21x10 - Unscheduled Stops

[bunniefuu]

[bouncy music]

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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]

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- Hmm, I thought

Glynn or Stephen

were going

to deal with that.

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- [irritated sighs]

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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.

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- [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]

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children singing:

[whistle blasts]

[upbeat music]

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