| Crossing Paths
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さよならドクケイル！
Goodbye, Dokucale!
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First broadcast
| Japan
| April 3, 2008
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| United States
| August 23, 2008
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| English themes
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| Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
| Team Iguchi
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| Screenplay
| 武上純希 Junki Takegami
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| Storyboard
| 湯山邦彦 Kunihiko Yuyama
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| Assistant director
| 宮原秀二 Shūji Miyahara
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| Animation director
| たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda
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| Additional credits
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Crossing Paths (Japanese: さよならドクケイル！ Goodbye, Dokucale!) is the 73rd episode of Diamond & Pearl series, and the 539th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 3, 2008, along with Pika and Goliath! as a one-hour special and in the United States on August 23, 2008
Team Rocket arrives at a lakeside Pokémon Center. Jessie's Dustox sees a shiny Dustox and follows it to the lake.
Synopsis
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Still on the way to Lake Valor, the gang come across a pond which is due to be the location of the Dustox Crossing, when many Dustox take a mate and leave to start a family. Jessie also hears of the crossing, and when her Dustox finds a partner Jessie is reminded of her own painful past with a certain young man. However the memories and reflections are put on hold when a freak thunderstorm threaten the crossing, causing Team Rocket to join forces with the gang to make sure the amazing event does indeed take place... but can Jessie also bring herself to say farewell to her loyal Dustox when the time comes?
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trivia
- Together With the Wind is used as background music.
- This is the first time a main character purposely damages one of the Poké Balls of one of their Pokémon. Jessie does so, shattering Dustox's completely, in order to release it, as Dustox refused to leave her.
- Jessie's reason for releasing Dustox is very similar to the reason why Ash released his Butterfree. Also, Dustox's yellow ribbons could be seen as a reference to Butterfree's yellow scarf.
- The Japanese opening is updated with the evolutions of Dawn's Ambipom and Paul's Honchkrow, as well as the captures of Ash's Gligar and Paul's Magmar.
- When Jessie is shown as a young girl in her flashback, her hair style is similar to that of her mother, Miyamoto.
- When the dub title was first revealed, several sources incorrectly believed it to be the dub title for the first half of the Ranger 2 special.
- In the dub, this is the first episode not to have an exclamation point in its title since Throwing the Track Switch.
- Team Rocket does not blast off in this episode.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Dawn's Ambipom
- This episode marks the first time that Professor Oak's lecture regards a Pokémon that has previously been the subject of a lecture (that being Ash's Aipom in the segment at the end of DP014).
- This is the first episode to feature a Shiny Pokémon in the Diamond & Pearl series.
Errors
- When Ash calls out "everybody" from his party to help stop the lake from draining, the only Pokémon he calls out are Buizel, Chimchar, and Turtwig. Gligar and Staravia weren't called out and Pikachu, of course, was already out.
Dub edits
In other languages
- German: Auf den letzten Drücker!
- Italian: Volo nuziale!
- Polish: Żegnaj Dustox
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Los caminos se cruzan!
- Czech: Když se cesty rozejdou
- Brazilian Portuguese: Destinos Cruzados!
