No More Mr. Nice Engine

**No More Mr. Nice Engine** is the twenty-fourth episode of the eleventh season and the 254th episode overall.

## Plot

One day, Diesel is shunting trucks full of dairy products for Murdoch in the yard. To keep them from acting up, he is biffing them as hard as he can, spilling the milk churns. Edward tells Diesel to be gentle, but Diesel retorts that Edward should mind his own business. Soon, Murdoch arrives and collects his train. Murdoch, unlike Diesel, is nice to the trucks as a means of getting them to behave. He delivers his trucks to Knapford Station, but when the truck door is opened, the milk churns tip over and spill onto the Fat Controller's trousers, much to his dismay.

Murdoch goes to the docks to pick up another shipment of cream. Diesel is there as well and still wants to convince him that the only way to make the trucks behave is with brute force. To attempt to prove this, he is coupled up to the back of Murdoch's train instead of a brake van. Hiro sets off, not knowing Diesel's plan.

As the trucks biff and bash Murdoch, he stays as patient as possible. Diesel gives them an extra hard shove to get them to biff Murdoch harder; Murdoch is still patient, much to Diesel's annoyance. When they reach Suddery Hill, Diesel applies his brakes to help the trucks hold back. Murdoch stays as gentle as possible until Diesel helps the trucks push him down the hill. Murdoch is beginning to get cross at this point, and the trucks are now out of control.

The train speeds through Elsbridge, where Thomas is picking up passengers and sees what is going on. Murdoch keeps trying to keep the trucks behaving nicely and remain calm himself, but Diesel keeps biffing and bashing Murdoch and the trucks. At last, Murdoch loses all of his patience and begins bumping the trucks as they reach Knapford, declaring "No more Mr. Nice Engine. I am the strongest engine of the railway."

When the train finally reaches Knapford, Murdoch applies his brakes as hard as he can in order to stop the trucks. Taken by surprise, Diesel hits the last truck so hard that three milk churns fly up into the air and splatter all over the Fat Controller, Edward and Murdoch. The Fat Controller is very cross with Murdoch for staining his trousers with milk for the second time in a day. Diesel tries to sneak away, but Thomas, who arrives on the same line, prevents him from escaping. Thomas asks Murdoch why Diesel was at the back of his train.

Murdoch is both surprised and cross that Diesel was the one biffing and bashing him throughout his journey. Edward then explains to Murdoch and the Fat Controller that Diesel had spilt the milk from Murdoch's earlier train, shortly before he had collected it from the yards. Everyone is extremely cross with Diesel, especially Murdoch and the Fat Controller.

The Fat Controller decides to have Diesel learn the proper way to handle trucks as punishment and decides that the best engine to teach him is Murdoch. While Diesel is pulling trucks on the main line, he began to pay them back, but Murdoch taught him to be polite and kind with the trucks.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Edward
* Murdoch
* Diesel
* Troublesome Trucks
* The Fat Controller
* Rosie *(cameo)*
* Connor *(cameo)*
* Annie and Clarabel *(cameos)*
* Cranky *(cameo)*

## Locations

* Crosby Washdown
* Crosby
* Wellsworth
* Wellsworth Yards
* Elsbridge Diary
* Knapford
* Tidmouth Yards
* Suddery Hill
* Ulfstead Junction
* Brendam Docks
* Elsbridge

## Trivia

* This episode originally had Hiro as the lead role. However, since he went back to Japan in Hero of the Rails, the Sodor Stories take on this episode has Murdoch as the lead character instead of Hiro.
* The title of this episode is a play on the phrase "No More Mr. Nice Guy," a saying also referenced in other mediums.
* A reference and a scene would be later used for a flashback in the thirteenth season episode, Diesel's Ghostly Christmas.