Road Wars

The One With Icky Sicky (5x18)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 04, 2007

The team is in Maidenhead on ANPR duty, Lloydy and Jim follow behind a car that’s pinged the system, and manage to get to him in time to notice he’s been ‘fiddling with something’ in the car. Suspecting drugs, and possibly even dealing, the search begins. Jim suspects that a stash has gone down the guy’s trousers, so they go back to the nick for some privacy. One stash of ‘e’ later, they’re off to the custody suite to process him for dealing as it’s a sufficient quantity to be dealt. This is the second time he’s been done for dealing the stuff, and his eagerness to call his girlfriend raises further suspicions to the point that a house search follows – of the guy’s parents’ home. They are absolutely innocent, but the son most certainly is not as they find even more drugs, money and a set of scales in his bedroom. Simon is patrolling solo in Milton Keynes and spots a car whose occupants are acting oddly. Seeing the camera in the car, the guy gives the cameraman ‘the finger’, but Simon is more concerned about his lack of insurance than his gestures. Out come all the standard excuses, one by one. Just bought the car (check), not got his documents but can produce them (check), insured on a trade policy (check). There’s also the fact that he’s trying to pretend he’s his brother, and he’s only got a provisional license – next excuse is ‘in dispute over said license as he should have a full one’. It does him no good; Simon is seizing that car. Out in Reading with Yorkie and Dixie. A car catches their eye, and they pull it – when asked if the occupants have cannabis, they say not, until Dixie finds a joint; at which point the lads see the light and advise of the veritable shop-stock of cannabis the passenger is carrying, along with deal bags and a grinder. The guy has already been in trouble for drugs, and was handed a suspended sentence only the day before! The pair are arrested, and the cannabis carrier reacts gruesomely b