Halloween

"The ghost! It's got me!"

- Emily

Halloween is the twenty-first episode of the eighth season.

Plot
Thomas and Emily are sent to do an errand at the smelters on Halloween. 'Arry and Bert scare them knowing they are afraid, but when a tarpaulin falls onto Emily, Thomas, 'Arry and Bert get frightened and run away with Emily following them, thinking a ghost got her. The chase ends back at Tidmouth Sheds where the tarp flies off Emily after she steams under a signal gantry. After Sir Topham Hatt comes to see what the noise is about, Bert admits the trouble he and 'Arry caused and they are sent back to the smelters to do Thomas and Emily's work as punishment.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Percy
 * Emily
 * 'Arry and Bert
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * The Halloween Engine (does not speak)
 * Edward (cameo)
 * Henry (cameo)
 * Gordon (cameo)
 * James (cameo)

Locations

 * Sodor Ironworks
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Henry's Tunnel
 * Wellsworth

Trivia

 * The ghost engine is Gordon with Murdoch's cylinders and wheels and City of Truro's tender.
 * For unknown reasons, the UK and US versions have different endings. The UK features a ghost coming out of a pile of scrap, while the US just has an extra scene with Thomas and Emily. A few of the US Hit Favorites DVDs feature the UK ending.
 * The scrap hanging from the ceiling is that of hook and loop coupler and bogies for models trains.
 * Scrap models of Toad, City of Truro, and Donald or Douglas are seen.
 * Going by production order, this is the twenty-sixth episode of the eighth season.

Goofs

 * When 'Arry and Bert were bumping the flatbeds a wheel falls off.
 * If Emily was looking up she should have noticed the tarpaulin.
 * In a close-up of Thomas, he lurches slightly to a side.
 * In real life, 'Arry and Bert could not be going as fast as they were when they race away from the Smelters as their prototypes, the class 08 shunters, have a maximum speed of twenty miles per hour.
 * The narrator said that Thomas' whistle woke the engines up, but Henry still appears to be sleeping.
 * Emily is wearing a headlamp, but she does not have any lamp irons.