Road Wars

The One With the Mega-Tantrum of All Time (6x10)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 30, 2008

Waller and Kev are in Slough on patrol, and are behind a car whose driving leaves a lot to be desired, possibly because he’s been distracted by his girlfriend, who he’s been snogging at the temporary traffic lights. The car pongs of booze, so a breath test is in order – though the passenger locks herself in; apparently she’s scared. Once they get both occupants out, questioning starts, but the girl seems to be getting mega upset, and somehow convinces herself (wrongly) that Kev has agreed to let her go if she talks to him. There are suggestions that the guy deals Crystal Meth, and it’s possible that one or the other of them has hidden some drugs somewhere, but the girl gets so hysterical that it becomes impossible to deal with her. Help arrives in the form of an old friend, as Derek Ingram makes a long awaited return to our screens. As a search needs to be done, female assistance is needed and arrives in the form of Mish, which is just as well, as the girl is now in such a state that she has to be put on the floor. Not even Mish is able to subdue this fit of screaming, and in the end leg restraints are also required to get her into the van. Even now, the fit carries on, and Flipper has no choice but to ride in the van with her just to stop her attempting to hurt herself. It’s only after the search has been completed back at the nick, that things finally calm down – but no one knows what happened, as no one had any drugs at all. Simon and Conrad are out and about in Slough looking for a drug dealer. His car has been spotted by local teams, so they’re in the right place; until their crim radars are spiked by another car – and the computer concurs with their view that its driver is dodgy in the drugs department. Things are further compounded when the driver, who is female, flees. She eventually pulls over, and her car just screeches ‘user’, with foil and clingfilm all over the place; but her attempts to hide her current (quite large) stash in her