Road Wars

The One With the Independent Hound (6x3)

Uitzenddatum: Aug 12, 2008

Simon and Conrad are out and about in Slough when they recognise the driver of a car they’ve been advised as being wanted for drugs offences (though apparently looking like Boris Becker is not a crime), so they turn around and head off after him, with Charlie and Mish heading in for backup. They lose the car briefly, but CCTV find it parked up, so they settle down to wait for him to come back to it and drive off again. The stop itself is – initially – pretty uneventful, as the driver gives himself up at once. His two female passengers, on the other hand, make things extremely eventful, when they loudly object to being filmed and decide to have a go at Simon as he won’t let them drive the car away – primarily because they’re uninsured to do so. Fortunately Charlie, Mish, Lloydy and Jim are all on hand to assist. Waller and Flipper are in Reading coming to the end of their shift – but come to the assistance of an Inspector who has pulled over a car whose driver has no license or insurance, and is suspected of not being totally honest with his details. It’s all very funny to the lad, until he gets nicked, of course – at which point he starts fighting. Waller and Flipper are, however, ready for this and swiftly have him on the ground in cuffs. Flipper is rewarded for his swiftness of mind with the chance to drive the total shed of a car back to the nick… Brian and Jake are out and about in Reading, and are called in to track down a man who’s fled from a pub after being spotted by officers investigating him for breaking into his own girlfriend’s house. The chase heads into a local bus garage, where they corner the guy – who proceeds to jump over a fence with a 10 ft drop the other side! Brian is then held up as Jake has taken it upon himself to try and find another way round independently. Fortunately, the bloke doesn’t get away – he’s busted his ankle… Still in Reading, Brian is helping to deal with the fallout of a wake that’s