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- "What Diesel said about the 'Curse of the Cliffs' must be true! I shall get lost in the fog, and never be seen again!"
- ― Thomas
Bold and Brave is the twenty-first episode of the ninth series.
Plot
Summer is approaching the Island of Sodor and Thomas is asked by the Fat Controller to collect deck chairs and windbreaks for the beach. However, Diesel tells Thomas of the "curse of the cliffs," which brings heavy fog down on the cliffs and causes the first engine of the holiday season that goes round the headland to disappear. This ends up worrying Thomas, especially when Harold the Helicopter warns him of fog near the headlands. This ends up leaving Thomas frightened.
Thomas later finds Ben outside of a tunnel; Diesel had told him that a monster is lurking inside. Thomas goes to investigate and hears a strange noise and sees two eyes in the tunnel. However, he finds that the eyes are actually lights and the noise is really a generator powering them. Ben thanks Thomas and goes on with his job.
Thomas puffs onwards, still afraid of Diesel's warning of the "Curse of the Cliffs." He soon comes across the fog while puffing towards the headlands, but had an idea and he thinks that what Diesel told Ben about the monster in the tunnel was not right. Thomas thinks he might be wrong about the "Curse of the Cliffs" as well and bravely goes on. Suddenly, the mist rolls away and makes Thomas realise that Diesel must have been trying to scare him and the Curse of the Cliffs was wrong too. Thomas then states that he should not listen to Diesel and only listen to himself and would remember in future reference.
Characters
- Thomas
- Ben
- Diesel
- Harold
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Gordon (cameo)
- Emily (cameo)
- Annie and Clarabel (cameos)
- Caroline (cameo)
- Tiger Moth (cameo)
- James (deleted scene cameo)
- Percy (deleted scene cameo)
Locations
- Brendam Docks
- Tidmouth Sheds
- Kirk Ronan Junction
- The Church Runby
- Dryaw
- The Headlands
- Coastal Cliffs
- Tidmouth Beach
- Sandy Beach
- The Difficult Bend (deleted scene)
Trivia
- Going by production order, this is the ninth episode of the ninth series.
- This is the second episode in which Ben appears without Bill after the third series episode, Oliver Owns Up.
- This episode marks the last of a few things:
- Tiger Moth and Caroline's last appearances.
- The last appearance of Diesel's confused face and Ben's sad and happy (albeit in a promotional picture) faces.
- Ben's last speaking role until the eleventh series episode, Hector the Horrid!
- The last time Harold appears with static eyes.
- The last appearance of Dryaw in the model era, and its last appearance until the seventeenth series episode, No Snow for Thomas.
- The final episode in the US where the title card is not read out loud.
- A deleted scene shown in the book, Thomas Is Not Afraid of the Dark shows that James and Percy were originally meant to make cameo roles.
Goof
- When the narrator says "Soon the seaside station was up ahead" Thomas has his sad face instead of his smiling face. This is most likely intended to lead the shot of Thomas approching the Coastal Cliffs.
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