Percy Runs Away

"I've got to stop, I've got to stop... I have stopped!"

- Percy

Percy Runs Away is the seventeenth episode of the first season.

Plot
The big engines concede defeat and so, to reward the small engines for their hard work, the Fat Controller allows them to play on Thomas' branchline for a while. Percy takes some trucks to the junction, but doesn't move off the points and is frightened when Gordon almost collides with him, prompting him to run away. Percy finally runs into a bank of sand, and when Gordon comes to help Percy, he congratulates him for averting a serious accident.

Characters

 * Edward
 * Gordon
 * Percy
 * Henry
 * James
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Thomas (does not speak)
 * Annie and Clarabel (does not speak)

Locations

 * Knapford
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Lower Suddery
 * Wellsworth
 * Gordon's Hill

Trivia

 * In the UK narration, the Fat Controller says, "I hope you are sorry, and understand that you are not so important after all." In the US narration, he says, "I hope you are sorry, and understand that every job on the island is important."

Goofs

 * Annie and Clarabel's names are missing when Thomas takes them away.
 * In the close-ups of Wellsworth, greenery appears behind Percy.
 * The narrator says that Edward took some empty trucks to the quarry, but the last three are full.
 * In one close-up of Percy at the points, the camera jumps a bit.
 * In some shots while Percy runs away, his crew are in his cab.
 * Percy goes further back from the signalbox without moving.
 * Gordon said to Percy that he started so quickly that he stopped an accident, but Percy started long after Gordon stopped.
 * If you look on a map of Sodor, the branchline to Suddery is between Wellsworth and Gordon's Hill. Percy should have passed the line before he went up Gordon's Hill, but he still ends up in Suddery. He should have ended up in Maron.
 * The signalman should not have set the signals for the express without first making sure the line was clear.