A Light Delivery

"*Well, I just have one thing to say, Thomas... thank you, for being honest."
"What? You're not mad?"
"No. Even the number one engine makes mistakes, but the number one thing to do is to be honest about it.*"
— Gordon and Thomas

**A Light Delivery** is the thirty-third episode of the first season.

## Plot

Thomas and his friends are playing with their lamps in the dark at Tidmouth Sheds, imagining what the Sodor Festival of Lights that night will be like. Gordon then arrives at the sheds, and assigns the engines on a special delivery. The engines each have to deliver the lights to the festival; there is a purple light for Nia, a blue one for Percy, a red one for Diesel, a green one for Kana, and two rainbow-colored lights for Thomas. The engines are all happy for Thomas, except Diesel, who is rather jealous. Gordon warns all the engines to be careful, as the lights are fragile. Then the engines set off.

On the way to Vicarstown, Diesel challenges Thomas to a race, but Thomas is unsure, as the lights are fragile. Kana overhears them and becomes excited, and offers to start the race for them. Thomas changes his mind, and he and Diesel get ready to start. Then the race begins. soon, Thomas and Diesel run over some bumpy tracks, but they manage to clear them without breaking their lights. Kana soon catches up and teases Thomas about his speed. So Thomas decides to speed up. But Thomas goes too fast, and loses one of his flatbeds carrying one of the lights. But nobody notices; they are having too much fun watching the race. Soon, the light comes rolling back towards Percy, but as Thomas is now too far ahead, he decides to take it for him.

Soon, the other engines make it to Vicarstown, and Thomas wins the race! However, trouble soon strikes, as Thomas is so busy boasting about his victory, his other light falls off his flatbed and breaks! Then, Gordon appears, and is shocked to see the broken light. Thomas also then notices his second light is missing, so he rushes off to find it. While searching, he doesn't see Percy carrying his second light. Thomas soon spots it in the distance and heads back to Vicarstown. Then, Thomas tells the whole truth to Gordon; he lost his second light because he was racing, and he broke his other light because he was showing off too much. To Thomas' relief, Gordon isn't cross with him. He is proud that Thomas owned up and admitted he made a mistake. He then assigns Thomas to take all the empty flatbeds back to the yard to make up for his mistake. The others are worried Thomas will miss the festival, but Thomas doesn't mind.

Later that evening, as Thomas returns for the next flatbeds, to his surprise, all his friends are here with them, including Diesel! The othes admit they also did something wrong too, as they all wanted Thomas and Diesel to race. Luckily, the engines all make it in time for the grand finale of the Festival of Lights. Thomas is still disappointed he didn't get to see the whole festival, but Diesel starts a game of Headlight Tag, and the five engines have fun all night long.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Gordon
* Percy
* Nia
* Diesel
* Kana
* James (*cameo*)
* Bulstrode (*cameo*)
* Cranky (*cameo*)
* Hiro (*portrait cameo*)
* Ultratrain (*portrait cameo*)
* Kenji (*portrait cameo*)
* Farona and Frederico (*portrait cameos*)
* Carly (*portrait cameo*)
* Sandy (*portrait cameo*)

## Locations

* Tidmouth Sheds
* The Tunnel of Zoom
* The Bumpy Track
* The Dark Woods
	+ Crovan's Creek
* Vicarstown
	+ Vicarstown Bridge
	+ Vicarstown Theater
	+ Vicarstown Museum of History
* Quickdraw Bridge
* Brendam Docks
	+ Sodor Shipping Company
* Lookout Mountain
* McColl Farm (*portrait*)
* The Maintenance Yard (*portrait*)

## Cast

### US

* Meesha Contreras as Thomas
* Neil Crone as Gordon
* Charlie Zeltzer as Percy
* Talia Evans as Nia
* Shomoy James Mitchell as Diesel
* Ava Ro as Kana

### UK

* Aaron Barashi as Thomas
* Will Harrison-Wallace as Gordon
* Henri Charles as Percy
* Sade Smith as Nia
* Henry Harrison as Diesel
* Chloe Raphael as Kana

## Trivia

* This is the last episode directed by Jason Groh.
* The plot is similar to the first season episode, The Real Number One.
* Thomas breaking the light and missing the festival is similar to the original series episode, Thomas and the Lighthouse.
* At the end of the episode, Diesel’s line “Hold onto your stack, ‘cause Diesel’s back!” is reused from the first season episode, A Thomas Promise.

## Goofs

* In the opening scene of the episode from the Special Delivery DVD, Kana is mistakenly called Connor in the subtitles. Despite Connor not appearing in *All Engines Go*.
* During the musical number, Thomas was incorrectly portrayed with a different whistle sound.
* Cranky is missing both his blank nameplates and the sections holding it.
* In the Netflix captions, when Percy says, "Does the number one engine need a wheel?", the subtitles erroneously say that the line is said by Kana.
* A scene from A Quiet Delivery is mistakenly used as a promo image on the On Demand service.

## Home Media Releases

### US/CAN

* Special Delivery
* Season 25
* Best Friend Adventures