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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. 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 Template:Shiny2 Dustox and follows it to the lake.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Jessie releases her Dustox.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Austin
• Astin (flashback)
• Jessie's idol-wannabe friends (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Dustox (Jessie's; leaves)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Dustox (shiny) (Austin's)
• Dustox (many)

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 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.
• The dub title is a reference to the phrase "Crossing Paths".
• 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.

Errors

Dub edits

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