A December To Remember

**A December To Remember** is the sixteenth and final episode of the fourth season.

## Plot

The engines on Sodor are getting ready for the holiday season. However, Rebecca isn't feeling festive as she believes its always the same work around Christmas time with nothing new happening. Henry remarks that everyone does this as they have waited for so long (11 months from between each Christmas). Rebecca ignores this as she puffs away.

Not only Rebecca wasn't in the holiday spirit, Emily wasn't as well. She was being polished for today and doesn't want to be late for the Black Loch run. Rebecca backs into the shed, asking about being in the holiday spirit. Emily responds she isn't as she gets coal for Christmas every time. Rebecca quietly corrects this ironically, and quickly asks what does Emily want for Christmas? Emily doesn't know, so Rebecca wonders how to get her and Emily into the holiday spirit.

Rebecca arrives at the docks. She sees colorful cargo containers, which she feels emotionally liminal. Salty interrupts her peace as they both ask about the presents. Usually engines would get presents if their parts need replacing, and asks a favor to deliver cargo to Balladrine, which she does.

The weather got worse as it started to snow, while the journey was difficult, she managed to get through with a snowplough. During her travel, she spots a mysterious figure standing in the snow. She stops next to it revealing to be: Santa Claus. Santa was stranded due to his sleigh coming loose from the reindeer, whom went back to the North Pole. Santa still has presents to be delivered to the residents of Sodor. Rebecca decides to help Santa, after delivering the Balladrine cargo, she fetches Jerome the Breakdown Crane and an open freight car to put the sack or presents on. Then they deliver all the presents to each station on the Mainline.

Once the job was done, they reach the Mainline's eastern terminus. While Rebecca's driver telephones for help, Santa asks what Rebecca likes for Christmas. After Rebecca thinks about Salty and Emily earlier today, and whispers to Santa. Harold then comes down to carry Santa back to the North Pole.

On Christmas Morning, all the engines at Tidmouth Sheds woke up for their presents. Everyone got coal, except Rebecca, who got a pair of brass buffers. The other engines complain about this. But Rebecca says that the present wasn't really for her, rather it was for someone else [Emily]. Everyone were left speechless as she puffs away.

Emily, feeling lonely, asks why Rebecca is here. Rebecca shows her the present. Emily was pleased by this and so was Rebecca, who then wants to have Emily's silver buffers for present exchange. Emily agrees. Now Emily and Rebecca were both in the holiday spirit and made this their December to remember.

## Characters

* Henry
* Emily
* Rebecca
* Salty
* Harold
* Cranky
* Santa Claus
* Thomas *(presumably spoke)*
* Gordon *(presumably spoke)*
* James *(presumably spoke)*
* Percy *(presumably spoke)*
* Toby *(presumably spoke)*
* Edward *(cameo)*
* Duck *(cameo)*
* Arthur *(cameo)*
* Skarloey *(cameo)*
* Paxton *(cameo)*
* Alec and Arica *(cameo)*
* Douglas *(cameo; deleted scene)*

## Locations

* Lower Arlesburgh
* Toryreck
* The Church Runby
* Ulfstead Village
* Knapford
	+ Knapford Station
	+ Knapford Sheds
* Brendam Docks
* Crovan's Gate Station
* Vicarstown Station
* Tidmouth Sheds
* Lower Tidmouth Sheds
* Balladrine *(mentioned)*
* The North Pole *(mentioned)*

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of the following:
	+ The first episode where Emily speaks
	+ The first episode that shows the first appearance of Santa Claus
	+ The first appearance of a church and Ulfstead Village
* Unlike the other two Christmas-themed episodes, this episode uses faux snow and flour rather than napkins to be used as snow.
	+ It also uses village figurines and trees to fit the theme of the episode.
* This episode has the most deleted scenes filmed.
	+ As such, the church runby with Edward also has scenes with Percy, Thomas, and Toby.
	+ In the scene where Rebecca first backs into Knapford Sheds, Douglas was originally going to be in the background, but was replaced with Arthur.
	+ One deleted scene shows James shoveling snow through a small hill.

## Errors

* In a couple scenes, Emily uses Rebecca's furious and sad face masks. This is because she does not have any paper face masks made yet.