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EXT. ENGLAND-main line-night
We are on the British Main Line and in the distance were the two tank engines. They have their lamps on and going as fast as they could. There is no doubt that it was LIZZIE and THOMAS.
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EXT. ENGLAND-Main line/Lizzie/Thomas(trav.)-Night
LIZZIE was puffing hard as fast as her wheels could carry them. CARLY was shoveling a lot of coal into the fire. The same went with THOMAS' FIREMAN. He was shoveling for dear life.
Then we hear a horn from behind THOMAS in the distance. The Beast was on its way to catch up to them.
LIZZIE was scared, but THOMAS was showing bravery. He calls to LIZZIE.
THOMAS: Don't look back! I know you're scared, but we have to keep moving!
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INT. BEAST'S CAB-NIGHT
THE MASTER was looking really angry. THOMAS is ruining his plans, and he hates him most of all.
We see the front view of The Beast, which is what THE MASTER sees. It turns on the curve and we see THOMAS' back end in the distance with his red lamp. THE MASTER groans and advances his regulator even more to make The Beast go even faster. The speed increases to 70Mph.
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EXT. ENGLAND-MAIN LINE-NIGHT
We see a red signal in front of us for a moment. That means danger, do not proceed.
We go further away from the signal and LIZZIE rushes by and passes the signal. She saw the red signal.
LIZZIE (scared): Uh... Thomas...!
THOMAS: I see it! But we can't stop! Not while were being chased!
LIZZIE was worried, but she did as she was told. She rounds a curve and then she sees a light in the distance. That was another train.
LIZZIE: Thomas...
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Int. LIZZIE's cab-night
CARLY looks up through the window. She gasps. And starts to panic.
CARLY: Oh no! THOMAS! TRAIN!
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EXT. ENGLAND-MAIN LINE-NIGHT
THOMAS gasps.
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EXT. foreign train-night
We see the train. It was pulling an Express train full of passengers.
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Int. Foreign Train cab-night
The Driver leans forward to see what was going on ahead. He sees LIZZIE in the distance
Foreign Driver: OH MY GOD!
He sounds the horn loudly. Hoping LIZZIE would respond.
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EXT. ENGLAND-MAIN LINE-NIGHT
THOMAS thought hard on what to do. Then he noticed a signal box up ahead and knew what to do.
THOMAS: LIZZIE! Blow your whistle as loudly as you can!
LIZZIE quickly did as she was told. THOMAS follows with his whistle. Both were loud.
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Int. Signal Box-Night
The Signalman heard them. He gets up from his chair and looks out the window and sees the two engines blowing their whistles. He turns around and sees the other train. He cries out and quickly set the points so that THOMAS and LIZ could be sent to the other track.
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EXT. ENGLAND-mainline/all trains (Trav.)-night
The two engines came closer and closer to the other train. Then LIZZIE swerved onto the other line. Now it was up to THOMAS. The Driver of the other train shut his eyes tight-then THOMAS swerved onto the other track. The other train was really close to hitting THOMAS' back buffer beam.
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INT. SIGNAL BOX-NIGHT
The Signalman watches the two tank engines going by and pondered why they didn't obey the signals. By the time the train had cleared, The Beast rushed by and was catching up on them. The Signalman understood now.
Signalman #2: This will slow him down.
He pulls the lever to set the points.
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EXT. England-junction-night
The points the signalman set were the ones that were directed to an abandoned branch line. Signalman #2 was right. If they go on the branch line, it would slow The Beast down. It is dangerous to go really fast on branch lines. In addition, The Beast is too heavy to go on them.
We see LIZZIE still on the run. She gets diverted on the branch line. Her Driver scratched his head.
LIZZIE's driver: Why are we on a branch line?
THOMAS turns on the branch line as well, with the Works Unit Coach in tow, and did not care.
THOMAS: Keep going! There is no time to wonder where we're at.
The Beast gets on the branch as well. THE MASTER saw where he was. He was furious. He had to cut down speed. He pounds on the controls angrily. He cuts down his speed and The Beast roars again.
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EXT. England-branch line-night
Change Music
We see an old bridge in front of us. It is above a river, but at a higher position from the water. The bridge is so old that some parts of it were falling off. If heavy engines go on it, it will collapse.
The screen changes to where we can see LIZZIE's light in the distance. She is heading towards the bridge. We return to them. LIZZIE was getting tired of running.
CARLY peers out of the cab and sees the bridge up ahead. She saw a piece of wood had fallen from the bridge as they rounded a curve.
CARLY: Thomas! The bridge is breaking!
THOMAS looks over at the bridge and he sees it. He had to do something.
THOMAS: We'll have to cross!
LIZZIE, CARLY, and CARLY'S FRIENDS: WHAT!
THOMAS: I know it's dangerous, but it's the only way to lose those guys behind us.
CARLY: Thomas, are you sure?!
THOMAS: Everybody! You have to trust me!
Lizzie anxiously looked up ahead of her-then she looks back. The Beast was almost up to THOMAS.
THOMAS (CONT'D): Trust me!
LIZZIE closes her eyes and gnashes her teeth and puffs towards the bridge.
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EXT. England-bridge-night
LIZZIE starts crossing the bridge and it makes a lot of creaking noise. The bridge starts to break even more. It gets worse when THOMAS comes on it with his coach.
CARLY anxiously watches the bridge from below.
LIZZIE makes it across just as The Beast enters. The claw gets close to the coach. THE MASTER makes an evil grin.
THE MASTER: Good bye, Thomas the Tank Engine, and you little bastards with him!
Suddenly, the bridge finally collapses and starts falling down. THOMAS makes it through with his coach, but The Beast did not. It was falling into the ravine below.
THE MASTER screams that he is falling, and plunges to his death below alongside his own creation. It causes a massive explosion. Bigger than the one at EDWARD'S STATION. We zoom out by cutting each picture to see what it looked like far away.
Fade Out: Music
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Ext. abandoned station-night
We arrive at an abandoned station somewhere on the branch line. We see THOMAS and LIZZIE enter the scene from the bottom of the screen.
We return to the ground facing the front end of the two tank engines as they come to a stop. They looked tired and were panting to catch their breath.
CARLY gets down from LIZ's cab and goes over to THOMAS. She was smiling.
CARLY: Thomas, we did it.
Meanwhile, Carly's friends jumped off of the coach and ran over to hug Carly, indicating their gratefulness for surviving the chase.
THOMAS was still panting, but he managed to speak.
Thomas (panting): Yes... we did...
LIZZIE (panting): You were... pretty... fearless there, Thomas.
THOMAS makes a faint smile, but he knew it wasn't true.
THOMAS (PANTING): Actually... I was terrified.
CARLY: But you have shown bravery. I saw it in you.
THOMAS smiles.
LIZZIE looks up at the sky. A small light can be seen in the distance. We see it too. Dawn was coming.
LIZZIE: It's almost dawn. We better moving so we can go back to Sodor.
THOMAS' DRIVER peered his head from the side of the cab.
THOMAS' DRIVER: I'm afraid we won't be going anywhere right now.
Carly's Friends: Why not?
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INT. THOMAS' CAB-NIGHT
THOMAS' FIREMAN was looking at the water gauge. He answers the question
THOMAS' FIREMAN: We're out of coal and water.
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EXT. ABANDONED STATION-NIGHT
LIZZIE smiled. She knew what to do.
LIZZIE: Don't worry, Thomas. You helped me out of a situation, now it's my turn to help you.
THOMAS: Do you know your way about?
LIZZIE: I've been on this line a few times. There should be another junction at the other end. There might be a water column and a coaling stage there.
THOMAS: Lead the way.
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LIZZIE backs onto THOMAS. THOMAS' FIREMAN got the shunters pole and hooked up the two tank engines together. CARLY climbs back into the cab, LIZZIE blows her whistle and sets off down the branch to find the junction.
We look up at the night sky and we see the moon and the stars out. The stars were sparkling and the moon shined brightly. The light can be seen in the distance.
Fade Out: Music
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EXT. SODOR-BIG STATION-DAY
We return back to the Island of Sodor and come to the big station. All of the engines are there. GORDON, HENRY, PERCY, TOBY, EMILY, REBECCA, ROSIE, BOCO, DAISY, RYAN, BEAR, DONALD, DOUGLAS, DUCK, OLIVER, MOLLY, MURDOCH, KATE, and finally EDWARD. We wonder why they are not doing their work like SIR TOPHAM HATT would want them to do.
Apparently, SIR TOPHAM HATT is there as well as INSPECTOR NASH, BURNETT STONE, LADY HATT, and the parents of the missing teenagers. They were beside EDWARD on the right.
SIR TOPHAM HATT paces the platform.
INSPECTOR NASH and BURNETT STONE both stare out in the open to see if THOMAS and and the teens had made it back.
GORDON was feeling bored.
GORDON: What time is it?
GORDON's DRIVER looks at his watch.
Gordon's Driver: It's 2:00.
The engines were getting anxious.
PERCY (worried): What if they didn't make it?
EMILY: It's hard to think about it, little Percy.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: We can't give up hope. They have to alive still.
There was a long silence.
The STATIONMASTER came out. SIR TOPHAM HATT looked at him.
SIR TOPHAM HATT (CONT'D): Any luck?
Stationmaster #3: No Sir. Not a call from Thomas' crew or the teens.
The Inspector puts his hand covering his eyes.
INSPECTOR NASH: I really want my daughter back.
BURNETT STONE: We all want our kids back Nash, we all do.
SIR TOPHAM puts his hand on the Inspector's back and patted him. While Tasha hugs Burnett affectionately.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: And I want my engine back.
Fade Up: Music
Then we heard a familiar whistle. Everyone else hears it too and looks out in the open and there we see THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE with LIZZIE coming round the curve side by side.
All the engines whistled and the staff cheered.
The two engines stopped 10 feet away from the station. All of the men and women ran towards them.
We see CARLY jump down from the cab and ran towards her father. They hugged each other as they are so happy to see each other. The other teens jump out of the coach to hug their parents as well.
INSPECTOR NASH: Thank goodness you kids are safe!
We watch the moment of love between parents, grandparents, and children for a few secs.
We are now seeing THOMAS in front of us. SIR TOPHAM HATT enters from the left corner.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: Thomas, I was so worried about you.
Thomas (smiling): I'm still here, Sir. I'm not scrapped yet, nor will I ever be!
SIR TOPHAM HATT smiles back, but not for long.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: Thomas, that was very dangerous of you to go out there! You could have been killed! That includes you as well, Edward!
The Inspector got involved as well.
INSPECTOR NASH: That could have happened to you kids as well! We were worried sick about you!
THOMAS: I know, Sir. I just wanted to help and save Edward. He was in trouble and I had to do something, I know he would've done the same for me.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: I understand that, Thomas, but you should have left this to me, Inspector Nash, or Burnett Stone, we could've solved this matter ourselves.
LIZZIE (interrupting): Please Sir. If Thomas hadn't done that, I probably would have never been saved from there. Same goes for Edward. He saved us both, as well as all remaining steam engines from going to extinction.
SIR TOPHAM looks at LIZZIE. He was surprised.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: Who are you?
LIZZIE: I'm Lizzie. A Dockyard engine from the L.M.S.
Sir Topham Hatt (stunned): My...My.. Lizzie. For a second there, I thought you were one of Thomas' sisters.
LIZZIE chuckles.
LIZZIE: I know. But my family has been all scrapped just like Thomas's.
SIR TOPHAM HATT: It's a real shame that no one wanted to preserve one of your kind. I wonder why?
LIZZIE's face fell.
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LIZZIE: I don't know, Sir
SIR TOPHAM HATT
Well, I think I got a job for you. Would you like to be our new dockyard engine at Tidmouth Harbor, and to be repainted to a different livery?
LIZZIE (SMILING): Oh yes please, Sir. Thank you.
Then she glances over at THOMAS.
LIZZIE(CONT'D): Thank you, Thomas for bringing me here. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here. And all surviving steam engines would have been gone forever.
GORDON heard it.
GORDON: Steam engines would have been what...?
THOMAS smiles at LIZZIE.
THOMAS: Your welcome, Lizzie.
EDWARD calls out.
EDWARD: Three cheers for Thomas the Tank Engine! The hero of the North Western Railway!
"Peep Peep Peep!" whistled all of the engines.
THOMAS smiles and then spins his eyes.
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EXT. SODOR-DOCKYARD-DAY
Fade Up: Music
We now go to some scenes of the engines, we first see LIZZIE at Tidmouth Harbor in her new red livery with the NWR initials and the number 47 on her sides. She is seen shunting there alongside Rosie, the NWR's #37, and Stanley, the NWR's #38. All three are seen laughing.
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EXT. Works-day
This is the scene where JAMES is finally mended and it proves that he is alive and well.
JAMES smiles and toots his whistle.
His sister JANE is there, happy to see her brother back in order.
The Men cheer.
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EXT. SODOR-MAIN LINE-DAY
We see HENRY going into a tunnel with a goods train and we also see GORDON coming out of other tunnel with the Express. We are in between them. We then move to the coastline, we see REBECCA passing by with a passenger train. She whistles hello to MERLIN who is pulling an express train as well. He whistles back.
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EXT. SODOR-TOP STATION-DAY
In this scene, we see PERCY and TOBY in the yard. TOBY heads for the quarry while PERCY is shunting trucks. They were happy that everything is in peace. DAISY rolls by with a Milk Van, tooting to MAVIS who is pulling a slate train.
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EXT. SODOR-BIG STATION-DAY
We see EDWARD getting ready to depart from the station with a passenger train. Both he and the audience hear the Guard's whistle blow. He then he blows his whistle in response and he sets off.
He passes by CHARLIE who is shuting, and BOCO who is rolling by with a goods train.
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EXT. SODOR-Branch Line-sunset
Our last scene comes to THOMAS with ANNIE and CLARABEL where they are puffing to the sunset.
He then looks over towards the hill, and sees CARLY and her FRIENDS once more, who are waving at him.
THOMAS whistles goodbye which concludes our story.
Screen Fades.
THE END