Post and Prejudice is the twelfth episode of Season 4, and the forty-eighth episode overall.
Plot
One winter morning, the Main Line engines are getting ready for the day's work, but Bear is still apprehensive about James' attitude towards him and other diesels. Bear tries to make friendly conversation, but James keeps his distance. Later on, Bear is at Wellsworth station when James passes with a goods train, and he complains that Bear is a yard diesel and shouldn't pull passenger trains. At Tidmouth both James and Oliver argue about Bear and how he isn't a bad diesel, and how James shouldn't let one bad experience stereotype all diesels. That evening Bear, Oliver, Thomas and Percy collect their mail trains, while out on the main line James is thinking about Diesel and his unpleasant experience.
Bear departs, and after going through Henry's tunnel he rams a snowdrift with his snow plough, but begins to break down. At Crovan's Gate, James is asked to be on the lookout for Bear since he is late and the Christmas mail needs to be delivered. After talking to Skarloey, James finds Bear slowly approaching the station, as his torque converter failed, thus rendering him almost immobile. James takes the mail train on and Bear manages to limp to the works to be mended.
Characters
- Thomas
- Edward
- Henry
- James
- Percy
- Oliver
- Bear
- Skarloey
- Sir Stephen Topham Hatt
- Gordon (does not speak)
- Duck (does not speak)
- Alice (does not speak)
- Troublesome Trucks (do not speak)
- Alice and Mirabel (do not speak)
- Toby (cameo)
- Douglas (cameo)
- Daisy (cameo)
- BoCo (cameo)
- Henrietta (cameo)
- Duncan (cameo)
- Duke (cameo)
- Rusty (cameo)
- Diesel (mentioned)
- Terence (mentioned)
Trivia
- Railway Series references include; Thomas, Terence and the Snow, Dirty Work and Tenders for Henry.
- Henry's talk of Diesel's actions during his first visit foreshadows the feature-length special, Bad Apple.
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