Thomas Tugs series episode 1

episode 1 the deal

plot:Sir Topham Hatt and the harbourmaster goes to Bigg City port in the United states to perches some tugs

Plot
on the Island of Sodor there is a big problem they dont have alot of tugboats they only have these 2 and they are sh*t and are so weak one day both boats were under repair and a cruise ship had to dock itself withc cuased it to run aground

the Harbourmaster:this is just a big pile of bullsh*t

Hatt(well just call him that):well have you considerd buying more tugs

Harbourmaster:not all the boats in the world are for sail

later that night the harbourmaster needed to find out what to do at the fat controllers house he was done watching some tv and then he red the news paper saying that a fleet of tugs are for sail

the next day the fat controller went to the harbourmasters office

Hatt:good news sir there is a fleet of tugs in the United States

after a long talk about buying more tugs the harbourmaster agreed the next day Sir Topham Hatt announced that he will be going to the United States with the harbourmaster to buy some tugboats and hopfuly a new engine

Percy:Thomas what are tugboats

Thomas(mumbling)why does he always ask me these damn questions

Thomas:there boats used to toe bigger ships into ports and do other jobs

so after that Sir Topham Hatt and the harbour master got on a plane to the united states once they arrived at Bigg City Port they then went to the large port and saw 2 fleets of tugs docked they then saw an old man

the old man:you must be those 2 men from the UK

Hatt:well the island of Sodor its a territory of UK

the old man intraduced himself as Anderson Wilson

Anderson:now my friend Captain star owned these boats the Star fleet he died though over there those the Z-stacks there owner captain Zero ended up killing himself

harbourmaster:thats dark but why are these boats docked here

Anderson:well in 1927 the star fleet were working in up river one of them Sunshine got trapped in some logs

this is from the last episode of tugs called up river

Anderson:then in 1928 a new policy that alot of countries were taking was that sentient boats needed crew members on bored so the Star fleet and the Z stacks could not run untill they can get people to help operate them 1 week later they got captains first officers and people to work down in there engine rooms they made the tugs run easier but what they did not know was that both captain Star and captain Zero were facing bankrupcy there fleets did not know that but in 1931 they finaly found out that there companies are going bankrupt

Ten Cents:captain Star what will this mean for us

captain Star:i dont know yet but eventuly we will come out of going bankrupt

Top Hat:but sir our crew members are going on strike becuse of the lack of pay we are not aloud to run without them

captain Star:I know for know you guys will have to be docked

1 week later the strike was finaly over but more problems started espasially in 1938

Harbourmaster:what happend

Anderson:you see that partically sunken tugboat who is listing badly

Hatt:yay we see him

Anderson:that is Zorran he is a z-stack like those ones

Harbourmaster:why is he in such condition and docked like the others

Anderson told them the story saying in 1938 Zorran the leader of th-stacks was not feeling so right but he kept it a secret

Ten Cents:Zorran you dont look so good

Zorran:why should you care

Ten Cents:well you just look sick

Zorran:GET THE HELL OUT OF MY SITE TEN CENTS

Ten Cents quickly left

after that Zorrans crew arrived they got to work in his engine room and his Captain and first Officer got him moving but even when working with his fellow fleet

Zebedee:Zorran are you alright your not doing so good are your engines clogging up

Zorran:shut up im fine

later captain Zero orderd zorran to clollect a shipment of amunition for the navy so on his was to get a barge the crew members working in his engine room were having a problem so one of them went to Zorrans bridge

crewmember:SIr we have a problem

Zorrans captain:what is it

crewmember:there something wrong in the engine room the boilers are not working properly

Zorrans first officer:ill go down and check

they then walked out of the bridge and started to head to the engine room

Zorran:now what

Zorrans first officer:your boilers are not working properly were going to check it out

Zorran:listain here there is nothing wrong with me NOTHING

crewmember:well see about that

so as they went down to the engine room they looked at the boiler they saw it was not burning enough