as ash and friends are relaxing not realising they are being watched by a guy with a camera which looks like a gun which scares ash and tries to move people out of the way but knocks the food over. ask gets squirtle to spray the boy who is todd snap who was trying to get a photo of pikachu and he is annoyed at ash for attacking him his method is taking photos in their natural enviorment and reveals that he took a photo of the aerodactyl that kidnapped ash a few eps ago. todds attemps to get pikachu doesn’t work though because pikachus nervous.we find out that team rocket dressed as old people paid todd to get the photo thinking he’d catch it for them in a pokeball or something. team rocket than try and dig a hole to get ash and friends but are spotted by todd so they get in their disguises. ash says that todd doesn’t know about pokemons feeligs but fall into a trap that todd has to get ash and friends out of. and ash is able to avoid going over a waterfall. team rocket than appear to get pikachu but are sent blasting off again after attacking ash and todd. todd and ash make up and become friends.
next time ash takes part in an exam to enter the pokemon league will he pass.