Air date: August 8th, 2004
Henry comes by his forest spotting some children by a tree, making wishes, in which Thomas calls it the wishing tree. This gives Henry an idea of wishing that he were to pull the Express. However, that wish soon turned out to be anything but pleasant...
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The whole moral of the story.
- Compressed Vice: Henry is inexplicably incompetent at carrying passenger trains this episode, despite being able to do (to the point of taking pride in it over freight) in episodes both before and after.
- Jerkass: Gordon who rudely told Henry to keep his trucks away from the passengers.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Oddly played when Gordon, who was snooty towards Henry, is in the works miserable and lonely without his passengers, although this made Henry realize that his wish to pull passengers was the reason Gordon was in the works.
- Make a Wish: Henry makes a wish on the tree to pull coaches instead of Gordon.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Henry realizes that his wish to pull the Express caused Gordon to be in the works, although the Fat Controller denies this and tells him that he sent Gordon to the works, not his wish.
- Series Continuity Error: Henry knew how to pull the Express way before this episode started.
