Season 3 (The Talisman-Powered Animals)
Daolon Wong attacks Section 13 in search of the Talismans, at the same time as the Dark Hand does as well. In an attempt to stop them, Jackie destroys the Talismans, only to have their power scattered around the world once again. Now Jackie must find the most noble animals of each zodiac symbol, before Daolon Wong can find them and steal their power.
| Episode # | Episode title | Air date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 (01) | "Re-Enter the J Team" | September 14, 2002 (2002-09-14) | ||
| A criminal mastermind named Chang is holding a tournament to find the most worthy fighters to be his bodyguard. In an attempt to foil his plan, Jade enters all the members of the J-Team. (The basic plot is copied off of Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.) | ||||
| 54 (02) | "The Powers Unleashed" | September 21, 2002 (2002-09-21) | ||
| Valmont's enforcers and Daolon Wong go to Section 13 to get the talismans. When Jackie notices that Daolon Wong has nearly got the Talismans, he decides to destroy them with a laser. The Talismans break and crumble, and the powers shoot up into the sky and scatter, while Uncle imprisons Wong's Dark Chi Warriors. Daolon Wong and the Enforcers quickly depart. Uncle now tells Jackie that the Talismans can be destroyed but the powers they contain cannot, and the powers will now go straight to the animals of the Chinese zodiac. Daolon Wong turns the Enforcers into his new Dark Chi Warriors, and the Chans quickly locate the first animal – Scruffy, the immortal dog! After successfully stopping Wong and getting Scruffy back to Section 13, Uncle creates an anti-Dark Chi barrier so the noble animals can remain safe from Wong inside Section 13. | ||||
| 55 (03) | "Viva Las Jackies" | September 28, 2002 (2002-09-28) | ||
| To find the noble tiger with the power of Yin-Yang Balance, Jackie travels to Las Vegas, where he finds the white tiger Sasha in a circus show. Confounding the problem is the appearance of Daolon Wong and the splitting up of Sasha into a docile and savage version of herself, as well as giving Jackie a "splitting" headache when Jackie is partly split, and now has a Light Jackie head and a Dark Jackie head | ||||
| 56 (04) | "Aztec Rat Race" | October 5, 2002 (2002-10-05) | ||
| Jackie and Jade team up with El Toro Fuerte and Paco in Mexico to locate the Noble Rat. But when the power of the Rat Talisman reanimates a statue of Quetzalcoatl, who mistakenly believes Jade is the goddess Cihuacoatl and El Toro is Xolotl, god of the underworld. | ||||
| 57 (05) | "Monkey a Go-Go" | October 12, 2002 (2002-10-12) | ||
| A construction worker accidentally reawakens the Monkey King, and he is bent on getting revenge on the Chans. Back at the shop, the Chans find the next animal – The Monkey, Power of Shapeshifting – and immediately set off to Hawaii where the monkey is. Unfortunately, so does Daolon Wong, and the monkey finds itself stuck in the middle of a three-way fight. | ||||
| 58 (06) | "When Pigs Fly" | October 19, 2002 (2002-10-19) | ||
| Jackie and Jade are already onto the next noble animal – The Rooster, Power of Levitation! In Malaysia with the rooster having discovered its unique Power of Levitation already and is floating all around the landscape. After catching it, Jackie is told by Uncle to head to Kansas to locate another noble animal – The Pig, Power of Heat Vision. While there the rooster teams up with the pig and catching the two along with convincing the Pig's owners into letting it come with them becomes a bit more difficult. But in the end, despite everything that was done, Daolon Wong succeeded in absorbing the Talisman powers from both animals. | ||||
| 59 (07) | "Rabbit Run" | November 2, 2002 (2002-11-02) | ||
| The rabbit with the power of Super-speed is now a Jackalope mascot at an American football stadium in Wyoming. As a young hopeful, but denied player discovers its powers, he sees the chance to finally prove himself to his team. | ||||
| 60 (08) | "Sheep In, Sheep Out" | November 9, 2002 (2002-11-09) | ||
| The Chans and Daolon Wong go to Scotland to find the noble sheep. But the sheep's astral form leaves its body when witnessing the Chans and the Enforcers fight over it, and it is up to Jade to persuade it to return. If that weren't bad enough the Enforcers are banished to Limbo for their failure and Wong decides to use the Shadowkhan in their place. Despite their efforts, Wong gets to the Sheep first, and banishes Jackie and Jade's astral forms with the Sheep's power. When their astral forms are accidentally placed into the wrong bodies by Uncle, Jackie and Jade must work together in this condition to help Uncle take back the Sheep's power before Wong can use it to easily locate the remaining noble animals. | ||||
| 61 (09) | "The Invisible Mom" | November 16, 2002 (2002-11-16) | ||
| Tohru's mother makes an 'impromptu' visit in India as the Chan's are looking for the noble Snake, and accidentally turns herself invisible, and plans to use this power to protect her child, despite Tohru wishing to prove that he can take care of himself. | ||||
| 62 (10) | "A Jolly J-Team Xmas" | December 14, 2002 (2002-12-14) | ||
| The J-Team has to save Christmas when Daolon Wong attempts to steal Santa Claus' Chi while Jade and Paco help Tohru fill in for Santa by delivering presents. | ||||
| 63 (11) | "Little Valmont, Big Jade" | January 25, 2003 (2003-01-25) | ||
| Daolon Wong reduces Valmont's age to that of a child's, and he goes to the Chans to help him get back to normal, but travels with them to recover the noble Horse in London and ends up helping out while he's at it. Meanwhile, Jade also wants to be older and casts a spell on herself that makes her grow up in a way different than she expected. | ||||
| 64 (12) | "The Ox-Head Incident" | February 8, 2003 (2003-02-08) | ||
| While the Chans are out looking for the Noble Ox in the Himalayan Mountains, Hak Foo attacks Daolon Wong in order to obtain the power of the Ox for himself, only for Daolon Wong to turn him into his latest Dark Chi Warrior. Soon after Uncle secretly transferred the power of the Ox into himself for safekeeping, his spiritual head is captured by Daolon Wong to find out where the Ox power had been transferred to. | ||||
| 65 (13) | "Animal Crackers" | February 15, 2003 (2003-02-15) | ||
| After safely getting the Ox to Section 13, Jade sneaks all the animals out of Section 13 to a school fair to prove her to her classmates her adventures really happened, and Daolon Wong jumps at the chance to capture them. | ||||
| 66 (14) | "Tohru Who?" | March 1, 2003 (2003-03-01) | ||
| Valmont wipes Tohru's memory and convinces him that he is a loyal Enforcer still, so Valmont can rob a rare jewel and sell it to finance the re-building of the Dark Hand. The Chans go out to stop Valmont while Jade wants to be reunited with her friend. | ||||
| 67 (15) | "Re-Enter the Dragon" | March 8, 2003 (2003-03-08) | ||
| The Chans start to try and find the last Talisman Power, but have no such luck because dragons no longer exist for the power of combustion to be transferred into. However Daolon Wong intends to get the dragon power by striking a deal with Shendu and resurrects him. Shendu gets the dragon powers and also absorbs the Rooster and Pig Talisman powers from Daolon Wong and forces him to tell him(Shendu) where Section 13 is. Shendu invades Section 13 trying to take the other Talisman powers. While war stirs between Section 13's firepower and Shendu's fire powers, Jackie takes all the animals onto a van and manage to lure Shendu out of Section 13, while Uncle does extensive research and uses a spell to strip Daolon Wong of his power to force Wong to tell him Lo Pei's spell to seal Shendu. Later Shendu absorbs all twelve powers, but Uncle casts the spell and in a final shout of defeat, Shendu is once again imprisoned in a statue, with the 12 magical Talismans being recreated as well. | ||||
| 68 (16) | "A Night at the Opera" | April 5, 2003 (2003-04-05) | ||
| Uncle takes Jackie, Jade, and Tohru to see a show being put on by his old opera troop, which is now led by his old friend 'Beetle Brow'. Jade takes serious interest in the performance, where two warriors pass through the wall using special makeup. Jackie, preparing for an important exhibit that night, finds the two warriors stealing priceless artifacts. One gets a black eye during the ensuing chase, but when Jackie wipes off his makeup, no black eye. Jade discovers the real crooks using the makeup, and tells Jackie. The two sneak onto the stage and do battle with the scoundrels, and reveal them to be crooks after smashing open a prop they hid their loot inside. Uncle says goodbye to his old friend, and hopes to see him again soon. | ||||
| 69 (17) | "Attack of the J-Clones" | May 3, 2003 (2003-05-03) | ||
| Chang, having escaped from prison, creates clones of the people that defeated him – the J-Team. | ||||
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