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==Blurb==

<i>Ash and friends discover a red Gyarados, unknowingly uncovering a plot by Team Rocket to control the secrets of Pokémon evolution. To ensure their silence, Team Rocket attempts to capture the children, but is foiled by a member of an elite Pokémon defense organization, who releases the children with instructions to continue on their way and leave the dangerous job of ending this Team Rocket experiment to adults like himself. Ash and friends assent at first, but before long, unable to ignore the compassion he feels for the red Gyarados that seemed to be in such pain, Ash decides to return and lend a hand.</i>

Somewhere else along the forest around the lake, [[Jessie]], [[James]], and {{MTR}} stumble along, groaning about their next meal and win. Meowth notices something in the distance that looks like a building. With a building, there's got to be some food around there they can swipe. The building however is a Team Rocket HQ, and inside is the man from before, [[Professor Sebastian]], addressing himself to a superior, another major Team Rocket leader, {{TR|Tyson}}, who is assigned to capture the infamous Red Gyarados. Upon further inspection of the security systems, Jessie, James, and Meowth are caught on camera. After walking in a hall, they fall for a trap that seals them in a hallway behind two walls of bars. Then Tyson comes by only to see who exactly they are. Jessie, and James say they're a part of Team Rocket obviously and a grunt walks by and says that they are legitimate Team Rocket members, but have been demoted to rookie rank for making little to none contributions to the organization. Jessie and James negotiate for a while and convince Tyson that they're the important ones.  

The boat starts to go with the catch, but Ash and his friends come just in time. Ash sends out Totodile, and Misty sends out {{TP|Misty|Poliwhirl}}. They both swim to the net, and Totodile {{m|Bite|chomp}}s the net and Jessie's hair, while Poliwhirl tries to rip it. Lance notices them, thinking Ash is crazy. Seeing the two Pokémon, Sebastian sends out for another device, which triggers a giant Radar back at Team Rocket Headquarters that sends waves out towards to the area. Soon Totodile and Poliwhirl get tired and let go of the net. Ash realizes it's something at the HQ that's doing this. They start to go over there. Before anything can happen, Tyson catches them and hands them over to the hands of Sebastian. Ash demands to know what's going on and what are they going to do with the red Gyarados. Sebastian explains the whole concept behind Project R, short for Project Revolution. The whole idea was that the Gyarados had a strange property in it that made it red. The aim of Project R is to force Pokémon into evolving or try to achieve the "red" state. Thus, the whole Rocket faction would achieve an army of evolved and above-average Pokémon at their disposal. Later Tyson congratulates Jessie, James, and Meowth for their work, but it seems he has other plans for them.  

* The episode title seems to be a reference the {{wp|Tracy Chapman}} song "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution."

* In this episode, Team Rocket uses a {{DL|Team Rocket mottos|Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution motto|variation}} of their motto.

* [[Lance]] disguises himself as a Team Rocket member in this episode. In {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}}, one of the Team Rocket executives is named {{TR|Lance}} in Japanese. It should be noted that Lance also disguises himself and the player as a Rocket member as well in the said games.  

* When learning of [[Team Rocket]]'s plan to force evolutions, {{an|Brock}} states that "Real evolution needs both a Pokémon and a Trainer!", despite [[wild Pokémon]] being known to evolve without the help of a Trainer.

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