[bouncy music]
♪ ♪
children:
♪ They're two, they're four ♪
♪ They're six, they're eight ♪
♪ Shunting trucks
and hauling freight ♪
♪ Red and green
and brown and blue ♪
♪ They're the Really
Useful Crew ♪
♪ All with different roles
to play ♪
♪ Round Tidmouth Sheds
or far away ♪
♪ Down the hills
and round the bends ♪
♪ Thomas and his friends ♪
♪ ♪
[whistle toots]
[steam hisses]
male narrator:
"Runaway Engine."
It was still early,
and Millie,
the Earl of Sodor's
narrow-gauge engine,
arrived at
the Blue Mountain Quarry.
[whistle toots]
[whistle blows]
- Hello, Millie!
Have you come
to help us out again today?
- No, not this time, Skarloey.
I'm collecting gravel for the
Earl of Sodor's dino park.
- Come on, Millie!
[whistle toots]
- The gravel person's
is this way, remember?
- Luke!
So good to see you!
- How are things
at the castle?
- Very busy.
Stephen and Glynn
are giving tours all day long.
[giggles]
narrator:
Millie was right.
Stephen and Glynn
had lots of visitors
waiting to be taken
round the castle and grounds.
- Enjoy the tour!
The old coffee pot's not quite
as experienced as I am,
but he does his best!
- Maybe not
as experienced, Stephen,
but I am
considerably younger.
[both laugh]
- Touche, my friend!
[laughter]
- [clears throat]
Oh, now,
simmer down, you two,
and listen.
Millie
isn't here today,
So I'll need you both
to help out.
- Oh, won't be
a problem for us, sir.
- Tomorrow,
Millie and I...
- Well, it's not
exactly rocket science,
now is it, Stephen?
[both laugh]
- You are listening,
aren't you?
- Oh, yes, sir.
Sorry, sir.
What is it
you'd like us to do?
- Glynn, I need you to bring up
coal for the fires later today.
And Stephen, can you collect
the garden waste
as soon as possible, please?
- I'll rocket over there
right now, sir!
Peee-yow!
Oh-ho-ho!
[laughs]
Oh, uh...
Right after
this next tour.
- So who's looking after
your job at the castle today?
- Stephen and Glynn are.
We always help
each other out
when there's extra
work to be done.
- [whistle toots]
Did you manage
to collect
that garden waste?
- Uh, I'll get on
to it shortly.
[whistle toots]
I didn't want to keep
my fans waiting.
[all cheering]
narrator:
But when Millie returned,
the garden waste was still
at the side of the track,
waiting to be moved.
- Hmm, I guess they didn't
get to that job yet.
narrator:
She didn't worry about it
at first,
as she had her own work to do.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Hmm, I thought
Glynn or Stephen
were going
to deal with that.
♪ ♪
- [irritated sighs]
♪ ♪
narrator:
But when it was still there
by late afternoon,
she was completely fed up.
- I can't believe
they left that waste
for me to move.
Hmph!
We'll see about that.
narrator:
When Stephen passed by later,
the garden waste
had all gone.
- Oh!
I guess Glynn's moved it.
[whistle toots]
Nice one,
the old coffee pot!
[chuckles]
narrator:
But Stephen was wrong.
- [yawns]
[whistle toots]
What?
[whistle toots]
[groans and grunts]
Who put
this garden waste here?
- Uh, it wasn't me.
- Oh, must have
been Millie then.
Well that's not
fair at all.
- It wasn't fair
to leave it for me
when I have so many
other jobs to do!
Hmph!
- Oh, she's got
quite a temper, eh, Glynn?
[chuckles]
[as Millie] It wasn't fair
to leave it for me.
- [irritated sighs]
- Oh, oh, dear.
Oh--
I didn't mean
for her to hear that.
Oh, do you think I should
go and apologize?
- Let's move
all that garden waste first.
Millie's bound
to calm down soon.
It's only
a little misunderstanding
between friends.
- You're right.
I'll say sorry
first thing tomorrow.
narrator:
But the next morning,
Millie was nowhere
to be found.
[camera flashes and laughter]
- peee-yow!
[laughter]
- Hmm.
- [grumbling indistinctly]
Ow!
- Oh!
- Well, I never--
- Sorry.
- [grumbling indistinctly]
- Where could Millie be?
[upbeat music]
narrator:
Nobody Stephen asked
had seen Millie at all.
♪ ♪
- [roars]
- Okay,
there's no need to be rude.
Oh, dear, I never meant
to upset her.
[gasps]
What if I've
upset her so much
that she's run away?
- There you are, Stephen.
Now, have you and Millie
made up yet?
- Oh, Glynn, I haven't
been able to find her.
- Oh, dear,
I haven't seen her either.
- [gasps]
Then Millie must have run away.
[indistinct chatter]
Let's go find her
and bring her home.
[whistle toots]
- Peee-yow, Stephen,
peee-yow.
narrator:
Because Millie could only
travel on the narrow
gauge rail...
- [grunts]
narrator:
Stephen knew there weren't
many places
she could have run away to.
- Millie!
- This isn't
in the brochure!
- Millie?
narrator:
So Stephen took the long way
around to get to
Crovan's Gate.
- And where
are we going now?
- Maybe she's run into trouble,
or even danger!
And it will be
all my--
[steam hisses]
No, no, no!
I've run out of water.
Now I'm the one
in trouble.
- Oh, and what's going on now?
- I'm so sorry.
I forgot to fill up
with water.
- Well, really?
And to think,
they once called you
The Rocket.
- Oh, what
a terrible day.
Who knows how long it will be
till I get rescued.
[distant laughter]
Sir Robert?
- [chuckling]
[whistle toots]
- [gasps]
Millie?
I thought you'd
run away.
- What on Earth
made you think that?
- Well, first
I forgot to clean up the--
[stammering]
Then you overheard me say--
[stammers]
So when I couldn't find you, I--
- [laughs]
Oh, Stephen.
The earl and I left very early
to collect a new motor
for the castle
turntable.
- Oh.
- I did tell you
and Glynn yesterday.
But you weren't listening.
- No, sir.
But I'm so relieved
you're all right, Millie.
- Oh, Stephen, it was
just a misunderstanding,
and I upset you first
by dumping that garden waste
in front
of your shed.
- But your two
misunderstandings
have stranded these tourists
half way
across the island.
- I'm so sorry, sir.
- Sorry, sir.
- [clears throat angrily]
- Oh!
- Sir Robert!
I really must complain about
the tour I have just taken.
- Must you really, sir?
- [stammers]
- I'd say you're lucky
to have had an extended
tour of Sodor.
- [stammers]
But in the brochure--
- I won't charge you
a penny extra,
and I'll even throw in
some free tea and cake
when you get back
to the castle.
- [chuckles] That's definitely
not in the brochure.
- Peee-yow!
[giggles]
[upbeat music]
- Oh, Millie,
Thank you again
for rescuing me.
- That's what
friends do, Stephen.
- [whistle toots]
And where on Earth
have you two been?
I've been left here on my own
doing everything.
- Ooh, he's got quite
a temper, eh, Stephen?
- [as Glynn] And where
on Earth have you two been?
[all laughing]
[upbeat music]
[steam hisses]
[gentle woodwind music]
♪ ♪
children singing:
[whistle blasts]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
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British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.
British series Based on The Railway Series books that follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised blue steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and several other friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, and Toby.