Blue Mountain Mystery

## **OVERVIEW**

Blue Mountain Mystery is the 2nd installment of *The Legend Of Swifty*. The Film tells the story how Swifty and his friends solve the next mystery to find out about the mysterious engine.

## **THE PLOT**

The Film Begins where It is a busy day at the Blue Mountain Quarry and as Emile is pulling away from Puss In Boots with his loaded trucks, the keystone from Blondin Bridge falls down from above. Jewel is travelling towards the crumbling bridge with his heavy slate trucks which push her onto the bridge. Jewel just manages to clear the bridge before it gives way. Jewel thunders down the line at high speed, knocking into walls on her way. When she comes to a stop, she is badly scratched, but not hurt. Emile, on the other hand, has not been so lucky and has been derailed by rubble from the bridge. He is in need to recover.

On Trident Castle, Swifty is working with his friends when a creature lurches around the bend tlking to Chief Bogo. They were surprised, but Chief Bogo explains that it is The Missing Link, his new assistance. Chief Bogo tells Swifty and his friends that Emile has been involved in an accident and that Swifty is to take Emile's place working at the Blue Mountain Quarry. Swifty and his friends hurries to the quarry and spends the day working hard with his friends. When evening arrives, The Mystery-Solvers takes their packages to the Docks and returns to Trident Castle for the night.

The next morning, Swifty is shunting trucks in the quarry when a mysterious green engine darts from a tunnel. Swifty introduces himself, but the little green engine does not reply and quickly rattles into another tunnel. Swifty asks Donkey who the green engine is, but Donkey tells Swifty and his friends he must have mistaken it for a runaway truck and hurries away. Then Aladar sees the green engine pulling slate trucks. He asks Jewel who he is, but Jewel says that he does not know. Later on, Andie sees the little green engine emerge from behind a shed. Andie calls out to him, but the engine races away. Thunder decides to ask Stella about the green engine, but the little skunk hastily tells Thunder that it must have been a mountain goat and rolls quickly away. Swifty makes his way to Manny, in hope that he will be able to tell him about the green engine. Just then, the little engine reappears and screeches to a halt. The little engine freezes and stares at the gang before racing toward a tunnel.

Just then, Jewel flies out of the tunnel, accidentally blocking the little engine's path. Jewel yells out an apology, "I'm sorry, Luke!" and Marty overhears her. He continues to follow the little engine, but the engine gets blocked by Ryan and Blaze as well. Jewel then clears a path for him, leaving the little engine racing back into the tunnel. Peng then confronts Manny and asks him who Luke is, why he keeps puffing away and why none of the others will talk about him. Manny decides that since Scar's defeat, he can be let in on the secret. Manny tells the gang that long ago Luke did something very bad and that he thinks if anyone finds him, he will be sent away from Jamaica forever.

On their way home, Swifty and the gang met Bellwether alongside Gill, who awarding Swifty for taking Emile's place and tells the young fox that it is a big deal for the "little guys" (the smaller mammals). Before her words can go any further, Gill rather rudely pushes Bellwether aside and takes photos with the gang, while Bellwether tries to get in the photos as well.

That night, The gang asks Jade what the worst thing an engine could do is. The animals think hard and Mel remembers when he likes to sit on a sofa and watches the tree outside of the window, but he barks violently every time a squirrel appears in the tree. Aladar remembers when he soon reaches the herd as Kron is about to make them climb the rocks. They fight and as Kron is about to strike Aladar, Neera intervenes by ramming into Kron and knocking him to the ground. She then walks beside Aladar as they lead the herd to the Nesting Grounds, leaving Kron behind. Swifty recalls the day that Magda gives him a new job. Marty mentions the time when Alex bite his butt, though they all agree that none of that was bad enough to be sent away from Jamaica.

The next morning, Blue Mountain Quarry is very busy. Rocky is moving stones from Blondin Bridge. Swifty and his friends arrives and finds Jewel complaining to Manny about needing her wing fixed after her accident. Aladar tells Manny that he has asked Jade and they have all decided that nothing is bad enough for an engine to be sent away forever. Manny turns stern and asks Swifty if he has told Jade about Luke. Marty says that he has not told them and that he wants to help Luke and be his friend. Manny is satisfied and reverses down the line. He does not see Lugia lifting rocks across his track. Swifty shouts out a warning and Manny manages to stop just in time. Manny thanks the gang who is pleased that Manny is able to trust him.

As they work, Luke puffs out of hiding and pulls up alongside the gang. Luke apologizes for hiding and tells him that he was scared. Luke then asks the gang if they can be friends. Eva is very pleased and the gang work together contently. Suddenly, the sound of a horn echoes around the quarry. This startles Luke who quickly goes into hiding. Winston whizzes around the bend carrying both Chief Bogo and Walter W. Wolf and pulls up beside Swifty. The two officers thank the gang for his hard work and tell him that Emile is now fixed and will be resuming his usual duties at the quarry. With that, they rattles away.

Swifty rolls over to Luke's tunnel and says goodbye. The gang asks Luke about what he did to fear being sent away from Jamaica. The little engine promises to tell them if they tells no one else. Morton agrees to keep the secret and Luke tells Swifty that it all happened when he first arrived on Jamaica. On the boat he arrived on, there was a yellow engine who spoke a different language that Luke could not understand. When they arrived at the docks, the men wanted to lift the yellow engine off first, but an excited Luke asked to be lifted off first. The dock workers agreed. As Luke pauses ominously, Swifty asks him to continue. Luke then tells the 10 that he knocked the yellow engine into the sea. Luke then recalls having to go to the hospital, but all he could think about was the yellow engine. The yellow engine was left in the sea for a long time and when he was finally lifted out, he was rusty and ruined. The yellow engine was never seen again and Luke assumes he must have been sent to the Smelter's Yard as he was not fit to work. Suddenly, Swifty hears Manny shouting at Emile who bolts out from behind some trucks. Swifty questions what Emile is doing and the rat stutters that he has come to take over from Swifty and his friends and Emile speeds away. The gang looks back towards Luke, but the little engine has vanished. Swifty calls a final goodbye into the tunnel and leaves.

The next morning, Swifty asks Jade to work on his branch line while they sets out to find the yellow engine. At the Mayfield Falls, The gang spots loads of engine parts, but none of them yellow. As the gang rolls out onto the forecourt, he hears something that makes his boiler run cold; Emile is telling Dawn Bellwether all about Luke and what he had done all those years ago. Dawn Bellwether is adamant that he does not want an engine that is capable of knocking another engine into the sea on the island. He tells Emile that they will tell Chief Bogo who will tell Walter W. Wolf and together they will send Luke away forever. Swifty does not want to hear another word and he and his friends run away as fast as they can. Dawn Bellwether sees Swifty and tells Emile that they must find out what trickery the Mystery-Solvers is doing and fetch Gill and Jade.

As the gang races down the line, he attempts to ask Jade about the yellow engine and suddenly gains an idea; the rusty engine would have been taken to the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. When the gang enters, he asks Victor if he recalls fixing a yellow engine that had fallen into the sea and spoke a different language. Victor stops dead in his tracks and makes an exclamation in Spanish. The gang realizes that Victor was the yellow engine that had fallen into the sea. Victor then tells the gang what had happened; While he was on the boat, a big wave broke the weak chains holding him to the ship's deck. Victor remembers calling to the dock workers, but they could not understand his language. As Luke was being lifted, he swayed on the end of the hook and knocked into Victor into the sea. Because of the bad weather, Victor was left in the water for a long time and when he was taken out, he was in a terrible state. As no one could understand him, Victor decided to learn English and since he was in need of a repaint, his first word was "red" as that was the colour he wanted to be.

The gang races away from Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, determined to reach the Blue Mountain Quarry before Jade, Emile and Gill. While heading to the quarry he sees Gill with Jade and Emile telling Chief Bogo what Emile told him. But Chief Bogo does not know what he is talking about and orders Gill to take Rango to the Mayfield Falls for repair and for Emile to work at the quarry. As they leave, The gang races to the quarry.

However, Jade discovers that Luke and Victor were not turned savage through "natural instinct", but through a psychotropic serum concocted by a ram scientist named Doug from unique flowers called "Night Howlers". Gill and Emile race to the ZPD with the evidence, but Bellwether intercepts them at the Natural History Museum and tries to take it from them, making the trio realize that Bellwether is behind everything.

Meanwhile, Swifty and the gang arrives, Luke puffs out from the quarry hills to greet Swifty, who calls out that he has spoken to Victor about the incident, but gets interrupted, then is unable to say more when Manny asks what he did. Manny interrupts him and tells the gang that he had made a promise not to mention Luke to the other animals. All the animals are cross, including Luke. They all tell Swifty and his friends that they are not their friend any more. Then Gill pulls up behind The Mystery-Solvers with Jade and Emile close behind. Gill looks up and spies Luke at the top of a hill. Swifty tells the others to listen to Gill, and asks them to let him explain, but now knows that Manny and his friends will not let him explain his side of the story and feel that Swifty has let them and Luke down.

As Bellwether and her ram henchmen close in on The Mystery-Solvers, Bellwether tries to convince Swifty that prey are superior to predators and she should join her cause, but the gang refuses. The 10 manage to distract her by placing a stuffed rabbit mannequin and make a run for the exit. After the pair are knocked into a pit exhibit by one of the rams, Bellwether takes back the evidence and reveals her plans of darting every predator in the city to maintain power and eliminate the predator minority before shooting Aladar in the hopes of killing off Swifty and making her a martyr while putting the blame on Luke, the only other witness.

The gang see that Swifty is in trouble, and they all immediately forget to be cross, instead being worried about him. Luke buffers up behind Swifty and declares that he must help save his friend. Swifty laughs in relief, but finds that he is not out of danger yet. As Swifty rolls onto Puss In Boots's platform again, Luke slips onto the platform too. The platform groans under the weight of the two and gives way. The two engines hurtle toward the quarry floor at a tremendous rate. Puss In Boots tugs at the winch in order to slow down the platform. It finally bounces to a stop at a lower level of the quarry. All of the animals cheer, pleased that no one was hurt. However, none of the engines notice that Emile has disappeared.

Suddenly, The Missing Link arrives with Chief Bogo and Walter W. Wolf. Chief Bogo is furious to find Swifty causing confusion and delay at the quarry, instead of working his branch line. Walter W. Wolf orders Rocky to lift Swifty and Luke down. Dawn Bellwether oils forwards to explain to Chief Bogo about Luke. Swifty does not have time to reply before Emile enters the quarry, pushing Victor on a flatbed. Victor has come to meet an engine he has not seen in a very long time. He tells Luke that he did not push him off the boat, he slipped off and it was an accident. Luke does not believe that Victor is the same engine as the one that plummeted into the sea until Victor speaks in his native language.

However, it is revealed that Jade and Gill switched the serum pellets in the gun with blueberries. Despite this, Bellwether furiously threatens to frame Swifty and the gang for her crimes, like Scar framed Jade, but Aladar reveals that she recorded Bellwether's crazed speech with Swifty's pen. Before Bellwether has a chance to run, Chief Bogo and the gang surround her, having heard everything, and she is arrested for conspiracy and fraud along with her henchrams. Walter W. Wolf welcomes Luke to Jamaica, and Chief Bogo tells the 10 he is proud of them, and will forgive him for not working on his branch line. Luke is happy for the first time in a long time, and he tells both officers that Swifty is his hero and his friend as the film ends.

In the post-credits scene, Swifty goes to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Luke is there with Victor who jokes that he has found a yellow engine. Jewel then puffs out of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center smiling. He has been given a new coat of bright yellow paint and her wing is fixed. Swifty beams from buffer-to-buffer; a bright new colour really does mean a new life for his friends, and he and everyone else laughs.

## **CHARACTERS**

* Swifty
* Peng
* Thunder
* Morton
* Mel
* Andie
* Eva
* Marty
* Chuck
* Aladar
* Jade
* Jewel
* Blaze The Cat
* Ryan
* Manny
* Emile
* Gill
* Walter W. Wolf
* Chief Bogo

## **CHARACTER DEBUTS**

* Donkey
* The Missing Link
* Stella
* Rango
* Puss In Boots
* Dawn Bellwether
* Luke
* Victor

## **VOICE TALENT**

* Jeremy Renner as Swifty
* Jim Gaffigan as Peng
* Brianne Siddall as Thunder
* Seth Rogen as Morton
* Bobby Moynihan as Mel
* Katherine Heigl as Andie
* Angela Galuppo as Eva
* Chris Rock as Marty
* Josh Gad as Chuck
* Matthew Broderick as Aladar
* Heidi Klum as Jade
* Sofía Espinosa as Jewel
* Alfre Woodard as Blaze The Cat
* Greg Cipes as Ryan
* Ray Romano as Manny
* Peter Sohn as Emile
* Willem Dafoe as Gill
* Patrick Warburton as Walter W. Wolf
* Idris Elba as Chief Bogo
* Eddie Murphy as Donkey
* Will Arnett as The Missing Link
* Wanda Sykes as Stella
* Johnny Depp as Rango
* Eric Bauza as Puss In Boots
* Michael Legge as Luke
* David Bedella as Victor
* William Hope as Rocky
* Jenny Slate as Dawn Bellwether
* Dee Bradley Baker as Bellwether's henchmen

## **OPENING CREDITS**

Based On Characters Created by:

Matthew Lyon

Casting And Voice Direction by:

Aaron Woodley

Music by:

William Ross

Edited by:

Lesley MacKay Hunter

Executive Producer:

Sam Register

Produced by:

Cal Brunker

Written by:

John Edwards

Directed by:

Darrell Van Citters

## **SONGS**

01. **Believer**

Performed by: Jeremy Renner, Jim Gaffigan, Brianne Siddall, Seth Rogen, Bobby Moynihan, Katherine Heigl, Angela Galuppo, Chris Rock, Josh Gad, Matthew Broderick.

02. **Creation Song**

Performed by: Jeremy Renner, Jim Gaffigan, Brianne Siddall, Seth Rogen, Bobby Moynihan, Katherine Heigl, Angela Galuppo, Chris Rock, Josh Gad, Matthew Broderick.

03. **Be Prepared**

Performed by: Jenny Slate.

04. **Everybody Knows**

Performed by: Heidi Klum, Sofía Espinosa, Alfre Woodard, Greg Cipes, Ray Romano, Peter Sohn, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Warburton, Idris Elba.

05. **Kids Like Us**

Performed by: Jeremy Renner, Jim Gaffigan, Brianne Siddall, Seth Rogen, Bobby Moynihan, Katherine Heigl, Angela Galuppo, Chris Rock, Josh Gad, Matthew Broderick.

## **TRIVIA**

* This film was based on *Thomas and Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery.*