Flour Power

***Flour Power*** is the twentieth and final episode of the ninth series.

## Plot

On Halloween night, Diesel was alone at Tidmouth Sheds when the Fat Controller assigned him to collect the flour from the mill and take it to the bakery, because Sodor needed it’s morning toast and Lady Hatt and him needed their crumpets. He also told Diesel that he must work with Thomas which makes Diesel upset.

Diesel arrived at Brendam Docks where he was suppose to meet Thomas, but he wasn’t there. He didn’t know that Thomas was sneaking behind him and gave Diesel a fright by biffing some oil tankers out of the way. Thomas teased Diesel for being a scaredy engine and they set off for the flour mill.

When they passed the woods, Thomas says it was the haunted forest, and called out to Diesel in a spooky voice. Diesel crossly tells Thomas to stop. When they arrived at the abandoned mines, they heard a banging noise and Thomas teased Diesel that it was a ghost engine looking for a diesel engine to scare. Diesel says he wasn’t scared, but secretly he was. When Thomas and Diesel stopped at a signal, Diesel heard a strange cry and felt something touch his can which was a tree, but he didn’t notice this. Thomas cried out to Diesel that it was the ghost engine after his smoke vents. Diesel was so scared he tooted frightfully and Thomas called him a scaredy engine twice. Diesel was so cross with Thomas that he wanted to find a way to pay him back.

When they arrived at the flour mill and Thomas went ahead of Diesel, Diesel had an idea to show Thomas who the scaredy engine was by biffing the trucks out of the way, thereby covering himself in white flour looking like a Ghost Engine. Thomas was so frightened he ran out of the flour mill, before he could hear that it was only Diesel. Diesel buffered up to the flour trucks and set off for the bakery. While heading for the bakery, Diesel realized the thing Thomas said that was used to scare him was just a tree that touched him, the strange cry was an owl, the banging at the abandoned mine was just a door, and that the forest he passed earlier was Class 40's Forest.

Thomas was with the Fat Controller at the bakery when Diesel arrived. Thomas gets scared again and tells the Fat Controller that the ghost engine had come to get him, but the Fat Controller says it was only Diesel. The Fat Controller praised Diesel for his hard work and rewards him a special washdown. Diesel was looking forward to telling his friends everything that had happened.

## Characters

* Diesel
* Thomas
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Class 40 (*does not speak*)
* Diesel 199 (*cameo*)
* Daisy (*cameo*)
* Big Mickey (*cameo*)
* The Dairy Manager (*cameo*)
* The Dairy Employees (*cameos*)
* The Baker (*cameo*)
* Dennis (*toy cameo*)
* Lady Hatt (*mentioned*)

## Trivia

* This episode has a similarly to the twenty-sixth and final episode from the ninth series of *Thomas & Friends* with the same name.
	+ This episode also involves Thomas and Diesel's roles reversed as in the original episode.
* The abandoned mines where Diesel approach are very similar to the Maithwaite Quarry Mine from Dennis and the Haunted Mine and Derek Breaks the Rules.
* The name of this episode is a play on the 1960s saying *Flower Power*.
* When the camera looks beside the boy's bed, a Wooden Railway Dennis and the medal from the seventh series episode, Three Cheers for Diesel are visible.