Shining Time

by Carl Darley

i don't need to tell you what a flop the original film was , largely due to the script being heavily edited with several characters being cut out .so in this rewrite i'm aiming to capture the style of the original script which is hard when you havent seen it, but ive had a pretty good guess!

6. Chapter 6 Mr Conductor's Nightmare

Chapter 6 Mr. Conductor's nightmare.

(Night time at the sheds)

(All the engines are asleep and Mr. Conductor makes himself a mug of hot chocolate)

Mr Conductor: needs more sugar

(He puts some in and sips again)

Mr Conductor: that's better

(Outside diesel 10 drives slowly up to the sheds and looks at the scaffolding the workmen left)

(Pinchy starts to pull down the scaffolding and diesel 10 blows his horn to wake the engines)

Diesel 10: HAHAHAHAHA!

Thomas: cinders and ashes it's diesel!

(Gordon shits a brick)

Gordon: diesel what in the name of bloody hell?

(Diesel 10 puts pinchy back in place as looks at him)

Diesel 10: hello twinkle toes! I've got a plan and you're not in it!

Mr Conductor: you can't catch me diesel!

(Mr. Conductor blows his whistle but doesn't disappear.)

Diesel: losing your sparkle ha? What perfect timing! Where is the lost engine?

Mr Conductor: you won't find him here

Diesel 10: you're not clever enough to stop me!

Mr Conductor: oh yes I am!

Diesel 10: no you're not!

(Mr. Conductor holds up a bag of sugar to diesel 10)

Diesel 10: huah! Is that

Mr Conductor: that's right its sugar diesel and If I throw this in your tank it'll seize you up for good!

(Diesel 10 starts to back away)

Diesel 10: make the most of tonight twinkle toes because you won't like tomorrow! Neither will that line of tin kettles!

Stepney: Mr. Conductor what happened to your sparkle?

Mr Conductor: I don't know Stepney I'll have to sleep on that

(Thomas looks puzzled)

Thomas: on your sparkle?

Mr Conductor: no Thomas, on the problem of what happened to it.

Percy: but Mr. Conductor without your sparkle or the lost engine you won't be able to travel her to help us anymore.

Mr Conductor; don't worry, I'll solve the problem

Percy: easy for you to say.

(Mr. Conductor goes to bed as the engines fall asleep)

(Percy wakes to hear Mr Conductor panicking)

Mr Conductor: sparkle, goldust, lost engine, buffers

Mr Conductor: The family told me, as long as there is a railroad, there will be harmony. As long as there is gold dust there will be energy. I will never have to worry, yeah right.

(Mr. Conductors dream)

(Shining time is now a ghost town and only Stacey is there)

Stacey: Mr C..? Mr. C. why aren't you here? Why couldn't you travel anymore to the island of sodor and back here to us at shining time .The magic's all gone.

(Back at tidmouth sheds)

Mr Conductor: what's wrong with our railroad and why? Our universe is in trouble, I've got to find more goldust!