Sonny's Second Chance

"That's not fair! You can't make Sonny do your jobs!" "Why not? It's not my fault he's silly enough to do them for me." "I don't understand you sometimes." "Nobody does."

- Percy and Diesel

Sonny's Second Chance is the thirteenth episode of the twenty-fourth series.

Plot
After being given a chance to prove himself by the Fat Controller, Sonny does not think his chances are good when he is shown hostility by Gordon and James. It seems Diesel is the only one really willing to be his friend, but it turns out Diesel is just tricking Sonny into doing his jobs for him, which Sonny finds out while pulling fish trucks. Diesel tries to follow after him, but gets diverted into a siding, derails and is about to fall into a pit. Sonny reverses to the siding, derailing the fish trucks over the points in the process, and saves Diesel. Although he had derailed the fish trucks, Sonny's heroic actions earn him praise from the Fat Controller as a really useful engine indeed.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Rebecca
 * Sonny
 * Diesel
 * Salty
 * Cranky
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Henry
 * Winston
 * Carly
 * Big Mickey
 * Baz and Bernie

Locations

 * Knapford
 * Knapford Station Yard
 * Annie and Clarabel's Shed
 * Knapford Yards
 * Brendam Docks
 * Sodor Shipping Company
 * Brendam Warehouse
 * Gordon's Hill
 * Ffarquhar

UK

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon, Salty and the Fat Controller
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Nigel Pilkington as Percy
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Joe Swash as Sonny
 * Kerry Shale as Diesel
 * Matt Wilkinson as Cranky

US

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon and Diesel
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Joe Swash as Sonny
 * Keith Wickham as Salty and Sir Topham Hatt
 * Glenn Wrage as Cranky

Trivia

 * Going by production order, this is the eleventh episode of the twenty-fourth series.
 * Diesel's rescue by Sonny is similar to his rescue by Thomas in Misty Island Rescue.
 * This episode marks the final occurrences of a few things:
 * Winston's final appearance.
 * The final episode to be written by Becky Overton.
 * Sonny and Diesel's (in the original series) final leading roles.
 * The final instance in which the title card is not shown at the very beginning of the episode and the eighth overall, the other seven being the seventeenth series episode, Steamie Stafford, the twentieth series episode, Henry in the Dark, the twenty-first series episode, Emily in the Middle, the twenty-second series episodes, Trusty Trunky and Hunt the Truck, the twenty-third series episode, Heart of Gold and Thomas and the Royal Engine from this series, respectively.
 * When Sonny tries to saves Diesel from the pit, a bump sound effect originally used during the fourth through twelfth series can be heard.
 * In Poland, this episode premiered before A New Arrival, so the audience would not know about Sonny.
 * This episode was never aired in Germany and South Korea.
 * In the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Baltic Russian dubs, the UK dub can be heard in the background as a dubbing track was not used.

Goofs

 * In one shot, Gordon's brake coach is in the middle of the express instead of at the back.
 * In the Baltic Russian dub, the title is not read out loud.

Merchandise

 * Magazines - Sonny's Second Chance

UK/IRL/AUS

 * Marvellous Machinery