19x08 - Toad and the Whale

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[upbeat pop 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] "Toad and the Whale."

It was a hot summer'’s day on the Island of Sodor,

and Oliver'’s brake van, Toad, was feeling particularly happy.

♪ I do like to be beside the seaside ♪

♪ Oh, I do like to be beside the sea ♪

[laughs] All this sunshine'’s got to your head, Toad.

But if you feel like singing, you carry on. [chuckles]

Okay then, Mr. Oliver. I will.

♪ Oh, I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom ♪

♪ Where the... ♪

[narrator] But it wasn'’t long before Oliver got fed up

with Toad'’s singing.

♪ When I'’m down beside the sea ♪

♪ I'’m beside myself with glee ♪

♪ Beside the seaside ♪

♪ Beside the sea ♪

Oh, dear. [whistle toots]

You'’d never hear such a noise on the Great Western.

This is what happens when Toad'’s in a good mood.

Sorry, Mr. Duck.

I didn'’t mean any offense.

[Duck] I know, Toad.

But perhaps it would be best

if we all did our work quietly.

[birds chirping]

[Toad] Mr. Oliver.

Look, it'’s a whale.

[chuckles] You'’ll never believe this, Duck.

Toad says he'’s seen a whale.

That'’s not a very good joke.

But it'’s not a joke.

[Oliver] You need to be a bit more serious, Toad.

Perhaps you should concentrate

on being a really useful brake van

instead of singing or making jokes.

Yes, Mr. Oliver.

[train whistle toots]

[whistle toots]

[brakes squeal]

Isn'’t it a lovely day, Toad?

It was, Mr. Thomas, until I saw that...

Oh, never mind.

You'’ll just laugh, too.

No, I won'’t, Toad. What?

I saw a whale on the beach at Bluff'’s Cove.

He imagined it, Thomas.

Come on, Toad.

All that sun'’s gone to your head.

[sighs]

[narrator] Toad was very upset

that Oliver wouldn'’t take him seriously.

He didn'’t say a word all the way back from Knapford.

Are you okay, Toad?

Truth be told, I'’m a bit sad.

First you stopped me singing,

then you told Thomas I imagined seeing that whale.

Oh, I'’m sorry I was unkind about your singing.

But the...

[brakes screech]

But what, Mr. Oliver?

I don'’t believe it.

There is a whale, Toad!

Oh, I'’m so sorry I doubted you.

I told you.

And the whale on the beach needs help.

[Oliver] You'’re right, Toad.

We must alert the Sodor Search and Rescue Center.

[Harold] Emergency at Bluff'’s Cove on the beach!

Is it a fire?

Maybe it'’s a shipwreck.

[Harold] Duty calls.

[narrator] Oliver and Toad helped the Search and Rescue team

by bringing water to keep the whale wet.

What are they doing now?

It looks like Butch is going to move the whale

closer to the sea so it can swim away.

[brakes squeak]

[helicopter blades whirring]

The tide'’s too far out, sir.

Harold'’s right.

You can'’t pull a whale all that way, Butch.

It just won'’t survive.

Oh, dear.

Is there nothing else they can do, Mr. Oliver?

[Oliver] I don'’t know, Toad,

but if there is, I'’m sure they'’ll do it.

[narrator] Oliver and Toad watched as the whale was covered over

to protect it from the hot sun.

And trenches were dug around the whale to keep it wet

as Flynn and Belle pumped water over it.

When the tide comes back in, the whale can swim away.

But that will take hours.

Why don'’t they just pick the whale up

and take it to Brendham Docks?

The water'’s really deep there so he could just swim away.

Oh, Toad.

Let'’s just let the Search and Rescue team

get on with their job.

-Come on. -[whistle toots]

We need to take these empty water tankers back to Knapford.

[narrator] At Knapford, all the engines

were talking about the beached whale.

You didn'’t imagine the whale then, Toad.

No, Mr. Thomas.

What'’s wrong now?

Aren'’t the Search and Rescue team there?

Yes, but the tide'’s so far out,

I'’m worried it won'’t return in time to save the whale.

I still don'’t know what'’s wrong with my idea

of moving the whale to Brendham Docks.

Fizzling fireboxes!

That'’s a brilliant idea, Toad!

It is?

Sir! Sir!

Toad'’s got a plan to save the whale.

What'’s this, Toad?

I don'’t know if it can work, sir.

But I thought that we could lift the whale up

and take it to Brendham Docks so it could swim away.

Maybe it could be lifted onto a flatbed or something...

[narrator] Sir Topham Hatt thought Toad'’s idea was a good one.

He telephoned the Search and Rescue manager

-right away. -[no audible dialogue]

[narrator] And sent Thomas to fetch Rocky.

[train engine chugging]

Everyone was proud to be part of Toad'’s plan

to save the whale.

Do be careful, Rocky.

Don'’t worry, Toad. I will.

[mechanical whirring]

Oh, the whale looks very sad and tired.

I wish there was something we could do

to make it feel better.

I'’ve heard whales like singing to each other.

Ooh, really?

But I like singing, too.

[crashing]

Oh, steady, Mr. Oliver.

Easy does it.

♪ Oh, you do need to be back in the water ♪

♪ Oh, you do need to be back in the sea ♪

Are you sure about this, Toad?

Oh, yes, Mr. Oliver. Whales like singing.

♪ Oh, you do need to go where you can ♪

♪ Swim, swim, swim ♪

♪ Where the fish... ♪

[narrator] As Oliver and Toad

chugged slowly and steadily

to Brendham Docks,

everyone came to see the amazing sight

of them carrying a whale.

Well, blow me down.

Is that a whale?

Yes, Cranky.

Do you think you can get him back into the water?

I'’ll do my best.

[Toad] Goodbye, now.

I hope you find your family.

[water splashes]

Oh, no.

I can'’t see him, Mr. Oliver.

[gasps] There he is!

[Thomas] He'’s safe, Toad.

Thanks to you.

[narrator] From that day on,

whenever Toad passed Bluff'’s Cove,

he always remembered his friend with a song.

♪ Oh, he'’d just like to be back in the water ♪

♪ Oh, he'’d just like to be back in the sea ♪

[chuckles]

♪ Now he'’s back inside the sea ♪

♪ He'’s beside himself with glee ♪

♪ Beyond the seaside ♪

♪ Inside the sea ♪

[whale calls]

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