Road Wars

The One With the Key Dilemma (5x19)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 11, 2007

Rosie and Daz are out in Reading looking for burglars, and head to a BT exchange where a van is being broken into live on CCTV. Pretty much every unit nearby is converging on it – though the Bat Car has local knowledge on its side so our duo get there first. There’s an alarm going, and ladders leaning against a wall, but the suspect has vanished. The chopper’s been called in, but there’s a van parked a few streets away which has a history of burglary attached to it. En route, eagle-eyed Rosie spots a different van with someone lying under it! He claims he’s sleeping under the van as he’s been chucked out by his missus; but, interestingly, his keys open up the van they were looking for; which happens to be stuffed with cables nicked from BT! Now in Slough with Lloydy and Roma, out and about to disrupt drug activity. Their interest is piqued by a group of young men lurking behind a parade of shops, particularly as the lads are able to pull into an alcove more or less out of sight. There is perhaps no surprise that a few of them are carrying some cannabis, and the possibility of getting a street caution rather than a trip to the nick leads to some startling honesty as stashes are disclosed. Apart from the ones they’ve forgotten about, of course. One of them manages to embarrass himself briefly as his trousers drop, but the worse outcome is that he’s too young for a street caution and will have to be dealt with down the nick instead. Whoops. Back in Reading, and Lloydy is back with Jim again, just coming to the end of their shift, until Jim spots a kid being carried on a moped who has decided not to bother with a helmet. The ‘driver’ claims he thought that passengers didn’t need insurance! But the other concern is his Section 59 warning, in that he’s used his moped ‘antisocially’. There are issues over whether or not it’s expired, but he doesn’t seem to be aware whether or not he’s got points on his provisional license. Whether he h