in the morning, duchess meets an alley cat named thomas o'malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to paris. the group briefly hitchhikes in a milk truck before being chased off by the driver. later, while crossing a railroad trestle, the cats narrowly avoid an oncoming train, but marie falls into a river and is saved by o'malley, who in turn has to be rescued himself by two english geese, amelia and abigail gabble, who accompany the cats to paris. edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions from napoleon and lafayette, as the only evidence that could incriminate him.