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The Treasure Is All Mine!

DP153   EP619 危険がいっぱい！コジロウの宝箱！！ Full of Danger! Kojirō's Treasure Chest!!

First broadcast Japan November 26, 2009 United States April 17, 2010

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard まついひとゆき Hitoyuki Matsui Assistant director 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

The Treasure Is All Mine! (Japanese: 危険がいっぱい！コジロウの宝箱！！ Full of Danger! Kojirō's Treasure Chest!!) is the 153rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 619th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on November 26, 2009 and in the United States on April 17, 2010.

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

Synopsis

While on their way to Daybreak City for the next Pokémon Contest, Ash and Dawn decide to have a practice battle. When Ash's Monferno accidentally dug up a buried treasure chest. Meanwhile, the treasure chest gang (which is really a disguised Team Rocket) shows up, attempting to steal the chest Ash holds. They soon reveal themselves to them, but before they could steal the chest, Ash then commands Pikachu to use Thunderbolt which sends Team Rocket blasting off. When they land, James remembered that he use to own the treasure chest, the team agrees to retrieve the item again. Ash and his friends make their way when suddenly Team Rocket shows up once more and tries to tell them that the treasure chest were once James' belongings back in his youth.

Ash and his friends were not convinced and Brock, telling that if the chest really belongs to James, he should be able to open it, James accepts the challenge and tries a variety of attempts and passwords to open the chest. But after trying three attempts of wrong answers, a red light suddenly glow in the box's security system screen and when they think that they open the box, a cannon suddenly came out of the box's upper cover. James told them that the security system activates when you got wrong answers out of three attempts, he told them to run but only to be blasted off by a laser fired by the cannon. Ash and his friends found themselves in a mansion, opened up by automatic gates, a butler came running to get the chest and revealed that the chest belongs to Master James, the James of Team Rocket, by an art of James' pet, Growlie,below the chest. Dawn asks if the James the butler was looking was the same James from Team Rocket, Ash and Brock tells Dawn that James was from a rich family. James, seeing this, predicts an upcoming disaster if he were to be found by his butler, Sebastian, Sebastian then will call his mommy and daddy along with Jessiebelle. James come up with the plan of retrieving the treasure chest once more without being discovered by his butler Sebastian. Dawn wonders why James joined Team Rocket at the first place, Brock replied that maybe James was looking for his freedom.

Sebastian offer a meal to Ash and his friends for finding master James' treasure chest. But before Sebastian were to ask them where they found the chest, Jessiebelle (a disguised Jessie), along with her companions (a disguised James and Meowth) arrived at the mansion. When Ash and his friends finds out, Ash says that the name sounds familiar to him, Brock remembered that she is James' fiancée. The disguised Jessie told Sebastian that James ask her to get the treasure chest back for him and that James has returned. The disguised Meowth commands Ash to return the treasure chest, but before they could return back the chest, Growlie suddenly appeared and figured out James' scent. Growlie jump toward the disguised James and unravel his true identity which surprises everyone. But then, Sebastian brought out his Spinarak and commands it to use String Shot at James for him to be handed over to his father. James took out his Mime Jr. and commands it to use Teeter Dance, he presses a button in a wall for Sebastian and Spinarak to fall through a trap. James explains them why he wants to retrieve the chest. He told them that it happens when he was very young, when he met Jessiebelle and that she was her first love, he wrote a letter saying that he wants to marry Jessiebelle. He is embarassed if someone read the letter before her, when suddenly his parents was standing beside him, his parents present him a gift that is the treasure chest and his father made it himself. His mother told him that he was invited in Jessiebelle's house that night and to tell her what he truly feels for her. Then he places the letter inside the chest so that no one but Jessiebelle can read the letter, when he was about to give the chest, Jessiebelle already knew what he's planning to do and decides to marry him. But when Jessiebelle requested James to replace Growlie with a Skitty, he then refuse and decides to cut off their wedding, James found out how selfish Jessiebelle was, he doesn't want to marry Jessiebelle inexchange of his best friend. He commands Growlie to use dig and bury his treasure chest. Later, they found out that Jessiebelle is making her way into James' mansion. Jessiebelle commands her guards to guard the mansion so that James cannot escape. When Jessiebelle entered the mansion, she was welcomed by Sebastian and lead her to a secret passageway connected to an underground tunnel the mansion. Ash and his friends along with Team Rocket, trying to escape using the underground secret passageway, was later being found out by Jessiebelle and Sebastian. When they succesfully come out of the tunnel, Jessiebelle and Sebastian was trapped inside, Ash and his friends places tons of big rocks at the exit so that they can't follow up to James.

James, Jessie and Meowth attempts to guess the password but they got it all wrong, the chest transformed into a robot then fired them a beam but they were saved by Growlie. James told Growlie to use Flamethrower to break the chest, but the robot appeared unaffected then transformed into a smaller one, then suddenly fired a missile which hit Growlie. When the robot fire another two missiles, Growlie dodges them all then uses dig, damaging the chest robot. James commanded Growlie to use Flamethrower for the last time that hits the treasure chest, the chest returned to its normal form then it transformed into a rocketship, the rocketship chest flies up into the sky, never to return again. Back inside the tunnel, Jessiebelle commands her Vileplume to use SolarBeam, the attack opens the exit and blasted Ash and Brock, Jessiebelle told them that the wedding ceremony was fixed and his father and mother are there too. James come up with a plan, he told them that he needs Ash's Pikachu to use Thunderbolt at them so he can escape Jessiebelle.

Ash aggrees with his plan and Pikachu uses it's Thunderbolt at Team Rocket, which sends them blasting off. James and Meowth was surprised when they saw that Jessiebelle was with them and not Jessie, Jessie was the one left and Jessiebelles' guards mistook Jessie as Jessiebelle. Ash and his friends then make their way towards the next city, while James and Meowth was being chased off by Jessiebelle.

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Jessiebelle
• Sebastian
• Jessiebelle's bodyguards
• James's parents (flashback)
• Party guests (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Monferno (Ash's)
• Growlithe (James's)
• Vileplume (Jessiebelle's)
• Spinarak (Sebastian's)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Snorunt
• This episode marks one of the very few times when Team Rocket wants to be blasted off.
• This is Growlie's first appearance since its debut. The same can be said about James's parents, though they only appear in flashback.
• There were 571 episodes between Jessiebelle's first appearance and this one, which to this date is the longest time between a particular human character's first and second physical appearances within the show (while she did appear in Two Degrees of Separation!, it was only in one of James's flashbacks).
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and The Rise of Darkrai is used in this episode.
• The English title of this episode is a reference to, "the pleasure is all mine".
• In the dub, Jessiebelle ended the episode saying the same line she ended with in Holy Matrimony, "You're not running properly!"

Errors

• In James's mansion, the trio are sitting in couches discussing how James got into Team Rocket. In the first "clip", the wall behind Brock has a drawer up against it. In the next "clip", (at a different angle) the pattern on the wall has changed, and the drawer is gone.
• In the flashback, Jessibelle says she prefers Skitty before Growlithe, but Skitty hadn't been discovered at the time.

Dub edits

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