Timothy and the Ghost Engine

**Timothy and the Ghost Engine** is the fourteenth episode of the first season.

## Plot

It was Halloween on the Island of Sodor, and the engines were looking forward to this time of the year as they loved seeing the children dress up, and they always listened to Edward's ghost stories. One night, the Fat Controller arrives at Tidmouth Sheds to give Thomas, James, and Percy their jobs to do during Halloween night. He sends Thomas to the Tidmouth Town Square to take the children home from their Halloween party and sends James and Percy to the clay pits with a big order that needs to be done that night. Percy worries about going to the clay pits on Halloween night and recalls the last time he went there, where he had to save James from a landslide since he thought he saw a monster. Thomas tells his friend that Edward's story isn't true, and so he goes off to pick up the children from the town square. As James and Percy were making their way to the clay pits, they had to pick up Ned the steam shovel and Hector the hopper truck from their respective places before they could carry on with the order.

When they arrived at the clay pits, Bill and Ben began to tease Percy along with James and the Troublesome Trucks laughing until Timothy told everyone to stop chattering as they had to finish the big order, which was more important. Hector comforts Percy by telling him about the time when he first came to the island and was scared to go under a coal hopper until Thomas gave him a demonstration. Percy decided to start work at the clay pits, but he secretly believed Edward's ghost story. As everyone was working hard, Bill and Ben continued to tease Percy by making him look up to see Marion's shovel moving around, thinking it was a spook. Marion asks Percy if he was spooked, and she tells him that she also gets spooked by listening to ghost stories. Timothy agrees with Marion and also tells Percy that there are no such things as ghosts. Percy tried not to listen to the twins, but Bill and Ben kept on teasing him. Finally, Ned comforts Percy and tells him that everyone knows that there are no such things as ghosts. When the trucks were all loaded for the clay delivery, Derek the diesel arrived letting everyone know that the Fat Controller needed some engines to finish up. As the twins agreed, Hector volunteered to give Bill and Ben a taste of their own medicine. Then James, Percy, and Derek left the clay pits with their deliveries, leaving Bill and Ben by themselves.

When the twins were left alone, every sound and shadow that was surrounding them was starting to get spooky. Timothy tells the twins for the final time that there are no such things as ghosts. Bill reveses towards Marion and bumps into her, causing the steam shovel to suddenly drop some clay rocks onto Bill's roof. Just then, Ben bumps into Ned, who was blocking his way. Marion wanted to pay the twins back for teasing Percy, so she blew her whistle to scare the twins, thinking that it was a ghost whistle. Bill and Ben start to panic and dash away from the spookiness until they reach the other side of the clay pits. Marion and Ned were glad that the twins had been spooked after all their teasing of Percy. As the twins raced to the main part of the clay pits, they crashed into Timothy, who was on the same track as them, causing Timothy's rear truck to derail into a big rock, which caused a massive landslide. Bill and Ben managed to escape, but Timothy was left derailed and buried beneath the clay rocks. The next morning, Miss Jenny and some of her machines arrive at the clay pits to dig up the rocks as the Fat Controller scolds Bill and Ben for the whole mess and orders them to go apologise to Percy. Timothy asks the Fat Controller if he'll be fixed, as he didn't know until he was at the Steamworks. Later that day, Percy pulled into Knapford, where he saw Bill and Ben feeling embarrassed. The twins apologise to Percy, and they forgive each other after all the teasing and agree that everyone can be scared sometimes. Just then, Timothy was all fixed, much to everyone's delight. Edward then comes along, as he noticed that the engines had heard about his ghost story. When Timothy told the engines that if there were such things as ghosts, they all burst into laughter, not realising the ghost noises coming from inside the station building.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Edward
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Bill and Ben
* Emily
* Timothy
* Derek
* Marion
* Troublesome Trucks
* Hector
* Ned
* Sir Topham Hatt
* Miss Jenny (*does not speak*)
* Toby (*cameo*)
* Annie and Clarabel (*cameo*)
* Henrietta (*cameo*)
* Bertie (*cameo*)
* Terence (*cameo*)
* Jack (*cameo*)
* Oliver (*cameo*)
* Max and Monty (*cameo*)
* Victor (*mentioned*)

## Locations

* Terence's Field
* Tidmouth Sheds
* Tidmouth Town Square
* Sodor Construction Company Yard
* Sodor China Clay Company
* Knapford
	+ Knapford Yards
* Sodor Suspension Bridge (*mentioned*)
* Brendam Docks (*mentioned*)
* Sodor Steamworks (*mentioned*)

## Cast

* Andrew Hager as Derek
* Andrew Leago as Hector and a Troublesome Truck
* AngelsandArachnids as Marion
* Bikliqi Studios as Thomas
* Crane Engine Studios as Percy
* DockTankDylan as Edward
* Dueling Express as a Troublsome Truck and Ned
* Electro Gamer as James
* Elliot Killick-Ward as Henry
* HeartCloud Productions as Emily
* Joseph's Railway Studios as Timothy
* SteamTeam3211 as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
* TidmouthHarbour52 as Bill and Ben
* Tineke Tilstra as a Troublesome Truck

## Trivia

* This episode was originally set to be released on Halloween 2020, but was delayed over a month due to some cast members not sending their lines in as well as the clay pits scenes being filmed in November of 2020. Having episodes 1-16 released every two days from October 5, then this episode would've been released on Halloween.
* This episode marks the only time of a few things:
	+ Hector's only speaking role in the first season as well as the only episode where he is voiced by Andrew Leago. Starting from Season 2, the role was given to Holden Stafford.
	+ Max and Monty's only appearances in the first season, despite making cameo appearances in the background.
	+ Derek's only speaking role in the first season.
	+ Ned's only appearance in the first season as well as the only episode where he is voiced by Dueling Express. The role would be given to Shane Hayes SirHandel16 beginning with Season 3.
* This episode uses references from the Season 6 episode Scaredy Engines, as well as an instrumental of said episode.
	+ Percy also mentions the events of Tale of the Brave where he had to save James from a landslide for thinking there was a monster at the clay pits.
	+ Hector mentiones the events of his debut episode, Hector the Horrid from Season 11 when he was trying to cheer up Percy that nobody was brave all the time.

## Watch Episode

Timothy and the Ghost Engine (Thomas & Friends ERTL Adventures; Season 1; Episode 14)