Shining Time Station (TV Series)

A Place Unlike Any Other (1989)

Jason Woliner: Matt

Quotes 

• Stacy Jones : What do you think?

  Matt : It's... uh... nice!

  Stacy Jones : Yeah, it is. And I'm gonna let you in on a little secret: there's just something about this place.

• Mr. Conductor : [invisible, causing Matt to look around]  Here - you missed a spot. It's this window over here. You did the others, but don't miss this one.

  [Matt dusts it] 

  Mr. Conductor : That's a good lad.

  [appears and bows, causing Matt to draw back] 

  Mr. Conductor : Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say. And that goes double when you're doing my windows, because they're double-paned: a pain in the neck and a pain to clean. Do you know what I see when I look at *that* clean window?

  Matt : No.

  Mr. Conductor : The inside of the switch-house. What else would I see? Well done, lad. What's your name?

  Matt : Matt-Matthew, M... Matt!

  Mr. Conductor : Or is it Matthew-Matt-Matthew? And you may call me Mr. Conductor. Well, *you're* a good worker. You know who'd like you? My friend Thomas.

  Matt : Does... Thomas live in there with you?

  Mr. Conductor : Dear me, no. Thomas is a steam-engine, and he lives on the Island of Sodor.

• Matt : Aunt Stacy, there's a litle guy who lives right here in the wall!

  Stacy Jones : [hugging him]  Oh, great, he's back? Oh, what did I tell you?

  Matt , Stacy Jones : [laughing]  There's just something about this place!

• Matt : Where did you go before?

  Mr. Conductor : Railroad work takes me everywhere, Matt. You don't spend a lot of time in one place. It's a traveling business. I was just off traveling with Edward.