Come Out, Henry!

***The Sad Story of Henry***, retitled ***Come Out, Henry!*** in North American releases, is the third episode of the first series. It is based on the story of the same name from the Railway Series book The Three Railway Engines.

## Plot

It is a very rainy day on Sodor and a large green engine named Henry is pulling a passenger train. He runs into a tunnel and stops there, not wanting to go any further. Henry's driver and fireman argue with him, but he refuses to come out, reasoning that the rain will spoil his green paint with red stripes.

 File:TheSadStoryOfHenry2.png  The guard tries blowing his whistle and waving his flag, but Henry instead blows steam at him.

Another passenger train arrives with the railway director, Sir Topham Hatt, better known as the Fat Controller. He decides to have Henry moved out of the tunnel by force. The passengers tie a rope to Henry's front coupling and try to pull him out, When Henry does not move, the passengers to the other end of the tunnel and attempt to push him out, but with the same results. The Fat Controller does not assist the passengers in their efforts, citing orders from his doctor.

The passengers point out to Henry that the rain has stopped, but Henry still refuses to move, believing that the rain will start again. Thomas arrives and tries to push Henry out, but even then, Henry remains in the tunnel. Finally having had enough of Henry's stubbornness, the Fat Controller tells him that they will leave him there "for always and always and always." The rails in front of Henry are taken up and a brick wall is erected in front of him.

Henry can only sit and watch the other engines passing through the other tunnel. He often sees Edward and Gordon pass by; Edward always toots hello with his whistle, while Gordon tells Henry it serves him right. Henry has no steam to answer them, and the soot and dirt from the tunnel has ruined his paint. Henry wonders if he will ever be let out to pull trains again, but the question of whether he deserves this punishment is left up in the air by the narrator.

## Characters

* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Thomas Template:Does not speak
* James Template:Cameo
* Mrs. Kyndley Template:Cameo
* Sir Topham Hatt's Brown-haired Assistant Template:Cameo

## Locations

* Henry's Tunnel
* The Pond Runby

## Trivia

### General

* The scene featuring Henry being bricked up was recreated in CGI during a flashback in the special Blue Mountain Mystery. The story was later re-adapted for The Adventure Begins. The event was later mentioned by Percy in the second series episode, Percy Takes the Plunge, James in the fourth series episode, Henry and the Elephant, Gordon in the twentieth series episode, Henry in the Dark, as well by Rosie in Big World! Big Adventures! during the song, Where in the World is Thomas? and Henry himself in the nineteenth series episode, Henry Spots Trouble.
* Four scenes in this episode were recreated in 1988 for the Ladybird book The Sad Story of Henry and Thomas's Train and Thomas and the Guard.
* In the Nick Jr. airing of the *Shining Time Station* episode, *Mysterious Stranger*, the sequence of Henry being bricked up is shortened.
* This is the first episode with several things:
	+ The first episode where the narrator breaks the fourth wall as he addresses the viewers in regards to the lesson of the story. He does this again in Thomas and the Trucks.
	+ The first episode to have a punctuation mark in the title in the US dub.
	+ The first episode to use stop-motion animation in a live-action model era episode.
	+ The first episode to feature just one location as a central part of its narrative (not counting the Pond Runby).
	+ The first episode in a series of four repeats in the late summer of 1990, beginning on Monday 30 July.
* Following on from the 1953 adaptation, this episode marks the second adaptation of the story.
* On the *Shining Time Station* episode, *Does it Bite?*, the last few seconds are cut off.
* The UK narration keeps the original format from the Railway Series where the Fat Controller intended to leave Henry in the tunnel forever. In the American ones, it was said to be until Henry was ready to leave and the wall was to prevent other engines from bumping into him. The narration change was so first-time viewers would understand the context of the story line better so they could predict what happens later and to make the Fat Controller more lenient.
* This episode is Henry and the Fat Controller's first speaking roles, and Henry's first leading role in the television series.
* The Welsh title of this episode has the same name as Henry.

### Errors

* In a few close-ups of Henry in the tunnel, the tracks in front of him have already been taken up.
* In the first scene of Henry having stopped at the other end of the tunnel, the points in front of him appear misaligned from the connector track. They are properly connected in subsequent scenes, however.
* In some shots, purple marks are visible on the Fat Controller's hand, such as when he says, that his doctor has forbidden him to pull.
* When the passengers try to pull Henry out of the tunnel, almost all of them have blu-tack on their feet.
* At some stages, the level of the wall can be seen being decreased in the original version and Henry moves a bit both in the original and restored versions.
* When the guard tries to get Henry out by blowing his whistle and waving his flags, the scene is played forward and then backward.
* At first, the buffers of Henry's last coach are at their normal height. But when Thomas comes to push, the buffers have been lowered to accommodate Thomas' buffers. Also, in the close-up of Thomas buffering up to the coaches, his buffer housing is black instead of red and the detail of his buffer housing is different, he is also missing his headlamp lens.
* When the workmen are walling up the tunnel, the buffers have no track connected to them. But in the last close-up, there is track in front of the buffers.
* When James leaves after bringing the Fat Controller:
	+ The puffing noise can be heard before James starts to move.
	+ The edge of the set can be seen, and the sky has ruffles in it.
	+ The second coach's roof is bented, and brake car is missing.
* In the close-up of Edward, his whistle is crooked.
* As Thomas tries to push Henry, the yellow stripe around his cab is bent.

### Books

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## In Other Languages

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