Road Wars

The One With the Part Time Porn Star (6x8)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 16, 2008

Simon and Conrad are in Slough – their patrol is interrupted by a sudden chase of a wanted bilker in a silver Vectra which heads over pavements and the wrong sides of roads as the fleeing driver attempts to get away, coming within an ace of hitting vehicles in all direction. Sooner or later he’s going to come a cropper, and eventually does – fleeing into the night and leaving a nasty prang behind him. The search involves a chopper and Mark who, as the search falters, ends up being called in to help with a totally different wanted man who’s been spotted by a local team also taking part in the search! Not that it mattered in the end as they got the original guy a few days later… Still in Slough, still with Simon and Conrad, an ANPR ding pulls up a rather ancient car which shouldn’t be on the road as it’s got no MOT – it’s also meant to be in Kent, but isn’t. Given the lack of an MOT, it’s likely that it hasn’t got anything else either so they stop it. While Simon does the questioning, Conrad spots the driver hastily dropping something, and the stop turns into a search which turns up some cannabis and something unidentified in a foil pack in the boot. They never did find out what the white stuff was, but apparently the puff was seriously rubbish quality; so not only has he lost his stash – he was ripped off when he bought it, too. Back to Slough again, this time with Tristan and Bella heading off on patrol together. The first call of the night is to a bunch of youths apparently lurking suspiciously around a moped at the back of some shops. A bunch of likely lads claim to have done nothing wrong – but they fit the description and the report makes it clear they’ve been trying to start the moped, so they have to stay. Given that there’s three lads – plus friends – and only one Tristan, the odds are awkward if they want to make trouble, and even with back up, the boys in blue are still outnumbered. While they wait for the van to arri