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ah yes, the debut of Donald and Douglas.

In this episode, we learn of the purchase of the Scottish twins and The Fat Controller’s intent to separate them. To be fair, he did only expect the one engine and (… spoilers… ?) he does keep them both after all, but he still WAS intending to send one of them back to Scotland where that engine would be scrapped. KILLED. REMEMBER, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.

yeah but anyway there’s this one sonovabitch break van who, for some reason, hates Douglas. The break van continually makes Douglas late whenever he has to take it, which, considering that “usefulness” is the main factor in an engine’s continued running, stresses him right the fuck out. Donald roughs the break van up a little both verbally and physically (“Spite Douggie will ye? Take that!”), which works for a while…

but then Donald has an accident (prior to this point, The Fat Controller had decided to keep him and send Douglas back, but now he’s not sure) and has to be taken away to be repaired. This forces James to do his goods work, which obviously shits James completely because NOPE LOOK AT MY SPLENDID RED PAINT I’M TOO GOOD FOR GOODS WORK and so on. The spiteful breakvan tells the trucks to pull back, pissing James off further, and by the time he needs to get up the hill (the one just past Edward’s station, the one EVERYONE FUCKING DIES ON), he’s totally beat.

so Douglas helps him up the hill, TOTALLY KILLING THE SPITEFUL BREAK VAN IN THE PROCESS

the moral of this story is that the Scottish twins are fucking metal

but The Fat Controller is understandably disappointed with Douglas accidentally smashing the break van (it really was an accident, but you can understand why he would think it’s just Douglas getting revenge considering that this break van’s been fucking him over the whole time) and sounds like he’s about to dismiss him when Edward sticks up for him and tells him that he worked as hard to help James as three engines. The Fat Controller then sharply tells him that “two would have been enough” (referring to the fact that if Douglas didn’t push so goddamn hard, the break van wouldn’t be busted to shit) but this only makes his decision harder…

TBC

WAIT WASN’T IT GORDON’S HILL THAT EVERYONE DIED ON? HURR NO ONE CAN GET UP THIS HILL BUT GORDON, AS HE PULLS THE EXPRESS because god knows Gordon didn’t fucking do anything ELSE.

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