks perfect English, he can translate for Pokémon J can steal. Once that is taken opportunity, he'll be able to jump ship. Aipom peeks into the room and runs back to tell Ash. J tells Meowth she isn't interested and orders the minion to completely freeze Meowth. Before the minion can completely freeze Meowth, J notices Aipom left the door open. She is now aware of Ash and the Rockets' presence and orders her henchmen to find them.

Jessie and James are spotted by J's minions and they make a run for it. As Ash and Aipom search for Pikachu, J and her Drapion appear and capture Ash. Aipom hits J's Drapion with Fury Swipes, freeing Ash from the scorpion's clutches. Ash sends out his Turtwig to assist Aipom in the battle. Drapion uses Poison Sting, but Aipom and Turtwig counter with Swift and Razor Leaf, but their attacks didn't damage the evil scorpion. Drapion hits Aipom and Turtwig with Cross Poison.

As Jessie and James continue running from J's henchmen, it looks as if J has Ash, Aipom, Turtwig and the Rockets cornered, but they duck into the vents as J's minions continue to run after them. As J's minions chase after Ash and the Rockets, Turtwig takes them out with Razor Leaf. They enter the room where Aipom found Meowth and Pikachu and Melodi's Gardevoir. They rescue them, and are afterwards cornered by J's henchmen. One of J's minions sends out a Golbat. Before Golbat can attack with its Steel Wing, Ash tells Pikachu to use Volt Tackle. Golbat gets back in the air and uses Supersonic, but Pikachu hits Golbat with a Thunderbolt. The attack also destroys the airlock, causing the air to rush out of the room. As everyone holds on, Ash recalls Aipom and Turtwig and sends out Staravia and sends it to find Jenny.

J notices what's happening and orders her ship's driver to detach the pod Ash and Pikachu and Team Rocket are in. She'll need another Gardevoir and Absol for her clients. J's henchmen draw close to Ash and Team Rocket, who are still ready to battle. They notice the pod they are in had detached from the ship. Jenny, Brock, Dawn and Melodi notice the pod Ash, Pikachu and Team Rocket are in is plummeting. As the pod plummets to the ground, Melodi orders a Teleport from her Gardevoir. Gardevoir uses Teleport, and Gardevoir, Ash, Jessie, James, Pikachu, Meowth, J's henchmen and the imprisoned Absol escape from the ship. The Trainers are happy after being reunited with their Pokémon. Jenny lassoes J's minions and places them under arrest. Jenny thanks Ash and his friends for the capture of J's henchmen. Jessie, James and Meowth, under the belief that Jenny is still trying to capture them, possibly because of what happened in Setting the World on its Buneary!, leave the scene.

After leaving the scene of the arrest, Team Rocket starts to rant about how better they can do at stealing Pokémon. Ash and Dawn rant about J's crime spree, but Brock tells them Jenny will capture J one day. The episode ends with Ash and his friends gazing at the sunset, and continue their way to Floaroma Town.

Major events

Ash and his friends meet Pokémon Hunter J.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Humans

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Pokémon that were stolen by J and her minions

Trivia

Dawn's Pachirisu is added to the opening animation.
Music from Jirachi: Wish Maker is used as background music.
Oak's Pokémon Lecture is replaced by the announcement of a poll.
Brock narrates the next episode preview.
The name of Gardevoir's owner is never mentioned in the dubbed version of the episode. The only reference to Melodi's name occurs just twice in the closed captioning: One occurs when they see J's next target using Kirlia and another one when Melodi commands her Gardevoir to Teleport everyone to safety at the end of the episode.
Jessie's Seviper says its name at the end of the motto after James's Mime Jr.
The English dub title is a reference to the mutiny that took place on the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty. According to the majority of accounts, the sailors mutinied because they were attracted to the idyllic life on the Pacific islands of Tahiti and Pitcairn, as well as the alleged cruelty of their commanding officer, William Bligh. Since then, several books and films have been made based on the event.
At the end of the episode, the Absol is not reverted from its frozen form.
This is the last episode where Gabriel Gama provided his voice to dub Brock into the Latin-American Spanish, the next episodes are dubbed by Alan Prieto.
This is one of the few episodes of the Diamond & Pearl series where Dawn's Piplup does not appear.

Errors

When Team Rocket gets tied up by J's Ariados, Wobbuffet and Mime Jr. disappears.
As James is running away from J's henchmen, he sees Jessie running towards him, also being chased. When they get next to each other, they both yell "Exit stage right," then run down the hallway next to them. The hallway was on Jessie's right, but on James' left. This dialog was edited to "Exit stage left" in future airings of this episode.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		神奇寶貝獵人J！
Czech		Vzpoura na lodi Bounty *
Dutch		Muiterij in Pokémonland!
Finnish		Kapina ruumassa
European French		La chasseuse de Pokémon !
German		Pokémon-Jägerin unterwegs!
Italian		La cacciatrice di Pokémon & A bordo della nave pirata
Korean		포켓몬 사냥꾼 제이
Polish		Pościg za łowczynią Pokémonów
Portuguese	Brazil	Caçadora de Encrencas!
Portuguese	Portugal	O Grande Motim!
Romanian		Revoltă la Răscumpare
Spanish	Latin America	¡El botín Pokémon!
Spanish	Spain	Rebelión a bordo
Swedish		Pokemonjägaren