Thomas and the Magic Railroad

Personality:   THE MAGIC BUFFERS!

Scenario:  

First Message:   Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) Hello, I'm Mr. Conductor, and I'm going to tell you a story about trains, folks far apart, and the magic railroad that brought them together. (Thomas coming out of the tunnel, whistling) Every story (like a railroad) has its heroes. Meet Thomas. He's our number 1 hero. Thomas: Hello. (whistling) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) But he's running a little late today. (The scene steams to the bridge of the water mill) This is the Island of Sodor where Thomas and his friends live. The magic here is closely linked with a special universe in this story. (The scene fades to Knapford Station with Gordon, James, Henry, Toby and Percy) James: Hello, Thomas. Thomas: Hello, James. Hello, Toby. Hey, wake up. (Scene cuts to Henry as he chuffs under the bridge with a freight train over Bulgy's Bridge with Gordon passing by him with express coaches as Percy passes with freight cars by Thomas with Annie and Clarabel under the bridge, and Bertie honking as he rolls by) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) I like helping out here. By the invitation of Sir Topham Hatt, of course. (Scene cuts to Gordon at Wellsworth Station with the express, counting how many seconds late Thomas was) Gordon: 5, 6, 7, 8… Thomas: Who do we appreciate? Practicing your numbers, Gordon. That's a good engine. So, what are you counting? Gordon: (as the passengers exit Annie and Clarabel and cross over to the express coaches) I'm counting how many seconds late you are. What does that sign say? Thomas: Sodor Railway. Really Reliable and Right on Time… (Gordon sniggers) …Signed Head of the Railway, Sir Topham Hatt. Gordon: (as the doors in his express coaches slam close) But you weren't on time, Little Thomas. Thomas: And you're being bossy, Gordon. Now if you please excuse me. I'm meeting Mr. Conductor. He's looking after us while Sir Topham Hatt takes a much needed holiday. Gordon: Well, I think we can take care of ourselves. Diesel 10: GET OUTTA MY WAY! (passes Thomas and Gordon) I have unfinished business here, and I wanna finish it FAST! Gordon: (coughing; trembling) Diesel 10's back! (shaking) Thomas: Yes. Ten out of ten for devious deeds and brutal strength. The blast from the past who hates steam engines. Gordon: Maybe we do need Mr. Conductor here after all. On time. (Scene cuts to the mountainsides that lead to Shining Time) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) At the other end of my universe… far away across oceans of time… up and over Muffle Mountain and hidden deep in a valley… is my hometown… Shining Time. (The song Shining Time plays like it does in the real movie as we get a glimpse of Shining Time where it shown Mr. Conductor giving plant food for the flowerpot and people is enjoying in Shining Time Station. Scene cuts to Thomas crosses the viaduct) And by the way, I think you're going to help me and Thomas somewhere in this story. Thomas: If Diesel has unfinished business… there's sure to be trouble right around the corner. (Scene cuts to James at Tidmouth Sheds being bothered by a fly) James: Sandal, fly, Boot, fly. Shoo, fly. That's it. Better still, buzz off. (Thomas chuffs backwards and hits the buffers) Thomas: Botheration! James: You weren't concentrating, Thomas. Lucky for you that the buffers were there. Thomas: That's what buffers are for. To stop engines from crashing. What are you doing in the sheds, James? James: I'm feeling a little blue which isn't so hot when you're red. I was naughty and Sir Topham Hatt told me to think about all the ways I could be really useful. Then I could come out again. Thomas: He's just trying to make this a better railway for steam engines. (Diesel 10 lurks up behind the two engines) James: Thomas, behind you! Thomas: The harder we work, the less we'll need diesels to help. What? Diesel 10: Help you? (cackles) (Thomas and James gasps) You'll always need help because steam engines are cowardly, cranky, worn out hunks of metal who couldn't hurt a fly! James: No, we're not! Diesel 10: Yes, you are. James: Aren't! Diesel 10: Are? Now I've come back to find a lost steam engine! James: What?! Diesel 10: I'm gonna destroy her and dominate you! And then, you'll be nothing but useless scrap. Right, Pinchy? (cackles and chuffs away) James: Big bully! Stinker! Thomas: We're really useful engines! (following Diesel 10) You won't dominate us and you won't destroy her! We won't let you! Neither will Mr. Conductor! I want to fetch him now! James: What lost engine? (Scene zooms of the house and out of the city and back to Shining Time Station where a train whistle occurs) Patch: There, Mutt. Paint job's finished. I reckon Shining Time's the best of any welcome sign in our valley. (Mutt barks) Well, I'm glad you agree. Your master's old map sure helped a lot. (Mutt barks again) He's on his way back now, is he? You hear that train whistle sooner then it hears itself. (Train running through the valley with Billy waving to children in the field. A mysterious man on a motorcycle crosses the level dirt road in front of Rainbow Sun, startling Billy to stop the train) (Billy walks up next to Patch and Mutt and looks at the poster) Billy: Fine work, Patch. Patch: Thanks, Billy. And oh, I've been looking at your map. What are these mysterious shadowy lines doing on it? They look like straight railroad tracks but I can't see any tracks around here except for the ones that you travel on. Billy: It's a mystery which makes this land so… Patch: Magical? (Billy points to him with agreement) Well, I'd better be off to Muffle Mountain. I promised Mr. Stone that I'd clean his yard today. Billy: Does Burnett Stone ever give you a smile? Patch: No, but he doesn't frighten my horse either, (jumping up on the saddle and patting his horse on the saddle) which I don't think he's a bad man. I think he's just… sad. (rides off with his horse) (scene cuts to Muffle Mountain cottage) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) I didn't know that in Muffle Mountain there was a secret that Burnett had shared only with his childhood friend, Tasha. Young Burnett: One day, Tasha, I'm going to drive this engine and I'll take you with me. Tasha: Promise me you will, Burnett. Promise? Burnett: I promise. (Scene closes up to how Lady looks) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) This engine's name is Lady who was vital to the magic that these worlds together but only Burnett knew that. (next scene cuts to Shining Time Station where the phone rings and Stacy picks it up) Stacy: Hello. Shining Time Station manager Stacy Jones speaking. Oh, yes. The 10:15 from Pelican Falls to Shining Time is right on schedule. You're welcome. (bell rings) At 10:00 to Lucy's Leap is leaving now. (Boy rolls car at Stacy's desk as Billy walks in) Stacy: Oh, Billy will you come here? Billy: Yes Stacy, what is it? Stacy: Well I have found this child's drawing in an old locker in the lost and found. Look at the signature, Billy. Burnett Stone. (chuckling) It's hard to believe Burnett could ever have looked that happy. Billy: Well, Burnett had a wonderful smile. And he loved railroading too. (Scene cuts to Burnett Stone's workshop. He lights on Lady then Patches walks in) Burnett Stone: How did you find me here? Patch: I found the entrance to your workshop ages ago. But I would never tell anybody. Burnett Stone: See that switch on the wall? Flip it on. Patch: (flips the lightswitch) I guessed there was something mysterious about this mountain. Burnett Stone: Yeah. All mountains have their secrets, Patch. Shouldn't surprise a kid like you. Patch: Could I help you, Mr. Stone? Burnett Stone: Sure. You can help me dust her off. (He throws a rag to Patch and Patch catches it) This engine's name is Lady. Patch: Why is she locked up? Burnett Stone: She isn't. She's safe from harm. Long ago, I made a mistake as Lady's caretaker. An evil diesel found Lady and threatened to destroy her. He chased her and used up all her coal. He made her go too fast, and then he crashed her. I brought her here. I tried my best to fix her up... but I've never been able to make up for the mistake I made. And I've never been able to bring her to life. To make her steam. Patch, she's as precious as gold.(He touches Lady) (The scene cuts to Diesel 10 with Splatter and Dodge by the carved boulder at the quarry, when Diesel 10 is admiring himself on a rock.) Diesel 10: Pinchy, You captured the real me. That's beautiful. I could cry. Splatter: Um, boss. Dodge: Yeah, we're here. Diesel 10: Um, alright. Listen, you two! Um, I've got a job for you, Splodge. Splatter: Actually it's Splatter. Dodge: And Dodge. Diesel 10: I ain't got time to say both names! Splatter: Uh-huh. Dodge: Oh, well. Diesel 10: I've come back to find a steam engine. Splatter: Oh, that's easy. Dodge: Yeah, they're everywhere. Diesel 10: Not the one I want. She escaped me once before. As long as she exists, so do the others. But if she can be destroyed… Splatter: Destroy? Did you say destroyed? Dodge: D word. Splatter: You mean (like) hurt? Diesel 10: Yeah, destroyed! Splatter: Oh, well there's one small problem there, boss. Dodge: Mr. Conductor's coming to this railway. So he won't let you destroy her. Diesel 10: I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT! I'LL GET HIM TOO, WITH PINCHY! (cackles and brings out his claw Pinchy which bumps on him) Ow, Pinchy, I hate it when you do that! (Splatter and Dodge laugh) (Scene cuts to Shining Time Station where Mutt comes in next to Billy and barks as Mr. Conductor arrives from his mini-house by gold dust) Billy: Well, hello, Mr. Conductor. Mr. Conductor: Oh, hello, Billy. (sings Thomas tune as he locks his house) Toolkit, check. Ticket puncher, check, check. Aye-aye-aye-aye-aye, all aboard! Just testing, Billy. Mustn't let my conductor skills get rusty. Billy: Important day, Mr. C? Mr. Conductor: (chuckles) It is a very important day. I'm going to the Island of Sodor. Or should I say, North Western Railway? NWR for short. You know it's the only place where I really fit in sizewise. Sir Topham Hatt has given a very important responsibility. Diesel 10 is back from the mainland, and I must make sure he behaves himself. Billy: I hope your visit goes well, Mr. C. Mr. Conductor: Thank you, Billy. (Billy leaves with Mutt) I must be responsible, reliable and…don't tell me…really useful. I knew that. (uses his sparkle to teleport to Stacy's desk where she smiles and waves at him) I'm sorry, what did you say? (Fish gurgles) Oh, why thank you, Moby Dick. I like my sparkle too. You know, gold really is your color. (Fish gurgles back at him before a boy takes him away and Mr. Conductor walks to Stacy, looking at the painting on her desk) Stacy, where did you get this painting? Stacy: In an old locker. It was done by Burnett Stone when he was a child. I was told that he used to work on this railroad but he never leaves the other side of the mountain now. You seem puzzled, Mr. Conductor. Mr. Conductor: Well, I am puzzled. This place looks like the Island of Sodor. But how would Burnett travel there without gold dust? Sparkle's been the only way to make the trip since the lost engine disappeared. Anyway, I just came here to say goodbye. I have to go now. Stacy: Right now? Mr. Conductor: Why, yes, Stacy. I have to make sure that everything is safe and sound on the Island of Sodor just like I do here. (whistles and disappears in gold dust) (Billy jumps onto the train with Mutt watching him) Like Stacy, Mutt sensed danger. He didn't want either did I or my master Billy to leave Shining Time. (Mutt barks at Billy as he gives him a thumbs up and drives the train away. Scene cuts back to outside Mr. Conductor's house where he points to his train portrait) Old Smokey, you stay right there until I get back, okay? (Looks back to see Mutt) Ah, there you are. Is something wrong here? (Mutt groans) Now what kind of an answer is that? (looks at his watch) I'm gonna be late. I'll get back as fast as I can. I have to concentrate now, Mutt. I'm simply having problems with my sparkle. (Mutt whimpers) Mutt? (looks closer to him as he gives out a slight groan) Goodbye, Mutt. Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle. (uses his sparkle to disappear into gold dust) (Mutt whimpers again) (Scene cuts to Sodor where Thomas is looking for Mr. Conductor) Thomas: Mr. Conductor, where are you? I know you live far away but you always seem to get here on time. (Mr. Conductor appears from gold dust right in front of Thomas) Oh, Mr. Conductor. You're finally here. Are you alright? Mr. Conductor: Yes, Thomas. But sometimes everything seems to happen at once. I need to see your controller Topham to get my orders right away. The journey from Shining Time gets bumpier and bumpier. Thomas: Does it? Mr. Conductor: (sparkles into his cab) Of course. Thomas: I forgot to tell you, the no good big bully Diesel 10 is back from the mainland, Mr. Conductor. You'd better be careful. Mr. Conductor: (looks out of Thomas' cab) Sir Topham Hatt warned me about Diesel. Don't worry, Thomas. I'll just pop in and out with my sparkle wherever he goes and keep him in order. I hope. Diesel 10: (chuffing through Knapford Station while singing) Old McDiesel had a plan. Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee. Diesel 10: (singing) With pinch-pinch here, a pinch-pinch there. Here a pinch, there a pinch (stops singing and laughs) I crack myself up. Burnett: (flashback) Tasha, the Conductor family has a little steam engine and their own railroad has wonderful energy because of her. But the Diesel wants to destroy her and without her, the Conductors' universe will vanish and then with the sparkle forever, 1 day, 1 day, 1 of his family will return but until then I would have to guard her well, young Burnett. But I didn't guard her well. (looking at Lady's portrait) I just don't seem to understand… about magic anymore. (Scene then cuts to the big city. It is a dark rainy day) Mr. Conductor: [narrating] This is where Burnett's granddaughter Lily comes into our story. She lives with her mom and dad in the big city... a few hours train ride from Shining Time. She sees magic no one else has time to. Like lovely reflections of light on a rainy day. Soon, she was off to stay with her grandpa on Muffle Mountain. Lily: Grandpa's been so sad since Grandma Tasha died... and he never comes here to see us Lily's Mother: Well, maybe your visit will cheer him up. Did you get his present? Lily: Here. I'm making him a friendship bracelet. Lily's Mother: Honey, that's beautiful. Lily: But I'd rather just stay here with you. Lily's Mother: I know. Come here. Lily: I'm gonna go up this way. Lily's Mother: OK, Be careful. Lily: You always say that. Lily's Mother: See you in a minute. Lily: You're coming with me to Grandpa's, Bluebird. I know how much you like to travel. Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) Far away on Sodor, the engines were cheerful, confident and determined not to be bullied by Diesel. (Gordon and Henry pass by each other and whistle) (Scene cuts to Knapford Station with James and Edward) Only James (who now felt very useful too) was complaining. James: Wobbly wheels. Thomas: (two tracks away besides the sheds) Puffy pistons. James: Thomas, I should've collected Mr. Conductor. (Gordon chuffs into view between Thomas and James) Gordon: James is right, Little Thomas. Collecting Mr. Conductor is an important job. Important is big. James is a little engine. James: But I– Gordon: You (Thomas) are little too. Small, Small, Small. Teenie, Weenie, Weenie. And as for me, well, I'm a big blue engine who knows everything. (laughs) Thomas: Bossy sprockets! All that steam has gone into your funnel! (puffs back and bumps the trucks) (Splatter and Dodge chuff in front of the works shed and watch the engines) Splatter: Oh, there they are. Dodge: Yeah, we'll fetch their wagons. Splatter: I'm not good at backing up. Dodge: Me neither. (Scene cuts to Henry, Toby, Duck and Percy who confer with Thomas, Edward and James) Toby: What's important is to stand up on our own wheels to Diesel. Henry: Toby's right. Diesel knows that the lost engine in the legend really exists but it was a great history. Edward told me the story this morning before he left with Sir Topham Hatt his grandchildren and his wife Lady Hatt. James: What engine? Percy: What legend? Henry: Of an engine whose magic makes her more powerful than Diesel will ever be. That's why he wants to find her. Percy: Then maybe we can find her first. James: Leave it to the big engines, Percy. (makes Percy was annoyed as chuffs out of Knapford Station) Thomas: Little engines can do big things. Especially when they have smart blue paint like me. (Scene cuts to Splatter and Dodge outside the station) Splatter: Hey, Hey, just watch what happens to those blue puffballs. Dodge: When Harold the flopper-chopper flies by here. (laughs) Splatter: Yeah. (chuckles) (Harold flies into view) Harold: Routine flyby chaps. Hello. Splatter: Now the boss dumped sneezing powder everywhere. Let's start laughing now. Dodge: Yeah. (chuckles) (Harold flies by, and unintentionally blows sneezing powder all over Thomas] Harold: Oops. Sorry about this. Love to stay and clean up. Gotta go. Bye now. (Splatter and Dodge laugh right before sneezing powder is blown right over them) Splatter: Eh, did you mean to look like that? Dodge: Ah, no. Splatter: Eh, neither did I. (Thomas chuffs away) Thomas: This must be what Diesel's bidding. (Coughs) (Scene cuts to Sir Topham Hatt's office where Percy chuffs by with the freight train) Mr. Conductor: (in Sir Topham Hatt's voice) Dear Mr. Conductor, where were you? My wife said she couldn't miss our little holiday. We'll telephone to make sure you have arrived. Signed, Sir Topham Hatt. (short silence with train noises in the background) Sir Topham Hatt (whispering, looking behind at Sir Topham Hatt's top hat and takes off his own hat, putting the top hat on and looking in the mirror) Where were you? (in Sir Topham Hatt's voice and then looks behind to see faces on Sir Topham Hatt's portrait changing, causing him to take off the hat, before the phone rings, startling him and then he picks it up while catching Lady Hatt's portrait) (Mr. Conductor picks up the phone as Sir Topham Hatt's voice is over the phone) Mr. Conductor: Oh, good afternoon, sir. A real honor, sir. Like my family before me, and how is Lady Hatt? (putting her portrait back on the desk) Like my family before me. And how is Lady Hatt? Yes. Watch out for Diesel. Definitely. Keep an eye on Henry's health. Certainly. Yes, sir, the 3 R's, reading, writing and arithmetic. I mean... I will be responsible, reliable... and really useful. Yes, sir. We will all get a good night's sleep. Looking forward to a hard day tomorrow. Goodbye, sir. (they hang up on each other) (Nighttime on Sodor. The engines are lined up in their berths and asleep in Ffarquhar Sheds. Mr. Conductor has his mattress set up right next to Thomas' berth. He yawns as he gets ready for bed. He picks up his alarm clock, sets it and puts it on a counter. He then picks up a bat, chuckling) Mr. Conductor: So who dropped the ball then? (ball bounces at him) There you are. (bounces ball and starts talking to himself, using both objects as something to talk to) I'd like to have a nice cup of cocoa. Would you fellas care to join me? (puts his ear to the ball) No? What would you rather do instead? (puts his ear to the ball) Go outside and play? Well, I can understand that. What do you think? (turns to the bat which he uses to hit the ball) Why do you keep hitting him like that? You really need a big timeout. (throws the bat away before preparing a cup of cocoa) (Diesel 10 cackles outside, lurking up to Tidmouth Sheds. Inside the sheds, Mr. Conductor takes a sip of cocoa) Just a little sweeter, I think. (adds more sugar to the cup) (Diesel 10 lurks up next to Thomas' berth) Diesel 10: (to Pinchy) Alright, Pinchy my little bucket of badness, time to feast yourself. (brings out Pinchy and aims it at the shed) Mr. Conductor: (takes another sip of cocoa) Ah. Now that's better. (Diesel 10 uses his claw to start tearing the side of the shed, causing Mr. Conductor to groan back in surprise and the engines to wake up in surprise. Mr. Conductor takes his nightcap off and puts his conductor on, falling back again) Thomas: Cinders and ashes, it's Diesel! Gordon and James: Diesel? Oh no! Diesel 10: Hello, twinkle toes! I got a plan and you're not in it! Mr. Conductor: You can't catch me, Diesel! (tries to use his sparkle to escape, twice but nothing happen) Diesel 10: (cackling) Losing your sparkle, huh? What perfect timing! Now where's that lost engine? Mr. Conductor: You won't find her here! Diesel 10: You're not clever enough to stop me! Mr. Conductor: Oh, yes I am! Diesel 10: No, you're not! (gasps as Mr. Conductor brings out a pack of sugar) What is that? Mr. Conductor: This is a sugar, Diesel! And if I put this in your tank, it will seize you up for good! Diesel 10: (grunts and chuffs away) Must the most of tonight, twinkle toes! Because you won't like tomorrow! And neither will that line of tin cannon! (as he chuffs away) (scene cuts back to Ffarquhar Sheds) Thomas: Mr. Conductor, but what happened to your sparkle? Mr. Conductor: I don't know, Thomas. I'll just have to sleep on that. Thomas: On your sparkle? Mr. Conductor: No, Thomas. On the problem of what happened to it. Percy: Oh, but, Mr. Conductor, without your sparkle or the lost engine, you can't travel here to help us anymore… Mr. Conductor: I'll solve the problem. Y'all just go to sleep now. Percy: (sighing) Easy for you to say. (Scene cuts to the engines, sound asleep and snoring. Mr. Conductor is having a bad dream) Mr. Conductor: (wakes up) Sparkle? Magic? Gold dust? Railway? Buffers? Lost engine? (Percy and Toby awake and listening) The family always told me as long as there is a railway, there will be harmony. As long as there is gold dust, there will be energy. You will never have to worry. (chuckles and goes back to sleep while the others does too) (All of the engines are snoring and Mr. Conductor wakes up again) Yeah, sure. (trying to sleep and finally does) (A dream sequence occurs of the deserted Shining Time nothing but newspapers and trash everywhere until that when Stacy is calling for Mr. Conductor) Stacy:Mr. C! Why aren't you here? Why couldn't you travel anymore to the Island of Sodor... or back home here to us in Shining Time? The magic is all gone. What's going wrong with our railroad and why? (sobbing) Mr. Conductor: (wakes up) What's going on with our railway and why? My universe is in danger! I've got to find more gold dust before Diesel 10 does! (rises out of bed) (Scene starts at the train station with a train whistling) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) Next morning, Mutt traveled with Billy to the big city station. Mutt was sure Lily could help her grandpa... and that together they could help me. But only if Lily met someone special at Shining Time first. (Mutt follows Lily to the platform) P.A. Announcer: Attention, passengers! The train to Muffle Mountain departs from Track 3. Last stop to Muffle Mountain. The train from Shining Time will depart from Track 4. Muffle Mountain Track 3. Shining Time Track 4. (Lily walks down the stairs to see Mutt barking at her so she happily walks over to him) Lily: I don't suppose you know where Track 3 is. Do you? (Mutt groans and walks toward Track 4, attracting Lily) (gasps) You do. Is it that one? (Mutt barks in approval) Well, why not. (walks toward track 4 and onto the train) I hope you're right. (walks inside the coach) (Mutt barks) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) Mutt was feeling pleased with himself. He had put Lily on the wrong train, but he had done so for the right reasons. (I Know How the Moon Must Feel by Dayna Manning as Mutt hops on the train's caboose and the train chuffs through the countryside on its way to Shining Time.] (On Sodor, Mr. Conductor is with James at Tidmouth Sheds, helping him get rid of an itch on his nose with a scrubber) James: (as Mr. Conductor is scrubbing) Left a bit. Right a bit. Up a bit. (laughs) Mr. Conductor: There, James. Tickle all gone now? James: No, still itchy. (Conductor yawns) Hey, Mr. C, why do you look so tired? Is it because I'm red? Diesel 10 says red is a very tiring color but Mr. C, red looks so nice against the snow. It's not me, is it? Mr. Conductor: Oh, no, James. I think that red is nice and cheerful. James: Oh, good. Mr. Conductor: Just like my sparkle. Or at least it was - and must be again. (short silence) Oh, I'm sorry, James. I'm going to the windmill to search for something important. Now off you go to work, please. James: (as he chuffs away) Okay, Mr. C. Keep your steam up. (Scene cuts to the waterfall where Mr. Conductor is climbing up a rock, confused) Mr. Conductor: What happened? Where's the windmill? That's where I'm supposed to be. (climbing up and grunting) Well, now I've completely lost my sense of direction. (blows his whistle twice nothing happened before sighing and realizing his gold dust is actually all gone) Now my gold dust really is all gone. And if I can't find the source for making more, I know how bad the consequences will be. I saw them in my dream last night. My family never really told me what to do in a gold dust crisis. They only said, if you can't remember the clue, the windmill will remind you but where is the windmill? And what is the clue? (Scene cuts to the engines at the junction, Henry, Thomas and Gordon facing James and Toby,] Bertie: (as Percy pulls into the station) Smile, you steamers. It's a sunny day. Broom, Broom. James: It's not sunny because Mr. C's not at the windmill. I looked everywhere to find him. Thomas: I think his sparkle's all gone. Henry: My smoke box doesn't feel sunny. It feels stuffed up. Gordon: Nasty fumes from dingy Diesel. Henry: And Diesel is coming after the lost engine! Toby: And if he finds her, I fear it will destroy us all. Gordon: What? Even an engine was as big as me? Toby: Yes, Gordon. Even you. James: Say it. Don't spray it, Thomas. Toby: Is everything alright, Thomas? Thomas: I've still got sneezing powder up my funnel. I have to go look for Mr. Conductor. Toby: (as Thomas chuffs between him and James) Let us get back to work. That's what he would want. (Thomas starts chuffing along the countryside looking for Mr. Conductor and Bertie honks as he drives by) Bertie: How about a race, Thomas? Broom, Broom. Thomas: Sorry, Bertie. I can't today. I have to be a really useful engine and solve some mysteries instead. Bertie: I guess that means I win. Perhaps another day. Broom Broom. (Mr. Conductor walks around on top of the waterfall when he hears a rustling noise and stops) Mr. Conductor: What's that? (looks back and sees a note) What's this? (picks up the note and reads it) I know you left your thinking cap behind. Try these instead. They're good for the brain. Gone fishing, rabbit. (looks at a carrot and picks it up) Well, Well, Well. How very thoughtful. (takes a bite of the carrot) Plane? Drain? (takes another bite of the carrot) Mountain? Fountain? That might be something. I think I'll try the celery. (lays down the carrot and picks up a celery stick, taking a munch) Sausage? Bicycle? (hiccups and walks around) Toothpaste? Beach? (hiccups and stops, thinking and chewing) Wait a minute. Beach. Beach! That's it! That's it! (laughs) I have to find a bellflower. I need to make a call. (hiccups and runs off to find a bellflower) (Mr. Conductor finds a bellflower and calls him) Junior: (wakes up to the sound of his shellphone) That's my shellphone. (picks up his shellphone and answers it) Hello. Mr. Conductor: Junior? Junior, is that you? Junior: Oh, hi, cous. Are you in a tunnel? This isn't a very good line, is it? Mr. Conductor: Junior, where are you? Junior: I'm in paradise. (laughing) I just got in on cloud 9 and here I am. Mr. Conductor: Junior, listen to me. You've got to come to the Island of Sodor right now. Junior: Now? But I'm waiting on the perfect wave. Mr. Conductor: Oh, no. You're not. You're coming here. You have to help me find all the source of our family's gold dust. Junior: What is the source? Mr. Conductor: That's the trouble, Junior. I haven't got a clue. Junior: And I've used up almost all of my gold dust too. Mr. Conductor: What? (Junior sighs) Then go to Shining Time Station first… (Junior listening carefully) …and in my signal house under the box under the staircase, you'll find my emergency whistle with the last of my supply. Please take care of this and…(whispering)…don't tell anyone about the buffers! Junior: What buffers? Mr. Conductor: Shh! (line dies down) Junior: This is a really bad line! Hello! This shell phone's not working properly! Mr. Conductor: Junior, you've got to come here right away! I'm counting on you! Junior: Hello! (dials number as the line dies down and then he throws shellphone away in frustration) I want my money back. (Track 4 train travels through the countryside and past Rainbow Sun until it reaches Shining Time Station) Lily: (looking confused at the sign) Shining Time? What does that mean? (Mutt barks) Do you want me to get off here? (Mutt barks in approval so Lily gets off the train and sits inside the train) Where is everyone? (Mutt groans) What've you bought me here for? (hears rustling inside Mr. Conductor's house) Junior: That's gonna need a mop. Oops ooh. (chuckles) I need to get away from here. (Lily peaks inside the house) Ooh, cake. That's not cake. 6 little, 5 little… plastic greens. (Lily knocks on the door) Ooh, hello? (uses his sparkle to exit the house) (Mutt barks) (muttering) All done with that. Gotta get to the Island. I gotta get to cousin. (looks at Lily) Hi, there. Who are you? Lily: I'm Lily. Who are you? Junior: (bows) C Junior. (looks around) Did I drop some sunglasses when I came in here? Lily: I don't know. Junior: Ah, well. Might as well use some more of this stuff. See you, Lily. (uses his sparkle to disappear) (Mutt groans in surprise) Lily: (picks up gold dust in curiosity) What is this stuff? (Scene cuts to Mr. Conductor is sleeping at a bottom of a hill, squirming and having another dream about Shining Time losing its magic) Mr. Conductor: The magic is gone. Why did I take my gold dust for granted? I can't help anyone without my gold dust. What is the source of my gold dust? (wakes up to hear chuffing) Is someone there? Thomas, is that you? (sees Thomas going by and not noticing him) Thomas: Mr. Conductor? Mr. Conductor. Mr. Conductor: Thomas? Thomas: Oh, Mr. Conductor. Where are you? Mr. Conductor: Thomas? (when Thomas disappears out of sight, Mr. Conductor lays down in depression) How could I possibly say that I'm really useful now? (Scene cuts to Shining Time Station with Lily playing her harmonica) Stacy: (walks over to Lily) Excuse me. Are you, Lily? Lily: Yeah. (rising up and smiling) Stacy: Hi. I'm Stacy Jones. I'm manager here. (shakes Lily's hand) Your grandpa's very upset. You must've gotten on the wrong train. (puts her hand on Lily's back as they walk away) I better take you back to Muffle Mountain. (Scene cuts to Lily and Stacy in Stacy's car riding along the mountainside) Lily: Stacy, did you know my grandma? Stacy: My mother did. She said Tasha was a wonderful dancer. Lily: I think grandpa liked to call grandma Lady. Stacy: Lady? Lily: Yeah, I heard her say that name when they were talking. Stacy: I wish…oh, never mind. Stacey, I'm a little nervous. Well, maybe your grandpa is, too. It's been a while since you've seen each other. Stacy: Hello, Burnett. Burnett: Hello, Stacy. (turns to Lily) Hello, Lilly. Stacy: (after a short silence and handing Burnett Lily's bag) Well, have a good evening, Burnett. Burnett: Thanks, Stacy. Good night. (as Stacy walks away) Lily: Stacy? Stacy: (turning around) Hmm? Lily: You said I wish. Stacy: I wish? Oh, yes. I wish you could come back and see us tomorrow at Shining Time. If your grandpa lets you. (Lily turns around and walks into Burnett's car with Burnett walking in after her and driving away) Lily: (in the car as they arrive at the cottage) Here, grandpa. I made you a friendship bracelet. Grandma taught me how to make them when I was little. This one's for you. Burnett: Thank you, Lily. (Scene cuts to nighttime at Burnett's fireplace. Some Things Never Leave You by Joe Henry plays as he pokes his stick around the fire. Lily is in bed when she hears the distant train whistle that Burnett heard earlier on that morning. Patch is outside with his horse galloping around in a circle. He hears it too. Lily looks out the window while the song still plays and the train whistle still sounds. The song continues as Burnett re-imagines the school dance where a crowd is watching him and Tasha dancing, Boomer glaring the background and we get a close up of him. Burnett hears the train whistle 1 more time as he continues poking his stick around the fire) (Night Train plays when the Scene cuts to Sodor with Percy chuffing over the bridge with the mail train) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) As the mysterious sound of the lost engine echoed through the night on Muffle Mountain, the engines on Sodor had her very much in their thoughts. Percy: Thomas, I was thinking, how does Mr. Conductor travel here? Thomas: By gold dust. Percy: (as Diesel 10 eavesdrop from the shadows) But if there's a lost engine, maybe there's a lost railway, too. Mr. Conductor's railway! Thomas: The journey gets bumpier and bumpier. That's what Mr. Conductor told me. Percy: He talked about buffers in his sleep! Buffers are at the end of a railway. I think that's how he travels here, on a secret railway. Thomas: Belonging to the lost engine! Percy, you are clever. My wheels are suddenly feeling very wobbly. I think Diesel's around here! (Toby chuffs into the station] Toby: I'm sorry, you two. Diesel heard every word you said. I'm going after him to see what he does next. You'd better get the mail delivered. Percy: Oh, you're very brave Toby. Toby: Diesel won't bother with an old engine like me. He thinks I'm really useless. Mavis: (as she and Toby chuff out of Knapford Station) Yeah, I may be a Diesel, but I was very kind to the steam engines. Diesel 10: (singing as he chuffs in and out of the Smelters Yard) I've been working on the railway. All a live long day. (sniggers) Who wants to work a live long day anyway? (Toby chuff slowly ato the scrapyards, the mist covering them from view of the shed.] Toby: (whispering) There he is, (Splatter and Dodge joins Diesel 10 in the shed, rolling slowly next to them at the side of the shed) Diesel 10: Come in, come in. And join the party, Splodge. Splatter: Hooray, hooray. We're gonna have a party. Dodge: Oh, yeah. I love parties. Who's got the balloons? Toby: (whispering to himself) Hmm? What? Diesel 10: Correction. Join the party that's over. Just like Twinkle Toes' magic railway is gonna be over. Gone. Like the lost engine and the buffers that seem to her. Splatter: Well, what are you gonna do? Dodge: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's good of course. Diesel 10: It's time to finally put Twinkle Toes' lights out. (Splodge mutters in confusing and worry) Diesel 10: This is a job…(bringing Pinchy out of the hatch)…FOR THE BOSS! (moving his claw) Toby: (whispering) I've got to delay him. I've got to distract him. (Toby ringing his bell and alerting Diesel 10 and his gang) Diesel 10: IIt's the old teapot! Smash him! (uses Pinchy to knock down the a bar holding up the shed and bring the roof down on the 3 of them) (Splodge groans in surprise and Diesel 10 brings out Pinchy, snapping it, causing Toby to chuckle) Pinchy, get back in here! Pinchy, don't make me come up there I hate it when you're doing this! Toby: (chuckling) Good show/ (Mavis and Toby chuff away out of the scrapyard) Splatter: Um, boss. Did you mean to let the roof fall in? Dodge: Yeah, like all the way in? Diesel 10: I always mean what I do, you rattletraps. Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) Diesel was in a dump but the steam engines were right on track. Thomas: (stops and faces Henry) Morning, Henry. What's the matter? Henry: I've got…(sniffs)…boiler ache. Thomas: Boiler ache? How? Henry: Well I got the wrong sort of coal this morning, I thought it was the Welsh coal Sir Topham Hatt gave me. Thomas: (chuffing away backwards) Don't worry, Henry. I'm collecting one, two, three, four, five, six trucks of special NWR coal for you. Henry: Oh, thank you, Thomas. Special coal will make me feel…(aching)…much better. Thomas: (chuffing into a siding and shunting 6 coal trucks) But I wish I could make Mr. Conductor happy too by finding him. (The last truck goes through the magic buffers unbeknownst to Thomas who chuffs away with the other five trucks) Bertie: (honking as he passes by Thomas) Hello, Thomas and your five coal trucks. Vroom, Vroom. Thomas: Five? But I thought I had six. (Later, Thomas chuffs next to Percy at the water tower with Annie and Clarabel) Thomas: Hello, Percy. Percy: Oh, Thomas. I've been worried about you. Bertie said you lost a coal truck today. Thomas: Yes, it disappeared when I was at the buffers. Near the little grotto. Percy: Maybe those are the buffers that lead to the magic railway. Thomas: And the grotto is the lost engine's special platform. Percy: Oh, yes! Thomas: Percy, you protect those buffers from Diesel… Percy: What? Thomas: …and I'll find Mr. Conductor. Percy: Why me? Thomas: 'Cause you're a brave engine, Percy. Percy: Oh, I forgot. (Scene cuts to the viaduct then to Mr. Conductor when Diesel 10 appears behind him with his claw up) Diesel 10: Hello, Twinkle Toes. Remember me? (Mr. Conductor gasps and puts his hat on, running) (cackling slightly) Won't have much use for you looking like that. (cackles and turns his claw as Mr. Conductor climbs up the hill and trips) I see you forgot to bring the sugar. How careless of you. (using his claw to pick a panicking Mr. Conductor) Watch and see how many tricks I have up my claw to dispose of you unless you answer a simple question. (cackles and chuffs over to the viaduct before cackling again and moving Mr. Conductor around in his claw) Okay, Twinkle Toes! I know about the buffers! Mr. Conductor: (looking at the crumbling viaduct) That's what I saw in my dream. My universe is starting to crumble. Diesel 10: And when that engine, you and all those puffballs will be history along their worthy Fat Hatt! (as Mr. Conductor finds his wire) So now tell me where the buffers are! NOW! (Mr. Conductor laughs as he pulls out a pair of scissors) (shakes his claw, causing the scissors to fall away from Mr. Conductor) You got 10 seconds! 10…9…(as Mr. Conductor reaches out for his scissors)… 8…7…6…5…(as Mr. Conductor finally grabs his scissors and sighs in relief)…4…3…2…1…(before Mr. Conductor cuts into one of his wires)…(unintentionally his claw sends Mr. Conductor flying through the air) Mr. Conductor: (as he is shoved off Diesel 10's claw) Too late, Diesel! (screaming as he falls to the ground and into a flour near the windmill, catching his hat and rising up) Did you put all this here for me? You must've known that I was coming. How kind of you. Oh, I'm at the windmill. Now that's what I call a perfect landing. (standing up and looking at the windmill) Let's see. This must be the clue to unlock the source to the gold dust. (looks at the clue) Stoke up the magic in the mountain and the Lady will smile…(clue disappears then comes back)…then watch the swirls that spin so well. (clue disappears entirely) But where's the writing gone? (Scene cuts to the Tidmouth Yard with Diesel 10 and Splodge) Splatter: Eh, so, boss. Dodge: How come you let Twinkle Toes escape? Diesel 10: Oh, that. Well, I did it on purpose… Splatter: Hmm. Dodge: Uh, oh. Diesel 10: …You know I was testing him to see if he really could escape. Splatter: Liar, Liar. Dodge: Pants on fire. Diesel 10: Alright, playtime's over, Splodge! Splodge: Uh, Oh. Diesel 10: Now, it's time for the next lesson, huh?! I call it…"How to Stop Being Stupid"! (Pinchy against the coal hopper he is under, and all the coal comes pouring down onto him. Henry, Gordon and James watch nearby in amusement.] Diesel 10: Ah, well. Now that's gonna ruin my facial. (Scene cuts to Muffle Mountain where Lily is on the swing when Patch behind her) Patch: Bet you can't climb that tree. (Lily stands up and climbs up the tree nearby her, Patch watching her and impressed as Lily sits on the treetop and looks down at him. She then climbs down and faces Patch) Lily: See? Patch: Where did you learn to that? Lily: On my fire escape. Patch: Hiya, I'm Patch. Lily: I'm Lily. Do you live around here? Patch: (as Burnett walks into view) Yes, my mom and dad are into stables. Burnett: Morning, Patch. Patch: Good morning, Mr. Stone. I'm running into Shining Time. Can Lily come with me if she'd like to? Burnett: If she likes to. Lily: I'd like to. (smiles and looks at Burnett) Burnett: Sure. She can go. (nodding) Be back by sunset though. Lily: (nods in agreement and looks at Burnett) Do you wanna come too? Burnett: I never go there now. (walks away) Lily: Bye, grandpa. (looks at Patch) Patch: So…have you ever ridden a horse before? Lily: (shaking her head) No. (Scene cuts to the fields where Patch and Lily are riding Patch's horse. Both of them are smiling with excitement) Patch: I've always wanted to go this way. We're following some shadowy lines that I've seen on a map. They're like railroad tracks without any rails. Burnett: Well, Lady. What are we going to do? (pointing his light up something that appears to be the lost engine Lady and we get a glimpse of her for the first time) It seemed so much easier when Tasha and I were children. (Lady's train whistle sounds) (Lily is inside Shining Time Station with Mutt, feeling the window when Junior pops out of Mr. Conductor's house with his sparkle, humming. Mutt barks) Lily: (smiling) Junior! Junior: Presto. I thought I'd give up on seeing you again. What's blue, green and red and goes beep, beep? Lily: (sighing) A parrot and it means chirp chirp. Junior: Nah, trains. Talking trains. (uses his foot to pick up his skateboard and grab it) I'm off to see them on the Island of Sodor right now. And cousin. I overslept and I better hurry. Do you wanna come? Lily: Can we be back here by sunset? Junior: Hope so. (rolls his skateboard away) I wanna get back to the beach. Lily: (turns to Mutt) What do you think, Mutt? (Mutt barks twice) Okay. Junior: Good. It's… (pointing to a tunnel portrait next to Mr. Conductor's house) …this way. We'll take the shortcut. (knocking on the portrait) Lily: Really? Junior: Um… but there's two of us. Ah, well. Guess that means I'll have to get some of my cousin's extra supply of gold dust. Ah, it doesn't matter. I'll have plenty more soon. Lily: (picking up gold dust) Can I take this little bit back for Grandpa? Junior: (using a conductor pose) Be my guest. I'll take care of it for you. (picks up gold dust from Lily's hand and puts it in his hand) Ready? Here goes. (blows conductor whistle and sends both him and Lily flying into the Magic Railroad.) (Both Junior and Lily are flying through the Magic Railroad) Lily: You've grown bigger. Junior: (laying back) Maybe you're smaller. I'm just adjusting props up to my new surroundings. (sighs) This all goes when this ever happens to me. (rising up in excitement with both him and Lily laughing) Woah! A bit bouncy, isn't it? Lily: Where are we? Junior: Why, this is the magic railroad. Lily: Wait, did you just say magic railroad? Junior: (blowing his conductor whistle) Yeah. We're traveling miles and miles to the Island. But… I don't know if this Railroad's gonna last much longer. It'll vanish like the engine? Lily: What engine? Junior: The engine that used to travel on this Railroad. Cousin and I never saw it. We don't know what happened to it. (looks at the coal truck that disappeared into the grotto earlier because Thomas was meant to take it with him with the other five trucks) Hey, what's that truck doing here? Lily: I never seen this coal truck from before. Junior: You gotta be ready and hang on, Lily. (blows his conductor whistle) Here are the buffers. (shouts as he and Lily travel through the grotto and onto Sodor, landing on the grass) Lily: Where are we? Junior: (looks at his watch and replies) Well, the Island of Sodor of course. This way. (pointing to a mountainside and starts climbing it and then sneezing) Oh, bogus. Lily: What's the matter? Junior: I think I'm allergic to grass. (sneezing again) Lily: It's a good thing I like climbing things. (reaches the top of the hill with Junior and hears train whistling and chattering in the distance) What's that noise? Junior: The trains. I told you they could talk. We're too far away to hear what they're saying. (looks at the engines in the distance) (Thomas chuffs under a bridge and through the countryside with Annie and Clarabel) Thomas: (looks at Junior and Lily) Annie, Clarabel, there's Mr. Conductor. We've found him. (changes points onto the next track toward the chattering Junior and Lily) Oh, bunker. It's Junior. Lily: (pointing to Thomas) Junior, look. Junior: It's Thomas. (waves at a dismayed Thomas who stops by him) Hello, Thomas. Now don't look so surprised. I know you haven't seen me since… Thomas: You stuck party poppers down my funnel! Junior: Relax, Thomas, it never make any harm, and we had a laugh. Thomas: You did? Lily: (gasps) You're talking to each other. Junior: Ah, first prize of course. (puts his hand on Lily's shoulder) Lily, Thomas. Thomas, Lily. Now, where's my cousin? (walks around to find Mr. Conductor) Lily: (looks at Thomas and waves) Hi. Thomas: Hello, Lily. Welcome to Sodor. Junior: (hops into Thomas' cab) Come on, Lily. I'm very home on trains. (Lily hops inside Thomas' cab) Thomas: Annie, Clarabel, I'll send Percy back to fetch you. (chuffs away) Annie and Clarabel: We've heard that one before. (Thomas chuffs through the countryside to look for Mr. Conductor with Junior and Lily in his cab. Junior groans) Lily: What;s the matter? Junior: Traveling sickness. (Thomas chuffs closer toward the windmill where a shining object occurs) Lily: What's that shining at the windmill? Junior: Presto, Lily. I think it's my cousin. (Thomas whistles and stops by the windmill) Thomas: Mr. Conductor! Mr. Conductor! Mr. Conductor: Thomas! Am I glad to see you. (Junior, Lily hop out of Thomas' cab, ready to greet Mr. Conductor who rises up to greet them) Junior: Come on, Lily. (Junior and Lily walk up to Mr. Conductor who gives Junior a slight glare) Hey, cous. What's up? Enjoying the sun? Mr. Conductor: (firmly) No, Junior. I am not. In fact, I just landed here after escaping a heavy metal monster. Junior, where have you been? Thomas: Is your sparkle back, Mr. Conductor? Mr. Conductor: (looks over to Thomas) No, Thomas. It isn't… (looking over to Junior and Lily) …but I do know the clue. (Junior and Lily smile with surprise. Junior walks over to Mr. Conductor and kneels on a flour sack in front of him) Stoke up the magic in the mountain…eh… (snaps his fingers) darn! Thomas: Dither! Junior: Hey, cous. You're looking terrible. Why don't we get more gold dust 'cause I used yours up. Then you go back home and I'll go back to the beach. Mr. Conductor: Junior, I want you to listen to me very carefully… (Bellflower ringing interrupts Mr. Conductor's speech) Thomas: Uh, oh. Mr. Conductor: I'll get that (rises over to the bellflower before Junior picks it up for him) Junior: (speaking into the bellflower) Hello. No. It's his cousin. (Mr. Conductor gives Junior gestures to hand him the bellflower) Junior: Who's this? (using a British accent) Hello, hatty. No. No, No, No. He's hanging around here somewhere. (smiles and hands the phone to Mr. Conductor) Mr. Conductor: Yes, Sir Topham Hatt, sir. No, he just wanted to be friendly. No, he is not a dog. Let's just say he's a puppy in need of a good trainer. No, nothing to worry about, sir. Goodbye, sir. (knocks Junior to the ground who then looks at the windmill) Junior: Ow! Mr. Conductor: Nothing to worry about, sir. It's a best way to say goodbye. (hangs up and gives Junior a glare) Junior: Cous, this is Lily. (pointing to Lily) She's staying with Grandpa Stone. Mr. Conductor: (walking over to Lily and shaking his hand, Junior using the commotion to jump onto the windmill) Hello, Lily. Lily: Hello. Mr. Conductor: (looks back at Junior who is missing) Junior? Junior. (Mr. Conductor, Lily and Thomas look up to hear Junior shouting excitedly on the windmill) Lily: Junior? Mr. Conductor: Junior, what are you doing up there? Come down! It's too windy! Junior: (looking down) This is just like the fun fair. Give us two seconds. Mr. Conductor: Two seconds is all it takes for you to land in trouble! (Junior ignores Mr. Conductor and shouts as the wind picks up and the windmill goes faster and faster, sending him flying through the air and onto Diesel 10's cab) Diesel 10: Aha! There's Twinkle Toes Junior! Junior: (as his beach falls onto the track) Oh no, my beach bag! Diesel 10: You won't be doing any surfing up here, Mr. Kahuna! Junior: Really? Watch me. (standing up in a surfer pose) Diesel 10: Hang on tight, moon doggy! (moves faster) Junior: Ye-haw! (Scene cuts back to the windmill with Thomas, Mr. Conductor and Lily) Thomas: Diesel's hijacked him. Lily: So, what's gonna happen to Junior now? Mr. Conductor: Well, my family is usually pretty good at getting themselves out of trouble. Eventually. Thomas: I don't know what eventually means but it sounds very, very long. (Scene cuts to Muffle Mountain where Patch walks up to Burnett. Burnett looks back at him) Burnett: Where's Lily? Patch: I wish I knew, Mr. Stone. I'm sorry. She wasn't there at the station when I went back for her. (Both of them look sad at the disappearance of Lily) Burnett: It's okay, Patch. We'll find her. Don't worry. (walks away with Patch watching him) (Scene cuts to nighttime on Sodor where Percy with Liz chuff slowly through the countryside to find the magic buffers) Percy: (to himself) I am brave. I am brave. Thomas says I'm brave so I'm brave. (chuffs through a dark forest) Oh, it's not easy being brave. (chuffs to the magic buffers to find Splatter and Dodge) Percy: Shiver my pistons! There's Splatter and Dodge! They've found the buffers! (stops in front of a set of buffers and sees Splatter and Dodge) Oh, and now what's going to happen? (Crows start flying out of the tree, causing Percy to gasp and a talking tumbleweed flies by and onto another track) Talking Tumbleweed: Howdy, partner. Coming through. Excuse me. Percy: Oh, that's nothing. (A barn door opens and closes) Oh, I think that was something! Splatter: And these must be the buffers Diesel's looking for. Dodge: Oh, god. Are we supposed to go through them? Splatter: Not me. You. Dodge: This is a job for boss. (owl hoots) Splatter: Ah, ah, we'll tell him tomorrow. Dodge: Yeah, Tomorrow's good. Percy: (backs away) Oh, I'd better hurry back and warn Thomas. (Scene cuts to Mr. Conductor and Lily by a campfire. Thomas is standing by them. Mr. Conductor is flipping cards to cheer Lily up since she can't get home to Burnett, keeping Lily cheerful) Mr. Conductor: (Narrating) I was doing his best to keep Lily cheerful. I knew she was worried about being late for my grandpa. Lily: Mr. Conductor, I was supposed to be back by sunset. Mr. Conductor: You know, Lily. Perhaps your grandpa can guess where you are. Lily: He can? Mr. Conductor: Maybe. Because I think he's been here himself long ago. And if he can help, I wish he could hurry. I haven't told Junior this but I think he'll soon grow as weak as I am. (Thomas looks worried about Mr. Conductor had said) Lily: Junior said that there used to be an engine that traveled on the Magic Railroad. And if only we could find it, we could travel back to Shining Time. Mr. Conductor: Oh, that engine disappeared a long time ago. Never to be seen or heard from again. Lily: I have to tell you something, Mr. C. (Mr. Conductor looks up at her) I heard a train whistle and I think it was coming from the mountain. Mr. Conductor: (remembering) "Mountain". I've just remembered another part of the clue. Stoke up the magic in the mountain and the Lady will smile. (he, Lily, and Thomas become delighted) But we need more information, Lily. And I know that your grandpa could help. If he just believed that he could. Lily: (confused) Lady? (Both of them continue to dust Lady off) Patch: She can whistle. I heard her. Burnett: (nodding) Yeah. So have I. It's because she's magical. Patch: (looking at a map that Burnett has up on the wall) This must be the map of her Magic Railroad. But…the railroad's energy is fading away. I sensed it when we were out riding. Lily and I were traveling on the ground above it. Burnett: The railroad needs Lady but I don't know her special secret. And I need to know it now more than ever. Patch: Because of Lily? Burnett: Yes, because of Lily. (Scene cuts to Sodor where Percy have met up with Thomas along with Mr. Conductor and Lily.] Percy: So, Thomas, I've got an idea. We must get the little girl back to her grandpa now in case Diesel gets rid of the railway. Thomas: But how can I let Lily go without gold dust? Mr. Conductor: (lying down) Only in the lost engine. (thinking and rising) Unless… Thomas: Unless what? Mr. Conductor: (standing up and facing Thomas) Thomas, will you please take Lily? I'm staying here. Thomas: Through the buffers? But what if I go through the railway and my wheels don't work? Mr. Conductor: But what if they do? Thomas: But what if… if… Mr. Conductor: Yes. Thomas: What if it's dark? Mr. Conductor: It will be for a while. Thomas: And cold? Mr. Conductor: Maybe. But you can survive the cold air. Thomas: And how will I get back again? Mr. Conductor: Because you're a really useful engine and will find a way. (Lily smiles at Mr. Conductor then at Thomas) Thomas: Then I'll try. (Thomas takes Lily across Sodor, through the dark forest and into the area where the magic buffers) I promise I'll get you home to your grandpa, Lily. (A tumbleweed falls onto the track in front of Thomas.) Tumbleweed: Follow me, partner. Thomas: Whoa! Tumbleweed: Right this way to Bufferville. Just a walk in the park. (leads Thomas and Lily to the magic buffers) Thomas: We're going through, Lily. Tumbleweed: You're on your own from here, little blue buckaroo. Woo-hoo! Thomas: Little engines can do big things! (goes through the buffers which leads to the Magic Railroad) It is dark. And cold. And bumpy. But I cannot be afraid, just survive this. (passes by one of his missing coal trucks he was meant to bring for Henry) Ooh, there's the missing coal truck. Lily: Coal truck? (wondering) Stoke up the magic in the mountain. That's part of Mr. Conductor's clue to his gold dust. Thomas: And Lily, that's what you do with coal. Stoke it up to make steam. We're going to be really reliable and help Mr. Conductor. We're going back for that coal truck. (stops his wheels and reverses) Buffers? Coal truck? We're starting to solve the mysteries, Lily. (stops and couples up to the last coal truck he dropped then chuffing along the tracks forward again) Lily: (looking out of Thomas' cab) You're a really useful engine, Thomas. Thomas: Lily, where are we? Lily: (hopping off Thomas' cab) Muffle Mountain, Thomas. Thomas: (getting dizzy) I think… I feel… a little dizzy. (Thomas felt sad) I can't go any further. My wheels won't let me. Lily: Then I'll be back, Thomas. I promise but I must find grandpa. Thomas: It's getting windy up here. [As Lily leaves, the wind picks up.] Thomas: Bust my boiler! Thomas: (chuffing farther down the mountain) I've left the coal truck behind… again! Lily: (runs farther down the mountain, Patch rides his horse when she comes into view) Where's grandpa? Can you take me to him? Patch: Jump up. Lily: I knew I could count on you. (jumps on the horse) Thomas: (chuffing farther down toward the trees) Stop, wheels! Stop! (Scene cuts to Burnett's workshop where Burnett is reading instruction papers on how to get Lady to work again and then covers his eyes in depression. Lily arrives) Lily: Grandpa. Burnett: (looks up in surprise) Oh, Lily. I'm so glad to see you. Lily: There's this island with talking trains and they said you might've been there. But Mr. Conductor is very sick and Junior's in danger and I had to leave poor Thomas behind. Please help me. (looks to see Lady and walks over to her) Burnett: I'd like to, Lily. But nothing seems to work. Lily: This is the lost engine from ong ago. (turns to Burnett) Now we can go back to the Island and bring Mr. Conductor and Junior home. Burnett: I can't make her steam. (Patch walks up) I've tried all the different coals in the valley. Lily: Lady? Is that her name? Burnett: Yes. Lily: Coal. Special coal from the Island of Sodor. That's what Lady needs. Patch, there's a coal truck at the top of the mountain. Do you think you could get some? Patch: Of course I will. (runs out of the workshop) (Scene cuts to Sodor where Diesel 10 chuffs into the Smelters Yard, Junior still on his cab) Junior: I'm sorry, Lily. I'm sorry, Cousin. I couldn't be whatever it is. Responsible, reliable, really useful. I will be! I will be! I will be! (Diesel 10 chuffs into the Smelters Yard shed to face a panicking James. Junior falls off his cab and onto James' cab roof and then tries to use his sparkle to have both of them disappear but fails) Diesel 10: Ah, so you've lost your sparkle too. (as James groans and then he cackles and brings out his claw) Bye-Bye, Twinkle Toes! Junior: (panicking) It's empty. Diesel 10: Here we go! (moving closer toward James and Junior) James: Junior, what are we going to do? Junior: We'll think of something. (James and Junior move closer toward the buffers as Diesel 10 closes in on them and cackles) Diesel 10: That's it. Junior: I'll find you some more, Lily. I promise. If I'm gonna be any help at all, it's now or never. I've got to use up the rest of this stuff. (plans to use the rest of his sparkle that he gave to Lily) Diesel 10: Are you ready? James: No, we're not. Junior: James, you have brains. Get us outta here. (uses his sparkle to teleport them both out of the Smelters shed) James: Now, we are. Diesel 10: What the?! (Scene cuts to Mr. Conductor as Junior and James teleport in to join them) Junior: Yahoo! James: Waha. (chuckles) Junior: Bye, James. James: Bye, Junior. Junior: (sneezing and coughing before walking up to Mr. Conductor) Sorry, I've been in the scrapyard so long now… (breathing) …but better be late than never. Mr. Conductor: Junior, we're all out of gold dust, aren't we? Junior: Bankrupt. (sighing and looking around) Hey, it's a beautiful day! (walking down to Mr. Conductor and putting his arm around him) I mean, we're down but we're not out. Mr. Conductor: No, we're out… but we are not down. (Scene cuts to the Muffle Mountain workshop with Lily, Burnett, Patch, and Mutt) Lily: (to Burnett) Did grandma love Lady as much as you do? Did she ever get to take a ride on her? Burnett: Grandma loved her because I loved her, but she didn't get a chance to ride on Lady. I couldn't fix her in time. (Lily and Burnett hold hands before Burnett stokes up special coal into Lady and helps her steam. Lily, Burnett, Patch, and Mutt then hop inside Lady and she chuffs away for the first time in years. She then chuffs along the Magic Railroad) Patch: Lily, look. (Everyone looks down to see gold dust shining over the tracks) The railroad is getting its energy back. (Lily swoops gold dust in her woolen bag as Lady chuffs along) Burnett: Well, Lady. The lights are all green for you now. Green for glory. (turns to Lily and smiles for the first time in years) Lily: Tasha would have loved this journey. Burnett: Yes, she would. And she would love it, since you were with me now. (holds Lily and kisses on the cheek as Lady chuffs into a more magical part of the railroad) Lady: (face showing for the first time) So, Burnett, you didn't forget about magic, do you? Well, at least it's safe inside you. (Lily shines gold dust onto her bluebird then looks back to see Thomas) Lily: Thomas! Thomas: You've found her! And she's beautiful! (Burnett to Lady's whistle, encouraging Lily to blow it which she does. Thomas whistles after her and Lady chuffs through the magic buffers and onto Sodor) Lily: We're on the Island of Sodor. Stop, grandpa. Stop, Lady. (Mutt barks as Lady stops by Mr. Conductor and Junior. The quartet then hop off Lady to join them) Hello, Junior. Hello, Mr. C. Mr. Conductor, this is my grandpa. (Burnett shakes his head at Mr. Conductor and smiles) Mr. Conductor: I'm glad you were able to find your way back. (puts his hand on Junior's shoulder) Junior, do you realize who this is? (pointing to Lady) Junior: Oh, I've never recognized this 1 beautiful engine. (walks slowly over to Lady, realizing more who she is and gasping) Why, this is the lost engine. (chuckles) Aren't we glad to see you? Now we can go back to Shining Time. It's much better fun journey. (turning back to Mr. Conductor who walks closer to him) Mr. Conductor: Junior, for the last time I just wanted you to listen to me very carefully… we won't make it back to Shining Time without the gold dust. (Junior kneels down and looks at his cousin, realizing that he was wrong) Without it, the magic could never exist anymore. Diesel 10: (as he moves closer toward Thomas and Lady on the track next to them) Ha-Ha! There's the blue puffball, and just look who else I've found! Splodge, get up here and destroy! Splatter: No, No, you do it yourself! Dodge: Yeah, Yeah, do it yourself! We mean that! Splatter: Yeah, we mean that! Dodge: Emphatically! Splatter: Yeah. What does that mean? Dodge: I have no idea. Splatter: It's a good word. Thomas: Run, Lady! Quickly! And I'm going to help you! Burnett: (hopping inside Lady's cab) So am I, my Lady. I will not let you down again. Diesel 10: Ah, who needs you, Splodge? I've got a new ally anyway. I'm going after those two steam engines, myself! (chuffs after Thomas and Lady) Mr. Conductor: (as Lady, Thomas and Diesel 10 chuff away) Watch out for the viaduct! It's dangerous! (as they left, Mr conductor screams.] Junior: What's the matter? Mr. Conductor: Lady. That engine's name is Lady. She's part of the clue to the source of the… Mr. Conductor and Junior: …gold dust! (both scream) (Scene cuts to Diesel 10 chasing after Thomas, Lady and Burnett) Diesel 10: Now I'll get you, Burnett Stone! Burnett: (looking back) No, you won't, because the magic you two refused to believe in will get the better of you! Diesel 10: You can run but you can't hide! Right, Pinchy? (Pinchy opens and closes and cackling at Thomas) Pinchy's hungry! Thomas: Ooh, get back! (chuffs away from Diesel 10) Burnett: (putting his hand on Lady's side) Come on, Lady. Diesel 10: Coming, puffball! (growling) (Diesel 10 tries to chase Thomas and Lady over a watermill) (cackles and singsong) Look out! (Thomas and Lady went through the tunnel) Here I come! Duck, Pinchy! (As Diesel went through the same tunnel which Lady and Thomas went through, Pinchy ducked through the tunnel. Thomas and Lady are seen getting away from Diesel 10) I like my lunch "steamed"! (cackles, going under a bridge) (Diesel 10 moves closer to Thomas and tries to grab him) Diesel 10: Petty fast… for a puffball. (Burnett then looks away) (The viaduct starts to crumble and Lady starts to cross it) Burnett: Well, Lady. This is your Shining Time too. Lady: (crosses the bridge) I hope so. Thomas: Come on, Lady. Little engines can do big things! (Lady goes across the viaduct, which grows wider. Thomas follows her.) (A stone falls and Lady crosses safely before Thomas.) (More stones fall, making a gap. Thomas slowly goes to the gap and jumps through.) (two pieces of arc fall, making a big one.) Burnett: Well done, Thomas! Well done! (blows Lady's whistle and Thomas whistles after him) (Diesel 10 attempts to cross the bridge but then looks down and gasps) Diesel 10: Uh oh. Ooh, what's going on? Diesel 10: Agh! Puffball! Teapot! Tin kettle! (Diesel 10 lands into a sludge-filled barge.) (The towboat tows the barge with Diesel 10 away.) (Diesel 10 sighs and is almost fallen from the barge.) Oh. Oh well, nice time of the year for a cruise, eh? (chuckles slightly but disappointedly] (The scene cuts to Thomas and Lady with the gang at a well) Thomas: But Mr. Conductor, you still don't have your gold dust. Lady: I think he will soon. Mr. Conductor: (thinking and remembering) Wait a minute. Then watch the swirls that spin so well. Patch: Swirls! Just like the ones that are shaving around Lady when we are on the railroad. Lily: Is there anything else? Junior: Of course there is. So well. A well means water. (pulls the bucket up from the well) Mr. Conductor: Lily, put the shavings in with the water. (Lily shakes the shavings around a bit on a plate) Burnett: Go ahead, Lily. Throw it up in the air. Junior: (begging) Please, Please. (Lily thinks for a moment) Thomas and Lady: Now, Lily! (Lily finally throws the shavings in the air, turning it into gold dust) Lily: Gold dust! Burnett: Gold dust! (Mr. Conductor and Junior cheer with joy) Junior: Gold dust! (chuckles and runs toward the gold dust with his conductor whistle) (Mr. Conductor and Junior both fill up their conductor whistles with gold dust) Thomas: Lady, you are a really helpful engine. Lady: And helping each other brings to life the magic in all of us. Patch: (puts his hand on Mutt) Come on, Mutt. Let's look around. (Mutt barks and walks off with Patch.) (Junior walks over to Lily) Junior: Lily, I think I promised you something. (holds her hand out and pours some gold dust from his whistle into her palm) Take some. (gives a conductor pose before they hug. Lily then walks away and Mr. Conductor walks over to him) So, cousin. How else can I help? Mr. Conductor: You mean, you don't want to go back to the beach? Junior: (nodding and laughing) No. (thinking) Well, maybe for a holiday. I'm ready to work. You got a job for me? Mr. Conductor: You know, Junior. There is a railroad. Junior: With palm trees? Mr. Conductor: One or two. Junior: And sunshine? Mr. Conductor: Sunny spells. Junior: I'll take it. What's the way? Wait a minute, where's your hat? I haven't asked you earlier. Mr. Conductor: (turns around and hands Junior his conductor hat) I found this, I don't it anymore. Junior: Why not? Mr. Conductor: This is the way, and yours now. You can have this. Junior: (Junior smiles, taking the conductor hat out of his hand and looking at it before putting it on and giving a conductor pose) Thanks, cousin. Mr. Conductor: Don't mention it. Junior: Well, see ya. (then uses his conductor whistle and sparkles away into gold dust. A bellflower rings so Mr. Conductor picks it up) Mr. Conductor: Hello. Oh, yes, Sir Topham Hatt, sir. You're on your way back right now. Splendid news. I'll be at the sheds to welcome you. Oh, yes, sir. Everything is under control. Goodbye, sir. Well, see you in Shining Time. (uses his conductor whistle to disappear into gold dust) Lily: Here, grandpa. I'd like you to have this. (drops gold dust into his palm) Burnett: Well, that's sweet of you, Lily. Here, give me the bluebird. (Lily hands him her bluebird and pours some of the gold dust on it) I think we should share it. (holds up the bluebird) Now we will always remember our Shining Time together. (Lily touches the bluebird and a rainbow color runs through it) ( The Shining Time Station is back to normal; the children plays baseball, the two laddies walks in town; the kids dances when Billy rides in the train go by, and Stacy gives the customer a ticket) Stacy: Have a great time. (Scene cuts to a flowerpot where Mr. Conductor giving plant food, shakes the box and picks out a ice cream) Mr. Conductor: Ah! (licks his ice cream) (Narrating) And so, we've come to the happy ending of our story, and it's time for all of us to go home, just like Thomas.

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