Air date: February 9th, 2010 (UK), October 23rd, 2010 (US)
Knapford Station is being redecorated. Thomas is tasked to collect slate for the new roof. Emily is tasked with picking up flowers for the station by the Fat Controller. Excitedly, Emily says that she knows all about flowers and she knows that buttercups are yellow, but before she could say another word, the Fat Controller regains her attention and tells her to take the flowers to the station.
As she puffs along, she says hello to James and Toby, who reply back. When Mavis does not say hello, Emily assumes she is sad and chuffs to the quarry to cheer her up with some of the new flowers, only to cause Edward and Thomas to crash into the flatbeds she left behind. When Mavis returns to see her quarry in a state of confusion, Emily apologises for causing it as she thought Mavis was upset. Mavis assures her she was just thinking about all the work she needs to do. Emily feels silly and wonders what would make Mavis happy. Mavis tells Emily that to make her happy she would like the mess tidied up and Emily's load of flowers taken straight to Knapford. Emily complies, even helping out Thomas since his firebox was extinguished. When Mavis stops by Knapford Station later to see the flowers as they are planted and mentions how wonderful they look, Emily is glad to see her happy.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- A Day in the Limelight: Emily is the main character as the episode focuses on her efforts to make Mavis happy.
- Hidden Depths: Emily is shown to be quite knowledgeable about flowers in this episode; this side of her is something we haven't seen before in any previous episodes.
- Nice Girl: Emily is portrayed pretty faithfully to her original persona here — she says hello to Toby and James as she passes them, and when she thinks Mavis is feeling sad, she tries to come up with a way to make her feel better as soon as she continues on her way to Maithwaite.
- Poor Communication Kills: Emily assumes Mavis is sad and places her flatbeds of flowers around the quarry to try cheering her up. Had she just talked to Mavis, she'd have known Mavis was simply thinking about her work, thus sparing Thomas and Edward from getting into accidents due to crashing into Emily's flatbeds.
- Rule of Three: Subverted. While Emily is leaving her flowers around the quarry under the belief that they will cheer Mavis up, it appears that three engines will show up and bump into the flatbeds, leaving the flowers scattered all over the place, but at the point where the third strike would show up, Mavis arrives and expresses shock at the mess she sees.
