(harmonic music)
("Thomas and
Friends theme song")
(trains chugging)
- [Narrator] Duck and Percy
enjoy their work at the harbor,
pulling and pushing cars full
of cargo to and from the quay.
(bright music)
(train whistles)
But one morning, the
engines were exhausted.
The harbor was busier than ever.
(bright, playful music)
(Slower, descending music)
Sir Topham Hatt promised
that another engine
would be found to help them.
"Huh. It's about
time," said Percy.
"I ache so much,
I can hardly get
my wheels to move," agreed Duck.
They waited for the
engine to arrive.
(whirring sounds)
It came as a shock when he did.
(mysterious music)
"Good morning," squirmed
Diesel in his oily voice.
The two engines had not worked
with Diesel for a long time.
"What are you doing
here?" gasped Duck.
"You're worthy Top, uh,
Sir Topham Hatt sent me.
I hope you are pleased
to see me, again.
I am to shunt some
dreadfully, tiresome cars."
"Shunt where?" said
Percy suspiciously.
"Where? Why from here to
there," purred Diesel.
"And then again
from there to here.
Easy, isn't it?"
With that, Diesel,
as if to make
himself quite clear,
bumped some cars hard.
"Ooh!" screamed the cars.
"Grrr!" growled Diesel.
(clicking noises)
Percy and Duck were horrified.
They did not trust
Diesel at all.
They refused to work and
would not leave their shed.
(light, orchestral music)
Sir Topham Hatt was enjoying
his tea and iced bun
when the telephone
rang. (phone ringing)
"So there's trouble
in the harbor yard.
I'll be there right away."
(whirring sound)
Diesel was working
loudly and alone.
(soft music plays)
(train chugging)
Cargo lay on the quay.
Ships and passengers
were delayed.
(crowd murmuring)
(music continues)
Everyone was complaining about
Sir Topham Hatt's railway.
Percy and Duck were
sulking in their shed.
(light, cheerful music)
"What's all this!"
demanded Sir Topham Hatt.
"We're on strike, sir,"
said Percy nervously.
"Yes," added Duck.
"Beg pardon, sir,
but we won't work
with Diesel, sir."
(train chugging)
"You said you'd send
him packing, sir."
"I have to give Diesel
a second chance,"
replied Sir Topham Hatt.
"I'm trying to help you
by bringing Diesel here.
Now you must help me. He was
the only engine available."
Percy and Duck went
sadly back to work.
(train whistle blows)
(sad music)
Next morning, things
were no better.
Diesel's driver had not
put his brakes on properly
and Diesel started to move.
He went bump
straight into Percy.
(light, descending music)
"Wake up there,
Percy," scowled Diesel.
"You have work to do."
He didn't even say he
was sorry to Percy.
(train engine chugging)
Later, Diesel bumped
the cars so hard
that the loads went everywhere.
"What will Sir Topham
Hatt say?" gasped Percy.
"He won't like it," said Duck.
"So whose going to
tell him, I wonder.
Two goody-goody tattletales
like you I suppose."
(light, flowing music)
Percy and Duck did not
want to be tattletales,
so they said nothing.
Diesel, thinking he could get
away with his bad behavior,
was ruder than ever.
Next day, he was shunting
freight cars full of China clay.
He banged the cars
hard into the buffers,
but the buffers weren't secure.
(light, descending music)
The silly cars were sunk.
(light, orchestral music)
Sir Topham Hatt heard the news.
The cars were hoisted
safely from the sea,
but the clay was lost.
Sir Topham Hatt spoke
severely to Diesel,
"The harbor master has
told me everything.
Things worked much better
here before you arrived.
I shall not be
inviting you back.
Now, Duck and Percy,
I hope you won't mind
having to handle the work
by yourselves again."
"Oh no, sir."
"Yes please, sir,"
replied the engines.
Whistling cheerfully,
they puffed back to work
while Diesel sulked slowly away.
(soft, gloomy music)
("Thomas and
Friends theme song")
03x08 - Diesel Does it Again
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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.