[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]
[upbeat music]
narrator: Cautious Connor.
♪ ♪
male narrator: There are
some very fast engines
on the Island of Sodor.
There's Gordon, of course,
who pulls the Express.
And Spencer,
the private engine
of the Duke and Duchess
of Boxford.
♪ ♪
And then, there are
Caitlin and Connor...
[whistle toots]
who come from the mainland.
- I'm bang on time.
I'm bang on time.
I'm bang on time!
I'm bang on time.
I'm bang on time.
I'm bang on time.
I'm bang on time...
narrator:
Connor and Caitlin
are even faster
than Spencer and Gordon!
[whistle toots]
- Bang on time again, Connor.
Oh, [laughs]
you remind me of me
back in my heyday.
So fast I won every race.
- [chuckles] I'd say you still
got it in you, Stephen.
- Oh, yes.
[whistle toots]
Pee-yow!
Greased lightning.
[chuckles]
[whistle toots]
[harp glissando]
[horn blares]
narrator: One day,
Connor had to
wait at the Vicarstown Bridge
for a ship that was
passing through the channel.
- [balks]
Hurry up, hurry up.
My passengers are waiting.
[sighs]
[ship horn blares]
Finally.
[bell dinging]
[whistle toots]
narrator:
And then there was trouble.
- I'm running late.
I'm running late.
I'm running--ah!
[gear clanks]
[screams]
- Ah.
- Oh.
[uneasy music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
narrator: One of Connor's
coupling rods had come loose,
and he'd nearly
been derailed.
- Maybe I was going too fast.
narrator: Poor Connor had
to be taken to the steam works,
where the engineers
quickly replace
the damaged coupling rod.
But Connor was not happy.
- Nothing like this has ever
happened to me before, Victor.
I've never broken down.
I must have been
going too fast.
- Nonsense, my friend.
This has nothing to do
with going fast.
The assembly became loose
and a pin snapped.
That could happen
at any speed.
- We've given you
a thorough safety check, Connor.
There's really
nothing to worry about.
- Okay, then.
If you say so.
[whistle toots]
narrator: But Connor
was still a bit worried.
[whistle toots]
- Hello, Connor.
- Oh. [laughs]
Good to see
you back at work again,
after your little accident.
- Oh, Millie,
it was kind of scary.
I mean, I heard a big bang
and felt something snap.
[whistle blows]
I'm going to be
much more careful from now on.
[whistle toots]
- Oh.
[languid music]
♪ ♪
- Oh.
[whistle toots]
[brakes squealing]
Hello, Connor.
Um, why are you going so slowly?
Is something wrong?
- No, not really.
I just need to be
more careful now.
I don't want my coupling rods
coming loose again.
- Oh.
But I thought you'd been
repaired at the steam works?
If you're really worried,
Connor, perhaps
you should go back and have
yourself checked over again.
- Good idea, Thomas.
Better safe than sorry.
Right?
[whistle toots]
Better safe than sorry.
Better safe than sorry.
Better safe than sorry...
narrator: So Connor
went back to the steam works
just as soon as he could.
- Victor, I'm going
extra slowly and carefully,
but I still think
there's something wrong with me.
- There is nothing
wrong with you, Connor.
You are a fast
streamlined engine.
You should be going
at full speed again.
- [sighs] I know
what you're saying, Victor,
and--and you're probably right,
but I'd rather not
risk it all the same.
narrator: The next day,
Connor was still going slow.
- Better safe than sorry.
Better safe than sorry.
Better safe than sorry.
[whistle toots]
- Hi, Connor!
- Oh, hi, Thomas.
- [laughs]
Oh, Thomas,
you are impressive!
Overtaking that big
streamlined engine like that.
[chuckles]
- [chuckles]
And leaving him far behind!
[chuckling]
- Oh.
But it's not really funny,
Annie and Clarabel.
I wish I knew some way
to help Connor
be more like Connor again.
- I quite agree, Thomas.
- I suppose his racing days
are over now.
narrator: And then an idea
flew into Thomas' funnel.
- Here we are.
[whistle toots]
Ulfstead Castle.
Sorry we're late, everyone,
but better safe than sorry,
as I now like to say.
- This is a terrible railway.
- It would have been
quicker by camel.
- [huffs]
- Oh.
Hello, Thomas.
What are you doing up here?
- I wanted to find you.
I wondered whether you
might be up for a challenge?
- [laughs]
You know me, Thomas.
Always up for a challenge.
- Great, Connor.
Let's have a race.
- Uh--a race?
Oh--I don't know.
My coupling rod might
come loose again and--
cause an accident.
No, Thomas,
I can't have a race with you.
- Not with me, Connor.
I'm much too fast for you.
I thought you might
race against Stephen.
- That's right, pal.
[whistle toots]
How would you like
to take on
The Rocket?
- Huh?
- On your marks,
get set,
go!
[dramatic music]
[squeaking]
Pee-yow!
- But--I'm far too fast
for you, Stephen.
No offense.
- None taken!
And no offense to you either,
but you're not too fast
for me anymore!
I could race laps around you!
[laughs]
- [sighs]
No.
I--I can't race.
Not after what happened
with my coupling rod.
- Coupling rod?
Coupling rod?
Don't talk to me
about coupling rods.
Back in my day, Connor,
we wouldn't have worried
about coupling rods.
I mean, we had parts snap off
and bits come loose.
Some engines I worked with
even exploded!
Ka-pow!
[dramatic music]
But did they give up?
No!
They picked themselves up,
got their parts back together,
and carried on racing,
like the heroes they were:
hard-working steam-driven
railway engines
who liked to go fast.
Not like you, Connor.
- But I do like to go fast.
- Then get out there
and prove it!
Go on!
You can do it!
You can be bang on time,
all over again!
[whistle blows]
[triumphant music]
- You're right.
I can do it.
I can do it.
I'll be bang on time again.
- Whoo-hoo!
[whistle toots]
[all cheering]
- Go Connor!
[cheering]
- [cheers]
[cheering]
♪ ♪
- Wow, Stephen.
That was a great pep talk.
Did those engines you worked
with really
put themselves back together
after they exploded?
- Don't be silly, Thomas.
[chuckles]
I made that bit up.
But sometimes,
you need a good story
just to get things
back on track again.
And it got Connor going,
didn't it?
- [laughs]
- [laughs]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
narrator:
At last,
Connor felt like himself again.
He was fast.
[whistle toots]
He was happy.
[whistle toots]
And he was eager
to be bang on time.
- [laughs]
[gentle woodwind music]
♪ ♪
[children singing]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
20x15 - Cautious Connor
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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.