“the ties that bind”
as ash prepares for his battle against gary professor oak and his mum turn up to watch the battle. ash reveals the story to misty and brock about how they once battled over a pokeball they got by fishing and ended a tie ash is determined to beat gary. team rocket meanwhile get involved in selling badges. the battle starts with gary using nidoqueen to beat tauros but ash evens it using heracross to upset megmar. than gary uses his blastoise (the final evolved form of his starter squirtle) and uses an attack on heracross this where the ep ends.
next time who will win ash v gary.