On his first night on Sodor, Samson ends up getting stuck at the Blue Mountain Quarry due to him being too proud to ask for help. Later, the Fat Controller tells him to take stone to the quarry. Various engines tease him for his mistake. Not wanting to make another one, he ends up taking Gordon's express coaches as he's too stubborn to listen.

Samson and Harvey are working at the Earl's new dinosaur park and Harvey nearly hits Millie with a dinosaur model's head. Millie is frightened and the two call her a scaredy engine for it. Insulted, she decides to teach them a lesson by using the model volcano, but she goes too far.