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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · The Silver Wing & the Lugia arc (EP219–EP222) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 12 · English episode 221 · Japanese episode 223 · Bulbapedia code EP221 |
| English title | A Parent Trapped! |
| Japanese title | とらわれのルギア Torawareno Rugia — “The Captive Lugia” |
| First aired (Japan) | 25 October 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 30 November 2002 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Mezase Pokémon Master (Whiteberry version) – Whiteberry · Maemuki Rocket-dan! (Face Forward Team Rocket!) – Team Rocket |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Dragonite (US) · Lanturn (Japan) |
| Previous episode | The Mystery Is History (EP220) |
| Next episode | A Promise is a Promise (EP222) |
Plot episodeLugia arc
A Parent Trapped! is the 12th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 221st episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 223, Bulbapedia code EP221). It first aired in Japan on 25 October 2001 and in the United States on 30 November 2002. It falls within the season’s The Silver Wing & the Lugia stretch (EP219–EP222).
Synopsis
Prof Namba gloats over the capture of Silver and plots to use it as bait to catch its parent. The kids are disheartened over the loss of Silver and the knowledge that the parent lugia will be upset. Sure as they think of it, the lugia comes for its child and when it discovers it missing creates a violent storm and begins destroying targets at random. Ash and Richie try to talk to the lugia to calm it down, finally succeeding. Butch and Cassidy put the caged Silver on shore setting a trap for its parent. Trying to warn off the lugia and fight Butch and Cassidy prove to be too much as not only is the parent lugia caught, but the four trainers are taken prisoner as well.
Major Events
- Zippo now Charmeleon
- Parent Lugia captured
Trivia
- The English title plays on the film "The Parent Trap".
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Lanturn in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Dragonite in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.