20x09 - Blown Away

[bunniefuu]

[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]

male narrator:

The railcar and the coaches.

Daisy is a diesel railcar,

the only one in all of Sodor.

That means

she can carry passengers

without having to pull

any coaches.

Daisy works on the branch line

that runs all the way up

to the holiday town of Harwick.

[horn blows]

♪ ♪

[children laughing]

But as the summer season

came to an end,

not so many passengers wanted

to be beside the seaside.

[child laughing]

both: Aww.

- Look at that weather.

- That's so disappointing.

[thunder booming]

narrator: One day,

Sir Topham Hatt arrived

with a message.

- Thomas.

I'm putting you to work

taking cars to and from

the quarry for a while,

and, Daisy,

I'm putting you back

on Thomas' branch line.

♪ ♪

narrator:

The following morning,

Annie and Clarabel

were both ready

and waiting for Daisy

to collect them.

- You two are not

needed today.

You can stay

right where you are.

- What?

- No!

- Thomas' passengers

will be so pleased

when they're picked up by

a highly sprung diesel railcar.

"How much more comfortable

this is," they'll say,

"than the usual lumpy,

bumpy old"--

- Hey, Daisy, you should be

nicer to Annie and Clarabel.

One day, you may need them.

- Not me, Thomas.

I'm a diesel railcar.

I never need coaches.

[horn blows]

[laughs]

- Really!

- How perfectly awful!

- Oh, don't listen

to Daisy.

You're both really useful.

And at least

you've got each other.

[whistle toots]

- Thomas is right, Annie.

We've got each other

for company.

And I'd rather be stuck

in this shed

than be pulled along

by a dreadful diesel.

- Shall we play "I Spy"?

- But I can't see what you see.

- I'll give you a hint.

It's something that begins

with an S.

[playful music]

- [sighs]

Is it snow?

- Yes.

[both sigh]

♪ ♪

narrator: Meanwhile,

Thomas' usual passengers

enjoyed traveling

on a diesel railcar

for the first time.

♪ ♪

[horn blows]

- Oh, what a smooth ride.

- I'm highly sprung, you see.

Tip-top and thoroughly modern.

[chuckles]

narrator: That evening,

Daisy continued to be unkind

to Annie and Clarabel.

- [sighs]

- Oh!

[horn blows]

Are you two still here?

How dull it must be for you.

I can go anywhere I like,

but you have to wait

for an engine to come along.

So old-fashioned

and out of date.

I'll never pull coaches.

- Well!

That's just rude.

[both sigh]

narrator:

But Daisy spoke too soon.

- Daisy!

You're proving very popular

on Thomas' branch line.

- Oh, thank you, sir.

I do my best.

- Then you won't mind picking up

Annie and Clarabel

so you can carry

more passengers.

[dramatic music]

narrator: Daisy did need

Annie and Clarabel.

♪ ♪

She was too proud to apologize.

[both chuckling]

But Annie and Clarabel

had a plan.

♪ ♪

- Can you hear

a rattling, Annie?

- Yes, Clarabel.

Is it you?

- Oh!

It's not me.

- Well, it certainly isn't me.

- I wonder where it's

coming from, that rattling.

- I don't know.

I can't hear it now

for all the creaking.

- Creaking?

What creaking?

- Oh, yes.

Sounds like rusty springs.

- A perfectly dreadful noise!

- Terribly grating!

Oh, it's going right through me.

- I'm surprised the passengers

haven't complained.

- Not fit for purpose.

- Something very wrong.

- A ghastly noise.

- Never heard the like.

both: Good...

for...

scrap!

[both laughing]

narrator: Annie and Clarabel's

plan worked...

a little too well.

- Everybody off!

Everybody out!

[horn blows]

- [gasps]

- I need to speak

to a professional.

♪ ♪

narrator:

Daisy's passengers complained

to the stationmaster

and told him

what a bad railway it was.

[whistle toots]

- I just saw Daisy rush by.

Why did she leave you here?

- She had to speak

to a professional.

- A professional?

What about?

- Her...

highly sprung...

springs?

- Well, she can't

just abandon you

and her passengers like this.

[whistle toots]

I'm going to have a word

with Sir Topham Hatt.

♪ ♪

- I honestly don't think there's

anything wrong with you, Daisy.

- But Annie and Clarabel

said I was grating.

And I can't hear anything!

- Well, no.

No, so that means--

- I must have a problem

with my hearing as well.

[horn blows]

I'm off to the diesel works

to find my fitter.

[sobs]

[whistle toots]

- Thomas?

What have Annie and Clarabel

been saying to Daisy?

- I don't know,

but Daisy has been rude to them

since she first arrived.

And abandoning them

in Maithwaite?

Well, that's going too far.

- Mm.

♪ ♪

[owl screeching]

narrator: It was dark,

and it looked

like Annie and Clarabel

were going to be left

at Maithwaite overnight.

♪ ♪

[train engine chugging]

- [gasps]

[whistle toots]

Oh, Thomas!

- Have you come to take us

back to our shed?

- I'd like a word with you two.

It seems that someone

has been putting

ideas into Daisy's head.

She's been at the diesel works

all evening.

And her fitter says there's

nothing wrong with her!

- Oh.

- Oh.

- Do you two have anything

to say about this?

- Um, two wrongs...

- Don't make a right?

- Precisely.

Just because Daisy

was unfriendly,

that doesn't mean you should

be unkind in return.

I expect better

from the both of you.

both: Sorry, sir.

[whistle shrills]

[whistle toots]

[train engine chugging]

♪ ♪

narrator: The next day,

Annie and Clarabel were ready

to apologize to Daisy.

[whistle toots]

But Thomas arrived instead.

- Well, I've got good news

and bad news.

The good news is,

Daisy has gone back

to her usual branch line.

So she won't be

taking you out today.

- Oh, Thomas!

That means--

- You're back!

- Ah, well...

that's just it.

The bad news is,

I'm still on quarry duty.

Sir Topham Hatt has sent

a different engine

to pull you two.

[horn blows]

[both gasp]

- Hello, ladies!

[both coughing]

[laughing]

[horn blows]

narrator:

So poor Annie and Clarabel

had to spend the entire day

with dirty, devious Diesel.

♪ ♪

[whistle toots]

[bouncy music]

♪ ♪

[children singing]

[whistle shrills]

[whistle tooting]