 |
|
| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver arc (EP256–EP264) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 48 · English episode 257 · Japanese episode 260 · Bulbapedia code EP258 |
| English title | Hatch Me If You Can |
| Japanese title | タマゴをまもれ! あらしのなかでうまれたいのち! Tamago o Mamore! Arashi no Naka de Umareta Inochi! — “Protecting the Egg! The Life Born in a Storm!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 25 July 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 9 August 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Hideki Sonoda |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Swinub (US) · Larvitar (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Lapras of Luxury (EP257) |
| Next episode | Entei at Your Own Risk (EP259) |
Plot episodeLarvitar hatches
Hatch Me If You Can is the 48th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 257th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 260, Bulbapedia code EP258). It first aired in Japan on 25 July 2002 and in the United States on 9 August 2003. It falls within the season’s New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver stretch (EP256–EP264).
Synopsis
Ash and company didn’t get very far before the egg started hatching. Team Rocket continues to spy on them and watch as the egg hatches into a larvitar. But the larvitar is still in a dormant stage. They locate a nearby PokéCenter and rush to get the larvitar there. They try contacting Prof Elm, but he is away from his lab greeting Prof Oak and Delia. Team Rocket sabotaged both the power supply and the backup generator in order to get access to the larvitar. Their scheme is foiled, but the larvitar still needs heat. Prof Elm, Prof Oak and his mom arrive just in time to reverse the dropping body temperature. But Prof Elm is still concerned at the larvitar’s continued lack of response.
Ash figures out that the larvitar has withdrawn from life, because it was aware of the dangers it suffered as an egg. Ash manages to win over larvitar’s trust when he protects it from Team Rocket again. Prof Elm then asks Ash to take the larvitar back to Mount Silver where it was born. The larvitar has opened up to Ash, but is still wary of the others, particularly Misty.
Major Events
- Egg hatches into Larvitar (Larvitar TV debut)
- Ash registers for Silver Conference
Pokémon making their anime debut
Larvitar#0246 · EP258
Captures and evolutions
- Larvitar#0246 · Ash (carried, never owned) · hatched EP258
Trivia
- The English title plays on the film "Catch Me If You Can".
- The screenplay is by Hideki Sonoda.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Larvitar in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Swinub in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.