The animation was done by Ethereal Snake, the script was made by @Smartacus98 , the voiceover was done by me. Thank you.
Here is the script/captions:
Thomas The Tank Engine. On this day November the 12 1945, you have been found guilty by proceeding commission. Your crimes against humanity will now be paid for in full.
Crimes? What crimes?
Pardon me?
Useful engines follow orders.
"And you never once asked about your orders?
Who these people were? Where you were taking them?
"Useful engines don't ask questions. It wasn't my job to know. It was my job to arrive on time.
"You never wondered why the carriages were full on arrival, and always empty on your departure?"
…
"You never questioned the smell thomas?”
"I know the smell coal makes when it burns. I knew that the smoke in that place wasn't coal"
"And still, you took thousands of people there everyday, for two full years?"
Those were my orders! If I didn't follow them I
would be dead too. A useful engine always follows
orders, and there was no place in the Reich for
useless engines.
"And so you sacrificed the lives of the countless innocent people to save your own?”
"Do you think they would still be alive if I didn't Don't you think they would have found another engine to arrive on time? Those people were dead before they even stepped on my platform. Nothing I could have done would have changed that. The only difference between me and them was that I had a choice; a choice to move forward and live, or stay put and die. I made the choice for the lowest possible number of people to die. Is self-preservation a crime?"
"Why do you think you were given the job you had? Why not transporting troops or supplies to
the front? What do you think they saw in you that
made you suitable?"
"I was never there first choice.”
"So you were the last resort?"
"Everyone else was gone. I only survived because I
kept my head down and followed orders, like a
useful engine should."
"So if you were truly the last engine they could call
upon, you could have saved those people?"
"What?”
"You said you’d be replaced if you said no, yet if you refused to follow orders, there was nobody
left to replace you?"
…
"Is that not what you said Thomas? You were never the first choice? Everyone else was gone? Move forward or stay put, and you chose to go forward?"
"..Useful engines follow orders and arrive on time."
"And it didn't matter what you were useful for, as
long as you were useful for something?"
"Useful engines follow orders
"Was it useful for the people you carried to the
camp?"
…
"Thomas?"
"You would have done the same. You all would."
I'm sorry, but I must beg to differ.
"The only difference between you and I, sir, is that I can see the tracks I follow. If you were on the tracks, you'd have followed them too."
"Do you regret what you did?"
…
"Thomas?”
"..I see those gates every time I close my eyes.
Every time I sleep I hear the crying children and
smell the…
“The crying children, Thomas."
…
"Do you still feel like useful engine now, Thomas,
because you followed orders and arrived on time?"
…
"Thomas?"
…
"Kill me or let me go. I wear my punishment either way. I can only follow the tracks, I don't get to decide where they lead."
14 окт 2024