episode 3

season 1 episode 3 “ash catches a pokemon”
the episode starts with ash throwing a pokeball at the caterpie from the previous ep it works ash now has a caterpie much to mistys annoyance as she hates bug pokemon they argue over it ash keeps caterpie out which doesn’t help misty tries to leave but doesn’t work that night caterpie tells pikachu it’s dream is to evolve into a butterfree the next morning the argument gets worse than caterpie gets into a pokeball but the real culprit is a wild pidgeotto (the evolved form of pidgey) ash makes the mistake of using caterpie to battle it and caterpies almost eaten. Pikachu defeats pidgeotto and he catches it after another flight they run into team rocket (the thieves from the previous ep) who attack using ekans and koffing who blind pikachu (which there now after) and defeat pidgeotto forced to battle with caterpie it looks done but it somehow beats them with a string shot defeating them than it evolves into metapod when misty tries to congratulate it they than head to deaper into the forrest which ends the ep