Peace and Quiet

"Please stop! I'd rather be back with the chatterbox engines!"

- Murdoch

Peace and Quiet is the seventeenth episode of the seventh season.

Plot
Sir Topham Hatt brings in a big engine named Murdoch to help with the heavy workload. Murdoch is annoyed by Harvey and Salty's chatter and is relieved when he gets to take a goods train through the countryside. But he gets no happiness there when he is stopped by some sheep on the line. After Toby brings a farmer to shoo away the sheep, Murdoch appreciates the resulting quiet. When he returns to the sheds, he happily listens to one of Salty's tales.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Henry
 * Harvey
 * Murdoch
 * Salty
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Toby (does not speak)
 * Farmer Trotter (not named; does not speak)
 * Percy (cameo)
 * Duck (cameo)
 * Douglas (cameo)
 * Emily (cameo)
 * Arthur (cameo)
 * Cranky (cameo)
 * Gordon (deleted scene)
 * Donald (deleted scene)
 * Clarabel (deleted scene)
 * Cyril the Fogman (deleted scene cameo)

Locations

 * Brendam Docks
 * Sodor Shipping Company
 * Knapford Sheds
 * The Coaling Plant
 * Henry's Tunnel
 * Suddery Castle
 * Tidmouth Harbour (stock footage)
 * Wellsworth (deleted scene)
 * The Cement Works (deleted scene)

Trivia

 * Stock footage from Fish is used.
 * In a still picture, Arthur is not in the shed next to Harvey, Salty, and Murdoch.
 * A faceless Bulstrode model can be seen in the second scene of the episode.
 * In a deleted scene at Wellsworth, something white can be seen behind the station.
 * This episode might have been filmed around the same time as Gordon and Spencer as in a deleted scene, Gordon, Clarabel, and Cyril are at Wellsworth in the same positions as they were in the aforementioned episode.
 * Salty says, "Have you worked Marseille?" Marseille is a city in southern France known for its large harbour.
 * This episode marks the last appearance of Duck until the twelfth season, excluding a stock footage cameo in Not So Hasty Puddings.

Goofs

 * When Murdoch puffs into the coaling plant, Duck is shunting trucks. In the next scene, Duck is on another line and Percy has disappeared.
 * After Murdoch passes Percy and Duck, he has the train he pulls the next day.
 * When Murdoch is about to depart from Brendam, his eyes look strange.
 * The narrator says "The farmer and his dog went to work", but the farmer has two dogs.
 * When Murdoch tells Harvey and Salty off, Harvey does not have a face.
 * Near the end when Murdoch was smiling about Salty's story, his eyes went odd for a second.
 * The number of the few black sheep amongst the flock keeps changing.
 * When Murdoch returns the shed in the last scene Emily is there too, but in the last two shots she has disappeared.